skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also helps a lot, in my experience as both a reader and a writer, to have something unique or unusual to say. Most people do not and consequently don't get readers and often waste a lot of time in the process.

I'm admittedly in a somewhat unusual position, though, because I contribute to a blog about grant writing (http://www.seliger.com/blog) and basically no one else has anything useful or interesting to say about the topic. I exaggerate, but only slightly.

I don't know how well blogging works for others, but I do feel like I've seen a lot of people and companies with really lame blogs and I have to think, "Is that really doing anything for you?" I'd be curious to see anyone with data on this subject, especially because I'm not even real sure what "data" would look like in this case.
Main HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601470
Thank you. I came up in C++ land where the distinction between interfaces, abstract classes, and base classes is pretty muddy.
You could download the manual from the internet, instead of buying cheap junk and the demanding people fix your stuff for free.
Not the OP but chiming in to ask this as well. I've read a few books of your list, and I'm interested in how you organise all the knowledge acquired from books and apply them to your life. It's easy to forget, lose focus and get lost.
The Roman empire lasted over a thousand years - but only in the east, in Constantinople.

The command structure of the empire lives on today in the Catholic church, but of course it's not a continuation.
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Swapping in a new battery and replacing the CD drive with an SSD gave my laptop a new lease on life.
East and West Europe too.
Do we make the word a better place of we cause the destruction of many life-style businesses that provide jobs, a public service, and aren't rapacious and create an environment where only the most aggressive and profitable companies can survive at all, but you get to exact a 3% tax on them?

Let me provide an alternative hypothetical scenario: Major tech companies withdraw their businesses out of EU jurisdictions. They run sales and support remotely. They close down local offices. They host in clouds that sit on the border of EU territories, enough to provide low latency, but outside taxing authority.

Now what? US Internet services still makes money, EU citizens still have access, but there's no corporate footprint. Do you really think with such huge traffic, if Google and Facebook and Twitter shutdown local offices and entities that businesses still won't advertise with them? Advertisers go where the audience is.

The EU would then face a moment of truth about whether to bifurcate the internet like China did, erecting a Great Firewall of Europe, blocking access to properties that are not in compliance.

Lest people think this is about my employer, read https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/privacy-compcon... and search from "Cromwell", and you'll see reference to work I published in 1996. I heavy subscribe to John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of Independence" of Cyberspace. To me, the internet was the first new zone of human freedom in millenia that was completely free of state interference, and the "permissionless innovation" it enabled, where anyone could publish anything that was accessible to the whole world, shook me to my core as a young teen in the late 80s when I first go on the net.

I think many people who came to the internet decades later perhaps don't have that sense of awe I do, that sense of its specialness. And this continual chipping away at that original Utopian dream with nationalistic, provincial concerns, is to me the unacceptable collateral damage.

The collateral damage I'm willing to except is some people getting away with tax evasion, if it means more freedom is preserved and we don't end up with a splintered-net-of-a-thousand rules, where I need to be concerned about what the CCCP and Brussels and Congress thinks before I publish something.
I came across this description of the actual core features of ADD some time ago and found it to be very resonant for me: https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rej...

They are: interest based attention, emotional hyperarousal, and rejection sensitivity. It's amazing how many other symptoms of ADD these features cover, and how important they are in describing how ADD affects daily life.
An AMA in a sub called "neoliberal" is hardly an indicator.
It is scary that Google has become the gate keeper.
This merely repeats content from https://www.blog.google/topics/ads/advertising-ecosystem-wor..., thus the HN rules ask you to submit that instead.
No, but one example proves it can be done. As the other answer to your post, it depends what niche as to how hard it's going to be. But aren't they both like setting up your business in the first place? Loads of businesses fail. Doesn't mean it can't be done. But the barriers to success are much greater to send a rocket to Mars than they are to develop WordPress websites.
Many of You Are Homesick–For a Place You’ve Never Been
They left China.

Did you also support Brexit?
I’m able to follow neither the article nor the discussion. What would I have to learn in order to be able to?

Even if it was, like, years of studying. I’m just curious how deep this rabbit hole is.
It's also simply expensive to pay for transportation and marketing and the absird sales tax on used goods.
None of these statements are inherently true about NFS. They may be applicable to some deployments or applications of NFS, but they don't hold generally speaking.

NFS is used heavily throughout HPC for workloads that don't require a parallel filesystem (and even then, pNFS is plugging along, even if it's largely ignored in favor of Lustre et al for accessing parallel filesystems.)
I support whatever the UK voters support. That's how democracy works. As a US citizen, my opinion on Brexit has no bearing, although it’s not hard to understand who voted for it and why they did.
“Neoliberalism” is not a partisan term. I guess that is the most common context lately, but many contemporary republicans fit this description and the more nuanced ones.

Decoding neoliberalism in the wild often requires a cultural critique because of the complacency associated. A politician might wager cultural symbolism to corral voters but have an entirely neoliberal agenda. Republicans have actually been keen on this longer than democrats but democrats have a higher ceiling because they are unbeholden to the limits of performing symbols of commitment to tradition now that their voter base thinks of itself as “progressive” which is an advertising notion, not an actual value. So neoliberalism values “progressivism” on the surface and self-interests below the surface.

Donald Trump is very much a neoliberal in the classic republican sense, but he realized the needle oF decadence has shifted away from tradition toward hedonism. Most of the tea party movement was led by neoliberals, too.

Contemporary libertarianism is literally hardcore neoliberalism, whereby the surface-level “progressivism” is peeled back, revealing ultimate individualism.

When we understand neoliberalism, we come to understand Trump and Clinton are mere equals on this spectrum.
It was a self-driving car, do you really think Uber doesn't keep all the sensor data?
Why disk write usage? Assuming the reason for analysis is cost, storage space utilization is more important. GP2 and other non-provisioned IOPS types are priced per GB. I've seen EBS costs amount to 50% of the AWS bill at a couple companies, so reducing disk size can be a good cost saver[1]. You need an agent/script running in the OS to get disk space utilization.

[1] As another poster pointed out, sometimes you want to over provision size to get IOPS.
> If you don't think a company that is mostly non-profit (Twitter) shouldn't exist

It's not uncommon for monopolies to lose money on some projects as a tradeoff for destroying would-competitors. Thus the fact that a big company is not making a direct immediate profit is NOT a reliable indicator of them being benign.

I'm assuming you mean "not profitable" rather than a "non-profit", since the latter indicates an organization explicitly limited to at least ostensibly-charitable purposes.
I always wondered if it is possible to buy some of those waxes somewhere online, I would like to try it at home
Summary: Submarine advertisement for PolymathNetworks' STOs.
You could say that having to follow tax regulations also reduces the number of people willing to enter any market. Should we also drop requirements for pharmaceutical companies to do their thing? I'm 100% certain we'd have thousands of new "pharmas" popping up within a short amount of time.

Obviously this is a silly simile but the point remains: certain types of business have certain regulations, in this case if a business relies on keeping your private data then they have to follow the appropriate regulations, like most other fields.
What are your experiences with customizing Twitter Bootstrap?
Whenever I run into a problem with Bootstrap (usually a layout issue), I try to customize it. Every time I look over the docs, I become extremely anxious, jettison bootstrap from the project, and write the whole site from a clean slate.

Am I missing out on incredible time-savings by not taking the time to learn Twitter Bootstrap customization?
Because it’s a misguided idea, more likely to result in false-positive hassles, chilling effects, and general paranoia, than to actually prevent crimes.
> Taxing revenues derived from users in your own country is not extra-territorial taxation.

They are taxing on revenues that Google/Facebook/Twitter make on US citizens, advertising to US users, from US sales offices. That's extraterritorial taxation.

If they merely taxed % of global revenues made on EU citizens, I wouldn't object. Let's say you estimate a company makes $10 per yearly active user per year, so if you have 300 million active EU citizens, and you made $3 billion in revenues, then apply 3% tax to that.

But that's not what this proposal does. Perhaps you need to read it.
Maybe they should increase the amount of data they try to fit in one page, so it becomes truly impossible to focus on anything? Or they could ask an IA to think about how to present fairly important data in a useful and usable way. Just a thought.

Other than that, how much money would the US Federal government raise if it were to sell all the land it currently "owns" in the Western US?
Agreed. I concede!
It was a play on words.
Meh. They got lucky because they didn’t use affected hardware due to valuing price over performance. It’s certainly not because of any brilliant insight or preventative measures they took.
I personally require more, like, personal engagement with my colleagues, I guess. I want to feel like I’m working with friends, but some cultures can make it feel like I’m often working with adversaries.

Some workplaces require you to “break into” the cliques in order to progress or work on high-visibility projects. This can make career progression feel like a political issue more than a technical issue.

That said, I also coincidentally married a woman I met at work :) And also keep up with friends from old jobs. This will likely be the first job that I’ll end up leaving without keeping in touch with anyone. That’s how isolating some places can be!
To be honest, lately it seems platform hosted blogs are better option (such as medium and wp.com) rather than host-your-own. Mostly because there is already some traffic on those platforms
This is a problem:

“The presentations gave the alcohol industry an opportunity to preview the trial design and vet the investigators. Indeed, the scientist leading the meetings was eventually chosen to head the huge clinical trial.“

Which is unfortunate because “though excessive drinking is harmful and problem drinking is on the rise in the United States, many observational studies have found that moderate drinkers outlive abstainers and have less heart disease.”
> Maybe have people have to take a class or two on how to use the equipment before they can join?

That's how Dallas Maker Space does it and seems like a good approach. I did the wood shop orientation and decided not to join because I had to postpone the project I was planning. But I don't know whether that filters out the annoyances mentioned.
You already are paying with your privacy. If you value it for $0 then you're going to pay more...
The nicer stuff companies sold their brand name to junk companies.
Does use of complex numbers really provide improvement? How does this work? (other than cramming 2 numbers into 1... which itself is suspect... the complex plane has the same cardnality as the reals...)
Hacker News paydirt! Good read, cool programming. :)
That adds transaction costs that make it unprofitable
Template meta-programming is a different usage from template generics. It has a higher compile time cost because it performs computations as a side-effect of compilation.
They can't enforce them on other countries but they can:

- Have their ISPs block access to your network

- Have their banks not process payments to you

And if you really want to generalize it to "laws" they can emit an arrest warrant: good luck ever travelling to another country that has an extradition treaty with any EU country.

They can't prevent a business in another jurisdiction from operating but they sure can prevent your business from being conducted with any EEA entities.
The size does matter. The amount posted for bug bounties is usually pitifully low compared to the magnitude of the bug. If you've got money on your mind, there's pretty much no reason to fill a bug bounty for a large vulnerability when there's people that will pay ten or twenty times more for it.
I bet lumen holders will come here and say how much Stellar is good, others will ask questions about how Stellar works implying it is a blockchain like Bitcoin.

Besides that, the fact that something like this exists (along with the friendly and comprehensive documentation on Stellar's official website) is probably going to make more people join the wagon so maybe it won't fail like the other 1000+ altcoins (and like its brother Ripple?).
It isn't just the size of the space that matters, but how smooth and connected it is.
>So this is money made from EU based users and revenue they make from them.

That's a gross oversimplification. Especially with the internet, it's not clear anymore.

Let's say that I live in Thailand, have US citizenship, sell products on Amazon in England, ship to France, and then advertise on Google. Who do I pay taxes to and at what rate?

Provenance of profit is not easy. You're paying Amazon a cut for shipping/fulfillment, and Google for the ad revenue, but your customer is a French national and you're a US citizen but currently residing in Thailand.
Here are some harder examples-

abs(x) + abs(y) = 1
is a square of side 1.

x^2 + y^2 = 1
is a circle of radius 1.

But
abs(x) = positive sqrt(x^2)

so squares and circles ought to have the same 2D parent, since given the x & y, its just a matter of applying the right transform.

y = ax^2 + bx
is a parabola through the origin.

y = bx
is a line through the origin.

so lines and parabolas ought to have a common 1D curve as a parent, because a parabola reduces to a line when a=0.

clearly a line shifted by a constant is still a line.

so also, a line rotated clockwise or anti clockwise through say 90 degree is still a line.

so then i take a horizontal line, shift it once and rotate it twice, join these 4 lines and get a square.

so squares ought to be a container type with 4 lines ? or wait, if i collapse the two verticals ie. set the height to 0, then a square is just a straight line with no height, which is absolutely true geometrically, but think about the damage you’d do to your type-theory.

but didn’t we just say lines are just degenerate parabolas. so then we ought to be able to take a square, grab its 4 sides which are lines, transformed each line into a parabola, and tell me what that gives you.

and you haven’t even gotten me started on activation functions. since all logistics are richards curves, a gompertz is just a particular richards. so then a relu should inherit from a gompertz and a swish should be a child of relu and somewhere in here we need the hyperbolic tangent, either as a parent or a child or a sibling or the notorious c++ friend function.

now go ask your friendly neighborhood tensorflow colleague why the activations don’t share a common parent, why lines aren’t parabolas and squares aren’t lines and so in and do forth.
By your logic, you should be allowed to go to Ladbrokes.com and put some cash on tonight's NBA games. I could if I wanted to, and I'm sure Ladbrokes would love to take your bets if they could. But you can't, because countries can make laws about selling to their residents. Ladbrokes blocks you, because US law says they must.

I'm sure you can rely on your site being too small for EU regulators to bother with, and I'm sure it would be hard for them to enforce if you have no operations in the EU, but the fact you ignore the laws doesn't mean they lack jurisdiction.
For what it's worth, some links to how funding sources affect clinical trial outcomes:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#drug-company-funding...

My guess is that the best ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, normalized for effort, are getting a couple HEPA filters for your house and getting blackout curtains to improve sleep quality. Diet, exercise, meditation, etc., are obviously more effective, but also require actual effort, whereas with these interventions you just pay the couple hundred bucks and you're done.
I used to work at a supercomputing center and nfs wasn't the choice for much of anything. Lustre or AFS were the normal options depending on use case. That was a decade ago.

Also, nfs is bad at applications requiring locks. Perhaps some implementations aren't, but I haven't seen one.
We used pnfs at FNAL across 5000+ physical servers doing analysis of CMS detector data. Worked well.
Baidu Apollo Releases Massive Self-Driving Dataset
Just saw the `lumen`[0] command line tool from the same author and must say THAT is really interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/0xfe/lumen
Exactly. I find the article very misleading, and intentionally muddying the issue.

A quote:

> And livestock, a pillar of our food system for millenia, are major culprits in climate change, water shortages, biodiversity losses and massive degradation and destruction of forests and other ecosystems — compelling us to quickly move to a predominantly plant-based diet.

> To meet these challenges, we must employ all of the technological tools at our disposal.

Actually, if we were to move to a predominantly plant-based diet, that would solve a major part of our food problem. At the moment, we're choosing to feed cattle and even throw away food, rather than feed the hungry. World hunger is in a large part an economic choice stemming from economic inequality.

But where the article really muddies the issue is here:

> It is safe to say that, without systemic genetic modification of crops and livestock, civilization would not exist.

and:

> But the process of genetic modification, central to progress in agriculture throughout history, has become controversial.

The article pretends that selective breeding and genetic engineering are the same thing, and claims that the thing that people have been doing for centuries is suddenly controversial. They are different things, and the one that's been going on for centuries and forms the basis for modern agriculture is not remotely controversial. But he wants his genetic engineering to piggy-back on the accomplishments of selective breeding.

Whatever your opinion on the necessity or danger of genetic engineering is, the above is a dishonest argument that doesn't help the discussion at all.
This sounds more like a problem with the perceived quality of health research than anything else.

Given that the healthcare industry and the alcohol industry are fairly good sources of revenue, does anybody have an argument for why we should really expect a different outcome if this was funded by and influenced by federal government?
It applies to atheists who suddenly stop being a tiny minority. Those who are still in a tiny persecuted minority keep their mouths shut, and those who've been in the majority for a while don't bother talking about it.

(Sources: the bible belt, the bay area, and /r/atheism.)
https://archive.is/20180311091756/https://www.ft.com/content...
'Inability to function' is a straw man, 'requires assistance' was what you claimed was nowhere implied by the definition of a mental disorder.

One could certainly exhibit ADHD-like _symptoms_ while still being capable of coping on their own (= low 'impairment'), but an ADHD diagnosis would be incorrect in this case [1]. By definition (DSM-IV Criterion D 'clinically significant impairment'), an ADHD diagnosis is appropriate only when the symptoms cause severe enough impairment that require assistance (e.g., 'clinical intervention') to function.

[1] See e.g., "Symptoms Versus Impairment: The Case for Respecting DSM-IV’s Criterion D", http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.893...
Thanks for the link, fascinating documentary!
In this case it's not as simple as having the right legal documents. It seems the store was a physical manifestation of an iconoclast who's now dead. This seems less a business than a living work of art.

A bleached coral can survive for a while, but if it cannot attract and retain the right symbionts, it'll die.
I also moved to netlify (from a gh-pages/cloudflare setup). And while I'm a huge fan, and loved the process, I am interested that google crawler seems to have found it a lot slower.

https://i.imgur.com/RUssvAA.png

I've SSL enabled (as well as HSTS) And yes, the initial redirect seems to take a while. But equally the very first page request from a site is actually quite slow I feel. Considering it's a static page of less than 4kB, I'd expect it to be a bit snappier...

I've other reasons for trying netlify, and I'm not too bothered about the slowdown (my site has bugger all traffic tbh), but I would like to get to the bottom of it.
The customer is always the one who pays. Btw I would say put a 50% tax on ads.
It's a funny day to have this subject rise to the surface.

I am as against shite science as anybody, but I would decry the reverse happening as well—fear mongering over the fact that, yes, alcohol will probably shorten your life and put you at higher risk for many physiological problems that may outweigh whatever minor benefits it bestows.

I'd wager it's a larger question than all that. But of course I will second that the science-side should be represented honestly.

I can't comment on the States, though. And I understand the concern about the language.
Hey! An engineering blog is one of the things that could push me over the edge in a decision between two otherwise equal projects or products. Not to mention how helpful your posts could be to others, just describing your technology problems and how you have overcome them. If you have the time for it, there's nothing but good that could come out of it.
I noticed an interesting resonance just yesterday on my guitar. You can actually tune a guitar by playing, for example, an A note on the E string repeatedly, and moving the tuning pegs on the A string until the A string starts vibrating.

This is kind of hard to do using just the visuals, as you run out of hands unless you play and fret the string with the same hand. But it works really nicely if you try to find the note by ear, and then use visual resonance as confirmation that you're right. Makes tuning pretty fun.
Much of the resistance against GMOs is not so much against purely nutritional genetic modification (like golden rice - rice with added beta-carotene for vitamin A), but to genetic modification to prop up business models, like terminator genes, roundup-ready and Bt genes.
It's been singular.

You did not explain the exact cause of your anxiety. External pressure or personal standards?