skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better justification along the same lines would be: "Imagine shop windows that react according to the weather to always make themselves as easy to see through as possible, regardless of whether it's overcast or a sunny day."

Get your window in the desired dimensions, and let some automated protocol make sure it's as easy to see through as possible for all your potential customers.

Write your content, and let the setting in the OS or application automatically make sure it's as legible as possible regardless the size of screen, pixel density, and expected viewing distance.
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Sorry, I am not a writer by trade. I was trying to give every bit of information and I know it was longwinded but I am not good at cutting things out.
AOL does a lot of advertising. Yahoo has a ton of eyeballs. Verizon has data. That already is a good match for all three. Yahoo is still close to a top 5 site. Definitely top 10. Yahoo also owns some advertising infrastructure like Brightroll and Flurry. I have experience in Brightroll myself. It's not that rare to run across people spending close to $100K a week on Brightroll.

It wasn't a bad move at all. They were also able to take off a few hundred million from the price because of the hack. Made the deal even better.

Verizon will definitively be the 3rd biggest advertising platform after Google and Facebook. Not a bad place to be when you already make billions in profit from your Verizon Wireless oligopoly.

About Tumblr. Yahoo has already written off at least $700M of its original purchase price. So Tumblr isn't a big factor when buying Yahoo.

Note: In no way do I like what Verizon will be doing. Using their vast amounts of data on users via their internet/phones services and now all the web properties they own for advertising and targeting is awful for privacy and plain old decency. I just mean strictly business-wise, this is likely to be a great deal for Verizon.
Probably not, all the stats I've seen shown that it's something like 20-25% of total consumption, so certainly a lot, but not a majority.

There are reports of that upwards of 80% of Tumblr users have been "exposed to porn" occasionally or even accidentally, but that doesn't mean that the majority of Tumblr is porn.
It has instant messaging as well, so I think that is the difference.
Oh, so you're privy to the classified intel the IC has on the matter? Just because the evidence isn't in the public domain doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The other thing is if you put all your bill money in a separate account automatically you don't even really feel like you're paying bills psychologically, you just get used to the money in your spending account being the only money you have. This is especially good with larger less frequent bills, just amortized them per paycheck. For example, I usually use around three tanks of oil a year. The oil bill comes frequently in the winter but only once in the summer (my water is heated with oil). the oil is amortized to ~$60 a paycheck. That $60 goes directly from my paycheck into the "bills account" every pay and I never worry about the oil bill, when it comes I pay it from the already allocated bills account.

It's also impossible to go over budget without noticing, you'd have to take the difference out of the savings account. If your budget is wrong you'll notice immediately.

That's just my approach though, and it works for me. Other people may have different methods that work for them.
Everyone is saying no. I'm going to speculate in opposite in case someone qualified reads the comment to tell us if it makes any sense. :)

My idea is to, either as terms of the sale or in a contract with a 3rd party, guarantee the company will continue doing a specific thing. If it's a contract, the company should be able to do with without much cost and get benefit in return for consideration. After the sale, they're still obligated to do what they said they would do. At the least, they could be sued. Maybe put the amount in the contract to be whatever profit they made for every year they were in violation so controlling company knows ahead of time non-compliance might cost them a lot of money.

So, this is a person that just took a college class in business law a long time ago brainstorming a solution. Needs peer review by more qualified people but that's how I'd at least attempt to do it. Probably in charter, contracts, and terms of sale altogether if I can get away with it.
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Fantastic idea. I'd love a web-based version I could use on the laptop.
you can, and you should.

but it seems like the us has it made right now, a substantial amount of talent from overseas and abysmal investment in the native populace.

if you want to keep underinvesting in education, and keep a strong presence in new technologies/science/commerce...why would you turn off the magic spigot?

even if you started trying to right the ship of education, there's no way you could compensate for the talent thats coming in across the border, particularly in the short term.
Not really, it doesn't count references in the same way. The borrow checker maintains a set of rules that are more expansive than reference counting. For instance the rule that you may only have one &mut at a time, and no other references as long as &mut is alive. It also has something like linear types with ownership rules, where owned values can be used only once.
Facebook competitor may be unlikely, but newspapers striking local deals with Facebook vs. newspapers which don't, is likely.

It's a huge, huge fallacy to claim "this thing would happen regardless, so who cares how difficult we make it for it to happen". Your mind is wrong.

I'm proud of India for rejecting Zuckerberg's ploy, and I wish Peru was wise enough to do the same.
California really is an agricultural powerhouse, and not only in the central valley. Not to be argumentative, but many people's grasp of agricultural economics is a bit suspect. One could equally ask people in the midwest how they expect to import fertilizer and export crops without access to major ports.
Hmm. Not a bad analogy / question.

I think -

So first up, the "types" metrics don't analogize well. AFAIK, there are legit types of traffic - high bandwidth, low bandwith; burst, continuous; high latency OK, low latency required. Seems pretty reasonable to charge based on this (although, slippery slope and all that.)

These types then correlate to food items; the steak, the veggies, the pasta.

The first issue you run into is that "brand" is not "type". Classic: Hulu should not be a different type of traffic than Netflix; Bing vs Google, etc (if there are any other pairs like those...). The follow-up problem here is then actually enacting categorization; Netflix is subscription only, Hulu has ads, and I wouldn't be surprised if the tech resulted in importantly different kinds of traffic (according to above metrics).

The second issue is that it's not analogous, because I don't pay the restaurant to attend, and the chefs don't pay the restaurant to cook. Now, you could twiddle these nobs - "internet" is free, but all offerings aren't (and then Yahoo! News becomes the free bread...); or the ISP pays the sites it makes accessible (TV cable style, with all it's flaws).

So I think the real issue with the comparison is that it either doesn't compare (restaurants), or it does compare and the other thing, well, kinda sucks (TV cable), and NN becomes the fight to keep this great thing we've got from becoming this mediocre thing we tried to abandon.
I've watched things on there, I do watch Netflix and Hulu more though.
You mean there's something fancier than `menuconfig`??
Automatic bignum promotion is exactly the intuitive behavior one wants for numeric types.
To someone who likes Lisps, Elixir has Lisp style hygenic macros, and a very Lispy AST.
> The exponential algorithms are commonly used because (a) they rarely hit their exponential behavior in practice, (b) they offer huge numbers of features that automata based algorithms cannot easily supply (capturing subexpressions and backreferences are the most obvious - yes, you can do capturing in automata but it's pretty hard) and (c) they are simpler than building something like Hyperscan.

I'm not sure how that is saying anything substantatively different from what I said... Point (a) is what I was alluding to with the quicksort analogy: you rarely hit the O(n^2) behavior with quicksort. Point (b) is what I was talking about with backtracking. Point (c) is what my simplicity remark was describing.

I didn't mean to imply that you can't go as fast as a good backtracking JIT, rather that it's an awful lot of work to.

That said, I do think that building the NFA or converting to DFA takes up-front time, right? Some regex benchmarks create regexes dynamically at runtime over and over and this can add up.
Yep. We would have had many fewer startups that became unicorns without immigrants. And without America being a place that is open and hospitable to entrepreneurs we will lose our edge.
This is how the Fox News of the internet is made.
We built one in my company's lobby a few months back!
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5332/30663005756_793b436f73_k....
>it benefits Uber massively, and only incidentally benefits customers, and basically rips off the driver's time and investment.

This is a very paternalistic attitude toward the drivers, who are choosing to drive for Uber because they perceive it as being the best option available to them.

It's also been an incredible boon to customers.

>What you argue for is tantamount to anarchy, or at best rule by (economic) warlord.

This is scaremongering. People being free to engage in voluntary economic interactions in no way resembles the violent imposition of warlordism. It's the regulatory enforcement agents running sting operations and fining people and impounding their cars that are engaging in strong-arming tactics that break the peace.

Remember what the foundation of law is:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci...

It has no place restricting voluntary economic interactions.
Some things don't need to be debated every day.
Counterexample: Android is the top operating system surpassing Microsoft Windows. Microsoft doesn't even have a mobile phone running their operating system but they are thriving.
Unintentionally well kept secret. I have no idea. There's a similar one with a weaker feature set (imo) which has 10k+ users-- there's obviously no shortage of demand. I haven't got a clue as to why it's so unsuccessful.
Where I'm front, that's solved by allowing renters to sublet. So I know ton of people who affort rent by having one room be an airbnb, or doing airbnb once a weekend.
Seems unlikely, at least in Australia it's common for lawyers to be $400+/h; even for a relatively simple case I was looking to have a lawyer review an employment contract.
Yes, that is your intention, but when funding gets pulled, investors rarely like spending more money on letting things "unwind", they have not company or brand to protect, so consumers' concerns take a back seat to investors.

The other problem with this is that there is now a middle man in my security chain. If you get hacked, potentially all of my accounts can be hacked. If you have a rogue employee, same thing. If you have a flaw in your security, I too am at risk from a centralized source.
Here is the hyperlink to the PDF report:

http://www.energimyndigheten.se/globalassets/forskning--inno...

I skimmed through it and didn't find where they concluded that battery production equaled 8 years of gas emmissions.
Indeed; look how well that's worked for Manhattan. /s

Realistically, density doesn't seem to ever drive down housing prices in the long term. All it does is increase the value of land tremendously, and thus push local home ownership out of reach of everyone but the ultra-wealthy.
That's really neat, from an urbanist's point of view. Looking at that facility in Google Maps, I see that it hasn't got anywhere near 30000 parking spaces. All those people must have lived there and walked in, which is something modern business has largely lost.
And you think a dishonest taxi cab driver is going to issue you with such a receipt?

Most people don't want them or throw them away, I'm sure they'd be happy to offer to trash it for you. :)
When I say disappointed, I mean that they played up it's importance to a point where any result less than winning is a little embarrassing.
Oh, oh, this is good question!

And actually, I think an unusual answer is:

Grocery stores kind of suck, actually. I know I'm not able to get the best need/product fit, because of all the presentation that goes into it (display case arrangement, psychology of product locations...).

You can pay the grocery store to make me think your product is better, instead of having a better product. You also have to get your product into the grocery store in the first place, which is a serious hurdle.

On the other hand, 90% of everything is crap, and you actually need special skills to navigate the free-for-all street markets... which still have a lot of the same problems.

Under such a view, it's not that NN is great, it's that everything else (that's known) is worse.

The real answer is they're really not analogous enough to compare this way, even if comparing them yields interesting thoughts.
The kmandla blog is exactly what I thought of when I saw this post.

I can heartily second the recommendation, and I'd love to know what the author is up to nowadays.
We've been through this before and it really didn't pan out. [1] The idea of connecting rural communities with broadband sounds logical and a no-brainer, but it's a lot harder than it sounds because it's very local, and cost overruns and price inflation really hampered it.[2] To truly bring broadband to rural and poor areas, in my humble opinion, we need to free up local municipalities and states to start their own broadband companies where none currently exist - and we need an absolute hard minimum on speed to at least 5 MBPS.

1. www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/01/obama.broadband.connection/index.html
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickschulz/2011/07/05/how-effec...
Pencil is pretty good. In general I feel like people trust something they pay for most of the time(unfortunately)
Over Go: D has meta programming, exceptions, and many more useful features

Over Rust: No need to learn new concepts like borrowing
> 3) Walmart's products are mostly middle-to-down-market, even online, and that doesn't seem to have changed all that much even as they've grown their e-tail efforts. Try buying a nice watch or high-end stereo equipment there. No such ceiling applies to Amazon, probably because Amazon welcomes re-sellers (which can span all market niches), while Walmart doesn't.

Yes but I'm quite sure when I order something from walmart I'm getting the genuine article, not a knockoff dumped into the SKU bin by some shitty counterfitter
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/shite (It's British slang)
That's the most ridiculous part;

in theory you could have discovery to actually get the drivers details and then take the driver to small claims.

in practice even for $4000 you're stretching it being worth it in many jurisdictions.
Haha - oh goodness. I thought you meant indirect support was in addition to core. My bad. Not so outrageous.
Step 1: Hack into a supercomputing center with at least 1Gbps line.

Step 2: Massively-parallel downloading of all the sites using clustered nodes, compression of it, and resulting data stored into high-performance, clustered filesystem.

Step 3: Move it off of there when traffic is low or overnight if system doesn't go offline overnight.
That's really messed up.
The chances of this actually changing anything are slim to none.
This is pretty incredible work wrapped in an unassuming name. It basically presents an entirely new way to interact with any programming language. You could make an emacs mode that worked this way, for example.

I could see this being one of the fundamental ways of overcoming Lisp bias. Lisp still isn't mainstream. Clojure was a nice attempt, but it fell short. You can find companies that use Clojure, but it's not the lingua franca of any domain (except perhaps text editors).

If you were to expose a way to write Lisp without dealing with any parens at all, it might have a chance of sparking the interest of younger programers long enough to seduce them to Lisp's other benefits: when you write in Lisp, you're writing in the abstract syntax tree normally generated by other languages. This allows you to write macros, which transform the tree in arbitrary ways. It's trivial to write a program to analyze your entire codebase in arbitrary ways (what are the most popular function calls? what's my dependency graph look like? which functions are unreferenced?) which is normally a herculean effort in other languages.

And it all comes down to syntax. `(if a (b) (or c d))` is so utterly foreign to most programmers compared to `if (a) { return b(); } else { return c || d; }` that it's nearly impossible to overcome the inertia long enough to persuade them that the tradeoff in readability is worth the power you get.

I think this work could be helpful here. When you throw a newcomer in front of a Lisp editor and say "Write a program," what goes through their minds? "How do I write an if statement?" "How do I call a function?" "How do I set a variable?" "How do I loop while a condition is true?" All of these are abstract concepts, not specific to any language, let alone Lisp. That'd let them avoid dealing with parens altogether. Then you can introduce the idea of a macro, which just combines new ways of using existing concepts.

Regarding color: I've often wished for colored quasiquotation. `(foo `(bar `(,baz))) would be more useful if your editor displayed the background color differently for each level of quasiquation. It would also de-mystify statements like (fn (x) `(define-macro foo (y) `(define ,y ,',x))) which can otherwise be incredibly difficult to reason about. (Thankfully nested quasiquotation is rare, but suffice to say I wish editors used color more effectively rather than stylistically.)

Sadly, emacs is one of the only editors flexible enough to implement the concepts presented in this paper, and the intersection between emacs users and novice programmers is about as large as the intersection between hackers and MBAs. But you can flip it around: emacs is flexible enough. That means you can ship a custom preconfigured emacs designed specifically for Lisp hacking, set up to mimic Atom/Coda/Sublime/whatever.
This is an analogy utterly devoid of any correlative lesson.

Consensus adherence to norms of conduct codified are the definition of society and civilization.

Objectivist fantasies to the contrary are only that; they invariably lose their charm the instant someone has the ground of largely unrecognized inherited protections and rights jerked out from under them.

That law is selective, imperfect, and constantly trailing the realities of the day are problems worth solving.

It is astonishing to me sometimes, listening to the cant of "disruption", how eerily similar the total dependence on parasitic herd immunity antivaxxers enjoy is, to the total dependence of the rule of law and benefits of regulation libertarians and other would-be disruptors enjoy.

As the article says: Uber is a cautionary tale in almost every domain, from their relation to their workforce, their "contractors," the cities they work in...

Everyone sure loves a subsidized ride, right up until the party's over. I enjoyed subsidized lots-of-things the last couple bubbles too. The party ended then as well.
don't they still use the point system? that always seemed so refreshing compared the the huge mass of subjective rules that is the US immigration system.

french gets you lots of points, but as i recall even modest savings and a college degree got you most of the way there.
Geophysicists are ramping up their efforts to monitor major undersea faults
Could you explain yourself better?
You make assumptions with no evidence.
How well have climate models done in the upper atmosphere?
Worth noting we could have also had other technologies such as the answering machine, and television.[1] Tim Wu wrote an awesome book called "The Master Switch" about entrenched companies using their power to block emerging technologies. Radio fought to keep television out of the market, and the telegraph operators fought tooth and nail to keep the phone from gaining acceptance.

1. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5691604/how-ma-bell-shelved-the-futur...
I don't use Uber myself, but doesn't the driver not find out what tip you gave them until after they've rated you?
The complaints that I read are often that they aren't actually jobs that couldn't be fulfilled here, with local talent. There have been many claims of training your replacement. If you're training them, it seems most probable that you're able to do the job.

There is only a small subset that seems to just be bigoted. And, yes, they do exist. I am pretty sure they are low in number. Most of the complaints are about things like body shops but there have even been complaints involving Disney.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if you can train your replacement, we probably didn't need a replacement. It's not like they move them up the ladder. They lay them off and pay the people with visas very little money, comparatively.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think, if true, they have a legitimate complaint. Most of them seem to agree that it should be bringing in experts and not lower paid people that need to be trained by the people they are replacing.

So, what do you think? Would you agree that there are legitimate concerns? Many of these complaints do not, to me, appear xenophobic or racist.
I remember using Pidgin and other products to combine all of the various chat and instant messaging platforms into one, but I recall a significant barrier was API access, and these platforms not wanting that to happen. I would really, really love to integrate Facebook messenger into a single app with my other messaging apps, but I could not see Facebook ever agreeing to this now.
Etsy is based on selling handmade/artisan stuff. They can get away selling mass market stuff because of the reputation they earned with actual artisans at the beginning.

Your strategy would be to get full steam becoming a front for Alibaba, fooling your users for long enough so that eventually Alibaba buys you.

Problem is why would Alibaba do that ? By that stage you have a toxic brand: at any time, if a enough ripped off users make some noise, you are done forever.

The best move for Alibaba, assuming they are interesting in building a Chinese artisan store, is to simply destroy Etsy with "Cut out the middle man, buy Etsy chinese mass market stuff cheap directly at the source on Alibaba. Or if you are interested in the genuine chinese art, check out our new dedicated store. Click on the following link to see all the process and check we put in place to make sure it is genuine handmade, not found in a super market good."
You can just 408-response queries after they execute for a given number of CPU cycles. And then rate-limit per-account using evercookies + browser fingerprinting + IP hashing. You can often disallow anonymous queries altogether, while you're at it; if your data is valuable, people are usually willing to register at least a pseudonymous account to get at it.
Apple is somewhat allied with AliPay. You can pay your AppStore purchase bill with AliPay in China.
Maybe 1:100 of those (being incredibly generous) are actually unique posts and not someone else reposting something from someone else, so maybe it's not such a hard task...
I can't imagine Uber doesn't start raising prices and drop out of markets they aren't profitable in.

No way they can bring in more investments (although maybe they could get a loan). Given the changes and their runway, I honestly see Lyft managing to outpace Uber in the next 12 months.
I think it's based on Lazarus.