skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I've toyed around this idea myself and come to the conclusion that coloring on part of the speech level is not that useful for the educational aspects I'm interested in. If you could take this to the next level and visually display the grammatical sentence structure then I think this would be a really useful tool for people studying English as a second language.
I don't mean relative based on the task cause that is obvious. I mean relative based on financial situation. Take two hypothetical companies, one with huge amounts of cash reserves, and another that is just a startup with no cash reserves. The government takes both to court over the same situation as Apple. The same task ends up requiring the same large sum of money and 1 months time from each company. Obviously this could really hurt the startup and while it'll hurt the larger company, it won't be as big of a burden.

Does the "unreasonable burden" mean something different in this case? Who makes the call as to when this crosses the line? Something just doesn't feel logically right to me if this line moves at the whim of the current decider (judge? jury? someone else?) despite being an identical request with identical financial impact (just relatively different). There has to be some sort of guideline definition for "unreasonable" somewhere, right?
Only if they save me more time and make me worry less than staying closer to home

Most perks are only for show anyway. I'd rather not have a dog than bring it to work, or just have time to play with it by commuting a shorter distance
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Zero, not including time. This include profitable projects. There might be the occasional software purchase like Sketch (like $99). I guess I also pay for my webhost and domain.
That's a good point, I didn't think of that. I suppose there is a semantic difference between content that has been taken down globally for DMCA infringement, and content that is blocked in a particular region.
and peeing into toilets with live pee-anaylsis monitors.
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That's beautiful! I wish that someone could make that for Chinese.
I'm trying to learn Chinese now, and I think it would be easier in colour.

Also, is there a way to run this script on a large collection of text files? Specifically, the Bible. I'd be curious to split out all the names/places/etc.
AlphaGo's 1st incarnation included an input scalar that the Net was taught represented the level of Human Play to Emulate (handily included in the dataset).

Thus AlphaGo plays as a human (before MCTS), it's choices model a challenging oppenent.

If the dataset included the name of the player in the Dataset then AlphaGo could play in the style of that player.

This offers a human experience, and for teaching one can show what different experts at differing levels would choose.
It might be enough to include a cheap spectrometer to estimate the material composition. From this you should be able to guesstimate a suitable program. You could even spot and classify stains, AI to the rescue. There must be existing solutions for large scale industrial laundry handling.

A robotic closet that lets you wear your favorite shirt every day... fresh and clean.
> Twitter the company is so bad that its existence makes me question how capitalism has survived as long as it has.

It is not capitalism that is the problem in this case. There is a fair amount of inertia involved but sooner or later it will correct itself. Looking at the stock price it is happening.

Now there are other things in capitalism that could be considered problems but twitters survival isn't one of them.

Edit: First time I'm hit with downvotes here on HN without arguments why I'm wrong. Fascinating...
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Can you elaborate? What exactly do you consider "dated"?
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> It's economy consists 85% of oil exports, a place of 2 million people.

To be fair, you could also say that many nations are very dependent on digging things out of the ground. That probably isn't related to whether they're cultural capitals.

Russia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Russia_E...

Norway https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/No...

Mongolia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Mongolia...

Colombia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Colombia...
That's a bit of an overstatement. If you don't update your Kindle it will continue to work as an e-reader. Content already on it will keep working, and you will be able to load new content via USB.

You just won't have the right certificates in /opt/usr/java/lib/security/cacerts to access Amazon network services.
That actually makes for a nice usecase: correlate bans between geographic regions. You just need to access the same content from multiple locations to build a better index.
The only think I'd like for mobile is better up and down arrows. That's literally the only thing. Otherwise, don't change the UI in any way. To do otherwise would make this site so much less great!
There is a Dutch Facebook group for determination of plants and animals, people post pictures there and there is always a real expert around who can actually identify your bird feather / tiny spider / insect / fungus / etc often down to the exact species (out of 800 in some group of beetles, say). It's a wonderful group to lurk in.
The manager can easily be replaced by hundreds of others working at Apple. The engineers not.
Not at all. I'm saying the opposite.
dynamically generated code was quite a common technique in the era of 6502.
Its frowned upon now, but it was a major optimisation technique back then.
Yep. What it means is like "agile" did, it's reaching the "old wine in a new bottle" stage, with less actual hard work of changing the way people work for the better, and more easy slapping a new trendy label on existing practices.
That could still be extraordinarily entertaining for an attacker to execute on a shared hosting environment, though.
Not just you. I don't see why this warrants a 12 minute video.
I've noticed some popular Windows anti-virus software doing similar things recently. Trying to check one of our own (HTTPS/HSTS enabled) sites after a report from a customer suggested something might not be set up ideally, we looked at the certs showing on someone's laptop and it turned out their anti-virus had rewritten the whole thing anyway.

I understand why some scanning tools decrypt SSL traffic and effectively MITM their own system so they can do their job, but when this results in rewriting the chain of credentials to use some phantom authority that isn't who you originally thought you were talking to, that seems a significant downside.
Decision fatigue is IMO the number 1 reason these ideas wouldn't work. Imagine making 5 decisions about micro transactions worth fractions of a cent before you even got to work, while shaking off sleep in the morning. You would go insane.

Also, the reliability of the hardware and software. Sometimes my Macbook or iPhone won't connect to a router as expected. Why would I need a bitcoin enabled alarm clock when a low tech solution will also work?

They would've picked much better examples...blockchains are a solution in search of a problem still I think. Voting is one area I think it could have a big impact.
Opera lets you override that!
I've looked a bit at Richards' 1974 paper (http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.bams/11835355...) , and understand better although not fully. Saying that Conjecture 2 is false means only that there exists some n for which the number of primes in [1..n] is less than the number of primes in [i..i+n].

Richards (I think) puts a minimum bound of 3500 on n (the 500th prime number is 3571) and an upper bound of 250000 (the 20000th prime number is 224737). Richards claims that for some threshold n between 3500 and 250000 beyond which there will always exist a region [i..i+n] with a greater density of primes than [1..n].

There is no claim (at least by Richards) that there exists a region as dense as [1..100] or [1..1000] somewhere out there to be found. And for his threshold n, the region of dense primes probably starts at some very large number, suggested as perhaps 2262^2262 (where 2262 is number of primes in [1..20000]).

It's a fun paper, and interesting as an example of math at the dawn of the computer age. The explain, for example, that although the computer they used supported division, they didn't know how to program it to do so, so they did all the long division by hand instead. As they conclude the paper, "We could have solved the problem without the computer, but we probably wouldn't have."
Guess what happens if the FBI wins this, and Apple is forced to comply, and actually does decrypt this one phone, and probably later on hundreds or thousands of other iPhone 5 phones. Guess what: Apple will make the system so secure that this can never happen again.

This whole discussion has led me to reconsider the much too expensive iPhones, and my next phone might very well be an iPhone 6 or newer.
Some PEPs are just wrong. This is one of them. It's kowtowing to dumb editors when the point of the language is to be as human-friendly as possible. If we wanted an IDE-friendly language we'd just use Java.
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I think this story needs to be mentioned (as usual when SR-71 links are posted):
http://www.econrates.com/reality/schul.html
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But note what you assert yourself: reloading on every click is annoying. And not reloading, but also not providing feedback that you successfully clicked the button is also annoying.

The 10% of your goals that you do not achieve without Javascript are essential to changing 'the web' from being a clunky to being a nice experience. The web without the least bit of Javascript is like a world without fire: you'll survive, but it won't be nearly as comfortable. Fire inevitably led to nuclear bombs, but we should certainly not disavow fire because of that. We should just be against the nukes.
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They'll go to jail. That's the cost of resistance in a totalitarian society.
> China could compel their Apple manufacturing staff to install a back-doored chip into Apple devices on the production line. Seems reasonable if the US government is asking for a software back door into all phones.

Wouldn't that be opening a whole different can of international worms? In this hypothetical,

- Is China doing this with or without Apple's knowledge?

- If not, then it's a very very different situation than the US. I wouldn't equate them at all in such a case.

- If so, then Apple presumably would openly fight this and could even move all of their production outside of China as an extreme last resort. Against the US government, they don't have such a last resort situation since the company is based in the US. And unless every essential employee is a non-US citizen, then Apple has no such last resort. Hence why I am asking my original question of what international laws come into play here?
True, but it will not be the only tool in the toolbox... So taking into account all the other software you've purchased, the costs will add up.

Just an anecdotal example, before JetBrains switched to their subscription model I was paying individual licenses for IDEA, PyCharm, and ReSharper. So if I had already spent over $300 p/a for IDE and tooling, another $70 will seem like an excess.
At the very least I think Musk would have been a good engineer, and PG would be inspiring young people to try.
The key for me was to change my personal definition of success from winning the lottery to simply doing things well on a consistent basis.
the advantage the compiler writer has in this case is it doesn't have to deal with any possible code, just this set of well known already released and frozen in time programs.
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I recently started my first Clojure/ClojureScript project using the Reagent template for Leiningen[1]. It gives you Ring/Compojure/Hiccup on the backend for simple routing and views, and Reagent with a client-side routing framework on the frontend. It took me 10 minutes to get it running and figure out what the different components were doing. I'm sure ultimately I'll roll my own setup but this is a good way to get going if you're new.

1: https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-template
I'm surprised average hours per week or per year wasn't on the list. This also just confirms how grossly underpaid I am.
Slackware is the muscle car of linux distros. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, it's fast and solid. Plus if you can master Slack, you can waltz into any other distro and not break a sweat.

I've run it on desktops/servers since version 8 and love it. People knock it for not having a "real" package manager, but if you like the control of compiling from source then this doesn't really matter (and you always have the latest versions of any packages available). There's almost always a slackbuild for the project you want. Plus there is the official slackpkg (and slapt-get/swaret for dep resolution as well).

So yeah, it's a bit more work, but I guess for some of us that's fun.
If your adversary is a well funded government agency you need to do a lot more than buy an iPhone.

If you're still alive when "they" want information they'll just extraordinarily rendition you and torture you. Or they'll implement laws like UK RIPA which require you to make available the unencrypted version when asked by a court. Or they'll install covert surveillance equipment.
> There seem to be a whole bunch of people waving around odd ideas.

No, it's not an 'odd idea'. The fact that the government can coerce you has lots of limits placed on it. Conscription and the draft have been abolished in most places in the developed world, contempt of court may get you jailed but will not - and can not - be used to force you to create something and eminent domain can only be used to take something away from you.

So yes, this would be a new low, it would mean that ordinary citizens that have broken no laws can be forced to create something that does not currently exist against their express desire (and maybe even against their capability, how do you even begin to check if someone should be able to do something).

It would definitely be a new low.

All the things you pulled into it have nothing to do with the matter at hand, those are other things that you may or may not agree with but they are not the same as being ordered by a judge to perform a job that you have no desire to if you yourself are not guilty of breaking any laws. It would be an abuse of power that to me is unprecedented in any modern society.
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lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
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It's users vs developers.

1.7% of respondents are WP users (10% x 17%), and only 0.1% of respondents are WP developers.
As nice as it is to have the guy stand up for Apple I don't think that from a practical point of view there is anything that he could say that would make a difference.
I love both languages, but I don't see the tooling in one as vastly superior to the other. Elixir certainly has Clojure completely licked in terms of compile times; also the Mix command-line workflow is just simpler (no messing around with project.clj vs profiles.clj vs ~/.lein/profiles.clj and god knows where else).

On the other hand, Clojure REPL workflow (although some assembly is required) is phenomenal. Clojurescript is a serious option on the client. And for runtime-level tools (profilers etc), you have the whole Java/JVM ecosystem, which is simply bigger, for better or worse, than the Erlang equivalent.

So for my money, it's definitely a two horse race.
Most likely, and I think both would've been successful regardless. But their success and impact would've likely been greatly diminished if they were not in the right place and right time before the dotcom bubble popped.
$100/month sounds about right. Side projects are hobbies, for which $100/month is not too bad. Just compare that to the cost of operating a motorcycle, a set of golf clubs, owning a horse, building RC cars etc.
And that it and others can be found in the author's book "Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet" which isn't really easy to find in print (though likely cheaper than an original copy of Ignition!) but whose scanned PDF is relatively easy to come by.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=126148&sid=83bf...
I agree that it's unlikely that 6.7% of H-1B visa holders have a Harvard education. But about half the founders listed in the report[1] went to non-famous colleges.

The broader policy question raised by the report however is about the current extremely restrictive low limit of 85,000 on H-1B visas, which are crucial for any immigrant student to be able to stay in the US. The report tries to show one way in which immigrants are helpful, and yes it does focus very much on the most successful immigrants. That doesn't mean they don't have a valid point.

85,000 is less than 0.03% of the US population. Australia, with a population of 23 million, issued 120,000 skilled work visas in 2013. That is 0.5%. Nearly every other first-world country has a higher rate of skilled worker immigration than the United States. We keep it artificially down with the quotas. We determine the fate and future of an immigrant student in this country with a lottery, which to most people might sound like a cruel joke.

[1] http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Bi...
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I really tried vim for months. I found it uselessly verbose while sublime has straightforward key shortcut that help a lot.

How could you be more efficient using vim ? That's something I don't understand. I always suspect vim and emacs user saying it because it makes them feel like super programmer.
> Quitting doesn't save Apple

Well, it kind of does. Right now we're approaching Poe's law with the use of AWA to compel the writing of code, but we're still just barely in the realm of keep-a-straight-face-defensible (largely because the bulk of the population is less tech literate than is ideal). If even a few of Apple's key security engineers quit at the same time, then it becomes very easy for Apple to make the case that they literally cannot do what is asked anytime soon (how long for a new team to cold boot with a new codebase whose domain is cryptography and no one around to provide guidance/tribal knowledge?). In any sane universe this would show that the request has crossed the line into overly burdensome. It is very hard to justify massive penalties to incentivize compliance with something that Apple may or may not be able to do anytime soon [0].

So that would basically leave them the option of stopping the insanity or going after the individual engineers and compelling them, which opens up a whole other heap of lunacy which might have to get resolved before Apple would again be on the hook for action.

If the court then decides that it will compel the individual engineers who are now no longer Apple employees to work.... They're forcing labor from unwilling non-criminal citizens (13th?); they're compelling code, which is speech, and compelling association between the engineers and Apple who would presumably need to be compelled to rehire them because you can't make someone work for free (double 1st); as someone has mentioned they could institute a draft (??) but I'm sure there would be legal contest regarding conscripting specific individuals against their will and this would require the cooperation of congress, the military, the NSA, and it still wouldn't get them the thing they actually want which is precedent.

[0] From wikipedia: "the [fined] party is said to "hold the keys" to his or her own cell" which justifies the lack of a trial for civil contempt fines. If you cannot comply, you lack the ability to escape the fines, you are not receiving due process. I think this little corner of the law might actually be the bulwark that makes zero knowledge systems legally safe as well, though if you have an auto-update system you still would need the code-is-speech, cannot-compel-speech protections to round this out.
I used the program in the article the parent post linked to. Here's the link:
https://pavelfatin.com/typometer/

Start the program using:

java -jar typometer-1.0.jar
Eventually this will be a great tool, but today, I would not put my well being into a smartwatch, with or without machine learning
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If you have spent your career improving privacy software.... this is going to be easy. It's a bit like worrying about establishing your religious bona fides if you're a bishop.
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I... Love Scala.

It's just a really flexible language, while it has its warts, I feel they almost got it in combining the best of FP and OO.

I was a SharePoint developer in previous life. End-users love SharePoint, but it's a headache to maintain and debug. I think there is only a very small use-case where you will actually need some *.wsp developed. I use Nintex Workflow + Forms the rest of the time.

That being said, SharePoint devs gets paid well :)
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I'll repeat my comment from yesterday regarding a different report of the same announcement, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11303318 :

This article, like many of this type, let's the business be in control of the content. When this happens, the article is much closer to a press release than an informative news report. But hey, what should I expect in this day of free^H^H^H^H advertiser-paid journalism?

Self-serve restaurants have been around for over a century. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat .

Thus, if a fast-food executive says that it's too expensive to pay employees, a perfectly reasonable question should be "if employees are too expensive, how is it that fast-food replaced automats in the US? And did so in an era when the effective minimum wage was higher than now?"

FEBO is a popular fast-food company in the Netherlands with an automat component. You'll note that the Netherlands has a national minimum wage of 1,508 € per month. The US national minimum wage is 1,155 € per month. (From http://countryeconomy.com/national-minimum-wage ). There are many non-automat fast food companies, including Burger King and McDonalds.

Thus, if a fast-food executive says the minimum wage is too high to pay employees, a perfectly reasonable question should be "if the minimum wage is too high, how come fast food restaurants are profitable and even in countries with a much higher minimum wage and competition from companies with automats?"
This updates /opt/usr/java/lib/security/cacerts [1]. On Kindles old enough that Amazon has long stopped doing feature or non-critical bug updates, that's all this update updates.

[1] http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3254035#po...
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I can’t help it. Reading this feels a bit like hidden political propaganda. It’s ridden with subtle and not so subtle negative references to gcc, the fsf and ideals.

Probably it’s me reading too much into it but it makes it hard to enjoy.
But actually this is a good idea.

Not in the current form of course.
Make it easy to ship excel data out to deep learning frameworks on the gpu using addins.
Return and graph the results.

Excel is like crack for business, why not mix in a little deep learning pcp?