skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a mistake to offer a paid version of either the search engine or the traditional social network.

Both are more lucrative than a rate at which users would be willing to pay.

US + Canada ad revenue for Facebook will be around $15.x to $16 billion for 2018. That's $64 per year per user (MAU). That is likely to continue to climb over time, almost guaranteed to reach toward $100/year. How would they possibly convince people to spend $10 per month to hide ads on Facebook? It would never happen, it's not worth it. It's nowhere near a large enough inconvenience for ... 99.9% of global users. You'd get a tiny set of users to pay; the time / engineering / upkeep / support / payment handling etc. for all of that, wouldn't come close to justifying what they'd get in return. The best case scenario is they break-even on the offering, vs what they'll be yielding on their monthly actives with advertising a few years out; a more likely bad case scenario, they can only command $3 or $5 per month for the 'feature,' and it becomes a big losing proposition instead.

Also, reducing their display potential / ad volume, is a real negative financial event for their overall business model, for both Google search and Facebook. They benefit in numerous ways from having more display potential, rather than less (not least of which, those advertisers will spend that money on alternative digital venues instead, building up competitors).

YouTube ads are interruptive, as with traditional tv ads. Facebook ads / promoted x are overwhelmingly text and sometimes with an image. You can scroll right on by the Facebook ads and continue with your use of the social product.

Facebook Watch, assuming it continues to grow into a legitimate YouTube competitor, may offer Facebook a reason to launch a paid subscription system however. People may pay to avoid the interruptive video advertising.
One of the most popular German blogs, fefe's blog, only has pure html. It's perfect for testing things because it is so fast.

https://blog.fefe.de/
I didn't understand a bit of that
I do it to keep focus on a line of text, but since I also don't like the highlight, turn it off, and do it on repeat

But also its kinda fun
Yes HFT is dying, just check out how many HFT firms either closed down or sold themselves in recent year.

You might want to read book "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis.
> Is universal healthcare funded with taxes unethical? The system in most developed countries has nothing to do with insurance.

Well, "universal healthcare funded with taxes" isn't strictly speaking the system in most developed countries either. Most countries have a mixture of private and public models.
"Imitation is suicide".

I prefer Neil Gaiman's view of "Most of us only find our own voices after we sounded a lot like other people".

Also, at what point you stop being an aspiring writer and become one? First article published? Your book tops the nyt list? Sometimes I think aspiration is better left for fields where you need somebody else's permit to work. You write, you are a writer, even with zero appreciation.
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Is the data transmitted from the phone in a format that Apple has the means (without grabbing further keys) to decrypt? Is there any reason, except commercial exploitation of the data, one would do that? So, ... I'd guess if the data never leaves your device unencrypted then Apple are clean, otherwise ...
Does it build up in your body if you eat it often enough.
0 – 100k pageviews in 6 months
Awesome! Just bought 100K worth.
Immix [1] does bump allocation without the space overhead of the copying young generation. It's been working really well for us in Scala Native.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1375586
Taking general-purpose antibiotics is usually not a great thing for your gut, since it doesn't discriminate.

Now, if it more selectively nuked some nastier things, I could buy that.
I read the title as "making changes to your mind," such as learning a new skill or breaking a habit.

That's not what it means. The article is about reversing a prior decision, aka "changing your mind."
We have been using Front since 2014 at Le Wagon. The goal was to be able to handle our contact@lewagon.com inbound email as a team (3 seats in 2014, 7 now). I considered Zendesk but it felt a bit too overkill for our usage.

You can view Front as a shared Gmail Inbox where you can assign messages to teammates and have private discussions on top of email threads.

They recently added Front Chat which we used to replace the Intercom Chat on https://www.lewagon.com - This way the team only uses one tool (Front) to handle incoming chats or emails.

We've been a customers for 3+ years and are really happy! Congrats on the Series B!
Downloaded this, tried adding a subscription to Lego Mindstorms, got a fairly generic-looking “Your request could not be completed” error. Apparently things aren’t quite primed for launch.
I'd suggest you don't know what experience I have.

I've certainly had problems with anti-virus programs, but no more than I have had with any program, operating system, driver or hardware problem really. Mostly they behave, sometimes they misbehave.

I've rarely seen anti-virus causing shutdown problems. Boot problems have almost always been faulty storage devices or operating system corruption. I've fixed more faulty WU instances that are broken because of Microsoft (recent Win7 authcab problem, IE cumulative years ago, etc). than because of anti-virus. The programs that I have come across that are crashing are rarely solved by removing anti-virus software.

If anti-virus was as widely and horrendously crap as some people keep repeating then I'd know about it because I'd be saying the same thing.
Facebook's biggest asset is their data. My guess is that if they can't show you ads, they lose some of the ability to track you and your behavior in terms of interaction with the ads, interaction which creates additional valuable data. Due to network effects / Metcalfe's Law, if you eliminate ads for X percent of the user base, this will have a disproportionately larger (downward) effect on the value of their data in aggregate. Which may not be totally offset by whatever revenue you can collect from users directly in premium subscriptions. I would bet they have surely done the math on this.
The AUI Interview: Jay Miner – The Father of the Amiga
They've already been around for years. $66M is a lot of runway.
He does tack on an appendix, which adds in even more details. I personally like it, but I suppose I was also the kind of kid growing up who would be okay reading D&D rulebooks. :)
Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated to cybersecurity
I think it would send the wrong message. It's like saying 'You get a bad experience unless you pay us'.

They want convey that you already have a good experience.
curious as to specifics of your team/what you guys are solving?
My contact info is in my profile if you don't mind connecting.
The future of delivery will be robotic.

1. A robot arm using cameras, sensors, and a AI neural network, will unload a truck, and put it on the conveyor belt.

2. Then the same AI robot arm will load a truck.

I predict that in the future, a delivery guy will drive his van to your neighborhood, where he will have 5 deliveries to make. He will drive to the center of all the customers. Then, 5 robotic dogs, will take the package to each of the 5 customers.

The robotic dog will scan the customer, get a face recognition for authorization, and a confirmation for hand-off.

Meanwhile, the delivery guy is sitting in his car twittling his thumbs, waiting for the robotic dogs to come back. Ten minutes later, the robotic dogs come back, they charge back up in their docking stations, and the driver goes off to his next destination.

The delivery guy will only be used to deliver extra bulky items, that the robotic dogs cannot yet handle. But future robotic dogs will be able to handle all kinds of bulky packages.

In 15 minutes, 5 packages got delivered. At a rate of 3 minutes a package. This is incredible, and it will allow UPS to increase their package delivery throughput.

Or, the driver will just drive closer to each of the customers. The robotic dog will deliver the package, while he drives to the next customer on the list. And when all packages are delivered on that route, then he'll come back and pick up each robotic dog, as they sit there waiting.

If the unions stop UPS from automating, then they're going to kill themselves. Another company will take over, and their robotic fleet will put UPS out of business.

They'll call themselves, the Robo Delivery Express (RDX).

And for some other scenarios, drones are going to start aerial delivery. These are more practical for suburban houses with a large front yard. You will need at least a 10x10 sqft area for aerial drone delivery. A mid-sized drone will fly to your house, and hover over the delivery point.

You will use your smartphone to authorize the hand-off. The drone gets the authorization to proceed. Cameras using an AI neural network, will scan the area to confirm safety, before initiating the delivery sequence, to make sure all is clear. Then a winch will wind down and gently put the package on the ground. Wind back up, take a last visual scan to make sure all is well, and then fly away.

The future is robotic. It is inevitable.
IPFS can work in the browser via sharing over WebRTC but not UDP/TCP.

So it is not great, but does work. WebTorrent is also WebRTC fyi.

The tech isn't quite there yet, but eventually yes everyone's machine could be a CDN of sorts.
Typo? GM's profit in today's dollars is $9 billion, not $9 million. Hence GM's profit per employee is $9,042,397,000 / 576,667 = $15,700, not $9.

The ratio between Google and GM is closer to 25 times. Which, I think, is an indication of how much more automation there is now compared to 1955.
Too bad they don't differentiate between AngularJS and Angular (2+), which are totally different frameworks. Would be interesting to compare Angular and React.
​Linux Foundation seeks to bring rhyme and reason to open-source networking
Is gambling using smart contracts illegal? Because that's all this scheme is.

The problem with ponzi schemes is the fraud. It is not the gambling part of it.
Difficult not impossible, killing Ethereum is one option.
> is this page the official stance of Debian?

(No. Nor the official stance of the APT or mirror maintainers. Or even my personal stance!)
There are many cases where it is. And your rudeness and devolution into pathetic statements like this is noted.
Out of curiosity (not judging), is your doc okay with that and did they prescribe it that way? I've never heard of quetiapine being prescribed on an as-needed basis.
It also seems to stain chopping boards.
Best decision of 2017 was deleting my Facebook account. I encourage everyone to do the same. Next step is getting off of Gmail / Google Services, which I also started last year by using duckduckgo full-time.
"Your honor, my client did not defraud the plaintiffs with a financial crime. It was a parody financial crime but the plaintiff mistook the parody for sarcasm and genuinely bought the parody product. This case should be dismissed based on the parody financial crimes precedent set by Virginia v. Horwitz Brothers"
The thought process behind ActivityPub seems fanciful to me. To paraphrase:

Here is a spec for something no one currently uses, please take a risk and invest your time to understand ActivityPub, build an impl of ActivityPub, and then build your thing on top of it. Then, if many others also do this, it might have a chance at success.

Heed the lesson of OStatus. Open source has killed RFC style development. If the backers of ActivityPub genuinely want people to use it then they should publish a reference grpc microservice porcelain on docker so people can use it from any language, without thinking about it. Otherwise the cost to implement ActivityPub is just too high.
How much of a speed boost did compositing the mouse cursor yourself get you? If it's big, I'd be really interested in hacking OBS to do this, so I can stream and use my computer at the same time.
Not the US. If I open any link to a pin or try to browse a list, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/MQUoa2N.png

Note the lack of an [X] button. This popup is both modal and non-dismissable, so you can't even click on links to other unauth areas. For non-technical users, the literal only options are signing up or closing the tab.

It's not really a secret either. They wrote detailed posts on their tech blog about both the invention of the non-dismissable modal popup [1] and the descision to make the image the user was looking for less obvious compared to recommended content [2].

[1] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-...
[2] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-...
1 tbsp per person? I think I average 1 tsp for a 2-person dish, I should ask my mom if I should increase how much turmeric I use.
New non-profit TechShop replacement on SF peninsula
Can you explain to me then how Elixir is more experimental than Go was when it was deployed in its early days?
A non-profit creating a new makerspace on the SF peninsula similar to what TechShop was.
Doesn't anybody edit their videos anymore?
Not the poster you were replying to, but I do healthcare data integration for my day job.

The problem is that HL7 is ostensibly a standardized interchange format, but there's enough ambiguity in the spec that literally every vendor implements things differently which leads to... my job existing.

Vendors implement the spec selectively. They may or may not support any given message trigger. They may have a different idea of what exactly constitutes something as basic as a patient account number and choose to send it in an unexpected field. Or send a piece of data you weren't expecting at all there. There may be a business case for capturing data that wasn't in the spec for a version of HL7 being used -- email addresses are common one today --
that lead to user-defined fields being added ad-hoc.

Honestly, working with HL7 v2 messages like posted above isn't really any substantially harder than working with CSVs. The real headache comes from actually integrating the underlying data.
You can subscribe to their emails if interested. These security update lists are released alongside every OS update.
"You run idealized versions of systems in your head."

Definitely true but running idealized approximations of systems [1] are also sufficient, at least in my experience, to get a rough idea of where a bug might be a majority of the time.

[1] We're basically describing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_modeling
Apparently ;-)

Actually, I bought the CPU, mainboard and cooler assembled together from mifcom, so they did the testing that everything runs stable and smooth.

Just looked up some other details:

- Mainboard: ASUS Z87-Deluxe

- Case: Xigmatek - Asgard Pro

- PSU: 500W - FSP Aurum Xilenser

- CPU Cooler: Thermalright Macho HR-02 passive [1]

As you can see that cooler is pretty big. The case isn't too fancy but it does the job and venting slots on the upper side. Interestingly dust doesn't seem to be a problem, in fact I never had so little dust in any previous pc.

[1]: http://media.bestofmicro.com/N/G/460924/gallery/Thermalright...

[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Xigmatek+-+Asgard+Pro&t=ffab&iax=i...
He talks about how important it is for people not to feel judged for taking more than the minimum amount of time off, then calls out a member of his team by name:

"Tyler has taken over double what most of the rest of the team has at this point."

But it's fine, because Tyler has a legitimate reason that we're assured no-one is judging him for:

"Tyler got married and went on a honeymoon. Literally no one in the company is mad that he did that."

What if my reason is because I just wanted to have some time away? Or because I had some deeply personal reason that I don't feel comfortable advertising? This system doesn't exactly scream 'psychological safety' to me.
They included a $1499 monitor in the list as well, along with a $400 VESA arm mount, and hundreds of more dollars in accessories.

Overall, with your Silicon Mechanics build they'd probably be closer to a $8000 build. On top of that, a P4000 is pretty much a beefed up GTX1060, which gets smoked by a GTX1080TI if one is going for GPU performance. They're not really comparable builds.
Been very curious to see a comparison between standard computing hardware and neural specific hardware. Nice article!
Yes. In the Twitter video, skip the first 16 minutes. Then one minute of action.
It often is. we should just ignore it but given that it's Steve Yegge that's not gonna happen.
You could eat it with pepper, to increase potency.
I think I started it in DOS as a way to scroll text. Highlighting/selecting text and moving the mouse to the very bottom started scrolling
Performance art does not preclude prosecution for a crime.
What does your employer use as a baseline APM quota for productivity?
The private part is optional and not widely used in many countries. And in some places it’s even illegal. The question stands: is the tax funded part unethical?
And yet, some say a US president was using that line a few
decades ago ...
Never add any extension points you don't already need, but design as if you could suddenly be tasked with adding all kinds of weird ones, but mostly without spending any significant time.

Try to make sure that reasonable extensions are cheap to add, and that even some of the more unreasonable ones are at least possible without complete system redesign.

This should not significantly impact either implementation time, or design time. But it will almost certainly make you avoid some really bad design choices that make quite plausible changes extremely expensive.

Good design is more about avoiding obvious traps than finding a path to nirvana.
I'd agree - and also, it should be made clear that a Twitter classifier with 80% accuracy is probably a long way from something that you would apply to the actual Twitter firehose.

But the article is a very nice introduction to text mining (alas, not NLP)!
Eve had some great ideas, and I hope the community is able to do something with the work that was done.
I believe the Twitter user you link was credited on the page actually.
That's entry level cable, with ads (as you mentioned), and that's before you pay all of the BS fees and rentals for the boxes and HD surcharges and recording surcharges and whatever else they come up with this year.
I think your numbers might be off. From https://www.livestrong.com/article/543411-how-much-curcumin-... :

"Turmeric contains approximately 2 percent curcumin by weight, so a tablespoon of turmeric, which weighs 6.8 grams, contains about 0.136 gram curcumin, or 136 milligrams."

So that means the study quantity was equivalent to about two teaspoons a day.
For a VM as mature as .NET, I am surprised they don't do escape analysis. Java and Go both do escape analysis, though the coreclr issue you linked to makes the point that Java really needs escape analysis because it doesn't have value types like C# structs.
I think you got your units confused. A tablespoon of turmeric is more like 15 grams, 15000 mg. Turmeric is ~2% curcumin by weight, so you’d need 4500mg of turmeric to get 90mg of curcumin, or about a third of a tablespoon.
I randomly highlight. It definitely didn't start as a way to scroll text; I have never been aware of the behavior you describe. It's just something you can do.

I like to find places where the beginning and end of the highlight align vertically.
On the flip side, when I worked at a small company, I felt like I had waaayyy to much power over the success/failure of the business. Yes, I can make an impact, but that impact could be negative; "If I fail, so does the whole company" was a common thought I had, it kept me up at night.

At a larger company, I can fail repeatedly and the machine will have my back. I find I am taking more risks at a larger company because of that.

I have some personal gripes with small companies too. Taking vacation was always an intense negotiation ("But jbob, we planned to do this work 6 months ago, if you take a vacation, the project is delayed and the client is unhappy!"). Cleanliness was a problem, irregular cleaning or I'd have to do it myself, the multinational I'm at now has the bathrooms cleaned 3 times a day and the floors and desks are cleaned every night. It was difficult to be critical of the smaller companies because I felt like I was insulting my "friends", whereas at the multinational, we guard our personal lives fiercely and have no problems criticizing business direction.

My job is not the place to do interesting things (though I am stimulated by the problems we have, even though they aren't always technical), that's what hobbies and free time are for.
> Any research that might lead to a good way of measuring "hierarchical structure" (for lack of a better term) seems important to me.

Which is an interesting question. Why is hierarchical structure so important for ML, but not for compression?

One view would be, our ML approach is "wrong" and could be improved. In almost all cases running compressed data through another compression scheme yields little to no improvement. Yet in ML we're focused on multiple transforms requiring a concept of hierarchy. Maybe it's because ML is the equivalent of a multi-layered modular compression schemes but in practice all compression is fairly monolithic. If instead we compressed using first a single layer doing key based look up of long identical strings, and then did run-length encoding we'd have items that look more like our ML approach. But, this doesn't intuitively feel right to me.

Another view is that ML works in the physical world and the physical world has inherent hierarchical structure. And we don't do this in the digital world of compression. But a counterpoint is that when we program, we exploit hierarchical structure in our code and data via functions, layers and abstraction.

Which leads me to think it's the third answer. Compression is lossless, and ML is lossy. Being lossy is what allows hierarchy to work. If you are lossless you can't ever leave working with the lowest level of abstraction or else you're by definition losing/changing information. The command equivalent "Send an email with content X to my sister" is absolutely a lossy summary of what is happening or will happen below the surface. Me giving my computer that command it will translate to different low level actions each time I do it. Similarly if someone asks what command I just ran and I give that description, it isn't enough information for them to recreate a CPU & network packet level exact reproduction of what I did. It is lossy. Machine Learning of "is this a cat?" is exactly like this. By contrast, in compression you have to have every bit recovered.

So I think the answer, back to your point, is we may not have an equivalent methodology of discussing information theory / content in a lossy domain. As a result of this we don't have a way of discussing information content in a hierarchical structure as they may be one and the same.
They could cover: bash and typical shell tools, make with markup languages, octave, spreadsheet scripting, R, Julia, and possibly version control.

That does a good job of supporting the fancier math and science classes, both there and in college, and could actually be useful in jobs that aren't too obscure.
Do the people here preaching github being a useful tool for candidate evaluation realize there are private repos? I use github everyday but none of the outsiders looking at it are going to get a sense for my coding style because they can't see the content of the commits.
Came here to post this channel. It jives well with my curiosity.

I was happily surprised to see him have 2 luna-lang videos come out less than a week after luna-lang made it on my to-play-with radar.
How is that depressing?

- Researcher.