skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
symbols are about as flexable as text- If you have a symbol as a sun, I might interpret that as heat, light, the sun, a god, or anything really. Depending on the area you are from. Knowning a language ensures that when you say X you mean X.

And while symbols CAN be used for discussion, could this conversation be relayed in symbols?
Nitpick. The author is conflating "tab completion" and "autocomplete." The interactions are very different. Tab completion is an active request for information where autocomplete is a prompt or suggestion. Pull vs Push.

Google autocompletes your search queries. Bash and zsh offer tab completion as a feature.

iPython and Sublime have both tab completion and autocomplete, but they are different interactions.
Jet engines don't dominate airline usage because of good fuel consumption (their BSFC [specific fuel consumption, or "how much fuel is needed to create a set amount of power?] is not competitive with piston engines).

Jet engines dominate because of high power to mass, highly reliable power production, and a good match between power available and power required in different phases of flight.

Non-flat-rated jet turbines lose power with altitude and temperature right off the deck. Some are flat-rated (higher thermodynamic power capability than physical power capability), but even those lose power at some altitude. This is a good match for high power required at takeoff and less power required at cruise altitudes.
There is a hypothesis that this is driven by the fact that VC firms are playing with other people's money, which must be "invested" in order to collect fees, and they often sell those assets to other VC-backed firms which are also using other people's money.

In an illiquid environment with tons of collusion and principal / agent problems incentivising towards higher prices (and thus greater AUM), you'll tend to see prices diverge from those in a market open to anyone who thinks they can play the game better.
That revenue will go back to the university for (hopefully) additional research, rather than to stockholders of a for-profit company.
TextBlob is just an easy-to-use wrapper for a number of more involved libraries, including NLTK and Pattern.

As with most things like it, if you're looking to shift off extremely unsophisticated NLP work to a junior developer, this is a good thing.

If you're an engineer focused in the NLP space, using this API would be like tying your hand behind your back. It introduces its own performance problems, and obscures a number of configurations that the APIs of the libraries it wraps expose. I also find its attitude towards object-orientation tends to obscure performance bottlenecks by hiding how much just-in-time computation occurs for a given string.

Also, I hate to admit this, but the Java/Scala NLP stack is beating out most Python NLP libraries these days. NLTK _just_ got Stanford CoreNLP's best-in-class dependency parser. It's been available in Java for years.
What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?
It's only an ill-recepted drug usage if it starts remaking your behaviour as to increase consumption. Does the excitement and anticipation of getting mail significantly increase the frequency of your ordering?
I assume not at all, but compulsive buying is a thing, and "some neurotransmitter" can totally make people addicted, so why can't I make a comparison when it is reasonable to do so?
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"I'll just disregard your argument without actually considering or engaging with it because you're old and therefore clueless," said every younger generation ever.
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Or help you move a body.
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Some of you asked for a video of nubmer changing. Here it is completely behind the scenes with visible mechanics, enjoy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cjvngsya64m5bb7/rhei-prototype-num...
Which unfortunately very few will do.
I don't think you've seen Terry's comments. They are magnitudes worse than rap lyrics.
I don't want to downplay the impact of Internet, but I do think it is similar and the other advancements also faded some behavioral patterns, such as exchanging letters, which used to be an integral part of people's lives (for some perhaps the most important one).

Second, we are not there yet on 24/7, anywhere connection, but we are working on it. Perhaps if we have instantaneous world-wide telepathy one day, Internet will also feel as just another advancement, like the car plane phone.
None of the journals I've submitted to do double-blind review.

Usually people post their preprints to the arxiv at the same time as sending the article to the journals. This means the information (in a somewhat rougher form) is available immediately, and priority on an idea is established quickly. This has greatly sped up the development of mathematical ideas, but, yeah, essentially means one can search for the article being reviewed, and that double-blind review is more-or-less impossible.

OTOH, double-blind review is a great way to deal with conscious and unconscious institutional and gender biases, so would be great to have...
Well, it _is_ the same thing as in the post you linked. The user is /u/nnkd and the development log is located at nnkd.org ... One might jump to conclusions here :)
The point was that plen of apps already run like that. Doesn't really require a broswer upgrade. The Ubuntu phone is not especially highly specced.
"NaCL key" is a generic term, you can probably use them with libsodium, like you can use "PGP keys" with GPG.

By the way, libsodium has the same maintainer than dnscrypt (and Pure-FTPd) but he does not work for OpenDNS anymore (afaik he works for OVH, but libsodium is his personal project).
Occasionally, but because the newspaper was large enough to present a physical barrier between you and the person you were talking to -- large enough to hide your face! -- you didn't do it unless you wanted to send a very clear message that "this conversation is over."
Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh (founded in Durham I think), and Cisco and IBM have big triangle presences too. Epic (of Unreal Engine fame) and SAS are based in Cary.
Los Angeles is listed as part of "El Norte" which on their map is mostly all Mexico. That is absolute hyperbole. Though Los Angeles (GDP $800-billion) along with the rest of Southern California have a huge immigrant population the GDP of the area as a whole is well over $1-trillion. The cultures in Southern California and L.A. are remarkably diverse.

To associate Southern California with nothing but Latino and Mexican culture itself is a mighty broad brush stroke. The San Fernando Valley is way different Than Malibu. Hollywood is a polar opposite of Orange county. San Diego ($202-billion GDP) compared to Beverly Hills is laughable. The culture in Long Beach as compared to West L.A. is like comparing Mars to Moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
If you're doing NLP in Python, there's no reason to use CoreNLP's parser from the NLTK wrapper. Communicating with the Java process over the file system or a socket introduces a tonne of unnecessary complications, slow-downs, invites encoding problems, etc.

spaCy's native Cython dependency parser is both faster and more accurate than CoreNLP.

The NP chunks example from the post:

>>> from spacy.en import English
>>> nlp = English()
>>> doc = nlp(u'ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible.')
>>> for np in doc.noun_chunks:
... print(np.text)
...
ITP
a two-year graduate program
the Tisch School
the Arts
the best way
us
a Center
Black Female INTJ
He's written an entire 64 bit operating system by himself. He is also mentally ill. Does the second fact make the first fact untrue, or not worth talking about?
Not only is it rude, but it's not a social gathering in the same way. That's how I read this quote from the article,

>After five days without phones or tablets, these campers were able to read facial emotions and correctly identify the emotions of actors in videotaped scenes significantly better than a control group.
There might be a federal exception for most of their games, but the exception might not apply to all of their games. There are also several states where their games are pretty clearly illegal and these companies are just operating there until they either get shutdown or get enough lobbying power to push through their own exceptions.
Nobody is saying not to use these technologies. We are just trying to figure out as a society what the boundaries are for behavior being OK or being rude. Its kind of like bluetooth headsets or google glass, both of which were questionable at first and later determined by society at large to be rude to use in company.
Yeah, I'm a college student and I rolled my eyes at that one. I can think of countless interactions where people think they're discreetly checking their text messages and it is so irritating to be on the other end of that.

The article has a great message, but unfortunately I don't think most people are conscientious enough to deliberately change how they use technology and it is just so easy to check your phone when there is a lull in a conversation. Technology has been beneficial in many ways, but it has a tendency to be incredibly antisocial as well and I don't think we've learned to compensate for that yet.
If China is successful with this nuclear power technology other countries can start adapting it. It is not like we just sit on the sidelines and wait. Let them take the initial risks and costs.
Which sounds to me like it's "cloud"-connected and could be as easily broken as this one for all we know, with the benefit of the attacker being able to know when you're away from home!
Did you read the article? That's not the argument at all. It's about the antisocial effects of technology and how we as a society haven't yet learned how to compensate for those effects.
I suspect this might not have been reported correctly. I doubt anyone was given a "move or leave" ultimatum.
Yes, this is terrific news.

The easiest way to change the law is to get on a plane. It's an important reminder for every entrepreneur that worries about regulatory barriers. A workaround may be more accessible than you expect.

Nationalistic competition is actually the solution to regulatory problems.

Look how quickly countries are approving self-driving cars. UK, Japan, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Singapore, I can't keep track. Two years ago we worried that regulatory concerns might prevent adoption. But now that the train is leaving the station, countries don't want to be left behind, .

The lesson is to keep pressing ahead with progress.

EDIT: Sweden is moving step by step, they are planning tests on public roads: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/volvo-will-test-self-driving-ca...
Someone who lives in a hut would have to be smart about it.
They could run the C extensions on the JVM too, like the experimental jruby truffle backend does.

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext/
There is http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/ and https://code.google.com/p/mate-tools/. A lot of tools are written in Java.
Just for clarity on all my responses in these threads, I'm a (minor) contributor to Nix the Tricks and a personal friend and research partner of the author.

And the one shown right on the front page (for me) cross multiply is how you divide by fractions. a/b / c/d = a/b x d/c.

Exactly! And that's exactly what the book recommends. Remember, the target audience of the book is teachers. If a teacher tells them to just draw a butterfly and multiply the matching parts, the students are not actually learning the mathematics. You can use whatever method you want once you understand the mechanics.
The linked website seems to confuse mnemonics (like FOIL) with 'tricks' like cross-multiply (which I thought was for ratios: x/5 = 3/15- I learned 'invert and multiply' for dividing fractions).

I think that tricks that allow you to do things quickly in your head are great- they help build numeracy.
IBM Open Sources Agentless Cloud Monitoring Technology in DeveloperWorks
Compilation by a thousand semicolons and commas
N.J. Supreme Court expands police authority for warrantless car searches
Facebook accused of spying on Belgian citizens like the NSA
The area labeled as Yankeedom in reality has a lot more variation than presented. There is a huge difference in attitudes between the coastal elites and the inland, more rural populations. You can see this somewhat in the repeated mention of New Hampshire as an outlier - it's a small enough state, with few enough urbanesque areas that they don't reliably dominate.
I groaned at this point of his diatribe:

> massively beat Tesla at their game.

The Nissan Leaf plug-in electric car has sold 180k globally, three times as many as all Tesla's models combined.

Even the plug-in variant of the Prius has sold more than all Teslas.

So what exactly is Tesla's game? Playing third-fiddle?
AppOps got canned since 4.4 in AOSP and are coming back in 6.0.
Why do they even bother with a backdoor? In normal operation, it communicates to the "cloud", really some server in China, so mobile devices can get to them. It's not clear if the images themselves go there, or just setup to get through DHCP servers.

Think about that. Somewhere, there's a server farm behind this cheap device. Who's paying for that? The manufacturer? The PLA? It's like when Microsoft bought Skype and made all the video go through Microsoft's servers. There's no benefit to Microsoft in that, but someone wanted access to that video.
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Why would it make things complicated?

I think the VOC has ceased operations a long time ago (as opposed to the Hudson's Bay company)
Just for clarity on all my responses in these threads, I'm a (minor) contributor to Nix the Tricks and a personal friend and research partner of the author.

Yes, all of the tricks were submitted by math teachers that we have seen used in practice. I don't think that we are all Americans, but a most of us are.

I personally haven't seen too many of them, especially the weirder ones, but I know they were not invented whole-cloth for the book.
I don't know if the image in the articale is of symbolic nature - anyway - the small black censorship rectangle does not pose a problem to google reverse image search.

So if the author really cares about the company (or the implied company), this image does not help his case.

EDIT: Oh, neither do the comments on the article page.
I wonder, how this compares to modern desktop-class video card on DirectX?
You are conflating two different things. If you traveled by car to meet someone vs walking, you were not losing anything. However typing words to communicate is not the same as meeting someone in person and using the entire range of human expression - posture, voice, facial expressions, touch, smell, etc. There is an objective loss of 'information' when it comes to digital communication. Whether you value those additional things is up to you. But lets not pretend that its just the same and old people need to get on with the new times.
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Am I weird if I'm more more inclined to buy this specific non-brand camera now that the author has done all the legwork on it?

The devil you know and all that.
You're referring, of course, to Android's broken and user-hostile permission model. This is not true of iOS.
Julia looks very interesting but honestly, exactly the 1-based indexing makes it feel really awkward and turns me off every time I think about using it somewhere.

Wouldn't it be possible to create array classes in Julia that all indexed zero-based? I would welcome a 'Julia0' fork :-)
Shocking transformation
Wow. I have seriously over-estimated this crowd. The saying goes that if one has to explain a joke, then it wasn't funny in the first place.

I had assumed that people reading this thread would see the humor behind linking Audi, VW, diesel and cheating. Oops. Then I assumed that readers would understand the "if it needs explaining..." remark as a reference to jokes not being funny if they need explaining. Oops again.

I'll set my lowest common denominator a bit lower next time.
I owned a copy. It was beautiful. I got as far as finding the rabbit in every picture, that was it.
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I think NLP is really cool, but it seems to be moving so quickly. If I wanted to get a decent overview, are there some review papers or textbooks with good coverage that aren't too out of date?
Interesting comment but I am having trouble wrapping my head around the idea.

A turbocharger doesn't create energy. It's function is to increase the volumetric efficiency of the IC engine. How? By allowing more fuel to be pumped into the same size engine. It really is that simple.

Ideal combustion of gasoline occurs at the stoichiometric ratio, which is 14.7 to 1 (roughly, lots of variables). Let's call it 15 to 1.

That means you need 15 grams of air [1] for every gram of gasoline you pump into the engine.

How do you generate more power?

You burn more fuel per unit time.

How do you burn more fuel per unit time?

You build a bigger engine or you figure out how to pump more fuel into the same engine.

What is the limiting factor in being able to pump more fuel into the same engine?

You can't get enough air into a naturally aspirated engine in order to maintain the roughly 15 to 1 ratio. If you can't get more air into the engine you can't pump more fuel into it. Period.

How do we get more air into the engine?

You build a compressor. The compressor can be powered directly from the engine's drive shaft, in which case it is called a "supercharger", or it can be powered by exhaust gasses, which is known as a "turbocharger".

A turbocharger doesn't turn a piston engine into a turbine. It's function is to forcefully shove more air into the combustion chamber in order to allow a proportionally greater amount of fuel to be burned per unit time, thereby producing more power per engine unit volume, often termed "volumetric efficiency".

A greater volumetric efficiency does NOT mean an engine is more efficient. This is often a mistake made by consumers when buying cars. A turbocharger allows you to make more power with the same engine. It does not make it more efficient other than recovering some of the energy lost through exhaust.

Having owned several turbocharged and twin turbocharged fire-breathing monsters over the years I can tell you fuel efficiency was never better than non-turbo cars and, in my case at least, never a criteria for buying them. The latter said with a big fucking grin. And I have the speeding ticket collection to prove it.

officer: Do you know how fast you were going? I could not
catch up to you until I turned on the lights and
you slowed down.
driver (not to be identified):
Not sure. I stopped looking at the speedometer
at 120.
officer: If you want to get out of this ticket you have
to let me take this thing for a spin.
driver (now absolutely perplexed):
Here are the keys, sir

That was the longest uncomfortable 45 minute wait standing
by a CHP patrol car in the middle of the California desert.
The grin in the officer's face told the driver (not to be
identified) all would be well. Warning issued. Set cruise
control to 100 for the rest of the desert crossing.

[1] Actually, I think it's oxygen, not air. I don't remember, it's been decades since I studied this. I'll just call it "air" as a generalized yet possibly inaccurate term.
Well, I think you'd agree that abuse is bad. So, in the cases where cultural "borrowing" is driven by the intent to abuse, rather than the actual desire to assimilate the practice into one's own culture, would you agree that that is bad, also? Because that is the only point I'm making - that that is what the original definition of appropriation was about - where willful abuse was the point of it. Where it's a method of abuse.

Beyond that, it's a spectrum and a matter of degree. Mason jars is not appropriation. A silly pop star wearing cornrows is probably not appropriation, although some valid counterpoints might exist. Someone wearing a native american headdress to sell cars, or the Washington Redskins refusing to rename, or the KC Chiefs singing the tomahawk song at their stadium... those debates get a bit meatier.
You actually don't waste any energy accelerating pistons as the system is balanced. If it wasn't you shake the engine apart due to huge amounts of vibration. The crankshaft has counter weights so that it is balanced and the individual pistons all balance each other out.

It's like a see-saw, yes the mass isn't evenly distributed but it is balanced. And it takes only a small amount of force to make it oscillate relative to the force required to support it.
"There is no isvestia (news) in Pravda, and no pravda (truth) in Isvestia."

(And what does it say that I can correctly spell those two Russian words? (Well, it says I'm a child of the Cold War.))

Seriously, between the set of regulations this paper is discussing, the "Fairness Doctrine" I've discussed elsewhere, the near uniformity of the big newspapers (aside from editorial page of The Wall Street Journal), and the same for the big national magazines (aside from US News and World Report and Reader's Digest), it's perhaps a surprise we didn't turn into a one party state.
They have the money the hire those that can fix the issues. The issues also greatly affects their business, so they allocate resources to look into them. Less latency in the network stack means faster response time, means more ads delivered in less time. And a smoother user experience.
Because for a lot of people in a lot of countries VOC was an oppressive regime. Sure, times were different, but these days you would put them into some sort of crimes against humanity tribunal. They caused a lot of suffering, so in a lot of places using that logo is not politically correct at all.
iOS allows apps to be pretty user-hostile, too. A bunch of apps require location tracking 'always' or 'never' but without an option for 'while using.' Why would I want the Yelp app to know my location when I am not using it?
I don't really see the catch 22. The gov't could have the best if they payed appropriately (which they don't, and they end up with a lot of lazy people that are there for the retirement benefits)

The governement ultimately does have experts, but there are too few and they're spread too thin. They end up not having enough knowledge to make unilateral decisions

They also are often in semi-indepedent roles competing again the small businesses. Think of the JPL or all the "Labs" (Lincoln, Lawrence etc.) or the teams at MIT. They have their own agendas which doesn't hold technology acquisition as it's focus ( it's more about supporting the funding of their lil corner)
Could it be that "bug" is defined from an "inside->outward" perspective regardless of whether that is the most useful perspective for the situation?
So well, one interesting question as to why this is at the top of hackernews is - do people not know about jython? Jython does exactly that - it compiles python into java (I think it emits bytecode and not Java source, but don't call me on that) with a lot of runtime so it can support proper semantics. It has been around for over a decade now too and it supports full python (with usual caveats)
Unfavorably. There is no free lunch, you don't get a 150W performance-equivalent in a 5W package with buzzwords alone.
I don't really understand what you mean by "this". Do you mean Metal, the API vs Direct X. Or do you mean The video hardware on the 6s vs a desktop.