skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQuery, the conversational search engine
We've built an in-site search engine with which user can engage in a dialog. User can ask questions like they would a human. Then, the search engine will predict what's the next step and give user clues to narrow their search scope. Our solution can work with any database and requires no schema/ontology.

Try it with "find me a job" or "I want to get a job in health industry that requires only high school degree". If you have any question please email guoyangrui@gmail.com

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Pointing out that Fox News is not actually a reputable news source is simply stating a fact. It was germane because the other news sources are mostly regarded as legitimate news organizations. Pointing out that Fox News is not and yet is very popular is an important point and completely related to this discussion.
Does anyone know how this library addresses the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) issue, as multiprocessing really isn't that great/is worse than running on a single thread in many versions of python.
Nobody said not to upload to BB or GL. GH is just a more popular option. You still have to choose one canonical distribution point and I would put money on your own hosting failing both earlier and more often than GH.

I think your issue here is rather personal against GH. You could say exactly the same things about uploading to BB. And you could say the same about uploading to PyPi rather than own repo, but didn't - why?
This is interesting, since from teardowns it looks like there's literally just a AAA battery in there:

https://mpetroff.net/2015/05/amazon-dash-button-teardown/
Samsung Focus: BlackBerry Hub-Like App to Debut with the Galaxy Note 6
Backyard farmers egg-static over chicken rental companies
A related question (I think), is what counts as "impossible"?

According to quantum mechanics, anything that is not prohibited by a conservation law is possible, with some non-zero probability.

So we have to pragmatically redefine "impossible" to mean "the probability is so small that it won't happen".

But then where do we draw the line between "too small" and "not too small"?

(We can also qualify "won't happen" by saying "cannot have happened in the history of the observable universe", and take into account an upper bound on the number of "events" that can ever happen in the history of the observable universe, eg ~ 2^380. So, for example, an event with probability 2^-500 on one occasion has probability < 2^-120 of ever having happened that we could know about.)
Oh sorry, I meant in Safari. Pinned tabs in Chrome was the killer feature that kept me around. When Safari finally got them I switched in a heart beat and haven't looked back since. (Other than for dev.)
The Bronze Age was an amazing period in history. It's end has many parallels to the current state of international relations.
In Seattle almost no companies have been hiring entry level devs for several months.

Fortune 500 not excluded.

Could it be lay-offs from CA migrating down to WA?
People were hacking their Dash buttons to do this, and amazon was already producing the hardware and software, so why not monetize it?
Hi meredydd! Thanks for your interest and yes, you got the reference to HyperCard ;)

1. Checkout the sample app https://hyperdev.com/#!/project/bramble-leaf for an integrated object datastore backed by DynamoDB, that works quite well! I myself built some nice stuff with it :)

2. We use a smart backend system to control user access, quota and sandboxing. For now we rely on honor system during the beta. We have systems in place to block abuse but... hopefully they won't be necessary :)
The branded ones are presumably subsidized by the brands they're labelled with, and getting them to do whatever you want is a fairly hacky process to my knowledge.

$20 is pretty comparable to most of the IoT "do anything when pressed" stuff I've seen on Kickstarter and elsewhere. It'd be a handy "arm my security system" sort of thing for me.
Obligatory link when automated lawyering comes up: http://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw.html

Worth the read.
Elastic Beanstalk is fantastic.

It's a really nice mix of not having to worry about the granular infra of Heroku, but still having control of things where you want. It makes setting up auto scaling incredibly easy.

We have a lot of services running on Elastic Beanstalk and have had a lot of success with it.
Personal aircraft aiming to take off from your home
The startup's website: http://lilium-aviation.com/
Krikey - Ghostery blocked 21 instances of a detected video player network on that page. What an overloaded mess.
Is it me, or does this writer, use far, far too many, commas?
Any tax on wealth would have similar effects: You own a business with notional value $2M? Pay X% of that each year, whether or not the business generates that amount in cash. You are a retiree with $2M in CDs or bonds, generating your retirement income? Pay taxes on the capital before you feed/clothe yourself. Etc, etc. Yes, property taxes may impact the middle- or non-1%-upper-class more than a wealth tax, and [a modest degree of] shelter is a basic human need, but market-based property taxes are significantly easier to implement (how to value privately-held businesses? how to deal with offshore assets?). Perhaps good + implementable > perfect + unachievable.
As you know three sub-atomic particles (electrons, protons and neutrons) give us the 118 elements which construct everything. All hardware can be founded on a single NAND gate. I think he's looking for that kind of fundamental core to software -- and it's missing.

I am personally quite sure that software construction will one day be a form of mathematics with symmetry being found in everything from biology and neurology to physics.
How Social Media Has Shaped Hilary Clinton's Presidential Campaign
Can any of you from the Bay Area comment on if you have found it harder to find jobs lately? Are recruiters reaching out less than they did last year?

I would be interested in hearing from some of you that have been laid off. Have you found another job in the Bay Area or did you have to leave?
You mean like a primary color scheme that looks like a child's playground?

Seriously though, this is just a joke on an Internet meme. Quit being a buzzkill.
Back then, Mozilla's plan was for the CDM to inspect the running Firefox and deny playback if it detects tampering of the relevant browser parts.

How the hell that is supposed to work if the CDM is oh-so-sandboxed is left as an exercise for the reader.

Did anyone actually check that own builds of vanilla Firefox sources are able to use the Adobe CDM? Wouldn't surprise me at all if it only worked with the official Mozilla-signed Windows binaries (yep, at least the Mozilla flavour of the "portable" and "interoperable" EME is provided for Windows and Windows only).
Interesting page! It links to what is now my new favorite wiki page name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
I'm not convinced by this narrative.

Do you have a drop-in compatible comprehensive alternative system?

Also, it's not like life today exists in a vacuum, a lot of history has passed to get us here.

Although I do believe there are better systems, and that adopting one is ultimately a matter of collective choice, it's not clear to me how to get there form here, what what 'there' even looks like.
What wodenokoto said, and also look up "Word Embeddings", word2vec is a popular method.

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/tutorials/word2vec/...

There's a bunch of blogs, tutorials, etc, around word2vec and other methods of generating vectors from a training set of words.

Also, in the tensorflow models codebase where this syntaxnet code lives, there is an another tensorflow-using-method of generating word embeddings with demonstration code called Swivel

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/swivel
Dracula – A dark theme
I agree, but all of this hubbub is about the Trending News section. Nobody seems to be saying that Facebook put their finger on the scales of what shows up in news feeds after being shared by friends. I suspect that when people say "60% of millenials get their news primarily from Facebook", they are talking about shared articles and the like, not the "trending now" section.
But: these 5 - 10 years will be the best years of your life (as you'll think of them later)...
Does there need to be money changing hands to refute promoted content ?

Companies providing perks, quid pro quo services, pre-written news stories and other non financial advantages are part of the game. None of those would trigger any of what would be labled as paid placement, but are still promoted placement.
Hi marinabercea,

sorry to hear that :( We are aware of this and completely understand it. Nevertheless, we preferred to take this route in order to test HyperDev in a "controlled" way. The experience we plan to have short after this testing period will be way more polished far less "email hungry" :)

We hope to see your feedback soon :)

- An HyperDev Developer
I haven't really seen a letup in recruiters emailing me. Not one of the ones who was laid off, though.
Livednzer
It's hard for me to put myself in the shoes of someone who thinks this law is a good idea in the first place -- I've been protesting against the idea of legal restrictions on DRM circumvention since 1999 and I think §1201 was and is a huge mistake.

I guess you could imagine having a set of criminal offenses where coercion of victims appears especially unlikely, but I'm not sure of how to identify or define those.
If I'm understanding the article, there was a net increase of 2400 jobs in the quarter. That's still pretty good. (Edit: it may seem gloomy by comparing to 2015, which seemed like an extremely good year). I googled a little because I was curious and found this:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/percapita

San Jose #1, that looks good. Although San Francisco....
>used in perfume

Are you confusing amber with ambergris?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
In small/medium teams, especially remote ones, code review helps you keep understanding of the system - you already know what your code does and it's great way to learn the rest of the system.

In some sense, it can be looked at, as asynchronous pair programming.
> Just call it what it is: entangling the state of your brain with the results of an experiment.

This is a particular viewpoint on the role of the Schroedinger equation in theory, incompatible with the Born interpretation of |\psi|^2 which is the orthodox way to use it. It is a different thought scheme that has no support in experiment. No experiment uses Schr. equation to consider how experimenter's brain gets entangled with their measurement apparatus; the ones that use it at all use it to calculate measurable values and probabilities of measurement results.
Apple only has one permission level for keyboards that send stuff over the network: full permission. There's no way to determine what exactly they send using apple's keyboard permissions API, and apple doesn't know what they send. They just know it's a keyboard that can send anything you type over the network, and warn you accordingly.

You have to either trust that google isn't flat-out lying, or try to MITM and analyze the traffic using something like wireshark, which would be difficult assuming it's properly encrypted.
You make philosophy sound like a form of OCD, obsessing about putting everything in its place.

The answer to your questions is 'all of the above, to some degree'.
I think the author's point is since aging is related to physics, you're facing exponentially increasing problems[1]. This will make it much harder to make progress against than the battle infectious diseases. (There were some similar articles a while back that focused on cancer specifically.)

[1] As opposed to there being some biological effect that you could try to 'turn off'.
Interesting, this could explain internal acronym products/services. Middle management is the decision maker. Helpy McHelpdesk vs ITHD
Nicely argued! Honest question:

> and having a non-binary system of logic makes it nearly impossible to develop any formal system of reasoning

Surely there have been efforts (probabilistic inference - I wonder if there's a rigorous calculus - maybe something of the kind of a Bayesian network)? I mean, you won't have nice rules of deduction, sure, but I wonder... Is one of the worries for a theory of truth based on some form of fuzzy logic ("truth" not being boolean) that it wouldn't be properly epistemically closed? i.e. even with some rules for inference, one would no longer be able to satisfy classical inference scenarios of the kind of "S knows P; S knows P entails Q; hence S knows Q".

Sorry if I'm just throwing pretty words around, wondered maybe you'd know something more here / pointers.
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Only tangentially related, but why can't spelling check software automatically figure out which language I'm typing in? I write mostly in English but sometimes I write in French or in a mix of both languages and I usually struggle with the spelling corrector which keeps bothering me.
> Commercial helicopters have a range of up to around 330 miles. All you'd need is about $2000 and a 100ft rope.

How many people who don't wear a uniform use a 100ft rope to enter or exit a jungle canopy if they aren't in immediate fear for their life? You're underplaying the logistical difficulty.
It stopped being a heap at the moment at which there were no longer both:

(1) more than one vertical layer (the requirement for it to be a pile), and

(2) each grain not directly in contact with the ground being above a point on the ground within the triangle defined the points on the ground directly underneath three lower grains (distinguishing a heap from other piles).

(Of course, you may have a different definition of a heap, but if once you make concrete what you mean by a "heap", the problem is resolved. If you view heap as a fuzzy concept, then there is a continuous-valued fuzzy membership function, and there is no crisp point at which the collection stops, or starts, being a heap.)
These look nice! Are they belt or chain drive?

Wow. Regen braking too.

What does one of these weigh?
duh... the point is that the joke make sense, lady
There's never a good enough reason to withhold compassion. That's the whole point of it.
> you're cute. wrong, but cute [...] please try to keep up

We've asked you before to stop being uncivil in comments here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
This is simply a failure to sufficiently define a word.
Microcosms
The EFF's public communication is much improved recently, IMHO. Even with strong interest in these issues and with technical expertise, formerly I could hardly bear to make sense of their postings.

This one still could use a tl;dr summary at the top, but the vast improvement is heartening - without good public messaging, their mission seemed very difficult. Now I feel like there's a chance.
It's hard to disentangle if those are due to CA lay-offs or if there are less CA lay-offs because of a migration due to COLA increases (my pet theory).
NY Vehicle and traffic Article 32

S 1202. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
1. Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
d. On a cross walk;

2. Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except
momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
b. Within twenty feet of a cross walk at an intersection, unless a
different distance is indicated by official signs, markings or parking
meters;

Formal definition of a crosswalk in Article 1:

S 110. Crosswalk.
(a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the
connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of
the highway between the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, between
the edges of the traversable roadway.
(b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere
distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings
on the surface.

In other words there are crosswalks at every intersection whether marked or not. Crosswalks elsewhere must be marked to be recognized as such. That is why the unmarked curb cuts in the middle of a block don't count for parking violations. T intersections are not special in any way and are subject to the same rules as all others.
source? Most entry level devs come by wave after graduation from College (+ post-graduation vacation). The number of those new college hires does not seem to have slow down, but only HR departments at those companies would know the exact trend.
Start reading article, then all text pops below the fold as ads load, then the page hangs as more shit gets loaded. If I were on Firefox I'd use the Pocket Reader mode, which strips all the extraneous bs.
And they took down that repo.
someone needs to manage a tld just like and for the same reasons someone needs to manage a domain...
Use a Pseudoinverse or a decomposition instead. A great book to read is Matrix Computations by Golub/van Loan.
I'm a couple years into the industry, and I'm still getting recruitment emails every day.

But from what I hear from my friends, new college graduates, with no experience are having a tougher time getting jobs than how it used to be 2 years ago.
A publicly funded one, no less.
Whaaaaat?? Just a NAND gate? Nah, hardware is done on a combination of standard cell library, RAM, ROM/flash, and analog components. You can't even get the volatage right with just a NAND gate.

Far as symmetry, there's potential there given some work is reducing it to math and simple constructs. Hardware too. Ill try to rrmember to give you a link when I'm off work.
I thought the shipwreck full of Copper ingots heavily implied trade.
Trump Revolution Rooted in Resentment of Technology
> Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority, co-founded by EFF, Mozilla, and researchers from the University of Michigan

I'd like to make a point about money: Institutions like these need money, or many important public goods will never exist. Consider that next time you are making donations or your legislators want to cut funding.
Then why not Dijkstra + source routing?
The signaling of secrecy
It was also what I thought when I saw the title, but if you go through the write up, you'll see that that's not the argument here and what he's saying makes sense.

He's essentially talking about the imperfect cell division which leads to increasing amount of "errors" in average cellular structure over time, and that if this is the most important cause of aging, future studies should be focused at molecular level (which is typically the domain of physics).
Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

> That doesn’t mean there is nothing we can do. More research into specific molecular changes in aging is needed.
That's pretty much how it works in Australia.
Nope! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber#Scent_of_amber_and_amber...
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/05/the-right-to-waive-your... would this be analogous?
How long will it take you to complete this maze?

You really can't tell until you've done it.
As a hiring manager in SF, my anecdotal experience is that most large companies are still hiring at the same pace they were a year ago, but that capital and subsequently hiring has dried up for smaller companies.

For experienced developers/managers, things seem to be business as usual, but in particular the "top tier" companies generally are more focused on avoiding false positives than in reducing false negatives, so I see us as entering a slightly unpleasant period for non-traditional and entry-level candidates.
If you really want to stick it to "the man", you should just use the raw IP address for your blog and forgo the domain name! ;)
This is a necessary, if painful, lesson.

I remember the layoffs right before leaving LivingSocial in 2012. A raw, human catastrophe. Watching friends pack up their things, who had been sold on the culture and vision of what the company could be, was an eye opening experience.

This is why you focus on business fundamentals. Not because it is sexy, not because you can tell ProductHunt about your run rate, and not because you want impress investors.

Because if you fuck up, everyone who depends on you gets fucked.

A few words of advice:

- Before you raise money, ask yourself if that valuation is realistic or aspirational. If it is aspirational, know that you have to reach that valuation without raising another cent, just to break even. Ask yourself if you are default dead or alive.

- Before you start a company, ask if it is solving a problem for customers or your desire "to be an entrepreneur."

- Before you hire anyone, ask if their position is a need to have or a nice have. Like customers, few businesses can afford "nice to haves"

- There is always capital available for businesses with strong fundamentals who are solving real needs.

Layoffs are like throwing up from drinking. Not fun and nearly always your (the founders/managers') fault.

- Pace yourself.

- Build a company you're proud of.

- Build something that people need.

- Growth is great for slide decks, but employees can't use it to pay rent. Don't chase hypergrowth as an end in itself.

Markets can stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent, but they can also snap back to reality before you can wake-up.
It's been a year since the bill was introduced and it appears to be languishing in the Senate: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.x...
This is advocating revenge, and being pleased to see someone suffer. Imagine she had a breakdown due to stress and her life went off the rails - would you feel that was fair? How much would she have to suffer before you are satisfied?
I just moved here a couple months ago and am currently searching for apartments. There is no doubt that most people complaining of the prices are competing for housing in the most desirable areas. However, if an area isn't desirable to live in, it quickly slides into very undesirable, for example, the Tenderloin. Is it livable? Yes, but for people who aren't used to living around a bunch of drugs and homeless people, it can look pretty daunting.
I absolutely will leave a tip on takeout.
Neat - offering everyone a little bit of AWS quota is a nice starter. (We use Google Sheets, which has...different tradeoffs.) Is there a repository of such things that I've missed?

I also really like the way you've implemented the "your source is visible (presumably unless cough mumble monetisation?) but here are where your keys go" thing.
You might be interested in Andrew Bannister's research on computer analysis of the Quran. He wrote a book on it [1], and there's also this paper which gives a high-level overview [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Oral-Formulaic-Study-Quran-Andrew-Bann...

[2] http://www.academia.edu/9490706/Retelling_the_Tale_A_Compute...
How to Predict Your Weekly or Monthly Usage Metrics
in case anyone is interested I wrote a node.js module a while back to repurpose dash buttons

not as elegant as their official IoT button, but it works (and dash buttons are 25% of the price)

https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button

edit: corrected my tired beer math
You can. But if you want it to be resolvable by everyone in the world, it needs to be added to the root servers, which are controlled by US DoC/ICANN.
She benefited greatly from a cult of personality on the way up and is now finding out it goes both ways. I myself don't feel bad for someone who enriched herself while peddling snake oil and knowingly giving junk test results to real patients. It is despicable.
One way to combat this kind of thing is to just not own any domain names whose tlds are owned by private corporations.