skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why we haven't seen something similar to what Netflix and Amazon is doing with music. That is, cutting out the middleman and pay some artists to make exclusive music for them.
Here is a paper that really exemplifies Paul Graham's Write Like You Talk article, which is currently on the FP. I wish these articles were written for the public and were at least somewhat easy to digest.
> And if you really don't even have time to skim an article at the very moment you found it why are you browsing anyway?

Sometimes I'm looking for something specific, but come across tangents that look interesting/useful for when I have more time to read.
How sport is learning from snipers
I personally love the Jacobin, but I wish their tone and vocabulary was more populist..? I always feel like I need to find another article that says the same thing written differently to pass it on to the more conservative people in my life.
Cats have successfully domesticated humans.
Right. Just read what Copy-On-Write is. Follows the same basic principle. I might be wrong, but Copy-On-Write is formally referred to the case of a shared resource? Though I think we could consider the trip information to be shared between the phone and the data centre.
Agreed. They named it Internet.org but the service is diametrically opposed to the basic principles that make up the Internet as we know it.

A far more appropriate name would have been AOL.org. But that wouldn't have been as good PR and the NYTimss would not be writing about their good intentions if the name of the service was more descriptive of what it actually did.
Autopiper: automatic pipeline synthesis
Exactly. You can download the driver application from the Uber Website. They are distributing it as an Enterprise application(on iPhone) thereby circumventing the App Store.
How much NBA champs rely on players they drafted (data viz)
BashTheObjects: object oriented library for bash
The new standard consists solely of the words "It was all a terrible mistake. We sincerely apologize and suggest you use [REDACTED] instead. Please pray for our souls."

History never records what used to be in the blacked-out box, or who concealed it, as none of the authors have been seen since, alive or dead.
As anyone who'd read the full paragraph you're quoting knows, that's what they mean by "tolerating" cats. I.e. a non-friendly symbiotic relationship where they eat your mice and you don't kill them.

The question they're posing is why were they eventually fully domesticated, which is not the same thing, nor was necessarily required to get the practical benefits of domestic cats.
One thing I always found interesting is Lecun is credited with developing covnets, but Hinton is apparently credited with scaling them and showing the world how great they are in the paper from 2012 - why was Hinton's group (Toronto) able to publish these ground breaking results before Lecun's group (NYU)
> I am giving an example that is supportive of the view that, while philosophy was instrumental in the development of the scientific method, it is no longer playing that role, and has not for some time. The second question is another example in the same vein.

1st: For example, was science in a state of confusion until Popper corrected the errors of the logical positivists?

Ideas concerning the scientific method are less clear before Popper assuming you buy into Popper, that much is true, that much is true of any advancement in the philosophy of science. What is not true is that before an advancement lay confusion and after the removal of confusion. Progress wends its way slowly, incrementally, with ideas gaining clarity bit by bit. So it has gone and presumably so it will continue until someone presents an argument that the process of the improvement in our understanding of the scientific method is complete. That proof is for you or someone to provide, not I a proof of its counter-claim.

2nd: Did the development of plate tectonics have to wait until Kuhn explained the structure of scientific revolutions?

No. And you know the answer is no. But so what? If Kuhn is right about how scientific thought progresses it could have an impact on how scientific bodies organise themselves and how funding is allocated and so on, which would have an impact on science at a much larger level than individual hypotheses and theories. Which shows that philosophy of science is still relevant.
Mark Zuckerberg gives speech in Chinese about building with a mission
> I hear tell that a couple of guys even used an old language like Lisp to implement a startup.

Just to specify this, reddit for example started out in Lisp and moved to Python, eventually: http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
I don't consider myself a great speaker by any means, but yes, I do find myself pre-editing my sentences when I give a talk. Prewritten talks are no exception. I always need to edit them on the fly to suit the audience and the context.

If natural speech were a modern programming language, prewriting would be analogous to compiling to bytecode. Then you JIT compile it again when you speak. You rarely go directly from source code to machine language, perhaps because there's so much diversity among the "machines" (humans).

Heck, I even "transpile" my talks from time to time. The last time I gave a presentation, my paper was written in English but I had to present it in Korean! Needless to say, that wasted a lot of brain cycles.
For me, this thing about having the top of your head cut from the picture is new. Who would have thought..
Hemingway had a thing or two to say about this.

>I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written.
I don't want to be completely defined by my work, but at the same time didn't want to be overly verbose talking about myself.

Also, the original interview had this section as multiple questions; it was collapsed into a single paragraph during editing.
Neither Fight for the Future nor Boing Boing provide any evidence for this allegation, so I guess the answer is no.
But that's not the point. The only claim made under penalty of perjury is that the party filing the report is authorized to act on behalf of the rightsholder they identified in the report.

The rest (what the material is, who the rightsholder is, that the use is not authorized) is all merely a good faith belief, which is so low a standard as to basically mean "you know, whatever".
Is there any actual proof of this other than her getting a job?

Myriah seems to be quite connected and has worked for various departments including for Obama which makes her a good lobbyists.
https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=773...
That is not what that paragraph says though. Right-wing student protests destablized the countries != right-wing student protests lead to the meltdown of the economy. The dysfunctional currency control system mentioned in the first sentence does stand on its own. The protests came later, in the structure of the text and in reality (as far as I know).
The point is that we don't really care about the number of uniques or page views. What we actually look at internally on a day to day basis is the amount of time people spend reading and other engagement metrics.
This was mostly a hat tip to a scarred past. This is a post about Go's GC tuning philosophy: https://blog.golang.org/go15gc
There is only one pure bookmarking app in this list: Pinboard. Pocket & Instapaper are bookmarking/read later Apps. Wunderlist & Evernote are productivity Apps w/bookmarking functionality tacked on (Evernote less so). Tumblr, Pinterest & Product Hunt are social networks.
It's using the X and Y location of the dots as training data. Each algorithm is being trained on (x,y)->color in an attempt to buildup a rule for predicting what color an unseen (x,y) pair would be. The hypothesis it builds is then used to color the background so that you can see the decision boundary.
A better guide on how to take a selfie:

Don't take a selfie.
So, that's your theory?
The pricing page for Glacier is horrifically misleading. That "learn more" link digs deep into their FAQ to the real costs. Retrieving a small amount of data in a rush can cost hundreds of dollars. Glacier is not a backup product, it's an archival product. There is an enormous difference between the terms "backup" and "archival", and anyone who thinks of using an archival solution for consumer backup needs is not understanding the differences and the related costs in the event of the need to retrieve data. Glacier is meant for corporations with deep pockets for disaster recovery, not for consumers.
One important difference between written and spoken language is that in the former case readers have the luxury of looking words up in a dictionary if they don't know them. When speaking, I'm careful to avoid words I suspect might not be understood by my listeners, but when writing [1] I generally use the most precise word I can think of, even if I expect some readers won't know it. (Indeed, for particularly tricky words I'll often link the dictionary definition myself.)

[1]: Examples include http://railstutorial.org/book, http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto, and http://learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial
As I said above, this was from a bio question that got elided during editing. I didn't want to be completely defined by my work, but at the same time didn't want to be overly verbose talking about myself.

Glad you took something from the post though.
Supposedly this is the Democrats' problem right now: they can get the presidency, but nothing else.
Makes a bit of sense, in combination with the "be female" advice, cutting off the forehead puts the center of the photograph closer to her cleavage, and typically shows off her entire chest.
I see even the NYT incorrectly calls Facebook's offering "Internet". I wonder if it believed the same if Internet.org offered a choice of 50 free-access sites where the NYT wasn't included.
In my experience Middle East requires Arabic support. Without this sales will be limited. Otherwise ME (also African countries) is a good market and often forgotten/avoided by companies.

While I'm not a specialist in ME marketing, what works I've done focusing there I've found it a generally open market (Iran excluded). Advertising tends to be fairly cheap though in my experience lower conversion rates offset much of the advertising cheapness.

And yes Japan is a minefield of cultural issues and often an unwillingness to do business without local representation. Korea also but not to the same extent as Japan. Also Vietnam can be a problem if your business gets attention. You may find it banned until payments to the right people are paid.
It is well-known that the FBI director's position is that laws should require the use of back-doored encryption. His position is both ominous and one that has been refuted by a preponderance of experts as dangerous and impractical.
A quite common way of saying in Italy is: "Parla come magni", which literally means "Speak the way you eat" [1], and it is used in conversations to mean exactly what Paul says, to "keep it simple".

[1]: http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/parla-come-mangi.1975...
As a staring step force them to rename the service to facebook.org
The gig economy
I think it's less about the head getting chopped than about having "the head take up about 1/3 of the image," as Karpathy says. So what the net is learning is composition, or balance in an image, which is really cool. The rule of thirds is actually pretty well know to people in photography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

(Our deep-learning framework http://deeplearning4j.org missed his list, but it's got working convnets, too.)
Doesn't Linux use CLOCK PRO these days?
Geoff Hinton answers this question in episode 6 of the Talking Machines podcast. http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2015/3/13/how-machine...

Geoff Hinton had grad students who wanted to work on the problem, but Yann LeCun didn't.

"In about 2012, it should have been Yann's group, but Yann was unlucky, he didn't have a student who really wanted to do it. But we had a couple of students who wanted to do it and we took all of Yann's techniques and added some of our own."
Besides, the author probably talks like that in real life, too, so he's already doing what PG says he should do. When you study ancient stuff a lot, it becomes part of your personality. You acquire a lot of choice quotes that over time become part of your everyday vocabulary.

I love it when historians mix archaic language into their everyday speech for dramatic effect! It's vastly different from when ordinary people clumsily try their hand at archaism. Coming from someone who actually knows what they're saying, it feels so much more authentic and appropriate.
To add, domestication may've been counter-productive, diminishing the utility of cats as "mousers." [1]

[1] http://cattime.com/cat-facts/lifestyle/1916-10-facts-about-c... (admittedly not a great source)
A snarky LOL on a picture of Zuckerberg is good enough for me.
You might get some more full-stack web understanding out of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxQOzKi3_0

It explains some of the steps between "web app and database" and a crazy interconnected diagram of various acronyms.
MIT Prof. Scott Aaronson's Reading List for Seminar on Computation and Physics [pdf]
IIRC the deep learning revolution started with pretraining and RBMs, which I believe Hinton invented.
Even if there isn't any proof yet,it does seem like immunity from prosecution would be in FB's short term interest.
The YouTube notification contains:

Due to a copyright claim, you are no longer monetizing the following
YouTube video. It is still playable on YouTube, but the copyright
owner could choose to show ads on it.

The key phrase is "but the copyright owner could choose to show ads on it".

Google is automatically transferring the benefits of copyright to anyone who files a claim?

That seems ripe for abuse.

Theoretically, you could claim copyright of a video, show your ads on it, and profit until the dispute is settled (if it ever is). A popular video could have hundreds of thousands of views before a dispute is settled and a company the size of Sony could probably claim some form of copyright infringement on thousands of videos.

And there's no downside (other than the effort/costs of filing the complaints), a small content provider won't pursue the perjury clause in the DMCA, it'd be too hard to prove (if they know about it at all). They'll just be happy it's over and go on with their lives.

</tinfoilhat>
I like to dictate my writing for a first draft. It helps with the whole write like you speak issue, but it also helps you speak more clearly. You get better at conveying your ideas.
To be fair, we know about the progress on NTPsec by ESR's posts, but there isn't a public repository.
Passive voice is one of those things that really irks people for some reason, mostly because their grammar school teacher taught them so. It has a lot of legitimate uses, but the knee-jerk reaction it invokes in people is bizarre.

For instance, there are many cases where one would want to de-emphasize the subject, or cases where the tone should be "passive" in the sense opposite from "aggressive". If you are arguing with someone because you think they are wrong but don't want to put blame, you may want to say "It was wrong to do that" instead of "You were wrong to do that".

Another use of passive voice is for a certain dark style and more mysterious tone. A good example of this is "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times..."
Do you (A) oppose standardised testing in general, or (B) just object to (i) the way the test results are used as incentives/whatever, and (ii) think they test too narrow a set of subjects, or (C) something else?

You raise an objection to raises and funding being tied to test outcomes. Why would this be bad? Sure, if the tests are testing the wrong things, then we should fix the tests. But, it's not impossible to measure educational outcomes. Why should teachers continued employment, and pay, not reflect how well they are measured to be doing, at the thing they are paid to do?
Sorry it came across as "sour grapes", the spec for the post is describe the components of your stack, why you use them, and challenges you've faced.

In terms of "display an article" I'd encourage you to think about what that entails for a platform like ours, it's actually a pretty interesting problem space: near-WYSIWYG editing across 3 platforms, post model vs. HTML (hint we don't store HTML), operational transforms, version history, typographic treatments, copy/paste normalization, ingestion API, etc. It's not rocket science, but it's deeper than you might think at first blush.
I realize they called this out in the article as "snark", but it really is just a blog engine, and its monthly web traffic is a small fraction of what wordpress.com gets (which is being served on one of the most craptacular platforms that exists).

They in fact could have solved this problem with Rails or even a more full-fledged CMS like BrowserCMS.
Yep, they are cute and adorable and a good friend to have. That's all that's necessary to explain.
In Cory's case the lack of evidence is a little surprising, but not for FFTF. I had no idea that FFTF was take seriously enough to get to the front page of boingboing or HN.
The author has posted a draft of that for free:
http://www.iecc.com/linker/

It's mostly missing the finished illustrations.
The answer is: Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. http://thepetbooklady.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8347a49a469e2017c3...
He runs a weather website.
Stanford engineers team up with U.S. Army to set computational record
That's close, but I think it is only half the equation. The other half would be granting exclusivity to that process for the core, not just affinity.
I think it's reasonable to be modeling the official recommendations as "the scientific and medical consensus," but if you looked a little into how the official guidelines are actually created--who creates them, and how the information is selected--you'd drastically downgrade your trust of them.

I did this, and found that the official guidelines have almost nothing to do with any science at all, never mind any scientific consensus.
That's what bullies always say "grow a thicker skin". How about trying to be kind to others, or is that just not interesting?
> Many dog, horse, and cattle breeds are more than five hundred years old, but the first documented cat fanciers’ show didn’t take place until 1871, at the Crystal Palace, in London, and the most modern cat breeds emerged only within the past fifty years.

Chartreux (at least) have been around as a breed a lot longer than that.
Spotify is not profitable even with paid subscribers?
I agree with your analysis of the first sentence, but the second still sounds awful and stilted to me! I'd rewrite as:

> >The Upper Paleolithic cave art of Europe was a tradition that lasted for perhaps 20,000 years and it will always be rightly described as primitive. But it is upon those anonymous artists' shoulders — giants' shoulders — that later masters were able to stand. Picasso himself declared: 'After Altamira, all is decadence.'

What's the point of "mercurial" or "Spaniard" being included? Irrelevant detail that, frankly, trips my tongue up when reading (and when my tongue trips, I stumble slightly even while silently reading).
(Full disclosure: I work at Tableau)

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I was thinking of the founder of this message board, but reddit works too.
What Is Micro-SaaS and Why Should You Care
Oh! In that case I have probably misjudged Rustfmt. My apologies. I was also overdramatizing with the "makes me sad" bit. :-)

I'm not an active Rust user, so probably won't be involved in the RFC process, but I'm glad to hear about it.

OTOH, even for a language I do actively use, I'm a bit reluctant to get involved in a formatting standards process. So many people seem to approach code formatting from a point of view of "This is how we've always done it, this is consistent with other previous standards, so this is how it should be." And then whoever gets the most agreement wins.

I don't often see discussions based on whether there may be actual engineering advantages to one formatting style vs. another. For example, I put spaces inside the parentheses in my function calls and expressions. Many see that as an arbitrary stylistic choice - and object vehemently to it! - but it actually ties in very closely to the column alignment vs. indentation choice in the examples above.

I talked about that in some detail in one of the comments I linked above, so won't belabor it further here. :-)

Maybe that's my beef with coding standards: they tend to take each style decision as an independent, fairly arbitrary choice, instead of listing the goals we're looking for and seeing how different style choices may work together to achieve them.
The Developer and the Product Manager
If you're buying your wife a phone I'd assume she is not overly technical. If that's a fair assumption + you've got reasonable income and are time poor I'd suggest an iPhone as it tends to be the more user friendly product (at a price). That said Android is deliver an ever increasing similarly good experience.

For someone that likes to tinker, or has a lower income I'd suggest Android. Android is more flexible to customisation + the phones are at a significantly lower price point either saving you money overall or allowing for more frequent phone updates.

I currently run an Android as my personal phone then tend to run a second ever changing OS on my work phone out of general tech interest. Currently I'm on Windows as the second phone but am getting Sailfish and Ubuntu curious so I feel an upgrade coming. I wouldn't recommend the Windows phone from an experience POV (though prices can be great). It's maybe 80% as good as iPhone and still needs polishing. Windows 10 might change this as the phone will become your PC on docking which I believe will be an increasingly popular category for phones.
Personally I think that making even a fraction of services accessible to a small fraction of users which have never used Internet before is a good cause. The simple act of getting them online, even if providing them limited services, can be a gateway to the "Internet" as a whole.

Facebook is a company which exists in the end to increase the value for its shareholders so I think it is expected they obviously will try to further their cause i.e. getting everyone on the Facebook platform. Maybe they overplayed the altruistic card and should have been more forthright about their intentions.

"We", people who take for granted the connectivity that Internet offers, in my humble opinion maybe overly skeptic of Facebook's intentions. But to someone who has not accessed internet ever, even a fraction of it can be very empowering.