skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German Wikipedia looses a lot of valuable content, on some days more than new content is added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Deletions

The notability guidelines are very off in the German Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Characteristi...

English Wikipedia is really good. Though sometimes even there I wished some articles were on Wikipedia rather than some obscure Wikia-subwiki with tons of advertisement. It's not like HDD space costs much money these days. And all these article have sources anyway. Wikipedia had this nice "triva" sections that I love on IMDB.com up to 2006 (or so), sad some decided to delete them as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Triv...

This guideline does not suggest removing trivia sections,
or moving them to the talk page. If information is
otherwise suitable, it is better that it be poorly
presented than not presented at all.
Thank you. ;-)
Isn't arguing for adoption as a measure of value rather putting the cart before the horse?

People use things when they have utility. They have utility when developers make something cool that uses them. Developers do this if there's a chance of mainstream adoption...
My 'Under the Tuscan Sun' Tinder Disaster
That's true for click campaigns but what about view campaigns?

Couldn't Samsung, now releasing their new phone, buy a website's entire ad space for a month or two, let's say techcrunch, and tell them to serve their new phone's ad themselves?
Samsung is in for the eyeballs just like when they buy those huge outdoor ads, but even better, no intermediaries.

The publisher would even optimize the HTML5 ads for loading and rendering speed, and have a selection of them so they could rotate them. I believe it could work well for physical items.
Creating a developer
Why epidemiologists should learn to code
It's a simplified toy, all new objects go into gen0 and then get assigned a reference to any node. So a gen1 node can have references to gen0, but the paths aren't traversed in this example. In the linked msdn they talk about dirty mem blocks to solve the cross boundary references.
Network effect and a few really big names in it?
What I've Learned So Far Living in a Mars Simulation
Coming up next:

- If your job involves sitting at a desk, and your inputs and outputs come in via phone or display, expect to be automated.

- Automatic driving.

- AIs which sell. These will be annoying but effective.

- Big Brother will be much more effective.

- Within ten years, an AI running some investment will fire a CEO.

Probably not important:

- Virtual reality. Other than for games, it won't be big.

- Internet of Things for the home. Home remote control is a niche product. It's been available since the 1980s and never got much traction.

Not yet:

- Robots for routine unstructured tasks. Still a hard problem, from both a hardware, software, and cost perspective.

- Nanotechnology (excluding surface chemistry stuff)
Why would you need to know that the car you are getting into has insurance? What difference could it make to you? Isn't that entirely their problem?

Perhaps I'm missing something as a non-US citizen.
This looks very useful for what we need to do next at work. However, lately I've been avoiding all "layer on top of D3" libraries, in favor of understanding how to do the thing myself in D3, and just doing it that way. Sure, it's sometimes a significantly longer of a solution (300 lines vs 20), but the ability to completely change/improve any aspect of it without needing to switch libraries or dig into the library's source code or learn a new plugin system, this makes it worth the extra lines of code.
And it is easy to use for people that want to get work done. i.e. clear syntax, and a goal of one-way to do things.
Is this counting Amazon's various computer services? Those are profitable but not labor-intensive.
Agreed. Plus Python being taught at more universities now probably helping.
You say statistically but you don't have any references to support that statement. My anecdotal experience says otherwise.
I know how you feel. It was the first movie I ever took a girl to see.
Yup, that's true, but computers also used to be people who did computing.
The Kingdom of Jordan also doesn't cover the entirety of the river Jordan.
In Android 6 (the version of Android that is installed on the device this thread is about) SD cards with high enough speeds can be adopted onto the system storage and the combined size appears as a single block of internal storage to apps, they don't know they're running off an SD Card.
I dunno. But i recall reading about a Chinese phone that had two batteries. One was built in, another was sitting on top and was removable.

they both charged via a single USB port.

Yes, this made it bulky compared to most things on the market right now.

And frankly i would love to see less anorexic phones. Heck, my next one may well be the recently unveiled Cat model that has integrated FLIR. This time round it seems they didn't skimp on the internals while still retaining the rugged construction.
In England I know my taxi has insurance because it's part of the regulation.

In England I have no way of knowing whether my Uber has valid insurance for carrying passengers.
HTC unveiled One X9 along with Desire 825, 630&530,featuring Micro splash design
> it is impossible to eradicate subjectivity from that.

One of the strangest criticisms I see about WP is that it's subjective about things like politics or biographies. These are subjective topics, and as such it's impossible to be wholly objective about them, even from the most well-intentioned, educated, neutral point of view. It's a strange criticism, because usually the critic will have no problems in ignoring the subjectivity of their suggested alternative, or sometimes conveniently neglect to provide an alternative at all.
> See, your whole argument boils down to 'why aren't you more like me? Isn't being like me better than being like you?'

If you want to make that point, please support it with an explanation to why and how I have led you to believe that? because I genuinely don't follow your logic.

>Ok let's be very clear about this - I stomp on a cockroach because I feel like it.

And you call that respect?

That isn't what I call a basic respect for living things. Finding a rabbits neck breaking "icky", also isn't a basic respect. If you could provide a reason for killing, like a health one, I might start to understand.

Let me try another tack thats a bit more 'on topic'.
What behavior would a cockroach have to exhibit before you treat it like a human?

(Edited: formatting.. again)
"Where Saudi Arabia is funding extremism largely by accident..."

It's pretty hard to believe that the Kingdom hasn't figured out this is happening and are completely helpless to stop it. They either can't or won't, but they certainly know who is doing it and the extent it is occurring.
I think what you guys are doing is very interesting and I think in some ways you are on the right track, however:

> You can observe "branching" and some kind of "folds" in the second example on the website.

That is a static branch hardcoded from the GUI. That isn't branching because nothing is switching the boolean, which comes back to question of how you would switch the boolean in this structure.

> a lot of movie studios around the world are testing it right now because it gives much greater power than Nuke's graphical representation

This is a bold claim that I'm very skeptical of and my initial reaction is that this seems like a bit of a bluff. What studios are using it and what exactly are the benefits over Nuke that you're talking about?

> Luna is the first language that allows switching between code and graphs on demand.

This is far from true of course. Compositing program's file formats are essentially data flow scripting languages and Houdini's shading language allows you to look at the shader text while modifying it through a node graph.

It really does seem cool but your claims are pretty bold. If you can show off a general purpose program written like this, something that would typically be done imperatively, then that would be much more of step forward from what has been done before.
I find this is true across all humankind, and I find myself doing it a lot. Pretty easy to do.
One of my old co-workers said it best: "Dear @SpaceX and @NASA security teams: please don't sign your firmware, in case a space gardener ever needs to bust out a hex editor."

[0] https://twitter.com/nathanmccauley/status/650450050724708356
This is similar to rock climbing and skiing. The commonality that I see is that they all require taking what comes at you, a random natural environment, and handling it as well as you can. They require an outward focus and quick adaptability to varying conditions, which is not so much the case for other sports like road cycling, running, and anything on an artificial surface.
By "Saudi government" if that person means wealthy princes related to the current ruling dynasty, then the answer of course is yes.
In college, I had the chance to take a trip with students in the history department to WW1 battle sites, but unfortunately could not go due to it overlapping with an internship in my major. Seemed like the more responsible choice at the time. But in retrospect, I should have taken the trip.
Some of the points raised are good, but there are arguments to be made the other way as well.

For example, the article is very concerned that the current tipping system is unfair to the poor. But since tipping is optional, it lets people adjust it to their income. In other words, if tips are a fixed 18% mandatory thing - as the article suggests - then it prevents poor people from tipping less (and rich people from tipping more). In other words, it creates a new unavoidable cost for poor people.

And some of the arguments are not compelling. For example, it seems that mentioning slavery is used primarily to elicit an emotional response. While perhaps slavery factored into things in the past, tipping seems similar in other countries that do not have a history of slavery. Compare the US and the UK, for example.
Omission of information while still providing facts can lead the reader to incorrect outcomes also. Take this example.

Bob hit John in the face.

Based on that information alone it seems like an unprovoked attack in which Bob is an aggressive attacker. Yet the statement is still factual.

Bob hit John in the face because he was choking Mary to death.

In this statement we see Bob as the defender and not the aggressor. With more information we could see why the situation unfolded in the first place, but many times it won't be available and things get left to interpretation.

To agree with what you are saying above, large parts of human life are subjective, not because reality is subjective, but because information loss leaves us to interpret events via our biases.
I'd think it depends strongly on the use-cases and also how the visual language is implemented. Some "visual programming" approaches I've seen simply take a traditional imperative program and turn it into a flowchart - or just show you a simplified AST with some pretty colors.

This is not very useful and often gives you the worst of both worlds - you gain no useful information about the underlying structure but lose many tools to edit the program efficiently.
(Though in highly constrained environments - e.g. high level game scripting - even that can be useful)

On the other hand, there are often cases where some relevant aspect of your program has a structure that could be visualized easily - but not as easily expressed in text. In those cases, I think working with the visualisation can be a lot faster and less error-prone than working with text.

The trivial example is of course GUIs or other things which are visualized in the end anyway. But it is also true for data flow graphs (think Storm or TensorFlow) or networks of things that communicate (Components in an IOT container, services, machines on a LAN, etc).

of course visual programming doesn't magically un-fuck your bad design. If you have a big ball of mud and have a look at the component graph, you'll likely see a tangle of lines that doesn't give you insight. But I think that would be more a sign that you should overthink your architecture, not that visualisations are useless.
The problem is - every minute of every day, they'll show their wares, while I'm interested only seldom to buy things. Most people buy their toothpaste, brushes and toilet disinfectant at the supermarket, when they do their weekly shopping - why would I have to be bombarded with it constantly?

It's like in those movies when they tie you down to a chair, forcibly open your eyes, and blast you with tormenting images.

I never even once bought something I saw advertised online (in sidebars, for example), because I mostly think they are scams - my parents are more gullible though, and I feel bad for them, so I block their ads to protect them.

Video reviews from some people I trust are other story.
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I investigated making this recently, however the (free) Google Street View API currently only returns 640x640 images, not the entire equirectangular image [1] that would be needed to create a photosphere for a VR app. So one can make a cool application like OP's here, but creating a panoramic experience would require multiple API calls and your own fancy stitching algorithm.

[1] http://wiki.panotools.org/Equirectangular_Projection
Indeed, much of the criticism seems to be centered around the general theme of, "Charging machine guns over open ground didn't work the last 300 times we tried it, but maybe today will be the day."
This is a horrible article.

It seems to be emphasizing an external locus of control. Which is unuseful. Sometimes things won't turn out the way you want. But you still have to put the effort and time in.

The way she's writing she seems to dismiss effort and time as useless.
In this case they have raised the ire of the EFF. The playing field just got levelled.
> A business dependent on advertising doesn't need to consider which of their users are most dollar valuable ...

A business dependent on advertising, is a business about to fail.
100% agree. It's incomplete & disorganized, a very sad state of affairs. They need to assign someone to go through and fix it.
It's the libraries like NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, SymPy, and so on that make the difference. There's been a ton of work put into developing those Python frameworks for "data science" which don't exist to such an extent in languages like Lua.
>Irony that you wouldn't use simpler English terms in this criticism :)

Haha, you got me there.

I think you'd enjoy Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language". https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
It uses Char-RNN, see here: https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

It's far better than markov chains. Especially as markov chains have no memory. They just do a random walk through word space rather than form anything coherent.
If I want general knowledge, I prefer Wikipedia. If I need to delve into a specific topic, I'd rather read a book or three (by people like those, and others).

Having a collection of great articles on a dozen random topics is not really helpful, since the probability that I'll want to learn about those specific topics is low.

This is the Internet age. I'm not interested in having a poor man's library taking space on my shelf, when I can access the world's.
In my pre-web days, I found that generally you never found what you were looking for.

First, someone would tell you "to look it up". So, travel to library, hit card catalog, find a few titles.

Go to shelves. Somehow, 50% of the books from the card catalog wouldn't be on the shelves, but there also tended to be other books here that you hadn't found in the card catalog.

Read books. While some topics were interesting, often you dealt with authors that did a terrible job of compensating for their biases, or did poor science. I have the same reaction to most news stories (which is why I hang out here :) ) It'd be like watching a 30 min youtube video while trying to find a single fact.

End result: Still don't know your answer, learned some trivia, and have more disdain for the state of knowledge.

I've found the accessibility of knowledge to be much improved these days, and have a better opinion of our collective knowledge as a result. I also still read a lot and gain a lot of trivia, but I'm generally reading material I'm more interested in. So I don't feel the internet-age has really hurt those areas.
Those are excellent points. Old small flip phones sometimes had a small place for a strap loop so you can fish it out of a bag by the strap, and of course also to hold on to it. Phone straps are popular in Japan, and I've seen some that connect to the headphone jack, but it doesn't really work well, so the sturdier ones connect to a bumper.

A bumper-design (maybe a groove to hold a bumper) is a good idea too. One can argue that making phones easier to damage encourages people to replace it with new ones so manufacturers have hidden incentive to avoid such safety features, but ultimately if someone comes up with a better design like you state, people will flock to it.
Barcelona mengalahkan Las Palmas
Lua has Torch.
Sometimes I do go for the content. Oftentimes this is only to be unable to access it because all the ads bring my browser to its knees, or even crash it.

Yeah, I suppose the makers of these ads would suggest the solution to this problem is that I spend a few hundred to a thousand bucks on some shiny new electronics. Funny how they manage to be both the cause of and the solution to the problem.

Instead I use an adblocker. And I try to be choosy about which ads I block, so that it's only the really obnoxious ones that kill my battery life or are a thinly veiled vehicle for digging through my kitchen wastebin for fingernail clippings to collect. I feel no sense of guilt about this.

If they don't want me accessing their site over this, and curating their ads to be less corrosive is not an option for whatever reason, then perhaps they can set up a special clickthrough agreement asking me to consent to abusive treatment before I view the content. Perhaps that will make it easier for us to negotiate a mutually satisfactory arrangement.
What’s Really Going on with Student Loan Debt Collection in Texas?
In the US Uber provides insurance for all their drivers. Outside the US the drivers have to buy their own insurance.

In, for example, England the insurance is part of the regulatory burden. I know that a taxi in England has valid insurance. I don't know if an English Uber car has valid insurance.

Uber avoids the regulation, and under-insured cars is one risk of that.

> What difference could it make to you?

The car crashes and you lose a hand. This puts you out of work for a few months; makes it much harder for you to get new jobs; reduces your productivity. You'll need some modifications to your home. You'll need money. A properly insured car makes it easier to get that money.
Are there specific data science libraries or are we talking about the large number of libraries in general?
Avoiding the Gentrification Trap
Does Uber check those insurance documents?
My Windows Phone is only 3000mAh and has a decent battery life (2-3 days for my usage). Admittedly, USB-C charging makes me worry about it less (completely dead phone to 50% charge takes 45ish minutes).
I remain unconvinced that a bleary single-eyed glimpse of this display while on one's side in the dark wee-hours would inform me of the current time better than " 3:14"
Doesn't that require everyone to keep a full copy of the firehose, including all the spam?
I've been working on a project to do that, basically I download all the streetview tiles along a route and stitch them back together. Then I turn that into a 360 video and let YouTube handle the rest.

See here a video speeding through South Africa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWDF8-gRGk

or rural New Zealand : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9s6Ahxfjmc

Fun to use with google cardboard. I'm still not sure what the best speed is, I think I may have them going too fast still.
Remember when law enforcement thought smart phone encryption was a good thing?
I feel as though you missed the point of the article by advocating for people to make meaning and purpose in their lives by doing something that scares them. I think this type of thinking gives way to the mentality that leads to the problems described in the article.

It is not about working hard to make meaning or to 'fix' things that are broken or that you are not happy about but rather to 'let go'. To let go to the fact that you cannot control everything and that you cannot always have it your way. Yes do your best and do what you need to do in life but you must acknowledge at some point that things are generally out of your hands. Once a person realises this, then the pressure of not succeeding or reaching their goals, is lifted and a more realistic perspective on life starts to form. One rooted in reason, realism and the fact that we are all human and that sometimes even if we can do better, it may just not be the time, that other things are in play that keep us from reaching these goals and that it is entirely not the case that the person is not trying hard enough.
How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC
Is LG selling a battery charging dock?
After having had to deal with designer page after designer page that tries to emulate a physical document using JS, this was a breath of fresh air.
You think things are bad now? Wait until Russia falls apart and nuclear weapons start getting auctioned off to terrorist groups around the world. Things are awesome compared to a world where the Russian state has failed.
Search the emails via search engine, e.g., Google: https://www.google.ie/search?q=site:foia.state.gov+/searchap...
From personal experience, having programmed in a small number of languages C/C++, Java, COBOL, Pascal, Python, Ruby, various shells, Assembly (Intel) etc, there are a few things that keep attracting me back to Python:

a) Somehow the fact that indentation is meaningful forces my code to be neat automatically without having to run any beautifier through it. I consider myself a bit OCD on how the code looks (can't explain it) and I like how Python code finally looks. I like code to be maintainable and self-explanatory without leaving puzzles for my successors to solve.

b) Batteries included. Granted there are libraries for most things in other languages, but nothing with the ease of access as Python.

c) Portability without having to know the compiler intricacies of each Port/Platform/OS

d) Being able to deliver solutions on time and within budget without putzing around with irrelevant stuff that the customer never cares about.

Not being a Data Scientist, I don't know if any of this is relevant. But being educated in CS and responsible for delivering on promises I care about some of this a lot.
Ok thanks for pointing that out, I stand corrected. Regardless I think Python has reached a sort of critical mass of data science packages.
NumPy and SciPy are the ones that I know of (and I don't even write Python, so there is surely more).
Apparently LG and Samsung have both decided to disable Marshmallows unified storage feature. Baffling.

http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-g5-keeps-sd-card-shuns-adop...

http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s7-regains-microsd-card...