skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are pros and cons to WordPress' database structure. While it may take "a series of SQL gymnastics just to retrieve the relevant data" it's database structure is incredibly resilient to the changing requirements of different users. A "better" database structure would almost certainly be too fragile to meet the needs of as many users as WordPress does.
I am almost always plugged in (desktop or laptop). I don't care about minor differences in power efficiency. I care about speed and memory utilization. It isn't uncommon for me to have multiple browser windows across two or three monitors with 10 to 20 tabs each. Chrome does that flawlessly.

I also care about performance with Selenium.

Energy efficiency has never been a factor for me in, well, decades. Even on a long flight to Europe or Asia I can plug in.

Yes, none of these are consumer-level concerns.
what prevents Amazon, specifically Amazon, from pivoting and doing the same? They certainly have some forward thinking people within the org, and an enormous and dedicated work force behind them. Do you think they're sincerely overlooking this?
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I have talked to people who are in property management companies who are worried about (possible) rising interest rates are going to do to their profitability. It may not be a concern in SV but elsewhere very much so.
WARNING: AUTOPLAY SOUND
I lost all respect for him as a decent human being in this fiasco. FWIW.
Technically for profit, but with no external shareholders to bow to, no stock options for employees, etc.

Don't be misguided by the administrative setup. Mozilla is earning money from partnerships, but the company goals are driven by the not-for-profit mission statement. It takes resources to stay in the game...
Jay Parikh on why Facebook is beaming the Internet from the sky
Do you hold such a hard line stance on the moral correctness of revenge porn, I wonder?

After all, if you don't want others to share the data, you shouldn't interact with them.
Cute, but Firefox doesn't revert you to defaults and having a button that does nothing but offer a signup is not 'forced integration'. You may not be able to delete it but it doesn't do anything whatsoever by default.
theres a cool thing that can connect like legos: to temp monitor... forgot the name, something with blocks, looks awesome, has some kits online, will try to find it.
It has AUTOPLAY SOUND

(Tacking on because this is currently the highest comment.)
Unless, of course, the government is requesting or demanding your data without your consent.

I can't imagine any company in the pockets of the NSA getting in trouble for over-collecting user data.
Does ElsterOnline not work for your usecase?
The four year old in me lost interest with the double sequence of dark overlay modals that assaulted me the second I tried to read/scroll the article.
I don't see why automation means one must follow the "well-trodden path." Software isn't limited to a linear script.

I'm no lawyer, but all those questions (where to incorporate, classes of stocks to use, etc) seem like they could be codified into decision trees and similar algorithms. I can see why a human would be better at learning and exploring to know what questions to ask, but surely applying them to a particular startup is mostly routine work?
To those saying that the question is essentially asking "predict a coin flip" without knowing if the coin is biased or not ascribe to the tenants of Frequentist probability. That is, conclusions cannot be made until trials have been done. In this specific case, you'd have to ask the artist to paint an infinitely many L shaped canvases before the true probability is revealed. To those that ascribe to Bayesian probability, our first assumption is to assume all valid orientations are part of a uniform distribution. By my counting, I get 32 valid combinations with an eel in the corner and 21 combinations with no eel in the corner. This means that I get 32/53 ~= 0.604 as the probability that the eel is in the corner.
It still does auto-complete the DROP TABLE and DROP DATABASE, but it will ask for confirmation before running it.
We have justification if we're not warned beforehand.
I think reasonable criticisms were made regarding some of those, like Pocket.

However, Australis for example was a large redesign of the UI. I'm not sure how you can support an opt-out, as that would mean supporting two codebases - two different and separate UIs, at once.

Regarding bundling of DRM, it isn't bundled, but it is downloaded on demand. This is a sad thing even so, but Google, Microsoft and Netflix just left other browsers no choice when they invented, standardized and shipped EME DRM. Mozilla fought DRM, but lost.
I wasn't warned beforehand.
Was it useful to do YCombinator and be in the SF Bay Area for several months while working on a product that is only available in Bangladesh?
The music sounds terrible.
You can change that in Safari settings
We've tried and found that remote engineers are less effective, they miss out a lot from group whiteboard discussions, overhearing office chatter "Hey bill, service XX crashed again because of YY (and Mike overhears and says "Oh yeah, I saw YY in service ZZ too and fixed it"), and just general team cohesiveness. In theory we could hire more people for less salary if we had a remote workforce, but we're still a small company (less than 100 people) and it's a lot harder to manage a 100 person geographically spread out engineering team than a 50 person local team). Paying the San Francisco premium for salaries (and rent and everything else) is less than the cost to build and manage a distributed team. As we grow, that will likely change as we'll be able to have specialized teams and open satellite offices, but for now hiring in the Bay Area makes the most sense.

We could likely build an accomplished team in any major metropolitan area, but since our investors and board members are here (as are the other companies they invest in and manage), it makes sense to have the company here. (not entirely our choice, when someone invests millions of dollars into a company, they want to be close to it)
sure there are, a lot focuses on enterprise though. the peoplesoft legacy lives on in various forms over here.
Yup. This is a huge advantage to SoMa. I even hear hesitations around FiDi as it's not easily accessible by Caltrain (let alone Oakland).

The Central Subway and new Transbay Terminal might alter this. That said, I don't think the new Transbay will directly link with BART -- will still be a walk, which is a bit of a shame.
i agree, but it does remove the landlord ;-)
There are several tremendous advantages to server-based speech recognition.

Firstly, the models (particularly the language models) needed for state of the art performance are huge. It's not atypical for papers to discuss using a billion n-grams, for example ( https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/twiki/pub/CSTR/ListenTerm1201415/s... ). That's several gigabytes of memory and storage at the very least, and you'd need a copy of that for every spoken language you'd want to support. Plus you need to keep that up to date with new words and phrases; it's much easier to keep models fresh on a server than on everyone's computer.

Power and CPU time are also a concern. Big beefy server farms can have trouble keeping up with state of the art speech recognition algorithms; a laptop, tablet or phone is going to struggle, especially when running off a battery, is at a huge disadvantage.

But the biggest advantage to server-based speech recognition is indeed that more data is critical to improving accuracy and performance. There's no data like more data. And you don't just need more data, you need a lot more data. You can get big gains from just doing unsupervised training on 20 million utterance rather than 2 million: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... There's simply no way you're going to get anything like 20 million utterances without getting data from millions of real world users.
>We have voice recognition since at least late 90's but you have to spend long hours training

Microsoft could ship their pre-trained dataset with the computer, or make it available as a download. They choose not to.
Slightly off-topic here, but flipping through this[1] Abstract Algebra textbook(2009), I found it amusing that the author thanks NSA for support among others :D.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Chapter-Graduate-Studies-Mathe...
> In autumn, we travel forward in time by one hour, and in the spring, we travel back in time by one hour.

It is time that we abolish the biannual time travel tradition.
Another interesting point is that .io domains started to become more popular after Google decided to categorize them as Generic ccTLDs [1] (I believe in 2013). Before this, .io domains weren't great because of Google's algorithm taking region into account, and SEO was nigh impossible.

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en
Some is fine, all is mentally deficient. Chrome OS is mentally deficient. In the current environment being okay with sharing every single detail of your computing with a big marketing company is not a smart thing to do.
Another vote for Ableton and also a vote to keep far away from hardware synths, drum machines, samplers, etc. They take up a lot of space, are super specialized, and become out of date quickly. Then again like classical instruments a musician can specialize in said instrument for their entire career.
Live sample of powering a js polymer spa with java actors, break it :)
Is an Amazon that pivots to take no profit on its sales still "Amazon"? I think it's different enough that my claim stands.
Speaking only for myself and my parents - the factor here has been land. They both inherited several hundred acres of farm and ranch land, and purchased some land in-town when it was (inflation adjusted) $90,000, and is now in the $2-3 million range.

They're both terrible at saving, their combined income was never over 50% of what I'm currently making, yet they have both been retired and comfortably living off these "investments" for 20+ years now.

I, on the other hand, am just hoping that I can move to part-time work somewhere in my 60's. I'm hopeful, but it means keeping my current income levels for another 20 or so years, and avoiding any major health or other emergencies.
It's a good thing Open Source programmers aren't too hot on trademarks; we aren't always very creative when it comes to naming projects. :)
When you have software that runs on 23% of the web, it is simply impossible to test for all permutations. Try it yourself sometime if you don't believe me. :-)
>Not sure if you're being facetious or not but if you were right then we would just do it on our existing phones now.

If we did it that way, then Marketing couldn't datamine their customers lives to find better ways to extract money out of them.
Taking on significant, avoidable costs in order to signals qualities sounds like a failure mode.

It could be that there are cheaper ways to signal the health of an organization, or that they're not cheap enough to outweigh the SF premium.
I've heard this specific dream pitched before and while I think it's a great idea it still doesn't solve the issues around shipping specifically. One of the things Amazon does really really well is the logistics of shipping the product to the customers and while a bunch of people coming together to buy goods straight from the producer would cut out the profit taken by the middleman it wouldn't help with getting the items to your door. Individual manufacturers simply can't negotiate the contracts that Amazon has with UPS and individual manufacturers don't have the the warehouses and the massive infrastructure Amazon has. If a producer made 10,000 widgets and sent them out to 10,000 people that is a lot more difficult than simply sending a pallet to Amazon and having them sell the items and send them to the customers. They aren't just some website that lets you buy things, there is an enormous infrastructure that supports the commerce.

This is something you can get a better sense for when you back Kickstarter projects and see just how much time is spent around packaging and shipping. It is a huge task that a lot of inexperienced companies get totally swamped by.

Edit: I would also like to add that if we bought goods straight from the manufacturer then we would have to deal with greater ship times as well. If you're ordering something from a factory across the US it's going to take a week to get to you. But if Amazon or another marketplace has already purchased the item and stores it a day away from you or in the same city (knowing that there is a chance someone like you is going to order one soon) then you can get the item much faster. That convenience is something that really only a logistics and warehousing middleman can do effectively and people pay for that convenience.

Edit 2: I don't work for or am affiliated with Amazon.com - I just have seen into the belly of the beast at a few online retailers and have good sense of what goes on in there.
Im not to sure about that. Number of pictures are growing exponentially (28 million an counting) and soon there are more active weekly users than there are google street view cars. The whole point with crowdsourcing is that streets changes.

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The biggest problem with this article is that the data in their core graph[1] doesn't actually match up with their claims.

What that graph shows is what families were worth over a 14 year periods for a bunch of cohorts. And the data makes... a pretty smooth graph. There's lots of overlap and no obvious discontinuities, and no reason at all to think that there's any change in trend over time.

The only apparent effect that even possibly shows that younger people are worse off comes in the last two data points of each young person's line. But that's a totally obvious artifact, because that's the 2008 recession, which was the worst event of the 1989-2013 period graphed. (The 2000 dot-com bust was not nearly as huge.) EVERYONE'S line goes down at that time, including the oldest cohorts.

If the graph had more data, and showed what the 1901 cohort were like at age 31 (in the throes of the Great Depression), it would almost certainly be obvious that those 2008-driven dips aren't especially bad, comparatively. And yet, that's the old-person generation that is supposed to be the envy of the young.

This is just terrible interpretation of some unsurprising data.

[1] https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
His willingness to settle shows a level of understanding regarding the dollar, time and personal focus cost of lawsuits even for those who will win. It says nothing about the merits of a potential lawsuit.
On a nationwide scale, the oil-price crash is adding some offsetting economic slowdown (since the U.S. is a huge oil producer) which I think significantly reduces inflation risk. The previously booming energy sector is stalling and moving towards a contraction: reducing investments, laying off employees, etc. SF rents are going up, but Houston rents are going down. The overall engineering employment market is also getting slightly less tight as petroleum engineering is no longer sucking up every ounce of spare talent.

Plus just in terms of the benchmarks they watch: The headline CPI is currently at a miniscule 0.1%, way below the 2.0% target. The personal-consumption-expenditures (PCE) rate is somewhat higher at 1.3%, but still below the target.
For shorthand searches in Safari this works great: http://safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net
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It is very different. Here you are, ultimately, protected by laws. As a user of a cloud service run by a Chinese company that on any given monday afternoon could be taken over in whole or in part by the Chinese government (without it becoming public), you have nothing.

If the deplorable state of intellectual property, human rights, labor laws, currency and market manipulation don't spell out what kind of a regime we are dealing with I don't know what will.
As far as I know, copyright is not hinged on your ability to show your willingness to protect it, that's trademarks.
20+ GFLOPS/W for a single part isn't something new: http://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2012-08-27/processors-that-ca... (2012)

A huge amount of overall system power is spent in data transport. Plus, double everything for cooling. That brings the total system efficiency way down from what the actual computational components spend.
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My bet is that Baltimore is poised to become a big tech hub. There was a ton of money spent in the tech sector after 2001 and that is tapering off now and you have a bunch of engineers with 10 years experience and the low cost of living in Baltimore which makes for a lot of opportunity to try things. The city also has a very Art oriented quirky culture like SF had before it priced out all the creative people and a lot of other things going for it like lots of cheap housing, right on the ocean, and several universities and colleges.
I would challenge you to show something conclusive that states that I am forbidden by law from stating "I know this person. His name is batou." while pointing at you.
Stethoscopes did not improving listening. It has been easier to hear by placing your ear directly on the body. Stethoscopes were only invented because of modesty. (Edit: and because of convenience for the doctor).

Of course new listening devices using microphones can improve on the human ear. But a rubber tube cannot.
In the US treason is very narrowly defined by the Constitution to be (paraphrasing) intentionally waging war against the US or aiding the enemy, confirmed by two witnesses to the act. It is quite possible that Snowden could be convicted of espionage but not treason, because we are not waging war with anyone, not even ISIS, therefore we dont have any enemies in this sense. The term treason when used in US politics is nearly always hyperbole.
I haven't used Angie's List- but its possible that the 3rd party providers that Angie lists could have told Angie that they are getting unwarranted solicitation.
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>Making $140k per year is the San Fran equivalent of minimum wage

Is this really true? Seems far-fetched. Isn't that $20-30k higher than the Google base starting salary?
Just start in a garage I'd say. It's cheap and the darkness, the damp and the oil fumes are a motivator to success.
The master bedroom is huge; a king-size bed would have taken less than 30% of the floor. There are two walk-in closets and a private bath.

Downstairs, there are 2 bedrooms that could have easily held 2 twin beds each, and another small room that could have taken 1 twin bed.

As a single-family home it would have comfortably slept 7. It's probably 2-3x larger than my childhood home and would have fetched $750,000+ in the suburban Midwest.

Convert all those twins to bunk beds (as my landlord did) and you've got 10 people across the downstairs bedrooms. Replace the king-size bed with 2 bunk beds, you've got 4 beds in the space where 1 was. 14 people sleeping in the same amount of floor space that 7 previously occupied. Now take the vast empty floor space in the master bedroom and add 2 bunk beds, and you're at the 18 that I live with.

It doesn't feel crowded. It has the same drawbacks that any room-sharing situation has - you're never alone, you have to hear people breathe and snore and shift around in bed, there's no possibility of having sex (you can sexile one person - not 7), you have to smell people's smells. But it's no worse than living in a double in college, summer camp, etc. I had no chance of bringing a girl home anyway, the sounds are drowned out by the city/wind when you've got a window open, and everyone is polite and sensitive to the fact that we're sharing space.

A portion of that price also goes to Airbnb, which gives me trust/reputation, escrow, precisely the dates of stay I wanted, and no monthslong Craigslist game as is usually necessary to sublet in SF.
You already do pay Europe level taxes - or should I say we do. Add up what you spend on all your taxes, state and Federal, look at medicare, SS your health insurance and other fees. Look at sales tax, property tax (even if you rent it is built in) and the various "fees" we have for things.

Subtract all of this from your income and look at most of Western Europe and you'll see we pay roughly the same overall.

I agree most people don't save enough. Part of it is people buy a lot of things they don't really need but "deserve" and the other is as you said.
Do you mind explaining how you got 32?

If all 6 paintings have an eel then all 53 combinations of the 6 paintings would have an eel in the corner, as it is impossible to not have an eel in the corner if every painting is of an eel.

The solution, if an eel is not in the corner, requires 2 paintings of eels.

It seems you made an assumption that there is only a single eel painting?
Based on the title, I expected this to be an article ranting about how someone thought their startup was being discriminated against.

Surprised that was, dare I say, "fair and balanced".
linux, problem solved.
ReactOS suddenly makes a lot of sense to me now!
I don't see what the issue is here, apart from non-DNS things (kicking people out, etc). If Chagos got autonomy, it wouldn't be keeping .io as its ccTLD - what sense would that make? And if Britain wants to have .io, they'd just need some other random island with enough of a presence to justify the country code.

Phrasing it as if somehow .io belongs to these people is simple intellectual dishonesty.
In many communities, quite good.
One other thing. A "pile of power over you"...that's not helping, man. They have some commercial legal arrangement that you don't particularly care for. They can't come and kick you in the shin and torture you. They can't beat you to death and plant a weapon on you or anything. We are talking about an issue that is squarely within middle and upper class privilege in an industry that literally could not exist without government defense funding.

Take, for instance, Richard Stallman is an Alumn of Harvard and MIT. There literally can't be a place that is more establishment. So all of that "freedom" is about being able to use an expensive commercial product that was developed with RnD money from the DOD...but somehow it's morally wrong to not ship source code to a compiler? Can you see where I'm coming from here? The moralizing is pretty arbitrary.

Furthermore, if they did give your content to the Government because of a national security letter how is that abuse of power? Should they not comply with the law? I disagree with a lot of the laws that have been passed in support the war efforts of the last decade, but that's kind of the way that democracy works. I lost, but I still have to live by the rules.

I just think that the privacy absolutism that everyone keeps bringing up isn't reasonable. Even Bruce Schneier says that the way that you actually change these things is through the political process.

Power is a boot on your neck. This is more of an inconvenience.
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