skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All while insulting the actual businesses and San Franciscans they want to imitate at every turn.

"Now the tower’s largest tenant was a website that allows anonymous semi-literates to post critiques of local establishments."

"there were not enough applicants to fill all the openings for “Java Legends, Python Badasses, Hadoop Heroes”, and other gratingly childish classifications describing various programming specialities."

Very classy.

Although I must say, I have noticed that there is a great deal of Silicon Valley hate in many places in Europe.
75% of 100,000 is 75,000

12% of 1,000,000 is 120,000.

Not advocating for one side or the other, just correcting the math.

One person commented on 12% of top 1m sites. Another is commenting on 75% of top 100k sites.

EDIT: Checked the source material links and GA is on 65% of the top 1m. That is definitely more, and a more useful comparison I think.
This goes back all the way to Homer's Odyssey. Half of that work is Odysseus or Telemachus and whomever they've met eating copious amounts of meat and bread, and drinking quite a lot of wine. Yet not a vegetable to be found anywhere…
You are talking about the Facebook pixel, not the Facebook button, they are not the same thing.

Facebook does not warn website owners that adding Facebook button with the official method tracks users (I wonder why...): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button

From the Facebook docs: "A single click on the Like button will 'like' pieces of content on the web and share them on Facebook. You can also display a Share button next to the Like button to let people add a personal message and customize who they share with."

I see no mention of tracking there. And "people should guess" isn't really a viable excuse to me, it should be stated that their button tracks people and might be unsuitable depending of what they want to do. The documentation should also offer other non-invasive methods to do it.
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Predicting San Francisco Bikeshare. Availability with TensorFlow and LSTMs
And SAIP was budgeted for at least 78M€ ...
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Even if this was true, if there enough liquidity in the market to sell 100 million dollars worth of bitcoin without tanking the price?

According to blockchain.info the current daily transaction volume is around 870 million dollars.
Agreed.

I got to the point where I read the first and last lines of a paragraph and if it seems like things happen in the middle I then read it. I don't really need "unoriginal description of a femme fatale" #5666481.
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I find it particularly funny that he doesn't explain why his binaries are literally plagued with "false positives". I'm really curious. Does he use some arcane compression techniques which usually are found in virus signatures?
I have a hard time believing this. But, the real damage could be time spent on Facebook and what information people would share on Facebook in the future.

I for one keep my account because it became a social ID. But it practically has no meaningful personal data other than my name & contacts.

It is a matter of slow death...
That's a little harsh, no?

It's an outsiders' take on what seems to have grown into a disconnected, insular culture. While under most circumstances one could dismiss such commentary as "he doesn't understand us and made little effort to get to know us," when that culture exists primarily to make stuff (products, software) for the masses it would do well to pay heed to its criticism, don't you think?
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My biggest beef with Apple laptops is how tiny the return key is on European keyboards.
Windows Nano is only available as a container OS, it was cancelled as a standalone OS.
I make that about 11 years ago - the page was rather different then.
Funny that you mention noise pollution. My most prominent “experience” with these scooters has been the one parked outside my apartment building the other day beeping incessantly and flashing a strobe light. The beeping was incredibly loud. I started hearing it when my elevator got to the first floor: from across the street and through my building’s front door, lobby, and elevator door. It was beeping like that from at least 6pm when I got home and 10pm when I last checked.
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Haha it's always better to trade away other people's time :)
I was very bummed that h g1g1 xo didn't come with a pullcord generator. I thought it was a great idea.
+1 on that. Based on the article I hope they’re using signal or some other reputable crypto. Ideally they’ll host it in France and provide a good UI
That’s true, but I don’t think the comparison has anything to do with the people who cause the problems. The comparison is the significance of the public nuisance and health hazard.
It's better im a startup environment — shows initiative. And sometimes you find out that you already know the thing and forgot it, know it by another name, etc.
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Is this possible if you are using something like ublock and/or ghostery?
Does the GDPR give us the tools to do that?
You're talking about a German, highly regulated situation, which, while interesting, might not really apply to the situation in the US and more specifically at Tesla.

It's apparently quite sudden and unpaid, very different from your father's situation.
>"No one in this thread, or in the article, has claimed that gray matter is randomly distributed."

I simply cannot imagine what you think is going on in order for them to be looking at "clumping" of gray matter as a proxy for density of the tissue via MRI and calling this "thickness".

>"Regarding your comment about how incompetent I am, and how extremely strange this MRI analysis is"

I thought perhaps you knew some technical detail about their analysis pipeline, but you still haven't mentioned anything technical... so I just don't have any idea what you are thinking.

>"Measuring cortical thickness by MRI is a standard technique in neuroanatomy since 15 years ago."

Sure, here is the first article I found regarding "cortical thickness":

"The shortest distance between the pial surface and the white/gray junction is the cortical thickness at each point."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561315/

That sounds exactly like what I would expect, nothing to do with density or clumping.
You're probably salaried. I suspect most factory jobs are hourly, or at least shift based.
I expect accident rates to fall due to safety features but ultimately expect almost everyone to stop driving their car and pay relative to now much less for insurance. As the safety of the majority rests largely on getting the remaining idiots off the road i expect them to pay punitive insurance rates not dissimilar to sin taxes discouraging behaviors that are disadvantageous to society.

Im short a small group of people requires a greater cost to profitably insure plus sin taxes for insisting on endangering your fellow citizens vs falling rates for everyone else.
Unit test coverage calcify your code. People will resist change because "it breaks unit tests".

The best are acceptance tests. But here the use of SaaS systems with no sandbox or locally deployable mocks mean this is hard to automate.
It's shame they didn't answer the question when the rumors came out.
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He learned to sail and fish, he can learn to use a key pair.

I despise cynics who in the process of underestimating others crash the party, our party.

If the man wants his damn forum back give him his forum, in as many possible flavours and sizes as we possibly can. Then let him deliverate, hopefully learn and ultimately adapt.
Yes, but there are not much "abnormal" situations that can happen with those plants...
If they're integrated into the OS they have to be supported at the same level as the rest of the OS, which entails the same rigorous processes w.r.t. updates, bug fixes, etc...

By keeping them out-of-band, that support requirement doesn't apply, allowing the tools to be much more aggressively updated and released without the same degree of oversight. There's a reason they're licensed separately and effectively with no support or warranty. Doing so enables their rapid development without/less-of the usual bureaucracy.
1. Not showing me the way you solve a problem.

2. Having a strong belief that most non-programmers are dumb, including marketing/sales/customer service. This shows up when you interact with those folks. All the guys I've fired in my company are for this reason and never for their failure to not being able to implement an LSM based k/v store.

3. Asking for vacation with reason ("there is nothing to do at the moment"), then after returning from vacation telling us that the service got hacked because "I did not have enough time to fix that particular issue"

4. Failing to understand how the company makes money and our expectations. Some devs love their craft and take home big salaries but in office, they are busy painting us as a con show. Some part of your income comes from the effort of that sales guy/gal, how is your work purer than her? Why paint him as a shady gal in the office?

5. I doubled compensation of some developers, they came back with a request to switch them from fulltime to parttime.

This is based on early experience as a founder.
Of course you will always have people to try to run things as root but the option could just be hidden like the developer options on Android with a big warning that enabling root might destroy their phone.
None of that has to do with your original comment ("Nuclear weapons simulations, drone AI, smart bombs - all good. But don't you dare abuse a marginalized group!") and what I objected to in it.
Can anybody post a pastebin or the the text of the page for the people blocking everything-FB on /etc/hosts level?
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Ok, you can delete the data, but you can't request Facebook to send you the data it has collected on you.
That was Boot2Gecko aka FirefoxOS. I would not mind having that on a phone.
How do you differentiate not caring what number you gave them from not knowing? The fact that they showed no reaction is more of a sign of how few fucks are given rather than everyone else's ignorance.
Why, what's your full name?
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Maybe they use javascript instead of using a real language?
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This isn’t a case of NIH; France has adopted Matrix for the project, which is a lightweight fork of Riot.im combined with a large private federation of Matrix servers. The whole thing is open source (although not public yet, as it is very early days) and open standards based. At Matrix.org we’ve been providing some support to them :) It’s very exciting to see open government projects which actually grok open source and open standards.
> "Are you kidding?"

I don't think that was necessary. Yes, The Blues Brothers was centred around Chicago, but it might have been a while since GP saw the film, so their memory may have been hazy.

Aside from that, The French Connection featured a famous car chase that included the elevated trains in New York City:

http://youtu.be/2TVyJ-51jzc
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These are the vultures who got fat on the carcasses of those that didn’t survive.
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I totally agree. That book was a cut above. The back-in-time view through the Ter'angreal was inspired.

I also really enjoyed the prior book, when Mat's luck runs hot leaving Tar Valon.
If it has so much influence, then it must be controlled by more powerful superiors than just that Zuck guy, isn’t it. He must be thankful for they to leave him a possibility to sell t-shirts.
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Ask HN: Why we haven't yet Oasis?
More pixels, more GPU, screens and then VR headsets, virtual reality improves year after year becoming always more immersive, more realistic.

Is there a threshold that will make Oasis a reality ?

The web started in text-only, and with the magic of hypertext, suddenly all documents were unified in one document: the world wide web.

What will it take to unify all AR/VR experiences in one world ?
Here it is: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2010/2010-08-05-01.html
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2010/2010-08-05-01.html
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Same for psexec and xexec for remote execution.
That seems insane, even for the French government. Do you have a source ? I can't find anything with a 2 minutes search.
> "[..]and as advances in artificial intelligence allowed for computers to take over more of the mundane work of producing software"

Sounds like a brill idea. We could cut those pesky developers out of the loop. I imagine that the AI would need some kind of detailed specification to guide it. To avoid ambiguity, the spec should have a very clear syntax. We'd need people to translate from human language to spec language, of course. And to remove unforeseen consequences, and to change the spec as business requirements evolve. And when unsupervised, these people would argue over indentation or write comments on HN ...

Hey, wait ...

:^)
Everyone capable of understanding this thread knows what overfitting is, and the difference between training and test data. That is the topic we are talking about.

Because test data is unseen at training time, it cannot possibly affect the way your model is trained. The test data is not how you prevent overfitting, it's how you measure overfitting. To prevent overfitting, you need to design features such as smoothing into your model.
Your mention of the poor touchpad accuracy really brought the frustration back to me. That may have been the single biggest issue that drove me to stop using mine. It's a shame, the XO had so much potential, but the problems you mention doomed it. Much like the Aptera electric car around the same time (off topic, but that was a similarly bold product that ultimately failed by a death of 1000 bad design decisions despite a lot of good ones).
The GoBike is a joke. You have to pedal insanely hard just to go half the speed of a normal, cheap bike. The components are just awful, and the stations aren't that great either.

As a user of both, the Scooter experience is 50x better. Just not even on the same level. I agree some regulation is needed to prevent massive clutter and keep the sidewalks safe, but I've had zero issues with people while a rider, or with riders while a pedestrian.
I'll check it out. I'll also mention the (prose) web serial Worm, because it has many of the same qualities.
> If others are denying loans for no good reason, that is a business opportunity. It doesn't require benevolence to offer people loans that they are qualified for.

Afaik the black families who were segregated out of their neighborhoods back in the 1940s, 1950s and going into the 1960s were never provided with another comparable "business opportunity" that could have "righted" their situation, they had to settle with living in what turned out to become "ghettos" (for lack of a better word).

> Would you object to a self-driving car that routes itself around more dangerous neighborhoods? What about a model that predicts that unknown men on the street at night are more dangerous than unknown women?

Following the same line of thought, would you be ok with an AI system giving a person named Deion or Jayla or Latisha a higher interest rate on their mortgage (and so, potentially, driving them out of certain markets) compared to the interest rate offered to persons named Chad or Emma or Sophia?
Depends entirely on the scooter. The Lime scooters are awfully, stupidly slow, but the Bird ones are plenty fast for the bike lane.
If they ever develop a cheaper tunneling technology, they could bid on some sections of the Tokyo to Osaka maglev. That's under construction now. For one tunnel, 5 meters a day, 25000 meters to go. Test trains have been running on a 41km track for years. 500km/h is normal cruising speed. They've reached 600km/h in tests.
I think it is intended for the government only, you'll never see it as a citizen.
Not a game of "tag", but I told a stupid joke to a friend on a family vacation and variations of it have been going back and forth between us regularly for 49 years now.

It's actually in poor taste these days, so I won't post it, but we were 14 years old and thought it funny as can be!
Th website had "Freedom of Information" sign at the top....
That's great; this other article I read about this kept mentioning Telegram and how Macron used that during his campaign, so this is much better than I expected :)
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On the other hand if you think you could weasel out of an agreement because the contract isn't defined tightly enough then I wouldn't want to do business with you.
I am fully dependent on my employer’s ability to find repeat business. I have personally suffered when one of the principals of a business that employed me upset one of their main suppliers/licensors and our ability to run the business was withdrawn overnight.

The same holds true for retailers in malls, or property managers. There are many lines of work where you are entirely reliant on things that you can’t reasonably have second sources for.

Blaming people for deriving significant income from YouTube is putting the cart well and truly before the horse.
Not sure about Ghostery and uBlock, but what definitely works is uMatrix. It gives you control over which third-party domain a website is allowed to contact. It makes browsing the web less convenient, though.
http://www.itespresso.fr/saip-application-alerte-attentat-ec...

That actually was the estimated cost; it grew at least at 81,5M€. (there's also a story in the article about one of the components of that seemingly simple app being 37 months late)
> Typing these characters is quite annoying though

This depends on the implementation. In Dyalog APL for example, the special characters (glyphs) are effected using fairly simple two-key sequences. Mnemonics are used to help learning. I found it fairly straightforward, surprisingly so.
The CO2 impact of your car driving is much less than impact from heating-cooling, and probably also from your diet. Cars are efficient machines. Houses are rarely built well, especially in the US, and the production of common US diet ingredients is ridiculously inefficient but heavily subsidized.
price and performance of the necessary hardware
> As a fantasy author, I am constantly looking for ways to provide description that engages all five senses.

As a reader, this does nothing for me. Written fiction does not really stimulate any of my senses. I primarily come for the worldbuilding, setting, the plot and the characters, in that order. It might have something to do with aphantasia.
Usually I prefer scifi for that reason, but occasionally fantasy parodies get quite serious about taking the setting apart and exploring what consequences the tropes have, which is quite fun to read.

The only thing I remember about lembas is that it is damn useful.
> Although I must say, I have noticed that there is a great deal of Silicon Valley hate in many places in Europe.

Really? Haven't noticed that. There is a lot of mistrust of some companies because of privacy (Google, Facebook, Twitter) and market disruption (Amazon). But SF appears popular as a tourist destination and I haven't heard of anyone here in Europe hating SV as such. I think Wall Street still has a far worse reputation than SV.
When tax dollars go into open source, it's just an endless chain of win-win-win-win-...

News like this is just great. :-)
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Reminds me of working in a telecoms manufacturer in 2000 before the .com crash. There were times before end of quarter when unfinished devices were put in trucks and sent for a drive around town, to return after inspections were finished.
I agree. Nevertheless, considering the topic of being pushed/forced to take vacation because of maintenance: Same thing in 'traditional automotive industry' in Germany is my impression.
Because they want a phone line that they can talk to their spouse and children without having to field thousands of calls from well-meaning people who want to wish them a good day?
Can anyone explain what are the major differences between Tox P2P messenger and Matrix/Riots? what are pros and cons?
The model said that

> large reserve of under-employed workers, or people who didn't previously participate in the labor force, is what enables the most exploitative jobs

This still holds.
"We use (...) the address of the website or app you’re using to make these features work."

so basically most of my browser history for whatever things they they want.
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Imagine if your workplace also functioned like that. Punishing you for every second spent on a project that didn't pan out to a working product. It might be fine in a sweatshop, but you won't get any innovation that way.
These constructs map fairly literally into APL.
81.5 for the whole project SAIP (broadcasting warnings on several mediums (phone, ad panels, radio, TV,...), not only the SAIP app.
What do you think is the necessary hardware ?
No issues with my AV (or at all) and I've been running it for a few years now.
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yes, the point of the project is to provide a secure and self hosted (yet interoperable for intra- and inter-government purposes) alternative to Telegram for state comms :)
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You cannot compare "content creation" on Youtube with entrepreneurship. There are different sets of rules.

Youtube does not employ "creators". Creators suffering from anxiety because of endangered income should first get help and then get a real job. Youtube is just another "get rich quick" scheme if done irresponsibly.
This is why I favor Android in these situations. It's far easier and cheaper platform to get a (web) app out there.

I have created a scratch to apk service (requires no permissions either) using javascript and then an apk signer (which can then be side loaded) - Job Done as they say.
My feeling is that low quality is not a problem, people were satisfied with Atari consoles back then...
As per another comment, the project is 100% FOSS (other than the operational bits) and is built on Matrix.org
You forgot Louvois which was used to pay the soldiers' salary. The project costed 500 millions € before being cancelled and a new contract bid was won ... by the company that was unable to write the software in the first place ...
As long as Google is controlling AOSP by all means to lock users in Google services, it can't be trusted to control another fundamental platform.
As someone using it already, it works pretty well actually ;p
I hope its a win for good old capitalist competition and diversification (if it makes it into the public) even though its state sponsored :)
I'm not familiar with the Canadian legal system, but most countries have entrapment laws which forbid prosecution if there was no way for the suspect to know it was illegal and no criminal intent was involved. The "public, free, information, disclosure" words would make this a slam dunk if Canada has some of those laws.