skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ignore the crypto bubble/pump

> It's up 50% over 2 years and 400% over 3. Idiot article.

It's funny because that applies to all crypto articles too.

Fauxbituary

I should buy that domain
I see what you’re getting at, but you are conflating some genuinely pro-social behaviors (loyalty and looking out for friends) with others which are more like human social defaults (preferring people like yourself). Also, if loyalty and ethics puts you at odds with an organization’s mission, #1, welcome to the real world, aka why I work for myself, and #2, probably a sign that that particular organization is dysfunctional. As opposed to all organizations.

I agree with process and translarency. Although again in dysfunctional organizations these are the first to be gamed.
Not everyone is as enlightened about data science as you seem to be. If you actually want GDPR-like reform in the U.S., then part of the discussion involves people pointing out the absurdities and injustice in how data science is currently implemented.

Imagine your line of condescending argument being applied to someone complaining about being wrongly convicted and incarcerated, and who is calling for criminal justice reform. "You're entitled because you believe that your unusual/rare situation should be accounted for and encoded in the overall justice system"

edit: and the author even points out how she has done the manual work to give feedback to the algorithm:

> And when we millions of brokenhearted people helpfully click “I don’t want to see this ad,” and even answer your “Why?” with the cruel-but-true “It’s not relevant to me,” do you know what your algorithm decides, Tech Companies? It decides you’ve given birth, assumes a happy result, and deluges you with ads for the best nursing bras...

You read this, and yet still saw fit to berate the author for being "entitled". And then, one sentence later, go on to proclaim about how the "crux of the issue is: should we have control over the data and interactions we perform"? How does that work exactly?
You are entirely right that the data structure is paramount. But I'm not using Xanalogical documents nor any front or backend designs from Ted. I actually think he didn't do a very good job with those. Instead, Mimix records a user's interactions in MSL, a domain-specific language (not Turing complete on purpose) which describes a forward-write-only experience of reading and text composition.

I'm glad you brought up the UI because it's an area ripe for innovation and one we're seriously excited about. UI is one of my specialties and I'm looking forward to sharing our designs for interacting with canonical documents in a modern and approachable way. HN is my favorite place to post this kind of stuff, so you'll "Hear it here first."
I tried to buy an old Hayes modem from fleaBay recently out of nostalgia.

Nope. The working ones i good condition are going for what they cost when they were new!
Not necessarily. Sometimes 99% of the work of something is the patches you must make for a constantly-leaking abstraction that you introduced by solving the problem on the wrong layer.

For an example I've experienced personally: LinkedIn provides a data API... for a price. There are entire companies, however, that scrape LinkedIn's data instead of paying that price, and then try to work with the scraped data (which has been "baked down" through all sorts of views, localization, projections, etc.) as if it was the API data.

How much more code do you think such a scraper consists of, compared to an API client?

(The LinkedIn case is even worse because LinkedIn has stateful firewalls that actively thwart scraping, and these scrapers have to have code to trick the firewall, as well.)
I think I'm maybe not being clear. I'm saying: body shop or not, the core feature of a staff-aug firm --- the entire reason they exist at all --- is so that the staff-aug firm owns the W2 downtime risk, and the client can retain or release augmented staff at will.

The question from the top of the thread is whether staff-aug firm employees get paid even when Google doesn't need them. And the answer to that question, in general, is yes: they're W2 employees, not 1099s.

I'm sure Matasano did a number of things better than a large body shop firm. But paying for bench time is a norm, not an exception.
I'd recommended doing both. Ultimately, you need resistance to strengthen upper back / rear delts, but you should for sure be taking breaks to 'reset'.
Same - as said already, not a single one of the characters was memorable, except the comically stereotypical ones (rich daddy tree-hugger fanatic).

As far as scientific ideas - they were all a stretch. He is neither Stephenson in accuracy, nor Gibson in the vague, but accurate, predictions.
Its important and its a fact that more and more people are aware of how important privacy is.

There are disadvantages on "Free" email services. Any service that is free will not care about free users. When the user needs assistance, good luck.

If you dont have your own domain yet, it is never too late. Make sure to use email@YOUR-DOMAIN.com. If the domain is yours, you are able to change email server and take your domain with you.

Runbox is a great service. There are other rivals very good as well.
It's almost as if Hacker News doesn't represent a single homogenous group of people that all share the same views.
The article also mentioned another commit: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/prebuilts...

It mentioned that commit was tested on walleye, aka Pixel 2.
Who would be best to track such incidents within the company? IT department or SecOps?
They probably can't do that because of the 3rd party in the OS they don't have the licenses to.
> Fun fact: another Buran sat in an abandoned lot in an Inner Sydney (Australia) suburb for many years.

That wasn't an actual Buran, it was a test vehicle used to test the handling of the aircraft for gliding and landing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI
Why is a major who
hired her cousin as
city manager (...)
still in office?

Decline in quality local newspapers with original reporting?
I liked “Remains of the Day” - the subtlety in the tone seems to be intentional given the theme, and tempts the reader to miss the point that lies between the lines - the same theme as the book itself is wrapped around and the main character doesn’t see. I think it is well done.
These days, as we have multiple departments and services, it’s hard to track down any issues we identify without knowing what kind of changes have happened to potentially cause it. As we don’t have a single development platform (multiple acquisitionss) this is hard for us at least until we have unified systems (will take time). I’m referring to any infrastructure or operational change to the stack. For example, deployments/roll outs, scaling servers up or down, port changes, updates to software on key servers, changes to database table structure, manual changes to database data. Any changes at all to the production stack.
Hey, thanks for reading. Yes we should have been more clear that generalizing our data implies that "61% of startups use Copper", but as we don't have universal coverage across every company (yet) we'll have some missing information.

As for Intercom, that's interesting we use it mostly for support chat.
The American Economy – A Hydra-Headed Superpower
> Inspector Maigret

Maigret books are really great time-fillers: there's a large number of them, they are short and self-contained, and I've yet to read a bad one.
" but there is a lot of story complexity for why they created this computer that the article doesn't touch on."

Didn't read the article, but I didn't see any justification whatsoever for it in the book.
Amy's Baking Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvc_BfG45VU
> So, the DuckDuckBot that you cited doesn't contribute to DDG's organic results?

Correct.

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

Traditional links = organic results.
those lads are crazy
Yeah I agree. I don't see how withholding information here leads to a fairer outcome.
Germany. Thats my plan if I need to leave the US. I will never work in Australia again after this or under this regime. I encourage Australian technologists to escape while they can.
Nelson suggested that everything you quoted would be linked back to where you got it and also linked back to you, from there. The first part of this idea is fantastic. The second part, ludicrous.

In Mimix, your writing is linked to your reference materials and these are available for your readers to see, too. But your writing is only linked back from those materials when you are viewing them -- not for anyone else in the world.

Ted's suggested system would have the Declaration of Independence linked to every schoolchild's paper that wrote about it. In Mimix, you would see the relationships only between your writing and the documents you referenced -- not anyone else's.
> The reason for Notepad's rudimentary features over the years is because the application was, by design, little more than a very thin wrapper around a Windows multiline text-editing control.

Supposedly it is also a guinea pig for new features. See: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180521-00/?p=...
I came here for this. Not disappointed.
Oliver and Richard Cromwell are collateral descendants of Thomas Cromwell [0]. I'm unsure if it's true but apparently there also a belief that, notwithstanding Oliver Cromwell's actions in Ireland, the Cromwell family has partly Irish origins.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell_family
I have written three scholarly history books [0] where custom Python code was used to generate TeX files (not LaTeX) that were then typeset into PDF.

Python's main purpose was to enable thousands of cross-references across the books, and to transform a large, every-changing text database into a pleasing output, where different parts of the database had different output formats.

Perhaps a TeX wizard could have done it all in pure TeX, but I never could have. Besides, who wants to learn all the intricacies of TeX/LaTeX when the task in Python is so straightforward? To this day, I can't imagine a different approach.

Joining the Python and TeX pieces together into simple scripts was trivial. The Python code evolved as I got into the books, so I would recommend a rapid-iteration model of code development, rather than building a perfect edifice before starting.

[0] http://www.physical-lincoln.com
My IT department maintains an old WinXP box and a single POTS line so that I can dial in to a very large machine (about 30 feet tall, ten feet wide) once a month.

The company that makes the machine is willing to upgrade to a fully wireless solution, but it would require a dedicated microwave link. That's actually cheaper than paying for the phone line, but "microwave link" is scary, and management won't approve it.
I loved Weinberg's history book. I'll read literally anything by Weinberg, i'm a fanboy, i admit it! It was very different than the usual academic history, but not ignorant like they usually are. And i love that he actually works the problems himself.

My only complaints are that I think he is unfair to the ancients (for example I don't think he mentioned that they developed a universal gravitational theory, which was a direct inspiration for newton), and i wish he spend more time on optics, especially Kepler's optics which was apparently the great conceptual revolution in the field, but I know next to nothing about it!
> Or if the answer is technological: How come we accept the tyranny of advertisers on our most personal devices?

On the side of the user: because we don't like paying for services with money.

On the side of the company: hockey stick growth gets big pay outs, growth can happen much quicker if you give a service away and pay with advertiser.
I bought a lot of nvidia at $30 for three reasons — machine learning, VR, and cryptocurrency. I sold most of it around $180-$200, but I’m still holding some shares.
I've been moving off Ubuntu in production since it adopted systemd, and a local FreeBSD VM is essential for developing & testing the provisioning and deploy scripts.
.. and ~10-20% of the px difference is general wall street sell-off of late..

see also: QQQ, XLK, etc.
Show HN: Lazylog – logging for lazy devs
I think you're taking Joshua's quote out of context: The WOPR learns about futility in game theory, not anonymity through exclusion.
You'd likely be able to recognize DuckDuckGo users by their black eyes.
What should we be testing in a CRUD application?
"One Friday" has never been the start of a good work story ;)
I'm not sure I understand your comment, are those supposed to be criticisms of Microsoft?
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967

The DDG crawler is not used for organic results, only for stuff like the widgets. All organic results are from Bing and Yahoo (and possibly Yandex).
When I click this link I am "turned against myself" by what seems like an automatic history.back(). Is this a metaphor? (edit: A half hour later and it is still doing this for me despite other people seemingly commenting on the content of an article. I am using iOS 10.)
> It's up 50% over 2 years and 400% over 3

So they've had an upwards trend in the past. That's no guarantee for future performance.

> Ignore the crypto bubble/pump and NVDA is growing quickly

Quoting the article: That bust is obvious in Nvidia’s revenues this year: they are essentially flat for three quarters now, hovering between $3.1 and $3.2 billion.
AI Index 2018 Annual Report [pdf]
The key problem is this insidious idea that money brought in by the IRS is "profit", or even just "revenue". That's only the case if you're looking at the IRS in isolation. The government, and by extension the IRS, is supposedly working for society. Money moving from the private sector to the public sector is not "revenue" from society's point of view; it's more like shifting money between two different bank accounts within the same organization. Money which the IRS doesn't collect is still part of society, and still doing good—just not under the auspices of the government. So the question is, for every dollar spent on the IRS, how much money is shifted from the private sector to the public sector; but more importantly, per dollar spent on the IRS, how much benefit is there to having the government spend that money instead of the private party that earned it? (Some would suggest that this "benefit" is negative even if the IRS could achieve perfect enforcement of the tax code for free...)
They got swept up in the crypto bubble, are at $150 now after a high of $300-ish, but were $20-30 in 2015 before all that. So with the "crypto depression" this is to be expected.

But the question I find more interesting is what this does to a company. Is it even plausible for them to go back to just running the company as though it were worth $20-30 and pretend it never happened?

Or are they going to have investors who bought in at 2-3x that price at best screaming for them to inflate their stock by whatever means necessary?
I felt immense pity for the mother in this scenario, and after reading the article I agreed that FB aught to have some sort of way to indicate that such advertisements are offensive and should not be shown to the user. Ideally, I'd like to see a paid tier that gets rid of advertising altogether.

Then I read some of the comments here and on other sites. To put it bluntly, I don't understand the tone of entitlement people have when they demand FB/Twitter/etc fix their individual problems. I mean, I obviously understand it - such services are very popular and play a big part of peoples' social circles and lives. What I don't understand is why they think they have a right to demand that a platform they aren't even paying for should cater to them.

If everyone who disagreed with Facebook's revenue model were to leave Facebook, another platform would inevitably pop up that would cater to that new market niche. This seems to be the most fair solution to all parties, but instead it seems like people demand that someone compel FB to change based on their wants. I disagree with this not onlt because it's immoral and unfair, but also because it just means that those future FB competitors will have all sorts of obscure and unique regulatory hoops to jump through.

Am I the only one who thinks this way?
Yeah, all of those cryptocoins can fall back on their primary business of, um, rendering 3D games?
I don't understand how people can be tricked by the branding of the 'sharing economy.'

The average seven year old is capable of understanding the difference between actual sharing (A friend giving you a lift), and 'sharing' (An unmarked taxi.) They could also probably grasp the difference between CouchSurfing[1], and AirBnB.

[1] Couchsurfing was the actual sharing economy, but as it turns out, you can't make billions of dollars from people letting out their couches to strangers, for the cost of company, and a home-cooked meal.
1) Her situation isn't rare/unusual. Miscarriages happen all the time.

2) >She's making assumptions that all of these studies from data science and usage of recommendation/personalization systems are for her benefit. They're not, she's not paying the bills on that. That's for someone to sell her something.

Advertising (at its best) is for the consumer's benefit. A consumer needs to make informed decisions about their purchases, and they need information disseminated to them to make those decisions. That information being released is advertising.

As a human being, she is entitled to make the case that those who create and control the information dissemination systems don't cause literal terror.
The security group should respond and manage the incident while working with their IT counterparts to fix the systems that were exposed.
Can confirm. I actually went and specifically informed a couple of ad-targeting networks that I'm a woman, in the cases where they allow that, around when I was updating many other people and institutions. That helped on some fronts.

So now some of the ad targeting networks have me targeted as "woman who's a successful professional and knows what she's doing in life", which, uh, is correct up until that last part.

The robots are just not expecting a woman in her thirties to still be baffled and overwhelmed by fashion and looking for the basics. I get my most useful recommendations by word of mouth, and yay, that sounds very nice and authentic, but it's a slow process.

So this is a different problem than the original article: we could be targeted _better_ and both we and the advertisers would be happy, for at least a moment.

But. We're trusting the advertisers to use that information responsibly. What if the kind of people who make those anti-trans reply videos on YouTube start taking out deliberately divisive ads, targeted at the trans community? On balance, I think it might be better for the ad networks to not quite understand.
It just simplifies an entire field of software engineering (devops) into a simple "one-click" setup.

Before, you had to open an account, provision a server, figure out your machine image, install dependencies, figure out error/process handling, deploy...

...figure out optimization, payment, RAM usage, longevity, how many instances do I need? What are peak hours, and should it autoscale?

No you just run a single command line and it's up in the cloud, figuring all that out for you automatically.
It's interesting to me how "value" seems to work - nothing has been physically destroyed, the products still exist and in fact they are still being made; the already purchased capital (fixed and variable) is still there - so what's been lost? Is it a purely speculative quantity? If so, shouldn't we ask why we are attaching so much significance to something which has very little bearing on what we, as humans, do: production?
Finally the famous Notepad IDE is catching up! ;-)
U.S. FCC considers ending merger ban among broadcast networks
well..

Yhe ML quote is from dell and looks to be 'appropriately' dell priced at ~50% markup vs mass retail..

but yes $8-10k is still alot.

That said, if you need this stuff and your super fast $5k workstation is basically an otherwise 'worthless' I/O pump to the GPU, it's still worth the price tag.
What she is asking will probably be even more creepy.

Currently these platforms are basically associating words to your user, which advertisers then select from a pull down.

Past some specialized categories created out of advertiser demand - such as political leaning, location, age and gender - there isn't much reasoning behind it.

First her user id got the pregnancy keywords associated, now she also has sad / still born words associated. The system isn't smart enough to reason that the two tags should be mutually exclusive in a culturally sensitive way, just like it doesn't with millions of other pairs around the world within 100s of other cultures & languages around the world.

But if it was, then how much worse could it get in other ways?
AI Art Gallery
Runbox users are able to purchase domains directly from inside the runbox webmail.

Login > Account > Domain Registration
But surely if it's possible to make £500 million in one day, that's quite a big incentive to artificially 'twang' the markets because hedge funds profit from instability no? If you throw a rock in a pond there are lots of short term fluctuations.

I mean, how expensive was all that Cambridge Analytica stuff in comparison to how much money could be made from this?
Their own crawler is only used for widgets and stuff. All the organic results are from Bing and Yahoo.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967
It's pretty obvious they don't want to affect the outcome of the election... Exit polling isn't super accurate to begin with, it's better for everyone if the data isn't announced until after the polls close.
Curious if somebody compressed all existing font designs into a small latent space, using vector representation. It seems to me that fonts are quite similar (or can be clustered that way) with a few hard choices on shapes of characters like "a", "G", and weight, slant.
(IANAMD, and not promoting any method/supplement, just sharing my personal experience and thoughts/speculations) Started with salt flushes (osmotic laxative action to weaken/break/wash away the biofilms as antibiotic studies, in particular for SIBO, frequently hypothesize that bacteria organizing into biofilm is a reason for the antibiotic inefficiency) almost daily at the beginning tapered down to once per 2-3 weeks currently plus the oregano oil, artemisia extract, berberine, garlic (fresh when i can and tablets when i cant) and HCL supplementation (each of this alone i tried over the years and they all had shown noticeable improvements, while taken together they produced much stronger effect for me - not surprising given our current knowledge of multi-species bacteria colonies like the one in SIBO)
> Year of Our Lord 2018

> Using C++

> Wanting language features