skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got the data, so that's actually the hard part done. Now just pick some method and don't worry too much about the details. Go with the easiest route first, for example: each emoji is a word, no need to treat a smileyface differently in your model from a word like "happy", _until you see how the representation actually matters_, only then will you know what the right way is. If you pick a complicated method first, you won't know if it was worth it. If you pick a simple method first, you'll know if it doesn't work, but you won't have wasted time.

Re:lemmatisation, either grab an existing machine-readable dictionary [1] if you just want all lemmas with their ambiguity, or just do simple PoS-tagging with something like https://honnibal.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/a-good-part-of-spe... (I love that post for its no-nonsense approach)

[1] http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary has some (and will tokenise for while analysing).
Sadly the android market is moving to prettier phones at the substantial cost in functionality. So sure there are many phones that look like a premium handset, but they they have an epoxied battery inside and often lose updates in a year or so. Normally you'd expect a nice aluminum and glass phone with top cpu/ram/gpu/storage specifications to last a long time. Except when they expoxy in a disposable battery or no longer gets OS upgrades.

What I find even more baffling is that it's becoming fairly common to offer custom removable backs (at the cost of complexity and thickness) and still not allow for a larger battery or replacement.

Take any 2 year old phone that's seen daily use and it's likely that one of the primary complaints about it's functionality is poor battery life. Normally that could be fixed with $15-$25 on ebay.... only if it's replaceable.

Sad, planned obsolescence strikes again.
What are you on about, HTML5? This was written in 2002, when a Nokia 3210 was bleeding edge, AJAX wasn't a thing and everything was written in PHP and JAVA Applets.
I think the user's proposed solution is really more in line with kill/modify the NCAA so that it is a minor league and emulate the baseball style drafting system so that players can go straight to the sport.
It's not actually saying "let's start talking about the cost". "Do you want higher taxes?" is a rhetorical statement that means "this is bad, because it will raise our taxes, which I think is inherently bad"; there's no real interest in a genuine discussion of the pros and cons.
My University has five floors of library and a multi million pound budget that includes student access to online electronic versions of books and journals.

It also hosts regular events and guest speakers.

It organises paid industrial placements for students, foriegn exchange programmes at no extra cost, it's own concert hall, a super-computer and, until he stepped down this year, you got your degree handed to you by Sir Patrick Stewart (Capt. Picard) but for my graduation I will have to make do with Prince Andrew.

There are more benefits my tution goes toward.

Economies of scale are a thing.
Ask HN: What did you do on your last day at office?
My last day in office is fast approaching and I'm leaving with hard-feelings :P. Any suggestions from your past experience?
For traditional education, Minecraft serves two purposes: 1) it gets kids interested, and 2) it's a blank canvas the teacher can use similar to how they use a blackboard or any other teaching aid.

As usual in education, tools like Minecraft do not work on their own (save more maybe the creative uses you mentioned). The teacher still has to be able to use the tool effectively.
When Agile is the wrong choice for your company
This seems a bit like click bait. It holds no substantial information. They might as well have summed up the article with, One day, apple will make their own processor. That's all it says.
Pediatric Occupational Therapists are basically "professionally trained parents", people who spent a few years studying child develpoment. You can quibble with the price and the necessity, and in some regions the practitioners might not be qualified, but in general an hour or whatever per week with an Occupational Therapist is going to yield insights into a child's development, and training for parents to be better in their roles.

Modern developed countries have a "no child left behind" attitude. 30 years ago, a kid who couldn't keep up and fit in would be left to waste away in the corner (if they were nonviolent) or pent up in an asylum environment (if they acted out)
The "right to be forgotten" applies to any information service, not just search engines. However, search engines are often easier legal targets since they do business in the EU and thus can be made subject to EU law. If I have no business in the EU, and post my website on a non-EU hosting provider, EU law can demand I take down a page but has no jurisdiction to force me or force my provider. But e.g. Google, since they do business in many EU member states (primarily sell advertising), if they disobey EU law, EU governments/courts can take legal action against them (e.g. confiscate their EU advertising revenue).
I don't believe that law should be shaped by technology in principle. It should be shaped by what the majority think is right for society.

But the right to be forgotten is a flawed concept to me, and I think any tech that makes its implementation more problematic will do us a favour.
> The hacker label is, as Foucault might say, a “dubious unity.”

There's no such thing as "a unity". That doesn't make sense, perhaps you've translated poorly from the French?

> The single phrase can barely contain its constituent multitude.

You seem to be having problems with singular vs plural here.

> Are hackers fundamentally conservative if not in intention, then in deed?

That doesn't seem like a sensible question.

> Such a question requires a working definition of hackers

True. It also, more importantly, requires a working definition of "conservative", and this seems to be missing.

I shan't bother to go on.
With respect to cross cutting concerns, your domain is fractured into something with temporal concerns i.e. events and a timeline. That doesn't reduce complexity, merely move it elsewhere and change the context to something unfamiliar. Then you have to remodel parts to enforce idempotency and handle command failures. Commands do fail but the caller isn't made immediately aware of this. Then there's the distribution and reliability concerns of the system which have to be absolute. If a complex event has numerous subscribers that all must complete, it is very difficult to provide guarantees of consistency even if it is eventual. So your logical isolation ends up with massive cross cutting concerns. For example your UI needs to be aware of the underlying model if the user requires confirmation that something has occurred. Also things like validation become terribly painful.

The cognitive load is the same as any distributed system. It adds massive complexity. If the surface of your application is a SaaS system it is far simpler to deploy hundreds of small tightly coupled instances than to scale it up to one massive instance architecturally.
> But incumbent homeowner NIMBYites and rent are happy...

If you meant to say "renters are happy", no, many of us are not. Those of us who were "lucky" enough to score a rent-controlled apartment around the 2008->2010 time frame are now trapped in those apartments; unable to move despite often worsening and/or malicious corporate landlords because of the substantial increase in rent hike that we would have to endure to find a new place.

If you meant to say something else, please disregard my previous 'graph. :)

Edit: Oh hey! Hallo again! I guess you've already heard all I have to say on the topic already. :)

For others: Don't forget that the city's colossal failure to build negatively impacts both those who wish to move into the city and those who wish to move within it.
So? Lunch is waiting in line and sitting at a table -- often sitting quietly, in schools where the adults are strict. Recess is physical activity.
watching TV, and playing video games, does feel social!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
yay they mentioned my name in the article
http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/press-releases/2014-...

Although that isn't the exact same statistic. Basically in NY black kids go to school with black kids and white kids go to school with white kids, although there might be both a white public school and a black public school.
> What's the killer app for the Oculus Rift?

100 years ago: "Risque" was defined as the lingerie section of a J.C. Penney mail-order catalog.

Tomorrow: A pioneering generation of habitual VR wankers.
Another input for a Bayesian bot detection algorithm. If it looks like Forefox but doesn't use cipher suites for, any released version of Firefox then it might not be Firefox.

It's actually a less intrusive test than say searching the network for SIP end points via WebRTC like used today.
The second paragraph wasn't dated - that was about 2009 when my friend was trying to encourage me to apply to join this fledgling Flex team - so even after 2002 people were still following the Flash / Flex mantra.
You can already use Facebook for free on mobile. I don't think FB has big interest in providing free internet for everyone.
There are many ways a large fork can go in an open source project. A great description of the io.js/node split is:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884874

"Lets hope the spork gets spooned so that no projects get knifed. If not then I guess we have to hope for a knork so we don't get stuck with a couple of chopsticks."
Niche information with worst presentation!!!
I've made a conscious effort to let my 18 month old do this, even if it does mean the odd grazed knee or bump on the forehead I'd rather her learn from doing and making mistakes than wrap her in cotton wool, she gets more than enough wrapping with cotton wool from my wife :)
The issue was the exact route west of the Wilshire/Rodeo stop [1] in western BH. The possibilities were running north of the high school, with a third stop in the city of Beverly Hills, around the Santa Monica/Wilshire intersection [2] and its commercial district; or to run southwest, under the high school, to the office towers of Century City [3].

The distance look close on a map, but the terrain is EXTREMELY unwalkable - what looks like regular roads on the maps of Century City are laid out more like highways, with hundreds of meters between crosswalks, and large blocks without paths to cut across them.

The MTA wanted the Century City route, both because it would have been better placed to catch commuter traffic and because the Wilshire/Santa Monica route would have gone too close to a fault line; Beverly Hills, clearly, preferred the extra commercial activity to contribute to its own tax revenues. So they made up this "oh my god the kids are going to die!" scare; the local congressman, Henry Waxman, backed them by getting the BH route blocked at the Federal level until 2007.

The MTA then brought up the alternative of sending the train through West Hollywood instead, bypassing BH altogether, and the city caved right quick.

God I love local politics.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/@34.0670703,-118.401029,17...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Beverly+Hills,+CA+90210/@3...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/place/2000+Avenue+of+the+Stars,+...
If you haven't seen the Bloomberg version of 'What is code?', take a look.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...

It's much longer, but also much more detailed and in-depth.
"strong encouragement not to do that"

I would expect that if governments had the same fiscal responsibility as businesses then they would have about the same failure rates.

The failure rate in companies that end up with the investors losing money or some other form of debt is, what, 30%? (Number is from 'Redefining Business Success: Distinguishing Between Closure and Failure', Headd (2003)).

If governments had the same failure rate as businesses we would be up in arms. Yes, some city governments are bankrupt, but it's not true that even 10% of them are failures. http://www.governing.com/gov-data/municipal-cities-counties-... says it's more like 1:2000.

That is not a sign of 'extreme fiscal irresponsibility'.

"Sounds like you've already made up your mind that "wealth redistribution" is acceptable to you, which is a political viewpoint, not solely an economic one."

You make it sound like political viewpoints should not be a consideration.

The existence of non-profit status, the choice of what can be non-profit, and the rules that apply (eg, the 5 percent payout requirement for foundations) also also influenced by politics.

Since you appear to support special non-profit status for schools, you and I are in agreement that political views are indeed an important aspect of this discussion. I therefore don't understand why your comment is useful.
Bored People Quit
Yes, I believe diaspora was a social network of this sort. But it's just one example, and not an indictment of decentralized social networking in general. Your address book + SMTP is a decentralized social network that caught on just fine. The only difference is that it was designed and built before corporate interests were the driving forces behind new standards (or lack thereof).
Just reading back though the specification of IPFS, be wary about the claims of 'permanent Web'.

Distributed content in IPFS is eventually purged from nodes unless one of the hosting nodes has pinned it to be retained. Therefore, if no-one at Time x views certain content and pins it, then unfortunately at Time x + n that content might disappear just as thoroughly as under HTTP.

Unfortunately I fear that means that 'popular' content persists whilst niche and unique data might still fade away.
If the stats in WildUtah's comment are to be believed -and his anecdotes mesh with my understanding of how zoning works in JP-, then Tokyo has pretty well solved the "response to housing demand" issue.

Housing prices in cities are going to be more expensive than housing prices in the countryside. They shouldn't be so expensive that they exclude families and middle-to-lower-income households.
> Even Tokyo has most of it's trains above ground. See Yamanote line with 29 stations versus the 16 cumulative underground stations that both the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit and Saitama Rapid Railway Line serve.

I've lived in Tokyo for a year, and this comment is grossly ignorant.

First of all, Tokyo Metro is just one subway company in the region. Tokyo Metro according to Wikipedia has 142 unique stations, most of which are underground.

For surface trains, the Yamanote loop line circles central Tokyo, with Chuo-Sobu cutting through the center. There are other surface trains that feed into central Tokyo but don't necessarily take you through Tokyo. There are some trains that also run along sections of the Yamanote line like the Keihin-Tohoku line and Saikyo line.

Other than those lines, if you want to travel around central Tokyo (within the area circled by Yamanote, you will most likely ride a Tokyo Metro subway (underground) or a Toei Subway (underground). Toei is the other major subway company in the region.

If anything, Japan and Tokyo is proof that SF and LA have no reason to not build subways despite their seismically active areas. Remember, Japan, including the Tokyo region, was hit with a 9.0 magnitude earthquake recently and many other high magnitude earthquakes in the last century alone. Tokyo is proof that earthquakes can be mitigated.

If there's one engineering failure of Tokyo it would be reclaimed land. A large portion of Tokyo (famously Odaiba, and Haneda Airport) are built on reclaimed land. This type of land shows problems especially due to earthquakes. For this reason residents tend to shy away from purchasing houses in these areas because there's a high risk of issues with the soil and foundations. But this makes perfect sense, reclaimed land is basically dumping dirt into what used to be water to make more land.

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The only way this comment gets remotely close to accurate is if it is counting for the entire Tokyo region and not just Central Tokyo. But this would be the equivalent of comparing the entire Bay area. Outside of central Tokyo, the trains do run on the surface. But Tokyo uses trains as a primary means of transportation so lines can continue for hours as they go into remote areas of Tokyo or connect to other lines despite different ownership of the track. For example it is possible to take a single train (no transfers) from Haneda airport to Narita airport. The ride will take over 2 hours but you will have technically traveled on 3 separate lines operated by 3 separate rail companies. Oh and one of those lines is a subway line.
Barcelona-based social gaming startup Akamon acquired for $25M
It remind me a post from Bloomberg...
Maybe it's not broken, maybe it's a new trend, in this information rich modern world having text to read isn't enough, we need text on top of the text so we can double read and process information twice as fast as before. Safari is just way ahead of the game. #fanboi
An apt analogy. Many architectures are marketing driven. It scares me exactly how often this is bought into by short sighted people who rank highly and want a week off for training.

I'm currently dealing with a proverbial balls up which is the outcome of an inappropriate application of CQRS and then microservices architecture fads. They have packer, vagrant, ansible, AWS, all sorts of random things half-plugged into a .net solution. Which makes little sense as this is a Microsoft shop who owns their own paid up datacentre estate and it's a monolithic project that doesn't suit this model nor justify the cost of conversion.

Let me clarify fad here: these architectures work well for specific cases like netflix, amazon and other flag waving success stories but not for general cases like standard LOB stuff.
St. Louis has a similar disparity, especially vs its MSA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Public_Schools#Demog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis#Demographics
Simplicity Always Wins: How to Remove Complexities in Communication
Kamcord is looking for iOS Engineers who love gaming communities
Could it be the French approach to baby storage? One thing that strikes me as a parent living in France is seeing all these three and four year old kids strapped in to push chairs at all times with dummies in their mouths.

Our kids will be running around feral, trashing the place and getting disapproving looks from the other parents, who seem to be spending the whole of their effort suppressing their kids natural desire to play.

Granted, they're well behaved by the time they get to school. But thus far we haven't been inspired to emulate that treatment.
Spent the first half of the day making sure all of my projects were documented and in the right repos; wiped machine; went around to all coworkers to reminisce and wish them luck; and exchanged bows with one of the old school gentleman at the office who felt that, despite the previous going away party, a salaryman's last day at the office is an Occasion Of Monumentous Importance and The Company owes it to him to make one last, final show of regret at his passing and thankfulness for the (abbreviated in my case) lifetime they shared together. I may have teared up a bit at that (on the other side of the door, in the proper salaryman fashion).
lol me too :-)
This reminds me of a feature I sorely miss on my blog (and almost every other blog I visit!) which is for the blogging engine to automatically take a snap-shop of webpages you link to and let users read the cached version at will.

If I link to a page and it goes down, or the content changes, it in a way changes the content of my blog too - in an unwanted way that is!
Brother+MFC-9330CDW+Driver+Download+|+Printers+Driver
It is interesting how different perception was 20 years ago.

My cousin had a Sinclair PC200 back then, that IIRC was Amstrad's poor attempt to get in to the PC market. That was a 8086 based PC with CGA card, and it came with DOS 3-something and GEOS (don't remember the version).

My cousin had a mouse and all, quite uncommon back then, and we tried and experimented with GEOS quite a lot, but we couldn't see the point really.

Perhaps was a limitation of the monitor and/or the CGA card (it didn't look to good in the high resolution mode of the CGA, with a very poor refresh rate) or the limitations of the 740 KB floppies, but the CLI that DOS provided was definitely better!
As far as I'm aware that's simply not true. See http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...

Furthermore the right to be forgotten only mandates hiding results when someone searches specifically for a name, for example. The results are still allowed to come up for unrelated search terms.
> anything worse than a sprained ankle

There were eleven trampoline deaths in the US between 1990 and 1995.

http://www.avon.nhs.uk/phnet/Avonsafe/Trampolines/Trampoline...

There were about 100,000 ER presentations in the US in 2007. These are all preventable accidents. And these accidents happened after considerable work had gone into making trampolines safer.

Safety nets help (many injuries happen when people fall off), but here's a passage describing another method of injury:

> 3.5 If a trampolinist lands on the mat when out of phase with the other participants, the mat may be rising to meet them and the effect is of meeting a hard surface. All the potential and kinetic energy in the system is transferred to the person, who may be unprepared. Depending on the child’s mass, the energy transfer may be equivalent to falling from 2.2m or 3.4 m equivalent to a fall from a first floor window7. This fact may provide a useful tool to communicate the effect of trampolining to parents and supervisors.

None of this means that trampolines should be banned. A manufacturing standard is probably needed for domestic equipment. And people should be encouraged to have adult spotters and safety nets.
Is that mean speed? That's probably not a great measure.
Public transportation will take up the same advances as private. Eventually. Private is going to jump on that stuff first, of course.

Robocars constitute a percentage improvement at the surface, but don't overcome inherent capacity/land-use/energy tradeoffs between a packed subway car and a congested highway. You cannot get around the problem of automobiles using more space. [0]

You will have robocars, but also robobuses and robotrains. This is a "all over, everywhere, better" improvement, not a "this one wins and crushes the others." Flexibility is important - the city is making some progress on bike paths and can continue doing much better still.

Furthermore, better architecture, land use, and future lifestyle changes hold the potential to keep density at a higher average level while improving the feeling of street life to be more like the "peaceful suburban" ideal - walkable, yet quiet and non-disruptive. Framing transportation as a land-use problem - something built up from prior decisions about what real estate to build and where to build it in order to minimize average trip times and potential disruptions - rather than an engineering exercise of making as many roads and rails and tunnels and bridges as you can so that every vehicle may race along at 200 MPH for the smallest errand - drastically changes what you can do and the budget you can accomplish it with, which makes it more likely to be realized in our lifetimes.

That said, I agree with the article. SF has fallen far behind its housing demand, and the lack of a "virtuous cycle" of transit projects to encourage development in outlying neighborhoods shares some blame in that. It should not be the case that it's harder to go between downtown and the Richmond than to make the same trip to Oakland.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/carltonreid/7999178447/