skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are talking about free software in the context of a donation to the fsf, and the poster above asked what is meant by "free" in this context, so for all intents and purposes that is the correct definition to link to.

But I'm curious: can you find a definition or usage of "free software" that predates the gnu manifesto? Because that would be something useful in the discussion about changing the name (which it's something that is being debated).
I don't get it either, but it's what I hear (again, colloquial evidence). I'm also at a loss with my recent transition.
Most of the math majors I know didn't have much trouble with proofs as 19-22 year olds. You're assuming a pretty low ability.
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There are definitely rules of thumb but there is a lot of margin of error. You can triangulate based on different variables.

One variable is how much VC firms at a given stage typically need to own (below a certain ownership in the company, even a fantastic outcome will not cover the cost of the many failed investments that are characteristic of high-risk ventures). So that puts an upper bound on reasonable valuation for a given investment amount.

Then there is a similar variable for team dilution. Founders will only give away so much of their company before losing the feeling of ownership that is a big part of the motivation of entrepreneurs. So that puts a lower bound on reasonable valuation.

Then there is the trajectory of the company. How far are they from being IPO-ready? How many more rounds to get there? And if they don't get there, what are realistic acquisition prospects? If any similar company has been sold, what was the price?

None of this is an exact science. Sometimes people do unreasonable things, because they don't have a choice, or because they don't know any better. And many well-informed analysts also have biases or conflicts which twist their estimates.

Since you mention online resources - in my experience almost everything you read in professional ad-supported publications is biased, wrong, or blatantly one-sided.
Philosophy, for the most part, isn't flooded with junk. (I'll refrain from comments about the rest.) In fact, I'm not sure what philosophical junk would be.

There may be schools of thought based on assumptions that are fundamentally alien to you, but making sense of them is the fun of philosophy.
> I think it's potentially naive to think that governments won't be able to wield social networks even more effectively than "freedom fighters".

That exact thing is happening. The Reply All podcast did an excellent piece on the dominant political party in Mexico using armies of people on Twitter - not bots, but people - to drown out news they didn't like, and eventually, to harass people. Show, with full transcript: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/112-the-prophet/
I'd love to see a notebook environment that could somehow combine Python data science tools with DOM/JavaScript interactive visualization tools like D3. Jupyter and crew do former and this does the latter. What we really want is both. Would obviously be tricky to both implement technically and to design a good experience that lets you swap between the two languages and paradigms. Like you might have run webserver behind the scenes to expose the Python produced data to the D3? Stuff like that. Sounds like an interesting challenge. Because I'm generous though, I'd like to give this idea away for free to anyone willing to execute on it. Just joking! Devil in the details. More accurately, I'd just be pumped if someone had the energy to tackle this beast. Also, I'd definitely pay for a hybrid tool like this.
Looking at the dell website I can't find any difference between the new xps 13 and xps 13 developer edition. Besides the regular edition having 8gb RAM instead of 4gb.

If they're the same price, why would anyone pay the same for less RAM and pre-installed Ubuntu?

Legitmetly curious what other differences there are.
Indeed. I heartily recommend watching it.
Why are colorful bikes left on sidewalks an eyesore, but rows and rows of cars parked next to sidewalks not?
i love how machinebox provides excellent developer experience, other companies should learn from these guys
It is in no one’s interest except the miners to promote used mining GPUs as a viable used part. If you simply continue the narrative that used mining gpus are bad, the prices will be pushed down as people refuse to buy them.

If you are looking to buy those used GPUs for cheap you should avoid any public language that tries to downplay the impact of 24/7 mining.
Or between different parts of the "ground" that are at different potentials.
Also possible that bikes are more likely to survive a post-SDC world.
The only reason I use twitter is because it's where the forum culture of the 2000s has migrated. All the good SA posters pretty much only use twitter now, so it's the only place for that sort of content.
I wonder what "here" is, in Canada, generally, when you borrow funds from your company and don't repay it within one year, the CRA can assess the outstanding balance as ordinary income at an income tax rate similar to that of a salary.
The truck driver thing is not true:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-m...
Paranoia would fit the bill
Sounds pretty good. But if I really liked them I’d just buy one personally.
For everyone else who's getting a 404: http://archive.is/HTfZh

I hope they don't handle bikes like their do their websites...
Hm ... I wouldn say thats a limitation of the compiler but of the language itself (no ducktyping). Definitely not a bug though.
...go?
Certainly not more of an eyesore than parked cars lining city streets.
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Ah, mutable data. Is there any abstraction it can't ruin?
This works by executing Javascript code written by the user. Since these notebooks are shareable, and there is also a log-in feature, do any security features need to be put in place to prevent, say, someone linking me to a notebook that sends my login credentials for observablehq.com to a malicious host? That is, is the javascript inside the notebook sandboxed in any way?

I don't fully understand how modern web security works. But "executing arbitrary javascript written by user A on website B viewed by user C" seems worrying.
You're making it sound like this is some difficult research problem. The answer to homelesness is simple: give them homes. Give them food. Give them money. This is how it works in every industrial society that's solved the problem.

Your error is that you're obsessed with trying to fix this within a market economy, by specifically housing them in areas of high economic activity where they can supposedly find "opportunity". That won't work and is counterproductive.
Since this entire "product" launch is a partnership + landing page, I'm guessing 0 engineers were involved. Building a form isn't hard, but recruiting an engineer, convincing them that building a form is a good use of their time, and then actually getting it "shipped" takes 100x longer at large companies than just giving Typeform your credit card.
Of course ML has his uses, even now I am doing fully industrial ML. But, in the end, is just an algorithm/NN that does what your suppose to programm it. And is a heck of manual work involved.

AI is on a different scale andmay have less to do with the actual implementations.
Ok, I will say something. Economics had a problem in that it is partially descriptive, as you say, but it is also partially normative: it wants to say how things should be. Then it gets the two parts confused a lot, leading to homo economicus stuff.

Behavioral economics is more relevant to both the fields you describe.
> Mobike seems like they have their heads more switched on, but the seat on current models is so low that their bikes (in London at least) are barely usable to anyone at average adult height or above.

Are you not able to adjust the seat? Considering the varying heights of people this would seem like a standard expected feature.
rkt on the other hand is a dead project and completely
useless to Red Hat.

What support do you have for this statement? The github project is still pretty active. The architecture appears to be far more sane. k8s supports it as well as docker for the runtime piece.

And just anecdotally docker hasn't been the greatest experience for me running in production. So much so that I've considered exploring rkt as a replacement. I would not at all be surprised if RedHat was hedging their bets re: docker with this coreos acquisition.
Yes, but InnoDB wasn't developed by Oracle but by a Finnish company before MySQL became property of Oracle.
Twitter is the most awesome, amazing source of news and updates I've found. For example because I follow Tavis Ormandy on Twitter I know that a vulnerability related to bittorrent will soon be released by Google's Project Zero.

That said, it took months to get my feed to where it is today. It's not easy for each person to find the mix of accounts that is best for them. My recommendation is, be fast to follow folks who look interesting, and fast to unfollow folks if they are boring or you don't like them. When you find folks you like, see who they retweet, reply to, follow, etc. and follow all those folks to see what you think.
How has Python suffered from this? They broke things going from 2 to 3... and it was still the fastest growing language from 2017.
It clearly wasn't popular just because they removed features, but you can't say that removing things is fatal to adoption.
He never uses that in the video. The video also doesn't show the availability of it. Also a sequence like that for something that he uses all the time is not very good huffman coding.
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A lot of metropolitan cities already have bike-to-rent programs e.g. CitiBike in NYC, GoBike in SF. This looks like a quickly and sloppily put together plan to hush noisy investors and shareholders. But hey it is never a bad idea to have more bikes in SF. Especially innovative electric-assist ones.
>thieves stealing the body parts

hopefully you meant bike parts?
There's a big issue with those sources, however. North Korean defectors are paid essentially on how horrific their stories are, so there's a real incentive to make things up.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-k...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/asia/prominent-nort...
I view BTC/cryptocurrencies made possible by blockchain as the modern electronic alternative to gold and silver as a store of value. Free from (for the most part) manipulations from the Central Banks. I think the excitement (at least for me) was knowing that we now have a technology that can lead to honest money. Satoshi Nakamoto's initial inspiration for blockchain sprang from this idea after the banking crisis.

Also, I recommend Mike Maloney's series "The Hidden Secrets of Money" which I think does an excellent job of explaining the fractional reserve banking and possible currency crisis.
Yes, it's absolutely worth exploring further — and we definitely have notions for ways to further expose and make interactive the running state of the notebook.

But for starters: You can do something similar to expose the internal state of loops and flow-control constructs by just using JavaScript's generators.

Here's an extremely simple example that slowly yields the value of a loop's `i` variable:

https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/flow-control-demo-w...

If you remove the delay, it'll instead yield `i` at 60fps.
> They're not stupid, they ship the voltages they need.

That's my point then. Vega just needs too much by default. Hopefully next iteration will be less power hungry.
Just took the GMAT as an accountant and did substantially better on Verbal than Quant.

The idea that accountants are good at math is nonsense. Accountants aren't taught any more math than marketing majors.
Isn't that like saying you want to control your execution manually? Basically, this just get rids of the manual refresh button that would be required to sync pieces of dependent computations after code or data changes somewhere. It is as if the graphics were running in immediate mode being refreshed completely on every frame (a common goal for live programming systems).
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That type of attitude may actually endanger cyclists more than helping them.

http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k94/rr-2
> When every xbox and PS4 sold as your CPU in it, how were they not profitable?

I'm guessing razor-thin margins to get the contracts.
Here's a live demo on MyBinder:

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/twosigma/beakerx/0.12.0?filepath=...
Also fake SEO stuff like make an illegal web farm copied from your competitor's site and use a spambot to post their URL everywhere so Google penalizes then in web rank.

I was on Uncyclopedia when someone did that to get them removed from Google.
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I was thinking 1700's.
I remember seeing those black Bird scooters just randomly laying in the middle of sidewalks in Santa Monica. I wonder if that has any impact on maintenance or scooters being stolen.
Like I commented elsewhere, you're making a big deal out of basically nothing.

FanBoost is a gimmick, and even F-E management acknowledges that it has virtually zero impact on the race itself.

It's a 5-second ~5% power boost.. That's not going to change anything, and neither would letting the cars run at 5% more power in general without it..

I am sure that teams are innovating battery and motor just fine even with this minor limitation..

Don't you think if FanBoost was actually crippling or limiting innovation in the way you're assuming, the teams would cry foul? That kind of counter-productive decision would go against one of the main reasons they do these racing leagues (to innovate!).

As an aside, all motor racing is "crippled", as you put it, by rules and regulations designed to provide a reasonably level playing field.

Even Formula 1 has all kinds of limiting rules and guidelines that prevent teams from simply building the fastest/lightest/most powerful cars they can possibly design, and that's intentional.
I kinda see where he's coming from. There's a lot of negative charge around the phrase "without their consent," to the point where it primes and automatic "no" response that might cloud a discussion of the actual issues.

There a lot of stuff that people should rightly be able to do without an affected person's consent (such as leaving a negative review of their work), but having framing that centers on "consent" obscures that.
Their P/E is now over 340. I’m not sure if that’s new territory do a stock that is not penny? Or is it because they just became earnings positive?
Calling rkt a competitor to docker would be a stretch. Docker has undergone really vast improvements since its inception which is not really true for rkt.
She seems very credible but also in agreement with consensus in many ways, but a bit less alarmingly so.

So good example but that just sounds like someone who is generally in agreement but a bit of an outlier. Doesn’t strike me as “quite a few”, but I’m not asking you to list them all. Just hoping there was a half dozen examples or a list somewhere :)
> Freedom of the Press Foundation is launching an online archives collection in partnership with Archive-It, a service developed by the Internet Archive

It looks like this project uses this Internet Archive.

I agree that https://archive.org is one of the treasures of the internet. Up there with Wikipedia and Khan Academy.
With the possibility that WebAssembly and WebGL will make the libraries in Python/R available to JS. Which might be alright. You probably won't be able to utilize vectorization with operators.
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Order. Cars along a sidewalk are almost always in a straight line - and we recognize via acclimation that this is "normal."

10+ bikes lined up on a sidewalk in a parallel and organized fashion actually aren't much of an eyesore. But ten haphazard bikes, often blocking the sidewalk for pedestrians, is chaotic. Our minds - and interpretation of eyesores - respond accordingly.
I understand people can't just dump bikes wherever they feel like it, but the problem with relying on existing bike racks is these startups are massively increasing bike use. It's hugely convenient to park near your location and I'm actually surprised a company as aggressive about moving forward as Uber would make that decision.

In an ideal world, there would be lots of small bike rack units created, but local councils will lag by years to actually build them.

I think it will be better to work with councils to esablish "virtual racks", ie places where the app will show it's fine to park. Ideally augmented by physical signs and so on, but not requiring the full infrastructure of racks, which are somewhat obsolete in this context.
Class property initialization was always a glaring blind spot in Typescript, I'm glad to see that strict mode verifies it now.

Thanks to the Typescript team for making Javascript much more tolerable :)
>The most convenient aspect of this service is that you can drop off the scooter anywhere you want, there are no designated drop off zones, which is a true solution to the last mile problem.

In Dallas, there are 6 different bikeshare companies that all operate with this model of "leave the bike where ever you want when done", and it's resulted in most of the city reviling all of the bikeshare companies. The bikes end up left in the most inconvenient places: knocked over in the middle of the sidewalk, stashed in bushes, knocked into fountains, blocking accessibility ramps, on the side of a road where they can be hit by cars, blocking train tracks, and just in general littered everywhere. You literally can't walk a single block in downtown without seeing at least 50 bikes strewn across the bushes/sidewalks/etc. The city is actually exploring ways to restrict this type of "dockless" bike sharing because it's become such a nuisance.

See some pics here: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-bike-share-mess-ph...
How is this furthering Uber's agenda and position as a company?
Thanks.

For a moment, I thought the 404 was intentional and this was supposed to be some sort of satire.
> It's not going to chose that place in Idaho (or in my tiny state of Delaware, which also made a proposal) just to spite them.

Oh that's 100% incorrect. Absolutely everything has a price. The only question is how much would Amazon need to get in tax breaks to offset tiny state issue
This National Geographic documentary from 2006 had me sobbing like nothing I'd ever seen before, and I'm actually getting upset right now recalling it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJUGZPanB8

Lisa Ling went undercover with an eye surgeon from Nepal on a mission to do 1000 cataract surgeries in 10 days. Cataract surgery in any modern country is an outpatient procedure, but in NK you are doomed to be blind forever.

This man, Dr. Sanduk Ruit[0], had to persuade the NK government to come to the country to do the surgeries and after he restored the sight of each of the thousands, who had been effectively blinded for years by their backwards government, they walked right past him and fell to their knees in tears of adulation to a picture of their Dear Leader. I've never felt a hatred as strong as I did then for Kim Jong Il.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanduk_Ruit
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The parent mentioned children, and I mentioned a (very talented) 14 year old. You're talking about 19-22 year olds; I have no reservations about that age bracket tackling proofs, but that's not really the point.
I mean this is really about set operations; thinking of it in terms of bits and integers doesn't really add anything.
Well, yeah. Otherwise there’d be little incentive to risk that money. And you wouldn’t call those losses insignificant if it was your money :)
Self driving cars, I think.
I believe it means Self Driving Car (from context that we're talking about Uber here)
> If those non-malware programs are fixed to use a proper API instead of side channel hacks, then it simplifies analysis.

I think you’re missing the point as to why programs would do this. Usually it’s to protect some sort of DRM scheme through obscurity.
It feels like your body parts have been stolen when you actually experience it...
> I feel like they are good stewards of my data (encrypting even internal traffic...)

I hate it when people use this as an argument against "Google invading privacy", it's an argument that doesn't make any sense at all;
Encrypting your data in transit prevents outsiders from reading your data, obviously it doesn't prevent Google itself from accessing your data.

This article is about how Google (and FB, etc.) invades everyone's privacy (even non-customers).

> To me, the cost of being google's product, is outweighed by what they provide me with

This can also be achieved without invading your privacy.
Google should at least let people CHOOSE whether they want to use their products at the cost of privacy. Currently you cannot choose, your data is simply collected, even when browsing websites totally unrelated to Google, where people are absolutely unaware of Google tracking them.

PS.
This guy is awesome, he has had success fighting against Facebook, for privacy (in Europe):

https://twitter.com/maxschrems/status/957236189853085696

https://noyb.eu/
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I love using the Boris Bikes in London for the first time a couple of weeks back - nice big sturdy things, but oh my word the system is shakey. The app crashed a lot, then the terminals at the bike parks were "disconnected" and couldn't process a hire. But is there much room for competition in bike hire? Surely these things need massive city subsidies?
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My understanding of the Tumblr porn content is that they’re usually small clips and I believe under so many seconds doesn’t count under copyright infringement laws. However, nothing would be a problem if it was original content that had waivers and age of consent forms and such on file.
Is a P/E over 300 is that good value?
The article is misleading. It's not a speed limit for the bike. 14.5mph is the point at which you no longer receive motorised assist. If you can already go up hills at that speed, you may not need an electric bike.
> Whales are intelligent. They should not be killed by humans who mask the activities as scientific research.

Okay, so killing intelligent animals is not okay.

We need an international agreement that every whale has to undergo a little test before being harpooned.

A whale has to be a bit stupid or retarded - then killing is morally justifiable.
I asked my old college friend "What's it really like living in North Korea?" She said, "Can't complain."
Why are you making this about me? I'd be more then happy to talk numbers but unwilling to talk about myself.
It's well known Erlang is not suited for data science and number crunching. I'm curious why you even bothered, near every introductory guide I've read makes this clear.

So that's not a good example of Erlang/Elixirs performance which is hardly known to be 'slow'. The language and process/actor model is far faster than many other languages particularly in the web space.

The author's also mentioned heavy dependency on the actor model as a performance optimizing strategy and optimal code structure which is why it likely is worth fully exploring for the OPs problem.
You can a bit, but the max height is still absurdly low. Where Boris bikes will probably allow a 190cm tall person to be comfortable, these probably max out around 170cm tall before you're feeling the pain.
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