skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, as far as I can tell the website here is looking at understanding references in the text. For example the poems round the images on page 2 are "one of six of eight" which might refer to Henry VIII's wives.

Yet in the public domain the solution is known - a brief google lead me to "draw a line from left eye to left foot and extend to a letter, the letters forming an anagram of the location.

Really the site seems a historical oddity.
You're backfilling your standpoint and it's working!

But yup, different forms for different audiences and this works well as supporting material for an investment in GCP.
San Mateo and Prohibition were made for each other
Higher moral threshold. I set a peculiarly low bar :-)
Then somebody needs to tell Nadella that Cortana shipped with Windows 10, it is a major privacy leak and instead of fitting with "Office + Azure", it's alienating the very customers that are interested in "Office + Azure". Which would be quite ironic if Office+Azure would be representative of their strategy.
It's quite surprisingly secure because, apart from crazy Norwegian doctors, who on earth can read a floppy disk?
I was the editor of the H.323 spec years ago. Funny you would say that SIP looks like it comes from the telcos, when the whole aim with SIP was to create just the opposite. H.323 has often been accused of being created by telcos, too. Truth is, folks from the traditional enterprise voice equipment makers shaped both.

SIP was adopted by 3GPP in 1999 to be used in the mobile networks. Of course, that trickled throughout the telcos, so it now is widely used in the telco space. H.323 was widely used for PSTN backhauling to reduce tolls. However, SIP is more prevalent there, I'd guess.

Enterprise networks still use both H.323 and SIP, with more desk phones using SIP and videoconferencing equipment split, but moving to SIP.

That said, any move to SIP these days is only because there is nothing better. WebRTC is the next big thing. It borrows SDP from SIP, but no signaling protocol is defined.

Personally, I'd like to realize the vision behind what was intended to be H.325, which was to be a JSON-based signalling protocol that is fully distributed. Each application could implement whatever protocol it wanted, and they would all be associated through H.325, giving the user the feeling that these different applications work closely together. That would be possible, even when applications run on different devices.

Alas, there seems to be no financial motivator for those that control the market to explore that concept, so we're stuck with H.323, SIP, and WebRTC (and various proprietary glue pieces). The trend these days seems to be toward proprietary solutions, providing limited interop with others through SIP. Limited, as in nothing but basic voice and video.
Rules but no rulers. I like the sound of it.
Serious question - are Apple doing this too? They talk what seems to be a serious anti spying thing in the US but then they talk up massive profits in China and availability on state owned China Mobile, I've been wondering how they're justifying that.
Duke University conducts a hackathon named HackDuke. In the last couple of years the theme has been Code for Good. HackDuke stresses on collaboration and not on competition. Participating teams build technical solutions to help non profits in fields such as education, health & wellness etc;

Prizes are usually categorized into two - grand prize and company sponsored.

The grand prize awarded to the winning team will be donated to one of the participating non-profits based on the team's choice. If you apply this strategy, which ever prize you award, it comes back to your charity. Almost no expenditure :)

However, there were a few sponsors, who wanted to give prizes to winners.
To know more, please check this link
http://spring2014.hackduke.org/prizes
I'm curious--did the Human Brain Project ever produce any noteworthy science, or did it actually blow through a billion bucks with nothing to show? Because, as far as I'm concerned, if we got a billion dollars worth of science out of it, who cares if they hit the mark? That could still be a lot of good science!
Well, adding a library for supporting SRV records is not simple... If you use Weave [1], it gives a unique IP address to every service instance and a DNS record, all with zero configuration. That means you just stick any service in whatever default port it has, and it's all good. You can also have round-robin load balancing through DNS for free.

[1]: http://weave.works/net
This exactly why string theory comes under fire. "Not even wrong" because that would imply falsifiability.
The drug industry wants us to think Martin Shkreli is a rogue CEO, but he isn't
You should read more on decentralized computing, because it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Jeff Atwood: Learning to code is overrated
Most ambitious projects fail, period. Most startups don't succeed. I don't know if size is the issue.

I don't think a high failure rate even matters. If only 10% of billion dollar projects succeed, then spending $10 billion should get you something equivalent to a working human brain simulation. And hopefully at least something is learned from the failures. Even they don't succeed at building a human brain doesn't mean they don't learn anything.
Just learn Deep Learning instead.

I'm a NLP person, and I think the Wit.ai people said it best:

Many papers were kind of “the state of the art for X was Y. We replaced the hand-crafted, manually hacked, heavily engineered Z by a RNN. It improved state of the art by 5 points.” The poor guys who presented deep learning-free papers invariably got the question: “did you also try with a [insert deep net technique here]?”[1]

The only downside with this is that traditional NLP tools are still probably easier to use, and you'll usually need to understand vocabulary to be able to talk to other people about your problems.

[1] https://wit.ai/blog/2015/09/23/emnlp
Right, if you know how to set it up or have infrastructure in place... But most developers don't have time to read 600+ pages on how to run bind server OR simply have ops team that is very conservative at what goes in the DNS land.
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It's not good but it's far from unreadable.
SkyDNS is a very useful tool, but the name is very confusing.

Everytime I read "SkyDNS", I think it's about skydns.ru
I have no idea how that would work.
I appreciate the technical details, but this doesn't really contradict the parent. It's very possible that "horrible contractors" would implement ill-considered "best practices" like the one you describe.
Now try and implement a structure such that the traffic is optimal for Cities: Skyline[1].

[1] http://www.skylineswiki.com/Traffic#Avoiding_traffic_problem...
MS didn't make search engine, either. They decided to make one anyway.
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One of the basic human needs is to be loved and feel like you belong. We do this by both "keeping in touch", "getting together". The usual assumption is that "getting together" is a higher quality way to meet these needs than "keeping in touch".

Your smartphone represents almost everyone you know. In a face-to-face meeting, the ratio is precisely (n-1)/n. So if you both have 100 friends, realize that you're competing to meet the need of love and belonging against the 99 other people in their pocket, who can also give that to your friend with surprising effectiveness.

(The argument generalizes: you are also competing against every stranger that's ever put anything online - the person who wrote that Wikipedia article or Yelp review has a call on your attention, too!)
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Essentially spacy is better and faster at almost everything it supports but is not free for commercial use. I consider spacy a blessing for the Python and the NLP community in general. They have a great comparison with existing libraries at http://spacy.io/.

EDIT: From today on spacy is free for commercial use! (MIT license).
Verificationism is still alive and well, but perhaps not as a basis for empirical science...

Following Gentzen, Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Löf, verificationism serves as the backbone to modern intuitionistic and constructive meaning theory.
Absolutely anyone who wants to.

http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Floppy-Drive-FL-UDRV/...
spaCy looks like a great product, but it is expensive.

edit: sorry, I just noticed that it is available for free under the AGPL 3 license.
Unless people start looting artifacts because they know there will be a buyer who won't prosecute them.
Absolutely go for it! Post it even if you feel uncertain about it, just be clear about that, and about what your patch is trying to achieve, when the unexpected behaviour happens, and try to include a way for others to reproduce/investigate (as simple as possible, perhaps a program that demonstrates the bug). Also be clear about how you feel about whether or not the patch is the right approach and about what you would like list members to do with it (are you looking to confirm that what you're seeing is a real kernel bug, or a misunderstanding, or an application bug, and/or are you looking for help solving the bug/issue you're seeing, and/or are you looking to get it merged, etc). Can you demonstrate/quantify how your patch improves/fixes things, etc.
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Read this a few days ago since Paper's We Love will have a meetup on this work. A strong element of his critique is the consideration of the psychological aspect of ideation. Since then have been bouncing in the background the idea of validity (or nature) of this thesis in context of (hypothetical) machine intelligence (Strong AI) and discovery.
Proposal to achieve the “Authentic Political Representation” we dream of
Link to source: https://github.com/josauder/procedural_city_generation
That's certainly not a fair assessment. APIs like Metal & Vulkan (and AMD's Mantle which arguably started the trend on the PC) are the correct technical direction to go and not an indication of incompetence on AMD's part - if anything they're an indication of trying to fix a broken status quo. You have to understand that drivers are hard to write because they became an over-complicated mess of hacks and impedance mismatch between what OpenGL/DirectX of old made graphics hardware look like and what graphics hardware actually evolved into. The hardware just evolved away from the APIs.

See here for a start -- this post is extremely enlightening on the situation:

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-o...
Opinion HN: Fortran 90 (F90) doesn't look terrible
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10286388
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Fun with Python bytecode
The likelyhood of the EPA wanting to make an example out of VW and fining them to the maximum allowed level isn't outlandish, but I guess we will have to see, nothing has been decided yet.
As opposed to this F66 example:

http://www.fortran.bcs.org/2005/fortran/img10.html
The site gives the solution, on page 12; though I'm not sure how that picture is the key to the whole book.
I'm not familiar with that work, but there doesn't seem to be much skepticism to it?
and × means "of"
I don't see those, thanks to NoScript and Privacy Badger :)
Not the same people of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Papua_Movement
The Cog – 2003
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
It is sort of touched on later in the article, but the first graphic, showing the number of native speakers for each language, isn't very useful. The statistic that better measures the utility of knowing a language is the total number of people with working knowledge of the language, which would boosts the numbers of English, French and Russian dramatically.

I wonder if a better statistic would be number of speakers with working knowledge of a language, weighted by GDP per capita of the countries in which those speakers live. Of course, that assumes the purpose of learning a language is to do business, which is not necessarily true.
I'm saying two things. First, I want to know whether these devices work a week or two from now after the internals would have had time to corrode... if they were going to corrode in the first place. (Again, I'm open to the idea that these devices really are water proof at shallow depths for indefinite periods of submersion, but I want to see these followup tests.)

The second thing is about water pressure, which you highlighted as the key factor in water resistance.
Like gotek?
Thanks. I'll check 'em out.
unless your penmanship is extraordinarily good, typing would probably be better.
I think you might be overestimating the role emotions and identity play in maintaining the integrity of a system of epistemic statements. There are structural reasons beyond simply how much I like my ideas or other incentives to keep my ideas that make scientific reasoning hard. Devoid of emotion and human nature concerns, we still end up with optimization problems which feel fuzzy because they're fuzzy, not because there's anything clouding our vision.

The epicycle models that dominated cosmology's explanations of orbits comes to mind, if only because it's a good example that is obvious enough in hindsight as to be uncontroversial. Epicycles carry such strong descriptive power that it does make sense to add more epicycles if you're merely trying to explain your data. But because epicycles don't require information from gravitation, it feels like crackpottery to introduce such information even if it results in a simple model.

Another example that's more obviously structural is building set theory without any notion of self-reflective statements. Russell's paradox undid the first iteration of set theory despite that system being quite descriptive.

If you built a whole system of thought on a powerful, incorrect statement, you're fooling yourself but it's understandable.

I can't evaluate it well enough to say if it's true, but some crackpots are coming up with models of black whole phenomena without event horizons, based on a similar problem as epicycles might of had. That's all I'll say because I think I've exhausted the controversy I can put into one post. :)
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You missed the boat and went off on a strawman fallacy based on a fundamental misunderstanding: Microsoft OS code and libraries, are implemented not just in C/C++/some asm but are also implemented in CLR languages. All that legacy crap in a variety of languages is a huge attack surface. Demanding pointing to closed source proof is an impossible, specious fools' errand.

Have you ever done any Windows NT kernel driver development? Compared to OS X (xnu) kexts or Linux, it's a disaster. XNU and Linux extensions are also not that great because it follows the same, flawed insecure methodology of allowing kernel extensions to modify the kernel, which OpenBSD wisely eliminated.

The other strawman you raise, trying put the wrong words in my mouth, rewriting a massive legacy codebase does not throw everything away. The lessons learned are the most important. Instead, OS and app virtualization can be used to run prior OS/apps while new apps can run in a new environment, sharing a filesystem as needed. That doesn't start over "from scratch, with inexperienced people", which is your incorrect presumption because that would be foolish. Otherwise, the Microsoft ecosystem will continue to accrue technical debt and job security which can never be paid off, because it's stuck in 1993.

The kernel should be the kernel.. a tiny, mostly immutable thing which does just enough to provide process/thread isolation, IPC and such. Even better is capabilities-granted privilege requests to perform unsafe operations, so that drivers are demoted to least-privilege processes. QNX and MINIX loosely follow this, and it's a far more secure and robust benefits of reasonable microkernel architecture approaches.
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10286581 and marked it off-topic.
They use .mel extension, which reminded me of the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Embedded_Language
Right, that's exactly why I chose String Theory as an example.
He didn't even believe his theories at the end, outsider's overrate Kuhn's importance imho.
R as a language is not evolving at all and that is not a problem because the strength of the R system is its incredibly rich ecosystem. Julia cannot evolve a similar ecosystem as long as it doesn't provide stable foundations and for this reason it is completely uninteresting for most of the audience despite its superior design.
It should be noted David Miller rejects that falsifiability is related to bayesian reasoning

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Of-Error-Critical-Rationalism/dp/0...
Also, the largest search provider in Japan is Yahoo! Japan (2nd largest is Google, which has been slowly gaining).

Coincidentally, Yahoo! Inc does not own Yahoo! Japan. They are only a minor shareholder. Softbank is the largest shareholder of Yahoo! Japan.

Yahoo! Japan is also extremely different from Yahoo! that we know. In Japan, it's a social network, auction house, storefront, message board, news service and search provider all rolled into one. And they started doing this years before anyone else (becoming a one stop shop). The site may look dated today, but it was years ahead of its time when it started doing all those things. It's one of the reasons why they've been so hard to unseat. They got in early, sprawled out and cemented their place in Japanese web culture.
so its a DIY netflix and chill button?
This is a neat project which makes the λ-calculus more accessible. The λ-calculus is incredibly useful for designing and analyzing language features, but it can be a bit of a pain to work with in part because it quickly becomes verbose. Papers and proofs usually end up developing their own shorthand, but that tends to be rather ad-hoc and is rarely implemented programmatically.

In my view, this makes this project a great platform for playing around with language design. It should be reasonably easy to take the existing base and extend it with additional features (exceptions, continuations) or types. I've long suggested writing a handful of λ-calculus interpreters, from untyped to simply typed to System F to dependent types as a great way to thoroughly learn programming language concepts; Caramel gives you a great starting place for this coupled with an accessible, readable syntax.

Also, it would be great to see an online version of this, perhaps compiled with GHCJS. I've played around with trylambda[1] which is fun, but the lack of syntax quickly gets in the way. Caramel would be a great alternative.

[1]: https://trylambda.com/
Does anyone know why articles like this, which often seem to involve consulting experts, always count all of China as one language? Aside from the many different languages of China[1], Wikipedia also says that "Chinese"/Hanyu in different regions is mutually unintelligible[2], which as far as I know is the same as the difference between similar languages like Italian and Spanish.

I don't mean this as a middlebrow dismissal -- I am not very knowledgeable about Chinese and I am hoping someone has a good explanation for this. For example, maybe it's the case that everyone speaks their local language and a unified dialect as well; or maybe it's that the vast majority of people all speak one dialect (Mandarin?) such that these articles are only counting those people; or maybe it's some other thing I don't understand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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While this is almost certainly true relative to the (as yet unknown) true value of most corporations, that doesn't change the fact that most people now living will never again see 3% dollar interest rates. So while the dividends you get from investing in any of these things are not worth the capital, you'll probably be dead before the principal is lost, and in the meantime you'll have gotten more than you could have by owning Treasuries.

Overvalued? Yeah, for sure. Only game in town, too, until the revolution.
Also the Story of Mel[1]. And wow, just realized that particular piece of hacker folklore predates me by almost a decade :P.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
It's likely more nuanced than this, but at the end of the day, he's getting paid a lot of money to be the bad guy. He'll be "fired", and then he'll go on to do it again somewhere else. He even flat out admitted it (before deleting the tweet):

"@matthewherper great question, I guess we will find out. I take the pain for my investors"

-Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) September 21, 2015

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hedge-fund-trader-m...
It's rumored that the Vatican has the world's largest collection of pornography. I'm sure that was said before the age of the Internet.
Me too! Especially after "bendgate" the last time around.

( For those of us that ended up in here due to that, it looks like some people have done some testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGzLd8Xwx4 )
Except I never said the device was secure.
I have been using snakemake, which is a similar tool, but really nice, and specifically designed for scientific workflows. https://bitbucket.org/johanneskoester/snakemake/wiki.
Awesome to see people excited about nontrivial proceduralism and willing to explain/open-source their code, but it's unfortunate they don't give any credit for their technique. It's a nearly direct implementation of the 2001 Siggraph paper "Procedural Modeling of Cities" by Parish and Müller. (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292 pdf easily available via google)
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My first thought: importing these roadmaps into Cities:Skylines
Would love to see this compile to blc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
For lovers of the ancient world, this sort of thing is more news worthy than a visit from Vatican City's Holiest. Sola lingua bona mortua est...

huskyr above called out the use of ancient.eu's social buttons as being a distraction. But to be honest I've rarely seen a web or native digital library of ancient sources experience that was acceptable to non-scholastic audiences. Take a look at UCLA's CDLI - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative:

http://cdli.ucla.edu/

A search for "Gilgamesh" yields a trip back to an ancient page layout Endukugga himself might have been more comfortable browsing. I realize these are digital humanities projects funded with scarce grant resources. But I can't help thinking they would appeal to a much wider audience, that would be enriched tremendously by the wisdom of the ancients, if only presented in a more user-friendly manner.
Anecdotally, my girlfriend just realized with iOS9 which apps had been draining her battery. Now it gives you a breakdown of battery usage per app, snd she uninstalled Facebook because it was draining battery alllll the time.
Okay, I get it -- thanks.
I think you'll find pure mathematicians and CS theorists more amenable to that creativity and flexibility you're speaking of it's the applied ones who have strayed too close to engineering and had their minds burned into a particular mode that I've found are altogether uncomfortable with multi-modality.
The Supreme Court puts email in the same legal category as postcards: little to no expectation of privacy, because everyone along the way can trivially read it. Certainly an envelope can be trivially bypassed, but the clear signaling of intent may be enough to sway the legal status of eavesdropping on it.
But it doesn't buzz!
Thanks for letting me know. It's fixed now.
Good points. It would be nice to see a security audit.
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