skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithms are valuable, but in the scope of machine learning what is becoming increasingly valuable are data sets.

The algorithm is one very important building block but a good data set is what finally allows you to materialize a solution.
Nice. I'm giving it a go now. I met a few guys who could be friends but no clients yet, but I see the potential there.
Weinstein's course of action is a personal choice and responsibility. It is absurd to infer or assert collective guilt, or to ascribe some sort of original/social sin to "society." What he did is his individual vice; it is simply not a "larger social problem." Any other man who raped or otherwise assaulted women is similarly responsible for his own actions, and should be punished accordingly.
I really think it matters in what context.

If someone was hacking on a BSD based license, and included code they mistakenly mis-identified the license, I get that. It was an accident. Mention it to them as an issue or email. It's an oversight, accidents do indeed happen.

It reminds me of the recent issue where nVidia copied some dev's code from their GH repo. The repo was unlicensed, but whomever did the copying included it as BSD license. After the dev contacted the repo owner, they fixed it (to my understanding).

These cases are accidents and oversights. And the key here is they're corrected quickly after being brought attention to.

Then you have the other class: habitual intentional infringers. Theyd lift all of Linux, and do. You like those illegal binary dumps with closed source in a release of Linux kernel? Or how about found in countless firmwares on consumer devices? Yeah, its all there, closed source badness and all. And the law allows up to $135k per violation. Ok, times 1 million devices sold. Please pay 135 billion USD.
A company having foresight of a potential explosion and a contingency rollback plan in place before embarking on a major product initiative? That wouldn't be the cynical case, it'd be a goddamn miracle.
Our Journey Toward SaaS Customization and Extensibility at Auth0
Apologies that it is misleading. We decided it was best to remain focused on single role while we work out all the kinks and make sure we're delivering a good user experience. Your point is well taken though. We fully intend on eventually supporting all sorts of roles. The demand is there now more than ever as more and more YC companies are working on things besides web and mobile apps.
I work for a company that makes tools for B2B tech support. It helps to work with people that give a darn about support (really helps if they've done it themselves) to know that we're on the same page about helping our customers & users.

This is in opposition to someone (who may otherwise be a fine employee) who just wants to build React UIs, or a streaming ML backend, or whatever, and is agnostic about what they ultimately work toward.

Organizations with both types of people can work well (and a mix is probably healthy). Personally I prefer having confidence in the idea that the people with whom I work have customer pain points top-of-mind rather than the most kick-ass Spark/Cassandra/etc. cluster out there.
> So, why should the Open Source community be so damned forgiving when we're surrounded by entities who'd eat every last one of us for lunch if we so much as accidentally used a copyrighted resource?

For a few reasons.

0. Because not only profitable large companies accidentally infringe on copyright (or copyleft). If for example OpenZFS somehow violated the GPL with the CDDL, you don't want someone using that to extort money from another free software project.

1. Because people using the GPL to extort money has already happened and it makes the GPL seem toxic. I love the GPL (GPLv2 or later), but it took me quite a bit of legwork to get it approved for use at my dayjob. The objections are based on FUD, and moves like this remove some of the FUD.

2. GPLv3 already has this clause. The FSF et al understood that it was good for the community AND good for the GPL. Extending this to GPLv2 brings the same good faith to projects that can't or won't re-license.

I understand the desire to be as punitive as the bad guys, but the FOSS community is too small to get away with tactics like that. Besides, you shouldn't even if you could. Free Software is fundamentally about community, and attacking people is anti-community.
Granted, that is the normal strategy for startups in 2017. (except that the post was made on an official blog and not Medium)
Yeah, I think I'm being subjective when deciding what to add to this list. For me, a product has to have a beautiful landing page and a nice UI. There are other awesome lists for CLI tools and I've linked to them in the issue. It's definitely not intended for this list to list Unix tools. Thank you for the suggestions, I'll add them.
Reality Check: Credit Acceptance Corporation
Everyone working for Elsevier should resign. The board is forced to pursue this rapacious harvest strategy, but the employees are not. They should go work for an honest, value-creating company.
>Battery powered "milk floats" used to be big in the UK.

Oh right, like the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust, aka Geoff. I guess EVs have probably come a long ways since then.
Authentication Provider Best Practices: Centralized Login
It's remarkable how powerfully he resists the interviewer's prompts to recount people, events, and work from his past. It's as if he's painfully aware of peoples' (perhaps writers in particular) tendency to fabricate cohesive, compelling narratives based on fragments of memory and avoids it entirely for fear of saying something that lacks authenticity. It's particularly apparent when the interviewer brings up things Hemingway is quoted as saying, prompting responses that seem to carry some combination of resentment and shame.
Another competitor, whose vans are already populating the streets, is Streetscooter [1]. But their marketing seems to be lacking in comparison to their American counterparts.

[1] https://www.streetscooter.eu/en/
A lot of people viewed Patreon as a microtransaction service. They give $1 to a bunch of creators. Creators liked this because it meant they could get a bunch of low value supportors instead of a relatively few high value ones.

Previously, Patreaon worked fine for this use-case. You support 10 creators at $1 each. Patreon charges you $10 each month, and credits $1 to each of your pledgies accounts. Patreon then eats $FEES from the pledgie's account and gives them the remaining money. Patreon would aggragate transfers so they only pay transaction fees on the single $10 charge to me, and on the final payment to the creator. As a result of this (and maybe other things), the fees were unpredictable to the creators, because they did not know how many other creators were splitting the transaction fees. In this example, a single creator would only see a ~$0.03 fee on my $1 donation; however, if I only had a single creator, he would see the full $0.30 on my dontation. (There are other fees at play, but this is the important one).

Under the new system, every donation pays the $0.35 transaction fee. This means that even if I support 10 creators, they all pay the full $0.35 on my $1 donation.

In contrast, if I instead had a single creator at $10, he would only see $0.38 in fees, or about $0.04 per dollar.

This means that the new system disproportional effects people making small donations.

It is also not clear that this was a pure money grab. This change coincided with a change to their payment system where they would stop aggregating charges. If they do not aggragate charges, it makes sense that they would charge smaller donations more, because those now have more overhead. The problem is that this breaks the service for small donation use cases.
Wow interesting read that the Toyota factory is the opposite. I think some adjustments where made targeting property cost in Japan are much higher but overall the property cost compared to total factory investment cost are low. But also the Chinese factory is producing higher margin cars compared to low revenue cars from Toyota.
(I'm thinking no further than Netflix ripping off a photographer https://petapixel.com/2017/11/27/netflix-stole-vhs-cassette-.... . Good luck for an Australian citizen to navigate international copyright law to become whole in this regard. )

In all fairness to Netflix it took longer than it should have (for which they apologized) but they ended up compensating the guy to his satisfaction. Now perhaps that's just because of how publicly he stated his case but in the end Netflix did do the right thing.

Edit: As for the rest of your post, you make a good point!
> And yet, after all the designing (a post factum attribution more likely), they're still just numbers on ledgers.

No, they really are not, and that's a very ignorant thing to say. Mere numbers on a ledger don't have central banks dedicated to implement economic policies to actively stabilise their value nor do they get accepted by state institutions as official and in some cases exclusive form of payment.
People complain when you're a robot, people complain when you're a human.

> It's made worse by people thinking that anything about the content of the apology matters. It was literally crafted by an expert actor.

Yes they are a money making organization...that's why they were able to build such a useful service in the first place and yes they paid people to write this letter... who happen to be people that are good at communicating. Does that mean we should question every action they make as insincere because they are self-interested?

Most free/open-source projects are so over-burdened with work/bug reports that they neglect PR pieces like this as they simply don't have the time. It's a good thing it was written by an expert writer IMO, even if it does contain a bit of spin people typically have enough common-sense to know the difference where it matters.

The whole reason they rolled back this change is because they were ultimately self-interested... the customers were very unhappy about it and protested, which may hurt their business, so they rolled it back. It's win-win for everyone. They aren't forcing anyone to use the service, people use it because it's useful and the company gets rewarded for not pissing them off.

Not to mention there is a real action/behaviour behind this letter... it's not just PR-speak sidestepping an issue, as we've seen in the past. It's an announcement that they made a mistake and listened to consumer feedback and are reversing a bad decision.

I find many of these types of complaints (see: every FB group made after changes made to FB) are just people looking for something to whine about, or to feel superior to a company, and they typically aren't representing the average consumer. Most messaging like this is considering the interests of the average/majority customer. Not the cynical/high iq minority who is touchy about copywriting in press releases.
It IS cynicism, by definition. If we have come to expect cynicism from business as something usual, that's sad, but it is cynic nonetheless.

If they had been upfront about it from the beginning, it would still be a business decision, only less cynic.
What? There is consensus on the public blockchain every few seconds + block depth. It's called Nakamoto consensus, so yes blockchain 'solves' the problem.

In smaller chains, there can certainly be consensus, it just won't be as trusted as a public chain and 51% attacks are potentially more feasible due to it having a smaller economic barrier.
Woman arrested over 'replacement husband plot'
haha no, the article talks about the guy being really rich (from his family's defense electronics business) and funding the whole business out of his pocket.

That's what I'm referring to.
While KNNs are simpler conceptually, DNNs are fairly easy to put into practice, thanks to Keras and other libraries. A KNN approach would likely involve more code - for things like Data prep
Auth0 Names Eugenio Pace as New CEO
38 with two children.
Amid Pressure, Facebook Will Stop Routing Ad Revenue via Ireland
Was there really any kind of apology you would have accepted? I'm not sure how they could have been more mea culpa than this.
It's now flagged as "[flagged]", so I guess we know the answer to this question.

Sigh. HN is so disappointing sometimes.
I was fairly articulate, but you needed to be "in the know" to grok the writing :)
I installed this and pointed it at my six year old son. It came back with a big image of an angry girl shouting "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

Not really what I was expecting. Glad I wasn't showing him the screen at the time, at least. But you might want to fix that.
Hmm. I wonder if they could be profitable if they didn't live in SF. It's tough because a lot of the best engineers, minds and talents are on the west coast, either in the Bay Area or Seattle. Having moved to the other side of the country, I've noticed the difference in where companies are at architecturally. It's a tough trade-off for sure.
As someone who had unsupervised access to the internet as a child, I turned out to be just fine. But maybe beacause the internet was way different back then. (I am talking dial up era intrent).

To me after all these years the "new" internet got a dystopian image.

If I had a child, I'd provide them unsupervised access to the internet I remember, but certainly not to the one from today.
It's LiberaPay not LibrePay
I get where you're going with that line of argument.

But lets take the counterpoint. How many times has Legal been introduced to go over Microsoft Windows contract/EULA? How about each other piece of software in your installation?

Are you guaranteed any sort of amnesty or accident forgiveness with the BSA if they catch "incorrectly licensed software" on your network? Is the company guaranteed any sort of "fitness" if the software creators decide to remotely turn off their software?

The GPL is cleanly written. And even to a non-legal person like me, seems pretty straight forward. The Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon/Oracle contracts and EULAs are most certainly not.
O-1 Visas
I work for a tech company playing in the O-1 visa space. Hoping to interview folks who have an O-1 visa or who have considered applying for one. Ping me if interested.
Forbidden, maybe, though the article mentions it only as school policy. I don't think there was a government-issued ban on phones in classes, or at the very least the article does not support this assertion.

> [Jean-Michel Blanquer, the French education minister] said some education establishments already prohibited pupils from using their mobiles.

> At another school, Mathilde, 12, said: “It’s ridiculous. At my school, we don’t use them in class or during recess, so what’s the problem? If anyone’s caught using one in the toilets or at lunchtime, the phones are confiscated immediately and the person is given detention.”

This is certainly an important aspect of the ban, but also relevant is that this is a centrally-issued (unfunded) mandate rather than policy set on a school or district basis.
Isn't is possible to raise money for Infrastructure-specific projects, which would be paid back by with revenues raised from selling power? I don't understand why its not a good investment: all people need power, they need to buy it somewhere right? If they had a clause which said revenues from the customers would be first used to pay back the specific debt... is that possible?
Publishing fees could introduce a perverse incentive for publishers to accept any paper regardless of quality. Although maybe making it a "review fee" may be better. Publishers get more money the more submissions, but quality would still be maintained. Otherwise, I agree with you.
Does anyone have any idea what advantage charging each subscription separately was supposed to have?
Why do we open source software in the first place?

For most of us, I think it's because we want people to use it. And, yes, we want people to use it under certain conditions, it's not a free-for-all, but using it is an important part. If it wasn't, we'd just keep it closed.

Going straight to harsh enforcement for a violation isn't going to help with that. There are already a lot of people unwilling to consider open source for anything because they misunderstand it and think that they'll automatically open source all of their own stuff if they do. Imagine if open source copyright owners had a reputation for going immediately for a lawsuit and statutory damages upon discovering a violation!

Figure out what your goal is, then do whatever helps accomplish that goal. The behavior of organizations like the MPAA and RIAA probably doesn't enter into it.
No, they're just trying to smugly suggest that they're superior to everyone else because they've rooted their phone to run an ad blocker.
[Meta] Why are there 3 identical comments about the paywall? Are they the same person? Is it a HN copypasta/meme?
Short answer: Foxconn. And it's a Taiwanese company.

The difference in resources and capacity are so vast, businesses like Apple have depended on these differences to make their huge profits.

Steve Jobs has advocated US jobs and US factories and has said he would do everything he could, but the truth is, even Apple is/was too dependent on Foxconn, and there would be no Apple as we know it otherwise.

1. '"You can't find that many in America to hire," Jobs told the president, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson. "If you could educate these engineers, we could move more manufacturing plants here."' [1]

2. When Apple needed to change the glass on their iPhones last minute, Foxconn obliged. The flexibility, speed, and sheer scale of their assembly operations are unmatched. [2]

3. Foxconn leverages Chinese work ethics and culture to its maximum. The world marveled at 2008 drummers in perfect sync at the Chinese Olympic opening of 2008 [3]. Now just imagine them building phones.

It also doesn't help that costs are lower.

So Apple wouldn't exist without Foxconn, and Foxconn wouldn't exist without China.

Now Foxconn is outgrowing China, and is building factories elsewhere. But Foxconn city isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and arguable, whatever they do elsewhere will never match what they've build in China, nor will they ever cease to be dependent on its output.

When Apple fails, you know the scale of the problem.

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[1] http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/17/technology/apple-china-jobs/...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/aug/09/olympics2008.o...
That's an impressive amount of emoji in that article.

The tech is cool, though.
All your points are positively good things.

1- Limited supply prevents money printing and inflationary theft. Besides there are many coin alternatives and a BTC can be divided to a hundred million units.

2- No `central` authority is a big plus (probably the best property of it). Once crypto coin pass its infancy, the volatility will be much lower.

3-Ease of access. Another superb property.
So Tesla is not deceiving anyone.

Pilots must be trained to the capabilities and limits of autopilot in airplains before they can use it. They wouldn't be confused to the capability of flight instruments by their branding.

The regular person not only thinks autopilot is a magic make-the-plane-go computer, they also think the Tesla Autopilot is different in class than the same featureset with a boring moniker.
I understand why they need to do something different. It's no mistake that the rule was $0.35 plus a percentage. All the credit card companies that people use to pay with Patreon charge the retailer per transaction regardless of the size, and it's usually $0.20 to $0.35 plus a percentage; debit cards can be as high as $0.50 plus a percentage. That has to be the motivation for this. So the first $1 you give is only like $0.65, and that's just the payment processing fee. It also costs money to transfer the funds to the creator's account , and then Patreon gets 5% of what's left (https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204606125-How-...). Almost all the money has gone to fees.

Even if you run the charges once a month, this is a fee for each Patron and another fee for each creator. If you're a patron and you're giving just $1 to just one creator, you're probably giving them like $0.10 and Patreon a big fat penny.

This is why so many stores have a minimum transaction amount for credit cards. If they don't do that, they can lose money on fees because the profit margin on what they're selling doesn't even cover the service charge.
This is a great landing page, pricing scheme, launch, ect. – all for a book where they haven't finished writing it yet!

Talk about validating demand. Would love to see them do an indiehacker interview after the fact...
Best Solution: Just get a non-stick ceramic pot and cook nothing but rice and beans. Season lightly with the tears produced from flavor boredom and possibly malnutrition ...

EDIT: Also student loan debt ...
I think you've taken more from the original comment than was given. Only you have compared Communist China to Nazi Germany on the basis of foreign policy, so that line of argument is irrelevant.

Historians criticize IBM for helping the Nazis to identify and exterminate political and ethnic minorities, not for improving their ability to wage war. In that respect, Western companies like Yahoo and Cisco have already been caught in similar arrangements with the Chinese Communist Party [1][2]. Hopefully Google's AI center will not continue this disturbing trend.

As to the scale of the CCP's "cleansing" to date, it's hard to know - they don't release any numbers, and foreign journalists are aggressively bullied, arrested, and deported if they try to find out [3][4].

We do know that China regularly humiliates and cracks down on members of its Muslim minorities [5], and that the Communist Party regularly intervenes in the appointment of Buddhist and Catholic religious leaders [6][7].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/business/worldbusiness/07i...
[2] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/03/china%E2%80%99s-go...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/bbc-crew-attac...
[4] https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/28/foreign-journ...
[5] https://www.economist.com/news/china/21721680-bans-abnormal-...
[6] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-14533879
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_China#Diplo...
> flaxseed oil is the only drying oil that’s edible.

Ahem. Oil painter materials nerd speaking up.

The other drying oils are walnut, safflower, and poppy. They are all edible. Although poppy is sometimes classed as semi-drying, along with sunflower, to be pedantic...

anyway. interesting writeup. :)
Ugh. Why are we still having this conversation after so many years? Everyone knows the system is broken but no one will fix it.
At first I did not understand that it is built by YC - thought someone had used styling. It would be helpful to add some additional message, e.g.: "built by YC team", may be even have an alias for a while work.ycombinator.com
Ha, I was in consulting for a while (not Accenture but close enough) and ran projects where we did this type of project-level profitability analysis.

We wouldn't have called it "exponential", because even though you're right that we made a multiple on a person's salary that's > 1, that multiple is pretty much fixed after a certain point in the size of the company.

3x would be typical for a mid, but if I add one more incremental mid I will still expect to make 3x my total salary, so that is still a linear revenue=3*totalsalary. If that 3x because 3.1x or something as I hired more people, then yes, you get some exponential effect there, but it would only do that in extremely small consulting shops.
>Shocking you community's members with a sudden change - no matter the size - is almost always seen as hostile and drives members away.

But the size of the change matters. No matter how much warning they gave there's no way I would tolerate a flat $0.35 fee plus a percentage on a dollar donation.