skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to guess that Google knows a thing or two about mobile devices and their performance characteristics. Also, feeding something through an already trained NN can be pretty darn performant. I'll wait and see what this ends up looking like, but I am hopeful.
OT: but I feel the same about imgur. You can't use their mobile site to upload pictures anymore. You have to request the desktop site or install their app.
> the same cycle repeats anytime a big corporation consumes a smaller brand

Perhaps, but I can't think of brand images that are more diametrically opposed than Bonobos and Wal-Mart, in a business where image is everything.
Satellite-based entanglement distribution over 1,200 kilometers
tldr: mysql is getting worse for small, in memory workloads with low concurrency.

for the average medium to high traffic mysql install, i find 5.7 to be much faster than 5.6 or mariadb where concurrency and varying workloads prevail.

ymmv, do your own testing to see which db is a good platform for your specific workload. maybe it's mysql 5.6 maybe it's mariadb, maybe it's postgres.

for me mysql 5.7 brings much awaited niceness, saner defaults and even though not all workloads are better on it i think oracle is really trying to iterate. likely they will fix this regression and there would be little reason to use it over 5.6 or older.
The US political system is inherently divisive, its no surprise we struggle with social cohesion required for a mature stable capitalist democracy.

We need new political platforms focused on consensus-based policies. Not distinguishing our groups from "the other"
6700 THB per month in CM? I can't imagine that would be a nice way to live.
Those allegations caused the leader of the group to take refuge in a nation's embassy and stay there for years. They seem incredibly relevant to the organization, regardless of it's "purpose".
But there are several issues they don't bother fixing either. They could at least address those.
I've seen multiple ottos and uber self driving cars driving during the rain so I'd trust it.
The car seems to stop for no apparent reason. I noticed it once next to two pedestrians just off the road, and again after turning right at a stop sign. I wonder if that is why they are showing it in a sped up format -- it certainly makes it harder to notice.
Yes! Slack is dangerously close to the point of "every new feature makes it worse", while basic features that should work (scrolling to earlier in a channel that reloads history feels like a roulette wheel) stay broken.
Your interpreter isn’t safe anymore – The PHP module rootkit
If you're on iOS, you'd just move it from one sandbox to another.
The reason for Standard Oil's success was not specialization so much as expanding into every single business that could possibly affect the price of oil. Their ability to boss around railroads, and their eventual direct investment in railroads themselves, certainly calls Amazon shipping to mind.
Last I heard Reddit was doing less than $10 mn / year in revenues. It's highly under-monetized, but it looks difficult to grow in 5 to 10 years to generating $150 million in annual profits to justify this valuation.

I'm surprised Reddit stays so popular. I stopped using it ~8 years ago. The habit didn't stick with me (beyond a year or two).
Their recent work also illustrates CYOA is again becoming a hot area. With the next major generation of consumer VR likely to have eye tracking (to conserve GPU), videos and games that choose narrative based on inferred user interest seem likely to become a thing. 'Oh, you like that character do you... then we'll tell the story emphasizing them... or their flaws... or maybe kill them off early'.

This seems likely to arise in education as well. Not merely spoken dialog systems, but mentors that watch you and adjust to your interests. Not just show a youtube science video, but use eye tracking to identify what aspects were of interest, and follow up on them. 'Was it the nanoparticles, the microscope, the chicken, the laser, cancer, or the friendly graduate student? Well, here is some related content.' Done well, science education is like studying history - it's such a densely interwoven tapestry, that good advice is to start with what interests you, and by pulling that thread, pull in the world.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/alternate-endin... tells a story of Interlude/Eko and CYOA-ish innovation.
Fear and Loathing of the English Passive [pdf]
I can think of a few problems with this just off the top of my head:

The first x minutes of a post are _heavily_ influential in the success of the post, editing after allows you to hijack successful titles for gain (spam)

For large subs, posts only hit the top of /new for x minutes (for small x), editing after is basically useless if it's not successful in that time

Mods patrol the /new queue as posts come in, allowing editing will complicate moderation which is already a difficult job
I should have said "profited from". I mean, The Intercept was built on them. Greenwald and crew have probably earned millions of dollars from them.

The US government claims that he took millions of documents. We haven't seen more than thousands, I think. And I've read claims that only a small percentage has been released.
They've since decided to keep the custom CSS: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6auyq9/reddit_is_p...

What's worse is that their new mobile site and their profile pages use more whitespace. A sign of things to come probably.
This is quite interesting, I hadn't seen or heard about their intention to restrict like this, prior reading it tonight:

"Please note also that using a self-driving Tesla for car sharing and ride hailing for friends and family is fine, but doing so for revenue purposes will only be permissible on the Tesla Network, details of which will be released next year."
> I don't care at all about the whole org->html pipeline. Who cares. It's not very good

Sure, you probably wouldn't use it to generate a large, professional website, but I've found it (HTML generation) to be surprisingly customisable and definitely very useful in many cases where one might otherwise write HTML by hand or even in markdown.

> and it isn't better than markdown.

What can markdown do that org cannot? Also, org mode exports to markdown (among many other formats) and its strong support in emacs means the text-editing experience is probably going to be much better than it would be in markdown (in any editor, I would bet).
I don't understand how investors still think that "Step 1: get a lot of users, step 3: profit" is a great business model.
I sort of believe that the push to mobile is to utilize technologies like GPS, and for tracking purposes / more information points. To get to know the [s]customer[/s] mark better than they know themself. Also, the ISPs may help this push since mobile data is more costly to the consumer than regular ethernet cable type data. wired > wifi

/takes off tinfoil hat
Well, FB's core mission is to make online profiles actually real. So that makes sense. The entire point of FB is to remove anonymity.
Yeah, that's why I think if AMD can execute, they're going to be in an extremely strong position within the next few years. There definitely was a time when AMD was a mess internally, but it really seems like they've managed to gather their proverbial shit together both in their engineering and management sides.

AMD is for sure a sleeping giant. Let's just hope they don't forget to wake up haha.
You can look at their CA DMV disengagement report here: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen.... They were very far away as of the start of this year.
Probably because they are busy growing their businesses in other ways.

As far as I can tell, the distribution of the pitch videos is unknown (and there are hundreds of pitches) so there is no end goal, it seems to be mainly a way of sharpening one's pitch.
From this you can see, they are selling, and people are buying, a self-driving car.

My theory is still that the demo video is actually from Nvidia's SDK and the actual autopilot they deployed is totally different and not actually in the 'self-driving' category at all at this point.

But they are very aggressively rolling out updates and new features for more autonomy and yes they do intend to push for a complete door-to-door self-drive ASAP, ideally before the end of 2017 (at least as a new alpha version they can demo). Otherwise they would not sell it as such. But they do not plan to take another year to get there, based on Musk's tweets and the fact so many already paid extra for a full self-driving ability.
Pitfalls to avoid in Robot Framework
> In the near term, the Whole Foods purchase worries some analysts most because it immediately gives Amazon another infrastructural advantage: more than 400 small warehouses, spread out across some of the most affluent (and Amazon-using) neighborhoods in the United States. They fret that Amazon’s logistical advantages—its network of warehouses, delivery routes, and cargo jets across North America—have given it an unbeatable advantage over other firms.

Super disagree with that one. WF stores pay a premium for location and are full of, you know, food. Amazon has opened up a in-city distribution center in my city - not surprisingly in a closed down Sears location. Its in a crappy part of town, by railroad tracks and the home depot. They use it for some limited pickups and uber-style delivery drivers. There's no reason they'd need the kind of setup WF has in our area - either ultra urban locations or suburban with tons of parking when they can just pickup closing brink and mortars in undesirable locations.

Grocery is hard for a bunch of reason, one of key ones being location. Why you'd give up that location to use to dispatch items out of it beyond me, and I suspect not what Amazon is intending here.
Glycogen isn't made out of fructose. Fructose is the molecule that disregates appetite and is now considered by many to be at the root of the obesity epidemic.
Habitica already exists which tries to use video game leveling and such to help you develop better habits.

And I've been thinking about something similar that's specifically focused on budgeting. The premise is this:

1. Your bank account is represented as a treasure cave with piles of gold instead of stacks of cash.

2. Saving involves moving gold from the floor to treasure chests. This means that breaking into your savings would mean breaking into a virtual treasure chest, which would have a similar emotional weight to smashing a physical piggy bank.*

3. You have a virtual pet guarding it and recording your spending habits takes the form of talking to your pet at the end of the day.

* An alternate version is if saving means feeding a pet until it grows big enough to send it out into the world. This means that saving is more rewarding since you see a creature grow up, but I'm not sure how to make taking from your savings not be as harsh as killing a friend.

If this is directly integrated into an official bank's online banking then it creates a form of lock-in wherein switching banks also means abandoning your pet.
"All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."

That claim is strong and false. What about Roadster and the old Model S with the old AP1 hardware?
I took a look at Gitenberg and just don't get it. They appear to have downloaded a shit-ton of books from Gutenberg into Github -- go to https://github.com/GITenberg and note that there appear to be 1659 pages(!) in the list of repos -- and then basically sat on them.

Possibly some number of the books have been vastly improved or cleaned up, but there is no way to tell them apart from the ones that are simply dups of the PG files.
Tesla sent out an email today.

Autopilot Updates
We just released the latest version of Autopilot. You can now experience Enhanced Autopilot features including Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, Autosteer, Auto Lane Change, Parallel + Perpendicular Autopark, and Summon. Automatic Emergency Braking, Forward + Side Collision Warning, and more advanced safety features are also active and standard.

All Tesla vehicles have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver. And Tesla vehicles continue to improve with over-the-air software updates, introducing new features and improving existing functionality to make your vehicle safer and more capable over time.
It's very hard to make m&a work at high valuations. Very few companies have done m&a well -- maybe just facebook & google & apple to a lesser extent.

It's very hard to make e-commerce work. E-commerce is checkered with failure.

Not sure why they'd acquire a hybrid high-end retailer along with a bunch of other strange e-commerce firms. They seem to be focused on apparel -- may be some plan for apparel?!
I think it makes a lot of sense to build a DNS system using contacts. Names can be auctioned off and given automatically to the highest bidder. It is also possible to set up a contract where you could trustlessly sell names. "Send $200 to an address and you will get the name". There is an auction like this in progress already, and you can participate now if you like http://ens.domains

You could do even more interesting things trustlessly. For example say, you own a valuable domain. You could borrow money and use the domain as collateral. If you do pay back, or stop making monthly payments the domain is automatically and trustlessly transferred to the lender. Or it can be put up for a trustless public auction with the proceeds going to lender to repay the loan and the rest to you, the ex-owner of the domain who failed to pay back his loan.
I know it is anecdotal, but I have never seen even the slightest hint of anyone having their devices closely looked at entering China. At least not in the 72/144 hour visa-free line that I have been using for the past couple of years. This visa-free entry is aimed at business travelers so perhaps there is less scrutiny there.
I've been bypassing it by manually entering http://imgur.com/upload
Are Search Engines Fair? Auditing Search Engines for Differential Satisfaction
Counting Down to the New Ampere (2016)
Well... why would I need them to "serve" me content. When I am supposed to subscribe to what I want?
"It is not, in fact, obvious to the layperson that the Jupiter-Sun System would have a barycenter that doesn't lie inside the mass of the sun."

a point doesn't lie in a mass, it lies in closed surface. ;p

someone, somewhere, might have an 'Aha!' moment from that.
Right, and what I was alluding to in that point was, why should any user switch from IE if it has feature parity with Firefox or any other browser?

Firefox had developer tools in Firebug, so it was already getting a geek user base, but when Firefox got some legitimate new features like Canvas that other advanced browsers like Safari had, regular users began to dabble. With the occasional news report that honestly reported the security nightmare that IE was, I found that between 2006-2009, Firefox was an easy sell to regular users.

The way I see history, Mozilla floundered between 1998 and 2005 and had almost no marketshare. All the Netscape rewrites that came before were a shitshow and the AOL thing must have been a huge (but necessary for funding) distraction. Probably the only fair interpretation of history is that, of course, the codebase was a mess given the development practices back in the day.

That said, I recall the Gecko rewrite was a long and painful one. Was it unnecessarily so? I believe it had a lot of dumb component architecture concepts and I would love to understand what the drivers were there. Did they believe that components were the best way to organize a huge open source project? Woulda, coulda, shoulda thinking about Mozilla makes me really sad sometimes.
If anyone wants to start testing with a Vagrant based project, there are VirtualBox and Parallels boxes on Atlas: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/koalephant

The current boxes are based on RC5, and we'll be creating updated boxes as soon as release-version images are available.

Lastly: is there any demand for VMWare based boxes? We don't currently build them, but if there is demand I'll try to get that happening too.
I very highly doubt they'll have a full self-driving solution by year's end, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong!
Rigged. Forced into debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing
It seems like Reddit would be a good candidate for experimenting with tiny fees: namely, $12 per year just to use it. That’s one (moderately priced) lunch in total, a dollar a month, for a site that provides a huge amount of content and discussion or just distraction. Far less than one crappy movie in a theater, too. And if everyone paid this, they’d have tons of cash.
The workaround I use is appending "/.compact" to the url, it shows the old mobile format. It still works fine for all pages/comments.

But yes, I find this highly annoying also.
"Death Valley". Wow.
Creative people like creative outlets.

Creative outlets that you can share with others are also rewarding.
This is the most neckbeard, privacy-obsessed comment of the thread. Can’t tell if trolling or actually serious.
RES kind of disproves the feature completeness theory though, most of the features in RES should just be default features.

https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
You'd probably be suprised to learn that for large chunks of reddits demographics 12 USD is a large sum of money.
I don't think our legal system should allow car manufacturers to impose these kinds of restrictions on cars fully owned by their operators. If I have the title on my vehicle, I should be able to use it in any legal capacity. This restriction is an attack on the fundamental ideas of ownership and property.
Do you realize what you're saying here?

This is a huge claim, and if you can verify it, it will be very big news in the (fairly dedicated and savvy) communities that follow this.

Additionally, it's possible to provide airtight evidence to demonstrate this huge claim.

> I'd have to dig out those exact emails again, unfortunately.

Something of this magnitude is probably worth the time.
You like http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git? I would call it nearly unreadable. Certainly those blocks of sans-serif are fatiguing to my eyes.
This looks like the framework I've been waiting for. Remember when you could create web pages in a simple text editor without 10+ tools, command lines, config files and languages? That's before you get into transpiling and everything else I hate about the world today.

Maybe I'm sitting here saying something that sounds like "get off my lawn" to everyone else in the thread, but this thing is amazing.
Liked a joke from by spouse:

Mr. Bezos:
- Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods
Alexa:
- Good. Buying Whole Foods.
All the necessary hardware? Do Teslas have lidar?
It would be interesting to see what happens when new untrained bots start negotiating with trained one. One new language for each pair of bots or one common language that every new bot has to learn?
Yelp also. They put up bizarre barriers, like you can't view the 11th photo in a gallery without installing the app, can't read specific reviews, etc.

It has bred surprising resentment in me! I'm plotting a Yelp killer in the back of my mind now.
Video is from 7 months ago.
Abuse, like everything else, changes at scale.

There's only so much moderation a single person can handle in a day. The NY Times moderation team posted some stats a ways back, it worked out to about 800 items/person/day. Which, in an 8-hour day works out to an item every 35 seconds. Sustained. Throughout the entire day.

Techs can leverage patterns, even if it means a lot of ad hoc code.

Building training systems is even better.

Considering what Reddit's been through in the past couple of years by way of direct information attacks (even not counting any systems-level attacks), involving coloured tablets and giant orange peaches, I don't find the story that dev time has been accounted for particularly unreasonable.
Starts out by pointing out that exporting encryption software is illegal, and then recommends that you export encryption software in unencrypted form.
I've had the same experience as well. Ironically, the only place where I've ever been scrutinized or directly searched is the US.

Short of being some sort of China-focused activist, you'd have to try real hard to get Chinese law enforcement to care about what you're doing.
Noticed as well a while back. It is super annoying but they got me anyway. I downloaded the app but use the browser still about 50% of the time.
Yelp does all sorts of shady stuff.
Really? I don't know if Reddit has been AB testing, but they seem pretty reasonable to me with their app ads. It's always been easy to clear and stays cleared for a while for me.
What factory were they produced at?
Lidar is not "necessary" hardware. Humans drive just fine without lidar.
Telegram, Not as Secure as You Might Think
Great. I wish you all the best. Will go through the app.and will share my experience.
White nationalists don't necessarily believe you are subhuman.

And many white progressives do. Perhaps most. They just won't say it to your face.

I don't think drawing the distinction where you are is actually cordoning off the thing you hope to cordon off.
Some obvious ones:

- Cloud commodity (storage, computing - think of decentralized AWS)

- Identity & reputation systems (think of global credit rating & KYC)

- One to one services cutting the middleman (consultation, tutoring, renting)

- Autonomous agents self negotiating contracts (common example is your car paying for its parking)
There is actually one of those in my town. Well, it does have pumps, but they have been disabled for something like 10+ years. They have stayed in business on the strength of the convenience store part of the business.

They had some kind of environmental problem with their storage tanks, and after a few months of "gas sales resuming soon", apparently they found that it would be too expensive to fix the problem, and its been that way ever since.

It is really puzzling, because not too far away on the other side of the street there is a gas station/convenience store/Subway that DOES sell gas, and has a much more varied stock. I have no idea why anyone would choose the no-gas store instead.

The street is one of the main entry/exit streets for the town. People coming into town will pass the no-gas store first, but will be able to see other store just a little farther down, and it is on the same side of the street they are on, so it seems the more obvious choice.
Reddit's mobile site is designed to be a bad experience to such a degree that it's comical. I use it everyday and still get confused wrt to basic functionality like what to click. It's also suspiciously slow in a way that Reddit proper never is.
Microsoft had checked out of the browser war game in the 2000's, they had won.

All of the most important Mozilla improvements in software design, development practice changes, and testing methodologies in Firefox came in response to and after the arrival and ascendance of Chrome, not IE.

Mozilla was not destroyed by Microsoft, and Microsoft gave Mozilla ample time and ammunition to be disruptive.

I know you want to be positive on Mozilla, I want to too. But the overall program has been kindof a failure in terms of mindshare.
I trusted Volkswagen emissions tests!
Why the author worry so much about China customs? I never had a problem go through China customs with regards to my laptops. And never seen nor read that someone having trouble about it.
Does it change those? That would go well beyond the stated intent, because those are perfectly valid constructions in modern English.
Merck isn't a US company, it is a German company. There is a US company with the same name that originates from a seizure of US assets of the German company with the same name.