skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with smarterer, and I'm just as unfamiliar with intellectual property law, which leads me to ask you, is there any way, process or resource for you or other aspiring web designers to evaluate or design (or reevaluate or redesign, maybe in your case) a web-software product to determine if and how it's distinctly different enough from a competing product(s) to at least tentatively be considered original. Basically, "How could we ever determine when or where a product or its features or designs within cross from 'original', into 'infringed'?"
Gnosis' Prediction Market Scores $12.5m in 'Record-Breaking' Crypto Auction
Puppy Linux. (http://puppylinux.org) It runs from memory. That means it's super light.

On second thought, you can make Archlinux (https://www.archlinux.org/) really light. It doesn't run on memory but you can choose very easily whatever DE or services you want. So it's possible to make Arch super lightweight more easily than say, Ubuntu.
Visual identification of mushrooms can be deadly. Always do a proper spore print and have it analyzed by a mycologist.
This is the most common one line reply to any study, and it's a pet peeve of mine. If you actually read past the headline, you'd see this was not a population study, but a review of experimental ones, where your "confounding factor" is literally the fact that experimenters asked people to exercise.

Please, be skeptical of studies, but don't be so arrogant to presume authors aren't capable of the most elementary scientific reasoning.
Having recently become the owner of a garden, this looks very interesting. I've been using the myGardenAnswers app, which purported to do the same thing. It's been singularly useless so far, though.
I acquired our first 100 users by running Facebook Lead Generation ads. I got their emails and thousands of page likes.
What is the evolutionary explanation for this?
Patches work great for long term delivery. Mints or gum works for people who need a quick fix---that's mostly ex-smokers. Never-smokers can probably stick to patches.

On the other hand: I hate cigarette smoke---but I'm only mildly annoyed by second-hand vaping fumes.
I don't think I would be so quick to dismiss this sentiment. I run a profitable SaaS business, and every opportunity to give up responsibility results in highly profitable refocusing of effort on the things we do that actually matter. I'd much rather have a team of Google engineers running our LBs than myself.
At UC Berkeley, we are planning a lab devoted to practical debugging for next year's Data Structures course. Your ideas/suggestions are appreciated!
An ex-smoker might mentally need the quick fix? For a never-smoker, patches are great.
I did this for common plant diseases using Tensorflow on Android when learning how to use TF last year. Found the accuracy to be not that great with real world images that are not in the dataset (with a dataset of 50,000 images from PlantVillage). I think there are just too many visual similarities between various plants (especially when taken from various angles) that the network doesn't focus on the right things. Did a short writeup here:

http://helminen.co/plant-disease

It could work for a subset of plants, or potentially with a much larger training set - but I think NIR spectral/hyperspectral imaging would be the way forward here with more differentiating data points.
Curiously, it seems hexachromacy is already within the realm of biological possibility for human females.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachromacy#Animals_that_are...
Why Raising Money for a Startup Idea Has the Opposite Effect
Seriously. QUIC was announced 4 years ago.

Also QUIC requests show up in devtools fine
Any training will be provided.
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That's not arrogance, only good science. You'd be surprised how many "obvious" things get through peer review.
Finally, I can identify mushrooms that will kill me and eat the ones that won't.
>Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews

Wow. Why is the holocaust taught with such a focus on one ethnic group of victims? I thought Jews were the only significant group of victims, but that's clearly not true.

It's also interesting to note that one legitimate government still exists in the world that funded the genocide of what many estimate to be a larger number of people than were killed in the Holocaust, but it's commonly not referred to as a genocide. Instead, it's "wartime deaths," or something else.[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_tol...
2 - http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-madley-california...
Being (silently) hidden so that your posts look okay to you but don't show up for others (unless they have 'show dead' set to on).

It's an effective filtering mechanism, but some consider it rather cruel and try to notify posters about it.
I'm a huge fan of ZMM and I enjoyed Lila - where he elucidates a metaphysics of quality. His writing is brilliant, but my theory is that he may have experienced mental distress, in part, because quality is actually _subjective_, not objective. He attempts to elucidate and objectify something that fundamentally depends on a point of view / perspective.
Remote work statistics for April 2017
Hello HN. I see a lot of people here ask regularly what skills to learn to get a job they can do remotely.
I aggregate remote jobs from the majority of job boards on my website. Here's a data dump I did today for you:

Top remote jobs (last 30 days)

- JavaScript
- Support
- WordPress
- PHP
- Full Stack
- WooCommerce
- Ruby
- React
- Product Manager
- Backend
- Meteor JS
- Machine Learning

Top remote jobs (last 90 days)

- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Full Stack
- Support
- React
- Product Manager
- Meteor JS
- Backend
- PHP
- Dev Ops
- Marketing
- WordPress

Fastest growing remote jobs (last 30 days)

- Machine Learning
- Laravel
- Bootstrap
- Node
- Linux

Fastest dropping remote jobs (last 30 days)

- Sales
- Sys Admin
- iOS
- MongoDB
- Android

The usual caveats apply, data scope is limited and there might be many more reasons for job categories to rise and fall outside of actually becoming more or less popular (for example, people hiring outside of job boards).

- @levelsio

(Source: Remote OK, https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics)
I think the latter is the real reason for insane comps. The logic seems to be:

Rich CEO = successful company = investor opportunity

No one cares about the shlubs doing the actual work.

Indeed, a lot of the time no one cares about the actual work, or the long-term prospects of success.
I'd evolve growing on the bark itself, given that the nearest soil was a few (dozen?) meters below. See also anything that grows on bare concrete :)
This functionality is built in to Firefox would be nice if it was the case in Chrome.
Apart from being spam, this site is a whopping 9 MB to load, 3.5 MB of which is JavaScript spread out over no fewer than 35 files. Among the 30 stylesheets there are three separate copies of Bootstrap.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a great philosophy book, but kinda rubbish as a motorcycle travel book. I recommend Jupiters Travels (from the same era) for an excellent motorcycle travel book.
Marginal utility is a consumption function. By itself, it says nothing about cost or what a producer will do,

> In economics, utility is the satisfaction or benefit derived by consuming a product; thus the marginal utility of a good or service is the change in the utility from an increase in the consumption of that good or service.

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

By contrast, marginal cost is about change in a producer's cost function with changes in quantity,

> marginal cost is the change in the opportunity cost that arises when the quantity produced is incremented by one unit, that is, it is the cost of producing one more unit of a good.

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

The commenter starts out using the word "cost" along with the rest of his example which is elaborated upon to describe the MC=MR profit maximizing function.
My hypothesis is that 99% of the people who use Stackoverflow only visit the QA part of it and things like the community wiki and chatroom receive minimal traffic. From talking to a few dozens of users, most people don't even know that the chat room and wiki exist!

The current number of users in the Stackoverflow chat rooms

> with 100 users currently talking in 57 rooms.

The usage of the chat is shockingly low.

I think there's room to provide a better learning experience for developers and providing chat rooms for developers is a low hanging fruit IMO. People here on HN know about IRC and how to use it, but we represent a very small fraction of the population interested in programming, so the idea is to tend to the general population eventually.
Ask HN: How do you manage your app on git?
Good day, I'm currently having trouble with managing my app with different clients. The case scenario is that when a client ask for a feature or changes on the app, I need to implement it on them. So, it's a hassle changing something from one app of a client to the other.

How do you manage your app on git or your app with different clients?
I've always found that Slitaz was the lightest I've found. http://www.slitaz.org/en/
Comes in at a 35 mb download.
Rx – If the Operators could speak (2016)
Since the 1950s, actually. This is one of the technologies that's always 5 years in the future. "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today."
Did you use inputs other than just image for identification? I would have thought that adding location and time of year alone could significantly improve results.
About the 5 million...

"Say those close to the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, its progenitor, it is a number that was intended to increase sympathy for Jewish suffering but which now is more often used to obscure it."

http://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/214283/remember-11-mill...
This entire thread is about the hoops people are having to jump through to get pretty basic functionality from a load balancer, specifically because they took your approach.

I didn't say it can't work for anyone, I said its depressing how it's the default/only approach for so many people who call themselves "hackers".
The author seems to be strongly biased and is missing some important pieces of information. Mainly:

QUIC is an open protocol, the spec and chromiums implementation are public. The fact that work on an IETF RFC is currently being performed attests to that.

As the author points out, QUIC has been announced in 2013. That's plenty of time for Google's competitors to use QUIC in their own infrastructure.

There are also some misleading pieces of information in the article:

Competitors are bound to using TCP requests that require extra round trips

That's not true, competitors can use QUIC or 0-RTT features in TLS 1.3.
The overwhelming majority of abortions are performed well before this point is reached.

Thank you for demonstrating the Orwellian nature of this phrasing.
I hope, for the author's sake, the app has robust Ts&Cs ...
Please let me know where you work, so I can avoid any product potentially produced by you.
that experimenters asked people to exercise.

Where are you reading this? The article is about the meta review here http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/30/bjsports-2016-0...

Even if you're right, it still doesn't remove the confounding factors. Let's assume you're right and each study has a control group that doesn't exercise (for.... x years...? seems ridiculous) and an experimental group which exercises regularly. But then...unhealthy people wouldn't be able to be in the latter group because they can't exercise regularly.

I humbly submit "healthiness" as a possible confounding factor contributing to both "sharp mind" and "ability to exercise" (and thus be in the experimental group). Not sure where healthiness would come from - genetics? Diet? Less stress?
Holy shit, way to golang, after one month! What other "hackable" solutions are you hoping to implement in Go? Or plainly what's your next go project, and why?
BrickerBot, the permanent denial-of-service botnet, is back with a vengeance
Navigation is thought to be central to the evolution of our cognition as it is both complex and essential for survival and propagation, hence the "the method of loci" as a memory tactic. Walking was the primary or possibly only time when navigation was important for most early people..
tl;dr -- offer customers something they can't buy at a price their willing to pay.

My personal, non-software example was to identify an untapped opportunity in my field, technical recruiting. My clients had 20 to 100 employees, no internal technical recruiter, had already recruited their core team, has run out of organically generated people to interview, and had raised a Series B or later in funding. In 2010, the only options available to them were contingency recruiters, contract recruiters who wanted 6 to 12 month full time contracts, and inexperienced admin staff (aka not experienced technical recruiters).

After learning that it super competitive to sell traditional recruiting services to my clients, I decided to develop a workflow that allowed me to offer them part-time hourly recruiting with no long term commitment. Typically this started off as 10 to 30 hours a week with no commitment (aka fire me at any time). This model worked great, and in 2 years I scaled from just me billing 30 hours per week with one client to 15 people (part time & full time) billing several hundred hours per week.

Service business are not software businesses, but they do share at least one thing in common; selling a product or service customers need & can't buy in an industry you understand is a heck of a lot easier than trying to make something up from scratch.

Good luck!

</rant>
I don't agree with that. I think it's related to the fundamental nature of speculative capitalism. This is Uber 'virtue signaling'.

With regard to stock market valuation, what humans might consider values is reversed. Stock market speculators think (or are designed to think, in the case of software agents) like sharks, not community members or citizens or team members. The equation is 'feed or die' and value is intentionally the only factor.

The common denominator of all these Uber behaviors is this: aggressive or even psychotic competitiveness, beyond any conceivable rule or law. w.r.t their stock valuation this is virtue signaling. For this behavior not to benefit them, they have to not only LOSE the lawsuit in question but also have it damage them more than they gained in 'appearance of psychotic competitiveness'.

That's possible, but it's really important to understand the virtue signalling aspect. If the behavior persuades a bunch of amoral stock speculators that Uber is their kind of company it can directly translate into capital valuation that can in turn be spent on lawyers for trying to win the legal cases.

And since the value proposition here is establishing a giant multinational corporation that ignores any and all laws, documenting additional laws or rules broken only underscores the value proposition.

Virtue signalling… in Hell. (literally!)
Phone temperature is completely useless if the device is kept in a pocket next to human body temperature. Phones are also self-heating, especially when running Pokemon Go.

Barometers aren't very widely spread and I'd be wary of their calibration.
To help others understand why, the "Deep Learning" book, which summarizes current state-of-the-art DL, advises having at least 5000 samples (images) per class for OK performance (equal to non-DL approaches) and 50k to 100k for state-of-the-art. A class here would be a plant species.

So even with 5k samples, the 250k image corpus would only have 50 species, using this rule of thumb. A good engineer could pick up DL and build a system that performs to this standard, because the tricks are all written down in the literature.

If they do better, they either exploit unpublished methods, or researched those methods themselves, with their researchers.
That wiki link is a fascinating rabbit hole for debugging related advice/pages. Also I'd never heard the term half-splitting, Cheers
statins cause coenzyme Q deficiency

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4635278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25977402

You probably should take ubiquinol every day while you're on those things
just images. Location and time of the year both great ideas, but that data wasn't available in the training set
It's curious that people can be sentenced just by asking questions, isn't it? My other comment here was also deleted. Uh.
Sorry! I meant Blink.
I have always felt that I was better at debugging than programming :-) I have often been able to debug really complex problems but afterwards I am not able to retrace the steps that I took to come up with the diagnosis - so I'm not sure if this skill can be taught.
My village in Greece was burned to the ground and the Nazis executed 30 people, including women and kids.

I have a family member that fled when he was 12 y/o (now 86) with his brother, while his father, mother, sister and 2 brothers were executed.
Yet nor he or his family were ever reimbursed or even acknowledged. Unfortunately he never made it big, nor he was lobbying in the US :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallikratis to whoever wants to read a bit more on that. If any blogger etc wants to get in touch with him (he has a lot of stories to tell) let me know. He won't charge or get paid, he'll just welcome you to his house and treat you. (I can also translate for free).
Monero on the New Mastodon Social Network
Pseudonymous, not anonymous. People can recognise your username and treat you accordingly. Conversely if you start a new username it doesn't retain any karma from your "main".
I think it's tempting to assume that sentiment expressed here is reflective of the majority - everyone whose use case is served well is happy and likely doesn't comment.

As for the "hackers" comment - HN might have "Hacker" in the name, but it's about a lot of things, and a big focus is on making money. Farming out boring stuff to "the cloud" has been fantastic for making money for pretty much everyone.
>> It seems like there's a fine line between being clever and being morally bankrupt.

It is still a fine line if you are the one whose rights are violated? For example "using my laptop in a way it wasn't intended" in order to hack your laptop and to steal your passwords is a "Clever Hack" or "Morally Bankrupt"?
Rewriting anything in a new language is a very time consuming and expensive process. To maintain feature parity with the latest and keeping up with bugs introduced could be very difficult. Google has much more juice to pull something like this off with lots of money. I doubt Mozilla could actually compete in the long run without generating lots of money like Google does.
I've jokingly referred to myself as "full stack from transistors upwards" - I've done (professionally) a little bit of everything all the way from chip design to web server administration.
The inverse square root law is very different from intermolecular interaction. I do not see why the equipartition should be close enough to actual behaviour if the interactions are so much different.

I am not sure how the shape of hyperbolic trajectories is of relevance for equipartition, since most of the stars in the cluster do not have such trajectories else it would disintegrate before it could achieve any sort of dynamical equilibrium.
That is the reason I don't have a Facebook account but one on LinkedIn and Xing.
Not that I ever used those much but at least you get some value from it in being specialized.
Because you will get that weird recruiter from God nows where with some random job offer. Unlike Facebook which is just a glorified birthday reminder for people you don't even know.
Good this topic gets brought up. I've blogged about this in the past: http://blog.translusion.com/posts/CEO%20Salaries/

Studies by Gabaix and Lanier, who were in favor of performance based pay showed that the difference between the best CEO and the 250th best was 0.016 percent.

Meaning if one replaced the 250th best CEO with the best, then the companies market capitalization would grow by 0.016 percent.

Perhaps what really matters is how bad the CEO is not how good he/she is. E.g. it is like studies of parenting, there is no difference in outcome for kids with awesome parents and those with average middle-class parents. The big difference is between bad parents and average parents.

Something similar with IQ. There is no difference between having 130 in IQ and having 200, with respect to your chances of winning the nobel prize. But there is a noticable difference between having say 100 and 130.
They want people to be engaged.
As someone who's written in a few languages and is now learning/writing Python full time, "pythonic" is starting to cause me a twitch of pain every time I read it.

It seems to imply the Python has the final solution in how to write code and therefore everything should be written in the way that Python elders have decided.

Main example: I don't really like list comprehensions. They're pretty much the same thing as map/filter but less understandable or composable, nevermind you fix (with your choice of brackets in multiple places) your choice of list vs generator vs "pushing source" (not sure the right word) which you wouldn't have to with transducers.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/952914/making-a-flat-list...

I'd rather read code where someone wrote "flatten".
> This is exactly the flawed analogy that incumbents use to keep anti-competitive legislation like the CFAA and extreme copyright regimes in place, but it doesn't work.

These problems can all be discussed in the prism of restraining property rights for public benefit (e.g. restriction of copyright for quoting). In Uber's case, though, there is no public interest in restraining Lyft's rights.

> They don't universally work like that for public places or businesses. There are significant restrictions in how access to public businesses can be restricted, as well significant accessibility and regulatory requirements before such a place is authorized to open

None of these regulation relate to liability of potential thieves, but to public safety. In our case, this would mean Lyft may be on the hook for not protecting drivers' and users' data, not that the person appropriating these data is not also on the hook.

> The mere fact that Lyft could've hypothetically charged Uber for access to these bits is not really relevant.

Property laws very specifically state that the owner is entitled to the fruit of his property. You may criticize the whole ownership system, but this is a clear cut case of Uber appropriating data that they didn't create. The only question here is whether the terms of access Lyft gave to third parties was explicit enough for Uber to understand that it had no right to this data, and whether Uber also understood this fact.

> When you open for business, you're making a deal with the community.

The nature of that deal is codified in the terms of service. While most terms of service may be seen unfair towards customers, in this case, 1) Uber is not a customer and 2) the aspects of the terms that were violated are hard to consider unfair.

There are plenty of exceptions that could/should be discussed in the scope of CFAA : scientific/historian work, hacking that benefits the customer and/or the owner, work of arts, etc. I would welcome amending the law in this light.

Uber's action fits none of these legitimate uses, and is actually a good example of why CFAA was introduced in the first place.
If you read the study and point out a flaw, thank you for your contribution. If you make a zero effort "observation" which makes it clear you didn't even skim the abstract, you're adding nothing of value.
1h sports per week for 30 years means 7h * 52 * 30 = 10920h additional life. Equals to 1.25 additional years.
So for 30 years of exercise you get about 1 additionl year? I hoped for more :-P