skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic points.

I still cannot envision a world 100% without advertising, but my guess would be that the future would be more covert advertising, in the form of product placements etc. On the other hand, I think as the world becomes less materialistic (because it just isn't cool to hoard stuff now), perhaps the impact of having James Bond drive an Aston is going to become reduced.

I will happily pay for Spotify, because it does what it says on the tin: all my music in one place, fuss-free and then it gets out of my way. On the other hand, Netflix is now boring because they don't have all that I want, and so both Netflix and the Movie/TV licensing companies lose my money.

I really like your last point. The price of a subscription should be highly negotiable. The world is a more convenient place now (for a certain percentage of the world's population, admittedly), and expectations have shifted accordingly. Figure out a way of making me not jump through hoops, or you will lose.
This website again... every time I see it, I get an irresistible urge to write my own old-school racing game in Javascript (it's been done, I know, but not by me).

I'd better get away from it before I "forget" that I have deadlines to stick to.
"Colour" is just history. Both bits and physical things can have history that isn't recorded in the thing itself, but is relevant to the law. For example, the law cares if you're driving a stolen car, even though the car's atoms don't carry XML tags saying "stolen". Enforcing rules based on history is hard, both in the physical and digital world, but it's not impossible. It might even be easier in the digital world, due to ubiquitous surveillance and robust content ID algorithms. Pointing to computer science is just a deflection, like a theoretical physicist explaining that protons are indistinguishable when asked about tracking stolen cars. In practice, history can be tracked. The only question is whether we want to.
I've been holding Tesla for a long time. Currently I'm more optimistic about the company than when I bought it, which seemed fairly risky when I bought it.

I think the room for growth and market expansion (Important Electric Things and energy future) is very large. I think trying to compute how the math will get there is a mistake, short of making sure that they are not going to run out of money.

Being long technology stocks is a strange game. If you're long IBM or AAPL right now, you're more or less betting that the future is going to look pretty much the same. It's almost a misnomer to call them technology stocks.

There are only a handful of public companies you can bet on (Tesla and Amazon are probably the most obvious) that are really betting big on the future. The dividends of these will be unknown.

Think about it this way: If you did your same math, could you have expected or predicted Amazon's AWS success? If you want to bet on the future, you have to make sure the company isn't going bankrupt, then you have to look more to the processes that the company produces, moreso than the [current] products.
Following a market cap index investing - the most popular method of passive investing - means buying a set of stock weighted by market cap and then mostly doing nothing. It's hardly the machines taking over. Algorithm investment is probably not passive investment.
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Why wouldn't the CPU 100% know whether an instruction is a branch or not? Doesn't it need to know to execute it?
On the flip side, free trade, immigration, and automation lower the price of consumer goods.

Ultimately, this is the question: people may have "had it" with automation and AI, but are they willing to pay for a product built with more expensive labor? Because in the end, price rules in many people's minds when it comes to the choice of goods they buy. And businesses know this.

You could restrict immigration to zero in my opinion, and this still would be a problem. Most factory floors are heavily automated. It's kind of like many farm crops: it would be foolhardy (more costly, less reliable) to force farmers to replace the single combine with huge amounts of human labor. Likewise, you're not going to replace the machines on the factory floor with people unless you accept a much higher price for the consumer. Heck, you could eliminate all imports, and manufacturing floors still would heavily use machines.

That's why ultimately, it is difficult for me to envision a path for many of these people that does not involve some sort of education, training, or similar. It doesn't have to be STEM type work.

But 1950s style industrial work is not coming back, immigrants or not. Eliminating the immigrants would only open up the opportunity for certain low-salary manual labor positions. While that might add jobs, it won't be the same kind of jobs their fathers had.
I remember a quote from a scifi book years ago, that a real scientist was one who would peer fearlessly into the gates of hell if he thought he'd learn something about his field.

You can't just train/encourage people into that. They are born that way. They'd be scientists/engineers for free if they could. Ironically, this often results in them being very well paid :-)

It reminds me of the fighter pilots who say "I can't believe they actually PAY me to fly these things!"

There's always a shortage of those kinds of people.
You're right that low DNS TTL is not perfect (we saw few providers that override the TTL to reduce the number of DNS queries going out of their network, this is a big hack but cause some trouble). This problem is addressed by our API clients that have different DNS endpoint to reach the 3 machines of a cluster.

We cannot use any local network IP or load-balancer as we distribute a cluster on several providers with different autonomous systems. This is how we are able to offer SLA of up to 99.999% with a big refund strategy: https://blog.algolia.com/for-slas-theres-no-such-thing-as-10...
The idea you describe is called risk compensation [0], and it has huge effects on many different human behaviors. It doesn't directly apply in this case, because the risk that matters for this is personal risk to a driver, not externalized risk to other travelers. Or maybe it could affect driving, but only if the Law re-internalized such risk by punishing drivers who kill pedestrians, which it doesn't do even though it would in any civilized society. The other re-internalization option would be for pedestrians and cyclists to travel in heavily armed packs...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
Yeah, I hit it today.

https://api.slack.com/docs/rate-limits
I like to think of the entire asteroid belt as a failed planet.
Siri can't even tell jokes, while Cortana is capable of telling jokes, singing, and much more.

These little things - even though programmed by some other person - can spice things up and make the bot look even more natural.

Go home Siri.
>People actually do want to see ads in certain contexts

Context is very important. That's why 'other recommended products' on sites like Amazon are important. They are a form of ad, but most people don't see it as one, and they don't mind it.

People hate ads that attempt to capture your attention that are completely out of context. If I'm reading about network switches and flash ad for makeup pops up it annoys me. If it tries to exploit my computer it makes me ban all ads.
This seems naive. People will happily fight others just like them and from similar backgrounds for all sorts of reasons. Civil Wars are infamous for it. "Brother against brother".
I saw a recent article try to claim that conversational UIs were just like GUIs -- there are a handful of buttons, that you need to shoehorn into verbal commands.
It looks like VB is taking one incident somewhere in Atwater/Merced and attributing it to work culture of the co at large. From my limited interaction with googlers as well as hearsay, it would rather seem very atypical of what goes on over there. For me most part they seem somewhat coddled rather than overworked.

And then as if that unfounded generalization were not enough, they also sprinkled something about harassment and bro culture --which as far as I understand, google fights very hard against. I mean, it would seem the last big co one could accuse of sex harassment and bro culture would be google. Someone wanted to try to write something explosive where there isn't.
My personal view is that the programmer needs to know the difference because there are important tradeoffs to consider.

I do however think it should be easier to use decimal arithmetic. I've written financial apps in both Java and JavaScript and I wish both languages had native syntax and support for decimal numbers and arithmetic. JavaScript has nothing built-in and Java's BigDecimal class is clunky to use.
We were using CloudFront at the beginning but we had a lot of performance problems to deploy our binaries worldwide (especially in Africa and Russia). We have seen a big performance improvement by switching to Cloudflare that have a POP in all region where we deploy binaries
I'm not saying they're dumb, you're right many people will have law enforcement and military experience. But they simply won't be equipped and supplied like normal forces, and I think that's the key difference. And yes, I agree that there could be a strong resistance movement to whatever happens by armed citizens, since guns are everywhere.
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I think I have a copy, formatted as Mac Word on a 3.5" diskette, MFS format. I'll have to dig around my attic.
I disagree, I've met many very sharp people who happen to not have a background that does not fit the traditional 'knowledge worker' funnel. The fundamental problem is that once you make early life decisions - our society has increasingly closed the paths to retrace that decision. Employers are unwilling to fund retraining, even if one re-educates themselves there is discrimination for entry positions vs someone young and cheap (and has no expectations of good treatment...).
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Interesting! I've found Yale's to be more intellectual, although also less practical. Any other schools that (anecdotally) fit a profile?
>The car is just a battery with wheels

I think this sentence is what could make Tesla fail, as a car-company at least...
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Would it be the first badly implemented thing in OS X?
Amazing that people pouring money into the latest buzzword have once again come up empty handed.
The military and prisons to the rescue. Think Detroit.
The race is on to get the mineral out of Clayton Valley and into your iPhones
>With all these people passively investing, are we going to see reduced competition within industries...

I read an article a while back, wish I could find it. It was about how CEO compensation is often tied to absolute performance as opposed to performance relative to the whole industry and how passive management actually prefers this so I'd say yes.

>How good is price setting if there are less and less actively managed funds? Are there new inefficiencies that are created by all this passive investing?

Well Shiller PE is getting up there. I think this is super interesting because in our next correction or perhaps even now, as we move to an increasing rate environment, we will get to see some analytical minds actually beating the market. It's gonna be interesting.
Just wanted to thank you guys, met a lot of Mormons all over the world. Great people, can always talk snd discuss things, always recognize you by the n cell clothes you wear and the fact you always speak the local language :)
I'm not doing your homework for you.
And ultimately, that's all you'd ever need in a game, right?

http://playdosgamesonline.com/lotus-the-ultimate-challenge.h...

(runs in the browser)
>I think trying to compute how the math will get there is a mistake

I think the exact opposite; buying stocks without knowing how much you are paying for profit is a mistake.

>It's almost a misnomer to call them technology stocks.

10 years ago Apple revolutionized the tech industry with a cell phone. Now they aren't a tech company?

>If you did your same math, could you have expected or predicted Amazon's AWS success?

Do you think the people behind AWS didn't model the potential cloud services market, and were taken by surprise by the success?

I'm not saying it's easy, but being tricky is no reason to ignore using what data we have.
Tesla is a long-term bet, but a virtue of the stock market is that the market's horizon for payouts is potentially much longer than any individual's. If I'm holding a bunch of TSLA stock and want a payout in 2018, it doesn't matter to me what Tesla's profits are in 2018, it only matters how optimistic the market is about Tesla's long-term future- since that dictates how much I can sell my shares for in 2018. If Elon Musk shuts down sales altogether in 2018 but somehow convinces everyone that 2019 (or later) will be a complete blockbuster year, it still works out in my favor, since the market has superhuman patience I lack.
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On a related note, I love this quote from the article. Because it also sums up entrepreneurs and startup ideas perfectly:

"You could post your life’s work online for the world to see, read, and download, and you’d still have better odds to be killed by a lightning strike than be ripped off and cheated out of millions of dollars."

Same goes for startup founders and creators there. The chance of someone 'stealing' your ideas and turning them into the next Google or Facebook are pretty much non existent. Enough with the pointless NDAs and paranoia before your company's even started.
I can't wait for this to show up in a job posting.

* minimum 2 years experience with ₹Query

You know it's going to happen somewhere.
> Step 4 was implemented in the USA with SSDI.

That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about "no job, no pay" policies. Like, "work or starve". England kinda went down that route, doing their very best to throw people out of their meagre unemployment benefits.

SSDI as you describe it is actually a form of (covert) unemployment insurance: a way to have money even if you can't get a job. While the stigmatization sucks, the money is better than nothing.
Most large companies use a quantitative model with various inputs and outputs. For example, if you know you spend X in market Y, but not market Z you can measure lift within some confidence level between the markets. Imagine a model with every market, and sku, plus the inputs also know where you spent ad dollars and on what product.
Or Blackwater (Xe) mercenaries.
This does a bad job of simulating a slow network. First, as others mentioned, it only throttles outbound. It also doesn't simulate buffer bloat.

Linux network stack isn't designed for this. The best easy thing to use is BSD's Dummynet pipes.
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Nowadays all those companies are reinventing the wheel: They make virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant. But really, they all do relatively the same things. These companies are just creating applied AI mainly for marketing and commercial reasons.

That's not how we'll be able to achieve real AI soon.
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It's great that your language of choice has fraction support - but real-world engineering problems rarely involve simple rational fractions exclusively. At some point you're going to run into roundoff error.

Plus, fractional computing has severe problems with expanding denominators, which grow very quickly with non-trivial operands. Although computers are fast, the overhead of dealing with hundred-digit-long arbitrary precision integers eventually makes rationals unwieldy.
Thanks! Glad you're liking DocSearch. That's a good post about the journey. There are a few more listed in our awesome-algolia repo: https://github.com/algolia/awesome-algolia#blog-posts.
Every company is unique. Especially considering Elon's tracking record of redefining incumbent industries.

If analyzing Tesla as a "car company", nothing makes sense. Apparently, very few treats Tesla as a "car company".
Modern, lets say, post turn of the century popular languages all support some kind of rational data type allowing native fraction arithmetic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_data_type

Anyway...

It turns out that humans like numbers that are evenly spaced like 1/10, 2/10 (1/5), 3/10, 4/10. That all seems pretty evenly spaced to us, but its actually totally arbitrary that we have 10 handy (ugh the puns) appendages. If we chill with space aliens they will think numbers are evenly spaced like 1/14, 2/14 (aka 1/7), 3/14, 4/14 (aka 2/7)... much like jamming a metric socket on an imperial nut to fix your car, the amount of error varies wildly base on size. You can get away with a 9/16 socket on a 10 mm nut most times, but a 15/16th socket will probably require a hammer to fit a 24mm nut. Or just round off all the nuts with a vise-grip pliers. Anyway the space alien's 7/14 is actually a perfect match to our 5/10 but the amount of error varies from not much, to quite a bit, in the other attempts at interplanetary standardization. Likewise if you think of the computer as a space alien (not too far from truth, I sometimes feel) it uses binary and thinks numbers like 1/8, 2/8 (1/4), 3/8, are evenly spaced. Or as some specific example expressing our 1/2 in floating point is pretty easy for most computers while expressing 1/5 or 1/3 is somewhat less successful, or somewhat far in error compared to our closest 1/10th based numbers.

In the old days like half a century ago there were competing software floating point designs with varying levels of success vs speed. Everything is super boring today and standardized. 72 bit pdp-10 floating point was from a romantic adventurous era, like an Indiana Jones movie (well, one of the good ones). IEEE 754 is modern and better in all regards, yet has all the panache and style of a modern econobox commuter car. Think of the glory of PDP8 Fortran floating point spread unevenly across three words of four octal digits, 2 bits of signs, 2 bits MSB of mantissa, and 8 bits of exponent in the first 12 bit octal word, now that is something glorious to wake up to in the morning.
You should have linked directly to episode 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWrwCiM4rUM&list=PL-uRhZ_p-B...
> Lots of mormon parents won't let their kids play with non-mormon kids, and an even larger percent won't let their kids date non-mormons.

As a Mormon, I'd like to let you know something: Those people are assholes. That kind of behavior is rude, and uninviting (literally); two qualities that are opposite what LDS people (Mormons) are taught to be.

Unfortunately, this is a common problem in the Utah bubble. Those parents are well meaning - they just want their kids to fit into a mould they believe to be a better life - yet go about it in entirely the wrong way.

I was lucky enough to grow up in an enigma inside the Utah bubble (an Army base), where that behavior was just not even viable, and therefore scarcely exists (if at all). On behalf of Mormons all around the world, I would like to apologise for that kind of behavior.
I would assume ahead of track as they should have more capacity this quarter
All the Mormons I've met are the nicest people you could ask. I've met a lot, in different places. It's a hobby of mine talking with them. I'm an atheist b t genuinely believe if all the people would act like this, world would be pretty damn close to being a heaven.
Funny. Facebook is scarily good at targeting me, to the point of it sometimes being almost unnerving. All this despite the fact that I'm on facebook maybe a couple of times a week and post stuff maybe a couple of times a year.

Facebook is probably one of the only sites where I've seen an ad and gone "wow, I was actually looking for one of those"
If you like podcasts, give Scriptnotes a try. It's John August and Craig Mazin and they cover a lot of material.

https://johnaugust.com/podcast

One thing that comes up again and again is location. If you are in the US and are writing for film, you pretty much have to be in Los Angeles if you want screenwriting to be your career.
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Because being obvious and funny about it is so rare that it's practically unique. What most advertisers want and pay for is "native advertising," i.e. ads masquerading as normal content. When native advertising is done "properly" you have no way of knowing if your favorite YouTuber actually likes the product or is just being paid to shill it. That's unfortunate as hell.
>If I'm holding a bunch of TSLA stock and want a payout in 2018, it doesn't matter to me what Tesla's profits are in 2018

This has nothing to do with a 2018 payout.

Do you know what you are buying when you buy a share of TSLA? You are buying a claim to future profits. You expect to be paid in the future: when and how much? If you can't answer those questions, why are you buying stocks ?
There's been a lot of interest lately in the hypothesis that increased passive investing might cause non-competition as mutual funds hold shares in every company in a sector. It's now gotten a couple studies from both academia and even the Federal Reserve, and so far the evidence is that there is nothing to worry about yet. Check out Matt Levine's daily column and the "Should index funds be illegal?" section, he's been following these developments.

That doesn't necessarily mean it won't be a problem in the future. Right now the big index funds like Vanguard and BlackRock own something like 10% of public shares. If they reach, say, 50%, we might have to revisit this, but for now, it seems to be a non-issue.
Really?

Listen I am as cynical as the next guy, but I cannot see why society would want to take a 51yo divorced man, living alone and with 2 very successful grown children, whom had, against all odds, chiseled out a well-paying job and a good measure of professional esteem after many years of rejections, and strip him of absolutely everything he owned and built just because he walked down a street with a substance that our government gives to soldiers and pilots to help them perform their tasks better.

I wasn't hurting anyone...wasn't stealing...my boss loved my productivity and the high-quality of my work. I'll ask again...who is the victim of this "crime"???

I'll go back to the original thesis of the OP and say that why the fuck should people like me even TRY to find gainful employment when all society wants to do is rip it away from us for not conforming to often-arbitrary norms?

Perhaps many of you want to moralize here because, frankly, that's the only rebuttal that allows you to comfortably go back to your chosen life and feel unaffected by the plight of the millions like me whom have given up on trying to find work, but consider one thing...it's not the drugs per se that makes one a "bad" person, it's whatever crappy, hurtful, and illegal things one does to others in the course of one's use that makes one a dirtbag and a "menace to society."

Not everyone acts that way. Stupid is as stupid does.
But you don't give an alternative etiology?
Why have you chosen torch instead of staying completely in python? I assume that you use nltk for tagging, entity regoncition, ... and torch for your classifier.

What kind of model is possible in LUA-torch that could not be done in python with caffe/tensorflow?
The thing you're missing is that many mushrooms aren't all that straight up deadly, esp if cooked or boiled. They do however cause varying forms of gastric distress and diarrhea. Given the lack of good water and medicine back then that could have been way more deadly than the "that one will obviously kill you" variety.
Isn't that exactly what he's saying? That the Republicans they overwhelmingly elect generally vote for policies that damage the environment?
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