skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is no doubt true, although hardly relevant when one particular side is called out by various signals in the linked blog post, one of which I have already explained. If he were talking about conservative trolls, this would be a very different article.
Okay, good faith response here, just trying to wrap my head around it;

>This is where monetary policy comes into play. Any inflationary pressure caused by fiscal policy has to be compensated for through monetary tightening.

So you're saying we print money to meet the demands of bondholders, but stop printing and raise the federal funds rate to combat inflation if it starts to grow past target?
I'm not familiar with the term "conversion rate" in this context. Conversion rate in marketing is someone that sees your ad and buys the product. For the post and the comments here conversion rate means rate of startups that have exited. From where does that meaning comes from? I googled but only found references to the marketing business.
This​ article is flawed in it's assumption that the reward is the same across every network. The pride felt in a contribution on GitHub that benefits one user who appreciates your code is 1000x more gratifying than a point from a comment on HN. The pride felt in an answer upvoted a handful of times on StackOverflow is similar.
You definitely bought the wrong thing. You tried to order a normal diner breakfast at McDonald's. They don't do that well. You wanted to get one of their sandwiches -- Egg McMuffin, etc -- which, while not really like any other normal breakfast, certainly has that distinctive taste everyone here is talking about.
What does denting do to cans? Increase the pressure?
When applying for consulting gigs people have looked (sometimes closely) at my Open Source patches/commits.

Recruiters never ever look at patches/commits. They might read the bottom of a resume's first page.
Just FYI: http://www.mtn-top-hs.org/ashley_planes.htm
I agree they worked hard, but I don't think they aren't talented
It was not totally centralized technically. You could host your own full service, using your own modem banks and servers. The drawback was that you would not be discoverable in the minitel directory and you would not get the billing system etc. People needed to know your phone number and dial it to connect.

Minitel took a long time to die because it was a cash cow, both for France Telecom and service providers. The economic model was very simple: users pay the time spent online, and the revenue is shared between the telco and the service provider. No ads, no tracking ;)

It was also successful because every household got a Minitel for free in the mid-80's, when personal computers were very uncommon. And if you had a computer, you could use the Minitel as an external model with a serial port adapter and reach BBSes! Because of that I once had to explain to my parents why I was spending hours calling a number in Germany, which was not a cheap thing :P
Related: https://sivers.org/arv
From Russia with Blood: 14 Russian Hits on British Soil That the UK Ignored
Plenty of bureaucracy and disadvantage for small business in the US ... and really, this is the land of the megacorp. Most other countries have more palpable small business presence.
As far as I observe, many mediums pertaining to the portrayal of people, such as but not limited to "traditional" porn, has demonstrated its capability for its audience to develop an attachment with the person of portrayal. This attachment, however unilateral it may be, can qualify as an elementary form of relationship. It seems to me that porn, as much as its primary purpose is instantaneous sexual discharge, has further thrived from a kind of emotional attachment, i.e. crush, by its audience to their actresses of interest.

As much as the initial purpose of obtaining sex robots may be likewise to traditional porn (sexual discharge), it tangibility will likely enhance the formation of relationships. This time however, the “crush” will become a motive that one can act upon.

P.S. How is a sex robot different from a doll asides from being electronic?
> If you are building products / services that use ML and developing/training your own models (as opposed to taking pre-trained models and using them), there is really no credible competitor to TensorFlow.

MXNet has amalgamation http://mxnet.io/how_to/smart_device.html#amalgamation-making...

CNTK provides a managed ("evaluation") library solution to deploy your models and embed them in C, C++, C#, Python, and even an experimental Java version. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/CNTK-Eval...

How's that not competitive to TF? MXNet's approach is a bit unwieldy, yes, but seems easily streamlined. And CNTK's deployment method looks perfectly fine. Note I haven't checked other DL libs, but it seems unreasonable that Microsoft and Amazon have no "competitive" solution for deployment.
The article doesn't do a great job of actually explaining how the system works. If it's just this high pressure pipe with a carriage in it, then wouldn't you be able to retrofit existing rail lines? Regardless, another advantage is the centralization of the energy source.
this is the really important part. that as part of a civil society we are all expected to behave to the same basic standard and can expect the same basic treatment (rights).

whether we are disabled (as a genotype or a phenotype), what we believe in, who we choose to associate with, how we spend our time, etc

without this you don't have much. given this its all academic, which is just fine
Software startup abandons Trump’s U.S. for ‘welcoming’ Toronto
Amazon acquires Whole Foods Market for $13.7 bln
Why do you need a cryptocurrency to make the model work? If people wanted to do this, couldn't Chrome build a "Google Token" that does the same thing?
also helps to have a big ol' safety net
You jest.. t shirts sales can be huge in sports . For ex some soccer teams like manchester united or real madrid make enough to justify a valuation not much different based on the t-shirts sales alone...
Clearly if you get to choose, choose to IPO :). I think the idea here is that many founders would be better taking $5-20M acquisitions along the way than shooting for the moon- shooting for the moon is better for investors, as they have a portfolio and are looking for black swans to pay for it. But founders usually only have one startup at a time.
Putting AI in Perspective
>“Therefore, Winn-Dixie has violated the ADA because the inaccessibility of its website has denied Gil the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations that Winn-Dixie offers to its sighted customers.”

Can't you argue this for literally any company of any kind?

This will set a dangerous precedent and cost businesses a lot of money and adding zero value to most existing paying customers.

So now if I build a shitty website selling homemade candles I can get sued because I didn't use the right accessibility tags?

Also $37k to add features for the blind is ridiculously low.
It's only failing if the absolute number of the pool of cash YC swims in is smaller than it would have been if invested elsewhere like stock market indexes. Returns always fall as you get larger, but you're making even more money. Far better to have 10% ROI on a billion dollars than 10000% ROI on a few bucks. The question is not what the average is, but what the alternatives are.
Chris Keroack, an employee of software testing company Equal Entry, estimated it would cost less than $37,000 for the company to update its site.

Great, now instead of a manger that has no clue on estimates, we get to deal with and outside testing firm.
You could say the same thing about applying the ADA to a physical store.
I think the point people are trying to get across with those stories is that quitting your job is by far the most important step.
Was. Sold it [1].

[1]: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/japan...
Someone's husband / father passed away and the family got rid of his "junk". The Navy veteran recognised old government docs poking out of a recycling bin and started flipping through.

Nothing particularly surprising.
Isn't the initial track-laying cost the #1 obstacle to rail transport? IIRC it takes decades at least to break even with normal profits. I can't see any new train technology being successful unless it either fixes that problem or does something really impressive (e.g. supersonic speeds a la Hyperloop).
Your business doesn't have to be in Germany.
No, he didn't. This is how you get from two circle to an owl.

"All the money I made that didn’t go into the rent of my 1 room apartment and food went in to computing hardware and books. No world wide web back then to get information from. And computer gear was expensive back then! A 160K floppy drive? That’s 900 bucks please! Aka 4 months of savings."
I also completely forgot about Caffe(2), which I recall to always have been the most easily deployable library, and possibly DL4J.

http://www.cio.com/article/3193689/artificial-intelligence/w...
Wow, this is just like that dude running around calling himself the inventor of the chromebook.
Yep, now Silicon Valley gets to deal with the same thing that's been happening in a lot of small towns.

http://m.startribune.com/flurry-of-disability-lawsuits-leave...
I'm pretty sure that's extremely well know. I still wouldn't advise ever quiting your job and starting a company. The risk to reward ratio is so far out of whack the math will never work out.
Propaganda never has a negative connotation within the country that produces it so long as it's centered around ideologies supported by the majority of the population, that's the entire point. The tone of your post makes me think that you probably don't even recognize propaganda in the context of your own nation.
> If there's any confusion regarding this it's the user's error.

And the article's point is that we should be designing systems that make it even harder for the users to make that error. It's the difference between

- a poorly-designed service that rewards people for contributing little real value to the world, and

- a well-designed service that rewards people proportional to the value they create

While it's true that the error is the user's, we stand to benefit from ensuring that other users don't make those errors in the first place.
I, and many other bootstrappers entirely disagree. The only risk you run is missing one year of income, typically. You can uh, usually just get another job.
You might want to style that after a little following Butterick's advice. Specifically for legibility and flow. It's amazing what line length, font size, and a few other choices help.

http://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.htm...
I think this is closest to what Feynman (I think) wanted to convey.
This is the beginning of burnout.

Soon, you'll stop being able to think straight even into Monday. Other things in your life will fall to the wayside or disappear out of neglect. Monday will turn into Tuesday, Tuesday into Wednesday. You'll wonder why you even bother to show up.

Eventually, your employer will fire you for someone younger and cheaper, and you'll realize that you have no ability to maintain enough software development effort on your own to demonstrate to potential employers that you can do the work.

And even if you could, it's a sham, because you can't. You'll find that you end up being able to work ten, maybe twenty hours a week if you're having an especially good week. Your work won't be any worse, for quality, you just simply won't be able to force yourself to do it any more than that.

So, it's worth addressing that early.

I'm not sure why the mantra of HN is that "You just have weekend and side projects and stay up till 3 am while still making that 9am meeting and everything is great". Sure, that works for a while, until you hit your limits and your life falls apart. There's no road back from there.

Take it from me, you can truly excel, and nobody cares unless you can work 40, 50, or 60 hours a week. To PG's point from a while ago, "Nobody is willing to pay double for twice the work" - neither is anyone willing to pay half the rate for half the work.
Nice to see some positivity on this topic. Yes, starting a company is hard. No it's not for everyone. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
I am also interested in that - People seemingly are complaining a lot about broken RNN(Cell) functionality/insufficient regression testing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576912
+1

If the tactic sounds familiar it’s because the same lawyer, Paul Hansmeier...

I knew this name sounds familiar :)
It's a reference to a particular kind of splitting of the energy levels of electrons in atoms, due to interactions between the electrons and the nucleus.

Basically, as more and more precise measurements of the energy levels of electrons in atoms were made in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, physicists kept finding that energy levels that were thought to be degenerate (i.e., multiple states with the same energy) were actually split into multiple, closely spaced levels. The original quantum model was the non-relativistic Schrodinger equation as applied to the atom. Then it was found that electron energy levels that were degenerate in that model were actually split into multiple levels because of the effects of electron spin and certain relativistic corrections; this splitting was called "fine structure". Then it was found that there was even further splitting, of energy levels that were degenerate in the fine structure model, due to interactions between the electron and the nucleus; this further splitting was called "hyperfine structure".

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfine_structure
Somewhat related, but there was a very good talk at MLConf 2017 about using sound to catch illegal logging in the Amazon. Similar premise: collect the sound, analyze the patterns, and classify.
written without vague references.

It's completely explicit, really. You linked these in Russian so I assume you can read it - it's in his wikipedia page - bring it up, hit 'find' and type the keyword. It's discussed at length in 'От двух до пяти'. He got in (comparatively slight) trouble for the lack of ideology in the poetry you quoted. Why? Exactly because ideological concerns were prevalent in Soviet literature at the time.
Oddly enough the website for my very small side-business is probably compliant, if compatibility with screen reader software is the criterion.

I've told this story before: When I first learned about HTML in a magazine article, one of the promised benefits was that you could create specialized browsers that could use the tags to interpret a site in various ways. One of the possibilities mentioned in the article was a browser for the blind.

What I think has happened subsequently is that the Web quickly went from rather plain HTML, to being a general purpose programming language for rendering arbitrary content on a specific collection of browsers.

I'd be happy to switch my site back to plain HTML, like what I wrote in an evening when I first launched my business.
You're in for a treat.

http://python-guide-pt-br.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/virtu...
To the first question, a Semiring has two operations, + and × conventionally (along with ...). That seems to be more than length needs. A Monoid is just an operation and its identity, which should be exactly what you need for length.

For the second question, traditional (+,×,...) is a Semiring for integers; so is (&,|,...) (bitwise boolean operations). How can you define both Semiring implementations without getting them confused?

There is another reply to my comment that I haven't digested yet. Maybe it answers the second.
A google search immediately reveals that you are a trump supporter supporting a trump supporter. You call him a technocrat, but he is LITERALLY claiming to have created the email systems we use today, which is unequivocally false. Do you really truly think he created email? Every credible organization and individual that has investigated this has shown his claims are false, and he only won in his suit against gawker because they were already terminally damaged by the Hogan suit.
Stackoverflow does have a bounty system . you can only pay with your fake points though , allowing ppl to pay with real cash is ripe for abuse.Their points economy is very carefully built, just like any successful in game economy, hyperinflation is major problem is a problem all of them have to worry about.
> ...if something goes wrong with the engine, the entire line is shut down, vs pushing a train off the track and other trains continuing.

The train is propelled by being magnetically coupled to a shuttle running underneath it. You could have more than one such shuttle; and the shuttles wouldn't have to run the whole length of the trip (potentially hundreds of kilometers in Germany, for example). There could be a new engine every few kilometers, with a backup. These engine units would be easy to replace; even easier than trying push a train off the track (which is not easy).

> ...if you are going to build these atmospheric pipes why not put the carriages inside them?

The pipe has to be much bigger to do that, and the pipe has to have an airlock to let people in and out of the train car. The airlock especially is apt to be a source of maintenance problems and safety incidents.
As stated by Jacquesm, Minitel slowed down Internet deployment in France. Every bank, mail ordering sellers or alike already had their Minitel "site" (in which they invested money) so jumping in the new train took time.

At the end of the 90's, I had to develop a Minitel Emulator for a French bank who wanted to put PC based kiosks where people could have many informations (static coded texts) but also connect to their accounts. Not a web kiosk (we were specialized in that at the time). A minitel one.
I don't understand how you could have many trains on the same track. If one train needs to stop then do they all stop?

I guess you could have sections every half mile or so but that sounds crazy expensive. Putting a pump out in the middle of nowhere.

And how would train yards work? Assuming you used sections how long would they be? 10 feet?

Cool idea though, first time I've seen it.
and the "science" of things like IQ tests

Why the quotes? Are you just generally down on the social sciences?
Would these be the same graffiti artists that are currently maliciously painting over road warning and direction signs to fool human drivers? Say, whiting out a 'low bridge ahead' sign, so that trucks and double-decker buses crash into it...? Because, nobody is doing that now, and if they tried it, they would be prosecuted, probably for murder or attempted murder.

I don't understand where some people get the belief that automated vehicles will suddenly become targets of murderous or sociopathic pranksters?
Why build anything? Why design anything? Why do you write software or build new businesses? Why did you take apart electronics or computers as a kid? Why did you build something other than what was on the lego box?
Does he have a website and if so is it ADA compatible?

Would be a shame if it wasn't...
You really can - there's an undeniable cost to regulation. I've heard more discussion coming from the office behind mine about sections and articles than inches and feet. They've got Adobe reader open as often as AutoCAD.

The people who wrote all those laws know about the Internet, now. Get ready.
The thing is, to make a website this inaccessible requires effort. You have to go way overboard with dynamic stuff and plugins, because the screen-reading software is very good at consuming and making sense of even very bad HTML.

In fact, sites that are accessible to people with disabilities tend to be pretty nice for everyone to use because most of accessibility comes from not spewing a bunch of slow, unusable crap into all your pages.
All I read was the article, "How I started my own company 30 years ago during the computer boom". I'm eagerly awaiting part 2 which is how this is even remotely relevant today when programming isn't a secret skill anymore.
Sounds like the equivalent pre internet situation would be sueing a grocery store that has a Sunday newspaper circular for them not providing it also in braille.
it's ironic that people are still stuck in the old school stupidity of english/german blood line (genetic) thinking about discrimination.

why is this? no, i'm not a liberal here to promote the confirmation bias you have about white guilt.

i'm the crito , here to point out that it might be more racist to claim black people on average are stupider than others because of their degenerate social culture of anti-intellectualism.

does that sound more, or less, racist than claiming black people are stupider because of genetics?

i'm not really seeking an answer, i'm just here to troll you simpleton's who have been race baited and divided and conquered every way until Tuesday.
When I read some of the things companies get away with in employment agreements nowadays, I wonder whether "the original mission" has really been accomplished.
Linux scripts for offline Windows update
> The only risk you run is missing one year of income, typically. You can uh, usually just get another job.

I left a great job to strike out on my own. After years of effort, two business plans, one failed partnership and moderate success with the second attempt, I would much prefer to have a steady paycheck with good benefits again. It's harder to break back into my previous career path due to the gap this created on my resume. It's not safe to assume that you'll find work as soon as you're ready to switch back to a corporate gig.
> After this acquisition I don't understand why any CEO of a grocery chains will sign up with Instacart or any other grocery delivery service. They are probably working like crazy how they can roll out their own grocery delivery service.

Many of them have tried and failed. Multi-state chains have to solve all the same problems that Instacart does with much less technical expertise. Grocery store chains are not actually aware of what they have in inventory, for example; managers just order stuff when they're almost out.
Hand in hand with new French president.

:-(

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/patricksmith/france-and-the...
>health insurance is expensive

ACA subsidies are based on income, not net worth. If you quit your job and you're in a state that expanded medicare, or if you can pay yourself a bit above the poverty line, you can take care of most of the cost with subsidies.
And on the flip side once you get to that point the critical mass is with you. I know plenty of enterprises that run JRuby because technically it's "just Java". Being able to run Rails apps on the sly is huge.

Nobody is going to use a new Ruby or Python unless it brings something new to the table. Pypy has it with speed. JRuby has Java compability. Without an X factor it's hard to get people excited to try it, let alone contribute.
As a developer if I knew you would need to support a ton of backends i will spend significant time building a abstraction layer which is backends agnostic and a framework to add backends easily. It would then be much easier to add new ones, even if I don't want to support them immediately

Alternatively i would add support for one or two services directly, rewrite many times and come to the above model and add support slowly.

Knowing you would need all of the backends would help immensely in the initial design
> ...Winn-Dixie’s website is heavily integrated with the company’s physical store locations, making it subject to the ADA.

Heavily integrated?? GTFO.

10+ years of shopping at Winn-Dixie...until today, number of instances I've visited their website: precisely zero
That is way more advanced Haskell than I am familiar with, but it does look like what I was wondering about. Thanks!
Looks like it compromises the seals. Cracks too small to see let air in.