skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the difference between fantasizing about the likelihood of outcomes when you have no skin in the game and being on the other side of a well funded adversary that is threatening a lawsuit. Put yourself in the POV of the one with skin in the game and consider that it may take years and insane expense (time/money/energy) to prevail against even a poorly founded lawsuit.

Being "right", sometimes, is not worth the fight.
When I was in college I supplemented my learning with Notes on Diffyqs, which I thought explained things much clearer and concisely than my assigned textbook. It is available for free and has tools for modeling systems in Octave/Matlab.

https://www.jirka.org/diffyqs/
My dad's friend is an Indian farmer in Valdosta, GA. He has 10k acres of land, has his own private plane and flies Indian groceries to Houston once a week.

He immigrated to the US back in the 60's. I had a chance to meet him and he had an extraordinary character. He had no formalities and greeted us at his farm house without a shirt on. He was old but fit and you can tell what he has gone through in his life to make a living.

He spoke fluent spanish and everyone loved him in Valdosta. We spent 3 days there and went to restaurants in the evening. Everyone greeted him as if he was some kind of a hero in the town. It was really an amazing experience to have met him and his family - just shows how immigrants assimilate in the most remote places in the US, especially in a hostile place such as south Georgia in the 60's.

Edit: This story is from 2002.
Yep, you could argue that finding out after 2 months that an idea won't work is preferable to wasting 2 years on it. 'Course, then I went and repeated the process 8 more times, then decided that if there are no untapped market areas that can be filled by existing technology, it's time to spend 2 years inventing new technology. It remains to be seen whether that's a waste or not.

At some point you also have to apply the same logic to methodologies that you apply to ideas, though. The point of the Lean Startup methodology is to avoid wasting time implementing ideas that won't work so you can find a scalable, sustainable business model quicker. If your goal is to found a startup and all experience is that the Lean Startup methodology, in 2018, does not provide a scalable, sustainable way to do that, then you should ditch the methodology. Chances are you'll have to do your own methodology invention, though, because once a scalable, sustainable way to get rich becomes commonly known, it ceases to be sustainable.

(See also Bitcoin, which was a great way to get rich when nobody considered it a way to get rich, and then became a great way to become poor when everybody was certain it would make them rich.)
If you disable telemetry and then complain firefox is not prioritizing developing firefox for your system, don't be surprised if your complaints fall on deaf ears.
To be fair, there’s reason to worry about sugar consumption above and beyond weight gain. Advanced glycation endproducts come to mind.

Also, if you’re worried about your gut bacteria, know that excessive amounts of sugar are well known to affect you negatively in that area.
Worked in restaurant industry. Latino workers had a pool of money that the all put into and if I remember correctly they rotated who the paid it out to for big purchases like this. I think they mainly used it for like cars and homes.
Isn’t the founder from the Netherlands? I’m fairly sure they also have a small office in Amsterdam, but most of their engineering is done by people working remotely.
The head of Symantec's board is the CEO of PayPal.

PayPal is a diehard Symantec company and will not abandon anything Symantec related until it is absolutely forced to.
you have to put literally every single risk factor you may face or consider facing for investors. it's a CYA for the company.
Try it for yourself! Create an array with a million random bytes from 0 to 255, then count (in a for loop) with an "if" statement how many of them are less than 128. This branch will be essentially impossible to predict, and the branch predictor will fail roughly 50% of the time.

Then try again, but sort the array before you begin (which will make the branch trivial to predict). Time the difference. I think you'll be surprised.
Helps, but language has its own nuances that could be lost.
Taxes aren't really relevant when you are losing millions of dollars a year.
They have a thriving office in Amsterdam. One of my friend works there. Also they are distributed. Their engg team is all over the world.
This has less to do with NN and more with that a business has a ridiculous amount of leverage over you. Once your ISP figured out that you were a streamer they could just up your price to $500/mo because they can.

Or more realistically they could just slip a line in their ToS saying that professional streaming requires a business plan which is $500/mo.

NN wouldn't have solved any of this.
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Putting a tapeworm egg in your mouth would be much more effective than either of your suggestions.

But tapeworms are contagious.
Mastodons were quite different from mammoths, and not closely related. Mammoths were relatively close to Asian elephants, diverging something like 7 million years ago (like us and chimpanzees), but mastodons diverged from elephants and mammoths more like 25 million years ago (like old world monkeys and apes/humans).
> I don't entirely understand why you assume that one node will come to dominate such that it will be equivalent to a centralized system?

One, or a small number, and because this is the history of these types of things.

> The term "federation" is borrowed from political science for a reason. Just like in the USA, multiple federated states who share broad-strokes policies maintain interoperability while also maintaining their own sovreignty.

The USA is actually not a federation, and purposefully stopped being one (it turned in a confederation, removing the right to leave, effectively centralizing it under federal control) when the country was founded.

(Edit: I reversed the terms confederation and federation here, but what I mean is that the founding of the US removed sovereignty from the states.)

This is where the rubber meets the road: any decentralized system will need to be able to answer the question "how do we [the govt, usually] forcibly remove content from the network?" The way you answer that question will be the way the network centralizes.

The history of true confederations (Colonial States, Personal Computing, the Internet) is that they are temporary chaotic moments before we revert back to the mean of centralization (United States, SaaS/FB/Gmail/centralized communication and iphones as tracking devices, PRISM).

This is all an instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law. Our culture is not confederated, and so we wont be able to build scalable confederated systems within it.
Facebook is like daytime TV with 100 channels and nothing interesting to watch. That may be succeeding in financial terms but there is a lot of room for other services where the aim is not to earn as much money as possible and I stead cater to intelligent people instead of the masses.
> As far as I know, Elasticsearch has no headquarters or offices in The Netherlands.

According to their contact page, their European headquarters are in Amsterdam (https://www.elastic.co/contact), so they do seem to have some kind of presence there. And if you look at their careers page, it seems that most of their engineering team is distributed/remote.
Even just checking the Contact Us page would show you they have their European HQ in the Netherlands. They’ve had a long history in the country.
If you can't break down sugar or fat, what are you living on? You must eat a heinous amount of protein each day.
> And, frankly, if you’ve seen one superhero movie you’ve seen them all

I for one am immediately convinced that this author is much more sophisticated, cultured, and frankly better than the swine who sees superhero movies.
Your willpower is at full charge in the morning. Try to wake up early and use that time on your side project. It will require you to sleep a little earlier at night.

Also, keep a well defined list of tasks for your project. This will help you make the most of your time in the morning, you can grab a task and hit the ground running.
Kansas City School Experiment and the power of selective amnesia.
Totally agree! At Qri (https://qri.io) we're working on many of these problems together - hosting, formatting (interoperability), provenance and sync. It's an open source project - we'd love to have your feedback as we design it!
Security First: Implementing Trust by Design
Is there a way to make a mastodon instance for a private community where it requires registration (& approval) like a forum, but still have the federation between instances? (if not, is it possible to unfederate an instance?)
What, you don't want arbitrary javascript payloads executing on that important legal contract with all your personal details on it? Look, I'm sure whatever underpaid secretary found that contract on the internet definitely audited any and all JS on it.
You can change it by finding a workplace that respects you.
I know you HN fags are shadow banning me. Good like trying that "at scale."
I did a lot of work on HNES for performance, and most of it was assigning meaning to HN's markup. I don't know if it's intentionally opaque or what, but this is just the way it is. The javascript and the html are bound together.

It's terse and effective, I suppose, but it was really interesting measuring pixels to judge comment nesting.

The JS itself is fine. It's the markup that's a mess.
Rogue MEGA Chrome Extension Stole Passwords and Crypto Keys
I thought that modern CPUs would send instruction streams down multiple cores, if available, and that the interpreter could and would then, in some sections, get executed in parallel for you. Perhaps I was wrong, and the parallelism happens at too fine a scale for the interpreter to get any advantage from it that would be visible for code like this. I'm probably suffering from the hangover of my experiences from 20 years ago writing schedulers on parallel machines for serial code.
Ideal place for Test cricket ! For those who do not know it is a sport played over 5 days , 7 hours of play each day.
The idea that calculus was some sort of side project for Newton both diminishes the level of focused effort he put into it, and ignores the contributions of Leibniz and the many other mathematicians whose work was known and incorporated by Newton and Leibniz.

If we just open up the idea of "tool" wide enough, everything becomes a tool. Writing a book isn't actually a goal, it's just a tool for acquiring money and fame. Calculating the orbit of planets was just a tool for Newton to establish social credit and historical significance. Agriculture is just a tool for eating, but eating is just a tool for living, but living is just a tool for procreating, but procreating is just a tool for perpetuating genes.

Why are we perpetuating genes? Really, no one knows. Solve that problem, I guess, and finally we'll have the one project enriquto can't easily dismiss as tool development.
>It's not (just) that most Americans feel these jobs aren't worth their time. There is a very strong individualist streak in American culture and a very strong taboo against lending friends or family members money for any reason.

Interesting. Never heard of this before. Why do you think it is so (the taboo)? (I read some replies to your comment below, just want to see if you think something different).
Trying to curate one's feed has strange, unexpected effects. Facebook's behavior is non-deterministic.

I have completely depopulated my feed and repopulated it selectively, and to get the effect I'm seeking, it usually means deleting pages from my list pages that I follow. There's no way to follow a page, but keep it away from your feed. Thus to discard a follow feels like a ban/forget/delete action.

To grasp what that means, you may wish to follow thousands of pages, but only permit two or three really good sources to supply your automatic home page feed. Then, browse your follow list and cherrypick based on mood.

But facebook doesn't work like that. A follow is a follow, and 1,000 follows results in a randomized firehouse that ignores the idea that you might feel like browsing one thing in the morning, and another in the evening.

The result: people hate their own feed, even though they might not hate any of the 1,000 follows.
It is litterally the lenght of a 2000*8 bit backet in a serial link, in ns. The number seems way off unless my math is wrong or 200Gb ethernet counts as commodity today.
I think you mean gross profit? I don't think they've every made a traditional profit.
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What about just cleaning? i.e. wiping down with non-antibacterial soap.

I know viruses are not bacteria, so I'm a bit off topic, but still interested.
You are misreading the financials. 120m is cost of revenue, not profit. They had a 52mm net loss in the last year ending April 30th.
Please point out where I was complaining about firefox not prioritizing development for Linux. Thanks.
What do 2-6 have to do with the actual subject of telecommunications? I’m not even going to bother with the details of 2-6, I’m just curious what point in context you thought you were making.
Innovation vs. Globalization and the Success Trap
R3 Rebuffed in Attempted Bid for Settlement Coin Blockchain Project
The term for the concept is forward secrecy, or often "perfect forward secrecy". It seems like magic to me, too, and I'll probably be reviewing the basics tonight. I couldn't begin to tell you how the trick is accomplished.

Somehow, an attacker can have your whole conversation log (encrypted), including the key exchange, and be unable to retrieve the key used, even if he has the credentials you used at the time the key was generated.

The real crux of the question may be, "How does Diffie-Hellman work?" (Well known key exchange method.)
Timeout::timeout has many very sharp edges you should be aware of before you use in this context.
Yes, I'm happy with this design decision. The only bummer is that it doesn't allow daisy-chaining, as in:

img = img.resize(...).blur(....).hflip()
It's not about level of effort.

Trying to curate one's feed has strange, unexpected effects. Facebook's behavior is non-deterministic.
I have completely depopulated my feed and repopulated it selectively, and to get the effect I'm seeking, it usually means deleting pages from my list pages that I follow. There's no way to follow a page, but keep it away from your feed. Thus to discard a follow feels like a ban/forget/delete action.
To grasp what that means, you may wish to follow thousands of pages, but only permit two or three really good sources to supply your automatic home page feed. Then, browse your follow list and cherrypick based on mood.
But facebook doesn't work like that. A follow is a follow, and 1,000 follows results in a randomized firehouse that ignores the idea that you might feel like browsing one thing in the morning, and another in the evening.
The result: people hate their own feed, even though they might not hate any of the 1,000 follows.
Witchcraft would be if it played after you print the PDF. This is just software. :)

(Though probably it probably is a security hole)
I think more realistically I think you mean, "thanks natural market effect where even among competing entities there's strong pressure to charge very close to customer's willingness to pay since undercutting your competition risks a race to the bottom where all competitors suffer."
Be sad at your politicians. They allow for it. This tax avoidance scheme is known for years now and nobody takes action, so it must be okay for them.

And as a public company, it is your obligation to not spend more money on tax than you are legally obliged to, unless you’re doing charity.
Because my last reply to this got flagged (perhaps because "Wat?" wasn't specific enough):

What does this have to do with anything we're discussing? Did you accidentally post your reply in the wrong tab?
Theranos bleeds dry, company to dissolve: WSJ
Sounds like the banks or hedgefunds may be calling your name, then.
While the linked course notes (I looked at the pdf, definitely good textbook quality and not just course notes, really) are absolutely more thorough in the classical undergrad diff.eq. topics, the Udacity course touches some further topics (stiffness, implicit methods, control theory) that the course notes don't.
Thank you. Knowing the right search terms will help a lot.
Military ration design has different priorities than civilian food. Slightly increased risk of heart disease is irrelevant if you're killed in action because you didn't have the energy to carry your gear. Potentially dangerous preservatives are safer than risking the food decaying where resupply is impossible. Military rations have to focus on short term considerations that aren't relevant to people in safer occupations.
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I agree and I have an idea for one possible solution that I've wanted to implement for years. It could be a business but, I think maybe it would be better for the world if it was open source. I just haven't had the time or support to do it, as it would need full-time effort even to get it started.

It's one of those... I know I should just do it kind of things, even just to get it out there, but I haven't found the inertia.

Seeing things like dat, quiltdata, public data sets, etc. made me think what I wanted to do was unnecessary, but I also agree with your comment.

I think a core problem is data democracy / control / politics of data. Too much we still act silo'ed instead of benefiting from massive data sharing, for a multitude of reasons (especially but not limited to $$$).
>stone-age technology can be a solution

What about the next big meteor strike?
> Because I know a site isn't the only way to connect with those individuals.

Thank you for helping me illustrate the false dichotomy. The great-grandparent didn't seem to be allowing any space between full engagement and full disconnection. In reality, there are levels of connection. At my age I have family and friends scattered all over the world, some of them still moving to new cities every other year. I have friends from a ski club and a family camp who I will not see in person except during those respective seasons. Many others have similar networks. In terms of interactions per year with the entire set, "get new friends" and "leave Facebook" are in the exactly the same category. They're both ways of telling others to socialize less, to fit the speaker's own notions of right ways and wrong ways based on their own unique experience. I think that's presumptuous. Rather, I think we should help each other work with the tools we have to find something that works for our own individual circumstances. It's too bad other people are too doctrinaire to accept that.
Or they will just buy up a bunch of cheap streaming rights to low budget stuff and older movies. They will the Belgian equivalent of "Who's the boss" or something.

Course that doesn't fit the narrative of "Regulation is bad"
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I'm a particular fan of the boundary "dataset" you have that's a low-resolution TIFF file.

(edit to add something more productive: the site is littered to the tune of at least 25% and maybe even a third with junk "data", all obviously added to get the number of records as high as possible, with no regard to whether that data is either useful to anybody, is machine-readable in any way at all, or even -- in the example above -- even qualifies as "data". Data.gov.ie would be moderately interesting if all the shit in it was removed.)
For the record I like the authoring experience of inline styles because of the same reason you brought up :)

It is slightly harder to enforce static CSS and do composition but definitely doable. In fact I would like to build a CSS in JS library that is as powerful and allows static extraction. Waiting for Facebook to open source their solution first (so that I don't reinvent the wheel) https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1036018032336822273
WebPerl – The dream of Perl in the browser coming true?
The end of the article also said to use Keto if it works for you which does not match the article title. I"m sad I fell for uninformed click bate.
I am regularly defending the EU here on HN, but this is a stupid idea.

I wouldn't argue with a much smaller quota, like half a percent or so, but this is not helpful.

I'd be surprised if this didn't originate in France, they have always been concerned about English influence, and I think they already have such a quota for their radio programmes.
Yes. It's very easy to lock down registrations, say to your family or coworkers, and still federate. You can also turn off federation if you want an internal-only instance.
The reason complexity exists is because everyone wants a different simple thing. Then, having attained the simple thing, they want another simple thing.

Complex systems evolve from simple systems. One reason we keep winding up with new complex systems is because of folks saying "it's too complex, let's start over without all these bullshit layers and code simply", where "bullshit layers" and "simply" are variables set by the prevailing environment.
By a factor of 4 or 5 - thats 20% of people affected. Its not a short announcement, plenty of room to mention Vista.
On a related note, how do you take notes for math subjects with their multiline integrals and sumation and subscripts, division etc?

I'm very much attached to recording every thing in simple text editors. Is there a "Notepad" or "TextEdit" for mathematical notation?
It's only one data point, but the CS curriculum at my local state university (with an instantly recognizable name) is far easier than the one I went through (at a no-name school). Coursework in analysis of algorithms is shallow, and not sure undergrads do any proofs at all.
Yes indeed, they specialise within India too. And surely some of the same network benefits may apply there too. Surely Parsi entrepreneurs (a century ago) got better loans... backed in part by the fear of angering a close community?

It's also my hazy impression that the plantation-labor Indian groups haven't done nearly as well on the whole.

Another example is the surprisingly high proportion of overseas Chinese who are from Fujian.
>Anyway, how much effort does it really take to maintain a text field on a bookmark entity?

My thought too! Legacy extension APIs are one thing. An extra DB column / key:value pair is nothing.
This is cool and is a perfect case for IPFS for public datasets. I've not heard of it before, though, and I think naming / branding is something that makes finding these things / building momentum more difficult.

For example, someone else mentioned engima.com. I would have no idea that is related to data sources / sets unless I knew what it was.

Certainly wish you the best of luck though and will keep an eye on Qri! Cool project!
How to spot natural design talent
Unless you have some references, I'd call this a "nice theory" (to be read with a British accent).

Spontaneously:

* South America appeared to be more catholic than any Western European or US-American place I've visited, but family and extended family are still a big thing.

* Calvinists seem to be much more "open" than catholics to me.

* Damn, I want the secret recipe that lets me set a policy and enforce it in vast areas (at times without any reliable messenger system) and across many generations, even if my successor comes from a different faction within the catholic church.
No, he's Israeli, and Elastic started when he lived here. I don't think they have offices in Israel which is atypical.
So are male minorities who aren't Asian or Middle Eastern.