skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the implications are actually quite small. This article is a very bad pop-science summary of relatively banal linguistic research.

Linguists have studied linguistic universals for a long time, which are properties that all human languages have. For example, one could try to imagine (in the style of Borges) a language which had no nouns, and in which all sentences are formed of relationships between verbs—but no natural language has this feature: all natural languages have nouns and verbs.

There are also implicational universals, which are of the form, if [some language] has property X, then it will also have property Y, and tendencies, which are broad driving trends that might have individual exceptions. An example of the latter is that languages that place the verb at the end of the sentence usually have postpositions rather than prepositions, but this has exceptions (e.g., Latin.)

What's being studied here is a tendency in sentence structure: languages usually structure their syntax such that they can minimize the dependency length, or the distance between syntactically releated words in a sentence. This has long been hypothesized, but this paper gives evidence for it in the form of a large cross-language survey. Which is cool! But by no means does it have major implications for CS in any way. (At least, no more than any of the copious previous research on linguistic universals.)

EDIT: I should also add that this area of research is not new. In fact, linguist Joseph Greenberg published an article called 'Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements' in 1963. This is continuing research and, while good research, not particularly groundbreaking or pioneering.
Thanks for this comment (which is something I can say because I agree with you. :)

I feel like, if you don't know where your local MLB team is in the standings today, you probably don't have a lot of standing to make arguments about US cultural disconnection.
Stack ranking is a solution to a larger problem, which is the issue of growth in overall "size of the tribe" and political networks that shade / obscure / fabricate performance views.

By the time you're stack ranking, you're deep into large company territory... dealing with the above issues.

Medical equivalent: People taking cancer drugs have a higher than average likelihood of dying. However, that's probably a function of having cancer vs. the performance of the drug.
Richert’s theorem breaks down for n=11
Malware Hunter Finds Spyware Used Against Dead Argentine Prosecutor
The title is significantly overstated. DLM isn't a language, it is a rule that many languages seem to follow and says nothing about Chompsky.
Regarding immutability, C# 6 makes it a lot easier to write immutable types even for quick prototyping with get only properties:

public string Example { get; }

You can set it in the constructor and only the constructor.

On the other hand in C# it's still relatively hard/annoying to build Structural Equality into your classes (which anonymous types and tuples both handle for you) where the equality of two objects is based on the contents of their properties rather than the equivalence of their references. (Ease of Structural Equality is the number one reason for my typical reliance on Tuple as I tend to use tuples often as Dictionary<K, V>/ILookup<K, V> keys.)
Fiat/Chrysler - recalled 1.4M cars, estimate 80+% will get fixed.

Tesla - pushed an OTA update, done.

That pretty much paints the future of "smart software" in cars.

That said, every science fiction book I've ever read where vehicles could be patched over the air, has been been used as a plot device and gone badly for the hero of the story. Interesting times indeed.
My personal experience leads me to hypothesize that it's just simply how fast patient requests are fulfilled and how well their questions are answered. A LOT of that comes down to nursing. The doctor may explain things incredibly well, but frequently patients turn and ask the nurse questions after the doctors leave the room, because they didn't quite understand what was being said. Also, it's the nursing staff that's toileting patients, getting and administering their meds, walking with them, talking with them about their condition, etc.

Pain management comes into it as well, but I also think that's something that could be added to improved patient education in this country (per my commentary below). For example, when people talk about their family members being in the hospital, and how their pain is bad, I ask why they don't get palliative care involved. 9/10, I get 'well they're not at end of life, so why would I do that?' Pallitive care focuses on quality of life at any point, and a large part of that is pain management. Most people don't know that, however, and the system is unfortunately set up such that patients and their family members often hold this (incorrect) belief on what palliative care does.
The particular case I'm thinking of, is not a one-off type of service at all. It's a long-tail ecommerce shopping advice app that generates affiliate & advertising commissions that are much higher than the cost per user acquisition. The same customers are coming back repeatedly, and buying different things each time.
While sleep apnea can be a difficult problem for anyone suffering from it, the mass epidemic that the OP was mentioning is not due to that.

There's too much competition within society. Keeping up with the Joneses, unreasonable standards of "work ethic" - we've become far too individualistic, and the consequences are starting to show.

Perhaps it is time to recalibrate the whole paradigm, and investigate more ways to rely on each other and the group - the way human beings have operated since the beginning of time.
Ask HN: Client Services as a Service?
My sister recently left her last position as a client services director for a medium-sized start up and instead of jumping back into it at another company is considering offering her expertise up in the form of a consultancy.

I'm trying to help her figure out the viability of such a business. Her theory is that many many young startups need client services but either (A) don't know it yet, (B) don't have the money to hire for it, or (C) don't have the need for someone doing it full time yet. This is where she and her partner would step in.

What does HN think?
They used sentence dependency graphs - in this sentence "John", "trash" and "out" are dependencies of "threw". There's a few variants, but the graph construction rules are standardised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_grammar
Is their hand-crafted 'yellow list' of allowed trackers viewable online?
Tesla's Prototype Charger Is Like Something from a Sci-Fi Movie [video]
Cycling through a couple of user agent strings to pretend to be a real user takes only few lines of code. Are images requested and Javascript executed?

I wouldn't read too much into this. There are lots of crawler/spiders around. From product search engines, people search engines, image or audio, generic or research, some crawlers' whole purpose is to point to your referrers (ads) or maybe your competition hired somebody to crawl you.

Once you have a website for a while those crawlers are as usual as programs that try to login or look for old Wordpress vulnerabilities (/wp-admin, /cgi-bin/ etc).
Announcing xBehave.net 2.0 – adamralph.com
Indonesian is an Austronesian language.

Actually, more important is the lack of Niger-Congo languages--these are the most numerous by number.
CEO Leadership – Taking Power
To your point below, I suspect the 8-10 year person is creating more value with less supervision than a new hire. Being able to manage a project/client solo, even a small one, makes your work incremental revenue to the firm. More so if you're involved in bringing in the business....

I have new hires; they take a LOT more supervision... and our group's output is limited to the speed at which our senior folks can originate projects...
And there is the problem. "Oh, you use that distro? Only lusers use that one!"
I don't find these kind of replies disheartening. I think scepticism of NASA is a good thing. Because some of that scepticism might translate into new research, new developments, new experiments, and maybe even new entrepreneurial efforts in space.
Hey folks! I'm Marcelo, one of the co-founders. Sywork is a live streaming platform for illustrators and digital artists. It’s like Twitch but for artists. It’s a place created especially for them.

We've just released our beta. We'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!
Are you suggesting this to be the norm across industries? Like, the folks working the registers at Target on Friday night? What about Monday night? Or Wednesday night? How does that differ?
I assure you that is way too low. The difference is actually Infinite

Exactly. There's also the case when someone is highly productive but only for themselves. They create all their own tools, their own environments, their own platforms, they follow their own homemade software development practices, use their own testing tools, and none of it integrates with the rest of the world. But, because one person made everything, that single person is super productive (as long as they never step outside their own platform). They don't need documentation because they made everything from the ground up and their systems reflect their personal brain state.

Then you have to ask, even though one person is 10x, does it really help if nobody else can integrate with their work? Then every request, feature, bug fix is a bottle neck of 1 person no matter how much outside help you give them.

Your link also relates a lot to social platform evaporation: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-... — all the good people leave because too many mediocre people become a burden. Now you're left with a platform for ants.
Or worse, stacked them: http://i.imgur.com/a7app8J.jpg
If you are a cable subscriber there are ways to get HBO on a cheap monthly basis if you are willing to play the cable game. How many times have people called in threatening to cancel to get a deal? Cable treats full price as something for suckers and treats their customers as such. HBO Now is overpriced and I seriously doubt it'll make much headway unless they make some serious changes to justify it.

It is not totally unreasonable to expect Netflix, and similar services, to replace cable, because most of the content that cable provides these days is total rubbish. I've been a cable cutter for over five years now and every time I visit someone who has cable I scan the stations wondering why they pay so much for all that crap. Netflix has a lot of crap as well, but I don't pay $150 a month for it.

Although Netflix does offer a great deal of content that is considered old, but so does cable. A number of stations, that are not the traditional broadcast networks, features old content and a good number of stations that produce new content simple repeat it nonstop to fill in time.

I don't believe Netflix will necessarily kill cable by itself and broadcast is making a slow comeback. Although broadcast is still niche these days, much like vinyl. But as for content? I seriously doubt there will be a lack of new content in the new wild world of no cable TV. Especially since most of the content on cable today is not created by cable companies, just broadcasted by them. There's no reason any number of content creators couldn't make a deal with Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, or any future content broadcast method to show their stuff. They do it with Hulu now, which is how I watch my new content instead of waiting for it to show up elsewhere. Netflix has several deals with content creators now.

We no longer live in the world where someone with lots of capital is required to get a project started. There are several examples of people on low budgets making good content. Premium content will always have a premium cost, but that isn't necessarily just because of the cost of production. There are numerous reasons why one show would cost more than another show, not just the cost of creating the content in of itself.
The submitted url is to the old version of this paper and should be changed.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08776

With arxiv.org, it's always best to link to the abstract page rather than the PDF since the abstract page will show all available versions. It also gives people chance to read the abstract before deciding to download the paper.
If the going wage for reddit employees means they can afford Teslas, then that's the going rate.

Reddit needs a moderation team of hundreds or thousands. There's no way that's affordable.
All those artists had patrons, a high end form of busking for tips, and none had any power in that relationship at all.

It's never been easy for an artist to make a living, but taking rights away just makes it harder. An artist can give away their work now if they want. You are talking about removing the other options, and I don't see much upside that outweighs the downside. Only big capital really benefits.

It's also hypocritical for engineers, who have the potential to become obscenely wealthy, to criticize others for this while advocating labor busting policies. Do people actually want a world where only a tiny handful of technicians and supercapitalists have wealth? All I see here is elitism. This is not a progressive idea. Please stop promoting it as if it is.
Or it may simply be cheaper than having them go through the regular medical circuit with essentially no effect at the end of the bunch of expensive diagnosis. Some people just want the attention of a doctor and already feel better just because of that. A real doctor will tell them there is nothing wrong with them so there is nothing to fix which won't leave them satisfied so they'll go back over and over again.

By contrast, an acupuncturist that charges a fraction and pretends to cure them is more effective.
Ah, I guess I'm used to the Haswell DMI bus speed still, which severely limited M.2 speed even if it was 3.0 and 4 lanes. I guess that's probably not the case with Skylake.
Yes, if company A wants to pursue it. Is company B really going to want to invite that trouble?

Any product company insists on clean IP rights. 'pg tells a story of how this nearly brought down an early acquisition he was involved in (perhaps Viaweb) because they didn't have a proper IP assignment from one employee.
Realized time might be the same or lower than DDR3, but I was more interested in the cycle counts (RAS, CAS, etc..). Latencies typically do increase as frequency increases, but better modules usually still support lower latencies.

DDR4 uses a lower voltage, which is typically bad for latency, but I'm wondering if there's some other fundamental limitation to the standard.
And that is indeed, the goal--Urgent Care unless you are actually having a heart attack or some such (or it's after hours). Emergency room is just that--for Emergencies.

It's going to take a massive public education campaign for this to switch--with the passage of EMTALA back in the 80s, people started treating the EDs as their PCPs, and somehow 'Emergency' became synonymous with 'Fast' care. I don't forsee the government undertaking this, nor do I see the payers (insurance companies) undertaking this, and providers don't necessarily have the time. This also assumes the public is receptive to this kind of education.

The healthcare delivery system is incredibly ripe for disruption.
In Germany you actually pay a tax for empty data storage and the writing machine (as described here [1], and here [2] (with prices in German)).

For example, an external harddrive ≥ 1 TB will cost you 9.00 € in tax.
This is supposed to cover personal copies (but does not give you the right to circumvent copy protection).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauschalabgabe

edit: Just saw the prices for mobile phones with touchscreen and over 8 GB storage: 36,00 €! Wow.
For the uninitiated http://www.r-bloggers.com/
because the US government is too powerful to ignore and the US government also happens to have been systematically corrupted by corporate interests.
Each color is a different hue. Your task is to sort them so they are ordered according to hue. (e.g. Red-->Violet);

EDIT: changed i.e to e.g. Each row has different start and end hues that are fixed.
Modeling What Startup Growth Actually Looks Like
Not appropriate for Hacker News?

>Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens. Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the premises. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible prevent them from killing one another. Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want. From what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it is no fun to be at the bottom of it.

>In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But beyond that they didn't want to have too much to do with the kids. Like prison wardens, the teachers mostly left us to ourselves. And, like prisoners, the culture we created was barbaric.

-Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
My company will fire you for average performance. They do it quite pointedly. One day you're at your desk, and an HR rep with an armed security guard will come and get you. They'll escort you to an office, explain that you're being terminated, and remind you that you're an at-will employee. They'll give you some forms about insurance, and then the guard will walk you to the door. They do not let you clean out your desk. They not let you say goodbye to anyone. Sadly, this is the same procedure that my company uses if you give notice. They do not except two weeks notice. The same day you give notice, or perhaps a day or two later, you will go through this ritual.

To your point, I work for a sales organization. It doesn't matter if your performance reviews are outstanding. If you go more than a couple of weeks without results, the director of sales operations begin sending you nasty emails. Within a month after that, your escorted out the door.

This might be just the sales world, but at some point people deserve to be treated like human beings. Not like replaceable cattle.
Beauty Idol Hack Cheats Android-IOS
How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas
How are you going to STRONGLY disagree, then say "That's what I was told to do", and then "I have no idea how this applies to the population at large"?
I didn't read it that way at all. I read it as "how would you [any consumer] know if personal data was being shared?" not "how would you [comment op] if personal data was being shared?"
At least they seperated airbags, breaks, steering etc, so you can still safely stop the car.
From Tesla's privacy policy:

* Telematics Log Data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including the following: vehicle identification number, speed information, odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, electrical system functions, software version information, infotainment system data, safety‐related data (including information regarding the vehicle’s SRS systems, brakes, security, e‐brake), and other data to assist in identifying and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (e.g., during a service appointment) or via remote access.

* Remote vehicle analysis: We may be able to dynamically connect to your Tesla vehicle to diagnose and resolve issues with it, and this process may result in access to personal settings in the vehicle (such as contacts, browsing history, navigation history, and radio listening history). This dynamic connection also enables us to view the current location of your vehicle, but such access is restricted to a limited number of personnel within Tesla.

Maybe there is a way to opt out of this, but I can't see it.
> This is not true, as not all GCs are stop-the-world, and all GC systems have some sort of pool system allowing you to manage/batch your allocations and sweeps. Root all your allocations for the inner loop, and unroot them/trigger a release when ready.

Not for all allocations. You can manually do it for a subset of them, but pooling all allocations is generally extremely impractical.

How do you, for example, pool the allocations that closures or defer perform?
It's "Chomsky" of course, but I _really_ like "Chompsky"!
Thanks. I'll take a look. I think localstorage would solve the problem of keeping your place on a single computer, but it wouldn't allow you to bookmark it on your PC, and return on your phone to the same spot for example.
11 is already prime and trivially expressed as the sum of of the set (11)
There is plenty of affordable housing in small cities and rural housing.

The trick is to accept that you don't need to live in a top tier city.
Is Privacy Badger still necessary for people that already use ublock and its own tracking filters?
It sucks to get judged based on things that you have little or no control over. An ER nurse or doctor cannot control staffing levels for instance. I get that.

But, if one emergency room has shorter wait times (because the staff aren't spread as thin) than another, why shouldn't I take that into account when choosing where to go?
Where are you getting the 80% number? The drivers I talked to have told me it's much lower.
Except for, a healthcare professional playing golf cannot cause nearly as much harm as a golf player playing healthcare professional.
Your own NIH link has the following classifications: Normal weight, Overweight, ​Obesity, ​Extreme obesity.
Tempr removes the “like” button
It's a management problem. We have books and courses that teach management. We don't have to re-create the history of humanity every time we have a new problem just because "computers."

As far as thousands of moderators, you just make rings: ring 0 = Reddit Corporate employees; ring 1 = moderators of high-value subreddits (paid, maybe not full time, but compensated); ring 2 = moderators can elect sub-moderators for helping (maybe paid, maybe an on-boarding process for ring 1); ring 3 = community moderators (no pay, but trusted with simple decisions); ring 4 = on boarding for ring 3; ring 5 = unprivileged users.
Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Clojure
When pricing on a budget, yes, $30 can be a big deal. Let's see, $250 CPU + $30 cooler (realistically, should be higher) versus $200 CPU that suits my needs just fine. Gives me an extra $80 to maybe upgrade elsewhere that might make a bigger difference to my goals.

Why exactly is a $400 SSD suggested to go with Skylake for gaming? Why not a $100 SSD? What does the size of the SDD have to do with Skylake? I'm failing to understand your point.
Nice addition to my list

- uBlock Origin
- Self-Destructing Cookies
- BetterPrivacy
- HTTPS-Everywhere
- Privacy Badger
Comments from HN beginning with the word “Actually”
I got the feeling that they were about to explain the details when they decided the article was long enough and that was it... They say their coding approach is not tied to GCE, but in the end GCE's infrastructure is great!

Does anyone have some interesting details or a good read on distributed encoding? I imagine that since they have a segmented input, they can paralellize extremely well, encode every segment independently and in the end stitch everything together (or maybe not, and keep them separate to simplify streaming?).
Friday nights in excess of a full-time work schedule, yes.
QuickScope – Lightning fast movement in Vim
Something is rotten at food startup Hampton Creek, former employees say.

From unethical business practices to poor management, seems like science has fallen by the wayside.