skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft saying "we changed" then committing competition-killing bad-faith practices when they think nobody is watching.

As opposed to what Google repeatedly gets slapped by the EU for doing, Facebook vs SnapChat, etc?

Here's to hoping MSFT is actually different today.
* Last I checked MSFT's internal culture still doesn't value openness and user trust the way Google or Facebook do, where it's a core company value.*

Google and Facebook both only open source code that doesn't endanger their competitiveness.
> That process is totally different from asking for donations

Whilst donations might work for some, I was mostly talking about doing work (to provide value, e.g. writing, sculpting, etc.) for an amount agreed-upon in advance (either paid to an escrow service, or invoiced afterwards). Movie companies could take on the role of escrow service, rather than their current role as investment vehicle.

> (which is literally begging -- no value is being offered, but value is expected to be received.)

If 'no value is being offered' by movies, games, etc. then why do people already pay money for things like DVDs? Copyright can't be the reason, since that doesn't compel anyone to buy stuff they see no value in (copyright just restricts who can do the selling).
And why do you think they are doing that? These customers are monitoring their ROI from these ads.. they know if they are effective.

Do you really think any of these customers are saying to themselves: "Gee Snapchat ads are so effective and are making us so much money... we better stop it immediately."
Q4 2017, iPhone accounts for 54% of revenue. App Store for 16%.

This whole "Apple doesn't care about the App Store revenues" argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Most companies are going to care about a revenue stream of that size that is also very much a non-negligible percentage of company revenue.
> VC is a "trend to avoid"? Avoid "Hypergrowth"? I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest and a hundred others all really messed up

I'm not going to say that VC isn't ever or usually the right move, but this comment is the height of survivorship bias. Not every business idea should be a VC-funded startup and trying to shoehorn every team and every business model into that path is a mistake. Whether to take VC capital is situational and depends on the team, market, product idea and all other factors of that specific startup. The businesses you listed were all the proverbial winning lottery tickets. There's plenty of losing lottery tickets too, and many of those had great ideas that would have been better served with a bootstrapped model that looked for slower, more sustainable growth and increased founder control.

A great startup is like a great food recipe. You have to mix the right ingredients in the right amounts to make it taste good. Almost every ingredient works in some dish, but many ingredients don't work in combination. Dishes can be appetizers, mains or desserts, and you'll want to add different ingredients depending on which one you're making. VC is like sugar. It can make your startup fat in a hurry, but if you're growing very quickly, all those calories can keep you from starving. It tastes great in almost anything, but it's put into way to much of what we eat today and causes a lot of premature deaths.
50 investors get together and invest $1 million to open a store and stock it with inventory. They hire one store clerk and one manager. They elect a board of directors.

The board in this case should have a fiduciary responsibility to the two employees over the investors? Really?
Does it publish a lot about Hungary or Greece, does it mean he's a Hungarian agent?

Well Snowden is probably safer in Russia out of all the other places. US is probably not going to render him out of there without a major incident. Is Snowden a Russian agent? Ok besides Hillary who isn't a Russian agent...

Not sure why he didn't criticize Trump. Trump is probably getting enough scrutiny as is? I remember hearing about how many scoops of ice-cream he ate or how long he shook Macron's hand. I am guessing if someone handed him a pile of Trump's emails he would publish it.
Anecdotally, I find this same attitude when I deal with entry level candidates who are right out of US colleges. I'm 'too harsh' for demanding that they correct their mistakes, and 'mean' for correcting them. Their work has real world, monetary and time impacts on the company and my colleagues, but I can't seem to find any one in the bunch who is willing to strive for anything beyond 'good enough.'
Still, it's nothing unlearnable. You read a couple good books and blogs, do some experiments, and you're about 80% of the way there.
> 15 years later, as a grad student in the US, teachers I TA’d for repeatedly told me I was too harsh in my grading and that I shouldn’t take off points for small mistakes, typos, etc.

I am surprised that you got resistance on this in an educational setting, of all places. When I notice typos and grammatical errors, it almost always lowers my opinion of the material. It signals sloppy writing or possibly unclear thinking. It calls into question the meticulousness of the work as a whole. I expect more from a news outlet or a review journal with a copy editor. Professional writers and publishers should produce expert writing.

I should note a few things, for the sake of context: I had some years of private schooling early on; my father would make me write book reports during summer vacation; he self-published a book later in life and was very proud that others repeatedly complimented it for being free of typos and grammatical errors. (None of my peers had this experience growing up, to my knowledge.)

University standards should impose higher standards than what is typically expected in regular life. This is how writing is taught and reinforced. I think the internet, as a whole, dumbs-down writing skills by exposing readers to terrible writing on such a regular basis that they no longer perceive the difference. I don't know a solution to that problem.
I completely agree with the sentiment, however github currently does not support embedded video in markdown [1]

Animated gifs do work when embedded, but need to be <= 10mb [2]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4279611/how-to-embed-a-v...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/46701929
As you note, L1 has varied a bit, though the big change is that CSMA/CD has given way to essentially point to point L1 links with buffers and arbitration in the switches.

The L2 header format has remained largely the same, with a few minor variants that can be automatically disambiguated.
> I now use the same XMPP client to talk to Slack that I previously used with our own local chatrooms hosted on ejabberd.

Have you had issues with your client taking a long time to negotiate a connection over Slack's XMPP gateway? I had that issue with Thunderbird's chat client and ended up having to switch over to the IRC gateway instead.
Maybe someone ran the client on the server.
> conform or be exterminated

You didn’t persevere to the end:

“And lest you've been worrying about the fate of that cat — Cheung has reassuring news. Once the kids improve their handwriting, ‘the cat feels very hungry,’ says Cheung. But then the kids take pity on him — and write a few sloppy letters for him to eat.”
Except if you check, Slack claims 100% up time over the past 30 days.
Thanks, and on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

dracut -f
IVT is Ivytown aka. Ivy Bridge EX (past Xeon codenames: Clovertown, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jaketown, Gainestown -- although not all *town codenames covered Xeons, a lot did). All of these are easy to figure abbreviations of Intel code names, perhaps the newest ones a bit harder because we are not as used to them yet (CFL for Coffee Lake, GLK for Gemini Lake -- both of which are probably class action lawsuit targets as they shipped after Intel was told).
I was just explained the other day on Hacker News how CPU microcode gets delivered with the Kernel. That it gets installed automatically on every boot. Why is it a separate package (which it turns out I don't have).
So far the mirrors are coping; just finished updating all my servers in RamNode and DigitalOcean, going through AWS servers next.
Understanding Google RankBrain
Sorry about that, jumped the gun on the title—maybe an admin can update it for accuracy?
I would be happy with something that does a regular plain pull of all branches and tags. As a first step, it would make it easier to declare our Gitlab instance as the canonical source for all official contrib code (a bit like Drupal.org and WordPress do).

We could duct tape a solution, or coerce people to do it manually, but we manage a lot of custom scripts already, which we hope to deprecate thanks to Gitlab. It also affects negatively the perception that we are using the right tool for the job. Our community is divided between those who want to use only Github, and those who want to avoid depending on it.

We currently have around 300 active users, and we are projecting around 500 users next year (as we move more and more projects into it). At USD$40/user/year, that would be between $12k to $20k/year? Our project is oriented at non-profits, and everything runs on small margins, lots of volunteers. We can afford some financial support, but not $12k/year. I wrote to Gitlab sales but never received a response.

(apologies for the off-topic)
Being pedantic:

I thought the definition of 'startup' is a company aiming for massive growth. If not you are a regular business.

So maybe the message is "You don't have to be a startup"
I'm not sure how they could have come out of this cleanly other than waving a wand and not having it happen? They pretty clearly owned up.
Close to nothing the ad industry unilaterally “wants” or has ever wanted is “consumer friendly”. Most of the purpose of advertising is to trick consumers into doing things they otherwise don’t want to do or buying things they otherwise don’t want to buy. That goes doubly for building pervasive spy systems compiling a detailed dossier about every person on the internet, with absolutely zero transparency or public accountability and no liability for selling that information or having it hacked.
This story reminded me of how this morning, while commuting via bike to work in the rain, I was tailgated by an SUV. If I had slipped and crashed on some wet leaves, I probably would have been crushed to death, and (in a just world) the driver would be guilty of 4th degree murder. Yet we both carried on with our day as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. This is insanity. Why does US society tolerate such casually reckless behavior on the roads?
> The one thing that my extremely French parents couldn’t stop making fun of at the time, and still can’t stop making fun of now 20 years later, is the American habit of praising children repeatedly, putting stickers on homework, giving participation ribbons for every event, etc.

Basically: Gamification. This trend, especially in games, really really sucks; as a German I'm not really used to it either, although it has swapped over to us in the last years, possibly due to the rise of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, all of which use one or another form of karma points.
> the Democrats haven't shown themselves to be an option worth supporting.

What is your goal? Your goal clearly isn't actually maximizing the chances that Net Neutrality is adopted, since your strategy doesn't do that. I can only guess what your actual goal is; it seems to me it's maximizing some sort of ideological purity or set of other moral values?
How about XRP, or Litecoin? Or Bitcoin Cash?
Perhaps something like "journalism is revealing what someone wants to be hidden" would satisfy a stricter reading at the cost of being less punchy?

EDIT: On starting to read the article, I quite like the slogan "comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable" that they mention.
Will augmented reality make lying obsolete?
As the old saying goes, If it floats, flies or (something else, I forget!) it's better to rent it than to buy.
(Don't worry, I'm confused too.)
Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnerability report
Join an angel network like the Tech Coast Angels
Nothing is unlearnable - it's never question of "if it can be done" but question of "how much effort is needed". Read few blogs, books and take Coursera classes etc are all good but the real thing is working on multiple real and new problems. Anyone who has read books/blogs etc, give them a new problem, for example, predicting pedestrian intent for crossing a road from set of video frames. See how far they get.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité ... unless you're a lefty then you have to conform to unrealistic constraints.
If you like <sarcasm>editors with long startup times </sarcasm> you can check out Teletype from the Atom team: https://teletype.atom.io/
testcheck is a JavaScript equivalent.
>"In 2003 there was an accident at Santa Monica Farmers Market. An elderly man had ploughed into a group of people with his car and lots of people had been killed and injured.
It was just carnage, it was a terrible scene.
People were on the TV screaming that this 86-year-old man was a murderer"

86-year-old driver crashing into people IS murder, and not an accident. Lack of vision, pretty much no reflexes, cramps, aching limbs/joints, sclerosis. We (my family) took my great-uncles car keys away before he turned 80 because it was becoming apparent he has trouble with basic tasks, like backing up/parking/or even remembering to signal. Letting person this old drive is a gross negligence.
Are you sure that person is not Rob Dubbin??
Tokens are actually mostly not shares. You dont own the company that issues the tokens. Everybody likes to think that it is, though.
So many acronyms in this thread...I wish I knew what any of them mean.
The Bitfury Group Unveils Solution for Analyzing Related Bitcoin Addresses
Yeah I was talking about computers, not phones.
You would have to run some servers on the inside and have a specific tunnel to a small set of servers running on the outside. Clients could see either. I don't see how this is an issue.
World class is subjective. The term here is practitioner and the simple answer is yes: you will be world class because so few people can do it. World class researcher? No.

Reading HN and following key people gives you the impression that this is an incredibly popular field - it is. In reality, though, it's a small field and lots of companies still don't use it, intend to use it, or have any idea how to use it. Alexnet was only 5 years ago. Faster-RCNN was only 2 years ago. Compared to, say, all programmers, statistically nobody is doing this.

Debugging a model is hard, but it's unlikely your efforts will be significantly more or less productive than a leading researcher aside from obvious things like noticing that the learning rate is too high or low. There's so much hand waving, even in top papers, that mostly we've tried stuff that looked like a good idea, and it turned out to be correct.

The thing is that a lot deep learning tasks don't require a fancy model. You can take VGG/Inception/ResNet and bodge them to fit a lot of real-world scenarios. Then the problems are mostly solved by standard machine learning intuition - making sure you have an appropriate train/test/validation set, a good loss function, etc.

Edit -

Here's an example: Halcon, a popular commercial image processing library has recently included a deep learning package due to repeated customer demand. It's not out yet, but it's most likely just going to be a wrapper for train/test using a basic image classification or object detection network. That's what the market wants. They don't care about GANs, they want something which will tell them if the image represents a valid product during QA 99% of the time (and often QA failures are pretty obvious - e.g. big crack in a bottle, or a deformed label).

You could build that kind of model with very little expertise and you'd beat most of the available image processing packages easily, with practically no work. The point is that an off-the-shelf model trained on company-specific data is likely to be state of the art on that problem (because who else has the dataset?) You don't care about 1000 classes in Imagenet, you want good product/bad product.
What new terminology got invented?
The "fat protocol" meme you're talking about has already come and gone.

It was only a valid hypothesis when there's only a single dominant chain. Not anymore. It's becoming more apparent that there will be multiple chains, which means these chains compete for usage, so naturally "all the value aggregate to fat protocols" is not valid anymore.

So you're right, the "fat protocol" should not be the norm. And it's really cool to see the landscape progress in this direction even though just last summer everyone took for granted that "fat protocol" will be the norm.

p.s.

There are so many "startup people" who are too lazy to delve deep into how the tech actually works, who just read some medium blog posts and watch some youtube videos and think they know everything. These people end up producing shallow content that's basically a parroting of what they read online.

To people who actually have touched the code and building on these technologies, these things are so obviously outdated.
This kind of spamvertising is more transparent than you seem to think.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=diversify

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AmirSani
Maybe, but I've read CPA advice on just declaring as income. Seems to be the most conservative approach and didn't change the tax substantially for me.
> Or something as grave as the famous empty password root backdoor.

You mean the issue that was fixed quite a while ago now ?

I really don't understand the logic behind your position. OSX really is as buggy as it's always been. At least it's buggy with the latest security fixes applied.
It's common in the midwest and becoming an issue when towns expand and traffic picks up. Mailboxes on the opposite side of a county road should be illegal. I'm surprised actually that they are not.
says debian 8.* and 7.* which i take to mean 8.1 and 7.1, expressly excluding 9
And which laws, exactly, are preventing this ?

There are plenty of employee-owned companies. Lots. I mean, they're not all that successful, mostly, but that's hardly relevant.
Yes, just like casinos. Looking at Binance makes me wonder of it is a trading site or an online casino.
The characters after the shorthand are probably chip revision.

{HSW,BDW,SKL,KBL,CFL} are probably Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake.

{HSX,BDX,SKX} appear to be the codenames for some variants of Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake - I find mixes of references to those being the Xeons, associated chipsets, and otherwise.

GLK appears to be Gemini Lake, a codename for some of Intel's really low power SoCs.
Many things, money being only one of them.
Yea this is the usual sad song after the big money has been made and the sheeple fleeced. Rinse and repeat. Look at boom/busts of the past. The powers that be know exactly what they are doing. "A fraud" until you find out the internal hedge fund has been trading it for months and NOW they are setting up a customer trading desk. Get the joke?
My take:

- Add a bunch of hooks into GitLab that allow it to "hand-off" at sensible points to a list server such as Mailman

- Mailman has a huge Python API (http://mailmanclient.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). The biggest potential gain is likeliest to come from the people who want this coming up with the integrations themselves, but the roadblock there is lack of knowledge of GitLab's internals

- I'm not sure what the best way would be to handle #2. I wonder how good the community's mental model of GitLab is.
Or you can make money by issuing a new blockchain token and making it useful and add value to people's lives. People are obviously ascribing value to these things otherwise prices wouldn't be so high.

Separately, CMC delisting some Korean exchanges is actually probably a good thing since prices in Korean Won have been trending 20 to 30% higher than crypto assets priced in USD or EUR. It was creating a lot of weird market conditions. A correction in price isn't a bad thing.
I always had the best results reaching out directly to recruiters in my network via linkedin.

Typically your connection will redirect you to the colleague in charge of your role, and you ho from there.

Every time I tried the fried/friend of a friend/connection route, I ended up wasting a ton of time.
How does fast.ai make money?
The existence of even a mechanism for secret extradition requests is itself unsubstantiated. Without that, the burden of proof is still on Assange to substantiate why we should expect to be unable to find any proof to support his claims.
Resistance is futile. Google is the web now. There are people who don't realize that gmail connects to a bigger world of email.
I'm guessing that their argument is "it is likely that child has underlying medical problems that caused the movement issues and made it easier to break her bones".
Awesome! Thanks for this!
From the first link, the Meltdown fix is only for High Sierra:

Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
Impact: An application may be able to read kernel memory (Meltdown)
Another demo i always remember from the 90s is The Fulcrum by Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jDzPZZaTLY

It was released a bit later (1998) but for its time it has some very impressive lighting effects.
Terms like "psychopathic" and "sociopathic" are technical terms with meanings that have serious implications in medical and criminal contexts. They shouldn't be bandied around so casually.

I've done YC. I've met and closely observed many of the founders of the most successful companies, including the ones who are most revered for their ability to hack non-computer systems to their advantage.

Their behaviour is not remotely psychopathic, which very specifically means to act without any concern about causing harm to others.

To the contrary, these people stand out for their willingness to help others and create outcomes of mutual benefit.

I think this is where you're getting it wrong: you're taking a zero-sum-game approach, in which for someone to gain, someone else has to lose.

But good business (and good social hacking) doesn't work this way; it is all about creating win-win outcomes, by identifying and removing inefficiency and waste, or creating new opportunities for people to live more productive and enjoyable lives.

If you're interested in understanding this more deeply, I strongly recommend listening to this EconTalk podcast episode [1], particularly the story of the Padre.

For what it's worth, when I reflect on my own stint at running a YC-funded startup (which had a moderately successful outcome but not any kind of home run), I can recognise that one of my biggest failings was being too narcissistic. Since recognising this and spending several years working this tendency out of my character, my career success has improved dramatically.

I can also look back on a time in my life when I looked at some people who were more successful than me and assessed them as being a "psychopath", but it's clear to me now that I was just avoiding doing the self-scrutiny I should have been doing in order to become a successful (and good) person myself.

None of this is to defend the Browserling guy's conduct, which does seem rather ugly to me.

But psychopathic?

I'd really urge you to use terms like that with great caution and some self-reflection.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/12/munger_on_profi.htm...
The stupidity of the statement is beyond question. "Give us access to all and trust us to leave the 'innocents' alone. Umm, see J. Edgar Hoover's history for the damage an unrestrained senior official can do behind the scenes."
Not endless, but there is a feed of snap stories always.
That’s a literal Gish Gallop of propaganda, especially: I wonder which country don't censor movies?

Tu Quoque is boring.
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