skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a Segway on a college campus would be great.. Wish they had convinced campuses to buy them for students.

The unveiling was so lame.. People wearing khakis and super lame helmets and going over little bumps and looking so non-cool.. I watched way back when and was like... Uh... No.. First should not have helmets on.. Should have been very attractive people and should have showed how quickly they could get from point A to point B in style and comfort and convenience..
That would be wonderful, and it was what I _expected_ to happen the first time I tried it.
Didn't OpenID have this exact same problem?

Interestingly, email didn't, despite acronyms like POP3, IMAP, SMTP being a frequent occurrence once you try to supply an email client of your choice. So what was different about email, once internet users started escaping the walled gardens of old?
The only problem with that (and with amp in general) is the few sites that implement it poorly, namely by simply installing a WordPress plugin and calling it a day with zero effort to test the implementation. Some sites are completely broken.

On the normal implementation, clicking links on mobile from Google search, this is mostly not a problem because you're unlikely to land on some random guy's WordPress from a serp. But if you're triggering a lookup of AMP wherever it's available, you end up on a lot of broken sites clicking links from reddit and HN and stack overflow sources.

I've found a better compromise is an extension that doesn't load amp by default, but just puts a button in your toolbar that you can request an amp version with.
Why would clicking the x on a header lead anyone to believe that the entire page ('tab') would be closed? That's not how... any other page element works.

The first time I encountered an AMP page I figured clicking the x would load the actual page. I was wrong.
I strongly recommend checking out TensorFlow-Slim if you're looking for a lightweight abstraction for using TensorFlow – at least the layers, anyway.

The API looks similar to something like Keras or Lasagne, but the layers are just simple operations on tensors, so it integrates seamlessly with vanilla TensorFlow in a way that something like TF-Keras won't.

At the same time, though, the layers are the same foundation that TF-Keras look like they'll use, so you get much of the same expressive power, but without sacrificing flexibility.
American companies are also extremely corrupt. The difference is that they operate through loopholes in the law, and pay armies of lawyers to find such loopholes. They also pay a fortune to lobbyists to maintain and expand these friendly laws.
it does, because we care about a number of things, including:
1. Technical implementation (and alternative ways of implementation).
2. Freedom (keeping things within google's walled-garden or not)

Your average user (who doesn't necessarily know anything about software) doesn't really care about 1, and probably doesn't care about 2. They care about speed of the page, data consumption of the page, and maybe the look-and-feel of the page (bloated vs sane).

When I say HN user, i mean technically informed and most often skeptic people.

The distinction matters.
BartRunner if you commute with Bart.
I can vouch for the 200k number, I was earning slightly lower than that 4 years into the industry (before I left to work at a place where the RSUs are worthless before IPO). It wasn't anywhere near Google/FB level.

But I disagree that there are many options to save on tax, etc though. I wasn't too bad, but there was no way I could've saved 50% of that (esp if not locked away like 401k). Just my rent for 1 bed in a average apartment was >50k a year.
I didn't have a plan and things have been going great so far. So it's a little different when you're not in a zero-sum adversarial situation like a boxing ring.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1504/
Even with the archive websites, the sheer volume of posts means that any single one is likely to be forgotten unless it's particularly kek-worthy. Plus as you mentioned it's still disentangled from your identity and other posts (though I recall a report somewhere on de-anonamyzing 4chan users through semantic analysis)
One of the reasons Google (and FB with instant articles) came out with is the speed, and data consumption, which matters a lot more in some countries than in others.
It seems not Biotech in general, but growing human organs in particular:

http://www.unionleader.com/business/kamen-to-lead-294m-effor...
Yes I meant to reply to you. I think we are confounding flourishing cities and capitals. I was more talking specifically about the later. Most ancient and especially modern capitals (D.C., Canberra, Ottawa etc.) are built inland, but the land mass offer less protection than it did in ancient times, not so much because of bombers actually (land offers ground air defense), but missiles, which were rendered effective at the end of WWII (V-2). Nonetheless it is still a preferred configuration for capitals for the same factors. Coastal cities are just more vulnerable in times of war.
I wouldn't use those 8Tb shingle drives for a NAS. In fact, that use is specifically mentioned as being not under warranty if I remember correctly.

Also, if (when) a drive fails and you have to resilver 8Tb of data on one of those drives, the slow write speed will kill you.
I don't believe so. They just boot back up.
I think this is still true today. I worked at large research institution, and the doctors were cut-throat when it came to keeping other people from using their data.

My understanding is that 70% of the difficulty medical research is collecting the data. So once you've done that you want to make sure you've protected your investment of time and energy.

From an individual stand point I understand why they do it. From a societal standpoint it's such a waste.
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I agree with you in that sense - we have the strength to segregate, to impose nationalism or to pillage the world. Does this mean we should?
Could you enable https?
I think the most useful feature here is JSON -> JS conversion. Relatively often I find myself copying and pasting some JSON into a JS file then manually deleting / regexing away the unnecessary quote marks around key names.
I pick 'none of the above'. The 'x' in the header box should make the damn header go away, keeping the rest of the page 100% intact.

Mind you, this just proves that the header is superfluous. Existing technology called 'the back button' exists to take the user back to where they came from, and it's up to Google to decide how their results page behaves when this happens.
I don't know the history of OpenID at all, and don't know the history of email well enough to comment, but I suspect email didn't become a common word overnight, and I doubt most people would know how to use a client that asks them for SMTP settings these days (they expect to just visit gmail.com and see messages, or maybe at the most complicated install Thunderbird, enter their username and password, and wait while it says "autoconfiguring" for a bit).
Start thinking like a startup
It's not clear that the approach used to lift the Korean economy out of the poverty of the 50s to today's levels is the approach that needs to continue. The population, resources and global connection Korea has now has radically transformed the kinds of economic approaches the country needs to try.

For example, in the 50s through the 70s, an important economic initiative was getting shoes for people. It both created jobs (making the shoes) and enabled people to get to work cheaply. Thus the gomusin was created.

It would be crazy today to have the same initiative in place. Times are different.
There's actually plenty of oxygen on the Moon, trapped in various rocks.

Water and food are indeed trickier; the Moon does have some trace amounts of carbon (deposited by solar wind) and hydrogen (at the poles), but extracting enough of those elements to sustainably support living there is unlikely unless we make some major discoveries or figure out a more reasonable way to import such things (one idea is to capture hydrocarbon-rich asteroids and park them in lunar orbit, but that ain't exactly my idea of "reasonable").

As for profitability, the Moon happens to be rich in silicon; a far-fetched idea might be to build a whole bunch of lunar microchip factories. The Moon is also full of raw materials in general, and getting them into space (e.g. to build spacecraft or to import to Earth) is a lot easier than getting such material into space from Earth. This makes the Moon a potentially-valuable staging point for missions to Mars and elsewhere.

If there is indeed water (or some other hydrogen source) on the Moon in sufficiently-abundant quantities, lunar fuel depots would actually be feasible; there's been quite a bit of work in recent decades around using silanes (hydrosilicons) as a useful fuel, replacing the need for hydrocarbon-based fuels (or using hydrogen directly).
The use cases between both groups may be substantially different. Understanding this helps us not draw conclusions from 'how HN users use stuff' and incorrectly applying them to 'how all users use stuff'.
A stock with no voting power and no dividends is entirely worthless. You're basically just giving your money away to the company.

It's akin to buying shares in The Green Bay Packers, where fans can buy ceremonial shares of the Packers, with absolutely no value.

I don't understand why you would buy a share like this, besides relying on the Greater Fool theory to make money. It's essentially like buying a collectible like a baseball card and hoping that you can sell it to some other fool at a later time.
Escape Artist Houdini Was an Ingenious Inventor, but Didn't Want Anybody to Know
Gabe Newell Is Doing an AMA
> it integrates seamlessly with vanilla TensorFlow in a way that something like TF-Keras won't.

Google also released prettytensor, which is designed to address the same problem.

https://github.com/google/prettytensor
Crop, Rotate and Filter by Image URL
You're right. Suppose I've become used to clicking on AMP links without realizing it so when I click X I really just want off of AMP. I really have no need to simply dismiss the bar, I can scroll down more easily.
People keep suggesting that the cloud will take over, but for most people the time required to upload all their 4k christmas videos to the cloud will be the limiting factor.

If everyone had fiber, sure...
> Users tend to be annoyed when you tell them only the truth– “This download was not reported as not safe.”.

First time that I am hearing users prefer a vague error explanation than truthful precise one.

And there is a silver bullet. Teach people - and most people already know it, don't assume people are idiots - how to recognize a domain name. Then the padlock. But, domaine names are infinte more important than padlocks. Always been the case and will likely never change in the near future.
"In 1997, he co-authored a seminal paper that laid the groundwork for modern AI systems."

Any idea what that paper was? I thought the groundwork for modern AI systems was laid already by 1997, but maybe I'm wrong?
What I'm attempting to get across is that oligarchies by themselves aren't inherently any worse than other forms of rule. Corruption is what makes them and other forms bad.
It's a cookbook!

- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheTwilightZoneS...

and Cordwainer Smith's "From Gustible's Planet" -> http://www.vb-tech.co.za/ebooks/Smith%20Cordwainer%20-%20Fro... has humans eating the aliens.
The stranglehold that large "chaebols" (large family conglomerates) hold on the Korean economy and politics here is frightening. And it's still such an "honour" to work for them, a sign of social prestige, which makes change unlikely any time soon.

Kind of like publishing in top journals is so prestigious and career-advancing for scientists. It makes creeps like Elsevier "above the market laws", virtually undisruptible (as well as fabulously rich). It's a deeply cultural thing, with glacial inertia, not a question of technology/funding!

On a similar note, after the AlphaGo commotion, Korean government allocated some $860M to "AI innovation". I may be too cynical, but it wouldn't surprise me if the money ended up in "friendly hands", the likes of Samsung.
No. Emails are considered correspondence, not IP:
https://www.quora.com/Is-an-email-message-considered-intelle...

As for clean room implementations, that is true, except in California.

Here, it does not really hold in court at all:

You can leave one company to join another doing more or less the same thing (because non-competition clauses are banned here), as long as you do not copy the code itself.

It sounds like you and your uncle post are both programmers trying to look at things too much from a logically moral perspective, rather than actually how the courts view these things, since you aren't very familiar with the latter.
Hm. Calling it a failure is pretty strong. It is used. What hindered it was a) the expensive price and b) at least in many country it was/is illegal to use. Is it like a bike? Or like a motor vehicle and needs insurance and license tag? A drivers license? Can you ride it on pavement or do you have to use the street?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11926027/Hoverboa....
> like the Chinese clones
A bit sad: Segway inc was bought up by one of these Chinese clone companies (Ninebot) for its patents.
No.

(To both.) See my cousin post.
Any examples of monkeys used in war?
It feels like failures on the scale of Segway are now pretty run of the mill. They "only" raised a 166MUSD [1]. Doesn't really compare to modern failures like Theranos, 686MUSD.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/segway#/entity

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos#/entity
That seems more reasonable
Erm, can SpaceX solve the issue that the speed-of-light is pretty damn slow?

Geostationary Orbit is 35,000km above the Earth. Light "only" travels at 300,000km per second. That's a minimum latency of ~246 ms per packet, once you go round-trip from Earth -> Satellite -> Earth again.

Remember that starting up a TCP connection is Syn -> Syn-Ack -> Ack, which means a minimum latency of 750ms before a TCP connection is established. You're well into seconds+ before you can view Google's homepage. I guess this part can be sped-up with a smarter satellite.

Anything above 200ms is damn near unplayable for video games IMO.

That's the minimum latency according to current laws of physics. If you lower the orbit below Geostationary, then life starts to get extremely complicated for the people down on the ground. You can't just point your dish in a particular direction in the sky, because the satellite would be moving.

If you had a neighborhood completely clear of trees, maybe you could program a mobile radar dish to rotate with the moving satellites as they move across the sky (Subsynchronous orbit). But this doesn't seem too applicable to most people's home situations.
> It will foster the arts in ways we can not even imagine.

> If you believe in a personal project you will commit to it no matter what and you wont risk bankrupcy (sic).

Neither of those two statements are true. Much great previous art was sponsored by merchants and commissions, artists had to work for their money.

Also, if you have a personal project that you believe in and are dependent on for food, you will commit to it no matter what. If you aren't risking bankruptcy/financial insolvency it's much easier to bail on an idea.

> No more parents carrying with their sons until a good job comes.

What does this even mean?

> And many, many more...

What are the "more"? Hopefully they're somewhat different than the points you've already brought up.
So is it safe to say even native americans are actually immigrants?
Let me know all of your great ideas that you haven't gotten around to following through with yet.
Because x means close/cancel. Looking at chrome right now there are several x's on screen, they will close the tab or the whole browser.
I never knew of houdini's relationships to patents. Seems like an interesting case where they don't really protect your work.
Unfortunately that French attitude is also somewhat apparent in the way many French people speak English. English is not really its own language, so not worth learning properly. (Or at least learn a pronunciation that is close enough to be understood.)
Imagine the upside of actually being Apple though. It really felt like a missed opportunity to everyone there, gauging from employees' actual testimonies.
Seems like a human version of Universe 25.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/03/the-amazing-rise-and-f...
Well yeah. We've known that for years.

Hell, if you live anywhere that isn't a specific part of Africa, you're pretty much guaranteed to be an immigrant or a descendant thereof.
Yep. Not so much of a shelf here as a plummet. One of the things that makes Monterey Bay so interesting, for example.
No, but there are other parallels - Madoff, Skillings, Ebbers.
Partly because they are involved in politics on a mostly cosmetic basis. It is much easier to imagine a specifically politically connected figure (imagine a John Podesta or Rick Perry level personality) being arrested for some sort of corruption; in SK evidently those figures are also businessmen of various sorts.
You said we should "pay people to sit at home and not commit crime, start riots...".

I'm asking whether paying the dane geld is really the most cost effective solution to this problem. I think we've now agreed that it's not actually a real problem, and probably just a post-hoc justification for what you really want to do?
It's not a problem in that you can make your code more awkward to work around it, but it's still a problem.
Ask your friend has a better setup to do the same compile task and compare the result. For me, the repetitive tasks, saving 5 secs still worth to buy a desktop for performance.

I can't tolerate extra 100ms (on my frontend work, compile SCSS.. JavaScript..etc)
There are a bunch of companies in the AI space, the 2 that I know of are

- http://www.madstreetden.com
- http://www.artifacia.com

There are more, Be careful of the company you pick, just because they have a .ai domain or AI/ML in the tagline does not mean they are using AI/ML
AMP and PWA are going to be big. What better to foster adoption than tell sees they will get an SEO boost.
amphtml links on non-google domains, e.g., newspapers, etc., are great for text only browsers.

If I didn't know this was for mobile browsers I would think it was a gift to blind users who do not use GUIs.

amphtml links also provide an easy way around paywalls, most of the time.

I have no idea what is the true purpose of these amphtml links. It sounds like it's some advertising nonsense.

As a text-only browser user I see no ads and experience no page load delays, but I do see how overstuffed web pages have become.

In this regard, amphtml is a breath of fresh air.
It's normal not to make noise about security bugs. The CVE was issued almost two weeks after the fix landed in mainline. Surely the stable kernels were patched at the same time and the distros had pushed updates already.
This is spot on, because often we prepare by wearing a mouth guard, while in reality their protection against getting knocked out basically zero.
Lyft, Amazon Prime Now, TaskRabbit, Maps
Same here.

Buying a windows device specifically for the VR toy? No ability to use VR for real work on non-Windows machine (if possible)? No thanks
Talking about GDP, I am not an expert, but just compared two examples:
1. ST3 project in Seattle metro area. http://soundtransit3.org/ This project will be finish in 25 years, with $53.8 billions in estimation, to construct 62 new miles light rail majorly.
2. The high speed rail project connecting Beijing and Shanghai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Shanghai_High-... And this project completed in 3.5 years (from April 2008 to Nov 2010) by constructed 819 miles high speed railroad between Beijing and Shanghai (averaging 186 MPH), and the total investment is $34.7 billion.

In summary, 819 miles HSR vs 62 miles LR, $34.7B vs. $53.8B, and 3.5 Years vs. 25 Years
So compared with other countries, how much the inflation US GDP has?
The great depression was awesome, amirite?
Not in the near future for sure. Right now, programming is still contained (for the most part) to product development/ web stuff. The next step is for programming to leak into all aspects of business - from lead generation to marketing automation to operations optimization and really across all the boards. This is already happening in 'tech' companies, but will soon be prevalent across all industries. If you want job stability, learn code AND a non-technical skill like marketing, and you'll be gold.
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." - a good friend of mine
If the local charity fete has music playing they need to pay €1k to get the right license (it's enforced), and musicians can't work for free or they could be fined.

France hates lots of things but it sure loves red tape.
I've seen people say about "fake news" articles that have google.com as the top domain (because AMP) as an indicator of some reliability. Google is unintentionally, but actively, harming their image by being associated with and promoting such content.
So has Facebook though, right.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
- Eisenhower
I've tried all three of the cheap tips (foam, silicone, and the flanges).

I think that going with smaller is more comfortable, as are the foam ones. Yeah, they are uncomfortable for long periods of time, but I got used to it after a while and fiddling with the sized helped.

I am not sure how healthy it is to wear them for long periods of time.
Looking for commonality among HTTP request APIs [focus on Python]
On a side note, does anyone know about something like that for simple docs?

Like if I want to migrate away for those bloated un-diffable PDFs and DOCXs to a HTML?

Preferably it should support importing from those 2 formats.
Because a shares without a vote cannot protect themselves from being diluted or wildly uneven dividends and buybacks.

It has happened in the past.
Really like this.
Thanks.
Link! This is useless without a link!
Why some Americans are withdrawing from society into “intentional communities”
It's pretty crazy! And yes, the number of measurements scales as N(N-1)/2, so O(N^2). The funny part about this was, the SKA has been in design for >15 or so years at this point, and they had to predict that computational hardware would be good enough to make it work when they actually start building it! The hardware in 2000 wouldn't have been anywhere close to capable of powering the SKA's correlator. This is actually also a game that they had to play with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)[1], breaking ground now, with the relatively pedestrian 20 TB a night for archiving.

[1] https://lsst.org
That's why they plan to launch over 4k satellites into LEO: while each satellite only covers a small area, together they blanket the surface with coverage. Further latency savings are had by having them all communicate with each other with lasers, preventing awkward and unnecessary back-and-forths between ground and satellite in many cases.
> With an American tech salary of $200k/yr

Well, that means you're part of the "1%". In that case, you obviously don't have (m)any real problems. So, if you're thinking for the "1%", then your logic holds up.

If on the other hand you believe to be part of the "1%" soon, then this quote may be of interest to you:

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress