skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes it more interesting to have a team versus being a casual observer. Traditionally you end up being a fan of your local team because that's what your family grew up on and those are the games you had access to each week.

Some people tend to like specific players which shuffles their teams around, sometimes from year to year. I think this has been a change over the years - each league wants more viewership on all their games, not just the bigger markets. So you can drive that by 1) running and promoting fantasy games and 2) promoting individual players.

If you play fantasy football you end up shouting at the TV for games you normally wouldn't care about. But then you end up liking some of these players so you kind of root for their team too.

Put some money on a game or try fantasy sports if you like sports but don't have any horses. It can be addicting but it's fun, especially in an office pool. I would have never watched Houston Texan games but I had Hopkins & Fuller and it was cool watching DeShaun Watson emerge from the backup role (really unfortunate he got knocked out of the season recently though) and they had some unbelievable games.
Excellent. I think we completely agree that there are many exceptional people, and the more there are looking a problem, the more likely a new and exceptional insight/change will occur.

I also agree physics is a good example as it draws in many exceptional people and each provide pieces of the puzzles.

Using physics as a metaphor, I also believe that there is a sort of "activation energy" which grows, perhaps exponentially higher, the further away an idea is from the common set of ideas that are considered 'canon' in the space. So the idea that private companies can build rockets profitably without government subsidy is a 'small' distance away from the canon that without the government's help the "business" of building and launching rockets is a money losing proposition. And the idea that you could 'land' a rocket after launching it in some way was clearly identified as a workable, not necessarily practical, idea back in the 60's. And it was certainly considered in the DC-X days of the 80's and 90's. But the idea that someone was going to make a profitable business out of launching rockets and recovering the boosters by landing them, was an idea that few people in the industry really considered. It had very high 'activation energy'.

My hypothesis is that without an individual or group that has the necessary level of "activation energy" to get an idea from the pool of the possible to make it the new way to do things, those ideas do not happen even if there are people who recognize that they "could" happen.

When I look at the electric car market I see the General Motors EV-1 which was almost exactly the same idea of the Tesla but done with insufficient activation energy to convert the entire auto industry into that mode of thinking. So I ask what did Elon bring to the problem that the CEO of GM didn't? Why did Elon have the runway to prototype, build, redesign, build again, and then build again into a market changing car, when GM already had all the expertise in the world about building electric cars and the connections to do everything Elon did in probably 1/3 the time it took Tesla? Why didn't someone in GM pop out of the woodwork and make Electric cars happen? What was different?

GM has some of the worlds best vehicle designers and engineers. Some of whom left GM to go work at Tesla. I believe Elon was the catalyst, and had he not started what he did I don't think we would be driving GM Model S equivalents today. That is the difference in people who catalyze change and the elements of change being available in my opinion.
Tell that to the ~50,000 people who attend basically every Atlanta United game.

The thing is, we aren't just "bad": we're terrible by any standard out there. It's borderline pitiful. And look at how good the women's team is...

One of my "countries of origin" has basically qualified at least (Tunisia). Now we wait for Australia...
You'll never see the tech titans ask for this option, while they are busy portraying themselves as pro-immigrant :)
Does "tweeting" need to be made easier?

I realize that they want their "userbase" to grow, but users has never seemed the right way to measure twitter. Tons of people read tweets, etc on news sites without having an account.

Seems like there are a lot of other things they can do besides "making tweeting easier" to improve twitter.
"Your upcoming crash is very important to us. Please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly."

There is no "primed" human on the line or you might as well just have a driver. And leaving aside issues of controlling remotely, you're probably talking on the order of minutes for someone to establish situational awareness, figure out what's going on, and take control. Which may be fine for something like Onstar but not for time-critical vehicle control.
> There is a 100 mile stretch of I-80...

Logistically speaking, empty places are really, really easy to build rail through. (Politically they may not be).

These rail networks already exist, but they are often not dual line, aren't engineered to support fast trains, and there aren't passenger rail options that utilize them. All of these factors are due to consistent under investment because of chick-and-egg and political problems. It's a real failure of national investment.

You can Google around but the cost per mile of new railroad track is comparable, if not a bit less, than interstate highway. And there are _tons_ of miles of interstate highways.

The US has just chosen poorly.
Surely they could generate the hash on your own device..?
> But importantly, people Tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained.

This has been the argument from an insanely large number of people for years, and it frankly isn't difficult to test. Even in mediums that have no character limit, the vast majority of users do not send insanely long messages, and if there is any mechanism at all to encourage short messages with a fallback to longer ones (such as hiding content behind "read more", or making short messages much larger and more visible: Facebook now does both), then people are even more stingy. I just scrolled through my Facebook feed and paid attention and virtually all of the posts I saw were extremely short (I think even all less than 140 characters excepting two or three). It just seen someone incompetent that it took Twitter this long to figure this out: this isn't shocking data.
The amount of padding in modern websites drives up the wall. The idea that I bought a 24" monitor just so I can read text in fullscreen is ridiculous.

One trick I often use is to have the window take half (or less) of the screen and spoof my browser to be Chrome on Android Kit Kat. I just wish there was a change to have a different browser spoofed per tab, or maybe a "whitelist" of websites that are designed well enough that I won't pretend I'm on a phone.
They already allow you to target groups like that. The algorithm doesn't leak anything more.
What you describe is similar to a heroic moment in a dystopian novel: the elites have already chosen for you, elimated all of your other reasonable options, left you with only one horrible alternative that you'd be a fool to exercise.

But you, the protagonist, defy wisdom and reassert your free will by choosing the horrible option.

Though your chance at heroism does place you in real risk of becoming a villian, in this case. I hope that doesn't happen.
Let us explore the case of competitor offering software by under cutting Google with low price .

Let us take the established known history of 'Evolution of Android on smart phones'. By 2010 as Android share is growing world wide, everybody know there is big money to be made in FUTURE ( By Ads and other means ) by supplying Mobile OS even at free of cost at THAT time.

But nobody is able to do it, even microsoft with it Billions even after after offering Mobile OS Free to vendors .

Now with self-driving Car software, google with DeepMind, Self-driving Teams hundreds of Deep Learning engineering working and developed advanced Neural nets have at least the edge of few years over competation.

Again in 2025, google will choose to limit as "software system supplier" from the "position of strength" that is

1) Let the FLEET companies compete for LOW MARGIN monthly SUBSCRIPTION FEES and provide high value software

2) By limiting as software players, it treats all FLEETS as equals avoiding the "formation of Consortium of" FLEET & Car Manufactures".

Beyond 2025, both FLEET and Car manufacture will be SAME ONE Entity, With out running FLEET, you can not Survive as CAR Manufacturer as there are FEW "end User Buyers" left as majority start moving to "on-demand Summon Monthly Subscription" pay model .

2017 US new Car& Truck Sales are at 17 Million Vehicles , by 2022 it will reduce to 14 Million, then by 2025 10 Millions, then the decline Accelerates .

Even number of different CAR Models are around 500 worldwide, by 2025+ they should reduce to 100 models and Lots of mergers and shutdown of CAR companies
This might be a placebo effect, because last I heard enabling WebRender would leave the usual renderer enabled as well in order to paper over yet-unimplemented features, which should often result in double the work and, one would assume, worse performance. But if it doesn't feel slower, then, well, that might be some kind of triumph. :P
the "country of birth" based green limits ensure that you have to remain in H1-B status for 15 - 20 years (if you happen to be born in India)

You don't wait in H1B status, you get advanced parole which means you can stay and work until you green card has been processed.
As lame as Firefox is, it always works when I need it to (unless I use add-ons). Thanks for sucking the least, Firefox.
Well then, why do you think they're mature and perfect enough to worry about counterparty risk? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Child Online Privacy Protect Act = COPPA

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-...
Since the big chunk of H1Bs are for people from India and China, Citizenship through employment is almost impossible for most of them, especially those born in India. This link explains the why and how very well http://7monthsvs70years.siia.us

People born elsewhere (other than China, India, Philippines) and are here on an H1b, are better off in terms of chances of getting a Green Card and a citizenship in a decent amount of time.
> I would have to say the title is not sensationalist at all

It's appalling that you don't find the title extreme. No way will a tax plan completely destroy higher education as we know it.

> Where do you think those funds are going to come from?

Its simple. The schools are going to start including the cost of taxes when covering the grad students tuition costs. For example, if tuition is 50k + a tax of 10k. The schools will cover the 60k for tuition for a full ride. No school with a conscious is going to slap a grad student with a sizable tax bill.
If this article peaked your interest than please read this: http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/the-last-invention-of-man

It talks about an AI that starts out by producing popular
and appealing content and constantly evolves until it essentially controls and runs the earth. Its a great read and probably just a coincidence, but maybe this is exactly what is going on lol.
> If you live in a city, it’s easy to forget that the United States is much, much, bigger than Europe or Japan.

I assume you mean “less densely populated” (bigger, per capita) rather than actually bigger; it's actually smaller, not bigger, than Europe.
So that's why it destroys my battery.
I definitely agree for the rural / less accessible areas. Carriers definitely have a monopoly there and certain countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland are too vast to have good cabled coverage.

In most of the EU cities you got plenty of choice however.
Headless Firefox is a thing, too.
I didn't down-vote you but I suspect people reacted negatively because the implication is you have to stop learning after college. They may feel you can always learn it at any time. You can take deep learning and math courses online etc.
When a company has been so stagnant with innovation, sometimes you just have to do something/anything to stay on the radar and remain technically relevant.
you say that but the people making these decisions are the people that knew Jobs better than you.
The free and open CA Let's Encrypt is hiring another sysadmin
Check out the Beta, or wait for Firefox Quantum to get released next week. It's FAST!
The thing that is killing them is not the hosting costs, it is the ARPU. They are getting like $1 ARPU per quarter while FB gets like $4-5. That is what they have to change.
Best I can find in UK is £100 on Amazon, http://amzn.to/2jblHQP (affil), https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viper-V2450HD-Streaming-Video-Drone....

Toysrus is £120, http://www.toysrus.co.uk/pdp/product.jsp?productId=TRUP21226...
Smyths is £130, https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/construction-and-ca...
J-1 and O-1 have more shackles. H1b indeed restricts mobility.

IMO, a better law would be to give a green card with 3 yr validity to those on H1b. Then you'll see how the equation changes. Employees on H1b have very few choices due to these locks.
Science is broken
I pay the premium fee to LinkedIn and get a small number of lucrative job offers in my inbox every year, doubled my salary a few months ago!
They're talking about this section in particular: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-unified-class-features#deco...

Where decorators are sugar for higher order functions, even capable of `Class -> Class` transformation, which makes them much different from Java annotations.
Wtf? They could easily hash the image on your device without transmitting the image. And of course it doesn't apply to pictures taken by someone other than you. For those it would need to use machine learning to detect your face + nudity.
2-5 year olds weren't browsing liveleak.
I don't get that sense at all. Looks like a generic "techy" Wordpress theme.
We also try to avoid the you/they dichotomy. It's bad culture.
thanks for digging into the details and analyzing results in a balanced way!

if DAUs increased, perhaps the average user also used snapchat more often, which would increase costs. this is pure speculation, of course, so please share if you discover the cause.

either way, hosting costs per DAU is an incomplete metric -- something like cost per minute (i.e., minutes in app or otherwise interacting with snap) would be a helpful supplement.
Or they can datamine and advertise to you based on tatoos, sexual orentation, visbile brand names, etc. Pop the mic on and get some audio at the same time to futher personalize advertisements.
I don't disagree with this, but I think it indicates that the real problem lives earlier in the pipeline. Maybe we're having the wrong discussions?
If you can't own (or lease, but that's just a financing variant) a self-driving car, the concept is going to be basically a non-starter. People who already take taxis/Uber/Lyft/etc. will appreciate a 50% cut or so in rates but anyone else who already drives a car daily will just pass for most of the same reasons they own a car today.
I know a strong sense of commercialism was imbued in me from an early age by watching targeted ads. I would not want to do that to any child, I don't think it's healthy.
Could you please stop the information-free provocation and just comment civilly and substantively, like we've asked many times before? We'd like not to ban the account, but that's what happens when this doesn't change.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Arizona is big, yes :)
But on average it has better weather conditions, let's take smaller Phoenix area, L5 there won't have to deal with snow (I know it can get small amounts of snow, but don't think it's a problem). Driving in Alaska or Tibet mountains is different feat than driving on good roads of Arizona or south of Spain. So I think L5 can start developing in those favorable areas first. But if it works in 99.99% of times, it's ok to have remote drivers for 0.01%, of course it's not for situations when "it started to rain, get in control while car is doing 100 km/h", but for situations when car is stationary and can't understand what to do and need human brain to help it for a short time. If this will let me to use autonomous taxi 10 years earlier, I'm ok with it.
They use Google App Engine. Not known for being cheap at scale.

https://www.recode.net/2017/3/1/14661126/snap-snapchat-ipo-s...
> Car usage will go up by an order of magnitude because a major cost of driving isn't the dollars, but the time.

This is why I think self driving cars will make traffic worse, not better. The more comfortable it is to be inside a car and the less people mind long car rides, the more people will drive (self driving or otherwise). If road infrastructure is the same, that necessarily means a much higher density of cars on the road. It's possible that self driving cars will be more space efficient on the road, but ten times more efficient? I think it's more likely that there will just be way more cars on the road and traffic will worsen considerably.
Right, it's a partisan point but it shouldn't be. I know perfectly well Trump is often full of shit and do-what-I-say-not-what-I-do. But unpartisanifying the discussion of pros/cons of immigration vs outsourcing vs insourcing vs how to help other countries vs what to focus on in our own borders would be beneficial.
Timestamp: July 13, 2015

This should be noted in the title.
Aside from community support, what is preventing Firefox's JS engine from being used to power a JS runtime?
I’ve had the opposite problem for years in Apple Music: it’s impossible to turn shuffle _off_. It keeps getting re-enabled randomly, and the UI for finding the setting required a Google search.

Maybe caused by some weird interaction with my car head unit (Nissan/Infiniti) or something because it always reports shuffle as off even when it is on!
No, they aren't. They are meant for skilled labour. The bar is a degree.
Well it used to be self hosted. Not sure I like the move much, feels like they're betraying the organisation they're supposedly part of.
Word hasn't gotten much slower or faster in my experience. Honest.

Word has a bunch of additional features that are nice to have. We have spell-check and grammar check today, layouts that don't explode, decent "styles system" (kinda like LaTeX's tagging: you can change a style throughout your document pretty easily under modern Word)

I'd take Word 2016 any day over Word 97. Granted, I'm one of those "strange" people who see absolutely nothing wrong with the modern Ribbon (way better than menus inside of menus, that change from system to system. My school's toolbars for Word 97 looked completely different than my home computer's toolbar... it was kind of ridiculous)
I love my cars. That being said it took 1.5 hours to drive the 30 miles to work today with traffic down the 17/85/101. I would sign up for this in a second and sell one of the cars.
This is a horribly written announcement. The headline should be "Limit on Tweets is Now 280 Characters for Most Languages," or something equally pithy and the first sentence should be a short restatement of that.

Then -- and only then -- go into the details of the test and how this (probably) won't lead to loquacious tweeting etc etc. But my God. I had to read it three times to figure out what this post was supposed to be announcing.
Unknowingly? He mentions React by name.

This was written in 2015, when React was far less popular. Guillermo clearly decided to bet big on React after this- his company Zeit produces next.js, one of the nicer React frameworks out there.

(Can somebody add [2015] to the title?)
Many grad students at these premier institutions are international and will be forced to return to their home countries if they cannot secure H1B or similar visas.
I would suggest that Disney is even more famous than Barbra Streisand.
There is only one for finance-related jobs: efinancialcareers.com

Not as good as knowing people, but if you want to work in finance and don't know anyone, that's a goodbye place to start
To not hire someone because they are overqualified for the junior position I want ot fill?
Nothing is purely good or bad at every level.

One thing that gets somewhat ignored for political reasons is assimilation/integration. Of course there was never a purely smooth, even, perfect melting pot, and there's a large history of enclaves in America, but today there are parties taking that to a prescriptive rule of "don't culturally appropriate" that feels self-defeating (and just dumb, frankly).

There's also room for a discussion of what good qualities to explicitly promote adoption of for shared values, etc.
I think you guys are awesome. Keep up good work. Battery, CPU and RAM of my laptop are having the same feeling. Can I deploy it as fcgi script on cheap shared Apache hosting?
tl;dr - without a spec nothing will ever change

Thanks for the reply-- it's what I gathered from doing a little digging into extant font stacks but wasn't sure if I had skipped over an obscure specification somewhere.

So here's the deal-- maybe a year ago, I tested Windows, OSX, and old-school GNU (via Ubuntu 14.04) and got font metric results within a half a pixel of each other for the test I outlined above. New-school GNU, however, was about 7 pixels wider. Again, this was for the same version of a mono-spaced font, loaded from the same font file shipped with my test program.

I also got reports from users of other GNU/Linux distros about the discrepancy-- these were distros that also used the newer GNU font stack. Since that time I've seen reports about this discrepancy affecting other software.

One final data point-- I also noticed that the newer GNU font stack seems to quantize pixel sizes that aren't whole numbers. For example, assume size "11.3px" generates a particular output. Then "11.33px" would generate the same output, and only when you get to, say, "11.37px" do you get a different output. Not sure if those numbers accurately reflect the quanta, but it was something like that. And again, this only happened with the newer GNU font stack and not with any of the other platforms. Now maybe there's some super beautifully readable output that comes from that algo, but OSX's gold standard of readability doesn't seem to do that...

I didn't take the time to narrow this down any further than that, nor drill down to figure out what part of the font stack causes the discrepancy, or when it happened. Without a spec to which I can refer I'm 99% sure I'll get a response from a font-stack dev that this is the way fonts work and it's my app that is broken. And confirming that likely response isn't worth the effort it would take to precisely describe this bug on an issue list.

As an aside-- my solution to this in my program is to do a sanity check at startup, do some sizing adjustments to make sure fonts fit appropriately into their boxes if necessary, and print out a message for users when the oddball GNU situation is detected. I have to print the message because the diagrams printed in the program are supposed to be pixel-exact, and oddball GNU users will notice extra space at the end of the boxes. (Which is a feature, because if those boxes were tight fitting oddball-GNU-font-stack users would potentially move them closer together and generate overlaps for sane-font-stack users...)

Edit: clarifications
> most expensive

Not really. Like any hosting platform, if you know how to tune it properly costs can be kept low. We cut our infra costs in half moving to GAE. YMMV.
If you enjoyed this article you may find this one interesting too: https://tech.nine.com.au/2017/10/25/14/16/unlocking-the-powe...

It's centered on grids but it has 15th Century analogies. ;)