skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're saying they need truly early stage investors.

I wonder if the SF investors are willing to be more risky because $100k feels like so much less money. In Austin, that used to be an apartment in the burbs.
The design of this whole thing caught my eye, it's refreshingly unpolished and utilitarian but with a great deal of finesse and an appropriate amount of humour. It feels like a very honest, natively "webby" graphic design language. Lovely!
An Unintended Side Effect of Transparency
/"Isn't registration supposed to be egalitarian?"/

Not anymore, no. There was an outcry at the creation of generic TLDs back in 2008, but it wasn't loud enough or important enough and the community lost. It didn't help that it benefits most those that would have been most powerful to stop it: large corporations.
An Update from the Astronomers Who Proposed the Alien Megastructures
Shouldn't the VCs move there because the startups are cheaper because everything costs less and your $ go farther?
>Being labeled a heap doesn't have to be a binary truism. Or even a probability.

That in itself is the whole point of the original observation.

That there are things, and not fleeting things like notions and feelings, but actual tangible things, that are nevertheless not in a specific binary state, but in some non-specified intermediate state.
I hate that this is even allowed by ICANN rules.
A bunch of projects, true, though much fewer than I would like to see.

But you're right; for my project we scrapped it all. What's left is essentially a thin VM layer over hardware. It was the only way.
In Guatemala, corn fields are everywhere. For example, consider Tikal, it is in the heart of the humid jungle yet used to be a Mayan city 1000 years ago with a population of 100-200k people in the near vicinity (population density estimates put it in the same category as LA county). They cleared vast swaths of the jungle to cultivate corn.

Today you see a similar pattern among the poor, indigenous Guatemalans, though on smaller scales. As I drive through the country, I'm always astounded at how many corn fields are in the middle of a forest or on a seemingly inaccessible hillside. The majority of these rural poor are still cultivating corn by hand using techniques inherited from their ancestors. As corn was domesticated there, they have found ways to cultivate it that are very different from the industrial farms on flatland in Iowa.
I dunno, 45 minutes doesn't seem that bad for a manual deployment from scratch including documentation reading. The equivalent with gcc would be days of work.
Ask HN: How do you deal with a client who gives you seemingly conflicting specs?
Our client has asked us to use Google App Engine with djangae + the Google App Engine datastore (https://djangae.readthedocs.io/en/latest/db_backend/). The data was modeled in a relational fashion before I showed up.

The bulk of my work over the months has been putting out fires as a result of this setup.

The abstraction djangae implements to make data stored in the datastore relational has been too slow for Google App Engine's HTTP timeout.

P.S. I just started this job as the maintenance programmer, and I feel like I've been unjustly placed in the middle of this mess. I immediately suggested switching to a relational database but I was told this was a security risk and the datastore must be used.

Any advice is appreciated.
The language sounds too slippery to me. Implementors won't be sued, they say, but who decides who is an implementor? What is an implementation and what is an undesirable hack? Who is a security researcher and who is persona non grata?

If I make a time shifting system, to use the article's example, but the standard says the protocol must be played live, am I an implementor of the standard, or a nefarious hacker?

What if I create software which lets people abroad watch content from PBS Nova (currently blocked by geo-IP)?

I might even screw up and implement something usable for "bad things" by accident. Am I then an infringer, if I neither properly implemented the standard nor conducted research on it?
Seeking Lead PHP Engineer for SAAS (Buffer Competitor)
Hey everyone,

My co-founder and I are looking to bring an experienced PHP Developer onto the team. We need someone who cares a lot about end-product quality and who has a great attention to detail.

We are working with a very good development firm in Ukraine but, like all outsourcers, they don't care so much about deploying buggy software to Production or about pixel-level imperfections. We need someone who will care about the end-user experience and help build the product full-time.

I think this would be a very good role for someone who is looking to replace their job with equity and profit-share, which I conservatively expect would earn them $5-10,000 USD per month within the first 9 months.

I bootstrapped my last SAAS to ~$30,000 USD MRR/profit within 12 months and my co-founder's experience is even more impressive. We both left (sold) our previous SAAS' in order to start this one, as it is a much, much bigger opportunity. We are investing 50,000 USD+ ourselves and conservatively hope to grow it to 50k-100k MRR within the first year.

We aren't trying to save money so much as align incentives. On that note: does anyone have experience offering outsourcers profit-share or equity on top of their salary in order to align incentives and motivate attention to detail?

We are very much open to applicants from all countries, especially Ukraine and Pakistan.

Thanks,

Cam
This makes sense to me. Some domain names are worth more than others. gaming.blog will probably have a lot of value, while ilikegrasshoppers.blog is not worth very much. I see no reason why these things should be assigned the same arbitrary value when it is clear their values are not equal.
…both use accents on vowels, but only Scots uses grave (left-pointing) accents, like on à in Gàidhlig.

Just a quick note of caution here: "Scots" and "Scots Gaelic" are two completely different languages, the former being a Germanic language closely related to English and spoken in the Lowlands, and the latter being a Celtic tongue largely confined to the Highlands, the Western Isles, and Nova Scotia. If you can read English you can probably make some vague sense of written Scots, but unless you have training there's no way you'd understand a word of Scottish Gaelic. This article is referring to Gaelic, not Scots.
Whether a story trends isn't contingent on it being placed on the front page of major news sites. Most people don't get their news that way. A story is more likely to trend because someone notable talked about it or linked to it.
Activision Blizzard Media Networks Announces ESports Broadcast Network
Why the controversy over an Iowa cartoonist is no laughing matter
Google News claims to be entirely machine run without human intervention.

"The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program." [1]

[1] https://news.google.com/
This is often repeated, but there's no evidence it's true. Many great writers had no formal training.

"And that quote is almost certainly made up."

- Willem Shakespere
...and then you have an over-an-hour commute to work.
No, it doesn't. There are many ways to get use after free using unique_ptr combined with references or this pointers.
That's fucked up. At least with normal domains you pay 10$/year after buying it for whatever amount.
Are you using BOW for sentiment analysis? Also, have you tried tinkering with Watson's sentiment analyzer?

I'm working on a project that analyzes sentiment from speech, and I've been meaning to start on text sentiment analysis, but I'm not sure where to start.
Liberals are idealists, not realists.

"Pay staff a living wage and abolish tips" is a great idea, but it doesn't work well in practice.

Cue the liberals with their new line: "Pay the staff a living wage in addition to tips!"
I was speaking more about the team organization. Code reviews increase in cost as the team becomes more heterogenous and more distributed. If your team consists of a kernel engineer in Paris and an Angular developer in San Francisco, code reviews will be high cost and low value no matter how experienced the devs are.

I agree with you, even in the ideal case of a co-located homogeneous team, it's possible to screw up the process.
Bill, help me name this parser.

What kind of parser is it?

An English parser.

... :)

You know, it's a brilliant name. It's a person's name, like Siri or Cortana. But if they'd named it Jane or John, the mass media would have a fit. So they side-stepped that by making it sound computer-y, while remaining a proper name. Brilliant.
And with more data:

After nearly 8 hours:

rngtest: bits received from input: 6762248
rngtest: FIPS 140-2 successes: 156
rngtest: FIPS 140-2 failures: 182
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Monobit: 182
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Poker: 174
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Runs: 160
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Long run: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Continuous run: 0
> At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways.

There is 6 links in this sentence in the original text. I get it can help to get more context around it, but I think it's actually making the text harder to "human" parse. It also feels they have hired a cheap SEO consultant to do some backlink integrations.
This has made me realise I have no idea what the answer to these questions is: who did they buy it from? Where does that money go? Who mines/forges/lays new tlds?
Memory Management Reference
This is the same kind of fundamental misunderstanding of physics that leads to arguments like "evolution can't exist because of the second law of thermodynamics". Living things are not closed systems, the inevitable increase in the sum total entropy in the universe has no bearing on their ability to repair themselves.
ICANN.
YouTube’s New Messenger Means You’ll Never Have to Leave YouTube
Why? What intrinsically makes the value of all domains equal?
Yeah but america has a huge gun problem so I'm assuming it's in at least the top 5.
source looks surprising, for instance the decorators parse the decorated function code and build an AST (still have to find out why)
It all depends on the reviewers, some will spend expensive hours on finding minor code style issues and not understand what actually happened in the commit.
>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.

This clarification rules out your proposal as any kind of actually implementable system then, because it collapses to having a single authority who "knows" (how?) what the people would say.

If it doesn't involve actually asking people, then it's not really a polling of perceptions, but some person's idea of what those perceptions would be.
Sad news.

"They wanted to inspire good service with their tips". It's nice that they want something. I want a pony. Neither of these things happen.
Fox News isn't news, that's the point. Fox has gone to the trouble of making it clear that they're an entertainment channel, not a news channel.

If this bothers you, contact Fox.
There is a difference between saying that "it is 50% true that Sally's hair is red" and "it is true that Sally's hair is 50% red".

It isn't a scenario, it's a thought experiment. "given all relevant objective information" sounds much like the omniscient speaker which is central to the epistemic theory.
Just because you don't see a CVE doesn't mean there aren't major flaws. It just means the researcher didn't want to bother with getting a CVE.
I think this is admirable, and I think that payday loans are generally bad.

However, it's an extremely misunderstood industry. I used to generate thousand of dollars a day in payday leads from organic search, and ~50% of my applications were submitted on iPhones. I still don't know what to think about that.
This is a fantastic strategic move from Google. At the moment, in the mobile advertising space, Facebook has the upper hand, with much faster growth and way more DAUs and average daily in-app time. Facebook also threatens Google's search ad rev if they can build a Messenger based personal AI assistant that becomes people's go-to for service and product queries.

On Google's Q1 2016 earning call, Ruth Porat described how they were seeing lots of growth in mobile, but a compression in net margin. This was because traffic acquisition costs (TAC) on mobile are higher. Gboard could be a really effective measure to reverse that trend.

Gboard gets Google onto the iPhone almost at a "hypervisor" level. Every app with text input (especially Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram) will have Google branding when the keyboard is up and all the features that Gboard brings. Google is doing really well in the AI space as well, so expect to see more intelligent features integrated into Gboard as it matures.

Great move.
It works just fine in other countries
I can't really disagree with that. I usually design micro-services the same as do monoliths; it's just the client is different (another service).
Definitely; I think it's originally from Friends (possibly in a slightly different form; Xey McXerson). Haven't tracked down the exact reference, but it's well over a decade old.

http://www.duetsblog.com/2016/03/articles/trademarks/namey-m...
It makes sense that it seems to work better in higher-end restaurants. People aren't choosing those restaurants based on price (within reason). Mainstream chains are probably subject to a lot more quick glances at a menu by people who then decide the food there is too pricey and move on.

It's also hard to change a system that people are used to.
(A) Guatemala is in Central America, not South America. Central America being part of North America. In countless ways, Mexico and Central America are far more connected to the US than to South America.

(B) a lot of these cities discovered in the jungle is not because it was naturally not jungle before. Instead, it was jungle that the Maya deforested and cultivated the land. The amount of deforestation by the ancient Maya was similar (though smaller scale) to that of the Europeans.

This point in particular is critical in breaking the myth of the Maya as a super environmental people on harmony with nature. It makes them an overly simplistic "native people". The reality is they might have caused their own demise through environmental destruction (or at least the classical cities, the post classical are a different story)
Dexter – An Open Source Framework for Entity Linking
Except there are already known (rare) people who seem to age much much more slowly from superior genetics.
"Pay staff a living wage and abolish tips" is a great idea, but it doesn't work well in practice.

I work a job without tips and it works fine.
I was under the impression that it's more about budget and the ability to better predict/balance incoming and outgoing funds.
Not true at all.

He's been calling out people who vandalize messages they don't like - in particular, BLM.
Deploying an application to multiple environments in one click
Should we start other TLDs for .vlog and even .wlog?
Works well in lots of places. Tipping is an obsolescent, faux-aristocratic relic of a social hierarchy I would strongly prefer to read about in history books and not to experience in daily life.
Mammoths are extinct and elephants are "next" because of human hunting.
In California at least, you need a motorcycle license to ride one.
What does this have to do with politics?
> 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.

IMHO rather because in research projects at universities there is no position (in the sense that one can spend money on it) for people who aren't either researcher or administration. UX people surely have their importance but they neither bring research results nor they are a "necessary evil" (adminstration - which is no contradiction that good adminstration personal can be really helpful).
I've found that working with recruiters and going to conferences/meetups works much better than applying via a web form.
Politifact's parent organization, Tampa Bay Times, is part of the MSM, and not a third-party watchdog. It is incredible that they have brought fact-checking into the mainstream, but their ability to have done that is at least in part thanks to their being a part of it. Anyway, they don't provide stats grouped by people (EDIT: they do, my bad!).

Fact-checking cannot provide the kind of metric you talk about for rhetorical devices that are not drily descriptive, such as irony, hyperbole, allusion, etc. It helps that the readers have a way to look up the facts if they don't know them, but the analyses need to be read critically, same as the original statements. It's no good if you distrust one set of people and uncritically trust another. On what basis? You don't trust the politician, that's good. You don't trust some media, that's also good. But whoever in the media you choose, don't trust them blindly, they are just normal people, not superheroes.

Take, for example, this statement: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/... There is no clear-cut right or wrong. Same-day voter registration puts a pressure on the bureaucracy to be more forgiving and less thorough; that's a fact. But is that driven by the political elements who benefit from illegals voting, and do people on either side actually believe that it has an effect? That's not a factual question, that's a question for a political debate. Mr Trump's hyperbole captures this with a surprising pith.
Probably to avoid having others enter the auction, driving the price up further.
The context here is restaurant waiters and waitresses. Are you a waiter or waitress that works without tips?
Because that plays to an electric vehicles strengths (torque, energy recovery, noise and air pollution levels), and avoids their weakness(energy storage capacity and charge time).

Noise levels may actually be the big one, as it can allow a crew to work in designated quite hours which some communities have.
Lattice (YC W16) launches to help startups be productive through goal setting
For now we're focusing pretty much exclusively on f/t hiring.
I'm not talking about ownership, I'm talking about settlement finality. While these two concepts are closely related, they are not the same. Crytography cannot guarantee ownership. Ultimately force is the only thing that can do that. But crypto can guarantee settlement finality with a confidence equal to one's ability to keep a secret key secure.
I'm not sure what you're implying. The fact that we are not consciously aware of parsing grammatical structures doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

For example we know for sure that the brain applies sophisticated mathematical algorithms to signals coming from the ears to locate sound in 3D space, yet we are certainly not consciously aware of it - we just "know" where the source is located

Regarding grammar, there is a theory called Universal Grammar from Chomsky that we are born with grammar structures in the brain.

Some recent news on it - http://www.medicaldaily.com/noam-chomskys-theory-universal-g...
I wonder if people would like tip-less systems more if they were allowed to rate the service on the receipt.
Rust provides dynamic dispatch through trait objects : https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/trait-objects.html
It provides it with a simple vtable like other languages, with the same efficiency. And PGO is possible with the use of LLVM, but not easily for now : https://github.com/Geal/pgo-rust
Works well in lots of places != sit down restaurants as per the article
It's not like it's a concern for ICANN, Google owns .search, .ads, .dev, .app and more.
What's your opinion of the Graal substrate VM? It is 98% implemented in Java, allows you to precompile a VM exactly for your language, and allows you to exclude the entire Java core libraries, for a super lean, but still highly optimized and safe runtime.
I don't think anyone can (and hope that no one is ever allowed to) legally standardize presentation. Some of the examples cited in the open letter include changes to presentation (and time shifting) to suit end user requests and accessibility needs.

One could also argue that 'fast forwarding' is a form of selective time-shifting for personal use. The analog equivalent to this would be getting up to use the restroom or make a snack during an over the air television broadcast; or even switching to another channel during that set of ads.
> this was back in the 80s BTW

I'll see your 30-year old anecdote and raise you my own 10-15 year old anecdote: that didn't go on in my school at all.

As an adult, involved in the local schools, I see something different. I'd invite you to consider it through a fresh perspective, not 30 year old memories of what your life was like as a kid.
Would love to get an invite too. I have my email address in my profile, but just in case adding it here too - joonathan -at- fiji.ee
Restaurants largely want to abolish tips so that they can normalize the pay gap between their front of house staff and their kitchen staff.

It is against the law to payout the kitchen staff from the tip pool so the front of house tend to make lots more money than the kitchen, making it harder for them to find kitchen staff.
And 'Prologue' courtesy of Princeton U: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/p10185.pdf
On the other hand fast food restaurants are about as low-end as you can get. Yet they have no problem getting rid of tips there.
Oh, are we staying on context? I thought this had become an off-topic political cliche rant.
The semantics are difficult here, apologies. I can't tell if we are agreeing :)

Why do things have to be in any state, even a "non-specific intermediate" one? The original observation seems to have devolved into an argument on the fundamental nature of language expressing "state". State here implying some sort of formalism, like sets.

Can't we just assert that language doesn't assign or derive from a formal state? Rather, the use of language is highly correlated with outcomes/observations, but not intrinsically meaningful.
Aren't scooters those two wheeled skate things with handles?
I still don't see any contradiction.

A single omniscient speaker can't work, because people will disagree even with all relevant objective facts agreed upon. When two people dispute whether something is a heap, they aren't arguing over objective facts.
Facebook didn't exist in 2002 and we still went to war in Iraq.
PCs Aren't Dying. They're Just Way Overpriced
Trouble ahead for smartphone makers
It could be worse. Google (DBA "Charleston Road Registry") had a bid in to purchase .blog and make it only usable for Blogger (= Blogspot) blogs:

> This Google Registry service causes the domain name to be associated with the Blogger service, so that DNS for second-level domains (SLD) within the TLD will automatically resolve to the relevant Google service. [...] Client-initiated updates to the name servers for the domain name will not be accepted and the server will respond with an error type 2304 - “Object status prohibits operation”.

https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applications...
What on Earth is wrong with my countrymen? Tipping should be done away with and reserved only for truly excellent service.
It's supposed to answer "what does claim X mean". It's not meant to be implemented.

An approximation is carried out every time someone pulls out a dictionary to resolve a dispute over common usage.