skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered about this. Whether or not the universe has an infinite number of things or not, human beings and thus science will be constrained to measuring and understanding a countable subset of phenomena in the universe. If that is the case, then it seems like the universe of discourse in science is really countable, up to an extent. Parametrizations of the theories may be continuous, like spacetime is continuous, but can the body of "scientifically tested statements" be continuous? You can only put every scientifically tested theory into a one-to-one correspondence with the number of experiments done to test them, which is a countable set.
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It matters in terms of what conclusions you can draw about the American people (the original comment up there was attempting to use widespread support for these candidates as evidence that Americans don't know what's good for them), and in terms of what's required to fix the problem. I agree that as far as the outcome goes it doesn't matter much.
I like this example and might steal it.

But I'd offer you a [bayesian] counter-argument: Say an HIV test is 99% accurate and responds positive on a randomly selected person. What's the chance they actually have HIV? About 5%! [0]. However, if you have prior reasons to believe you may have HIV, the chances are a lot higher than 5% given a positive test.

To tie that back to lawsuits, your participants in the study have their priors set so that they don't expect to engage in frivolous lawsuits towards anyone. However they will likely recognize that they could fall victim to a frivolous lawsuit, and if they're normal, then the only type of lawsuits they could imagine being forced on them is a frivolous suit.

Another way to say that is: probably 90% of the ridiculous lawsuits originate from 1% of the population. Then 99% of your participants will mentally model themselves as a sincere plaintiff (thus they shouldn't have to pay even if they lose), while a 1% frivolous rate is certainly high enough to make plausible the threat of being the defendant, and thus worthy of protection through legal fee reimbursement.

[0]: http://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs199/lectures/34-bayes-rule.html
Good point. Have any companies actually tried this as their open source license compliance strategy?
Stripe Connect and Braintree are set up for marketplace scenarios but you'd need a company. Possible to hack together something with the PayPal API too, simply paying out to an email address.
> I believe YouTube gets in touch with the top 1% or 0.1% or whatever to help them get better.

Actually most end up selling their channel to a production company like RoosterTeeth, Smosh, or Maker, then working as "talent" for a decent salary as long as they keep producing X videos per month. It takes a lot of the risk out of it, and hooks you into a machine designed to keep viral content in the public eye.

Said production companies have editors, sound guys, effects people, etc. who handle the back end of the video workflow. Most (if not all) of these production companies are owned by mega-media (Maker = Disney, Smosh = Defy = Viacom, RoosterTeeth = Fullscreen = AT&T) who have the budget and industry connections to make sure they succeed.

I guarantee you if you look at the top 20 subscribed channels, probably 18 of them are owned by an "old media" company. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Spanish town and street names in California don't come from immigration so much as from the fact that Alta California was part of Mexico before it was part of the US.

Its true that there are lots of Spanish speaking immigrants, and its true that more generous quotas would likely increase that more than anything else, but that's not all that closely connected to California city and street names.
Weird, I didn't see this engagement when Jews were barred from 16 countries.. and still are.
Say what you will about Hijrah, but it sure does the trick.

Go figure. I guess once this has blown over, we can go through Kony2012 and CecilTheLion again.
I am using a mobile app to track the milage of my car and thus pull it up only at the gas station. While a little more specific than general expense tracking, it seems to be similar enough for a comparison. According to the article these apps are a hard sell because they are used so rarely. I can't comment on how the app creator is doing but it's still an app that I would pay for. But maybe the market is too small and the simplicity of the app creates an unsustainable race to the bottom.
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Awesome work on new release of Django CMS! Right now move content from old one to new -> so huge difference. UI for content management works as a charm.
Available in Canada too.
I... totally fell for that. Thanks for making me realise.
You can still use a Composer based project without using Composer, though. You can still just FTP the thing up to your server and include it manually, as long as it doesn't include its own dependencies (and if it does, you would have to manage those manually anyway.)
How about, "The ends don't justify the means?"

What was done under the leadership of MLK and Gandhi had an acute awareness of how the instincts around "othering" could take hold of an activist group. I wish there was much more of that today.
What is your home country? As a digital nomad I am always on the lookout for great quality-of-living : cost-of-living ratios!
Sumnary: my preference is superior because some well-known companies use it. You could search and replace for any major component and have equally little to add to the conversation.
How can they be copyright 2016 when it's not 2016 yet?
I doubt that they do. The older streams if it is so old that meanwhile significantly better encoders have come to the market then probably very few people are watching those old streams.
Companion article to original paper:

Paradox at the heart of mathematics makes physics problem unanswerable: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are connected to unsolvable calculations in quantum physics.

http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathemati...

Toby Cubitt, a "quantum-information theorist" at UCL should win this years relevant username contest ;)
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I have family in the U.K. and the U.S., and my family members in the U.K. have been told "to go back home" when they've been born & raised in that country. Could be a generalisation but one which my family has experienced.

Honestly surprised that you pay lesser taxes than us. Not sure which country you're from. I expected the EU to have similar tax brackets. My tax rant was more to do with the fact that taxes contribute to the very citizens' that complain.

Also taxes in India are a lower amount comparatively because it's base salaries and CoL is much lower to begin with. A SE with Google or Amazon India makes about ~ $24,000.
Ask HN: How to find a buried story/app on HN (human assisted)?
A number of times, I've come across an HN article in my news reader I wish I had bookmarked or written down somewhere and of course am unable to find via the search as I only recall basic elements of the post. I was wondering if there is a forum to ask others something such as "Does anyone remember the post regarding...?"

I'm looking for a web app that was a sort of document editor with a collection of drag and drop widgets on the right side of the page that could be dragged to the left in a sort of WYSIWYG form. I can't recall if it was a platform for blogging, a website editor or a CMS. If I recall correctly, I'm quite sure it was a hosted platform rather than an open-source library/package. Something similar I managed to find was http://getcontenttools.com/ but this isn't what I'm looking for

I've searched all the relevant keywords (blog, cms, editor, wysiwyg, rtf) I could think of with "points>30" (it was on the front page) sorted by date in the last year, but have been completely unable to find it.
If size of catalog trumps video quality, you roll with NTSC if NTSC is the best you can get. Deinterlacing is extremely tricky, and if you can deliver interlaced video to playback devices, you're often better off punting.
Sounds like every company I've ever worked at in in Sweden.
Actually with Paypal, you can use something called MassPay using their API.
There is no such thing as 100% security. Maximum security prisons are an example of this fallacy.
The crown may last forever, but the underlying tooth may not. I've had several crowns replaced over the last few years as the tooth underneath gets slightly exposed and a cavity forms. The only thing that seems durable is implants, and those are pricey.
Might a monthly reminder notification have helped?
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Maybe not so much propaganda as being fairly heavy on advertising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_News#Controversy

Though I would not be surprised to learn that it has the same sort of biased reporting we see in other news media.
Is it really impossible to have some system of axioms where most statements you care about (ie. can make a physical experiment out of) can be decided? If you can't measure something (ie., decide it someway from your theory or leave it as a free parameter), it's not science, string-theory nonwithstanding.
Sort of. Daily news lite, pronouncements from the principal, appeals to school spirit and patriotism, pledge of allegiance, school accomplishments, etc.
Which ones? I know Iran and a number of Arab countries deny entry to persons with an Israeli passport, but that's not really the same thing.
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Didn't Intel's compiler start out from Intel buying Digital's compiler stuff?
>err... Scotch

Wouldn't recommend calling us Scots "Scotch". We're not whisky ;)
Khyber pass stuff is all hand-made in primitive conditions. By now Norinco has probably produced more AK and variant rifle than Russia both for the chinese army and for export to every 2nd and 3rd world country out there.
When I built a similar system (for a large consumer electronics company) we built parallel paths for high-priority content; we'd intelligently split the incoming mezzanine and distribute the 90-120s chunks to a farm of systems, while also completing the multi-pass encodes. When the latter finished, the system would swap them. Because of the business model, we never ran this in full production mode, but it was built and ready to go.
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Is OpenSSL 1.1.0 really released? The comment linked does not say so, only that the feature has landed in vcs.

Edit: https://openssl.org/news/newslog.html says "Alpha 1 of OpenSSL 1.1.0 is now available"
The Most Corrupt Countries According to Torrent Sites
Advertising you're required to watch, woven into a "Daily News for Young People" program. The schools likely constrain how interesting the subject matter can be, so you probably get a lot of "Hey, kids are doing interesting things" mixed in with dry news.

Never saw it, but I can imagine it feeling like propaganda.
Every user received a monthly reminder, and it did help, but having an idle app on your phone for the other 29 days didn't, unfortunately
Why machine learning is causing Google to “rethink everything”
Oh, right, it ran after the school's local news for us, I'm mis-remembering. Fun stuff, though. Texas!
The law is about preventing mass manufacture of undetectable firearms, I don't think that necessarily points to magical thinking about people always following it.
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> NO COUNTRY has ever intervened to "bring justice" to another country.

Except the US when dealing with Manuel Noriega.
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Thanks for the morning chuckle....
I think you're one of the exceptions, figures showed people were mostly opening it once a month, and not contextually as we wanted them to. We're still on mobile, but without an app now! More about it here: https://medium.com/inside-birdly/there-s-no-app-for-that-sla...
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> they don't know better. Don't forget what the base of most Wordpress and Drupal setups is

Considering the audience of HN, I am astounded by the amount of people who complain about a PHP package being on Composer, yet they all use NodeJS, Go, and other things that require more than modern PHP and Composer does.
I've been to every major US city. Compared to European or most Asian cities they are simply not walkable.

Notable semi-exceptions might be Downtown SF, Manhattan, and Vancouver in Canada. But all of them have serious drawbacks when it comes to public transportation and rent prices.
I have the opposite experience.

First of all, like any system, the data for search is as good as the data entered: if the users put in garbage, you'll have trouble finding things. If your users are very good about making proper titles, using appropriate labels, etc, and most importantly, fixing up (other people's) badly-entered issues when they come across them, you won't have this trouble.

In fact, JQL is freaking awesome. It's really like using SQL for finding tickets. For a mildly complex example, here's the JQL I use for viewing active customer-reported bugs:

type = Bug AND ("Related Support Tickets" is not EMPTY OR "Bug Reported by" = Customer) AND (status != closed OR status changed to closed after -30d) ORDER BY updated DESC

JIRA has a very highly-customizable workflow, which controls how tickets of various types flow from one state to another, and includes optional things like permission restrictions, required fields at certain states, etc. This can be pretty powerful and useful, and it can also be horribly crippling.

I wasn't the one that introduced JIRA, but took it over fairly quickly. At this point, I don't think we have any permission restrictions on workflow (that is: if you have access to transition issues on a project, you can do anything). The only actual restriction that springs to mind is the "fixVersion" field (which we use for targeting and then later confirming what release it's in) must not be blank when closing an issue as "fixed". We also early on identified any situations where people had to quickly transition between 2 or 3 workflow states (usually brought up during sprint retrospectives) to do something, and made a way to transition directly.

I suspect most of the pain and hate comes from badly configured or even draconian rules. If you try to make it so only QA or a manager can close a ticket, you're going to cause friction. If you try to enforce fields get filled out even if you're closing as "wontfix", it will cause friction. If you also require 8 workflow transitions to get it from "new" to "closed" -- even for wontfix -- then yeah, people will rightfully hate it.

One of the best and worst things about JIRA is it's very customizable. If your admin wants to make it a pain in the ass to get work done, JIRA will happily allow them to configure it that way.
I'm a big fan of the Helpscout content. It's an almost guaranteed click from me every time they send an email.
Smartphones' power, or lack thereof
They sometimes did. It just wasn't super-common because people expected the single digits to be populated by broadcast channels (in fact, they often moved UHF channels to single digits so they'd all be in a continuous block).

When I was little, the local cable company in Dallas used Channel 1 as a tutorial channel where they looped videos showing how to operate the cable box and its remote. They eventually killed that, though, and just left Channel 1 empty.

In other localities, they have actual programming on Channel 1. For example, NYC had the news channel NY1 on Channel 1 until 2010.
Nope; none of them are. Though I don't fault you for thinking that; a lot of work goes in to making them feel "authentic" to viewers.

#1: PewDiePie is part of Polaris, which is the gaming sub-brand of Maker Studios, which is owned by Disney. He's also the top grossing star on YouTube for the last few years, and you don't stay king without a lot of marketing support.

#2: HolaSoyGerman is owned by Machinima. Machinima is relatively independent from big media (ignoring a $30M investment from Google), but they're still a major player in the YouTube world.

#3: Smosh is a huge enterprise, a YouTube brand in itself with dozens of sub-brands. It's the "juvenile humor" brand of Defy Media, which is owned by Viacom.

#4: This one was basically a PSA done by an actor / comedian / media personality. He likely had professional help making the video though (or is involved in video production work himself - not unusual for lesser known actors). But this one is a flash-in-the-pan viral video unless he can spin it into a production deal (though it wouldn't surprise me if he had already).

#5: Jenna Marbles is also part of the Smosh empire, though her deal looks to give her more independence with branding than most. But still, I guarantee she's not editing and posting videos herself.

All 5 of these videos were created by professional entertainers; 4 of them are the product of some YouTube media empire or another. It doesn't seem that way looking at the videos, but that's the entire point - it takes a lot of work to make something look low-budget yet still have high enough production value to be watchable.

The point remains though; you don't get a top viewed video on YouTube without significant paid advertising to support your channel. And most of the companies doing this advertising support are owned by traditional media companies.
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Former Nest employees create a physical store for IoT
China's also an unlikely ally for intervention here as it too was recently reprimanded for continued use of torture in prison and cracking down on human rights lawyers and activists by the UN Committee Against Torture:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35058284
Middle class is an elusive term. How much would someone living and working in New York City have to make to be considered middle class verse someone living in say Detroit?

Exemptions at the federal level seem to overlook this fact.
That was sarcasm, sorry you couldn't detect it. Some of us love to travel and experience other cultures.

I'm well aware of traditional "Indian resources", one's that are trained over a 3 month period and passed off as "Expert in his field", and coached to give B.S. responses while they scour for another underling with better skills suited for the project.

But there are others who truly understand the product needs, and aren't afraid to engage in a discussion to figure out the best outcome for the product rather than to satisfy the clients.
No reason why composer would be unusable - just composer install locally and upload the results to your host. This isn't an uncommon deploy practice even if you have shell access.
RFC 7539 documents the cipher itself. It's mostly just enshrining the existing specification as an RFC, except for changing the size of the nonce and block count to meet recommended nonce sizes.

There are some additional details required to use the cipher for TLS. In particular the new modes must be assigned entries in the TLS Cipher Suite Registry, which contain the official names and the numeric values used in the wire protocol. The current draft also specifies how to construct the nonce from the record sequence number and a shared secret, to avoid having to send a nonce with each record.
I felt the article makes some interesting points. I'm not sure I can buy the huge reduction in cars that some suggest in a post-driver world but I do agree there is an impact. And the car recessions have shown that manufacturers are extremely vulnerable to slow down in demand.

The interesting question for me is whether or not a "non-car" company can dominate this space. I suppose its possible but I would expect something like the Windows/Intel relationship where a car company makes the cars, and a software company sells the self driving "OS" for it.
Love the content wizard mechanism.

Makes it super easy for the my clients to add blog posts.

It's fairly easy to implement the logic too.
I can't find the app to see exactly how it worked, but did it have any integrations with expense reporting systems? As someone who files expense reports monthly for work, that would be the biggest issue for me - if it doesn't have a hook into QuickBooks or whatever system the company is using, then it's not going to get an enterprise following since users still have to manually enter info, which decreases value a lot.

The other issue is that if, like me, you travel a lot then a large number of your receipts will be in emails or PDFs (I book airfare and hotels online, and take Uber instead of cabs), so taking pictures of paper receipts and tracking driving miles would only get me half-way to completion.
German IT giant pegs Tuusula, Finland as data centre site
Really weird to read this being someone who's using Expensify on a daily basis in exactly the use cases they describe.
I absolutely agree; that's how it should happen. My main contempt is that, in reality, it doesn't. You get "implementation" guys writing user stories, and - in many ways - implementation model thrown into usage model. And, of course, nowhere in this article I found any discussion regarding who should - and which skills are needed to - write user stories.

P.S. As I said above, this is a pet peeve of mine. I'm doing a generalization; of course there are developers which are great at writing user stories and understanding users.

It's just that I believe in being professional and knowledgeable. If user stories matter, you should get someone with the valid skill set to do it. Not only should you get the skill set on your team, you should get the process! User stories without user data are just plain fiction. It's just the movie your team plays in their heads regarding how the software is used.
"Beware of Fibonacci as a benchmark."

It seems to me one of the dangers of its use is that people tend to think that it measures "math speed" or "execution speed" or something. But the fib calculation itself is done with small integer addition, things that will be about one cycle in any compiled language, and which is also what I've called "easy mode" for a JIT before. Since the calculation under test is so tiny compared to the overhead, the benchmark is really measuring the overhead, and due to the simplicity of the test, very vulnerable to special purpose optimizations skewing the results vs. what you might expect for real.

This isn't "useless", because that overhead can matter, but unless you have a program that is going to spend an irreducible and large amount of its time being forced to make static function calls only to do tiny amounts of work per function call relative to the function overhead, the information is only a quite tiny part of understanding the performance characteristics of a language. If one has optimized even a half-decently compiled language's program down to where the function call overhead is your biggest problem, one is to be congratulated on some fine engineering, and I expect that you'll know what to do next if you need more speed as you've already demonstrated significant competence.

You want to have a bit more fun, benchmark the local equivalent of "dynamic" dispatch. That'll spread the languages out quite a bit more. For fun, toss in Python or something too.
It's nice that they showed this for the problem of finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian, but we already knew the axioms of quantum computing encode undecidable problems because it includes all of classical computing.
I have absolutely, 100% seen articles starting with "The man in charge of $THING."

Stop trying to find controversy where none exists.