skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Prototype 1 Will Be Named “Mr. Yoshi’s Birthday”

Names changed because Internet

At about 16 I was in an Algebra class at a relatively small private high school in Fort Worth, and Mr. Yoshi was the teacher. Many of my classmates were older and had been on a less rigorous math-course track. Mr. Yoshi was Japanese and spoke with accented English, an even tone without many inflections which reflected his very calm personality, and I can still hear his personal way of saying “parabola” in my memories. Some of the older classmates, like Ron and Kevin, liked to try and get a rise out of Mr. Yoshi.

One morning, Ron came in and said, “Happy birthday, Mr. Yoshi!”

“Oh Ron,” Mr. Yoshi replied, “today is not my birthday.”

Eventually Kevin, Ron’s pal, started doing it too. Every class, upon walking in, Ron and Kevin would tell Mr. Yoshi “Happy birthday” and every day he would give the same, calm response informing them of their mistake. It wasn’t mean spirited, it was just goofy.

So one day while Kevin is mouthing off to Mr. Yoshi, he got personal.

“Mr. Yoshi, what did you used to do before this? I mean, why would you want to be here with us?”

“Before this,” Mr. Yoshi replied, “I worked for NASA designing and testing wings.”

You could hear a pin drop in that classroom. Kevin even had to think for a minute.

“Wait, Mr. Yoshi, you mean that you used to work for NASA and you left that to teach US?”

“Yes, it was very boring.”

Once the disbelief set in, I can honestly say that the room had an incredible amount of new respect for Mr. Yoshi. Here was a guy who worked at one of the premier places of science and math deciding that he wanted to teach immature teenagers Algebra and other math. It was mind blowing.

Oh, and so I don’t leave you hanging – though our class with Mr. Yoshi had finished the previous semester, in the next semester, when it was Mr. Yoshi’s birthday, Ron, Kevin, and some buddies made sure to bring a cake and some balloons for him. I wasn’t there to see it, but I heard how he responded with a smile:

“Oh yes, today is my birthday!”
I'm not sure what European values even are. Europe used to be the land of the enlightenment. That seems to have regressed substantially lately.
"Plummet 22%" comes off as extremely alarmist.

Median sales price dropped 1.8%. The number of sales dropped 22%.

It's a signal, but of what? That's uncertain.
Rule of Law and independence of the judiciary are also important European values.

Which are also under attack in Hungary and Poland. Germany would have forfeited the high ground in those issues if the government interfered with a prosecution, even if legally possible.
Well, it's current law and they can't just repeal the law in a few days. Sitting it out is not an option with such a publicly visible case.

The only thing which bothers me is that it is going to be effective only starting 2018. In the current situation, they'd have a huge majority in the parliament.
Except that, according to Microsoft, this change had absolutely nothing to do with the report, which they still consider to be not-a-vulnerability.
Apple and Microsoft are investing many millions of dollars [citation needed] in this, there's just no way that you can compete. Not that miracles don't happen and it's only huge corporations that build amazing things, but statistically speaking, the answer is a clear "No, it's not feasible".

If you, however, want to learn a lot, then it's a definite "Go for it".
Except... sometimes one guy really can do everything by himself, and do it much better than the other folks. However, usually the person who can do that is "too expensive" and they'd rather spread the cost (or a higher cost) over 3-4 people.

It's not just talent/skills - there's more communication overhead when dealing with a team, and when the team has a range of skill levels on it, the comm overhead can make things worse (if not managed well)
Only the first linked article is mentioned, and the author blithely ignores the actual conclusions and misrepresents them... The author of this article pushes the narrative that CDC is hiding this information any chance he gets (presumably to sell his book).
The possibility of deep NLP suggest that there are tremendous opportunities for building a personal assistant. For Deep NLP, I would suggest course CS224D at Stanford on YouTube (going on now but also delivered last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZteabVD8sU

For Deep NLP, you will need to be solid on linear algebra and machine learning. For introduction to machine learning, check out Andrew Ng at Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning and my favorite talks on Linear Algebra are the ones done by Gilbert Strang:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...

For web crawling, there are plenty of open source libraries. If you are not familiar with it, check out the Common Crawl: http://commoncrawl.org/ This is a great source of data to crawl.

If you focus solely on NLP and data from the Common Crawl (or even Wikipedia), then you will see where you stand as the smoke clears and you feel comfortable with the state of the art techniques.

Ignore all the naysayers. The good news is that it has never been easier to get started in deep NLP. Once you have the experience of training a model and seeing how well it works, you can decide on the next steps. Perhaps, you will find a niche that is not well-served that you can go after as a first step of a personal assistant.

Good luck.
Why do I have to "click to continue reading" , I can exit the tab when I don't want to read anymore.
Your fake quote sounds a bit like what Elon Musk might've said when he started SpaceX.
You are basically arguing for vigilante justice. There's a myriad of reasons why this is a bad thing for society. For example, white supremacy groups not being arrested or charged with crimes because all the cops and DAs and judges are also white supremacists. If it's truly within their world-view that a lynching is not wrong, then according to your theory it's their responsibility to not arrest or charge for it. This viewpoint is directly opposed to the rule of law.
>I don't know, because I'm not delusional maybe?

The fact that you find it unfathomable that maybe, possibly, some rich SV-types could be the bad guys here is delusional.
No man should be dragged before court in shackles to answer for his mockery of a politician. How pitiful for a great nation like Germany to be bullied into this by Erdogan. This is truly a new low, even for Europe's already troubling record on free speech. Germany desperately needs Turkey to save them from this migrant crisis, but has no real leverage.
>Several of them lamented that every department had "slackers" who'd probably be fired from any real business, but basically couldn't get sacked if they tried due to Government policies.

Seems like the end result would be a really nasty dead sea effect.
It is not quite the same, as per above comment. `daw` will delete the word regardless of the cursor position. Vim has the idea of text objects beyond "end of the word."
<<
Basically if investors were expecting 10% annual return and you tell them this year might be 1-2% they'll take that money and move it elsewhere. Now you have to raise money or sell.
>>

How can they take that money and move it somewhere? Most such investment contracts don't allow it. Am I missing something?
> not sure why the size is relevant

Because typically cutting deletes, not marks. This seems like a great implementation though.
6000 people is not an small sample size at all. I work at one of the research centers that evaluated the impact of Give Directly, and a sample size of 6000 is not small in any case.
Nobody seems to see how Merkel got this thing very right.
1.) Law says: you may prosecute it. So she "allows prosecution", as she also can't ignore diplomatic implication of doing otherwise.
2.) She also declares that the government will get rid of this law.
3.) She will surely not pressure the justice system in this case...
4.) The case will get dismissed as there is no basis for punishment any more (in Germany, you are entitled to be punished under the lesser harsh law when the law changes, and when the law disappears, there will be no punishment).

I think this was an intelligent move. She complied with Erdogans request and in return says a big "F* Y" by eliminating the law and saving the comedian.
> "Fng goats"

Let's not mince words here: it's fucking goats (or Ziegen ficken originally).
The US values freedom of expression over defamation and even over the safety of minorities from consequences of hate speech.

The deliberation between these freedoms is a matter of the political culture of a society. In Germany the opinion is shifting, and maybe not for the better.
The fact that anyone considers a shortened URL as a means to secure a piece of data outside of authentication saddens me. I think that should be the key point here. Did you just get a URL that gives you a bit of data without the need to authenticate? Then it's not secure.
As a Brooklyn resident (who rents), I hope this trend picks up steam and continues. Maybe I could be a homeowner some day after all!
Most of the books about software development in amazon can be downloaded from libgen.io. Many course in pluralsight can be downloaded via torrent. Almost every programs for windows are hacked. I accept those are not ethical but unfortunately most of the people in countries like Turkey don't pay for the products. I think those are not affordable and it increase s the use of pirate products.
Basic Income
Finally, some disruption amongst the management class. They have a long way to go in the race to the bottom.
A bit of an anecdote because the article mentions my town specifically - Tacoma:

We put our house on the market Friday, April 8th, a bit below the "redfin estimate" - I saw it had gone live by 11am and we already had an interested party set up a viewing by 12pm. We showed the house 11 times by Monday morning and had 5 offers, some 12k above asking price. We accepted an offer by Tuesday (April 12). My head is still spinning from how fast this was and how many calls we were getting for appointments for viewing. This in a central Tacoma location, not exactly prime location (like the Proctor District or Stadium). We only had 3 other homes as comps in the area (1 mile radius).

Port Orchard / Gig Harbor area is very low on inventory too, which is where we are moving (Port Orchard, we looked in GH though).
How is it up to a politician to "allow" a prosecution? Shouldn't that be up to the court?
Given that joining YC is supposed to make building a startup easier they cleared screwed up this time in not requiring clear contracts with everything specified. There is no place for oral contracts or quasi legal agreement given that the potential payoffs are so huge.
Because Merkel made a deal with him regarding the refugee crisis.

Apparently Europe isn't in control of it's own external borders anymore (in case of Greece this is to be expected of course). And the Schengen treaty removed many internal borders. So now Merkel wants Erdogan to stop refugees on behalf of Europe.

Erdogan gained a lot of indirect power in Europe with the agreement and (IMHO) this is not a good thing.
They could move to a chip-and-pin smart card, e.g. a Common Access Card[0].

I know that a lot of folks don't want a national ID card. I don't either. But that's easy enough with a smart PKI: the federal government and its agencies can trust the state governments' issuing agencies. Each state could issue CAC-like cards to its citizens, and then those folks could sign their taxes and conduct other official business.

It'd probably end up relied upon by other vendors, just like Social Security numbers, but at least a) it'd be more secure b) it'd be breakable only by the government, rather than by the government and anyone else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
Thank you :) No voice support yet but it's easy to add your own drivers to support external APIs. Official support for voice is coming in v.2 (ETA June 1st).

Yes, we will absolutely make it easy to share training data via opt-in! If I train a plugin, everyone should benefit without needing a GPU rig or 2 TB of data.
I don't know much about US law but this video makes it clear from the language that they are both doing the start up Cruise together.
I'd say look into two different source ports: namely, ZDoom and GZDoom.

ZDoom is one of the most popular source ports capable of running all WADs and it's still being maintained. GZDoom is the OpenGL supported version of ZDoom with new scripting capabilities and GL lights.

For Quake 1 there's the DarkPlaces source port, and for Quake 2 there's Yamagi or Q2PRO.
Isn't Germany trying to make a monetary deal with Turkey to provide asylum for "Syrian" immigrants? Considering that nobody else wants to take them I'm sure there is quite a bit of ass-kissing required to get this working.
I have no problem with laptop cafes, I bring mine to cafes to work all the time. I really enjoy it. But I also see merit in cafes that establish a no cell, no laptop rule (sometimes just for certain hours of the day). That would be a draw for me (honestly, the no cell phone policy tends to be more of a draw than a no laptop policy).

To me, this is very much a one size doesn't fit all situation. It makes no sense to get into a huff when people are on their laptops in a cafe that permits this. That said, remarkably, some people get strangely enraged when one cafe or bar out of twenty (or hundred) establishes a no cell phone policy. Like, they aren't satisfied that they can have their way in 95% of coffee shops and bars, it has to be this specific one, right now (these folks, interestingly, often think the matter can be cleared up by simply reminding everyone which country we live in).
Apple Has Probably Killed the ‘Air’ Brand
Quite a few states don't require a signed, written contract for agreements.
> It would have been in line with both the word and spirit of the law if she would have denied this authority.

You're technically absolutely correct, but essentially it is about separation of powers. That is also the public perception.

Strategically and diplomatically it would be the wrong move to deny it - that can only backfire in a much worse way than it does now. This will all blow over.

Altough, I'm not so sure about the other suit which Erdogan placed using his german attorney.
The fact that it's a YC application as opposed to some other type of writing is mostly irrelevant.[1] What Guillory is relying on is the statements in the application:

> [The YC application] described repeatedly that Guillory was a founder of Cruise Automation and states unequivocally in response to a question asking “who are the shareholders and what percent does each own?” that “Cruise Automation is a Delaware C Corporation created in September 2013. 50/50 split between Kyle and Jeremy.”

That writing is evidence of the agreement. Commercial practice, like what YC usually requires in terms of vesting schedule, may also be evidence of the agreement, but obviously it's weaker evidence than the words on the page. And under certain circumstances,[2] it might not even be permissible to invoke external evidence such as commercial practice to add terms to a contract.

[1] It's relevant to the extent that a YC application is the sort of thing you'd expect to contain accurate and true statements written down with some care. Besides that, it's value is its contents, not any inferences that you may make from what you know about the YC process generally.

[2] Under the parole evidence rule, when a contract seems complete on its face, you can't invoke external evidence to add terms to the contract. Although it's hard to say that in this context you have a contract that's complete on its face.
I was mainly using TOML as an example of a config format in contrast to JSON, I wouldn't say it's definitely the answer. Nesting is possible with TOML, but I'd agree that it could get pretty awkward depending on your needs: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml#array-of-tables for example.

I personally don't mind YAML all that much either, although the spec is pretty large.
Summary: GiveDirectly, a charity which has spent the past five years giving unconditional cash transfers to poor families in Kenya and other regions, will now begin a trial of basic income in multiple Kenyan villages, working with MIT researchers on the experimental design.
I doubt it. Goats have standards and we are talking about Erdogan. The only way the act would have occurred is if the animal was deceased.

Anyway - Cameron was accused seriously to have received oral sex by the vehicle of a roasted pig just a month ago - and he did the unthinkable - shrug it off. No one was prosecuted in Germany. and i am sure their tabloids reported it.
> "what everyone hates about urban change and gentrification..."

I don't mean to be inflammatory, but I've never understood exactly what "everybody" sees as the desired state.

When white people move out of urban centers, it is "white flight"... a negative phenomenon. When white people move into urban centers, it is "gentrification"... also a negative phenomenon.

Are white people just considered inherently evil, and their existence a negative phenomenon? Short of total income redistribution, and mandatory relocation (as ethnic groups tend to coalesce even without gaps in income)... what exactly is the inequality and diversity solution that "everyone" wants?
He didn't start by asking around on HN. Generally people aren't Elon Musk. Even he probably isn't Elon Musk all of the time.
(2014) 90% Indian engineering graduates are not employable – why?
Opsec tips for using Whatsapp securely
numbersusa.com is a pretty openly xenophobic website
From the article:

>> "...historically low inventory"

>> "...many sellers are sitting this year out."

>> "...The median sale price ... fell by 1.8 percent..."

The article's authors are confused. Their explanation for falling prices consists entirely of "Supply is down."

That's exactly the opposite of how supply, demand, and prices are related. If they wanted to claim that low prices are scaring sellers out of the market, since those sellers are hoping for a future rebound in prices, I might believe it. But the article claims the causality is going the other way.
Yes. A judge would almost certainly throw this case out if it were in the US.

It's satire, about a political public figure. It's hard to find speech much more protected than that.

Europe does not have free speech. In myriad ways there are restrictions on speech, from prosecution of satire to the reprehensible "Right to be Forgotten" law.
If there are any bug reports you could file, that would be much appreciated. Installing Emacs should just be a case of downloading the prebuild binaries, which shouldn't take long at all. I use Spacemacs and have never encountered any problems. I have a feeling things are still a lot worse on OSX though...
Unless the poem leaves anyone anyone with a reasonable expectation Erdogan might actually be a goat, I don't see how it could be libel. I think too that one would have to show that being a goat is a bad thing, which would certainly be an entertaining trial.

I am not a lawyer though, so take my post for what it's worth.
10 great HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials to master web development
What of it? I'm not sure how this 'context', namely the lead-in for the joke, changes anything.
It'd be better to say they are off shoring the jobs, but the result to the many low and low middle income workers affected is that their jobs would be replaced by even lower waged PH and MX workers.
Sadly once a project is closing there's not much incentive to support customers
Both the Nix language and the Dockerfile language include embedding shell scripts. Let's not pretend that Docker doesn't have its own DSL to learn. Dockerfile's are imperative, where as Nix is declarative and functional, which is a big improvement.
Ch16 of awesome, easier fun way to begin Haskell now free
Employee here - A proper analysis from Kyle is certainly on our radar, although we'll likely wait until post-beta since its such a hefty project. We're just as eager to see how CockroachDB stacks up.
I would be very glad if they just find a way to make android adjust the clock to the local timezone when I'm traveling. There is a option for that, obviously, but it simple don't work. iPhones and macs take 2 minutes or less to update the clock, but here I am, two days at my destination, and my Nexus 5 still shows home time.
If I remember it correctly, Europe never was a "land".
I can't find it on google so it must be false...

This person is talking about an ex uber employee who was hired as COO at hopskipdrive.

The terms of his "resignation" were confidential, because the truth is pretty embarassing for the company and could damage its image as a safe family company.

None of this really matters though, the whole company is just an uber feature.
In the US standards for libel against a public figure are pretty high. You can basically say whatever you want about a politician.
There is a pretty strong exception for well known personalities

Edit this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure
I’m not sure whether that is actually true …

Insults were always a crime in Germany. They are even more or less explicitly mentioned (“honor” is mentioned) as an exception in the freedom of speech article in the German constitution. (One interesting tidbit: there are no such explicit exceptions for art, i.e. art is allowed to do everything. Of course that is not totally true. As soon as two or more basic rights collide judges have to decide which one wins out and how different basic rights have to be balanced. Law is not an algorithm, it is a living, breathing thing with a certain spirit, filled with life by the people living with it, applying it and interpreting it.)

This particular law merely names a higher punishment – and requires the German government to allow prosecution.

If you think you have been insulted you always have to make a criminal complaint. Without a criminal complaint there is no prosecution (unlike with, say, a robbery, where it doesn’t matter whether you make a criminal complaint, the robbers can be convicted either way). That applies to everyone.

Erdogan actually made a criminal complaint (one that doesn’t require the permission of the German government to go ahead), too, as well as this criminal complaint that does require the government’s permission. So there would have been some prosecution and maybe even a court case either way the German government had decided, just with a potentially slightly lower punishment.

I think it will be interesting to see how this case turns out … but I would be wary of identifying any trend. In general I would argue that the German constitutional court has again and again emphasized the importance of freedom of speech as a constituent element of democracies and has also, over the years, given the right wider and wider latitude and more teeth, meaning not everything that might, at first blush, sound like an insult actually is an insult. But the exception exists, sure, and always has.

There is also no doubt that what the comic said is insulting content. It was explicitly named as such and that’s pretty uncontroversial … the constitutionally much more interesting question is whether the context in which the insults were packaged is enough to restore the freedom of speech. I personally think it should be and I hope that judges will decide that way … but it’s a honestly tricky question.

I mean, one thing is for sure: Simple disclaimers (“Saying the following would be illegal: …”) are not enough. The law is not stupid … but we are not talking about simple disclaimers here.
I'd still like to see delete added goo.gl