skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could have done that but then the data wouldn't have been the same as it would be when they were trying to solve real CAPTCHAs. The OpenCV part where they found the characters in the CAPTCHA leads to some messiness in the training data, which will also be there in the 'real' CAPTCHA data when the system is tested. I'd say training the model on this messy data would lead to better results, especially for the case where the letters overlap.
Thanks for the feedback. Making it more of a two way marketplace by letting companies post job descriptions is certainly something we're looking at for the reasons you list.

As for the concern on harvesting peoples' information, we try to be very open about the fact that applications will indeed be made available to founders of YC companies to facilitate employment opportunities. Are you not comfortable with the "all or nothing" nature of that?
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What news you're reading is also relevant.

For example if you were closely following video game enthusiast press you may have found out a lot about Nintendo's mobile game plans much sooner than more typical investors which may only read newspapers such as the Financial Times and WSJ, which devote limited column inches to the activities of video game companies.
Aliens are detained upon arrival and may be detained at length. If the arbitrary permitting of entry that follows that detention wasn't considered due process we wouldn't have border controls.

My other response was a somewhat sarcastic reply to The constitutionality of our current border control practices is still being vigorously litigated.. It's the details that are being litigated, not the overall detention and search of foreign nationals.
IMO, it's playing fast and loose with that term, but I guess the point is that it's not using CGO (i.e. calling into C code). It is, however, using the assembler packaged with the Go tools, so in that regard it's not "pure" go.
Can you name an American consumer financing company that even breaks $100B in revenue?
Only Java can share memory between threads.
> Given Apple’s current balance sheet strategy and assuming no change to the U.S. corporate tax code, the company is on track to soon have $300 billion of cash, almost all of which is located abroad, and $150 billion of debt.

I don't understand business. If I owed $15,000 and had $30,000 in the bank, I'd pay off my debt. Why is this different?
I work at a German research center and we recently also got informed by our library that all contracts with Elsevier will end at the end of year. However, and this is the fun part, it was also noted that it has been reported by other institutions that Elsevier did not actually cancel the access permissions for them after the contracts ended. Seems to me we could finally got into a good position for negotiations about fair access to our own work.
encrypted at rest here means that any data sitting on disk is encrypted. Probably ACLed to the service requiring it. For example, when bigquery writes to disk, it gets encrypted with a key that BQ only has access to.
Think for a minute about the circuitous steps Apple must take just to invest in the United States with overseas revenue. Everyone in the United States should see this as a huge win.
Check out MusicBrainz for metadata. E.g., https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1be1367d-119f-4b08-bdfe-50b95... (Nielsen's artist page) or e.g., https://musicbrainz.org/release/d757ff3a-5502-4e86-952e-dc1e... (an album page) — note all the classical metadata.

Further — the data is licensed freely, and there is an API to get at it all; no scraping needed.
Sure you can, https://www.excelsiorjet.com/

Java has a specification and has lots of implementations.

The majority of commercial implementations of Java have native code compilers, and Oracle is in the process of improving the AOT compiler introduced in Java 9.
How can a guy like this be a partner at khosla? His point of view is as extreme as that of Bitcoin maniacs. And really weak technically.
People are comprised of neurons. That is part of the reason they act like neurons.

...wait, that isn't quite the whole picture is it? It's almost like a group of entities, considered as a whole, has different properties than the individuals that comprise it.
Society does not have an interest -- using "interest" in the legal sense -- in getting girls into tech. But a fair society DOES have an interest in eliminating gender-based barriers should they choose to go into tech.
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I honestly believe that. The article clearly meant it that way. Why are you so insistent on interpreting it in a way which is clearly not what was stated?

When someone makes an ambiguous statement which could be either true or false depending on how you interpret it, the right thing to do is to use the interpretation which makes it true. If I say "the heaviest cat ever recorded was nearly 50lbs," you don't come along and say "that's not true, lions and tigers weigh hundreds of pounds." You realize that I'm talking about domestic cats and go from there.

They stated that there was a record low sea ice extent without saying exactly what was being measured. One measurement was a record, the other wasn't. Thus, clearly, they were talking about the one that set a record.
That's illegal on my country, they cannot change the price for different payment methods.
Power abhors a vacuum.
It seems you haven't thought about the consequences for such an approach.
1) Order Link (http://www.orderlink.io/), 2017: Beta status, it is a web app and helps to process orders at events or in restaurants with mobile devices in real time. Guests can also order with their own mobile devices. Currently looking for real users and a way to ensure that people are really at the location.

2) SU Grabern (http://www.sugrabern.at/), 2017: Website of local football (some would say soccer) club, quite simple and minimal, but a lot of expansion potential.

3) Graberner GeschichteN (https://www.grabernergeschichten.at/), 2016: History documentation of my austrian community (video interviews), videos in german with english subtitles. Created with a friend, maybe we do another round in the future.
I know it's being used to decide where to place random controls in LA airport, day to day. If the controls were in the same locations, the bad guys would just avoid them, but you don't want the completely random either because some areas have higher throughput, or something like that. Lookup Milind Tambe for more details. They also augmented the technology with psychology considerations. Check if there is a video of a presentation from Tambe on the subject: it's fascinating!
...which in turn is a result of governments/funders focusing on "excellence" (whatever that means), there being far more people willing to do research than there are funds available, and prestige being used as a way to distribute those funds.
>If the increase in seller fees is reflected in real pricepoints on eBay's market, it could work out as it really being the buyers paying the difference.

That would be true but that didn't happen. Final ebay auction values for stable items (e.g. books) did not rise by +7%. The sellers really did end up paying most of the fee increases.

Yes, some sellers tried to claw back the extra fee commission by adding extra "handling charges" to the total. That had limited effect because it made prices higher than (1) other ebay sellers that didn't add handling fees and (2) competitive Amazon Marketplace prices.

Also, Ebay lets bidders sort search results by "total price including shipping & handling" so adding handling fees just pushes your items down to the bottom of the list.
A monkey throwing darts will outperform the market on average.

The monkey is giving even weight to each option rather than weighting according to risk. The monkey is picking a riskier portfolio than an index fund, and in compensation for accepting greater downside risk will have greater average returns.

Markets are subtle like that =)

Of course, the monkey is likely to attribute the difference to skill rather than risk...
Good timing on this post, I was researching this last night after one of our wooden bowls was placed in the dishwasher by mistake.

There's conflicting information out there about flax/linseed oil - All state that the boiled variety is not food safe, but advice on raw linseed oil is quite divided. Some advice says it's fine, some not. The bottle of raw I currently own says not to ingest, so I'm taking it to be not food safe :)

One of the commonly suggested alternatives is to use mineral oil, or a combination of beeswax and mineral oil. Knowing that mineral oil is a product of crude oil refining really makes me uneasy, but at the same time I know that's an appeal to nature fallacy.

Walnut oil is sounding like an expensive but worthwhile third option.
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Would you encourage every women to complain about sexual harassment before they get the benefits they're looking for? Sexual services are considered crime for a reason, but it's not really enforced.
Everytime sexual harassment by comes up from women, they are demonised in HN. And this is the reason these issues are coming up. What's wrong with Ellen Pao taking about it? You very skilfully changed it into her "personal brand". Past presidents make it their brand to give speeches and earn millions just for that.

Rape and sexual harassments are most under-reported crimes. Everyone who faced these issues should talk about it. And HN being mostly men's place, it's obvious they don't like it.
Books are a means of entertainment. How is it any different than one class is electronic and another isn't?
You're trying to make it A vs B issue, black and white. This worldview causes outrage, which's incredibly unhelpful and destructive.

The whole point is to see the greys.

Salma was after breaking out of the Mexican soap opera market, into Hollywood. That was her ambition and she was willing to put up with what she describes as an incredible amount of sexual harassment. Once she had reached fame, she didnt' lead this movement to help other women who are trying to do the same.

When you don't have a lot, you don't know any better - I will look the other way.

When you're already successful, you want MORE success, put up with a mountain of shit along the way - I can safely say you're very driven to accomplish very trivial things, because integrity and mental health are not chips you play with for more fame unless you're incredibly confused.

That's the subtle point that folks who want to paint the world black and white and get outraged by anyone who sees greys keep missing - Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, the list goes on and on, get to be creeps, because people are willing to put up with emotional abuse to 'make it'.
That is not what rent seeking means.
Disagree with this; because it very much depends on the program being written. From what I've seen they've become more popular with ironically the exception of the SQL ones for the reason you describe. As long as you can get the schema/example file locally on the source tree without the type provider needing to fetch it remotely it saves having to write up a lot of classes by hand. E.g with web UI calls just get the swagger Json and download it into your solution, for rest/json APIs just drop all the example documents into a folder and have the type provider reference that. Once the source data is local the flakiness mostly goes away and it just becomes a much quicker/less error prone way of expressing schema from a wide variety of sources. It's personally saved me a lot of time in development especially when interacting with many data sources at the same time - that's a lot of Dtos I would have to craft myself and I would in this case probably moved to a dynamic language a while ago for the work I do. A type provider that allows local schema would deal with your issue and then you would get type checked SQL queries at compile time without the direct db dependency and connection latency.
Survivorship bias seems worth investigating here. Do people who make bad stock buying decisions come to these threads and comment on them?
agreed re scope of error – this is the key challenge given the complexity of face perception.

this is a beta, we will improve quickly.
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The reason you don’t see that everywhere is it’s specifically against the merchant agreement to charge cc customers extra. The only places I’ve ever seen getting away with it are very small shops and government agencies (like the auto tag office) that legally cannot pay those costs out of ordinary revenue.
If you are sure Bitcoin is going to crash get a short position in futures and become rich.
(1) Copy a coin that already exists (filecoin, etc.)

(2) Get wealthy investors.. be good at powerpoint and bullshitting.

(3) Pre-mine a bunch of your coin. Don't respond to anyone that calls you out on this.

(4) Hype the shit out of it using puppet accounts, russian botnets, instagram advertisements.. pay for publicity.

(5) Use your wealthy investors to make your coin worth X amount of BTC at launch. Cash out a large portion of your coin quickly after launch just in case, and then wait for other people to buy your coin because general investors are clueless.. if you ride that wave, cash out more over time.

(6) Open a hamburger stand or charity.. something to give back to society and to decrease boredom.
your use of "local grocer" made me chuckle since that term makes me think of the corner grocery store. meijer on the other hand is one of the 100 largest employers in the country and has ~$17B in yearly revenue.
I believe there’s some tax advantage for them. Possibly they can claim a tax deduction of some kind on the debt interest. And of course this way not only do they get that but they avoid paying any taxes on the profits they’ve funneled overseas.

(I am not an accountant so fully prepared to be told I am well wrong.)
You can already play with WASM directly in the browser.

https://wasdk.github.io/WasmFiddle/

https://mbebenita.github.io/WasmExplorer/

I prefer the explorer one.

The s-exp representation is great for doing compiler development, hence why it was chosen.
I've had the same experience, I've just taken to whitelisting all of the cache, assembly, and lib folders throughout the workflow (and processes).

Never found an AV which didn't seriously hamper build times, since building often involves a lot of process start/stops and new small files, both of which are kryptonite to AV.

MalwareBytes Enterprise recently got completely uninstalled as it was locking random files during compilation indefinitely. They have a fix but only for the consumer branch.
And pharmaceuticals even more than machinery.

http://www.worldstopexports.com/switzerlands-top-10-exports/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Switzerland#/media/...
Thanks for the insights. I've never bought a sticker, which is why I guess why I wasn't sure what the play is.

> longer-term it is about the data and using it for other technologies.

I'm not sure what this means. Better adtech? Or is there something else unique about this data that I'm not seeing?
You do not understand what happened.

They did aggregate up until this point, at least for most patrons and creators. If you did a regular pledge with a monthly charge, you only made one transaction a month. Similarly, each creator got paid once a month with one transaction. The exception was per-post patronages, which do indeed have more fees and are less suited to the micro-payment model. That is NOT what this was about, though.

The real motivation was to support gated content.

They want to bring creators into their subscription system, where you pay a fee to access content. They had a problem, though, in that people could pledge, access content, and then simply cancel their pledge before getting charged. To avoid this, they needed to do Charge Up Front (CUF) to ensure that any access to gated content was paid for. But that creates some confusion about when people get charged (do you pro-rate the first charge, with or without the next month, etc.) because people would pledge a certain amount and see a different amount charged. The alternative is to have people on their own billing cycles, which is much less confusing for customers, but eliminates the possibility of aggregation.

Basically, they want to abandon the goodwill/patronage model and become a subscription service, likely because the latter model is far more lucrative.
Companies do that all the time, that's why Apple is "striking a deal with Ireland" rather than having execs and accountants go to jail.

How does the proverb go again? If you owe the bank fifty thousand dollars you have a problem, if you owe the bank fifty million dollars the bank has a problem?
Sorry for late reply. I don't give the exact same problem but use these problems for references.

For instance I often start interview with asking candidate to write a program to find a palindrome. After they answer that my follow up question is to write a program to find the longest palindrome in a given string which is a question taken from project euler.

Here I am mainly interested in their logic and approach to problem solving rather than a workable solution first time round. I don't give take-away problems neither do candidates have to do this in their daily jobs.
That's their trade secret but distills down to measuring all the various factors that a person actually reading a page would do: time, scroll speed/depth, click rate/location, previous history, mouse movements, http, ip, network traffic, browser profiles, etc.

Although these days with headless chrome and how easy it is to just record and replay someone's session, it becomes incredibly hard to detect with accuracy, especially while trying to not affect browsing behavior beyond the typical ad load experience.

There is lots of overlap with this and other security-focused companies that work with financial and government companies to protect their own websites and apps, although it's easier when you own and control the site, proxies and backend.
Scratch of course is a very well known drag and drop coding environment, but it has been used in the UK to produce programs that can achieve A* grades at GCSE. Scratch can handle variable casting, iteration, IF statements and lots more besides. I have a whole bunch of 12 year olds who are all over Scratch, producing great code, and not at all perceiving it as somehow less than Java or Python. In fact last year, my 14 year old Year 10s came second in a Scratch competition in the Middle East, winning Apple Watches. So yes drag and drop tools can be seen as being a tad babyish, but when pushed they can be very effective.
Why didn’t they buy Dish which includes Sling TV.
And a lot more spectrum?

I’m an ATT subscriber and with our data plan Direct TV Now is offered for a small added fee. GreAt svc and it allowed two family members to ditch their Comcast tv svc.

No Brainer other wireless carriers will follow.
I assume spain is chip and pin?

In the US it's chip and signature, and you can't sign until after the chip verification (either signing a paper receipt, or with a stylus on the terminal screen).

In addition chips are new and some terminals are painfully slow (30 seconds) to verify. I'm not sure I've ever seen one finish in under 5 seconds, though a few merchants have terminals that come close to that.
Yeah, I consider designer (of SW) a software engineering position. Most UX folks I know have CS degrees.
Biology does have parsimony, it's just that it's slow-acting.

Unnecessary complexity is expensive. It's cost or risk that the organism carries around, and it either imposes a metabolic cost or there's some mutation or genetic risk associated with all the additional complexity.

The difficulty is that simple edits to remove complex bits are not generally possible, or rather, unless the edit is very simple, it takes a long time, by random chance, for it to be made.

But you do see excess complexity hived off over time, all over the place. Flightless birds, blind cave animals (one case of a fish in Mexican cages relates directly to metabolic load: the neural and caloric expenditure of visual cortex processing is appreciably greater than for blind fish, based on sighted cousins outside the cave habitat).

The complexity constraint operates poorly, but it operates, and in evolutionary time, maladaptations are maladapted away.

To move to another domain: in human systems, a mechanism for general complexity constraints is Gresham's Law. That's a longer comment ;-)
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huh. this definitely shouldn't be happening. does it replicate every time? any chance you can try a couple times and post the exact time you are doing this? will try to hunt down where it went wrong.

thanks for testing
Is there a way to bundle the JVM (or the parts you need) with the Java app you'd like to run? Erlang (and Elixir) does this with the Erlang VM (BEAM), allowing you to bundle VM+app as a release. The Erlang release must be compiled for the platforms on which that release will be run. It's not quite as elegant as a Go binary, but it's still pretty handy.
I think where you might be going astray is confusing the biomass of the fish with the carbon fixed. The fish sit at the top of the food chain and account for a tiny percentage of the carbon captured - they are just the profit center.

Most of the carbon is fixed by phytoplankton and the next stage in the food chain. As these die the carbon in the water column increases and eventually the excess carbon settles below 200m where it is trapped for thousands/millions of years.

The limiting factor to primary productivity in most oceans is the phosphate concentration. As long as you don't release too much phosphate at once then you limit the algal growth. You get around 400 tons of carbon fixed for every ton of phosphate added.

Yes we are going to have to use a large amount of the deep ocean, but there is more than enough ocean to do the job.
Do stores really have to be physical anymore? I think that’s what is holding Target back.
Because to pay off the debt, Apple first would have to move the cash back to the US, at which time by the current tax law, it would be taxed by 35%. So, to pay back $150B, they would have to bring back about $230B, paying $80B in taxes.
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yes – there is an iMessage app included! can you try setting it up and let us know about the experience? i found iMessage to be confusing from time to time so want to make sure nothing wrong there...
i think the future is "messenger style" or chatbot apps as these avoid most of the problems of app development because the "app" is a thin shim and almost everything that matters runs on the server so you can update the product all the time without updating the "app".
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That assumes that risk is not symmetrically distributed. That might be the case, but that would be news to me.
In physics at least you need to write and typeset your own papers for the most part.

Look at arxiv.org, that papers there are made purely by academics from start to finish and are already publication grade (if not better).
Gross. If you want your adware/pup to act like malware, expect to be treated like malware.
This wasn't originally the case. Passing on the fee was for a long time against most merchant agreements. Which makes sense from the credit card company's point of view: they don't want shoppers to have any reason not to whip out the card.

The big change came in January 2013 after a big court judgment. Adding fees, though, is still illegal in some states: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/business-surcha...
Why would it be symmetrically distributed?
This used to be the case for me until very recently. I've noticed that the two grocery stores I frequent most are suddenly significantly faster. Like almost instant (less than 2 secs). This is in Seattle. So, it'll probably be that way everywhere eventually.