skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does this have to be?
If you pay the good consultants what they are worth, and then pass on the cost of them + an appropriate cost for leading the project(s) + your consulting fee for working within the project, you should make more than consulting alone, no?
>"“The ability to take this to a group of unbiased elected officials is better than taking it to a group of state employees who in the long run benefit from a decision for the state,” Runner said."

Unbiased elected officials is an oxymoron.
Then you're takeaway should be that if you wrote a book about your experience it would have solid sales :-).

I think you were fortunate to have this sort of mindset from the beginning and I can tell you that it is not common. One of the 7 habits is to work on things that are important but not urgent. This is what you do when you're working on the next phase while executing on the current phase. I tell people it is like watching yourself drive.

If you have the experience of teaching your kids to drive you might notice that they are much more likely to hit things when they are looking where they are driving, than they are when they are looking where they need to be. Another example I've heard is sailors walking with a cup off coffee on a ship that is moving with the waves. If the sailor watches the coffee to keep it from spilling, the coffee goes out of control and spills, but if the sailor looks to where they are going, the hand doesn't let the coffee spill.

The same is true in business where if you focus so hard on how you are solving the current problem the next one hits you before you are ready for it. Whereas if you're thinking about the next problem while executing against the current one, then when the next one arrives you are already starting to execute against it.

I'm serious about the book too. Its a very useful way of approaching running a business and many others would benefit from your experience if you could put it into book form.
Scarce resources can be coped with by both cooperation and competition (and other modes?). If there's limited water, we can share it - thus enabling us to have more people to hunt/gather resources. If you keep all the water you'll be stronger, but perhaps you'll hunt less effectively, struggle to gather enough resources, etc..

Competition isn't always the best way to cope with limited resources.

Competition between different groups within which there is cooperation, that's another option, of course.
For calculus, I'd skip the more physics like finding of integrals and derivatives. What matters is understanding the concepts of integrals and derivatives, and knowing properties like the chain rule. It pays much less to know that the integral of 1/x is ln(x) (or the other way round).

The linear algebra and probability theory are most important imho. I'd also distinguish between probability theory and statistics. Both are important, but they are distinct disciplines.
If introvert foes not communicate with people, his (or her if you must) social/people skills will go down. Realization that they wither away or that they are useful has nothing to do with introversion or extrovertion.
> Never let your boss or coworker discover how little you care about work.

Or switch bosses. A boss that can't understand that after 12 hour days you need some rest can go fuck themselves.
Ask HN: How does Facebook know what I buy on Amazon or vice versa?
Following just happened: An hour before lunch I googled and visited websites that sell bicycles. I also visited Amazon during this research. I then bought a bike from one of the manufacturers' websites. A few hours later I browse facebook and see ads to this manufacturers' bikes in my newsfeed, via an Amazon sponsored ad.

I use one browser (Safari) for facebook exclusively, and browsed the bikes / Amazon / made the purchase on Chrome. I have different email addresses for facebook, amazon and, well, google.
Looks like this was sourced from in-house at some German online retailer: zalando.de. There is a similar data set from from amazon sourced by UCSD: http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/

And our research on recommenders using it: http://sharknado.eggie5.com

Particularly, the 2D scatter of the CNN features: http://sharknado.eggie5.com/tsne
So let's assume for the moment that the IT director isn't a complete idiot. How did they come to this purchase decision? What other factors beside "it's obvious Windows Phone is a dead-end" were considered? I'm not trying to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, but rather wondering how I can personally avoid the same mistakes in the future by identifying the blindspots. I don't learn anything by just blowing them off as idiots that shouldn't be allowed to have a budget. (Though that hypothesis is still on the table.)

For instance, with the Surface example, maybe it's not outright graft but rather "in for a penny, in for a pound"? So they already have the Surfaces, and by golly, they're staying in the ecosystem come hell or high water?
I suppose you can always trade those CPU cycles off against storage and cache the N+1 version (in a separate Kafka topic or elsewhere), so now reading the latest-version data is fast, yet you still retain the original data intact, at the expense of more storage. This does complicate the storage though, as you now have multiple days a sources, but nothing that can't be solved.
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A lot darker, indeed. I recall camping in the mountains near Vail, Colorado many years ago during a full moon. It almost felt like day, but with a black sky. It was quite surreal. My immediate surrounding were illuminated (everything cast a distinct shadow) but everything just beyond your immediate vision was in darkness.
People believing in such vast quantities does seem to be new. I don't know anyone who believed the non-sense in the National Enquirer, but I do know a few people who buy because they think it is funny.

People, whole communities of people believe, non-sense today. Not small groups like Flat-earthers or chemtrail theorists who number in the hundreds or thousands (per their website/forums sign-ups). There will always be some people on the fringe.

We avoided truly ridiculous ideas for decades. Things like "911 was an inside job" or "Obama was born in Kenya" are believed by tens of millions of people. This is a new thing in my life at least. The last issue this big and this false was prevalent was McCarthyism.
1. You can get a long way with high school calculus and probability theory.

2. Regarding books I second the late David McKay's "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" and the second edition of "Elements of Statistical Learning" by Tibshirani et al. (there's also a more accessible version of a subset of the material targeting MBA students called James et al., An Introduction to Statistical Learning). Duda/Hart/Stork's Pattern Classification (2nd ed.) is also great.
The self-published volume by Abu-Mostafa/Magdon-Ismail/Lin, Learning from Data: A Short Course is impressive, short and useful for self-study.

3. Wikipedia is surprisingly good at providing help, and so is Stack Exchange, which has a statistics sub-forum, and of course there are many online MOOC courses on statistics/probability and more specialized ones on machine learning.

4. After that you will want to consult conference papers and online tutorials on particular models (k-means, Ward/HAC, HMM, SVM, perceptron, MLP, linear and logistic regression, kNN, multinomial naive Bayes, ...).
Yes, a common way to store the text in editors is a gap buffer[1]. It allows efficient text insertion/deletion in one point and doesn't have too much overhead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_buffer
I guess what you are saying is right, I based my opinions mainly on the companies backing which technology, it seemed like to me that Facebook, HTC, etc. had a better advantage of turning a technology popular than Bitcoin which is more open-source.
Indeed, very disappointing. Even bigger threat for these Japanese automakers is becoming irrelevant once the car companies which don't have ride-sharing platform of their own start becoming just a commodity and wafer-thin-margin businesses. They need to pivot hard in future or else the Teslas and Waymos will overthrow them in a decade or so.
The more people that are willing to accept Bitcoin in exchange for goods and services, the more valuable Bitcoin is.
Fokker–Planck equation
Seems like a somewhat similar idea to AWS Aurora.
> What exactly do _they_ all do?

Google and Facebook both have massive, globally spread datacenters. Staffing them and ensuring they're built out, maintained and operated alone requires loads of personnel.

Then you got the massive user count: Facebook with Instagram and Whatsapp has likely over 2B users, and Google most likely the same order of magnitude.

All these users must be supported - both Google and FB do their best to provide as low-quality support as they can get along with, but by law they're bound to quickly react to copyright violation and child porn; in addition Google has (via Google Apps for Enterprise, GCE, AdSense etc) a number of projects with companies - and companies who pay your company generally expect competent support.

Add in all the "low paying" jobs, if they're not already outsourced... like cantinas, cleaning, facility management - and for FB, Google, Amazon and Apple at least a strong architecture and legal team.
More people accept it and recognize it as a valid form of exchange and means of storing value. The belief networks that BTC is valuable have increased, increasing demand and thus price.
I also thought about The Magic School Bus, but while incidental, I seem to remember there was often some element of danger that they had to surpass, no? Like being inside someone and the time until re-growth being limited, causing a race against time to exit the body.
I think the D programming language site is accessible to the blind, but I don't know what inadvertent accessibility problems there might be with it. If you could please have a look and let me know about any difficulties, I'll get them taken care of.

https://dlang.org/
I believe the OP means time and dedication in their investments, not simply money. The type of things that startups grind through to become successful. Appropriate amounts of money do need to be injected - but at the right times, not necessarily from the beginning.

Bigger companies have a bad habit of comparing the early results of experimental internal businesses with the ROI of their mainline business and cut the cord before the product/market was actually ready to be flooded with cash to scale up.

It's funny how the business classic "Innovator's Dilemma" was written largely about companies like Intel who exist in traditional technology markets with predictable evolutionary modes... yet they still suffer from the same lack of 'intrapreneurship' mentality by treating internal startups with immature markets as if they were mature product lines.

They should probably stick to acquisitions of real startups in the growth stage or actually stick-it-out for the long run with the markets they invest in, rather than looking for high growth opportunities within a short-timeframe or nothing.

Burning early adopters is never a wise choice if that market turns out to have legs.
Man, I had such a different experience viewing the eclipse.

It was kinda cool, but

> Instead, what you get is a really weird subliminal creepy feeling that something is wrong.

and

> The uncanny feeling is quite visceral and a big part of the reason I think eclipses just have to be experienced. All kinds of alarms go off in your animal brain when the moon eats the sun.

simply do not resonate with me.
Nobody cares about ME/PSP/etc. You might, but nobody will stop buying these chips just because of that.
Wouldn't that have more to do with passwords not being proper words? Swiping is like autocomplete, f7_4sl+lsS$@q.. can't imagine swiping something like that.
The price increase brings in more people that invest in it (buy it) so the price rises even more - rinse and repeat.
Yeah, that seems to be so, wonder what sort of things need addressing...
This is a common misconception.

No, it is NOT the same thing as sea-sickness. I do not get sea sick, never have. I also don't get car sick if I'm a passenger reading a book or something. Never have. But turning, specifically TURNING, in VR, induces nausea.

When Oculus was first released (dev) games allowed for "free walking" FPS games which invoke a specific kind of nausea that is different from roller coaster style movement. It's the reason why almost all games are teleportation based now... Because this problem as I understand it affects the majority of people, even those who don't experience the other VR nausea which IS similar to sea sickness. This turning / angular momentum nausea does not attenuate with time. It's a huge problem with VR, and one which there is no solution for currently other than the poor "teleportion" movement mechanism.
First, let me disclaim IANAL.

Depending on the wording in your SoW/contract (You DO have a written contract, right??) you may not have to disclose that someone else working for you are doing the customer work.

It may also depend on the structure of your business. I'd talk to a lawyer about it. I am in the same boat as you, and I formed as an LLC, so I've been working on getting other work that I can sub out.
Did you read the alert?

Tiny bulletin board companies are using buzzwords to get stock traders to buy their shares for no reason.

The alert is that one of the buzzwords is "ICO" and "token sale".

Just like when the buzzword was "internet" or "business chat" or "self driving car".

It is just an alert about the buzzword being used in the stock market, before people FOMO.

This alert isn't about or geared towards ICOs or token sales.
What I've realized throughout the last few years is that there are wealthy investors EVERYWHERE within the US and SV is kind of overhyped.
It is always easier on one's psyche to blame someone else than to acknowledge that you screwed up.

The same holds for teams and tribes, and fans of those teams or tribes. Look at nearly any sporting event. You'll commonly see the losing side, or fans of the losing side, blaming anything and everything they can - biased officials, cheating on the opposing side, the weather, etc.

The US media, even though they may not like the current administration, is reluctant to start saying "the navy screwed itself". It may very well be the truth. From what I've been around in the other services, I can state that the thinking and approach to training and education isn't unique to the navy. If you're the the US media, calling them out on it risks being yourself labeled as anti-american, or adding more "evidence" to someone's already existing opinion. That can cost viewer eyeballs, and in turn, advertising dollars.
TLDR: In Prisoner's Dilemma, defecting is a dominant strategy, and both players defecting is the only Nash equilibrium. In Snowdrift, there is no single dominant strategy, and no Nash Equilibrium exists at all.

By design, the Snowdrift game rewards cooperation more than Prisoner's Dilemma, so it's no surprise that people cooperate more in Snowdrift. The real question is which game better models reality.

http://www.gametheory.net/dictionary/DominantStrategy.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
the fitness aspect of this seems very questionable

a normal bike (even an eletric one) can give you a better fitness-friendly way of getting around while also being easier on the knees

for that price I cannot see how anyone in their right mind would choose this over a nice commuter that you will actually be able to repair on your own compared to this proprietary mess where I cannot even see a full detail shot to identify the components used

i think and hope this product is destined to fail
Patent troll vs the government that enforces patent law, no matter who wins we lose.
PipelineDB is great..and the guys are super helpful..

influxdb has something similar, and now so does AWS Kinesis (with their Kinesis Analytics product).
This is just penny stocks finding new ways to scam investors. ICO is the big buzzword.
Amazon never burned through multiple billions of dollars a year.
That is true it's a sunk cost. But still gains made on the capital can be high after the disaster. It's like holding stocks after the GFC.
Saving people in the ER or as paramedics is another of those instances. It doesn't have to be your life the one on the line.
Neil Bickford: “Marble Runs and Turing Machines”
In China you now have to provide your real identity to comment online
Thank you for explaining the color balance thing.

We were driving across the totality zone as the partial increased from 30% to about 90%. There was almost no loss of "brightness" per se, but everything had this odd "haze" to it as you looked around without normal driving sunglasses. You knew something was different, but not in style of a sunset or cloud-obscured day.
Flexible wearable skin patch generates enough of electricity for LEDs, Bluetooth
"I'd not come across the different levels of autonomous driving before."

Levels 2-4 are the death zone (or "deadly valley"). These are the levels at which people will die unnecessarily.
Ask HN: How do you, as a developer, set measurable and actionable goals?
I see a lot of people from other industries, say designers or sales people, who can set for themselves actionable and measurable goals such as "Make one illustration a day", "Make a logo a day" or "Sell X units of Y product a day", "Make X ammount of dollars seeling product Z by date X", etc.

How do you, as a developer, set measurable goals for yourself, being it at work or in your side hobbie?
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From the page you've linked: "Last modified: Wed Feb 2 23:37:31 EST 2005"

What aspect of the existence of netqmail disputes what I wrote?
It's, in fact, getting less popular outside of speculation - it's only practical use. Most articles and news are about blockchain technology gaining adoption, not Bitcoin per se, which is obsolete already. What's getting popular is Ethereum, and Ripple which is a far more superior platform with real potential but not as lucrative for speculation.
I wish my Roku box would provide a speedup option, as well as my Comcast DVR.
Though I'm not blind I would imagine it is like speedreading. Occasionally skipping words has no effect to the main idea of a sentence because the mind fills in the blanks. Anyway disability related tech news is very cool stuff and I hope to see a lot more on HN.
Even after reading through Shannon's Wikipedia article, and searching it for "artificial intelligence" and "1950" I have no idea what you're talking about.

It appears as if Shannon created a maze-solving robot mouse with memory, and also published the basic idea for computer chess around that time. Both ideas seem fundamentally sound.

And even if he had somehow been wrong on something at that stage in his life, he had basically created the science of communication single-handedly long before. Plus some minor work in cryptography.
More people using it? Any proof of that?
In Houston, desperate flood victims turn to social media for survival
Taking meldonium for performance enhancement
The trilogy Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Before Midnight is essentially two people walking and talking the whole duration.

EDIT: And now I see it's written and directed by the same guy as Slacker :)
Not exactly, IEEE 754 defines very specific rules (e.g. what operations can be done, order of operations and how the results are handled), it's basically exists so that if the same calculation is done on different hardware the result will be the same (or within a given margin of error since even IEEE 754 isn't 100% strict).

For the most part when you have hardware that supports one of the binary standards say FP32 you'll have a compliance sheet, more often than not it will not be 100% compliant for example NVIDIA GPUs were not IEEE 754 compliant when Tesla came out, 2nd Generation Tesla cards were FMA compliant, div and sqrt operations were not IEEE 754 compliant until Fermi.

So the GP was correct, back in the old DX9 days when AMD went with FP24 and NVIDIA with FP16/32 both implementations were proprietary, and this is still the case, they just often offer a 754 compliant mode. You can disable 754 compliance to run faster (sometimes considerably so) e.g. in CUDA you can use the NVCC flag --use_fast_math to do so.
I agree that the best option was people who had options leaving early enough that it didn't cause traffic snarls. That leaves emergency services with fewer people to handle in the worst case.

Despite what I said before, I agree it's a really tricky call, especially for authorities considering a mass evacuation, which is often not the best thing. Houston has a lot of people, that changes everything.
They're using an increasingly popular derailment technique called the common ground fallacy.

The parent is asserting that the truth is merely a compromise between two different opinions, when in reality there's evidence enough to assert the truth, without making it a matter of 'right' or 'left' opinion. Their inability to provide their credible sources ("high def video") is because their opinion doesn't align with the reality of the situation.
SV just has the investors who will listen to promises of N-million% growth; investors exist all over the country, but the prevailing risk/rewards seems to have made that uniquely SV attitude the only one where actually investing makes sense.

"Hello M. Investor, I would like to start a laser tag place. It will use innovative technologies like drone targets, utilize the cheap real estate and latent suburban customer base of a disused mall, and we think we can conservatively double your investment for the initial capital outlays in ten years."

Well gee, that sounds nice, but this new laser-tag-as-a-service company has promised us enormous user growth and the possibility of a buyout by Facebook in ten years. They say they're looking at more like a 100x rate of return. Next!
It says in the README, that it's from them (Zalando). Via a Google search, they're an e-commerce site from Berlin funded by the Rocket Internet folks.
I don't really get the snark here, exercise and fast travel arn't mutually exclusive. In fact, one might find more time to exercise by making it faster to get from point a to point b in general?
I bought 4 BTC on Mt.Gox when they were ~$25 each. Naturally, after I bought it crashed to the ~$1 territory. Thought to myself "Figures..." and decided might as well hold. Cut to a year (or two?) later and the prices hit the ~$30 territory. I decide to sell and reap a nice little ~$20 profit. Lucky me, eh?
Yea, I don't think the average show from the 70's was good.

Though, if your going to compare the average show, then the competition is more like 'Pawn Stars', 'My Teen is Pregnant', 'Tiny House Hunters', etc. Or you could compare similar longer running shows like Three's company (8 seasons) vs. Two and a Half Men (12 seasons).

So, my guess is a random episode of 'Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour' was probably better than a random episode of a random cable TV show. Though, it's also very dated at this point. It's also likely worse than say the best south park episode or whatever show you actually like.

Anyway, I am not saying the 70's wins hands down, hell I was not even alive then. But, I do think people are confusing shows about things they like with actual quality. I might like 'How It's Made' but it's not exactly deep.
You can setup a video room to hangout in for 20 minutes every other day or whatever, and people can show up if they want or not show up.
This is why I stopped watching Orange is the New Black.

Season 3 had no conflict, or it wasn't relevant conflict any longer. Just life in prison.

I did consider that dull, but I don't preclude that a plot can't be "good" without conflict.

I think that is entirely fine and possible. But in a story where a previous chapter or segment did follow that formula, and then the next doesn't, it looks like a dull accident.