skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From 1955 to 2016 only 12% of firms remain in the Fortune 500.

I used to have a chart which showed the top 10 corporations by market cap, decade by decade. You didn't have to go very far back before you didn't even recognize the company names.

I'm old enough to remember all the fear IBM struck into the hearts of everyone in the computer biz in the 1980s, fear that seems so laughable now it's hard to even remember it.

Same thing in the 1990s, but with Microsoft.

Other companies that inspired fear and certainty they'd take over the world - HP, AT&T, RCA. RCA? Anybody even recall that RCA was the name of a company, and not just the plug ends on your stereo equipment?

Anyone remember that old WKRP episode where they were making fun of the fear of "The Phone Company", i.e. AT&T?

There's a good reason for the decline of large corporations - they get too bureaucratic and complicated to manage efficiently. They tend to accumulate too much entrenched interest in obsolete models and technology. I.e. the world passes them by.
Actually, I don't think that is the case. I think people unwilling to pay for reviews killed reviews. Before, you had magazines and newspapers to do reviews. Since those are dying, people tried to do reviews online. Now it's hard to tell who is reviewing for real, who's reviewing for ads, who's reviewing because they're paid, etc.
You would probably need a time machine, going back to the Siege of Baghdad and look for a proof before the Great Library of Baghdad was destroyed by the Mongol Empire.

At least we do have proof that they understood the law of refraction, but we still call it Snell's law instead of Sahl's law.

Maybe the Mayans knew about it too and we will never know thanks to the idiot known as Bishop Diego de Landa, that burned all thousands of years worth of knowledge present in the mayan codices for containing "satanic" glyphs.
What is 'LexisNexis style querying'?
I had _three_ of the same generation card die on me. The past and future generations still work fine.

(7xxx/8xxx/9xxx series if I recall correctly.)

No problems with 560, 1060, or even really old cards like the MX series. So "specific generation of capacitors" seems to line up with it pretty well. I find it hard to believe that just that one chipset generation was terrible (as opposed to OEM's using popular but faulty brand caps and getting burned by it).
I forgot the disclaimer; I have worked with CIA employees.
strabismic people develop active mechanisms to inhibit the opposite eye to avoid / reduce double vision. in the end no matter how many eyes, what matters to the brain is to see something useful, so it will try to learn to suppress confusing information.
They tested quality in a blind test, where people were asked to choose a better looking photo originally taken with an iPhone and enhanced by one of the three methods: Apple Photo Enhancer, their CNN method, and a professional graphics artist using Photoshop. 42 people were shown 9 pictures each. From the paper:

"Although human enhancement turns out to
be slightly preferred to the automatic APE, the images enhanced by our method are picked more often, outperforming even manual retouching."
I work for a service called Textbroker. Unlike Upwork, it is not a race to the bottom. You can start off making very little and grow your income, potentially to a middle class level. It helped me get off the street.

I sometimes recommended them to online friends who had just lost a job or whatever, but they didn't get it. They didn't see what I saw.

So, I started a blog to try to explain how to make it work for you:

http://writepay.blogspot.com

I also have a longstanding homeless site:

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com

I created flyers:

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2017/10/sp...

A couple of people I know socially are interested and have given me some useful feedback. I updated the flyers and one website because of the feedback I got.

I think I need to make local contacts and establish trust. Maybe do some volunteer work. I am not sure.

I would like to start here, but also actively encourage people to get into things like Etsy. There is good internet service in this town. But, I think they just need to get the word that it can be done. Remote work and gig work seems to be kind of big city, cosmopolitan culture. This is an area that historically did a lot of logging and fishing.

There is interest in, for example, IT related meetups. But nothing seems to actually be happening.
Please explain this with Kodak.
Thanks! I'm considering writing a follow-up note on the process that went into the typesetting. The original source is a markdown-with-latex format that a tool called pandoc can work with. The style is primarily from tufte.css. The image work is mostly custom, but there are some re-usable approaches. If you're curious:

https://github.com/tylerneylon/math/blob/master/self_repl_fn...
This is true. The only way I can find product buying advice is:

1. To find a community of enthusiasts and see what they have to say about products in that space. This works pretty well for products that actually have enthusiasts.

2. Go to Amazon and read a product's bad reviews. The good reviews are nearly useless. But, with bad reviews, you have to weigh the number of bad reviews against the product's popularity. If something has twelve negative reviews, that means very different things for a product that sells 10 units a month versus a product that sells 50K units a month.

3. Read the tiny handful of reliable product recommendation sites. Cool Tools, Wirecutter, annnnnnnd.... I'll let you know when I find another one.
While I generally disagree with distributing non-free software, at least those who do it usually do not call their software "Open Source". That's what makes "Faircode" so offensive.
The comic strip was created by a programmer via AI. Recursively humorous.
Show HN: Material SPA in Lisp with 500ms TTI and 11k gzipped
Once stuff is discovered and productized, the scientists and math people often become redundant. My grandma doesn’t know what machine learning is, but can benefit from it greatly on her iPhone or spam filter.

Hell, once the frameworks get mature, even the programmers don’t need to know much. My understanding of the math behind crypto is incomplete, but I successfully implemented validated systems with other people’s “Lego bricks”
I recently tried to search for certain Nintendo 64 ROMs because I wanted to try out an emulator. The first couple of results on Google all lead to horrible, ad-infested websites that claimed to offer a download but either kept on redirecting me to more ad-filled sites, or tried to get me to download some sort of "download helper", "media codec" or "PC cleaning software". Then there were the sites with dozens of fake "Download" buttons surrounding the real one. I'm still not sure whether any of them actually offer any ROM downloads (I found trustworthy sites on the second page of the results).
It's no wonder that many users struggle to keep their PCs free of adware, toolbars and similar junk, when it is shoveled into your face every step of the way.
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> "well-presented talks"

You are answering the question for us. If it's well-presented, of course we will think it's well-presented.

The thing is, a well-presented talk is usually always well-prepared. Very few people can present well without preparation.

The thing is, PowerPoint gets a bad rap because their are a lot of ill-prepared speakers out there. And the reason there is a lot of ill-prepared speakers is because preparing a good presentation is hard and time consuming. Just practicing the talk takes as long as the talk. And then reviewing the talk takes an equal amount of time. So, for you to practice one 30 minute talk, you have multiple 1-hour sessions at a minimum (assuming you can stick that 30 minute limit the first time, which rarely happens).

How many people do you know spend that much time just practicing and reviewing their talks?

The other thing is, tech talks are usually talking about something specific involving code or architecture, and while a talk doesn't always need slides, in the tech world, it usually does. This is because without slides, you need to rely on the concept that you are trying to get across, and you can't focus on specifics. Sure, you can provide a reference slide at the end, but it's hard. And it's hard on the audience as well. And chances are, you aren't good enough to pull it off.

So slides are there to help the audience as well. Not everyone learns the same way (Side note: this is why people who complain about video-based tutorials being worse than pure text piss me off, people learn better in different ways, and the reason text was used for so long was because creating video was much more costly), so using pictures and images can really help hammer the point home.

But it's hard. And a lot of speakers don't speak frequently enough to get good at it, because like anything, it takes practice.

In the end, if someone thinks not using slides will make them a better speaker, they probably aren't good enough to not use slides.
The Wikipedia page on the Integrated WOZ Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Woz_Machine) has some useful links:

- specification of the integrated circuit version: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/iwm/apple2_IWM_Spec...

- interview with Woz on the design: https://web.archive.org/web/20120212185115/http://apple2hist... (worth reading for the quote “We worked all night the day before we had to show it [the disk drive] at CES. At about six in the morning it was ready to demonstrate. Randy thought we ought to back it up” alone. Source control was quite different at the time)
'Sometimes' they pick it up? No, every single tar barrel is picked up and carried overhead while running through a crowd.

Pictures and footage from last night: http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tens-thousands-enjo...
I used to spend quality time going from Forest Hills to various Manhattan destinations. It worked just fine, but wasn’t some idealized gathering place for humanity.
How does this compare to other offerings like Google Earth Engine[1], GCP Landsat[2], or GCP Sentinel-2[3]?

[1] https://earthengine.google.com/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/public-datasets/landsa...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/public-datasets/sentin...
If by marvelous, you mean takes forever to load...starts rendering black text on a red background, background animations then pop in that distract me from reading the text, and oh great, what's this, inconsitent and involuntary sounds that load by default, several seconds after the page starts rendering and replay repeatedly based on where i scroll up or down in the article. I'd scroll and try to read and then "BAM" NEW-RANDOM-SOUND and animation! Shut up! I'm trying to read your god damned paragraph!

And now the animations are stuttering as I scroll...

Oh, and the horizontal-border between the text and the animation shifts up and down depending on where i am on the page (literally obscuring the text I was reading at one point).

Maybe i'm not the kind of person that poker machine sounds appeal to...

I literally can't even get it to work on my desktop setup :(
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> more crotchety in their old age

I will willingly cop to this. But seriously, genuinely yes, the internet is full of a lot more content-free clickbait than it used to be. Because clickbait didn't used to be a thing that existed.
Okay, updated my example with `echo`. Check it out:

Using the original package name: https://github.com/sofuture/colortest/blob/master/main.go#L7

I can refer to my fork: https://github.com/sofuture/colortest/blob/master/Gopkg.toml...
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Does this technique actually improve your eyesight or are you just training your brain to be better at recognizing out of focus text?
But so many personal websites are just self promotion of one kind or another, and that's fine, we all have to make a living, but I'd far rather read something where someone just wants to share what they know/love. And everything looks like the same set of off the shelf web design templates. I liked the weirdness of the old web. Kind of like games on the Amiga, every site was different, and that was part of the charm.

But perhaps you are right. Any tips on how to find the new gems?
That puts it on par with psychology or sociology which has a poor reputation in the falsifiability department
I had the same fascination and tracked down the patents which explains it all clearly. It's took a bit of work but wasn't super hard: https://www.google.com/patents/US4210959 and https://www.google.com/patents/US4742448

IMvhO, the genius wasn't so much the implementation (which in hindsight follows the essence of the function), but the boldness that enabled him to even look for such a simple implementation. However from what little I've read about him in those days, that was the way I thought. Maybe it's a odd distinction.

EDIT: I do have to wonder about the survivor bias in the CNET story. If Apple had crashed and died like it almost did, we would never have see stories like this.
Thanks. lite.qwant.com seems to work.

Now I have to find a way to make it not give me indirect links like:

https://lite.qwant.com/redirect/IDSLFJKsdf99wejweiDFISDJFL92...

But give me direct links instead, like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/

On DDG this can be done by appending &kd=-1 to the URL.
according to this article they can do that

http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ubcujp/article/view/2521...

What's not clear is how they "listen" to each other. Stream-of-thought signals may reach the thalamus, but be suppressed from being uttered as they normally do with all of us. Yet the girls may have developed some connection that allows them to "read" each other.
While this can be true, Usenet was so much worse in every way.
I think the Internet's gotten worse in general (and, specifically, less useful) over the last decade except for one thing:

YouTube is insanely useful for learning how to do basic household stuff, minor car repairs, that kind of thing. Insane.

Mundane? Yeah, but life is like at least 50% handling mundane shit like that. Maybe 90%. Maybe 95%?

Want to know how to repair some brick stairs in front of your house? Sharpen a lawnmower blade? Mulch a garden? Seal a driveway? Change the cabin air filter on a 2008 Mazda 3? Make pancakes using campsite cooking tools? Multiple videos for each. Perhaps even dozens.
Still, the benchmarks are usually toys and it's pretty easy to find contradictory benchmarking reports. Very few projects do online benchmarking comparisons of different design choices on real workloads
Ikea here in singapore just started doing delivery 2 months ago.
Arrest warrant out for Terry A. Davis, developer of TempleOS
In Lewes for example (one of the biggest celebrations in the UK) they still burn an effigy of the pope every year. These days they burn Trump too, but the anti-Catholic traditions continue.
Sampling at a very small fraction of the number of pixels would suffice for long-term statistics. Say one pseudo-randomly chosen pixel per second.
An exponential average would pretty much eliminate storage growth.
That is not true for psychology, biology, chemistry ,or physics either. They all choose some p-value as a boundary for deciding what is real.

Falsifiable means subject to test. It doesn't mean provabe on the sense of math. Only math is provable like math.
aOS on my aPhone never caused problems for me.

Keyboards are not necessary when we can speak to Sara.

Surely the platform supersedes Androad.

(A see what you dad there)
Check the background of the CEOs of the largest businesses in the world. You'll surprise yourself.
The Koch brothers and associated organizations have also been known to fund both sides of extremist events and encourage them to fight each other.

At a glance, I would say pretty much all of today's hot button issues: abortion, race, gender equality, treatment of sex offenders, treatment of prisoners & released felons, terrorism, the current spate of sexual assault accusations...

All of it has roots at a level where the rich and powerful benefit from keeping people fighting with each other and begin terrified of the next boogey man instead of paying attention to the "powers that be." And it's simply because the potential benefit of doing so is unbelievably high, it effectively has no ceiling: consolidation of power, finance, and resources as an end goal so that what, 8 people? control almost all the world's wealth, is a pretty compelling reason.
That's the same with the United and Chase Milage cards (club and explorer)
This brought to mind this site which got attention several years ago:

https://millionshort.com/about

Maybe 5 or 10 years ago. It's a search engine that filters out the top N websites.

However I just tried it and it seems to be poorly maintained -- it's crashing on certain queries, and giving me captchas after only a few searches.

Some people noticed this problem many years ago, and here is a solution which didn't quite work. But it might be something to learn from in attacking this problem.
My point is that retard Rick could be the "central finite curve", and the other Ricks just hate the fact so much they made up a euphemism for him but don't kill him out of a fear of destabilizing the system of Ricks.

We don't really know what it is at the core, and so these girls could very well be the human "central finite curve", and not "off" it in any sense.

I was suggesting we not project our biases onto things like "central finite curve", eg that it's a curve which embodies "normalcy", until we see what role they actually play in the story.
"And, after 11 dogs were found dead a short time ago, Battle worries neighbors who have been trying to buy the land from her family are resorting to sordid tactics to destroy her organization"

It's a pack of 900 dogs roaming hundreds of acres. They are likely doing what wild dogs do...which places them in danger of being shot, etc. It is a shame some are dying, but it seems expected.
Sort of conflates marketing strategy and corporate strategy, though there is overlap. The flow charts are vague enough to apply to any type of problem.

Marketing strategy covers anything related to sales/revenue, such as customers, products, channels or communications.

Corporate strategy covers long term business policies of a firm, and is best understood through an economics lens. Things like make vs. buy decisions, competitive advantage, market and industry analysis.
Suppose there are three large companies that dominate an industry. One of them fails. Now there are two large companies that dominate the industry.
Lego is gated? Since when? I sell Lego on Amazon. It's been a few months since I sold any though.
Sounds a lot like Prezi
The combination of the instability of Windows 3.1/95, terrible window management, 14"/15" monitors and uncontrolled pop-up windows was dreadful.

Windows NT made the browser crashing your computer a little less common.

Linux wasn't any better - the only graphical browser then for Linux was Netscape, and and that was even less stable on Linux than on Windows.
"A nation state attacking civilians in another country is either war or a police action depending on context."

So the same action is called by different names depending on who does it? Quite the double standard.
Experienced in selling soda.
I am not sure what the point of these news stories is. Arbitrage opportunities have existed throughout history. How is it newsworthy? However, a basic understanding of economics would indicate that such market inefficiencies tend to disappear once widely publicized. I guess the journalist wants to grab a piece of the ephemeral surplus by publishing. In the same vein I don't understand why people share truly original ideas on show HN or waste their time contributing to open source. I guess everyone is wired differently. If I had been practising the sort of arbitrage the guy in the article was doing I would have been highly motivated to keep it secret, to minimize the number of new entrants (competitors), etc.
Origins of Go concurrency style (2010)
But truly random systems will be volatile. In terms of slot machine design, that means long dry periods of no wins (big or small) at all.

If you talk to slot designers, the word "volatile" is used about every 30 seconds. The virtual reel and near-miss concepts are designed to give the appearance of a less volatile machine, which converts into a player staying on the machine longer.

TLDR: fake near misses hide the actual randomness of the reward system.
If you want to go to an actual grocery store and you live in a city you're going to spend more than 10 minutes walking. Plus you won't even have access to Walmart, Costco, etc.
This is a disease outbreak waiting to happen. The kindest thing would be to put them all down rather than to wait for the inevitable suffering.
Those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
What does Tulsi Gabbard believe? Making of a charismatic, unorthodox Democrat
Do you have an example? I'm interested.
Based on the title, I imagined this would be about AWS Lambda functions.

I wonder if anyone tried simulating evolution using these. I suppose you could even make the fitness be about earning money, e.g. solving captchas? Such that if a function can't pay for its own upkeep it'd die off, while if it does well it could spawn offspring.
When the IEEE article was posted last week, I followed a link to a book written by one of the developers of the original PowerPoint. I got very little work done that Friday, but it was very interesting, particularly thinking about the difference between OHPs and 35mm slides.

http://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bul...

I'd like to hear Robert Gaskins give a TED talk. I emailed him to ask if he also wants to, and if he's willing then I think we can nominate him through the TED website. It's quite meta, because I think TED would never really exist without PowerPoint.

http://speaker-nominations.ted.com
DMD 2.077.0 Released
General Electric?
Pyknock – Ultra flexible port knocking daemon
Link: https://github.com/airbnb/hypernova
I've been to Bonfire Night parties all over England. In my experience, some people are vaguely aware of the anti-Catholic history, but it has nothing to do with that today. Guy Fawkes is now a kind of folk hero and Bonfire Night has morphed into a lighthearted celebration of him, if anything. It's really just an excuse to have fireworks, and big public nighttime gatherings.
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Yeah. I've read all of folklore.org and I bet there's an equal set of fascinating stories that were never written by all the companies that failed to do what Apple did. It's a shame.
It's not gibberish. The meaning is clear. In English, you would say, "We got sidetracked by the rise of social media platforms and forget that people do other stuff with computers." There's a difference between gibberish and obfuscation, a difference upon which hangs tenure.
I simply fired up Firefox and searched (probably via G) for "quanta" and got a pretty severe Google notice.

Now I know what I am going to do. Bye Google - I was a customer for around 20 years.

I'm off.
Someone should put this online as a service and allow things like batch processing. I'd pay for that.
Could you expand on this or provide sources that do?
But ironically to most business types, freight rail is one of the more heavily regulated and unionized industries in the US.