skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am super bullish on AirBnB as rare company that can credibly consider a variety of humongous future aspirations. I could see it getting involved in all sorts of travel, lodging and housing industries. Very, very few companies have demonstrated the ability to combine the imagination and execution as AirBnB. I don't think the regulatory environment will be even a speed-bump on its path.
>I really expect (and hope) to see a resurgence of torrenting in the wake of ongoing balkanization of streaming platforms.

Agree. A lot of people think it's still the torrent dark-ages where you need to search for individual torrents like a cave-person. If so google sonarr, radarr and get a vpn!
I think the new things are integrating the SVD output into the NN as a couple of layers and then training it more, and adjusting the learning rate differently from how it was done before. The training step will tend to tune the compression to work well for the specific task.

Getting good results on the task is different from making the compressed representation of the embedding better on all-purpose metrics (like average magnitude of difference from the original embedding). For example, you might end up with changes that improve representation of common words, or words where errors actually mess up results, at the cost of making the decompression worse by simple metrics.

(It wasn't clear to me if the training adjusts the whole net's weights or just the two layers they add up front. If it adjusts everything, you could also get joint changes to the original net + decompression machinery that only work well together.)
Now we have both auto-playing music and video. Even on mobile!
Just to be clear, article 50 hasn't been revoked, the UK will still leave the EU with no deal on March 30th.

This vote is very damaging to the government's position, but as it stands there's been no move, assurance, or guarantees, to stop article 50.

If article 50 is activated it starts a two year countdown as the UK slowly moves out of the EU.

Even if the government loses the no confidence vote, there's still no implied action on article 50.
I don't think this is a good argument. What you are describing is the chicken and egg problem. Once one part is solved, the other one is too.
I would also smash any 2.4gz antennas inside the TV for a good measure. They might not have access to your WiFi network, but the XFinitiWiFi is available to any TV maker for a modest sum of money.

That, or you can buy a commercial display instead of a TV.
We can always end up with a tautology interpretation of premature optimization, in which case it cannot be bad, if it was bad, it wasn't premature!

While this may no include you, a great many forums and advise areas on the internet, and elsewhere, would discourage you from even worrying about a detail like this. Asking questions about this will just get you a knuth quote. I sometimes wonder if the reason so much software today is inexplicably slow is because for 30 years so many young kids curious about how computers and compilers work were told not to worry about it.

I think it is useful to build up some intuition about these things, so your default implementation can be the fast one when it isn't especially messy to do so. People don't always get the opportunity to come back and change things later, and some design choices don't just affect a single function that you can easily fix later in the development processes.
>I wish they were explaining why they moved away from Mapbox and OSM in general!

Because it sucks. Isn’t that obvious? There’s no point in having a feature that nobody uses. I switched to DDG a few months ago and this has always been the one weakness. This is really good news IMO. Apple maps has come a long long way since launch, and their data is about on par with Google at this point.

You can argue all day that of course it’s still a commercial company. But I’d rather compromise and hitch my wagon to the folks that are outwardly explicitly drawing out their commitment to privacy, whose incentives I understand and trust.
Apple's business model is not selling your data for advertisements. They make their money the old-fashioned way - charging customers for their product (hardware).
Apply to companies as a team
Sheldon Adelson = Big GOP money.

"Adelson's newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was the only major newspaper nationwide to endorse Trump.[42][43]

Adelson was also the largest donor to Trump's inaugural celebrations, with a $5 million donation to the celebrations.[44]"
-- Wikipedia
I do not like this analysis.

"A professional always does everything necessary to complete a job. An amateur sometimes chooses only the fun parts."

My problem is, what is "a job"?

Most people work on a team in order to work on "the fun parts" and let someone else deal with the other parts. I'm lousy at marketing and sales. I cannot do graphical design. Don't trust me at all to handle the bookkeeping.

Those are all parts of of the job of releasing a software product. But I only find the programming-related parts to be fun.

That's why I'm a professional programmer, but not a professional in the other fields.

I also don't like this:

"An amateur golfer, for example, may thrill at the crack of hitting a 300-yard drive but hate putting. And so that amateur may frequently choose to pick up the ball once it's “close enough” to the hole."

Golfing has amateur championships. When Tiger Woods competed in the United States Amateur Championship in the mid-1990s, he did not "choose to pick up the ball". He did all of the parts, and did them well.

The USGAs rules about amateur status include things like a limit of $750 max prize money for the tournament. http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/rules-hub/amateur... It's "amateur" because the golfers aren't making a living from golfing.
You might as well describe global warming as the "simple physics" of the Earth taking in more calories than it expends. It's technically correct but utterly useless information.
Lest we forget that speech synthesis is not just for grotesque but amusing semi-real vocal synths like this, here's a BBC Radio 4 history of speech synthesis as an assistive technology - Klatt's Last Tapes, by Stephen Hawking's daughter, Lucy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=097K1uMIPyQ
I know this story isn't startup related but it would be good to give it some front page time (not sure that is possible). Hackers here can suggest ways in which the people of Zimbabwe can get online and let the world know what is happening.
>I think this really is more about behavior and our choices and the consequences in this day and age. That's it.

I think that talking about behavior and choices gets to the heart of it: we can't try to convince people to adopt different ideas or different culture and expect behavior to change. We have to examine, empirically, what is actually driving call-out witch hunts -- which I very much agree with you and Brooks are a terrible, stupid pathology of our present (polite, urban) society.

To stop this, we need to ask: why is this happening?
One of the tips is to avoid Linq, which many .NET developers are hesitant to do. I made a library that lets you use Linq style convenience functions without a performance hit in many cases:

https://github.com/jackmott/LinqFaster
> In my experience they often prefer that scheme/etc ceased to exist at all.

Alright. Well that doesn't really work when choosing words and definitions.
When I was at grad school most of my research was about devising highly impractical (but kinda cute) algorithms for idealized machines with concurrent processes. These algorithms were usually about twenty lines long, but the correctness proof would span a dozen pages (and sometimes several hundred numbered equations) - at one point a reviewer got so disgusted that they called it "Proof by intimidation".

So, yeah, imagine doing that for any program with more than five hundred lines of code.
Sometimes yes - what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be the default, and all too often is, for no good reason, even in classes that would appear to be natural extensibility points.

On the plus side, when I encounter this, I generally ask the author on GitHub if it can be 'unsealed', and they generally do so.
I was just reading about this. Looks like the measure barely squeaked by (less than 1 percent margin) and parts of it are on hold pending a lawsuit.

I’m very conflicted about these types of bans. I have an apartment which I share with extended family, and we share the costs. Technically the way these bans are written would prevent us from doing that without somehow getting everyone’s name of the lease which would not be practical.

I wish that people would fine heavily for actual bad behavior, and let fair economic arrangements between respectful parties happen. But I also understand that enforcement is very difficult, and most people are assholes.
I tried to hack my Mercedes, but CAN bus is really useless as it doesn't have anything usable and everything is encrypted over FlexRay and there are not easy way to hack essential parts of the car (unlike CAN bus in say Ford).

May be i was wrong, but there are nothing on the CAN bus in latest generations of Mercedes.
It's an attack on the people who think call-outs are appropriate, which is overwhelmingly a left-leaning tool.

In particular it's noteworthy that when the left calls itself out, it reacts as the left desires (see Emily in this article, or Al Franken, or John Conyers, or ...), and when the left calls the right out, the right attacks the legitimacy of even being called out in the first place and starts making arguments about the "rule of law" because the law tends to be on the conservative side (since conservatives are, somewhat by definition, those who are on the side of what the law presently says). It's not new, and it's absolutely relevant context for this article.
Agreed. But I prefer that something to be a separate box, so that I can upgrade and replace it separately from the TV.
> I find it unlikely that Brooks would only support the law as it stands today. I think it is a bit much to just assume he supports just that.

If only he had a column in the New York Times where he could tell us what he thinks on the subject!
I have to say I'm pretty upset about this.

Not over privacy stuff (I don't trust Apple that much either), but because Apple maps just sucks. Unless things changed within the last 4 months, Apple Maps couldn't accurately navigate me from Custer State Park to Mt. Rushmore (which really isn't far).
It's a fantastic use case. I could almost guarantee that anyone who disagrees hasn't lived under an oppressive government.
So, will they now re-evaluate the whole Brexit? It's clear it was a failed idea to begin with.
They don't involve payments, modifications, or deadlines, expressly disavow rather than assign IP claims, and don't have any local employment or contract law implications so the number of variations certainly isn't in the same ballpark

The fact the number of variations on the simplest possible EULA still approaches 100 does rather underline why lawyers are still used for more complicated things though.
Sure, and they have the right to put you on a plane to somewhere else.
While there is some amount of speculation, it represents a small portion of the entire financial space. If you sincerely hold this view, you should take a closer look at the purpose of financial instruments and markets.
I disagree with this completely, but I'll admit that reasonable people can disagree about that.
The game is designed to be mostly about the skill and resourcefulness of the players.
Could you give me an example of a practical program (none of that "hello world" or "multiply two numbers"-grade stuff) that has entirely been proven correct, through tests or formal methods?

Let's start with tests: If you don't write a test for every single possible case, you will not know if there is not an edge case in your program that you did not catch. Unfortunately, the number of cases for any program that isn't entirely trivial (and thus mostly useless) grows so enormously quickly that you simply cannot write an exhaustive amounts of tests.

So instead, you have to classify your inputs and test "representative" inputs for each of those classes. However, to make the reasoning of what is a perfect classification, i.e. a classification where each input you give in your tests behaves the same (for a reasonable definition) as any other input in that class, requires proving non-trivial properties about the program. And that, the halting theorem tells us, is impossible as well.

In simpler words: In even relatively simple programs, there are more tests to write than available lifetime, but theory also tells us that we can't know how to reduce the test cases to only the interesting ones.
It is due to less competition. Once it gets a competitor then it will be downing like a sunset.
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Don't fully understand UK government structure but is it possible for the labor party to take over leadership and revoke article 50 before the deadline?
Unless there are widespread helium-3 fusion reactors, the demand for it is about $2000/liter for mostly scientific and imaging purposes. Even then it’s a sort of a niche driven price since when the US was willing to bother decaying tritium for it it was like $100 a liter.

Making a helium-3 fusion reactor is a tougher problem than mining on the moon. And even then making helium-3 on earth is cheaper than going to the moon to mine it.

Mining the moon for Helium-3 would be something someone would do once a colony is established, not a reason to establish one.

Probably the most lucrative thing to mine on the moon is water.
there was a lot of bold, revolutionary thinking in the early days of crypto, and definitely a lot of naivety. There still is, but the realities of the world have tempered it a bit.

but yeah, basically.
Have you previously used OpenStreetMap? I'd be interested in hearing from those who have. I can say as a DDG user that presentation-wise I disliked what DDG was using before -- but from a direction-accuracy perspective I simply have no idea and would love to hear from others.
Yes, of course. We've spiked CO2 levels like crazy. We've slathered our farms, our lawns, our houses with organophosphates and neonicotinoids. And still we think that these things are small problems requiring maybe some little incremental tweak here and there to fix. Bug populations have cratered across the US in the last 20-30 years and this has received only the slightest bit of attention and almost no press coverage. That has a wide ranging impact on the entire ecosystem and is just one tiny aspect of how we're changing the world.

We are basically just children refusing to accept even the most basic levels of responsibility and stewardship for the world we live in.
Isn't Apple's map data based on OSM too?
If they are smart, they'll axe Brexit completely now and admit how they misled everyone about its benefits.
This might, however, be the next step in the political game being played by factions interested in having a new referendum.
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See https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf, which includes some identifications of some of the responsible devices. (Two groups of researchers published independently on this issue at nearly the same time.)
The Chinese have been doing this for a age now, using pattern analysis to detect firewall avoidance methods. There of course have been developed anti pattern analysis methods and the fight goes on.
What I don't understand (and I am very ignorant!) is why the initial vote can't just be looked at as a stage in the decision process. Time has gone on, and the public has become more educated as to what the true effects of Brexit will be. Even leaving aside the question of how dishonest the pro-Brexit arguments were. It just seems reasonable to have another vote.
Is it though? A few months ago Apple Maps gave me wrong directions going from Custer State Park to Mt. Rushmore (two major tourist locations relatively near one another).
Opened the link to find 6x Pentium Pro. I think this person has never used a mainframe to know what its I/O capacity is like.
38% of tech workers hurt by H-1B premium processing changes, Blind survey says
That's really interesting. As the Wikipedia article notes[1] quoting the decision while the court didn't hold property rights at as specific altitude, in their language they referred to the height of buildings, trees etc.:

> "if the landowner is to have full enjoyment of the land, he must have exclusive control of the immediate reaches of the enveloping atmosphere. Otherwise, buildings could not be erected, trees could not be planted, and even fences could not be run" …“The fact that he does not occupy [space] in a physical sense -- by the erection of buildings and the like -- is not material. As we have said, the flight of airplanes, which skim the surface but do not touch it, is as much an appropriation of the use of the land as a more conventional entry upon it."

But it's not clear to me that this would apply to drones for a couple of reasons:

1. The question of whether something is considered an easement or not doesn't apply for the drone question. I.e. in the 1946 case bombers were flying by at 83 ft so "buildings could not be erected". Whereas today if if drones were flying past your house at 83 ft and you built a 100 ft building they'd just need to fly over or around it.

2. In the 1946 case the overflights themselves caused enough of a disruption to farming from noise etc. that the farmer went out of business, so the takings clause was invoked. It's unlikely that'll ever become an issue with drones, general noise regulation will handle those sorts of cases.

Also, surely there's lots of post-1946 cases on this matter due to the build-outs of airports and growing class B airspace, or has that been handled entirely by buying out property and zoning regulations?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Causby#Holdin...
> however much is necessary to close off the possibility of something being not-wrong.

This is borderline self-referential with respect to the whole Knowledge definition, though. If you have enough information to remove the possibility of a belief being not-wrong then there's no point in defining Knowledge at all. The whole debate around the definition is that humans have to deal with imperfect information all the time, and deciding what constitutes Knowledge in that environment is a challenge.
Uh, it is very widely understood that eating & absorbing fewer calories than you burn leads to losing weight, and vice versa.

The question is, how does one generally control this?

There appear to be a multiple biological systems, psychological, economic, health, societal, cultural, and evolutionary factors at play which influence how much/how often/what a person eats, how they metabolize what they eat, how much they exercise, etc.

You’re ignoring all that if you try to treat it as matter of “simple physics”. You’re effectively denying the problem by vastly oversimplifying it.
More support for Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook than in the broader tech industry
great write up. always been curious about this... how do you value growth... especially as Uber / Lyft IPO and face slowing growth.

What basis do you use to get the discount rate of a SaaS company? This seems fairly arbitrary and is a key part to valuing a company
A computer is a state machine, with a number of potential states represented by 2^n (where n is the number of bits of storage/memory). As soon as n approaches some non-trivial number (which necessarily includes queued processor instructions, in addition to data!), the number of possible states rapidly exceeds the number of atoms in the known universe. There are simply too many permutations to test 100% of all cases for any program more complicated than "$x=2+2; assert($x==4);".

And that's just one constraint that makes the mythical "100% test coverage" practically infeasible. Another is: what tests the tests?
I enjoy the hyberbole, but those financial instruments are not gambling the same way Vegas is gambling where odds are set by the house in conjunction with the state gaming commission.

Individuals who speculate on stocks, options, and futures are gambling in a sense because they aren't using those instruments the way they are intended to be used. But that's their business.
Yeah

> International passengers traveling to, from and through Atlanta in 2017 rose by 4.86 percent to 12,033,865, while cargo operations were up 5.66 percent. Overall, Hartsfield-Jackson hosted 103,902,992 passengers last year...

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2018/01/30/hartsfie...
> So, let's take Route 66. Are you telling me that none of that route had a name?

In the Midwest, at least, it is very common for larger roads to have both local names and route numbers (one of county, state, or federal); no, the road name is not removed that I've ever seen. An example, heading due west from Chicago is state route 38, which is Roosevelt Road through the city and suburbs, then has other names as it passes through smaller towns - often "Lincoln Highway," as 38 generally follows that historic route. Frequently state routes will have the name "State Street" within smaller towns.

The Interstate system is a departure from this, and rarely do they have names - although in Chicago they do have de facto names, which often confuses outsiders when they hear the traffic report. "What the heck is the Ike?!"
Yes, but there was no chance of article 50 being revoked while May's deal was still on the table. Now it's a choice between revoking it and a hard Brexit. Which is the only way we'd ever get to a state where it might be revoked.

EU courts have, IIRC, ruled that Britain can unilaterally revoke article 50, so now it's all up to elected MPs to figure out a way forward. So the fate of the UK rests on the good judgment and sensibility of Jeremy Corbyn.
Isn't the labor party also against revoking article 50? Corbyn at least? I thought it was only the liberal party that has been consistent in arguing for revoking it.
This looks really interesting - are the benchmarks in the GitHub repo against .NET Framework? With all the performance work that's been done in .NET Core, it might be interesting to compare it with .NET Core.

Also, I noticed there haven't been any commits for a while - is this more or less considered 'complete'?
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I think the parent comment's point was that you need to know your threat model before any security/privacy tool can be considered.
I don't think it is fair to assume that because he didn't say what you wanted him to that he must support something else.
Competition is good.

I am happily using Firefox, DuckDuckGo, and Apple Maps instead of their Google equivalents—even though I was perfectly happy with them for the most part—just to do what little I can to ensure continued competition in these spaces.

Yeah, Apple Maps isn’t as good as Google Maps in many regards. But it’s been improving, and it’s honestly not that much worse for the overwhelming majority of my use cases, to the point where I don’t even notice except a handful of times per year. And I can always fall back to the Google product if I absolutely have to.
Instead of my rehashing the old arguments about inheritance....

http://developer-interview.com/p/oop-ood/what-are-advantages...
Why doesn't the JIT assume classes are effectively sealed until it sees a subclass, like the JVM does.
>The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to be made available in open and machine-readable formats by default.

That sounds pretty awesome (and expensive)!
Apparently, neither is their appearance of honesty, fairness, and transparency.
Agreed. Like saying financial institutions gamble on lending money to customers.

I think the correct contrast would be legalized state lotteries.
Also the anime Planetes had touched this topic, AFAIR.