skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"giving heterosexual male desire free rein among anatomically female sex robots will only worsen men’s objectification of women and children generally"

So unless this was quoted out of contex, hetero-male sexuality is the only kind that's anti-social?

Well, that is certainly a relief! My gf owns two sex bots (older, dumber models), and I was worried she would start holding out on them unitl they gave her money. It's also reassureing to know that the gays will treat their sexbots humanely -- I was afraid they try to buy them scented candels or move in with them on the third date!

As long as the sexbots don't fall into the cruel clutches of straght males, everything will be fine.
Lifetimes are part of the type, so in that sense you would care what it is.

Seems like this would go against the nature of scripting languages.
I think that is highly questionable. Sum Types are a different approach with some advantages and some disadvantages over inheritance. Nothing more and nothing less. They really shine if you have clearly defined types that seldom change. On the other hand, discriminated unions make it absurdly complicated to defend against some errors that are almost comically easy to avoid by using a standard OO approach:

class Range {
public int From {get;}
public int To {get;}
public Range(int from, int to) {
Assert(from <= to);
From = from; To = to;
}
}
The large corporations give more campaign donations (bribes) to the individuals who make up the political class, which gives the large corporations massive preference when their interests are addressed. Large donations equals political preferences made into reality. Our reality is a result of this going on for almost a century. It is this simple.
> Ignorance should not be an excuse for callousness.

Oh yes, someone is callous unless she learns the sensitivities of every person and group in the world, and then avoids them all whenever posting anything on the web.

Or, you know, we could just be more forgiving and understanding of each other.
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This is nothing to do with political correctness. The word "bullshit" is perfectly fine; it's the way it was used here.
We're all part of the sharing economy. You share your labor with your employer. /s
#4 - You will, eventually, need to learn some back-end code.

November of last year, I began re-designing my site to use AngularJS / Firebase. After looking at some examples, I fell in love with the live updating of the data, single page design.

In July it went live.

And now, on the edge of October, I find myself writing pieces in PHP / MySQL and accessing them via a http request to do any number of things from querying user data, to sending email via Mailgun, to triggering a Twillio message.

Pick a language / database - doesn't matter if its PHP or Ruby, MySQL or Postgres - but learn 1 of each - I still love and use Firebase, but it's no good if I can't perform the simplest of queries like "select * from users where school_id=x". No fancyness on the frontend will negate the power of a properly formatted sql statement.
"First, a change because the optimizer will pre-compute the sum:"

You are changing the rules; you will not get my money :-)

And thanks for the educational reply.
There's been a lot of obfuscation to the contrary, including endless bad-faith comparisons with Chelsea Manning.
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These are the types of articles that keep me coming back to HN. Spectacular analysis.
The separate charge doesn't actually go to the driver. You should really tip your delivery driver.
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(Orchestra dev here)

If you're curious how it can be used, Daniel Haas put together a wonderful example of how Orchestra could be used in a newsroom:

http://orchestra.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example_use.html

Happy to take questions!
Genuine curiosity: which country would a company need to be in to be able to trust them?
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There's some weird activity in this thread which I think bears mentioning.

Lots of people saying either "good, this is their job" and "old news"-- shill trademark phrases. I'm not making any accusations exactly, but I am concerned at the mass of simple, positive, and vapid comments in this thread.
I wonder how this would work in more rural places in the US.

Before I graduated high school, I lived in rural-ish area where the nearest commercial couriers were 50+ minutes from my house to the north and about 90+ minutes to the south. Wal-Mart was literally my only choice for consumer goods, so I spent a good chunk of change online.

I always had the same driver for a certain courier. I asked him how often he had to come down that far, and if it was significantly out of the way compared to the rest of his route. He told me that there were occasionally other stops in my town, but it wasn't the norm. The city and the immediate suburbs were the vast majority of their deliveries. Driving 100 minutes round trip for a couple deliveries probably sucked.
In the final example where he switches to int32 for Go (after "Let's make it use int32 consistently and try again"), he runs gopherjs twice instead of running go and gopherjs. I hope that's a typo.

The reasoning seems correct, but it'd be nice to have the benchmarks corrected to verify.
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Those are not monetarily valuable things though; plenty of people will write about the news for free.

Investigative reporting is the exception in that it's difficult and can be expensive to produce.
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Good point. I do think the "then rip them out" part moves the title into dumb and insensitive territory, but we may just have to agree to disagree about that.
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There's a strange note of entitlement that seems to pop up whenever discussions about ad blocking arise.

It smacks of the piracy argument, "if producers didn't make it so difficult to consume the content, I wouldn't pirate it." The argument isn't about whether or not it's theft, so much as whether or not consumers agree with the method and constraints on the intersection between distribution and consumption.

In the case of 'free' content on the web: site 'owners' create and serve content, often via paid servers with labor overhead in the form of creation, curation, programming infrastructure/support, sysadmins, and so forth. The server sits in one or more datacenters, waiting for requests.

Let's use the house metaphor: say I create a website, www.thisismyhouse.com and you like the content, so you visit my (open) house. My house has certain conventions, social compacts, if you will. You don't enter without some sense that there are obligations on both sides: if I am an irritating host, you don't stay and eat my food, you leave. If you are an irritating guest, you are escorted out. At no time in the physical world is there a situation where you can use technology to mute the host while still eating the food (aside from <insert dated in-laws joke here> ).

"Oho!" someone exclaims, "I spent fuel and time" (internet bandwidth) "to visit your house! This cost me (unit of value) too!" So we agree that both sides have a monetary/value stake in this transaction.

But there are rules, folks. The content isn't free and never was. Just because you can line up at the buffet and filter out the environment until it meets your requirements through technology doesn't mean that you have an ongoing right to keep visiting (consuming).

Free content sites are like trialware: you visit, decide if you like it, then pay if you keep using it, and the price is set by the author (ads, subscriptions, you name it). If you don't like the price, you don't get to keep eating your fill.

I'm not a fan of ads, but I accept them as by and large the price of admission to the content I like. There are plenty of ways to get around tracking without fully blocking ads, so that doesn't really concern me).

If the ads are just too much, I go elsewhere. How complicated is that?
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that's the sharing economy ! the worker "shares" all the professional expenses , the corporation just creates "an app". How can one really make money without working illegally ? using his own car ? I don't know.
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Changes in laws cannot provide access to data that was never gathered and stored in the first place.

Similarly, laws cannot force a company to divulge encrypted data if the company does not hold the encryption keys.

So as long as you trust the company, the country it's in is not relevant, at least for the situations outlined above.
>My bigger takeaway here is that they are supposed to be working with them. I'm quite sure that German intelligence would have offered up this information if some NSA official just asked.

How would the NSA know the Germans didn't lie? I don't think this is a big issue. If you're a spy, expect to be spied upon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229
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But the percentage of well-targeted ads is zero.
My point was that upper and lower seem to (anecdata) be disconnected from the context of rivers. Upper and Lower Egypt make sense once reminded of this, but for many (anecdata) it seems upper and lower mean north and south so their intuitive sense is that the naming is "wrong" or seems off.
there is no correct or incorrect way of talking. slaughtering the English language? as long as both people understand, it does not really matter.

language is not something that's set in stone - it constantly changes. I would encourage you to be curios and try to learn something from others ways of speaking.

Something not matching your expectations / what is commonly seen as the 'right' way does not make it wrong.

IMHO judging people that don't read or didn't get far in school is plain wrong.
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In this case, "old" applies to "little lady", not "lady" alone.
I think that's a terrible idea.

Should the people who sell trucks and airplanes to UPS also be entitled to some percentage of UPS' profit?
>Does this mean they are capable of intercepting iMessage?

You know what the best way is to see who cooperates with law enforcement and to what level? Court documents!

I've been trawling court documents for the past few months (I'm writing a blog article on this) and I'm yet to find iMessage being used in court (unless the access to the conversation was given by one of the parties). iMessage really does seem secure from legal system point of view.

For a comparison, I've found dozens of court documents from Google, Facebook, Microsoft handing over chat logs from Hangouts, Whatsapp/FBMessenger, Skype.

Anyway, if you want to see the level of cooperation and want to double-check privacy policies, actual court documents are the best way.
I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm, but check whether your "likes" are real users or just fake users camouflaging as "real" users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232379

We had a lot of "fake" likes for a university project, Facebook converted very badly for us (our goal was to do landing-page style validation, getting the user's email).

In my experience, organic / viral growth, interacting with friends and users is much better (for sales-oriented companies). I don't know how I'd measure a news startup, do you have a comments section? That might be a good measure of actual engaged readership.
But those four other language's total market share covers over 80% of the industry.
Is this similar to the concept used by Amazon's "statistically improbable phrases" (word-based instead of n-gram based)?

EDIT: according to SO, yes: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2009546/489590
Nah. We can hypothesize very conservatively based off of what we knew existed in the 1960s-- agency issued suicide pills, and remotely detonated explosive molar implants to prevent squealing (albeit with a quite short range because of technical limitations at the time).
Honest question, why? What role does someone's previous pay play into what they're worth to a new employer?
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My current understanding is that I can use NodeJS with ExpressJS on the backend and use ReactJS on the frontend.

Please let me know if I am on right track. Also, please suggest some good book or blog for these topics.
Also used extensively in Lucene based search engines such as Solr and Elastic. Most companies running search use a Lucene-based search engine.

https://lucene.apache.org/

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

https://www.elastic.co/
Doesn't work if the incumbent companies are selling natural resources and have access to all resources in question.

To illustrate, imagine we were in a free market and I wanted to start an oil company to disrupt the prices of an oil cartel. How am I going to do that if I don't have any oil?
>The pizza delivery driver doesn't get any of that delivery charge.

Yes they do, in the form of being paid for mileage (at least I did when I was a delivery driver).
When I took my first APL class the prof drilled into our heads to focus on data representation before writing any code. Over the years and across a dozen languages or so this has proven to perhaps have been the most valuable thing I learned in CS. I lost count of how many problems I've seen go from difficult to manageable and even simple to solve by devoting more effort towards finding the best way to represent the data or the problem than simply taking things as presented and writing code right away.
That's not what it's about for me. If companies like google and Apple want my trust they need to operate as their own government entity and make all users citizens and give them rights. Until then I'll stick to using as much FOSS as possible, never using social media for secure communication, and storing all my own data.

Basically, unless they let me see what's happening with my data by allowing me access to the code, I can't and won't trust them.
Definitely more lens than zipper. If you think of a lens, in simple form, as a path into a structure then a zipper is a structure plus a path into itself. This constrains the form that a zipper can take.

If you examine these paths on their own then you get into general "optics" which is where the lens type lives and where specter lives (it seems). In particular, we start talking about generalized folds and traversals.
It's half a google away.

https://www.google.com/search?q=disable+spotlight+queries+se...
> everyone wants their parcel 5-7pm

If everyone wants later delivery, maybe that is something to look into (to meet/satisfy customer demand). Instead of the alternative of packages not getting delivered in the daytime and trying again the next day.
I agree, this would be nice.

They would have to split the fleet, all business deliveries still need to be made 9-5.

Amazon have actually started doing this in reverse in the UK, you can set an address as a business address and your package should only be delivered 9-5. In practice the 'Amazon Logistics' drivers (the aforementioned blokes in cars) are terrible and rarely manage to get this right.
At the bottom of this page you see:

All content Copyright © 2010 – 2015 Foundation for Excellence in Education

Wikipedia says the Foundation for Excellence in Education is a think tank established by Jeb Bush and has received funding from Bill Gates, who I understand has also funded development of Common Core.
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That's far from a universal truth.

Only US users have a 'social security number' field. Should US users be a different class than German users?

Only cars have a 'passenger count' field. Only electric vehicles have a 'battery capacity' field. What type system can accommodate both Teslas and Harley Davidson LiveWire bikes?
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Which makes sense, because you're not supposed to be using iPlayer outside the UK.
We've since switched to another system, bugzilla was apparently a bit hard to use for non-technical people, and the new tool has better workflow management features.
I actually just recently learned about UPS's "My Choice" program - it does exactly this, you get more precise delivery windows for packages and a certain number of times per year you can request specific delivery windows.
Looks great especially Gelly, but does this have to run on top of YARN?
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Doesn't really address iOS 9 which changed things around a bit, and to even find anything about iOS at all you have to start looking at the 4th or 5th result on some random domain. And - even then - there are multiple odd places in the settings you need to check and verify, some of which are hidden in a long list of other apps.
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Did you just equate walking to the curb to the same level of inconvenience of having to go to the post office? I'd have to walk nearly as far to get to my car as I would to get to the curb, and then I'd have to drive to the post office, find parking, walk into the post office, wait in line, walk back to my car, drive back, carry the package into my house...

"Whelp, having to cook my own food is more inconvenient than having it made for me. At that point I might as well butcher the cow myself!"
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Source? Most of my google has netted the blame on Apple and a conspiracy throy of this beng a PR scandal.
>edit: It also was not clear up front that I could click to rotate/flip the pieces, until I did it by accident.

This explains why I couldn't solve it... I was feeling rather stupid seeing all the people solving it with 1,000's of solutions but I couldn't find one.

Thanks! :P
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Yes! Although ...

"Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you."

TF-IDF is old, and very cool. n-gram based extensions of it are a bit newer, but are likely implemented in almost exactly the same way. N-grams just require a lot more compute power because your corpus grows faster than a plain ol' bag of words.
I don't think seiji is trying to counter your post; "Plus" is used to add to something you agree with.
How about the local post office or your mail box?
Link goes to end of video.
As a thought experiment, are we certain these documents came from Snowden? He has not digitally signed these releases. He himself may not know entirely what was in the archive, so he may not be certain if all the released documents originated from his dump. Even if he was aware of documents being incorrectly attributed to him, it may do his cause more harm than good to highlight this fact.

It would be a legitimate option for the NSA to intentionally "leak" documents that simply describe their mission, causing a false spectacle. It will not hurt them much, given it's well within their mission parameters, but CAN hurt Snowden through public backlash. It would raise such questions as, "is Snowden still a whistleblower?" Such releases could hurt his credibility, or even flood the news with insignificant stories such that the truly important ones are lost in the shuffle.

I am not certain this is what we're seeing, but neither would I be surprised if it were true.

EDIT: There have been documents leaked about how the CIA and IC use character assassination to advance their causes. There have also been articles explicitly about the character assassination of Snowden: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/06/12522/glenn-greenwald-sp... http://www.securitycurrent.com/en/writers/richard-stiennon/t...
Interesting side note, Axel Springer has been suing the makers of Adblock Plus: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/29/us-axel-sprngr-adb...
I notice no cities in California - a simple way of avoiding the pitfalls of having the reclassify contractors?
Sounds fun.
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Sounds very interesting!
I will be waiting for the blog post :)
FWIW, as a life-long Seattleite, I disagree with this. There's definitely an Amazon backlash (particularly in the hipper neighborhoods) but it's not incredibly unpopular, most people like and use the service AND many like what they've done for the local economy.
Doesn't spying indicate a de facto lack of trust?
Amazon has sent a lot of Prime packages to me via DPD, but it seems to depend on when I order it. If I order on Saturday, I have a feeling they have very little choice as to which courier to use and as such it tends to be DPD.

I really prefer DPD because you can track the vehicle and you also get a delivery slot. Recently, Amazon have delivered some stuff for me via Royal Mail and ParcelForce (I ordered in the week) and whilst the packages did get to my house the next day, the tracking was much less informative/useful than what was offered by DPD.
Well, it's all fine and well that I learn that here now, but many other non-native English speakers will not realize/understand/feel the same thing and will never learn about it. Complaining that they are insensitive isn't going to change that and is, in fact, culturally insensitive in itself.

It doesn't really make sense to me that a regular phrase like 'final solution', which has been used as a rather awkward translation of 'endlösung', would have gotten the same connotation as the word itself. I must have said "so we end up with a final solution of ..." countless times and I've never noticed a thing.
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This is for Amazon Prime Now deliveries, which let you choose a delivery slot. You choose a two-hour delivery slot between 6am and midnight for free, or you can choose a 1 hour delivery slot, including within one hour from now, for a fee (at least those are the ranges in NYC).
In your case, I think you handled it as well as possible. At least your fellow group members were willing to try and be involved, even if they weren't technically proficient enough to complete the required work.

The whole firing group members, IIRC, was meant to handle people who weren't contributing and weren't even trying to contribute. Basically, those hoping to ride the coattails without expending any effort. It's an iterative improvement over the standard group model, but by no means was it perfect.

Honestly, I don't think it's possible to design a perfect group work system. There will always be human edge cases.
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That merely follows from the order.

In "little old lady", "little" applies to "old lady", not "lady" alone.

Either way, the meaning is the same, because semantically, the actual attributes which "old" and "little" denote apply independently to the person indicated by "lady".
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DPD in the UK do this now. The morning of your delivery you get a text message giving you the hour your parcel will be delivered, and a link to rearrange delivery or to track the driver's current location.

To my mind, their system far outstrips the other couriers.
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Show HN is specifically reserved for stuff people have made that HN can use, this is an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
TF-IDF solves an important problem and it's good to know about.

However, in some applications, such as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and its generalizations, there are practical alternatives such as log-entropy [1] that I've found to work better in practice.

[1]: http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2FBF03203370#page-1
You just said I (the restaurant owner) don't have the power to!
Or Proposition Infinity

"Even ghost and horse!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_Infinity
You're dereferencing a null pointer