skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the person making the absurd claim "x is more productive than y". I've merely pointed out their lack of proof for such a ridiculous statement.
If you do not want to wait for your government to take action about climate change, you do have an individual option;
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/08/opinions/go-vegan-save-the...

And heres how:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vegan+what+I+ea...
As a fellow participant of StartupSchool, I'm curious how you guys were picked for the office hours?

BTW, all 3 interviews were great. Lot to take in - you guys probably have had butterflies in your stomachs.
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You may consider yourself rude, but it takes a lot of guts to admit what you just did. There's a lot of honesty there.

There are probably others who feel very similar to you, minus expressing it. And you having posted it may have helped inspire an observer.

There are probably moments where you've been "right" and didn't notice it.
We need this in the title! ;)

From the article: "The rebel Congress has passed a law, authorizing the issue of five millions of dollars in copper coins, of the denominations of five, ten and twenty-five cents. "

The REBEL congress!! :D
To be clear, "Mozilla" is two entities; the Mozilla Foundation ("Mofo"), which is a non-profit, and the Mozilla Corporation ("Moco"), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation. (I am an employee of Moco.) This is more of a tax/legal thing than it is a different mission between the two entities, as [1] says: "The Mozilla Corporation is guided by the principles of the Mozilla Manifesto."

The Google deal changed in 2014, at which point it became a five-year deal with Yahoo! in the US, and other partnerships (I don't remember the details to be honest) elsewhere, IIRC Yandex in Russia and Baidu in China?

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
I simplified, because in the end that would be the equivalent.

The danger is that some bugs in a filesystem, manifests themselves only when there is abrupt termination, otherwise things appear normal. Stuff like data is being written in incorrect order, or data is synced to disk at wrong time, or not at all.

On top of that user also expects performance, so some shortcuts can be taken that compromises the above (especially if the criteria is that docker is intended for stateless applications).

When there bugs like that and things are abruptly terminated, the data on the disk can be heavily mangled to a point that can't be recovered so essentially it would be lost.
or split the image in its frequency domains first, and then run the mp3 compression on a spatial curve, but at this point you're already doing a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform
a core part of JPEG compression,
which was actually adapted for mp3:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_discrete_cosine_trans...
Over the last year or two I have noticed that a bit more care and scrutiny needs to be put in to a seller and product review before I make my one click purchase. Overall I do think they would get more out of me as a consumer if the market place was a bit more locked down. In some ways it's starting to look like ebay or aliexpress
I don't like to silo my views in any particular "ism." I live my life the best I can and do what I can to help others simply for the mere fact that I am here to do so and I like it. But I have no delusions about my place in the universe. Unlike you I do not ascribe any specialness to us.
The title is ROT13'ed "Think, Columns Key: Billforward". Haven't been able to make much progress past that; I've tried the text against all of the symmetric ciphers on my system using the key "Billforward" without any luck.

$ IFS=":$IFS";for i in $( openssl ciphers 'ALL:!ADH:@STRENGTH:!EXP' | sed -E -e 's/(-(MD5|SHA)|(DHE|DSS|EDH-DSS|EDH|RSA)-|3)//g' ); do openssl enc -$i -d -in bf.txt -k Billforward; done
Having recently finished The Rise and Fall of American Growth myself, I reached the opposite conclusion.

Yes, the decrease from 12+ -> 8 hour workdays helped health and thus productivity and growth as the author persuasively states. But in the final few chapters which look forward rather than back in time, it was my interpretation that the author sees trends in declining hours & labor force participation as headwinds to TFP growth.

It is naturally more inefficient to have more shifts and thus more people commuting, etc. The diminishing health returns from 8 - > 6 hour work days not being enough to make up for this loss in efficiency.
Begs the question?
Alan Kay on Computer Science
YOY is sometimes appropriate.
I see what it is and I think I understand what it does, at least as far as the high level description goes. I am re-working some C++ code to work when built with emscripten as asm.js and I have a passing familiarity with web assembly.

But why does this webassembly to JVM bytecode converter exist?

Is this some kind of research project? If so, great no more explanation someone wanted to see their limits and learn in the process, great.

Is this for some professional purpose? If so then I am much more curious. Who has a need to convert stuff in the browser to JVM code, and what benefit do they gain?
> If you can't read something in under 5 minutes, if it actually takes time and effort to understand and appreciate, then it doesn't matter how much it will reward that time and effort, it doesn't matter how interesting it is, no one will read it.

Well... I've seen too many long-form articles that promised me a payoff, took a lot of time on style, and never really delivered. I have come to think that they're too high a cost and too low odds on the payoff happening - unless I have some reason to think that the odds on a particular article are higher than normal.
It has lower memory requirements, great developer tools and once Servo is integrated in Firefox, I think it has potential to really beat Chrome performance-wise.

Of course, until that happens Mozilla needs enough funding from search engines to keep the lights running so it's my main browser.
> You have to wonder why they started with inference and not the other way round.

At least from what I know of ASICs (which is admittedly pretty high-level), this direction is the natural way I'd expect it to go, because the inference problem is much closer in scale to the kind of problem ASICs are already widely used for and good at. Fast inference can be done with a chip of a size similar to what you see in existing ASICs, like specialized DSP chips. Speeding up training is a lot more speculative. You could try scaling up to massively powerful individual chips that can each replace an NVidia GPU (but with lower cost / lower power budget), or improve distributed training so you can effectively use a much larger number of much weaker customized chips. And there are more significant memory and memory-bandwidth issues with training, so it's less of the pure-compute type of problem that ASICs are more often clear wins for. All of which is probably possible with enough effort, but less straightforward, especially to end up with something that beats GPUs on relevant metrics.
It’s not a WhatsApp voice message, it’s a trojan virus
Are you trying to fund a gif music player ?
Many energy companies (e.g. Exxon Mobil) have already invested in green technology, so industry push-back on climate regulation is not universal. Also representatives are democratically elected, so industry doesn't have total control over the political process.

That said it's true that corporations have political clout through lobbying and media campaigns. Some of this is necessary to negotiate regulations with governments. In my opinion a more efficient system / more pure democracy would come by having democratically elected leaders evaluate the positive and negative externalities of various activities independently of industry, and then taxing to internalize these costs.
Power will always scale linearly with cores, of course, but you could make cores less power-hungry with reversible computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

Actually useful reversible logic is, as they say, an open problem.
Audacity allows for raw data input ?
Nail, meet hammer with claws on both sides.

It's entirely, 100% possible to write good, clean, tested, maintainable code in PHP. But most people working with PHP, for whatever reason (and I'm sure there are many reasons), simply don't bother.

I suppose the same can be said of all languages, but PHP devs are the worst offenders IME.
Sure, but not everyone is taking them to avoid sleep. Regular users primarily use them to boost productivity during the day, followed by normal sleep.
Airlines are optimized for frequent fliers, which is why their copy isn't very approachable if you are thinking from the point of view of making arbitrary choices. Frequent fliers don't do that generally. They operate on making decisions that will last at least a year like what ticket class or flier program to use.
The Forged ‘Ancient’ Statues That Fooled the Met’s Art Experts for Decades
A bit of vendor lock-in as well at times (pragmatic reason for using Chrome and ideological reason to stay away from it). YouTube TV, for instance, currently only works on Chrome -- not on Safari and Firefox.
A card like that is still more than powerful enough to learn with. That's technically still 'home' use but as a professional entering a field you could get a lot of mileage out of it, especially if you already have it.

I wouldn't buy one new or second hand to study with today.
> most of the collected money goes to the board of directors

Administrative costs of those societies are somewhere between 5% and 15%. The rest goes to the creators.

> board of directors, of which most only sit in that position as some kind of political retirement plan/favor

I just scanned a few biographies and it didn't look like anything out of the ordinary. They are elected by the members of those societies and not appointed by politicians.
Yes, you have to import raw data.
Certainly. I honestly never even expected a Windows update to be guaranteed to succeed simply because the surface area for them to test is unimaginably large - the same was not true for Macs (at least once OS X got good), so when a Mac OS upgrade failed I was generally more surprised.
Reminds me that one could (can?) pipe random data to /dev/dsp and get it interpreted as sound data. Heck, you could pipe a wav file and actually hear it.
Some airline shenanigans still demonstrate contradictory incentives.

On each of the ~20 jetblue flights I've been on in the last few years. They ask for volunteers to gate check carry on bags to the final destination for free because there isn't enough overhead space. But they're the ones that force us to try to get into a carry on by charging for normally checked bags. I've tried asking outside security if I can check my carry on since I'll eventually be asked to voluntarily gate check it, and they don't let me. Instead we make boarding this competitive experience that takes longer than it needs to as passengers fight for overhead bin space.
Chrome: secure by default, for everyone
U.S. customs release image of 'mock IED' that caused hours of delays at Pearson
I touched on it in the README FAQ under "Why?". Basically I am just doing it for fun and becoming more familiar w/ the technologies involved.

Also, it's not "convert stuff in the browser", WebAssembly has non-web goals [0]. There can be benefit in libraries sharing a common bytecode.

0 - http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
Okay, fine, logic and SRAM cell density are still shrinking (at Intel). Now are you happy? Just read the report.
So you were the person who posted that link ;)
This varies quite a lot. My Sony A7RII has a time limit of 30 minutes which can be hacked (https://petapixel.com/2016/04/25/hacker-cracks-video-limit-l...) while my Panasonic GH5 has no limit at all (though I use a Ninja Shogun anyway).

And I think one reason it isn't reviewed in much depth is that DSLR shooters are likely to do one of the following:

- Use a dedicated video camera rather than an SLR.

- Not care about a 30 minute time limit, how often do you need 30 minutes of continuous video?

- Use an external recorder like a Ninja Assassin, which doesn't have a time limit.
just a footnote to your fine comment: the origin of that particular drug is the Pacific Yew

https://dtp.cancer.gov/timeline/flash/success_stories/s2_tax...

this same tree, as you indicate, was also used by Native Americans for making hunting bows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_bow
Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME all used the DOS FAT filesystem (or the extended FAT32 variant). Windows XP supported both FAT and NTFS so if you did a clean install you were probably using NTFS.

What iOS 10.3 did was basically the equivalent of having a Windows upgrade which converted FAT/FAT32 to NTFS in-place without the user having to manage the process.
Did you ever see this link [1] regarding the GBA anti-emulation features some time back? It's a bit tangential and slightly off-topic, but it might be of interest if you haven't!

[1] https://mgba.io//2014/12/28/classic-nes/
I have to admit, I got all the way to "hitherto" before I figured it out.
Both gogs and gitea (forked from gogs) support using sqlite instead of mysql. This means there's no external database server to deal with, and since it's a small use set of private repositories it performs quite well.
It's still better then google or MS and as you see, this is important to FF users. So it's in their own interest not to fuck up here.
I bet meditation, or a state that can be brought on by meditation, has this same effect.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean but if our existence has to be economically viable (ie, we have to work within the construct of our artificial economy and if survival isn't profitable enough then too bad) then we need to do whatever we can to make the system work.

If the cost of fossil-fuel based energy are artificially low because they don't take environmental damage into account, we have to adjust it and that adjustment might make fossil-fuel based energy more costly than renewable sources.

Alternatively if we tax fossil fuel energy highly, we can use those revenues to combat the problems as well.
There's a whole subreddit for things like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/
Nice! I too thought about transpiling to it (as I have in other projects transpiling to things like Go) but I wanted to see how close to the bytecode I could get some of the translations.
I just posted the article[1] that I think prompted this script to be brought up.

What I did instead was to run images through an audio editing tool, which lets you apply echoes or do mindboggling
things like change the volume of the image.
The script can be found on github[2].

[1] http://memcpy.io/audio-editing-images.html

[2] https://github.com/robertfoss/audio_shop/
I'd be pretty surprised if Airbnb won't be looked at as a fad in a few years time, independent of the hotel's action plan.

Hotels deliver a consistent experience up to certain standards, Airbnb doesnt. The price difference is marginal at best and staying in someones spare bedroom doesn't magically make your trip 'authentic'.

There are use cases where it makes sense (e.g. cheap shared accommodation, large flats with kitchens for families) but for most use cases covered by hotels it just doesnt.

What will happen is that more bad experiences happen and travel through social media, regulation will increase and it will go back to its niche life where it will do a great job.
Well, this article is from October 2013...
Apparently they saw us post an intro in the "Loc: Bay Area" chat channel in startup school. Beyond that, I'm not really sure. From what I understand, they are doing this type of group office hours a couple more times during the course.
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/02/18/gap-buffers-or-w...
Took me a while to notice this. If it were Portuguese, I would immediately notice it. It seems to me that English hasn't changed as much as Portuguese has.

This is what sounded old to me: "very gross wrong upon the people, in thus repudiating its own stamps".
Has “Founder” become a job title?
A ex-colleague working for a local startup mentioned to me that one of the three co-founders of the company had agreed to "step down" as a co-founder due to family commitments (not being able to put in the requisite hours). It made me wonder if I have missed a subtlety as to how the term is currently being used.

How would you define a "founder"? Is it literally, someone who was involved in founding a company or does it refer to a degree of commitment, risk, or other intangible asset.
Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
There's a longstanding joke in the aviation industry.

"It's easy to make a small fortune running an airline. Step 1) Start with a large fortune..."
I don't think any regulations forced airlines to make poor pension decisions. Airlines and unions managed to do that themselves, for the most part.
If you, personally, were reasonably good about general computer hygiene, your odds of success in upgrading would go up considerably. The average computer user, however (sample size of the hundreds of people I interacted with during the years when I did IT consulting for individuals and small businesses) did not have the faintest idea what they were doing, and it was likely that an upgrade would fail for one reason or another.

I think my failure rate got to about 30% before I stopped even trying to run the upgrade and just did a fresh install after backing everything up.
Still my all time favorite console game to this day.
I tried a few different ciphers, including a vigenere and a columnar transposition cipher based on the columns part of the title...
It is theoretically possible though not likely that you could get better performance on the JVM than a static compiler due to runtime optimizations on hot code paths.
I'd like to think that's not the case here. Assuming it's not, what should be done? How can I convince you this is worth reading?

Will you ever bother reading a long article?

> unless I have some reason to think that the odds on a particular article are higher than normal.

Is it enough that it's been on the HN Front Page for hours, and it has 38 points?
I did something similar with Ogg Vorbis back in 2006.

There are also some results of experiments with the Opus codec posted in the comments.

https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2006/01/lossy_co...
I clicked the link thinking "WTF? Didn't Congress do this during the Civil War in an attempt to prevent people from using postage as currency when the CS Dollar began to inflate?

A random bit of trivia - the CSA never issued coins. There were two attempts - a cent and a half dollar - but neither made it past the "proof" stage: https://www.pcgs.com/News/Confederate-States-Of-America-Coin...
I like getting up early since everyone else likes getting in late and leaving late. For example if I arrive at 6 and they at 10 I will get 4 undisturbed hours of work. To get the same amount on the other end I would have to arrive at 3 in the evening.
My point was that a new transistor shrink would give you lower power vs. the same transistor in previously larger node. You get more compute-per-watt with small transistors. If scaling stops, then all kinds of things get more difficult.
A muslim country joining the EU is a pipe dream. The days of Ottoman rule are hardly forgotten in the Balkans. There is zero chance you'd have Turkey, countries from former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, not to mention Greece and Hungary in the same union. Just having Greece and Turkey in the EU is a laughable prospect.
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This for me is a clear sign of mobile (and their processors) steady growth (and probably dominance) to (some) decline of Intel.

Android as an OS surpassing this March everything else on web-usage speaks the same story in different words (http://www.wired.co.uk/article/android-overtakes-windows).
The search for an image that encodes the Close Encounters theme is on.
A border adjustment tax accounting for the CO2 used in production abroad would balance out this problem.
>And there should be limits on price gouging. It makes no sense to allow airlines to charge an astronomical fare just because a flight is nearly full, and a dirt-cheap fare for an advance booking.

This would just result in higher (probably much higher) ticket prices for the vast majority of people. Breaking passengers up into fare classes based on how much they're likely willing to pay for a ticket is one of the most fundamental ideas behind ticket prices.
You are a dreadful person.
Interesting, but I was surprised to see not a word about what they specifically do differently to work with autistic employees.
> Intel bought an ARM chip maker before, too, and because of internal conflict of interest with the x86 group, it ended-up killing the ARM division.

reminds Sun in 1998 and the onward years when SPARC was like North Korea border patrol in preventing any x86 penetration into Sun even though it was clear that x86 was the future.
When I submitted a paper to AAAI, there were dire warnings that the paper would be rejected if I included links to any supplemental materials (such as code or data), because this would compromise blind review.

The conference software they were using had a sketchy form for uploading supplementary data, but it appeared that they expected it to be used for small data tables or something. It certainly wasn't going to be an option to upload 12 GB of data into their conference software; they mentioned nothing about code, particularly how to specify its dependencies and the computing environment it needed to run in; and it also certainly wasn't going to appear in any form that was convenient to review if I did.

How could you submit code to blind review anyway? Do you make alternate versions of all the dependencies that don't credit any authors that overlap with the authors of the paper?

In short, because of blind review, I was forbidden from doing anything that would make my paper reproducible at review time.
If dreams only were the result of some cleanup process (i.e. just arbitrary neurons firing), I imagine they would be a lot less coherent and all events would be (stochastically) independent. While dreams usually don't much make a huge lot of sense, they are sometimes quite realistic and "past" events seem to influence "later" events.
Another step towards the Anti-Mac user interface.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/
http://www.eweek.com/servers/intel-begins-shipping-xeon-chip...

For the desktop, though? Not for a while.
Hey Laktek! I reached out to Philip and Emma because they were Startup School founders in the Bay Area. That made it a lot easier to have them come by.
> they always feel more authentic to me.

This might have been the case early on in AirBnB's existence. Now most of the places I've been able to find are just small-time hoteliers. The owner may have half dozen listings in Airbnb with the same generic IKEA furniture.

I've gone back to regular hotels. While I really enjoyed AirBnB in the past there were too many hit or miss experiences. I've had a few owners pull our reservation at the last minute.
The Anti-Mac User Interface