skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a film they green light, probably not. But if the film is already shot and they want it, I don't see that getting in the way.
Many reasons, but I can't/won't elaborate.

What I will say is that the author's bias has given him/her some major blinders and that s/he's become incapable of seeing ways in which s/he is wrong. My suggestion is that the author engage in a forecasting technique developed at Royal Dutch Shell known as scenario planning. One of the key features of scenario planning is that whenever you finish arriving at a conclusion, you then ask yourself the question, "the future that I predicted turned out to be wildly incorrect and X happened instead of Y. Which of my assumptions or expectations turned out to be incorrect that could lead to X happening instead of Y?" These days, this is actually a hallmark feature I look for in anyone forecasting or making predictions of any sort. If someone making a prediction has not given sufficient thought to being their own devil's advocate, it's a telltale sign of poor analysis. If you don't spend enough time doing this, you quickly get sucked into believing your own bullshit. Given the tone of this blog, do you think this author has spent enough time time poking holes in their own arguments? Have you seen many or any lines like "I believe X will happen leading to A, but it's possible that Y could happen leading to B instead and this is how it would change my predictions...". If someone's predictions don't present any possibilities for branching, they aren't being critical in their analysis, if you can even call it that.

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

The list of cognitive biases the author falls victim too are numerous. Over several posts I've definitely seen lots of examples of anchoring for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
> Populism in Europe is just getting started.

I've never seen any observer come to that conclusion lately (other than those with transparent agendas). For an overall take considering all the data, not just one or two data points, consider Nate Silver's: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-making-...

> Perhaps the biggest change is that any chance of a Turkey joining the EU is dead. That seemed like a real possibility 5-8 years ago.

Erdogan's authoritarianism is a bit of a confounding factor here.
Or her. Though, it would be an interesting case study of how people really react to a Male Gordon Boss vs a Female one.
I didn't know you were on HN. Tangential to the discussion, thanks for your book The Way of Z. That was one of the first books I read in my efforts to understand and formal methods and specifications.
Red Hat moves into remote offices with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
+1 for python.
Are we headed for a solar waste crisis?
Before subreddits, yes, it was mostly links to articles. But pics was one of the first subreddits, and images made an increasingly large fraction of posts over time. I think RES was as much a response to that as it was a driver of it. If anything, I think the rise of smartphones was the big push. It's simply easier to consume imagery than text on a small screen like that.
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Except in this case, its almost certainly a violation of money laundering laws in the US.

Tbh, part of me wonders if it would be perfectly legal if they sold an actual product at a massive markup (say, "designer chocolate"), provided "bonus tokens", and allowed refunds of the chocolate even if it was purchased with those tokens.

I'm not aware of any laws that prevent the conversion of tokens to chocolate to refunds. Then again, a cryptocurrency is probably less hassle at this point than any of these fronts.

https://bitcasino.io/

And I guess I'm not the only one to conclude that.
That'd be great. How can we stay in the loop to hear about Python and other feature releases?
It's like the old doctor joke, "then don't do that".
I needed to replace the battery in my MacBook Air. My local authorized Apple repair shop said it would take a week. I couldn't do without my laptop for a week so I bought the battery online and replaced it myself in 5 minutes. Apple is obviously not making laptops for professionals if it thinks users can be without their laptops for a week. It might be quicker in countries that have an Apple store and not just a European headquarters.
As long as land is cheaper than construction this is a pipe dream.
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This sounds great. I think, however, that the big challenge for Argentina is convincing investors that this has any chance of being stable for many years to come. In a country where every new government promises and attempts a radical re-foundation of the State, with no long-term policies and goals agreed to and respected by the whole political spectrum, this may be hard to do.
and even then, in many cities i get some hand scrawled thing with an amount written in.
I always thought it was because smart people who will become good programmers are guaranteed to get a nice cushy job. (In the US) In Eastern Europe and especially in Russia that isn't the case. Great cushy jobs are hard to come by.

However, there's virtually unlimited opportunity doing shady things or hacking for profit. I once even talked to a Russian developer about this in great length. He came to the US for one such cushy job. I was pretty shocked about how freely he talked about past "shady" jobs. He told me, yes he _could_ make more money but he also didn't like being so unethical. So he came here to be "legit".
you should check out www.maskau.dk/projects/electronic-nose -- he's doing amazing stuff with $2 sensors (and we're working with him to try to smell fruit growing on trees)
How about this for incestuous: a Flems of a HN reader, written in Mithril: http://yep.it/ckcpfi
I will read this, but from an intuitive perspective Uber should have dramatically better economics vs taxis in places where the minimum buy-in is a $1m medallion purchase.
Damn, you got my hopes up. I think you're confusing these guys with "Immersion", who were the haptic feedback people.
As someone who made one of the comparisons you're commenting on...

> A lot of the comments here are comparing bare metal/virtual servers to a combination of two+ products with literally dozens of built in capabilities, security controls, built in scaling, monitoring, logging, deployment mechanisms, and built in high availability. These are not apples to apples comparisons in the least.

Yes, I acknowledge that buying a pair of dedicated servers will not give me the things you mention however these things are coming at a cost and while they're nice to have, when you're running at a scale where a mere 2 baremetal servers can handle peak load, I'm dubious that you really need these things enough to pay ~2x to have them.

> What now do you do for: high availability, nearly instant scalability, monitoring, logging, alarming, deployment and security controls.

HA: OVH has load balancers too. Logging: Log to disk, rotate logs, compress them and send them to somewhere like S3 for further analysis with a cron job if desired. Monitoring + Alerting: You have competitors like NewRelic and DataDog, they're pretty trivial to set up. Alternatives can be self hosted when things get too expensive. Deployment: Depends on the app. Auto-updates on the servers and a private package repository could be enough. Security Controls: Depends entirely on the application.

Though not everyone needs all these things and AWS adds $200/month in additional expense relative to baremetal, which is a lot of savings to be had.

> Are you going to run all of your software on these 2-3 hosts? What happens when they go down? How quickly are you recovering?

Are you going to run all your software on AWS? What happens when AWS goes down? How quickly is AWS recovering?

You have to deal with these problems either way, AWS is no silver bullet and you're going to need to have disaster recovery plans either way. Most dedicated hosting providers I'm aware of will give you a basic SLA to start with and a better one can be purchased later. That covers hardware issues. Software issues are up to you but from the sound of things, the author's software is little more than a proxy.

> How about patching the OS, the software you run on it, your tools, your languages/packages?

Turn on unattended upgrades, pay a sysadmin a couple hundred bucks once every couple years to handle major upgrades if it's too scary to do yourself.

I'm under no illusions that paying AWS is always the wrong idea but the benefits of AWS come at high cost and not everyone is willing to pay it. I'm certainly not. I pay $60/mo for a colo (let's say $100/mo factoring in hardware) and to get the same capabilities on AWS, I'd be paying $23k for bandwidth, $1.4k for disk and $152 for CPU/RAM (an m3.2xlarge on a 3-year reserved plan), for a total of ~$24500/mo, or 245x what I'm paying now and more than enough to pay 2 full time engineers if I so wished.
How did you convince VC-s, that there's need for a new programming language?

(I'm totally not saying there's no need, but since it's highly technical and I probably would fail at it I'm really curious)
All the question marks make me read this entire comment in uptalk (rising terminals). I can't decide if that's a good thing? I'm Ron Burgundy?
Reading the description, it might be for liquids instead. Anyway it won't give as much information about the molecular components as a mass spectrometer, but you can still get a good idea if there are contaminants.
> In practise, therefore, trying to optimise all parts of a program means doing a so-so job on all parts of a programme.

This reads as if the author had suddenly remembered he's British halfway through the sentence. Quite jarring.

(Not to mention that 'practise' is a verb.)
Trust me, reducing a typeface family to a parametric formula with continuous and valid/beautiful transitions between the various fonts, let alone weights, requires superhuman intelligence and effort.

I'm claiming that the scope of parameterized fonts is limited, in an analogous way to linguistics not trying to explain poetry.
Seiko and Orient for mechanical, Citizen for quartz.

Many interesting models are sold only in Japan, but you can get them through SeiyaJapan or Higuchi-Inc.
Once you take calculus 3, I'd recommend diving right into the Deep Learning book: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

It's definitely the best reference on the subject. With only calculus 3 under your belt the math won't be trivial, but it should overall be fairly approachable and certainly much more so than something like "The Elements of Statistical Learning".
You can use a ssl tunnel to avoid DPI detection by your censored network or ISP. It will obfuscate your openvpn tunnel with another ssl layer, although you'll take a performance hit.

Packages like STunnel/stunnel might help(available for both windows/linux).
hi! Each node "contains inside" graphs of nodes. You can literally select nodes and collapse them into one, new "function". This way you just raise the abstraction level, just like in textual-sources, however in the graphical environment it is just more pleasant to select nodes than re-factoring functions in text :)
> Perhaps, the focus on right now is to find cool ways to end up with a lower tax bill?

Sure he most likely doing it to lower tax. Capital gain is 15% no?

Either way at least he's doing it in a helpful way. Even if I don't agree with Amazon monopolistic tendencies.
Do they really sell?
Uber allowing my & 1000s of others bank accounts to be hacked & money stolen then their PR blaming their users made me join the mob years ago!

Thankfully karma finally intervened!
Not really. IPFS from what I understand is a P2P application, with filesystem like functionality.

NDN on the other hand is a network protocol that is capable to run without TCP/IP (it's actually designed to be able to replace it). They actually built a testbed: https://named-data.net/ndn-testbed/

Similarly to TCP/IP you can build application that utilize the protocol. In fact I suspect implementing IPFS in NDN would be much easier than in TCP/IP.

In fact looks like someone did just that: https://named-data.net/publications/techreports/ndn-tr-27-nd...

and source code: https://github.com/named-data/NDNFS
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On an average cost basis that includes fixed costs, yes, Uber was losing money on each ride. But on a variable cost basis, Uber was making money. Each additional ride served was bringing them closer, not further, from profitability.

Gross margins were positive even if overall margins were negative.
> Stop loss orders aren't “like” market orders, they are market orders with a triggering event.

A few things about this sentence are wrong, don't worry, markets can be tough to figure out:)

1) By your very sentence you agree they are the same but different?????

2) I never said stop loss orders behaved as market orders, I said they were alike in that most people shouldn't be using them.

4) There isn't 1 type of stop loss.

There is stop loss limit, in which the user specifies a price that the stop loss is triggered and then a limit price that the order is active to. This is sometimes called a stop limit order.

Or stop loss market in which only one price is given, this is the price at which the order translates into a market order. This is sometimes called a stop market order.

Does this clear things up?
Could this be applied to UV/texture mapping? I can see reversing the folding would be really helpful to texture map more easily.
Direct link to live demo: http://dohan.io
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>The secret ingredient is a culture of cheating. Its absolutely fine to cheat on any level of exam (unless you get caught, obviously). This makes students think about the weak points of any system, gives them a chance to train their skills etc. The side effect of this culture is much higher level of corruption and financial crimes

If your theory was true, Chinese devs and hackers would have the same reputation for prowess as their Russian counterparts.

I like Sergey Aleynikov's explanation:

Russians had a reputation for being the best programmers on Wall Street, and Serge thought he knew why: they had been forced to learn programming without the luxury of endless computer time. “In Russia, time on the computer was measured in minutes,” he says. “When you write a program, you are given a tiny time slot to make it work. Consequently we learned to write the code in a way that minimized the amount of debugging. And so you had to think about it a lot before you committed it to paper. . . . The ready availability of computer time creates this mode of working where you just have an idea and type it and maybe erase it 10 times. Good Russian programmers, they tend to have had that one experience at some time in the past: the experience of limited access to computer time.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...
This is true in many cases, but there's subtleties.

Rust was designed to be optimized; this means unoptimized Rust code can easily be 2x-100x slower than optimized code. Given that speed is one of Rust's goals, yeah, you could implement a Rust compiler with no optimization, and that's fine. But it won't be usable to a significant chunk of users who rely on the speed.

Another way this can affect language design: Rust supports enums, which are a sum type. The memory layout of the enum is undefined at the language level. This is specifically so that compilers can do optimizations to make layout more compact than a naive implementation. In some sense, this is leaking optimization concerns out into language design.
Unfortunately it doesn't. Even though Scala and Java output the same kind of bytecode, these languages have different language specifications. We currently only support what's in the JLS.
Don't forget zuckerberg wants to run for president.

Totally not spine chilling!
Google Pagespeed for Nginx and Apache is another way to go. The benefit of this approach is that you don't have to bulk out your code.

As for metadata, today I decided to add it back in.

https://www.gs1.org/sites/default/files/docs/gdsn/Product_Im...

For ecommerce it will eventally help to have product data, e.g. brand, product name etc embedded in the image.

My other tip if you go the Imagemagick/PAGESPEED route then you can use 4:2:2 colour space and ditch half the bits used for chroma.
Reimagining the browser as a p2p network OS
Im happy to hear that. We do our best to realease it soon and I'd love to collaborate further with you then!
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Just as a data point I wanted to see what the benefit of JVM HotSpot is over JVM just interpreting. Code that normally runs in 22 minutes with HotSpot is still running 99minutes later in interpreter only mode!

I am starting to think that the complaints about optimizing compilers are due to C family undefined behavior leading to C programmers having a love hate relationship with their compiler writers. In contrast Java programmers trust their JIT compilers to not screw up. But then UB is something that can cause issues even if there was no optimizing compiler at all.

So to conclude I am extremely grateful that there are optimizing compiler writers out there.
Hmmm... from the outside it looked like Lyft forced Uber into the "everybody can drive" business model. Before Lyft, Uber was using licensed Limousine operators. Lyft started this and Uber followed, if I remember correctly.

You are probably right that Uber had all the attention and "fought" more.
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What cameras would you prefer shooting on that isn't listed? I'm not seeing anything that I'd prefer to shoot on (other than film).

Cameras like the Sony A7s or the Panasonic GH5 are great for the low budget film, but if Netflix green lights your project, you can afford much better cameras. Unless the project calls for really small and unobtrusive cameras, in which case Netflix would most likely approve the use of whatever camera best fits the project.
I wonder if that's because ad companies are inherently dystopic, or because ad companies are paying huge amounts of money to be constantly in everyone's head, and thus come easily to mind when thinking of possible futures (or indeed, anything else).

Probably some of both.
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Yes, in the fourteen days since you created your account, you might not have noticed that “Show HN” is quite common. I don’t know what the guidelines are, but perhaps they are outlined in the FAQ.
Of course not but they deserve hella credit for this. Also i think with all the major investigation and changes they are doing more than makes up for lot of bad things they did. If anything justice is served and people should move on.
Do you mean like Smellmaster 9000 from Richie Rich (1994) movie?

https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1378286/size/tl-horiz...

This movie had ever lasting impression on me and I have always wondered if we could have such device =)
i am against Internet lynching, but there have been enough scandals and just plain toxicity coming out of Uber for several years now.

I know it was not quite your point, but idolizing assholes like Kalanick - "they may be a bit flawed, but they are brilliant businessmen/women", quite prevalent in the US, ends up in a lot of companies run by sociopathic assholes.

Leave the fawning to sycopanthic media, please.
Though these are generally discussed in terms of their tax or financial domain, the step doctrine and substance over form doctrines would preclude those actions from being legal just because there is an intermediate step inserted.

I don't know of their specific applicability (or not) w.r.t. money laundering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_transaction_doctrine
I remember that only a few years ago, in a computational statistics class I took the lecturer mentioned how SVMs (and Random Forests) have largely replaced neural networks. How things can change so quickly...

I always liked SVMs for the elegance of the kernel trick, but I guess choosing the right kernel functions and parameters for them wasn't that much easier than training a neural net either.
It seems you boys can settle your dispute the old fashioned way: by providing support for your claims.

I remember going in to speak with your lawyers, convincing them, you emailing me the same day telling me as much and still wanting to do a deal.
At least one of you should have these emails.

If you then thought I was going to give you, a competitor, my core IP for 1 million dollars a year, while you used it with your series A money to capture the market, well then you must be out of your damn mind.
You would have been paid $1m/year to provide a service. You wouldn't have given up ownership of your company, or taken a risk on stock valuations. $1m cash. Each year. Actual cash. For a startup of 1. If you don't think that's good money right out of the gate, you have serious judgment issues (and this is also reflected in your top-floating comment re security).

Nobody has heard of Token, you have zero technology and zero bank integrations.
This was the first time I've heard of Teller...If Token claims they have bank customers that they're providing integration for, it's an easy matter for them to prove it; they only need to publicize one bank client to refute your claims. On the other hand, you come across as very petulant when you say nobody has heard of Token and that they have zero technology or bank integrations since that's an easily disprovable claim.

FinTech and financial services place a lot of value in judgment, since their industry is defined by risk. Right now, you're not showing much good judgment, and if you keep up like this, you have no chance in this space because you're demonstrating in many ways that you're a bad risk for them to take.
how do you do this?
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>But evolution is a random process based on the short-term advantages that emerge in each generation.

This idea is easily discredited, even "disadvantageous-but-viable" mutations are prized possessions among my offspring. Environments change, and whether or not my lineage goes unbroken is a result of its ability to survive those changes.

Those environmental changes are unpredictable. phenotypes that benefit me now do not necessarily benefit me in the future. If it is my goal to extend my lineage as long as possible, then my optimal strategy must give extra value to diversity.

Since every organism possesses a lineage that goes back to the origin of life, it's fair to say that cooperation for the goal of increasing diversity is a pretty heavily selected for trait.
Prevent? I wish I had the foresight to have had buy orders in at $0.11 on the rise!
We use the name for a long time now and we love it, however I agree it could be confusing. We failed, however, to find a better one.

I've got a crazy idea here! I know that HN has some magical powers, so if you have any idea of a better name for a dual-representation, functional, visual language, we'd be more than happy to talk about it and change it before the release (after the release it would be too late)! :)
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Fair enough. xD The law isn't something I'm well versed in. It just seemed odd that loophole existed in Japan.