skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To refer to "democratic norms" or "progressives and reactionaries" is an anachronistic stretch to say the least. A more accurate summation is that the Gracchi championed land reform for the poor (specifically, redistributing land illegally acquired smallholders by members of the senatorial oligarchy) in the service of their own political ambitions, and in doing so they repeatedly violated the norms of the governing oligarchy, which protected their property (itself frequently acquired in technical violation of legal norms) by murdering the reformers and massacring their followers.

The story of the fall of the Roman Republic is not so much a story of the decay of democratic or governing institutions as we know them as it is the story of a ruling oligarchy that gradually loses the ability to discipline its own members and keep them united in a common policy.
We're going through the process of getting a BI solution. There are many players and Tableau doesn't fair well against them. I can see them holding on to existing customers because switching is hard, but they absolutely have a lot of competition for new sales.
Doesn't feel unfair to me.

This is a fairly straightforward application of the principles behind the law of restitution and unjust enrichment. Here, an early Ponzi scheme participant was enriched at the expense of a later Ponzi scheme participant. The remedy is to disgorge the profits of the first so as to make the second whole again.

Here we're upset because we don't believe that the act of investing was 'unjust', but functionally being 'unjust' in this area doesn't necessarily mean 'wrong'. It can mean unjustified, or lacking a proper basis.

Viewed in this way, one's timing within the ambit of a Ponzi scheme would need to be the justification to entitle early participants to outsized profit. Should our legal system lend force to this type of arrangement, or unwind them as best it can?
Speaking for myself, I can not imagine what evidence would disprove the Simulation hypothesis.

At the moment, reality is indistinguishable from being "real", for appropriate values of "real". There are things that would increase the likelihood of us being in a simulation, like us finding a QM effect of some sort where we can prove that what's actually happening is a computationally tractable simplification of what the theory presents. Instead, in the real world, every torture case we put QM to, QM keeps on QM'in just fine, regardless of what our intuitions think.

So I would say that for me, the simulation hypothesis is more-or-less as improbable as it can get. However, that isn't zero, and I can't see how it would ever be zero, and I have to admit that the "not zero" in question is not merely a pro forma "not zero, but 10^-huge number", but some sort of non-trivial "not zero". No idea how to put a precise number on it, though.

(As Scott Aaronson has said, one interesting reason to pursue quantum computers is that they are the things that will allow us to run experiments to see if reality does perhaps give up after a certain amount of entanglement and turn the system classical again despite there being no QM reason to do so. It's probably not the best reason to do it, but it is a reason to do it. If quantum computers turn out to be truly impossible, and not just an extremely hard engineering challenge, the reasons why can't help but teach us something profound about the universe.)
The only stupidity you're engaging in is your own. It's very clear that's exactly what the parent comment said.
It's somewhere in their FAQ but they pleaged that the dataset becomes open/free if the company goes bust.
I feel the same. Basically, I wouldn't like to publish the address of my personal Nextcloud server to anyone (unless I am sharing a file privately with a friend). Fortunately, the social features are not built into the Nextcloud core, rather they are in a separate app. So we can just forget about it if we don't like it.
> fearing that fire will evolve.

Well now I have new nightmares... :)

But in seriousness, I don't know much, but I believe that protein-folding is a hugely complicated problem that still lies at the edge of our understanding, therefore I conclude that we can't really conclude that the options for a replicating, harmful prion are basically harmless.

I mean...we don't even really know how common prions are, right? We only have noticed a handful because they have dramatically bad symptoms. A large number of replicating but harmless prions could exist (right?).

Obviously there's no reason to panic, but considered caution and study seems a better reaction than overconfident dismissal.
I just got back from Thanksgiving visiting my folks in rural PA where Verizon DSL is the only so-called high speed option, and it barely worked. I often could not even load the speed test pages. They were getting far less (10-20%?) than advertised. I thought the joke was brilliant and apt.
+1 for Jasc PSP. I keep a Tiny7 VM around just so that I can run Jasc PaintShopPro when the need arises. Still useful but it doesn't support HEIC or Jpeg2000 :(
As mentioned in other answers, Thompson's Calculus Made Easy is an excellent informal book for calculus. Spivak and Apostol are nice at a much higher (rigorous and proof-based) level.

Most mainstream calculus books suck; they tend to hedge their bets between being advanced and proof-based on the one hand, and catering to students with a mediocre grasp of algebra on the other. Thomas' book is probably the best of this bunch.

Epp does proofs and discrete math, and a little bit of algorithms. The usual favorite for algorithms is Cormen et al.'s Introduction to algorithms, although I don't know it well.

For linear algebra, Axler (as someone else mentioned) is a very nice book. I really like Knop also (more beginner-friendly). Hefferon's Linear Algebra looks very nice, and is (legally!) free online. If you prefer a more applied/computational bent, try Strang.
California devotes the majority of its land to single-family housing
Aphria: A Shell Game with a Cannabis Business on the Side
Please elaborate why PHP is an inadequate tool for developing multi-platform, network-intensive applications?
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+are+some+better+alterna...
I really like their Audio edition: it's a full version of the paper voiced by pro actors.

I don't understand why this isn't more common. I'm already spending 8-hours a day at work, reading stuff or parsing information in some ways. I have found that I have no mental capacity left to read a full newspaper on top of that.

Listening to a podcast while commuting is way less exhausting (to me at least).
No I don't mean that, when there are things like Chromecast that let me pick content on my iOS device and see or hear it on my TV or stereo.
I get that you're responding to the comment, but I still think you're wrong - I think OP is absolutely correct that around the $10MM mark (or higher), you actually stop worrying about your future. Maybe you're fortunate enough to be optimistic enough not to worry, but I'm in a similar position to yours: grew up as one of four kids in a household that never took in more than $30K/year. I never went hungry, but I felt lucky when we had spaghetti with meatballs instead of just tomato sauce. Now I have enough in my 401(k) that I could probably manage to squeak out enough income to live around that level for the rest of my life, but I'm constantly worried about the future (rationally or irrationally). I still have two kids who have to go to college and I hope to be able to pay for it. I still have to have a car for the next 20 years (at least) that will get me back and forth to work. I might have medical expenses. Whether you think I'm right or wrong, I wouldn't really stop _worrying_ about the future until I had at least 7 figures in safe, liquid assets.
Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment
As I mention in the post, you have to be careful about the logic that handles hiding information. If you use `display:none`, that content becomes inaccessible to screen readers.
I think the trade war with China was inevitable. Not to say the U.S. doesn't or hasn't used state resources to bolster business, China does it to an extent that no other country has or could. Given the U.S. labor market and cost of said labor by comparison, it's about the only way to even attempt preserving that pool.

Yes it will make things more expensive, it will probably also cycle a faster upswing in demands for higher pay (also well overdue). But things will balance out in the end. My larger hope is to see some of the more overt corporatism recede quite a bit. Particularly IP terms and reform.
That is like saying ice cream makers should focus on the 'core' tastes, claiming that that is banana and vanilla because you like those.

For you calendar and contacts are core for a file sync and share software? Above somebody also asked us to focus on 'core', meaning adding ACL's and probably dropping the calendar/contacts.

So it's like the fable where god decides to ask people what weather they want and everyone wants something different so he decides to go back to doing whatever the fuck he wanted. We just keep letting ourselves guided by contributors and customers...
This. I work in lighting and most of the people doing specification have never even heard of flicker. I usually get brushed off as some kind of impractical visionary.

I am on a mission to make lighting healthy. That's why I made Bedtime Bulb: https://bedtimebulb.com/ It has the lowest flicker I've ever seen in a bulb form factor—even less than those claiming to be "flicker-free."
There’s chess theory, which is rule based and what you start off describing.

But then you admit you don’t work directly with chess theory when selecting moves, there’s a trained black box evaluator that selects candidate moves, which you then select from via chess theory.

That’s how you’re finding chess moves in the blink of an eye: you run a fuzzy approximation, then refine the results using higher level reasoning. But you don’t have access to the network doing the evaluation and can’t describe exactly how it operates, just that it was trained on chess theory.

It’s that fuzzy reasoning to speed up the process of actually finding solutions that I was calling out as the source of the unknowns in our processing — and at least from my exposure to board games (and their players), it’s often the source of things like innovative moves.
I'm saying that xenophobia exists everywhere in all shapes or forms (legal or illegal).
New indie film reveals period of Peru’s history of violence against journalists
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> As I understand it, Google is not well optimized for putting out new mass market customer-facing services and keeping them going.

I've been reading the threads about Google killing off products - to the point where it's become a meme. Lost in this are the number of products killed off by other large tech firms. A shame because sometimes objectivity is lost in the analysis.

Your phrasing got me thinking about some of Google's successes (off the top of my head):

They have old successes in search and gmail. In these cases, they climbed their way to the top. The have google.docs, youtube (oldish) but entering TV/Movies now, android (not that old), Chrome Browser, ChromeOS & their entry into schools, translate, google.storage, maps, that dohickey used to stream video to TV sets (can't remember the name:)...

Google Plus probably deserves a quick death. I just wouldn't underestimate Google by downplaying their successes.
Movie companies have done this for a long time. I was friends with a movie critic back in VHS days, and the films sent to him to review before their release had a warning and an ID number that popped up every five minutes or so.

Strangely, not every film company did it. And it wasn't limited to just the big movie companies. It seemed pretty random. Maybe because a shotgun approach was cheaper.
I typically ignore things on Forbes for this reason. In this case, Mr. Cohan works in venture capital for SoFi (according to his Twitter bio) and it's not immediately clear if he has a stake in any of these companies or why he's taking a shot at Tableau other than for the clickbait. It would be nice to know whether his current employer has any material stake in either company before reading. I understand he is also a business school professor but I would expect a disclaimer for an article like this.
I thought math was explicitly not patentable
Voyager 2 was launched a couple weeks before Voyager 1. They are pretty much the same.
Senators Working to Slip Israel Anti-Boycott Law Through in Lame Duck
Thanks!

I set it up to just show a video on mobile since it wasn't performing well on my phone. It may actually work alright on newer phones, though... —not sure.
For the Poor, Obamacare Can Reduce Late Rent Payments
One interesting thing to note. You might've seen countless GoPro "clones," and might've been wondering why GoPro never seemed to assert their rights.

What is said in Shenzhen is that original digital GoPros themselves were an off the shelf OEM product, and GoPro never bothered to buy the design rights from their OEM.

Does anybody remember Daisy Photoclip from around year 2002? Their OEM had their hand in that. And yes, Daisy Photoclip was as Bulgarian as Iphone was American
Italy fines Facebook 10M euros over data misuse
How is this any different or better than current geo-hashing solutions?
Doesn't work for me. The play page just shows a "0" and no graphics: http://symbolflux.com/under/
Groupon's Andrew Mason: Pt. 1, The Rise [audio]
That algorithm empowers any source to suppress an inconvenient fact by making a baseless assertion of the contrary.
Dopamine’s Yin-Yang Personality: It’s an Upper and a Downer
I can't remember who made them, but older System76 machines were not made by System76.
Police called to attempted break in at Vancouver property owned by Huawei CFO
Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?
I work for a small regional shipping company, mostly building CRUD apps and doing EDI integrations. I'd like to find a practical side project using machine learning and/or data science that could add value at work, but for the life of me I can't come up with any problems that I couldn't solve with a relational database (postgres) and a data transformation step. I've spent some time learning pytorch, numpy, and pandas but I know that if I don't use it, especially at work, I'll just forget everything I've learned. My boss is a dev and is generally supportive of learning new things and finding ways to innovate independently, so if I can come up with a good idea I'm sure he'll let me pursue it in my spare time. Has anyone tried to do this before? Any suggestions would be great.
I also don't think Blizzard or Bethesda are particularly good examples of game studios "milking" it. Sure you can use the "new IP" filter to describe those who are "milking" and those who aren't, but to me it's ok to reuse existing IP if there's a significant new spin to it (rather than beating a dead horse). Take Doom 4 (2016) as an example from Bethesda via id, rather than being a knockoff it totally revived the series, capturing what it means to be "Doom" while also feeling fresh against all the other FPSes at the time. In contrast look at Nintendo's parade of 2.5D Mario side-scrolling platformers since New Super Mario Bros DS. They're all basically the same. Yet even then they can still sometimes produce something greater than that with Odyssey.
Where is the list of offending apps? How hard would it be to name and shame them and keep track?

The NYT article cites the company MightySignal claiming 1,200 Android and 200 iOS offending apps.

EDIT: The NYT outlines their reporters' testing, and the apps they used: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/technology/location-track...
There is a really big metric on their dashboard, "Pageviews", and this is a best of all worlds solution (cheaper, more content, diverse content, diverse authors promoting their content, forbes.com SEO juice, etc).
Statistical learning with connectionist architectures is driving current AI at scale.

To me, this paradigm is also the most promising: learn from data bottom-up, not from experts top-down.
It is all apps. You can even disable sharing. Heck, you can disable the Files UI...

Note that most people use Nextcloud to work with others and features like these are crucial to their productivity. In the end, we're guided by community contributions and customer demand... Luckily you can disable things you don't like :D
https://web.archive.org/web/20181210191657/https://achainofb...
If you're not sure about the security you can firewall it of course, but keep in mind we pay 5K to anyone who can find a remote execute vulnerability in Nextcloud (and smaller amounts for smaller bugs).
A few questions:

* Do we have a good grasp on the number of prions in the world? My recollection from when MadCow became a big thing in the late 90s was that prions weren't even looked for and were hard to find as a general rule, but that was 20+ years ago. Might there be many common-but-harmless prions that we haven't even noticed?

* WHY is brain consumption (both in humans and in animals) such a source of prions? What makes that situation more likely to create prions?
Only five probes were launched with the ability to leave de Solar System, but the Voyagers are still the fastest ones...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...
Yes, I am using xbrowsersync now. It is the next best option, however there's a lot of rough edges to it compared to Xmarks.

Thanks.
Sounds like IPO prep.
I had a hunch. I'm sitting here perusing theory after theory for years now. I need to just sit down with some data and a python ide. It's more fun that way anyway. This doesn't mean I think I'll get or even want a job, but I'll get a better sense of what the work is and how to best use it.
Thank you for the extra sources.
Youtube - Aquisition

Android - Aquisition

Maps - Aquisition

Docs - Aquisition

Google is great at scaling up aquisitions and optimizing them for the audience.
... and it is all over HTTPS, so certainly very 'web', no need for special ports etc.

See https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
You don't see that prompt if you aren't signed in.
To Bow Us to Their Desires
Does it play Braid tho? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXofLK5hFQ)
I really don't care what they do with the consumer version (who uses it?), but I'd like to see mapping and wayfinding features added to the paid GSuite version.
The reality is that there are enough people with experience in machine learning that companies don't need to train people.
Can someone explain to me how IPFS is superior to BitTorrent from a usability perspective?

I get all the additional functionality IPFS comes with, but it just feels too complex to get adopted. I can go out right now and start interacting with BitTorrent networks, but I don't even know where to get started with an IPFS system
Eh, lots of stuff would be just stuffed into an appropriate resource and if you wanted to hack it you would use ResEdit.

I miss ResEdit. Pretty much every Mac app in the day used the standard system for managing their resources, so you could pick apart anything with ease using ResEdit. I don't know of any modern equivalent for Unix/Windows/Mac programs.
Correction: His weblog is (back) online.

And I think his friends and family take great care in making sure his legacy stays online and make sure everyone still alive can keep reading some of the most provocative posts from one of the brightest minds of our generation published on the internet.
Editing Consciousness: Grievers Control Their Thoughts Without Knowing It
You guaranteed the Xbox tracking, so I was referring to that. Not the puzzle.
So you felt free, because you could not get money?
No, I know what you mean. The spirit of not having everything nice and secure and organized. Then you have and need space for improvizing.

When I did backpacking shortly before the smartphone area, I also ran out of money in New Zealand ... but I ran out completely with only emergency money send option, so I had to discover traveling very low budget style. Hitchhiking, wild camping etc. adventure.
(until I got back to australia for farm work)..

But - I still do this regulary and so I can tell that the smartphone certainly changed traveling, but there are still plenty of adventures waiting outside if your are open for it and not just want to impress your instagram facebook peers with cool pictures.
FWIW, also from the blog post:

> We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.
I don't think this refutes the argument. You've just explained that the process by which you play chess is by calculation. In essence, you're doing something you could program a machine to do (without any learning component).

The question is: how do you explain how you have an original idea, or learn something you previously had no conceptualisation of.

I think chess is a poor example at a professional level, because players have learnt mainly from analysis of other's techniques, rather than mostly making their own inferences. How a novice plays chess, inventing as they go, because they cannot draw on extensive experience, would be a better analogy, in my opinion.
The missing layer in application architecture
More to that story, the original analog GoPros and later digital ones are very different designs. Their first digital version definitely was an OEM product.
> Capitalism: it sits to bask in every glory, and all its failures expelled, literally explained away

True to its very mantra: socialize the losses, privatize the gains! At least you can't blame it for inconsistency.

Also, it isn't really capitalism that lifted people out of poverty, it was a very resource-intensive exploitation of fossil fuels on an unprecedented scale.

In the scope of just 1 century, we probably burned at least ~10 million years worth of accumulated energy in fossil fuels. It would be ridiculous if this didn't lift people out of poverty.

BTW, it's not like communism didn't lift people out of poverty. Compare the wealth and possessions of an average citizen of USSR in, say, 1925 and 1975, half a century later.
There is a single global swarm.
It's pretty easy for founders/execs at that point to make regrettable comments along the line of 'this is going to be great for our customers'.

Sometimes being honest and taking care of your customer/employees/other stakeholders requires you to say "I don't know" or "this will be a change" instead of what you think they might like to hear.
Mind if I ask which browser you're using? Or to copy/paste any console errors? Could be that I'm using something in webgl not supported by your graphics card/driver...
I wonder if it's limited to brain. If a cattle has prions and if you eat its tissues other than brain, can't you still contact prions via motor neurons?
Why do you say that a release with only stabilization brings you more users but not customers? Wouldn't the quality word-of-mouth convince more businesses to switch? And I assume they need professional support anyhow, don't they?

Another Nextcloud enthusiast and (very small) contributor here. Thank you for the awesome work you and the team do :)
Yeah I tend to ignore Contributor "articles" such as these, they are so one sided, and seem more like an ad than anything else.
Right, this whole thread reads like hacker news is just discovering knock-offs
I was curious and tried to reproduce it from other screenshots :) https://i.imgur.com/FBfwoLR.png
... and the people it employs? I see alot of winners in "zombie" startups. I wonder what the ROI of the average business is. Pizza places, AI shops alike.
My understanding is that there is some evidence that Alzheimer's is transmissible (e.g. higher rate of incidence in caregivers and neurosurgeons), but more study is needed.