skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree client quality is not perfect, however XMPP can do a lot of things with the proper extensions. Daniel Gultsch (dev of the Android 'Conversations' client [0]) held an interesting talk [1] in 2015 on modernizing XMPP. He explains a the issues XMPP has/had and how they fixed them. He also covers problems that still exist (or existed at the time) and possible solutions. Highly recommend watching it.

0: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations

1: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2015-1548-xmpp_2015_-_challeng...
>I don't think there are specific guidelines as to when you start calling something a candidate

True, that's why I said "at our company". It differs everywhere, as you mention. My only point was that we screen thousands of compounds, and it's only after a compound has shown desirable activity, safety, ADME, PKPD, etc, that it becomes a real "candidate". Not everyone realizes this, and thinks you can synthesize a compound and the next step is to file an IND.

Your point about CROs is a good one, and I thought of it after my post. We use lots of CROs, too. And there are obviously lots of successful virtual companies that don't do any wet-work at all. But CROs cost lots of money. Not really cheaper than doing it yourself, just more convenient sometimes. Virtual companies can work because they have millions in VC.

Anyway good luck with your endeavor. I don't mean to sound cynical or negative, but not everyone in IT realizes that the two fields are qualitatively different in many ways and I think the differences are worth pointing out since they're often overlooked around here...
I knew about what happened with the referrers when going from HTTP to HTTPS but had not heard about the meta referrer and have been wondering why, even though my own site is HTTPS I see so many bare domain referrers. Now I know. Thank you both to author and submitter.
Excellent write up, kudos for using IAM and roles for this. We are working on implementing the very same system, we might just re-use your code. Thanks for sharing!
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This one weird trick to make any link clickbait.
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This tablet torture test is insane. What a fun project that must have been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4Mvp316p8
... and yet the world produces on average more than 5000 calories per person. Is "increased productivity" really what we require?

There is also the issue that the idea of greater productivity is highly geographical and seems to be valid in the context of European and North American monocropping agricultural systems. Other farming systems may produce a lot more overall nutrients - it is not at all clear that systems fueled by synthetic fertilisers are more productive as far as overall ecnomic/livelihood benefit or nutrients are concerned in East Asian and African agriculture. Results got from research done in Europe and North America (greater productivity in monocropping non-organic systems) are often suggested as valid in the context of "ensuring sufficient food production Africa / East Asia" which at least from what I know of Bengal seem to be a truth which requires substantial modification (see for example a relatively conservative discussion in [1]).

Further, Rodal Institute's longitudinal study[1] seem to suggest that organic practices can indeed match conventional.

Finally - hunger and starvation is generally not an issue of too little food production as Amartya Sen's nobel prize winning research on Bengal famines highlighted.

[0] http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/ac116e/ac116e05.htm
[1] http://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/farming-systems-trial/
I’m not that type of variable
This was a service that was up and running. They are also shutting down the entire tool, which was more than just insurance comparison. They have credit cards, mortgages, and maybe other products as well.

And, you don't have be a licensed insurer to display a comparison widget and get paid for conversions...you can drive your margins higher if you have the license, but it's not needed.
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We manage in Bristol and Bath - and don't forget the canal.
http://www.fallingfalling.com/

When a beginner asks you a question easily solved with Google and then complains when you point that out, tell them you've decided not to help them anymore until they've stared at this for 15 minutes with the volume up.

After two sessions, they'll be reading man pages.
We can discuss this if you will explain why goal is worse.
Hmm. I wouldn't say it's backwards. It's nothing more than another art form (sounds so cliche, but true nonetheless). If it is backwards, what is considered the defacto standard? The same could be said for Jazz, Pop, Classical when compared to others. I happen to love metal (older 80s to 90s), but listen to anything newer that gets me through a good workout in the garage ;) Maximum the Hormone has interesting sounds, but I could care less about having the t-shirt or taking the lyrics seriously. I love listening to and playing classical guitar, and for me at least metal is not something that you necessarily grow out of.

P.S. no downvote from me because not everyone can or should be expected to love every form of music
You're not alone on that: http://didgoogleshutdown.com
The kind of sentence diagramming done in schools really looks nothing like the syntax trees used in formal linguistics, though. It's about 100 years obsolete, for one thing. The Language Log article another commentator posted gets at that. Also the Wikipedia article on [Parse Trees][0] is a good intro.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree
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I think that might be because Meshuggah are the most obvious and direct influence on a lot of the newer "Djent" bands like Periphery and Tesseract that are popular with younger fans.

What's interesting to me about those bands is that they took some of the elements of Meshuggah's sound - the complex time and extended range instruments - but usually end up with something that's not as heavy or extreme, often having very melodic sections and lots of clean singing.

For a long time it seemed the direction was a bit one way - bands tending to get more extreme - and while that's still the case it's maybe going the other way at the same time.
Previous discussions that might be of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665541

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9134262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713190
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I would if I could, and i think we both understand why. what you describe as yourself is "fashion metal listener" to me, unfortunately probably most popular type, especially in late '90s/early '00s.

what many of us are is deeper - in hard rock & heavy metal I found something that works with me, makes me happy etc. The genre itself is slowly evolving, but this is not something I care for - I listen it for same reasons as before, and expect same effect as before... which is delivered, 110%.

if I pick 1 out of gazillions of bands - Iron Maiden - take their album from 80s, take any recent and compare. Technical quality aside (which went from stone age to 21st century) - some say not as good as before, some say better, for me - same quality, delivered in a bit different way.
Isn't your comment a good example for "Moral Relativism" itself?
This is the only time in my entire life I've heard someone claim that global public transport is improving. It would be wonderful if it were so!
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As far as I'm aware, Unity does not have JavaScript. It has the superficially similar "UnityScript" [0].

[0]: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/UnityScript_versus_JavaScr...
> (stream management being the minimum, as far as I can tell. Otherwise you WILL just lose messages)

Oh, you also want Message Delivery Receipts (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0184.html), not just Stream Management (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html)

I agree with you, XEPs fragmentation is a huge mess. I'd love to see more cohesive development around that specific point instead of just discussion about the technical parts of a XEP.
a "real trader" manages his / her own money, not that of clients.
Hell, I'm 44 and wear my Iron Maiden and Dream Theater tour shirts to my EE job (RF/Microwave circuit design).

Death to all but metal!

http://youtu.be/yfB7vF7nCdA
Perhaps it was my poor grammar.

"does" => "doesn't" does rather flip an argument doesn't it
Heard them right now - they catch a person by a surprise. But what is real metal anyway - are HIM counted as real?
It’s semi-transparent if the developer isn’t drawing a background colour onto the canvas (as in this case).
"...hardly evolving at all"

Have you heard Between the Buried and Me, Animals as Leaders, Meshuggah, Intronaut or Haken?
Is Facebook about more than 'making money'?
I love Telegram, one suggestion though, if security is one of their priorities than it would be good to have control over how one user is visible after joining the network. I think right now you are just visible immediately after joining to people who have you in the contacts by phone number.
A bit offtopic link. Or shoud we all start posting Cats and Food on NH? This site takes it all :)
> Mutually assured destruction has seemed to work as a deterrent thus far since the 40s.

I'd recommend you read "Command and Control" and you'd be less convinced.
I use caddy for everything I serve on the web now, and have been for roughly a year. It's an amazingly stable server -- fast and easy to configure. The team has continuously updated Caddy, and been extremely responsive to any feature requests and support questions. https://www.gophercon.com and https://blog.gopheracademy.com are both served (with Let's Encrypt!) from Caddy.
I think it is odd to conflate "bright people reducing the latency of trades" with "rigging and illegal activity". It seems to me that the former are rarely involved in the latter. One only needs to look at the libor cases, the FX fixing cases, or the gold fixing case.

I actually have a pet conspiracy theory that the articles about HFT are the result of lobbying on the part of banks. When I worked at a bank, I did see articles that were heavily influenced by employees of the bank. This influence was never nefarious, but I can see how a traditional trader's biases may have lead to some of these HFT articles.

I rarely see articles about the evils of internalization, something that I strongly believe brings great harm to the markets. At the same time, I often see articles about how HFT takes advantage of the market and brings little benefit when I've made internal measurements that show just the opposite.

Of course none of the above is any sort of advice, and it's probably appropriate for me to note that I've worked as trader at a bank and currently work as a trader at an HFT firm.
I wanna try it out but I'm not brave enough to do it directly in my OS. WHat would happen if I did it in Ubuntu inside a VM? What if VirtualBox has mounted some directory on my system to the guest? I'm afraid to try this too :/

I once tried 'format C:' on a Windows 10 laptop I didn't care about and I just got a boring error message.
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I thought the global issues of hunger isn't so much about production but rather distribution.
it's weird to generic shallow pop-infested mind... why is this lad sticking out of the conformity crowd? he must be weird, right?

(btw that sex part works only if both have same attitude :))
In Flames post Come Clarity is no longer Metal. I hurt to.
This reminds me a lot of a natural language processing tool called word2vec. It reduces words into vectors, where each dimension represents something about the meaning about the word. E.g. whether it's a place, or if it's male or female.

And these vectors are not designed by humans, but learned from data. It's optimized so that words that occur in similar contexts have similar vectors. E.g. places tend to occur near words talking about places, like "there" or "go", and male names tend to occur near "he" and "his", etc.

You can do really interesting things with these vectors. Like 'King'-'man'+'woman'='queen'. Recently a computer program beat the word analogy part of an IQ test using this. It's useful in computer translation. Take two languages and constrain a few identical words to have the same vector. Then all the other words also end up with similar vectors.

Anyway, with something like this, the actual words and symbols don't matter, just the 100 or so dimensions needed to accurately represent the meaning of every word. Of course speaking a 100 dimensional vector is way less efficient than a single word or symbol.

But perhaps using this, we could come up with an absolute minimal set of symbols necessary. And some rules for combining them to get all words.

I know a lot of the comments here are complaining that this doesn't make a good natural language. But that's not the point of an auxiliary language. The main thing auxiliary languages should optimize for is how easy it is to learn. Simpler is better. Reducing the words and grammar is hugely important.

Another advantage of such an approach, is that it might be more amenable to machine translation. Which is another advantage for an auxiliary language.
Personally a sad day. I was an employee of the company acquired back in 2011 who went on to build this. I left Google in 2013 but most stayed on to see this through. I will say, as a standalone company we operated phenomenally and had solid revenue. I think that was entirely crippled once we got to Google and has a lot to do with the way Google operates versus a startup. Plus bureaucracy, plus big companies, plus people leaving after golden hand cuffs are off.

To the team. You guys were awesome, it was a pleasure, I know you'll go on to do great things. End of an era.
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I'm not even sure I understand what design issue you're trying to solve. Users have a list of notifications and they have associated metadata. What else would you do?
Can a computer create a West End musical? Yes, apparently
Reminds me of how they decided to shutdown Google Wave before it really found it's feet. Sounds like it's down to needing to be in the mass user adoption, rather than niche product.
Intellectually, I recognize that the people making telemarketing calls by and large are in a precarious financial position, with all of the risks to health and happiness that come with that. I think we need to treat them better (even if that's just tersely hanging up, rather than stringing them on).

But viscerally, I can understand why we do this; my impulse, when on the receiving end of an unsolicited inbound call, would be to do the same.
Well... yes :D [1] (AFAIR this case is covered by [2]).

The Editing Task Force is working on opening necessary APIs so editor implementors could integrate with all the native features. I wrote an article about the effort [3]. It's a bit outdated now, but explains what are the goals.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues

[2] https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues/79

[3] https://medium.com/content-uneditable/fixing-contenteditable...
Bring your phone in your pocket, connect display (HDMI), mouse+keyboard (Bluetooth). Abracadabra - a Linux desktop!
Ignore the hype, who do you trust in your smart home?
Why do airplanes have round windows?
Or the fact that many languages don't distinguish blue and green at all.
Billions of women miss out on mobile banking
Japan has weird taste in metal. My friend Jake in Aether Realm has a picture of a Japanese chart that had their album at the #1 spot for a week. And they are a small NC band.
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Isn't that state aid?
That description matches dozens of persons I know ;)
If the US can get a presidential plane diverted and forced to land where it did not want to I don't think it is beyond imagination to see that 'independent entities spread out all over the world in many independent jurisdictions' could be coerced as well.
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I'd prefer not to waste the time of human employees on the phone because they're just minimum wage workers trying to earn a paycheck. My irritation is with the owners of the telemarketing company.

If the following fake recording[1] with the special 3 beeps intro actually works to fool robo-dialers, I'd rather the service do something like that. I also remember seeing a dedicated electronic box[2] that had that recording built-in. You either held it to the mouthpiece of the phone or it was wired in-line between the handset and the base. I'm not sure of the success rate of that device. I wouldn't be surprised if a developer attempted to replicate that device by making an app on iPhone/Android. Again, I'm not sure if pressing a smartphone speaker to the mouthpiece of a handset is good enough audio fidelity to fool robo dialers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE4zZwDE7bc

[2] not sure if it was this one: http://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Technologies-TZ-900-TeleZapper...
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I presume you're referring to Norwegian black metal. Norway doesn't have a lot of DM, in fact the only band that comes to mind is Vomit from the 80s.
Thank you @fredrivett. I'm definitely very nervous, but we'll see how it goes. Best of luck to you. -Mark
Was there a time when popular music wasn't mostly bad? Before the discovery of auto-tune, they must have done lots of manual-tune involving lots and lots of studio takes and other magic.
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>or hell sells them to another company

I don't think anyone at Google has ever (OK, in this millennium) considered an option to sell something. I guess it's a kind of superstition among top management, a sign of weakness perhaps.

Correct me if I'm wrong and Google has actually sold anything.
Here's a related chart from a couple of years ago: https://flowingdata.com/2012/04/09/metal-bands-per-capita/
(Enlarged: http://i.imgur.com/P5Yfz.png)
Did it ever occur to you that you certainly wasn't interested at all in that music?

I know some people who where only interested in metal because it made them more rebellious. Their interests quickly fade always as they grew up and now they are the first to tell everybody how it's a music for teen.
I remark that your souvenir is about your idols and how they acted/are dressed and not that much about the music.

But some people are genuinely interested in metal and if you happen to be a bit curious, it's easy to see that it's not more rigid, codified or stalled that any other genre.
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Exciting to see Daily fantasy football start to grab traction in the UK. Great thing is...it's 100% legal.
Sometimes it is really hard to feel bad for them. I got a call from this woman selling some vacation package. I asked her to tell me more, and after about a minute or so, I told her I am not interested. She went mad, accusing me of wasting her precious time and that time is money for her etc etc. How am I supposed to make a decision without even knowing what she is selling? I wasn't even trying to mess with her, was genuinely interested in what she was selling. And this was an unsolicited call too.

This definitely works - https://www.donotcall.gov/ not always though
Hm, yes maybe two. This type of project actually sounds like a pretty good fit for pair programming.

The assembly code is too small and tightly knotted to be able to usefully work on different parts simultaneously, but coding as a pair (given that it's an intelligent person you can stand for 5 weeks of intense) seems to me it would have mostly benefits?

Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious, but isn't the main disadvantage of pair-programming that it's not quite as good as two programmers working in parallel (and thus wasteful of workforce)?
But OK, let's talk weird...

IMHO, you can't be more metal than to play black metal in a country where you would be killed if identified... :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS73YZgqGx0

Here is an article about another band in Saudi A: http://www.vice.com/read/anti-religious-black-metal-band-in-...

(And no, I'm not metal. I just like the music.)
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Now all they have to do is run a DNN on the input (to the robotic hand) signals!
These are still common in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Just the background of co-living spaces is different. When the Russian Revolution freed up large mansions and huge flats of the former chivalry and businessmen, these were given to the working class on the basis of co-living spaces as "communal flats". Putin was born and raised in one of those in Leningrad.
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> clients are wildly varying in quality.

Yeah that's true. But psi+ on desktop and conversations on Android work pretty good.

> multi-device support sucks. You need message carbons (extension, 'solved'), but you also need MAM for history

I am running a prosody server, and those extensions work very well with the mentioned clients.
This is fire.
Well, but they call their genre "black metal".

Is punk metal satire?

What about grunge?

And then there's Kiss ;)
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I think Trump would be a terrible president (though probably less terrible than it feels like he would be) but it seems unlikely that he will decimate the human population. Even with the original meaning of "reduce by 10%" rather than "reduce to 10%".
And finally, hydrogen tends to go 'foom'.

Compared to all the other ways in which you could propel a car hydrogen is a very dangerous one and that alone is reason enough why it probably will never happen. Compared to LPG for instance hydrogen is much harder on the system and much more dangerous to handle. I don't see it happening any time soon.

Keep in mind that a lot of inner city parking space is indoors / underground.
I'm responding directly to an argument based on it being morally wrong to kill living things, specifically to kill some living things but not others (cows but not golden retrievers).

I am not making arguments against veganism, i am asking a philosophical question in response to a moral position. Please understand i am not attacking you or your lifestyle

My argument was, again, how do you use a moral justification of 'killing things is wrong' to change from one lifestyle of killing things, to another lifestyle of killing different things?

Why is cow vs golden retriever so important, but golden retriever vs potato completely laughable? You are still ending life to nourish your body no matter what. Both a cow and a potato cause and have external costs as well (i would say methane from cows is less or equally concerning as pesticides)
You meant 'until it was made practical'. It was invented more than a 100 years ago.
Me too, though I actually prefer Bristol- I will accept there's a chance that the people in Cardiff may be a little more friendly, but the music scene and street art here is just unbeatable for the size and due to it's position, it's easy to travel elsewhere in the UK.
The tech scene is growing at a crazy rate too - I've noticed the number of people at the JS meetups has easily doubled compared to a year ago.
One thing we can definitely agree on is that the SouthWest kicks London's ass for general quality of life!
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This is standard on shopping malls in Brazil. Helps a ton.
Another cool thing (and I don't know if this is standard) are these small red/green lights above each spot, allowing you to see from far away if that particular spot is taken or not.