skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do diamonds have value then? They have no intrinsic value. They are not a scarce resource. They don't have many industrial applications. Labs can grow diamonds that look pretty much identical to the real thing. Yet people still pay a ton of real money for diamonds.

Diamonds have value because we all have agreed that they have value. That's a really powerful concept to internalize. Similarly why does Gold have any value? Why does the American Constitution have any power?
Careful, that loader spec is dead. Unless something drastic changes, don't expect any of those hooks.
You can transpile dependencies without migrating your whole app (though I'm not sure why you would)
KotlinJS, please add google closure support and save us from the madness of javascript tooling, modules, etc.
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"...have some other animal eat the beans and shit them out."

Sounds like something I can do at home myself then.
You have to hope that the app ist trustworthy, the developer uses TLS, and implemented the certificate verification correctly.
I would guess that 14% underestimates the impact of not locking people up for drug crimes in the first place.

Rationale: there likely are quite a few prisoners who were initially were convicted on a minor drug crime, couldn't find work afterwards, then turned to theft or robbery, and now are emprisoned for a crime that's more serious than a drugs crime.

I also think one should look at people locked up for having intercourse with minors in those cases where the criminal is just over age and the minor is just under age. Even assuming that needs punishment, the repercussions for one's life are to harsh.
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> The one thing that I really miss is that most (all?) JS module implementations really seem to be focused on static compile workflows.

That's what baffles me coming from Java and C#; I can have dynamically loaded modules with strongly typed interfaces in these ecosystems, but not in any JS module system.
Well, they all have the same number of employees.
Could you point me to where specifically you have read that? Every article I can find on the internet seems to assume that using an Asian elephant as the surrogate mother will be as easy (i.e. very hard) as if we had living mammoths to carry the clone.
Before ~2015: "JavaScript is a terrible language!"

After ~2016: "Stop improving JavaScript, I can't keep up!"

(Not a personal attack, just general sentiment I've observed)
While I agree that it is vital for a practitioner know the mathematical basis behind what they're doing in order to maximize their chances of success, I find your current argument lacks substance.

You argue that there is a vast amount of solved problems in tomes of "pure" mathematics. But this doesn't mean that any of those solutions are relevant and/or necessary to the problems people are working on.

Your "statistical test" argument is misleading. Machine learning techniques aren't designed to form such statistics, and judging them by their ability to do so willfully disregards the real world success many companies have found by using ML/AI to solve their problems.

Certainly, there are challenges that are waiting to have their solutions implemented from a rediscovered manuscript, but listing impressive-sounding statistical terminology doesn't demonstrate lack of value for machine learning/AI techniques. Furthermore, it doesn't even demonstrate value for the "pure" techniques you list. To clarify, I'm talking about real-world value, not just theoretical value (and again, I'm not arguing that such techniques don't have value, just that your argument isn't doing a good job communicating how such techniques have orders of magnitude more value than ML/AI).
I was thinking or maybe dreaming about this the other day. There's a subtle shift through tech that blurs the original goal. You wanted to enjoy some place a little easier, so roads make sense. Then it grows and grows and now the beautiful places are surrounded by roads and annoyed crowds and there's nothing to enjoy.
I don't suppose California's farmers are stupid, so I presume it's someone else's stupidity that has made it attractive to grow coffee, the latest in a long line of water-intensive crops, in dry southern California.

When are Californians going to realize that it's this sort of thing, not a decent shower, that is the cause of the ill effects of a decade of drought? And why do Californians keep subsidizing farmers' water-usage when that is plainly the root of the problem?
What if you're not the greatest at maths? :-(
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> The original studies seemed to say yes. But when the military put soldiers in a lab to make certain they stayed awake, performance suffered.

One minor piece of anecdotal evidence here. I have done a few 5-6 day sleep deprivation experiments in my life. I've stayed up for 3 days more times than I can count. I also used to regularly sleep every other day for long chunks of time. It's something that I could do much better when I was younger, and I try to avoid this now as I regularly get sick when I don't sleep for extended periods of time nowadays.

Firstly, performance (particularly my short term memory) always suffered. Sometimes if not active, or sitting for long periods of time I'd also get pain in my joints. Typically, when I fall asleep or start feeling tired it's because I enter a small boring, quiet homely environment (i.e. go home, or sit in a quiet room, or watch tv). My secret to staying awake was constant activity like walking around, talking to people, hydrating (water), small snacks, and walking some more, etc.

I feel that the effects of sleep deprivation hit the hardest when I'm not being stimulated physically. As such, I think dragging someone into a lab would have a harsh effect on one's performance. While I think no matter what you will suffer from performance degradation, I would love to see some contrast between performance given different environments/habits.
So transpile the library. Webpack and others can do it.
I suppose there is very little public information about such companies because they have no obligations of sharing it.
Google > quora > 10 year old article > https://www.inc.com/magazine/20080901/the-other-number-ones....

But they have staff.

Large single-person startups? https://smallbiztrends.com/2014/07/successful-one-person-sta...
Do a helical or "quadfilar" haha throw some words in

Like that color, I bet you could print a pretty convincing peach
Luck has nothing to do with that. Thanks for trying. Still hope someone can come with a better argument. But I follow bitcoin new since a few year and still nothing tangible in sight.

Some like you find my lack of faith disturbing, but I don't "believe" anything. I prefer scientifical skeptiscism.

PS: And because I am ready to change my mind, I've dug : https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5lsu8p/hot_news_fi...

Still no arguments, only bitcoin supporters performing ad-hominem attack against the analyst...
We are running chromebits. Runs on ChromeOS, simple to build a 'kiosk app' which automatically starts on startup. Costs more than RPI.

Very easy to lock up, easily administered (reboot/screenshot) from the management console. We have a few hundreds of them out there, works like a charm and pretty much no work.

I'd advise against the likes of RPI's if you need a few and remote manage them. Deploying new app versions is very easy and the thing just works.
Don't underestimate the freedom it gives to not have to do any damn thing on the box, ever. When working at scale the time you save is enormous.
> I think the term artificial intelligence is incorrect. What we're currently building is, IMO, artificial intellect.

The rest of your comment contradicts this statement.

Dictionary definition of intellect is "the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract matters". Dictionary definition for intelligence is "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills".

Current AI has great difficulty in abstract matters/thought, let alone understanding something beyond simply a series of learned patterns.

> If we want to build intelligent machines, we have to understand the architectures of the mind.

We have intelligent machines now, many which outperform human capacity for specific tasks. If your talking about strong artificial intelligence, then I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but maybe it could go the other way. By developing strong AI, we can understand the architecture of the mind. Maybe strong AI can be developed with the intellect of a cat/dog, and that gives insight into the human mind.

> We believe we're going to develop "artificial intelligence" by building massive computers and data centers. How absurd is that?

No one who is knowledgeable about AI actually believes this (based on your definition of AI).

> Folks, to build intelligent machines, we have to build thinking machines and for this, we'll have to truly understand how the mind works and when we do this, I believe we'll be quite surprised.

You ask the question "what is a thought" above, then state we need to have thinking machines to make intelligent machines. One could argue machines today think, one could argue alphago 'thinks'. Using your definition of intelligence, we have AI today that meets your requirements. Wisdom is knowledge with good judgement and creativity is exploration with experimentation. There is plenty of academic work out there which covers all this.
Anybody used catmull-clark on top of voronoi ? Just curious.
Linking to the blog post seems to be the better choice, but maybe include a link to the book's site in the post too.
I don't think there are any that ever remain a one-person company in practice - even for my own projects I've always needed to outsource or farm-out tasks that aren't a valuable use of my time - e.g. website design or handling customer support. I'm sure there are plenty of de-jure sole-proprietor ships - but I doubt any of them of truly work alone.
Does this part from the memoriam sound correct? That it needed her three days to hand toggle a program on to a computer?

In early 1955, the company was working on a digital computer, the Sperry Electronic Digital Automatic Computer (SPEEDAC) and asked Sammet to be their programmer. Her first task was to write the basic loader for the SPEEDAC, which was a 20-line program that took three days to toggle into the computer by hand in binary.

This [1] appears to be the source for that.

[1] "Jean Sammet: Programming Language Contributor and Historian, and ACM President" (PDF) [ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?reload=true&arnum... ]
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> are you suggesting we only follow laws we agree with?

By blindly following all laws we would still have slavery; holocaust would have become acceptable; etc...

We should follow ethics, not some texts.
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There's pinboard, maciej still runs it solo, I think.
If I recall correctly, IMDB used to be a one-man show for a long time, up to and even after getting acquired by Amazon.
Your problem will be definitional. The Rock earned ~ $65mm last year. Is he a 'one man company'? I guarantee he's billing through a services entity...

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2016/08/25/the-...
Fluent single page application in 2 mins
I'm right there with you on not feeling like I'm done with the day. After my son goes to sleep I a precious few hours to myself, of which chores takes a fair chunk - so I might have only one hour of "me time" if I go to bed when I should. So often, that 1 hour is pushed out a wee bit. Brain works much better on at least 7 hours though, but that time at the end of the night is really my sweet spot and I savour it like nothing else.

At any rate, I find reading using the Kindle app on my OLED device (S8+ or S2 tab) with bluelight filter enabled (native filter on S8, app on S2 tab) with lowest brightness (white text/black background) to be great.

I'll start off with a bit of sci-fi, and if it gets too exciting I'll then switch to something less exciting - e.g. continue my work on the blue book (DDD) or something like that. ;)

Lifting weights in the gym also helps (e.g. 5x5 stronglifts), and not just for sleep either.
Builtwith.com (one employee/founder and a part-time blogger) does an estimated $12M a year [1] assuming a 'few thousand' = 2000 paying customers.

"the Basic at $299 per month for customers that want lists of sites mainly for the purpose of lead generation; Pro at $495 per month, suited more for users that work in an industry using a lot of A/B testing and comparison-type data; and Enterprise at $995 per month, which covers all bases and allows sales teams with multiple people to all use the platform at once. Brewer says that in terms of paying users on the platform there is a ‘few thousand’ and the split is about 40 percent Basic, 40 percent Pro and 20 percent Enterprise."

Similar thread a while ago [2]

1:
http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/09/builtwith-is-perhaps-one...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065355

Edit: specificity and formatting
Two theories:

- mind first: mental illness of the form described has always been with humans, just that new technologies give people new words to describe the core phenomenon

- technology first: the human species has developed tools/mental abstractions (telephones, internet, germ theory, global warming, cancer, radio waves, nuclear physics, etc.) which intricacies have some weird interaction with the minds of a small percent of the population. I don't mean that these things in themselves affect the human mind; but that these sort of things are like "mind viruses", hijacking thought processes.

Reminds me of:

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

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/food-water-footprin...

> Coffee requires almost 10 times as much water [than tea], using 1,056 gallons of water per gallon of brewed coffee.

That's a lot.
Voronoi tessellations are common in data visualizations to increase the size of click/hover targets and to position labels. It's built into d3: https://github.com/d3/d3-voronoi
I'm a bit hesitant to try arch, since it seems quite daunting to start with such a trimmed down distro - and yet I really like the idea.

The hardest part will probably be setting up the wireless connection, and getting the WM set up.
Do you think arch is suitable for a relative beginner?
Plenty of Fish? Exited for billions while still a solo operator
Of course every design team wants to think it works this way. But the big/little mess (at the OS level), and the fact that Apple is beating them at their own game (like Qualcomm was, at the time) is a proof that it's not that simple.
With all the ceremony required to get private subnet instances talking to the internet, why not just put all instances on the public subnet but cut off incoming connections using a security group?
The same as in multiple page applications.
Thanks. After commenting I read the first paper in the page you linked. The one about trying to give an advantage to dynamic languages (Groovy vs Java), and measuring time-to-completion, for 4 tasks.

Turns out a static language has a time advantage when using an API, but a dynamic one has an advantage when writing code (that nobody will reuse).
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Well, we all know how terrible using a thesaurus is.
This guy uses an AI to write books for Amazon. Note that article is from 2012.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143382-programmer-create...
In SPA you usualy bind pages to routes or hashes.. so that points to something..

For example to have central router where you check you tokens etc.
Take a look this example with auth0 and ReactJS
Many libraries that use ES6 features distribute the transpiled version through npm or GitHub. If they don't, you can just transpile the library using Webpack then use that.

Or you could use codemods to update your code base in an automated way. See: https://github.com/cpojer/js-codemod
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https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/spa/react/01-login
> (...) I started reading “How to Build a Brain” by Chris Eliasmith. By the end of it, I truly felt biologically plausible modelling was hugely important for the advance of Cognitive Science.

Does it give a biologically plausible explanation for backpropagation?
how do you learn probability without calculus ? the definition of the mean for continuous distributions involve an integral.
One has to admit that exporting to / importing from global namespace, as in the old days, is for a typical/small project way easier and simpler than to deal with conflicting module systems and mediocre dependency/build tooling. JS module/dependency/build ecosystem is sick and fragmented and The solution is in the cold.
I know some affiliate marketers who make $2M+ without any employees.

Apparently, ranking well for certain keywords (mostly web hosting and website builders) can be very, very lucrative.
Interesting note. It's a funny thing that in the current climate nobody mentions the underpinning of the conflict depicted in the article, hundred of years of struggle between Christianity and Islam.

Wikipedia:
>According to Ottoman understanding, the state's primary responsibility was to defend and extend the land of the Muslims and to ensure security and harmony within its borders within the overarching context of orthodox Islamic practice and dynastic sovereignty
Sidekiq by Mike Perham http://sidekiq.org/

Over 1MM annual revenue https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq
What exactly is cyberpunk?
At some point scale will require you to hire, at least a few people, if you're really successful. But two examples that I can think of are Markus Frind (Plenty of Fish) and Markus Persson (Minecraft).

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Markus Frind is probably the biggest. He spent 5 years (2003-2008) working on Plenty of Fish, and at that point it was bringing in about $5M/yr and had 3 employees.

When the site sold in 2015 for $575 million it was 70 employees, but he still owned 100% of the company.

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Markus Persson would be another possible option, for the first $10-20M that Minecraft brought in he was the only person (aside from a contracted musician). And then for a while after that, it was him and his friend who was hired to manage the business side so he could focus on the programming work.
Ask HN: Reading recommendations on Browser internals, part. layout/rendering
I want to dive deeper into rendering engines and how browsers translate CSS to styling and layout. I'm doing web development for 10 years now, am familiar with concepts like Layout, Repaints, and Reflows, and know a lot about browser quirks in-field.

However, I feel there is more to learn. I'm especially interested in how layout algorithms work. Are there any good resources beyond the source code itself?
Ok, but why not use VR goggles?
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>Surely car manufacturers didn't have a say, which is why US and EU emission standards look like this

As per the source of the image says, "On the other hand, American regulators are focused on smog and health impacts of air pollution." Which the graphic you provided well indicates.

Look, California was probably the first governmental entity to regulate tailpipe emissions. Such so that it's written in the Clean Air Act by name to run its own regulatory scheme to enact stricter regulation(with federal waivers, but that's another issue). The reason being, that LA's unique geography makes smog worse. Heck, in the 1940s, they had an episode severe enough they thought they were under chemical attack by the Japanese.
As such, CARB's emission standards were focused on reducing the more directly harmful pollutants like hydrocarbons, ozone, NOx & PM.
So, given California's influence on the original 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1988 California Clean Air Act's influence on the subsequent amendment in 1990, I don't see how that graphic would support your argument.
I mean, had they such hypothetical power, they could have also blocked the banning of leaded gasoline that was in the same amendment.

>Well duh, let's keep diesel cars to petrol standards so that their benefits don't matter and their disadvantages are prohibitive!

Emissions vs fuel economy. You're being facetious, but if that argument was true, why bother importing diesel passenger vehicles into the states?
They didn't even start reintroducing diesels in America until they thought they could harmonize emissions from Euro 5 with Tier II Bin 5.
It is indeed tin, despite the name you heard (eeya-chatti, or eeya-pathiram I'm sure) from your elders.

The Tamil word Eeyam has two overloaded meanings, one is tin/pewter, the other is lead.

Unfortunately, "Eeyam" is almost always translated into "Lead".
The Flappy Bird creator said he made $50k per day from in app ads. But he pulled the game after a short while. Said because he felt guilty for making people play all day. Would love to know the whole story behind this.
AI! They used to call it a spam bot.
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