skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the next "batch" be ~6 months, or a year later?
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From my vantage point as a warrior it appeared entirely arbitrary as well.
Your #1 risk is you have a definite product in mind and will try to find the market for it instead the other way around. This is likely to kill your startup. If you avoid this, the operational biz stuff you can pick up along the way.

Feel free to email me (see profile) if you'd like to go in depth re this.
I consider an AI startup to actually be one of the lowest risk kinds of startup.

Your costs are your time for 6 months making a product, and a few thousand dollars worth of AWS credits or GPU's.

That's it - you don't need a big team, special agreements, risk of warehouses/products. You don't need to run a loss-leading service to attract users or pay marketing costs.

As soon as you find the first user for your tech, the signing of that first agreement will immediately make you cashflow positive.

It's the ideal startup, and one of the few types of startup I would recommend self-funding entirely.
That's true, and I do find the semi-celebratory tone a bit self-congratulatory. That's why I think team-member-1 still being promoted is the most important factor at play.
No, see Brownback's Kansas tax cuts for just one recent example showing that (at least in our current tax regime) lowering rates brings in less revenue.
Sadly, the simple answer is "yes".

I used to use a VPN to watch US Netflix, but they started to block known VPNs and I didn't feel like spending time on workarounds. On the other hand, downloading the latest episode of some TV series takes only a few mouse clicks. For sure easier than fighting geo-restrictions.

I still pay for Netflix, but doesn't really watch it much because of the tiny catalog available to me locally, I simply want to support them. Perhaps it will make me feel better if I would download any of their content. :)
> If a company deliberately sells a faulty product that kills a customer, they should be treated just like a common criminal who breaks into someone's house and shoots them

I think they should, if they knew what the consequence would be.

But the problem is not so much the extreme cases as the borderline cases where it is hard to prove intent, and hard to prove the understood the severety of the consequences.

Should I be allowed to advertise my unhealthy products in ways that implies they're good for you? Do it to a large enough audience, and it'll likely kill, but not directly. We know more than enough about human willpower to know that to drag out "free will" in those contexts is meaningless.

Now consider how long it took us to get to a consensus of the danger of tobacco, and how long it took us to start penalising the tobacco industry for their deceit in fighting regulation, and consider how much higher the stakes would be if it was not about regulating them but about locking up their executives.
Maybe I'm assuming too much, but given the broad language and complete lack of mention of judicial oversight, it seems like it. This document about how ICE uses ICM, a similar system that works with data from other agencies, only mentions warrants in the context of the database holding information about them, or certain information in the database being obtained using them: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy...
>along with nearly half of all voters

Last time I checked, 46.09% of 55.3% was a little under 25.5% of all voters.
I think this argument is also misleading in a variety of ways. The election cycle proved, to me, that the entire presidential race -- from primaries to general -- is largely a popularity contest and heavily run on name recognition. There's also the concern that the states that didn't even go to Clinton in the general were largely the ones that carried her in the primaries. And then there's the superdelegate system that allowed the media to push the narrative that Clinton was winning by an insurmountable margin before that was actually the case.

People who generally stayed out of politics and were largely unenthused about voting turned out to vote for a candidate who engaged with their concerns and ideologies. This was a really complicated election cycle that, (again) to me, highlighted the idea that this is all one big popularity contest and that, ultimately, the media picked the popular kids for us all before we knew it.
"Ignored" is putting it charitably. Ignoring is when you don't listen, and just go on with what you're doing. When you react to Sanders as a threat and torpedo him with dirty politics, that's something else.

The anti-Semitism included in that initiative, plus the xenophobia of blaming the Russians for exposing the truth (which I don't think they had anything to do with), sounds a lot like a certain other major political party we're familiar with. No wonder these people don't like Bernie... they're not Democrats and he is.
Exactly, the US has many of the leading (highest quality) medical specialists, which you would expect from the richest country with the best research university system.

That does not mean the US has the highest quality healthcare in terms of health outcomes for the population.

If anyone reading this believes we (the US) have the highest quality health outcomes, please do some research with an open mind. We're not terrible, just far worse than you'd expect given our wealth. We are actually great in some cases, e.g., certain types of cancer treatment (I think, don't have stats at hand). But in many, many categories, our outcomes are middle of the pack or towards the bottom for developed countries. For example, IIRC, we're quite middling/mediocre in life expectancy, infant mortality, heart attack mortality, % of diabetics with managed care, efficiency of spend, etc.
I think the lawsuits attempting to shut down those networks are stupid. At the same time, municipalities are the worst possible level at which to build those sorts of networks. Here in D.C., the Metro tracks are in such dire shape that trips scheduled for 25 minutes take 40+ due to train slowdowns. Last summer, tracks were literally catching on fire.

In any case, the vast majority of people live in states where municipalities are not banned from building broadband networks. Munipalities don't do it because they have no money. Is Baltimore going to spend a billion dollars building fiber to every household when it's got a billion-dollar pension fund shortfall? Verizon spent over $3 billion to wire up half of NYC. Was New York in a position to do that itself, when it's got a $46 billion pension liability, and a $14 billion liability in the MTA?
Keyboard: MasterKeys Pro S Mechanical Keyboard Tenkeyless

Mouse: LOGITECH TrackMan Wheel Optical USB/PS2

I have at least 3 TrackMan Wheel's, one I always bring to use at the current place of work.
I guess I could never justify calling someone a "monster" based solely upon their political leanings. I tend to be somehwere in the middle politically, and I cannot fathom calling anyone that I know on the extreme left or right a "monster" or similar simply because they disgree with me. So I guess the root of my question is that I just can't identify with people that would use such labels simply because others disagree with them. That's why I was hoping there was some other concrete reason for this opinion.
I don't see the Republican Party championing anything for the working class but death.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432796/working-class-wh...
Larry Ellison was born in Brooklyn, NY to a single mother, Ellison was raised by his aunt and uncle in Chicago who were quite poor. Howard Schultz (Starbucks CEO), Sean John, Oprah Winfey, Jay-Z, do you want me to continue naming people who come from hard positions with little to no money and the inner-city and made it on a grand scale?
If I visit a healthcare information website, like webmd.com, and it's unencrypted, then my service provider knows my name, address, and health attributes. If they kept logs about my visit to those pages, would this be considered PHI under the context of HIPAA? If so, perhaps a lawsuit could force a judge to claim service provider logs are indeed sensitive.

Looking for other's thoughts...
> We have laws against negligence as well. You absolutely can deter people from accidentally getting people killed to some extent, or at least our laws seem to think we can.

And yet tobacco-companies still exist.
We're certainly not perfect - but we try very hard. Thanks for the kind words Kirill!
That's not a raise, that's a call. If you want to raise philosophical arguments that abolish all patents; be my guest (I'll just go all phenomenalist and Buddhist and abolish all other property including human bodies), but the rest of us will pay more attention to the last few centuries of economic history, which favor nations that enforce patents.
TOR is free and is specifically for the purpose of anonymizing your connection to the website you're visiting. This article isn't about authenticity of your identity, it's about confidentiality of your browsing history.

Using a simple free VPN to encrypt your traffic is enough. This does not cost time or money. Neither does TOR.

You shouldn't trust your ISP to not be collecting your information in either case. Even if they say they aren't spying on you that does not mean they should be trusted with any of your plaintext data.
To talk about possibility without probability is magical thinking.
"increasing minimum wage, make it easier to unionize, universal health care, protecting/expanding social security, and a bunch of other policies"

Despite what every source of 'truth' that you have self selected has trained you to believe, we don't actually want more bennies. Subsisting on the bennies you decide you can afford for us is not our aspiration.
Is a negative family environment common/typical/frequent for the hikikomori?
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Does anyone else see Bernie as a Gracchian[0] type hero of our republic? I just hope our republic does not suffer a similar fate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus
It's not only the US, risk aversion has increased all over Europe, as well. Drink bottled water, travel to safe destinations, god forbid you find an insect or even hair in your food, don't let the kids outside by themselves, don't play with dangerous things like electrical equipment or chemicals, don't move unless you know someone in that new city, etc.

I don't know why, maybe the media's constant reporting of the worst things has taken its toll, maybe it's the government micromanaging everything, but most people today are afraid of risks of any kind.
Have a read of the Blackman case. It illustrates both of your points.

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentis...
Yes, this is what I meant. I feel like most people's daily internet use is highly surveilled already. I can see the ISPs thinking "FB and Google can only get 80%, but we can see it all, if only we can get them to change the rules".
Is this the same ship they purchased the super-extended Windows XP support for?
Bring in the Goddamn Adults Already (2016)
...because of birthright citizenship

...that the same people oppose
This guy didn't stumble across a dangerous animation, it was sent to him in the knowledge that it might hurt him. Presumably in his daily life he doesn't do a lot of raw Google image searches. What you're saying is, "You have this illness, and you've never slipped up with it. Someone else might maliciously send you an animation though, so no animations for you."

That. Is. A. Problem.
Instead of DVD-Rs, I now use write-protected USB flash drives (Netac U335 or similar) with their write protect switches melted with a soldering iron. I know this doesn't protect about hardware failure, but most data loss actally gets caused by user actions or software bugs. Store several of them at different locations to protect from other threats.
To Compete with AWS, Oracle Will Need More Data Centers
I think if you can prove that you can scale revenue or users by the factor of 1,000 within 2-3 years, while only increasing headcount/staff by the factor of 10 then they would be interested.

That's basically the definition of a startup, so na matter what you do, if you can prove scalability like this, you are a startup.
It sounds great in theory but it's so divorced from reality I can't help but feeling anger at Palantir is misdirected. If Palantir refused the contract ICE would walk down the street and offer it to IBM/SAP/Northrop/Raytheon etc. If by some miracle they all refused it remember most three letter agencies have very skilled in-house teams.

All of this is just distracting from the real issues at hand.
Most likely next year.
I've built recommender systems at Etsy, among other places, and you get much better results if you make the data yes/no first. Shockingly MUCH better results. You'd think it would help to take into account, say how _many_ items of a shop a user likes, rather than just the fact that they liked some item, but it doesn't – it actively hurts. The only meaningful piece of information, it turns out is does this person like this thing or not.
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The death and life of the great British pub (2015)
Computer vision and machine learning to the rescue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Creating_ambiguit...
Did you recommend it to someone you knew to have seizures, with the intent to cause a seizure?

I'm not really buying this whole trend in this thread of arguing what amounts to, "I should be able to fire my gun into a crowd, it's my right, they should be wearing Kevlar."
> For example, IIRC, we're quite middling/mediocre in life expectancy, infant mortality, heart attack mortality, % of diabetics with managed care, efficiency of spend, etc.

Life expectancy, infant mortality, and heart attack mortality are directly related to our culture more than access to health care. Go look at our obesity rates. Do you think not having to pay a copay to go to a doctor would fix that?
If you have a track record, they would be interested, like any investor.

If you don't have a track record, no revenue, no users, no product, most likely not, just like any investor.
Amazon will now tell Prime members what to wear via new “Outfit Compare” feature
if a company is telling me about their products which I would have to pay to consume (e.g a movie), and I didn't specifically ask to be told about the (by active consent), that's an advert.

Also really not sure why you don't think Disney paid for this, Google's wording was ambiguous on that topic at best and the idea they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts stretches belief more than a little.
Several years I was a junior dev at a 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) company troubleshooting an issue with some overnight data imports.

I had it all loaded up on the test environment, then I'd delete the import, make some changes, and re-run it. Wash, rinse, repeat, trying to track down the issue. As I'm sure you can guess, at one point I executed my scirpt in the wrong window and deleted last nights import from Production.

I immediately told my boss, who was very understanding with a "everyone does this kind of thing at some point" kind of shrug and went over to our DBA's office to ask him to re-load the last snapshot. But it turned out the snapshots had been broken for two weeks and no one had noticed.

And it wasn't a simple issue of re-running the import. After all the orders had been imported, humans had manually assigned orders to trucks and dispatched them in the wee hours of the morning. Now there was no way to know what packages were on what trucks.

I think the DBA ended up buying ApexSQL Log out of pocket to roll back the deletion with the transaction log.

The result was that for several hours the delivery drivers for a national office supply company in a certain state were completely unable to use their handhelds or access their truck's inventory. That was my team-member-1 moment.
No, I'm happier with a console that just does it's own thing. Nintendo doesn't build shitty watered down PCs. They just build a thing to play some games on.
I'm beginning to think that all the talk from GPLers that isn't "there shouldn't be any intellectual property of any kind" is just a smokescreen. Really the whole point is that patents shouldn't exist, copyrights shouldn't exist, and maybe money should be abolished at the same time. See "economic history" for the rejoinder.
FWIW, YCombinator has funded a fully open, federated Facebook clone:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/diaspora#/entity

It didn't work out so well, mostly because a.) actually cloning Facebook is pretty hard and b.) users don't seem to want to switch to fully-open Facebook or Twitter clones.
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yes scaled ratings do tend to have subjectivity which in practice we normalize by databasing surveys over time for categories x markets.

The reason online ratings tend to be bimodal is because the respondents are self selecting sample rather than randomized. Since product ratings are not typically compulsory, the extreme likers/dis-likers tend to fill the survey question.

When implemented as compulsory, it drives poor user experience and having to fill a survey to get something anyway introduces a bias (just fill something to get it over with). So no easy answer.

This is also the reason traditional survey firms haven't really gone out of business even with the wealth of online data from Facebook, Twitter and product reviews available, though better/easier access to actual behavioral signals are certainly replacing surveys in some areas.
Funny sarcasm, but...what is the point you are trying to make?
It just about fits in a large truck.
Three Myths Telecom Is Using to Convince Congress to Repeal FCC’s Privacy Rules
wow! what a short sighted comment!!

Investing in space exploration may not give you returns on investment in short run but it helps humanity learn more about the vast expanse that surrounds us and affects our day to day lives.
Interesting. I also think a lot of functionalities, and annotations are definitely one of them, which are currently manual could implemented in much better ways. Fundamentally, charts really haven't changed much over the last half century (or more).
No... but if the FBI gives the local PD an account on their mysql database, I'm not going to protest mysql.

This story somehow manages to make it sound like the CIA wanted to keep this information secret, but then ICE hired palantir to hack the gibson. Focusing on the wrong players.
>For example we have used 90% of our SANs storage, our IO is suffering and now were looking at purchasing two $10k SANs to upgrade. In the meantime, we have probably spent over 10k worth of development time to compress, clean up, and remove any data we don't need.

I suspect you haven't priced out AWS storage (and the bandwidth to actually access the data with frequency). If the cost of a SAN was hurting your company and you had to look to reduce data usage, AWS will absolutely wipe you out.
Yup, it works. I like the register icons.

Unless I'm not understanding the UI, it needs a "run" button so I don't wear out a mouse button mashing "step". Yes?
Some of those weren't really automated, but rather worked more like vending machines. Weirdly, I've seen an updated version of these in hospitals. In addition, I've seen vending machines with cafeteria sandwiches and frozen microwave dinners.

For clarity, what I more refer to is kitchens without human intervention save for mechanics. The machines make burgers, fries, and whatnot. It seems the first wave is going more to replace the cashier, though: McDonalds has introduced touch-screen ordering stations and grocery stores have self-checkouts.
I'd be curious as to how much of this is a product of culture and parenting. I'm willing to bet, given my experience, that parents in India are far more pragmatic than those in the West when it comes to advising their children regarding education and lifestyle choices. Becoming a doctor or engineer in a in-demand field not only carries the potential for a high income, but also opens the door to emigrating to another country. Good data point: 11% of physicians in the UK are immigrants from India[1].

[1]http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMsa050004
"a simulated system built ... to resemble fleet systems"

Is hacking against a simulated system that merely "resembles" the original rather than exactly duplicates it the same as hacking against the actual real system?

Probably not, and if so, is there much real value to such an exercise.
Your argument amounts to, "Murder is stabbing, only stabbing. Valve shot people, never stabbed!"

I remain bemused, and unimpressed both by your argument, and your tone.
I don't rate things on Netflix (and rarely on any other service). If I made it thru the movie, I probably enjoyed it; if not, I didn't.

What I would like to see is a collection of all available movies by genre, and I'll pick what I want to watch. That's it - I don't need or want recommendations. In fact, if it's recommended, my first thought is "who's getting paid for that?"
False, but this has been argued elsewhere in the forums, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(web_engine)
to see it does have a BSD license.
I don't necessarily disagree, but even then they can only do that if the user is visiting a FB or Google property, or a property that has entered into a relationship with them.

A service provider, on the other hand, is in a position that has absolutely no legitimate claim on the contents of communications between third parties.

Postal services are not expected to rifle through the contents of their customer's packages. Phone companies are not expected to record people's phone calls (or even reveal who's calling who). There is no reason why data communication providers should be allowed to do these things.
My position is that there is a reality which exists. Statements are more or less true to the degree that they conform or fail to conform to the reality of what exists. The words certainly are in a context and have meaning within that context. With well-chosen words, though, the statements can (but do not always) have a meaning that is larger than the particular context. (The meaning would have to be expressed in different words in other contexts, of course.)

Now, you could argue that we don't really know the truth of what exists, and therefore that my standard of "truth" is meaningless for all practical purposes. Nevertheless, this is what truth has been classically considered to be. (By "classically", I mean before Hegel.)
The US has many of the "highest quality" specialists.

The US population does not receive the highest quality healthcare in the world.

If you are rich and sick, there's a decent chance that the world's leading specialist on your illness will be in the US. If you are poor and sick, you will receive higher quality healthcare in many other developed countries.

These are not the same thing; you are conflating them, I assume to support an ideological point. Just look at any ranking of healthcare outcomes for developed nations.
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This is mostly spread across different issues in our issue tracker (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure). I suspect we'll write up a blog post once all the moving parts are in place, have been tested/used for a while, etc.
They have a compliance department that explicitly says "don't lie to people when you sell to them".

Except that's not quite what goes on.

What happens is, compliance says that. Then the salespeople's managers put them into a situation where they're required to make quota and the only way to do so is lying/fraud, they willingly turn a blind eye to anyone who lies/commits fraud, they punish people who don't make quota and hold up the liars/fraudsters as exemplars, and punish anyone who tries to blow the whistle on the whole thing.

Which is, by the way, what actually happened at Wells Fargo.

Honestly, the bank probably should've been dissolved for that one, pour encourager les autres.