skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why you feel so compelled to give your background while writing an anonymous comment on the internet. It only makes me suspect your argument doesn't hold up without some expectation to respect your authority. All the theory in the world is irrelevant until it you can apply it to predict something new -- its almost trivial to create a theory that describes some phenomenon accurately, after-the-fact. See the tremendous bifurcation in physics with regards to string theory. Similarly there are loads of academics in various fields claiming to have been the origins of artificial intelligence.
Space taken by car-parking is typically in dedicated parking lots: out of the way and doesn't impede public rights-of-way - compare to having bicycles ridden on sidewalks and interfering with car traffic.
Setting up an unconfigured SCADA makes you an IdIoT?
Thanks for letting me bounce my thoughts off you, and it's good to get the confirmation that there is no disagreement about the fundamentals of what happened.
Have you seen what America does to enemies of capitalism?
Because criticizing capitalism is like criticizing gravity. It objectively works as a method for optimizing allocation of resources for the progress of society, as measured by metrics like GDP per capita.

Saying capitalism doesn't work is the economic equivalent of being a flat earther. So if you are saying something that sounds like "capitalism doesn't work", you'd better phrase it as "capitalism as practiced today works but is suboptimal" if you want to not be automatically dropped in the looney bin category.
In the US, the majority of streets have at least a lane of space taken up by parking. If half of that was offered to bikes there wouldn't be any bike parking issues.
Full disclosure: I'm one such contractor. We work with small and local government. Cities and counties mostly.

I personally don't have a problem with open source software and use it extensively outside of work. However, the big problem with it is technical support. If you are a government organization and the OSS you are using has a bug, who do you contact to get it hotfixed ASAP or find you workarounds?

That's one of the biggest advantages of commercial software: it is often sold with support contracts that entitle customers to certain levels of support, which can be critical to get things fixed and minimize downtime.

I know there are companies that focus on supporting OSS deployments, but from what I have seen in my own niche, they charge a ton of money that often surpasses what the equivalent commercial package would cost.
What if what it prints out isn’t what it submits?
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I think theyre just too expensive right now. So in the us the case for an 8 dollar a day rental or more is slim
In some cases it does not impede public right of way; but it has a much deeper, longer term, insidious cost.

https://youtu.be/Akm7ik-H_7U
I've done this twice. It's the only way I've ever gotten any sanity out of Selenium.
Also "interfering with car traffic" is silly. Bikes are traffic too and have just as much right to being in the road as cars.
The presentation briefly mentioned simulating the brain, but I think what's more likely to succeed is mimicking the mind at a high level of abstraction (i.e. a level we can study with introspective or even linguistic methods rather than neuroscience). There's some precedent for this with projects like Soar and ACT-R (and even some recent interest from mathematicians [1]).
IMHO this kind of methodology could be pushed much further.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4501
I think theyre just too expensive right now. So in the us the case for an 8 dollar a day rental or more is not convincing in terms of affordability.
Wait wait wait. No one thought poor borrowers that caused a nationwide housing market crash.

Furthermore, I don't think house flippers created an industry that needed an ever-increasing supply of loans for securitization and corrupted lending institutions with that demand either.
Who are you to decide that there is no value in it? People are clicking, reading, and engaging. People obviously enjoy doing it. Who are you to tell them that what they're doing is wrong?
Show HN: Selling an iOS / Android App Side-Project
> Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14881425

APP: Having other contracting projects on my desk for the last year, I must have staled the development of an iOS / Android Fitness application focused on A6W exercises.

The App can be seen on https://appadvice.com/app/fit-for-free/1168364183, as well as on the AppStore.

SALES: The App was promoted on Facebook and Instagram for a month at the end of 2016 - gaining a stable 300 Monthly Downloads around Feb 2017 (min. 22 MDL in Oct 2016, max. 1.1K MDL in Aug 2017). Due to a lack of time to develop a sales strategy I let the App live its own life on the AppStore, leaving a simple and hardly effective in-app banner ads instead of IAPs. Currently the App has an avg. 500 MAU without any marketing.

FEEDBACK: In its current state, application received a really positive feedback from its users - along with some feature ideas that could be implemented in the future.

MOTIVE: With the Summer Season ending and Winter approaching, it may be a perfect moment to try and reach the target audience in the coming months. The audience for this App - mainly 15-25 M/F in US/UK/EU - is most active right after the Summer Season, 1st January, and 1-3 months before the next Summer Season - the usual wake-up calls to get in shape.

OFFER: As I cannot dedicate any time to the development, marketing or monetisation of the App - and with the peak activity time of its users just about to start - I am considering selling it to someone who will invest time and energy in it, and will be able to further create and deliver a high-quality, simple, and intuitive fitness app to its future audience.

The project includes:

- a fitness App created using Cordova, React, and Redux (can be released on both iOS and Android)

- a fitness stickers pack for iMessage

- a set of style guidelines for the App layout

- collection of feedback from the users

Interested? Contact & Further Information: maciek.jurczyk at wtlstudio.com
It seems to say more about the mentality of the investing community than anything else. I'd say good ideas are scarce and/or investors aren't really able to identify them, so they wind up doing the same thing everyone else is doing.

Would love to hear examples of recent investments in Chinese startups that have businesses based on something truly novel.
Cabs do this all the time, since the dawn of time
I didn't mean to imply that ICOs were Ponzi schemes. I was just trying to draw an analogy to explain why "the public wants this" isn't an argument which is liable to convince the SEC to back off.
Have you ever gotten completely deterministic tests? I'm starting to think it may not be possible.
Didn't know Spivak had a Calculus text, very cool -- I liked his diff geo writing (sorry do Carmo fans)!
Microsoft caught 'astroturfing' bloggers again to promote Internet Explorer

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2365060/microsoft-caught-astr...

Confirmed: Ben Edelman Paid by Microsoft, Attacks Google

http://techrights.org/2011/08/30/ben-edelman-works-for-monop...

Astroturfing Antitrust: How Microsoft is Crafting the Grassroots Case Against Google

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/astroturfing-antitrust-how-micr...

Who’s Behind This Shadow Group Attacking Google?

http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/google-transparency-project/
FTFA: "[according to] a new NBER working paper".

Working papers haven't undergone peer-review yet, though I'll concede the NBER probably is in a good position to determine the causes of the crisis.
technically, the newer models get GPS track devices builtin, so the chance of maintenance might be smaller than you thought.
Time Warner Cable also had the same data breach. I wonder by passwordless did they mean someone was able to do a ls command on the bucket and was able to download as a public/anon user (direct s3 link)? If this was done I bet you someone probably didn't have time to implement secure link, just decided to make the bucket open.
I am all for the little guy fighting the big guy...but this isn't it, this is the antithesis of it.

What this is amounts to: You were getting millions of dollars from Google and only now that the money is gone you conveniently you have a bone to pick. If you really believed Google was evil as your website claims you wouldn't have been taking Google money until the day it was revoked.

How long does this group need to perform research into Google's anti-competitive behavior and how much money do they need? It seems all you need to do is try to compete or happen to be a market leader where google decides to compete and you have all the evidence you need.

Internet search market share = x%

using that dominance and information on search terms and advertising dollars to determine what market to compete in next in how many occasions= x

advertising costs increased when google began competing = x%

# of companies that were advertising on google that shut down once google began competing = x

What are the actual goals and what are the actual methods to achieve these goals other than asking for money to replace Google's money to conduct research?

I have been talking about it for some time, it starts with empowering people, show people they can take on google and win. Start small, give the people a road map and execute. Try a google search boycott, inform the public when the boycott begins, inform the public how to set their devices/computers to a google competitor, and create your list of demands. My recommendation start small, but meaningful, give an achievable goal that is understandable to the public and sets the stage for the public to wake up and accept the facts that they wield all the power but also impacts googles pocket. Create a clear cut economic line in the sand, you are either on your side or on you are in Google's pocket, you pick. In short, highlight their tax avoidance scheme in Ireland, they are headquartered in the US right? But they claim to be headquartered in Ireland to avoid paying taxes in they very country they benefit from...boycott their search engine until they stop playing the tax game, make them sign a pledge or even contract agreeing to pay the US corporate tax, including, all back taxes. Is that fair to Google? Are they alone? Most assuredly not, but its not about Google, its about tearing back the veil on the perceived power struggle, does Google owe the people or do people owe Google?
You're correct as far as it goes, but that boom was associated with an enormous number of so-called "ninja" loans (No Income, No Job: Approved). The NBER paper says the volume of non-subprime loans dwarfed the subprime ones.

"non-subprime" loans aren't "prime" of course unless you're a big bank or megacorp.
Sure, we CAN contribute. But what's in it for us?

Are we going to get a browser that caters to our own needs? No, evidently power users are no longer the target demographic.

Are we going to make a browser that we can recommend to our nontechie friends? No, I don't trust them to navigate all the opt-outs and dark patterns around your telemetry. I don't even trust myself to never misclick.

Is contributing going to win us goodwill from our collegues? No, you've alienated them too.

Is this about ideology, then? Are we building a browser for a better world? ..it would be much more convincing if you guys didn't fire your CEO over political speech.

And that's where we're at right now. Maybe the 97% or whatever non-addon-using demographic in your telemetry data will make up the shortfall in contributions.
Have you tried using Nextdoor?
We have three vendors for $1 bikes in Seattle. Choose green, yellow or orange. Nearly zero difference. Now they are being abused (hung from poles, dumped in the lake, etc)

What's going to become of these 1000s of bikes toward our long winter, all the casual sunny-day riders are gone.
Why did New America let themselves get into the position where a single customer provides most of their business? (Many companies are in this position, which makes it seem unavoidable. So then, where is the savings or insurance to offset the burn rate until a new whale can be found? In personal finance, we're told to keep 6 months of income in reserve, but that's considered wasteful for businesses. So then they just accept this seemingly-unavoidable risk.)

Assuming the product they produce is public sentiment, where is their quality control, to prevent possibly financially-damaging products from being released?

If they were an advertising firm contracted by Google, where Google is providing 80% of their revenue, and they ran an anti-Google ad campaign (let's say Apple commissioned it and then blamed Microsoft), would we feel as bad when Google ended the contract?
melbourne and singapore are also seeing these problems. long story short, there are twats in every country.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/obike-responds-to-crit...

https://vulcanpost.com/608463/bike-sharing-singapore/
25% for independent yes but not conditional.

Given the result was shown on the video there is a 100% probability it would happen for the attempt shown on the video.
GDP has its own limitations, as it measures aggregate economic activity and does not take into consideration things like wealth distribution, environmental impact, unrenumerated labor. Further, imagine a society where everyone must pay for something that used to be free, like breathable air. If air becomes commodified, GDP goes up, but quality of life goes down as something that was previously a public good enters the realm of private profit. Extrapolate for various kinds of state-run services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product#Limitat...
It's obvious Slaughter strangled the group. She joined four years ago, three years in his group is being forced to spin out because they won't communicate. So from the emails it seems to me that they need to notify Slaughter everytime the publish something for a sponsor and then there is probably some level of pushback levied when this happens. Well New America has Google and Comcast and AT&T and Microsoft and Facebook as sponsors along with about a hundred others. Realistically, the new boss, Slaughter, just wasn't able or willing to stand up to corporate pressure in order to allow Open Markets to do it's job. Lynn was put into a no-win situation as anyone who's ever had a boss who won't fight for you can tell you.
So dystopian. "No you can't put a magic cooling box in your window even though it will solve all your problems, because I say so."
I thought nearly all new SSDs implement AES-256 encryption instead of actually wiping the drive, and controller/key loss means zero chance of recovery?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884421

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918288
Capitalism is indeed a religion, and the definition of capitalism has changed over time to become more towards laissez-faire. Now we're at a point where any sort of government action aside from cutting taxes is considered "socialist", which is still considered taboo even after the cold war. The democratic party of today is more to the right than the Republican party of the past.
Mobx / rxjs solves a lot of these problems for those of us who can't use cljs or elm because our clients are afraid of them.
Ghera: A Repository of Android App Vulnerability Benchmarks
> couldn't we instead still vote via paper, and then read the results via ML?

You just move the single point of failure to an even more difficult-to-prove location.
URI or GTFO. What use is "reporting" on the snake oil industry's own FUDmongering press releases? "Permissions are hard, let's go shopping!"

Let's see some independent analyses of this dataset. Start turning on the right lights and the roaches will scatter.
What kind of conclusions do you mean?
Recently Uber will randomly select drivers to submit a picture before the app will let the go online. So it seems someone somewhere is trying now, shrug.
They lost me at no 3.5mm headphone jack. How can you say your phone covers the essential and leave out an essential port?
The “Unbearable Emptiness” of Science on Twitter?
Mozilla has lost any good will they had with me, I'm actually dropping Firefox this year. The entire reason I switched to it was tab groups, which isn't getting ported over, so I'll be switching back to Chrome.
You Can Yak but You Can’t Hide: Localizing Anonymous Social Network Users [pdf]
I'm looking for similar stuff on signal processing, rf and communications in general. Any recommendations?
Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but to equate criticizing capitalism to being a "flat earther" is absurd. Economics is not a science. Capitalism has a ton of flaws, just talk to the masses in poverty in America. The fact that we ignore this while fixating on flawed metrics like GDP is a huge problem.
I have heard the line several times that the housing crisis was mainly caused by the government forcing banks to give loans to poor people who defaulted then.
Capitalism only works in optimizing those things it measures in the first place. Progress of society does not even enter into it, at all. If 300 million people had nothing and screamed in pain all day, and one person had it it all and multiplied it by X, the GDP would be multiplied by X. So what kind of measure is that?

I also find it interesting that nobody even mentioned capitalism "not working". The comment said that any mention of capitalism is often followed by generic praises. I guess another form of that is "capitalism brought us great things, and is better than the alternatives we had so far, but [criticism of some aspects or consquences of it]" -- which acknowledges that it "works", just like using coal to heat your home works, like many things undeniably work; yet even that would raise the above question, how come it's treated like a religion? If it's so great, why so defensive to the point of scoring own goals?
From the article:

> My <Android phone> is two years old and, as every Android, becoming slower and slower. The battery has degraded too, and now the phone is not holding even half a day of moderate usage. {author says other words to same effect later}

Although I am an iPhone user myself I hope this is hyperbole. My phones have lasted a lot longer and when I have replaced them it has been for new features (original -> 4 -> 6S Plus). I have had my current phone for a couple of years and don't see a reason to upgrade yet.

I'm not saying this to say "apple good others sux", I'm saying that surely this kind of planned obsolescence can't be the rule.

On another point: part of the benefit of Android is you don't have to run the stock apps, right? So as long as the hardware is decent, you can run the google camera app as the author did and got the best of both worlds.

(BTW I know a bunch of the Essential folks including Andy and the same guy spec'd/designed the camera hardware for Essential and, before that, Google).
I'm looking for something similar. So thanks for at least letting us know about TheSignalPath.

Also the amp hour, I feel, is mostly about embedded but they have some interesting interviews in their archives.

For example the was an interview with Ronald quan. he wrote a cool book called make your own transistor radios. Also a couple with Michael Ossmann, the hackrf creator.

Otherwise I usually rely on the IEEE communications surveys and tutorials magazine to keep abreast of what's happening.
I wish I knew the answer to that. It's pretty tough just to get people to test an app, and much tougher to get them to look at code.
You're focusing too much on the implementation details and assuming that because they're different that it's not equivalent. The secret sauce here is that network topology (and threshold rules), not the implementation details, are largely what determine the functional properties of that network. Show an electrical engineer the circuit diagram of a 4 bit adder and they'll know it's function immediately. Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks are the same. The problem with ANNs is that we fail to see the circuitry driving the function because we assume that every w_ij != 0 is functionally relevant. Once you start to strip away non-spurious interactions you start to see topological patterns. I did a lot of work on this problem -- this is not an uneducated guess.
Many bicyclists are afraid to be on the road, and many drivers believe roads are for aggressive car/truck drivers only. There is some basis for this, as novice bicyclists can have difficulty maintaining 25mph for miles, and many drivers are eager to prove their engine is stronger than a pair of legs.
Setting permissions on s3 buckets is absurdly complicated.

Though it's no excuse, it's not surprising people leave it open, it's too hard to figure out how to lock it down.

Amazon needs to share some of the blame here and create a sane UI.
There's always time to implement basic security when it comes to personally identifiable info. This was simple ineptitude.
Yeah, but that's because all the wasted-brainpower goes into preventing even dumber errors, like a method that can't quite decide whether a variable is a string or an object or an array.

Part of my job is maintaining a PHP/JS codebase that's 10+ years old, and I wish I had days where it was all about covariance, rather than the stupid stuff.
> In for example PHP, where the server spawns the threads everything becomes multi threaded.

No it doesn't. The only way to do truly multithreaded code in PHP is using pthreads.
> Capitalism only works in optimizing those things it measures in the first place. Progress of society does not even enter into it, at all. If 300 million people had nothing and screamed in pain all day, and one person had it it all and multiplied it by X, the GDP would be multiplied by X. So what kind of measure is that?

A utilitarian would say that is a equal outcome to everyone having equal measures of happiness.
I think the key here is open sourcing your software that you are selling, so to a vendor, it's little different from supporting your own proprietary tech.
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