skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one is better than some. At least the content is still scrolled naturally, and only the media on the right is locked. Nothing is worse than a site that is completely hijacked, where no matter how many rolls of the mouse wheel, you have the wait and see each downward animation one at a time.
My website still uses tables

http://albeebe.com/
That would be Sculley, who was also tutored by Jobs in how to manage Apple. The other CEOs were from the tech business.
For every one of those, I've seen disorganized mumbling that a set of slides could have really helped.
watching first episode, are the commentators actors or people who have specialized in this? somewhat odd format...also dark/deep state parallels are interesting...
The way the icij acts, is like 4chan with the Adult Friend Finder dumper.
GE is notable as the only long term survivor. But it hasn't grown to engulf the world, either.
How do you keep the big companies from making the contract awards process too difficult for entrant players. I've seeb see this, for example, in [TLA] contracting where in practice some players hire full time staff at 100k+ to even get all the forms correct.

And then if the contracting award process is too easy, how do you fix the problem of keeping fraudsters out and the contractors accountable?
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Or maybe people shouldn't be allowed to be acquire so much wealth in the first place. We can keep the government powerful and effective, but remove the overwhelming influence that immense wealth has.
Nice, but I want an open source one with open datasets so that I know for sure what they are storing and eventually allow others to develop alternative engines. Nevertheless some competition in the search engine world is never bad.
I’m glad to learn of this, but note that it’s from 2010.
I’d think you could analyze how people talk to one another. Possibly even about one another.
15-20% over the proper amount, above and beyond their normal profit. That's not all that unusual in that space. I worked in a field closely tied to the industry. I'm amazed it functions as well as it does.
So is the logical end goal of this system to have a single company that makes all economic decisions as they use their excess capital to take over other industries?? That sound's like the end goal is not going to be functionally different from communism other than that the theoretical super company's goal will be to make its shareholders rich and communism government as least pretended like they wanted to help all their citizens
I think this phenomenon is visible in the reaction that large corporations have to disruptive technologies or ideas. Take the music industry's reaction to efficient audio compression formats like MP3: to pretend they didn't exist and/or sue people who used them. There also seems to be a whiff of this in the telecom industry's aggressive pursuit of anti-net-neutrality legislation. In both cases, there are large industries or entities (with lots of inertia) that have enjoyed a long stretch of dominance and profitability. Then, they're challenged by an idea or technology. However, they'd prefer to simply keep making money in the same way they always have. Therefore, their reaction is not to adapt their business model, but to try to kill the technology or idea.
The end of the cloud is coming
Tl;dr carried interest
Interesting. There are many people who buy from China and resell on eBay and other sites. It's actually possible to automate but seems to require a largish upfront investment.
That's the title, but the main innovation was using a random number generator to choose from among more positions than symbols that the physical wheel possesses, thus allowing different odds for different symbols. The interesting bit comes from claim 8 and 9:

> a random number generator for selecting one number from a plurality of numbers each representing one of said different angular rotational positions, said plurality of numbers exceeding the number of rotational positions of said reel such that a plurality of numbers represents some of the reel positions; and

...

> assigning a different quantity of numbers to each position to obtain the win odds desired.
No, the Soviet system led to feudalism for a predictable reason, that in fact was predicted in stunning detail before it even existed.

http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm

Even if you claim that the outcomes are the same, you cannot claim that the paths are identical, that's just lazy argumentation that ignores the history of philosophy.
I don't see a field medical technician having grad students, so I would think so
iPhone 5 x: Here is the fusion between iPhone X and iPhone 5
I understand the powerpoint hate, but seriously when you are presenting data plots you dont want to draw it. You want to show the data. Another benefit of slides are that researchers post them on the internets, with presenter notes. These are often very informative.
This isn't scrolljacking. Scrolljacking generally refers to modifying the normal or expected scrolling behaviour. This has a single sticky section floated over the top of a normally scrolling page.
I can take a photo, post it on reddit, and get instant worldwide distribution. So can anyone else.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/

There's a long list of such platforms anyone can upload pictures to. Or they can make their own websites. Anyone can do this.

Sorry, I don't see any "choke point".
People don't search the same. For example, if I'm looking for something, I rarely use Google. Always Reddit, which will take me to a specific community with a wiki, and discussion. My Girlfriend will type something into Google, without using an Adblocker, and click on the first thing (which is always an ad), and filled with SEO garbage. I'm assuming most people search this way as well, which is why it's so lucrative.
I am curious what is the inference cost of doing this? How much memory and CPU performance does it take to run the trained network on each image captured by a camera. Are we talking about milliseconds and can it be run on a phone?
The reason they usually collapse is because competitors appear.
I've certainly seen gambling sites around bitcoin, where there is an indelible audit trail if not an actual enforceable contract.
As a reasonably good computer programmer with a facility but no education in math, when I need to learn something new I always try to find some software program, typically something open source, that implements the math in question. Then I can work through the ambiguities of the equations by looking at the source code.
I haven't read this paper yet (I've been meaning to), but: a staged programming language is something like quasiquoting in Lisp, but typically with a typing discipline: a value can have the type "expression of type T". A two-stage program might have a type like "expression of type (expression of type U)". This helps to efficiently implement embedded languages just as Lisp macros can expand to faster code than runtime-interpreted metaprogramming; presumably the typing helps in that you don't have to start the compiling from "scratch" at the s-expression level.

Stage polymorphism I guess means abstracting over how many stages there are till you get to plain old non-code data; hopefully someone will chime in who's more up to date or free to read the paper tonight.
HAHAHAHA a thousand dollar phone that suffers screen burn-in?
Is that information even there anymore? I've sort of taken for granted that like good API documentation, whole subjects simply don't exist on the web in any depth. Maybe it is strictly a google problem, I definitely noticed a decline in quality when they started to combat link spamming. I guess at this point gaming google (sorry SEO) means that only people with commercial interests show up in the first 20 pages of any given search result. The result of most searches these days is either some reddit or stackoverflow like discussion board after the obligatory first page of links to pages trying to sell you shit.

Assuming that the information even exists, in a way, I think actual human curated links (aka like early yahoo.com) might be a better way to search if you could hire a few dozen people to start building them. I've even went down the thought process of building my own webcrawlers for the explicit purpose of building a personal search engine so that I could kill-file the few dozen sites that tend to show up as the default answers to 99% of google queries.
Everybody's going to die. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
But, you don't make money that way. He is talking about selling photos, not giving them away.
Modernizing Saudi Arabia is more about religion than tech.
How much test coverage should I have?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631034
What? None of the many notable Indiana sites? ;)
Having actually seen DSLR output, I can say that neither the original nor the "enhanced" version looks anything like what a DSLR can do. The debayering artifacts and noise are still there.
haha, oh well as long as the corporation has cleared them then they must be innocent! No conflict of interest here!

Okay joking aside, I am really curious, are these people idiots? Are they criminals? Are they both? What makes them think they can get away with these kinds of behaviors?
I do historical research in the context of legal work, and for that Hein Online is pretty good. It’ll have old copies of speeches given in Congress, contemporaneous articles, and that sort of thing. It also has tons of old articles and research papers in the social sciences. ProQuest is indispensible for more modern stuff. If you’ve got a Library of Congress card, many of these resources are free.

A lot of stuff just isn’t online. For one case I needed to look through a bunch of 19th-early 20th century rail and telegraph tariffs. These were generally published in booklets, but they were commercial materials so the Library of Congress doesn’t have many examples. But EBay did!

As a millennial I fall into the trap of thinking if it’s not Google it doesn’t exist. But the traditional methods your librarian taught you are still highly relevant even today.
My favorite self-replicating function is the sine, and I spent some time finding it using just its very strong self-replication properties here:

https://myownfortune.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/why-sine-wave/
I can't tell if your comment is in good faith, but reading it charitably, it seems to me that you have gotten your information from a highly biased source. If we blame the Mayans for Cortez or the Persians for Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, then we might as well blame the librarians at Alexandria for not preserving their texts off-site, no?

At any rate, on the Christian monastic tradition and its roots in scribal cultures that were rooted in the eastern Mediterranean, you might want to check out the works of Peter Brown - The World of Late Antiquity is from 1971 but is still an interesting read.

And on the deep history of knowledge exchange between the two sides of the Mediterranean, this Wikipedia page is a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_world_contributions_to...

The Crusades is the famous binary, but when you dig down into actual sources, you end up in unexpected places, like one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages (Maimonides) living happily as a Jew in Cairo, or the hugely inventive and experimental medical school in Norman Salerno which drew on Christian, Jewish and Muslim works, or Cordoba under the Ummayads, or the fact that Grosseteste, Bacon and other founders of medieval empiricism were directly engaging with writings on optics and chemistry from the Islamic Golden Age (which, incidentally, were better preserved in the eastern Mediterranean than in the Christian west)... the list goes on.
you should have a look at searx instead, is also from the eu, and is completely free software, so free, that you as a user can demand the source code of the instance running due to the agpl license.
The government stepped in when the news broke. Equifax doesn't get to conduct investigations, on itself or anyone else. They can perform whatever theater they like, but it is completely meaningless. Imagine a "crazy" person talking to themselves on the subway. That's Equifax.
2 words. Monopoly. Breakup.

The question is, why is it not happening?
you atheist got way way bigger problems
I find the same problem with ebooks and other things.

Nowadays, I just use blogs and ebooks to better guide my searches to find the (print) books or academic papers that I need.
That estimate is based on the fact that since the last true independent company in our area was bought out by the big guys, prices for all subsequent jobs rose 15% - 20%. I'm all for business making as much profit as possible. I'm not against profit, I'm against predatory pricing that limits competition.
This is the UN speaking, I don't think they're allowed to consider conclusions like that.
Right? He's like a caricature from the Mad Men era. No wonder so many of the MRA or whatever they are called love him.
Vultr offers VPS hosting for $2.50 per month and the WordPress software is extremely simple to use and is 100% free. It even includes several high quality free themes which are perfect for blogging.

WordPress allows you to customize your blog to express yourself in any way that you can imagine, and it supports RSS feeds out of the box so your friends can easily and quickly follow your updates using any of numerous free RSS readers.

WordPress does not impose arbitrary limits on the size of your posts.

Twitter is garbage, it's a toy. If you have ideas you want to express, don't allow corporations to control how you can express them.
Well, you might consider that VCs really do want to make money, but that they also must filter out a continuous stream of cold emails from starry-eyed dreamers and con-men, and if your emails and references have proven ineffective, the VCs' heuristics--which have nothing to do with you personally--have bucketed them thusly. I suppose one could address that by doubling-down on professional networking, getting better at writing a pitch + value proposition, by recruiting a team with experience writing production-grade software, marketing, running a business, etc., etc.

Bring on the upsetting, revolutionary ideas, but please, put away the vagaries and hurt feelings, for they will not serve well here. Those of us in the industry for a while have heard many, many $Texas sized ideas with no teeth.
...since you have been interested in the matrix form of sqrt(-1), I thought you might also be interested in the book I recently came across as well, "The Naked Spinor: A Rewrite of Clifford Algebra".

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Spinor-Rewrite-Clifford-Algebra...

...I can't recommend it, since I haven't read it yet. But from the introduction it sounds pretty interesting:

"Some ten years ago, your author stubled upon a change in the notation we use to write complex numbers. Instead of writing a complex number as a+ib, your author began to write a complex number as a 2x2 matrix. From nothing more than this change of notation, your author discovered the higher dimensional complex numbers. The higher dimensional complex numbers include the whole of Cliffor algebra and, with that, the whole of spinor theory. The change of notation simplifies and generalizes Clifford algebra and spinor theory."

Sorry for derailing your GitHub thread with an off-topic comment.
Randall Stewart at Netflix did a new TCP implementation that helps quite a bit. And he did this really cool thing for the nay sayers, he made it possible to have multiple stacks running in FreeBSD at the same time. I believe the default is you get the original stack, you can ask for his stack, and he did a super simple TCP stack just to show you how small a TCP stack could be.

They are using either Chelsio or Mellanox cards and they use the offload but they are doing TLS with the Xeon cpus. So they are getting 100Gbit while touching every byte.

And don't under estimate how hard it is to do 100,000 TCP connections. When I was at SGI we had a bunch of big SMP machines (I think they were 12 cpu Challenge) that someone was using to serve up web pages (AOL? It was someone big). Modems brought that machine to its knees. You would think that would be easy but it was not. A single (or small number of) fast streams is easy, a boat load of slow streams is hard. Think about it, if you have a TCP stack that gets a request and then nothing, you have all the overhead of finding that socket, doing that work, then nothing. It's way easier to have a stream of packets all for one socket.

It's that sort of stuff that they worked on so far as I can tell. Your caching idea is nice but the cache hit rate is very very low. They did way more work in the sendfile area, managing the page cache. Did you read Drew's post? It's worth a read for sure.
If someone scams me on Bitcoin, what government can I appeal to have the laws enforced on the transaction?
I'm not completely sure i agree with this decision. You have editorialized the author's own paper title that went to a peer reviewed conference.

One may disagree with the results. But your change will not match for a straight up search for the paper title, which I think is a disservice.
> Ha, I wonder how they judge legitimate public interest. Say Trump.. hypothetically tweets about how North Korea "won't be around much longer!" and North Korea interpret that as a declaration of war, is that in the legitimate public interest?

I don't know but it's entertaining as hell.
The good news, it more popular now than before... sigh.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Auto%20Complete%20with%20Redis...
Jack Ma: I understand America more than some of the American themselves
Theory/ educated guess: these therapies try to antagonize the PD1 receptor, which is found on immune cells (specifically, T cells); in a healthy individual, the binding of PD-1L to PD-1 provides a "don't kill me" signal so that the body's own cells are not destroyed by the immune system.

The problem with this is that cancers frequently develop mutations and overexpress PD-1L which prevents the immune system from properly targeting them for destruction. These anti-PD1/ anti-PD1L try to counteract this overexpression, allowing the immune system's T cells to destroy the cancer.

However, targeting the cancer requires a functional immune system; this is where the gut microbiome comes in. It's a sort of "home gym" for the immune system--having a diverse range of bacteria helps keep the immune system strong; gnotobiotic mice (mice bred and raised in completely germ-free environment without any gut microbes) have significantly weakened immune systems.

So theory is that the gut microbiome acts as a "home gym" where the immune system can "train". Anything that reduces gut microbiome (such as antibiotics) will also reduce this "training" and leave the immune system less able to apply its training to fighting off cancer cells.
The most interesting part of the paper is this

DPED: DSLR Photo Enhancement Dataset

To tackle the general photo enhancement problem by mapping low-quality phone photos into photos captured by a professional DSLR camera, we introduce a large-scale DPED dataset that consists of photos taken synchronously in the wild by three smartphones and one DSLR camera. The devices used to collect the data are iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry Passport, Sony Xperia Z and Canon 70D DSLR. To ensure that all devices were capturing photos simultaneously, they were mounted on a tripod and activated remotely by a wireless control system

It opens up the space for others to experiment. Who knows maybe an app for cheap smartphones that takes Pixel quality pics.
Well it's uncommon to refer to yourself in the third person on the web like that. Makes it seem much more, um, impersonal and sterile I guess.
There is a service like that in Charleston, SC as well. I have often wondered if these businesses are actually associated with IKEA in some way. It seems to be a strange business to be independently run, especially when there are quite a few of them out there.
>>A great course in history teaches you how to think differently and with deeper context about world events and your country's politics.

Context matters. If you are studying history when you are about to be promoted to be the general of your army, or pursuing a career in diplomacy these things make sense in the context of your career.

For general folks the value of this information for all practical purposes is zero. Compared to say an education in STEM where many concepts can readily used applied across other disciplines, as its just Math at the end of they day.

For this very reason, some civil engineering graduate can pick CS way easily than say with a graduate degree in history.
You have to remember this was invented in 1982. Using RNGs, stepper motors, and mapped tables was certainly enough for a patent in that era.
Create a website for each. Add to it as things come up.
I'm sure that information is still there, but Google just refuses to index or let you know it is there.

It's almost coincidental how the quality of Google's results fell dramatically, shortly after the death of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia .
How Amazon and Google ended up in Microsoft database conf
It's cool that you do this, but I wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that it's not worth learning to read mathematical notation.

> the ambiguities of the equations

Mathematical language is the least ambiguous language you will find anywhere, other than executable code.
Is this evidence that on average you can expect to pay more on Amazon? I thought part of the appeal of Amazon was that it was generally the opposite?
Will they censor results like EU has been forcing Google to do?
Why don't Wal-Mart and other retailers get into this game themselves? They know their own stock, they could constantly compare their in-store prices to what they could make selling on Amazon. After they develop the processes it would just be part of their usual inventory management.
Tacos vs. Burritos Index: The Great Divide in Mexican-American Cuisine
Gopher is a great protocol. I never really used it back in its heyday; I'm not sure I knew it existed at the time (I didn't really get "real" Internet access until 1995 or so). I recently discovered it after having similar sentiments as the author of this article concerning the state of the WWW.

After you get your Gopher client set up (lynx in the terminal works great), a good starting point is gopher://sdf.org

There are many active "phlogs" published on SDF.org; there is also an aggregator that tracks some 20-odd phlogs at: gopher://i-logout.cz/1/en/bongusta (though it seems to be down at the time of this posting).

The "Gopherspace" is a refreshing wormhole -- with a surprising amount of present-day activity -- into the Internet of yesteryear. I highly recommend checking it out and perhaps publishing your own content on Gopher if you're tired of the dumpster fire that is the WWW.
35 days = 5 weeks = 25 work days = 1000 working hours (assuming a 40 hour workweek). that works out to $13/hour for a programming contract. even with inflation accounted for ($49 in today's dollars), that's low. am i missing something? maybe they only worked half the time (which brings the effective rate to $98)?
I guess I don't really get it... How are powerpoint slides any different than flip chart sheets? It seems to me that either thing can be used illustratively by people who do know what to say, or as a crutch by people who don't.
Wow, that's really neat! Thanks for sharing that.
until the labor to manipulate all these goods drops to near zero- it will continue to exist.
> lots of websites suck but we don't blame the web

> lots of apps suck but we don't blame the platform

Actually, I see both of these things a lot.
In fairness, Yahoo ran geocities for an entire decade before shutting it down.
Preaching to the choir
Seems to me that having so many people taking and publishing photographs driving the price to zero is the literal opposite of choke points and concentration of market power.
How Alibaba, JD are expanding their empires offline by giving data to retailers