skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, it's true what you're saying. I think, however, that timing is key. So in this case, you have a better service but are too late to the scene and it will be hard to get your own audience. I don't think you can be just a little bit better. You need to stand out and differentiate from the crowd. You need to market what feature you have that no other competitor has. Otherwise, with just a marginally better product you might just get by but won't find massive success. You will have to hustle and teach the competitor's loyal customer what makes you better in order to draw them away. Unless, there is a serious flaw in competitor products that you have fixed. But basically, yes you can make a copy and compete for a very small slice of the pie.
Our startup, Wellacopia, is a great example of this. There are other healthtech apps out there like Medici that streamline doctor-patient communication or like ZocDoc where you can look up a doctor easily. Wellacopia however, not only combines those two features but adds even more value by functioning as a personalized matching platform. No one else does this and we're banking on that. Wow, your question really made me reflect on our business. Sorry for the long comment. This also made me think of how we're gonna pitch to investors. Thank you for that.
I think this idea (not just you, it's been expressed by many on this thread) that it must be Silicon Valley or Google specifically that absorbs the 27 million unemployed or underemployed workers shows a remarkable lack of imagination.

What's likely to happen isn't that Google hires 27 million people. It's that Google hires 10,000 people, who learn the details of the new methods of production required in the information age. Some of those will quit (even though Google doesn't want them to) and found new businesses. Some of them will even leave Silicon Valley and go back to their hometowns or other cheaper areas, and bring the knowledge & culture back with them. They'll then hire other people, who will learn the skills & culture needed to thrive in the information age, and so on, until it's disseminated widely throughout society.

Instead of everyone moving to California, California will move to everyone.

My bewilderment is mostly at this avoidance of economic rationality. To me, the market is sending a very clear signal that certain ways of doing things - those that involve computers, and replacing human labor with them - are more efficient than the old ways of doing things, and that's why people who adopt them make lots of money. The logical thing to do is to adopt them too. Lots of people are not doing that, and assume that there must be something mystical or corrupt about how Silicon Valley makes its money.
NetRunner: a web browser catering to powerusers
I tried switching to duckduckgo. It fell short comared to google on everything I gave it. I plan on trying again when I have less on my plate. We all know when that will be.
> In Firefox, it is checked if the site actually requires authentication and if not, Firefox will warn the user with a prompt "You are about to log in to the site “www.example.com” with the username “username”, but the website does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you.".

Huh, that's just security theater. The phisher could set up a website that does require authentication, thereby avoiding the warning.

The sensible thing to do would be to display the warning if the username contains unescaped dots.
(I.e., http://cnn.com:article123456@fakenews.example.com/ would provoke warnings, but http://cnn%2Ecom:article123456@fakenews.example.com/ would not.)
Dirt-low rents on Zoopla and Rightmove are usually baits. Call up the agency and ask them if you can see the flat. They will tell you something like “this flat has gone, but I have something similar”. Finding a flat in London usually takes a month.
Are you saying Trump's lies were more believable than Clinton's truth?

I agree, and I've already said I blame the propagandists that we have instead of a media that actually serves the people.

It wasn't me that mentioned the alt-right, and it's the propaganda being piped in by Fox and Sinclair that I had mostly in mind. They've totally screwed their viewers since they hit the air. It's more like mass elder abuse than a news channel.
Isn't the same true on the other side? If you ask working class people they'll usually say they're middle class.
That's definitely a management problem. Someone thought since the product is ready we should announce it. They're not stupid and understand very well what the current climate is, but decided to announce this peculiar tool anyway. Well, they'll definitely get quite some feedback in the next days.
Okay, am I the only one finding these 'Big Industry' names kind of ridiculous now? Big Pharma, yeah that works. Big Tech? Sure I guess.

But calling these companies Big Cow just sounds utterly ridiculous. It just doesn't work at all.
Had an amazing experience going through Techstars London, headed up by Joh Bradford and Jens Lapinski. Wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but certainly provided an insane amount of value.
Your reply misses the point of the OP:

> ... physical attack has been socially approved. It's okay to punch a Nazi. And you're free to define Nazi whichever way you want. Quite convenient.

How many Americans actually self-identify with the alt-right? Less than .001%?

How many, on the other hand, are accused of being alt-right to dismiss their arguments and concerns?

If your first move in a potential discussion is to label your opponent with a philosophy you hate (and refuse to entertain,) then it's likely you're interested in things other than discussion.
That... that's really not the case for most of "rationalist" youtube. Examples of rebuttals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmM872874A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc24YtUslCU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYQo6LI3Y7c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahuj1B0ow4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpgBkpb7xlU
It always pleasantly surprises me how well PG is able to put his thoughts into words. I feel like I have had many of the same insights as him, but would never for the life of me be able to explain it to someone else or put it down as an essay for everyone to see.
Using a credit card is not the same as going into debt to make your purchase. In the US, you can easily get 1% to 4% back from the credit card company by using your credit card, and so you actually save money by paying with your credit card. Whether or not you want to pay off the balance at the end of your credit card's billing cycle decides whether or not you are going into debt, but many, many people pay it off. It's also safer to use a credit card for purchases than a debit card, since your cash isn't touched and you can just call the credit card company to dispute a charge.
The API for not releasing products into a media shitstorm is clearly still under development...
The courts have mechanisms for dealing with land access disputes and uncooperative people, which have not been exhausted. And it's just a beach. While coastal access is an important right, it's not worth throwing away all the other aspects of civilized society to try to make a point.
This seems to be something that nobody wants to admit.

Lots of people have said that. Even Hillary Clinton - that's what the "deplorables" comment was all about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables#Speech (both "halves" fit with what you're saying)
Oof. Yes please. In a just world, this would be the direction this project is heading in.
It is interesting game, but not incredibly useful.

"Most reasonable people would agree that the average intelligence of a Hacker News commenter is only slightly higher than an insect's."

14%

The addition of "reasonable" dropped it from 19% to 14%. Ending the statement in an exclamation point would up by 7%.
I think the problem is the expectation of people that someone else do the filtering for them. I.e. "I don't want to see this kind of content" leads to "someone else should remove it from all the sites I visit". Which obviously leads to conflicting requirements once you have more than one person and those people disagree on what they want to see and don't want to see.

The only reasonable solution is to host everything, modulo requirements by law, and give users the tools to locally filter out content en masse.

In a decentralized system you also skip the law requirements since you cannot enforce multiple incompatible jurisdictions at the platform level, individual users will be responsible for enforcing it on their own nodes, similar how all you can do when accidentally encountering child porn is to clear your cache.
True, but if you read the article it is referring to the first people to arrive south of the 49th parallel. People were already inhabiting what is now Canada.

The context is they theoretically traveled along the littoral in boats vs some inland pathway on foot.
Stupid article.

There is the atavistic fantasy of "you can watch everything you want at one low price", except the price is not a low price, it is a high price.

The big anti-competitive problem with cable is that cable and satellite providers do not offer a choice of packages. You get basically the same thing with all providers. Hollywood loves it because they get paid no matter how good or bad the stuff they make is, but long term it is bad because there is no market discipline.

Some people with kids will love a Disney-branded streaming bundle and find a lot of value in it. Sports fans will see value in getting the games and commentary they want from ESPN.

Note Disney hasn't announced a "Marvel" or "Star Wars" bundle because in those cases they probably will need to partner with other companies. For instance, what kind of Marvel bundle doesn't have Spider-Man or the X-Men? Sony has the film rights for Spidey, Fox has the rights for the X-Men.

To make a really appealing "Superhero" bundle, Disney may need to team up with other companies...
> they let uncertified divers scuba at.

Who is "they"? There is not some scuba sheriff who magically appears and stops you from going as deep as you want. Get some gear, swim out, and dive. How deep you go is 100% up to you.

Also, dive computers make the whole thing very safe by tracking exactly how long and how deep you can stay without needing any lengthy nitrogen releasing safety stops. As a recreational diver with a bit of experience, you can feel very confident going down to 160 feet (maybe even 200?) as long as you listen to your dive computer.
Self-service checkout in any form is pretty much a good reason for me to avoid a store/chain unless they were really compelling in some other dimension.
Thanks for this excellent comment.
If the problem with air travel on that distance isn't the flight itself but the futzing around getting to and from the airport at each end, maybe that is the problem that needs solving.
Or Ammonite, for the strongly-typed crowd.

http://ammonite.io/
Next step is to just build a script that parses the DMCA takedown notices here[1] and automatically builds a block list out of those domains.
https://github.com/github/dmca
>Bear in mind that Google was so self-aware of the abuse potential of their position that they adopted "Don't be evil" as a corporate motto - until they dropped it on the grounds that it was underspecified, which strikes me as a quintessential example of corporate amoralism - evil, if you will.

This is why Zuckerberg and Facebook bothers me so much. He is seemingly completely unaware or unwilling to admit the potential for abuse that his technology has created. His messianic complex disallows him from even acknowledging that perhaps there are tradeoffs being made in the name of "connecting the world (that is, making absurd profits)" which are compromising the very stability of our civilization.
About 5 seconds of googling yielded these street cameras in Sweden:

https://trafiken.nu/goteborg/Kameror/Alla-Kameror/

http://www.webbkameror.se/trafikkameror/trafikkameror_kalm_1...

Also...

https://www.wired.com/2010/12/swedish-speed-camera-pays-driv...
I can recommend Fastmail. No affiliation, just a happy customer. I've used Gmail for several years previously and thought I'd miss it when switching. I didn't.
1) Marketplace (regular, morning, mid-day and tech)

2) Planet Money

3) The Daily

4) 50 Things that made the modern world

5) The inquiry

6) Crimetown

7) Criminal

8) Pessimists archive (should be called Luddites archive)

9) More Perfect

10) Science Vs
nobody said it would be easy.

fight to hire minorities by at least having one representative in each round of interviews for every opening.

with time, you might be the one company that hired that one role model that fixes the problem down the road.

but if you just go ahead and shrug that no minorities applied when you only advertised your opening in your facebook/linkedin, instead of taking the time to post in job sites, newspapers and other medias, then you are part of the problem.
HSR works best when the population centers are separated by low population areas because you don't want to stop every 20 miles. So yes California is 163,696 mi² but ignore the paces with < 50 people per square mile and what's left has both plenty of density and population. Because it's really the eastern part of the state that's empty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#/media/File:Califor...

EX: Modoc County only has freaking 8k people and it's 4,000 square miles.
The biggest effects are that it's getting goddamned hot in places that used to be temperate and that the ice caps are melting. Neither of these are positive and your 30% higher plant growth claim is undoubtedly BS. Most improvements to agriculture have come from fertilizers, the production of which contribute to global warming.
Rollers for moving heavy items, pulleys for ...er ... moving heavy items; or are they not classed as wheels? Wheels are good for farming too, laying furrows, say. And making clay pots. And grinding corn. And crushing fruit.

Ah, this might turn in to a "What has the wheel ever done for us" sketch after the style of Monty Python.
It would be nice if "the problem" was simply that people lived in a bubble and didn't understand. That would be a relatively easily solvable problem, but this is not the case. Sure, people can be isolated from the experiences of others, but the overwhelming majority of us have friends and relatives working normal jobs.

A lot of empathy does exist. Empathy alone does not lower the rent, or cause those "good jobs" to reappear.
> I feel like Trump is also pretty firmly part of the establishment.

I completely agree with you, but I think a lot of people still perceive him as being outside the establishment. And they voted based on that perception.
Idiotic to compare systems on which human lives depend to everything else.

There's no one-size fits all. Speed and accuracy tend to have an inverse correlation.
For what it's worth, the ones at the top are only contextually toxic to you, either because you believe the opinions are ill-founded, or you don't know the intent (regarding "why do you expect anyone to take you seriously..."). Knowing no facts, "George Soros and his Jewish sympathizers want to destabilize our government." is a straight-forward and polite way to state an opinion.

As for the too-high ones, yeah; that bike review [?] is rated hilariously poorly.

Frankly, this API can not (should not?) be expected to determine the truthfulness of a statement, nor how offended you're likely to be by somebody's honest opinion.
There are other countries without the need for a private health insurance market. Yet no one thinks shutting down the health insurance market would be good policy unless combined with a replacement like single-payer.

The same is true for parking. A replacement transportation system would be better, but that doesn't excuse moving us towards a world with no transportation system.
I really hope this ends up paid and expensive.

If you're paying for it, it's a powerful tool for you to steer discussion and truth towards what you'd like on your platform.

If you're not paying for it, it's a powerful tool for Google to steer discussion and truth towards what Google would like on everyone's platform.
Having cameras and having an effective tracking system based on them is a big difference. (No idea about the swedish situation, but in Germany proposals to give police access to information from traffic enforcement cameras for criminal cases have been a huge topic)
> There is no language definition or implementation called "LISP".

Well, yes there actually is: the Lisp 1 language that MacCarthy and friends developed on the IBM 704, and its immediate follow-ups through Lisp 1.5. Since that, there isn't.
I dunno, there's pretty strong evidence that one out of the three here is, in fact, habitable.
Why I Deleted 349 Answers and a Blog from Quora.com
No, but there are plenty of cameras in South Wales.
Google deciding what is "toxic" or not is terrifying.

edit: 59% likely to be perceived as "toxic"
Looks like you're from Wales. Here's a great national site that you can see the live traffic cameras:

http://www.traffic-wales.com/?lang=en-GB

Just filter the map by CCTV and choose the icon to view the live video.

Enjoy!
YUP.

REMEMBER: A taxi medallion is a component of a government-enforced monopoly on regional transportation for hire.

One of the great achievements of Uber is highlighting the gap between what's possible when a company is able to compete freely in the marketplace that's been effectively ruined by government.

Before Uber, the taxi companies had ZERO incentive to improve their product. You had no choice when choosing a cab company. Now you do.
Worldbuilding has its own Stackexchange which sometimes has interesting discussions about difficulties in creating internally consistent fantasy worlds. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
The most overlooked market for sex robots is women
tl;dr Yes. Only 0.03 of the world's nuclear arsenal would be necessary. Agriculture and ozone layer would be affected leading to famine and dangerous UV exposure.

>The main message from our work," NASA's Oman said, "would be that even a regional nuclear conflict would have global consequences."

Interesting. Reminds me of Snowpiercer.
I've spent the last few months working on this release (alongside Billy, Casey, and Steve). When I started maintaining the STL in 2007, we released new features every couple of years - releasing every few months is much nicer (although I occasionally miss being able to break bincompat).

As I alluded to in this post, we're testing our STL with Clang (currently Clang/LLVM 4.0, soon to be 5.0 when I figure out how to get it to find my link.exe), and with libc++'s test suite. This has improved both our STL and Clang/libc++ upstream, and I'm grateful to their devs for working with us.
You're missing the point. It's not about the system type, but rather the approaches taken to analyse system failures and the subsequent corrective actions.

His criticism still applies to today's projects: recently I've seen fixes in imagemagick done as minimal "patches".
OT: This website breaks the back button in Chrome on Windows.
Has anyone applied for access? How long did it take? I want to use it for a research project. I applied a couple weeks ago. No response back.
Well, part of it is security. Which, whatever the specific faults of TSA, isn't about to go away for air travel. Fortunately, in the US, trains are still largely exempt.

The other issue is that airports tend to be just big and sprawling locations well outside of city cores. So you have to build in lots of buffer for things like parking. Or, if they're near cities, parking's expensive and often scarce.

Finally (which COULD be dealt with to some degree) load factors and cancellation policies are such that you really don't want to miss most flights in a way that isn't typically as big a problem with trains.
The big secret is that YouTube, one of the most important sites in the history of the internet, has had a bunch of people who just don't care.

Word is at some point it became a dumping ground for Google employees who transferred in because they wanted an easy job where they could use the amenities of the YouTube offices in San Bruno.
I've seen this story reported roughly a bajillion times, with very little context.

(1) The study chose to adjust official numbers for Texas (and other states) rates because death certificates didn't inquire about pregnancy for a full year previous to death. This isn't necessarily wrong, but it is a guess.

(2) There were 15-20 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in Texas each year 2000-2010. Then the rate almost doubled by 2012. [1] Something very interesting (whether in methodology or reality) happened in that time, but most news outlets just want to tell the narrative without the details.

(3) Texas has 400k births per year. [2] Twenty deaths per 100k births is 80 deaths. Statistically, p=0.05 is going to give you something like +-50% on that number. Do this for fifty states, and you've got some serious reporting bias.

(4) But even using the adjusted numbers for Texas, this is 1% of 1% for cause of death. My wife gives birth next month (in the U.S., not in Texas); I'm nervous about it. But there's a lot of other things to worry about.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2017/jun/29/shawn...

[2] https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/vstat/vs14/t09.aspx
A few that come to mind..

- Leveraging the skill set of existing team

- Using the same language and shared code between client and server; for example, shared functions or data schema, and server-side rendering
Git doesn't need hosting... It's distributed for a reason.
No, multiple closures in Scheme will not capture different values of the same, mutated variable. For that to happen, the block has to be re-entered such that a fresh binding is created for those variables. That is not mutation.

Scheme's version of the do loop actually performs fresh binding, rather than mutation, so lambdas in the do loop capture the iterations separately.

If you mutate a variable with set!, all the closures over that variable see the change.
I disagree, I can physically possess 3 apples no more nor less than I can physically possess -3 apples.

To say "I have three apples" is merely a way of modeling a configuration of the world. The apples may be in my pocket, or in my hand, or in a bag I'm holding, or even on my desk in front of me. They may be in the barn out back, but in all cases we can say I have 3 apples. Saying "i have 3 apples" is a simplification of a ton of configurations of the state of the world where I have ownership of apples. Similarly I have -3 apples is a summary of all the configurations of the world where I owe three apples.

Neither is any more real than the other. And yes it is philosophical.
Well, see, that's the whole deal, investigating _how_ different it is than flipping coins. That's the whole question, really. Starting with the assumption that they _must_ be doing better than chance is not the right place to start in order to analyze if they are or not.

Most statistical analysis is about trying to distinguish meaningful results (implying a repeatable correlation of some kind that means something), from random chance with no meaning. The whole point is you _don't_ start out knowing if the thing you are investigating is random chance or not, if you did, you wouldn't need to analyze it. That's what statistical analysis is for. In part because we humans are really really good at finding patterns and assuming a meaningful correlation when in fact it's just random chance.

The coin example is useful because we all know (or define for the sake of the discussion) that it must be random chance, so any analysis that appeared to say it wasn't is probably in error. And using the same sort of analysis on something where you don't know how much of the effect is due to random chance--is not going to answer the question.
Hopefully this fixes Ceres Solver as well, there has been a crash in VS2017 which is a blocker for us to upgrade.