skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am suggesting that Facebook is free, fleeting software, and that people shouldn't put a huge host of stock in it. Even legally.

Also - that it can be used for organizing bad behaviours is an entirely different subject that has little to do with quality or security.
Wait, am I missing something? It seems like that's consistent with the article.

I agree that goodwill is (depending on exact definition) essentially the expected value of a business in excess of its tangible assets.

Verizon paid $8.9B for AOL + Yahoo. Oath has ~$5B of assets, which sets a rough minimum for purchase price: that's what you'd pay for the remains if Oath gave up and liquidated, and it was presumably a fixed cost in Verizon's initial purchase. (Less whatever AOL and Yahoo have in post-acquisition asset gain, but I can't imagine it's enormous.)

Assessing Oath at $4.8B in goodwill + $5B in assets implied a modest gain in value (or perhaps more likely, tertiary acquisitions under the brand). Reassessing goodwill to $0.2B implies that Oath as a going concern is producing basically no value beyond what you'd get from selling off the computers, office space etc. Which seems pretty plausible, since it's hard to imagine e.g. Tumblr ad revenue even paying off its own operating costs.
When I registered for a library card as a kid, there were five other people with my exact first + last name. The doctor's office my parents used when I was an infant had to modify their policies to ask for my middle initial because there was another infant with the same first + last + birth month.

Definitely recommend it. The first ten pages of Google results for my first + last show like at least 50 other people that aren't me.

Only issue is that it can be difficult to use your name as an email handle - fortunately my parents were tech savvy enough to grab concat(firstName, middleInitial, lastName) as a gmail address and domain name for me.
As a SaaS author: I would also suggest taking into account the business model of the SaaS you are looking at.

The old way of thinking was that a Serious Company is safer than a one- or two-founder operation. But Serious VC-funded Companies are unprofitable most of the time and burn through VC money, subsidizing their business. Even if they don't crash, a "successful outcome" is an acquisition, which most of the time results in shutting down the product and a post about what a "wonderful journey" this was. And don't forget all the products that Google just shut down over the years.

A self-funded slow-growth profitable startup can be a much more stable bet, even though it seems counter-intuitive.
>the cable providers are accused of

Weasel words. Who is making this accusation? Which cable providers are accused? What is the basis for this accusation?
> this is really darwinism at work

I think that's a little harsh. This is an old woman who has probably been using the netty pot (or some version of it) for years and years. And while the consequences of this infection are dire, the odds are so, so, so low that you would get this infection even if you tried.
This seems like a somewhat unexpected result from the growth of the internet.

At first glance, it seems like the internet should allow for a more geographically distributed economy, and make it easier to get a job regardless of where you live.
Instead, the internet has concentrated jobs in cities by making it easier for a few companies to sell services to 'everyone'.

Instead of going to a local store or even a local Walmart, people purchase from Amazon. Instead of doing taxes with a local accountant, more people use TurboTax. Instead of a local lawyer, there are services like legalzoom.

This centralization is likely a big part of what is causing this. This effect will probably continue unless the large internet companies move to a more geographically distributed workforce.
I'm a little confused. Was the tap-water untreated (that is, well water)? Can these damn things survive chlorination? They're a known danger swimming in southern (US)- meaning warm- fresh-water lakes and ponds. But- damn, this is scary. Probably because I also use a neti-pot.

Neti-pots are often used to help alleviate the symptoms of sinusitis. My neti-pot came with packets of salts that you dissolve in the water, which I use. But I didn't think that was required to kill stuff in treated water. I thought it was to reduce irritation when using it- and maybe help kill the bacteria you are trying to rinse away.
I'm sure I've read this same story for the past 5 or even 10 years.

I am certain that the chinese economy will face a recession one day and I am sure nobody in the media will know why or how. Maybe I'm alone in thinking these articles are such a waste of time. It tells us nothing.
Is having the username and password fields on different pages more secure?
From his testimony:

> I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers.

It may be valid to say that his drinking was more serious than his tone seems to indicate, but to say that he did not admit drinking to excess is factually incorrect.
You have to use a 0.2 micron filter, it's possible she was using a filter that wasn't small enough.

For reference, most water filter pitchers (britta etc) are 1 micron
Whats a cheap and unobtrusive way to estimate the BSimple version of the noise scale in real time? Piggy back on ADAM's moving mean and variance estimates? Edit: I see that Appendix A has a method for the multi-device training setting, but I'm thinking of single device training.
So then any software engineer working at facebook and google needs to be licensed? As we have seen facebook and search results can easily affect lives.

Additionally, software engineers that work on self-driving cars, rockets, any healthcare systems, etc, etc, etc?
Is there a GIF for this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03867

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fall-of-rnn-lstm-2d1594c7...
People keep saying Wendelstein won't do fusion but that's not the case. Currently the 7-X isn't doing fusion because they're using hydrogen. But they plan to use deuterium later, just like all the other fusion research reactors, and they'll get fusion reactions when they do. There's really no reason not to; you get more data and it's easy. People fuse deuterium in their garages with home-built fusors.
I use a product like this, and I'm paranoid enough to buy distilled water, boil it, and then add a saline mixture before doing the deed.
Yes they do warn you not to use tap water, or to boil it for 5 minutes, but perhaps if they also said "...else you could get a rare brain-eating amoeba that will kill you" then people would, well... probably stop using their product.
A lot of folks have no idea what 2-micron filter is, nor is it documented on their consumer-grade water filter that it is/isn't a 2-micron filter. Likewise, a lot of people don't know how to boil water in a way that will kill parasites.

They should just say "distilled water", and leave it at that.
Under the hood vs how they function in everyday situations are completely different things.

If I sock away $100 a month for the next 12 months to pay for something, which one is more likely to have >=$1200?
> Elliot Peters, Swartz's attorney, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the case "was horribly overblown" because JSTOR itself believed that Swartz had "the right" to download from the site. Swartz was not formally affiliated with MIT, but was a fellow at nearby Harvard University. MIT maintains an open campus and open computer network, Peters said. He said that made Swartz's accessing the network legal.

I should have used more accurate language. I think my intended statement is clear now.
Show HN: Coding FFT in a tiny (25kb zipped) functional language
> this is really darwinism at work

That is cruel, disgusting and frankly a misrepresentation of Darwinism.
> Luckily, it's no longer 2004, so no one in their right mind would start out blogging there ;)

You would think — and yet I stumble upon content there regularly. And my comment was downvoted, so at least some people think this is OK.
>And, India got partitioned into 3 countries

India consisted of more than 3 "countries" prior to the arrival of the British.
After having a titanium plate surgically attached to my wrist, I heartily recommend sitting in the lodge by the fireplace and playing Alto’s Adventure instead.
Theeere you go!

http://imgur.com/gallery/7PmEM5p

It didn't take too long, the pen up movements were fine
The job hopping opportunities can't be overstated. It's the BATNA for salary negotiations with employers, so it basically determines what your salary is going to be.
If she's too old to conceive, then if anything this is improving her odds genetically.
Thank you, I now accept this claim, though it really should be on a blockchain.
Also uranium-fueled molten salt reactors, using chloride salt. These will be fast reactors and have pretty much the same advantages as the thorium designs. Terrapower, Moltex, and Elysium are going this route (though Moltex is planning a thorium-fueled version as well).
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Your symptoms are the same of people with untreated nasal polyps. Ask your doctor about nasal corticosteroid spray treatment.
Interesting to note that “tech X is decades” away is actually a nonsensical statement in itself. If we all agree not to research it, then tech X will never arrive (excepting alien visitation).

Pedantic point but also a reminder to avoid fatalism and that as well as extending R&D times, we can also reduce them (see: Apollo).
According to the first major source on Google, tipping was brought to America from Europe. Likewise, I don't think any other country but us has laws to subsidize wage for tips. Also, comparing mobile payments to credit cards isa weak comparison, they serve entirely different purposes.
agree, that makes it 11 GOP senators to 3 DEM senators.

California with 40 Milion population 2 senators, to 2 senators for these 600,000 population for each of these 7 states.
If you're using a medical product that specifics a certain requirement for cleaning fluids you're about to put in your body, you should make sure the filter matches (or exceeds) those specifications. If you're unsure, you can just use distilled water.

In every other situation I would completely agree with you, but when you're dealing with medicinal products you should be careful to follow the instructions (imo)
Would it be possible to apply the kind of reasoning you used to a discretization of space also?

One could imagine starting with a convolutional neural network that is also a residual network (I may be butchering the proper terminology here) and taking the limit of an infinitely fine discretization in space as well as time to arrive at a PDE instead of an ODE.

Would the adjoint method approach that you used for backpropagation work in this case?
Hmm sound like British were their to teach civilization to the noble savages.

British went their for cheap raw material, cheap labour, and cannon fodder soldiers.
Or groups of people live in certain geographic areas and are not served by public transit or near government offices like a DMV. That can have the effect of making it generally harder one one group despite equal competence.
Looks interesting with a big but:

> results will only apply to production use cases to the extent that your test suite mirrors production usage
All your data are belong to us
They do, but I am never sure how that is supposed to be practical. You need to use warm water, which is easy with tap water, but hard to do quickly with distilled or boiled water.

I know it has risks, but I still use normal tap water. From what I have read, all of the cases are from people using well water, never from city provided, chlorinated water. It actually says this in the article, too.
Hey sorry I didn't check for follow-up comments. Hopefully you still see this.

On Nov 27th, I watched the International Joint Hearing with Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice-president of policy solutions. It was a couple hours long and of much higher tech literacy than the one the US held with Zuckerberg. Questions came from seven countries. Questions were mostly honest and the answers were informative. There were still a number of people who chose to just ask angry questions for sound bites. (Canada's rep was unfortunately one of the ones who asked bad questions.)

Overall though, it was a really good discussion. Here's a link to the transcript and video ("watch the meeting" link).

http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence....

A joint-declaration was made after the hearing. It speaks to an international alliance for regulation. This is really where I see traction forming.

Here's the declaration, it's only a page long: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...

Hope this throws you a notification or something. Cheers.
I think you don't understand taxes.

My tax money is used to buy goods/services for people in other states. Not only is that not considered fraud, it is a fundamental reason taxes exist.
If he was smuggling, it was a crime then, it's a crime now.
> It's probably a great internal name

Well, Google+ was taken :)
Ask HN: What gives you confidence in what you currently working on?
I feel very good about the latest version of my 'lightbulb'. I have been at this since 2009 when this idea just hit me. I've seen people try and fail at this market, no one has moved the market leader. That day is coming soon though, it's just a matter of months now.
How do you warm it?
Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed? Does anyone even believe that the amount of debt will go down, rather than up, over the course of any length of time? Even a day? I don't, which raises the question: how does a world where debt monotonically increases indefinitely work? Can that happen forever, in which case debt has just become a standin for currency (that allows people to have negative amounts of currency). Or does it eventually go kabloie? Unfortunately I don't have an answer, but I suspect we'll find out within our lifetime.
The US has had travel advisories for specific people against China in effect since Jan 2018:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

I've worked for years at companies that had corporate policy to either wash or destroy phones/computers taken into China.

That is to say, it's unsurprising that any 2 countries engaged in a trade war (hot or cold) would take these precautions against each other.
BuildZoom, marketplace for construction, is hiring engineers
Unexpected joe rogan?
Most weird interview anecdote ever
Also, a cursory search shows some of the fake comments were pro-NN, contrary to the narrative being pushed here.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/millions-of-people-post-comment...

>The Journal found instances of fakes that favored antiregulation stances but also comments mirroring consumer-groups’ pro-regulation talking points, posted without permission of people whose names were on them.

>One 369-word comment supporting the Obama-era net-neutrality rules was posted on the FCC website more than 300,000 times. One of those was attributed to Gloria Burney, 87, a retired speech therapist in Los Angeles. She isn’t in favor of repealing those rules, she said, “but I never wrote that.”
I wouldn't say it comes naturally. It comes from noticing points of confusion in the world and making an effort to ask the big Why? question.

And then refining your question to arrive at a different question, which may be a better question.

E.g. Why is my father in law so difficult to get along with -> Is my father in law difficult to get along with? Well, he gets along just fine with others... -> Why is it so hard for my father in law to get along with me? What is different about our dynamic?

One question leads you to the next, but you have to put some effort into the process.

An excellent book on the topic: A More Beautiful Question
https://www.amazon.com/More-Beautiful-Question-Inquiry-Break...
Oh, and here's a hyperlapse of the plot, I started recording about 20 seconds in.

http://imgur.com/gallery/UjtiQXy

This plot took about 3 minutes in total, the gears one took about 15.
The worst part is, we then enforce these laws with SWAT raids.

"In August 2010, for example, a team of heavily armed Orange County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies raided several black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Orlando area. More raids followed in September and October. The Orlando Sentinel reported that police held barbers and customers at gunpoint and put some in handcuffs, while they turned the shops inside out. The police raided a total of nine shops and arrested thirty-seven people. By all appearances, these raids were drug sweeps. Shop owners told the Sentinel that police asked them where they were hiding illegal drugs and weapons. But in the end, thirty-four of the thirty-seven arrests were for “barbering without a license,” a misdemeanor for which only three people have ever served jail time in Florida. The most disturbing aspect of the Orlando raids was that police didn’t even attempt to obtain a legal search warrant. They didn’t need to, because they conducted the raids in conjunction with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Despite the guns and handcuffs, under Florida law these were licensure inspections, not criminal searches, so no warrants were necessary."

(Radley Balko, "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces")
Never forget that Winston Churchill let millions in Bengal starve to death because they were not civilized people according to him.

Modern day Indians do acknowledge that history is complex, nuanced and there were many factors that led to the colonization of India.

However the sheer ignorance of a lot of Western folks to British and other colonial atrocities is alarming. For them the history starts and ends with their own lens and seldom beyond the same Greek/ Roman/ Judeo mythology and/or history.

It is funny for example when so many call the modern no system the Arabic no system when in fact the Arabians merely
took it from India and exported it westwards (an important feat)

There is a reason why Western civilization became so powerful - conquering large territories (Aus, Ca, NZ etc.) , resources, imposing their culture.

I really commend the self respect Chinese have in this regard. They consider this century as the one where China regains its lost glory. I hope India can manage to become economically better although i doubt it would ever come even close to China.
No, it tells us that the Chinese economy is slowing, and by all measures it has been over the last 10 years.
NYSE execs staged trading-floor hoax to impress Snap CEO
I would think that the modern macOS equivalent to the "resource fork" is simply an app bundle's Resources folder.

Also, regarding "burned-in configuration" resources—those are now found in the app bundle's Info.plist :)
Other people have commented that she used a store bought water filter as well.
In the mix with this are the tax incentives that are being offered up for tech companies to move into rural areas. While there has been a lot of attention on HN focused recently on Amazon's and Apple's move, the really interesting one to me is Foxconn.

Foxconn really seems to have suckered a small Wisconsin community (and the state) into giving them an incredibly lopsided tax incentive deal - as detailed in this amazing episode of ReplyAll [1]

I think a far smarter idea is to pay tech workers an incentive to relocate to the state, as Vermont is doing [2]. The payback is quicker and the results far easier to scale.

1 - https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/132-negative-mount-ple...

2 - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/us/vermont-moving-money.h...
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I don't think AirBnB nor Uber has caused any physical harm to the surrounding communities.
Similar, except I went through Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Protection Bureau, the one Republicans want to kill off. I actually got a direct, hand signed letter from PayPal's chief legal counsel listing the ways they would, and did, to correct the situation. We need more power, not less, in regard to shady business practices.
The primary advantage of this pattern is it allows you to use different authentication mechanisms on a per-user basis.

For example, for convenience, you may want to allow some users to sign in with a single non-password factor, like a FaceID/TouchID/Security Key.

But you still want to let users with a password continue signing in with a password, since you don't want to break login for all of your customers at once.
Calling a neti-pot a medicinal product is not obvious to everyone. They are marketed all over the place as a natural thing. I don't think most people view them as a medical product.
We'll just go to war eventually with someone.
Regardless of anything else about the brands, that sentence is certainly wrong. It pretty much just reads "this was written by a reporter without a financial background".

The one thing that definitely isn't worthless here is "the assets of the communications giants Yahoo and AOL". Those are worth $5B, as noted further down in the article. Verizon has written down almost all of the goodwill value of Oath - which despite the name is not brand equity or consumer loyalty, but the collected sum of a company's non-asset value.

The discussion above is about whether it's fair to describe a division as 'worthless' when its assets are still quite valuable and its operations were not so much valueless as grossly overestimated. A lede which introduces the topic while horribly misusing the term 'assets' doesn't have much bearing on that.
SIPC says they don't think they have to insure this.
Colombia’s Most Valuable Beer Is Actually…Belgian
I'm excited to see how all kinds of things unfold in the next 50 years. Supposedly max human population, running out of oil, icecaps melting, unsustainable amount of food production, dying ecosystems. The economy seems like the least troubling really as it is all superficial anyway.
how do you boil water properly? minimum period of time?
Johnson and Johnson knew about asbestos in baby powder for decades
4,622 people told the WSJ they didn't submit the comment in their name that said "The FCC's open Internet rules (net neutrality rules) are extremely important to me." (this was the Battleforthenet text)
It news because more and more people are starting to rinse their sinuses and may not be aware that they should be following certain guidelines.
I'm pretty sure Yahoo, before and perhaps after the Verizon acquisition, did more than one “use it or lose it” account purge, intended to sweep out zombie accounts.
I'm ignorant on this, but to me there are two kinds of debt. 1) Personal debt, like I took out a car loan and I can get the car repossessed or the loan sold to debt collectors. 2) Debt that exists just to create more money i.e. the IMF or Fed Reserve decide to have an expansionary monetary policy and they lend from... what exactly? The purpose is to just control inflation.

I'm guessing this is the second kind of debt, but the title makes it sound like the first.
Considering the fact that they're going out of business, I wonder how many customers that is? Still a shitty time of year to do it, and a horribly small time window.
Whenever I use a neti pot, I use distilled water and heat it for a brief time in the microwave, adding additional room temp distilled afterward if it comes out too hot.
Here's the paper: https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(18)34525-9/pdf.