skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academics isn't really that bad. It's full of many of the smartest people in the world trying to do things which are fundamental but aren't seen by the market as important and can't be funded any other way besides charity. Sometimes it doesn't go that smoothly and there's some bureaucracy like in any organization (people are constantly fighting very hard to cut what little funding there is so academics have to fight over it) but it's really not all doom and gloom like some people make it out to be.

Graduate students tend to love to complain as much as possible about things that aren't that bad (I know I was one) and people leaving something idealistic often have a compelling need to try and put it down in any way they can to justify their decision to give up on the idealistic goals and try to make some money -- which is why you see so many "goodbye academia, you are broken" posts and blog entries. And some people have genuinely bad experiences like at any job -- bad manager, particularly low funding, bad co-workers, you're going to have a bad time.

That being said YC research sounds amazing. Basic research was funded by charity from the superwealthy (or only carried out by the independently wealthy) for most of human history, the model works. Researchers tend not to look into areas or find results which are bad for their backers. It's good to have some public and some private sector; we need to balance out the conflict of interest a bit.
> What is genuinely radical in the commission is not the process but the people involved...more than half of the selected playwrights will be women, and more than half will be writers of color. Shakespeare’s scripts have always resulted from collaborations among playwrights, actors, and editors. For most of the history I have traced, those collaborators were white men.

To what degree is it really true that there isn't a history of women or black men re-interpreting Shakespeare? I would be pretty surprised to learn that was the case. Now, it would certainly be interesting if this work was being approached by folks with a strong background in the artistic and poetic traditions that originate from various colored communities. But that wasn't what the article said and you cannot presume it. It is certainly not the case that any given black lit-nerd can rap.

"""
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
"""
-- WEB DuBois, whom you should all totally read if you like a certain delicious if ornate style of prose.
That's not true. University professors have sabbaticals, and can also go on extended leave for multiple years and return just fine.
Not just European cities, but Europe in general. European population density = 269 people/mi^2, US = 91 people/mi^2.

Another often overlooked fact is that the US rail network is designed for cargo/freight not passengers and is outstanding in that regard.
Depends on your notion of proof. That is one notion.

There's the human version, that the other commentors talk about.

There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system for an interesting formal version that is not `transforming axioms'.
REVOLT.PM - Strategic Multipeer Communications
Are the registrations still open? I would love to participate :)
The point is that they now have no clear path to be a real business. The growth figures you point to are irrelevant when you read the articles about how they are actually doing sales. Anyone can buy stuff and sell it for less than they bought it for and use VC money to make up the difference. People will buy as much as they can from such a sucker until the game runs out.

Their original business plan was crazy ambitious but if they pulled it off (i.e. Got enough subscribers to make a profit) it was theoretically possible. Now there's no clear plan. They have to compete with Amazon, a company that barely makes any money on retail despite having like 40+ million people paying $100 a year to subscribe to the site.

They're spending crazy sums of money blasting into a market where there is no "money left on the table." Business 101 says that's a suicide mission.
Lessons learned from releasing British Accent iPhone and iPad apps
Requiring the user to register to see the price is purely for metrics. Number of new and active users are things investors typically like to see. I use to work for an e-commerce and we did the same thing.
FYI - Loads a blank (white) pages on iOS 9.1 beta 4
>Many of the comments on here are pretty negative.
I'm pretty sure it is partly because most startups are started in some Garage without 250 million in runway. That doesn't mean this won't work. The fact that they are in New York/New Jersey and not in San Francisco might be another reason but that also does not mean this won't work.Just because you can't understand it does not mean it won't work, in fact it probably means it's more likely to work.

Fair enough.. We are just questioning how it is going to make money as the subscription model is suppose to be it's main source of revenue. Although it has surpassed some big names, that can change quickly. History has a way of repeating itself when it comes to start-ups such as this if you know what I mean. $250 million is ALOT of money..
Meh, lots of drama. The author claims that in Europe lobsters are cut in half alive before to kill the animal. Not, this is not the common procedure.
Path Dependence, Infrastructure, and Disruption
At PlexChat[1], we intend on using C++ to write a lot of our infrastructure (where it makes sense, that is). The language has advanced significantly in the last decade and writing idiomatically correct, and safe code, is much easier than it used to be.[2]

Garbage collection is certainly a part of it, but really, it's about programming with a deterministic runtime. Controlling memory budgets and doing things described in this talk is possible in an environment where the programmer has control, but instrumenting a blackbox runtime to identify performance bottlenecks and pain-points can be a huge endeavor. Other languages optimize understandability of the programming semantics (what is this algorithm doing) but do very little to aid in expressing runtime semantics (how will this algorithm execute on the machine).

[1] http://plexchat.com
[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/cpp-today-oreilly/books/Cplusplus_...
I'm not sure how you can see "tits or GTFO" as a fair response when so many on 4chan readily identify themselves as male with no consequence. Furthermore, they also frequently identify themselves as straight based on the pictures they submit or the stories about their latest success or failure with girls. Economic status also frequently comes out, at least partially, when someone discusses the gadgets / games / toys they can or cannot afford.

So some identifiers are apparently OK. But it's beyond the pale to reveal openly as female in your anonymous paradise. "Show me your tits or shut the fuck up!" And you think this is perfectly good and inclusive?
A few years ago, an enterprise network I helped run with about 40k users at several hundred locations cost something like $30-35 per user/month to operate. We had strong incentives to price below what an MSP would charge and beat them on 2 occasions.

About 40-50% of that cost was circuits and transit. The vast majority was tied up in labor and equipment costs. If I making money on the whole stack with the market control that AWS has, I would want at least 60% margins on the business -- it's not like locked in customers have easy options.
> But I'm not, this is a problem throughout the JavaScript community and really the fault lies there

Did you see the complaints when Node went from 0.12 to 4.0?
It's quite likely that C++ code rendered this web page for you. If you're on a Mac, that code was itself likely compiled using C++ code.
Are all of the CNBC hosts that aggressive?
Now, imagine if due to the incompetence or corruption of government and pharmaceutical companies, you were forced to be vaccinated with a meningitis vaccine anyway (or risk punishment), even though you and your doctor protests there will be dangerous side effects. That's a situation that will happen to some if people are forced to vaccinate. They may or may not be right about the side effects, but to them, it will feel exactly like as if you yourself was forced to take the meningitis vaccine even though you feel very sure it will not be in your best interests. It's probably worth forcing that situation on everyone around you for your own family's wellbeing - but I think it's still worth pointing out the suffering this will cause others.
Two thoughts:

1) Maybe this is a conversion problem, as in converting shoppers into customers. In my experience, public transit is difficult to grasp the first few times you use it, and complex even after that. Think of all the steps involved, and the uncertainties. Think of running out the door and using mass transit in a new city (NY if you haven't been there, or DC). Mass transit systems require users to acquire expertise to use. Signage, just as a start, is awful; identifying routes based on their endpoints is meaningless information. It's not hard to imagine how the user's interface with the system could be made much simpler, so no matter where I am I can easily and confidently learn the fastest way to get someplace else, and pay and use the system simply.

2) People deriding public transit as impossibly unpleasant or who say government couldn't possibly execute it should see how well it works in places where it's funded. New Yorkers generally love their mass transit. European cities have much better and more popular systems. It's widely done; the question is why you think the U.S. so much less competent to do it than all these other countries.
Those are both hypothetical that are very far from typical ways that people use apps on their phones.

An app might upload the image to a remote server. A website might parse it locally through JS - maybe disabling your connection, submitting your image, parsing it, then wiping your cached website data would be just as "safe".

The problem is the knee-jerk reaction that "some random website" is dangerous while some random app is not. You have to assume both are equally risky in this situation.
I really don't know why you are being downvoted - but this is pretty spot on. I know one of the science subreddits started to add flair for people who proved they had X degree or background. Which I think it great - you know you are talking to a biochemist working with real science and not just some guy who spent 5 minutes on the wikipedia page.

I know a lot of people want to be anonymous on the internet - and that's fine but it's depressing to see someone pretend to be an authority figure on a subject just to find out the person is a high school student (trolling or not). And it's usually pretty easy to spot.

If this [1] person was actually experienced they would know that the menu setups change depending on how you answered the question when Visual Studio first runs (at least it used to) - and menus/buttons may be missing/moved depending on that answer (I've seen this first hand and it's quite annoying trying to explain to click on something that doesn't exist). But instead he degrades the person asking for help.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/5fmcFUh.png
In this case, the proof should be formal since it is a statement about the natural numbers. (as far as I can tell)
These are likely using different parsers. Namely, the (faster) neural net dependency parser running at corenlp.run -- which gets thrown off by the POS tag error -- versus the constituency parser you linked to.

You're right that the configuration is confusing for new users. But, you have to remember that this is first and foremost research code intended to be flexible enough for the Stanford NLP group's research needs. In terms of particular configuration sources, nearly everything should be configurable from properties passed in as a properties file. Are there exceptions to this rule?
Perhaps the rise of microaggression complaints is exaggerated, but one has to wonder where we're headed as a society when the smallest insignificant things are labeled as (micro)-aggressive[1].

I'm loath to live in a culture where people have to walk on eggshells so as to not offer the semblance of offense. I think it's childish and also hypocritical --as if we can expect no one to think or say anything that would ever offend anyone. They never try to be mean to an ex-lover, they would never think bad of someone who ignored them unwittingly, etc.

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise...
I forget to eat meals regularly, so it's all kinda working out organically it would seem.
I used to feel the same way, but F# is actually a well-respected language, and (if you have the funding to pay for it) having enterprise support is pretty huge for a small company. Microsoft has also recently open-sourced a lot of their stack and made their dev products free.

At the very least, you know that Microsoft products are going to be rock-solid (since they power so many massive companies).
I'm guessing that he means that his work is closely related to arithmetic geometry (which I was once told was one of the hardest fields in pure math), and so someone with no background would have a lot of trouble getting it. Presumably it takes even longer to become an expert in arithmetic geometry (15 years?).

I also happen to believe in 10x programmers, in fact I think I am one. HN places a big emphasis on denying the importance of virtuosity or intelligence in programming, and characterizing it as a craft. It's very hard to argue against since nerds have had excessive modesty (often literally) beaten into them. At least you get the occasional boastful athlete who says "I'm just really talented".
Amazon just went to war with Apple and Google. Do you really think they won't give Netflix the shaft when it suits their strategic interest?
Supporting tax increases to improve transit may indicate people think that transit, as it is, is inadequate because it is underfunded.

Not being willing to ride it as it is may indicate that people think transit is inadequate, for whatever reason.

These two things seem remarkably consistent, rather than the opposite.
How exactly are you so sure about this? And if it's small, that doesn't mean it can't have an impact. Also, perhaps I'm missing something, but it doesn't see like we have any real info about this, if you have more, I'd love to read it.

It takes someone/something with some ability to make something happen. Are they going to change how all academic science is done? Probably not, but could they have an impact and begin a process in which academic science begins to respond/change? Yes, that is probable.
Between YC and Google life science, things are happening...and it's going to take us (I'm assuming you are a scientist) to support this change.
Desktop applications requiring high performance also use C++. Photoshop (and perhaps many parts of the Adobe suite?), and Tableau come to mind.

Your intuition about gc pauses is correct, when you have to push frames every 15-30 miliseconds, you can't afford any kind of unexpected pausing. Game devs also use a huge number of hacks to hit their performance targets, something that using c/c++ makes much easier due to their relative looseness.
> But instead I got a self-congratulatory lecture on embracing our native culture. What good is that at all?

Apparently it's not about actually helping people, let alone poor people or minorities. My guess is that those measures are about signalling one's factional allegiance.

See also http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/politics-isnt-a.html
Two major reasons I can think of:

First, most U.S. public transit, particularly in the west, is inconvenient. Cars have dictated our urban layout and it's almost impossible to build a city that works well for both modes of transport. (e.g. cars mean large parking-lots and, therefore, spread out establishments, which means public-transit stops cannot be located near a walkable area and must drop you off in a concrete desert, with a quarter-mile walk to anything.)

Second, the behavior of riders on U.S. public transit is nearly always uncivilized and frequently atrocious.
No one was supposed to see this site :(. Our official demo server is http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/corenlp/process. We'll change the demo sentence though.
By "excellent" I'm assuming you mean timely and pervasive. I didn't find it very welcoming or clean vs., say, Singapore's public transport. Both are well used...so here, I claim that this is not due to quality as much as it is due to the cost/convenience of using it.

I live in Columbus, OH. It's pretty much one of the most poorly dense, large (800K) cities in the US. COTA, the public bus system, I use frequently because I pay for a bus pass in my tuition. Their buses are generally clean, drivers are friendly, and I feel safe for the most part (people in Columbus are pretty friendly). However, given the poor density the service times are terrible if you're traveling to somewhere other than along the main street. The city is so large for its population that most stops are far and in between. As a result, ridership isn't high at all.

I think convenience...and cost have a lot to do with it.
Everything I looked at was technology or electronics. I don't really buy anything else on Amazon to be honest. You got an amazing deal though holy crap.
Many, if not most desktop applications are written in C++. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean anyone else doesn't.
If you have moderate volume, you can beat S3 pricing with object solutions like DDN or others. It all depends on your data center capacity and power costs.
I'd say the reason to mention NK was because I'm sure if you asked most people in the US and most of Europe, they'd say that NK likely doesn't have the internet. But it does. Just not available to the masses. Availability to the masses is the point of the headline here.
you'd probably be looking for protonmail if your only criteria is jurisdiction. They seem competent enough from the outside - I have no insight into how they operate.

We (FastMail) have a far superior product in just about every other way though, so it comes down to what you consider important, and what tradeoffs you're willing to make.

In my opinion there is a very tiny gap between things for which a security agency is willing to take the PR hit of taking our servers out of the datacentre in New York (and dealing with the fact that the disks are encrypted and there are replicas in Amsterdam of all the data anyway) - and where they're willing to bribe/coerce a staff member or datacentre tech in Switzerland (or just quietly do a backroom deal with the government there). You would have to, as robn said - be doing some pretty shady stuff - stuff that's probably against our terms of service anyway - stuff that's probably going to get a lawful intercept done in any country. Speaking of which, Switzerland does lawful intercept too, and don't think that any service there will magically be immune from legal process. https://www.li.admin.ch/en/themes/procedure

tl;dr - we don't place ourselves above the law. We obey the laws of Australia, which has strong privacy protections still - despite this silly metadata retention business (which is totally knee jerk and poorly written and, our legal advice suggests, not relevant to us anyway). It's mostly so a handful agencies (actually fewer than before, it tightened that up) can get their hands on mobile phone tower records faster and with guaranteed timeframes of retention - local ISP email just got caught in the crossfire.
yeah, few people left using C++ ...
> He considers Rust too ideologically opinionated to be of use to him.

He's not wrong. The rust community approaches everything from the standpoint that we should be forcing devs to code in a particular way because safety. What I like about Blow is that, so far, he's big into giving the dev options along with some (completely optional) syntactic sugar. The focus is on functionality, not ideology.
> How should decisions about a society be made?

By discussing these issues and being open-minded, pragmatic, and rational, and by evaluating them on a cost/benefit basis. We might learn something new; I don't see the intelligence in pursuing close-mindedness.

A comparison between a government-built mass transit system and government murder of citizens is a good example of how ideology undermines the ability to intelligently discuss issues.
Regardless of the US's actual involvement, the repercussions have been fairly damning for the vaccination of polio there.
I accidentally stumbled into this by just being too lazy to eat in the mornings (also a lot of anxiety that, at the time, reduced my general appetite). I've found that the morning stomach rumblings can usually be resolved with a glass of water every hour or so. Since I'm also trying to be active, the extra emphasis on hydration is doubly beneficial.

With regards to this form of diet, I've found it to be successful for keeping me from overeating, and I rarely run into days when I think, "Man, I should've had more to eat." (NB: These days do happen, but they're usually days when I'm unusually physically active, like going for a run and two 1+ hour martial arts classes in the same day. That is, things that most people won't encounter and that an extra serving of protein at lunch probably would've resolved.)
Well..

Originally I got interested because of an essay PG wrote about Bayesnian spam filtering, so I wrote a Bayesian classifier in Java (this was over 10 years ago, when that was pretty cutting edge).

That led to text summarisation - still open source Java stuff, and apparently now considered state-of-the-art[1] (I'm kind of amazed, because that code is 10 years old).

Then I did some AdTech stuff, wrote an open domain natural language question answering thing (like Watson, but not as good - but it was just for fun. bAIb is the way to approach this now if anyone is interested).

Now-days I'm using NLP for future event prediction.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2797081
The idea of using a prize to solve a big problem goes back hundreds of years. The British created a prize to solve the Longitude problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_Act

Charles Lindbergh won his prize money for crossing the Atlantic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis

The Google autonomous car is here because of DARPA prize:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

Netflix has their contest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

And of course, we have the modern X-Prizes:

http://www.xprize.org

Anyway, the point is that we could solve a 1000 problems if we found the money for it. Prizes like these seem to be a very effective way to invest in R&D.
Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, Whose Tech Is Central to Samsung Pay