skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are exactly correct.
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What makes you choose Hacker News over all the others?
Ok, obviously there's been plenty of talk about it everywhere. But as a scientist, I'm curious about social dynamics and want to take a sort of census. I don't know if this is considered against the posting rules (It doesn't seem to be), but I'd also like to invite anyone whose interested to take this <a href="https://surveys.mcgill.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=97446&lang=en&97446X8879X361722=hackernewsone">survey</a>.
This survey is part of a study into online social dynamics. We’re trying to understand how people use content aggregation sites, what features affect their use, and what possible issues motivate them to switch between sites. We invite you to help shed light on this important sociological phenomenon by taking a quick approximately 5 - 10 minute survey for research purposes about what you like and don’t like about about the content aggregation sites you use. In the long run, we hope the results of this survey will contribute to making the platforms you love even better. It's strictly non-commercial and fully anonymous, and we will publish in a blog post (in addition to academic publication) on our <a href="http://networkdynamics.org">site</a>.

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The Network Dynamics Group
McGill University
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I'll repost here what I said about my parallel (but apparently less popular) submission:

TL;DR - This is the [in]famous "dancing baby" case in which Universal Music issued a takedown request for a home video of a baby dancing to Prince's Let's Go Crazy. The notice resulted in the video being taken down and then, eventually, put back up after a flurry of DMCA counter-notices. The creator of the video, Lenz, then sued Universal Music for making a bad faith DMCA takedown request. (DMCA allows suits for "any damages" arising from a material misrepresentation in a DMCA takedown notice.)

The DMCA requires takedown notices to include a "good faith belief" statement that that the targeted work "is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." The opinion essentially holds that if you don't think about fair use, or if you know about a viable fair use defense, then this "good faith belief" statement is actionably false.

Note that this standard is quite high. If the copyright holder can show that it formed a subjective belief that the targeted work is not protected by fair use (even if that belief is pretty crazy), then it's not liable.

So, an interesting opinion, but it's pretty hard to see how a properly-represented defendant could lose under this legal standard. It may, however, limit the use of certain automated approaches to finding "infringing" content. While the opinion points out automated ways that a copyright holder could reasonably identify works that are not likely to be protected by fair use (such as where all of the audio and video perfectly matches the copyrighted work), human review will likely be necessary in many other situations, and these humans may be far more cautious than they used to be for fear of an eventual class-action lawsuit.

Opinion - http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/09/14/13...

Ars Technica Coverage - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/eff-scores-a-win-...

The video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KfJHFWlhQ
Just curious: What mid-twentieth century calculus notation is being used here?
There are any number of free text adventure games built using Z-Code or Glulx systems (or newer alternatives, like Twine) that you can play online:

http://ifdb.tads.org
It is an open source project, but check the contributors, you will see Adam Barth, Ian Hickson, Eric Seidel and other Chrome engineers.
Facebook Brings Virtual Reality to Mobile Devices
While I generally agree with you:

1) Youtube is a large publisher

2) Youtube runs ads and profits on posted videos.

3) Copyright predates the ability for individuals to make millions of copies for essentially zero-cost, so some updating to the rules for the digital era makes sense.
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This seems like a non sequitur. Care to elaborate more on China's current state and how it's analogous to Russia's future?
the key is to know in detail the limitations of this approach

There's the rub. If you don't know anything about the native platform then you "don't know what you don't know". The NativeScript demo shows how to pull in a native ObjC function (a string related method I think), but if you start with no background in the native libraries how would you even know when you could be leveraging a native library function instead of trying to recreate a sub-optimal approximation in JS. But if you have the foundation and know the native platform, why jump ship to JS at all? And then I'm right back where I started :)
Schwarzenegger to Replace Trump as Host of “The Celebrity Apprentice”
How Syrian Super Mario is taking on the refugee crisis
Back to BASIC [video]
Essentially Cornerstone. They made large investments in developing, marketing, and selling it and it basically flopped although it had a variety of innovative features from a technology perspective.

Arguably they were also slow to branch beyond pure text adventure games but the investments in business software were the bigger near-term problem.
I was lucky to try iPhone 6s Plus this weekend. We compared its photos with iPhone 6 and Galaxy edge as well as a point and shoot camera. The new iPhone took nicer photos. The "Live Photo" thing was also a fun addition.

I'm not saying it can replace your DSLR but it's getting more and more unnecessary to buy a separate camera with these mighty phones we have.
Stephen Colbert's Best Interview with Vice President Joe Biden
Exceptions as a programming language concept often include a change in control flow. While your method does "handle and exceptional situation", I don't think it could be said to be a general purpose way of doing exception handling in C, if you want to support the concept of changing control flow. While I recognize that you yourself may or may not have valid arguments about whether altering the control flow is a good idea, I don't think that affects whether this works as a solution for exception handling, in the general, PL concept sense.
I got around it just by Googling a good chunk of the URL -- google-found-guilty-of-abusing-dominant-market-position-in-russia -- and clicking on the top result. WSJ doesn't paywall traffic coming from Google apparently...
IRS will reject all checks for more than $99,999,999
Erm, the linked metamath page asks what's the longest path one can take. Well, geez, it's long. Proving that 2+2=4 from the usual Peano axioms isn't that hard or long. We define addition by a+0=a,a+S(b)=S(a+b). Now what we mean by a positive integer number is just a shorthand for that number of successive S(). So 2+2=4 is just S(S(0)) + S(S(0)) = S(S(S(S(0)))). To prove this, let's apply the second part of the addition to S(S(0)) + S(S(0)) we get S(S(S(0)) + S(0)). Let's repeat this "move the S() from the second to the outside" and you will get S(S(S(S(0)) + 0)). Now we can use our first half of definition where +0 can be left out: S(S(S(S(0)))). Now, that wasn't that long, was it?
Here are some concrete run scripts and service units, side by side: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/ru...
The lenses your phone has, made by the lowest bidder, will not match a good zeiss lens, or even soviet lenses. You'll also be stuck with whatever the phone maker has decided is a good enough aperture because there's not an easy way to change the aperture size on a device that small. So the depth of field will always be exactly the same. No tiny apertures leading to crisp fields where everyone's in focus, no wide open images where the one, and only one, object you want to study is in focus. So yes, there are quite a few justifications for a discrete camera even after phones fix their processing delays. A smartphone will displace the snapshot camera used 10 years ago, but it's not going to be physically possible to replace the versatility of a changeable lens camera.
Does that mean that this ruling outlaws completely-automated takedown notices, because it requires a belief to be formed about each instance?
Should we take what the Russian goverment says at face value, or is this part of a trend in Russian policy to turn away from the West? These are the same guys trying to ban Reddit and Wikipedia.
In some sense, proofs as presented in a textbook should not hold your hand. The point of learning about proofs is being able to create proofs yourself, even if they are trivial variations on proofs you have seen.

Computer analogy: would it be a good idea if someone showing an implementation of a double-linked list explained every little detail about pointers and arrays etc.?

However, there are many things we can do syntax-wise to facilitate the understanding of proofs. I remember we experimented with using indentation (on paper) in proofs when I did functional analysis, and that was quite useful for keeping track of "variable scope" etc.
Sky is in early stages, but I think it has good potential and in active development. I think they made the app on Google play quite some time ago during dart summit as a demo, so maybe examples in the repository is a better place to look.

Also, looks like they will name it as Flutter: https://flutter.github.io/getting-started/
It's possible to learn anything :) I'm in the same boat - I haven't done any mobile development - and from what I have seen it does not look like a large amount of education will be needed.
I'm not sure if this collection of TV programmes can be viewed by anyone outside the UK (a shame if not), but it includes some TV programmes about computers and computer programming that are over 30 years old.

Here is a BBC blog post that provides some additional context:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/aa6274eb-818e...
Google makes it impossible for a single manufacturer to ship both google services android and yandex flavor adroid.

Or any other custom android; just ask Samsung, Google pressurized them to drop their own ecosystem.

This is anticompetitive if you ask me.
In show's introduction, the host said "Hopefully you don't overdose on money Michael" after Michael joked about eating too much Ice cream.

What an omen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h07eO0SKtUI
well sine has to come from lengths of curves, doesn't it? Because the geometric definition of sine is a function from angles to numbers, and to get pi in there you need to introduce radians as a way to measure angles - otherwise I could argue that the roots of sin are 0, 180, 360, etc. - and none of them are particularly irrational.
Much of the relevant copy protection information has been merged with information from the Encyclopedia Frobozzica (included as a printed feelie with Return to Zork) and replicated to various sites in wiki form.

For instance, the infotater from Sorcerer had a color code mapped to various creatures that was required to progress past the intro area of the game. The copy-protection sewer map for Leather Goddesses of Phobos is the most annoying thing ever.

There are also deprotection patches available.

As I bought most of the original games the first time around, and the two Lost Treasures of Infocom CD compilations, and never resold them, I don't have any qualms about downloading the game data files, with the exceptions of BattleTech Crescent Hawk 1&2 and Leather Goddesses 2.

But now you can get Lost Treasures of Infocom as a free iOS app. So downloading the app is granting license for the included games, at least for that device.
The answer seems to be "sometimes."

See my edited comment (I was just in the process of addressing this when you posted your question). Also see page 19 of the opinion which addresses exactly this issue.
so rn makes it easy to create components that may not fit in the platform's UI standards?
It's not really an extra pointer, unless you assume there are no alignment issues. If you assume that there's zero padding between members, then yes, you can do 1 pointer for storage + 1 per view. In the follow-up post, I plan to either do one pointer per view, or one integer per view, haven't decided which.

The thing is, who should solve it? The different approaches you listed have different advantages, there isn't one right answer. If the language itself solves it for you, you are stuck with whatever solution the language picked. This would be fine in a higher level language, but not in C++.

You're right though that individual devs shouldn't be solving it, it should be in a library. If there's enough interest in these posts, I'm happy to put up my work (fully fleshed out and documented) on a github for people to use.
You don't actually need F(pi) + F(0) to be non-zero. The proof shows that the integral is positive, but arbitrarily small. The means that F(pi)+F(0) must be positive, but arbitrarily small. If F(pi)+F(0) is a positive integer, it fails the arbitrarily small test. If F(pi)+F(0) is a non-positive integer (including 0), it fails the positive test.
Maybe they couldn't convince higher-ups at CBS to upgrade the system until someone came in and fleeced them for $90K after taxes.
China has plenty of replacements but they are nowhere near western equivalents in quality.
9/10 cured? Not even close. If you know anybody with Alzheimer and Parkisons you'll know that while exercise can help, it's not remotely a cure for these devastating diseases.
I was mostly referring to development paradigms and methodology in my original post, but in terms of tooling, I personally haven't see any tooling on the native side even approach the increased productivity provided by the instantaneous feedback loops that countless hot-reload implementations can offer for the web.

https://github.com/gaearon/babel-plugin-react-transform/

http://gaearon.github.io/react-hot-loader/

https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel
I am actually surprised by the number of clients I've dealt with developing products in some form of Delphi and other archaic languages.
Be confident and if you don't know the answer to something, say so.

Interviews can vary wildly, so it's best to be yourself, and a company of people who want to work with someone like you will choose you.

You might need to get more interviews, and don't listen to the haters that refuse to work with recruiters, at a minimum they can help to pad your interview schedule so that you don't feel like you have one day that is your only shot - that can make you nervous enough to blow it completely.
No, it doesn't boil down to that, and no that's not a magic cure-all. Looking at Table 1 in http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v6/n9/full/100690.html there are about 40 different supplements mentioned (many of them conditional based on lab tests).
> It's an interesting thought experiment to extrapolate antitrust ideas onto free software.

But this is about Google.
"Advertised prices are 'invitations to treat' rather than binding contracts of sale."

Ah - precisely - I'm so glad you brought that up. If only more people understood this simple principle!

You're right though, frequently honoured for good PR - it's rare that an item going through checkout at the 'wrong' price perhaps due to an expired offer is not adjusted.
Indian Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Is Raising Over $500M at a Valuation of Around $5B
> I'm talking about being able to buy a computer from a manufacturer without having to pay $99 for an installation of Microsoft Windows that I explicitly do not want.

You can. You are not limited to specialty outfits as well, nor are you required to pay a lot for it, or any of the other numerous criteria you try to add on as well. Being able to buy a PC without paying for Windows or paying for an Apple product is incredibly easy for the average person today.
Even the Nokia Lumia "42" mp phone-camera was just far, far too laggy to use. Microsoft was on the right track, requiring a dedicated camera button (they later killed this off). But the software and everything else meant I'd still miss most shots.
"..." vs. "???" :) well, it is kind of Freudian slip here - i'm a Russian and i understand what is happening there, and "???" would mean at least minimum of constructive approach, like at least recognition of real situation, recognition that there is something unclear yet, whereis in Russian mentality there is no question, there is no constructive thinking ahead, and what we take for "thinking ahead" is actually "dreaming". And that's what i accidentally placed "..." for :)
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it's all about paying the right people to get permission.
I trust the legal system a hell of a lot more than a lynch mob. In court, I get representation and evidence is considered in a rational and impartial way. The legal system is not perfect, but its way better than being subject to the whims of a mob.
Real world regular expressions

Regular expression usage in real programs is somewhat more complicated than what the regular expression implementations described above can handle...

I'm unable to see how the approach suggested in the paper could be made idempotent with Perl's regular expression engine while still maintaining linear performance. Though admittedly idempotence is a strong form of "Perl Compatible".

But as I'm not particularly bright, there's no need to try and explain.
I fail to see how this helps. Actual proof is more complicated, it is based on continued fractions.
I love to see people discovering that despite their lack of modern technology, many ancient peoples were far from primitive.
Ok. I'm gonna try some stream of consciousness answering...

I always need to see someone having done some difficult technical development. As an engineer myself, it makes my job so much more fun (i do code/design review with every startup i invest in!). Seeing a team build a prototype shows another level of commitment. I've built hardware, so i know how much more time/effort/money it takes over a software wireframe...It also minimizes one of the risks of the startup. Can the team build what they say they can build? I see 3 primary risks of building a startup; technical, team, and market. My goal is to invest when as many of those are solved, but completely understanding that because i am a seed stage investor, will never see all 3 de-risked before i invest.
Some of my investments were during a kickstarter (Prynt and Particle fka Spark.io)
Others I invested pre-kickstarter (Shaper -- shapertools.com)
And others are not meant for crowdfunding (Plethora, Momentum Machines)

The question of an accelerator vs going direct to VC is a different story. I see accelerators helping a tremendous amount with first time hardware entrepreneurs...and since the hardware startup space is so new, thats almost everyone! However, there are experienced hardware founders, and I have definitely invested in teams that have not gone through accelerators (Plethora -- seasoned entrepreneurs, DFX Machina -- Senior ex-Apple founders)

Overall, its never to early to speak with a VC or accelerator. We are here to support the ecosystem. That means inspiring potential founders to go for it, and help educate those inspired to take the rights steps, and avoid the mistakes of others.

We make it easy to find us for a reason!!!
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What about the ArchLinux community (IRC/forums/wiki etc)?

Arch has both made it easier for new Linux users to adopt it day-to-day while still appeasing the more advanced users, ala Gentoo. The Arch wiki has been the single best contribution to the Linux desktop world in recent memory IMO.

I'm curious how the more hardcore *nix users view it.

> I'd rather recommend the OpenBSD community.

My attempted to use OpenBSD and take part in the community left me disappointed. On the surface it seems to be exactly what I'm looking for (correctness + security). But I was turned off by the culty vibe of the users and it seemed like a backwaters in terms of software versions, as everything outside of the core seemed severely outdated.
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Thanks for the links! I'll have to try them out. I've worked with exposure bracketing before so I get the idea, I just never really tried doing the parts thereafter in software. I'll have to give this a try soon.
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Every time I tried studying from a math textbook back in school I got the impression that examples and explanations were purposefully obscure to make it look more sophisticated. Then a friend comes along and explains it in 10 seconds and it makes perfect sense.
True, those are also good ones. Although I have to say the story of Mel is still my favourite :-)
Google seems to be singled out and especially targeted by these antitrust allegation and investigations, I mean in the larger sense not just here where it's mostly a protectionist outcome as the fact that they technically don't have a "dominant market position" at ~50% market share is the least of it.

I'm curious How a ruling like that gels with the fact that on an iPhone (the other half of the market) all services and apps are dictated by Apple and can not be altered, while on Android not only they can be but the whole OS is free, Yandex could have commissioned their own hardware like many others do and they curiously haven't complained about Apple.

Same goes for the search allegation,the argument there is that Google should feature results from other search engines on their own site! Which is mind Boggling, no one is convinced Facebook or twitter or anyone should include content from other website but somehow Google is different. Google isn't the network layer that one must go through it to interact with the web, they are no "gatekeeper" not technically or metaphorically yet somehow politicians are convinced they are.

This seems like field distortion to me that somehow regulator were sold on to (even excluding this Russian example).
This is a country whose justice system has a 99% conviction rate, and explains that this is a testament to their exemplary investigational work.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/europe/russias-99-convi...
... as long as it is not abused. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10162451
And he does talk about f(pi) quite a bit. It's not like there are limits being discussed where we should consider something in the neighborhood of a 0/0 situation. He evaluates it at pi, and in doing so could just put a zero in there.
learn RN for the skillset. But MVPs should always be done as soon as possible so use RoR and ship it.
Instagram became hugely popular by letting people take pictures that were already kinda crappy and crap them up even further with a variety of noisy, wince-inducing novelty filters before passing them along. So subtlety and nuance are qualities that most people who take pictures have already left way, way behind.
I may be turning into an old fart, but I'll always prefer a blackboard for doing math. I'm not sure why, but whiteboards just feel... wrong.
It also has the intolerable side effect of making one's pee blue.

Doesn't seem that intolerable to me, as far as negatives go.
> Which is unlike using Ionic Framework, where I've gotten about 98% code reuse between platforms.

Ionic is using HTML widgets , not actual IOS or Android widgets like React Native , Titanium or others. So you are basically developping an HTML client inside a webview and calling it an APP. Of course you'll be able to reuse 98% of the code that ran into a web browser. But it will look like an HTML website.
You can play some of these on the archive (no Java required)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Planetfall_1983

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobo...