skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hindus revere the Ganges as a god. They believe she came down from heaven to cleanse the Earth, and that bathing in her waters can wash away a person’s sins."

What a bunch of bullshit by some random westerner who does not understand jack shit.

It is quite common knowledge that in the divine sense of Ganga, she originates from the dreadlocks of Lord Shiva and thus is a manifestation of purity in some sense. Mount Kailash is generally understood as the abode of The Destroyer (of evil).

Do write about the pathetic state in which the river is in. That is being factual. Don't bring in the religious angle. That is just stepping into territory that is very difficult to grasp from a western perspective.
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Edition #129
You underestimate my pride when the US wins ribbon dancing...

Funnies aside though, people's jobs depend on wins. So why not encourage athletes to dope if you can protect them.
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The quest for immortality is the ultimate selfish narcism. The species is already immortal and will do fine without you. An almost identical human will take your place when you're gone and that human will have almost identical thoughts and feelings as you. Why does the species need to keep an old atrophying individual around? What's the point?
I had a 28.8k modem.

But my internet connection was rural, and 1200 baud. It was possible.
“Ancient Mayan city” discovered by teen may in fact be cannabis crop
Yes there is, she was selling bogus blood tests! Who cares about her feelings when innocent people made actual medical decision based on her junk science? And really what is there to be compassionate about? That she will be less rich?
Living in a country where tipping is not a big part of the culture, I must admit I've always found it one of the stranger customs in the USA.

I found the series of articles, "Observations From A Tipless Restaurant" was a really interesting analysis.

http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
When just about any system starts its lifecycle, it can fit within the brain of 1 or a few people. As the system grows, new people come in and start working on just one tiny piece. Each of those pieces then grows until it strains the limits of the person or people working on it, and usually is broken into further pieces, or has new parts built on top of it.

As this process unfolds, what once was a simple system that could be fully understood and reliably reasoned about balloons into a monstrosity with 20 layers and thousands of complicated moving parts which no person has any hope of reasoning about fully. The abstractions start “leaking” because the people working on them have gaps in understanding which leads to interface mismatches all over the place, and all kinds of bugs and other software flaws.

But in general, most of the complexity is incidental, created out of the goop of the program itself and the institutional structures of the programmers working on it rather than the inherent challenges of the problems it tackles.

Alan Kay’s idea is: what if we focus really really hard on cutting that complexity down, and spend years of disciplined effort simplifying our abstractions until a full usable computer system can have its source code printed at normal size in one medium-length book, instead of needing a whole library of books. Maybe such a system wouldn’t be used “in production”, day to day, but it might inspire us to simplify and refactor our foundations elsewhere.
> I am struggling to find a succinct way to explain why this is but the following example might be work.

That example mostly explains why fuzzy membership quantities aren't the same thing as probabilities.

> You end up running into contradictions all over the place and having a non-binary system of logic makes it nearly impossible to develop any formal system of reasoning.

Such systems (e.g., fuzzy logic) have been developed, so its clearly not impossible to develop them, and they tend to include classical binary logic as a special case.
Don't buy domains whose TLDs are run by private corporations.
Of course I'm going to leave a regulation tip. I'm not going to be the ass in this situation. (And if the mistakes were due to things like "the restaurant is incredibly busy" or "one of the other tables is full of jerks", I'll tip more because they're probably having a worse day than I am).
I think Kay believes that the scale of our current industries are a lot smaller than they could be. That the reason that they currently require us to divide our labour so extremely is incidental complexity we have built for ourselves in 60 years of small, short-sighted steps. If we could slow down and think about how to simplify what we are doing, each person should be able to handle large chunks of our current industries and together we could move on to more interesting things. Instead of struggling to reproduce the functionality of a WYSIWYG document editor from the 90s in HTML5, maybe we could move on to more easily create new classes of software that do not resemble what came before.
FYI if you're interested in the raw data from which this story is ostensibly based in part, I've dumped it into this Github repo:

https://github.com/datahoarder/ca-warn
Qualcomm just closed the Seattle and Bellevue offices over the last year, and Intel is doing the same.
来週は学校に行きません

This sentence makes no sense.
No, you likely appeared before a superior court commissioner, not a judge.

1. The agency reviews it.

2. An "independent" ALJ reviews it.

2a. Sometimes the head of the agency can and will review it.

3. * A superior court commissioner (traffic commissioner) reviews it. *

4. A superior court judge (a "real judge") reviews it.

#. Courts of appeals do NOT review these cases.

#. Supreme Court does NOT review the cases.

You got to 3 but you likely never actually saw a judge. A hearing by a "real judge" costs a hell of a lot more than $25 in California.
Yeah. One you pay a million bucks for a domain, it's around 10/year after that.
Should those deposits start to outgas (?), due to warming oceans, we'll have to aggressively, proactively burn that methane.
Given the emphasis on full automation in Let's Encrypt, it's really baffling that the official client lacks DNS-based support at this time. Anyone behind a load balancer like AWS ELB can't really use it.
This is a strange paper. It reads a lot like "Personal Dynamic Media", Kay's paper from the 1970s, which led to the Alto and Smalltalk. Back then, this was all new. Now, it's not.

The big thing here seems to be defining domain-specific languages (they don't use that term) which allow certain classes of problems to be written concisely. The examples given of those language look rather conventional:

selectionWatcher <-
when
DocEditor.selectedDocBox :b
then
this.textContents(if b then b.printString() else "")
...

Their approach to GUI programming:

layout
^ KSSimpleLayout new
keep: #topLeft of: ’titleBar’ to: 0@0;
keep: #right of: ’titleBar’ to: #right offset: 0;
keep: #height of: ’titleBar’ to: 25;
...

These are constraints for a constraint engine, which is a good idea not original with them. But writing constraints as text is painful. You can do that sort of thing in CAD programs such as Autodesk Inventor from the GUI, and you get useful error messages when you overconstrain or underconstrain. That's how web page layout really ought to work.

They created about 100 domain-specific languages, and in each, the demo programs are short, because the languages are well-matched to the specific problem. But they didn't get to the point where they put users on these languages. That's needed to find out if they're as concise as claimed, or the users end up writing complex code to get around limitations of the language.

There are widely used domain-specific languages, such as Matlab and Excel. In each of those, stuff the language designer thought of is easy, and hard stuff is really ugly. That's what usually happens.

Not seeing the big breakthrough here.
To describe this concept I've always used a boat as the subject.

Imagine you have a boat. Now take a piece off of it. Is it still a boat? How far can you go until it no longer holds the distinction of being a boat?
> and dash buttons are 4 times cheaper

If they were four times cheaper, they'd be -$60. I think you meant they're 25% the price.
> The human mind is not very well equipped for computer programming

That may be the case on average, but I know of at least one counterexample for certain.
I know. Point is there's not a particularly good option as suggests itself to me.

You too?
I suspect it's less a case of they can't and more a case of they don't. Automatic language detection can be done with reasonable accuracy.
The author of Cyclone seems to suggest that Rust is the current path forward: http://trevorjim.com/unfrozen-cyclone/

> Cyclone was an early attempt to create a programming language at the level of C, combining manual memory management with complete static memory safety. You can think of it as one step on the path that Rust and other languages have continued, one that I believe will eventually replace C, eliminating a host of severe security problems.
How is Lattice going to be a step up from other OKR trackers like Betterworks?
Do intelligent people believe this? That's as nieve as thinking hacker news' front page is determined solely by the up arrow. Or that product hunt isn't controlled by insiders.

Children believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Is it shocking that they're wrong?
Ah, but your provider got those IPs from one of the regional registries* (ARIN, RIPE NCC, etc.), who got them from the IANA, which is a division of...ICANN!

(* Unless it's a legacy IPv4 allocation that predates the RIR system.)
I hear you, and I also don't necessarily approve of her actions. However at a human level, this is simply a human in pain (assuming she is stressed). Bear in mind, she only benefited in cash, we don't know what her experience of her life is like.
سكس ام وبنتها في الحديقة بنت وامها يتناكو في الحديقة
ummmm no.

http://www.ancient.eu/Ganges/
I agree. There's a complexity tradeoff with either decision.

Having worked with both approaches, there's a time and place for both. Being able to quickly dive into a codebase is not always a good thing. One thing conservative enterprise developers should like about DSLs is that they require new developers to structure their code in a way that fits the intended domain model. I've seen my fair share of code written by developers who "quickly dove in" and they almost never fit the model and end up causing a huge mess which may be unrecoverable. Conversely, if you don't trust your developers to write decent code, trusting them inside a dynamically-typed DSL is probably not a good idea either.
In ad-blocking wars, publishers propose a détente
This is actually a rather serious limitation of statistical approaches to language: they work best with utterances that have already been said, or with concepts that are already strongly associated in common speech. Such utterances may make up the bulk of what we say and write, but the remainder isn't gobbledygook. It contains most of the intimacy, poetry, and humor of interpersonal communication, all of which trade on surprise and novelty.
Snowden derides ‘traitor versus hero’ media coverage
Except there are no homeless/sketchy people hanging out/daily crime/excess garbage on the streets where I live. It's just unfashionable, and a few minutes further out. My commute to the Financial District was shorter than my colleagues in the Richmond and Sunset.
Why Do We Buy? The 5 Secret Psychological Triggers in Copywriting
Are these postings or actual jobs filled?
I think you meant "b / a" in "a / b (instead of a^-1 * b)".
Are you claiming that Facebook was responsible for the "free speech zones" that silenced our protest against the march to war in Iraq?
Neat: a new way to waste 19 million dollars. Silicon Valley just keeps innovating.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2-5m-people-applied-nyc-...

This city isn't affordable.
So Balwani has been thrown to the wolves.[1] Who's next?

[1] http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=27...
.dad and, yes, .foo!
That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it.

If you want people protected from harassment and bullying, perhaps it follows that you would enlist the help of some of the more valiant SJWs. After all, who should know more about bullying than bullies themselves?
Did you read?

The fact that you pay a $185,000 fee first. And then in order to make your $500,000 bid, you have to put that money in escrow.

And then, you might accidentally remain the highest bidder and lose all that money in exchange for your shiny new tld.
This will be considered suboptimal by some, I'm sure, but the solution I went with is to reserve the dedicated GPU for the VM and use Intel integrated for Linux, in my case from a skylake i5-6600. Aside from that, you can get a cheap, low power second GPU (if you're using an AMD CPU for example). This is fine for me since I'm gaming on the VM, and not really doing much graphically intensive on Linux.

The idea of getting another high end card seems pretty absurd when you're putting windows in a VM specifically to deal with those situations. I recognize some people have special use cases, but they're just that, special use cases.

Really, overall, I don't consider it to be too bad of a trade off for what you get.
We know that money is not a great thing to measure to ascertain happiness, so I feel her bank account is irrelevant. And compassion is not a finite resource.
I think the question is whether there is any way to validate that the code works as he said, not whether he works at facebook or not.
But... that's not a boat. Shouldn't it be Subby McSubface?
The payload is cheap compared to delivery and control.

If you have a type of drone that can carry a useful payload (shaped charge powerful enough to disable a tank, in the ballpark of 5-10 kg, is not that feasible for a small drone - but a something like a frag grenade may be feasible), then you might as make them all real, the dummies would cost almost the same.
HN editorializes much more than Facebook.
The Centerline Principle of Strength and Power
5 Views on What Basic Income Should Be and Why It Matters
FWIW I tried following the instructions with a normal branded dash, and it is clear that the IoT button has a different firmware.

Differences:
* Amazon ConfigureMe network uses WPA2 for the IoT button. No encryption for the branded button.
* IoT button has extra fields (according to the documentation) that the branded does not. They are for a certificate, private key, REST endpoint, region, and a checkbox to agree to TOC.
By b / A he is implying a horizontal fraction bar with b above and A below. Of course, since matrix multiplication is not commutative, it’s probably better to write something like /A * b (or Matlab uses the cute notation A \ b) instead of b / A, but the intention is fairly clear from context.

(In general, most of our mathematical notation conventions are designed for the real number system, and start falling over when we have “number-like objects” which behave a bit differently.)
I'm glad they point out that we need to move on from Penn Treebank when measuring the performance of NLP tools. Most communication doesn't sound like the Penn Treebank, and the decisions that annotators made when labeling Penn Treebank shouldn't constrain us forever.

Too many people mistake "we can't make taggers that are better at tagging Penn Treebank" for "we can't make taggers better", when there are so many ways that taggers could be improved in the real world. I look forward to experimenting with Parsey McParseface.
Person from privileged background drops out of Stanford and raises hundreds of millions of dollars, in part due to family connections, to produce a fundamentally unsound blood testing product. Person then proceeds to sell a broken blood testing product to consumers as a way of digging themselves out of their obligations to shareholders. Person then lies to regulators, instructs employees to lie to regulators, and witnesses one of their chief scientists commit suicide after, according to his wife, the scientist claimed "nothing was working".

I don't care about this person. I care about all the people hurt due to this person's actions. And I am greatly saddened by the high likelihood that this person will, despite the absolute carnage, profit tremendously from the situation.
> 'Black lives matter' doesn't mean other lives don't.

Ha! Yes, actually it does mean that. Otherwise you would not single out a single group as more deserving of life than others.

When you call out a specific thing in your argument, you do that to specifically exclude other similar items.
It's nice to have everything in one place, on the same internal network.
History only qualifies as a profit center to them, If it didn't happen when nitrate film was burning, it will take a lot of organization and legislation to make it happen with bits and bytes.
It also has a potential for slowing down your code if used willy nilly, of course.

Multiprocessing gets pretty useless for anything outside of independent CPU bound tasks with little IPC and simple data types that can be stuck into shared memory.

If you're using multiprocessing pools so often that you think you need a decorator to clean up your code, then wow, I'd like to see what you're up to. ;)
What problem do you have with it?
Agreed. Unfortunately it seems Tesla requires all control commands for the car to come from their servers through their VPN for security reasons, so the phone can't control the car directly.
I'm interested to know if anyone here has used this over an extended period of time. Does it work for you? Have you become better at estimating? Have you lowered your defect rate? Have you increased your pace?

I'm skeptical that something this prescriptive could be effective, but it'd be great if there was evidence (anecdotal or a study) that shows this is effective.
Sounds like hell:

In a nutshell, Sannikov’s theories describe how an employer would adjust a contractor’s compensation in real time, in response to changing performance and external conditions. Where most previous researchers only allowed contracts to be updated at regular intervals, Sannikov described what happens when they can be changed infinitely fast.
It is only a problem if you think it matters, and there is plenty of empirical evidence that it does not.
The system rightly should not react to tossed hand grenades or ordinary 40mm grenades, just as it shouldn't react to rifle rounds or thrown rocks - those grenades have no chance of penetrating the tank's armor anyway.

If soldiers are exposed, then such a system reacting is a greater threat to their lives than a hand grenade; triggering the system is quite likely to harm nearby troops.
I feel much worse for all the people she hurt (investors, employees, patients, partners, etc). I'm sure Kenneth Lay was in pain too, but I didn't feel bad for him either.
That's why I put it in quotes. It's pretty clear the original intent was to push people to get Quattro cards for using in VMs. My impression is that they gave up on the idea for normal users and are trying to play it off while suggesting they aren't going to fuck with people any further.
Hacker Arrested After Exposing Flaws in Elections Site
This article reeks of the 'innovation boom' solution.

I think bragging about the low cost of Australian developers you can begin to see why the best devs leave for greener countries.
I noticed you use the aws CLI instead of the eb-cli. Any reason for that? This is an incredibly easy task with the eb cli
I think your argument is really grasping at straws and completely ignores the plain meaning of the words in question.
It might be. Italians use commas with the frequency English-speakers use periods (dots). You might be making his point, really.
So was there a level of human curation or not?
For anyone completely unable to view the article because it hangs trying to load: if you have HTTPS Everywhere installed, try disabling the "MNGInteractive" rule.
I assumed postings but not sure. It's just the most interesting google result I got looking around on this.

Edit: I meant that my indeed link was about postings. My assumption was that the 2400 figure (800/month) from the article was net jobs added, not postings.
It's nonsensical and an actual error for one. ;)

If you search for "来週は学校に行きません" on Google this thread is the only result.
yea, fraudulent and illegal activities generally up the stress level of anyone

she definitely deserves every bit of it.
来週は学校に行きません

roughly translates as "Next week, I won't go for school."

The correct usage is

来週は学校*へ*行きません

"Next week, I won't go to school."
Hyperloop One reaches 187kph in first test run
It isn't meaningless in this case at all. "Trending" suggests that it reflects, so some level, popular opinion about what people are discussing. If the items aren't trending, but are hand curated, then you've essentially lied.
> the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) issue

This applies to programs that run Python bytecode in multiple threads in the same process. Multiprocessing forks multiple processes, so there is no GIL issue.
Overall cool article, but it seems to blow by the fact that lawyers aren't expected, or usually practically able, to write complete contracts for the solution space (the space being all potential states of the relevant portions of the universe at time of enforcement).

When they do they're for relatively trivial contracts, or for standardized contracts (think a commodities future) that purposely limit the relevant universe to the easily measurable.

I don't think we're going to see HFL compete with human lawyers in the way that HFT competes with human traders anytime soon. To the extent that dynamically rewritten contracts become a thing I think we'll largely view them as an iteration of HFT actually.

On a partially related note I was discussing a law-tech idea with a lawyer friend who pointed out the (US at least) issue that law firms have to be owned by attorneys. A lot of potential legal tech ideas then basically are on thin ice if the tech's behavior is close enough to the line of lawyering. The HFL described would certainly run into that issue (at least enough for one case to set precedence).