skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is false. It has never been "build it and they will come". Open source projects do need to spend millions on marketing. They just aren't necessarily paid for in money or by a single party. The Linux hype of the late 1990s came from the effort of thousands, tens of thousands of advocates who devoted their free time (which costs money). And just look at any popular devops tools today -- the most popular projects have very slick-looking websites and organize tons of community events, all of which cost time and money to implement.

This is what I mean by "it may feel wrong". We developers like to buy into this fantasy of "build it and they will come" but it has never been true.
For guidelines on making an app accessible, check out the W3C's WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices: https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/
Well, it replaces all those things when you want async messaging with a decent UX.

I'm not sure how serious to take you when you think Skype is better.
The answer to this is to do human rate limiting.

Build your pipeline so that a human has to approve each automated action being taken. The difference between a bot making 5000 network requests in a day and a human making 100-200 semi-automated requests isn't a whole lot in terms of throughput, but makes an enormous difference in terms of quality control and not stepping on toes.

I really wish more companies would do this. Fully automated business procedures that make demands on human attention are just plain awful. Humans should be interacting with humans, machines should interact with machines. Machines can help the human, and the human can help the machines, but interaction points should only be between two of the same types of entity.

Every time I've ever suggested human rate limiting though, I get looked at like I'm a moron. Even when I build the entire workflow myself and tune it so it only takes a relatively tiny amount of time to clean massive amounts of data, people just don't want to do it. It's beneath them. Even when it creates a massive difference in the quality of the product / service you're offering.
I haven't done anything with OpenCL, it's been on my "find an excuse to use this" list for awhile now.

I think you might be getting a false impression of Vulkan though. All the vertex shader, fragment shader, submit a buffer filled with geometry primitives, set depth clamping and filter triangles based on winding order, etc pipeline is still there, it's just much more explicit about how you are using it. There is also support for compute shaders that are more what I imagine OpenCL to be like. If you're doing traditional polygon rendering that's going to be slow. Even in my ray tracing project (that does most of the rendering in a compute shader), I imagine using OpenCL would have made it a bit of a pain to display the results realtime to the screen so people can actually play.
Publishing negative results in ML is like proving dragons don't exist
>"I hate Slack so much. Nothing has made me say "is 10 AM too early for a beer?"

Thank you for this, this made me laugh. You are not alone in this reaction.
Advantages of PoS algorithm over PoW mining – iCoin Blog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician%E2%80%93Silurian_ex...
And add about 25% in taxes to that. Plus I can assure you that barring unusual circumstances cheap hotels (and $200 isn't exactly "cheap" in my book) in Manhattan are probably best avoided. Mind you, in my experience as a business traveler, hotel prices in San Francisco are often higher than Manhattan in any case.
So what? He got them out of a bind, that's what counts.
What machine learning isn’t
I like to have an official place where the build rules and artifacts are clearly laid out. I don't think file system directories are a good place to put the truth. For one thing, parsing the information from the directory contents means relying on out-of-band data. For another, directories often contain files that "should not be there". Or maybe you accidentally delete an important file. The build couldn't detect the mistake.
See, for example:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-qr-intro?vi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit

Going further...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic

edit: The Microsoft Q# tutorial seems friendly enough to wade into without much knowledge in the field (especially if you know C# or F#). But if you're like me you'll have about 5 tabs of reading material open beside ;)
Most people, me included, come to Hacker News for their tech-related news specifically because they don't want to see these kinds of useless, clickbaity, virtue signalling pieces.
Why so? Here Grandma owns the house, but in the other situation she doesn't own the apartment, the landlord does.
So what's your takeaway? I would assume that the last thing the state would want to do is sow uncertainty about Apple's security in China. This would lead me to the conclusion that the story is real.

However, I can imagine another scenario. Assume that Apple's storage in China is still entirely safe from the state, but that Apple's main competitors are totally in bed with the state. In that case, the state could want to get people off of Apple, even as Apple moves the data into China.
> It seems that there is an increasing trend from Bay Area tech companies (maybe tech in general) to bootstrap by taking in users feedback (twitter RT feature), get to a certain size, and then totally abandon their base.

You should read the book "Crossing the Chasm". This strategy actually makes a lot of sense if you want to be successful. Summary: your early adopters are not your main customers, and there is a divide there. You will hit a ceiling in growth if you continue to focus on the early adopters.
> And yet all implementations of communism has failed so does this mean technical progress eventually leads to societal failure?

Only if you believe that once an attempt at something has failed, all future attempts will also fail.

> Also I believe we will end up with socialism, not communism.

Socialism is worker control of the means of production, and is an intermediate step along the route to communism, a fully classless and stateless society.
Can you point to any studies? I don't know if this is because our brains get less plastic, or because we just stop bothering when we get older.

I have personally noticed some drop in language acquisition skills, but I'm learning Spanish at 35 and I wouldn't say it's significantly harder than learning English at 12 (apart from the fact that English is everywhere around me all the time, but Spanish is very hard to come by).
Not speaking for CT but the attractive locations in NJ are getting pricey fast- anywhere along a PATH stop has pretty high rent right now.
> Do you think Japan, Germany, or South Korea have any choice whether our military can occupy their countries?

Yes, they 100% have a choice. Why do you think otherwise? They're US allies and they benefit from the situation.

Another poster pointed out that they benefit from this arrangement by not having to spend so much on their domestic militaries to protect themselves.

Another point: in the case of South Korea and Germany, the US military helps protect those countries from the real threats of invasion. South Korea is still technically at war. For 50 years US soldiers eyed Soviet soldiers across the inner German border, and closely worked with West Germany and NATO to be prepare if those soldiers ever crossed over.

You have a very odd, binary perspective on international relations that seems to preclude win-win military cooperation.
If you still are interested in solving the badge problem, you could also register the domain pypip.in again and redirect the URLs to the other service you found.(looks like it's available)

Maybe the other service would do it if you emailed them?
There is a novel about this, which in my opinion is not very good. If you are thinking of buying Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, flip through it in a bookstore before you buy it.
Can we bring hearts back from the dead?
> But seriously, how hard would it be for a sneaky dev to make emacs with emacs-slack into a normal person application with clicky buttons and no ugly gnu?

Well, out of the box emacs has a clicky-button toolbar: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ml0UE.png

And using the keybindings folks expect from Windows is part of modern emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CuaMode

As an aside, I absolutely love the idea of every new app being written atop emacs, but I'm an incorrigible emacs user. I use emacs for email, for git, for slack and (often but not always) for web browsing. Oh, and also to edit text.
IMHO, there are issues on both sides.

Using words like "lifetime deals" entice customers but also sets expectations which might be hard to maintain. Especially when when companies they oversold their promises and the generated fees might not be enough to hire devs and keep the product running. Personally, I think lifetime should at least include 5 years of service, irrespective of version changes.

From the looks of it, the lifetime plugin sold very well and Appsumo realized later that web app and subscription model are a much better fit. So, I doubt they knew 3 months ago that they might end up doing this.

On the flip side, companies do grandfather existing customers to newer and potentially expensive plans. So, if the webapp is better and faster then I think asking people for more money isn't wrong. If the wordpress plugin continues to work and is updated then it is an expected solution.
btw: it is "zero dot ten" not "zero dot one" :)
Thanks for pointing that out.

I had switched the math from 3->3.5% to 5->5.5% so it was some easier numbers. I guess I missed that one!

Cheers
Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for your explanation, good enough for now :)
Its the first picture
"Unlimited giveaways / No subscription fees"

In their FAQ they said this:
"keep in mind we're focusing the most resources on our new version going forward."
but changed it since and claim they will update it ... but look as those products separately ... they are like night and day ... the wordpress version has outdated design and only the new version looks good
(I have been here 4 more years, so your aside doesn't withstand basic reasoning. I would also caution you that it walks the line of HN policy)
As bad a taste as it might leave, I'm not sure there's a leg to stand on here. You can still use the product you bought in the form you bought it (as I understand it), under the license you bought it, and you'll still get access to "lifetime updates" included. Granted, there might not be any futures updates to be eligible for as part of that, but unless you had an SLA on a roadmap, seems likely there's no real recourse here?

Business-wise, having a sale on something you're going to deprioritise/eventually sunset passes my smell-check, though there's a slight whiff with the leading point around "lifetime" (given that the lifetime seems to be, ahem, pretty short...).
I do not see a problem. The plugin still works. I do not fault them for deleting your posts as they are factually incorrect and only spread your invalid interpretation of the situation.
Shameless self-promotion incoming, but if you're mostly using postgres (like me), you can take a look at https://github.com/martingms/vipsql as well.
Intro to Amazon Machine Learning with Logistic Regression
If you don't want to wait, people have gotten it working with Wine. I installed it on my Mac the other day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntoTheBreach/comments/80nt36/i_hav...
Wait so what does this mean for cancer rates? Are they related?
There has always been a tradeoff between reliability and development time. There wouldn't be a games industry if every video game had the same level of software assurance as a mars lander, because Tetris would cost $200m to develop. A medical simulator lies somewhere between a mars lander and a video game - it needs to provide accurate simulation, but the odd crash isn't a complete dealbreaker.

The bug is now patched, so the downtime appears to be less than 24 hours from discovery to fix. The original error is clearly a major blunder, but Oculus have responded properly.
I think it is pretty easy. The moment you start storing this data outside your brain, it's "my" data. You can memorize or observe it all you want but not store it permanently or semi-permanently elsewhere.

I think it is a sad state of affairs that it had to come to this point resulting from "don't ask for permission upfront, ask for forgiveness later" (most skip the latter part anyway, if not confronted with a shitstorm) mentality.
Robinhood Desktop – Open Source
I always thought of it as a profession, not a title.

I do have a degree, though, so it's purely a matter of perspective.
Waze is an end user app. Our GraphHopper routing engine is a library or web service that could be used in an end user application.

btw1: we have a demo called 'GraphHopper Maps' that combines maps, geocoding and this routing engine: https://graphhopper.com/maps/

btw2: didn't thought that we get interests from hackersnews as this is more a smaller release. nice!

btw3: and yes we make money with open source. I recently had a lecture talking about this: https://graphhopper.com/public/slides/2018-ppu.pdf
I agree that utopian predictions have a long history of failure and should be taken with a Mars-sized grain of salt. However, I would argue that the difference is that there is not likely to be complex life on Mars or any other location in our solar system. This makes it quite a bit different from the North American example, in which immense suffering was inflicted upon the existing inhabitants of the region. If any planet or moon was found to contain life-forms capable of experiencing suffering, I and (hopefully) most people would be against human settlement there.
Textpattern CMS 4.7.0 beta released
I have a friend who sometimes works at Pole, and they apparently do need people to winter over and manage the IT infrastructure. I don't know whether they have citizenship requirements (it's a US-led station), but it's apparently a hard enough position to recruit for (six+ months in the dark) that they might be flexible.
I looked at the two photos as a stereogram--focus through the plane instead of crossing your eyes.

If they were identical, there would be no 3d effect. My eyes can't figure out how to resolve the foreground waves, because the photographers were too far apart, but the spray wraps around the lighthouse as you would expect.
Superdeterminism is even weirder than that though. Why would the universe conspire to make sure that I picked my observation angle just right to maintain Bell's inequality? If you use the outcome of a celestial event to determine the angle, then you've got an absolute enormous conspiracy just to make sure that Bell's inequality isn't violated. It's deeply weird.
One of the unmentioned goals of rent control at the time was to stop the mass exodus of people out of New York starting at the tail end of the 60s.

I live not far from The Deuce and my neighborhood was plagued with drug use, prostitution, muggings and homelessness. We stayed in our apartments in an extremely dangerous city while hordes of people left. My landlord wouldn't have her building still if not for rent regulation.
Archive.org's first snapshot of google.stanford.edu:
https://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.sta...
Yeah, but if he's the guy who Googled it, he should get the day off anyway if it wasn't really in his realm of responsibility.

It seems ridiculous in this modern age, but there are a huge number of people who will never bother to look into their problems on their own before asking someone else. Then this other person does a simple Google search and becomes the hero expert.

This all too often results in further dependence, with no real reward for the guy who took this basic step except more requests in the future. If this one guy can get a day off in this instance, it'll be a victory for every person who has ever said "Oh, if you google that, you'll see one of the first results with instructions to do x, y, z." to a time-draining coworker.
Millions of Chinese Kids Are Parenting Themselves
Yeah, I noticed that too. Except one animated emoji tagged on someone's message will do it for me on a new Macbook Pro.
Try Tiller. It puts all of your data into a Google Sheet with nice premade templates. Not quite as nice UX as mint but pretty close and allows for better customization.
lost you at obviously. you’re saying that cities should be ghost towns where nobody lives and every single place is an airbnb...
because obviously we would like to have as many people see this amazing place
You start by saying the parent comment is hard to understand, then go on to explain why the statements are true. These two statements are essentially the same

>Since gathering / ad-selling services are so lucrative, they essentially subsidize the development of the highest-quality products in the market. The best engineers work for these companies. They have massive teams of people refining their products. And, these companies use IP laws to prevent clones. Essentially, they lock out for-fee competitors.

> You get those free, truly amazing services for nothing because the companies found ways to generate value from the data being gathered. The cost to maintain that infrastructure and provide those great services is pretty high and has taken some brilliant engineers years of sweat.

The only real difference is your use of the phrase "lock-out", but I don't think that's a reasonable way to look at it. If enough people really want to be part of a fee-based ecosystem, no one is stopping a company from engaging those people. You bring up IP laws, but that's really an independent issue, since fee-based and ad-based businesses can both use IP laws in the same way.
I enjoy articles like these, personally.
Tbh I can't see what is so wrong about this.

> https://kingsumo.com/pricing

It looks like they are offering an going SaaS version that they host for you, and a self-hosted WP version that you can install yourself for a fixed one-time price.

> ... the $49 or $149 licenses to apply to $8/mo new version?

The prices for self-hosted now look a lot more than those (early-bird/introductory?) prices you guys paid.

Sorry if you feel wronged, but I think you need to understand that this is a pretty common pricing structure, i.e self vs hosted pricing.
> If Google deleted all personal data, the company would not be worth $0

They would be worth less than zero because without the personal data they would have no ad revenue to subsidize their money losing loss-leader ventures that only exist to collect data and/or suck people in to watch advertising.
Matt, I'm so sorry to read this news. I hope you spend this difficult time with the people in your life that are sensitive to you and your needs.
Disclaimer: I host and maintain the demo site linked from that article, and I'm a low-tier contributor to Textpattern.
In saying property you're presumably looking at the land value combined with the remaining value of the structure, not the value of structure alone? Typically they are not separate line items in a sale even though if you did separate them you would see that the land is generally appreciating and the house generally depreciating.

There are exceptions. Markets can do funny things from time to time, form irrational bubbles and whatnot. Even cars sometimes appreciate without any major repair or refurbishment costs. Tulips were once an appreciating asset, as the story goes. But as a rule, things that become outdated, wear out, and die lose value over time.
270 pounds is nothing. I ruined my knees in high school through unsupervised access to the weight room during gym class. After some time, I could press the whole rack on the upper foot platform (old school lever type machine with two sets of foot platforms. That was the equivalent of 950 pounds.
If free will were an illusion, it wouldn't make sense to try to convince anybody of it. IOW, if you're right, your comment is useless :-)

But I'd understand why you had to write that anyway :-P
Into the Breach is a fantastic, complex game that at the same time feels very approachable and simple in scope, so good work on the interface.

It often feels like a very complex variation of chess. The maps are small and there are very few categories of objects in them, which makes the game easy to play but hard to master.
They're both on the 10nm node, but Apple/TSMC is moving to 7nm for this year's iphones (supposedly).

Won't Apple/TSMC's lead just get significantly larger this fall? How is Samsung/Qualcomm letting this happen?
> 6. Many users prefer Paypal to credit cards:

I've had the same experience with my customers. I think Stripe is leaving a lot of money on the table by not promoting their brand to end users more. As an informed technical person, I would much rather hand my CC to Stripe than to PayPal, but Joe Sixpack doesn't feel the same way. Their impression is that they're giving randome websites their CC information, when actually Stripe's architecture is very reasonable.

If this affected conversions in a meaningful way for my business, I would have a hard time justifying not using PayPal instead of Stripe.
does it have realtime chart?
Well, I'd have to agree with them. My peers are generally happy using Slack, Discord, and other proprietary solutions.

Though I'm not convinced that greybeards are any different, just the ones you find caring about it on the internet.

My dad's a 68-year-old old school embedded hardware developer and he'll use whatever toolkit works. I reckon most people in the world are like him and not obsessing over tools, despite what HN makes you think.
you’re saying that cities should be ghost towns where nobody lives and every single place is an airbnb... because obviously we would like to have as many people see this amazing community uh?
Wait... so exercise and beer? Heavenly.

Mix in some oatmeal and eat your vegetables. Who would have guessed.
I could see rolling N copies out so if you needed to revoke one set, another set could remain functional..
I'm beginning to wonder if you could make an incubator that also has real estate holdings where you sell and rent houses to people in Silicon Valley and also fund startups. The houses that you have on hand or want to rent you would provide for startups (basically dormitories). The houses in SV would be a hedge on the Startups that you are funding because by bringing in jobs you would also increase the housing prices.
That just shifts your risk to whether or not Twino succeeds. This may be lower risk than the original loans, but it is still risk.
For GOV.UK we came up with a screenreader breakdown of JAWS at 38.5%, VoiceOver at 21.2% and NVDA 12%. That’s not a lot, but it’s not nobody.

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/01/results-of-the-...