skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure they are, so they a pass those lovely negative externalities onto the customer because they know it's in demand and only they provide that service.

If only they had a competitor that could launch the same products a few months later but offered higher reliability off the bat, that could eventually force Amazon to improve their reliability or risk losing customers long term.

Being first to market doesn't ensure eventual market dominance. Sure, it could give you important feedback. But if your product is subpar, the feedback will have a ton of noise and possibly be useless. Plus it's not worth creating negative externalities and earning the reputation.
> How many cities of a similar size have even 1?

Taking the first Italian city from this list that has 7x,xxx population, turns out to be Fiumicino, and seems to have two 1-star restaurants. This was a kind of random sample of size 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy
> Also never use Math.pow for squaring numbers (used in the distance function) because it is significantly slower...

Modern JS engines optimize hot functions at runtime - advice like this won't affect actual performance.
Having financial security and feeling like you have financial security are quite likely to be two different things.

The latter is more subject to the hedonic treadmill of "financial security means I don't have to change anything about my current standard of living" as opposed to "I don't have to live on the streets or worry about where our next meal will come from".

I could stop working today and we'd eat and live for the next 50 years just fine. It would absolutely be at a dramatically reduced standard of living. I think I have basic financial security, but many people (myself included) would answer a survey that they don't feel totally financially secure.
Counterexamples matter a great deal when someone claims that something is a rule without exceptions. They're very nearly pointless when someone states something that has many obvious exceptions but still means something, "men are taller than women", "rich people can take risks that poor people cannot" etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox BTW.
> Gates came from a wealthy family

Not just wealthy, but extremely well connected through his mother, who sat on several University of Washington, corporate and charity boards, including the United Way boards through which she knew John Opel (CEO and Chairman of IBM… right around the IBM PC's development).
Sweden has significant reduced the number of smokers, and it is the only country where more women then men smoke. Alcohol usage has also significant dropped, and the difference in usage between women and men is within a couple of percentiles: 32.1% (Women) vs 34.6% (Men).

The disparity in male vs female mortality is only slightly reduced. 3.3 years (Sweden) vs 4.5 years (USA). There was a sociology study from 2008 that even claimed that the disparity is artificial small in Sweden because women smoke more then men. They said that it should be much higher (in favor of women) if we removed smoking as a factor. In context smoking is also estimated to lower mortality by 14 years.
It's beggars belief, they have the lowest immigration numbers of all the UK and some of the most funding from the EU.
You can start with the use of available libraries. You can read about them here https://docs.remme.io/. There are some examples for the beginning that are presented in the description.
the topic that I'm covering in the article doesn't have any "search volume..." I mean people aren't looking in google for "how to grow SaaS while ignoring conventional startup advice"..
And Medium has their "recommendation engine" that exposes my article to more and more people if the engagement level is high.

That's why this post is on Medium and not on our own blog ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If Bill Gates weren’t from such a wealthy family it is likely he wouldn’t have ever attended Harvard. Grooming for Harvard and the ilk start up from an early age. It is also likely no one would know who he is today as well. He might had been that genius principle engineer that would have went on to do absolutely amazing work, but not one to start or lead a company.

Imagine how many potential Bill Gates are majoring in CS from average to good state universities that have the potential to do so much more in academia and industry, but come from poor families/no one to help them. You’ll probably never hear of them/know they exist.
The only two reasons why printing web pages out is lousy are because web developers put little to no effort into it, and because the browser manufacturers put little to no effort into it. I would love the likes of WeasyPrint and Prince to be rendered obsolete by one or more mainstream web browsers. If any of them decided that it was a strategic priority, they’d get a lot done very quickly. It’s just that there’s no compelling reason for them to, while there is for the people behind engines with a specific purpose—and so Prince is pretty safe in its position.
> The only language I can think of that does this extensively is Haskell

Rust is doing the same thing (although on the level of crates (packages) instead of individual files). When you want to use new keywords like async/await, you have to declare your crate as using the 2018 edition of Rust (as opposed to the original 2015 edition). Crates using different editions can be freely mixed, so when a new edition is released, everyone can migrate to the new edition at their own pace.
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Here is a gross example to make my point.

Imagine, when buying your groceries, you had to pay half cash, half by prostituting yourself.
Nobody would want that.

Though, prostitution is a valid funding model, as sex workers earn a living with it.

To extend the metaphor, I see advertising as some kind of prostitution for my brain. I do not want that for my brain.
I think I understand this like I'm five...or there about...let me know if this sounds correct.

Let's say the clock ticks at 100 Mhz.
So every second, the clock ticks 100,000,000 times.
Let's say the wifi broadcasts at 200 Mhz.
So every 200,000,000 (100,000,000 x 2) clock ticks, it sends something out into the airwaves - regardless of how much time actually passed in those 200,000,000 clock ticks.

Now let's slow the system clock down by half. It's now ticking 50,000,000 times per second - but still, every 200,000,000 ticks, it's going to send that signal out into the air.

Obviously those actual number are grossly misrepresented (because it's not sending something every 200,000,000 clock ticks, it's more likely sending something PER clock tick (or more accurately performing some function per available clock tick and sending it out at some predetermined number of clock ticks) - but this is just for visualization purposes)...and I could be way off - because maybe it's not the actual signal that is being slowed down, but the data inside of that signal - if that were the case, it just wouldn't be 2.4Ghz anymore. Either way, that sounds like a pretty basic why to me - Yes, this is explained below because the system uses two different phase lock loops...so it is not the signal itself, but the data in that signal that is slowed.
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REMME WebAuth solution uses one of the better ways of authentication through X.509 client certificates. Certificate-based authentication allows users to securely access a server by exchanging a digital certificate instead of a username and password. This means the client is not sending a username or password to the server which helps in preventing phishing, keystroke logging and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks among other common problems with password-based authentication. The certificate hash and status are stored on the REMME Blockchain. Server checks status of the certificate before login on the site/service.
cttet probably meant this: https://github.com/mdgriffith/elm-ui
What part of that chain of events would lead to a sexist outcome? Where's the gender bias introduced?
Same here. Started using it last month and by far one of the most fantastic product that made life easier for me.
Influenza is the correct term in 2019.
Carbs are a source of ordinary nutrition, so the cravings you experience aren't a clue regarding addiction.

Body chemistry has essential needs. You can't just drop carbs (simple or complex), feel a pang, and conflate as addiction.

And yeah, all meat transmits compounds besides protein. But.

Meat sourced from mammals is different. And genetic/evolutionary proximity matters.

Pork, for sure, is controversial according to religious food customs for a reason. Not just the perception of pigs as "filthy animals." Consider that boar taint is a key factor in selecting how to butcher pigs for their meat.

Plants are extremely distant, and the evolutionary pathways that have lead to biologically significant plants is on the other side of the predator/prey wall.

Plants do not operate lipids in ways similar to animals, and oil solubility is a key factor for how animal behavior and metabolism gets modified by nutrition. From vitamins, to horomones, to blood/brain barrier crossing agents.
> "that is unrelated to your job"

My OSS project is "software development".

My company's main function is "software development".
I'm not sure where you live, but it absolutely is a thing in my part of Europe (the UK).
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I am not saying that everything is going to be super easy to do this way but taking away my ability of using Math.PI because of document.getElementById is silly.
Is this a recycled comment? I have deja vu.
I think the plainest and most obvious reading is that this is not MongoDB but that the migration from MongoDB over to this not-MongoDB would be easy because of the compatibility with MongoDB.
Python has the same idea, albeit on a smaller scale, with its "from __future__ import <feature>" statements:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0236/
I agree. My personal view is earned wealth is more acceptable than inherited wealth. And that entrenched money is a significant contributing factor to certain types of corruption and inequality.

If the Son never inherited the Fathers money, he'll have to earn his own before bribing that politician.
It looks really great and I find it to be very fresh, but my main concern is... what happened the the real offline alternatives?

Except for the way in which you write and access JournalBook, how is it different from a real journal that we can carry everywhere?
> If Bill Gates weren’t from such a wealthy family it is likely he wouldn’t have ever attended Harvard.

If Bill Gates weren't from such a well-connected family, it is also likely Microsoft wouldn't have been selected to develop the OS for the IBM PC.
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When you travel to North Korea you see a nice country with happy people. Is this really true?
> It's perfectly legitimate to expect to sustain yourself while building open source products and projects.

I’m not convinced that should be the case. Any business endeavor carries risk, whether its basis is open source software, closed-source software, or any other product type, and one shouldn’t have an expectation of any level of success.

There are fortunately many success stories relating to open source software, so from my perspective it’s unclear that anything needs to change.
Disinformation was rampant in Wales. Many of my Welsh friends were aware of massive ad campaigns from the Leave campaign in their areas.

A good few places in Wales are struggling under the current government austerity, and blaming the EU was an easy scapegoat to sell to the misinformed.
Aren't those few lines missing all of async/IO/runtime stuff? Is all that supposed to happen inside `render`?
ScalaTags is indeed not relevant here, but Scala.js has its fair share of reactive UI libraries such as my own Laminar https://github.com/raquo/Laminar
On a positive note, I was surprised to see prostate cancer research getting bit of a push here in Sweden. A couple of years ago there were a initiative to get farmers to use pink plastic hay bags that both contributed to breast cancer research funding and natural awareness advertisement which people can see from the car when driving by. People voiced that they should also do it for prostate cancer, and this year they did. Not sure it has the same effect as the color they picked is not as eye catching and recognizable, but it is something.
Yes, because humans don't operate in a limited, context explicit vocabulary. But your point doesn't destroy the value of Tractatus to be used for another purpose.
> Just gotta love how this white, Australian born cis-male [...]

He didn't bring sex or race into it. His points are just as valid regardless of your sex or race.
You're the only one here discriminating based on sex or race.
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I don't see anything implied; it's all quite explicitly stated.
I was(am? will be again?) a fan of Elm. Constraints can be helpful and even liberating(in some sense). But that's something that should be balanced carefully with other things, like rules\laws that are clear, universal and follow the common sense.
Unfortunately, during my Elm journey, I've found that's not the case for Elm.

> Freedom is the rope with which I can hang myself.

If you'd like to, why not? It's up to you. You're not forced to do, though.

On the other side, being a hostage of some secret plans in "people in power" minds, you might be forced to do any kind of staff. New constraints are here and they're enforced on anyone. That's a catch with constraints, you can be OK with existing, but you'll never know what comes tomorrow.
Not to mention it has a great filesystem behind it with integrated git. I use it as my main document store to replace dropbox and I use it on most of my projects in place of slack.
Ask HN: Unsupervised text classification?
Hi everyone,

We are currently using text classification model trained on a labelled data set consisting of almost 500 hierarchical categories , For example a news article is labelled as News/Business News , now what we want to do is extract sub-topics from this main category such as Stock Market , Trading News, Business Investment, Angel Investments etc . So what approach would be recommended to handle this kind of problem ?

Thanks
Again, totally plausible. I agree that the post has jumped to a conclusion, that this conclusion is sensationalist and some of their arguments require further justification.

And I should point out that I very often dismiss such articles as crying wolf, especially where there is something to be gained by doing so (in this case, lots of publicity).

But actually, the issue deserves some publicity. Even if it was just an intern jumping to a somewhat sexist conclusion (though it sounds slightly absurd that they would send an intern to rescind a winning entry, but then I have absolutely no understanding of the inner workings of CES)

So yeah - an intentional choice has clearly been made to view this through a lens; that lens happens to be a little sensationalist. But still, it's far from a baseless accusation.

(also prejudice does not necessitate malice. In my view, in the majority of cases, prejudice IS stupidity. But you can hurt a lot of people with stupidity)
> "Spending half the page blabbering about empowerment of women and LBQTI+ only detracts from their argument. Their baseless claim of mysoginy and homophobia distracts..."

Rather than dismissing all that information as "blabbering", maybe consider the possibility that it forms the base of their not-so-"baseless" claim of bias? Just a suggestion...

And when I read it, it made perfect sense that this is a robot. As they presented it, this is a machine that uses a variety of movements and sensory feedback to achieve a very precise effect on a subject. There's lots of "robots" that do less. And, y'know... it's a tricky effect to achieve (in a lot of cases - there's a huge variety of responses to stimulus).
We’re having trouble finding QA’s to hire at my current company so that may have something to do with there being less positions.

To be fair, we’re not really in a tech hot zone so that might be why we struggle.
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- we currently use OCaml, Erlang, Python, Javascript and a bit of C++, and we’re extremely open to using new languages and/or technologies,
our architecture is microservice-oriented using AMQP,
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Ask HN: Unsupervised text classification?
Hi everyone,
We are currently using text classification model trained on a labelled data set consisting of almost 500 hierarchical categories , For example a news article is labelled as News/Business News , now what we want to do is extract sub-topics from this main category such as Stock Market , Trading News, Business Investment, Angel Investments etc . So what approach would be recommended to handle this kind of problem ?

Thanks
I would expect chinese media to be heavily biased towards the CN government anyway, since they basically have a monopoly on media inside the country. A better bet would probably be media from Hong Kong or Taiwan, but those should also be available in english.

An approach might be taking in multiple sources of diferent biases. If you want a Youtube channel that is heavily biases against the CN government (spinning all news negatively, but digging up a lot of relevant dirt), have a look at China Uncensored.
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Using Swedish numbers of 2016:

Male deaths from prostate cancer was 88 per 100,000 men.

Female deaths from Breast cancer was 47 per 100,000 women.

When you say that breast cancer seems a lot more dangerous, could you elaborate that a bit?
The point is that Gates' background was hardly a precondition for his success.

Edit: Gary Kildall could have done everything Gates did, and Tim Patterson wrote DOS, not Gates.

Tons of people knew how to program and had access to computers. Computers were not invented in 1975. The lower middle class neighborhood public high school in my neighborhood in 1975 had a computer and offered programming classes.

There's a reason Allen raced to show Gates the Popular Electronics issue - he knew there'd be others doing the same thing right away.
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Really? I suspect many people wouldn't know the exact ingredients or manufacturing process, but I think almost everyone knows that it doesn't grow on trees!
Wealth is only a feeling if you don't spend more than you earn. A lot of people who makes millions per year feel poor because with an increased income they exhibit an overly expensive life style. They are still in the same rat race as everyone else and that's why people with a lot of income still take drugs, feel lonely, get divorced and have partners cheating on them and all the other problems that every human being has.

The only thing money can really do is buying opportunity, and it is extremely subjective which opportunity makes one happy. An old person coming from a different time finds the opportunity to drive a loud car which makes a lot of noise and burns a lot of fuel to accelerate quickly from 0 to 100 a "pleasure", whilst other people find the opportunity to drink a Colombian coffee and eating an avocado sandwich a pleasure and someone else finds the opportunity to spend an evening playing board games with their family extremely enjoyable. You only need as much money in life as it requires to get the opportunities which make you happy. Beyond that you are wasting time and energy chasing something which doesn't buy you much. That is the advice we should give young people.
> someone from a poor background dropping from college to found a startup

Steve Jobs

Edit: Jan Koum is another
Well, it's probably cultural and because I love my job, but I have a hard time imagining a fulfilling live without a job :)
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I suspect Digital research Blowing off IBM had more to do with it
IMO:

Money doesn't lead to happiness, but no money can quickly lead to unhappiness.
I suppose ideologically a wealth tax presupposes that all wealth is bad, whereas an inheritance tax just targets unearned wealth.

How would a wealth tax differ from a capital gains tax? The net effect would seem to be similar?
I think CES's half-formed "this is immoral" and "this is not a robot" excuses would have been less likely if the product was targeted at men.
Startup costs depends on what way you do it. Own company would be most expensive but a regular taxi driver just works for one of the big taxi companies and owns their car or shares it with someone to het higher utilization.

Simplest and cheapest with least risk (and least profit) would be working for an established company using a car owned by someone else.

Note that in Stockholm Uber is a regular licensed taxi company. Any taxi company can operate like Uber and vice versa.
May not be what you're looking for, but I believe Magnatune does that: http://magnatune.com/info/faq_buyers#musicians
In germany, there are a lot of the "Verkehrsverbünde" and they work very well. For example, in munich there's the MVV (Münchner Verkehrsverbund), but the s-Bahn (slimiliar to BART) is operated by the Deutsche Bahn and the underground, tram and busses are operated by the MVG (the communal transit company). There are, of course, problems in most of the public-transportation networks in germany, but I don't think they are to blame. I think it's a pattern worth copying.

It even allows for some competition because you separate the provider from the system. For example, in nuremberg the provider for the s-bahn for next few years was recently auctioned off to another company after frustration with the deutsche bahn.
Or track your phone.
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Might wanna put an NSFW tag on this...
but it does get them clicks and is a way to milk the situation. marketing is getting paid for this one. mo one cares about appeals to reason. everyone clicks on appeals to emotion
For those who think this will revolutionize medicine, it won't. ECG analysis is a tiny part of diagnostics, and can only give a very limited amount of information for most people, and for the small number of people who absolutely need ECG for diagnosis, a clinician is still required and the ECG is a part of the information needed for determining treatment.

Further, the bar is set fairly low: as good as a panel of cardiologists at a very specific task, that can also be done by non-cardiologists depending on level of training and desire for mastery.

Lastly, this technology will never be a panacea where you walk into a Walmart and the ECG analysis spits out a report of your overall "health".
Our political and cultural system is largely based on the naturalistic fallicy, one can't blame people too much for following it.
2 billion km = 2e12m, not 2e9

The fact that individual stars can be seen doesn't necessarily mean the telescope has a resolution equal to the angular size of this star. A point source will be apparent even if it isn't resolved. Otherwise we could never see stars with our naked eye.
FWIW, if I'm going on a long journey I tend to fill up my (diesel) car the night before. It's one less thing to worry about.