skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A stance can be nuts and have value at the same time. Most anything resulting in a social change will be nutty at the outset since it challenges assumptions around status quo. Basic income was pretty nutty too when I became a vocal proponent ten-odd years ago, but the world seems to be catching up.
It is unfortunately not that easy. Consider the following function, if n is even then f(n) = BB(n/2), else f(n) = BB(2n). Then f(n) grows faster than any computable function, but still if n is odd, then f(n+1) < f(n).

However you have encapsulated the reason why I would be confident of this result. :-)
This sounds more like a troll than a tin-foil hat conspiracist. Ignore it.
Is it categories themselves that are arbitrary or the set of items belonging to a category are arbitrary? Do you mean that the meaning of a statement is imprecise in that it is vague or ambiguous? Or do you mean that the way that humans employ language to convey concepts is imprecise?

You are thinking like a psychologist or a linguist. I'm not denying that many people view this is a tedious and seemingly silly thing to argue about but you can't metaphorically just throw up you hands and claim that it doesn't matter as a valid counter argument when you are doing philosophy.
Whomever the viewer agrees with, presumably.
>Great. But don't you then use the factorization to determine the inverse of A (LAPACK example: call dgetrf to get the factorization, then call dgetri to compute the inverse using the factorization)?

No.

>How else would you solve Ax = b for x?

Call dgetrs instead of dgetri.

You use the factorisation directly (not the inverse) to get x from b. This is done by calling dgetrf to get the factorisation, then calling dgetrs to get the solution. You don't need to call dgetri.

I'd do an example, but there are other replies to your comment that go through the mathematics.
For the fixed RHEL RPM, see: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-3710
Facebook isn't being accused of pushing an agenda. The accusations are against a few of their hired contractors.
I don't see how your example leads to a contradiction. If 1 and 2 hold, and no person considers Sally to have more than one color hair, this seems fine.

>There is a box in a room that is painted yellow. A group of people is asked to state the color of the box but they are all colorblind and state that it is grey. The consensus about the color of the box is clearly wrong in this case.

My proposal doesn't depend on people actually being asked. It's more of "what would people say, if they were asked, and given all relevant objective information". Your scenario is ruled out.
Twist: When you see a pair of complex-looking Chinese character strings, but if one of them looks somewhat "simpler", then chances are that it's Chinese and the other is Japanese. Because Mainland Chinese people use simplified characters.
They decided to sacrifice verisimilitude for upholding what I call Tails's Law: A game that features AI companions should never allow AI stupidity to severely compromise the player's ability to progress. I call it that because back in the time of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, before the franchise shat the bed, the developers at Sega were canny enough to make "Tails" effectively invincible, as well as make him always follow the player and "catch up" with his helicopter tails -- so that the player need not feel responsible for escorting a character with wonky AI, nor guilty for leaving him behind or accidentally imperiling him. If the actions of an AI character can significantly impede your progress, then you've lost control and that's a frustrating situation to put a player in.

We all know what happens when this rule is not followed. See: Daikatana. Another example: the companion Lydia from Skyrim is basically programmed without any idea of stealth, subtlety, or nuance in combat situations and routinely charges headfirst into battle, putting herself at great risk of getting killed as well as compromising your position.

Generally in The Last of Us, a companion character being killed is a game over condition. If enemies were sensitive to their presence during the stealth bits, they would either have to use the environment and available cover absolutely perfectly, or they would put the player in jeopardy of a game-over without them doing anything to warrant it. The player already has enough to think about. Having to worry about what Ellie is doing and whether she fucks off someplace, attracts a Clicker, and gets bitten while not being able to do anything useful about it is a burden the player can't handle.

At least you can order Lydia around, or send her home. No such option exists with the TLOU companions, and you're stuck with them. I forgive Naughty Dog for putting gameplay above absolute realism.
This looks fantastic. I've been fascinated with parsers ever since I got into programming in my teens (almost always centered around programming language parsing).

Curious - The parsing work I've done with programming languages was never done via machine learning, just the usual strict classification rules (which are used to parse ... code written to a strict specification). I'm guessing source code could be fed as data to an engine like this as a training model but I'm not sure what the value would be. Does anyone more experienced/smarter than me have any insights on something like that?

As a side-point:

Parsy McParseface - Well done. They managed to lob a gag over at NERC (Boaty McBoatface) and let them know that the world won't end because a product has a goofy name. Every time Google does things like this they send an unconscious remind us that they're a company that's 'still just a bunch of people like our users'. They've always been good at marketing in a way that keeps that "touchy-feely" sense about them and they've taken a free opportunity to get attention for this product beyond just the small circle of programmers.

As NERC found out, a lot of people paid attention when the winning name was Boaty McBoatface (among other, more obnoxous/less tasteful choices). A story about a new ship isn't going to hit the front page of any general news site normally and I always felt that NERC missed a prime opportunity to continue with that publicity and attention. It became a topic talked about by friends of mine who would otherwise have never paid attention to anything science related. It would have been comical, should the Boaty's mission turn up a major discovery, to hear 'serious newscasters' say the name of the ship in reference to the breakthrough. And it would have been refreshing to see that organization stick to the original name with a "Well, we tried, you spoke, it was a mistake to trust the pranksters on the web but we're not going to invoke the 'we get the final say' clause because that wasn't the spirit of the campaign. Our bad."
By the way, I'm curious about your opinions on this: http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/this-philosopher-helped...

I haven't thought through much of it, but it's interesting to me. Was this taught in the 3 semesters on philosophy? (What I'm really asking, was this something considered important enough to teach at an intro level to philosophy?)
We knew they were right way before that: chemical reactions happen more slowly when colder. If you freeze your body nothing moves within your body and thus you don't age.

Biggest problem is that water expands when frozen and bursts the cell walls D:
Carding Sites Turn to the ‘Dark Cloud’
This is a great story, but the original title of "Artem vs. Predator" is much better than the submitted one.
>>In the real world, people rent because they can't afford to buy a home.

In real world, you can always bootstrap your way to a decent nest egg, whether its a retirement fund or a home. It takes time, and it takes hard work. But is very possible and a lot of people do it.

If you can't, then evaluate your spending patterns seriously. I haven't met any person yet who didn't have wasteful expenditure that couldn't be eliminated.

More often than not its not the means/resources, its lack of resourcefulness. People in general don't have the motivation to take steps towards solving a difficult problem, and the discipline to suffer through a grind and see it through to the end. This of course is a very different problem, the responsibility of which starts and ends at a individual alone.
Maybe if you want to live in trendy areas and in a big luxury condo? Obviously NYC ain't cheap but if you live in say, Ridgewood Queens or Sunnyside, you can get 1brs for 1600, easy.
Unless linked to geothermal structures, most deeply underground caves are much cooler than that, around 10-15°C.
Article doesn't address the question of whether a short lifespan is adaptive (i.e. whether current 'limits' on lifespan have nothing to do with systematic barriers). One reason for this would be the need to pack in more generations under conditions where rapid change is necessary in order to compete.

The research on extra copies of tumor-fighter TP53 in elephants suggests that when the conditions are right, senescence can be rolled back. The fact that mammoths are extinct and elephants are next could mean there are downsides to this evolutionary strategy.
Wikipedia has a more elaborate and detailed guide to this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Language_recognition...

but this article's approach is actually pretty handy and its tips are very practical.
Well I wouldn't look for idioms, but it would be interesting to throw in information such as "Strong's Concordance" into the mix, I've yet to really think of an application for this library fully, but it would be fun to play around with it nonetheless. I would be analyzing the Hebrew / Greek / Syriac scripts, seeking verses omitted, or missing, etc. It would make for interesting studying if anything.
This isn't true - unique_ptr provides protection against Use after Free which is one of the most common memory corruption vulnerabilities in modern applications.
Those great writers that break all the rules still know them.

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

-Picaso
Doesn't Grammarly[0] already do this? It analyzes the input for common grammar mistakes and proposes ways to fix them. As a student, I occasionally use Grammarly to proofread a paper for me, and it has worked pretty well so far.

[0]: http://grammarly.com
Building Slackbot in Swift
Im not usually an advocate of 'you need to hire a UX/UI person' but this really needs a good one. Its trying to show people a lot of different information and theres no graphical clarity to it at all. Worse it looks like the worst kind of interfaces from the early 1990s. Its painfully obvious nobody on the team has any graphic/visual background. I guess its just the difficulty of projects coming from a university/science/research basis where these things arent valued because they are hard to quantify.
> Technically correct,

Or, as I prefer to say, "correct".

> but using the zero length array trick creates clearer, more self documenting code. It's a tradeoff between readability and portability.

Clearer compared to which alternative? I find C99-style flexible array members (defined with "[]") quite clear.
Huh:

"How much will a .blog domain cost?

While not yet finalized, domain registration prices will be in the standard range for new top-level domains, with some premium pricing for higher-value names."

No longer 'first come, first served', now "How much you got?". Isn't registration supposed to be egalitarian?
Ask HN: How did you get your first customer for your SaaS startup?
I'm working on an AI customer service software, and we haven't incorporated yet. How should we approach customers?
I believe this is probably a poorly written headline, probably not by the author of the article. I went into it thinking the exact thing you did, but the article doesn't actually argue anything about inevitability. A better headline would have been:

Physics Makes Us Age, Not Evolution
Auto-generated UML. This requires you to be using foreign keys or maintaining the relationships in your codebase. My friend's PHP framework generates UML for MongoDB based on the code in his models
Ask HN: Org charts and job titles
I work for an organization that is currently trying to update job titles and rework the org chart to split off technical versus managerial roles. Is there any information out there to help with this process? We have struggled to find a hierarchical structure that fits our needs, and are unsure how to implement a technical role that scales in pay with a managerial role. Any advice or helpful resources?
Yes most peaple are ignorant about basic finance. That is where 'cheap and fast' loans companies get their money from
There are lots of existing libraries in PHP, why not target PHP?
Here's hoping that Microsoft adds Cortana to SwiftKey, this looks pretty exciting, but I don't own an iPhone...and I don't particularly want to use Google services.
I'm a dev with one year's experience, and recently moved to a team that reviews every PR. The benefits to me personally are super clear. #1, more experienced engineers are giving me frequent feedback, and that's obviously worth a ton. #2, it's part of my job to read other developers' code. I get exposed to patterns and design choices that I may not have in my repertoire.

Maybe the feedback I give the other direction isn't yet as valuable as what I receive on my PRs, but I trust that eventually it will be.

I totally get the posts pointing out that during crunch time, folks do pretend reviews, and the process becomes busy work. I think that's a symptom of other problems though (staffing model, etc), and not necessarily a shortcoming of peer review in general.
Small, medium, and large are contextual. If you lack sufficient context to use such classifiers then objective terms can be used - '[a heap of] 200g of wheat'.

Personally I'd classify "any quantity of discrete articles in which are least one article is held up from contact with the ground/container as being a heap". Heaps are haphazard stacks to me; ergo 2+ items constitute a heap when they are arranged appropriately.

A heap of grain is no longer a heap when spread across furrows (but may be lots of little heaps!).

It's like temperature, a volume of stuff being hot is variable 1K is hot on some circumstances, 10E3 Kelvin if cold in others but we have absolute scales to work around such issues.
Does interviewing.io have anything to offer to someone like me? Twenty years of professional experience, not interested in full-time W2 employment.
What does it mean they purchased .blog TLD?

Does this mean they bought every single domain that ends in .blog?
To avoid confusion, I assume you mean "tenet" as in principle, not "tenant" as in "occupying someone else's property", which could get confusing when talking about containers, cloud computing, and using some provider's resources.
"A two dollar apple? Why, I could buy an orange for that amount!"
Path to Craftsmanship: Safety, Cleanliness, and Documentation as Habits
Yeah I'm just happy that SOMEONE here got it.
Announcing Certbot: EFF's Client for Let's Encrypt
Analysis of Java 8 stream API through micro-benchmarking
The registry ..
I'm a big LaTeX fan, but the core typesetting engine is pretty heavily focused on print layout, so you'd have to restrict your macro subset to produce clean XML reliably. (You'd also have to see if you can produce JATS, the standard XML dialect for journal articles.)

I don't know of any good alternatives. LaTeX succeeded because of its excellent extensibility, so the core can be used to produce almost anything. I'd like to find similarly extensible tools that can cleanly produce XML as well as PDF. Maybe Pollen (http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/) will be one.

There's also Scholarly Markdown (http://scholarlymarkdown.com/), but I suspect Markdown's lack of easy extensibility will doom it, since you'd have to write documents that fit narrowly into the features they provide. (What if you want a "remark" environment and they don't provide it?) reStructuredText is also an option, since it's built for extension, but it's not very well-known outside of Python circles.
To be clear, you're arguing that hydras will outlive stars?
Large commits getting stuck in review forever, or until they have too many conflicts to be merged cleanly; small commits being over-reviewed for trivial issues because the reviewer wants to prove that they have actually looked at the code.
This is the new name of what was previously known as the official Let's Encrypt client.
They purchased the right to issue domains under that TLD as the registrar, I believe. That means they can set and collect the price for domains registered.
Clickbait title.

#ISavedYouAClick: it's a keyboard.
absolutely agree -- situational awareness of changes in the codebase, this is the number one priority. Even if a reviewer does not understand much of it, when shit happens after merge, they know why. A new issue might be related "to that thing I read in so-and-so's review the other day"
It's funny because the whole discussion only exists because there is no division operator in "matrix math". For scalars we can simply write a / b (instead of a^-1 * b) and everyone knows how to calculate it. But for some reason there's no such thing when dealing with matrices.

Well it turns out there is something like division for matrices and it's called factorization (followed by back-substitution) and there are actually many ways to do it, not just one (each having different numerical properties and complexity).

So whenever I see A^-1 * b in an equation I view it as something like b / A and I know there's the choice of "division methods" to use for this.
Can you provide a reference - is it the "black sea" or the Black Sea, if the latter what name was used for it in the oldest sources?
Charging more for some domains than others. I am disappointed.
Only if we stop worshipping at the altar of speed. We are collectively so obsessed about maximizing speed related metrics that simplicity often takes a backseat.
It does. It really is as simple as it gets.
it's like 'used' book sales.

publishers of 'books' would prefer you buy them new so that they can collect the actual profits.

they don't really earn more than 10$ per year on the sale of 'Exclusive.com' given that someone probably registered it in the 90's for 10$ and they're selling it in a private sale for thousands or millions of dollars.

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Obviously this is not amazing, if it was 'first come first serve' domain squatters would do the same thing anyways.

It's not really like the 90's any more, once 'domain squatting' was invented, it doesn't really matter if you make new TLD's, there squatting will still exist on the shortest/simplest names.
This is a much better upload of the same film: https://youtu.be/BFvJOZ51tmc
Effectively yes. Basically, they own the TLD and can sell any domains under that. So, if you want thechthrowaway.blog, you've got to pay them to purchase it. In reality, you will probably purchase this from godaddy or similar, but ultimately they own the namespace and set the price on the cost of the domains.
syntactic analysis is generally a precursor to semantic analysis

EDIT: but sure, this is only the first step and semantic parsing is far from solved
Oh good. They likely wiped their feet too.
> that prologue!

As someone who had just become a father less than a year before TLoU came out the prologue was literally the most emotional moment I had as a result of playing a video game in my life. I've had others, the end of HL2: Episode 2 struck a pretty big chord for me as well in particular, but I think it will take a long time for another game to come out that can make me feel something like that again.

Overall I'd agree with your assessment (and really, it applies to ever modern Naughty Dog title) - the gameplay is above-average but serves more as a vehicle to drive the story, but unlike many other "cinematic" games it doesn't detract from it and make the whole of the work feel half-baked.
I've seen several "new TLD's" do this pricing scheme. Typically they come up with some kind of pricing algorithm for "premium" domains by seeing if the word is in the dictionary and how often it's used in everyday language.

Things like "business.blog" will fetch a price that'll likely be in the 4 or 5 figures a year for the registrant.
Being in Japan is always a bizarre experience as a student of Chinese. I can perfectly understand a number of signs and get the gist of a surprising amount of other written language despite not understanding a word of it spoken aloud.
Wow 19 million for a couple of characters, that are an impish abbreviation of 'web log', for virtual placeholders. Does anyone even use the word blog anymore? It sounds soo last decade. How very odd. These vanity domains just don't do it for me, and this is one of the better ones.
> We wanted to stay stealth while in the bidding process and afterward in order not to draw too much attention

Why, because a major blog host owning the .blog TLD would appear anti-competitive?
Some people want to be left alone in their html `pages` club where they check for errors in the w3c validator. Some people want to make the browser usurp native applications and become the baseline for user interactions.

I don't look back at the 90's with rose-colored glasses. Web was often overlooked and we were considered 2nd rate citizens among `real` software developers. These days, the browser is a competitive alternative to native and it was years of struggle to get here. Over taking a decade of "web" understanding and convincing people that "web" is capable of more than just html.

The web is made up of people's decisions and their technology choices they choose to use. Which is basically written in every alistapart article since 1999. So let's not sit in nostalgia. Push forward with better technology because this thinking only makes it harder for those that invent and struggling for adoption from `thought leaders` who wish the world was just a series of hyperlinked XML pages.
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Heh, I don't know why it's at all surprising but I, for some reason, expected there to be some kind of restrictions regarding TLD ownership/providership.

I really dislike this, that a single entity owns a TLD when they don't have any justification for it other than 'we bought it'.

At least 99% of other TLD's are maintained by countries/orgs/etc. who at least have an arguably justified ownership.

Private entities owning all TLD's here we come.

Here comes the end of any potential anonymity that DNS provided.
Much of what is now a jungle in South America is recent, i.e. a product of the last 500-1500 years. Or rather, we know that many jungled areas were once open. Hence why we are still discovering entire settlements buried deep in jungle.
Seconded. These big companies along with the likes of Hollywood are the ones pushing w3c.
Speed = battery life which I for one find somewhat important.
Simulator Study of the Interaction of Pilot Workload [NASA 1979] [pdf]
It's amazing that in the age of Google Search that anyone places any value on the TLD for a domain. Browser vendors have run dozens of studies that indicate that most people do not enter fully qualified domains in the address bar, which is why all address bars are wired into a search provider.

I feel like the the explosion of TLDs is a very thinly veiled money grab aimed at exploiting two groups of people:

1) Trademark owners

2) Unsophisticated internet marketers
HigherMe (YC W15) is hiring sales and account execs
There are way more lucrative crops to have in the middle of the jungle.
> Metal Gear Solid

I can understand wanting to skip past the lengthy dialogue, but you're missing out on a lot of the kooky fun of the MGS franchise if you just skip past the cutscenes. If it's not your thing that's totally fine, but the MGS story is best enjoyed when not taken too seriously and just as a fun ride, and I'm guessing that might be your issue with it (please, correct me if I am off base here!)