skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've considered creating dubs of the (recent) Christmas Tree lectures, and I think I have the free time (and equipment) for it as of recent. I sometimes feel something akin to visceral anger when I have trouble understanding what somebody is saying, and I'd hate for that to get in the way of a good lecture for many more people.
> it’s doubtful that as much money would have been raised at such advantageous terms from traditional VC for a 22 year old kid ...

Why not? Isn't that the story of many wildly successful SV startups?
To further support this claim, I bought my car specifically because it offered heated cloth seats.

Car manufacturers are idiots. I want a small car because I live in a city, but I will never buy a small car with a sunroof, because I am tall and that space comes out of the inside of the car. So many features are bundled with sunroofs it is absurd. I would have probably spent 5 grand more on my car if I could have gotten features without getting a sunroof.

They literally could have charged me the price of a car with a sunroof and given me one without a sunroof and I would have been pretty happy.
Summary: The Information is a subscription-only news publication covering Silicon Valley and the tech business. It has 10,000 subscribers and is a must-read for tech elites.

Its founder, Jessica Lessin, argues that ad revenue promotes high-volume sensationalist noise, whereas subscription revenue promotes deep journalism. Lessin is running an accelerator for subscription-only science and local news: https://www.theinformation.com/announcing-the-information-ac...

Others argue that B2B publications are easiest to run subscription-only. The Information provides exclusive business value such as earnings calls and org charts.
Your view is not an unreasonable one.

However, what makes you decide to espouse this one rather than the one where he was younger and more naive, worked at the sausage factory for a while, and eventually realized the magnitude and dishonesty of what he was overseeing?

Both seem equally probable.
Wish the tweetstorm was properly crafted.
Here are the tweets in order:

Director Cissna’s statement about H-1B requests for evidence (RFEs): Let’s put
the data in context. We calculate the frequency of issuing RFEs on the basis
of how many petitions we’ve completed, not on the total number of RFEs issued.

With that in mind, RFEs have increased slightly, but not markedly, staying
around 20% of cases. Meanwhile, our approval rate has remained above 90%.
Increased RFEs reflect our commitment to protecting the integrity of the
immigration system.

Sometimes we need to issue more than one RFE for a single petition to ensure
we’re getting accurate jobs and wages data. Increasing RFEs can cause delays,
but they provide assurance we’re approving petitions correctly.

Increasing our confidence in who receives benefits is a hallmark of this
administration and one of my personal priorities.

FY15: 20.5% RFE’d, 95.3% approved.
FY16: 20.6% RFE’d, 93.5% approved.
FY17: 21.2% RFE’d, 92.5% approved.
Exploring the repercussions of what is happening is far more important than the character of whoever notices them.
I feel awesome after smoking a cigarette.
Can I request a change of title? This is essentially an ad for The Information, a news service. I get it's a clever play on words from the famous internet phrase "information wants to be free" but many people clicking on it probably don't know that. It is pretty close to clickbait.

EDIT: not that it isn't interesting. It would just be beneficial to readers to know what they are getting into.
> ICO's are an effective way to raise funds from a global pool of enthusiasts.

Once they're regulated as the securities they are, what advantage do ICO's have?
Should drop in the next release.
What else do your elf eyes see?
Bitcoin unfortunately probably has the best risk return profile for this amount of money.
Soylent hasn't had any quality struggles in the past 6 months that I'm aware of.

12-18 months ago they had multiple issues: sporadic mold under the caps, some people severely allergic to the algae-based ingredient they used, and occasional long shipping delays. But all of those issues have been ironed out while Rhinehart was still CEO.

I honestly think this situation is closer to young Larry Page stepping aside for 10 years while Eric Schmidt ran Google than it is to anything particularly bad that Rhinehart has done. By all measures I've seen, Rosa Labs is highly successful and growing fast.
The lack of distinction between array vs hashtable isn't a big deal. Array as a map from integers to items works fine in practice. Even speaking of algorithm performance, it's fine for the uses you have on a web server. (Any other use of PHP is clearly insane. :) )

You speak like someone who hasn't worked much in PHP. When you do, a lot of quirks and flaws really bother you and slow down during everyday tasks, but the ones you mentioned aren't they.
Although I agree with you in general, please watch Korean cinema (not the extremely popular Dramas) and try working with/for a Korean company for a few years. I think you will find that what I am describing is not typical of any other country with as large a GDP... perhaps Russia, but I don't have any personal knowledge of that.
Additionally, the spare tire well can make a noticeable difference in the undercarriage drag. I know a number of people have removed the spare tire well on their Imprezas and improved their mileage by more than the amount they got when they had just taken out the spare itself.

Of course the spare tire well has some weight to it, but pictures I've seen of the delete do make the car appear more aerodynamic from beneath.
Seems to me this is just a warning so that when both the SEC and US Treasury lay into cryptos next year they won’t feel so bad about everyone losing their BTC/ETH “fortunes” overnight.
I think the point he's making is that

1) by taking certain options off the table (e.g. metered pricing), you are removing the ability of new entrants or other challengers to come compete with a new pricing model (as T-Mobile did in the case he highlights in the article), and

2) the stakes are really high; if the regulations are even slightly negative, multiplied across the entire digital economy of the world, getting this wrong could have a major impact.

> ISPs have to do exactly what they've been doing for decades - nothing. Just leave packets alone and pass them along.

Well, do nothing except for invest billions of dollars in building out new and faster networks to keep up with ever-increasing customer demand for data.
I'm currently using TF for a scientific algorithm that's completely unrelated to deep learning. The speedup over our previous solution is probably on the order of 1000x. There's nothing magical about Tensorflow, we were just too lazy/busy to dive deep on the legacy code, GPUify it, etc. Tensorflow let me do that in a couple of days. So, that's a win. OTOH I completely agree that the API and docs are completely inscrutable at times. Presumably Google is happy with it.
Can someone explain to me how his "book of the month" club example is not a security? The managerial efforts of the club managers will increase demand for participation in the club, increasing the value of the token. What am I missing?
A minor detail: "To woo [reporters], Lessin offers compensation that consists of their former base salary plus 10 percent."

AB 168 recently banned this practice in California, to make salaries more equitable.
To your first point, I'mma need you to explain how you bisect across a poset, because that's what you just claimed you could do.

To your second point, nothing I've said has anything to do with deployment. We're still entirely in the realm of continuous integration.
> You become so acutely aware of the limitations of what you’re doing that the interest just gets beaten out of you. You would never go and say, “Oh yeah, I know the secret to building human-level AI.”

A colleague of mine called these "educated incapacities" - where we become acutely aware of impossibilities and lose sight of possibilities. Andrej Karpathy, in one of his interviews iirc, said something like "if you ask folks in nonlinear optimization, they'll tell you that DL is not possible".

It is useful to keep that innocence alive despite being educated, especially if the cost to trying something out doesn't involve radical health risks. That plus a balance with scholarship.

Knowledge, courage and the means to execute are all needed.
New web developers are really confused. Many of them don't see "programming" as a fundamental skill to be practiced and understood for its own value. Nor does it occur to to learn how, say, HTTP actually works. The resources that they tend to find on YouTube, Udemy etc are really not helping in this regard.
Getting manual transmission with all of the other bells and whistles is pretty tough as well in North America. As soon as you want a package that isn't the very basic, in comes the automatic.
Ymacs – An Emacs-like editor for the Web
I'd say around 100,000 to 160,000 yen, of course it's pretty variable based on size, age, and distance to the nearest train station.

To give you an example, mine is 26 meters square, built in 2014 (I think, would need to double check), 15 minutes from my door to Shinjuku station, 20 minutes to Shibuya station, and around 110,000 yen in monthly rent.
That source is amazing, fascinating to see a glimpse of the culture there. I especially liked "Green Carder", "Center-of-Gravity", and "Hoover's Dress".
I second this. I have tried to move chats with some of my more technical friends to Keybase, but after a few months we all came to the conclusion it was not reliable. Messages not being delivered without any visual feedback, messages received out of order hours late, etc.

I like the fact that keybase has a lot more functionality, but because of these issues in their core product I had to switch to Signal.
I thought I am paying Comcast for making a certain bandwidth to me? Isn't that the deal?
i often wonder if there is a way for people to put information on the blockchain so it -is- verifiable (you can post a public key to demonstrate that the information is from you). so that all public information is only official if its on the blockchain. soon enough people learn that they can't trust anything that is not on blockchain.

of course, talk is cheap. i dont have the chops to actually spec this out.
Oh, man I love this product. I was an evangelist for it back when it required invites and was only useful for storing GPG keys and linking them to your social media accounts. Then keybase filesystem came along and I thought "well, surely I can get a few other folks to join". Sadly, no interest outside of a few invites I gave away on HN. Encrypted Git, however, was the killer app that got the last holdouts among my close network to join.

The git thing solves a few problems for me. I have most of my private repos on BitBucket's free tier and they've grown to the point where I had to make the decision to move to another service or pony up a few bucks a month to add users to a private dev repo for an open source tool I haven't released the code to yet. I'm making no money on it so the desire to plunk down cash for that is not something I'm interested in. Encryption backing it all is icing on the cake considering I only really care about limited access control (and if the code leaked, oh well!). I've now moved all of those repos over to keybase[0]

Team management has been the only real "hassle" and it's only been a hassle because I'm not dealing with a large enough team to commit the CLI commands to memory. And open teams was exactly the feature I was looking for with something I'm going to be doing next week or so[1].

The only thing I wish they offered was some way to pay for premium services. The thing is, I don't even need the premium services. I'm using almost none of the space quota on Keybase Filesystem[2], and they give you so much git space that I can't see ever hitting that wall with personal projects. I just want a way to add revenue to a product that I love out of fear that it'll vanish due to the usual financial pressures[3].

[0] I still keep a backup on my home server just in case.

[1] I'm not being cryptic on purpose -- I have a small group of people I'm working with on some improvements to an ethash CUDA miner to add some additional efficiencies and currently have a core group team (with one very green CUDA developer [that's me]) for that but wanted a open-invite team to invite others into. I don't have slack/discord or other chat clients installed on my personal dev machine but had planned on going that route or similar since I couldn't do it all in keybase. Plus ... crypto-currency, crypto-chat ... it fits better.

[2] Though, I would ditch my Google Drive subscription if I could purchase 100GB or so of storage. I prefer the way Keybase Filesystem works in Windows and Linux and that the files can just be linked to when they're in your "public" folder. It's super-convenient for cases where I have a system that I can't install the client but want to curl a few scripts of mine.

[3] I recall reading something about the company being well funded and the founders were founders of OKCupid, so perhaps they're in such good shape that financial pressure is far from setting in, but this tool has become the second thing I install after I set up an OS. I'm happy to pay even without getting any additional, needed, functionality. It's a small way that I can invest in a product that provides great, personal, value.
FWIW, look at VW and Subaru. Both often offer their mid-tier packages with cloth, but most amenities. My Golf Sportwagen 4Motion S is cloth, no sunroof, but with heated seats and basic driver assistance/collision avoidance.
I hate Soylent so much. If you like the idea of eating efficiently, just get some whey protein and possibly a veggie shake mix. Oh wait, that's not good enough. I need to seem hip, cool, and into the latest fad diet plan.
And that’s the same as ignoring the point that I made.

Senate confirmation is a political vote, one of “advice and consent”. There are no rules. Justice Thomas was not held to a “reasoned interpretation of the law” standard. Judge Garland was not rejected on a “reasoned interpretation of the law” standard. If a political hack like Talley can’t muster 51 votes in a Republican Senate, you should wonder about him.
Taxing your hamburger, for climate change
I do not have an AWS account.

The reason I asked is because forums.aws.amazon.com redirects to signin.aws.amazon.com, and generates some faked up OAuth credentials.
I think part of it is software upgrades, many of which are optimized for newer hardware, or not optimized for out of production hardware. So when new features are added/enhanced older systems may see a slowdown, another factor is newer hardware runs faster so some new updates may not care about optimizing as it runs fine on the newer system anyways.

Have used Apple products for a while, they don't really like spending a lot of undue effort on stuff they don't sell anymore.

Still running iOS 8 on an iPhone 5s, works great, I hear newer iOSs are not as efficient on this phone, so will stick with 8 on it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899569
I see no data to support such a 'disruption'. On a related note why is everywhere i look it's people freaking out over AI. Even the title of the article is telling me to start worrying.
I want to second this comment. I have run a business for about 18 years and still growing. I hired a business management mentor to help me, and he made me read e-myth revisited. Which was also part of his business class at the local college.

I hate doing some of the work, but I enjoy the overall, that it's well worth it for me to slog through the things I don't like. But no matter what happens, I now am a permanent business person. Maybe something just happens to you when you want to make something and be in control of it.

Mixing dreams with reality takes the ability to see what is actually possible and dismiss useless criticism and accept wise criticism.

I could be doing better, as I enjoy the technical side of things too much more than the other parts... oh well. This guys' story about the coffee house is a huge warning to many people, but to me, it's a specific warning about not doing your homework before diving into a project of any kind.

If they had, they would know the exact numbers before they started, and then they would not have started. At least they are sharing their lessons with the rest of us.
Mimicking magic strings is a variant of the adapter pattern - pretending you're something you're not for compatibility.
???

What?

There's tons of vegan food bars on the market: Luna Bars, Larabars, Clif Bars, ProBars, and probably a lot more.
A visual introduction to dynamic programming
I think that maybe you have talked to much already. Meet with Famous Company and get a firm offer. Tell them of whatever notification period will be necessary to terminate your 2018 contract. The contract you signed will have the required amount (days) of notification needed before you quit. Your boss is not your friend, he may be friendly and a great guy, but unless you are married (almost in your case) to his daughter, this is work, a job. I know this because I was a Boss for many years, if I liked you then I would have said exactly the same thing as he did, you need to move on, because I can't pay you what you are worth.
If you have been there seven years it's time to move up in the world anyway. Tell Boss how great it was working there with him and how you will miss working at the company.
I say it this way because you seem to be young. It is difficult to tell when loyalty is due or when self-interest is the best move. Perhaps a better way of looking at this would be to think of this as more of a overdue promotion. So now is the time to go for the glory (and money). Also you will learn many new things, things that will help you later when you move even further up the latter. I read that most people have 3 - 7 jobs (full-time) in their lifetime, so you are right on course.
hey so how do you evaluate opportunities post graduation from Georgia Tech? really curious.

congrats btw!!
This is not really the case tho - games are now shipping half on the cartridge and then you have to download another few tens of GB - LA Noire for example.
The 1985 - 1992 BMW M3 2.3L NA I4 had 192 HP in US emissions spec, so it was perfectly possible to get good power out of smaller displacement.

Of course the price was low-mid range torque, something big displacement engines have in spades. You have to thrash an s14 to get anything out of it.
Correct, but its arguable which will be more work, with a front end server and backend API you are still writing two applications, and most probably, you still need to sprinkle some JS for UX enhancement.
Couldn't/Wouldn't the difficulty be adjusted down in that case so the blocks are mined faster?
The current price list for F9 on the SpaceX website is $62mm for up to 5.5 mT to GTO. The expendable performance is 8.3 mT up to GTO. The price for that launch is not given, but it's likely more than the FH $90mm up-to-8.0 mT to GTO launch price. And again, FH doesn't have a price given for > 8.0 mT to GTO. http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities.

I totally agree that it doesn't make much difference to your argument. However, it wouldn't cost you anything to say the actual numbers published by SpaceX on their website.
The packet passes through so many gateways and networks between Hulu and the end client good luck proving anything.
congrats on graduating!! would you recommend it vs the other online masters' on here? i dont even know how to think about comparing one or the other if i'm supposed to ignore ranking.
Review: “The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi”
I have cloth seats that are heated as well.

I drive a 2015 Chevy Volt with the non-premium package (i.e. no backup camera, etc.) because the premium-package comes with a shiny white center console which is downright blinding in the sunlight.

The premium package also comes with leather seats which, when it's in the severe negative degrees, you really REALLY don't want.
Driveway Gates to Provide Security Level to Your Property
Do most people use the straps? I've literally never put mine on my joycons, and I've never felt uncomfortable holding them or worried that I was about to drop them or anything.
This requires far too much careful manual bookkeeping to ever work at scale. People would never be able to manage dozens (let alone hundreds or thousands) of trust relationships, especially when each decision might end up being rather important, financially speaking. It would be a constant cognitive tax that I can't imagine anyone paying.

This one of many reasons that good money is fungible and completely interchangeable. It doesn't matter where your balance came from -- it can be used just the same.

One other big concern. I think proposals of this nature run a dangerous risk of linking financial associations too tightly with social associations. Becoming someone's friend shouldn't require vetting their long-term financial stability right off the bat.
It's tangent time!

We're trained to absorb ideas at the pace of film and TV, which are super tightly scripted and edited. By comparison, regular speech has the density of a feather. Thank goodness for that ability to adjust the speed!

I just wish the algorithms used to speed up playback on Youtube, in browsers, etc were given a little more love. They sound really poor compared to the time stretching available in professional audio tools (or even something like Overcast). It's not even a quality vs perf tradeoff — high quality granular resynthesis is pretty darn cheap, computationally. Alas, I often need to listen strictly at 2x, since the artifacts from non-integer multiples are too distracting to me. Too bad speed adjustment is such a niche feature.
Shortages Hit Chip Packaging Biz
I still tote my old 4S as a camera and test device. I love that it can stand on it's own edge.
https://2fb.me sharing tech
The conversation "exploring the repercussions" of FB has been going on for quite a few years now without him. This is not some unique insight of his.
In my experience, low tolerance for negativity is a form of burn out dealing with people.

Even the thimble of energy required to ignore a comment is yet another thimble of energy taken from the pool when all you're doing is helping somebody.

The hard line approach might seem silly in isolation, but I don't think it's unreasonable. The slow creep of community negativity has burned me out on one of my own projects, a forum I run.

One perk of zero tolerance is that it spares you energy for more important decisions. People are quick to point out that it comes at the expense of alienating some folks, but nobody ever seems to care about discouraging the people actually doing the work.
Hopefully not, genocidal, authoritarian regimes are not really good.
> If you ask folks in nonlinear optimization, they'll tell you that DL is not possible.

I sincerely doubt anyone who knows more than one sentence about deep learning would say that, since deep learning doesn't claim to optimize.
Spotify. Some of the playlists are really good for focus(Deep focus, Mellow beats etc). I generally listen to ambient/postrock.
Show HN: Fault Trace – Songs made from data
No, again, it has nothing to do with morals. There are many sites for sex workers, and rest assured that many in the twitch community who would prefer that they not hijack twitch also visit those other sites.