skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never did delete my account, but I access it maybe once a year. Whenever I hear that someone I had friended had something happen, such as a death in the family or a marriage, I'll log in once to post a message, maybe once or twice more to see if there are any responses, and then log out again and go take a long shower. I'm like the Lone Ranger riding in when needed and then riding off into the sunset when done.

In between, I keep my privacy shields up and relegate all the FB notifications to the trash. There is only so much social interaction I can handle at a time anyway.
I'm a long-time and happy Fastmail user. I'm not defending their decision, but I personally never trust "lifetime" plans of any kind -- it's impossible for a business to know they can sustain you forever, and dishonest for them to say they can.
How hard does the GPU work on these tasks? Is it Bitcoin mining level power consumption?
Using Docker to run 4500 node.js tests in under 2 minutes
This is the reason, at the federal level, diesel fuel is taxed more than gasoline. Diesel = 24.4c/gal and Gas = 18.4c/gal.

The difference isn't enough to compensate for the increased wear but there is a difference.
Sweden lists its entire countryside on AirBnB
You're telling all these people that they should persevere, because by doing so they will "tip the scales".

My point is that they're simply not sufficient to tip the scales. Even if every single HN reader did what you demand they do, it would not tip the scales.

Once you realize that, this whole notion of "fighting the man" by struggling with config files and broken hardware support rather loses its edge.
You might be interested in knowing that OpenCL is merging with Vulkan's API[1], so there'll likely be a lot more support in the future.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383296
Well, I would say that I'm definitely not in a small niche. And can definitely confirm that most companies pay via check and Wire/ACH. Especially in the B2B world. B2C is a bit different where the company price point is low. For example, most software tools (IntelliJ, GitHub, etc) CC is more common. But for larger services where it may be many thousands a month, your claim does not seem to be the case from my experience.
I'm not being precise. I do not have the expertise to debate this.

When I talk about the minimum wage, what really matters is what that income can buy you. Rather than discussing nominal wage and associated costs let's just combine them and talk about real wages.

Clearly there is a point where a higher minimum wage (real) is infeasible and detrimental​.

In my opinion there is a wide range of minimum wages (real) that raise the welfare of those whose skill is in excess supply.
Jeez, wow, I guess it's hard for you to trust friends too.
All companies are vulnerable to patent lawsuits and many are really just lawsuits created by this multi-million dollar industrial parasite called "patent troll". So this is not just a battle for the big coproations but also a battle many small businesses are fighting to win.

I suggest you do an Interent to get a list of patent troll cases. The gist is someone can sue you for a workflow like authentication. Yeah that's pretty ridiculous right?

Often patent trolls just want a settlement. Many businesses don't qant to deal with patent trolls they go for a settlement.

US patent is easy to file in case you aren't aware.
In 91 when I took my commercial license test (Passenger), the machine I used was video (well more PowerPoint / HyperCard) and had pictures of the situation and big colored buttons with the letters. It didn't take a lot of language skills.
Lil Wayne did it first: https://genius.com/Lil-wayne-the-sky-is-the-limit-lyrics
Knowing what we know about the effects of sitting on health, it seems drivers would be better with a 3 hour rule.
This analogy works pretty well. The door gives both secrecy and privacy. If you want to keep people from doing drugs in the bathroom (their secret) you'll have to give up some privacy(people seeing things they know you're doing).
The Onion Leaks a Trove of Trump Docs
…but hopefully less busy than Marshall, TX has been.
I think it ebs and flows. When my parents were my age, it was the biggish cities, and then you had these bustling towns. Then as intown went bad with crime, etc. everyone moved out and created a new "rich" area. Now the rich area is moving back downtown. In decades to come, when the rich own all there is of the town, then people will keep pushing further and further out, until they create new big cities.

tl;dr: There's a lot of land out there and living cycles will repeat.
"It's an inefficient one. We can do a better job at improving their welfare at a lower overall cost."

So show us anywhere in the Western world that does that; improves the welfare of the poor without a minimum wage.

But show us with evidence from other countries that are currently employing the system, don't defer to untested and unproven "it could be so if..." claims, please.
Also check out the GitHub Repo:
https://github.com/GemHunt/lighting-augmentation

GitHub Repo Goals
Done: Show getting 100% accuracy on head vs tails on a 1000 coins with no manual labeling!
Done: To demonstrate using Arduino controlled LED lighting to augment deep learning models
Done: To demo this simple, quick, and low cost unsupervised method of grouping 3D surfaces
Done: To show off a simple building block of unsupervised anomaly detection for machine vision
* To find ways to make this process better...

Thanks so much for looking the video and repo over!

Paul Krush
I'm actually quite sick of lots not being built to their potential and a chain of management firms selling properties to each other in schemes to foist the maintenance costs on to someone else.

I think it would be in the public's interest to step in and provide baseline competition for the market. Not just at the bottom but at every layer of the stack. A series of non-profit entities should be made to keep competition even with each other, profits should be both limited and surpluses split between 'rainy day' investment funds, expanding the non-profit owned properties, and proper maintenance. Anything leftover should go towards reducing property taxes for everyone in the area.

Anyone renting from such an entity should also be a "shareholder" in it, just like with credit unions.
I know some Hacker News users really like IPFS, but that seems bad advice. IPFS is a very young technology with practically no adoption, chances that some information stored in it will still be available in two or three decades are at least hard to estimate and probably slim.

Betting on something like archive.org or just printing it out and placing it in a bank vault or at a notary seems a much better idea. There are also companies and organization dedicated to long term storage, they are most likely a better choice, too. Even printing it out and placing it in a shoe box in the attic may have a better chance for still being around in a couple of decades, though it may be more likely to be discovered by accident than reliably retrieved at some point in time.
If rides could show up instantly, it would be more efficient to just get a new 'ride' for every leg of your trip. But Phoenix is spread out, and you can't always count on a car being nearby.

It typically took me 7 minutes to get to a pickup address, which included a minute to plug the address into my navigation software (the taxi company I used to drive for now has a phone app that automagically directs the driver to the pickup address, just like the upstarts' system). The mother of a friend of mine has taken to using "Lifts" when she needs to go someplace where she'd rather not have to park. I explained that the driver she was getting might not actually be just around the corner.
Could be one of two different strategies there. The first is that the product is of high quality, and so the manufacturer can afford to replace the item since the failure rate is so low. The other is that the product is low quality, so the manufacturer can afford to replace the item since the product is so cheap to manufacture.
I'm Alex, CEO of Scale. We definitely hope to solve many of the same problems as MTurk, and think it's a brilliant idea.

Our main focuses for our product are around high quality, ease-of-use, and reliability. In our experience, MTurk exhibits none of those.

It requires a lot of work to get truly high quality results, and virtually impossible above a certain quality threshold. MTurk promises no SLAs and forces the customer to do a lot of work such as price discovery, building UIs, and quality control, not to mention how difficult to use their API is. Our philosophy is handle all of that complexity for the developer.

We've been inspired by our own experiences using easy-to-use APIs like Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, etc., and wanted to build a similar experience for human intelligence. Hope that helps!
Thanks Jon! :)
I'm not suggesting that those should be free.

I'm saying we should eliminate governmental policies that
restrict consumer choice and market competition or contribute to cost disease.
Anti-terrorism seems like exactly the kind of field where your "intelligence community" outlook is appropriate.
If anyone here doesn't want to spend money on $500+ GPU (or the $1k+ ones!), then I'd suggest getting the lowest tier Nvidia GPU for $100~[1]

If that GPU is a real bottleneck for you, then you're much better off spending money on GCP/AWS's GPU offerings. That's because consumer GPUs get superseeded every year and online offering's price will only go down.

So you can spend 10% of $1k every year and keep getting better return on compute / dollar every year.

[1]:https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681448...
I read the article and every other article explaining these very valid points and I just can't find it in myself to care. Maybe one day I'll regret it, hopefully I won't.

For now, Facebook is a convenient way to be aware of people I care about. I don't use it much, but then again, I'm not connected to many people; only people I actually know and have interacted with IRL, and a few I interacted with extensively through other online means.
This seems to ignore the fact that people are irrational (I cite the difference between classical Economics and Behavioral Economics). Especially when they are emotional, which is exactly the case when they are under an immense debt load, in default, with little to show for progress.

> An educated person
You seem to presume that just because someone has student loans, they are educated. If you look at the DoE and Congress going after the predatory loan practices of for-profit colleges in both misleading recruiting and sub-par {education, graduation, job prospects}, there is a sizable population of people with large student loans and nothing to show for them.
Communism != socialism.

Communism and socialism are very different systems.

Communism includes centralized government control over markets, and pseudo-religions. It falls apart because sane people come to power and realize just how stupid it is.

Socialism, as practiced in some European countries, has free markets. That's a critical difference lost on people who bring up communism in these kind of discussions.
Banning SE really doesn't go far enough then does it? Perhaps any site with a text box should be forbidden.
Back in 2005, there were numerous distros with great UX. SUSE was great, Mandrake was pretty good etc. Ubuntu was the new kid on the block, but was already showing great promise. Wine worked for a lot of stuff, and there was Cedega for games.

I agree that things have improved since then... but with hardware, for example, it's very much a moving target. Your chances of running Linux on a random new PC bought off the shelf, or assembled from off the shelf components, and having all the hardware fully supported without mucking around with firmware, kernels, configs etc, are still low enough that hardware shopping needs to be done specifically with Linux hardware compatibility in mind, checking lists for what works on what distros etc. And I'm not talking about exotic stuff here, but basic things like WiFi.
> Donald Trump has made no mention of what he's actually going to do for coal workers.

He apparently plans to revive the coal industry by repealing environmental regulations and to put them back to work mining coal[0,1].

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/coal-jobs-trump-...

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-27/trump...
An idea: Do like some place in Europe did, property tax based on building footprint-- not in useable sq ft. This encourages growth upwards.
This one about furniture and why there's no okay quality furniture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743311
How did I guess this was going to show up again?
EasyPost Is Hiring: Build APIs for the Fortune 50
I think that'll fly, if you can really manage the no meetings clause :).
"[T]he gender pay gap only exists for women over 40, suggesting it is less about gender and more about something else entirely. Indeed, women in their twenties currently out-earn men and it is only when they start a family that the pay gap starts to emerge.

"Is this down to nasty employers undervaluing female staff once they’ve had a baby or to outdated societal expectations that women are the main child carers?

"Or could it just be that many women who become mothers prefer to cut back their hours, work part-time, decline promotions, overtime and travel away from home so that they can see more of their children? Every survey suggests that women are doing this of their own free will but, hey, what do they know?" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12153967/The-gender...

It's a fact that only women can bear children. It's also a fact that women (for whatever reasons---not saying it's right or wrong) opt at a higher rate than men to reduce their hours or leave their career after the birth of a child. So, from a business perspective, there _are_ some additional risks associated with employing women that simply don't exist for men.

Women and men are different and in practice deal with parenthood differently as far as work is concerned. If there's ever to be equal pay for equal work, the discussion will have to include the issues as they are in addition to egalitarian ideals.

Also: http://www.nbcnews.com/better/careers/motherhood-penalty-can...
We should also keep in mind that the journal the author is writing for is sponsored by Snapchat.

Obviously, Snapchat will shed no tears if people leave Facebook/Instagram en masse for its own platform.
Well and according to metrics, it's also raising the standard of living for the world's poorest, who have been leaving poverty at record rates. It's a shame the evidence doesn't support your narrative. It's such a popular stance that one would hope it was more than a construct of untruth.
I don't know how people can live with an inbox like that. I'd go crazy.

I first started leaving Facebook when my feed was consumed with children and lovey-dovey posts. That's cute and all, but I can only handle so much of that (let's round up to one per month...)

Down the road, if things start going south for Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke off the events into a separate app.
I've mostly been a free market advocate for housing, alongside sensible zoning that keeps, say, chemical plants away from schools. However, I was recently convinced of one aspect of town infrastructure that really requires thoughtful management of population: The sewer system.

My town has historically had bad flooding during heavy storms which has been made worse in the past decade due to a relative population boom. I'm sure this is vast room for improvement in speeding up additional capacity construction, but to me it's the major issue keeping housing from being truly set free.
Catchall email on a dedicated domain for this particular account. It's why I was so annoyed to lose this account. I have <InstagramUsername>.com with a site on it relevant to the account, so now I have to find a new username with available .com, migrate the site, the content, and start a whole new Instagram feed.

All because I got the password wrong.

Plenty of people and businesses depend on Insta. In my searches for a solution I've seen support threads of major businesses with 10s of thousands of followers who lost it all due to a bad login.
You do the math.
You'll have to treat fellow users with respect if you'd like to continue commenting here.
Why is Ethereum included in this group?
It's better that a fraction of the population prosper that the can act philanthropically or that rest of the country can tax. The alternative is a fraction of the population of another country prosper over which we have no power to tax and whose philanthropy likely won't benefit Americans.

The former gives you options, the latter affords you none.
At the moment their solution to this issue is to brand anyone who points it out as a paid Russian troll. It's really sad to watch this happen.
There's a current trend among a certain demographic (that tends to align fairly well with the writers for coastal pubs and the readers of sites such as this) to prefer living in the urban cores of a handful of coastal US cities.

But the assumption that this represents some inevitable long-term trend seems questionable--including among the same individuals once they have kids they want to send to good, safe schools.

Furthermore, look at trends like autonomous vehicles. Personally I think a lot of people are way optimistic on the timeframes, But if you can really go "RoboJames, take us to the opera!" or "Pick up our groceries!" a lot of the attraction of actually living in a crowded noisy location starts to go away.
Any reason why you're using Trello instead of GitLab Issue Boards? https://about.gitlab.com/features/issueboard/
MNIST is a toy problem. It shouldn't take you more than a few days or even hours to completely understand it. Do yourself a favor and get a GPU because soon you will want to try bigger networks on real world images.

1060, 1070, or 1080Ti are all good choices, depending on your budget and ambitions.
The definition of a random number is in the process of generation. You have to actually generate random numbers if you want to have a random number that meets some criteria. And even with impossibly vast resources, you will never find a random megabyte that compresses well.
Is it inefficent? Why do you think that?

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

When you propose an alternate solution I'd like to see it in practice before throwing millions of people to the wolves.
That'll never fly in the heart of NIMBY country. They won't even let you add an extension, let alone demolish a low rise to build a high rise.
It isn't so much psyops as it is the consequence of the very specific brand of Asian capitalism that dominates the world today. One need only look to South Korea or Japan in order to realize that the United States is on the very same trajectory.
The thing is it is way more expensive to provide a train for 40 hours than a plane for 2. The plane could do 20 journeys in that time, for 20x the nominal revenue.

This is why high speed rail is so good: it can actually really decrease operational costs Vs normal rail as your train, crew, station etc does 2-3x the volume of passengers, and therefore revenue, compared to slower alternatives.
We could - but the network side isn't the problem. There's a lot of logging, user banning, etc. pieces that need IPv6 love first. We just haven't had the time yet.

There are network bits we'd have to evaluate heavily as well, e.g. firewall rules - basically the very limited benefits don't make it a priority, yet. When things change there, we'll do it.
Speaking of math, despite being easily my most famous comment, it's nowhere near being my most upvoted comment.
I actually worry a lot about self-driving cars. I think they'll lead to more urban sprawl. Since it won't be a big deal to live out far away. Commuting will be much faster on a freeway filled with autonomous cars moving quickly, and you able to just sit back and enjoy the ride.

I think this will ultimately lead to the US becoming far more conservative. Large cities are traditionally much more liberal areas.
The article does discuss why there isn't a significant decline in price. Its two proposed explanations are increased demand from Chinese buyers, and increased demand from the relatively new lobster-roll phenomenon:

> This leaves the Maine (and Canadian) lobster industry with another interesting challenge: how to find enough buyers for all those lobsters so that prices don't collapse. As you can see from the chart below, they've mostly succeeded:

> [price chart]

> Affluent Chinese diners have been one reason. This January, five chartered 747s full of live lobsters flew from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to China to supply Chinese New Year feasts. Maine's lobsters tend to make the voyage less dramatically, in regularly scheduled flights from Boston, but $27 million worth of them were shipped to China in 2016.

> The national and even global spread of the lobster roll has also helped a lot. I came to Maine on a trip organized by Luke's Lobster, a fast-casual restaurant chain that now has 21 "shacks" in the U.S. and eight more scheduled to open this year, along with six licensed locations in Japan. ... Luke's Lobster now has its own plant in Saco, Maine, that processes between 4 and 5 percent of the state's lobster harvest. Processing, in this case, means cooking and picking the meat out of the claws and knuckles for Luke's lobster rolls while cleaning and freezing the raw tails and clawless "bullet" lobsters for sale to restaurants, groceries and such.

> Holden's father, Jeff, says that tails used to sell for much more than claw meat. Now lobster rolls, for which tail meat is generally too chewy, have flipped the price equation.
The fundamental issue with zoning is that control is too local. Building in an area fundamentally helps those who want to move in at the expense of those who already live there and enjoy the higher home prices and wages that the restriction on building provides. The increased asset prices for landowners in the Bay Area far from makes up for the extra commuting costs imposed and marginal businesses priced out of the area - but landowners can vote on zoning laws here, and the commuters and those priced out can't.
If you speak a language other than English, what would you call “touch typing”?
I'm simply not willing to cut people out of my life and miss out on things that are important to me because my data is mined and might be used against me.

I concur that FB can be useful for finding out about stuff going in your world.

But if not using a certain commercial product -- any commercial product -- means "cutting people out of your life" to any significant degree, then well... you might want to think about the degree of dependence you've signed onto in using that particular product. And indeed, whether you really "need" that degree of (perceived) interaction with all of those people.
A lot of people in cities are trying to fight growth upwards. They are not for want of ways to encourage it.
That would be nice, more competition is better for the consumer. Still, it will affect purchasing decision only when it happens, and it hasn't happened yet.
The frustrating point about a similar experience was...

You can support HTTP and the occasional knowledgeable person will suggest you should upgrade. Or you can force TLS with SSLv3 enabled, and suddenly you'll hit a flood of people letting you know you're about to be hacked, based on online scanners. Often complete with requests for a bug bounty.
I wonder how a moving average of a movie would look? I think the trick would be in choosing the right length for the moving average window, so that the viewer could still see the "chapter" transitions.