skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is Twitter as a company, not as a concept. Twitter as company has destroyed the third party ecosystem that could have been INVALUABLE here.

Twitter the company wants to be all things to all people. But the ruler of the kingdom shouldn't also be the judge, and Twitter's taking on of all the technical tasks leaves it both vulnerable to criticism, and the only solution, where every solution must be a twitter engineered solution, which means one shot, no variety, no multiple-bets, no creative destruction.

Examples:

A third party ecosystem designed around tasks like blocking content would also preserve free speech. A twitter run system never could.

A third party system around bot detection, tied in to paying for tweets from "influencers" (god I hate that term), would work well where twitter can't do that.

Twitter should abdicate from the multiple roles of sole judge, executioner and tech provider, and start to let others take up some slack. That provides a buffer, preserves all the rights people could want or have, and allows more tools that empower people while twitter focuses on the technical challenge of keeping the thing up, and being profitable.
At this rate, you should rather write down the passwords in the paper and stick it to the computer.

Sure, it's vulnerable to the man behind your back. But if such threat exists, you shouldn't type your password anyway.
I seriously doubt getting power is an issue. Usually when power is an issue in developing countries you borrow a generator and fuel it, which is not expensive at all, since people are getting around on motorbikes anyway. Power draw from this category of hardware is almost nothing, so a tiny generator will suffice. We could even send one, cheaper end is about RMB250 (USD$40).

I would actually be more worried about corrupt customs officials stealing the hardware.

Someone who has a Facebook account (I don't) could ask the guy about shipping and customs issues in Ghana and for an address, then we just need to buy and ship. I am happy to proxy that. Email me (address in profile) if you want to donate a machine. I will photograph everything shipped for transparency and publish the waybill number. Usually it's cheapest to ship with China Post surface but it takes up to three months to arrive. We could look at pricier options or maybe someone here can pull strings with Fedex or UPS for a free delivery.
"An assessment of market power is the initial inquiry under the indirect method. In this case, the parties had stipulated 2013 network market shares of Visa, 45 percent, Amex, 26.4 percent, MasterCard, 23.3 percent and Discover (not a defendant here), 5.3 percent."

"(The states did not seek review of the 2nd Circuit's decision that they failed to make a prima facie case under the indirect method.)"

Have the states have conceded that Amex lacks market power?

"Gorsuch reiterated that in the absence of market power, a vertical restriction "is not within the cognizance of the antitrust laws." And, without more, a 26 percent share of a market does not constitute power."

How much direct harm can be caused by a firm that lacks market power?
Oh man, I have mine in some archived files somewhere, I need to dig it up!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION animated gifs FTW
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. It is really hard to judge someone's interest in other culture. It could start out as a fetish and evolve into something more balanced as you begin to learn what really is. I've seen many foreigners in China go through this. Since Zuckerberg can't just take a few years off and live in a hutong, I don't know see that happening.

In any case, I don't think it matters. China and Chinese is like a hobby for Zuckerberg that he is interested in. I don't think getting Facebook into China is a huge concern at all for him, he's just using his position to do what he wants.
In addition to tutorials, use it for real, but starting with some fairly trivial (in terms of complexity) tasks - like editing .config files. Then add more complex tasks - perhaps editing LaTeX files (this is actually how I started on Emacs - AUCTeX, the Emacs package for TeX - is surely the best LaTeX editor).
Don't hate yourself for liking nu-metal.

I used to be a hardcore industrial fan
Getting 1200+ upvotes on Product Hunt and why it's worth it
The efforts of Edo-era doctors to figure out beriberi in Japan
Yep, they just added time travel to the Star Wars universe with the Rebels cartoon.
I am currently a senior in computer science and from what I saw in the http://teachyourselfcs.com link, that is basically all you would need to know to get started in most sub fields of software engineering. I wouldn't expect many companies to expect you to know much more than that. I would just focus on taking your newly learned knowledge and build awesome projects. That has been key in landing the internships that I have had in the past couple years. Best of luck!
Bears Ears National Monument size now: 228,784 acres

Bears Ears National Monument size 14 months ago: 0.
Star Wars was just meant to be a kids’ movie and not a sacred document

I saw The Last Jedi, had a great time, and came home to find Star Wars fans apoplectic about it, picking apart all kinds of things ("how does rey know how to swim?", "how does leia survive space?", etc). The original trilogy would never survive similar scrutiny.

I went to see a kids movie about space wizards, and that's what I got. It was fun.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Abogli...

It is a poor substitute though.
My argument wasn't really serious.
It's impossible to tip over fighting against institutionalized injustice. The whole history of fighting sexism, racism, discrimination didn't lead to getting rid of these problems yet and there is still a very long way to go.
I miss it too. Also, these sites make me nostalgic and for some reason they look precious.
The old version of Word with a real menu bar, not that ribbon abomination... I wonder how confused his students will be when they see the newer versions.

This also reminds me of how much harder it is to help or tell someone how to do something using a GUI over a CLI, especially over a "lo-fi" channel like a voice call --- requests to manipulate certain UI elements need to be qualified with descriptions of them, followed by the person on the other side describing in great detail what he/she sees or has changed. With a CLI, all you'd need to do is essentially send keypress events, and have the other side read back text. It's not unlike the difference in bandwidth usage of telnet or SSH vs X or RDP, and the "other side" of that classic saying "a picture is worth a thousand words."
Settling doesn't set precedent. Doesn't matter how many settle.
>I seriously doubt getting power is an issue

you have no idea what you're talking about. the average salary of a teacher in subsaharan africa is 100$/month. a kwh in uganda is ~ $0.17. a liter of gas is ~$1.50. only the wealthiest schools have generators and they save them for powering lights during exam prep periods. people aren't getting around on motorbikes - moto taxis exist and people pay for them but only wealthy people own them outright. nm the cost of even a small generator (north of probably $300).
Someone should start a movement to point out the plot holes in Star Wars from wipe transitions that would obviously have killed the characters in the scene being wiped. Yet later, there the characters are again, no explanation given.
I mean, eval is a thing, and I'm sure people use it, but I don't recall using it much while a PHP developer. It's just more likely to footgun than anything else. I think you can credibly release a tool that will compile PHP into a standalone executable, as long as it doesn't call eval.
Probably! When I was a kid I learned elementary Basic from Russ Walter's Secret Guide to Computers about a year before I ever put my hands on an actual computer.

I think it was helpful to know computers were nothing mysterious, they just followed instructions. Although I remember being really confused about whether "print" statements printed to paper or just showed things on the screen (which I had never thought of as printing).
The price is set "low" to make it more appealing to just settle rather than pay the lawyer and court costs.
The most recent Disney episode was basically Empire Strikes Back but more poorly done. All the major plot points are there, although some out of order and some new ones just to make sure it makes even less sense.

Jedi student training with an old, grouchy master on a far away planet? Check.
Betrayal by a new character introduced during that episode? Check.
Rebels trapped in their base, about to get attacked by AT-ATs? Check.
Jedi student abandons training to rescue friends? Check.
Obviously, everyone is entitled to enjoy what they want, but this movie was difficult for me, even by Star Wars standards. If we can just destroy entire enemy fleets by jumping to lightspeed with one ship, why are not all battles fought that way. Also, why couldn't the captain leave and have the computer pilot the ship?

Maybe it's just that the original trilogy slipped in to me before I got old enough to where I think about such things. Maybe it is a double standard. But I don't feel like it is. And that's all I have to go on.

But, I don't begrudge you enjoying the movie! Wish I felt the same.
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The question is which experience is the outlier.

Social media has a problem in that everybody wants to participate, but the vast majority of people have nothing of value to add. So the signal:noise ratio is going to inherently end up very poor. If you look at message groups with significant barriers to entry you rarely if ever get this sort of 'Twitter-effect'.

For instance, I have little other alternative than using Twitter if I'd like to see comments from Elon Musk. And then in looking for his comments within his tweets (as Twitter decided to remove the ability to simply click on tweets + replies when logged out, thanks Twitter) it's full of complete trash. People begging for money, scammers trying to get people to send them eth, people making inane comments, and then some 1% or so actually half interesting comments. e.g. see: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/968614419784613888

There's no real solution other than adding a barrier to entry, but of course the reason people like Elon post on Twitter is because of its userbase size. It's a free marketing tool. Which goes back to the problem mentioned that on Twitter the users are not the customer, but the product. And so Twitter has no incentive to fix its idiocracy since that's what's driving its success.
I think this might also be due to the fact that the compute for neural nets and the complexity of the networks are still in their infancy.

Well, neural nets may be just starting out but I think one can they're approximation process are not complex. They are very complex in the sense of having many layers and many pseudo-neurons on each layers.

What's happening is that the networks are mapping images to high-dimensioned "feature space" and then drawing dividing line in the feature between matching and not-matching images. It is vastly complicated but heuristic process. Essentially, the division between image types are based on both meaningful and meaningless differences between the images. The example classified as "a boy holding a dog" (when it was a goat) and "a herd of giraffes in trees" (when it was goats that had climbed trees happened to have more random characteristics in common with the classification than their real qualities.

The thing is the method can be made relatively better but for absolute improvement, you'd want a way to not just have more approximation but to find a way to get rid of garbage approximation, garbage conclusions and so-forth. I suspect that would imply both different algorithms and a different training cycle.
From what I remember reading, this was Carrie Fisher's idea.
Leia, who has no training with a lightsaber?
I loved Limp Bizkit.

There, I said it. Now I'm too embarrassed to listen to them except in the privacy of my own car. "Like a CHAINSAW! Skin your ASS RAW!"
Line breaking (2014)
> If you aren't the shark, you're getting sharked

People say this a lot, but I think it's misleading to most who hear it. This is certainly true in a trading context (i.e. where the buy/sell time horizon is short enough where the underlying asset's economic value doesn't change, though the market price might), but not in an investment context (where it's expected that the inflow of capital will create economic value and the stock price will reflect that).

The takeaway is that you should leave daytrading to the pros, and instead bet on humanity improving the means of production over long time horizons. Unless you're actually a pro and have good reason to believe you can beat the market.
Star Wars was Ted Kennedy's description of SDI -- a nickname that stuck.
Doesn't surprise me. Housing is so expensive there, everything costs so much more, taxes are highest in the nation, multiple levels of government within the state is in direct violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324. They let illegals get a driver license instead of stalling them while someone in the back calls U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to come and pick them up. Some of the rich billionaires even are leading a campaign to have California to leave the union, so that shows how much they hate the rest of the US.

California is pretty and iconic, plenty of things to do for tourism but I surely wouldn't want to live there. Silicon Valley used to be the dream, but during the 2016 election I realized how much of a bubble it is.

Kinda surprised Ohio was ranked worse than California at #40... Maybe because it's boring here with nothing to do.

Less Debt, Less spending, Less unemployment. http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-ohio-d... and http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-califo...

I personally would love to move to South Dakota. Small and efficient government, no income taxes, low sales tax, property taxes doesn't really seem much higher, no safety or smog inspections for cars. I hear you can get things taken care of at the DMV quickly unlike larger states where you wait hours and hours or weeks to get an appointment. Very friendly state to full time RVers and digital nomad's too as they are one of the few states that recognize fulltime travelers. So for you entrepreneurs that are interested in that lifestyle, a good state also.
thank you so much for reminding me of zombocom. huge smile on my face when I opened the html5 link
That's rather dismissive. I'd say if you don't understand the praise, you aren't the target audience, not that it's a terrible product.

I don't know/play piano. I know the basic music theory behind the notation. I think this tool is great.

This tool appears to be aimed at piano noobs with some music background.
Computer and a solar panel. A 2 sq. ft. one should do.
OK well if they've got power, assuming your prices, let's say a KwH is about what an hour class would use.

So USD$0.17/class, one class per day, 20 classes per month, 20 * USD$0.17 = USD$3.4/month.

The teacher won't be the one paying, the community will gather money if required.

A small generator is USD$40 to buy here in China as I stated, not USD$300.

You are making a mountain out of a molehill.

(Edit in response to below: Please, enough personal attacks. I see solutions. You see problems. Fine. Logically, while poverty is real, using your figures USD$3-4/month spread across a community is clearly a non-issue if teachers are on USD$100/month. I don't need to physically visit Ghana to validate that, and if it really is an issue I am sure we can find it amongst those donating hardware to contribute a few dollars annually.)

(Further edit: Maybe you are confusing Uganda's situation for Ghana's. Uganda is way poorer than Ghana. "Ghana's rapid growth accelerated poverty reduction, cutting the poverty rate from 52.6% to 21.4% between 1991 and 2012. In 2012, Ghana's poverty rate was less than half the African average of 43%. Extreme poverty declined even more, dropping from 37.6% in 1991 to 9.6% in 2013." versus "With a per capita income of under US$170, Uganda today is one of the poorest countries in the world")
Didn't Martha Stewart go to prison over something like that?
Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design
I wish I could set a reminder for 5 years out for this thread. From what I've seen, all the clinical trials in something like this will be abandoned for some reason or another.
The AP Computer Science exam is still done with pencil and paper. Not because it has any inherent value, but because the CollegeBoard is too lazy to update their test format.
Thirded - Very responsive to (sane) feature requests
jaba would be the VC, the empire would be the large corporations aquihiring
The Ledger Nano S also uses WebUSB to sign into the Stellar (Crypto) dashboard and can be used as a U2F authentication device.

I'm curious (assuming even) that it could be subject to this exploit?
She's got grenades and blasters down, so I suspect she could work out where the pointy end goes.
Does the apparently dubious proof assert that there are exactly that many functions? Because if the assertion is rather that there at least that many, that assertion is true but really understating the case. E.g. for n=3 there are 2^(2^n)=256 functions, and after that it really blows up.
I don't think we can call multiple billions of dollars petty squabbles. Both companies view their home automation and smart devices as critical products. You can add Apple HomePod to the mix as well.
She wasn’t powerful enough to avoid the consequences.
Write like a patent litigator (2017) [pdf]
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I suspect with the present government He is "too big to fail".
I played wc, wc2 and all the special missions until my fingers bled without cheating and without fearing the 486-dx2-66. i played that game and i never cheated and I made medal of honor on all possible missions. it was the best game ever!!!! :)
Alternative healthcare doesn't exist. If it works, it's just Healthcare....if it doesn't, it gets called "alternative"
Not the first time he's been accused: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-icahn-insider-trading-...
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Although it's an old story, this is a good writeup.
This example, and others like it point to the central weakness of neural networks for image recognition: No matter how much data you feed it, they never really develop concepts or abstractions of what the objects it is classifying really represent or mean.

This is an excellent point but it begs for an answer to the question "what does 'really mean' mean?" What are all the ways a human can determine what a picture "really means" and which of these methods can be used in a given picture?

We know dogs have certain shapes and goats have certain shapes. Other entities have different characteristics. We can explain how we think we reach conclusions. How we actually the conclusions is likely different and may or may not involve "pattern matching steroids" for a given case - what's more definite is we try to reconcile our conclusions between the example so they involve a single consistent picture of the world. Is determining "what a picture really means?"
Title should say "steel-related stocks", not "steel stocks". Steel companies are doing great as a result of the news. The stocks he dumped were for those companies whose business depended heavily on cheap steel supplies.
So I’ve been to Kumasi before. Take this with a grain of salt - this was over 10 years ago and I was there on a two week voluntourism trip. Here are some of the reasons it’s hard to use real computers as a part of the ciriculum there.

* Electricity. Blackouts and brownouts are a part of life in Ghana, especially Kumasi. On top of that, the quality of the electricity is low. This poses major challenges for computers in the classroom. The school I visited only had electricity in the main office but not in the classrooms.

* Air quality. It is so very dusty. The medical clinic I was volunteering at had a computer and was constantly on the fritz in part due to dust when dry and humidity when raining. Many of the places I visited were open to the outside air like that clinic.

* Literacy. It’s gotten way better since I’ve been there but you still need basic literacy to get any use out of a computer.

* Poverty. Ghana’s GDP per capita is $4,500 USD. Many people in this community live on an income of dollars a day.

* Internet. The only access to Internet is a nearby town with an Internet cafe. And you needed the power to be on to use it. And it was very expensive - a couple dollars an hour to use.

* Typing skills. Due to lack of exposure to computers, even the people with a job at the clinic who were supposed to use the computer had at best 5 was typing ability.

* Simple computer skills. The ladies at the clinic wanted to listen to a single song on windows media player. I tried to show them the loop button but they did not want it. They were happy to just restart it every 3 minutes for the entire 6 hour work day.

And lots of other reasons. I don’t really have any answers but I do wish to see it improve.
This needs to be a HN post of itself. Hello, people who reactively write blog posts for topical HN discussions, hello?
">That seems needlessly judgmental.

There's a practical takeaway from my statement - that physics explanations should always be taken with lots of salt (even ones written by physicists, who are prone to throwing out the star baby with the mathwater.) Judgmental, maybe, but not needlessly.

>They’re rarely reasonable.

They're reasonable because they have an answer: it's the one you suggested. People would accept your "north of the north pole" response in a universe where there was no false but well-written alternative. The problem is, outside of very limited audiences and forums mixtures of misunderstood philosophy and science are a lot easier to come by than the truth. (This extends to science journalism, and even to the rare bad press release.)

By the way, if you want to tell people that they're asking the wrong question in a way that keeps them happy, try responding with the knowledge that would make them realize their question was misguided. For example, whenever anything involving moving at the speed of light comes up, my go-to responses are:

- Discussing hyperbolic geometry until it's clear that what looked like a question about pi/4 was actually a question about infinity.

- Mention that most of the equations have a singularity there, and then give some more down-to-earth examples of equations that have singularities.

- Say that we've never seen it happen, and as a result the physics we write down doesn't include it. (This is sometimes the best answer, even though it's the least satisfying to give or hear. If science fiction effect X happened, we'd have to account for it, no matter how badly it would break everything.)

>And?

Physics is all about approximations with known error bounds. (That is, X plus or minus Y, and the equivalent of that but with equations instead of numbers.) That's what's going on at the boundary between physics and metaphysics, and it's the ultimate answer to most "unanswerable" questions.
Interesting. For a while now, I've thought about the idea that large "scientific" businesses (from software engineering, even to business) could somehow directly profit from educating people in these areas. Similar to how large companies in the US pay for people to get their graduate degrees. Unfortunately I'm sure it would be taken advantage of by bad actors.
Speculating, but it sounds to me like it's within individual functions. Go's program counter is "[split] into 2 parts: PC_F and PC_B. PC_F is the index of the function to be executed. PC_B is the index of the basic block to be executed."