skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also just habit. My aging father can't use the keyboard very well, but he has dictated letters as a lawyer for will over 30 years. I used to hear him sometimes as a child, and it was extremely fluid. It is just practice.
Liked the comparison with SpaceX. Never heard this argument before :-)
Yes. And?

Watson doesn't generate its own rules - they are hard coded.
There's no reason for SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT x)) to perform badly in Postgres, as long as you have an appropriate table design and indexes.

Also MSSQL's query planner isn't better than Postgres', I work with both. Postgres does have its quirks though, especially with the MVCC row expiry.
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A flow is a common term for pieces of an execution dag. See eg cascading or azkaban.

http://docs.cascading.org/cascading/2.0/javadoc/cascading/fl...

http://submitteddenied.github.io/azkaban2/documents/2.1/crea...
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>> Here is what I do know. Nobody on this thread has presented enough information to categorically deny that it exists. So if I see people who appear to be doing that, I'm going to call them on it.

That's not how it works. The side that makes a claim has to show that it's real. Everyone else has every right to doubt the veracity of the claim until that time. Otherwise we'd all be endlessly bogged down in pointless conversations.

Anyone can come up with a wild, fantastical idea. That doesn't mean everyone else has to waste their time trying to disprove it.

Btw, if you've made such a big todo just because you don't get that, I'll be a bit upset 'cause I've been wasting my time here.
The story? It's in many ways an irrevocable decision that technologists seem poised to render moot. Shame that the meaning of that is disregarded so...

PS... how convenient, they own the ink and the way to remove it. SV... sigh
I was expecting theater tickets http://chicagothemusical.com/
It's easier and faster to type all of this into expedia, without actually having to talk out loud. I don't understand the point of these systems.
did u type this in vim and markdown
> There's no reason for SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT x)) to perform badly in Postgres, as long as you have an appropriate table design and indexes.

Meh. Postgres' planner doesn't know how to generate a skip-scan/loose index scan for DISTINCT. You can write it yourself, but it's a bit painful:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Loose_indexscan

If you have a low cardinality that can be a huge efficiency difference.
Cool stuff, did you look at using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to perform the categorization?
I share the concern about privacy, but there is a benefit to using Google Fonts: maybe it increases the chance of the font being already cached on the client?
You're being disingenuous. The language in your original comment was quite noticeably biased in favour of the project.

You still could have written a comment about the NAWAPA but in much more neutral terms. Up to you, but with your choosing to write such a ‘ra-ra’ comment it is completely unsurprising that people responded to balance things up and point out the massive down-sides of the project which you had glossed over.
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Tell the typical suburban family that water now costs $4k a year (you need to maintain all those pipes under the sidewalk, too) or $333/mo and you'll be able to hear the screaming from China. Not to mention lots of the coast is close to mountains, and piping water over mountains is too expensive...

Californians, both humans and agriculture (that uses and wastes ludicrous amounts of water) desperately need to start using lots less water on a permanent basis.
> Jepsen, whose background and resume could leave most people gasping, is one of tech’s true, long-haul, entrepreneurial visionaries.

AFAICT, Jepsen has been more of a seagull [1] than anything. The reality is... she's been a high profile participant in a series of short-term, failed endeavors -- from OLPC, Pixel Qi, a failed Google[x] project, and now a very short stint at FB. All of these failings are well documented on Wikipedia [2]. They sound good in principle, but have never delivered.

The MRI goal is laudable, and I hope for humanity's sake that it works. But I'd hold off on the admiration until it's more than vaporware -- especially with Jepsen at the helm.

Throw away account since I'm too close to her past endeavors to speak publicly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_manager

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen
TIL visual studio is a language.
Surprised to hear you say that. When I got my first oculus, I was struck by how much better it was for nongaming applications than gaming ones. Things like Giants of the Solar System, or tours around historical sites and events. Things like providing visualisation of designs that are yet to be built. Taking a small object and examining it closely in 3d at different scales. Education, training.

I actually think the gaming features of the current crop could end up being a niche use.
Bizarre non sequitur.
Some chapters in this book (e.g. Chapter 4) contain very useful knowledge about practical algorithms for working with the underlying mathematical objects used as cryptographic primitives. Some that I found particularly useful in studying elliptic curve cryptography was the section on irreducible polynomials over finite fields.
Just some comments from looking very briefly at it:

The send API lets me wonder how it copes when the socket only allows to send half a frame and then returns EAGAIN/WOULDBLOCK? There is not a number of bytes that were really sent returned, and the ownership of the data to send was given up, so it can't be retried later on.

On the receiving side it looks like the framework is allocating the memory and then pushing the received bytes instead of the user allocating the memory and fetching it (after readiness notification). That gives up some potential for memory reuse.
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You can escape from this it you want. I'm mostly on ketogenic diet now, no sugar whatsoever and only minimal carbs-- I'm just leaving for a 20k run, and most probably I won't be hungry when I return.
Doesn't the OP say that secrets aren't allowed to be stored unless they're in the gitignore file? Does this mean they're somehow not storing the secret's history? Say by rewriting the history of those particular files in the .gitsecrets file every time they're committed so they've only got the lastedt version?
I'm glad you found it interesting :). If you are still interested in reading more, Michelle Nijhuis wrote a longform article about the project last year [1]. In the article she visits the Parsons office and interviews several long-time proponents. It is a bit long though (10 pages), but provides a great background on the (failed) project.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/nijhuis/pipe-dreams-the-forgotten-p...
This is the digital equivalent of giving me a magazine to read, waiting until you're sure I've got my eyes on it, then shoving a business card in my field of vision

This is an ironic analogy to choose, seeing as how magazines do in fact do exactly that.

I know it's been a while since anybody read one, but if you cast your mind back, you'll recall that every dozen pages or so they will have stuck in a subscription card that you'll have to shake out or even tear apart just to continue reading.

It funny in a way to see that digital media has so exactly copied that.
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I wish someone from tech would get involved more directly (by running); I'd take a tech person from anywhere in the center 95% or so on ideological issues, but with startup/engineering/tech mindset to solving non-partisan issues vs. an ideologically-aligned candidate with the standard legal, PR, politics background. Especially for the House or state offices (less for for the President)
> Anyone can come up with a wild, fantastical idea

The idea that a person's physical symptoms might have a physical cause is not wild or fantastical. By Occam's Razor it is (absent other information) the most likely explanation.
I don't usually eat breakfast, but one of the cereals I really like is Heritage Flakes from Nature's Path:
http://us.naturespath.com/product/heritager-flakes

I wouldn't consider it the same as "eating a donut" (the cereal has 4g sugar and 5g fiber per 3/4 cup serving).
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Which is the most important and must-have asset for every business in today’s digital era? A great website for ensuring a remarkable online presence, you surely agree to this, right?

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I don't expect much impact. People who do not want their tattoo now did want it permanently at an earlier stage. Back then, the permanence was part of the appeal. The implied message of commitment is the selling point, not the direct visual effect.

This is very noticeable in the tattoo decision tree: it goes "so I really want a tattoo, where do I want it and which motive?" instead of "so I really want a picture of X on my arm, do I get it painted or do I get it tattooed?"
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I always find these cool, and then remember that I know someone who built a working (well working!) prototype of this in a weekend no almost no fanfare, from practically scratch.
What you're describing is is similar how Allmusic categorises artists (categorised? I haven't used it a lot in the last few years, so I don't know how much it's changed). I used to find most of my new music via it. It was in no way algorithmic - it didn't make suggestions, it was just a case of manually following links (given that part of the pleasure comes from searching and discovering independently, no bad thing). It had genres, mood, influences, influencees, etc at the artist level at least. It would seem that Rovi's API could be better leveraged to provide good suggestions than it currently is, if all that metadata is still being attached (though there are things like Spotify's Discover Weekly that I've found to be surprisingly good which I assume use it).

[It would have been even better if that had been expanded to album/song level. As the sibling comment suggests, categorising by subject matter would be very useful for a not-insignificant number of people as well.]
Regardless of their intent, it is the license with which they released it.
Residential users don't have 100 year old water rights. Much easier to restrict their use legally.
> I often use Signal for messaging (same encryption that Whatsapp is now using). It defeats the point of encryption if I'm just sending the audio off to Google to transcribe, anyhow.

Really good point.

> As for Whatsapp: I don't have any clear reason to install that instead of Viber, Line, or a half-dozen other messaging apps. Instead, I use Signal for some paranoid friends and SMS/MMS for everyone else. I've tried other apps, but I don't really see the point of using them regularly.

I used to think the same about WhatsApp, and just use SMS/MMS and sometimes Signal. But WhatsApp is a really big improvement over SMS/MMS (the group messaging is very useful, you got typing notifications, encrypted calls, etc.) and it's more ubiquitous than Signal.
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I haven't worked with Sequelize personally, but a friend has been recently and curses the day it was born - he wishes he'd used bookshelf.
This may surprise you, but humans aren't computer programs. They generally come with individual consciences and can decide what is right and wrong. It is insulting (almost a Godwin's law violation) to compare murder with the "crime" of disregarding arcane taxi regulations. It's very clear to everyone involved that the taxi regulations in question are designed mostly to protect the profits of a few fat cats who own license medallions (no, NOT drivers... most taxi drivers don't own medallions.) And taxi drivers were almost always contractors even before Uber came on the scene, so all the whining about how exploitive it is to be a contractor, etc. etc. is completely misinformed.
Would you rather be in control of your life, or would rather it be at the mercy of the whims of a faceless corporation?

Sure each to their own.
Gotthard base tunnel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
:( unfortunately not my stack ..
Well, I wouldn't call its boring boring.
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I'm only half agreeing with you. Yes, improvements in medicine before 1920 were dramatic. Antibiotics and vaccines work wonders, making once-deadly diseases benign (e.g. pneumonia) or eradicated (e.g. smallpox).

But more recent improvements in healtcare aren't just trivial stuff either. The five-year survival rates for childhood leukemia, for instance, have been on a steady increase from 40% to 80% since 1970. Recent monoclonal antibody therapies against inflammation/autoimmune diseases have provided actually revolutionary changes in the health situation of many.

Going from chronic pain and having a hard time functioning at school/work, to living a relatively normal life, is a huge thing. But it's not captured by life expectancies.
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Sorry, my fault for being unclear. When I said server-side, I meant languages used for creating dynamic web sites rather than for writing web server software.

Obviously, C is used for writing server software like Apache and Nginx. And also used for implementing interpreters for dynamic languages like PHP.

However, my impression(which may be incorrect) is that C isn't normally used for creating dynamic web sites in the same way as PHP or Python. Hence, why I put it in the category of languages not typically associated with web development.
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Ruby 25 and Rails 23, really? I'd expected the opposite. Looking at them, half of the files makes sense, the other half is really project and dev env dependent and they don't seem to be made for the same environment. Hardly comparable.

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Ruby.gitigno...

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Rails.gitign...
Ahh thanks. I read the email they sent out, which had very similar content, but omitted that bit. Just skimmed the post itself, but obviously missed that key info.

Interesting that they don't include strengthening their encryption (ok, hashing) in the list of steps they plan to take, but presumably they will.
People will die, and then it will be the "government's fault."
Dumb question: in this context, "TPS" means... ?

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One in how many projects ships? And of those, how many are actually useful and useable?

Scratching the itch goes only so far.
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"Apple murders this space."

Not really, you just don't know what you're missing because you've never had an ecosystem like wechat and qq.
Most yogurt in America is heavy on sugar as well.
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Perhaps Swift likes Actionscript? That's where a lot of professional left Actionscript for Scala and some invested and adopted Swift. Who cares about sales drop when it's not your job, when the main goals to get Swift on cross-platforms and IoT. Contents drive sales, you seen Windows and BB, Jolla phones have failed.

It's safe to predict Swift will supported in Android and I still prefer iOS for entertainment whereas I have a bad experience on many Android phones for years including it took years for Samsung and LG to release new ROM.
He threw darts at a wall and got lucky from my perspective. Basically how he's run his whole campaign.
What you are describing is how to remove _access_ to the secret. The issue here is, that the former employee still has _knowledge_ of the secret. Hence you have to rotate the secret.
Any ideas on what is used to power the graph demo used about 9 minutes in (https://youtu.be/MI07aeZqeco?t=539)? I haven't seen something so fast and seamless in a browser.
I do apologise. According to the standards, it's officially classified as a "Semi-desert" or "Semi-arid climate" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-arid_climate
"The aqueduct would generate billions per year in hydroelectric power"

Hydro-electric sounds green, but it would be nuclear-powered hydro-electric power, if I understand the Wikipedia article correctly (nuclear power pumps the water up the Rockies, hydro-electric recovers some/most/all/more on the way down)
As I see it, Javapoly is a layer above Doppio.

As a very crude analogy: shells and editors make it easy to use the filesystem. But we can't contribute the shell / editor to the filesystem! They sit in different layers of the stack.
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I agree that the death penalty is not to be taken lightly, but that is different from arguing that it should not be used at all. There are lots of examples of crime bosses, murderers, and drug kingpins escaping from prison, but no instances of them returning from the dead. Lives may be lost from inaction as well as action, and the philosophy that "we must be 100% certain to do anything in life" is a self-serving and disingenuous argument, which could be applied equally well against any punishment the state might choose to apply.
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Relared ORM is another orm supporting postgres and mysql. It builds the models by itself by loading the required definitions from the database. https://www.npmjs.com/package/related
it depends on your problem, on what do you need, ... there are heuristics for trying to finde the best results, some are optimized for speed...
i have never seen a better heuristic than the k-opt-heuristic (implemented in LKH), not for speed, not for the results. there are some genetic algorithms, but they are much slower, but can find sometimes results who are a little better. (see the 100000 node mona-lisa tsp problem. lkh founds a tour with the length of 5757199, a genetic algorithm founds a tour with the length of 5757191, the best exact solver concorde founds the lower bound of 5757084 (so there is a gap of 107) after calculating a time of "11.5 CPU years").
heuristics have always the problem, that you can't not say if the found result is the optimum or not. so if you have to find the optimum, you have to take an exact solver (for bigger problems. for problems with <10000 nodes there are heuristics who find the optimum to 99%)
to get an idea if you are close to an optimum or not, there is the lower bound call "held-karp-lower-bound". you have to calculate a mst, a one-tree and some extra stuff to get it. than you can calculate the difference between both values.
seen on pouët: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67259

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10593196
I could have implemented it with QtWidgets, however I had found a decent UI widget library that suited my use case very well ([1]). Hence went with QML/QtQuick.

My advice - just do it :-). If you want to build a cross-platform desktop app then go for QtQuick/QML/C++. QtCreator has a bunch of example projects. Use those as reference. The Qt docs are solid. Worst case - you will learn that Qt/C++.

I am not a big fan of PyQt/PySide, especially when starting fresh with Qt - you would have a hard time figuring out how everything fits and where the issues are.

[1] https://github.com/papyros/qml-material

Paraphrasing a previous comment:

I have used web-based task/todo lists (trello, asana, etc.) but I wanted something that could be used offline - my work does not allow storing company sensitive data on 3rd-party servers.

Started the project with Electron, using AngularJS and Angular Material. That allowed rapid prototyping with a slick UI and it was fairly easy to find additional Angular-based plugins. My main motivation in selecting Electron and Angular was to learn the two technologies (easier to learn something by doing a project in it). Screenshot: http://imgur.com/NZzEFKX

Had a few issues with the Electron app - big download size (50-70MB zipped), no print functionality, app felt non-native, very convoluted process to get it published on the Mac App Store.

Decided to change the tech stack to Qt/QML. I have published C++-based games, built on Cocos2dx. Wanted to try Qt to build a serious app.

Gumroad has been a slick experience - I have opted for the fully functional trial option and let the user buy a license to use beyond the trial period. Gumroad's onboarding (buy workflow) and tech (license key generation and validation) have been a revelation.
Wordpress does not support anything other than MySQL, which is somewhat unique as far as CMSes go. There seem to be a few Drupal addons that don't mix with Postgres, but other than that it should be fine. Same with all others.

Generally, if you can, you should consider supporting Postgres in your framework. It's a much saner and robuster database from an Ops point of view (replication doesn't fail as often) and more flexible from a Dev view (performance is generally more predictable, much wider feature set with document storage / PostGIS / etc., …).
I was going to say the same, Discover Weekly frequently really impresses me with some of its selections and I have discovered some excellent artists through it. I'm into electronic music - not what I would consider really obscure stuff, but certainly not mainstream - and many other recommendation systems seem top lump anything electronic together with mainstream "EDM" etc. (which is nothing like what I enjoy) whereas Discover Weekly makes intelligent recommendations of quite obscure stuff.

I assume it uses some combination of social data (e.g. music listened to by people who listen to similar artists as you) and the intelligent classification ability they purchased when acquiring Echo Nest. There was quite a good write up about it - I think it was one of these two: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-w... or http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-...

I just wish it would save my previous weeks' playlists as sometimes I forget to listen to them and then they're gone!
Sorry I can't find it immediately but he was asked about it when Shatner was pushing this and he thought it was a great idea.

I think it fits in with his immediate solution to everything angle that's completely nuts when you stop to think about it.
An acre-foot (stupid unit!) is about 1.2 million litres.

Five average Europeans use 250,000 litres per year, and pay €3.50/l for it.

If they used as much as the Americans, that would be over $4000.
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Why would someone change a single bit in their key anyway? If keys are replaced, the new key should be generated independent from the old ones.
My first language too! haha
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Such a great post, with many valuable insights. But it is still not clear to me as to why he exactly left.
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good (2015)
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> I can elaborate if that is indeed the case.

Please do anyway.

I'm wondering whether adversarial examples can also be found for autoencoders to the same extent. It seems very intuitive that you can overstep the decision boundary that a discriminatory network learns by slightly shifting the input into the direction of a different, nearby label.