skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the image I posted [0] there is trending topic of Justin Bieber. I have zero interest in him, in fact I've never or rarely can I recall have mentioned anything about the pop culture, music or anything else (I like classical music and some classical rock). Given all the different topic I post on FB and Justin Bieber popping up, I can image this is not all personalized news.

I also follow many people who posts news and information on Iran, and it's surprising none of them showed up on trending, except an article with intent of vilification. Seems unlikely.

Even if FB news is personalized, FB guideline indicates they can inject any news they want into this.

I noticed the same thing with the Yahoo News showing up on Yahoo email years ago and last time I checked continuing today. That source also rapidly became hawkish on foreign policy issues.
unique_ptr isn't safe, and it doesn't provide any safety that you didn't have with smart pointers in earlier versions of C++.

In fact, I'm even skeptical of the claim that unique_ptr provides significant security benefits over malloc and free. Leaks aren't the kinds of security problems we're talking about here.
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Not ironic at all, it's a common occurrence in mid-terms for the party opposing the president to do better.

You seem to be calling holding a majority in the House and Senate a "super majority," that's not what a super majority is. Generally in the U.S. federal government a supermajority requires 2/3rds in the respective body (e.g. a party holding 67 seats in the Senate would have a supermajority there) [0]. Senate rules also make 60 seats a magic number to reach on many votes but one party hasn't held that many seats since 1979.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Federal_governme...
[1] http://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm
This is called brace expansion: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/brace

Very useful stuff. E.g. mv nginx.conf{,.old}
Ignoring range issues (wouldn't be an issue for some of the shops near me I frequent) many of the bigger roads around me have 45mph standard speeds. I don't want to try driving 30 on them on something the size of a scooter.
Facebook is, as an institution, proud to have ignited national revolutions and shaped policy debates. I doubt Mr Zuckerberg doesn't do that.
I agree since you have to deal with various banking systems. In the US this would just be such a mess to support considering ACH (could you do ACH from anything akin to this Web Credits spec?). Bleh this is just a bad idea all around.
This thread makes it seem like the general opinion is that an automatically generated news feed would be better.

It wouldn't. Not for end users anyways. It would be a marketer's dream.

If you feel like that's the way things should be, write one. Make it popular. Sell it to Facebook. (And use the money to buy stock in your roommate's new online marketing firm)
Pretty ridiculous to counter "Degree holders earn more" with "not in the 1%".
I don't see a problem: No software is good enough to do it on its own (AFAIK); why wouldn't they improve the quality with human editors? Every other news source does it, AFAIK.

Will there be hearings about Fox News and whether they are biased?

I do have a concern: Facebook isn't a journalism organization, run by professonal journalists with their priorities, values and expertise. They could be very manipulative; many News Corp / Rupert Murdoch publications already do this.
Windows ignores the partition you're unzipping to and writes to the c drive, then does a very slow, tedious move to the destination partition. It's obvious it should use the destination partition in the first place.
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This article is complete and utter nonsense. Anything can be made to last arbitrarily long, given enough external resources/energy and the ability to replace its parts.
Where's the users' responsibility factor in to support the project financially or with code contributions? A gift given as is implies no responsibilities. A tool given for money should work as advertised. Yet, all this talk of responsibility appears on FOSS projects and is one way.

They have no responsibility to anyone. If you want responsibility, there's commercial offerings or you can sponsor 7-zip security for money.
Ah, sure. Those are excellent points. I wasn't really thinking about how we bridge grammatical incorrectness. For myself, perhaps because I'm a grammar nerd, I feel like I always parse someone's mistaken statements into their grammatically correct forms. But I can recognize doing that after I've already figured out what they were intending to say. Same happened with my kids. That's a helpful vector for thinking about the problem, for sure. Thanks!
Yep. LA uses a lot of power from the Intermountain plant, in Utah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Power_Plant
Power is the rate at which energy is flowing. You can get the same amount of energy by either a large amount of power for a short time or a small amount of power for a short time. A way you could have up to 50% coal power but only 5% coal energy is if you use 0% coal for power 90% of the time but 10% of the time use 50% coal power.
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Various syntactic theories (HPSG, GPSG, minimalism, construction grammars) from linguistics are certainly derived constructs, but most researchers would agree that they all reflect real abstractions that humans make. I think the NLP community has good a job of harvesting the substantive aspects (which tend to be fairly conventionalized upon across theories) without overfitting on specific cases. "Alice drove down the street in her car" is easy for people to process, "The horse raced past the barn fell" is not, because it requires a pretty drastic reinterpretation of the structure when you get to the last word.

That said, there is some interesting work on "good-enough" language processing, which suggests that people maintain some fuzziness and don't fully resolve the structure when they don't need to. [1]

[1] http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2009/papers/75/...
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I grew up on the South Side of Chicago dodging bullets and torture cops to get back and forth from my segregated grade school. 30 years later it's the same but the school is worse.
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You calculate the factorization (QR, LU, or similar), but you never calculate the inverse of the factorization:

A x = b
A => QR # QR decomposition
Q R x = b
R x = Q' b # Q is inverted by transposing
x = backsubstitute(R, Q' b)

Q was the transpose of it's inverse, and so you don't get any rounding error when you transpose it. R didn't need to be inverted because it was in a form where back substitution lets you apply the inverse of R to be without needing the inverse of R.
As a consumer of APIs I agree that having drop-in replacements for APIs is the ideal state. However, as a producer of APIs, I also appreciate the efforts required to design a good API. There's some value in that. This translates to any product other than an API, of course, but in general if somebody creates something of value, I believe people who derive value from it should respect the creators' wishes.

This case is not, of course, about APIs. It's because Sun created this enormously valuable Java developer base, and Google totally free-loaded on that to bootstrap Android. The API just happens to be the means, and hence the crux of the lawsuit.
It has been, for some parts of the city, up until the last few months. Very pleasant and yet unfashionable areas, like the area around the Excelsior, McClaren park and the Crocker Amazon, have been mostly being ignored by hipster and techbro alike. (Prices started rocketing these last couple of months, though, after 5+ years of ~5% price increases)

It's rather bemusing, considering all the shit and blood being hurled around. There's, no question, a >lot< of people quietly suffering are a result of the housing crunch in SF. But it's hard to look outside my window and not question how much of the noise is being made by entitled children squabbling over fashionable digs in the same four blocks of the mission. I even had one prospective roommate who asked me to see my mail in order to 'prove' my zip code was actually a San Francisco one.
Like I've argued before, with NoSQL you have many schemas -- one for every change (unless you delete all the data after every schema change). In SQL, you have one schema -- which is much easier to work with even when you're just doing early spec development.
It's not shutting down the criticism. Someone will always say that ("you can fix it blah blah blah") but you can just ignore it. Just don't expect anyone to put in extra hours fixing it to avoid that criticism because people who do open source work for fun in their spare time, and people who give a shit what random people they don't know say about them online are two entirely separate groups.
Perhaps they were broken hearted that Boaty McBoatface wasn't accepted.
> Or we could freeze a sample of DNA when we are young to ensure we have a non-mutated cell-line available for therapy.

So we just need some light, paradox-correcting time travel for those of us that have presumably passed the point of freezing young-enough DNA. :)
In LAPACK you would use dgetrs to solve for x directly with the LU factorization.
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First off, this is a community group "specification," which is to say, it's part of a W3C process that's supposed to be easier for lay community members to be involved--and easier for people who have no clue about implementation issues to hijack the process [1]. So I decided to do some digging to see how involved actual browser vendors were in the process...

The backstory seems to involve a very, very acrimonious community split. See http://manu.sporny.org/2016/browser-api-incubation-antipatte... (it's a biased view, and I haven't researched alternative viewpoints).

As far as I can untangle, the community group here decided they wanted to dictate to browser vendors what they should implement, complete with philosophical viewpoints. The working group that actually has traction with browser vendors and is likely to implement doesn't appear to be paying too much attention to this, and the community group seems unwilling to engage with the browser vendors meaningfully.

In short, this is unlikely to go anywhere.

[1] It should be noted that regular WGs are also amenable to this capture (e.g., the XHTML work that ended up with all the browser vendors quitting).
Are you saying news about Iran's military actions is not important to the US and its allies?

Perhaps users on FB find it more interesting and they surface it. Why does news on FB have to mimic the mainstream media?

Many times we have to read the stories about the US as reported from other countries because the MSM misses them or decides they aren't important enough.
Sure, FB can push any agenda they want. The issue is the deception. The product is marketed as organic and representative, and a number of people are indicating this is not actually the case. I'm not real familiar with current law around this type of behavior, so of its legality I have no idea.

What I would compare it to though are other deceptive business marketing practices like photoshopping before and after pics for weight-loss products, or marketing your dog food as premium, all natural meat based when it is in fact the same junk, bought from the same supplier, as another dog food brand that costs half as much (and is specifically called out as inferior in commercials).

At the least, even if not criminal, it would seem to open the door to civil lawsuits.
I think you're reading too much into it (If you're being serious).

Doubt it had any other meaning other than the team just having fun making a quip at the Boaty Mcboatface poll for a ship's name.
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I'd think that the advantage of machine translation is on corpora that are not known up front (i.e. user-supplied text) or corpora that are exceptionally large.

If you have a small (ish), well-known text, I don't think you will get much insight from machine translation. Certainly there are plenty of uses for computer text analysis/mining in biblical studies, but I doubt translation is one of them. And for obscure idioms or hapax legomena, machine translation definitely can't help you because by definition there are no other sources to rely on.
I'd rather use software to error/spell check my genome, and slowly edit to improve over time with crispr. No need to focus on my genome at birth.
The W3C advisory committee is composed of representatives of all the members, including Google and Apple.
I'll bite. :-) Java is a perfectly safe language, with one of the best defined specs out there. The JVM, however, has had it's share of vulnerabilities, but that comes with the territory of being installed on 3 billion devices.
>"1. The laws of physics were proven to false and it turned out the CO2 does not trap energy in the atmosphere."

Most skeptics agree that CO2 traps energy in the atmosphere. By itself, a doubling of CO2 should cause about 1 degree of warming.

But climate models say a doubling of CO2 will cause anywhere from 2 to 12 degrees of heating.

So you can be a climate skeptic without breaking any laws of physics. Climate "sensitivity" estimates are highly uncertain and are all over the map. Most of the predicted warming is due to climate "sensitivity" estimates, not CO2 directly.

>"2. The sun was proven to be increasing significantly in solar output and this explained the warming we have seen to date."

We do know the planet was warming before CO2 could have had any significant effect. If there were some change in solar radiation in the past it would take time for the earth to warm and come to a point of equilibrium. There is nothing ruling out this possibility.

>"3. The planet stopped warming and started cooling."

There has been no statistically significant warming for over 22 years according to satellite data.

>"4. The source of the extra CO2 in the atmosphere was found to not be the result of burning fossil fuels."

Highly unlikely.

>"5. We had highly predictive and accurate models that showed that warming via the accumulation of CO2 is not possible."

What if we could show that warming is increasing at a much lower rate than predicted by climate models?

https://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/christy_cmi...
Y not both?
I've always ignored these, it's amazing to see how much some people care about them. If it looks like an ad and smells like an ad...
Politifact isn't seen as nonpartisan. The Tampa Bay Times is the parent org and they have not endorsed any Republican candidates for President. They are a liberal newspaper and that is reflected in their fact assessments.
Code review makes you vulnerable to priority inversion. I need this change in now, to meet some deadline, but the reviewer has other priorities. Reviews pile up.

When this happens, a common response is to go work on something else, but this only exacerbates the problem: now you have a bunch of commits awaiting review which are dependent in various ways. If I merge this commit I have to go and fix up that one, and that other one. My work becomes quadratic, nursing a bunch of commits along while waiting their turn through a tiny review pipeline. 5% can be 100%.
It would be great if community could write something about the lib. :c

In my imagination it can be good for doc pages, simple blogs etc. What do you say?
I've been riding electric mopeds in SF for a while now through Scoot. They're pretty great except when they run out of batter.y
Yes, I was being playful with language, rather than straight serious. But this topic invites that.
I can't respond to your other comment because it's flagged, so I'll respond here. I think most people don't mind pedants. The comment got a handful of upvotes, so clearly on the whole the addition was appreciated.

It's absolutely possible to be a jerk about correcting someone, but a simple dispassionate "I think you meant X instead of Y" can be helpful.
It's not a great thing to deny new permits and then import the power from out-of-state. It's less efficient because you have transmission losses.

Modern society is pretty cool, but it does have some costs. I have little patience for people who want all the benefits of modern society but none of the costs.
Saying a private company can do what it wants and serve who its wants is a long time passed in the USA.
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This is from research not production, researchers in my experience are usually up for this type of fun
I understand! But yes, there's a definitive gap in the applications vs interview calls and how the applicants are picked up for interviews in general.
I wouldn't say that traditional journals in my field are biased in favor of top U.S. research institutions. The bias comes from the readers. Someone reading articles that are not directly connected with their research has a hard time judging whether the results are solid or not. It is unfortunately natural that scientist, often without even realizing it consciously, end up using proxies, such as the author's affiliation, when evaluating papers. My worry is that adding comments to the arXiv might institutionalize these biases and contribute to the formation of a more closed and elitist scientific community.
I think that the idea is not that you don't take steps that, taken together, amount to inverting `A`, but rather that you don't just try to invert `A`. Thus, I think that the idea is to do something like "Compute `A = LU`, and then invert `L` and `U`"—which of course can be used to invert `A`, but which isn't exactly the same as "Compute `A^{-1}`" (using Cramer's rule, or some other absurdity).

Incidentally, while solving `Ax = b` in general is definitely equivalent to inverting `A` (simply by taking `b` to be basis vectors, so that the solutions `x` are the columns of the inverse matrix in that basis), it is certainly possible to solve it in particular cases without inverting `A`; for example, the solution to `Ax = b`, where `b` is the first column of `A` in a particular basis, is the first vector `x` of that basis—no inversion required (nor even computation of `b`)!
What you're trying to do is draw conclusions based on very small sets of data. Sure, the article submitted agrees with your conclusion, but there's simply no way to tell if the conclusion you're drawing (and what's stated in the article) is related to your observations.

Your very small anecdotal evidence does not provide additional confirmation of the reported behavior.
It's just interesting when you have discrete entities and you can't show inductively that there is any point where the classification changes from non-heap to heap, but clearly that point must exist. It's interesting from the same perspective as what makes the ship of Theseus interesting.

the probability of something being viewed as a heap could only be measured statistically as the probability doesn't derive from some direct process. The issue can be viewed in both an axiomatic and a empirical way and both views lead to interesting conclusions.
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This is 114 miles from Ciudad del Carmen, out of which 4 helicopter charter companies fly. Commercial helicopters have a range of up to around 330 miles. All you'd need is about $2000 and a 100ft rope.

EDIT: Flores is even closer, at 72 miles.
If the text contains only plain, boring letters and you see the word "the" being used a few times... you're looking at a text in English.
> Or, when in normal operation of a nuclear power plant you are creating waste products, including the plant structure itself which are deadly for tens of thousands of years. Far longer than any human institutions or even extant languages.

So pulverize the nuclear waste product, including the "deadly" plant structure itself, mix with other stuff, and spread it evenly in a large landfill. Or even better, make fine powder and throw it into the atmosphere. With a bit of wind, everything will be well below "lowest clinical significant level."

Sounds horrible? But that's exactly what coal plants do!
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Taking the strong computationalist view here: You need to consider the complexity-class of the operation for a claim like that to be meaningful. Human beings might be outside of anything tractable beyond whatever class growing a human being is in.
;)

We could just use statistics.

Example: the DNA has 3.2*10^9 base pairs. We have trillions of cells. Even if each cell division introduced 1000 mutations, the cells would hit the Hayflick Limit at around 60 divisions. The last generation of a cell line would have 60000 mutations on average and the other cells less so.

It's nothing compared to the size of the DNA. I can't go through with the calculation right now but my guess is that it wouldn't take more than a billion cells to get to your birth DNA.

That part of my argument was just an easy way to deal with the writer's assumptions.
It's harder to deploy updatable encryption on a federated protocol than a centralized one, but as I see it, the difficulties are social rather than technical. Deploying updatable, usable encryption on P2P is technically more difficult than on federation or centralization, but I'm not convinced it's socially more difficult.

The core problem of updating federated systems is that big players can choose not to play. If Google or Yahoo decide not to support a change to email, the change is dead in the water. This isn't just hard, it's intractable.

But with P2P systems, non-reliance on peers doing anything in particular is built-in. For example, peers that don't support a change limit the size of the swarm you can peer with, but they don't inherently break the feature as long as there are some peers who support the change. Many Bittorrent clients support encryption and many don't, many bitcoin miners support alternate protocols to speed up pooled mining, and many don't.

I don't know what the implications of this would be for a system like Signal. It maybe that it doesn't solve anything; I'm just not ready to conclude that for myself yet and I'd be interested to hear Moxie's take.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100305234633/http://www.h-onli...

Took some digging, but there it is.
See the note on my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686671
I just opened Hangouts and pressed and held my Home button for NoT.

After a few seconds of analyzing the screenshot it finally came back with a "no results found" screen with a Google Search field at the top.

I typed in "dancing cat gif".

Switched to the Google Now app for results.

Tapped Images to get image results.

Found the gif I wanted, tapped on the gif.

Gif opened and played. Pressed and held on the gif, nothing happened because Google Now doesn't let you press & hold to save images.
Agreed about how the Internet game has changed. If I remember correctly Internap didn't peer with anybody they simply bought tons of transit and connected the PNAPs with local fiber.

I didn't understand your comment about "... once you move past paid peering."

Did you mean "once you move to paid peering"? I would think that moving past it would be actual settlement-free peering. But I'm curious what you meant.

Thanks.
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