skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors hate Apple because Apple hates investors and routines gives them the middle finger. Apple doesn't play their game and do what they want, so the people who invent these metrics fuck with them. And funny enough, Apple wins in this exchange because they can buy back more shares faster when the prices are low.

Apple is laughing all the way back to private ownership.
476 no?
I don't think it's just the influx of new developers, it's too many rockstars that only work on green fields applications, they can't and don't learn the long term consequences of their decisions. Not all of them are new programmers, they're just the epitome of 5 times 2 years of experience.
Building a Well System
There's really no information about this group or their product. What little I did find seemed to indicate it's a scam or at least not very vetted. Can you contradict this with some good information?
Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267363
I'm confused. Are you saying he can't show that online advertising has leveled the playing field, or that he can't show that conversions attributed to his ads make 5 times the money it costs to employ his services?
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

> When you find something you can't say, what do you do with it? My advice is, don't say it. Or at least, pick your battles.

I've noticed this in the work environment lately. It's palpable. People are afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Everyone is basically taking pg's approach, and sitting quietly. It's sad. I don't know what to do about it.

But, man, is it a relief when you're getting a beer with a close friend and can explore some good-natured heterodoxy. That sort of interesting conversation is getting rarer and rarer in public.

When I was young, it was the political right that would shut down heterodox opinions, like flag burning or atheism or same-sex couples on TV. But strangely enough, I feel more free to talk openly around my political right friends today. It's strange that "liberalism" in America today feels so illiberal.
The French translation in the article matches what Google returns today (ie garbage), albeit for one difference (it now translates "in pairs" to "par deux" instead of "en paires" (which is a slight improvement, but doesn't address the fundamental errors of the translation).

The garbage it gives is consistent with the garbage statistical approaches tend to give; particularly when translating from a language without gendered pronouns to a language with them.

My favorite, most concise example to demonstrate this is the sentence "my cousin and her wife". Anyone with basic understanding of English grammar would infer that my cousin is a woman married to a woman; Google Translate gives me back a French sentence where suddenly my cousin has become a man.

This is a great example of something that a rules based translation system would never get wrong (of course, rules based translation systems have plenty of other shortcomings) and that statistical approaches have a hard time dealing with.

See also:

https://twitter.com/seyyedreza/status/935291317252493312

https://twitter.com/taikadahlbom/status/935612093906194432
Love my iPhone X. Have to agree its highly underrated! There are other edge to edge phones, none are executed as well as the iPhone X imo.
For a population of 1.3 Billion this is less than half the population. Other countries cover 100% population with such schemes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_health_in...
> until you eventually hire a sadist/devops guy.

I try to drop in and follow the devops scene from time to time; after all, a lot of my work ends up getting handled by this stuff, and sometimes you need to fix things yourself. From my point of view, listening to a devops talk is listening to a long monologue consisting of a chain of mostly food-related, seemingly unconnected English words ("Chef Cucumber Puppet Jenkins Salt") that somehow "run" on top of another. None of them are modular, none of them are interchangeable, there are no standards, whatever you write for one of the food-related items will not work with another food-related item, or the same food-related item of a different vintage. The shelf-life of the food-related items seems to be about 3 years.

From an outsider's perspective it feels that, aside from Nix, there has not been any theoretic or standards progress in this field since Mark Burgess' time.
I've been watching a lot of Scott Manley on youtube play through kerbal space program. In the past two weeks I've learned more about rocket science than I would of ever expected. Scott's extremely well informed on the topic and entertaining as well.

In one video he even took a deep dive on how apollo 14 had to reprogram a computer mid-flight due to a faulty "abort" button that would be a problem on re-entry if it triggered. Neat seeing the underlying code and interface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSmNUl9Snw

But anyway it's things like these, where they'll stick a total of 83 rockets & motors to get something done, or the crazyness they did to land the rover, that really speaks to the separation of science and engineering.
No. They could have made it a simple bezel. You can say this about anything. For example, note8 has an IR iris camera. Still they didn't make the phone look ugly.
As an 87% Explorer myself, I think "loyalty to an environment" might be a closer fit than "loyalty to a vision". I want to get invested in a game world -- its lore, its inhabitants, and the many different places that it comprises. I like finding hidden places that most people would never see. There's no particular vision here; in fact, I spent quite a lot of time in World of Warcraft hunting for ways into the geography _between_ zones, which had all kinds of messed up terrain that was clearly not envisioned in any sense. And when the prospect arose of flying mounts allowing anyone to explore the interstitial spaces of Azeroth, that meant the developers would have to cover over all those special places I enjoyed. The devs certainly had a vision, but I felt no particular loyalty to it.
Even still it still passes along the domain, so that'd still be possible. I'd guess that nobody would need to validate past the domain (and/or subdomain) level.
When I engage in FOREX (which I try to avoid, but alas am unable to), I am stuck with the politics and economic policies. I have to kind of guess what countries are going to do and how that will result in changes to the price. I try my best to stick to hedging strategies, because otherwise you might as well be laying bets at the bookie wrt economic policy. With Bitcoin, it's just gambling.

That pretty much sums up why I've stayed away thus far. I've done well with equities over the years, but FOREX kicked my ass (a lesson I could thankfully afford). As you point out, there's at least some semblance of sense in FOREX, which I obviously have yet to grock. I don't even play games in Vegas unless I can figure out the odds ("how are you going to fuck me?"), and I fully cop to that as gambling. Cryptocurrencies, phhhht, I haven't the first clue as to what drives the price, or how I'm going to get taken. To me, it's even worse than gambling, because though I might know the odds at the craps table, try as I might I can't get a grasp on the drivers of cryptocurrencies other than hype.
Apple store is primarily a distribution/discovery channel, I would not be surprised if it started as - hey let's build a catalogue of all the websites that work well on iPhones.
You don't have to roll it back, you could have speculated loads store into a speculation buffer rather than directly into the cache, then at retirement the spec buffer entry is committed to the cache.
> The media in the US has historically been 100% controlled by rich people, and all major media still is.

Things have gotten worse as capital consolidated all the industries. Now we have an illusion of choice. When you go to the supermarket, there seems to be tons of variety of products by many companies. After all, there are so many brands. But all these brands are owned by a handful of companies. The same thing with banking. The last financial crisis was used by the FED ( a banking cartel ) to get large multinational banks to buy up smaller regional banks. Regional newspapers are being bought up by major media companies like news corp.

> The evil rich people figured out that if you start a gender and race war among the 99%, you can distract them from the fact that they're all being economically exploited and subjected to wage slavery.

It's not just identity politics. It's also the bread and circuses. Nothing more poignant than the upcoming superbowl where the mindless stuff their faces while watching advertisements for 4 hours.

> The internet will almost certainly spawn a social movement to destroy the class system in the US.

That's naive. The internet will almost certainly be used to reinforce it. More distractions, more propaganda and more divisions. Look how quickly the wealthy has come down on the internet and social media already. Look at the amount of censorship. Look what happened to youtube trending page and google news. Youtube trending is now all SNL, major news channels and late night shows. Google news is now all washingtonpost, nytimes, etc.

I hope you are right, but experience tells me money wins and the masses are not intelligent enough or united enough to challenge the wealthy. Our political system doesn't allow for it, nor does our education system or the media or anything else.
So now both H & P working at Google? (Though I don't know enough about corporate board stuff to tell if chairman is "working for")
I've never seen a clear answer about what a cis white male is supposed to do about their privilege. Should they give all their money to the poor? Should they shoot themselves to remove the blight of the Western World, it's democracy, relative tolerance, and ability to reflect upon itself and improve? Should they just say, "You're right and I'm thankful"? The regressive-left makes no sense in their stance.
Loving this thread, email in profile if you need help saving on supplies and chemicals. I’m assuming you have already had the fun of trying to get reasonable pricing and quotes from major distributors.
If you keep zooming out, the hockey stick is the whole chart.
I had never heard of them before, the idea is really interesting to me. I went to their website to see if there were any cooks in my area to see if it was worth trying out. It looks like I have to sign up before I can even see any of that :( I am skittish about giving out my contact information, I don't want to deal with throwaway accounts either. I wonder how much growth they missed because of that.
Then there is that quote from Ben Franklin.
Because currencies aren't supposed to fluctuate by 50% in a 1 month span.
This feature should be easily implemented by a extension for Google Chrome using the webRequest API
> I don't follow the argument.

That is the problem. I don’t know why you think that the only criteria valuable for comparison is your definition of development. Different people have different needs. For you a mac is clearly not the answer; for you.

Personally, my hands are very uncomfortable every time I have to hold ctrl-a to select all.
The last 2 years have seen some of the most monumental work in the bitcoin space. Bitcoin developers just choose not to overhype it.
Read https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-.... Turns out it's actually mostly about finding meaning in life.
She found many people and professors to be open minded and mostly fair. However she experienced a few professors of the type described here, where the authority of the professor was used in ad hominem attacks on disfavored groups. Voicing any dissent was greeted with scorn and disgust.

I went to grad school in English at the University of Arizona and my experience was similar. The same is true of students; people regularly ask me about those crazy students on campus, not realizing that the ones who make the news are the exception: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/04/24/ninety-five-percent-of-pe...

Most profs are open minded and fair, but the ones who are't yield the best, juiciest, and most absurd soundbites.
"My advice - see if connecting with God and reflecting on his creations helps you find the right path and purpose. "

That's some confusing advice.
That's the story they sell to investors, but real Amazon developers know much of their internal infrastructure is actually using some old systems and not AWS. The whole reusing internal interfaces thing isn't what they're doing at all. Really what Amazon's AWS division is good at is 1) hiring and organizing engineers and 2) selling their services to companies, sometimes very aggressively.
It sucks that this is all history. It doesn't seem like there has been any news worth breakthroughs in space propulsion since the Apollo era.
Step 1: Build user base. Step 3: Profit.
The Man Who Saved Russia from the Soviet Union
Research reveals that standing desks aren't the healthy miracle you believe
Reading Notes for Joel Mokyr: A Culture of Growth
I completely agree. For a while I was wondering whether an MVNO operator like Virgin Mobile (piggybacking on Sprint) that exclusively works with iPhones (a fairly recent change) was a stealth move by Apple to test the waters.
As you rightly pointed out, it just doesn't make sense for Apple, and in the broader sense, the bigger these companies get, the worse it is for consumer choice.
This was interesting to read. Especially the fantasy/thought-experiment about how I might feel if the narrative were to move to a position that I found offensive.

But then I switch on 60 Minutes. Or read the NYT. And I realize that they do not even have the courtesy to make it possible to distinguish fact from opinion and possibly (and in the case of the NYT outright fabrications planted by the military).

I do not take Adam Curtis as Truth. But his work has suggested that there are ways to stitch together narratives that suit different mindsets.
People who bought in the last two months lost money. Everyone else is riding high.
I don't use anything but web mail (Fastmail) since 2002. I do my banking and email in one browser and my general browsing in a very locked down Firefox (Many about:config hacks, uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Webmail Ad Block, Privacy Badger, and No Coin) that blocks about everything save the actual content. I also run a Pi-hole. Keeping your actions compartmentalised keeps your privacy better controlled. Nothing is perfect, but keeping things separated is generally a better idea than not doing so.
Why Intellectuals Fall for Socialism
How does it handle strings?
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Meant as a positive nod: Stripe is to Heroku as Adyen is to renting a dedicated server. With Stripe I don't have to worry about implementing a billion APIs or being PCI compliant unless I want to.

Basically, great work.

But for larger companies ready for deeper optimizations, especially on the pricing side, "bare metal" merchant services will always have their allure.
I think mouth chemistry is at least somewhat controllable, via what you eat. It'd be nice if dentists knew more about that aspect, so that they could advise about it beyond "don't eat too much sugar".
At these rates, Apple crosses a billion dollar annual revenue in 9 years:

ln(1000/(4*88.3))/ln(1.13) = 8.51531
The dataset you are basing your assumptions on is extremely small. Your reference should be the history of highly volitle assets, not the history of bitcoin. The behavior after previous collapses tell you precisely nothing about what is going to happen next.
Yeah, like we had back in 2011
Color me stupid, but I thought all major browsers already stripped referrer info when navigating from HTTPS? The examples used don't make sense to me if that's true.
Motivation and Methods for Self Studying Mathematics
Why younger developers can't stand new programming languages
Ethereum has the most trading pairs after Bitcoin, and a pretty comprehensive multi-pronged scaling plan. It's the most likely successor to Bitcoin as the reserve cryptocurrency.
Concatenating two paths is difficult if you care about any of the following: security, multiple OS's, Unicode (multiple code units, validity, combining characters), file system restrictions, etc.

Your "two decades" maybe holds for Linux, but what about Windows or MacOS???!

I have seen too many people use string concatenation.

I think an intelligent person would recommend to use the normal library (appropriate for your language, assuming it is well written) since usually your program will be doing many other filename/path manipulations too.
For what it's worth (if it's any solace), you're not alone in noticing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evWiz6WRbCA

I think part of it is the fear of becoming e.g. Justine Sacco. It's incredibly easy for something you say to be taken out of context and to become the target of the internet hate machine.

Nuance, complexity, context - whatever you want to call it, it's hard for people to digest. As a result, "celebrities" become either angels or devils.

I don't think this unwillingness to accept complexity is a new facet of society, but it's much easier than ever before to get a mob together for the proverbial witch hunt.

As a result, lots of people (and I'm not claiming to be an exception) are either going over the top to proclaim their piousness lest they be declared witches, or slinking along silently hoping that no one would ever want to accuse them in the first place.
I love perl. I also love Haskell and Python, but Perl was my first love.
Serve others. I’ve found one of the best ways to find fulfillment in life is to focus on others and not yourself.
On the one hand, having seen a number of people who haven't played bw at all watch professional games and being absolutely confused with the jumping screen and random terminology, I'm skeptical.

On the other hand, having watched European friends watch baseball for the first time...
For a summary of the economic mechanisms creating our current hypernormal situation, I strongly recommend watching Mark Blyth's recent lecture[1]. (note that he is giving a summary to a general audience; see his actual publications and/or other lectures for details/references)

Adam Curtis talks about the need for the "big vision" for actual change to happen. Mark Blyth, at the end of the lecture, has a few very simple ideas for "big vision" goals that are actually realistic and achievable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGITb0W4A
Google translate, like a screwdriver is a tool. One can possibly do nasty things with it, but one, if is not a tool, and if limits oneself to just screwing things, should be ok.

Can we translate that? Naaa. But that doesn’t make the tool shallow.

P.S - I use the following trick to improve the odds of a good translation - the phrase has to be a “stable Google translate triangulation”.

This is when a phrase does not change while switching back and fourth between three languages, two of which you know at a native level.

Dope for me. YMMV. :)
Great article that tackles some of the unwarranted hype machine learning has gotten lately, with everyone foaming at the mouth about Skynet and their jobs becoming obsolete. The author also tackles the common excuse of "it'll only get better". One interesting highlight of the article for me was the parenthetical around his translation of a paragraph in Chinese: "it took me hours". Translation is so much more than vectors between words in two languages and this article expresses that quite clearly.
> most of the major tech companies revenue is generated from advertising

Uh, no.

Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Qualcomm, Netflix, Amazon, IBM, Texas Instruments, nVidia, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, PayPal, Priceline, Broadcom, HP, Dell, VMWare, Symantec, Intuit, Adobe, Salesforce, Tencent, Didi, SAP, Amadeus, Workday, Micron, HP, Foxconn, Huawei, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Taiwan Semiconductor, Hitachi. And on and on the list goes.

VS: Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Baidu, Twitter, Snapchat.
on a positive note, at least under-construction.gif is being sent securely
I'm not sure if I count as a member of the regressive left, but I'll try to give a clear answer anyway: be aware of it. The usual phrase is "check your privilege," not "eliminate your privilege" or even "use your privilege". Be aware that there are things that others perceive as hardships that aren't hardships to you, or approaches to life that you can take that others can't take without social (or legal) penalty, or whatever, and show some compassion - certainly do not say "Well, if I could do it, why couldn't you." You are slightly more likely to get the benefit of the doubt from potential employers, or police who find you in a place they don't like, or conservative religious-political leaders suggesting policies, or whatever, than you would if you weren't a cis white man. You also don't have the life experience of not being a cis white men, which certainly doesn't mean that you can't understand other people, it just means you can't extrapolate your own experiences and reconstruct what life is like for them from first principles. That's it.

If you want to give all your money to the poor, great, don't let me stop you. If you want to improve Western civilization and make life better for the poor (and the rich too, perhaps), also great, don't let me stop you either. If you want to improve Western civilization for people who look like you but not for others, well, at least stop for a second and realize that's what you're doing before you do it. (And if you continue nonetheless, there's probably room for criticism, but that criticism is not fundamentally about how you merely have privilege.)
The Surface isn't a competitor. Zzzing!

But seriously, I agree and approve of your disclosure.
It's even more narrow than that. I have not created an account, but I am assuming the companies are going to be extremely Bay Area specific. In fact, the form states:

"Where do you currently reside? (Some companies help with relocation, but others cannot afford to yet.)"

In other words, we don't care where you are, as long as you end up in the Bay Area.
I love self driving cars, but more and more it seems when they will arrive, the cons might outweigh the pros if we're not careful. With thinking like this, I think I'll keep driving myself and seriously consider voting against any legislation that might lead to this outcome. Uber should rethink what its ultimate strategy is. If we can't deter Uber because it's a giant US corporation, we can certainly deter self-driving car technology. And that would be a giant loss for all of humanity, including the greedy Uber execs.
What’s going on with Schmidt? Was this planned?
Always nice to read Hofstadter, but in my experience Google Translate often returns gibberish even for single words, never mind subtleties of grammar. I don't think it replaces a foreign language dictionary yet, so arguments that it doesn't replace human translators seem like overkill!

Random examples for Japanese: for "七輪" (brazier) it returns "tambourine", for "ちゃぶ台" (tea table) it returns "Shabu-bashi".