skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was probably a bit of both. Using a LL parser for NLP is an odd fit. The problem was that the n-gram parsers had a fairly large file footprint. So, paging from memory would be slow and consume battery.

As for tool, the Antlr3 C runtime was very fiddly. On the forums, I saw one developer give up on porting their working Antlr2 C++ runtime to Antler's C runtime. This may have been due to C lacking exception handing, so had to implement backtracking another way. (Still, kudos to the volunteer who implemented the C runtime; in our case, it did make it into production.)

For really simple NLP parsing, one hack is combine an Island parser with an LL parser. This is essentially what Siri used several years ago (have no idea what it uses now).
Thanks for the note, I will add this to the article when I get a chance!
Unfortunately, Dr. Safe Side was just doing her job. Therapists are often explicitly instructed to do this check and to err on the side of ambulance, of course for liability and legal reasons. Which is IMO ridiculous; what better way could there be to make someone who is having suicidal thoughts feel more alientated and stressed.
The same drivers are the ones who enter an intersection they can't possibly get out of before the light changes.
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I've been looking for something like this. My use case is that I have a bunch of really old bioinformatics programs that are a pain to install and I want to run them from a web app. Instead of bundling all of the weird dependencies with the web app, I want to run them in containers using background workers (rails/sidekiq in this case).
India is saying there is no patent because software isn't tangible like hardware or anything physical would be. If the patent involved hardware and the program or software it is covered because hardware is tangible.

For example the Apple iPhone uses custom chips for things like encryption and security. So in India they would accept the patents.

India doesn't see business methods, software, and mathematical method as valid for patents because they are not tangible in real life but more like information.

If they are part of hardware or some physical device that is tangible they can issue a patent.

This is quite different from the US Patent office, and most likely India did it to give small companies access to the same information that big companies use by refusing to patent their software unless it is associated with hardware. If it is all software, anyone can use it.

This is a big attack on companies like Microsoft that use software patents to sue other companies. Suddenly in India, they can no longer do that unless it is tied to hardware in some way.
The opposite end of this is why it annoys me when people complain about politicians being liars. Of course politicians lie: a strong commitment to truth is very much against social norms and causes people to be bored at best and angry or creeped-out at worst. Politicians by the nature of their jobs must conform very strongly to social norms and so have to lie more egregiously when forced to answer "simple questions" on complex topics by people (journalists) whose profession incentivized them to create drama.
To your first point though, streaming services typically are more focused on storage and egress (network) optimizations. App Engine has integration points with each, but its core workloads fall more in the dynamic web app and mobile backend realm. Within Spotify's architecture, there are places where App Engine makes sense (e.g. hosting their frontend APIs). That said, this is small relative to the rest of their architecture and understandably isn't the first area of focus when you're making a move to a new vendor.
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It doesn't have internet.

You might be able to compile the js down to a single copy paste into a file then load that in ie.

I'm going to guess it won't work in IE from 1998 though.
You might think it's a great demonstration if you try it in a desktop browser.

Meanwhile, on actual mobile hardware, the performance is so atrocious it's completely unusable.

No knock on the implementors of course. But the idea that this demo has some deep insight about the performance of native smartphone software is just inaccurate.

http://cl.ly/2O0L3t290s37
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Same here.Extremely strange parallel dimension and some other entity, but not the sort of alien companions I hear about from other people. It might be that I'm very unsocial and a bit of mystic to begin with, my brain has always seemed to be wired quite differently from most other people.
Sure, spoken language is fairly raw unprocessed output, but what I have a problem with, speaking with the general population, is that when they're asked to confirm/rephrase/clarify their imprecise output, they don't think of it as such. That I find unbearable. I say a lot of illogical/emotional things too, but I'm the first to notice it and correct it.
There's a much bigger elephant in the room, though:

Updates to the OS and applications are encrypted, completely opaque, signed by Apple instead of the original developer, can be granted additional entitlements for arbitrary permissions, and cannot be audited by anyone but Apple without a jailbreak.

When coupled with push updates, Apple already has a targeted backdoor into every iPhone anywhere connected the network.

This is a much more difficult problem to solve, as securing against that threat model requires an diverse ecosystem of 3rd-party audit/review, software, and tools.

I don't see any way of solving that issue while also maintaining their stranglehold on the platform via DRM.
This is also my impression of Google compute offerings, but it's also my impression of AWS offerings.

I mean, when people think of AWS services, do "service and stability" really come to mind? IME it's impossible to reach a person unless you're a multi-million-dollar org, and Amazon itself tells customers that AWS services can go down at any time and it's up to the customer to architect the application to deal with it.

If I had to peg a reason AWS gets treated differently in the marketplace, I think it's probably some combination of a) AWS was first to market, and b) AWS revenue seems materially important to Amazon, while Google Compute revenue is a rounding error to Alphabet. Therefore, Amazon has a lot more incentive to keep, maintain, and grow AWS.
Someone on the internet said that humankind's biggest conflict will be between the two sides of those who believe in A.I. as life and those who don't.

This is kind of getting us there.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils - in Rust.

https://github.com/aisola/go-coreutils - in Go.

https://github.com/search?l=Nimrod&q=coreutils&type=Reposito... - in Nim (didn't seem to take off)

You know how people write a to-do list, or a forum, or a blog to better learn a language? Some people write coreutils.
> I personally don't wish to touch other women than my wife. It's a personal conviction to be respected.

So rubbing elbows with men on a flight is fine, but rubbing elbows with women is some sort of unfaithfulness? Oh, please. I don't wish to touch anyone on a flight, but hey, we're crammed in there like sardines, shit happens. The gender of the sardine next to you has exactly what effect on the elbow-sized contact patch you share with them?

You're also reading this situation as being solely confined to the event of the flight, rather than the overall social movement. Any single action can be stripped of context and sterilised that way. Take a racist who is always rude to blacks and no other: every single incidence of rudeness could be explained away with "oh, maybe that guy deserved it", but when you look at the overall pattern, it's clear what's going on.
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Clearly this is an agenda.

I still don't understand why Apple needs to save the FBI from it's own incompetence in asking the government office that managed the iPhone to reset the password.

It seems to me that unless tech companies come together to defend Apple, we may see (unregulated and unaccountable) government become very very part of all facets of computing.
Internalization disincetivizes people from making tight markets in lit venues because you will only get filled when an internalizer thought the flow was toxic. This in turn means that markets are wider for all participants.
Many of the big names in design have offices there such as Studio Becker which do high end kitchens and cabinets for remodels and new buildings. Design companies ended up clustered there in part because the zoning locked out so many others, so there is an ongoing political battle over whether design services are worth having within the city boundaries.
I've always found it amusing that strongly religiose people seem to think temptation is so easy. I think it speaks to the lack of effect of their religion that they have to go to these extreme lengths to "avoid temptation", rather than just being mature and dealing with temptation appropriately like most adults do.

In short, if you have to go to these ridiculous lengths, then the religion isn't really giving you the internal strength to behave maturely. Time to look for a new moral code.
Thanks. We're working on ways to secure the capital for things like retaining a lawyer. It's not the fault of the space itself; our business model hasn't been fully executed.

As to it being an arms race, I'm not sure the techniques to filter content are really competing against anything. Sure, it seems like there will always be more sites to ban, but its not like adblocking, where the tricks are getting more sophisticated over time.

Also, I like (most of) my users! We've had some spam issues in the past where users created minor headaches, but this was a first.
Evaluate more options.
Could this little plastic bit not be the problem and the actual problem be the real cause for the recall?
They have to track back the origin of the plastic piece.

-maybe the tiny piece is not the problem?
-maybe the tiny piece is not the problem but consumer
perspective and therefore cheaper to recall than
image damage?
-maybe the piece belongs to something wearing out
and the possibility of something (a chemical for example)
being introduce is a possibility (and therefore a
legal demand?)?
-maybe there is no problem, but is better to recall than
to have x reports on a non existing problem.
State, county and municipal governments are next.
This is an awesome use case. Back when I was in particle physics we had to use ROOT (https://root.cern.ch/) for everything, and configuring it in a new environment would take at least a day.

What kind of bioinformatics software are you plugging into a webapp?
Not you. You can relax. :-)
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This is why I have seriously embarked on the migration of services away from Google. Every time I really learn to love something Google offers, it's taken away.
Things are changing:

* https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-im...

* http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28...

* http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm...

No, it's not perfect, and PuTTY isn't always the answer, but who'd have thought https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH would ever be a thing.
https://restdb.io/pricing/ has a free tier; also you can get the same features from free/cheap leaderboard services https://superdevresources.com/leaderboard-service-providers-...
Isn't this a chicken and egg problem? Corruption generally thrives where people are poor. In the normal course of their daily lives the government cannot save them from starving or from disease. So with no legitimate safety net you may have to fall to crime to keep your family healthy and fed. Maybe you rob someone, or maybe you take bribes at work. If a charity comes in and provides what you need it is no longer an easy choice to fall to crime.
I'm not naive enough to think it's this simple at all, but you do have to start somewhere.
If we were going to enforce the same transparency that non-software patents give then they'd release the full reference implementation right in the patent.
It seems that complaints about 'clickbait titles' is the new 'tell everyone Betteridge's Law' of HN these days...
Thereby gaining... what exactly?
I thought this has been known for quite a while. I keep seeing articles and comments by people who have worked in this field for years saying finger-prick blood is unreliable. I'm unclear why another study is needed.
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nah they have tools that can be embedded between the touchscreen and logic board, can be used to brute force

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

I naively thought it was a machine with a robotic finger, derp
Even more awesome is the idea that this technology can lead to the creation of a video-game that only people on psychedelics can understand and play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Giraffe seems like a good candidate, though no for the reasons the author suggests. I usually suck on high speed videogames but I just kept endlessly running up a high score on Space Giraffe while my wife (who's way better than me at arcade games) sat there going 'but how are you playing? What's even going on?!'
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Because most of the Big Corps have complete internal policies about exactly what's acceptable and what isn't, to the level of actual values of any gifts. This means for example giving someone a spare gift card would be violation of the policy if the receiving party was the user or a potential buyer of some product. It's not that there would be a policy to cover 1 head honcho - there's usually a policy for everyone, with maybe only potentially exceptions for the head honcho.
If they don't buy American products? I don't think so.
I clicked on the link with a lot of interest, but ended up kinda disappointed with the article. It didn't provide as much insight or analysis as I had hoped.

Okay, so GrubHub and JustEat have had different fortunes over the past decade. There is a lot more new competition from delivery-focused (as opposed to two-sided-marketplace-docused) startups in the US. And that's because there's lower overall penetration and also lower customer acquisition cost in the US.

Why is the CAC lower in the US? Why has penetration stayed lower and can it easily change? What do these dynamics mean for the future? What strategies can win, and what seemingly good strategies are actually bad? Tell me something more than what I can get from a few minutes of googling around for the basics of the food delivery market.
I thought it was 12, now its 9? Are they using new math?
I think this characterisation of Wall Street is a little disingenuous. Just to use Goldman as an example: it's hard to claim that SSG, MSI, UIG, and others are acting in anything approaching a "purely facilitatory role" as you claim.
100% agreed re McDonalds. Not only that, its healthiness is easy to verify since all the ingredients and nutrition data is available. Good luck finding out how much saturated fat is in the dish at that posh restaurant everyone queues up for!
Defining 'fondling' as 'contact with a person' is pretty extreme. It'll be interesting to see what you think of businesspeople shaking hands, police handcuffing suspects, parents hugging their children, or politicians kissing babies...
Minesweeper! Ah, the nostalgia.

A note: the mouse position and acceleration seems to not be mapped correctly. It is often separated away from my local desktop mouse position. Maybe because the screen resolution is different?
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There are ways around this that involve First Amendment protections (e.g., an embedded compiler on the device, and features that allow you to download and install packages from source code -- protected speech -- thus adding encryption features).

Can't download? Take a photo of printed material, OCR it and then install. That's hard to outlaw in the US.
Law enforcement access in exchange for access to the biggest and wealthiest market in the world.
LMAO. A similar situation happened at Stanford about 10 years ago ($150-200MM usd frittered away).

Projects ran by vampiric consultants whom bill hourly -> "big deliverable never" -> ~ gigabuck$.

Smart tech buyers don't get locked into unbounded contracts without milestones and don't let drivers of project management to an external party. Instead, focus on customer need driven, fixed contracts and incremental milestones are generally a better approach.

SAP/Oracle/PeopleSoft/BMC/etc. implementations often tend to fall into these traps when they're poorly managed and/or when the buyers are suckers. Business unit owners and IT managers with backbones are needed to hold vendors accountable to deliver on promises, milestones and deadlines, or payment is not disbursed.
At least now all doubt is formally removed that they want to use the precedent set in the SB case for more mundane requests. Hopefully this should make Apples' PR fight easier.
Don't forget other countries.
That's not an easy predicament, but I think your best bet is to take on some contract work while your bootstrap your way to some level of revenue generation. I would also consider using the free tiers offered by amazon, heroku, etc. They should be able to get you off the ground.
The failure you speak of is by design, I think. Discovering that there aren't hard and fast standards for how to declare everything and that balance sheets can be made to lie is rather shocking to most people.
I think it's a combination of:

- common sense (you should have a business plan)

and

- avoiding premature optimization

If you can build an unprofitable business that is growing like crazy and has a clear path to profitability (i.e. the fundamentals of the business are not based on unscalable factors), it shouldn't matter so much how close you are to profitability.
I gave you a rhetorical question assuming that it might help you re-read both the link and your comment to see why you were being downvoted. If you read what they wrote and instead raise obese Americans, I'm not sure how I can encourage you to see the point.

For one thing, Melinda was talking a lot about technology and even just proximity to clean water as being a huge opportunity for people in Africa to save time and spend it on education or health.

I'll leave this conversation there. Not sure that comments about punching people in the face having any place on Hacker News.
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Om Malik sees it as a first step toward acquisition by Google (or rather, Alphabet).

https://twitter.com/om/status/702194246489546752
Do any of those businesses want to sell their products to Americans? Maybe they can sell different SKUs with those capabilities but they'll have to do it for every market they sell to because the US won't be the only government that will want backdoors.
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kind of like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130316
I'm really liking this trend. The US's version of this is Alice v CLS Bank case. Very similar rulings, and the effect is reverberating throughout the legal community.

I think it's great that process patents in general are going bye-bye. Now we can make some real strides in the medical, business, and software fields without being deterred by trolls and monopolies.
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YC is still YC. Investor's come to YC to win, and win big. They want to see companies shooting for the moon, not worried about profitability 12 weeks in.
the report is 1088 pages and has appendices everywhere, can you point out where you found the risk comparison? A ctr-f for risk finds 511 uses
Apart from all the other issues mentioned in this thread, one of the issues that stymies products like this is the asymmetric nature of delivery networks. From a user experience perspective, it's a lot easier to deliver something TO a person's house than it is to deliver something FROM a person's house. After your first attempt trying to return a tool, you become discouraged from ever trying again.

But you know what, we actually have a highly efficient system for transporting packages from people's houses, it's called the trash and recycling network. I wonder if there's an opportunity there to leverage this network... Imagine if returning something was as easy as wrapping it in a special plastic bag and then throwing it in your recycle bin. On the truck, special sensors would detect the presence of the bag and shunt it to a separate storage area of the truck and, from the depot, it would be placed in the conventional mail stream and sent to where it needed to be.

Probably crazy unworkable but fun to think about :).
Partially importing symbols from a header file in C++ could easily lead to bugs due to the way that name resolution and ADL work. I think doing this in a satisfactory way would end up being extremely complicated, and adding even more complexity to how C++ name resolution works is... undesirable.

But moreover, for this to be maximally useful, it needs to work with the large set of existing C and C++ libraries.
People have similar, but different mental capabilities, and different attitude. I have a superficial knowledge of linguistics and philosophy of language, and am also interested in philosophy, history and literature, so I'll be more able at forming rather more coherent, more logical and lenghtier sentences, but not everybody is like me, and they won't be able to phrase complex and/or ambiguous concepts as clearly as I do. What I do is that I adjust myself to my interlocutor(s), I try to be comprehensible and relevant to him, from whatever background he shall be. Because however much I know a language, and however much I be good at speaking it, if I cannot use it for its very fundamental purpose of communication, then all my knowledge and all my quality is useless: better knowledge of a language should expand the amount of people I can communicate to, not decrease.
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I'm going to assume you're relatively new to startups, because this didn't always used to be the case. Founders 40, 30, even 10 years ago had much less leverage in that today it's so comparatively cheap to launch an app that can quickly get millions of users. Back then, even to think about launching an app you needed a server. The capital that founders needed came with investors who had all the leverage and board control.

It's only recently that you could literally start accepting dollars from paying users without actually paying anything (servers, money integration, etc all free). That means founders have more leverage, which in turn means for the first time founders are getting more of a say in the trajectory of the company.

Basically, your feelings are following recent developments, but it's unusual that this is the case. In other words, you are the long tail that previously never got a seat at the table. But, there are still going to be founders already at the table chasing the big bets.

Of course, you are also discounting the value of having investors that prioritize growth. In most cases, all companies somewhat converge when it comes to what that start up needs to do to survive and succeed: grow.
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>No matter how much effort I put on social interactions

Too much effort gets the opposite effect. Others feel the interaction forced and weird. I used to be guilty of this too. A more relaxed attitude helps a lot, but is not easy when my mind is optimised to analyse everything...
Sure, I'd be happy to see all patents abolished. The age of government-granted monopolies should come to an end.
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