skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of 'near' queries on Altavista removed the spam and had they done some basic query rewriting it would have cleaned much of the spam up. Spam never affected me on Altavista.
I'm sure they make a killing on undergrads though. I can't imagine losing money when you're paying adjuncts a few grand to teach a class of 60 students.
Thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023882
> millennial voting was a lot more impactful in 2018

It’s swinging up. But participation rates—see the second chart in your article—are still abysmal. (I’m optimistic.)
"no worse than the general population" would be a damning indictment on its own. The police have, notionally, a monopoly on state violence, and you want to set the bar so low?
Comment systems should have 2 voting pairs, a I agree/disagree button and insightful/non-meaningful comment button.
The article implies that the cameras were installed against terrorists. Some people are pretty happy to throw their privacy away in this illusory fight against terrorism. Needless to say, the terrorists have already won, we’re slowly giving up everything that separates us from them.
I guess it was referring to the fact ElasticSearch is build on top on Lucene
I was reading some papers about the detrimental the effect of weed on working memory. So I decided to stop smoking a week after that.

Surprisingly, my cognitive performance declined severely for a period of a couple weeks, as measured by dual n-back performance against my on weed baseline. After those two weeks, it started getting better. About a month later, I was at my on weed baseline. Two months after that, I have exceeding my weed baseline by a significant margin. I took an IQ test and realized about a 10 IQ point gain from my baseline IQ, which I was pretty happy with.

In regards to accomplishing it, I dunno, I guess I just stopped all at once. I'm not the type of person who can handle moderation of anything really, so just quitting all at once worked really well. I had previously quit heroin a long time ago in my youth, so quitting weed wasn't really a big deal compared to that.

It's been maybe 6 months since I last smoked at this point, and I don't really feel any different, besides my cognitive improvements I suppose.
Do a image search for “cab company owner.” Hint, you won’t be get a bunch of pictures of guys in Ferraris.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t really a technical innovation. Taxicab pricing and metering is heavily regulated. Before, it often would’ve been illegal for a cab company to use a smart phone app (or anything other than the required meter) to calculate the fare. Also, there are regulations around how taxi cabs accept riders. In many places a taxi can can only accept a street jail.

Uber got many of these regulations loosened for cab companies, because they entered the markets and widely ignored them to start with. It’s more regulatory innovation than technical innovation
Yes, but you’re still free to turn around and sell Linux as part of a SaaS offering as Amazon does. It saves you from someone surreptitiously forking your project and selling the fork without contributing back improvements to the public, but it doesn’t totally sidestep the issues in the article.
AGPL is vulnerable to certain workarounds in the same way that GPL was. The CC class of non-commercial licenses might be more applicable, but that may harm adoption.

EDIT: honestly not sure why this is so heavily downvoted (-7 as of the edit), the whole point of SSPL and other licenses is to address the "workarounds" that Amazon and others have discovered in AGPL
An idea is to make universities add some skin in the game and personally fund a portion of student loans for their students along with bankruptcy provisions for those loans.
Normally I'd agree, and there are plenty of work sites where cameras can work in the employees' favour, but for a journalist of a large respectable newspaper?

At the very least they would have had something to write about, because this article is lukewarm at best and feels like a complainy blog post.

Also, getting fired at a news paper for blacking out the cameras in the vicinity of your desk as a protest because a new security chief wants to feel important is probably a blessing in disguise.
The CEO of pogo stick-sharing startup Cangoroo insists his company isn’t a hoax
I wonder about this as well... but I am afraid the real answer lies with an underlying lack of meaning, lessened emphasis on community and lack of empathy.

We like to treat the symptoms but the root cause is so removed we can’t even begin to identify it let alone address it.
You have summarized everything superbly.
MCAS has nothing to do with force feedback on the yoke. MCAS adjusts the trim. The 737 does not have artificial feel in any case, as far as I know. There's a direct mechanical linkage from the yoke to the control surfaces, so no artificial feel is necessary.
> Exception is when you are selling the software itself, or the services that base on it.

I think we're agreeing here: no one actually knows the boundaries of this. I'm simply not interested in being the guinea pig of where the line is of "the services that base on it". In my experience the actual deciding factor for this is when you become successful enough and worthwhile to sue. Then it's up to some judge in Texas to decide whether my service is "based on" this technology? I mean, I can't run my services at all without Linux -- I think they'd have a really good argument that my entire business is "based on it". You and I may see how this is silly, that's not sufficient for making me feel safe in a legal environment that currently rewards patent trolls for example.

> It would help if the projects were clearly stating the allowed (and disallowed) usages in advance, but it's a bit early...

If we're in "warrant territory" of explicitly stating up front every possible "OK use case" to make the user feel safe, then its either going to have so many allowable use cases as to be self-defeating, or not possibly able to predict really exciting unexpected uses and rule itself out from those domains. At the absolute minimum, I'm going to start to actually have to read over the license with a lawyer now (as opposed to one common understanding of something like MIT), since I can't imagine a "one size fits all" of acceptable explicitly spelled out use cases when the whole point of these licenses is to carve out meaningful profit areas for the project itself - something that in my opinion is going to vary greatly project to project depending on the unique features it provides.
> Open Source, a set of licenses that allow users to run and modify software for personal or commercial purposes without your permission.

... And do not prohibit redistribution of the work or source-form derivatives.
I can't afford real estate in the area I grew up in, even though my parents weren't high earners.
If you think about the labor market as a market, individual employers/employees are willing to pay a variety of prices. Some people will be willing to work for $10, 12, or 14/hr, etc and some business can afford to pay $20/hr and some only $10 without going under. So if the labor price goes up from $10 to $12 there will be more workers (since the people willing to work for $12 are now in the pool), and if the labor price goes down from $20/hr to $10/hr there will be more jobs (since business that are only viable at $10/hr will exist now).

Normally the going rate for a given job would be around where supply=demand. If there are too few potential employees, the jobs that can pay $20/hr will get the workers and the jobs that can only pay $10/hr will go under. If there too few jobs, the going rate will go down, and now jobs that can only afford to pay less will be viable.

The danger I see with trying to achieve social progress by mandating every job be a "good job" is that it is very easy this way to create a situation where supply != demand. If you simply mandate no jobs pay less than $20/hr, the businesses that are only viable at $10/hr will go under. But if supply=demand before, and a bunch of jobs disappear, now you have people that can't get a job at all. So you've created some winners, but only at the expense of the people who are least competitive in the job market. And to use Uber as a specific example, sure they can raise their prices, but fewer people will take Uber and the demand for drivers will still be reduced.

This is a simplification of course. Maybe even if the overall market can't afford to pay more, particular companies can, and unions could achieve better price discrimination for labor. Or raising the minimum wage a moderate amount may only have a minimal effect on demand. But I think the overall model of individual employees and employers with individual prices is pretty solid.

If you follow this model, the best way to achieve progress is probably not to ban low-paying jobs from existing. It would be to create a greater number of jobs (some of which are higher paying) and then the low-paying jobs will be forced to either raise their wages or cease to exist naturally. By doing it that way there won't be a job shortage. I think the government still has a major role to play in this, but it's a more complicated one than just mandating what the market price should be for a transaction to be allowed.

China is probably an example of this sort of development. Before the trade war, factories were already moving out of China (to Vietnam, etc) because the wages there have gone up so much. There are certainly many problems and it is certainly not a developed country yet. But the wage (and overall economic) growth over the past few decades has been almost unimaginable [1].

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages
Here is a nice info-graphic about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/04/03/lebano...
The problem is that only MongoDB did it, not the majority of the FLOSS ecosystem.
That's more of an issue with the healthcare industry and insurance companies.
srn from prgmr.com here. Our tagline originally came from us being a low cost service, but I like to think of it as a customer support philosophy. One meaning is we want you to be able to fix the problem yourself by giving you instructions instead of logging into your system. Another is we try give you the benefit of the doubt that it could be our problem and not assume it's yours when there's an issue.
Connections Between Adaptive Control and Optimization in Machine Learning
> Trying to educate people about XY problem is pointless,

I haven't found that to be the case.

Neophytes are perfectly capable of asking questions with a reasonable amount of context: they just need to be taught to do so even when it seems unnecessary to them. Polite explanation to this end works.

> to avoid asking XY questions. You are instead stuck on some esoteric question which you can't resolve by exhausting all your skills. So you post a question on the internet. But you are only asking a question because it is a really hard question.

When you describe the context and the things you've tried so far you will signal to people that you're operating at a level beyond their ability to help.

Asking a high quality question is a universally good move for both newbies and experts alike. It takes more effort, but when you are asking strangers who owe you nothing to put in effort on your behalf it can be a demonstration of good faith to put in obvious effort on your part.
What puzzles me is why most people writing book-length technical work in 2019 should use a traditional publisher at all. The premise that a publisher deserves to keep the vast majority of sales revenue because of the value they add seems like it belongs in another time. In the modern digital and online market, the idea of publisher as some sort of gatekeeper with established channels through distribution networks and into bricks and mortar bookstores is largely obsolete. And what publisher today provides a new author with enough technical editing resources or marketing power or administrative support to justify taking the rights and keeping most of the revenue?

Maybe someone has already done this, but it seems to me there's an obvious opportunity for some sort of small-scale broker service that connects authors with independent professionals who can offer the necessary skills in editing, design, illustration, ecommerce, printing and distribution if physical copies are wanted, and so on.
Photons sent on a 5 year near c journey would arrive over e.g. 5 days instead of 5 years, hence the intensity. I.e. it doesn't take 5 years for the light you emitted 5 light days ago to arrive but the light you emitted 5 years ago may only be 5 light day ahead.
Can't compare UK here, education is free in Scotland, £9k/annually in Wales (Welsh government can provide 67% grant every year, so it goes down to £3.3k), in England it's the most expensive, over £9k/ann and Student Loan Company has highest interest rates there.
A collection of graph classification procedures with implementations
Is downvote the opposite of upvote? It seems that people upvote comments that are helpful/insightful and that they agree with.

Because upvote and downvote seem like they would be opposites, it's not surprising that people might focus on the negative of "I agree with this comment" instead of the opposite of "this comment is helpful/insightful". The former is easier to measure than the latter.
Nope! GPL puts conditions on redistribution, not on modifying or running the code.

AGPL does stretch the definition though, and people have argued indeed that it is not open source.
All the mass of marketing (ie, going mainstream) happened at around their IPO. 2003'ish.

Also, their growth after 2004 was linear not meteoric/exponentially and they are now in decline: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%....
Do any of these studies factor in the labor costs? If you get 4% from behavioral ads but need to pay hundreds engineers of 300+k to achieve it can you really beat out a company like say, DuckDuckGo that spends less on infrastructure/salary?
Physics runs out of "why"s somewhere around the question-asking ability of a clever 5-year-old, and becomes "here's the math to describe what happens" the rest of the way. Electric charge and all the other forces (AFAIK) just are.
Note that this appears to be yet another Webkit shell, and not an implementation of parsing/rendering pages in Lisp.
> They are not for expressing disagreement.

That's not a rule on HN (unlike e.g. reddit), neither officially nor by user
consensus.
> When Feynman died, Murray wrote a rather snarky obituary, saying of Feynman: “He surrounded himself with a cloud of myth, and he spent a great deal of time and energy generating anecdotes about himself”. I never quite understood why Murray—who could have gone to any university in the world—chose to work at Caltech for 33 years in an office two doors down from Feynman.

This is great. Although being interesting and challenging > being likeable, especially for a person like Murray seems to be. Especially professional environments.

I'm curious why Feynman decided to work at Caltech for such a long time as well, given he also could have been anywhere.

Some of these anecdotes about Murray are as good as Feynman's.
The collection covers these types of methods exhaustively:

1. Factorization

2. Spectral and Statistical Fingerprints

3. Deep Learning

4. Graph Kernels
One does not exclude the other. You can bring up the numbers for other governments if you wish, they’re interesting to discuss as well.

Regarding your accusations, it’s hard to settle anything now that the author deleted their comment. However, I stand firm by my statement that one cannot make claims to the effect of “life wasn’t so bad in $past_totalitarian_regime” without keeping numbers of direct human deaths - from executions, interment camps, famines - at the forefront of our minds.
Maybe because many people still use libraries (which don't share data) so there's no good database of reading habits the way there is for streaming movies. (Which recs seem to work much better for)
Yes, every byte mattered. I was there. Only "early adopter" types were "in it for the speed." Everyone else used what was there. Everyone that was online, as most weren't.

They got larger maybe because they also kept going (didn't have a choice; tried to sell early on for pennies, though they spin the story to distract from what happened). The other engines were bought or sold out.

The death of many companies during the bust also made room for them and they were likely the face of a group effort to "keep it all moving." Facebook was a similar face.

It's funny how knowing makes it seem you don't know. You sound naive and brainwashed. But all it does is once again show how powerful an illusion can really be. I'd (and did) say similar things if I didn't dig deeper.
Seems like this comment has a particular agenda.
That's what I mean by defining the phrase so broadly it becomes useless. You can say, "I am, and I have an identity, therefore my politics is identity politics." However, identity politics is specifically when the tribal motivations exceed and dominate all other motivations. It's similar to how islands are not called bodies of water even though soil contains water.
Here’s what the OP should have told us: it’s a “Personal CV website builder with Freelancer Marketplace”
They are the vast majority of Uber drivers.
I was missing the three most important words in this ongoing battle: 1) baseband, 2) backdoors, 3) Huawei.
Anything short of admitting "we fundamentally screwed up, and are rethinking the poor decision to pair this engine with this airframe"

Can you cite the basis for this often-expressed sentiment? There's absolutely no reason why a properly-designed and -vetted MCAS system wouldn't have been a perfectly acceptable solution to any handling irregularities caused by the engine configuration.

The idea was fine. The fault was 100% in the implementation.

And no, downvotes are not a valid citation.
> the object demonstrated awareness of their presence

That's certainly one interpretation.

> with the object demonstrating awareness of his presence by mirroring his maneuvers. Then he flew aggressively at it, and the object responded by rapidly flying away.

Sounds exactly like the historical reports of "foo fighters" to me.[1]

Look, I love the idea of aliens, but try to apply Occam's Razor here. What's less complicated?

a) An uncommon, but natural phenomenon in which a ball of plasma (or similar) is temporarily attracted to fast-moving, metallic aircraft.

b) An advanced, spacefaring race (or races) travel to Earth and spend over 70 years pulling pranks on military pilots.

Again, I'm no physicist, but consider something like walking through a cloud of flying dandelion seeds. The air currents created by the person walking through the cloud create little vortices that tend to pull the seeds in their "wake" toward them. That doesn't mean the dandelion seeds are "aware" of the person they're being pulled toward.

Consider also something like flux pinning, where two objects can be made to behave as if joined, even though they're separated by several centimeters or more.

"Red sprites" and similar are absolutely unreal-looking. If I saw one without knowing what it was, I'd be sure it was some kind of advanced technology too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter, specifically "Pilots and aircrew reported that the objects flew formation with their aircraft and behaved as if they were under intelligent control, but never displayed hostile behavior."
I don't agree. Open Source has always been about making money. What you might mean is Free Software, which is quite different from a philosophical point of view.
How Do We Predict Weather? Inside Australia's Bureau of Meteorology
Honestly I don't really follow your point.

"Where there is a will, there's a way" means that if you are motivated enough you will find a way to succeed. Which as I understood was your first point. That if billionaires creates these ventures people will be inspired and go on to succeed. That was also Musk's initial idea, that he would do this stunt of sending a plant to Mars and people would get more interested in funding and do space exploration.

"Where there is a way, there's a will" is the opposite. That if you can find a way to do something, people will want to do it. This is what SpaceX ended up doing, trying to be a part of the space industry.

In one of the videos he compares space and the Internet. That the Internet was first created by DARPA who did the ground work and that private companies commercialized and made it accessible. He suggest that space could be similar with NASA doing the ground work and private companies commercializing and making it accessible. That is why he moved the company to Los Angeles instead of the Bay Area, why they got government contracts, why they started with satellites and then cargo etc. And of course it is also luck, timing and everything else. But it was certainly also specifically because the idea wasn't to fund something to inspire or to do space tourism.
There's a huge demographic shift in America. Do we expect things to remain the same?
Yes. The whole AWS problem stems from having too much software under "permissive" licenses and now enough under reciprocal licenses.

Reciprocal licenses work like herd immunity: you need a large enough ecosystem to effectively keep freeloaders at bay while rewarding those who cooperate often.
- as evidenced by this article, and some of the posts here, people who haven’t gotten used to permanent surveillance do have an expectation of privacy. And cameras are different than people watching you because it’s one-way, and at scale.

- allowing people to do minor personal tasks at work is expected in a professional career such as journalism. It’s not a sweatshop, peoples’ productivity doesn’t neatly correlate with hours worked anyway. And you’re expected to be readily available outside of work hours anyway, so this should cut both ways.

- shooting happen within just a few minutes and the effect of cameras is debatable, especially if there is no armed and trained security.

- The NYT is a sort of high value target. I would not expect to get into their offices without proper ID.

- Is there some epidemic of false harassment claims everyone is worried about? As far as I know there was one case that had consequences at the Times (Glenn Thrush) and he admitted to the behavior. Also like 90% of harassment is verbal, which cameras don’t capture. The rest seems to happen in hotel rooms and bars, which these cameras also don’t address.
So, how does this compare to Flotato?

I’ve used both, and so far I definitely prefer the latter. But this might be early days.
True, but SaaS didn't exist at the time Linux was invented, so it's hard to fault Torvalds for not foreseeing this particular issue. The broader point, I'd argue, is that the idealism behind many successful free software projects was tempered by realism in choosing licenses that compel contributing back to the community.
Thank you, this is very timely: recently I got a cold email from an acquisition editor too and been researching this fascinating topic of writing tech books. :)

Some more helpful resources I found:

- Advice to Prospective Book Authors from Scott Meyers (of Effective C++ fame): https://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html

- "I wrote a book" by Tryggvi Björgvinsson: https://dev.to/trickvi/i-wrote-a-book-lfg

- "Writing a technical book" by Ian Miell: https://zwischenzugs.com/2016/05/15/writing-a-technical-book...

- Then there are some good discussion about this topic on HN. You can try searching by keywords like "ask hn + writing a book", e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14300932
Most Wanted Hackers
Would you immediately be rejected for the visa if you don't have a Facebook page?
What’s your next step if you have more power? Is there a mechanism that prevent you from being a racist? Will you drop bombs for something you think it’s right