skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't, though it seems to have been downvoted like it was.
> What if they start digging to find there's no depth behind this surface?

Then the investors stand to lose money.

Investing is a bet, right? If making money here were a sure thing -- e.g. if they already had the money in hand -- then they wouldn't need to raise capital.

Maybe your question is, why would anyone invest in a company without a business model, particularly at this valuation? I'm not an investor, but I'm sure part of the calculus is looking back in history towards similar companies.
Aligned subdivisions are not that much of a problem actually.

I've tested median cut that can cut at various angles and variants that cut out spheres, and it didn't make much difference.

Choice of the box to cut and the location where you cut is more important. Wu's method is nice in this case because it exactly measures variance of sets after a split, while median cut just estimates.

However, Wu's method needs lookup tables for the whole color (hyper)cube, which requires either large (or for RGBA still ridiculous) amount of RAM or reduced precision, and losing bits of input is way worse than having suboptimal division.

The biggest wins I've found (and implemented in libimagequant) were:

• Voronoi iteration after generating palette (like a final step in LBG quantization). This shifts axis-aligned subdivisions to local optimum (I've tried applying that after every subdivision, but it didn't matter — once in postprocessing is enough!)

• Adjust weights/counts in histogram from quality feedback measured from remapped image. If you're aiming to minimize MSE, then that's not too expensive and it's similar to gradient descent.
Apple in Talks to Launch Online TV Service
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I'd much rather just use custom elements:

Assuming a library that makes declaring custom elements very easy[1]:

one.html:

<template is="quick-element" name="one-lorem">
Lorem ipsum dolor...
</template>

two.html:

<link rel="import" href="one.html">

<one-lorem></one-lorem>

[1]: https://github.com/Polymer/core-focusable/blob/0.8-preview/d...
The silly thing is if you have a gif and change the URL on imgur to read ".gifv" you'll get WebM!
I'm assuming you're being downvoted for your flippant response, but you raise a good point.

I can't find the source, but an article was laying out that despite all of the social benefits offered to women in Scandinavian countries (child care, generous time off, etc) a lot of women were choosing not to work. That obviously skews the "pay gap".
A car that can that 80% of the time can get a sleepy or drunk people home would be a monumental advantage and likely save thousands of lives a year.

Basicly an MVP that flat out refuses to operate on non designated routes, bad weather, or even highway speeds could still be very useful.

PS: Classic stop and go traffic is another area where speeds are low, conditions are generally good. But, because people can't pay attention to boring things you regularly see traffic accidents which creat massive gridlock cost people day's per year sitting in traffic.
I don't know how often you buy new refrigerators, but I would rather hire a delivery company every time I change my refrigerator if that means living in a clean city.

On the other car, the ban for private cars usually has only effect during a period of the day. In Barcelona, at least, you can access most streets in the city center after 20:00.
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The Effects of a UV Sterilizer on an Aquaponics System
I'd take a look at React depending on the complexity of what you're building. If it's not too complicated, React is fairly easy to pick up and it's a joy to work with. If it's a larger project the guidance of Angular/Ember is probably worth it though.
I've always though of HTML as a way to hide the idea that it the markup is just an s-expression shared over a network. Indeed, Roy Fielding's work on ReST leverages the default paradigm of distributed computing using immutable data-structures in the first place.

What's so different about:

<html>
<head>...</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

and

(html (head ...) (body ...))

Wouldn't we've been better off with the latter anyway?
I have a hypothesis which is much less silly.

Programming expertise is very fragile. A variety of changes in your environment, such as different coding standards, dependencies, programming languages, etc, will cause a severe impact to your performance. The result is a strong negative reaction to things that should be objectively neutral.

That is, a change in your environment can make you feel incompetent, and it is easier to get angry at the change in the environment than it is to be honest with yourself about what is happening.

I forget which book I ran across this theory in, but it explains a variety of conflicts that repeatedly come up about formatting, libraries, programming languages, operating systems, and so on. Furthermore it is easy to experience the feeling yourself when you go from an environment where you're competent to a new one. (At the moment I'm going through this having to learn Eclipse and Java, after many years of being primarily a Perl dev.)
What is the XY Problem?
@gkoberger I'm curious to know how long you estimate this took you to implement and how many people comment on it. I'd estimate < 15 minutes and hundreds of people. Am I close?
There's no type error in what you wrote, with or without the cast. But we're way over-indented now. Suggest trying ed-discuss for direct convo with Andreas R.

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There's no fundamental incompatibility. Hack files don't use <?php tags, they use <?hh tags. I'm sure Facebook will make HHVM handle PHP type declarations alongside Hack type declarations, though exactly how they'll interact remains to be seen.
Since PHP has switched to community voting, the language has expanded smartly by leaps and bounds while maintaining a great degree of compatibility.
"use strict";

(note 'use' is part of a string) should work in PHP for the same reason it does in ECMAScript -- it is a no-op at the language level (creating a string literal and doing nothing with it), that is unlikely to appear in old code, and can be given new meaning in the next-level language spec.
I know, I don't think it's without value. I'm just not seeing how it's worth this much, though.
This is awesome! As someone who just spent a ton of time navigating a patchwork of information about GLSL, this looks like an oasis :) (I can't seem to access all the chapters though, I guess its a work in progress).
well i don't care about appointments from my text editor... i think i should delete this question and re-phrase it more narrowly, unfortunately it seems it's impossible to delete.
>>> Why so many globally reaching, internet based, in every home in the world companies think that they absolutely must be positioned in the mecca of startupdom

Why people join twitter or facebook or any other virtual social network? I think both have similar answers.
Housing markets: The spectre haunting San Francisco
Ah, thank you for the kind words.
Does Amazon Kindle collect personal file data unrelated to eBooks?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk vows end to 'range anxiety'
They could simply queue the devices. FIFO. What are the chances that someone will be the 51st person to rent a car will be the same person who first rented the car? And if it does happen, what's wrong with just re-pairing? Finally, add a clause in the rental agreement that the renter is personally responsible for unpairing the device. Otherwise, their phone will stay in the car's device list until it finally gets pushed out of the system at an indeterminate time, which depends on future rental volume.
It's cheap, you're not really buying into much more than a $20 tube of plastic. If this is about making a quick buck off suckers falling for good PR, they should charge more.
I agree. If you have more than one child, one parent's salary will go directly and entirely to pay for child care. It's also likely that one parent will need to work fewer hours and be available to drop off / pick up / emergency pick up the kids at day care -- which means at least one parent will need to be partially not working or at least not advancing in his/her career.

However, raising kids is very difficult and emotionally draining. Personally, I feel parental involvement is much more important than whatever might have been called a middle class lifestyle.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram are good examples.
I was not even aware "Paki" was a slur that refers to Pakistani individuals and never would have made the connection and I'm doubtful the average person would either. It's clearly a packaging company and so the mind makes that connection when reading the name.
Timmy's Journey: At the juxtaposition of child bullying and statistics
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> Rent control is more than an economic issue, it's a class and moral issue. Why should only people with the means to buy property have the ability to live a stable life? Imagine if your child had to change schools every year because your one of the overwhelming number of people who cannot absorb rent increases.

Rent control is more than an economic issue, it's a class and moral issue. Why should someone pay less rent simply based on when they originally moved into the apartment? Imagine if you are a poor immigrant just moving to the city and having to pay market rate while reasonably well off people get to pay a rate that made sense 5 years ago.

I personally have zero or negative sympathy for people paying lower rates than everyone else while simultaneously crying proverty and getting all puffy about the possibility of their rent going up. If you can't handle the price of the city, no one put a gun to your head and forced you to move here.
So sad; poor landlord forced to share market gains with a tenant. It almost like kissing an untouchable.
It's almost like belittling and mocking people makes them disinclined to work with you.
The fact that you eat chocolate ice cream doesn't affect my health, only yours.

The fact that you drive a car affects the health of everyone living in the city, takes a huge amount of public space, and makes cities ugly and less habitable.

I guess you can understand the difference.
Exactly how do you trigger the easter egg, and what does it do?
this 1000x , as parent with grown up children
I too love PHP!
Just as a warning, I don't consider gogs to be stable enough for production use. There's data race errors that pop up, resulting in errors resolving various assets. I've had everything from user's avatar icons to the main homepage randomly error out as 404. The dev doesn't seem to understand that data races, i.e. unsafe cross thread data access, is an issue. In addition, note that it and least some of the libraries it uses are written by devs for whom english is at best a second language, so expect difficulties communicating. Finally, a lot of the paradigms it uses are considered un-idiomatic by the golang community at large, so don't expect assistance from the community(for instance, dependency injection and reflection powered "magic").
This may be true, but the essential dynamics of the housing situation are more simple. Demand far exceeds supply. The permit process makes development relatively slow and expensive and sometimes blocks it entirely. With or without rent control the real solution to this problem is to increase the number of available residential units. That is not a trivial problem, but it is much easier than worrying in detail about the dynamics of the market.
Your sprint budget should be some percentage less than the average velocity over the past 3 sprints. That allows for bugs to be fixed mid-sprint without affecting velocity.

Velocity shouldn't be used to measure how "good" the team is.
Of course it contributes, but this analysis is too shallow to be really useful.
I don't even understand how people can have this argument. I mean, how many people have actually invested enough time into both vi and emacs to meaningfully compare them? I doubt there are that many. Really, either one is a fine choice and will probably be able to handle all your coding needs, once it's customized to your liking.
The only numbers that matter are the number of users and how long they spend using the product. That's it.

If those numbers were declining investors wouldn't believe Pinterest could monetize their users like Twitter or Facebook.
> Eventually I developed a little ridge on the perimeter, [like an airfoil].

I think he's referring to the little lip around the outer edge?

Anyway, nice interview. Stories like Mr. Adler's are inspiring, it's hardly an accident that he comes up with two paradigm-shifting inventions in two completely different fields.
Hey, I am too, though I recently moved so I got hit with the reset.

I guess you're just ignoring the part where no rent control and direct subsidies would lower the prices of the available rental stock. Do you like being penalized for moving? I don't.
I think it would make sense that Hertz cars have cameras, but the memory card should be visible by the customer and he should be able to easily delete its contents.
Yeah, and proposition 13 and fixed rate mortgages are a massive invisible subsidy to property owners (of which I am one). It's disingenuous to focus on only one aspect of the market and ascribe all the distortions to that.
For my personal stuff, I'm happy to pay GitHub to host my private repositories, but it's not always that simple. I work for a large, bureaucratic corporation in a heavily regulated industry. If something costs money -- even a dollar -- someone has to pay for it, which means that someone has to approve the expense, which means you need a risk assessment and permission from legal. Even if it doesn't cost money, there are a lot of bureaucratic hassles associated with using external services to store company IP. Sure, maintaining your own source control server takes time, but so do the alternatives.
Thank you for the interesting questions and thoughts on this topic!
We tried to answer some of these in a longer comment on the APNIC blog:
https://blog.apnic.net/2015/03/13/is-your-satellite-link-osc...

Disclaimer: I am one of developers of the RLNC kernel module at Steinwurf ApS.
Much to my annoyance. I desire to disable all autoplay of all inline videos across all browsers on my phone. Quite difficult to achieve.
Other than the preference for the syntax, how would s-expressions make for a better markup language?
Replace Coffeescript with ES6
When do you predict you will have lower total costs than conventional synthesis?
I agree that it's not impossible for us to understand something smarter than us. But I don't particularly like your examples. Understanding a static well-organized human-designed system like a 787 or a chess-playing algorithm is far simpler than understanding the thoughts and desires of a dynamic intelligence.

A better analogy would be to stick to IQ. How long would it take a group of people with an average IQ of 70 to understand and predict the workings of the mind of a genius with an IQ of 210? Probably a very long time, if ever. What if the genius was involved in direct competition with the group of people? She'd be incentivized to obscure her intentions and run circles around the group, and she'd likely succeed at both.

Just how intelligent might an AGI become given enough compute power? A 3x IQ increase is a conservative prediction. 10x, 100x, or even 1000x aren't unimaginable. How can pretend to know what such an intelligence might think about or care about?
I agree with a lesser form (timescale on which the AI self improves is probably going to be long enough for humans to deal with it) of your first argument, but I'm confused at how, given 'merely' lots of compute capacity can be countered by 'a number of ideas for this myself'.

Security for human level threats is already very poor, and we already have a relatively good threat model. If you suppose that an AI could have radically different incentives and vectors than than a human, it seems implausible that you could be secure, even in practice. I suppose you could say that these would be implemented in time, but it's not at all clear to me that a humanity which has trouble coordinating to stop global warming or unilateral nuclear disarmament would recognize this in time.

On the other hand, I'm slightly puzzled by why you think there's a huge unjustified leap between lack of value alignment and threat to the human race. Does most of your objection lie in 1) the lack of threat any given superintelligent AI would pose, because they're not going to be that much smarter than humans or 2) the lack of worry that they'll do anything too harmful to humans, because they'll do something relatively harmless, like trade with us or go into outer space?

For 1, I buy that it'd be a lot smarter than humans, because even if it initially starts out as humanlike, it can copy itself and be productive for longer periods of time (imagine what you could do if you didn't have to sleep, or could eat more to avoid sleeping). And we know that any "superintelligent" machine can be at least as efficient as the smartest humans alive. I would still not want to be in a war against a nation full of von Neumanns on weapons development, Muhammads on foreign policy and Napoleons on Military strategy.

For 2... I would need to hear specifics on how their morality would be close enough to ours to be harmless. But judging by your posts cross thread this doesn't seem to be the main point.

By the way, I must thank you for your measured tone and willingness to engage on this issue. You seem to be familiar with some of the arguments, and perhaps just give different weights to them than I do. I've seen many gut level dismissals and I'm very happy to see that you're laying out your reasoning process.
I wouldn't worry so much about valuations.

Everyday it's XYZ company is raising XYZ million dollar round at X billion dollar valuation.

When the economy corrects itself later after the fracking market explodes this won't matter much.

I'd worry more about what you're doing then a company that monetizes users who look at pictures.

There are much greater problems to solve.
No, it isn't. Unless inflation is at least 10% as well - and wages keep up.

But imagine if Somerville did have rent control. The minority of units on the market would have rents go up by much, much more than 10% a year, and people who need a new place would be screwed. This is what's happened in SF.
its a visual search engine that is taking share from google. It's ad formats perform as well as search ads. $11B is undervalued, especially compared to whatsapp et al.
Isn't the holy grail of advertising perfect targeting? Users aren't annoyed by the perceived degradation of the platform where the ads are served, ad companies don't waste money on ads the user isn't interested in, and the clicks result in far more revenue. Pinterest is a leap in this direction. They have enormous potential and a brilliant team.

I can't remember a time I've purposefully clicked an ad on Facebook/Twitter. The only problem with Pinterest is that it seems plagued by duplicate content.
No questions, just wanted to say thank you. The healthcare industry is in dire need of having its costs driven down, and your team looks like its perfectly positioned to capture a substantial amount of revenue with this.
I understand the difference, but the argument I'm criticizing is insufficient.
Great concept. Anything to get faster first assistance to an emergency is great though it seems like a bridging technology as I'm guessing airborne drones will take this role in the not too distant future. It would be interesting if a car with medical kit will get pinged if it has a passenger?
She touches on this in the comments there, but I see this becoming especially problematic in exclusionary hiring practices.

You can go to an interview as an expert in a given language, but if you don't know what framework a company just happens to use, you'll lose the job and they might give it to a novice who does.

Also, I would be curious to know which conference she is referring to. I realize this is a pandemic problem, but if she would name some names it might get the ball rolling on turning things around.
If you use the symbols that are used, frequently, you get better at using them. It's much like the way if you play a round of golf at a course that you're unfamiliar with, it's a lot harder to recall a shot-by-shot recap of your round than if you play the course regularly. The mind builds little registers for keeping track of the meanings of Greek letters if you use those little friends often enough.
What interview question to ask when hiring a Software Engineer
I appreciate you highlighting a sentiment that I too have felt at many meetups and in the JS community. It's toxic and unproductive.
Go look at the code, it's crappily written and virtually unmaintainable. I'm using it right now, but only by breaking it's concurrency. If I let it handle more then 1 request at a time, it starts 404'ing random resources....
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Don't forget that new construction in SF totally stopped for a few years after Lehman, and rents actually fell a little.

If rent control were actually causing a shortage, we'd expect that rents would have continued to rise during that time. Instead, the far more likely conclusion, given the data, is that rents are being driven mostly by increases in demand.

It is difficult for the armchair libertarian economists of HN to accept that, while rent control probably puts some upward pressure on rents (in theory, anyway), that effect is likely totally swamped by the demand-side imbalance.
Did you try dedicated instances?
The gender pay gap is a myth. Even major publications refute it http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-tha... http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023035327045794837...
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If you're going to downvote this, at least respond. I was asking a genuine question.
Please provide some links when you get a chance :)
If you are in high risk computing (or any number of fields) and screw up that bad, you better be able to handle being mocked. You should also sift through the mocking and learn something.
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The other e-mail announcing "LibreSSL 2.1.5 released" http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142655686417434&w=2

[ edit: submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9215915 ]
"it's ridiculous that I have lived here for over 4 years and paid hundreds of thousands in taxes but do not have any way to influence the democratic process"
really? what about the reverse? Can I easily become a citizen of your country if I moved and worked there for 4 years? Most countries don't even have options for immigrants to become true naturalized citizens of that country, in this regard, America is actually pretty progressive.
How do you upgrade your distro? A tale of two workarounds
I have no problem with cars being tracked at all. Every car should be tracked. There are far too many accidents involving cars. Over 1.2 million people each year are killed in car accidents.
Or if the intent is to provide a subsidy, to have a system where the tenant can receive the same relative amount of subsidy no matter where she may choose to reside.
Yes, I'm ignoring your completely unsupported hypothetical about subsidies.

You don't need to invent fancy theories to explain rents in SF: we're in a demand bubble, driven by the influx of venture-funded tech companies into the city. This is neither new, nor surprising.
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This is pretty cool. I use GIFs for marketing for my SaaS startup[1] because it has the best support for autoplaying across devices, but the file sizes are a bit high (690 KB and 270KB for screencasts of a few minutes each). I use licecap[2] for recording and Gifsicle for optimizing, but perhaps I should give ffmpeg a go and compare the results.

[1] https://zapla.co

[2] http://www.cockos.com/licecap/