skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> most dialects have completely different sets (i.e. non-1-to-1 mappings) of words than Mandarin, and many have supplemental character sets that wouldn't make any sense to someone reading Mandarin

Yes, that is correct. Cantonese is probably the non-Mandarin dialect with the most writing going on, and that is mostly informal writing like facebook, blogs, gossip magazines, although there is some modern literature written in Cantonese characters, wikipedia in Cantonese probably counts as well for more formal writing.

>> The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set, for instance, is a set of characters that are specific to the Cantonese dialect, and don't have close/exact relatives in standard written Mandarin

Yes, though I don't know if there are Unicode code points for all the Cantonese characters. You often see this like o的,o個,o即 instead of 啲,嗰,嘅. I know a lot of people in Hong Kong use Cangjie for character input and a lot of the Cantonese characters don't have (or didn't have) Cangjie mappings.

>> I wonder how this affects written communication for those who don't speak Mandarin natively

When speaking Taiwanese it is common to use Mandarin words for more educated topics or if you don't know the word in Taiwanese just use the Mandarin term. Probably because Taiwanese is not generally used in higher education and there are varying levels of Taiwanese fluency in Taiwan. I would imagine it's similar for a lot of dialects in China since speaking dialects is often discouraged and a lot of younger people abandon their native dialects.
Reminds me of this: http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-ne...
Great work! I'm so glad this has been done. I think seeing OCaml used with Xen made me realize how great Rust could be in this context.
Airgap is a requirement, I will update the article. Thanks for reminding me.
Anxious startup CEO thinking about purpose and future in life
It seems regardless of what I have accomplished prior, I am constantly anxious about what my true passion and purpose existing is. I have become an insomniac recently as the anxiety has worsened, and I'd love some tips, suggestions, and or insight from others..thanks
I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. Yes, that data was publicly available, but it 'feels' different that there is now an unalterable snapshot available to the public. No more comment deletion.
I think you overestimate human flexibility. We're hardwired for all kinds of face-to-face interaction. It's almost certain that emogies or no, no matter the amount of training, you're never going to gain the level of social insight and empathy while texting that you could have had face-to-face.

You may have huge brain and trillions of times of the computing capacity of a simple calculator, but it's still going to beat you at arithmetic. Know your limitations and embrace your strengths. You're not some general purpose machine; what's the point in pretending otherwise?
There is BuddyPress - it seems to be still reasonably actively developed
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> Fun fact: while floppies are indestructible

Haha, oh boy.
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There's HDMI CEC which could let you do that even better: the TV remote could have a "cinema" button that sent the signal over CEC to an RPi which controls the lights and curtains.
Most Japanese machines I've encountered would also throw a fit and beep and yell at you if you left something in a slot for more than a second. I don't recall any German ATMs audibly remining my of my inefficiency.
Attendance Tracking: A Universal Problem, Even for Giants Like Google and Yahoo
It's good to see that libvpx and x265 are moving forward.

However, not mentioned is that a higher bitrate doesn't necessarily correlate with higher perceptual quality.

Additionally, part of H.264's appeal is its widespread hardware support, which enables features like smartphones with 4K video recording.
Have you ever tried to intercept some one else's snail mail (or even your own wrongly delivered)? Its a lot of work if you don't have an insider at the post office. Requiring major time investments, to visit mail boxes or collect mail. E-mail even encrypted is much easier to permanently monitor than basic post, even for state level actors.

Opening an envelope is easy, doing so without being detected day in day out is hard.
Here's the paper[1] from the University of Toronto showing that the attack originated from the Great Firewall. Given the firewall is operated by the Ministry of Public Security that points the finger pretty clearly at the government. The way the attack was orchestrated implies however that Baidu was an unwitting victim.

[1]https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/
I believe this is just the submissions, not comments (though, it appears that's already been released), based on the post authors comment...

> This dataset will go nicely with the full Reddit Comment Corpus that I released a couple months ago. The link_id from each comment corresponds to the id key in each of the submission objects in this dataset.
All the Railway tracks in India post 1980s were built assuming that the same track will also have cables for communication. But in reality that capacity is not much used.
Slack does the notification thing by default there is not real option to opt out. On the contrary most teams with non devs on -board swear by this app. Slack happens to ignore the "Do Not Disturb" mode, which is pretty much respected by all other applications that throw notifications. Basically there is no convenient way to silence notifications yet while the application runs.

But you're right. I have resorted to checking Slack just few times per day as well rather than being online constantly.
It means having sex for a half hour without one kissing the other even once. It also means that women must have at least a dozen plastic surgeries to be considered acceptable by the industry.
It would make total sense if Microsoft were no longer interested in competing with Google in the US.
How much of your traffic is fake?
[video] This new 'thirsty' concrete absorbs 880 gallons of water a minute
well I really don't believe this to be true. Even a salesman has to have something to sell- without good engineering they can't. imho the profits have to be split...
Agreed completely! Similarly, most states' math curricula is stuck in an era when it was expected that the primary reason to learn math in high school was to be prepared for a science/engineering discipline in college. A curriculum more focused on number theory, logic, probability, and statistics would be far more useful to a greater number of students than one centered on trigonometry and calculus. Adding Computer Science to such a curriculum would only have an additive effect, I think.
A comment dataset was actually already released a while back.
Who needs proof when repeating a story enough means people assume it is true?
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Free WiFi or for that matter anything free that comes at the expense of someone else is always a good politics. It fetches votes.

Of course, I assume that Indian government will monetise this service to some extent and also integrate it with the existing Rail infra to give better service to people. For example if I could simply book a Mumbai Local ticket on my phone while on station that will greatly reduce the long queues in front of Ticket windows and Ticket Vending machines.

If the shops on railway platform could accept Apple Pay or Android Pay that would be great too.
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imho this is not the key point. it is just so much easier to measure their performance. without good engineering a sales rep can't sell anything for long...
Are you also against Microsoft's usage of Github and Linux since the own competitors to those? Should they stop making Office for iOS and android?
For a lot of search terms, Baidu is positioned way worse to give relevant results.
I don't understand why should String Theory be labeled as "scientific". Can you explain? Why cannot we be happy just calling it philosophy?

To me, "scientific" means "uses scientific method", which in turn is a set of tools that are pretty successful in understanding universe. Scientific method is certainly not fixed set of tools - for example, computer simulation became very useful only recently.

Maybe doing whatever string theorists are doing will become useful in the future, and as such their method will become part of scientific method; but since we aren't really sure if string theory itself is true, we can't consider their methodology to be useful (or useless) and so part of scientific method.
That's already true due to a service called: uneddit reddit: http://uneddit.com/ and https://www.unedditreddit.com/

There's also the web archive and search engine indexing.
Brainpool curves
Now we wait for someone to train a RNN and produce a fake but believable reddit parody with generated titles :)
"The only good language is a dead language" as a callback to "the only good indian is a dead indian"?
I always used non-propellant inhalers when I was a kid (in Europe). I believe they are called Diskus-type. Why do you need propellants?
Examples of this type are not a good guideline for policy decisions, almost by definition. For every Marshall, there's a million cranks whose ideas are rejected by the establishment and rightfully so. At the outset, all these ideas appear equally wild. But resources are scarce -- we can't just fund everything.

So what to do with a billion Euros? Obviously, we shouldn't put everything in a single pot. Particularly not in one crazy pot. That's why people complain about Markram's ego trip and enabling politicians. If you got a certain amount of funding, diversify: fund a couple of cranks, sure, but 90% should go toward what's often called normal science where small steps add up to comparatively predictable progress.

(In Markram's/the HBP's defence: Ultimately, the project will yield a metric tonne of normal science, especially in terms of infrastructure etc. However, everybody will be disappointed at the end...)
What's wrong with the sum of all ways of picking a term from each factor?
I am in Germany and I am a member of https://foodsharing.de/ . We collect food from shops that would throw it away otherwise.

In my town, we have a cooperation with a small organic supermarket where we collect food twice a week. Sometimes the quantity of the food that gets thrown out is sheer incredible: http://i.imgur.com/5mb4WN1.jpg

Over 95% of the collected food is still edible. It's mostly unpackaged food such as fruit, vegetables and bread, but sometimes packaged food as well with expired "Best before"-date (which honestly doesn't say anything about the quality of the contents).

We usually split these quantities up with 4-6 people and it has fed me well over the past months.
Have you seen this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator
> No more comment deletion

Isn't that how hackernews is? not being able to delete comments
Telescope recently switched away from IronRouter to FlowRouter for a number of reasons, and discussed it in the changelog episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itVZ1Md5xMI&feature=youtu.be - @sgdesign does a fantastic job comparing/contrasting and explaining the motivation for the switch away from IronRouter.
A great resource. But I was put off by the preponderance of "Blah" in the entries.
duplicating efforts
Yeah, the original Eternity puzzle (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_puzzle) was a lot better in that regard - it spiked a whole online community focused on finding clever ways to find a solution, and was in fact solved within a year.
Earth

Sorry. Couldn't resist :)
YCombinator is named for the y combinator of lambda calculus.
It's all a pipe dream unless you are able to identify and persuade relevant influencers.
Some of them are amazing - "TIL Robin Williams died a year ago yesterday, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Will Consider Legalizing Dank Maymays if Jet Fueled"
So it functions just like news media then, where rare things are nearly all we hear about.
Nowadays, smartphone SoCs support both VP9 decoding and encoding in hardware. They have been supporting the same for VP8 for a while.
What do you mean then with "better option"?
My personal problem with these types of charts that they attempt to present the "raw" data and expect me to sift through it to find the interesting stuff. It is my understanding that originally bar charts and their like we're used to illustrate visually a specific point from a set of data. This no longer seems to be the case these days. Instead we get an article about "mass migrations of people across the globe" and a visual dump of all the data, like I'm expected to find the interesting story in all this! Why not write about specifics and illustrate that with a traditional chart?

I have similar issues with admin systems or management dashboards (having had to write loads of them over the years). I've found that executive users would much rather see a bar chart even if the bar chart doesn't display data of any significance, than see numbers. They would much rather see a partial non-story be displayed if it meant the visual display and layout of the dashboard was consistent than see two significant numbers. For example, imagine a dashboard that shows performance figures for sales. I've often been asked to show what is usually a static screen layout of bar charts etc that doesn't tell the user anything import rather than show 2 or 3 stand out figures I.e. Sales are down over last month in a big red call-out vs a bar chart that shows all sales figures for all regions compared to last month which requires the user to determine if the overall sales are down on last month.

There seems to be a large disconnect between the purpose of the visual display of quantative data and the action required or message being delivered. I actually put a lot of this down to excel; I've seem countless spreadsheets contain a graph that tells you nothing of significance because the person writing the spreadsheet doesn't understand that there are values of significance in their data. It's like the expect the graph to tell them the story (whilst this is true in some circumstances, I've only really seen this work when the data is obviously significant. Countless times I've see than overall trends can be missed because the use of data is incorrect, and then the wrong type of chart is used to display the data "to look nice in the report")

Anyway that's my main beef with these types of visualisations; they always come across as a kind of "there is far too much data here for us to sift through and find anything of importance so to examine. Let's create a tool that lets th user do the work". Unfair? Probably. Busy? Definitely. Pretty? Absolutely. Useful? Debatable.
Anonymous targets Saudi websites to stop al-Nimr's crucifixion
Speaking of Rust - is anyone running Rust in production apps yet? Now that Rust has reached 1.3.0, it's perhaps not unlikely.
The (East) Germans managed - the Stasi (East German secret police) did so for years on end with any number of suspected citizens.

Actually there was a joke going around here in Germany when the NSA scandal broke, talking about how jealous all the ex-Stasi guys must be that the NSA had beaten them at their own surveillance game...
Won't the 'Echo Room' Facebook algorithm just enhance the "Majority illusion"?

(*the new one that shows all the things people like you post and will filter out other viewpoints)
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Oh, you can use numbers behind the scenes. Just make sure your type system hides the ugly truth.
Correlate the comment corpus against LinkedIn DB and other public data sources, and one could create an auto-dox system.
1. the comment I replied to stated — and this is the part I quoted and to which I was responding — that slicing creating views is just a matter of performance.

2. there are gradations in breaking changes, the breaking changes I outline are insidious because they are silent, they won't cause the program to fail loudly, but they will cause it to behave very differently than it used to and possibly to corrupt data.
I'll book a trip to your house and write on your walls, then.
Given how much processed food we eat I find it hard to believe the situation is that bad.

Nobody is making orange juice out of perfect oranges.
This is not as cool as the comment dataset, but it's still pretty cool. I think in the future AIs will make extensive use of these kinds of datasets. It's amazing how much useful information is in there.

Last year I made a simple IRC question answering bot that just searched reddit for your question and returned the top comment of the top result. It worked surprisingly well. It's amazing how many questions someone else has asked on reddit before. And the comment quality is usually pretty good. Sample conversation with it: https://i.imgur.com/LDD9isL.jpg

I improved on it a lot with a whitelist of subreddits and some machine learning to select the best thread. But I was only touching on what is possible with that data.

You can play with it here: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.snoonet.org/mybots

EDIT: It does only work well with certain kinds of questions. Thing's that would have been asked before and without too many unique keywords. I see some people ask it really unique questions, or talk to it like a regular chatbot without even asking questions. And then get frustrated when it returns nonsense. There are a lot of improvements that could be made with this with natural language processing and stuff. But right now it's pretty simple.
Thanks!

I found this really cool, so I did my own version of the tutorial but using ES6 instead :)

http://www.simonhartcher.com/getting-started-with-meteor-and...
And so it was with Java's substring and is for Erlang's binaries sharing. I will acknowledge that array slices are less likely to cause problems than string slices, but it is still a possible issue for the unwary. Which was my point.
The part about distributed teams might help our company as well. I wished I spoke Russian now!

It's normal to check what the competition does, but in the case of a company performing really well, it's always of use to have the brightest people with you, not against; even when you know you can crush them with money & reputation..

I'll think about becoming an advisor, looks like a great way to have a better footprint on society.
TL;DR - They essentially classify each species using decision trees using features such as group size, lifespan, geographic range, nocturnal, litter size, body mass, if they live underground etc. They used database of (may be 2200?) rodents for training to predict on PanTHERIA data of ~5000 species. Then you can map geographical area where predicted troublesome species are concentrated. I'm not clear about their precision/recall/F1 but looks like they are getting ~80% precision.
That's not a solution. I asked for a something that checks decimal numbers. A real solution looks uglier: check out https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7, it starts

((((((6(2|9)8|6(2|9)1|5)(5(2|9)8|5(2|9)1|4)(5(2|9)7 [...]

(Unless you can convert from decimal to unary in regex, too. I doubt you can, regular languages are too weak for that.)
This article seems to be a legitimate source.

It terms the system that carried out the attack as "the Great Cannon" and then moves on to attribute "the Great Cannon" to the Chinese government in Section 4.

As "compelling" as it sounds, the "attribution" in Section 4 seems rather short and lacking technical details and proper references as compared to other sections (Also I would not consider references from GreatFire as legitimate). So I am not fully convinced about that section.

Anyway thanks for sharing this. I definitely picked up a lot from this article.
this is the industry which tries to offshore as many aspects of the process as possible

And this :

http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/

Is a very interesting and quite frightening take on the potential consequences of such offshoring.
That's not a regular language, like the grandfather comment by wonnage talked about.
Reformatted to be readable: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/296f6c90dcbc9033d97c
This would really benefit from proper hot reloading ala https://github.com/thereactivestack/kickstart - Meteor takes so long to pick up changes and reload the entire page every time you save a file. Using component hot reloading like in the project I linked to makes things so much faster and more pleasant to develop when using Meteor.
Note that I am not saying it's a bad default (it still is the default of Erlang binaries).

I am saying this change is not quite "just a matter of performance", that the documentation and changelogs should be very very clear about the behavioural changes and the possible issues with the new behaviour, and that there should be an easy way to "unshare" slices and force a copy.
I liked this story. I still have a few floppies in storage as mementos of times long since past. Maybe I'll consider sending in to make them useful for someone somewhere else.
My wife calls them "DGs" for dust gathers, although it would sound more zen if it was the Japanese equivalent.
I dunno. I don't think that in Europe the development costs or regulatory hurdles are smaller than in the US (if I had to make an uneducated guess I would say bigger), and yet the prices are way lower.

I would add to that list "heavy government regulation on medicine prices", they are not a common commodity and should not be left to the markets free whims.
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Seed funding: Cry a bit, Hustle a lot
I recall doing an Oracle Forms based install back in 94 you had to feed 13 or 14 floppys in the right order then you could install our forms application (another 3 floppys).

It to a coworker and my self 2 days to install the pilot site for only 5 users.

I remember saying to my boss that about the www that when the it becomes more mature we could save so much time in product roll out.
Last Week Tonight did a pretty good special on this topic as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8xwLWb0lLY
Nah. It's an incredibly stupid title.
The arrogance of this CEO (demonstrated by the paragraph below) is mind-boggling. Whether I trust the NSA or not is irrelevant to the question of whether I want private companies tracking my children.

That said, this sort of tracking is happening in my son's school as well and I'm trying to figure out how I should respond to this. Many schools (here in the Seattle area) ask kids to do their homework online. My son (in elementary school, public school) does math homework on the IXL website. They track all of his online time, the specific timeframe he worked on his homework, time spent on questions etc. This information is also made available to his teacher. I plan to discuss related privacy issues with his teacher

>>Knewton CEO Jose Ferreira finds such concerns overblown. When parents protest that they don’t want their children data-mined, Ferreira wishes he could ask them why: Is it simply that they don’t want a for-profit company to map their kids’ minds? If not, why not? “They’d rather the NSA have it?” he asked. “What, you trust the government?”
Read the price of inequality by Stiglitz, he explains whay this not quite true anymore (and that's unfortunate)...
There's also a backup copy in Utah with all your comments from every site tied to common selectors like your usernames, emails, passwords, ip, credit cards etc. No doubt that'll leak at some point too.

So comment deletion was never going to save you.
I Grew Up in Karnataka Disliking Tamilians. Then This Happened
Don't know about that but the Fate Zero anime has Gilgamesh as a main character and is pretty good.
You haven't heard of bootsector virus? The only time I have seen a virus in the wild was a floppy bootsector one.

Our customer had edited a doc on her husbands pc and got infected - the pre boot checks caught it.