skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem like an interesting edge to explore doesn't it? ML techniques combined with spectral analysis could yield some interesting outcomes. The datasets wouldn't be too hard to find either - most people have pretty extensive digital music libraries.
I agree that the problem here is the basic concept of loaning shares of stock. It's a practice that just doesn't make sense except for people playing games. You could say the ability to bet against a company isn't a game, it's a strategy. But the whole concept of stocks is primarily shared ownership, not a casino. Short selling could be banned but don't hold your breath.
For me, brings back some old memories of becoming a self-taught programmer ;-). Beej's Guides[1] seem timeless. I remember how I learned C more from following these guides than by C tutorials. For anyone out there who is trying to learn C, my advise would be to attempt some systems programming rather than just following C introductory books that teach you the language but not its typical/most common use.

Another good book for beginner C programmers (on linux) that I remember learning a lot from was Advanced Linux programming[2] ...although this might be slightly dated now (should be good enough to start exploration tho')

[1] http://www.beej.us/guide/
[2] http://advancedlinuxprogramming.com/
Yeah we should probably whitelist youtube to sponsor the vids there. That's reasonable.

HOWEVER the real assholes are whoever is serving bloat and ads that will do anything to get malware onto your machine and track your every breath. This is really why we're blocking.
Well, sure. An analog ray tracer is called a camera. Scene setup can take a while, though.
Diet is more important, but exercise is still very useful, and not solely for weight loss, it improves general health too.
Thanks for the shout out! I was wondering what brought in the recent stargazers. Happy to share my commonly-used regexes.
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When it's available in my region, sure. It's coming up to 2 and a 1/2 years old and still only available in 5 countries.
I know, but i was speaking for the community or enterprise edition. Managed services are sometimes not allowed for legal reasons (data privacy).
Hobby servos often have controllers far more complex and accurate than PID. Something taking into account the gearbox and motor inertia, input voltage, etc. And not just tuned with high pass, low pass and gain filters.
Microsoft should make such a site.
Is that how they did it? Or is it just training some RNNs to repeat the same style back?
I might expand that to "management", rather than the specific manager. I disagree with decisions made at higher levels in the company (local layoffs, then international outsourcing, when the company's not struggling by any stretch of the imagination). My manager's awesome, though.

The new developers are nice enough, but the culture in the office here was taken out back and shot by management 3 or 4 levels up.
Youtube has a totally reasonable subscription which hides all ads.

If you want to run adblockers on random news sites, whatever, I'm not going to argue, but there's really no excuse on youtube except "I'm a cheap shit"
>Yeah, I definitely agree that I have never been to a place in the USA that borders on third world conditions, and I've been to many rural places

Depends on what you mean by "third world conditions" too. There are places in the third world that are heaps and bounds above some US towns and cities.

Try parts of Mississippi, Appalachia, etc. Or heck, try Pine Ridge SD, where life expectancy "in 2007 was estimated to be 48 for males and 52 for females."
Amazon, which has some very large amount of knowledge on your consumer spending habits if you use it regularly is now looking to get the complete financial picture for a not-so-insignificant percentage of the world.

There's some powerful stuff you can do with that.
That's the hulu strategy. Wear you down with such low quality, repetitive ads you'll beg for the adfree upgrade.
Yeah, I just want to temper people's expectations with the reality that the dollar is worth way less now than it was when people were establishing their intuition about it. My parents 2500 sq ft house that I grew up in was less than $200,000. These days, a studio apartment is one million dollars. (Not an apples to apples comparison, we lived in the suburbs of Chicago and my apartment pricing is for places like NYC and SF, but still... Chelsea Clinton can save an entire year's salary and not own a place to live. It sounds like a ton of money, but it's really not.)
It isn't your right to post whatever you want to this site, and I don't want to ban you. I'd much prefer to convince you to use HN as intended.

There's a constant downward pressure on the quality of this site—that's how things go on the internet—so we all have to make the effort of posting civilly and substantively, or else HN will get worse and we'll lose the things that make it worth visiting.
Can somebody explain how Amazon could buy them if Capital One's total assests are worth $334 billion? Presumably the valuation would be some multiple of that. Amazon doesn't have enough liquid cash, so how would they do it?
Does this imply that LLD isn't going to support MacOS any time soon? That would be quite sad.
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Definitely a work in progress. Was like having a goddamn cat following my fingers around the piano. No sense of rhythm or tonality whatsoever. Like, it objectively made whatever I was playing sound worse.

It may "respond" but it's a lot more like throwing electricity through a dead body than working with a competent duet partner.
20 times higher payout per viewer.

"“I can now clearly determine how much Red views are worth vs normal views. If I did my math correctly, since Red started, a Red view is on average worth 20x that of a normal ad view. This calculation is based on taking the total revenue the channel has generated via Red and dividing it by the total number of Red views since Red was first launched, then multiplying that number by 1000 to find the effective CPM of Red.”

http://lipanitechnologies.com/2017/01/03/youtube-red-helping...
This is one thing that youtube does really well though - on some other sketchy video player you never know whether the video will play even if the ad will (the worst is when don't let you know you're geo-blocked until after playing their ad) but on youtube the video always plays just as well as the ads for me.
My experience even on YouTube has been that ads buffer completely at full resolution, playing flawlessly, while videos are buffered minimally (pausing at the start and leaving to grab a sandwich does not result in the whole video loading) and often drop to lower resolution based on bandwidth.
I agree that not having other kinds of ads is a big deal.
Right, but even their more expensive paid plan has a 50k row limit, which is low enough to preclude whole classes of applications.

They do claim a "custom number" of rows in their "contact us for pricing" plan, but the 50k number suggests that anything higher than that would have serious perf downsides with their current architecture.
>> The minimal interest gained by lending shares is not worth the downward pressure to the stock price created by the short which undermines the asset value.

They pay interest?
My house, my desk, my expensive chair.

Everything else is inferior.
>there's really no excuse on youtube except "I'm a cheap shit"

or perhaps the slightly more valid excuse of "i don't live in australia, mexico, korea, new zealand, or the united states"
Unfortunately I just keep staring at the woman in the picture at the top of the page.
Surely this comment is against HN guidelines and should be removed....
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That's the actual problem with these ads: bloat, bandwidth usage, javascript, profiling, de-anonymization, tracking, attacks on privacy, sound, unskippable videos, etc.

I will feel no remorse for adblocking until advertisers go back to static, single-request, non-tracking, non-targetting ads.
If you're interested, I've been toying with the idea of an organizational structure that's loosely but explicitly modeled on the human body. My basic idea is that since bodies are complex interdependent structures that mostly Just Work, social structures that explicitly recapitulate human anatomy should be inherently more robust.
You might want to browse archives of LREC biannual conference, they have sections focused on resource creation and some of the larger projects should have papers on annotation methodology. LDC (https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/) is probably the largest organization doing a large variety of annotation tasks, maybe they have published how they do things, I'm not sure.

However, often there are no real shortcuts; in many projects the resource annotation takes much more work and more people than everything else together, it's not uncommon to see multiple man-years spent to do that properly.

What you say about the high level is just about all that can be said in general, everything else will depend on your particular problem. After you've fixed the bugs in your process, interannotator agreement is not really a description of your annotators but a measure of how subjective/objective your task is - and you can't really change that without meaningful changes to how exactly you define your task. Some tasks are well suited for crowdsourcing, and some need dedicated experts. Some annotation tasks are straightforward and annotation guidelines fit on one page; for others the annotation guidelines are a literal book, and one that needs revisions as a few years after you figure out that you need changes. It depends. Shallow sentiment analysis is generally on the trivial side of annotation (but highly subjective), but you can go far enough the rabbit hole to drag the whole surrounding issues of intent, degree of belief, degree of certainty, etc - then you hit the full complexity of deep semantic annotation.

Perhaps you just need to find the people who did the latest more interesting datasets in your domain and ask them directly. I don't handle sentiment, but http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2017/task5/ is one group of people that seems to do it seriously.
A long time back, HTTP Switchboard stopped blocking preroll ads, for me in the US. Is there a rule I can add back in?

Edit: Just figured it out. Blocking this with an adbock rule fixes it at as a logged-in user, in the US, using Chrome.

https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info*
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I was curious about the idea and did some Googling. Apparently some people have tried to use copyright to exclude evidence against them at trials. Citing a document at a trial doesn't usually reduce it's commercial value so Fair Use is typically the rule. The one exception in the page I found was when a lawyer commissioned the copyrighted work for one trial and then tried to introduce it in another trial without the permission of the copyright holder.

http://www.trademarkandcopyrightlawblog.com/2014/08/when-can...
> Regulators in the US are taking interest in the large sums collectively kept on stored value cards and the associated mobile apps. “The money stored on these cards – and any similar stored value accounts – are effectively the same as bank deposits and as the total value now exceeds the deposits at smaller US banks, regulators are seeing a need to apply oversight,” O’Brien says.

What exactly are these "stored value cards" with associated mobile apps? Things like gift cards? Or are they talking about Apple and Android Pay?
Row level security on the database for users.
If they were just shipping that lamp, it wouldn't be. But that lamp ships basically for free when you have a container ship full of other stuff.

If the cost of a trans-Atlantic freight voyage is $150,000, that's basically $150,000 as a fixed cost. If you only have one thing on that boat, it will still cost $150,000. If you have two, it's still $150,000 but now you've halved the transport cost per item. And so on. Now if you put $150,000 worth of merchandise on there, the trip is paid for. Every additional item you stack on is pure profit, essentially. So that (relatively) little lamp just gets balanced on top of a Svorgbøg sofa and ships for free. The only thing they pay is the cost to manufacture, which using the same principles on the assembly line, is almost effectively just the cost of the raw materials. And those raw materials only cost $2 for some plastic and a tiny amount of metal, so there we go. Profit.

Amazon has something similar in their add-on items. These are items that would not be able to be sold or shipped by themselves as it wouldn't be cost effective, but if you purchase them with something else, now it's worth the shipping for them.
Really? No government involved?
We've been using it as well for at least three years. I can get stuff done with fossil without having to read man pages and search for examples every time I'm doing something different. It's also suitable for teams that require a central repo as everything could be kept in sync with upstream with the added ability of hassle free branching and merging (svn I am looking at you), stashes and other git-like goodies.

The only problem is that once the history gets big enough, fossil gets slow. Everything is replicated everywhere which is an advantage (backups everywhere) but also a drawback (slow). I once tried to convert the FreeBSD ports tree to fossil and gave up after some hours and gigs of data.

Mercurial was interesting and user friendly as well, but it requires python. Fossil is a single self contained binary with everything in it. And so is the repo - a single SQLite database. No .svn dirs scattered all over the place.
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Nerves is awesome. Go Nerves.
>Look, bandwidth costs money.

You're right, and I already paid for it with my ISP. I only get a set amount of data each month, so you can be sure I'm going to block 100% of the ads I can to stop them from wasting my limited bandwidth.
Or wear make-up every time you leave your home.

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SoftBank willing to cede control of Sprint to entice T-Mobile
Por que escolher .NET?
Section 7 of the Programmer's Reference is the stuff of nightmares:

"This chapter describes the Cmacro macros, a set of assembly-language macros that can be used with the Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) to create assembly-language Windows applications."
Capital One's current market cap is around $44 Billion. They may have $334 billion in assets, but its not their money. It's their customer's.

By comparison, Amazon's market cap is around $400 billion.

Ironically, they both seem to make around the same amount of money.
Is that true? I know there are more optimal control schemes than PID IF you know the parameters of the load, but with a servo you could connect anything to it, so its not just the gearbox and motor, so how would it handle it? I would love to see some implementation code or diagram of a hobby servo control. Also my understanding is that PID is optimal IF you don't know about the load, but maybe that is wrong, its been a while.

My impression was that hobby servos used basically just PI control and were heavily damped so you don't really get overshoot, but again I don't really know.
Theranos might be on life support
Elixir is fantastic to work with and has a bright future (its conference attendance has doubled every year), although its libraries (as impressive as they are) might not be as mature as some of the older functional langs. The tooling is fantastic, though
I don't use a database per service, rather a single database service which others can query. Sometimes there might be some caching layer in another service, or if the data source is unique enough (eg elasticsearch) it gets its own service.

PS I'm apparently a buffoon and use microservices for even the most trivial side project
We deploy Monday to Thursday at set times and will HOTFIX / rollback as needed. Deploys take at most 30 minutes depending on what we're deploying. CI with some CD. I'm a DevOps / Release Eng and one of my reasons for not going full CD is we don't have the acceptable amount of automated tests to fully trust running CD, since our deploy process involves Spot / Smoke tests that are manual. Trying to get management to implement more tests that come from Dev side has been a struggle.
Agreed, i've observed both personally and with others that americans tend to get upset when someone tries to move a disagreement into private chat, rather than having a public battle about it; and also tend to follow it up by actions that ensure the disagreement is never resolved.
What I find interesting is that google/youtube doesn't circumvent adblockers, though they easily could, given that they own the whole ad supply chain. For example, they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (in the html), or even splice the videos into one stream. My guess is they don't because a) they are wildly profitable anyway, and b) they don't want to alienate adblock users, especially the techies.
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This is pretty icky but not terribly surprising given most countries positions about internet surveillance.
More reasons to want crypto.
I would imagine it is asset under management. May be something like hedge funds which have 100s billion dollar assets but that is money of clients not the value of hedge fund.
Emacs is not difficult to use?

In order to get it to do half of what Notepad++ or Sublime or Kate do, you have to spend hours and hours to learn it and configure it in the hope that the investment will pay off and that the productivity gain will make up for it. And despite what you might say there's no data you can point me to that actually proves those increased productivity claims.
Not sure I know what you mean but I'm glad you responded—I like it when people respond :)
It's even worse if you're an expat living in a foreign country (e.g. Hong Kong). Despite being signed in to my Google / YouTube accounts (where Google knows my language preferences) every. single. advertisement. was completely irrelevant to me because it was in Cantonese. Total waste of my time and the advertiser's dollars.

Not long after, I installed uBlock Origin and haven't looked back.
Look, my time is valuable. I decide what media to play based on my preferences. If I don't want to see ads, why would I instruct my browser to play them?

If giving out free videos isn't a sustainable business model, change your business model.

No amount of shame will ever be effective in getting me to turn off my adblocker. Sorry if this offends you.
Perhaps they mean apps like Square Cash or Venmo? Both of those hold money for users in a "virtual" account until the user chooses to move it into a real banking account.
Does not protect against anyone with administrative access...
Honestly, this gives such irrelevant answers, it might as well be random. The presentation is pretty cool but it doesn't actually work well at all.
Probably a combination of asset merging and cash pay out.
If you have ever swam in a competitive setting (a swimming race), then you are aware that 45s/lap IS, in fact, a very slow pace.
What about funding growth?
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I think you are misattributing his snark. In his regular column he has a recurring section called "Blockchain blockchain blockchain" such as in [1] in which he covers how the finance industry itself is trying to apply blockchains to everything. It's the new fad, they are in the Peak of Inflated Expectations [2]. So while it might be true that some bankers are afraid that Bitcoin is going to replace them (I have no opinion on that) the author is highlighting yet another case where blockchain is supposed to easily solve any difficult distributed ledger problem.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-31/mirror-tr...

2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Ga...
Ad-blockers are great, but people using them are reaching crossfit-levels of just having to let you know.
I think the thing that stands out most is that you worked together and built a team and as long as the environment was good enough (obviously still not optimal) for the team, you got busy adding value. Too many people will read this and say "that sounds awful" in terms of environment. There has been a lot of discussions here lately and so many of them are I centric. It was nice to read your account and how we centric it was.
If the government spent tens of billions of dollars annually to construct housing, and allowed people to live in it for free, I would describe that as a "housing subsidy" even if no one living in those buildings was actually receiving money from the government. Likewise, when the government spends general tax money on infrastructure that can only be used by drivers, I consider that a subsidy for drivers.
I've only seen info on it not being profitable assuming you actually account for its actual bandwidth, etc. Do you know where you may have seen it's profitable?
I'm really looking forward to this. I've hit the 2^16 symbol limit in the ancient GNU ld in base several times over the last few years (the version in ports is fine). It will be great to have a default linker without such 16-bit limits.
Yes, like I said, OOP does this a lot more elegantly.
I'd be willing to bet that if the founder of Slack wanted/needed to he could take quite a bit of money off the table. Come series B/C/D+ usually founders can take a bit off the table. Stewart can probably do whatever he wants (though he made enough form Flickr he doesn't need to).

As for me, I have not very much in savings, but I would take 30% ownership of Slack over 30% ownership of 37Signals/Basecamp in a _second_, and not even just from a long-term perspective. I'd bet with a 30% stake in Slack you could put a couple million away to hedge downside risk, then have tons and tons of upside available.

I think HN could do a much better job at understanding the practicalities of equity and what it really looks like if you're a founder. You're not just handed a bunch of paper and told to work and dream for 10 years, generally speaking.
This user rarely contributes to discussions and frequently gives short, useless answers like this.

Can I ask HN why this account hasn't been banned yet? I thought the behavior this user is demonstrating directly violates HN guidelines?
That's not an excuse. They're short ads, not paywalls.
I am actually working on web app that walks you through building a solid resume based on my own UX opinions. Then at the end you can print out the pdf.
This is my resume (rather outdated now) and my opinionated design. http://resume.kristoffersen.io

Thoughts on a resume builder web app? Want to see one exist?
Not only that.. but Lennart was working on Upstart.. committed to working on some items.. Came back, and said - "Surprise, i've made systemd instead".. which is a bit of a kick when you are depending on him to do the features he said he'd do.
> they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (in the html), or even splice the videos into one stream.

And make ads unsuitable for the most egregious attacks on privacy, simple plain tracking or even as distribution channel for malware. Curiously, this nuclear option will make things better than the current situation.
This "first build a cross compiler" is ingrained for OS/embedded people. It is a shame, because it is just a GCC weirdness.
That's because Youtube natively integrates the pre-roll into its video player, while it's far easier for ad servers to just wrap the entire video player itself and (temporarily) replace it with their ad content.

Not saying it's right, but it's just the status quo of the moment.