skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bad; I've edited my comment above accordingly.

> Trump's claim was analyzed. Independent experts were consulted. It's obvious why the ruling went against him.

> I don't think distinguishing between hyperbole and lies is Politifact's problem. It's simply calling a lie a lie.

When I was growing up in the Eastern Bloc, we looked up to the U.S. for their people's ability to think critically and to have their own informed political opinions. I am horrified at your implying that you outsource your thinking. We used to say, "experts were consulted", "it's obvious", "the ruling went against him". That's totalitarian language, describing a totalitarian concept. Why would you throw away your freedom of thought, willingly to boot?

Let me invite you to analyse that statement by Mr Trump and its analysis by Politfact and my comment above. What is your opinion? Can you give good arguments for it, and anticipate counter-arguments against it?
Yeah, I was focusing on the group angle, not the business angle.
one interesting use i can think of is new improved readability scores that can take into account words that are common or uncommon depending on part of speech. (e.g. a text that used "effect" as a noun would be lower-level than one that used "effect" as a verb)
Is breaking the TOS ethical? Is distributing easily identifiable and potentially incriminating information on thousands of people ethical? they didn't even scramble usernames or location.
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It's not about LOC being cost-effective, it's about orthogonality. When you're gaining knowledge about something, you're expanding your data set. When you're getting wisdom(understanding) about something, you're contracting it.

Everything that we're doing currently points to a huge scattering of knowledge but little-to-no understanding. So that's what Alan was shooting for: trying to express everything with as little as possible.

The reason we can't do it yet is that, while we think we know what we're doing, we still don't understand what we're doing.

You may not believe in a silver bullet but very smart people believe we can do vastly better. I think you may agree that we need to at least try.
This effort, and many previous ones lack of dramatic results, highlight the fact that reinventing programming is very difficult. The human mind is not very well equipped for computer programming. So it seems that the real programming revolution, will come when artificial intelligence becomes capable enough to do the programming by itself. Based on natural human language descriptions, or completely from the machine initiative. Probably that time is not too far off.

As an interesting note to this, my personal take on the matter is not to reinvent programming, that is too hard. But to reinforce it with a graphical user interface. A programming GUI will simplify programming in a similar way that an icon based file manager simplifies file manipulation. The main benefit is to free users from having to memorize textual command patterns. I haven't done a good job of explaining my vision of it, but here it is anyway: https://nzonbi.github.io/xoL/
I don't. Whether it's relevant to computers or patent law I don't know, but there are certain areas where it's seen as important that the victim is denied the right to absolve the perpetrator. For example, this comes up a lot in domestic abuse cases.

(not to say that these kind of domestic abuse policies don't have their own controversy... but nonetheless the situation isn't a cut-and-dry obviously-this-is-better type of thing)
Actually the more telling thing is that it isn't "Ad blockers" it is "Privacy Enhancers" the only thing I've got running is Privacy Badger and Forbes won't let me in, so that is the end of my online relationship with Forbes.
My thoughts as well.
I love this paradox! It actually transforms into an interesting general heuristic for life[1]: basically, any time reality throws a categorization boundary at you (you observe f(a) = X and f(b) = not-X), gradually transform it (a to b) until you see exactly where the category flips.

For example, if you have a bug in case A but not case B, gradually transform A into B and see where it disappears.

If a law says that you can do X in condition A but not condition B, see if it's legal midway between A and B.

[1] which I call the "continuity heuristic" since it depends on reality obeying a rule that if a is close to b, f(a) is close to f(b).
I hate to be the wikipedia poster here, but the entry on Biological Immortality does make for a good read in this context;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
I agree with this assessment in terms of how I feel as a customer.

But I also think that tipping is used as a form of price discrimination. So what happens to an arbitrary price when tipping is removed might not be as simple and intuitive as we would want.

Either way, as a customer I prefer transactions without tipping because of the friction of trying to manage expectations without enough information.
> Editorial control and algorithmic control are two different things.

It's also a meaningless distinction.

The point of contention is the bias, not whether the bias is imposed by an algorithm or by a human. People would still be complaining if Facebook had tweaked its algorithm to achieve identical outputs instead of employing humans to do it manually.

The truth seems to be somewhere in-between -- it was algorithmically generated and then the output was human-modified.

In general, I think the response to this post demonstrates the prevalence of magical thinking about computers, even by people who ought to know better. Bias is bias regardless of whether it's explicitly programmed behavior, emergent behavior from a carefully trained neural net, or enforced in human processes post-hoc. Distinguishing between these on the basis of where the behavior came from -- rather than whether or not there's a bias -- misses the point.

> I don't see any assertion that there's a legal problem in the parent.

The point of my post wasn't to contradict the parent post. There certainly are people who do claim it's a legal problem.
Sounds similar to OpenBSD's `pledge`, a system call that a process can use to tell the system which minimum privileges it needs, so that a buffer overflow exploit has less of a chance of running amok (depending on the program). It's new in 5.9 and most of the base system and a bunch of ports (including Chromium) have been updated to make use of it.

Of course, it doesn't completely prevent someone from doing something nasty, but it does force them to be much more targeted in which programs they can attack. Every little thing helps a little bit, and it all adds up.
I came here to cite the same paper, but your comment about efficiency is only true in a limited context. Applying an explicitly-computed inverse exposes more parallelism than solving with factors. State of the art parallel linear algebra packages like Elemental (http://libelemental.org) use selective inversion of diagonal blocks to significantly improve their strong scalability.
I think they were looking at custom architectures implemented in FPGAs.
Hey, what exactly does your marketing software do?
<sigh> So you're smarter than every physicist alive.

Well... no.

The usual statement is that entanglement can not be used to exchange information between spatially separated observers, right? I totally agree with that. But what about the wave function? If the wave function is spatially extended, then the change of the wave function has to propagate through space if one assumes that the change is caused by a local measurement. And the wave function contains the information that fully describes the state of the system but one can not learn the wave function in general because some operators are not commutative. Nonetheless a change of the wave function means a change of the information describing the system whether an observer can detect that change or not. That are of course two different things, the information describing the state of the system and the information an observer can learn about the state of the system, but I see no conflict here.

No, you can't. You're using colloquial English to reason about physics. This is wrong. Physicists have a very specific definition for "information" (as I already said, and you ignored). And in this case, no information is exchanged.

If I measure a spin without prior knowledge of its state, I obtain one bit of information, I guess that is the sense in which you want to understand information, right? If I repeat the experiment with identical preparation over and over again, then I can learn the wave function, maybe 30 % up, 70 % down. If Alice and Bob do this with their entangled cards, then Bob can decide between the case that Alice saw a red card in which case he will always see his card blue and the case that Alice did not look at her card in which case he will see his card as randomly red or blue. When Alice looks at her card she must of course perform a post selection to get rid of the pairs where she saw her card as blue.

I hope you notice that I am not trying to argue that you are wrong, I am just trying to understand what you say, especially why one would consider the result of a measurement as information but not consider the wave function as information.
It's precisely how strongly we conform to grammar, without having been taught it, which shows that it's key to our internal representations/to how we learn language.

Here is the undeniable proof that syntactic structure exists. Consider the sentence `The magician pointed at the man with the hat.' This is a perfectly natural sentence, of which there are two likely interpretations. One is that the magician used a hat to point at the man. The other is that the man who was pointed at wore a hat.

What distinguishes these sentences? Only the underlying syntactic structure, of whether to parse it as `the magician pointed at (the man) with the hat' or as `the magician pointed at (the man with the hat)'. This `hierarchical structure' of our sentences is syntactic structure at its essence.

You argue that humans can understand sentences with whatever grammar, and parsing is pretty much pattern-matching of words. But what about the sentence pair : `Benny chased Jenny' versus `Jenny chased Benny'? These have the same words, and mean different things. It is only our syntactic understanding of how words are ordered in English that allows us to understand these sentences.
What I'm curious about is what that original MVP looked like. How did the cash collection get sorted out? Was it just dumping it into a Stripe account, and then any refunds for situations where there weren't enough orders would be manually processed?

Also, I wish the article talked more about the affiliate program. A while back, I remember a distinct uptick in the number of stories and content marketing spam hitting various startup forums around how people were making it rich with Teespring and Facebook ads. It was very obvious it was the next fad in the affiliate marketing space.

How much of that was a conscious marketing push by the Teespring crew vs. just something that sprung up on its own? The "get rich quick" crowd was all over it, and I can't help but think that was a big leader in initial growth as well as content that drove organic traffic back to them (perhaps one step removed via an affiliate).
http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Numerical-Linear-Algebra-Demme...

Numerical linear algebra has a long and vast history. You really do need specialized information that your undergrad linear algebra classes would not have imparted.

For instance, the condition number is important:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condition_number
> Restaurants largely want to abolish tips so that they can normalize the pay gap between their front of house staff and their kitchen staff.

Abolishing tips isn't necessary to do this, all you have to do is set prices appropriately and pay the back of house staff correctly. (You know how some restaurants add a front-of-house "service fee" on large groups in lieu of free tipping, just do the same thing, except roll it in before computing prices, and that's your back-of-house volume-of-service pay. If you don't want to have it be a volume-based, on-top-of-hourly wage thing, do the same thing to calculate prices, but project your average volume and set your hourly wages appropriately to include what your existing wages would be plus the average amount the price increase would provide.)

It does mean that your price will have to be higher relative to your food cost than other restaurants, which might lose business. But if retaining cooking staff is valuable enough that you want to balance things, this should actually pay for itself. And, anyway, getting rid of tips and rebalancing pay between front of house and back of house means either you are going to lose front of house staff to other jobs more easily (because their total pay is cut) or increase prices just as much as you would without abolishing tips to boost back of house pay plus enough to replace the tips. Abolishing tips has no real effect here.
See also Ometa:

http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta

https://github.com/alexwarth/ometa-js

And Cola:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)

Some more links on the WP page for VPRI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewpoints_Research_Institute

And VPRI's own wiki:

http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

As far as I've been able to gather, the most immediately useful stuff, is the ideas and concepts in OMeta, as well as the various implementations of OMeta.
???

Do you mean Apollo 13? It had three astronauts on board.
This blog post[1] explains the motivation behind the name change (and moving the project to the EFF).

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/2016/03/09/le-client-new-home.html
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The official client (now Certbot) actually supports a whole bunch of different use cases; some people want full automation of everything; other people find that "invasive". The software supports both, but people would often find the wrong instructions. The new Certbot landing page tries to do a much better job of giving people instructions that are tailored to their use case and needs. Please try it and send us feedback!

https://certbot.eff.org
This just screams for these new TLD buyers to extort customers. Imagine if that happened with .com. Nice domain you have there, Facebook. What is facebook.com worth to you on a yearly basis?
> The existence of such a class of (low end) restaurants without tipping proves that it is possible to get rid of tipping altogether at low-end restaurants.

No, it proves that there is a class of low-end restaurants (and "fast food" is not coextensive with "low end" restaurants, its a subset of them) where there is no tipping to get rid of, not that it is possible to get rid of tipping in any of the places where it exists.
It means that Automattic gets a share of every .blog domain sold or renewed, and gets to enact policies around what .blog domains are available (like, can you register emoji in domain names) and other arbitrary restrictions about what can be hosted on the TLD (for example, Google was also bidding on .blog to restrict it to only Blogger sites -- but Automattic bid against them so you can do whatever you want t with your .blog)

Basically, it's an investment both in an open web and in a return on investment over the long term depending on volume of registrations.
Is the semi-repository thing you are talking about the index?

If so, I would describe the index as a sort of staging area for preparing your commit.
You might not necessarily want to include every single change in your workspace in your next commit.
The index allows you to pick which things you want to go into the commit then git-commit creates the commit from what's in the index.
If you don't care for such behaviour, and you just want to commit all changes in tracked files in your workspace, git-commit -a does that.

This[0] is one of the best tools I've seen for understanding git commands and even a bit of how git works.
It's interactive, divides things into the different 'places' that content can be in git and then shows you how each command moves content between those places. Click on the workspace and it will show each command which does things to content in your workspace, the bar the command is written on shows what the other area it interacts with is and the direction that the command moves content. I hope it helps.
[0] http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/which-age-groups-bear-largest-...

2% of tax returns are filed by teens accounting for 0% of IRS revenue.
On a meta level I find that just a little troubling. It sounds to me like "Crap, I agreed with this until I noticed it was an opinion from a tribe I don't identify with - so I can't agree with it". Maybe theweek.com is some uniquely evil thing I haven't heard about?
> I know the fact that this lone developer apparently resides in Russia has caused 7-zip to be outright banned in certain places.

That's a particularly ignorant approach, especially considering the whole thing is open-source and auditable.
Yes, but Jim Lovell was making his second trip; he had previously orbited the moon as part of the Apollo 8 crew.
Wow. Love it.

A corpus of books, organized by genre, available from Zhu & Kiros:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Embweb/
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Wolfram Alpha will calculate this out for a more cities, though it isn't as pretty

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+Omaha,+NE+to...
Nothing in thermodynamics says that it's impossible for a self-repairing system to continue to exist until it either runs out of resources or is destroyed by outside forces.
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Corn here being maize, not what we Brits call corn (a crop like wheat or barley) presumably.
Hmmmm. This is a pretty interesting (and unusual) story, now that I look into it. Part of the arrangement when FB went public is some of the larger investors ceded him irrevocable proxy rights for their shares, giving him over 50% of the votes even though he owns only 28.2% of voting shares. It's not so much a difference in share classes as a sort of side deal.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/01/zuck-power-play/

But the point remains, even if it's kind of technical when he can always outvote everyone else. He can't treat the company as his personal fiefdom if it crosses the legal interests of other shareholders. If he goes too far they can probably sue successfully.
Absence of aging in hydra:

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/51/15701.abstract

"Here, we present compelling evidence for constant mortality and reproduction of Hydra using data from careful, large-scale studies over 8 y with 2,256 individuals."

But really, you only have to point to the germline to note that aging doesn't have to exist as a matter of basic physics. The germline, like hydra, regenerates itself - rejuvenation through proficient repair. If it didn't, we wouldn't exist.

Similarly for many species of bacteria. Some of them do age, but many do not, though once you go past yeast to bacteria you start to have definitions for aging that are quite distant from what it means in complex multicellular organisms like hydra or ourselves.

So thermodynamics and entropy is - and always has been - a pretty silly place to stand when looking at aging, as we can haul out any number of complex living systems that (a) don't age and (b) absolutely follow the laws of thermodynamics, just like all of the rest of us.
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Wow, someone needs to talk to an interaction designer. That "scrolling" behavior gives me a headache.
I was actually pretty disappointed with the NER in CoreNLP - I fed a few articles (including this one) into it, and while it's impressive that a computer can do this at all, it's pretty far away from being able to build a usable product. It seems to over-recognize Persons, for example - Parsey McParseFace was tagged as a person, as were Alice and Bob, as was Tesla (in another article), and while all of these are understandable, they weren't the intended meanings in the articles. I was also pretty disappointed with the date parser: while it gets some tricky ones like "Today" and "7 hours ago", it misses very common abbreviations like 7m or 7min or even "7min ago".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11687362
Doesn't seem to work with an Australian / New Zealand accent?
I can pull open inkscape and make an okay logo for an application in a few hours and have it meet all the criteria listed in that article. Its an icon. You aren't moving heaven and earth, you're just pulling verts around until you make something that people can click on to launch your app. I'm going to repeat an earlier comment I made on this because I've really come to hate the design/UI/UX 'image' in the last few years.

>Design is getting so pretentious and haughty. The icon design evolution video, the article littered with artistic buzzwords, all this song and dance for a circle in a squircle over a gradient. And the Layout, Hyperloop and Boomerang symbols are arguably even more useless and confusing than before.
There's also a class of restaurant where you order at a counter, typically are given a flag with a number or whatever, and someone brings the food to your table when it's ready. In general, there isn't tipping in those situations either.
It's also been known for awhile that the metal products often went the other way. As early as 1200 BC a proto-Celtic people had some major copper/iron works set up along the Danube, and the trade went down the river and over Anatolia to the mideast. Jewelry with Celtic symbols were found in Sumeria.
In zsh:

autoload zmv
zmv '(*).baz' '$1.bar'
"Upvote" means something different than "agree"; one of the things it means is "I endorse people visiting this".

I can imagine quite a few sources that I wouldn't want to direct traffic to even if they published something where I agree with the sentiment.
Some feedback on what I'd like to see or couldn't find:

- preview option on the same page, C9 are the only ones I've seen that can do it but I think it's something many of us do with window managers, that is improved by being in the same app and tab especially on non-computers.

- Code formatters that run on save, most of the web IDEs I've tried only support manually running JS Beautify and they lack the ability to automate it or use any other formatters. Although it's part personal preference, some repositories enforce formatting before accepting pull requests.

- databases, otherwise it will often require a server or database hosted somewhere else plus additional software to access and build the database.

- Dropbox integration so you can always have a copy of your code close at hand and outside an IDE.
Too bad there is no mention of Popes and Saints. The Catholic church believes they are preserved because of their holiness. More likely a conspiracy of embalmers.
We aren't talking about OpenSSL here, right?
I was wondering the same. Unless it involves a security being ignored for a year or more, I don't see much of an issue with a lack of updates. I rather a developer takes their time to write their code vs. speed coding and publishing new bugs left and right.
Hey, well done on making it. Just wanted to comment that it seems to be more of a web app wrapped in a frame? Running it looks like it's just JavaScript and not native.
Yes indeed, and during the drunken biochemists' ball the suggested definition of life: "an entropy catalyst" wasn't the worst one (by far)