skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If reddit means so much to you that you're willing to spend the time brigading against it, be my guest. Just don't be surprised with many people (most?) don't want to put that sort of emotional investment into a news aggregation site.
Tu Youyou: how Mao’s challenge to malaria pioneer led to Nobel prize
I never claimed that nobody was at least a little selfish, I was simply arguing that it isn't illogical that most people aren't sociopaths.
And IBM's BI product
JAWS framework
In theory a good optimizing compiler should see that some code doesn't depend on anything external and do it, but I'm not sure to what extent they do. GCC with higher optimization settings does do some pretty crazy stuff, so I would expect it to figure out something like in the example code pretty easily.
If you haven't noticed the acceleration of YC from the moment Sam took over, I feel like you've not really been paying attention. From scaling up the numbers, to outreach to females and minorities, to the increased transparency, and the YC Fellowship and now this, you really believe you're just watching someone collect golden eggs? Do you realize how hard it is to grow a community? And how easy it is to screw it up? If Paul Graham was Steve Jobs, then Sam Altman is Tim Cook, and more.
Not only that, they don't dress them in orange prison uniforms, or transport them in waist chains and leg irons.

Sometimes respect and dignity for the prisoners by the prison authorities can go a long way towards reforming the prisoner.
If you haven't read David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" you should. It's fantastic.
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
For one, it can be leaner; tenure-line faculty to student ratios are unchanged while adminstrator-to-student ratios more than doubled in the last 25 years. "There are now two nonacademic employees at public and two and a half at private universities and colleges for every one full-time, tenure-track member of the faculty." Yet we have to take out our own garbage.

[1] http://necir.org/2014/02/06/new-analysis-shows-problematic-b...
Michael Dell in 2002: http://www.cnet.com/news/dell-apple-should-close-shop/
my firm can help: www.mathandpencil.com! - email me at joseph.misiti@mathandpencil.com
It's not cloud vs cloud. It's cloud vs vps vs colo vs in-house/datacenters. Cloud is one option, and a heavily mis-used one for multiple purposes, security being a popular one this year.
Pretty unfortunate that the default demo sentence gets parsed wrong.
The problem (of course) is discovery and availability of the search server.

A "local" installation is no good for most people, because they use multiple web browsers in across multiple networks.

So you do cloud, and then you have to deal with security and authentication and admin etc. Meh :(

Sandstorm.io is the last, best hope.
>Really, it's hard to see what one truly needs JavaScript for

It's a Turing complete language. You truly need it if you want to do any computation in the browser, modify the DOM, work with Canvas or make asynchronous requests.

Yes, we could all go back to the way the web was in the early 90's when every site was nothing but text and images (and the occasional Java applet) but doing so would also disregard a lot of the very interesting things that javascript allows the web to do as a platform for serving applications as well as documents.

It may be true that most of the web might not absolutely need it, but let's not pretend it serves no valid purpose at all.
Explaining your work is part of the job (as it is for any academic discipline, or indeed most professional occupations).
But that Buffalo sentence is something on which people also stumble. A machine can be contrived to pass such a test case, while remaining a lousy parser compared to people.

The real problem is that the parser comes so swiftly to wrong conclusion and cheerfully presents it as a valid result.

It would look a lot better if it simply reported "error: cannot parse that". (Better yet, with reasons: "I cannot parse that because I get stuck on this specific ambiguity and it's just too much for me.").

Also, what about the possibility of multiple results? Language is ambiguous. If something has two parses, it's wrong to assert just one.

This thing has made no consideration whatsoever that even a single instance of "buffalo" in the sentence might conceivably be a verb, which flies in the face of almost any noun in English being verbable.
Actually, in many jobs, we do. That’s why several countries have defined a minimum wage, and why so many people in society work minimum-wage jobs.
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The paranoid person's guide to a complete Mac backup
Alex Jones and Matt Drudge are Mainstream Media 2.0

Live in fear, and come to us, we will comfort you, you shiny special individual.
In other words, she deserved it, in your opinion?
Any obligation, no.

But the consensus among the mathematical community is that Mochizuki probably doesn't have a proof, that his work likely has some fundamental error, that it is probably (but not certainly) not worth taking all that seriously.

If Mochizuki doesn't mind this, then that's fine. But if he wants the respect that he claims to deserve, then the 'roadshow' can't be omitted.
Unfortunately, every otherwise static site using a framework like AngularJS becomes a webapp by definition, whether they need to be or not.

I think a lot of the problem is that it's no longer considered professional to do otherwise. You can put a javascript framework on your resume, but writing your own html, css and javascript comes across as carving your own canoe with a flint axe, and the "minimum viable product" for more and more sites involves more and more javascript by default.

No one even bothers try to optimize, or learning how to think outside the box that jQuery and frameworks put them into because it's just assumed you can pile on as much javascript as you like it'll just work, as if bandwidth and RAM are practically infinite. And for the most part, that point of view is correct... but eventually, the end users are going to notice that things are slower than they should be.
"Lack of a real challenge, no deadlines, no scope for further development of my skills"

Those are the reasons right there.

Without a challenge, it's hard to feel like you're creating something or doing something valuable. It might be valuable to someone else, but if it's not challenging to you, it's very difficult to feel like you're accomplishing something that is valuable.

Without a deadline, there's usually no sense of urgency. In order to be productive and efficient, you have to have deadlines.

I'd try to find work that has both of these. Before you decide to move on, be absolutely sure that you communicate with your current employer. I've heard countless stories from Recruiters and Hiring Managers saying that if an developer had only told them that something was bothering them, the company could have changed to accommodate them (saving the developer from quitting, and saving the company lots of money in trying to find a replacement).

After you've communicated very clearly and kindly, see if things change. If they don't change, leave. Give yourself tangible outcomes (example: If X doesn't change by this date, I'm finding a new job) and stick to those.

All the best.
Why would anyone put up with feeling hungry any of the time, if you could get similar benefits without doing so? For the character building experience of it?
Because the you have to remember all possible state of your UI in your head.

Say you subscribe to "name change" event, where you have to update your UI depends on your current UI state. Are you in list page? Are you in detail page? Is the object even currently displayed at all?
Snowball is just a device with a 10Gbps port – so if you have 10Gbps, you won’t need Snowball ;)
Excuse me?! Burning a flag is an act of displeasure at a nation.
would appreciate if you could post a reference link to: "the CEO was boasting just a few months ago that this was a brilliant plan and the only way they would make money."
Thanks!
Changes their ALLEGED business plan. Jet's products seem almost universally more expensive than their counterparts anywhere else.

We don't have any evidence they were really counting on that subscription income.
The states hold the majority of the US prison population and the federal government releasing 6000 prisoners isn't really going to change things. The states need to do the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarce...

As you can see, the southern states have the highest prison population. Any surprise there?
I've looked at it, and played with a bit. I think when I last looked at it the licensing was even less friendly than CoreNLP. I believe this has been fixed though, so it's probably worth looking at again.

From memory when I was last looking around I cared mostly about named entity recognition (NER) and Spacy themselves say CoreNLP is better. CoreNLP has more features too.

WordVector integration in Spacy looks interesting though. That's probably enough to make me have a play with it.
SCOTUS: The Four Types of Justices
YC startups don't grow on a tree in the YC garden and YC is what most startups want to get into. It makes much more sense to make that research widely available, chances are good for YC that the startups that do something useful with it will join YC at a later point. Even if they don't, a growing technology industry helps everyone, YC included.
Uncovering the Secret History of Myers-Briggs
YCombinator: Running a hatchery for replicant hackers (2006)
But it won't ever have trouble, because it's not trying to understand the sentence. It will tell you the most probable parsing of that sentence based on its model, whether or not it makes sense to a human.
Statusgator.io picked up on this before status.stripe was updated.
Zynq-based hacker board has FPGA, BT, and WiFi too
Actually, if these supplements do mitochondrial repair, then that's definitely one strand of SENS. Of course you still need the others.
I just checked their site, and they act less like a hungry startup, and more like a don't-care near-monopoly.

Three examples:

- You can't see prices for many items without logging in. For a site that is geared towards price-conscious consumers, this is such a silly move. Alternatively, they consider login/registration as a worthwhile conversion (otherwise they could show you the price when you add something to cart.)

- Yet, their registration page doesn't let you create an account with Facebook, Google or anything else. If you care about conversions, act like you care!

- Their Help is an email address or a phone number. Seriously? No chat? No FAQ? Even Comcast has this figured out. If your LTCV is > $500, there is no reason to skimp on support when you don't have traction.
Well, supposedly he did write a human-checkable proof--it's just that the reviewer must be familiar with several of his novel ideas. Like any human-intended proof, there's an assumption of foreknowledge.
So basically, react is becoming like mercury one release at a time.
This is 100% the scenario I was just imagining.

Obviously this device has been designed to be a multi-time use device.

Amazon definitely do NOT have physical control over this box. They would need to do a complete low level reflash of every single bit of firmware on there, every time it came back. That's not actually that inconceivable in a enterprise grade server, and I hope to see some interesting details about that.

But still... just imagine some of the fun HDD firmware hacks making their way onto this. Or NIC firmware. Or even just the embedded Kindle being rooted, and used to sniff out Wifi networks, report its location via 3G, etc.

Not to mention the obvious data recovery attacks if the disks have not been wiped to the highest levels.

I agree with parent comments, and assume Amazon would put this on its own untrusted VLAN when it comes back. But would they weight it first to see if any pwnies have been inserted into the box? Visually inspect inside to see if physical components have been removed to ensure the weight is actually the same, despite a pwnie inside?

I really hope Amazon put out advice to their customers on how to connect this - ideally it should just be on a point to point link to a sacrificial server containing the data.
For the most part this was good; the ending ruined it.

I am a man of color and an immigrant. I am sick of the trend of people praising a work simply because its author happened to be of a different skin color or gender.

Judge us on our merits. Not on our fulfillment of your agenda.
There is a lot of crime all over the world, but there doesn't have to be.

We could stop it all. But history has shown that the cure is worse than the disease, so we don't. And the imperfect attempts will frequently increase the levels of crime.

I'm all for ambition, but people with ambition to suppress or oppress others based on a value judgement for the greater good make me nervous in general.
why doesn't this commend have upvote arrows?
Looks good to me?

What is it getting wrong?
"We only profit from the $50 membership fee"

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/our-prices-are-cheaper-than-a...
Really? Why? I mean, Kindles are pretty cheap, but sticky shipping labels are a few bucks for rolls of 500, and very hard to damage in transit.
If I were to hazard a guess. the equity is intended to make working as a researcher similarly attractive to the equity grants available when going to work for a startup. Given the diversity of YC's portfolio it's probably much more likely to create wealth than any single startup. To me, if YC is creating a research group for the long term, then long term financial stability for the researchers is probably the way to go.
Non-Imperative Network Programming
I made a timeline of Mr Keys: http://newslines.org/matthew-keys/
And it's $3-5 a pound off the boats. Cheaper than burgers for your New England summer barbecue.
Well, Shakespeare wrote plays, so it's generally a good idea to see them in the theater, or watch cinema versions, rather than to read them. Once you have a good idea of he action and the character interactions, it's easier to read the language.

I once saw a performance of the "bad quarto" of Hamlet and it was a terrific play, even though the language was all over the place.

Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is a great version of MacBeth even if it's in Japanese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_Blood
1997

http://youtu.be/_hq0Ny1WgFs

I think there's a video somewhere where Steve say F* Michael Dell.
I call BS on DDOS-ing imgur. There was no organization going around to DDOS them or anyone at the time of imgur purging fatpeoplehate content from their front page galleries. Additionally, FPH was still using imgur even until their subreddit was banned as slimgr was still very early in development. 14/25 Top page links were to imgur at the time of the ban.

Also the reddit user "harassment" wasn't in one direction. Plenty of FPH members got hate PM's and 0-reason bans to other subreddits for their participation at fatpeoplehate, regardless of what content they have posted or commented.
>To teams who are using it in production, did you talk about this? What are arguments for using it despite it not being 1.0?

The main argument is that "1.0" is an arbitrary number (semvers or not).

There are hellish unstable and buggy projects on version 4.x and stable, production-proven projects on 0.x.

Not to mention projects that when going from 2.x to 3.x or so, decide to just rewrite everything with new APIs and incompatible changes (of course semver allows this, but as it's also often accompanied by core devs abandoning the 2.x version, you're left with either an EOLed codebase or a breaking-changes rewrite).
it is not a proof until you have convinced at least one other [qualified] person. related rant [1]

[1] http://mathbabe.org/2012/11/14/the-abc-conjecture-has-not-be...
Not unrelated:

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229928
Organic GMOs Could Be the Future of Food – If We Let Them
Yep, a lot of people have noticed that. He's mentioned Rust in a few of his videos (and the compiler devs are always taking notes about his grievances) but he doesn't seem interested in working with the Rust community in any way. He considers Rust too ideologically opinionated to be of use to him.
It's only an obligation to the extent that he wants anyone else to appreciate the work. Don't read it as "he should do X" but as "he should do X if he wants others to read his proof".

Whether he does or not is a different question. I think it's likely that he does, but perhaps he's content knowing that he devised a proof himself.

And, for what it's worth, communicating results and impact are both usually part of a researchers job description. That might not matter so much thanks to tenure, but it's still there in spirit.
There's a simple explanation for this that neatly fits the questions raised in the article: public transit sucks.

It's dirty, it's crowded, it's noisy.

I rode on BART a grand total of four times in my entire life, and don't really have any desire to do it again. Were I a native of the area, you bet I'd be willing to throw money at it to make it suck less. But in the meantime, I wouldn't be riding it because, as mentioned before, it sucks.
What is the best time to register a domain?
When is the best time to register a domain? After you've built the site or before you build the site. AFAIK you should register the domain with search engines right after you buy it so it can crawl your sites and give you extra page views. But if I leave it too late to buy it, I might lose the domain?
Just curious if there will be a JAWS presentation at AWS: reinvent this week and if so will it be recorded?
Depends on where you live. In Europe, tons of people ride. In NY's or Chicago subway too.

If your city has crappy mass transit, and is designed for car driving with office areas and places of interest being several miles apart each, it's no wonder people don't ride mass transit.
I'm not a gamer but I'm about to become one for Astroneer
> I thought the 8.2% IPA to Bud Light analogy was apt

Not to derail the discussion (and you make excellent points), but Bud Light has an underrated quality of its own. Its drinkability quietly belies the delicacy that goes into a well-crafted lager -- as opposed to the contaminated dreck that microbreweries pass off as special release sours.

Part of the reason for Bud Light's enduring appeal is the same reason people go back to Coca-Cola or Heinz ketchup: it achieves a magical, happy balance of taste and mouthfeel that artisanal formulations usually can't.

Correspondingly (bringing the discussion back on-topic), it is likely that a modernization of Shakespeare that achieves any lasting popularity will be infused with subtle skill that goes unnoticed by casual readers, even if dismissed by more serious scholars. (This is a difficulty faced by all translators of great works, and researching which translation to use is often as enjoyable as reading the work itself.) That being said, I'm unsure that the "translation by committee" approach proposed here is going to bear any fruit.
Judging mathematical talent by these sorts of competitions is a bit like judging athletic talent by holding arm wrestling competitions. Probably indicative, but not overwhelming evidence. Anyways, I doubt anyone familiar with both thinks Overdeck is a better mathematician than Tao. But this article is from Forbes, and their audience of businessmen may not mind seeing a businessman portrayed as smarter than the professor.
I wonder how the guy who used ads to got those 100,000 stock options feels. I was one of the folks who got a "lifetime membership" to Jet which I already knew was worthless once I saw the prices on the site, but I also didn't spend money to get my "lifetime membership."
A proof only requires a valid transformation from axioms to conclusion. No person required.
> Even John Stuart Mill, one of the biggest proponents of free speech philosophy, was okay in limiting free speech when allowing it would harm or cause damage to others. SCOTUS has also explicitly stated that first amendment (gov censorship) rights do not apply to threats of violence.

The SCOTUS and John Stuart Mill would limit the prohibition to actual harm and actual damage and actual threats. Being made to feel excluded from a community isn't harm, having your ethical lapses exposed isn't damage (or at least, it is not actionable), and being told your opinions suck is not a threat of violence.

> The reddit execs have said as much through their communications, that they're okay with allowing hateful and biased communities so long as they're not targeting, damaging, or causing harm to individuals.

That is a fair summary of their words. However, a fair summary of their actions is that they will allow those communities to exist until they become embarrassing for Reddit, and then the banhammer comes down.
I don't really follow your logic here. If your servers are physically in the US, a judge will just issue a warrant to seize the servers.
San Francisco is the only place I've ever seen custom glass funnels for sale at headshops.

SF is also the only place I've ever seen flyers advertising a Whipit delivery service (nitrous oxide).

Generally speaking SF seems to be much more loose with drug use than other cities in CA - although I will say, from what I've seen, the use of pharmaceuticals like benzos and adderal seem to be treated as lightly as alcohol these days.
> Ruby is less like Perl 6 regex-wise due to the smart match (among many other things).

In both Perl 5 and Perl 6, smart match (`~~`) with a regex on the right hand side is just an alternate spelling (Perl 5) or correct spelling (Perl 6) for `=~`. It's a tiny, trivial difference.

But a Perl 6 "regex" can be an arbitrary full blown parser or compiler. And it assumes character=grapheme. In these two regards, as in several others, Perl 6 is quite unlike Perl 5 and other langs that adopted Perl 5 regexes and/or that adopted Unicode codepoints (or worse) rather than graphemes as their fundamental "character" unit.
The golden goose thing was obviously an exaggeration. I think he's done a good job. And I'm sure the pressure is intense. I definitely couldn't do it.

But the older I've gotten, the more I've realized that life is about opportunities. If you want them, you have to put yourself in the position to get them (as sama did). More importantly, you have to make the best of them (as sama has). But many, many people who don't deserve opportunities get them (inheritance, for example) and many, many people who do deserve them, don't get them. They did all the right things... they simply were never given a shot by bosses, would-be cofounders, investors, etc. (Cue "Lose Yourself".)

A question I've been pondering a lot recently is the power of talent and whether or not it'll eventually rise to the top. How efficient is our society at finding "the best"? I tend to believe that someone as ridiculously talented as, say, Elton John, will always emerge. But then you hear the story of how someone like Matthew McConaughey was discovered (director of Dazed and Confused found him in a bar at 2am and said come to the set tomorrow -- zero acting experience) and you want to slap yourself.

And if you get into the genetic and familial lotteries (how smart you are, how good looking you are, are you black?, etc), then you'll just go completely crazy when you realize how unfair the world is.

In any case, from his answer, it looks like sama is a talented guy who put himself in the right position to succeed and is now an outlier on the normal curve. Good for him. It's gotta be somebody, might as well be him.
You're so right! I read "burning flags" and my brain swapped in "burning crosses"! You're absolutely right, my bad!