skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. I personally didn't get on the bitcoin wagon 'cause I had (well, I guess still have) frozen e-gold. Not that I speculated in it, but I accepted some as payment for services back in the day and never got around to cashing it out for money. I am really surprised that people seem to think that the less-centralized nature of bitcoin makes it that much more resistant to government interference; But what do I know? I think bitcoin has lasted a lot longer than e-gold, and has gained a lot more legitimacy.

I do find it really curious that so many in the bitcoin community either haven't heard of e-gold or don't see the parallels.

I mean, I am also a huge Stephenson fan, and had read "Cryptonomicon" and the idea sounded really cool, but I never really had anything I wanted to buy with e-gold, so other than allowing me to have customers who couldn't get credit, it was not particularly useful.

(By the way, is there a "Cryptonomicon" of bitcoin? I mean, I guess the idea of nazi gold is way more compelling than some math? but still... "Cryptonomicon" seems to be like exactly the template)

But... my loss in the e-gold shutdown (and my relating of e-gold to bitcoin) meant that I was pretty late to start accepting bitcoin, and that when I did, I used bitpay; Which has worked fine, I suppose, but I had people trying to buy with bitcoin fairly early on, and if I had accepted that and sat on it, I'd probably, well, I wouldn't be hugely rich or anything, but it would have been a nice payday. But I suppose that's the standard regret one has for not timing the market when something goes up in value sharply.

I'm personally still a long-term bear on bitcoin... but I kinda have a reputation for being a bear on a lot of things that have, uh, apparently inflated values, so who knows.
The sequence was: Yahoo Directory -> Yahoo showing Google results -> Yahoo builds their own search engine -> Yahoo uses bing
Diablo 3 is a good game with alot to recommend it. It wasn't ideal at launch, but they've worked out the kinks and it's still fun to pick up and play.

I think the problem is that Diablo at launch was a test bed for some of their other properties so it ended up with some bad ideas. The RMAH (for example) was a bad idea, but it helped to point them to the right direction in their F2P and other monitizing approaches. The way they handle auto-generated maps and monsters is used quite a bit in the changes they've made to WoW as well as some of their talent choices.

I think for alot of hard core RPG fans, Elder Scrolls and other similar titles do a better job of hitting the sweet spot as they support alot more long term character growth and have a bigger world. But Diablo 3 is still great for people who want to just beat up some pixels and enjoy a little gothic storytelling.
Not at all. There might be 3 people on the floor, in a huge Super Target which is between 135k and 175k square feet. That is between 12 500 and 16 000 square meters.
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The fact that D3 outsold D1 and D2 combined suggests that while it might have been disappointing to some subset of players, clearly they managed to find a much bigger audience that enjoyed the game nonetheless.
I may be naive but every time I hear about these efforts I wonder if the microbes might start degrading plastic things we don't want recycled just yet.
Here's how I would explain the Monty Hall problem:

First, get the person to realize that switching doors will always flip your initial outcome. If you picked a losing door, switching gives you the winning one. If you picked the winning door, switching gives you a losing one. There is no winning-to-winning or losing-to-losing. If you switch, you will always get the opposite of whatever you originally picked.

Once this idea has been understood, ask them to consider the probability that your original choice was a losing door. Once they agree that it's 2/3 (2 losing doors out of 3 possible choices), you can reply "that's right, and if there's a 2/3 chance that your current choice is a losing door, then there's a 2/3 chance that you're in a situation where switching will give you the winning door. Therefore, the chance that switching will give you the winning door is 2/3!"
Even just doing it consciously, out of solidarity, and encouraging others, is a moral act that has inherent value for the individual doing it. If that's "not much" to you, then do more, but I don't see how it could be anything but hollow without that first step.
Maybe an AMA for another time :)

But the short summary: I loved it. It was a really fun company with a lot of great people. And we got to launch some really great products. Most of whom were let go during the great recession (myself included) but it was fun while it lasted.

On the flip side, every time we launched a product the news media treated it as a novelty instead of a serious thing. Which was insanely frustrating. Some of our tech was way ahead of its time.
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I really, really love Red Baron frozen pizza. I dunno, I think it's the crust maybe? It's crisp but not cracker-like, a bit buttery, almost pastry-ish.

(Geez, I sound like a shill. After 5 years and 8000+ HN karma, Red Baron's sockpuppet account finally pays off!)
The term "SEO" is now used to encompass a much broader area of online marketing than it did in the past (tricking Googlebot and not fucking up Googlebot).

You'll certainly run into lots of liars and conmen who use it to refer to outdated voodoo that worked ten years ago.

But in most ecosystems it refers to planning and developing websites and web content for the purpose of satisfying the needs of people performing searches. And now the advice is "don't ever trick googlebot or googlebot will end you."

As far as general human value goes, one aspect can be boiled down to "we found that 10,000 people look for such-and-such each month, but Google serves them all dogshit, and most of them go away knowing nothing. We will build a page that solves 5,000 peoples' problems a month, and it will be on your company website."

A big chunk of the content on the web is there because of this process - and not just the spammy garbage. Without it, you see marketing teams throwing years of effort into the black abyss of outer space.
> but it leads to all kinds of practical problems, figuring out which is probably best left as an exercise for the reader.

Any examples? I honestly don't see any problems here.
Filestore seems NFS-based and can't access Google Drive, just its own GCP volumes.
Anecdotal: from talking with my friends who still work in game dev, something management calls "agile" is relatively common. Lean developer staffing makes having much agility in practice kind of tough.
Fruit & veggies are a disaster unless you like shrinkwrapped everything or you know all the codes.

Any peculiarities on how you handle the goods - e.g. repositioning something that fell over in the "checkout area"- results in an escalation.

The implementations out there are untrusting and non-optimized and take significantly longer than a real clerk.

I've used a lot of these and it's always the same.
blekko provided 2,000 niches and it wasn't enough to keep us alive. Also, you need a web-wide crawl to build a good niche engine.
Unlikely. Plastics are composed of large bio-compatible molecules. The main danger of plastics by themselves is displacement--bits of plastic getting lodged in tissue or cells and sticking around because of that bio-compatibility. That's a real concern, but hardly on the same level as arsenic which chemically disrupts the function of our cells.

There are secondary effects of plastics which accumulate and later release other toxins, but it's a bit disingenuous to blame that on the plastic.
I just tried hotbot and it seems to be better for programming-related questions than duckduckgo.

I wonder if they use mostly Google for the backend.
We have a solid body of evidence now. Cell phone radios do not disrupt biological systems.
You could, but it won't help anyone find it. There used to be an option to filter searches by license.
Google, Amazon, Facebook and eBay all use OV certs, but you're probably right in that they don't see value in EV.
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> I am really surprised that people seem to think that the less-centralized nature of bitcoin makes it that much more resistant to government interference

Why? Decentralized systems are sort of the standard way of defeating centralized governments. See: Tor, Guerilla warfare, Lone wolf terrorism, etc..
Then they are not skirting the rules but breaking them.
I agree with this perspective, and have been researching it more lately.
IMHO, it's less about privacy being impossible, and more about privacy being difficult and expensive.
That's exactly the point I am making.

It has nothing to do with Silicon Valley. The geography is meaningless. The only thing that matters is staying ahead of the curve. It's always going to be hard for GM to do that, because it's focus is always going to be on incremental improvements of the same way of doing things. The "years of design and manufacturing experience" you mention.

Look at their $1B acquisition in Cruise Automation. Like you said, GM is not a power company, its' a car company. Its' business is cars. GM should have developed self-driving tech internally, and not had to buy it. Cars is GM's job. But GM missed that boat entirely, because everyone in GM is focused on incremental improvements on manufacturing.

Even your comment mentions that "most people don't care about EV right now." EV is not a big focus for GM. Sure it has the Chevy Bolt, but that only began development 10 years after Tesla started. GM does not care about EVs right now. It's focus is still on manufacturing traditional cars, and will continue to be this way until someone else forces them to change.
gutting of public sector unions

Stopped reading there. Mandatory funding of the Dem party is not gutting of unions.
If Tesla can make it work without lidar, and that’s a huge “if”, they have a massive head start in training data. From a conference panel a few years ago that had Tesla, Waymo and some others on stage at the same time, Tesla was getting as much data in a week as Google was in months. That type of training data asymmetry is ripe for blowing past others. Again though that’s all conditioned on not needing lidar and I remain far from convinced their approach works for a true self-driving system.
It's technically infeasible to locate someone via CCTV unless you have an accurate location already, for precisely this reason - there's a massive surfeit of data to search through, and current facial-recognition software is incapable of the task.
Long time pizza enthusiast here. I've just gotten into the pursuit of making Neapolitan pizza after buying a pizza oven. I'm still coming up short and would love some tips.

I've documented more on my blog but I'm still getting wrinkles, uneven leopard patterning, and stiff edges on the crust.

[0] - http://dopeboy.github.io/roccbox-pizza/
It's not Bitcoin that pushed SWIFT to this, it's Ripple.

https://ripple.com/

Ripple's explicit goal has always been replacing SWIFT, and they started to get some real traction. I think it's pretty clear that they were motivated by cryptocurrency, they'd been stagnant for decades despite the fact that it would have been trivial for them to do what they're doing now.
They even use one in an episode of the wire (circa 2003).
You could of course write one. Presumably you're talking about using deep learning to decide the order in which to compare elements, but this would be difficult to ensure both always terminated and always gave correct results, to say nothing of likely being very inefficient.

The difficulties in sorting algorithms aren't difficulties in recognizing patterns, so it's difficult to see what deep learning brings to the table.

That being said, knock yourself out; surprise me!
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> It won’t be there by the time the dough is fired.

In my dough it most certainly is, and it makes a big difference.

Olive oil does not caramelise.
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It proofs nothing but a huge consumer credit regarding quality that blizzard had and that credit card is in the red now.

They gave up what made them blizzard (quality first) and became just another greedy little pachinko machine manufacture. Management can destroy a brand too- and done nothing wrong from a financial perspective.
Now I'm not sure if the thing contains a bunch of question marks (in two different fonts, no less) or if somewhere (the original poster, the blog, your OS, hacker news, my browser, my OS) the character encoding got dorked up.

For reference, here's what I see: https://imgur.com/a/VdcaQ0r

The fact that there are unicode "Fullwidth Question Mark"s as well as what appear to be normal question marks make me thing there still is an encoding issue.
People search has been around for a long time, aren't there a bunch of current competitors in the "business contacts" space?
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How can he call himself a hacker when he doesn't know how to hide his ip?
I think it’s less of an issue. The way analytics often work enterprise, is that you pay someone a lot of money to build cubes on your data that does a big chunk of the actual data science, before it’s handed off to economists who can’t code.

Then they’ll build their BI models in some high level drag and draw system, and pay extra whenever they realize they didn’t get everything they needed in a cube.

The only place I’ve seen actual data scientists is at the university or at the 100% software companies that sell both the solution and the data cube. I’ve never met a real world analytic who could actually code. :p

You’d want to keep a separate dB for your analytics either way though, as they typically eat up quite a lot of load and you don’t want that to interfere with your production environment when you don’t have to.
ggm is referring to something more like every router using NAT and having enough room in the packet so they can store something there instead of main memory.
Your router requires it, but nobody else on the Internet needs it.
For a long time thorium oxide (99 percent ThO₂ and 1% cerium(IV) oxide) was used to make some mantles in portable camping lanterns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_mantle#Safety_concerns

I remember as a kid wondering how that mantle - which looked like cloth - could glow without disintegrating. Worse yet - break one of those mantles, then breathe in a particle ...

EDIT: Looks like Coleman switched to Yttrium...
Thanks, issue added, https://github.com/ashishb/dotfiles/issues/4
You could probably become effectively impossible to track by getting a Librem laptop (no Intel ME [1], hardware kill-switches), running some variant of Linux, using Tor or a secure VPN, and disabling Javascript (there's probably other ways to reduce fingerprinting, I'm no expert).

While it wouldn't erase every hint of your presence, it takes a correlation of data to track someone; disparate trackable info is insufficient.

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
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That isn't what comparative advantage is - it is a recognition fo opportunity costs. If you have one country that can grow wheat and cotton better than their northern neighbor who can just grow wheat with lesser yield per acre it would make sense to get as much cotton as they need in the south and trade with the north for wheat because suitable acres not spent growing cotton are a loss in comparison.

I know my teaching of the industrial revolution emphasized that things were dirty, nasty, and brutal. There was exploitation of the desperate masses but it was still sadly a better alternative than being killed in a pogrom or starving to death in a famine and eventually after many lives were lost reform arose to shift the balance.

While the sort of scamming and defacto debt slavery are unacceptable - they were also unfortunately precedented, especially when desperate people are involved and it become less worth asking 'is it a scam' first.

Industrialization is a morally messy process on many levels with no comfortable answers let alone easy ones. Take something like child labor for instance - clearly it is better off to have kids learning and preparing for the coming next stage of the economy instead of toiling or risking injury. However banning it and enforcing it too early perversely leads to increased child prostitution (no pun intended for such a somber subject matter) as they still need money to survive.
Can you explain to me how to solve the decentralization problem then? It seems that with the current generation of blockchain, the problem is that eventually it will become no longer feasible to store the entire ledger on one device, and therefore some level of centralization will be required in order to keep the system functional. Throw in the enormous amount of (ever increasing) energy required for proof-of-work systems like bitcoin, and it seems unlikely that true decentralization is possible with current technology.
> I don't understand how people believe this is a good thing (not implying you do specifically).

It's probably the same people who think that the Gold Standard was a fantastic thing and abandoning it was the worst thing ever.
Another half (read: limited-scope) search engine that springs to mind is Shodan.
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>Many do, for that exact reason.

Sure, and many don't.

>If you ever pitch your startup idea to a VC, you're expected to explain how you're going to deal with this risk.

And that is exactly my point. Tesla certainly has strategies to respond if GM/Toyota enter their markets. You and TAForObvReasons are responding as if those companies will easily beat Tesla as soon as they make that decision.
And to existing homeowners, who also conveniently get to drive housing policy in their neighborhoods.
Who appointed this woman as our spokesman? I missed that meeting.
Bing would be unable to associate series of queries with users.

As long as DDG are doing it properly (and I believe they are), Bing would only learn that the contents of each individual query are associated together, they would learn nothing about which other queries were performed by the same user.
From the article that that text links to:

> Unions say that reasoning is flawed. Nonmembers are already entitled to refunds of payments spent on political activities, like advertising to support a political candidate.

> Collective bargaining is different, the unions say, and workers should not be free to reap the benefits of such bargaining without paying their fair share of the costs.
I agree. Using an immediate channel like slack is like using gasoline to extinguish flames: the requester has an immediate response no matter how complex is the question.

Also your support process lacks of accountability and this is a huge risk: sooner or later you will need to allocate resources to support and you need both an estimate and a trend.

If you want to keep using slack, use it to record ans triage problems first. Then, use any channel you have to follow up and close.
Right the argument isn't sound. It basically boils down to if big company x hasn't done it already, it's because it's not worth doing it. We know this isn't true because small players make improvements in their fields all the time. Big players aren't perfect, don't have unlimited resources, are prescient, and most of all, are ruled by people.
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Self checkouts aren't automation, it's just making the customer do something (worse) that the store employees used to take care of. Otherwise gas stations have been automated for decades.
You can abuse Bayesian methods just as easily you can hack a p-value. Maybe more easily, since fewer people would be aware of the issues.

What's needed is a shift in researcher attitudes and incentives, to emphasize development of reliable knowledge instead of publication record. Just changing the rules of the game slightly will only lead to people adjusting their game slightly.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...
I'd love a search engine that doesn't search content, but instead (edit: primarily) searches for characteristics. For example

- origination date of the website

- number of theme changes

- whether ads are present

- estimated data usage / load time

- general website size

- type of website - personal, company, etc.

- last update time

- presence of javascript

- browser compatibility (well, feature usage detection & browser compatibility inference from that).

Mostly this is just me missing the websites of the early 2000's, and trying to figure out a way to rediscover them.

And I'd probably want content on top of this. (Edit: e.g. search by topics)

Lastly, it'd be nice to restrict things to sub-genres, but I'm not sure. E.g. when I'm doing a search I'd love to reference things related to micro-controllers, and so maybe I'd put in Arduino to get into the realm. Sort of what like google does for you without telling you. (tailoring your searches by some magic context).

A man can dream...

Edit 2: Search engines these days seem to be answer engines, I want a research engine.
This is the conventional wisdom. On the plus side, it means that those of us who want to build innovative search engines don't have much competition!
I don't think any of your concerns are necessarily (important qualifier) driven by use of OI data on the employer side, and the use of the typical salary estimate services on the employee side. Of course there are going to be bad actors and toxic workplaces where the data is being used to lowball. I don't deny that it happens. I don't think those that do are going to be able to survive long, because once the word is on the street that a company is doing that it's gonna be very tough for them to hire talent competitively.

FWIW, when I mentioned "bad look", I meant it in the extended sense that you're talking about here, so I agree that employers should never do that, and even that it's a warning sign. I think it definitely impacts the culture of a startup in a negative way and it's a horrible way to treat people.
There was no way no create a pdf file with a Mac back in 1993. It didn't take off until Acrobat 3 a few years later, and then you couldn't make decent pdfs unless you bought Acrobat 4 and use Distiller. You'd typically share your doc (or whatever) files, and if you wanted portability you'd use PostScript. Which still is a better format if you have to make changes at the very last stage before printing.

Ordinary users just couldn't make pdfs without paying for additional publishing software until some ten years ago.

The lesson is that some formats become de facto standards, then people forget how that happened (and that it could happen again), and ignore better technical solutions for specific jobs.
That is incorrect. Many, many routers in fact do not have a setting to route your traffic through a VPN. My Linksys for instance does not. Famously, people flash DD-WRT or Tomato on their routers to enable that.
Meeting the goal isn't necessarily irrelevant, but without further data, it is irrelevant.

Tell me, do you consider "I can quality check 5000 cars in a week" equivalent to "I can produce 5000 cars in a week"?

Yes or no?