skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Defense of Experiment Velocity
Is it though? They have sooo many sources of input, embedded ads everywhere, social buttons, gmail, calendar, documents, photos, android, blogger, youtube, google+, and probably others that IDK, that search is just one---and probably a less important one---of those. As a means to show ads, again, they have uncountable spots all around the internet that they can place ads, and many google apps that one might be using, that the search results page is again just a slice of a big pie.

Or maybe they figured that most people do very simple searches nearly all the time.
Can Computers Create Art?
More than 40 years has passed since I read it, but I still remember that last part of the book, where he goes skiing down to the waiting guards. You know when you read the last sentence that it was the last sentence of the book, no need to turn another page.
And the most valuable company in the word is in the South Bay — worth more than every San Fran unicorn — combined.

Valuation has zero to do with innovation and using unicorns as a measure of bleeding edge tech is nonsense. Some of the very beat tech doesn’t necessarily turn into the best businesses.

And don’t forget, the South Bay has one of the most innovative middle-out compression innovators in history: Pied Piper.
I can hear my eye movements. It used to be only when I was tired or sick, but with age it's become more prevalent.
Don't blame me!

—PBR loyalist
Also, Amazon checkout experience on their mobile app is not fast or some of the best in the market.

1) Add item to cart.
2) Click top-right cart icon to go to cart.
3) Click "Proceed to checkout" button
4) Change shipping address/shipping days on this page
4a) Click default shipping method
4b) Select the delivery options (One day, 2 days etc)
4c) Press "Continue"
4c.i) Repeat above for each shipping group
5) Press "Place your order"

I am very much confused what/how exactly are they trying to compete with Amazon checkout experience? Have we reached a point where inserting/competing with Amazon is de facto?
No need to go there, but none the less it seems interesting. Mostly because I don't know much about bonds
or macro-brewed lagers. bud used like a dozen different hops in their flagship beer in order to reduce the effect if a particular hop is unavailable.
Markov Brains: A Technical Introduction
'Public transport is cool': new Adidas trainers double as Berlin transit passes
God those were ugly
Yeah, it's weird... I get why people would want to call Torvalds out on acting abusively, but focussing on the 'bad words' is odd.

Would I be correct in assuming that the majority of commenters here are from the US? (Not trying to throw shade on you Americans, just that you do tend to get needlessly flustered about swearing)
You could report users beforehand and I think leave links to specific examples in the comment field. And there has to be some kind of automatic system as well.
Eventually our livers evolve (or are genetically engineered) and alcohol is just another tasty calorie source, like starch or fat.
Even the mighty platinum has fallen:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/platin...
It's used by humans. It will. Hopefully, such abuse will be characterised as just that, but it probably won't be because humans will judge the reports.
Just because you are a contract developer does not mean you earn a high income. Even in the United States.

I am sure that few in my situation would like to admit it. For most of my adult life I have worked as a programmer on a contract basis mainly online for rates or fees that are well below the market rate for my area. For the last few years I have worked for non-funded or poorly funded startups for very small income amounts and no benefits. Even for jobs that were on site, many of the opportunities were spelled out in the ad or description as low rates like $70 or even $40 an hour.

I am sure that people will find lots of reasons to believe that I did something wrong or am an exceptional case, but I don't believe that. I think I am just an exception in terms of people like me who will admit it.

I have had a few well paid contracts but the income isn't consistent.

But not every contract programming gig is rich. It just absolutely isn't. And not everyone can get those high paying gigs. Also for me I have been trying to get into business in startups and not all startups can or want to receive funding and somebody like me is taking those jobs and happy to have them.

Again, go ahead and try to say there is something unusual or wrong. about me. I maintain the only really unusual thing is that I am admitting it on HN.

My current startup does have a lot of potential so I am hopeful about future income.
They can't see how much I paid for a car when I paid with a cheque either. This is not a problem that I, or 99% of human beings have.

Again - what is the darknet supposed to protect me from?
NVIDIA, Shutterstock, Symantec, Amadeus IT Group, Bank of America
My sister can blow air by the corner of her eyes... it might all be connected.
Advice for applying Machine Learning [pdf]
Agreed, to be clear. I think Elixir is cool. It just keeps getting framed as a "better Ruby"--though Phoenix might be (probably is) a better Rails.
Diesel-electric locomotives convert from mechanical energy to electricity and back, which is reasonably efficient, but not 100% efficient. I don't know what efficiencies they get, but at small scales it's easy to hit 88% round-trip efficiency. The advantage is that, like a Prius, you can run the internal-combustion engine always at its optimal efficiency point, whether the train is going full speed or at literally zero speed. Internal combustion engines run extremely poorly at zero speed.

Ship screws, on the other hand, can be designed to run at nearly any speed at all, and nearly all the time the ship is moving at exactly the same speed. So the screws are just coupled directly to the crankshaft of a two-stroke diesel engine the size of a fucking church which remains powered on for years at a time, always running at whatever speed it damn well pleases.
Thats a good idea, or allow for a "work office" icon...
Maybe so, but sours/saisons are also much more forgiving to brew than lagers or even IPAs. Any hint of contamination in a lager is immediately noticeable. On the other hand, sour brewers have turned what would normally be flush-worthy batches into "limited releases" characterized by barnyard funk.
Randy Gardner was on the Hidden Brain podcast last November. It's a good listen with plenty of reasons to always try to get enough sleep.

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/562305141/eleven-days-without...
Not in software apparently.
This is orthogonal to tenderlove's GC work, but if you're using MRI and want an easy memory usage/performance win, swap out the standard glibc malloc for jemalloc: https://www.levups.com/en/blog/2017/optimize_ruby_memory_usa...
You'll be happy to hear then that a lot of progress has been made on Lightning since MtGox imploded

I probably should have linked to these from my original comment - rather than removing anything

Specifically with lnd the lightning daemon[0], BOLT's (the equivalent of Bitcoin BIP's) 1 through to 11 have been implemented in the core daemon[1]

There is also the Neutrino light client[2] (screenshot [3])

Far from being vaporware - you're only a few docker commands away from trying it out yourself[4]

[0] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd

[1] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc

[2] https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino

[3] https://blog.lightning.engineering/assets/images/app-chans-g...

[4] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tree/master/docker#c...
It's cooler than that, IMO. It uses the SIGSEGV to jump back to the start, once per global iteration. Bit most of the normal 'jumps' are encoded by doing both sides of the work, but using a scratch base address for the storage of the 'not taken' side that ends up not contributing to the actual result.
>Originally I made myself one out of softwood, but I found that the wood bent too much and didn't give an even pressure over the spine when the nuts were tightened down

Never made a bookpress, but have transferrable knowledge. You didn't need a rigid piece of wood, you need a piece with a slight curve so the middle touches first and the edges after. When the nuts are tightened it will go straight but be pushing hard in the middle. In case you don't have a bent piece of wood, you can plane or even sand the subtle curve (I would guess 3mm/ 1/8" would do for an A5 book). I am itching to try this.

'Real' books seem to have some kind of linen scrim rather than tissue. I should imagine this helps with tensile strength like glass fibre tape does to GRP. Evo stick has a very pungent solvent smell, worth taking care of ventilation to avoid getting high
> Somehow multiple layouts are not a big deal for multi-lingual people, why is it so confusing for programmers?

I don't know. I would totally do it if others did it. There just isn't a critical mass enough.

Maybe the next APLish language needs to have both modes of display similar to how java editors fold old constructs into new ones. That would allow the extra symbols to be slowly adopted.
Car insurance is much simpler than health insurance. Still, I expect most people without car insurance are poor, and the reason they don't have it is not simply a lack of money but also (and relatedly) a lack of time.

Generally yes, poor people are less capable of gaining the "expertise" to do many things, because they are busy trying to stay alive. It's textbook hierarchy of needs.

Noticed other replies; why the fixation on car insurance? I thought we were talking about structural impediments to poor people?
There is freelance contract and contract employment. Those are two different things, but, yea, to a degree you're right.
It should be free. There is absolutely zero reason why I should have to pay to see my credit report at any time, or decide that I wish to freeze my credit at any time.
I used to work with a brilliant women who really struggled with her manic episodes. She ended up going off her meds and on a weeklong manic state, ending with her walking straight through a plate glass window. She was window shopping and saw a coat she really liked, and she felt so powerful and was so nearly psychotic that she just walked straight through the window.

Cuts all over, dozens of stitches, yet amazingly no permanent injuries. She had to spend a couple of months in inpatient care to stabilize.
> it didn't even move the conversation along in any way (angry responses rarely seem to).

From your other comment [0] it sounds like it worked perfectly. The angry response first got the Intel engineer to defend their work and explain it better than they originally had, then further got others interested enough to improve it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216289
It been very helpful that the state laws are in conflict with federal laws. The uncertainty causes some financial difficulties, but in general it has helped to protect smaller producers.
But the whole point of the novel is that neither system really works very well! I think you're doing it a disservice to characterize it in that way.

Given the tremendous increase in the standard of living of so many people, Capitalism does a pretty darn good job. I think in that by grouping it in a pair where "neither system really works very well," you and LeGuin would be "doing it a disservice to characterize it in that way."

One major weakness of Capitalism, due in part to Pareto, is the perception of relative disparity. Psychological research indicates that such perception is a basic reality of the human condition. We should regard the bitterness of have-nots as real, even if the have-nots are fabulously well off in a global and historical sense. Any system which is forward thinking should take that into account, or fail to do so at its own peril. (One of Basic Income's biggest problems is that it does nothing to alleviate the problems relative disparity, so plants the seeds for its own political instability.)

She did her best to imagine a communist system that was nearly ideally designed and it still fails in so many ways.

Any system which isn't perfect is going to fail in innumerable ways, in that countless instances of terrible tragedy and injustice will exist within it, and no system is going to be perfect.

Re: Your user name: I once came up with an acronym for a sensor-network Internet thing. BACON: Basic Autarchic Communication/Observation Network.
Would be interesting to make this a sort of twitch plays. 7 hour voting windows.
> neither system

People often miss it, but the planet Urras has many countries and actually two superpowers: A-Io (conservative capitalist parliamentary democracy) but also Thu (a totalitarian socialist regime). A very cold war like setting.

A-Io allowed the Odonian rebels (anarchists) to exile to the moon, but their counterparts in Thu we never hear much about. Possibly their fate was more gruesome.
In the case of Star Trek, there were many more items of Fi. Then you have Star Wars which really doesn't give a ####.
Bitcoin is the multi-level marketing of millennials.
> It does things like track where the mouse is moving on the page, whether someone is copying and pasting information into the fields, whether they’re making typos, how fast they’re typing, and many other factors. By analyzing customer behavioral patterns, Bolt says it has a better shot at stopping fraud than just asking for the billing address.

Smells like bullshit, how is any of this meant to distinguish a mildly sophisticated fraudster from browser autofill?
It's free in some states, depending on the circumstances. And yes, it should indeed be free. I wish I could opt out of giving them any of my data entirely, but it's neither practical nor possible.
BREAKING: Twitter Sends Paul Watson An Email Accusing Him Of Being A Russian Agent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZ2iW153KM

Good bye twitter!!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-...
> Up until the early 20th century, science and engineering didn't talk much

Leonardo da Vinci?
Facebook hires the scientist who helped build IBM Watson to lead A.I. expansion
Yup. But I also understand that some of them use hop oil extracts (could be wrong). Never tried it, but I have to think it loses some of the nuance of whole leaf or pellet in the process. Which is fine, they are optimizing for consistency and scaling. McDonalds vs Five Guys.
I think this is not overvaluing the utility of Bitcoin, but undervaluing the utility of cattle. I, for one, am very bullish on bovine-based exchange.
Well, there is one reason: so companies like Equifax can make even more money.
Not sure I'd take that bet. Finding some way to get drunk appears to be one of the few real constants of the human experience.
San Diegan reporting in! It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. They have tapped out the "like eating a cone of pure hops" quintuple imperial IPA market, and now the trend is additives. Ballast Point and Modern Times are the worst about this. We are at the "add some truffle oil it" stage.
Maybe they wouldn't need net neutrality laws telling monopolies how to operate if they didn't outlaw Municipal ISPs?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-alr...

If monopoly cable providers are the problem, who allowed them to become monopolies? Isn't that the real problem?
You've just described serialization five times. BBN had all that decades ago, who knows what they have now, and that's in Newton MA.
CSS Grids Fractional Units Tutorial – The Easy Way
Here it goes. I made this tutorial because I was confused on how to see the Fractional Units (FR) with CSS Grid. Hope this helps!
I don’t care much about smoking but I like edibles. From my own experience it’s entirely possible to differentiate your product as an edible and I see others finding brands they like and sticking to them. When I’m with friends buying plants they don’t seem to care as much about strain/grower (but that’s anecdotal).
This is so charmingly naive. I'll tell you why they don't collectively bargain. Because what will happen is, one or more of the cities will take advantage, cut a backroom deal, and win. That's why.
Smells like machine learning to me...
So it prevents speculative execution of branches, by speculatively executing them itself? lol
Poor people seem perfectly capable of purchasing car insurance, as evidenced by the fact that millions of poor people have car insurance. What is it, specifically, about being poor that leads you to believe they lack the cognitive ability to purchase disability insurance? Or did you understand something other than cognitive ability when you read they couldn't attain "expertise?"
Here’s a start.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/newyork/new...
> A number of successful countries started off "as a poorly-developed state engaged in outright war and proxy wars". The U.S. itself, for example

The US did not go through a long period of active direct and proxy conflict with the most advanced contemporary nations at it's founding. It fought a brief war to separate (which it was losing until a major power opposed to Britain intervened), and then not much with any major power till it decided to take advantage of the Napoleonic Wars and the pretext of impressment to seize British Canada (unsuccessfully). The US was a sideshow isolated by oceans for the major powers for almost as long after it's formation as the USSR existed.
Probably a lot of animals will be used at first.

Then, human tissue samples can be grown and kept to test results on actual human DNA.

As time goes by, computers will model more and more of the problem space.

I still wouldn't want to be one of those pre release versions

The particular applications will vary, but we're already doing human trials using gene therapy. This is our "Hello World" phase happening now.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/health/hemophilia-trial-uk-cu...
That one is easy now, human rights and middle class.

People willing to work will have a lot less problems in Europe than anywhere else. Even when falling suddenly ill
Sounds like hypomania. Do you find yourself also chatty and more likely to take risks (spend money, do new things, etc.)?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_II_disorder#Hypomanic_...
We should uncouple insurance from employers anyway. Offering benefits such as insurance was a hack that started during WW2 so that companies could get around the idiotic wage freezes imposed by the government, and it gives your employer far too much power over your health.
> "But not operating expenses."

I'm not referring to operating expenses. I'm referring to investment in growth. The idea is to prove you have a business that can turn a profit by bootstrapping it yourself, then get a small business loan from a bank to take it to the next level.

There are also other sources of business loans. Here's one example:

https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/businesses/

Here's another:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/small-business/3-potential-b...

The idea that VC money is needed to grow a certain type of business simply isn't true. If you're prepared to be patient, you can avoid any VC involvement.
What about the swipe to instant purchase?
Why not balance it out? I do yoga sometimes as often as 4 times a week and eat mostly organic as a vegetarian. What else is all that money for? XD

Anyway, happy retirement!
Great idea! This is something hat seems so obvious after the fact, but I would have never thought of it.

I would suggest that you enable a more responsive preview. Viewing it on a 1440p monitor, the map preview could be about double in size.
It means they talked to their marketing department to make their advertising more "blockchainy"
Not depression, but I notice that I have less social anxiety when sleep deprived.
Most things are this nuanced, but tabloids and headlines would rather condense everything to 140 characters.

Especially in economics, nothing is simple. Everything has branching consequences and influences. Nothing happens in isolation. Trends are the products of a thousand knobs being tuned according to another thousand knobs each.
Was drinking a PBR as I read this. I feel ashamed
Careful there, goofing off for 5 minutes every day adds up to 3 more full days of work per year. That’s a big deal.
BREAKING: Twitter Sends Paul Watson An Email Accusing Him Of Being A Russian Agent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZ2iW153KM
> Automation is good. Do you want us to ride horses to work?

I will challenge you on this.

Automation is efficient.

The problem is that maximally efficient is minimally robust.

Cars are wonderful, unless something disastrous happens to your roads. Then horses are better.

Amazon just-in-time delivery is great. Until everybody needs the same thing--at which point local grocery stores with inventory matter.

Efficient doesn't always equate to good.
Very relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/7h9tn2/i_sued_...

Might be an insight into what happens when Equifax appeals.
There are several use cases.

1. Paying merchants who don't accept any other cryptocurrency (which is the majority of the available ones; typically they accept fiat in some form, plus Bitcoin since it's been around so long, but have barely heard of others).

2. Donations, same as above.

3. As an onramp from fiat to other cryptocurrencies, where those are accepted and Bitcoin BTC transaction fees for 1 confirmation in a reasonable time are an excessively high portion of the transaction amount.

4. For cryptocurrency payments which need the very highest possible level of security against double-spends, which is provided by Bitcoin's hashrate and decentralization, arising from there being a mature community around it. As far as I can tell, none of the other currencies have equally good metrics, though they do approach it.

Plus a few more.

And not forgetting that Bitcoin Core could in future raise the block size, making each unit increase sharply in utility and value, beyond its natural deflationary increase.
In Oregon, AFAIK the laws were structured in such a way to help local growers. Growers had to be residents for X months and were quite limited in operation size to spread things out.
Every single website that publishes user-generated content offers a method to report content.

I really have no idea how this merits to be top of the front page, except that github somehow ended up on everyone's naughty list because an intern once deleted content they misunderstood, and the company once mentioned their efforts to attract a more diverse workforce.

The tech community will always forgive and forget a company not noticing that none of their three backup systems are actually working, and then accidentally deleting user data.

But any small effort, ever, to join the society-wide effort to right historical wrongs will forever taint even the most benign actions with the collective accusation of politically-motivated censorship.

The universal truth that everyone, in every industry, is also a citizen who doesn't check their humanity at the company gates is now scandalized. And the common fiction that companies only serve the bottom line is not rejected as (a) wrong and (b) ahistorical ignorance, but glorified as the mantra of some sort of libertarian fantasy.
But it can buy things that help make a healthier lifestyle like foods with real value.
This is a PR puff piece.
I think edibles will be mostly taken over by concentrates. Instead of (in WA for ex.) paying $40 for 10 10mg edibles, I’ll pay $20 for enough concentrate to make 80 edibles.
Compiler FAQ, in it's entirety, says it all:

>Q: Why did you make this? A: I thought it would be funny.
the cross-sections always strike me with the number of parts which are involved and thus the amount of labor to build the planes body, wings, etc. with accompanying question of whether it can be simpler or done in other ways, like 3d printing, robotic assembly, etc.