skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> experiences with some sort of "narrative" that becomes more synthetic the more it becomes generalized and massaged?

We clearly have different thoughts on the matter, so I won't delve deeply here.

But I would say the message becoming more generalised isn't what I've seen. Though, the tribes I was immersed with had deep story-telling practices, such as weaving and repeated communal retellings. Resulting in near word-for-word retellings some hundreds of years apart. The moral isn't explained or given. Its just history.
Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
The more specific you are the better.
That's equivalent to calculating the "straight skeleton", which is mentioned in the article as being among the published solutions, but too slow and error-prone.

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

There's no explicitly spiraling/lawnmower aspect to the straight skeleton: you may have a raster-based incremental literally spiralling solution in mind, but for the geometric examples they show this would probably be inefficient. It's going to have to traverse a large multiple of the perimeter of the polygon as it spirals.
I believe the application date drives that, 2008 in this case.
"Proven theory" isn't a thing, Milgrom is a scientist, he should be well aware of that. Using truth conditional logic here just doesn't make sense.
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Code up an assembly language version of Zopfli and we'll be able to compare the two then! Anything else won't be a fair speed comparison.

If you're just interested in compression ratios, there are already plenty of websites that compare them all.
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Part of what made the show great is that it always managed to feel grounded and real. It had an almost documentary quality to it, while still remaining a work of fiction.

Season 5 loses that feeling. While it was completely enjoyable, I think it was missing something.
It's not just conservative companies, but also independent developers and startups that may not want to start investigating third-party languages, of which there's no shortage. Particularly if they're up against other barriers like not being experienced at Android, in which case they may not want to learn the Android frameworks AND a new language at once. Or they have to learn some new Android frameworks they didn't use before, like the camera APIs.
Mono is focused on supporting mobile workloads while .NET core is focused on the server side.

The class library implementations are converging (1) and some other bits are shared.

Historically Mono has supported the "desktop" profile style of APIs, so it continues to support that model. We rely on that model and the APIs that come with it for Visual Studio for Mac.

(1) http://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/11/29/mono-code-sharin...
then there's even a better value in low price intensive farming, which is availability of food for the poor
Most people I know hated it because it was just out of character for everyone involved. Just a modern hollywood plot (full of holes and forced story line to make it more exciting).
Good luck. The sun set long ago on Britannia.
Gnome getting ready for fractional (e.g. 1.5x) display scaling
> C# moves fast because it mostly only Microsoft calling the shot, even if they are now taking input via Github.

Is Microsoft, RedHat, JetBrains, Unity, Samsung and Google (Also Mono and Xamarin - though they are now part of Microsoft) - as well as the wider community via GitHub etc

https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/tsg
FYI my company acquired SourceForge in 2016 and have been improving significantly. No more bundled adware, eliminated deceptive ads, all projects are scanned for malware, https downloads and project web hosting, 2-factor auth & more. Big redesign coming soon too. This is a great thread, but I just wanted to let everyone know the shady practices in the OP are no more.

For those interested in more information I did an AMA here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...

And Ars coverage here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
> Badass gay character, humanized gangsters, contra-Reaganesque attitude to drugs, aim at corruption and money, etc.

you must be pretty young to think these themes were revolutionary in the early 00's, and that the "media has caught up" to those concepts.

you are correct that this show doesnt care about either leftist or liberal ideologies, but that doesnt mean its propaganda either way. its about depicting an arguably valid interpretation of reality wherein the individual cannot "win" vs. the system, no matter what system or institution or ideology that may be.
Well, if people consistently rat out the big corp (because its now better to do so than not) then cost/success rate of theft should hopefully become untenable, and they'd stop trying to find people to steal for them.

And ofc, the big corp is clearly the preferred target, since they're much more likely to repeatedly commit crimes (and at larger scales) than the individual

Cleanest way to beat a tagteam is to convince them they're enemies
Some publishers do, some publishers don't.
Women Who Lead and Light Up Atlanta's Tech Ecosystem – Hypepotamus
Vulkan and OpenCL will merge into a single API
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 vs. Linux 4.12 and Mesa 17.2-dev Git – Phoronix
The Internet is Broken
This argument is akin to saying "now that anyone can publish a blog or tweet, what's the point of news places like NYT or WSJ?" I don't believe either negates the needs or benefits of the other. In addition to what others have mentioned, with publishers (just like with established news organizations), you can (usually) expect a certain level of standards and thoroughness with the end product, at the cost of fewer and less diverse works. With self-publishing, you can find end products that might have been passed over by publishers for various reasons (not a big enough market, too controversial, etc). Each is beneficial, each is necessary.
Amazon has a thing about "bar raisers" across the organization.
Maybe I don't understand it but that seems really expensive.
I think this is silly.

Anecdotally, I've had good success forcing longer passwords while at the same time, introducing people to password managers. Doing only one or the other does not have the same uptake but we recently went through and forced everyone to reset their passwords. We're now up to 16 chars, I'd like to get to 30 (or to a point where it's a pain to type it in) but baby steps, I suppose.
The best way to use Jira (or any business software) is to adapt your processes to use it the way the company that developed it intended. Too many times, we buy a product and start customizing it before we start using it. The key is that, theoretically, the producing company researched best-practices in their field and tried to deliver a product that would meet those needs without modification.

I've been involved with two Jira installations that started with heavy customization. One was rolled back to the default Jira after 18 months and the other ultimately resulted in Jira being replaced by something else (which is now failing because they started that project with customization too).

Use the product for a year or two, learn its workflow and only then tweak the customization to suit your organization. And then do even that slowly. You'll thank me!
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It's harder than it looks. Solving this problem is my entire business model.

Stopping unused resources is half of it-- the overlooked other half is understanding what the bill shows you. Finance doesn't care about how much is compute vs storage, they care about COGS vs R&D spend.

One-off cost reductions are relatively easy; coming up with a longer term approach takes significantly more work.
The problem is that most have adopted password managers and two-factor, which means the guideline will be largely ignored.
At least five of our titles were counterfeited on Amazon. The counterfeits replaced our main inventory and owned the Buy button.
2nd for https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

This tool reduces my cognitive load.
and people don't stop them, because "how can you be against fight on terrorism?"

I would bet that if they tried, they might be considered terrorists too. It reminds me of this old Thomas Jefferson quote:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
The buy box policy has been in place for other categories for years. Only earlier this year did it open up for books. Prior, only the publisher controlled the buy box, although it was possible for sellers of new copies to be listed on the link to the third-party sellers.

Regarding the ARCs marked as such: not every customer will complain to Amazon. Some readers don't care, others complain to the publisher or the seller.

Amazon's handling of inventory has been a problem for a long time. This HN thread talks about commingling issues for products other than books (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13927641) which is mostly about pirated merchandise. Warehouse workers don't check or Amazon doesn't care. For the ARCs, I think most are fulfilled by the seller as opposed to going through Amazon FBA so there's no way for Amazon to even look at the book. They're going on the seller's word that it's a legit product for sale.
Looks like this isn't in regard to the effectiveness of remote work. It's a way of using a blanket company policy to effect a major workforce reduction, keeping the most dedicated employees, without engaging in politics or performance evaluation. I wonder if they have back-channel offers in place to keep the most effective remote workers engaged.
How about a government controlled and regulated by the intenet?
This is very interesting and new to me. Not mentioned in the article, but it also explains these yogurts you mix a dry side into ( https://www.google.com/search?q=yogurt+with+separate+topping )

However, I am concerned with the description I just read.
I see many classes of products where the IKEA effect could be done very easily, yet is not. Does it really apply across the board?

I wonder if anyone has done a very strict AB test against user satisfaction: for example, shipping boxes of hardware product that are fully assembled, or where the user must snap one thing together (that is easy and obvious).

Do they observe a difference in user satisfaction?

I am not certain I believe the effect is as described in this article, or as strong as described in this article, and wonder if anyone has done blinded AB tests.
Trust me, we are trying.
Bill, did you find out the source of the counterfeits? I know you said earlier it was Createspace for at least one of the titles.
Does anyone know how much of libraries' out-of-copyright content, including rare books, is now available online? A tiny fraction? The important stuff?

Speaking more generally, despite the promise of the Internet it seems like the more valuable knowledge is inaccessible to the public - knowledge in books and scientific journals. The public is left with the dregs.

People complain about how easily bad information and deliberate misinformation spread and are accepted. In the context of my point above, is that a surprise? Remember the old saying about management and accounting systems or really any application: GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out.
Interesting comment. I certainly don't think an inspiring portrayal of leftist politics would make for a realistic urban crime drama. I agree some little touches that you mentioned age, but the heart of the story could still be written today and it doesn't depend on the success of small comic scenes or flourishes of Omar.
> but perhaps the most anti-leftist aspect of them all is how the show is utterly grim and hopeless and nothing ever changes. all radical initiatives are shut down and ruin lives, and it works more as a cautionary tale than an inspiration.

I think the Hamsterdam concept would be pretty easily implemented at the federal level, which was where it was ultimately shut down from in the show.

It's unfortunate that our federal drug policy is now moving in the exact opposite direction.
Since more people have it off than on, the information content of leaving it off is much less than turning it on.
* I have no issue with people selling used books. As with any good, if you own it you should be able to resell it.

* Publishers send out review copies to get reviews. I used to mark our review copies but reviewers don't like that. For some, their compensation from whatever source they write for for is the book they review.

* There are numerous entities in the publishing supply chain and always the potential for holes or bad actors.

* We've had five books sold as fakes.
What are the raw numbers? How do we know the percentage increase isn't mostly due to other commandos coming back home?
Why don't they "regulate" mobile phone use while driving? On the subway? At the grocery store? In the waiting room at the doctor's office?

Because all of that would be outside the scope of the statutes? Precisely. So is the regulation of mobile phone use while in flight.
> They're just as bad, if not worse.

Im sure Americans just experienced Deja vu. Sure, they are "all the same" in some narrow way. This equivalence should only matter to single-issue voters.
Colonizing Mars V. Building Space Stations
Why are we talking about colonizing other Mars, instead of building a bunch of huge space stations? Seems like the space stations are easier, cheaper, more scalable, and more flexible.
The trouble with not regulating is what we currently have, unfettered data collection and retention. There obviously need to be rules around all the digital gold these companies are amassing.

The Chinese and Theresa May want what currently the tech giants have which is unregulated access to data. Except instead of it being in the current sandboxes they want to build their own.

Both are equally incorrect and stem from unregulated data access and lack of rules around data aggregation and the ecosystems that the data props up.
zopfli is just a compressor for the standard DEFLATE (zlib) format, able to make png, gzip and zip files a bit smaller. It spends a lot more CPU time doing the compression to achieve marginally better compression ratios (i.e. it's like "gzip -99"). It's worth it to crunch minified js and css files (and serve them as pre-compressed "content-encoding: gzip") and png files to make a popular site load a bit faster.

There is no need for special decompression code, in fact that's the whole point: an unmodified DEFLATE decompressor can decompress the file, even though it is smaller than what "gzip -9" can produce.

They are compressing using LZ4-HC which is a slow compressor. They compare it to something like gzip. They should compare it to something that produces gzip-compatible data but spends even more CPU time to get even better compression ratios.
SourceForge now scans all projects for malware and displays warnings on downloads (sourceforge.net)

3 points by loganabbott 367 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=loganabbott
The urban/rural split is insane these days. In my home state, Maine, it's getting very close to a situation where Portland can wag the whole rest of the state.

Urban vs rural values and opinions are almost mirror images of each other...
Adding to this, if a seller on Amazon sends you a different ISBN than the one you ordered, you can return it, because that's not what you ordered.
> the tribes I was immersed with

You should have started off with that. There's no point in arguing with you if this is the case. You're too invested in them.

This is fine. You're probably more correct that I am anyway, since you've experience on the ground. I'm just armchair quarterbacking.
No? I don't think anyone mentioned regulations on pornography during the campaign.
It's been documented, but not at a large scale. Dave Burgess had his book Teach Like a Pirate owned (https://twitter.com/burgessdave/status/849039943561134080) and Bill Pollock says on this HN thread that five of his company's books were pirated.

If the experience of other manufacturers/brands are anything to go by (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13927641), I fear more and more pirates will get into books now that it's possible for them to own the buy box. It might not be a huge problem now, but I predict it's only a matter of time before it becomes one.
tl;dr his main point re the markets is that they are priced higher than 2007 so have further to fall. He implies unhedged stock ownership is not rational at this point.
I highly recommend also Open Sourcing the server, or else you'll have to compare against Open Source alternatives:

- We did a prototype last July on saving 100M+ updates for $10/day all costs (cpu, disk, backup). Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8

- You can 1 click deploy to a free Heroku server here: https://github.com/amark/gun#heroku

- Watch a demo of the GPS tracking here: 1min https://youtu.be/7ALHtbC9aOM

- Demo of the app here: (warning: asks for location) http://gps.gunDB.io/

- Source code here: (only ~200LOC, lots to improve) https://github.com/gundb/gps
Why do you consider secularism bad?
I can't believe I hadn't though of this. Could be a really useful idea!
There have been many articles on the subject, but this is an excellent, deep dive into techniques and technology, including a lot I haven't seen elsewhere.
Only one or two feasible solutions? That's a little suspicious, but in general feasibility isn't any easier than optimality.

If you'd like to talk optimization/metaheuristics feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile). I have a fair bit of experience with them so I might be able to point you in the right direction.
Something really has to seriously go wrong for you to want to pull that lever. Once you do, as you said, you are totally at the mercy of this parachute system. It will land you where it lands you, and if something goes wrong with it, you are pretty much screwed. If the single engine goes out, you can still operate the plane as a glider and have some control over where and how it lands. I'd rather go this route than chance a parachute system that disrupts the natural lift of the aircraft for almost any situation except some kind of very serious control surface issue.
the big bang theory was dismissed for decades. Even Einstein said to someone suggesting it that his physics was "abominable".
The big cost is helium. I met the CEO of Airship Ventures, the company that used to have a big sightseeing Zeppelin II based at Moffett Field in Mountain View. The price of helium doubled, and that killed the business. Fuel cost was minor.
It just sounds unambitious because of the way you wrote it.

GOOG: Hey lets save the entire internet on our servers and be better than anyone else by magnitudes

FACE: I want to have everyone in the world to have a profile on facebook

AMAZ: I want every book in the world to be sold on my website, and pretty much everything else.

AAPL: I want to be better at product design than and become better than Microsoft

MSFT: I tricked IBM into doing distribution for us, but I want a PC in everyone's home within 10 years.

I think those come closer to the founders visions than what you wrote. Some of my versions actually include mindsets that their founders at the very beginning.
Show HN: How to use Michael Jackson samples in your music

Step 1. Download and install Audacity and LMMS

Step 2. Get clearance agreements from the Jackson estate

Step 3. ...
Yeah but who really cares if the plane is a loss? If you pull that lever, you are doing it because you would otherwise probably die. I'd say that's worth a total loss.
Assuming p2p, if the person is not in my contact list, then say it out to him/her. If s/he is, then whatsapp him/her the (further) details s/he needs. If I am in a professional setting, I just give my card.

I find this to be much much 'user-friendly" than any existing or possible app/software solution and call me a oldie but handing out a card makes me proud of sorts.

Edit : I apologize if this doesn't answer your question.
I agree that it's a great idea, are there competitors?

But just a little feedback on the tagline, the "10x" sounds a bit amateurish, since it's not backed by any data and just sounds like over-hyped marketing speak. "Find the Right API and Connect Faster" is much cleaner and more professional. I would also invest in some design help. But overall, good job!
Those cheaper copies for non-US markets are what's typically called (at least in the textbook world) as "international" editions. They're not allowed to be sold on Amazon, as per Amazon's policies. It's a shame too, because textbooks are usually so very expensive.

And as noted elsewhere, they have different ISBNs than the US editions, so if a seller send and int'l edition when you ordered a US edition, they did not send the book you ordered and the ISBN discrepancy proves that, so you should return it and complain to Amazon.
> The single most important thing in engineering management is hiring only the best.

I agree.

It's easier said than done, though. Many engineering managers aren't really involved in the code in any real way. I can't imagine running a restaurant and not inspecting the kitchen, seeing hosts greet patrons, seeing how well tables stay cleared of dirty dishes, and so on.

I find that a lot of "hire the best" ends up boiling down to knowing which engineers are popular with "technical" folks and haven't obviously messed up (at least to someone who hasn't really looked at code or deployments). I'm not sure how to keep this from coming down, again, to politics and popularity.
Are you familiar with the BEAST attack on SSL/TLS? It was a flaw that was "theoretical" until the boys that broke the internet showed how it was done.

So that was evidence that was ignored for ten years.

So I wouldn't risk my life on something you claim has no evidence but professional crypto breakers warn about.
Previous discussion on /r/haskell:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3s93w1/a_selfinter...

To summarize, there are a number of different notions of self-interpretation. The strongest notion is interpreting from raw untyped syntax (which entails that the input is first type checked and some failing result is returned if it's invalid). This can be relatively easily proven to be impossible in any total language. The weakest notion of interpretation is the no-op embedding: quoted terms are terms themselves and self-interpretation is the identity function.

The weakest self-interpreter is trivial to implement but useless. The strongest one is very useful but impossible. The paper presents something which is weak enough to be possible but strong enough to be useful. It essentially Church encodes the terms of System F-omega as a fold over their structure. This makes it possible to implement pretty printers or structural equality. However, in this scheme all quoted terms are well-typed to begin with, also, quotation can not be invoked at runtime and is available through external preprocessing step only.