skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Google is the canonical example of one of these horizontally integrated companies, but they're a very unique case. They use their reach to intake massive amounts of data which increases the value of their advertising. It isn't just about having more ads on more screens; its about those screens providing data which allows you to charge more for your ads.

Netflix capitalizes on this a little bit as well, with using viewing trend data to determine what shows to fund next. But I was bearish on Netflix for a long time; to acquire content they have to pay recurring fees to the original producers, which means annual expenses increase as content increases, but ARR only increases when customers increase. Eventually... everyone has Netflix. How do they increase their content library then?

One way is contract value depreciation of the content over time, which happens. Another is selling addon packages; the "cable industry" route. But the real answer is: Original content. In other words, growing the vertical integration of their platform.

And now we see Google really quadrupling-down on efforts which sound more vertical than horizontal; cloud platform and g-suite.

I think there's something here.
The tl;dr is that the commonly told origin of money, right back to Adam Smith, is a-historical assumption that is contradicted by archeological evidence.

The a-historical account is that money was developed to make barter more efficient. This is not what we see in the records from Sumer, and there is similar evidence in the other locations where we know writing arose. Before the neolithic revolution societies economic structure was largely based on social ties and a sense of reciprocal behavior: a sort of informal communism. As sedentary agriculture lead to the development of temple complexes and cities, debt and credit records replaced these. Money was not developed until nearly 2k years later. Barter was actually uncommon in the ancient world and was typically reserved for interactions between strangers such as traders that had traveled long distance and had no social ties to one another. Coinage in particular typically arose as part of a complex that involved raising armies and funding them via taxation.

The commodity theory of money is a-historical, and not what "original money" was.

It's a great book, though Graeber has little restraint in taking pot shots at economists, which might provoke some readers to defensiveness.
Three devs seems like a bit of a bottleneck... Why maintain two separate architectures for a single problem if there's another option?
The problem is they need huge subsides to cover the risks, and even then it costs more than other clean alternatives. How much solar/wind + pumped hydro can you buy just from the costs associated with Fukushima Daiichi cleanup / evacuation etc?

Even coal which has long been the cheapest but dirty option is having trouble competing.
So he introduced himself as the porn king?
Please read the post you're responding to again.
I havnt had a chance to read through this completely yet, but I'm curious if this method is agnostic to how the PDF was created originally (LATEX, Adobe, scanned images). It reads like that doesnt matter (treating it as an image) but I wanted to make sure.
There were definitely social stigmas and various social stratifications that prevented people with the means to pay from engaging in 'normal commerce.'

I remarked to my younger Indian colleague that we're replacing tiffin-wallahs with grubhub for work and I'm not sure that's a positive development for the West and its various peoples.
First SegWit transaction on Bitcoin
Ah right, makes sense. Thanks :)
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You can always use a site like localbitcoins for buying directly from someone. At least before you could occasionally find people willing to sell for money exchanged in real life.

Alternatively you can buy btc from bitcoin ATMs (tho some but not all ask for ID) depending on where you are.
It is in the context of university libraries. Nowadays these sorts of services are common at bigger schools, and they are managed by the library.

Libraries at universities have always offered more than just buildings full of books. My point is that there is a lot more to managing a serious library than just cataloging books. Trained librarians especially do a lot to directly contribute to research by connecting researchers with the right sources of information.
Show HN: Paperless communication system for condo, HOA and commercial properties
IOS Apps: Identify when a user is driving easily and accurately with DriveGuard
I think that's more of a reflection of the fact at the time people who are currently old enough to be considered old were developing their careers the C-level exec path was only really open to white men so right the current supply of old people fit to manage big companies is all white men.
Technically, the protocol is anonymous. Addresses/hashes are not human readable or, better said, you can't easily infer someone's identity/physical address/phone/nationality just by glancing at them.

Exchanges as entry points to the network are required to make that conection. Merchants as the paper say, do too.

If a merchant required a certain amount to complete your transaction, and that amount came from an unknown, unregistered wallet (in the sense you didn't acknowledge its ownership), would they legally be able to say it coming from you?

In the end, yes, it's a technicality, because it's difficult to enter the blockchain without leaving a trace at the fiat-border. But still...
The laws are important if you want to implement these typeclasses in your own data type, but I feel for new comers who will only want to use them in other data types it is better to first focus on practical application. I feel that laws and formal definitions tend to drive away newcomers from a subject that need not be so hard to understand.
Really don't find ASCII -> Diagrams very useful, but I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen inline CSV rendering like that.
Given TFA, it's probably more accurate to say $85/TB: https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing
A realization of Terry Riley's 1964 composition “In C” as an interactive web app
It's not "the web" vs AMP, it's AMP vs Facebook. Old school web is dead on mobile.
https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/ is a good primer.

You can beat AMP's performance with hand-tuned optimizations. Its goal is to uplift performance across a significant percentage of web content (instead of just that developed by the few experts).

Is Google going to penalize my sites if we don't use it? No, AMP is not a ranking factor.

We don't include advertising in our pages, so should we care about AMP?
Advertising is to AMP like Advertising is to the Web. E-commerce is a big use case where advertising is uncommon.
A friend has been working on a similar project for a while that allowed the rider to tailor, in great detail, the kind of route required. The algorithms involved are pretty interesting!

http://zikes.website
Ah, I see.

The software I need (mostly Davinci Resolve) runs on all major platforms, including Linux, so I can be on whatever I need to be.
Luckily, such things are not decided based upon cursory google searches.
Thanks, if it is unable to extract useful content from a page, EmailThis will save it as PDF as send it as an attachmentment.

If you try saving a any discussion website (HN, Stackoverflow, Reddit), you will get the PDF.
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I think the best take on this whole thing by far is from Ben Thompson:

https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/

(Incidentally, his podcast is fantastic)
As a fellow google engineer, I'd be curious to know which (public) research you think isn't marketable/valuable.

As you've mentioned, object detection (which is a considerable portion of CV) is marketable. Meta learning (Vizier, "Learning to learn with gradient descent with gradient descent") are incredibly valuable from a business perspective. Model compression is important for neural networks on mobile/embedded devices, etc.

One of the very interesting things about ML being such a corporation driven field is that it's incredible how quickly relatively recent research makes its way into products.
It really varies by the city. Some prohibit bikes on sidewalks, others allow them at least in some areas, and some only allow children under a certain age. There's no consistency.
And why would governments, that haven't allowed even private railroads in the past century, allow that to happen ?

If you put it like that, no government will stand for that. They can even look good on jobs while destroying uber.
I get that the more money you have the less any one dollar matters and that anyone who lives in those areas certainly has the money to pay for the convenience of shopping locally but driving 30min to go shopping isn't really unreasonable.
> We know that most users love the experience.

How exactly do you know that?
> for an average of once every 890 miles, or 0.80 disengagements per 1,000 miles.

Isn’t that 1.12~ per 1000mi?
tsearch/hsearch/lsearch have been around for at least 30 years. My guess is that they've been around for a lot longer.

Why not have these anyway? Otherwise people will make their own (probably buggy) equivalents.

I'm actually surprised that people aren't aware of them.
The article answers this question pretty clearly

"Wait! Even more amazing is that it doesn't ruin the internet if some people use it and some people use the old methods."
AMP is not a ranking factor in Google Search. More official statement here https://twitter.com/johnmu/status/824185977098960897
Maybe I'm confused about the term luck, but usually it refers the chance of a good (or bad) event happening.

I guess my whole point was, you're job is to position luck to fall in your favor. It's a lot of work, but it's controllable. Making it seem like it's not (to some extent) controllable, is just doing a disservice to everyone.
https://qz.com/694520/tesla-has-780-million-miles-of-driving...

Tesla has an enormous amount of data at their disposal. The recent change concerned video footage from the onboard cameras.
This seems like a particular definition of "flesh" that's not particularly germane to meatness. Lab meat is made of the exact same animal cells that regular meat is, the tissue just happens to never have inhabited an animal. When we eat meat, we don't value the fact that the cells we're eating were once part of an animal, we mostly value the taste.

It seems to me that this isn't a necessarily property of meat but a contingent one caused by the fact that meat used to only be possible to produce from animal flesh.
He's said as much:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...
ouuuuuuch.
I'd interviewed there and had to pull out of their (lengthy) process, but this was one of their selling points that was mentioned by the recruiter and interviewers.
No comment on the actual project.

I hate how this site fills up my browser history as I scroll. This is a breaking of the back button I haven't encountered before.
If that's the case, that's a terrible perversion of the intended purpose of patents. The progress of science and the useful arts would probably be better served by putting the entire patent system on hiatus for a few decades.
With GKE you don't necessarily update your load balancer rules with a deploy correct? The linked thread points the blame for app engine deploys on waiting for GCLB to update.
Have you considered using data from the California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) in your routing algorithm? You can filter traffic collisions for those involving bicycles in order to identify roads or intersections particularly dangerous for cyclists.

http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp
If this tied into the platforms' notification systems, it could get around that; a notification appears for an unsubmitted form, and hangs around until it has successfully gone through, possibly with another notification of success, or failure after a certain timeout.
Yes. My rights are on loan, so to speak, unlike those of a US citizen (which I am assuming you are).
We don't know what properties this meat will have; we do know what causes regular meat to be harmful, and fake meat does not share several of those particular factors.
Thanks, I missed that the first time.
That's a terrible analogy. Walmart is the massive enterprise company built around high volume and low margins. WF is the SaaS provider selling nice but very overpriced audio and video software to some niche of the film industry.
I concur.

Currently, I am working on projects that use both Amazon and Google clouds.

In my experience, AWS requires more planning and administration to handle the full workflow: uploading data; organisation in S3; partitioning data sets; compute loads (EMR-bound vs. Redshift-bound vs. Spark (SQL) bound); establishing and monitoring quotas; cost attribution to different internal profit centres; etc.

GCP is - in a few small ways - less fussy to deal with.

Also, GCP console - itself not very great - is much easier to use and operate than AWS console.

Of course, YMMV!
Doesn't work for me in Chrome (latest Chrome Canary for MacOS). Probably something's being blocked by uBlock Origin, but I'm not gonna switch that off.
It will be ironic when these millennials grow up and have children, then try cycling to do the weekly groceries with three kids in tow.
Voluntary gifts aren't the same thing as socialism.
Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services
Sharing a cab with the Porn King sounds like the beginning of a type of movie.
> On the other hand when he spent $10 on a lottery ticket he was entertained for days just thinking of the possibility of winning

With a slightly better imagination he could save the $10 and daydream for days about a close relative/friend winning the lottery and gifting him a substantial chunk of the money.
Well, security is a pretty big concern, to be fair. The rejection of kdbus was probably political as much as anything else. However, I think that to the degree that there was any kind of consensus, it was not necessarily a rejection of the idea of a kernel-based message bus entirely, but that this particular effort was not up to the mark. This seems to be a fairly relevant bit on LKML:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/23/22
Still, when it became clear a university cannot put a video online without having it transcribed in at least 2 different ways [1], I must say, my understanding of the regulation argument grew.

[1] http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/
When software development goes the way of the car manufacturer in America I'll be really interested to see what replaces it.
bullshit. continuous integration came out of netscape, which was open sourced by mozilla in the late '90s.

i worked for a company in the mid '00s that had some thoughtworks people come in. they were spouting all sorts of nonsense about design patterns and this and that.

i asked "how come nobody in open source speaks like this?" "oh, well you know the scope and scale of the projects and the quality of the code in the open source world doesn't compare to that which is locked up inside of companies..."

mhmm...
I assumed "clean" referred to the fact that lab-grown tissue would have a much lower risk of disease. Animals have digestive tracts full of bacteria, and farms aren't exactly pristine. Every year in the US, meat-borne pathogens kill thousands and sicken millions.[1]

1. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/5/99-0502_article
What a title.
That’s... not really what AMP does.

I mean, kinda, but not really. You have to cater to it specifically
doesn't coinbase require a link to a bank account? so you'd need to have millions in your bank account to buy the BTC.
Surprised a porn related blockchain token hasn't taken ahold yet. There are attempts.
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Thanks for your kind comment!
http://n-gate.com/ - just kidding!

Maybe http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ but that's an email.
Isn't the canonical URL in a meta tag a requirement of AMP?

Edit: to clarify, i find this part of the article quite odd (assuming my understanding about canonical URLs in a meta tag is true):

> What’s more, AMP URLs aren’t standard — an AMP link for say, The Verge, looks different from that of another publisher — so Apple is presumably doing some work under the hood to find these canonical URLs.
We use Softchoice (https://www.softchoice.com/?). I work at a Fortune 100 company. I don't have much to say besides that I haven't had many complaints, and I only use them because they were an approved vendor before I started, but I've had no issues with them. I mainly use them for mainstream products such as Jetbrains so I cannot speak to their availability when it comes to more esoteric licenses.
With same-day delivery and the place where they experiment with most of their new ideas, we see Amazon as a utility here
DMM. Everybody knows who they are.
The cancellation had no effect on the ability of Venezuela or Russia to permit him to travel.
You mine it; either with raw compute power, or by providing services fulfilling a contract.

Of course, if you then want to sell those coins, to "cash out" into a fiat currency, you'll need to comply with the KYC laws.
This just shows your incompetent. No web platform can fix that.
I'd be concerned about code, too. It's not unheard of for a single bit flip to make petabytes go away (true story).
I’m with you. I expect in the coming days I will have to switch some of our elder’s search engines to DuckDuckGo to avoid problems. I just hate technology that changes the user experience in a broken way. Browsers are supposed to act in a certain way. Don’t break that. Breaking UI is why we had a hate on for Win 8. It really annoyed people with the changes.
I'm pretty sure it is not a particular definition.
Not just Signal & WhatsApp,

$500,000 - Messaging Apps RCE + LPE (SMS/MMS, iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook, Viber, WeChat) .

Which I guess chat apps with > 250M MAU (except Telegram, which probably is because of it's high usage rate in Arab countries). Looking at their programme, they might probably approach the original vendor; but we all know who would pay hard cash for 0 days ;)

Original Source :
https://zerodium.com/program.html
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You keep saying users "love the experience". Can you provide data to back that up?
If the stats in the article are true, 96% less greenhouse emissions, 45% less energy, 99% less land use and 96% less water used in the production of the lab meat, I think it makes perfect sense to call it clean meat. Plus it doesn't involve the death of an animal, which is pretty "clean" I guess.
I have a better idea: horsecarts and sailships.
> Tipton's lawyer said he expects his client will serve three to four years before being released.

Far from the 25 years mentioned in the headline...
And not much lidar data, right? I don't work on this, but I imagine the quality of the data set makes a big difference.

From what I've learned, lidar and radar are typically used for object detection (i.e., avoiding other cars; perhaps augmented with camera data), while cameras are used for things like lane detection and traffic sign detection. If Tesla is trying to solve the same hard problems as everyone else, using weaker equipment, I wouldn't bet on them having a lot of success.

Also, kind of the point of this article is that Waymo has a test area where they can get real data along with the ground truth. That seems much more valuable than unlabeled/random data.
I would love to see the books for https://www.warnerarchive.com/

$10/mo for 40+ year old TV shows and obscure films that only people over 70 would be aware of.
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Maybe, but it's not the only example of center/right political content being flagged.
Dang. That's cold.
At first glance (on a phone too) this seems like a competitor for OmniGraffle. Can someone confirm that's a fair comparison?
We have built a better website (more data and good algorithm), maybe you should consider join us, haha
You're assuming that the only people who dislike AMP or the people commenting on hacker news.

What if it was 10% of all users? Or maybe 20%?

Where would you draw the line… what percentage of users would have to dislike amp for you to think it was reasonable to add an option?

I'm not sure what number I would choose (ignoring my bias that I don't like it and therefore my number would be smaller than probably reasonable).
The fact that Waymo revealed their "secret" tools for advancing this crucial technology implies that either:

1) They believe no one can quite catch up before they can launch the technology. Since they know several competitors have huge resources and brilliant people, it means they are quite close to launch.

2) These tools have become open secret within the industry, so no harm is done to their competitive position by revealing it to the public, only good PR to be gained perhaps to attract more bright engineers.

I suspect 2) is more likely since several key players have moved around so much in the past couple of years. Relatively high-level knowledge about how autonomous vehicles are being developed at Waymo might have become well-known within the industry by now.
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IIRC there's a fairly strong correlation between content mastery and teaching ability, even at the high school level, far more than the correlation between level of teacher training and teaching ability.

Obviously there's other factors (effort, as you point out).

Though I think it's partly an artifact of the days when an undergrad degree would bring students to the leading edge of research, so there was simply no-one else qualified. There would have been a lot more synergy when researchers were explaining cutting edge ideas to students (it still happens a bit, but it's the exception rather than the rule).
Seems like he hurt every single person who played the game without cheating, to an aggregate of millions of dollars. Seems like 25 years is extraordinarily generous. If he picked 10,000 pockets or robbed 1000 banks he would get life in prison, and deserve it.
You're right that would remain no matter what. I don't care that much on the ideological position. My objection is purely from a user experience standpoint.

My assumption is that the idea logical issue is much stronger here on hacker news than among the public at large. Much like views on free software purity.

My guess, for lack of better reasoning, is that the percentage of people on hacker news who hate the experience is roughly the same as those in the "real world". I wouldn't expect that being more technically inclined would make people more likely to like AMP or dislike it (ignoring idea logical issues).
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Seattle already went through this once, back in the early '70s during a crash in the airline market. There was even a rumored billboard put up that said some thing like "when the last person leaves, will someone turn out the lights". This was folklore to me as a child, but I just Googled to see if there was some truth. Yeup, true. [1]

[1] http://old.seattletimes.com/special/centennial/november/ligh...
That's pretty fucking cool.
Something good for the visually challenged
I would be VERY interested in some sort of study that shows that the vast majority (or even A majority) of users enjoy AMP.

If the majority of users merely tolerate AMP... I wouldn't exactly call that a win for Google.
Reprocessing separates rapidly decaying fission products from slowly decaying transuranics. The transuranics go back in to be burned, the fission products decay comparatively rapidly.