skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ianal. But I hold 4 patents with more pending.

My opinion of the value of patents for a small company is:

- marketing (many naive customers believe if you have a unique and valuable product, then it should be patented. If you have a patent, then your product must be good. If you don’t, does that mean the product isn’t valuable?)

- it can plant red herrings on what your doing to potential competitors.

- it can be valuable for moral for some employees.

- it potentially has value for a potential acquirer.

- it prevents big companies from patenting the disclosed material in the future and reducing the chances of boxing a small company out.

I do not believe it provides protection against a big company. They can litigate you to death even if you are in the right.
http://www.appropedia.org/User:Queenannya
The ones being sold at the shops I regulary buy haven't changed a bit, besides their colours.
1. Write articles about huge success. 2. Inspire people to loose their lives trying to get rich. 3. If some of them start getting lucky by pure chance, convince them to share a large part of their business for small amount of money. ... 5. PROFIT!
> No More Connecting Your External Drives Every 30 Days

Or maybe just don't be so eager to purge your paying customers' backups in the first place? It's not like we stop paying your subscription fees as soon as we disconnect a drive.

I was a happy Backblaze customer until one day when I went on a month-ish long vacation, took my external hard drive with me, and came back to find the entire backup gone. If the drive went bad or if I were to lose it during the trip, I'd have been shit out of luck.

Switched to Crashplan and never looked back. Even now that they're double the price of Backblaze (since they discontinued the consumer plan, I've moved to their business plan) I still find it a much better value proposition because of their _much_ more flexible versioning and retention policies:

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Configuring/Specify_v...

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Restoring/Retain_and_...

None of this "we delete your backups if we don't see them for 30 days" bullshit.

Versioning and retention is _the_ core value proposition of a backup product imho, and Backblaze is laughably inadequate in this area. Stay away.
Booking.com is hosting a travel Hackathon – 10,000 Euros prize
It's hard to be sure if he is that way, or if he plays the role because he learned that it gives him an advantage at this point.
No, I don't mean "beside sonarr and the like", I mean exactly the like. Any suggestions where to find a list of available options?

A smart TV is not an option if you don't watch live TV and don't want to have a tuner.
It's advertart. There's a depth of absolute cynicism in it that is well represented by the lack of faces - and of any diversity outside of the superficial. Pose-able lies, for use by liars, to sell bullshit for companies that don't care.
Yes, Google Android J++ should be slammed 100% the same way as Microsoft one was.

Google has created a fork in the Java community.
They're marketing materials. They often don't represent everyone, but rather a specific set of customer demographics.
Not exactly. Most plaintiffs attorneys are working on contingency, i.e. a percent of the judgment. Going to court costs the plaintiffs themselves nothing. They only need to have a case with a decent enough chance of winning or settling for enough to make it worth the plaintiff attorney’s time.

Also, almost no one has in house litigators. So companies being sued also have to shell out for counsel by the hour.
All the examples listed to the parent comment here are talking about the Google of today (2019). But all businesses come to an end, and some of these later stages look highly litigious (see: Oracle). So in the year 20xx when Google ends up in that phase (owned mainly by activist investors, etc.) how will it act in that circumstance?
Yeah, it does sound like I am really down on the product but it does some things very well. If you can work around the very short lived unavailability it is fantastic.
A lot of places in Victoria while they didn't break records, it was hottest day since Feb 7th, 2009.

Fortunately there wasn't a repeat of that day, but the scary thing is it's still only January.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_southeastern_Australia_he...
I do feel that elegant implementations are superior to others (all other things being equal). However, we need to be careful how we define “elegant”. For instance, while I fundamentally understand the drive to eliminate special cases, I don’t think that zero-padding the input (or concatenating the reversed input) is necessarily more elegant. It certainly incurs a nontrivial runtime overhead (unless done via lazy data structures, in which case we’ve just hidden the special cases).
I rarely use Office products but I spend most of my day in some Office 365 product or another. There is a huge amount more to it than just Word.
There's a darker woman on the landing page and in the animated section there's a paler figure and couple darker.
The "addiction" is perhaps partly a symptom of boredom or depression. Social and physical activities often help with that. Can you put some such activities into your timetable, for example by joining a sports club?

Perhaps try reading a paper book at bed time.

A separate device for news and social media might help, depending on your circumstances. ("In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing." -- Douglas Adams)
Interestingly, for us scaling up doesn't really solve the short term unavailability. It seems to be only somewhat related to load as it does seem to hit more often at high traffic times but we have also seen it at low traffic times.

Putting in that cache is a great move. Cache is challenging for us as we get hits over a very wide range of keys.
Do you have any proof whatsoever to support your bold statements? My Discover Weekly is usually great every week and I've discovered many (real!) cool artists that I like through it.

It's possible there's a lot of low quality filler music on Spotify and that your account got algorithmically lumped in the bucket to get there recommended, but to say Spotify is "in on it" seems like a very big leap.
It wouldn't surprise me if they generated graphs and then handed them off to a design team to trace and make pretty.
This is great feedback. Thanks for this. We have heard the same thing particularly about using multiple clusters. They only started offering it last year though!
> Dalvik violated the Java license, Android Runtime isn't.

Can you elaborate on this point? What license for what copyrightable work did Dalvik violate, and why does Android Runtime not violate that same copyright license?
My audience is JavaScript developers.
Where are you located? How can you afford these prices?
APM is one thing. I am curious what would happen if it could only see a limited view (as in the last game with MaNa, which it lost to him) and physical click dynamics (i.e. clicking + gaussian noise as an action, instead of giving direct commands). That way there will be misclicks, preventing this super-efficient Stalker micro.
And also, latency is lower
Note one difference is that I'm talking about characteristics of an API, not particular code snippet. Although it's relevant.
Yes, I have heard this! Great news they have sorted that out. Might be worth us looking at it again though we are hosted in GCP now so it is less tempting...
Special cases exists because reality is not perfect.
Cyclomatic complexity refers to a specific code snippet.

I am talking about inherent characteristics of a particular API and how the patterns it encourages influences debugging.

For example:

>In fact, if any value looks wrong in the DOM of a React app, you can trace where it comes from by looking at the code of components above it in the React tree one by one. No matter the app size, tracing a rendered value is (tree height).
Bigtable is a distributed database. It does best effort replication across regions, hence eventual consistency. But within a region it is still distributed across nodes and provides strong consistency.
>JMAP is a REST API so it uses HTTP requests and responses to issue commands and get the results. Almost all requests in JMAP are to the same URL using an HTTP POST to submit a JSON body of “methods”.

Describing this as REST is really strange. Defining your own operations over an HTTP POST is what SOAP and other RPC style web services do and specifically what REST isn't. But I guess that a lack of a standard behind REST ended up with the term being used for everything.
Or JVM byte code.
> JMAP is not designed around a persistent network socket, so it’s perfect for webmail clients that connect, do stuff, then disconnect (which is exactly NOT how IMAP is supposed to be used)

WTF? So, webmail was limited by the fact that it was running in a browser and thus had to use HTTP, which has semantics that don't really fit the needs of an email access protocol. Now, we do have stuff like websockets that would make it possible to run a protocol from the webmail client that actually fits the needs, and instead people invent a new protocol that inherently doesn't match the needs of the application?
Poisson is the limit distribution you converge to when n people each flip a coin with probability p to do something, when you drive n to infinity but keep np constant.

It is well justified and models the world reasonably well. The parameter changes - e.g. when there’s a service outage, the proportion of people likely to call and report it, does change; but the number of calls per unit time within e.g. the first hour, indeed is Poisson with a higher-than-usual parameter.
You can split the first example in small functions and it'll still be a mess. The post is not about duplication, function size, or nesting. We gained predictability by preventing _accumulation_ of errors — which we got by always restarting rendering from scratch.
No, not as far as I'm aware. But it's an idea I've also had. Upload the message to drafts, and then when you're ready to send, just move it to Outbox right?
Should Twitter Get Rid of Follower Counts?
Can you please try to address the distinction between work in progress vs. not even trying for 100% compatibility? Are you saying that neither should be legal, but a complete and 100% compatible reimplementation should? Or are you saying that reimplementations should not be legal regardless of how complete and compatible they are?
I noticed this when I tried to make a diverse scene on the online tester .. could only make a scene full of people with similar darker skin tones. Not that diverse at all.
However it requires that the terminal value does not occur in the input.

For a parser that's probably not a problem (it can transform NULs in the input to a different token), in other situations it's not so easy.
I embody all of these traits. I don't have a prototype or traction, I'm by myself, working the same idea for many years. I've applied to YC 8 times. never got any feedback.

I'm sure this is to my benefit. If suffering comes, I chose to use it to make myself stronger, more determined and focused. i close to learn. and instead of rushing to optimize for their objectives, I get to really create my vision.

Everytime they reject me, I like to think about how I will make a point of how much of a broken system I think it is, when I eventually get successful.
That just means that Apple's implementation is allowed to use the Unix trademark. It really doesn't add much of anything to the copyright discussion, especially since The Open Group doesn't own Unix copyrights, just the trademark.
you'd presumably want to keep interest at around the level required to cover the defaulting rate, plus costs of operation. Any lower and you're essentially providing handouts - there's an argument to be had for that too (e.g. UBI, negative income tax) but it's a separate topic.
I've sadly been looking for, and never found, an open source EWS <-> IMAP/(Cal/Card Dav) gateway. I'd love it if my users could get a full experience using Outlook for Mac for example. Right now I recommend them to just use Apple Mail/Calendar/Contacts or Thunderbird with the tb-sync extensions.
So, your location and constraints pretty much put you in a disadvatange when its time to negotiate. Development work is viewed as less expensive in the EU, unless you are in certain key parts. Remote also means you are perceived as an off shore option.

If your goal is to get more deals in the US, then you should look into establishing a presence in whatever market you aim for. That means incorporating and visiting the place for a short while to network.
Can someone put into rough terms the probability of encountering a Carrington event within the next 10 years? E.g., you're more likely to be killed by a swarm of killer bees in Maine than be hit by a Carrington event.
In the starcraft scene we have terms to describe what your saying: you have APM and EAPM (effective APM). Historically the fastest players were around ~230 eapm and that was considered godlike.
The matter ejected by a major flare like that would be traveling much faster than the normal solar wind of particles emitted by the sun. It's those particles, captured by the earth's magnetic field, that we see in the northern lights as glowing curtains or streams. Our magnetic field does concentrate the flow of particles, but still it gives an indication of the particle flux.
HOW MIPS CAN BE AN ACCEPTABLE PROGRAM FOR CLINICIANS?
Data scientists without borders: DataKind raises $20M to grow
No, that is Google's excuse.

There are plenty of commercial 3rd party companies selling alternative JVM implementations, none of them has ever had any issues with either Sun or Oracle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...
Obviously you are expected to use scaling on high PPI displays. Didn't you use any?
He wrote a few books of reminiscences which are full of them, great reads.

But this was the first time I've seen his...extremely ugly sexist behaviour displayed, not just hinted about. Very odd. In his books he's just a bit of a ladies man.
JS Party 60: You might want to read up on PAW Patrol
I'm still baffled how NPR screwed up their story on Trump Jr supposedly lying to Congress so badly, though. If you didn't see it, they took his replies to questions about whether any other negotiations to build in Russia were going on at the same time as Cohen's ones, quoted them without context, pretended he was saying Cohen wasn't negotiating in Russia then in contradiction to Cohen's court testimony, and used this to make it look like Trump Jr had lied to Congress. Any fact checker, editor or reporter who'd bothered to check the quotes the story relied on should've caught this. It's the kind of thing I'd expect from a shady conspiracy theory peddler. (The original version: http://archive.is/ozzmb )
I would argue that without a proper competitive scene (which Total War Warhammer does not have) it is impossible to measure if it is actually balanced or not.
Think of it more in terms of the shape of the pulse than of the absolute speed. (And take it for granted that dumbing things down a bit is, unfortunately, normal for the popular press. It's usually just as easy to give a more accurate description in less-technical language, but for whatever reason, it's rarely done.)
Sun went along with it because they were out of money to sue and Google knew it.
> I can't write and distribute a proprietary Linux kernel module using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL functions.

That is because by using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL functions you are invoking code that is GPL'ed. If you made a clean room implmentation of a kernel that exposed the same interfaces as Linux, you could licence it anyway you want.
Not to minimize the problem, but doesn’t this depend entirely on how many “records” we define and keep track of?
This is the new version of stock photos for lazy and conformist people. But instead of having some young attractive models smiling at the camera with a flipchart in their hands, now you get a fast-food-style illustration, devoid of soul and personality, identical to the other designs used by some other startup, that's going to age like milk and will require a rebranding in two years.
tl;dr — it's a fad.
API Reference with elasticlunr – JavaScript full-text search with great results
50% Facebook Accounts Fake?
Chinese AI startup spreads facial recognition, one cow at a time
Not sure but I think in the video they say the AI does not see cloaked units.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/elasticlunr

"Elasticlunr.js provides Query-Time boosting, field search, more rational scoring/ranking methodology, fast computation speed and so on. Elasticlunr.js is a bit like Solr, but much smaller and not as bright, but also provide flexible configuration, query-time boosting, field search and other features."
Roger Stone Indictment [pdf]
Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller and arrested Friday on charges of obstruction, giving false statements and witness tampering.

Allegedly

Organization 1= Wikileaks

Person 1= Jerome Corsi

Person 2= Randy Credico or Jerome Corsi

Bannon is one of "senior Trump Campaign officials"
Indeed, there was a lot of bias in the past which was harder to see, because getting alternative sources was hard. Only a few NYT-size organisations could have a foreign correspondent & foot his telegram bills.

But I think there's something else too: Now that raw facts are a commodity, the value that NYT etc add (for their fan base) is the filtering and the opinions.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#Future_r...:

> According to a report published in 2012 by physicist Pete Riley of Predictive Science Inc., the chance of Earth being hit by a Carrington-class storm between 2012 and 2022 is 12%.
So you know that “we” don’t reinvent umbrellas, because “you” buy the same all the time?
You may be using the wrong definition of diversity. It's often used to mean containsminorities(thing) == true vs giniindex(thing) == high .
The Thai guesthouse that saved a village
i already had some RSI, but playing SC2 made it a lot worse (i stopped playing when i got to plat as a zerg because it required enough APM to hurt)
That's exactly it.

Lists like this exist to give administrators and their managers (1) a false sense of security when implementing it and (2) a subconscious excuse not to actually have to think about what you actually have to defend against. The list of topics is almost entirely useless if you are running any sort of containers on top of your Linux install, just as one example.

I'm sorry to be sounding so harsh, but I sincerely detest the security-by-checklist approach. It barely protects against any real-world threats, needlessly complicates matters, and gives credence to the perception that "security slow things down" through over-engineered solutions to non-existing problems. Moreover, it's a subconscious excuse to actually stop thinking about one's actual risks. Reasoning about actual threat models may not be easy but it is what one should be doing.

There's nothing "practical" about this at all, in my view.
I want them to listen to the whole people, not just the elite.
At this point I guess any API that runs on top of HTTP is REST? Strange world.
I thought STRs were used for DNA fingerprinting? Has that changed with the advent of cheap SNP chips?
Wikipedia does not belong on that list.

It's useful for non-controversial stuff. I love to peruse it, I love to quote from it. But it can't possibly be trusted for anything as topical as "Fake News".

I love the Michael Scott comment:

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

(For those who aren't familiar with the US version of The Office: Michael Scott is not meant to be taken literally).
The GP is underselling the fact that in the human years of being a pro player they think through many more games and may even dream of it. I certainly went to bed after a lengthy session with images of the game still in front of me. Although that might be more about micro, the macro skills are somewhat transferable from other "games". RTS simulate economy, amongst other things, after all.

GP's claim, "99%-baked deep net that was wired up during foetal development from our DNA" is also unfounded, if not completely overblown. I am far from a student of biology, much less an expert, but intelligence is still seen as an emergent property. The real kicker might be that organizing thoughts might be a "game" of it self, that is learned in development and constantly exercised. Talk about self-play.

I recently read a similar question about "inherent mathematical language", ie. capability, and the given opinion was that there is no consensus, except perhaps for basic addition, which I guess concerns vision, ie. seeing a set of things and knowing the count is +++++. That works only up to around +++++++ items at best, according to findings.
Apple is patenting Swift features
> finishing drywall is not something you get good at in 2 days.

I never said get good at it within that time but you learn the skills required. Practice is how you get good. Highly skilled jobs take a long period of time just to learn the skills required. Hence drywalling is a low skill job.
They have an FAQ item concerning that: https://jmap.io/#why-is-it-not-rest-based?
We rolled our own bc out of box solutions were crazy expensive. Any one else do this? I'm kind of surprised how much people are willing to pay for something that is not that hard to build. You can't build your own twilio or Google maps but Hou absolutely can build your own signature feature.
Startup Thinks It Can Solve Global Inequality Witha Video Game?
you'd presumably want to keep interest at around the level required to cover the defaulting rate, plus costs of operation

Add: Plus a profit to that

But that seems to be covered. There are multiple banks who will provide credit to consumers at lower interest rates than that and obviously still can make a profit.

Car loans are usually lower than that. Mortgages go for between 1 1/4 and 2% (last time I looked).

The maximum rate of 15% is usually applicable for credit card debts.
yup. you could have 200 apm, but as long as your clicks and button presses are perfect, you are going to win against someone with 800 but is super imprecise.

blink stalkers are basically perfect for an AI because of the precision they can blink them around.
I am saying that Google has done exactly the same to the Java community as Microsoft did with J++ and should suffer the same outcome in court as Microsoft did.

It was wrong for Microsoft, it is just as wrong for Google.

Implement whatever Android specific APIs they feel like, but just like ISO C or ISO C++, don't fork the Java standard library.
Off topic but somewhat related - my corporate overlords don't let us install anything on our workstations and the browsers we use are old and not supported by play.spotify.com.

Any bright ideas about how I can use spotify here?
> We are humaaan after all

I'm not
I wonder if those tracks have actually been played or if someone just found a way to game the play counters. Lesson for anyone who ponders the idea of open monetization models (the every-popular vision of giving X per month and having it automatically split up and distributed to creators proportionally to actual consumption): there will be bad actors trying to cheat.

PS: why is your username so perfectly on topic?
I love HNs little obsessions. Lead causing aggression is one of them. I feel like I've seen links about it for years, and I'm not sure I've clicked a single one of them.
I don't imagine who would waste their money in re-invented umbrellas, maybe it is an hipster thing.