skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're on a different subject. What was chilling according to the parent was the contents of the leaked emails. The private email server controversy had nothing to do with that.
People misunderstand diversity as a set of checkboxes, when "cater to individual needs" is the real core of it.
Unless it's a honeypot run by the MPAA ... doffs tinfoil hat
+1, at least lets hope to see some more info on the technology used behind this
Thanks for bringing this up, will take a deeper look.
We have:

1. Traditional Distorbution packages. If someone want to go that way OpenSuse Build Service. https://build.opensuse.org/

"The openSUSE Build Service is the public instance of the Open Build Service (OBS) used for development of the openSUSE distribution and to offer packages from same source for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise and other distributions.." (Possibly MacOS and Windows)

2. Package Formats (I hope it is the future) we have appimage, flatpak (Redhat backed), snap (Ubuntu backed). Containerized solution with the hope of easier portability and better security by sandboxing type solutions.

Personally I think flatpak is the best of breed with appimage a close second. Flatpak and appimage are the most open friendly. Flatpak using individual repositories which I prefer. Snap uses a central location which i also don't like as much.

http://flatpak.org/
"Normal people who have happy, functional lives do not meditate or take micro doses of LSD."

Actually, they do. Especially meditation. Sometimes that is why they meditate - is because it keeps them healthy and happier. After all, a sign of a "normal, happy, functional" person is that they handle their stress. Additionally, many more people meditate as a course of religion, though sometimes they use the word prayer instead.

Happy, normal, functional people that are also curious might do micro doses of lsd just to see how it affects their life. Or they might have been doing ti for years to treat their illness so they can be that happy, functional person. Just like folks take anti-depressants daily and you assume they are normal people with happy, functional lives. I don't always react well to meditation, but some folks do. Seriously.

"... with hallucinogenic substances, that usually means the base mood - happy or sad - gets amplified"

Sure, for some folks, this stuff happens. But again, some folks react differently to therapy and "normal" psychiatric drugs, so I'm not sure why folks think the "party drugs" would be different in that respect. And obviously dosage is important: A teaspoon of cough syrup will produce different reactions than drinking the whole bottle. For what it might help, I will notice the normal, everyday "anxiety" coming back while hallucinogens are wearing off, but it really isn't a big deal for me. I wake up the next day feeling like I*ve been able to massage my brain - like it has been all limbered up for use, and the effects last for some time.
After few years of research in DL I learned not to trust any single paper at all. 99% of DL papers are not scientific but rather 'hey guys, look this trick is our new awesome discovery'.

Also I learned to communicate with other teams and exchange with ideas proved by practices - this really helps.

To improve, I would suggest to publish whole setup, all the parameters used, the programming code, and publish either all the data or a reference to a large free data set (no MNIST anymore in papers, please).
It's actually terrible.

The logo itself isn't so bad, but the rest of it is borderline disaster. The spot lacks originality, consistency, the creative quality is quite low.

I respect the notion of trying to mix images and forms that are obviously inconsistent with each other - but that's a hard/risky thing to do and they didn't pull it off. My god they have windows 'webdings' with arbitrary shapes, odd colour effects, smiley faces. The icons are inconsistent with each other.

The sequence from the 13 second mark to the 19 second mark is up there with the worst bits of 'professional' marketing collateral I've ever seen in any domain.

Even the music ... it sounds like the first thing a kid put together the first time he tried to make a rhythm sequence on garage band.

Here is a very similar sounding track (the fun/jungly rhythm line), well produced, which has a modern, fresh feel and would fit the narrative of whatever they were trying to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA0z0b7tNLg

That track without the vocals would have been a good choice.

All of that before we get into the branding issues, and how consistently or poignantly it promotes Mozillas actual identity - there is absolutely nothing in that spot that directs you to what Mozilla is, or is trying to be.

Ask yourself: after you watched that, did you get any idea at all of what they were trying to say? Even from a creative perspective?

It's gibberish.

Even the copy:

"The internet it's at the heart of what we do"

"One idea link what we do"

"Mozilla Festival/Fest"

"Mozilla maker party"

"Mozilla all hands"

"Mozilla emerging technologies"

"And spans the world"

"It works both big and small and welcomes everyone"

"For people over profit"

"Champions for a healthy internet"

"Love the internet"

WTF?

It's almost random copy.

Here's what would have worked better:

Just the logo (which is decent).

A single tag line, like: "For the people" - which hints at the idea of open/non-profit and 'empowerment' without having intellectualize it, and modestly differentiates them from the 'other' browser brands.

A modern audio track, done by producers who know how to create a fresh sound, followed zooms and cuts of actual good apps in a mozilla browser.

Now wouldn't be particularly great, but it would be simple, clean, and at least not confusing.

That said it could have been saved with higher quality creative work.

Ironically, the site where they actually run down their branding effort, is itself, a pretty good branding exercise unto it's own: https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/

So that is 'being critical'. I don't like to be so negative, but this spot shouldn't have made it out.
I think the point is that the clicks could be tracked via Javascript, even if the links themselves point elsewhere.
And how does that help with balancing real world problems like financial security, social expectation and self-actualisation? Your suggestions seem like distractions from reality, so perhaps you would also include hard drugs in your list?
The "buss factor".
>the comment I was replying to missed TFA, because it gives pointers to research on the issue.

The research[1] that various journalists in Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, WSJ, etc are pointing to is a survey of employees' satisfaction levels and not an analysis comparing business results.

If that oft-cited survey is the best ammunition we have, it won't move the needle towards private offices. What we need is business evidence of private offices enabling productivity levels superior to everyone else with open offices.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494413...
Does anyone find the "Amazon Machine Learning" product actually useful? Scalable linear/logistic regressions seems like a pretty niche product.
The fluidity of language doesn't get around the fact that it's perfectly possible to incorrectly use phrases and words.
40ish. I still use DVDs almost every week: buying (mostly pre 2005) movies and rip them to my Plex for viewing.
Is there a huge difference between physics PhDs and computer science PhDs in this argument? Both are overspecialized in their research, but both also have a wide range of skills in programming, abstract problem solving, writing, communication, and so on. Both will likely have high-level knowledge of a variety of machine learning methods, except the CS PhD that actually published machine learning research who will know a bit more about some very specific topics.

(I'm a CS PhD and I know many physics PhDs as well.)
Even if an abundance of patients with sufficiently similar terminal illnesses at sufficiently similar stages willing to forego their entitlement to other treatment or pain relief in the interests of medical science exists, I can't see "although several patients died during the trial the increase in death rate wasn't statistically significant and whilst possible side effects such as nausea and extreme fatigue were reported, these were also near-universal in the control group" as an advance in testing procedures...
This report is obviously PR for the NYT. It's not some trade secret they need to keep under wraps.
I think the same contrast applies between most northern European countries on one side and Us plus UK on the other as far as adversarial politics is concerned.

But I think it is not just politics, everyday life is less adversarial too here in Norway. I've been living here for over thirty years now and all the interactions that I have with the state are less complicated than they were when I was the UK (where I come from). I generally feel that people in the civil service, health system, etc. are genuinely trying to be helpful and not obstructive. Systems seem to be designed to work for the individual and not just for the treasury. For instance when you pay for medicine or treatment there is a cap and when that is exceeded you are refunded automatically in your next year's tax settlement.

Of course it's not perfect but it seems that there is a stronger sense of solidarity here than in the English speaking countries.
I'm a bit disappointed. Mozilla makes a couple of great things (Firefox, Rust, MDN, ...). But in contrast to their products, I have a quite bad impression of their Foundation and/or Corporation. I don't know if it is warranted or not, but I have the impression that they mostly exist to burn through the millions they get from Google for setting them as default search engine. Most of the time I hear about them, it is self-referential. Either some dispute at the management level, or they are doing some outreach / marketing / branding stuff.

Now this might just be my prejudice (and please don't downvote me for admitting it :-) !) but when it comes to a "brand identity", prejudices and impressions are important.

This new branding doesn't help at all with my perception of Mozilla. If anything, it emphasizes the perception that Mozilla is a bloated entity disconnected from the products I care about. That they put a nerdy "://" in there to appeal technical means to me that they are even aware of this.

What I would have done is to go back to the early 2000s unapologetically retro dinosaur. This was from a time when Mozilla was the underdog, when it was the Free alternative, when it was getting better and better, and when Firefox was invented.

Alternatively, ditch "Mozilla" and "Foundation", and rebrand as just "Firefox". Everybody loves Firefox.
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Japan's hi-tech toilets to get standardised symbols
Moreover, each element of data you give these services helps them expand their datasets. Its free for a reason.

Would it be possible to run a service like this in a truly distributed fashion, SETI@Home and Folding@Home style?
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a fascinating piece for the New Yorker last month that reviews the "etiquette" (for want of a better word here - maybe "procedure"?) of government leaks and whistleblowing.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/daniel-ellsberg...

Long story short - leaks are a desirable thing for the executive branch, but there is a "right" way to do them. Snowden and Manning did them the "wrong" way, and it's implied that that is one of the reasons they both had the book thrown at them.
You're saying that they succeeded at creating a good database. The author seems to agree.
The author is saying that they failed at creating a viable business.

The postmortem is about why the former didn't lead to the latter.
I gave you on two accounts withdrawal symptoms from drugs as example. Surely, you can find scientific information on that. You'd be right that is not the direct result of mindfulness or meditation, but it is indirect result, and since e.g. Vipassana retreat enforces a no drugs an no medication policy it can occur (exceptions can be discussed beforehand though).

We also know that there are people with mental disabilities who are being untreated. Some of those people are sensitive to psychosis, and are at risk f.e. when induced by stress. I myself had a psychosis due to stress (not drugs, not meditation, not medication; I wish it was any of that, but it wasn't; it was stress).

Also, I'm not really sure if such would be reported. Not every psychosis gets documented by doctors. Mine wasn't, because I did not even dare to go outside (light hurted me, severely). I could barely speak. I only drank water for weeks. Barely ate. Bills were piling up. You get the idea.

FWIW, I found this after 3 minutes of searching with DDG:

"In 1994, the “Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes” of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association states:

Qigong psychotic reaction: A term describing an acute, time-limited episode characterized by dissociative, paranoid, or other psychotic or non-psychotic symptoms that may occur after participation in the Chinese folk health-enhancing practice of qigong. Especially vulnerable are individuals who become overly involved in the practice."

http://kktanhp.com/kundalini.htm

I also found 2 min later:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/4dahe9/my_exper...

Which I'm not gonna quote from, and 3 min later:

"A scarce literature exists on meditation
and psychosis, and it contains cautions against teaching meditation to people vulnerable to (Yorston, 2001) or currently experiencing active symptoms of psychosis (Deatherage and Lethbridge, 1975)."

https://contextualscience.org/system/files/Chadwick,2005.pdf

Can't say I put a lot of effort in this. Yet I found this rather easily.

TBH, I don't think you are trying hard enough. To me it appears it is not fitting your viewpoint so you just gave up quickly. You also ignore the points I made (see top of my post).
There is open source alternatives like http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~szheng/crfasrnndemo
Engineering is just implementation details. That has no relevance in academia. /s
How do you handle counterparty risk?
Norge? :-)
They specifically say they do not use your data to train thier models with out permission.
Parent didn't try to contradict the grant parent, nor they tried to address their "principle dilemma" (sic).

They merely provided an alternate hypothesis on the root cause of population mobility: not an overall increase of career opportunities attracting people away from their hometown, but a scarcity of career opportunities, where mostly jobs clustered in larger cities remain.

Maybe refrain calling other comments "jerky and irrelevant" when you've missed their point, and don't even understand their aim?
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Spark ML has that functionality.
Completely the same for me, never questioned if this was some hidden talent.

I often get the same experience when say on a train on a summers day. It's like an on/off switch, rumbles in the light, quiet in the shade.
Will Cloudflare work for this kind of stuff? I assume you guys comply with DMCA takedowns and things?
The problem is the number of variables in directly comparing companies based on just financial history.

What is needed is an interventional study or a few.
Things to Consider When Evaluating Options for Web Data Extraction
Also it was fast on crappy hardware and easy to compile and setup. 80%. Better is worse. Unix.
Ah, that's true, I kind of assumed no client-side trickery, as it would be easily detectable.
Undertaken? How far out in the road are you riding? I've never undertaken a fellow cyclist in my life, out on the open road, and I can't think that I've ever seen it done.
It's not relevant to the above point, it's a different point entirely.

You are arguing about whether X, when X was an irrelevant example to make another point.

More explicitly, the argument is of the form:

"If the science pointed towards X; where 'X' is an idea that is not popular among developers."

In this scenario, it is irrelevant if X is true because it is a hypothetical.
If your target market is enterprises who are willing and able to pay, isn't it paramount to get into some market analysis firm's ranking quickly as a "leader", like Gartner's Magic Quadrant?

On this very busy Quadrant (which ought to be a clue too) from October 2015 [1], I don't see RethinkDB at all, while many other niche players are present. This to me indicates that somehow, somewhere, not enough press was generated on RethinkDB, and it was largely unknown to the sorts of decision-makers who decide what products to evaluate down the road.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/PyR57
Thanks for putting in words what I couldn't.

The logo is acceptable but not great. The video is awful and tells me nothing about what they do that I should care about beyond what everyone knows - Firefox.

The branding site has some really awesome edgy ideas that I'd have gotten behind. But I guess it's true what they say - you can't put lipstick on a pig.
Is this public yet? I see that the video is still unlisted.
>They wouldn't do it on a regular section of motorway with a 70 limit, why do it in a 50?

I would guess because 70mph is the default speed on a motorway, and the highest speed limit possible, and it's generally accepted that people often drive faster than that on motorways in the UK. Whereas 50mph is unusual and thus seems more intentional, and thus more likely to be enforced.
About time – Digitial disruption in the text book business
The first snapshot on Archive.org was about 6 weeks ago on Dec 6th. So, less than 2 months.

And as far as my searches can dig up, it hasn't been discussed on HN yet.
Anecdotally, my master thesis on natural language processing was supposed to consist of first reproducing the results of an influential paper (back then) and then hopefully improving upon it by extending the model used.

The paper made it seem like they had been using a standard PCFG parser (which circulated in the research community at the time) to achieve their results. It turned out they hadn't and instead had written a custom one and in fact their results were not reproducible using the standard parser.

What was meant to be a timesaver in terms of engineering (using a standard parser instead of writing your own) turned out to be a massive time sink. It also turned out that by using a custom parser they had unintentionally diverted from a vanilla PCFG (probabilistic context free grammar), or in other words, some implementation details had led to a departure from the assumed underlying theoretical model.
Didn't see that, where does it say that?
This is culture, and personality, dependent. Many adults do not do this, IME
Look https://deepdetect.com for an Open Source serve that covers most functionalities for building a personal deep learning as a service and API platform. It's not perfect but does a good job at images classification, object detection and character based text processing. There are AMIs available actually.
There are countless researches on the importance of focus and the impact of distractions.

E.g.: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/CHI2005.pdf

Or:

"In 80 clinical trials, Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King's College London University, monitored the IQ of workers throughout the day. He found the IQ of those who tried to juggle messages and work fell by 10 points -- the equivalent to missing a whole night's sleep and more than double the 4-point fall seen after smoking marijuana. "This is a very real and widespread phenomenon," Wilson said. "We have found that this obsession with looking at messages, if unchecked, will damage a worker's performance by reducing their mental sharpness."
I have a single question. What software program should I use for HFT Bitcoin?
Some work, some don't. Some require discipline, some don't.

I mean, what specifically are you asking?
It's frustrating when you are downloading one big rar file just because you need one of the small files inside.
https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/faqs/#data-privacy
not exactly, but you can have a look at how GC works in BEAM[1][2].

[1]: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-19-0-garbage-co...
[2]: https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%...
Seriously? ://
It might that the optimal use cases for this kind of tech hasn't really materialized yet because the tech is not widely used?
Are you trying those "magic truffles" in Amsterdam? I worry about such things in the commercial space as possibly being laced with other things, since they aren't really regulated. You found them helpful?
Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
Thanks for your comment

I don't disagree consistency and correctness are important, but it's the same with uptime, where to have it an order of magnitude 'more confidence' you have to spend more time/resources (because even if your DB did everything right, your hard drive could have had a glitch, etc)

There are ways of working around the lack of atomicity, for the cases where you really need that guarantee (I really wouldn't try "writing my own" generic transaction manager, but you can try relying on the atomic operations and limiting changes to small steps - and if you wrote information that is irrelevant now because the operation didn't finish that's fine - you can gc it later)

Now if the operations you need to do are very complex then it is probably better to keep using RDBMSs
I think that a fair amount of people share your views. Some time ago I articulated [1] that I find that Mozilla has to appeal to three very different groups of people, and its efforts to appeal to one are met with disdain from the others.

To quote a portion of my post, these audiences are, in increasing order of vocalness:

[a] the impressionable; the next-wave of web user who has recently gotten online

[b] the alternative-seeker; the average web user who is uneasy with Google

[c] the idealist; the open web, open-source advocate

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192509#12194161
I think Rethink would be that, but I don't know, I've never found SQL databases that hard to manage. I've found NoSQL databases hard to manage, because, invariably, someone will be doing a write right when you're trying to do a data migration/transformation, and now you have a single record that looks wrong, and it's a bug waiting to happen on read, rather than on write (where it should).

Rethink definitely had its use cases, I just never saw it as my primary data store.
Irresponsible: no. A curious decision: definitely. I mean, there are many other options in the middle. Mixing go and c modules is possible. Unless it was just the case of not having go experience.

Without much more info, it's silly to speculate though.
> magnet urls in plain text

A magnet as a link would be more useful. I'm sure the people worried about letting others know what they download can copy the link without clicking anyway.
doesn't that only work for sites the link creator has control of? i don't see how the technique can be used with links a search engine finds and then gives out to anon users.
I'm not arguing about the validity of the method that was chosen. I agree it's a valid method.

What I'm saying is that, if the goal is widespread usage, there are little small roadblocks before users can actually be using the app.

I cannot ask my family and friends to install F-droid or pay for an app that I'm not even sure they will like. So realistically, I will never mention it to them.

Maybe I misunderstood what is the target audience from the beginning. You're telling me it is the 0.0001℅ of the population that uses 3rd-party app stores, Linux, etc. That's fine too but it comes with its own limitations.
Ok, I checked it out (http://doc.crates.io/build-script.html)

Would have been much better if you could tell it the dependencies instead of having to use yet another make clone (and a bad one at that) though.