skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for the other RFID chips you might carry, the most anyone is likely to glean from your passport or driver’s license is basic information like your name and country of origin.

Passports and drivers licenses contain much more information than that; is that information not broadcast?

With all the new low-powered, local wireless networking technologies, I haven't thought about RFID for awhile. Is it not suitable for IoT? I assume that by default it only broadcasts one, static set of data; and probably only in response to a request; but even if I'm right, couldn't those features be changed easily?
OpenSSL's implementation of DSA appears to be broken
Here is a recent Facebook research paper that addresses the problem I believe this paper is intended to solve.

Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05698v6.pdf

This recent paper is an algorithm to solve simple question answering from the context of a conversation... like the ones in the older paper... for instance.

John is in the playground.

Bob is in the office.

Where is John? A:playground

I believe a traditional LSTM RNN would have likely cleared the information about John from from it's long short term memory vector. Whereas you would still have access to the information about John in a stack.

fta: "Since the machine can essentially learn how to operate its memory, it can learn how to program itself by producing sequences of instructions."
I suppose the fact that smallpox has been so utterly forgotten merely highlights what a triumph the eradication was, but yeah, I agree with everything you said. Eradication of smallpox is the greatest achievement of the modern age.
I like to use mdfind for ack-style search over my whole system: https://gist.github.com/senderista/1246300
You can lend eBooks, in fact, in some ways it is easier. Buy an extra Kindle, put all your books on it, and make it your "loaner" copy.

Not that complicated. And you get to loan hundreds of books at once.
WP+Fan+Machine
If Unicode defines the rule for initial/medial vs. final ſigma, I wonder why it doeſn't do the ſame for long vs. ſhort s.

More seriously, for encoding purposes shouldn't it be up to the application using the encoding to choose the right character, not up to the encoding system to specify the algorithm? But maybe I'm missing something.
They have their priorities in order:

But tea-break culture posed a big problem for the generals in charge of Britain’s armored formations. Tank crewmen had to stop and climb out of their vehicle in order to have a brew, making it difficult to safely sustain an armored advance.
What's with the final one pixel "branch" sprouting out of the tree at the end, after the leaves fill in? Bug?
It's a shame that this got down voted because there is a bit of truth to it. After my son had an issue similar to this in his sophomore year of high-school he choose to simply drop out and get his GED. He wasn't invested in school activities, was a bit of a geek, and too bright for his own good. He also didn't need a scholarship in order to go to college. He got a six month break from school, passed the GED with perfect scores in three sections, scored high on his ACTs & immediately applied to the local university where he was accepted and carried a 3.8 GPA. For me this was a wake up call. I'd never taken school as seriously as my parents, my mom being a school teacher, but I did buy into this myth that high-school graduation was a necessary evil. It turns out that it really can be very optional for some. Once you have a semester or two under your belt at university no employer really cares about a high-school diploma, and for many employers, a non-traditional route can be attractive.
I wonder how much of this comes from the fact that it is much harder for millennials to support a family on one wage than it was for our parents. So the equality discussed in the article is related to needing the wife to continue working which means the husband needs to shoulder more home responsibility.
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It looks like they use a single band looped over a rod. It appears to be very similar to a Van De Graaff generator.

http://tribogenics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Eli-Paper-...
How does performance compare to 0mq?
I suppose it depends on your priorities. For me, the value of instant delivery, searchability, zero physical space consumed, and near infinite portability far outweigh the value of lending, reselling or giving away. Maybe I'm selfish, but if I have to choose between something that works really well for me while I have it, and something that is easier to pass on to someone else, I'm going to go with the former. Having both would be better, but if I'm forced to pick one, it's an easy decision...
I am not an expert in gene therapy, but I think getting the transcription or translation machinery to read the "good" copy instead of the stop codon would be the challenge there.

circRNA have so much value already as a way to diagnose disease — we're excited about just that powerful capability! Our understanding of circRNAs is just beginning, and it'll be interesting to see what other applications for them are invented.
If you have a phone that is at least 5.5 inches l'd say pass on any 7 inch device.
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I have to disagree with the GP and agree with you...NLTK is a deservedly popular library and an attack on it is going to seem like an attack on its many hard-working volunteers...but good on you for putting the time into building an open source project that follows your vision of an alternative...that's far from being just a griper, and it's often the way that software in a field improves. I'm definitely going to try out spacy.
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The surface pro 3 is more expensive than my laptop. The price is not justifiable for a student living in a 3rd world country.
My highschool brought me in to a meeting with the principal and police officer when I wrote the name of my boyfriend on my ticket to senior prom. They "convinced" me that I could not go to prom with a guy. End of story.
No matter how drunk you are, it's hard to maim someone else with a bicycle. You might knock someone over, but you're really only a danger to yourself.
Pretty neat. I wish the dots could be bigger. I find it difficult to tell their colour.
Because they're not solely for web servers, and because as you so astutely noted javascript can be used in a server role.
Tell HN: There are probably a lot of people, myself included, for whom a keyboard is integral to our work, due to coding. If this is the main obstacle to using a tablet, maybe someone should develop an on screen keyboard with layouts that can be customized for the different languages. I'll take one with all of the vital symbols for Python on one layer.

Right now I have a tablet that can be used with or without its detachable keyboard. It was given to me, so I have nothing invested in it. Aside from the obvious uses of surfing and note taking, I've got iPython Notebook on it. That's become my primary "terminal" for most of my technical work these days, so I can't live without it.

In all due honesty, I'll have to admit that the motivation for having iPython Notebook on a tablet, is to occupy myself during meetings. I've settled on not trying to compose big codes, but use the time to learn more about Python and general programming by surfing the web for cool tutorials and interesting new packages.

A tablet seems to be pretty much the biggest thing that I'm willing to actually carry around. The keyboard has the drawback of requiring me to have a horizontal surface to put it on. My little Moleskine notebook still wins for note taking.
Is it possible that you're suffering from "Analysis Paralysis"? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis)

If you have 15 years of experience, I'm fairly confident that you know how to solve these problems. In fact you probably know 10 different ways to solve these problems. Maybe the overabundance of choice is becoming the bottleneck?

If so, perhaps there's a way you can simply force yourself to commit to a methodology/problem-solving-method before you start tackling the actual problems. Or, you could try breaking the development cycle into smaller, more digestable, iterative chunks (so that you only have to think about the next small step instead of the whole path forward).
It's a penguin, with a similar pose.

Is that really sufficiently derivative for legal problems?
I recently subscribed to Kindle Unlimited and it has definitely saved me money. And with the selection getting better and better, I envision this "Spotify for ebooks" business model as the new normal.

I own a Kobo too and hope Chapters / Indigo offers the same service.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere it depends on content: niche-domain knowledge and test-preparing e-books sell ok at $10-$15 even if pirated more than often; self-empowering fluff and cuisine titles sell nicely below $10; mainstream novels, essays and general prose sell below $5. If I'm able to trace down the report, will add a link for your reference.
That was awesome: Got it in 16 guesses and I believe this would be great for primary schools. I am going to forward it around.
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This sounds promising.

Pocket's inability to remember the current article/position is one of the most obvious, annoying, and (at least by me) reported bugs ever. It makes the app close to useless. Yet they're unwilling to do anything about it. So I'll happily switch for this alone. And highlights/notes is a dream comes true

Going to give Instapaper a shot. Thanks!
I was taken to the principles office after they found out I had access to the camera systems of the schools.

I used it all the time to look for friends and check the lines for some bathrooms.
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Yes they have. Recently I read someone complaining about changing the size of the textarea constantly :) I hope it answers your question ;)
Back at the point in time when Apple and the big six were talking about agency model pricing -- which the DoJ brought the price-fixing case over -- Amazon's penetration was around 90%. (I'm of the opinion that the DoJ case is therefore evidence that US anti-trust law is broken; Amazon were clearly operating a predatory monopoly, but the DoJ went after the much easier target because price fixing is easier to prove.)

Speaking as an author published by the major houses (Penguin Random House and Macmillan in the USA; Macmillan and Hachette in the UK) I'm not seeing my books hitting the ebook bestseller charts much -- but I'm not seeing my sales decline relative to where they were a few years ago, either. What seems to be happening is that the bestseller charts are being dogpiled by self-published titles on deep discount -- 99 cents to $2.99 seems to be typical. And the old joke "sell it at a loss, we'll make it up on volume" seems apposite at this point.
> Even if you account for under-reporting in China, we have a more violent society.

This article is about the casual murder of toddlers and preschoolers with little serious consequence by strangers. I don't think we're accounting for under-reporting enough here.
Unfortunately it's much more interesting to source more popular websites than the actual original studies that nobody cares to read unless it's for academic purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

Next up: how I write invoices using duct tape.
I will hazard a guess as to why this might be better than LSTM. LSTM maintains a vector that represents the long short term memory, but once information is cleared from the vector, there is no way to get it back... whereas a stack you can keep going further down the stack if needed.

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/
Ah Dark Souls. Best therapy ever! : )
I almost put (2012) in the title since it's shown on the page, but the article and docs/binaries were updated in 2013, 2014, and possibly this year.
> They shouldn't? This can in specific cases..

"Shouldn't necessarily" means shouldn't in some cases, should in others. The point is that something like a pathfinding algorithm is not meant to distinguish between those cases, just as the worldgen algorithm in this article is clearly not attempting to create genre-specific dungeons. It gives you raw information, which you'd need to refine if you wanted to have a feel that's specific to a given game.

> This isn't a beginner tutorial.

Beginner gamedev. Is this a distinction that you think negates my argument? It sounds like you're listing up everything in my post that you think people could disagree about.

> You don't think this is specifically for roguelikes?

Whether it's about roguelikes is neither in evidence nor at issue. The parent post took issue with the article for not making maps that felt like a prison/mine/fortress/etc., and I'm saying it clearly didn't attempt to.

> Nethack ... the challenge spaces aren't abstract.

Every game is abstract in some ways and not in others. But within that universal truth, Nethack is most definitely not a game that even gestures in the direction of realistic world generation, and is a counterexample to the overall point of your post.
I would hardly call it 'critique', it was just straight up gossip.
Zero physical space can be pretty important - I get that - but yeah, priorities.

Also, it drives me mad that families have to have some weird hacky system to share ebooks - either have all ereaders use the same Amazon/Kobo/Whatever account, thus messing up any recommendations, or DRM stripping, which is a pain.

The times I really want to read a book now the instant delivery is great, but I think there have only been 3 times in the something like 4 years that we've had an ereader in the house that I've wanted a book that badly and the ebook hasn't been available at a library.

Edit: I do wish physical books were searchable, and had a built-in dictionary.
I mentioned in another thread: Some of us might benefit from an on screen keyboard that we can customize for the programming language that we're using. I'd create one with all of the vital symbols for Python on one panel.
That was a month ago... I'm sure they have some data by now or at least a plan on what to do once they get more data.
I agree. That is exactly why radical organizers like Martin Luther King or Evan Wolfson or Ed Snowden should learn to sit down and shut up. It is narcissistic, selfish, and immature of them to insist on speaking about issues society would prefer they stayed silent on. And the cost to their supporters and friends and those around them is quite significant.
Yeah, "renting for life" doesn't bode well for passing a first edition ebook on to your children ;)
Or any other vehicle that swerves out of the way to avoid you and anything they hit
Well said Pope.
The publishers want to keep ebook prices high to keep them from eating into their traditional print business, just as Kodak kept their digital camera prices high to keep them from eating into their traditional film business.

The problem is that the publishers aren't the only people who can produce ebooks, just as Kodak wasn't the only company that could produce digital cameras.

This is going to bite them in the butt in the long run.
markdown + pandoc would be perfect for his system, yeah you need haskell, but pandoc is so nice.
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You are right, if you are after x-rays specifically this might not work. But I can't see x-rays so I am happy with some blue light.
Having worked in many places and with many projects:

100 out of 100 corporations and most open source projects I know of would simply have never ever told you about it.

So, while I'm sure Mozilla is more corporate than before in a thousand ways this is not one of them.
Then I have to buy an extra Kindle while not getting a discount for buying the ebook, and I can only lend to one person at a time, and anyone I lend to has to be trustworthy not to make purchases on my account.
Consider this statement (which the author used to conclude his article):

That being said, I heartily do not recommend expulsion as a rite of passage for high school students. I’m fairly certain the extreme levels of stress and anxiety I experienced shaved a few years off my life.

I'd argue that your son is lucky to have you - you sound like the kind of parent who not only weathered the storm, but turned it into the best possible experience. If I'm ever in your shoes, I hope that my child comes out the other side looking as good as your son did!

Great work.
Yeah, there is a darker side to everything from eating and sex to sports and reading books.

Example: Books have influenced people to commit all types of crimes including murder.
Ask HN: Should I stay at my job with lots of freedom or leave for a promotion?
I currently work for a very large company in the midwest. I'm the development lead on a mobile development team. I started as a senior iOS developer and after a year or so was promoted to be a team lead. My team develops one app for both iOS and Android. I've been the team lead for about 1.5 years.

Another company in my same city (still a large company, but has about 1/5 the revenue of my current company) has expressed a lot of interest in me becoming their "Mobile Architect".

My current salary is $127k. The offer for the new position is for ~$139k.

Pros for the new position:
* Promoted to have more responsibility / higher title
* More money
* I personally know their IT director, someone whom I have previously worked with at my current company and I respect them.

Cons for the new position:
* I love working with my current team members.
* Going from 3 weeks of vacation, to 2 weeks at the new company
* Commute goes from 15 min to ~30min
* Lose my liberal WFH policy. I can now only WFH for things like weather or workers coming over.
* Most of the mobile developers on my team are in another city.

I am, however, bored at my current position. I feel like I have had myself promoted into a position that I enjoy much less than I did senior developer. Most of my time now is wrapped up in resolving blockers for others, grooming backlogs, running sprint planning, etc. It could be a couple years before the possibility of promotion for me.

Should I:
a) Continue with my current position and enjoy the incredible work life balance I have, and hope for an architect position in a couple years?

b) Accept the new offer and lose some freedom, but perhaps find some more work satisfaction and attain a higher position?

Also, as a follow up question, should I push back on the new company and attempt to at least get them to match my current 3 weeks of vacation? Is an 8% raise enough to jump ship?
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The Unicode case-mapping algorithm is customizable by locale (e.g. uppercase i is İ in Turkish). A application which needed long s (for German Fraktur, for instance) could use a custom locale.
"Amazon were clearly operating a predatory monopoly"

Nonsense. You could maybe argue that they were a monopsony, but even that is a stretch.

"What seems to be happening is that the bestseller charts are being dogpiled by self-published titles on deep discount -- 99 cents to $2.99 seems to be typical."

Someone selling a product for less than your antiquated publisher sells it for is not "predatory". Those authors are almost certainly making more per copy than you are.

The consumers are paying less. The authors are making more. What is the problem with this?
The headline seems a little sensationalist. Even the blog in question released a statement saying it was obvious that they were in violation.

Arguments in favor of violating copyrights are getting old. It's easier than ever before to create images, music, and movies. If you don't want to play by the copyright rules that content creators have opted into, create your own works and release them public domain, and get other people to do so, and then instead of breaking the law, you can legally enjoy public domain stuff. Like in this case, I'm sure there are millions of similar images released public domain or creative commons, so why pick the image that has a license fee?
I want my books, especially the technical/expensive ones, to figure out in my bookshelve.

"People will read a book either because they like the book or to brag about it." - Bertrand Russel

ps. That said, I've bought few eBooks (for Kindle and iPad), the last one is for MiniTest suit (ruby/rails). Didn't read it yet though.
Do you know what happens to the money that would be spent on printing when an ebook is sold? For example, if someone buys your $15 ebook, do you get more money than if someone buys your $15 dead-tree book, or does that money go to your publisher or someone else?

If authors get more money for ebooks that would be an argument for buying ebooks despite their drawbacks.
The CLR already supports arbitrary attributes on methods and parameters. So one could implement this entirely in the language and still target old versions of the CLR.
It sounds like you're in favor of sending pdf's around. Or probably more accurately, large bitmaps.
Many (most?) accidents are predicated on a purposeful choice to drive dangerously: speeding and unable to slow down sufficiently, fiddling with your phone, driving drunk or tired. You may not mean to harm someone but American society has failed to recognize acts that directly contribute to injury and death.