skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing your experience – this is a fair point. Often it is possible to pre-process your data and save it to disk so that you can skip this decompression/conversion/transformation step once you start training your net, but I can image applications where this is impractical or just does not work. I will add a small note to my blog about this.
maybe it's time for paid subscription model?
Google Adwords paid the least at TechCrunch, and by some distance.
Unless they are literally crotch-less, the cut and fit of your jeans is a topic for your workplace dress code. It is not, and can never be, "sexual harassment".
This is huge for HBO. Although it will be a difficult battle, it seems that they are fully committed to breaking ties with traditional TV cable providers.
Yik Yak is a consumer Internet startup that just raised $61 million, and is based in Atlanta, GA:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/yik-yaks-new-funding-round-...
The existence of privileged population groups is a matter of fact[1] -- no one thinks they should (normatively) exist.

As a person who cares only about individual rights, I don't care if membership in some particular group is correlated with lack of privilege.

If you want to argue that lack of privilege is an individual injustice, fine - but then you need to stop discussing race since there are plenty of privileged blacks/women and underprivileged asians/males.

...not different enough or unclear enough to preclude study or reasoning.

You assert that white men are more privileged than black men. The definitions you've provided are insufficient for me to concretely state a test we could run to to disprove that.

For example, being black will sway college admissions officers for you but police against you. How do any of these definitions allow me to say that on balance, these things are negative? At what magnitude would the balance become positive?

Anyway, this is completely tangential to starfighter.
I think the ideal scenario would be to show the App Store description and screenshots from the last available version. This way, it would be the version last advertised on the App Store.
I'm fairly "right wing" (not the same as your listed views though), and while I have experienced a bit of derision in class while expressing my ideas, it's nothing I can't deal with. I'm an adult, disagreements are part of life.

Some of my professors have been very free market(the economists oddly enough), although the majority are indeed left wing.

I don't really think that it's sophisticated propaganda, but rather a very ivory tower/academic view of the world that makes college a left-leaning place. I'm fine with being taught by biased professors, I just take some of their statements with a grain of salt.
> With publishers dropping off like this; when will the decreased business show up in Google's revenue?

Never. Publishers aren't dropping off in sum, just the bad ones are cycling out and are being replaced with more nimble, relevant, cheaper, etc. content providers (ie. Grandparents thesis is not correct and is anecdotal)

There are is more and better inventory than ever and more audience than ever and both are growing at staggering rates.
The idea that if something isn't Apple, it's shit, is wearing a little thin.

Apple simply doesn't give me what I want in terms of features and freedom. I think their products look boring and ugly. So to me, Apple products are shit.
A very valuable comment – this is an important perspective, thanks! I think I will add a EC2 section to my blog post.
Until there's a clear path to buy something, CPCs on mobile screens are going to be worth fractions of their Web counterparts.

Current e-commerce experience on the mobile is "fiddle with your phone while trying to type up your account information, shipping address and billing data", so conversion rates are understandable abysmal, leaving mobile ad space to people promoting app installs.
Ah yep, editing it now. Cheers.
> Does Quora know you like to BS?

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News, and when they are as bad as this one, can easily get your account banned. Please don't do this again.
I first ran into qntm.org when someone reposted the story "The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh"[1] from the Oul's Egg section of Fine Structure. I couldn't leave the computer until I'd read everything on the site.

[1] http://qntm.org/impenetrable
I don't think you understand their business. Contingency recruiters' fees can reach 30% or more of an engineer's first year of salary, which could work out to $50k or more per engineer. You can bet they will be looking closely at each candidate's solutions, plus automated code plagiarism detection is pretty easy.

It also depends on the type of problem. If you just need one weird trick to pass the level (e.x. use this SQL injection) then that's easy to game. If you have to write a bunch of distributed systems code (e.x. Stripe's last CTF) that's a lot harder to cheat.
10 basis points for a #100 employee does not seem like an accurate representation. FB was quite mature by 2009, and offers were not as high.
(Source: Offer in 2008)
If the wind decided to blow to the south instead of the normal westerly, Tokyo would be uninhabitable. Also same subduction fault that the earthquake was on runs down the coast off shore of Tokyo. Seriously the only thing that save the Japaneses butts was the wind blew most of the radiation offshore.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that you are deceiving yourself if you think you aren't denigrating them. That is clearly your intention, and you think the facts bear you out. Why not just be honest about it?
Check out this treadmiller[1] who documented his very affordable setup and results. I've done the same for around £100 using the tripod-stand from previous standing-desk efforts.

It reversed a slowly creeping weight gain for me. Then we had our first child and the data was skewed, i.e. weight plummeted, but it's back on the trendline now and steady with limited use of the treadmill.

Concentration, noise, typing (I type a lot for a living); none adversely affected. You can adjust and it's surprisingly easy to do so. Besides, as a person with a relatively healthy BMI already (whatever it truly means for health, I was just into the overweight section before), I don't use the setup all day on those days when I do have it on.

A mixture of standing, walking and sitting works fine, switching as and when it feels needed. I understand that doing any one of those all day can be detrimental in the long term so I keep moving. The muscular effects of standing/walking can easily be felt after a few sessions. That's enough of a result for me to know it's worthwhile.

--

[1] http://www.treadmilldeskdiary.com/introduction
How long has NASA had this project and subdomain up?
Nuts aren't a crop that you plant every year, like grain. Nut trees take years to grow and reach productive maturity. Most California nut farmers have built their orchards over decades, and expect decades of future production from them. If they don't water the trees, they could die, and lose the entire farm. If you have 30 years of future production (10s of millions of dollars in revenue) at risk, you'd take any measure necessary to protect that investment, regardless of the impact.
New product development 3: Finding market fit
> if your web site depended on advertising from Google

They are dependent on Google DoubleClick, but not on Google's CPC product.

I'd be surprised if AdWords/CPC made up 5% of GigaOm revenue (it would look more like: 50% conference business, 45% display ads, 5% other ads).

CPC is used as backfill on display - right now GigaOM have campaigns from Verizon, Tile and Asana running.
> I don't care if membership in some particular group is correlated with lack of privilege.

And what if lack of privilege is caused by association with the group?

> If you want to argue that lack of privilege is an individual injustice

You may believe in individual rights, but you can't deny group injustice. Blacks were made slaves not due to any individual selection.

> For example, being black will sway college admissions officers for you but police against you. How do any of these definitions allow me to say that on balance, these things are negative? At what magnitude would the balance become positive?

You can't possibly be serious. But just in case you are, there are clear tests to measure power: money, positions of control in the private and public sectors, positions of control in the media. QED
companies will be able to get better candidates (who aren't usually applying for jobs actively) if they are willing to pay. Just like a free market.
>If I was a casual computer user that just needed to update Facebook once in a while, they'd probably be fine

Congratulations, you've identified the target market for the new MacBook.
This is sort of like joking about all the "wasted effort" that went into fixing the Y2K bug. It's not wasted effort if it averts an existential crisis.
As a 100% layman, I spent 20 mins thinking about the ad issue. The easiest way out I can find is to have some kind of location-based ad system to increase the degree of connection between a user and the ad content. Is it feasible technically and commercially? I would like to learn more. Thanks.
Now? What took so long?
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> Good luck to her but that kind of people make me sick to my stomach.

> she must have lied

jak0bbbb,

These kinds of comments are not permitted on Hacker News. Since your other comment in the thread indicates that you're an undergrad who is eager to learn, we're going to assume that you posted them from an excess of passion, combined with ignorance of how this site works.

Please read the rules at the links below, and you'll understand why attacking someone else personally is not tolerated here. We hope you'll stick around HN as long as you are nice to your fellow users, give others the benefit of the doubt, and treat them as you would want to be treated.

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If all Californians stopped watering their lawns, the state's water situation would remain almost wholly unchanged. It's an incredibly minor contributing factor.

Most of the laws passed mandating reduced watering are done primarily to satisfy the electorate that "something is being done," so they don't notice or care that groundwater supplies are being rapidly depleted in the interest of making billions off nut sales:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/almonds-water...
> It's not always about the "big picture".

No, it's never about the "big picture".

High net-worth people almost never leave their money to a "space shot" type of endeavor.
I'm not sure that all the examples you cite are evidence of very successful and profitable media companies. ReadWriteWeb was acquired by SAY Media for less than $5M and they cut it loose two years later. HuffPo wasn't turning a profit for AOL in 2013, and Tim Armstrong wouldn't say in Dec. 2014 if it was earning a profit, which basically means it's not. In any case, HuffPo's revenue is largely driven by rehashing the original reporting of other outlets, and that is definitely not sustainable journalism.

[0]http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/say-media-selling-off-readw...
[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-huffington-post-profit-20...
[2]http://www.businessinsider.com/huffington-post-over-200m-rev...
Somehow they never do. They'd rather pay $50k to someone else than do it on their own.
I am mostly on Ubuntu and only use a Mac occasionally, was really surprised that there is no quick way to copy the current folder path in Finder ( Something like Ctrl + L in Ubuntu ). Agreed its a pretty minor issue but still an annoyance.
Depends on the niche. I run a tech site with 1.2 million daily page views, and yet Google reports 400,000 ad impressions a day. The other 66% are being blocked. This isn't hard to believe, since all my tech friends run ad blockers.
I don't claim this to be fast, as it isn't really optimized for performance at all. I created this mainly as a learning experience using ECMAScript 6, as well as multiple processes in node/io. The plan is to add more options later, or perhaps another interesting way could be to see how fast this thing can be.
What could your problem with Windows Explorer possibly be? It is generally considered to be the gold standard as far as I know.

It's far better more robust than Finder, it's got a much more powerful plugin environment and the keyboard acceleration actually makes sense, unlike Finder.
I have to fly or take a ferry to get to an Apple Store. There isn't one on Vancouver Island. So it's great when you can get to one, but if you can't the support is not so good.
google = gov
Isn't this Hertz, Sunbelt or United?

I see how this is a startup, get people with capital equipment sitting around, monetize it, make a cut of the transaction.

But seriously, this is a feature of one the three I just mentioned.

Look at how Hertz and Enterprise have taken on the self service car competition and at the same time made it a non-starter to run your own fleet. Same exact thing. You have an extremely small window to execute. The only reason to own is for chain of custody and latency, if you can "solve" those problems, done. Most construction companies don't own anyways.
if microsoft did this back in the day everything would be different...
They won't look closely. As you seem to see yourself, they would rather spend $50k per engineer to a 3rd party service than perform proper recruiting by themselves in house.
It has one USB port.
I cannot recommend the interview he did on marc marons podcast enough

http://youtu.be/2lNgzZP4SQA
True, but it is the farmer's fault that they sank so much money into ridiculously water-intensive things like almond farming - each almond requires a gallon of water to produce, and if you don't keep the tree's properly watered, they'll die. (source: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/california-dr...)

It really irritates me how selfish the farming interests are, when my household managed to cut our already-low water use by nearly 30% last year, and we are still awash in delicious fruit in our garden which we trade with toehr local producers for veggies and so on throughout the summer, just by recycling leftover water from cooking, saving a little rainwater and so on. We're not hippies or anything, we just like the fact that we have some fruit trees in the garden and made some very minor lifestyle adjustments.
I stayed in my RV through the areas south(Near Gilroy) and east(Near Turlock/Delhi) of San Jose last summer and we would constantly see people with lawn hoses going to the point of flooding areas. We'd see a sign with "We're in a drought please conserve water" next to an orchard with a watering system that had left the ground covered in a few inches of water. In Delhi the place we stayed would have sprinklers everywhere running all day long often leaving huge puddles of water.

I understand residential usage is generally a small part of overall usage but it just seemed like no one there was even attempting to conserve water at all.
So this is what the a la carte advocates want? Two channels (HBO & ESPN) for $35? Bundling seems so obviously the better way to approach this (180 channels for $65).
Cyanogenmod -- which includes Privacy Guard -- does wonders for old hardware. When apps can't wake the device every minute to ask for location or hammer on background data, suddenly the lowest hardware becomes snappy. The updated graphics drivers help too. It literally added another year of life to both my Galaxy S1 and S3s.

Just picked up the octacore Galaxy Alpha for $350 off-contract. Just like new cars, the premium for brand new on-contract phones rarely pays itself back in productivity.
Thank you for posting so admirably level-headed a response! I wish all HN users would respond so well when treated poorly.

Best of luck going forward, and please feel more than welcome to participate in Hacker News discussions.
As a public company isn't it Tesla's obligation to try to run a (eventually) profitable business?
As I recall, the character in question was constantly at a brisk walking pace and was rather obese with bad eating habits.

I agree, Skeletor is an oversale of the health benefits but as common knowledge, the further you are from your ideal weight, the easier to is to lose weight and balanced with proper eating habits, its not unreasonable to suggest that a walking desk is would slim someone down, especially if aided in other exercise outside of work.
Vice did an excellent mini-doc on the issue. They do a good job of covering the problems, effects, and solutions. It is such a complicated situation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUwjk4S3gw
My evidence is that the entire page is basically just to shows CIL's output on various pieces of code, and CIL's output is linked on the page and looks like this:

/* Generated by CIL v. 1.3.7 */
/* print_CIL_Input is true */

#line 1 "cilcode.tmp/ex30.c"
int main(void)
{ int x ;

{
#line 2
return (x == (x != 0));
}
}

From that I think it's safe to say that it's talking about 'x' being an uninitialized variable in a function (Because that's what they put into CIL). This code definitely has the issue from UB that I described above.
While I agree that lawn watering regulations in most places will do very little to actually help conserve water directly I think it goes a long way to making water shortages real to people. It's very hard to believe there is a serious issue when everywhere you look sprinklers are going. Being forced to conserve water in a simple way like that probably isn't going to be a direct benefit but getting people thinking about it more by it directly affecting their lives definitely can be.
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"In a mobile world that favors actions over apps" what does this even mean ?

Apps enable actions. Their two examples, Yo and Uber, I think you will find are 'Apps'.

Thoughm maybe I've missed the implied definition of 'app'.

Still, if the conclusion is that 'Apps' are in trouble, what does that say for content websites ?
How to Build the Native Docker Client on Windows
You seem to be trolling, but to clarify I was suggesting Starfighter would be looking closely before referring candidates to clients. Their reputation depends on the quality of the candidates they refer.
could you please tell us your website or product name?
> I rent a car almost every week

What circumstances make that sensible?

And do you mean a traditional rental, or something like Zipcar?
This is so not cool.
I would assume he travels for work and uses rental car after reaching his destination by flight. I had a brother in law that commonly does that.
> I'm guessing you're a free rider.

No personal attacks on Hacker News, please.
Clearly! I just came back to HN and wondered what the hell had happened to my karma.
The implication here could be for Facebook, Twitter and other apps relying on people addicted to their streams. Watches could mean less time spent staring at phone. Depends on how hooked we really are I guess
iOS app development
Amazon is best place to buy used electronics IMO. I used to sell smartphones on Amazon and eBay. Amazon typically has better condition products and guarantees everything themselves at least 30 days, regardless of who you buy it from.

They don't allow selling blocked or less than good condition phones at all. You can usually get your money back from ebay from a deal like that if you fuck with ebay support for long enought though.
With "dead tree" publications dying, and online ad supported publishing not being lucrative, how will the demand for content be satisfied?

Here in South Africa, our newspapers and magazines are in steep decline (but still profitable), and it seems everyone under 35 gets their news from ad-supported websites that are probably losing money.

Perhaps Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos were ahead of the curve. People may yet turn back to more traditional news sources, even if they are delivered via more modern mediums, such as tablets, if web advertising supported sites die.
> There's also been little work that I know of* to optimize the storage engine for SSDs. (- I'd love to be learn this is just my ignorance and someone is really focused on large-scale SSD-backed Postgres deploys and tuning. Links/references appreciated.)

I'm by no means expert in databases or SSDs but one of the key point of SSD is fast random access and overall speed.

Generally on SSD you should set random_page_cost to 1.1, perhaps you could also adjust other _cost settings to reflect the speed differences.

I can't think of any other things that would have effect (TRIM support is handled by filesystem and not too relevant, since Postgres doesn't mutate the data (copy-on-write)), block size is not specific to SSD and applied in HDD as well.
> I've dual-booted with multiple OSes per disk with BIOS several times and had no problems at all. So I can't help but get a bad impression of UEFI.

I think this article was written back when you had to setup everything UEFI manually, at least in the Linux-world. I don't think all parts still applies.

These days most of these things should be taken care of automatically for you, by the OS vendor, just like they used to in the BIOS past.

Except now you wont have to mess around with installation-order, custom bootloaders or weird grub-entries. It's all handled natively by UEFI.
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Yup, pixl97 is correct. I travel for business to cities that are not pedestrian friendly. It's kind of ridiculous when you consider the amount it costs, but it's an expected, reimbursable business expense.
No, I just want HBO and don't want to pay for the expensive base cable packages required to get it at all... Happy to pay for Netflix and Hulu Plus too since it adds value to me where as incrementally more cable channels do not.
It's great - you could safely leave it as-is. I could have used a friendly-sounding text like this when I got into Linux way back when so I'm sure it'll be a big help to a new geeration of users.
Well it depends. If you use it for malicious purposes, then yes it is not cool. But if you use it for science, then it's a bit different. I have a spare laptop that is garbage and would love to see what would happen.
> Again the intentions are to get you better ads but if you're worried about privacy, just be aware that it's not that easy to "hide".

I like the very balanced and technical nature of your analysis, but I am sure I am not the only one you rubbed the wrong way with this.

Since you seem to be tied into the industry, how can we impart to you and your colleagues in adtech it should be the right of us "ad blockers in the desktop minority" people to leave us the hell alone? Do insiders, like yourself, casually write us off in meetings as the enemy or is there more nuance? I am curious of the perception of us and how industry members address it in day-to-day operations. I know you cannot personally invert the system bc I whine on HN.

Also, is running a privacy-centric proxy blocking ad services (Privoxy or hostsblock) enough anymore? I have considered moving to Privoxy as an extreme, in addition to NoScript on FF, specifically to address ETag and cache busting and all this other stuff I have been warned about at the cost of slowing down my browsing. Do your analytics go even lower than that and waste my time? I know you will probably not be comfortable answering this, but I would love to hear from you and others in the industry.
No one can beat Indians when it comes to finding flaws on Facebook