skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, let's take a hypothetical (though, VERY close to what I've seen).

You're a SAAS company. Not a startup, a medium-size company that's been around for 20+ years. Your core software is close to 15 years old. It's 2.5 million lines of code (not that hard to do with "enterprise" software).

You have somewhere around 75 TB of data in probably 500 individual customer databases (multi-tenancy was not thought of in 2002 when your core software was developed).

This software expects Oracle to be the backend.

You can either:

1. Sink time and money into engineering time to evaluate, choose, and implement a new DBMS, and pay for consultants, licenses (if you choose a proprietary one), hardware (you'll need some, because you'll have that weird in-between time as you're migrating your customers' data).

You'll have to properly train your DBA's and developers (and ops people) on the new DBMS ($$).

You then have to write proper ETL scripts, schedule downtime with your customers (who have nearly 24/7 operations and transactions), make the switch, hope everything went well, then repeat that for your other 499 customers.

- or -

2. You can continue to pay Oracle, because you've got that in your budget every year, and it's not worth the hassle.
And they keep talking these turkeys up in Game Press like amazing wonderful games that you just have to buy, 10 star reviews etc. People got burned putting down there hard earned money for garbage walking simulators with crappy art. Most people I know who might buy 10$ Indy games are much more sceptical and careful with there money now. No one believes the reviews any more, either go to Youtube or word of mouth by someone you trust there taste. A few select sites give credible reviews but there rare.
I think hobbies are important for everyone. I know just getting by is enough of a hobby for most of us, but to those who have a little free time--develop some interests?

My father was content with his job. He loved to talk about his job, something I didn't inherit. He was his job. He never pursued any hobbies. When he retired he literally didn't know what to do with his free time. He had the money to do pretty much whatever he wanted--within reason, but was lost. Looking back, he never should have retired?

Well he decided to retire at 55. The first few weeks were o.k., but I was worried because he didn't cultivate any outside interests/hobbies. Well he started drinking more, and died a painful death from liver cancer 10 years later.

My mother is afraid to retire because she saw what happened to my father. I got her into photography years ago, but she still needs something more. I think the secret is incorporating a hobby with others in a social setting? She's not into meeting new people, like myself, so I just hope she finds a group of people she feels comfortable with. She's not a drinker, so I don't have that to worry about. She is prone to depression though.

When I hear people stating I just don't care about "that stuff". I tell them just give it(whatever) a shot? The Internet has made learning a hobby so much easier?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
It was only a matter of time something like this happened. In best case there will be less bad Kickstarters and scams, in worst case kickstarting will become a thing of the past. Unless you are 100% sure you can deliver the product you risk having to pay back everything.
I'm ashamed to say I don't know what either of your points means. Your Clojure experience on GitHub seems nontrivial so I'd love to hear more!
>I once got a D for an essay on "how does the symbolism help us understand the author's message" when I said that, frankly, it didn't, and that if the author wanted to send a message, he should have come straight out and said it.

Only 2 problems with that:

1) the message in the symbolism is not the same message in the "straight up message" -- it has more nuances for one. It's not because you can't just "say it" that you go to symbolism, it's because the thing, said straight, doesn't really capture what you want to say.

E.g. "life is beautiful in a sad way" -- that's the clear message. OK, but nothing much. A short story/poem with the right words/symbolism/etc can not only tell you that, but make you feel it in your stomach, and in several different ways.

2) most people bypass said message when you "come straight out and said it" as it often sounds simplistic and naive deprived of its artifice.

E.g. say straight up "Don't do drugs" and most teeanegers will laugh at you. Tell it with a story/song/poem and they might get the message that there's something dark there. Or tell a different story/song/poem and they'd might like to go try some.
> identify the images with salads

I tried many times and failed the salad test. It's so frustrating that I gave up.
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I had similar arguments. In one case I got in a heated argument with him, because the "official" interpretation of a well know poem we had to analyse clearly hinged on interpreting a certain phrase in a way that was grammatically totally wrong and incongruous with the authors grasp of the language and past usage.

But no arguments would sway him, because past authorities had said otherwise, with no evidence whatsoever to support their interpretation (I could not know that my interpretation was valid either, but that was part of my point - mine at least had the advantage of not assuming the author had made a massive grammatical error right there in that one poem that he'd never made anywhere else, that just happened to totally change the literal reading of his poem).

It pretty much shattered my respect for that teacher, and strongly contributed to by burning hatred for literature analysis.
I can say pretty certainly that all the text they've gathered through the Google Books project is in use in their language models and other AI models for their search engine, speech recognition, etc.

They got what they wanted. I can't see what incentive they have as a business to grant access to the books that justifies paying employees for it.
I'd like that the "consider no biking " message had the bike image with a strikethrough.
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Not sure how it works on the muni, but I had a similar thought when I saw lots of people getting on my town's BRT without paying a fare. Then I got a six-month pass (from my employer), and now it looks like I'm not paying a fare, either, since it only had to be validated once.
The books of Noam Chomsky altered my political and historical perception very drastically.
"Identify the images with spinach" - presents 8 blurry green images of green spinach like leaves.
Did you implement your own Haar wavelet feature cascading classifier?
This is why I quit an incredible job at a top VC firm to become a programmer
In my country (Romania) it's hit or miss. Not all addresses can be located by Google Maps. Many of them yield just the street, which might be kilometers long. It's a shame that Google Maps is inferior to my iGo tablet running Windows Mobile from 10 years ago. And it didn't need to have continuous wireless data access. Even routes that have been looked up are not saved, so there is no way to recover the route if the app crashes or I need to interrupt it midway and I have no data signal. I am very frustrated with Google Maps as a car GPS. It's an inferior product in my country. How was iGo capable to deliver superior maps so many years ago?
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The problem is that you have absolutely no basis for assuming what you pick up that you think is intended symbolism has anything to do with what the author is trying to convey unless they tell you. And very often it turns out that people who try to analyse works get it totally and utterly wrong (at least from the perspective of trying to tease out the authors intent).

> 2) most people bypass said message when you "come straight out and said it" as it often sounds simplistic and naive deprived of its artifice.

People ignore "don't do drugs" not because it's straightforward, but because it is trying to command you to do something without making a persuasive argument why.

It is simplistic and naive for that reason, but that has nothing to do with the lack of symbolism, but with the lack of reasoning.
The KS terms and conditions have changed, refunds are no longer obligatory (since Oct 2014?).
Fair point but the real solution would be to do those things all fast from the one site somehow. Not many url's many resources etc. How to do that I dunno.
In June 2015, the US Copyright Office issued their report with draft legislation, "Orphan Works and Mass Digitization", after consultation with creators, libraries and tech companies. This guidance can be used by the US Congress to create laws permitting Google Books and other efforts to digitize orphaned works.

http://copyright.gov/orphan/
OK, Sony deceived their customers in advertising. How is this any different from what they do every day?

Note that in EU deceitful advertising is illegal.
"Why did this character behave in this way?"

"Because that's what the author wrote."

We need a way of helping people jump through those hoops because rejecting the premise of litrature analysis is unlikely to go well for powerless children.

Changing it from analysing[1] the literature into hacking te teacher may work. "Your teacher has these cognitive oddities. How many can you discover?"

[1] I suspect a bit of programming with plenty of graphs of sentiment analysis or character interactions would not be well received in those classes.
If you don't let people build new pipelines....

The more conspiracy minded note that Berkshire Hathaway is benefiting mightily from this: https://www.google.com/search?q=berkshire+hathaway+railroad+...
Yeah, I'm not sure I trust Google so much anymore and I trust Facebook even less. It'd have to be a W3 group somehow with all the players involved. Definitely some of them would play spoiler like Microsoft did back in the day. Apple would probably play spoiler with this, they like their App Store it makes them money.
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> even if his startup has a modest $9.3 million in funding

I would love such modest funding.

> Its first product is a single-blade razor system, called Bevel, which makes it possible for men with coarse or curly hair—the kind that I and most other black men have—to shave without developing razor bumps or other skin irritation.

Made in Hogwarts. A razor is just a knife held at an angle.
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A degree will be very hard to pursue later, but jobs offers will continue to run in.

IMHO the best solution to your problem is to try to get the degree ASAP while keeping some jobs, just enough to keep you going. College will broaden your circle and knowledge. Try to enter a research group, since you're so skilled. That might give you access to great startup ideas that can only be pursued in that environment. Also college is fun, try get some of that too.

You should get the degree in order to level up socially. Will make your life easier.

Any college has to give probably more than you can handle in different many different ways. Try to get all of that because ain't going to come from anywhere else.

You'll have time to work, as a freelancer, an employee or do you own thing, you are only 19. Now it's time to study, focus on the studies :-)
Isn't the best general answer to assume mono is mono and put the font configuration responsibility on the user?
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I wonder if/how they controlled for age and free time. Surely those elite scientists are more likely to be old, retired or at least have a secure career so they have time to spend on their hobbies.
> Create a good transit app with embedded tracking

if this would have to be mandatory it wouldn't catch on with anyone remotely concerned about privacy.
It is worth noting that Spanish for "foot" is "pie" and for "ball" is "balon". So by calling it "futbol" and not "piebalon" who is actually culturally appropriating whom eh?
I used to be able to do this for z80. I owned a spectrum and the user manual had a list of z80 instructions together with their byte code. Lacking an assembler, my only way of writing code was to hand write the numbers and then POKE them into memory.

Ah, all those wasted hours writing code, only for it to instantly crash and lose everything...
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Gather data on search queries and highlighted phrases for books? There is value in knowing which subset of the corpus is more valuable.

Apple acquired a "Pandora for Books" recommendation startup which had permission from publishers, who provided text for indexing, http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-buys-booklamp-2014-7 . Their machine classification made it possible to search books for topics whose words were not present in the book.
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Personally, I don't find that explanation at all intuitive or helpful. If others do, great, but for me, not at all.

So many submissions, very little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304165 (30 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957553 (8 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687 (2 comments)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8963372

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8358851

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5435554

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4305144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257118

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382371

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1040174
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Small companies become large companies. Large companies buy ERP (etc) software. Oracle/SAP/Salesforce are quite happy to help them out.

Oracle specifically, one of their main sources of growth is from buying companies that have large numbers of customers, and then cross selling.
>The thrilling thing about Google Books, it seemed to me, was not just the opportunity to read a line here or there; it was the possibility of exploring the full text of millions of out-of-print books and periodicals that had no real commercial value but nonetheless represented a treasure trove for the public.

I had the same excitement as the author when Google Books came out. The service has stagnated over the years. Reading snippets is such a frustrating experience (you cannot even cut and paste the text). Even the books where one can buy an ebook is not available for some countries. Many times it is quicker to search on archive.org to find related books digitized by Microsoft.

We still have a long way to go where knowledge can be distributed at low cost and in abundance ...
Google-scanned books are also available as a direct URL on the Internet Archive, there's no need to use Google's multi-step access interface.
Exactly.

But I think people like us have to accept that many other people hate a sea of parens to the point they violently reject LISPs (e.g. http://ancell-ent.com/images/parens.png) ; my question WRT to Clojure is, how many of them have come on board in part due to adding to and in some cases changing the (nearly) pure s-expression syntax we love?

If a fair number have, I'm willing to accept it for the benefit of "Lisp", for Clojure has created the greatest movement in "Lisp" since the Lisp Machine and microprocessor heyday of the '80s.

Ah, I might add that for me, the REPL style of programming is my #1 feature. One of my greatest programming feats what with CodeCenter/ObjectCenter, an interpretive environment for C/C++, where I ported a scanner driver and rewrote the engine for monster Kodak document imaging scanners in 3 weeks. The very first time I hooked up one of these 600 pound, bigger than a washing machine scanners and hit the "Go" button it worked all the way through to writing files.

Well, until I ran out of file descriptors, forgot a close() ^_^. But I found being able to do that rather impressive, granted, I'd been working on the lower level SCSI code for a couple of years with optical drives and scanners.
This reminded me a lot of a website a friend shared on Facebook, and that looks to me a lot like a scam: http://skywayinvestgroup.com/en/

Anybody, has anybody first-hand info about this?
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>The problem is that you have absolutely no basis for assuming what you pick up that you think is intended symbolism has anything to do with what the author is trying to convey unless they tell you.

Language is ambiguous, but not THAT ambiguous. People generally understand symbolic cues, unless we're talking about some extreme "avant guard" kind of art.

Most of these clues after all have been honed for millenia, and are part of the cultural landscape.

And if people are at least partially involved in art/literature etc, they learn even more of classic tropes and symbolic use of words (or images, in cinema).

And if the miss a few symbolisms, they can still get others in the same work, and have a general grap of the message. One of the joys with songs/poems/fiction etc is discovering new levels and depth you didn't see at first (e.g. as you gain more experience with life to relate to them, or as you learn some cultural information that helps you decipher a clue).

In the end, it's also up to how good the poet/writer/storyteller is, and how opaque or transparent he wants to make his story.

>People ignore "don't do drugs" not because it's straightforward, but because it is trying to command you to do something without making a persuasive argument why

Not really (from the point I come from). Even combined with a 8 page detailed pamphlet, with what can happen to you, side-effects et al, most young people still sneer at it and ignore it. For one, they think those things don't apply to them (they are industructible, they can control it, etc) and second they aren't cool.

Reasons are the uncoolest things to try to convince teenagers with.

It's when you spice up the story, make it cool, or make it impactful, that they might pay attention and think "hmm, maybe drugs aren't so good after all". That's what drug songs like "Needle and the damage done" can do, or books like "Less Than Zero". But at this point you're into symbolism and artifice too.
Reminds me of insurance companies cherry picking the healthy people. The profit motive conflicts with providing a universal service. While it can work, in Australia we have a public Health system, Medicare, that covers everybody.
This is a brilliant opportunity for true political evolution in the UK that is clearly already working and flourishing within the bounds of the established systems.

I really hope the next "Director of Digital" for the party (http://www.labour.org.uk/pages/current-vacancies) embraces open participation and open source so that we can all muck in :)
I remember my dad having something very similar in his office when I was a kid. You could write on it like a normal white board then it would print out a copy of it for you.
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Looks like you're right: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21

And of course you can't do it after the fact because you can't turn off the crypto.
I think it is a pretty strong reference that many programmers understand, and speaks volumes about the execution-model-as-value-proposition: "Just give us a piece of code, we'll do the rest". I'd say it's up there with Glacier and CloudFormation as an evocative product name.

There is a category violation in the name since, arguably, AWS Lambda functions are not true anonymous functions, having ARNs to identify them. If only I could save environment state along with the code function (e.g. for injection of runtime secrets); it'd be AWS Closure.
Inequality increases crime. Heaps of references like this

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-06/want-to-fig...
When we first began using Oracle DB extensively Postgres was not in a state where it could have handled our needs. Now we have existing systems that work on Oracle. It would be extremely expensive to change that -- both in money, and in risk, and in developer time. New apps are not being built on Oracle DB.
The monospace font designer could integrate CJK logographs as double the standard width (that's essentially what CJK fonts do in reverse with halfwidth latin characters). CJK is monospace to start with though, I'd think cursive & highly ligatured scripts like arabic or brahmic scripts would be a bigger issue when designing monospace fonts (if you want something which doesn't look like utter shite) (though I guess Kufic — the very blocky arabic script found on the flags of iraq and iran — might be better source material than the more modern and cursive Naskh variations, it's commonly manipulated into tilings and brickwords already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic#/media/File:Alijlas_kufi...)
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I failed the "salad test" too, I think because I identified various plates of mixed meat and non-green veg as salads. Probably too much time spent going to hip London restaurants.
Just my personal opinion, but when you have an indexed copy of the whole web, a few million OCRed-but-not-corrected books from previous centuries added to your LM are not going to improve 2015 speech recognition quality.
Great idea! Repurposing old tablets / mobiles is the cherry on top. Fascinating how combining otherwise dumb material with smart technology produces something so compelling.
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It's already been well explained in Orange is new black.
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkYlhhFvbk
> Neither is it done in Common Lisp.

LOOP is something that imho very controversial. I don't think it's fair to say that its use is idiomatic.
100% agree.

Not spelt out well is this project is considered to be a scam though.

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Same here, I saw their presentation video here https://vimeo.com/98497797 and I'm left wondering, their capsules are roughly the same size of a car, so how does that save any space at all?
No, the intelligence is in the keyboard, which detects the adaptor is being used and falls back to sending PS/2 signals.
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https://blog.digicert.com/onion-officially-recognized-specia...

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/iana-designates-onio...

http://blog.explodingads.com/?p=155261

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
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It would illustrate how language and ideas evolve over time. It would illustrate how language and ideas that are from different geographical sources might differ or be similar, especially during pre-Internet periods. It would provide source the material which is being referenced in contemporary works. It would provide many, many other benefits.
I think this analysis method is rather suspect.

If you ask an average person with no great accomplishments about their hobbies they are inclined to downplay them into temporary activities. When you go to make a biography of someone after an accomplishment everything they did seems like it may be of significance.

Hobbies that leave a lot of artifacts may have been a passing phase and not how the person would describe their hobbies 95% of the time when randomly polled.

Taking Feynman as an example, if his drawing weren't his official hobby then his percussion playing would be. Both of these could have been rather sporadic and therefore wouldn't be his responses as an anonymous scientist most of the time. He may also have been more into percussion, but drawing was much more likely to leave artifacts in those times.