skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just one example, construction grammar (not limited to US west coast). The innateness of "universal grammar" can be argued against on evolutionary grounds (how could one universal grammar evolve and end up in the DNA of all humans?), neuroscientifically (how can you encode a fixed grammar when everyone's brain is different and continually changing?), from comparative linguistics (there are many languages and they can be radically different), etc.

If it's not about innateness but about the claims of "internal grammar" from the press release then it because less clear that there would be many people who would reject such a position. I think this is a misleading on the part of the press release. Whether something was innate or learned, I think most people would agree that knowledge of language is internalized. So then the question remains whether you call it grammar or something else, and whether statistics plays a part should have no bearing on that if you ask me.
This is an excellent point. The distribution of the measurements are the distribution of the sample, not of the population. In my experience very few non-statisticians understand the difference. Statistics is hard.
I know the probability tends to be zero, but is it Telelingua?
I believe their argument is "if you ignore the sources of revenue, it runs at a loss", for what that's worth (which is little).

The search engine runs ads, and is enormously profitable.
For an interesting yet sad comparison, see Rockstar vs Avalanche - GTAx vs Just Cause 2 and 3. While the modding future of JC3 is precarious due to Denuvo DRM (blame Square Enix), JC2 is pretty much the gold standard.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-06-avalanche-gives...

vs

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-10-rockstar-bans-g...
Stumbled upon this post on Reddit. Interesting account. Too bad it didn't get traction here.
Their latest quarterly report summary offers plenty of details:
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/151105/yhoo10-q.html
As opposed to Google, which has a super staid and boring name.
In some e-cigarette flavors. Look at the actual study [1] and you'll see the dangers are mainly limited to some buttery/fruity/nutty flavors. The fact that Diacetyl occurs at much higher concentrations in regular cigarettes goes unmentioned. 'Popcorn lung' disease occurred with workers who were exposed to enough Diacetyl vapor in a day as an e-cig 'smoker' would be in a month. Finally, I'll leave the conclusion of the UK Department of Health [2] : "E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review"

As indicated in the second link, the scaremongering of studies such as this one mislead smokers into thinking that e-cigarettes are about as dangerous as regular ones. The dangers are not equivalent, by a long shot. Every smoker that switches to e-cigs, as I did 3 years ago after a 20 year habit and three failed attempts to quit, is much better off. Haven't smoked a 'real' one since. I know at least 50 people with the same experience (anecdotal, I know, but still...).

[1] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/advpub/2015/12/e...
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...
A bit off topic, but I would like to know why did they choose mediawiki as a platform?

Under my limited experience working with wikipedia and wikidata I've seen it's not the best option to a) store structured data and b) edit the pages (markdown is, imho, much better for that).
Endianness is extremely relevant to file formats. The others certainly seem like irrelevant nonsense; "organic file formats"?
you could put them on mega.co for free up to 50GB, or a 14.00 flash drive or instagram.

I don't think cloud storage or image hosting are unsolved problems.
Mystery attackers bombard servers at the internet's core
I used to stand/walk/chase down empty cabs trying to get home but none would stop

Not sure about Australia, but in many parts of Europe it's uncommon stopping a cab by waving your hand while standing by the street. Some even charge higher fees if used this way. A common way is to order it by phone or app and wait for notification that it has arrived.
> Without their search engine, there is no advertising business.

They do have significant advertising businesses beyond search (AdSense, gmail, etc.).
> Marriage requires time, energy, empathy.

Yes! As do all things. If you're not willing to commit the time, energy, and empathy necessary to get a cooperative task done, don't start it.

> It requires mental, physical, emotional and spiritual support.

No! Co-dependence is the path to ruin. This is very different from empathy and rendering help. Don't be a crutch for anyone else. Ever.

> A successful marriage forces two people to put the success of the marriage above their individual successes.

No no no! This is the path to misery and unhappiness. Your interests should coincide! They should be mutually shared! The success of any partnership is based on common interests, not on the partners selflessly making themselves miserable for the sake of some perceived interest of the other party.

Always pursue your own happiness. A healthy marriage is where you can make the other person happy by doing just that.

> For it to work, individuality itself needs to be abandoned.

Absolutely not! This sort of romantic nonsense plays well on Disney movies, but doesn't work in real life.

You'll just make yourself miserable, then you'll make your partner miserable, then your kids, and then everyone else in your family.

Absolutely take care of yourself FIRST. If you don't take care of yourself and your needs, you can't take of anyone else!

Nobody needs a useless, moping wreck of a person who is always depressed. Take care of yourself, then take care of others.

It works the same way as those emergency instructions you see on a plane. Put your mask on first. If you're not breathing, you can't help anyone else by definition.

> So it's not really surprising that so many talented, ambitious people have had failing marriages.

So many talented, ambitious people have failed marriages because they over-think things. They go on the Internet and read stupid posts. Normal people don't do that!
> /r/circlebroke/ link

r/circlebroke is ego defense dressed up as analysis.

"apathetic-libertarian" is an interpretation for people that identify so strongly with their own political positions, that they can no longer laugh at themselves. A lazy categorization that allows them to dismiss thoughts the show might otherwise spark.

South Park's political criticism is often more about the unreasonable ways people act than their political goals. You can behave like a shithead and take yourself too seriously even in the service of an incredibly laudable goal. But that idea doesn't always play in a "with us or against us" mindset.

South Park has middle fingers up in all directions. That's just skeptical and contrarian, not apathetic. Unless you're already primed to choose apathy over having a think. Or will still choose apathy over something you can't believe in 110%. And the "libertarianism" of the show is largely just an anti-authoritarian "fuck off." But because you can tie it to that name, people with nothing smarter to say can just use guilt by association and tie it to everything crazy that also happens under that name.
Use cases with ML out front are rare. I would argue that "self-driving" is just a feature of an automobile; the expensive part is building and delivering a half-ton hunk of precision-engineered metal. People were buying cars long before they were self-driving; and I doubt that self-driving will add a whole lot to the cost of a vehicle. Even then, the hard part of building a business around autonomous cars is obtaining safety certification and improving public perception of autonomous driving. All the major self-driving algorithms will be largely public domain before that happens.

Likewise with Google; there were search engines long before Google. Hell, Google first appeared as the search technology powering Yahoo! long before they had their own presence. Granted; in this case ML enabled the "killer app" of generating relevant results and allowing ad targeting, but use cases where ML is as critical to the product as Google are rare. More typical are things like Netflix's recommendation engine - the value of the service is in the video library, the recommendation engine is just another avenue for content discovery. It is also being increasingly curated as opposed to automated for promotional reasons.

All of this matters. ML is great, but ML results are often so narrowly scoped that you need to identify your product scope first, then find an ML solution that helps. And even then, at small scale you can often "fake" the impact of ML via manual labor or "doing things that don't scale" (i.e. operating the service via manual labor at a loss with the hopes of adding an AI component to handle that function later in a scalable fashion). If the product doesn't resonate with the market, all the ML in the world won't help it succeed.
How to Secure Containers Is Still Subject to Debate
He forgot the INVERSE:FLASH :)

My first program on the new family Apple ][e was a flashing, infinitely-scrolling insult directed at my older sister.
Haha, oh yes, that too. I'm not doing too bad myself ( the 'gradstudent' lifestyle isn't THAAT bad), but I see what you mean. These things take up emotional energy to be dealt with, and most people consider the cost when using Facebook (that's what I got from the article).
The study does show that some tobacco flavors (which are often described as unflavored) contained diacetyl too, albeit in smaller concentrations.
You can always say no to an invitation.
Wish I could find the article I read this in (googling around has failed me), but I believe around 2010 they also started bringing in execs and business people from Hollywood/MSM and there was a big clash of cultures.
Hackers Threaten Security Researchers: 'We'll Analyze Your Brain with a Bullet'
We (my girlfriend and I) had the same same experience in the UK, on different phones. She has an iPhone, which directed us down a seemingly low-trafficked and very direct-to-destination road. I have a Lumia with Here Maps (Windows 10 version), which directed us on some crazy detour on roads showing heavy traffic. Turns out the road the iPhone recommended was closed for construction. Here Maps was on the money.
I'm the article's author. I don't think the headline HN chose is great but I don't mind if people have different interpretations of what I write. Hopefully all the commenters here are actually reading the original article and judging it on its merits (and flaws), right? right?
I would say "portal" which is to connect content creators with content consumers (and charging for space on the portal). Unfortunately for yahoo, this model lost out to social networks. People seem to prefer seeing content from friends over content curated from yahoo. Or they prefer going to sources directly.
You're misreading what he wrote. It's the ads that bring revenue, and not search. Search is what helps to get people to see relevant ads. Google is not that much in the business of charging people money to provide search services.
Having recently started coaching a FLL Robotics Team on programming, I'd say the modern day version of that is something like LabView. Drag and drop programming. I think anyone with half a logical thought in their head could make something that works with LabView or Mindstorms.
It's not nicotine users specifically at risk here, because unflavored nicotine liquids are available, as well as flavored zero-nicotine liquids. Flavorings seem like an unnecessary risk to me -- the dangers of diacetyl have been known for several years so it doesn't surprise me that other flavorings can also damage lungs. None of them have anywhere close to the level of safety research as the nicotine or the carrier liquids (propylene glycol or glycerol). Even before this research the risk:benefit ratio for flavorings looked very dubious.
Exactly. Yahoo had the largest Hadoop cluster in 2009. They used it for their search engine. They were the driving force and sponsor of Apache projects like Lucene and Hadoop. Then suddenly they outsourced their search engine business to Microsoft Bing. Last time I checked meta search engines like DuckDuckGo rely on Yahoo's BOSS API to access Bing's search engine.
Yes, sure, but there's a slightly deeper meaning to the joke: fascism as an ideology has always been built around the glorification of death. If you want to spot capital-E Evil in real life, look for the people loudly proclaiming their devotion to death.

Maybe they cover it up with "God is great!" sometimes, but then they pop out, "We love death as you love life!"[1]. Sometimes, rarely, they do you the favor of actually printing the Chaos Star of the occult on their book-covers[2] (and I seriously thought that was a pop-culture reference until I found the link proving its truth). Or maybe they're just cheering, "Let him die! Let him die!"[3].

[1] -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfagPS6490

[2] -- http://crookedtimber.org/2015/03/10/who-is-aleksandr-dugin/

[3] -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PepQF7G-It0
I think he's saying search itself runs as a loss-leader to get people into their hugely profitable AdWords product. In other words, they spend money in search in order to make money via ads. But yeah. The two go hand in hand, so I'm not sure I'd say search is a loss-leader.
This. This emacsclient startup time is excellent. The complaint that each launched client shares the same buffers is hardly sufficient to justify the effort of lazy loading to achieve only mediocre performance.
Apple Maps once lead me to a highway ramp on the wrong side.
I'm not clear if you are being sarcastic, but note the GRAS (generally recognized as safe), for ingestion at least...
Yes there is. A lot of Google's advertising business is selling ads on other people's sites, and they use the information from their search engine to target that; they could run the ad business without it (using data from Google Analytics and elsewhere) - after all it ran as an independent business when Doubleclick owned it.

My understanding is that if search and ads were separate businesses and ads paid search for search result ads at market rates then search would not be profitable (similarly for e.g. Gmail). (In reality if search were an independent company then it might be able to be profitable by selling information to ads in addition to direct advertising revenue - OTOH the legal barriers to selling information to a third party might make that impractical, whereas conveniently they're not an issue while Google remains a single company)
I still have a lingering distrust of Apple Maps, thanks to its disastrous launch. It's good to hear that it's getting better, because Google Maps - at least around London - seems to be getting worse. Some road names that used to be correct have been renamed incorrectly (e.g. Upper Richmond Road now shows up as South Circular Road) and others have changed to use a correct but uncommon name (the M25 - probably the busiest motorway in the whole of the UK! - shows up as "London Orbital Motorway", which is a name I don't think anyone has used for it since before Google even existed). I've reported all these of course, but as always there's no way of knowing if the bug report will ever be seen by a human. Maybe it's time to give Apple Maps a second chance.
It mimics attacks on the 2nd Amendment:

"If you outlaw strong encryption, only the criminals will have strong encryption."
I thought I read somewhere that this is a slow bleed, to allow investors more direct access to alibaba, at the expense of the rest of Yahoo!'s businesses?
Lives have not been ruined. In my opinion Newsweek owes Dorian Nakamoto some damages, but that will be decided in the courts. His life is not ruined, though, and nobody else's has been. That's way over-dramatic.
I've never seen this "spouse firewall" concept ... can you provide a link to one of your previous comments?
If I understand it correctly:

>What's the other kind of design that isn't like those eastern european apps?

According to the author, the dominant Californian minimalism (Google Material Design & Apple's flatter IOS7 compared to previous versions). This eastern european style would be based on this, but add definitely non-minimalist gradients and shadows and glows and stuff...

>What's dribbbbblization?

Looks over function: https://blog.intercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/
Yeah. This happens a lot. It's infuriating.

Studios that get too large for their own sake and get completely disconnected from their userbase. They no longer see the players, the fun or even the game - they just see the numbers. Business guys thinking a video game company can be run like a bank.

The devs get blamed for it, too; as if they had anything to do with it. These decisions are made high above them.
> Every single negative comment you've made about this has been targeted specifically at Apple, making literally no mention of Google's App store which has exactly the same "problem".

I've been an Apple user for almost 30 years. I've been involved with the App Store since before it was available to the public. The only smartphones I've ever owned personally have been iPhones.

I simply don't use Google Play. I've done some Android development, but other people always handled the distribution end of things.

I am commenting personally, based on my own personal experience. I have no idea why you think I would or should be fair and balanced in this, analyzing Google Play with the same force I do the App Store. I'm not in a position to comment on Google Play. I used Google search as a comparison because I use that many times a day.

Why is every single negative comment I've made about this targeted specifically at Apple? Because that's the freakin' topic of of the freakin' conversation here, and because it's what I know.

Go get someone with years of experience dealing with Google Play if you want that perspective. Don't hassle me for not providing it for you.
I agree that language specific package managers are terrible. I'm one of those ops people, and the number of package managers needed to deploy any web application is just insane. The biggest problem is that none of them can specify the full dependency graph for anything. For example, the Pg Ruby gem cannot specify that it requires the libpq shared library and headers. You have to either know that before hand, or watch the package installation fail, find the right package in your system package manager, then try again. They are also bad at deduplicating dependencies amongst many projects, but at least they allow installation as an unprivileged user. How many more pm and vm (version manager) tools must we deal with? I wish more people would realize that this is a general problem that requires a general solution.

Traditional system package managers are also terrible. They install everything into the global /usr directory so that you can't have differing sets of depdencies for different software and they require root access because /usr is only writeable by root. Because of these severe limitations and without effort being put in to fix it, I think GNU/Linux distributions have helped push everyone towards using a new package manager per language so that people can get their work done.

The solution to all of these problems is functional package management. They take the good parts of both system and language-specific package managers and add even more features and improvements on top. Functional package managers can handle software written in any language, allow unprivileged package installation, and allow different packages to depend on different versions of the same software without issue. They have additional features such as transactional upgrades and rollbacks, and system-wide deduplication. The entire dependency graph is precisely captured, all the way down to a small set of bootstrap binaries that are the roots of the graph. The GNU Guix [0] and Nix[1] projects implement the functional package management paradigm, and they are both worth taking a serious look at. In addition to standard package management features, they also can do full-system configuration management with their respective distributions GuixSD and NixOS.

[0] http://gnu.org/s/guix

[1] http://nixos.org/
Now I understand your indignation with this and I totally agree with it.

Yet, I believe the "system" is not the only culprit here, it's also you who is complicit - you say the system is good and still it didn't help in this concrete case.

Now I know it's hard to not pay taxes so I wouldn't expect you to. But for starters you could admit that the system works poorly, is intransparent, doesn't adapt and covers only what falls under its own definition of poverty/...

A good indicator of being "complicit" is always when you use the line "they should do something about it".
Or the experimenter interprets any reflex according to his theory.
Thanks for that insight!
Quoting directly from Reddit [1]:

>Oh boy, time to crosspost for information's sake.

>Even diactyl containing e-juice still contains 100x less diacetyl than traditional cigarettes. [Citation: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tox.20153/pdf ] And no smoker to date has ever gotten "Popcorn Lung" (Named because it occurs years after dumping pure uncut diactyl into vats and bins when making cheapo microwave popcorn in the factories.)

>And despite all that- It's still largely the other factors and chemicals and tar and actual combustion that damages your lungs when smoking is involved. Not diacetyl specifically.

>Even 100x the amount of diacetyl as e-juice is apparently not enough to cause the "Popcorn Lung" issue related to the compound specifically. So why would 100x less than the amount that does not cause it suddenly start to cause it? Not that it's 100 percent safe (As mentioned by a replier as well- So I have appended my post some for accuracy and fairness.) Just that it's not the immediate or unavoidable threat it's being presented as.

>And in the span of 7+ years even in the heaviest vape users no one has (yet, mind. For the sake of fairness and caution.) reported any major health issues tied to vaping or the compounds contained in e-juice. If the 75ml a day heavy diactyl juice user doesn't get popcorn lung then I highly doubt popcorn lung is a problem to watch for regarding it.

>Also there are many many e-juices available without diactyl. So even if it was an issue you can actively avoid it. And most manufacturers have discontinued it's use or clearely state if their juices are diacetyl free so the risk factors that are purely tied to diacetyl are avoidable and preventable.

>As far as being paranoid about what's put in it- This is purely my opinion but, I think that is razorblades in your kid's halloween candy or "Shadey people handing out drugs for free/Lacing your kid's flintstones vitamins with PCP" levels of unfounded overconcern.

>Caution is important- But so is research and fact checking.

>Edit: To append this to- I am not defending the use or previous use of the substance, merely dispelling the immediate "Popcorn Lung" panic around it. I personally don't use e-juice containing it for the sake of risk reduction in general as I like to limit as many potential factors as possible in general. And there are hundreds- if not thousands of brands and types which do not contain diacetyl to choose from which I would recommend.

>I am also not claiming vaping is 100 percent safe- Just that this instance is an avoidable factor and has been for a while.

>Personal safety and active research should always be practiced in all facets of life.

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3vxbzo/chemical_fla...

Edit: For the record, that is not my Reddit post. I found it to be very informative, so I thought I'd share it with the HN community. Please respect Reddit's no brigading policy - for both upvoting and downvoting posts.
>Yahoo! I feel silly saying it. I feel silly asking someone if they Yahoo!?

Yeah, nothing like the gravitas and seriousness of Google.