skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FriendFeed's introduction of the original "Like" feature. "Like, ten years, today!" https://twitter.com/paultoo/status/925052780263358465

Facebook added a "nearly identical" feature in February 2009 [0], and acquired FriendFeed about 6 months later [1].

The FriendFeed post is still up, but I shared this archived version which also retains a screenshot [2].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2009/02/09/facebook-activates-like-bu...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfe...

[2] http://blog.friendfeed.com/2007/10/i-like-it-i-like-it.html
Oh. Didn't think of that.
TFA: the majority of [phosphorous] reserves are in Morocco/Western Sahara, China, the U.S and South Africa. These four/five countries hold 83 percent of the world’s phosphate reserves according to scientist David Vaccari

[0] "Ocean engineer David Vaccari says that the most sustainable environmental flow of phosphorus "would be the natural flux: seven million metric tons per year (Mt/yr). To hit that mark yet satisfy our usage of 22 Mt/yr, we would have to recycle or reuse 72 percent of our phosphorus […] The flow could be reduced with existing technologies… [lowering] the loss to waterways from 22 to 8.25 Mt/yr, not very much above the natural flux."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Freshwate...
In Argentina there is an app that does exactly that:

https://www.iguanafix.com.ar
Why Linux Containers Matter for the Internet of Things
I think monoprice still makes and sells all their own stuff.

I still think it's safe to buy makeup on jet, though they're probably going to start doing 3rd party nonsense soon.
I'd sooner guess that most reasonable people would prefer the UI be consistent within their chosen platform. Yeah, Slack's UI is pretty, but it sticks out like a sore thumb on pretty much every platform because it looks nothing like any of the other applications running on one's machine.
In case you're not being scarcastic: There is no such thing as these vague "market forces" you proclaim.
It works for the whole desktop, so yes.
Does anyone have a summary?
Yes, counterfactual inference is relevant to this. But it is not so much about answering "what would have happened if?", but more about control theory and feedback loops: Your model never being a static function, but a node inside a giant recursive net composed of other models and humans.

Another example (this time on the output-end): You build a model to route emails to sets of experts inside an organization. Your proxy loss is multi-class logistic loss on topic classes. You are interested in improving response times (which you can more or less measure in aggregate) and quality of response (which is harder to measure, if at all).

You build a first iteration of the model and response times improve. Then you create new features and modeling techniques and you improve logistic loss, but when you deploy this model, response times go way down. What happened? Maybe the experts fitted/adapted to the model output: They learned how to quickly answer a specific type of email because it keeps getting routed to them. The new model does better matching topics to emails, resulting in those emails now being send to another expert. While this expert in the long-term may become better at answering emails closer to his/her topic expertise, in a faster and more informative manner, in the short-term he/she will be slower and of lower quality, as they need to adapt to the new types of emails they are getting, and lack the priors for dealing with ambiguous emails.

Both on the input and the output of models there are all sorts of these nasty human-feedback loops that are very hard to even identify and harder to solve.

Leon Bottou gave a talk about these challenges in the context of ML at Facebook: http://leon.bottou.org/slides/2challenges/2challenges.pdf (he mentions the decisions of two separate ML teams adversely influencing their individual experiments). This paper (https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html) talks about "hidden feedback loops" and "entanglement".
Treat the hardware wallet as securely as the seed words. The advantage is being able to sign and spend from the addresses on the hardware wallet without exposing to an untrusted computer each time you spend.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gimignano or the other Italian city-states like Florence. Same apparent dynamics, too: lots of insular clans creating little fortresses for their extended families while competing economically & socially inside the density of the city, always teetering on the edge of civil war.
It's a fairly common practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)
Interesting! Thanks :)
> and NVidia cuts out other features that gamers don't care about.

Specifically: substantially better drivers for compute.
That isn't a systemic solution and this is a systemic problem.
That's progress.
Since you’re asking a reasonable question...

the probable answer is somewhere around 85% “yes”. And about 15% “f$&@ no!”
serious question. is a handful of 16 sided dice a safe generation method?
If charging for the content or showing separate ads is not an option, one solution is to setup sponsorship agreements and/or build the advertising into the shows.

Creative people can probably come up with also more subtle ways for doing this than the obvious Apple or Dell logo on computer or laptop or Pepsi can on the table. I could imagine some cross media campaigns for example which start to blur the division between shows and reality.

For more efficient targeting you could switch to airing the shows through social network sites, like Facebook and Twitter. This way you could actually tailor the products placements for different customer segments based on their profile. With the current level of computer graphics this is getting feasible. For example in sport events they are already dynamically imposing the ads on the side of the field to TV feed (so that you can show different ads to different markets)[1]

[1] http://www.supponor.com/
I usually spend a lot of time writing thoughtful answers but since I'm in bed and your question is IMHO very easily googlable here are a few things to check out:

- Gitlab flow: a variation of the Git flow system optimized for Github

- Git flow: what the former is based off of

- the search terms "git workflow" or "git branching model"

- my two cents: your workflow depends on your team and project structure. For a single person project I commit to master and push to the remote. For a two person side project I'd recommend the same only we both push to remote master. If the team gets bigger I'd do pull requests to master. If it's a client project I deploy master to staging and version tags to production.

- branches are cheap, use them to isolate small units of work, or don't if it's your personal project. But even then I run tricky experiments in branches and discard them if the fail
(not the person you were responding to)

To be honest, my only problem with them is their customer service. And their phone app. My connection is half speed on my phone. :( They also have some strange problems with the linux app (which I wish they would open source). Otherwise I'm really happy with them.
Err. There is a kindle version available on the amazon link he posted.
Having just read this, it seems to say the Special Prosecutor very directly says President Trump at the very least knowingly lied to the US Govt. about his relationships with Ukraine.

Is that your understanding as well?
This is fundamentally different from Solidity.
Great, now they’ll spin this huge register around so I can waste 2 minutes figuring out how to not accidentally tip at the grocery store /s
You do realize that every time a person moves from one state to another that they need to be removed from the voting rolls of the prior state, right?

Honest question, as I’m not sure where you’re headed with this.
"...we remain vigilant to evolving threats by updating our procedures on a daily basis..."

Next on the agenda: How not to lose a usb stick with all that data on it.

Stay vigilant Heahtrow! :)
Why use web at all? IRC clients have been made with native UIs since the 90s.
Could have made more money at an embassy (risky), or darknet.
Possible Interstellar Object That Buzzed Earth Earlier This Month
It's not an issue.

People passing laws that disenfranchise voters aren't doing it in states with mail-in ballots.

Your examples of voter fraud are in a mail-in ballot state. Please provide equivalent, widespread, impactfull, examples in an in-person voting state. You won't because you can't.

Never mind that adding an extra vote to a voting pool does not have the same effect as denying a person the right to vote. Stealing half a penny from a million people is not viewed the same as stealing $5,000 from one person. Perhaps it should be, but its not.
What problem are you trying to solve is the only question you should be asking. Given your background and given that you are useless in terms of building products, you need to excel at connecting with users and if you want a SaaS company then you need to work within industries you know well.

Second question is, how big is your market. That is the only question that really matters to serious VCs.

I'll be honest though the fact that there are two "business guys" and only one developer is a big red flag and I would not get involved with this company. "Business guys" tend to not care for or understand technology and the reality is that in the tech space you win with technological advantage. Period. All best tech cos were started by developers (Google Facebook, Microsoft, all SaaS companies I know of even if the founders were not coding at the end they were developers by training - marc benioff, Larry Ellison) or had genius developers coupled with brilliant sales people (Apple).

The best technologists are driven and are not usually fond of "ideas" from business people. Also, remember that ML is an area that will be conquered by large companies, FANGs. It's not worth wasting your time on, if you are not a technology person.

Given what you mention about your background, I would focus on creating a company that is based on a problem the industry at least one of you knows really well, and have light technology because you are not going to win in the tech space if you have two business founders (my true honest opinion) not nowadays. Something like consulting, something where sales matters more than tech. Business people HAVE to be good at 1. strategy and 2. market so if you're not that's a red flag. Maybe you guys like hanging out, a business partnership is not a great idea.
While I agree, I think that still misses a major problem: How do you have a voice in society from that position?
Care to add a bit more detail about what market? I am curious
I'm slightly more than just aware of its existence — I've read a bunch of docs and seen some talks. But I haven't sat down and written any code myself yet.

> it's been somewhat interesting to not have to deal with the expression problem.

Yeah, I think it would be really fun to hack on a compiler in a language with multimethods.
>>The worst part is there is no "opt in" either. There is no privacy policy or terms of service that I agree to. My only option is to either pay in cash or not shop there.

This is true about every store. All credit card companies and vendors work together to collate all of this data easily. Most don't tell you they're doing it. Square at least made you aware of it.
How's the performance on it? I tried it recently and found it pretty unsatisfactory. Maybe it was the media - I read somewhere that if the file needs transcoding it's all in software.
It would be interesting to learn how the builders decided on these specific structures. I note a few attributes:
* Banked foundations.
* Small windows at the bottom, large windows at the top.
* Tall doors at the bottom.

Specifically, how did they gauge the thickness of the walls and the structural properties of the mud? Was the planning based on a published code that took into account the expected building materials? Did they have occupancy limits?
I don't think playing the game is very important in the US. If playing the game as a youth affected your viewing habits as an adult then soccer should be the most popular sport in the US. Basketball should far eclipse football. As long as they have enough younger players to sustain they should be fine.

Its more about the availability of gladiators than the sports history of people in the stands.
The ideal solution is perhaps:

- uses google powered machine translation

- automatically copies the site and sets up subdomains or interfaces with my static site generator

- updates when my English site updates

- updates when the machine translations get better

- has the option to pay a fee to have humans go and improve the machine translation for my most popular languages

- maybe has some easy interface that makes it possible for volunteers to improve the machine translation, showing them the English and translation side by side or something

- charges either no fee or a fee based on number of visits to my site to price discriminate, and optional extra for human improvement

It seems like if all sites had something like this it could help make the internet equally content rich for foreign language speakers, too.

Does this exist?
Or, if you're lazy like me, get a subscription to grammarly.com. As a technical publications editor I can say that it's worth every penny.
Could you defeat canvas fingerprinting by adding a bit of subtle random noise to the canvas every time it is rendered to an image before sending off to the server for fingerprinting?
Well then the chromebook was definitely the right choice compared to any other "non specialized in that field" computer
The upper left corner links to "Bob's other writings." So presumably it's by Bob.

Click on it and you'll see the full name is "Bob Frankston". It's Bob's web site.

Further click on "bio" and read http://rmf.vc/Bob_Frankston_Bio to confirm "1979-1985 Founded Software Arts in 1979 with Dan Bricklin to develop and sell VisiCalc."
So .. a bizdev guy who has never found any business problems and a PE guy who has never discovered any PE problems? Either you're overthinking it or just doomed: you don't have a team.
Agreed, it seems to me Firefox doesn't need to tell every site that I'm using "X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0" right in the request header. That's surely a bit help with fingerprinting.

Perhaps the sites could figure it out anyway with more effort, but at least force them to make the effort.
Generally speaking, HN prefers you submit with original title, though this may fall under "linkbait":

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
I have a venture, ping me about it. It is a SaaS and ML play in the marketing automation space.
I didn't downvote you, but the reason some did is probably because we want to know why the UV is still there.

Merely restating that the UV is still there contributes nothing.
Once it's productized, it's probably easy to reuse.
The US' health care statistics generally now put it at "second world status". For example, it's infant mortality put on par with Russia, Eastern Europe, parts of the Mid East and pacific islands [1],

At the same, we spend the largest percentage of our GDP on health care of any nation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mo...
If you're interested in doing more ML work, here's an interesting thought experiment to guide your research towards an idea: ML is currently widely used for things like speech processing and synthesis, music, as well as vision. All of this is sensing and reacting to stimuli at various frequencies. But there is much more... So from the lowest to highest practical frequencies, what do we use each band for, and what would it mean to see in it?

Some examples:

- Single digit Hertz: seismic observations. Could you build a better earthquake predictor? How about an active control system for shifting building loads during an earthquake?

- kilohertz: Lightning detection systems.

- kilohertz to low megahertz: traditional FM/AM radio. Is there a better way?

- gigahertz: think your good old-fashioned microwave oven. What if it could automatically learn what it's cooking and how to best heat it evenly?

- gigahertz: could you build a smarter Wi-Fi network (or cell network) if devices reported their location when they didn't have coverage and the network could automatically adjust?

- tens of gigahertz: we now have object sensing systems in cars. what other parts of life might that kind of technology be useful for?

- infrared: what happens when a ML-based vision system wants to see in the dark?

- above the visual spectrum: ML + medical imaging (x-rays, other scans? what could be learned?)

There are lots of fun research questions to be answered and new technology yet developed. The wonderful part about doing some really structured research along these lines is that you might have to ask about "who knows about this" and run into the PhD student who's working in this area -today- but isn't yet developing a product. There is a ton of university research that could lead you towards an interesting new product: the idea doesn't have to be your own, or even come from the typical "ideas" person.
The Merneptah Stele says Israel was wiped out. So it's a pretty tenuous explanation to say that this is the battle recorded in the book of Joshua. Also the book of Joshua says the battle was against the Amorites, that the sun delayed going down for a full day, and that Israel was victorious.

I think it is fair to say the majority scholarly opinion (biblical minimalist or maximalist) is going to consider this theory the work of cranks.

The maximalists don't get their way without a fairly extensive revision of Egyptian chronology, a la David Rohl [1]. The minimalists consider the record of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua to be completely ahistorical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Rohl)
Flat earthers? Who has ever thought the Earth was flat? Even medieval people didn't think that, it's obvious to anyone who ever watched a ship sail over the horizon that the planet is not flat. They used to think the sun revolved around the Earth, which is a lot harder to check with common sense logic.
The paper seems to address this. It notes that some loop constructs could be made available but it would make the resource consumption estimation unnecessarily conservative.

Note that you can do things like unroll a loop entirely and build a Merkle tree of the possible unrolled versions, just revealing at redemption time the one actually used.
ML + SaaS is an overplayed space.... too many competitors and they all dream the same stuff.
The issue is/was that Samsung effectively is the only company that makes OLED phone displays, so they'd charge out the ass for one and could always just sell last gen displays to make their new phone more attractive.

Iirc Apple and some other companies threw a bunch of money at LG so they can get in the game as well, which will be nice in the future but atm obviously screen quality is worse and costs are higher due to R&D cost.
Facebook to testify 29M users delivered content from Russian troll farm
you have full trust in a company

This is a strawman. AMP requires zero trust in Google. That has nothing to do with the argument.

Right now I am not particularly concerned by AMP. I think it's a benefit for a large class of users, and avoids the web tragedy of the commons. It's also open to use by any other party (Bing, for instance, has started processing and caching AMP). I would prefer a fully open, cross-industry "lite web" filling the same need, but everyone seems too focused on FUD about Google than rationally discussing the topic.
The important word there was “every”.
I'm using 1Blocker. (not an affiliate link)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker/id1025729002?mt=8
It's probably not just being robbed but all the controls and general headaches associated with cash (transferring cash to and from the bank) that have to be in place if you use cash at all. Not just for securing against robbery but for accounting controls, auditors, etc.

It's not that common today (and there are legal issues in some states), but I can easily see an establishment that gets to the 90% (or whatever) credit card/smartphone payment range deciding to just dump cash entirely.
What was the PhD working on before joining your team?
What does that have to do with Simplicity?
The good news is that page loads are much better now. Our initial page load ping http://stats.pingdom.com/81vpf8jyr1h9/1902794 is better than GitHub.com http://stats.pingdom.com/81vpf8jyr1h9/1902795

We got work to do in the 99% and merge request page load but the overall situation has improve dramatically.

We still got work to do in availability, so I changed the 'feature' to reflect this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/3b3bddf5...
Decentralized content-addressable network parallel to the internet.
I think a lot of people are going against the author's narrative because they don't agree with her conclusions based on the evidence she presents. I think even the people who sound like they're defending Mark would admit his behavior is inappropriate and immature. But this article started out with 'I've faced harassment constantly in my decade-long career, and this was far and away the worst of it.' The evidence points to the author dealing with a weirdo who's acting like a jackass, but equating that to harassment seems non-obvious to me (and a lot of the critical comments state as much).

On top of that, I think a lot of HNers see themselves as people who have a good idea and are afraid of being pushed out, rather than as people who push others out. So right off the bat readers from HN may think of the author as an antagonist, rather than someone to sympathize with, regardless of how justified the author is.
No, I haven't. Thanks for the reference!
I have a list of ideas and need a team to build them :) You can reach me here: https://www.andybrewer.com/
I would rather baseline git be light and barebones - all the extra stuff is nice to have from a provider, but being part of git itself would make it bloat out.
It does say they fought Canaanites. It specifies that they were Amorites, and names the cities.
> I always look at what their webpage loads in terms of tracking scripts.

Note that this is also one of the criteria in the Vpn comparison chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L72gHJ5bTq0Djljz0P-N...

by https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
Under US product liability laws, the manufacturer and any seller between the manufacturer and the end consumer.

In other words, Amazon.

(Amazon can then sue the vendor or manufacturer under contractual indemnity clauses, but that's between Amazon and them; it doesn't affect a consumer's right to sue Amazon.)