skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More worship at the altar of optimally-filled-time which misses a larger point - research consistently shows that the "goof-off" time is where our brain goes to work on the real hard problems.

Sure, if all your startup does is crank out CLs, optimize for that. But I'd wager that unless you're solving bigger problems than "more code!", your startup is not going anywhere. (Don't get me wrong, there is a phase when all you want is more code, but it's a very short moment in the life cycle)

Oddly, Knuth comes to mind: Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered
If it isn't a single blockchain, then you'll probably have the same problem.
Nvidia’s GeForce Now PC beta is much better at cloud gaming than you think
I wish math notation becomes substitued with pseudocode. I can never figure out all the greek letters!
> And while these ideologues are busy demonizing the central banks a handful of individuals manipulate bitcoin to levels a central bank could never even attempt...

What baffles me is the obsession over price. Nobody obsesses over USD/JPY, unless you’re a forex trader.

Rather than focusing on price, the focus should be on building new ideas with blockchain technology. Dapps are easier than ever to deploy with Truffle/web3.js[0] for example. You can come up with cool alternative governance models like Dash[1] has.

I’ve been following Bitcoin since 2010. It’s never been about price for me. It’s been about what cool things you can build with the technology.

[0] http://truffleframework.com

[1] https://dashvotetracker.com
> This creates a twisted Turing test situation where, to prove you are a human, you have to pretend to be a machine's idea of what a human is.

Exactly. I think Recaptcha was better when it was looking for consistency with other human answers. Using "AI" has the same problem you mentioned, plus its more vulnerable because it has the assumption that your "AI" is unapproachably far ahead of competitors.
Ad restaurant: I would not be rude to them in that situation. I would refuse to pay wrong food if I would think I don't want to eat it.

If I would be hungry, I would be angry, but I would still not insult them and there is no rational reason to do so. I can control my anger in easy restaurant situatuon like that. At worst, I would leave.
Bitrise seem to deal with a niche market (mobile development), so claiming their study shows a general trend in the self hosted git market is a stretch at best. I'd imagine boring old git itself and non-website backed things like gitosis are still a massive part of the overall install base. In any case, the claim that gitlab's on 2/3 market share just screams disingenuous marketing fluff to me and cheapens gitlab as a whole.
So what percent of the transaction number is flagged as fraud, and how many is actual fraud?
Losing a customer that is not fraudulent due to aggressive filtering is almost as bad as having a fraudulent one.
It's almost like you don't know anything about non-zero-sum games.
We've been working on a hardware startup for about 7 years now, 8 years since I had the idea. It took us such a long time because we had to learn a lot of things. Our prototype is a two weeks away, and actual tests with users a little over a month away. What would the ideal time to apply? Now, as soon as the prototype is done or after actual tests with actual users?
When did you find out about cryptocurrency?

Because this has already happened in 2014-2016. It happened before that too. Each time the speculative bubble rises, it is being driven at first by improvements to the tech and/or ecosystem. Then it gets a life of its own, goes crazy, and runs out of gas. But along the way, more people learn about it and decide they care enough to continue the project.

Even if you are only in it for the money, the tech matters. Because the closer you are to the tech, the better you understand where the long term value will be, and when the price has outrun that value.
slightly off topic but will the extension work for mobile as well? [off topic bit:] because I've noticed the mobile ddg experience isn't as great as on desktop: the !bangs are harder to type, image search on mobile is frustrating, etc... (and even more off-topic: have you considered partnering with tin-eye for reverse image lookup?)
You should be set with openCV or JavaCV. JavaCV has more ported image/video progressing libraries than openCV and are a bit more customizable in my experience. And literally JavaCV has openCV natively but a different wrapper. I would only suggest openCV if you are working with python. It provides enough tools for basic then mid complex objects and if you want to mature in it then open up the hood. As for porting that pet porject to a mobile android device i would suggest to go straight with javaCV even though openCV has wrappers for android and java. The reason is because at some point you'll want to ditch their riggid methods of obtaining video/pictures. JavaCV has served me well when integrating with android. Also, if you eventually want to scale up the processing into a web service then it' easier.
Apple definitely missed the boat on this. Unless their speakers are leaps and bounds better in some way, I don't see many people switching.

Once someone has a couple of Amazon Echos, for example, why would they add a Google Home or Apple HomePod? I don't think anyone wants to have to configure several devices to have to do the same things (turn lights on/off, etc.)
Nice paper. It makes me wonder how different the two 'neurons' are from a classical control theory set of equations (w/ gains in a feedback loop) solving for the same plant model.

I do love the visualization of "Instability of an unsteered bicycle" in figure 2 though.
The world's first Analrapist!
Here's an idea: don't let states make targeted tax breaks to race to the bottom. That seems to work in the EU. Apple paid 1% in Ireland and simply had to pay up the difference to the normal tax rate.
The U.K. still has the Falkland Islands. But for the most part, once India achieved independence, the British empire was pretty much toast.
I really do like the design of the post-install splash page. The vista scene reminds me of the firefox post install page.
does anyone recognize what software was used during this study
That's the starting processing rate for any major processor:

- https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintree-pricing

- https://stripe.com/us/pricing

All of our clients (typically larger businesses) provide proof of lower rates with their existing processors and get those rates 100% matched. We do not negotiate processing, we just match the industry.
Indeed, I work on .NET based LOB applications and performance bottlenecks are 99% due to bad SQL optimization.

Azure tuning is now in 2nd place for performance optimization.

I've personally never had to look very deep into the CLR, and I've worked for some large scale apps.
> And while these ideologues are busy demonizing the central banks a handful of individuals manipulate bitcoin to levels a central bank could never even attempt...

Thank you for putting words to an idea I've had for a while.

I agree that central banks are imperfect and that they sometimes abuse or just misuse their power. When they abuse the trust we place in them it creates real, specific problems. Cryptocurrencies have no trust, but they have even worse versions of the same specific problems.

This shouldn't be surprising. The entire reason we created central banks in the first place was precisely to attempt to manage these specific problems. The implicit argument is that centrally managing a currency isn't just imperfect and corrupt, but that it's so incredibly imperfect and corrupt as to be worse than nothing.
I completely disagree with the “race to the bottom” framing of the idea that cities shouldn’t compete to provide the best services for the commercial enterprises which reside there.

At the 50-75 year timeframe we are talking about at least hundreds of billions of dollars of economic value, if not trillions. The clustering effect of becoming Silicon Valley 2 cannot be overstated.

My personal opinion is cities should be talking about the Billions they will be committing to supporting infrastructure improvements rather than the billions in tax cuts. HQ2 needs a fuck ton of support systems, akin to building an Olympic City which never shuts down.

Of course city governments should be working hard to bring this kind of value creation and massive economic engine to their constituents. Of course Amazon should be asking tough questions of cities akin to “and what are you going to do to support me” before spending $5 billion building a new campus.

Personally I think the cities that only have tax incentives to offer will not come out the winner. Amazon cares a lot more about the surrounding infrastructure and ecosystem than a short term $1 Billion.

It’s completely irrational anti-capitalistic knee jerking to whine that cities shouldn’t be working hard to support HQ2 in their backyard. We are watching capitalism at its finest here folks - and market efficiency driving negotiation and competition is creating significantly better outcomes than the “fuck Amazon they don’t need handouts” crowd would arrive at.

If someone came to your town and said, I want to build a $20m community arts center with a theater, coworking space, parks, gardens, and playground — would you want your town to say “good luck with that” or would you want them to say “that’s amazing what do you need from us to make that happen?!” Just because Amazon happens to be for-profit, their presence in your city is an extraordinary asset and it makes perfect sense to entice them to come.

In fact, you can’t even consider building at anywhere near HQ2 scale without an intimate partnership with the host city which is, in one form or another, going to require somewhere on the order of dollar-for-dollar public investment to match the private investment. We’ve proven that this public/private partnership is basically the most effective growth engine we’ve got. I certainly hope my city would do everything possible to roll out the red carpet. It’s the most effective dollars they could possibly spend, because it’s effectively corporate matching of public funds.
Use your last android phone.
Right, but there is always going to be the incentive to defect; if 19 of the cities agree to cooperate, the 20th can just offer slightly more and win the contract.
I think the law requires you to give it up if you can't see well enough to drive. You can get an I'd card that looks a lot like a license, but doesn't permit you to operate motor vehicles on public roads.
Ha, I didn't make that connection... makes sense!
&tbs=li: is the magic incantation to insert into your search bookmark parameters to force verbatim every time
Appreciate it. More to be published on the site, and welcome any and all feedback.
The problem is there isn't really much of a market for something like that. Sure, you can have detailed documentation on such a product that explains how it's functioning, why it might drop out when your ip changes, etc., but who is going to understand that? People like you and me, yes, but we're a pretty small market.

In order for there to be a reasonable audience for a product, you have to target the least knowledgeable person - or at least someone pretty far south of the median. Those people aren't going to understand what's happening, and they're going to get upset each time their ip resets and they can't connect to their thermostat anymore. They're going to take the frustration to the thermostat company, they're not going to understand what the service rep tells them, and they're going to return the product, leave a bad review, and buy a nest.

No one wants to be in the position of making and selling such a product. That's why you pretty much need to make your own with an esp8266. And that's why so many of these IoT devices end up being far too bloated.
Honestly I think Amazon is as or more interested in the cities' overall plans than just tax incentives being offered. There's a lot of logistics to build a campus as large as they're planning with as many employees as they're planning. I think they're also very interested in zoning and regulatory hurdles. They're probably looking for a city that won't bog the project down in zoning permits, etc. Kinda like how Google Fiber was killed by regulation rather than capital or technical concerns.

The tax incentives play into the overall cost to Amazon for their location, but so does the rest of the plan.
I've been working as a contractor for the last year and a half, so I speak from experience, but only anecdotally. Regarding the notion that the flexibility of a contracting position might cause stress for those w/ children, I've found the opposite to be the case. When my child is sick, I simply take a day off and don't bill for that day. I don't worry about sick days at all. This sort of flexibility is a huge plus at this point in my life.

If you have a spouse who is employed and you can gain health coverage for him/her, and if this sort of child care flexibility is important to you (because, say, your toddler gets sick all the time), then working as a contractor can make sense.

At the same time, I generally agree with you regarding the precedent it sets in the aggregate. I also realize that the case I've described is somewhat special.
3 suggestions.

- when I click on the link to go to the side, I'd much rather prefer it to open as a new page because it allows for quicker loading when you hit the back button, which would then close that page and bring you back to your site without needing it to reload.

- when visiting a link and then going back, I need to tap it twice. Just tapping once brings me to the redirect and then it just goes to the link again. This doesn't need time be fixed if the link is opened in a New tab though

- the tickers up top should give priority to a watchlist we could build and store in local storage so sign up isn't needed. Should be pretty trivial to implement
Definitely. Valuable feedback, and much appreciated.
Yes, because there is NO WAY that your personal investments might present a conflict of interest for your work in a company. /s
Is there a programmer's union? If not, would it be worth it to start one? Honestly, it's something I've been thinking about for some time now. I have a lot of family and friends from NYC who have expressed both pros and cons to me about unions. I have no experience with it but I'm becoming more and more interested as I become aware of industry-wide problems.
750ms is still a very bad value.
>but HN is an international site with visitors from all around the world

It's site that focuses specifically on the startup culture centered around SV. The site if full of American idioms, cultural norms, and people regularly discuss American politics and the American regulatory environment. There are far more people living in America participating than otherwise. In most cases the default behavior is to speak about American issues without prefacing with "this is about America."

There's clearly nothing wrong with speaking about non-American issues, but if you don't specify, most of us are going to assume you're talking about America.
But 1.5 miles in Phoenix is not necessarily as 1.5 miles elsewhere. The sun is oppressive and actively trying to kill you there.
Storefronts are difficult too, I don't think I'm ever good enough at those to satisfy it. The most reasonable one seems to be street signs, but I think it fails me for not flagging the unpainted back of one.
Hmm or how much they can out price competitors, which has largely been amazon approach, further more they keep expanding yo new markets!
I spotted a lot a russian sounding names in the authors of this "report". The "Center for Study of Democracy" looks like a Russian troll factory : http://www.csd.bg/index.php?id=182 One dude from Sodia university, all the others with no instutions other than the so call think tank.

Also that gem :

> France: the local researcher preferred to remain anonymous
To be fair I'm sure this is how it works so well for the vast majority of people.

It's a success if only a few power user nerds are the ones using extra syntax.
I'd be interested to see how older people interacted with the device. I know someone who got their parent a device and they kept "Alexa" written on a post-it because they couldn't remember the device name.

It's a big shift in technology, but since it is voice interactive, rather than computer/smart phone, I think it does provide an ease of use for older people who might not be as technology savvy.

SNL did a great skit on this … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
Yes. I said comparatively easier.
Not that much surprising since America is very much corrupt isn't it... At least it's really much of a jungle where only power and money talk. So many things are going on in this country that you can easily call bribery or at least quid-pro-quo, but they just carry on blatantly forever.
Bitcoin is not anonymous. (Reporter needs to get a clue.) Once you link an individual to a single transaction, you can trace them through every other transaction to and from that address.

In practice, this means that if you use coinbase, or any large web merchant, that merchant can link your identity to the wallet you use, and then to almost every other transaction you spend.

The bitcoin UTXO transaction graph adds in some anonymity, because it's hard to be sure which part of a transaction's output is going to the merchant, and which is coming back to the user in the form of change. However, in practice, forensics are quite good, and are certainly good enough for the government (if they hired any decent tech person) to figure out.

On the other hand, coins like Zcash and Monero are anonymous, and the IRS might have reason to actually fear those.
Not sure if you're looking for CV or DL libraries. If you're looking for DL libraries, you can't go wrong with Tensorflow or PyTorch for research/development, and Tensorflow or Caffe2 for deployment. Tensorflow's a bit difficult to learn, but has a lot of great tooling around it, and PyTorch is the opposite. The other frameworks are fine, but don't have the same amount of documentation & beginner resources.
Am I in the minority here for being a contract developer who is happy to be in this place?

* I make over 40% more than I did when I was full-time, and I was already in the top band for pay in my title. This far exceeds the 15% markup for self-employment tax.

* My wife works full time so she has our back for health insurance

* I can save way more for retirement with an SEP IRA than I ever could with a company-sponsored 401k...it's $55k/yr for 2018 (assuming you contribute 25% of earnings or make $220k/yr)

I can understand that the Gig Economy is certainly not benefiting everyone (e.g. Uber drivers, Postmates runners), but I mean boutique consulting firms have existed for a while and many of them achieve many millions in revenue even with only a few partners. Am I missing something or delusional in my thinking?
The only problem is they have nothing to say to each other.

The idea of a "collective bargain" in a "winner takes all" situation doesn't make sense.
This is just a PID controller, they have existed and been used in industry much longer than computers and thus require almost no computing power at all. Everyone taking higher level engineering courses learns how to design these because almost everything uses them. Honestly I thought that the paper was a joke on how everything is called neural network, but maybe it is serious...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller#History
Likewise, but I've found the performance on a few key websites to be awful. Namely Facebook, and often Google Inbox.

Another consequence of switching has been difficulty in using things like my Apple TV or Chromecast (e.g. casting a video to my TV), or using my Mac's media keys to control Google Play Music.
You're wrong. Including reinvested dividends, since 12/31/00, Seaboard's stock has compounded at 22.1% through 12/31/17, for a total gain of 2,890%.
It did quite a bit to make it easier to buy insurance as an individual such as getting rid of pre-existing condition exclusions and adding subsidies for low income people.
Uber has hired its first chief diversity officer
probably not, as the manufacturers are not liable for the system breaches.
Piston engines are quite simple and can be extremely reliable.

There is typically a trade-off between maintenance and replacement. Piston engines require on-going maintenance, but can last a really long time. Electric motors require almost no maintenance but need to be rebuilt/replaced more often.
Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns (2016)
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There is a fantastic pair of episodes of Citations Needed on exactly this topic. They cover the Olympics, HQ2, and sports stadiums. And you're right: city after city gives the whole farm away for these big ticket things that never really pay out, and cities can't deficit spend the way a country can to eat the loss.

CN 19 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/citations-needed/e/52555894

CN 20 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/citations-needed/e/52636015
I don't know the ETA for WebRender in Firefox. The team is focusing on Windows first. You can follow WebRender development on the Mozilla Graphics team's blog:

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/webrender-newsle...
I mentioned Obamacare as more of a government solution to the problems mentioned in the parent post but I agree. However remember that Obamacare provides and individual insurance market at the state level (which is doing terribly..) along with medicaid expansion. These seem closer to the ideal of what American 'single payer' would look like.
Really? My comment doesn't add anything meaningful to the discussion?

I linked to a far more informative post that actually discusses a technical issue. Frankly, the response should have been what was linked on HN, not some rant.

I can't believe the irony of telling me to "chill out" with personal attacks when commenting on a rant that is majority perosnal attacks.
Well I'm commenting on the internet Verdex_3. I'm not going to take the time to write out a bunch of interesting statistical examples for you. I wasn't trying to say it's easy to make statistics interesting. Was only trying to refute what I thought that you were asserting; statistics and probability are not interesting to teach. Designing enjoyable, interesting, challenging and fair curriculum is a really hard task to do for any subject...

If you don't believe math can be made interesting I would checkout websites like FiveThirtyEight or youtube channels like numberphile. It's definitely possible to describe statistics or math problems in interesting ways. It's hard to make any class interesting, but any teacher can do it if they work at it hard enough.

Also your moneyball comment makes no sense. All teams operate like the 2002 Oakland A's now, if anything the the movie shows the triump of statistics over bad heuristics.
You're not the target audience, obviously. Although you and I realize that what you're talking about is simple to do, for us ... it's not as simple for many other people.

So the idea of just having a single device that automatically integrates with your phone, etc. is appealing to many people.
No, otherwise the world would have the same aggregate welfare as it did in the 18th century (or some arbitrary time in the past). The idea of this being some zero-sum game is not only naive but dangerous.
Data: Mapping the Ejaculation Patterns and Preferences of 740 Men and Women
The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking
I don't think Linus is wrong for how he interacts with people, but I do worry that people are so easily distracted by his display that the ensuing conversation about his behavior detracts from his message. Nearly every statement he makes like this devolves into musings on human psychology.