skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird to spend so many words arguing against a word used as branding. There was never a sharing economy, because it is people paying money for things. What was created was a piecework economy, which was obviously going to be successful if it could figure out a way to skirt the laws that made piecework jobs illegal. Investors could see that, and added so much cash in anticipation of a monopoly (and with the understanding that it would take quick growth and a bunch of expensive legislative and marketing work to take this monopoly) that these companies could afford to sell dollars for $0.90.

I'm going to start a business utilizing children as hospital, hospice, and old age home laborers and call it "the childcare industry" just to see it debunked 10 years and 100 billion dollars later: "Revealed: The Childcare Industry Was Never About Caring For Children."

I'll then press release that it was shameful that slate dot com chose to diminish the experiences and character growth of millions of children, dismiss the importance of our elders and their health, shill for the interests of big healthcare, and denigrate the millions of relationships formed between the oldest generations and the youngest.
I think the newish perception that risk is unacceptable plays a part. I'm glad to see the "safety above exploration" mindset giving way a bit. Accidents are going to happen. Pioneers in dangerous endeavors understand this. It's good to see society remembering it as well.
It's more of a reference book so you continue earning back that investment over time.

You can get a lot of his tips for free here in this curated Twitter Moment: https://twitter.com/i/moments/880688233641848832
Oracle is suing the U.S. government over $10B Pentagon cloud contract process
And yet our infrastructure is literally crumbling - and repairs often take longer than it originally took to build the thing being repaired.
You can also use Cloud TPUs for free in your browser via Colab. Several sample notebooks are available here: https://www.tensorflow.org/tfrc/
Building an iOS app to recognize handwritten digits with Core ML
This is why I keep saying that if you are serious about climate change then you are serous about nuclear power. It's our best source of reliable non-carbon producing power and the more cheaply and cleanly we can produce electricity the more opportunity we have to stop using fossil fuels in more areas.
I went to college at Williams. We would sometimes drive back from track meets in Boston through Charlemont and Florida, and I always thought there was something cruel about seeing a sign for "Florida" when it was 10 deg (F) outside..

Agreed though, it's a nice drive, and a nice area of the country to visit!
How much money is required to start an ActiveWear clothing line?
>Isn't that trespassing on military property? I would shit myself, the risk is too high to be detained and accused of spying.

in Russia it isn't blind straight application of Femida. Instead it is always personal - you can be accused of spying or given a private tour, especially if you have a bottle of good cognac and a high quality cold smoked salmon to share :)
This seems like guerilla marketing for refactoringui.com
It does seem that many of the business models were really just regulatory arbitrage, but were presented as some fundamental innovation.

It also seems that they fooled some investors into believing hyper growth that was fueled with negative unit economics would eventually lead to a monopoly market position, maybe some will...but I doubt it as the barrier of entry is to low an the "network effect" that was believed make the monopoly quasi-permanent doesn't seem to exist for most industries.
I think they might mean chatting online.
Profit is the foundation of truly sustainable human activity. Christopher Columbus was in it for the money, too. Government can only spend what profit creates, so even government programs like NASA ultimately are feeding from the trough of profit.
i guess r/weightroom would be the best match. it has daily threads reserved for banter but is otherwise well moderated.

r/bodybuilding is pure meme, r/weightlifting pretty focused on the sport itself. r/fitness has a lot of questions by beginners who ask the same thing every single day. i don't know r/powerlifting, but i heard it's very memey too.

nah, imo r/weightroom is the best, but as a newcomer, please lurk for a couple of weeks until you learn the rules and culture.
In the article, they say that "they're not even owned any longer by the Russian government.". So maybe it's just garden variety trespassing on private property?
Julia runs on these ;). Well, it will once multicore access for non-TF frameworks is public.
I mean, you get more than that, no one looked at Uber and went "ooh, illegal taxis". They looked at it and went "ooh I can use it from my phone with the push of a button and it's cheaper". The whole point of the "sharing economy" is to compete on efficiency, ease of use and price.

Ridiculous, anti-competitive laws were in place in these systems, I applaud their death.
Protip: No, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram didn't see you Googling anything.
NotePlan 2 on iOS is out
or FC (and I'm an FC Dallas fan)
When it comes to owning next-generation application workflows, Nvidia is facing robust competition from startups and established players who want access to this potentially gigantic market.

Am I the only one who cringes when someone says or writes "application" but actually means "datacenter" or "internet service"? The author is clearly not talking about Mobile or Desktop Apps here.

And even with that term cleared up, WTF are "next-generation application workflows"?
It's essentially the same process to begin with (I think), but every time the ray hits something you fire off secondary rays probabilistically from the hit point to see what that point is receiving light from, and so on ad infinitum. Usually you're calculating a BSDF[1] for each surface you hit, which tells you where to cast your next set of rays.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_scattering_distr...
Eh, the only people who like unregulated mini-hotels (airbnb) in residential areas are the ones making money.
Ask HN: What book do you recommend to learn business basics?
I'm looking for a book that will teach me the basics of business, i.e. finance, accounting, sales, marketing, ops, etc

Something with material similar to what an MBA would cover

My goal is to learn more about the business side of tech to become a better employee and advance my career

What do you recommend?
Exactly. It's so common that there's even lingo around it. Finsta and Rinsta. Fake instagram account / real instagram account.
It's from a movie.
Ask HN: Preferred methods/tools for sample systems of Windows application?
I would like to give access to a demo of my release candidate to some potential users/sales people.

Essentially looking to replace the Teamviewer-on-a-VM paradigm. Know there's a hundred ways to skin this cat!

The application is .NET/C#/WPF, tied to a SQLite db.

Trying to optimize for cost/time efficiency, but want to hear how everyone handles this!

Thanks very much for your time.
> 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?

Your math is way off, they don't need to pretend nothing happened and go back to $30 / share. The crypto bubble (now imploded) isn't why they're still generating $4 billion in annual profit ($1 billion in operating income last quarter). It's not a critical part of their business; in actual numbers it was a modest party on the side for several quarters and some investors had hoped it would be more than that. The removal of the crypto boom from expectations, is causing a let-down in the projected upside in the stock and their business. Crypto wasn't 3/4 of their business, or the last quarter results would have shown that type of destruction.

Your $20-$30 share price would peg them at a $12 to $18 billion market cap. They could justify that with just the earnings from their latest quarter.
Rails and Laravel are great for MVPs.

Clients have pushed me more and more in to Laravel. It has a great community and lots of great packages and tools.

(Similar to what railscasts was back in the day)
laracasts.com

(Server setup and deployment)
https://forge.laravel.com

SaaS (in a box)
https://spark.laravel.com/

Envoyer (zero down time deployment)
https://envoyer.io
> I agree it's pretty stupid, but it works.

As capricious as markets are, that's a pretty loose definition of "works". All too often, equity markets are just a force multiplier for herd mentality, and end up being actively antithetical to actual value and resource allocation.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Edward R. Tufte

Ways to Connect: On Interface and Product Design, Ryan Singer

Something on color theory

Design language books (Bauhaus, etc)

The entire Google design team has quite a few open resources: https://material.io/design/ and https://design.google
The amount of value I got out of reading this PDF will far exceed $79.

I'm mostly a backend guy who does the Bootstrap thing. The techniques and examples in the content are gold for someone like me.
Just wrote my first 200 words.
I really like two major things about this site:

1. It's really simple UI/UX so you go straight to the point.
2. The Github like counter for your post.

I will definitely use the site more and more.
So is there an "official" editor/IDE for React now? What's mostly used by the React team?
another important difference -- while the US Space Shuttle was manned, the Buran flew an unmanned mission. It launched, orbited the Earth several times, and landed just a few feet from the X on the runway under automated control. A rather impressive achievement.

If not for the fact that the US&USSR were working like mad to find a way to destroy one-another, the cold war + space race was great for advancement of science.
Clearly this was a more capable, less political version of the FBI than the one we experience today. Although I laugh at how incompetently they solved the problem with the bomb! At least they tried.

I have a hard time reconciling how badly Obama's DOJ and FBI have screwed our country:

Now, almost every crime is manufactured into existence by the government itself--like the "Draw Mohammed" contest in TX where the agent handling the perpetrators veered off at that last minute, leaving everyone there in the gun sights of two shitheads who were luckily taken down by a better man. We only got to find out because the cops nabbed the agent and he had to id himself near the scene! It's not like the FBI cared about the outcome there, like Birges, they probably wanted a big body count because that's how you get new gun control laws passed and bigger budgets.

Then there's Fast & Furious, which, although an ATF operation, probably also involved DEA and FBI agents. The corruption...

Dare I even mention the whole bullshit entrapment case against Trump and how the FBI infiltrated the campaign? Here we have serious crimes being committed by agents of our own government. All will be covered up, probably.

How many major crimes in the US had an FBI agent provocateur working behind the scenes to make them real crimes? Is today's FBI any better than the KGB was in the USSR?
I made this site so that people could get together and ask for ideas on what to get for a gift, share interesting things they find and save what they like. So far, people have told me that it's been very helpful, especially now while they are trying to figure out what to get for people on their holiday lists.
It's been growing steadily (even though I completely botched the product hunt launch) but am looking for thoughts as I want to make it as helpful as possible.
Thanks for looking.
Woops, forgot the /r/, thanks!
A few things I don't get (genuinely, I wish someone would explain to me):

1. Why would the town pay Comcast for Comcast to wire up the town, when Comcast would then turn around and charge residents? It seems like if Comcast wants to provide customers, they should make the investment, no?

2. If Verizon DSL is in town, how is there a monopoly? Would Comcast wiring the town prevent another provider from also wiring the town (in whole or in part)?
People are either not going to care because they don’t really care what license, open source or otherwise, it’s under. Or they’ll simply drop it like a hot potato because it’s got a weird license. To a first or second degree no one will contact them to see if it’s ok for some specific application.
How Lord of the Rings’ Gollum Changed the Course of SFX
Does anybody ever see relevant ads?

I guess retargeting kinda works, if I look for info about mortages I see lots of ads from banks, but for anything else?

We're all human, we're amazingly complex, everyone of us is unique, and nobody likes to be put in a drawer.

But then you have the smartest programmers in the world, working for the richest companies in the world, and all they come up with is "if someone googles for baby show them ads for nappies"?

It's remarkable how stupid these "smart" algorithms are, and I think the problem is a based on a simple fallacy: Everyone thinks of themselves as sophisticated, but believes others are simpletons.

I'm not sure where to go from here.
I personally question anyone 1-2 degrees away from software that hasn't read "Don't make me think."

Its a short and easy 2 hour read but the level of paradigm change you receive if you're being exposed to hci for the first time is immense.

I even found its thinking useful from the developer side of things, as in, writing software libraries that were obvious and easy to use.
Nothing that Obama or Clinton did even came close to comparing to the wars started by Bush II. In order to find a comparable mishap on the part of Democratic governance and war you have to go back to Truman, and you won't find me defending the Vietnam War, nor Obama's use of drones.

> Every time the ruling party switches, followers of both parties warp into parallel universes with entirely different realities.

There is plenty of information that shows this to be untrue, especially in this case of warfare that you talk about, example:

> 37 percent of Democrats back Trump’s missile strikes. In 2013, 38 percent of Democrats supported Obama’s plan. That is well within the margin of error.

> In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, a Washington Post–ABC News poll found that only 22 percent of Republicans supported the U.S. launching missile strikes against Syria in response to Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against civilians.

> A new Post-ABC poll finds that 86 percent of Republicans support Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes on Syria for the same reason. Only 11 percent are opposed.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/gop-voters-love-same-...
Even on HN, you're going to use the intentionally politicized value (people still tracked on unemployment, contractors sometimes, etc):
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

instead of something close to the actual?
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53452

I don't understand how people are still this lazy.
Reading "The Design of Everyday Things" will give you a sense of the basics -- After that try learning a popular frontend-web framework (like Bootstrap / Foundation) which follows lot of the industry-standard UI practices out-of-the-box. Also checkout things like WAI-ARIA / WCAG, which outline accessibility standards on the web.
Actually most miners have tried to get the best possible hash per kilowatt ratio out of their cards, which makes sense given that electricity cost is basically the main cost of their business. And the best ratio isn't achieved by overclocking and -volting, but by undervolting and underclocking.

Very constant workload, way below peak capacity - I bet that crypto usage does put much less wear and tear on the chips than heavy gaming use.
What sort of transition, exactly? Their core business is intact and they're strongly positioned in AI and autonomous driving.

It seems like you're blaming management for the fact that the stock market mispriced the long-term value of crypto mining.
> MPs don't in fact choose the PM in the UK system either. It's much more indirectly the case that someone who appears that they would have the confidence of the house to pass legislation may be invited by the Queen to form a government.

Yes. My point stands that the PM is inherently different from a President. The President's party can have no representatives in either body and still be elected by the people. Local elections have no bearing on their election, as you're aware.

> for some reason your party leadership elections (primaries etc) are run by the government

The US doesn't have party leadership elections, which is kind of my point. The primaries are for an elected position, not a party leader. My ideal is a California or France-style runoff. Why shouldn't the people vote on who their final choices should be?
They could have sold it for $1 with a clause stating that ddg wouldn't partake in any antitrust action brought by any foreign government for 2 years. Value to Google would be worth tens or hundreds of millions in potential fines or revenue risk.
And not only are hashtags stupid, meta-hashtags are vastly more stupid. You're intentionally labeling a thing that no end-user will ever use for its alleged purpose. Nobody has ever wondered what else they will see when they search #justarandomcommentimadeintoahashtagfornorealreason
weightroom is, in my opinion, one of the best resources for strength athletes right now. just keep in mind that it has its own peculiar nature and rules; if you're a newcomer, keep your contribution to the daily thread until you learn the rules.

it's more in the style of askhistorians; so strictly moderated and low-effort comments are generally not tolerated except for the daily thread, which is fun.
Hello World in AIM – crezy syntax development
This is true, I probably have a deeper underlying problem, but IG definitely wasn't helping me.

I guess the problem is that they actively try to addict you to get you to use the app more, you may have a stronger mental fortitude than I do, which is why you don't succumb to this.

If it were just a photography app like 500px, things would be a little different, since it's social, a lot of things get conflated that shouldn't.
I think people on our team use VSCode, Sublime Text, and Vim. Almost all editors these days have good support for React, so we don't have any official one (nor do we feel the need to).

VSCode has particularly good integration with TypeScript, so perhaps choose it if you are otherwise undecided.
Thanks. Not sure why I was downvoted. What is this, stack overflow?
I think they mean actually buying the chips. This model of putting revolutionary new hardware in the cloud only is kind of worrisome given the future implications.
how on earth does it make sense to compare a rail network to an ISP?
Official AWS Ruby Support for Jets Serverless Framework
From your first link: I think that comment should be placed as a source code comment near the source code: "preferedchunksize = 32768". I think magic numbers should be described at the point they are defined, or at least put a link (in a source code comment) to why the music number was chosen....
> Alternate between vowels and consonants, look for the resulting string in various search engines, the first one that gets no results is the new name.

I'm pretty sure the quote was originally talking about function, variable and data structure naming, in which Google may or may not be help. Really, I've always found naming problems in that are more to do with correctly predicting the future, since the most egregious problems I encounter are when something that used to be named at least passably has changed over time to be very confusingly, if not outright misleadingly, named.
> I don't understand how people are still this lazy.

You didn't give the value.
What has been lost is confidence. High stock valuations boost the wealth effect. This has a real impact economic activity. It's not just NVIDIA, a lot of tech stocks have tanked and the market in general is close to turning into a bear.
On the page the contact address under About is: Caleb@cereal.ventures

Quick search returns: Cereal Ventures is an experimental product incubator by Ben Adam and Caleb Barclay

Webpage returns: 'Investment Calculator' and 'Day of the Dead'.

OP 'calebbarclay' has only three submissions to HN: Investment Calculator, Day of the Dead, and Dwellito

I think HN is a great place to see people's work, but users need to be upfront about their association to what they submit. This is should clearly be listed using 'Show HN:'
How robots are mastering the art of dexterity
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If you dont use an Iphone, here´s how it works: https://youtu.be/8RfJ5k83haw
We're on it! = D
Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals
No, our priorities for React and other libraries are not tied directly to internal app metrics.
some good tips but the site is super hard to read (content structure wise)
"Revolutionary"
There is still a big market for native iOS apps, especially to connect to web applications.

Even smaller companies are interested in an iOS and Android apps for their web application.

So I expect there are lots of freelance opportunities.
Link to corresponding paper about Deep Learning for Classical Japanese Literature:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01718
Here are a couple of reasons for town government:

1. Massachusetts got rid of county government in Western Mass in the late 1990s. There are some quasi-county offices like the sheriff and a regional cooperative to handle some planning and permitting but everything else is handled at the town or state level. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Massachuse...

2. Town meeting, an annual event where everyone has a chance to speak and vote, is deeply ingrained in civic life. Its the last vestige of direct democracy and a good way to end a long winter. Every dollar that the town will spend for the year is voted on and any resident can speak on any item (warrant article) presented.

I live one town to the east of the town in the article btw and I was able to speak and help vote down a warrant article at the last town meeting to add town regulations for WISPs.
I think that's the most important lesson that people should learn. If a huge number of calls all start with "91" then something has already gone terribly wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSgf835YRE
Let's just ban ad tech.
Happy to say that Jets is now on the official AWS Ruby runtime. Article talks a little bit about AWS Lambda Custom Runtimes and Lambda Layers. Also covers a small bugfix to the official AWS Ruby runtime.
Have to go back to Truman? You seem to have forgotten Vietnam...
The have a solution in that market. It's still more a dev box but your line of thinking is probably correct.