skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with them, and if I had to boil it down to one sentence: Zero mental overhead for representing the idea.

I think visually for anything logic-based - shapes, lines, venn diagrams, etc - so using such abstract no-meaning variables gives me nothing to put into that mental image. So unless the logic concept is familiar enough, I have to invent something for the variable before I can place it in the construct, in order learn the construct.

Once the logic construct is familiar to me, I have no issues with the abstract variables at that point.
Non sequitur, and rude.
Agreed.

As far as I'm concerned, almost everything on HBO is worth watching.

But almost nothing on Netflix is worth watching anymore. The quality bar has lowered so much over the years.
So which of these "new" business models exist outside of the eyeball and wallet economies? Tipping models exist in the US and are just as transactional as any other payments.

There are some decent points in this article but I think it really does itself a disservice by trying overhype how new and different these models are when they're really minor variations on the same basic principles. When you generalize US business models to "people use their wallets to pay for your stuff" it's going to be pretty difficult to argue that these other things fall into a new category.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - popularly attributed to Orwell

(As you may already know), Swartz was heavily influenced by Chomsky, and Aaron definitely had that pessimistic view of the "news machine." But imo, it seems justified in hindsight considering the backlash that he personally experienced after (arguably, single-handedly) stopping SOPA in it's tracks. His legal persecution was practically guaranteed after that; he was going to be found guilty of something, eventually. Unfortunately, the Secret Service got him by the legal balls for using MIT's facilities to bulk download JSTOR docs.
The retailer is in jail and all their assets seized and redistributed already.
So it probably is a paid worse version of Have I Been Pwned...
A Better Interview
Mike Brady has done a great job with this. The project also has a very detailed readme, far beyond what most provide. Thanks Mike for all your efforts.

I'm not sure this how-to article adds that much but I guess it's nice and simple looking.
Where I work there spending a lot of effort in nlp tools to summarise documents of all sorts.

I like this idea.
Upon entering Mr Watson’s office the young man looked down and said, “Well I suppose you want my resignation.”

“You can’t be serious!” Mr Watson exclaimed, “We just spent 10 million dollars educating you! You’re not going anywhere!”

- Andy Stanley, “Next Generation Leader"
That's pretty much the modus operandi of every telco around the World.

The working conditions in call-centers or guys doing installation & maintenance tend to be absolutely horrendous across the board.
That group cooking is super cool.

I am going to arrange a family event where that happens.
Got 'em.

He sold enough of that "imitation hip hop" to never have to work another day in his life . Wish I had that luxury.
The technical need for assisted GPS notwithstanding..:

> - Android by default has the default on option to scan wifi and Bluetooth when you turn them off to find wifi/bluetooth and coorelate it to your location.

What the actual fuck?!
You mean it won't work with Apple owned device because Apple does not permit you to do so?
Custom display case for Lego Minifigures
Not really a threat. this article is mostly about Looker, which is a very different product with a significantly higher entry level price tag. Tableau on the other hand is part of the curriculum in many information science programs in colleges, and is significantly embedded in the enterprise sector. it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part or a black swan type of event to dislodge them any time soon.
Links to cross-origin destinations are unsafe
> In context, no.

Well, that marks you as a dishonest actor. Have a nice day!
Meta-question: why the trailing %20 on the Zinn URL?
Sargon has promoted ideas of "race realism" as well. I'd say that's a far right position.
At this point, the prevailing mood is so negative that some positive stories going against the grain seem useful, to help shade black-and-white thinking with a bit of grey. Occasionally the actions of tech companies do have positive effects.
They should send these out every decade or so. Especially if they could get to where they can relay data from probes further out. Technology advances so quickly, after all.
> I have no opinion on this author, but can we please stop pushing everything like it is the second coming of christ just because women like it?

Look, I think you're seeing things that aren't there. Your first comment probably got downvoted because it's wrong - you claimed it's "only marketing", but apparently there are good reasons to think she really is superstardom-level popular (or close to it, at least, for an author that is).

Your further comments seem to keep attributing the downvoting to "the censorship of gender politics". But seriously, you are the only one bringing gender politics into this! Like I said I haven't read her books, she wasn't described to me as some #metoo movement hero or anything. Maybe she is and maybe she isn't, but that probably has nothing to do with why you were downvoted!

Stop seeing demons that aren't there.
Anyone happen to know if the Voyager's energy is such to exceed escape velocity wrt sun?
But it hasn't yet been approved by the Senate.
So has anyone tried the Chinese pirate console that he's apparently rebranding?

It looks like it's this one [1], $89 on Amazon. Emulates PS1, GBC, SNES and more, with 843 games, including classics like Super Mario Bros.

I'd absolutely love to have something like this in my living room, but I think I'd prefer a somewhat less suspect, more hacker-friendly system where one could easily add new games. But I also don't know anything about this one.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Console-Entertainment-System-Classic-...
Interesting. Thanks. I had no idea that compact fluorescents let out so much UV.
There are numerous examples of kids bullied up to the point they committed suicide. Sometimes it starts at school or in the neighborhood and later moves online but there were also people victimized just by writing something the dominant pack found worth of being bullied for.
Lisp, the universe and everything
> I would like to see some suggestions on the semantics of different levels of content detail.

My colleague had the same response. He phrased it like this: "I always end up reading the whole article anyways because I don't trust what the author considers to be high importance and low importance."

> And moving in between levels isn't easy either. It's not just certain sections, individual paragraphs seem to change from level to level.

I'm assuming that you mean Parametric Press's implementation. In my blog post (I'm the author) I instinctively marked up sections as high-priority or low-priority. But I hadn't thought about this until you pointed it out. Inevitably, some authors would markup a section as high-priority, but put low-priority paragraphs within the section. So paragraphs would disappear from the section, as you said.

> I am not even sure that an author would want to put in all this effort and write an article in such a way.

Yes. Speaking from the experience of creating this prototype, it sucked to author this. That's why I said that users would have to positively respond strongly to this feature in order to make it worthwhile. Otherwise writers simply won't have the motivation to do it.
Shouting into the void about the void helps me deal with the void's existence.

Honestly, if I were a completely rational actor, I wouldn't comment on HN.

Besides, I think you'd find the level of comments on HN to be no better than what's on Reddit or Stack Overflow or Quora or Slashdot or Twitter or Facebook or even Google+.
Make sense of rounded corners on buttons
There's lots of reviews on youtube of this kind of thing.
Insuretech Sherpa launches with robo-advice for Life insurance
There's a new class every year that need to learn the concept. Perhaps submarine is not optimal, but it is good enough.
The point of the original comment was that if you consider BitSequences to be of infinite length, then for consistency you also have to allow infinite-length strings. Otherwise you're ignoring the limitations of machine representation for one type but not the other, which is comparing apples to oranges.
It actually isn't. Often the voluntary separation offers the most severance or is close to it. Everyone left now has a ton more work to do while being paid the same and knowing that you won't be getting a raise or bonus. Everyone is waiting for the next round of layoffs. You also need to be careful that you don't make a mistake that would allow the company to fire you without offering a severance (I know one person who grabbed something from a late-night cafeteria and forgot to pay for it and was promptly fired the next day).
> American prosperity is as much an outcome of capitalism as poverty, repression, and murders in Central America are.

ANY sort of inherent human greed capitalizes on suffering. It doesn't magically disappear with another system. There is always a pareto distribution of wealth. The differences are in which metrics are the primary leverage for accumulation and the scale of the differentials (wealth disparity) along the curve.
> How is he expecting not to get sued by every game dev and manufacturer from the last 30 years?

Probably by being broke. Nintendo might still prosecute to make a point though.
Maybe the making of the thing deprived no one, but once it's made it could always be given to someone else, so owning it means that someone else who could own it doesn't.
And then they'll go after the entitlement programs saying it's not sustainable to fund them.
That could be it. IIRC, the upper limit of file upload size was tied to RAM (had something to do with PHP and how it handed uploads)?
I absolutely hate when bikes fly past me on the sidewalk.

You can rarely hear them coming (I don't wear headphones or anything), and they'll zip by with enough speed to cause serious harm.

What if I had stepped to the side? Or done a stretch and moved my arm to the side?

I'm not trying to be in physical therapy for a year or more because you can't walk your bike from the nearest corner to wherever you intend to park it.
In yet another section that I ultimately scrapped, I suggested that this might be an effective way to automate the process of summarizing documents. The usual approach is to manually create a section that summarizes the document. Which can eventually become out-of-sync with the actual content. This approach would ensure that the summary is always in-sync with the actual content.
I don't disagree, but probably the best way to value the importance of your vote is some equation where the biggest variables are the % chance of your side winning and the importance the issue at hand. The amount of voter suppression going on is, I think, an indirect way of estimating both of these things.
good call on the consumables... didn't even think about that
Cryptojacking: The Hot New Type of Attack on Data Centers
Meanwhile, socialites on the coasts strut around decked out in shit like Hermes, Guiseppe Zanotti, and Patek Phillipe.
Neat, I didn't know of that!

Feynman was looking further out to a machine not limited to one material at a time.
JavaScript Inheritance and the Prototype Chain
I don't know if they do, but I'd really love to see it if they do! Always good to have.
Population Mountains
My guess is he's not broke broke -- he probably has millions in debt for assets like homes and cars and whatever else, and he's doing this to pay those off. I don't think someone who is getting paid $200 just to record themselves namedropping people is broke in the same way that someone who actually has no way to earn income is.
Might have taken on substantial legal liabilities.
It's a "stepping stone" job, not meant as a destination.
Can I ask how you were exposed to mercury?
Does anyone have suggestions for the reverse? basically an analog input (turn table/cassette) that can be streamed over wifi as digital output
But shouldn't the number of misfolds be very limited or just one so that evolution cannot occur? It almost sounds like fearing that fire will evolve.
WiFi Sticky Clients – Fix Bad Internet Connection on Your Phone
Same. I was really worried for a second... semi- (unintentional I hope) click-bait....
Make simple the default mode, and have inline "read more" style expandos. This isn't a new design but it is a good design.
Actually, I think it is. It sounds like they're clawing back the investment profit, but it is likely those profits were invested in something else which also earned a profit. That additional profit is yours to keep as far as I can tell.
Childhood friends hack proof-of-concept boats to develop AI for cargo shipping
Calve's brains in Quebec.
Intermittent fasting is showing promising results. Also probably the best bet for preventing diabetes and obesity.
I did a quick side project with my sister on a UI with similar goals. We called the documents, "variable level of detail documents"—demo here http://symbolflux.com/lodessay/

Also: we started a wysywyg editor to make these 'nesting docs' here: http://symbolflux.com/nestingdocs/
Since scarcity of IP has less meaning these days, branding and identity seem to be what's scarce and interesting. Somehow, I love this whole idea.
He's not even branding it really. He's just shipping junk from China wholesale and selling it locally, like many other people do. The only difference is that he's somewhat prominent, so he gets some free publicity out of it. That same publicity is probably going to get him into some legal trouble.
What Can Blind People Tell Us About Race?
ILC2005: McCarthy Denounces Common Lisp, “Lisp”, XML, and Rahul
Yep, it and four other spacecraft. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_probe
effect (noun) -> affect (verb, in this intended usage)

not nit-picking, rather trying to help correct a common error that distracts from an otherwise excellent comment
Healthcare + low skilled, low wage jobs (EMS, manufacturing, parcel delivery, warehouse work) are taking a lot of slack out of the employment market

Check out where job gains in the US were in November: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Healthcare added +32k jobs, the majority of which were ambulance drivers/EMS jobs

Manufacturing added +27k jobs, mainly in chemicals and heavy metals

Transportation and warehousing added + 25k jobs, mainly in package delivery and warehouse work

Business services added +32k jobs

All other sectors remained largely unchanged

I don't think a 50YO radio engineer at Verizon is going to be happy retraining to be an EMS or package delivery courier. Labor, especially older and higher paid (non management) positions, is not in the best position right now despite the record low unemployment rate
>If life is a simulation, prions suggest either the simulation is run at an extremely high degree of verisimilitude, indeed simulating QM at a particle level for living things, or that the simulator has an incredible desire for accuracy,

These are both somewhat my logic for even believing we live in a simulation. Obviously humans seem to be the largest factor on Earth given how we are rapidly changing the planet and directly, and indirectly, affecting all life on the planet.

We already have things like folding@home, weather modelling, climate modelling, asteroids@home, cosmology simulations from universe sandbox to supercomputer level, etc etc so on and so forth.

People love to immediately dismiss a simulation hypothesis "stuff is too detailed!" "why would someone use such specificity!". Well, why would anyone watch the Kardashians or eat hair (Trichophagia) or smoke cigarettes because none of these things are rational... however having a highly detailed simulation has all sorts of potential applications from seeing how ancestors may have evolved to seeing how a designer organism might potentially play out on a sterile world you plan to seed to being someone's incredible version of the Sims.

I mean, WE have the desire to do this sort of stuff. The above mentioned distributed computing and supercomputer applications shows some level of desire for this sort of thing but then you have games like SimLife from 1992 that allowed players to simulate an ecosystem and to modify the genetics of the plants and animals in the game.

'Junk' DNA, prions, viruses, erm consciousness, burning fossil fuels to the tune of roughly 40 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions this year, living in coastal cities at or below sea level even AFTER disasters do considerable damage, the rapid adoption of social media and reality television, all of these things seriously make me wonder if we in fact are some sort of simulation just to see how a species can deal with both environmental and self-caused disasters.

Throw in many other things like the fact we've not detected life off-world, we've yet to detect any signs of another intelligent species (mind you we're just starting to really look), the rapid advances we've made in technology just in the 33 years of my life, technology allowing for us to fake audio and video of people that enough reference data exists for and things like this Chinese virtual news anchor, etc and it becomes really easy to go "huh, maybe we DO live in a simulation".
>well what better way to make sure a large number of people don't vote than to let them convince themselves that voting doesn't matter.

Sure, if you can convince large numbers of people of the validity of that argument, you could potentially affect the election. That doesn't mean the argument is actually wrong though.

>My point is that the net effect is the same for both things, one you don't vote because your vote was suppressed and the other is you not voting because you don't think it will matter.

It's not the same net effect. If you decide not to vote personally, because you evaluate the argument and find it to be correct, that changes the tally by 1. If someone suppresses the vote (whether by convincing large numbers of people that their vote doesn't matter, or by making it more difficult or impossible for them to vote), that changes the tally by a lot more than 1 (or else they failed badly in what they were trying to accomplish).

>Disenfranchising yourself serves the same coalition that seeks to dismantle the system in return for more personal power.

That coalition might like that the argument is out there, but it still doesn't make the argument incorrect. It still isn't likely to change the outcome of the election if you personally choose to vote or not to vote.
Think it's a smart decision, the Chinese market is full of DJI or Xiaomi anyway, so they will not be losing any market share there.
https://medium.com/@ExplainAndroid/how-to-disable-wifi-and-b...
A link to this tool would be much appreciated!
2k hook in for the license and then charging half a mil for actually implementing your data and biz model?
To me it is perfect expansion for Netflix.

Youtube offers a universal service provision, Netflix could carefully cherry-pick the top youtubers and offer them the money.
It amazes me that a company with all the resources that Google has repeatedly coming up with ideas and doing absolutely nothing effective with them. They've had some winners, like Chrome, and their acquisition of Youtube eventually paid off, but something as simple as a social media site and the best they can come up with from scratch is Google+.
Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0
Last Minute Website and Social Media Strategies to Boost Your Holiday Sales
How is this at all a "twist"? The reason you cannot deactivate prions using these methods is that they are meant to denature protein. Prions are "amyloids"/beta-sheets, which means they are already in the lowest-energy state. This lowest-energy-state is exactly why the presence of prion can serve as a nucleation point for other proteins to denature into beta-sheets.
Thanks! Updated from https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/soulja-boy-video-game-console....
> The hard thing in software is not idea, but execution.

It depends entirely on the software. I spent much of my career as an engineer developing software for SDRs. E.g. I spent the better part of a summer doing Matlab simulations to figure out how you can get a network of frequency agile SDRs to quickly converge onto the same radio channel when they start up, where the spectrum environment is unknown a priori and the radios cannot communicate with each other without being on the same channel. Figuring out what code to write (which involves a lot of theory and math) is the hard part. Once you figure that out, the rest is just coding.

Another area is protocols, where the "idea" is more important than any given implementation. Inventing TCP/IP (and verifying it works) is harder than implementing TCP/IP. Of course, just because you give away the idea doesn't mean nobody has to pay for it. In the case of TCP/IP, the U.S. military paid for it. In the case of its conceptual successors (QUIC), advertising is paying for it. Without software patents those are your two main avenues for bankrolling protocols. I think at least the second one is inferior compared to a model based on patent protection, like MPEG or h.264.
Robot brains need symbols because the rhetoric around deep learning is getting out control. In the video analysis below of the latest AlphaZero vs Stockfish paper, AlphaZero is described as "DeepMind's general-purpose artificial intelligence system".

Let's give credit where it's due. AlphaZero is an impressive algorithm with results in 3 different types of perfect-information games: chess, go, shogi. But to describe it as "general purpose AI" is simply absurd. Yes, this isn't an official Deep Mind video, but this is the kind of rhetoric they are putting it out there.

I'm open to the possibility that deep learning might one day solve some of its core problems (like the elementary schoolbus-snowplow errors described in the source article) and turn into a general purpose AI. But we aren't there yet, and we're not even close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=2-wFUdvKTVQ
Are you sure about that? Last I saw, there are more iOS users than Windows users now.
Growing a startup '70%' is very different to running a publicly listed global company

'...Looker is trying to become cash flow positive -- and its revenues are growing faster than its headcount. "We have visibility to cash flow break even over the next couple of years. We plateaued in spending. We now have 600 employees and expect to add 200 in 2019. We are seeing our cash burn rate decline," he explained.'
Don't get me wrong: Tesla the technology is awesome. The veracity of Tesla's financial disclosures[1], on the other hand, leave much to be desired.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-sec/u-s-securities-...
Consumer Startups Are Awesome, and Here’s What I’m Looking for at A16z
There are tools such as imapsync, mailsync, etc, which are very useful if you're backing up a remote host which runs IMAP.

I've certainly exported/synced from gmail, gmx, and similar commercial providers to local Maildir archives.
That's a fair criticism. One wave of layoffs does not constitute evidence that the tax cuts are a failure.

Still the economy is going in an upward direction, and Verizon isn't shrinking. Why are they laying off 10K people?