skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to remeber this was long before the "A computer on every desk" era of mas market asia supply chains. The computer itself was a major investment. An Apple II with a floppy disk set you back over $4K. Add a functional printer for another $1K at least, not including the parralel port addin card needed to communicate with it.

So software was a low volume business. On the upside, in those days often free telephone support was included. And this wasn't some call center person reading from a script either. You actually called the company helpline and some knowledgeable person would help you out whatever the problem.

In today's market, low volume business software is still expensive, I'd even argue much more expensive than it was in those days.
having thousands of customers paying $0.1 per day is a huge accounting hassle. Trying to account e.g. for EU VAT is a maze of galactic proportions for a small startup. So you 'll need an intermediary who will get a cut of that income. And then you 'll occasionally be getting weird looks from banks because apparently that business model looks suspicious ( i've had my bank deny me services because we do virtual currency sales in game - through an intermediary).

There is also no frictionless way to do it: payments should ideally be integrated in browsers, and people should be able to pay anonymously by preloading their browser with small chunks of money, again anonymously. Maybe there is a way to make this mechanism both anonymous and legal (for tax purposes) , but i don't think anyone has cracked that yet.

Advertising circumvents all these requirements, and creates an indirect channel that transfers value from the user to the publisher. And advertising is here to stay: businesses always have and always will will keep spending a similar % of revenues for advertising. It's not advertising that's wrong with the internet, it's tracking.
Except this is like buying a small package of cleaning utilities for one cleaning and then cleaning the house with it yourself. In your analogy, the cleaning service would be ordering food from a restaurant.

The utility here is very marginal, and there are alternatives that make your life even easier.
DNSCrypt-proxy allows to send queries to random upstream DNS server or to better half of them. Spreading your queries along many servers makes them difficult to analyze.

[1] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/dnscr...
Becoming a Logician with TypeScript
http://archive.is/v0Bmd
The big issue with this kind of calculation is that it assumes each dollar has the same marginal utility.

A much more useful calculation (and much harder) is how much money is left over living expenses, and how much utility (or enjoyment) is derived from that surplus. It might be nice to live in a low cost of living area, but if all the entertainment options are not appealing, it's not really useful, even if the options are cheap.
Note that the C library (CRT) is not included here though, as that's now delivered with Windows itself as the Universal CRT.

The cmath header here just forwards to math.h and has no real content of its own.
Chart every developer must understand
Intent matters. What do you think was the intent behind these comments?
The President "should" also be forced to resign, but the power politics does not support that for a whole host of reasons. It's extraordinary to watch "Christian" evangelical moralists defend him, but in some ways that's the logical conclusion of their moral contortions.
Would 100 million be anywhere remotely close to enough for that?

Bing, with all the money and power of MS behind it, has about 5% market share. Yahoo has about 2% market share. Baidu has about 15% but also total assets of 40 Billion US Dollars.

> The best ideas

What are those?
Except the average Joe has no idea what rsync is let alone how to set it up. Not sure we can say the same thing about grocery shopping

You can criticise a company without being in a Dropbox<>rsync situation. Especially when that company is not doing so well.
Richard Dawkins: ‘Brexit is now a religion
Why don't you get a HN clone that uses the HN api and filter out the URLs/hosts you don't like.

That way you can keep your preference to yourself too.
A smart artificial hand for amputees merges user and robotic control – EPFL
At the returns the investors want, dominance is required.

Lots of consolidation happening in auto manufacturing too, along with most fields. Even of the car makers that exist, I wonder how many would be kept propped up by a country just to ensure they retain manufacturing capability in case of war.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-m-a-fiatchrysler-...
Why does this feel like such a witch hunt?

Because you like him. If he were somone you did not like you'd be "good riddance".

How do you fell about James Damore?
Plus the existing physical stores have the advantage of economies of scale. I always wonder what that means for the whole B2C e-commerce supply chain compared to individual traffic to brick and mortar stores.
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OK, ok, okay. How do you write OK?
> Jaime Sin who in 1976 was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI, thus becoming known as "Cardinal Sin"
Tweet does say it's a 'bucket' though.
He didn't need to have the concept of "coercive consent" explained. It's the other party than needs some basics explained. Many people would refuse sex with a prostitute, and even more if they suspected the person was a forced sex worker. Therefore it's not unreasonable to think Epstein required his slaves to pretend willful behavior and fake consent. How efficient it was? We will never know as the alleged "rapist" is dead. The problem here is that you can't even consider his innocence as you will get punished by a collective hysteria.

Is it possible he thought the girl was genuinely interested in the famous professor? Maybe. But even considering this possibility is now deemed a crime by Twitter activists and you will be punished for articulating it by losing your job.
neat, this is my go to for something more complicated, i.e reat or even node
https://codesandbox.io
Intel’s 10nm Snow Ridge Wields Tremont Atom Cores and Mesh Architecture
Ah, thanks. I'll do that if there's a next time.
Nope. The USA is extraditing Kim Dotcom from New Zealand because he (allegedly) broke US laws. Note that he did not break any NZ laws.

Assange and Wikileaks is similar - Assange is an Australian citizen in the UK, but is being extradited to the US for breaking US law via a website. He is not being charged with any offences (to do with this) in either the UK or Australia.

If your website blasphemes and can be reached from Saudi, then the relevant authorities there could push for you to be extradited to face charges in Saudi (if your country and Saudi have an extradition treaty). It doesn't happen, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen.
I just skimmed AWS requester pays and it seems that you can't set the price, the requester always pays only the AWS's download cost, so why bother setting it as requester pays at all if it doesn't bring you anything?
This is essentially an argument for more national parks.

I've lived someplace embroiled in controversy over pursuing national park status. Most the residents are vehemently against it because it would trash the place and overwhelm it with tourist traffic and all the problems that brings. The supporters consist a small contingent of profiteering area land owners that don't even spend any significant time living there. They couldn't care less about what impact becoming a national park would have on the environment or the area residents' quality of life. They just saw dollars.

National parks are a double-edged sword. They bring often much-needed tourism dollars to typicaly economically distressed remote regions. But they do not improve the environment. They stimulate travel (often by air), pollute the park area, and damage the natural habitats.

If the goal is to preserve and protect, the last thing you do is classify a place as a national park and make it easily accessed and comfortable with infrastructure. You leave the place lacking roads, running water, campgrounds, and toilets, and certainly don't advertise it as a nationally-recognized place of beauty.

National parks are more about stimulating the economy than preserving nature, at least as implemented today.
Yes you need that any linear combination of the k Gaussian is Gaussian.
The OP needs some correction:

The title is "Gaussian Processes". Okay, so, we're considering "processes". A Gaussian process is a special case of a stochastic process.

Here is the usual, first definition of a stochastic process: For the set of real numbers R and for each t in R (t usually regarded as time) we have a random variable X_t (TeX notation for subscripts) where the values of X_t are in R. That is, X_t is a real valued random variable. So, the stochastic process is, say,

{X_t | t in R}

This stochastic process is a Gaussian process if for each t in R X_t has Gaussian distribution.

Commonly we continue and assume that both the expectation and variance of each X_t is the same for each t in R.

In addition for any s in R we might assume that the covariance

Cov(X_t, X_{s + t})

(more TeX notation) is a constant for all t.

With these assumptions we can do a lot in power spectral estimation and extrapolation.

We can apply the central limit theorem to argue that an independent increments process is Gaussian.

For more, see, e.g.,

I. A. Ibragimov and Y. A. Rozanov,
Gaussian Random Processes,
ISBN 0-387-90302-x,
Springer-Verlag,
New York,
1978.

For one more, if real valued random variables X and Y are independent, then they are uncorrelated. Net, independence is a much stronger assumption than uncorrelated.

But, amazingly, if X and Y are joint Gaussian and uncorrelated, then they are independent.

For one more, for the example of curve fitting and interpolation, I'd suggest not polynomials but splines or least squares splines.

For one more, for Gaussian X_t for finitely many t, the sample mean and sample variance are sufficient statistics. That means that in any work in statistics, we can keep the sample mean and variance, throw away the X_t, and in principle do as well. The foundation paper on sufficient statistics was by Halmos and Savage back in the 1940s. The concept of sufficient statistics is an application of the Radon-Nikodym theorem. E. Dynkin showed that the Gaussian assumption is critical -- with small changes the result is false.
The intent was that before we collectively declare the dead man a rapist and pedophile, let us at least make a minimal effort to find out what really happened.
You need to look further than just the cause of death, prescription opioids have been the gateway to heroin for many people...
The funding comes from Coil.
Yea, classic case of low vs. high margin businesses. Travel is a great example. You would think sites like Expedia would make a healthy margin on airline tickets. Due to the way it's set up (booking systems, airlines, competition) the actual net per ticket is something like $5 for domestic flights. Last I checked Expedia specifically, most of their revenue was on hotels.

Contrast that with a high margin business like consulting services or a proprietary technology/product and there's a huge difference in net profit between the two at $10m annual revenue.
I've tried to find some interesting books in those XMLs but so far I haven't really found anything worth of note for a modern reader.
The goal learning programming doesn't tell you when you are done.

First define what you're trying to accomplish e.g. Web App, Mobile App. And then learn the prerequisites for it.
The British tolerance for cameras, and other oppressive behaviour by the police, is actually very high. Football fans have been subject to all sorts of illiberal measures ranging from face recognition to passport confiscation for decades. The rest of the public support it because they like order. See also the "ring of steel" London security system and everything related to terrorism.

This is partly why there haven't been any significant anti-Brexit protests; the police have very effectively dismantled the structures from which violence might spring.
Intel's Tiger Lake Growls: 10nm Chip Packs 50 Percent More L3 Cache and AVX-512
AIUI, es4x essentially replaces Node with Eclipse Vert.x, so the main question for me is how it compares to running on a normal JVM. Do you have any figures there?
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In my 40s as well and same here. Light mode hurts me. But always has. My first computer was monochrome green on black. Then MSX for many years where the first command after startup would be color15,1,1 (white on black) until I was able to make a custom eprom to have it at startup.
If you want to hack on new technologies, great, that's understandable. But do that on your own time, not when you're being paid to achieve business objectives.
FWIW the Equifax email didn't go to Promotions for me, it was in the regular Gmail inbox, and marked "Important".
Yes. That's that's my point. You seem to think that I'm contradicting myself. Either I'm expressing myself badly or you are misunderstanding my argument.
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I'm from the UK and about 10 years ago, took a side trip to one of the redwood forests outside SF. It was packed near the carpark, but wonderfully quiet about 20 minutes walk away.
What it was like to fly the baddest airplane
You can learn anything in 4 months but not necessarily to the level where you're as effective as required.

Programming is 99% defining the problem and designing a solution, and 1% tapping your keyboard. Perhaps your problem is to learn enough programming to create a proof of concept of whatever you're wanting to eventually build as a real product.

Before you set off on your journey, it would be wise to look at your competition in the same space. I'd say your greatest threat is likely to be existing business intelligence tools that allow the users to write their own complex queries that reach into various real-time and batched data sets and surface them as beautiful widgets and dashboards, which they can then share internally or externally through security policies. Some even have an element of artificial intelligence to try and find patterns and correlations that would be valuable to a business.
lol “suspicious”, as if it matters

you realize you can say the wildest most unsophisticated things and they’ll just punch the numbers into a machine and get a “lend to this guy or not” result either way right?
No, IIUC in Inko your method won't compile unless you either
A) Define this method as throwing exceptions
B) Catch the exception inside the method
Foster local expertise in Botswana’s elephant-hunting debate
SGML parser and template processor written in JavaScript
>People -- even deplorables and bitter clingers -- are right to question intellectuals and in some cases raise barriers that are difficult for them to overcome.

By mentioning "deplorables and bitter clingers" you're admitting that much of the motive for such questioning among anti-intellectuals is rooted in politics and tribalism - and the premise that "intellectuals" are of the opposite or enemy tribe (leftists, liberals, feminists, Jews, atheists, pick your poison) and that therefore their work is inherently fraudulent or meaningless.

>Sometimes the mumbo-jumbo is bullshit or dangerous.

But anti-intellectuals tend to consider everything they don't understand, or anything that's part of the "establishment", to be "mumbo jumbo." If they had a credible, rational basis for their criticisms, rooted in an understanding of the domain they criticize, they would no longer be "anti-intellectual."
> Would 100 million be anywhere remotely close to enough for that?

I think money is not the biggest hurdle. The problem with most ad networks is they copy google: most of the adsense alternatives for example are simply googles's ad partners that use google's ad exchanges. I think the ad space instead needs a "stripe for ads", a company that will quickly catch up with what publishers want, create solutions and push advertisers to use them.

The alternative ideas include anonymous micropauyments.
Legally any form of touch can be considered assault in the wrong context. It doesn't have to "look violent".

(Check your local statutes!)
Back the day I had a short stint at Flixbus in Germany. Being an ops / logistics guy I wasn't that impressed by their operations at the team I was at (their line business seemed different but grew out of one of Flixbus earlier acquisitions, mein fernbus). Also the tech didn't look revolutionary. What was top notch, and backed by serious money, was advertising and marketing. They had all the metrics, the strategy, the budget, knew the processes, everything.

It was that what gave them the market penetration in new countries, out spending and out performing competition until competition faulted or was bought out. So, the lesson I took, was that a lot of the latest b2c e-commerce start-ups are to a very large extent marketing driven.
First off, congrats on creating something on your own, and making it to the top of HN. It's not many people that get here by doing something on their own.

I must say that for my sporadic needs, this would be still too basic. My go-to tool has been for years https://jsbin.com but it's interesting to me how other tools have been able to monetize on this category.
What this text truly reveals is the effect that nihilism and Wittegenstein’s philosophies has had on cultural studies.

As the extent of philosophical inquiry through the written word was capped and the reins passed off to material experimenters, many cultural philosophers seem trapped in a simulation of academic inquiry, but which is really a black hole vortex in their language games.

They say that the final frontier is the mind and some even suggest that the reason we haven’t encountered aliens is that before we explore the infinite expanse of mostly lifeless space, intelligent life enters the infinite vortex of their minds and thus look in rather than look out.

What is truly left to be inquired about when we look into the distance and see only the void. The games we play are the lives we live and perhaps all we need is someone to twist our minds such that we can see something delightfully new with a little wit and humor.

And maybe that is a life well lived for the technically ungifted.
Tracking coordinated disinformation campaigns online made easier w BotSlayer
also 2) can be dangerous as there will be someone to replace you and make you redundant
They made the conscious decision to monetize personal data belonging to more than a hundred million people. That means they should take every measure available to make sure something that sensitive is not released.

If this was the US Airforce who lost an armed nuclear ICBM the commanding officer who was ok with this ”whoopsie” would have to explain him or herself to quite a few officials.
Oracle's New Supercomputer Has 1,060 Raspberry Pis
I don't think devs hesitate because Rails (or Ruby in general) isn't good, they hesitate because they hope to gain more relevant experience by working with JS frameworks.

But again, that's just my experience, it may differ for other companies and/or regions.
If 1) is true people might still not use it unless open source. Unthinkable in the 90s, now all companies (big and small) I work with demand open source languages and frameworks, besides for embedded work.
The problem here is "Someone's CI pipelines redownload the same models on every build"

I'd say there's only a 10% chance Apple's firewall would let BitTorrent through, and only a 3% chance the CI servers would maintain a positive seed ratio.

Possibly it might solve the problem because users would cache the resources themselves to avoid the hassle of getting BitTorrent into their CI pipeline...
I get your point but it is your local and anecdotal evidence.

In the era of mechanization adult men were replaced in factories by children as young as 6 years old and it was considered a great progress because they could be paid much less and do the same job. Is that fair ?

Before school was made mandatory at 17 you had been an active part of the work force for 10-12 years. was that fair ?

At 17 you can be drafted and sent to war to be killed, fair ?

A couple generation ago at 17 you had been working to bring money to the family for several years.

Problem is that fairness is a human made artificial concept, looking at the human societies almost nothing is fair in them, it's mostly about perpetuating hierarchical structure of power and domination, exploitation and competition. The few examples of success through fairness and cooperation comes from the wild that we collectively work so hard to eradicate.
Sure, if that actually happened, but the comment was that ad blocking could do it.

In reality, ad-blocking is already priced in and slowly being recovered. All it did was create a new addressable segment of tech-savvy/ad-resistant consumers. The slack is now recovered in first-party walled-garden platforms, native advertising, "influencer" and other underground techniques.
They are a startup, 1 year ago their future product was chatbots / text platforms for entreprise. Don't know if they pivoted but I don't think so.

My guess is that they don't earn money yet. They more or less are just out of school so it's a young startup. Actually studied with some of them and I'm still a student.
He is named in the court deposition by the witness.
Can confirm BitWarden as a great LastPass alternative. Have been a paying LastPass user for years and have switched the the paid BitWarden. Zero issues and 100% open-source
I disagree with Stallman's skepticism (I do think it harms children and I don't think children can make that choice). But that one liner does not make him a pedophilia advocate. That makes him someone who is wrong on that topic.
Ripple never had an ICO - check your facts

Ripple doesn't hold 60% they hold 50%

The purpose of the 50% they still hold is public know since the very first days. They SHOULD use it to push the adoption of the XRP Ledger. Period. People hate Ripple for selling/donating their XRPs, funding great stuff like Coil with it that obviously somehow uses XRP but that is exactly what they HAVE to do. Heck the whole company was made for that. The XRPL devs made a better Bitcoin and wanted it to be used. How evil from them. /s

The whole security thing is nonsense. Someone bought XRP high and sold low got made and sued. Pathetic. He didn't even bought them from Ripple.
This is a very sad situation. I hope that the FSF does not lose him forever.
The front page of HN quite democratic, allowing folks to vote up articles that they liked and find interesting. It works pretty well most of the time.

A permanent ban is pretty extreme because NYT does have some interesting articles and stories in recent months.
A million people on the streets of London doesn't count as a significant anti-Brexit protest? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/23/one-million...
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