skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon Valley, tech culture as a whole, can either be the new master or the savior, it just hasn’t collectively made up its mind yet.

Oh it's made up it's mind. It's just a question of what kind of master it's going to be while it also makes up its mind about what kind of savior it will claim to be while it's at it.
Maybe, but this is pretty basic portfolio theory here. Diversification means you have less effect on the price of any one good (consider that you need buyers for your goods) as well as less risk of an abrupt Amazon price cut wiping you out.
I don't buy the PowerPoint hate at all.

we are in a time where you plug your computer into a projector. your computer can display anything you want, but I believe most people would still show PowerPoint for a presentation. yes there's a lot of bad presentations out there, there's patterns that make your ppt bad. but that doesn't mean PowerPoint is a bad tool, I think that really just highlights giving a presentation is difficult. PowerPoint may make it seem easy because you can make them
fast but making a good one is still difficult

lots of websites suck
but we don't blame the web

lots of apps suck but we don't blame the platform
DevOps Monolith
Did you not see this example in the article? What's your point?
How is stage polymorphism different then a language supporting embedded languages (e.g. javascript with regex)?
That's a really clean sounding architecture. Any particular issues?
Perhaps you just aren't familiar with basic slot concepts? A typical slot player will sit down and first figure out the shape of the lines. Once you know those, it's trivial to notice when you got a near miss.

Slot machines have complex bonus games sometimes, but the base game is almost always quite simple, as long as you understand the basic concepts.
I've found doitlive is a good way to give a quick, non-interactive talk, for example, where you know you won't have time to answers questions from the audience.

I used a proto-doitlive, which inspired the actual doitlive, to present a lightning talk on Mercurial revsets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLvERZQSok#t=965
why what? Not sure which part of that quote you are referring to.
Do you have a source for this? I've never had trouble selling Legos on Amazon.
Unlike regular classification, it's hard to quantify the performance of a GAN by just looking at the loss curves. You really have to make a subjective evaluation by looking at the generated images.

By playing around with it, the results I got from fully connected were nowhere near as good as the results I got from convolutional.
Good idea. If you click on the name you can tap on "Save" to add it to your saved names list. Does that provide what you wanted?
Not wealthy residents. Wealthy school districts. LAUSD spends substantially more than Palo Alto per student.
> Traditional math notation has a lot problems. Inconsistencies and ambiguities. It lacks a grammar.

It doesn't require a grammar, because it is interpreted by humans, not parsed by a computer.

Ambiguity is a major problem in computer languages. It is not so in human languages—human languages are riddled with ambiguity from start to finish. But they've also been developed over a period of hundreds of years to assist human communication.

Math is written for humans to read. Programs are written for computers to read. What's good for one, is very bad for the other. Don't confuse the two—computers are very precise, and very stupid. Humans are very smart up to a point, but no further. Their needs are very different.
Care to expantiate on this ?
Probably a more specialized tool than Google. But OK, sure, maybe a hermit wrote a complete translation of the Iliad and never showed it to anyone.
Thanks! I didn't know about namechk, actually. Definitely worth looking in to an integration, or adopting some of that functionality. Good idea!
Loaded perfectly on my two year old iPhone but man the sound effects were annoying and unexpected
> I'm guessing IKEA don't ship any where in that case

They do ship, but only within a small radius of their stores.
They did, but quite honestly they should have just renamed the framework; Angular 1->2 is less of an upgrade and more of a completely new framework that happens to share the same name. It was a mistake imo, but one they made because Angular is a household name amongst web devs.

From what I understand, they've done a better job from Angular 2-5.
What do you mean by "powerful" in the first sentence? Are you saying "power" is a scalar quantity?
hm, now I wonder what happens if you take 'any old function', add it to a reversed and shifted version of itself, and normalize. do you eventually get one of these self-replicating functions, or are there functions that 'diverge' under this treatment?

Taking a random array and giving it this treatment, I seem to get a gaussian distribution after just a few (say, 100) iterations on a 100-element sequence, shifted by 1/3 and then downsampled to be a 100-element sequence again). but of course this is a global and downsampled view, the function might be very craggy locally.
Apparently, yes. I wonder how legal it is, it's probably got pretty good margins.
Do you have an example query handy?
I'm asking why you think the immigration process should be merit based. What objective would it optimize for?
The Implosion of Western Liberalism
I forget who the author is but these notes were posted on HN a couple months ago:

https://workflowy.com/s/E9HW.jGUYboLrGj
After installing the gopher client (apt install gopher) and running it, you can navigate through the menus to Veronica-2, which indexes a ton of them. You can also just browse around. The linking reminds me a lot of the old days of the web.
Using a random number generator to pick the spot a wheel stops spinning is enough for a patent?
The appliances I bought using their advice has been hit/miss - ranges are decent but the fridges and dishwasher I bought are noisy and required service barely outside warranty period. These are big name brands too.

I don't necessarily fault CR but I with the hundreds of models released all slightly similar but different (I hear partly to prevent price-matching across stores) it must be as impossible to review for CR as it is for consumers to keep track of.
Walmart must be trying to dump inventory for the cost of an article. =P
Yes. But what's striking me is that one woud ever want to test only one input state. If I have to test function f(x) and see if its output is as expected, I always want to test many inputs (including "silly" ones like wrong type, nulls, extremes). Writing one test for each of them is absurd, just give a list of inputs, a list of expected outputs and check them all.
Can someone summarize why one would particularly want a distro which lacks sysyemd? I failed to find thier reasoning in the About / FAQ and don't know enough to understand the rationale on my own. Not to bait a response, but is this just another example of how when a fundamental and broad change is introduced into any sufficiently large software community, some small subset of the community inevitably takes issue and proceeds to fork and maintain a release where they can continue doing things "the old way"?
I get it, you don't like Trump. I don't like him either. But the above doesn't seem like evidence of anything other than real estate dealings.
These Palantir and Grab alumni chose Singapore for their cyber security startup
I felt like making a point that there were some valid reasons to vote for Trump. And I decided to point to the recently exposed handing over of funds during the primaries as an example of such a reason.

> This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.

> I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.

> The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b...
bittorrent would probably have been easiest since it's already ranked by popularity.
Well that's nice and all, but how is a typical user supposed to find and understand that? (Also drag it into your bookmarks? I don't know a single user who will understand that that's a thing.)
Articles like this make me so sad, because it seems absolutely fascinating, but I know nothing about math. I became a programmer later in life and never got a solid education in it.

Beautiful visuals though, lol.
> discussion websites like reddit/HN are better than Usenet

I strongly disagree with this, as Usenet and even mailing lists offer many advantages over web forums. With web forums, I can't natively...

- Store, read, search content offline

- Read only new messages

- View thread context

- Access information redundantly (no SPOF)

- Killfile senders

- Integrate viewing and composing with local tools

While a particular site mitigates its disadvantages, perhaps via a better UI or via information not available elsewhere, the medium as a whole cannot. A website might be a fine view of information, but it should not be the only interface to that information. Doing so prevents all of the above uses and makes it much harder to reuse content in ways unforeseen by the original site. I suspect this is the root of the problem -- such reuse is not desirable for most sites, as it conflcts with their business model.
Maybe it works better at sorting people by ability (in some more visible sense of ability) than at helping them develop. I think that goal explains more about precollege education (as one of many goals for it, all fighting it out) -- at the college level the biggest sorting happens in admissions. I'm just guessing about all this, though.
No kidding. Feels like it should have a QR code on the machine. you can use to download an app that explains what is happening. Or at least a PDF of the probably 10 page payout schedule. And to even get to whatever 3D Ellen Simpsons Plants vs Zombies Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy bonus round. Oh, and those penny slots? Great deal. Only have to wager about $5 per pull to get the good jackpots. Couple that with the strip casinos putting lights on top to signal whether your play has been enough to receive comped drinks.

I'll stick to craps, thanks.
This is a fun exploration! It's interesting that the summed functions have a feature topology that mirrors each sub-function, but some of the local features retain their original scaling, while features in the overlap region adopt a new scaling. This reminds me a little of using absolute scaling in SVG or CSS on something that is parented or embedded (not at the root of the hierarchy). Sometimes you use that kind of thing for character rigs in movies & games - break out of the local coordinate system and use world space.

Since the scaling isn't uniform, this is what causes t1 & t2 to have to be piece-wise linear. I'd love to see what happens if the transform functions, i.e. t1 & t2, were restricted to affine transforms. Like, how much harder is it if you further require the summed function to be a uniformly scaled & translated version of the sub-function? What if you added to the formal definition something like:
f_S = a * f_L ( b * x + c ), where a,b,c are constants

This also reminds me of a mutation I added to my artificial evolution digital art project where I was trying to generalize on the idea of a fractal. I called it the 'harmonic mutation', and it takes any function f(x) and produces a new function with two or more scaled copies, like c0 * f(c1 * x + c2) + c3 * f(c4 * x + c5). Repeat several times with the same constants, and you can make a fractal out of any function at all. Very similar concept to Perlin turbulence too, where you have summed & scaled octaves of noise.
Compare it to communicating between computers, by serializing data structures into some common format (not just xml or json, but particular format or schema within that, with particular semantics). There's a practical matter of requiring a wire format for transmission, but the translation to a coomon form (interface) allows the data structures to differ markedly. In practice, different programs performing a similar task are often written quite similarly - form follows function, and also convetion (e.g. "x,y" for coords). But some parts still differ, especially when the alternatives have comparable efficacy, and more so when the purpose differs. It's an instance of information-hiding, where an API or interface decouples implementation details.

Similarly, we serialize our internal representations into language for - literally - serialization. It's for transmission, but also allows differing internal representations.
Black Monday: Thirty years after
As a Republican elected official in a southeastern state, I have a front-row seat to what this article points at.

The road construction industry used to be a great opportunity for small business people to create for themselves a substantial income. These days, all the companies in our area are owned by conglomerates, backed by billion dollar financial institutions. If you were to risk a million or two or an asphalt plant, they will undercut your prices till you go bankrupt, then inflate their prices once again. The two companies in our area will bid on all of our projects, but it's clear they are in cahoots when it comes to their pricing.

By our estimates, the taxpayers are overpaying by at least 15% - 20%. In my mind, this robs others of opportunity and transfers wealth from tax-paying citizens to billion dollar companies.

No one points this out because the road builders give a lot to politicians. Go against them, and they'll spend enough to have the public label you a RINO which, in this neck of the woods, can get you booted from office.

I've wished for some time that someone could create a modular asphalt plant that can be packed up on trucks and taken to wherever the job site is. I think companies like this could help regulate prices and make a lot of money.
its definitely flame bait, the "why" of systemd. On a personal note, I prefer a simpler init system. Its also worth adding, again, personally, I find the increasing of non init system functionality dependent on some aspect systemd worrying.
TLDR: author complains.

Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
https://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers...
Q - medic = doctor in British(?) Terminology?
Bitcoin
Don't shoot the messenger, we are working on suspending bitcoin exchanges until we get some regulation around bitcoin. The document to be released soon...
> The equation sign is used ambiguously. (for definition and for equality)

Definition and equality are really the same thing. A definition is just an introduction of a term/variable, and an equality giving it a value. So the only difference is if a term in the equation hasn't been introduced yet.

> The bracketing placement of symbols for absolute value, is not a matching pair, thus is ambiguous (when nested or sequential).

How was it not a matching pair? I only see two |'s in each equation so they have to pair up. What other way is there to interpret it?

> the notation for differentials “dy/dx” rapes the division notation. The differential notion has no position in math regarded as a computer language, as implied by the math philosophies of formalism and logicism.

I believe the original reasoning for notating derivatives as dy/dx is that it is a limit of a faction and so approaches a fraction of infinitesimals. with that background the division notation is simply extended to a new class of numbers.

I am not sure what the second sentence is trying to say.

Also pretty much all of the issues could be solved with gratuitous parenthesis. So we have a solution to get a formal grammar; we use the current notation because it is faster to read and write. So without any concrete proposals, this critique has very little content.
Remember when the Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" button was interesting and took you to one of these random sites?
The Future of Integer Factorization (1995) [pdf]
What do you think "stickiness" or "user engagement" are measuring. Same metrics that ran Farmville, and the same metrics putting lootboxes in
games now.
Is the problem that governments have too much power, or that they place what power they do have in the service of the rentiers instead of the people? The more power you take away from government, the more government-like power corporations themselves will wield directly. What kind of world will it be when all essential services are provided - or withheld - at the whim of the already powerful? When environmental or workplace regulation are replaced by courts, and the courts themselves are "arbitration services" run by the very same people you're suing, backed by security services run likewise? When the unprofitable or unpopular become "outlaws" in the very real sense of being denied basic services or protections afforded to the more compliant?

No, that dystopia - not a coincidence that so many SF writers have predicted it - is not the direction we should go. Governments have a responsibility to represent the people collectively where the people can not represent themselves individually. True liberty requires that tension between people-via-government and other kinds of power. It's awful that the government we have is pulling on the wrong end of the rope, but saying they should drop it entirely is practically the same. They should be pulling on our side.

This "make government tiny" philosophy leads to oligarchy and neo-feudalism as sure as Soviet communism did, for much the same reason. It's just another tactic that the autocratically minded use to weaken or discredit their potentially most effective adversary. What we need is a robust government willing to stand up to the oligarchs, not kowtow to them.
Fair enough. I'm a little surprised that those hold up under NFK normalization. А sure as heck seems compatible with A.
maybe one day an even bigger company such as Amazon will eat the asphalt companies lunch then. Their margin is someone bigger's opportunity. Or maybe 15-20% profit is just reasonable and competitive with other industries.
EFCC Recruitment, EFCC Application Criteria and Efcc Jobs Requirements
The examples in the article don't bother me much, but I've noticed that I struggle a lot more when it comes to linear algebra. It might be due to less experience, but I can easily lose track of which things are scalars vs vectors vs matrices vs tensors. I'm noticing it right now working through various tutorials on neural networks... I get the concepts easily but when I sit down to implement, translating the notation into code is a lot more difficult than the scalar functions I'm used to.
Sen. Feinstein Supports “Backdoor” Warrants, So Why Don’t Reps Nunes and Schiff?
>>That is the choice of giving up my money, or dying - during a robbery.

Why do you believe living in the jungle will result in dying? Our ancestors did it, and many people manage to do it today.

It wouldn't be easy of course, especially if you're so used to your creature comforts that you lack basic survival skills, but it's definitely not a death sentence.
Show HN: Flipmeme – Reddit and Imgur image viewer
What exactly do you mean by "a pretty severe Google notice"?
I built Flipmeme a while back. Finally got around to a re-design. It's been a really great side project. Been hovering around 250k uniques for while.

List view is also cool!
http://flipmeme.com/listview/frontpage

My stack: Django, Python, Jquery mobile
Shameless plug but what he describes was partly my inspiration for building https://nogradient.com/. It is very stripped down and minimal. Would love some feedback on it.
Browsers should (have) provide(d) good design by default — write simple <p>s and <hN>s and get beautiful presentation.
I do research, what are the best resources that you use (if you were referring to academic research)
How many startups would love to make this much a year??
Could it be that the wealthy in those locations predominately send their children to private schools. Public schools aren't a priority for the super rich.
This 28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart and selling on Amazon
The problem will always be that the profit motive is an engine that chews up the weak and the helpless, and as a moral society we want to limit these kind of behaviors, both by local gangs, and by massive corporations. Government is one way to do this.
I agree that government should be more limited in some way. I think that the solution will be to empower local government, and the yoke the power of the federal fiat currency to local authority.
Which "developed" (hopefully we can develop some more) country is creating these medical advances? One might guess the US, but I don't really know. Any good studies I could read?
This was very powerful and enabled you to do very powerful keyword searches. In some ways a very different way to search. I was using this for some truly deep searches of internet sites with the content being very much from the original web. The original web being what this article is about.

Nowadays if you 'deep stalk' someone or some thing then you will find their social media posts and profile on linked in.

Back then you were far more likely to be finding them on forums or sites they created, even on those 'guest book' pages - remember them?

Alta Vista and the advanced search functionality was useful up until 2003 or so, then they became part of Yahoo! and we all know what happens when that happens. I stopped using it then but also my particular use case had gone, I was doing different work and no longer needed the search results beyond the search results, i.e. where the whole internets is bisected for the match of two or more particular search terms and their negations. Happy times, but you did have to have the skill to search like that, it was more like using the index cards in a library than browsing the shelves, a mini superuser trick we no longer have even in Google 'verbatim' searches.
Newsletter: Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
William Coleman's Legacy
As a Canadian and a fan of Alan Moore, I'm only dimly aware of Guy Fawkes night - I had no idea of the scale of it, nor its anti-Catholic history.

Honestly, with so much bad history between Catholics and Protestants in the British isles, this seems like the kind of thing that belongs on the dustbin of history.
You can do all of that, but when it comes down to two parties disagreeing it all eventually comes back to violence. Eventually one party resorts to attempting to force their will on the world without the consent of another party. Even if _you_ wont, all it takes is a single party to be willing to do so and suddenly the guy in charge is the one whose ok with violence.

My example was showing how even amongst a group of people who would have defined themselves as hackers, all the winners have resorted to relying on violence in one form or another. You can sit and be principled all you want, and then maybe you'll be a footnote in a history book
As a history professor, it's good to see such a civil and thoughtful discussion of the value of the humanities on HN. Thanks :)

For what it's worth, I enjoyed Prof. Rota's piece and didn't particularly object to his "what"/"how" distinction. I agree with commenters above that it's a misrepresentation of historical research, which can be deeply empirical. Unfortunately a huge amount of history education, especially k-12, does boil down to a rote memorization of past events, so I can't really fault him for the generalization.