skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When politicians say we must do X or Y to get everyone jobs to "boost the economy", they lose sight of the point of jobs, enact policies which destroy well paying middle class jobs to produce a large quantity of jobs no one really wants to do, thinking quantity can substitute for quality. In this case, they voluntarily give up our power so we can "serve" the economy or GDP, even though no such power relationship ought to exist.
The nagging has gotten so bad. Even on desktop. I feel like I see less on Android, but it's been a while.
You seem to be making a false equivalency. Both the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution created more jobs than they destroyed. A job being some task that can be done that has a net benefit to society. As it stands even without AI we are seeing more jobs destroyed than created with just the software revolution. Sure there are more people in tech than there were before and they are being paid handsomely, but that is largely because most companies need less employees than they used to while making the same or more amount of money.

Once most of customer service and human drivers are eaten by software, which will probably happen without solving 'hard AI' tech will employ even fewer people.

Jobs will only be created out of that if cheaper transportation and customer service enables a new place in the market that wasn't already existent.

So far I don't know of any jobs that the AI revolution has created other than people that create and train AI systems. It simply wouldn't be profitable to employ these people if they weren't destroying more jobs than they take up.
I love the fact that ocaml compiling to js allows us to configure tools like Atom. I will have a look at the plugin. Thanks for the informations :)
Yes, but the problem is on the client (browser) side.
Yeah, AFAIK, extension methods just have to work on POCOs, which string and money (or decimal) are.
One of my favorite UIs
Hi Debra! Thanks for the hard work on Vote.org.

Have you thought about efforts to open up access to a nationalized voter file? As it stands right now, a one-time snapshot of all 50 states would cost approximately $144,000. This makes it difficult for get out the vote efforts, and for efforts to identify registration irregularities.

Also, have you thought about open sourcing your work at all? I know there are a large number of developers ready and willing to help efforts like this, particularly for a non-profit like yours.
Hmm, where did you get the idea of noone working? Most people don't work on sundays, but some of course do. Because vast majority of population doesn't work, this makes elections more accessible.
The rent for office space is around $75 dollars a square foot per year in SF.

Oopsie, forgot we're talking about SF here. Haven't looked at Seattle-area office space in a while, but I'm willing to bet it's nowhere near $75/sq. ft.
Indeed. He did a Ted talk on font design 2 years ago. Very interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_carter_my_life_in_typefaces
Yeah, I think if you mindlessly do anything, you're gonna have a bad time.

Think of the cleanup branch as a running list of changes that you know you will need to make to remove the flag. Any future references to the flag should keep this cleanup list in mind. Code reviewers should keep these cleanup lists in mind.

This list of cleanup tasks happens to be expressed as a branch in your VCS (this is a pretty good way to express changes that need to be applied to a codebase). You will still need to be careful when you execute that list, but it will be helpful to have the running tally of things that need to be done.
The Australian system makes registration compulsory as well. Quite a few places have compulsory registration and optional voting.
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Coming from a country like India, I have a different opinion. We have FPTP but the voter turnout is somewhat higher (60-85% depending on the state) compared to the US. There are a large number of political parties but only three or four of them can be considered national (have representatives in more than one states). Most of the parties are local to a state or a relatively small community (often a caste) and tries to appease their voter base as much as possible.

This system definitely allows smaller communities to be heard on the national stage, but it also frequently leads to situations where no single party or pre-election coalitions have enough representatives to form a government (they need at least 50% seats). As a result, coalitions are often formed between unlikely partners who are ideologically worlds apart. Parties forming a coalition at a state level while disparaging their partner at the federal level is quite common, and the number of hoops the politicians jumps through to justify their positions is hilariously sad.

Due to this coalition politics, often important legislation can't be passed as it is difficult to make any progress while satisfying all the partners. The government is also prone to "blackmail" from coalition partners who often threaten to withdraw support unless their demands are met. In a two-party system, at least things move. In a multi-party scenario, there is always a risk of a complete deadlock.
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> I also find it much more plausible that a third party would make inroads at the state and local level and build momentum from there, rather than a third party candidate emerging out of nowhere and taking the presidency outright.

For example, and independent in Vermont could become a mayor, then Governor, then Senator, and then have a shot at the White House.
probably not. The only real solutions are discouraging enough people from moving that population remains static over years, or making it super easy to build as many units as needed to cover the influx of new residents.

Anything else will just result in downtown portland and the nearby areas becoming unaffordable for anyone who isn't rich.
Perhaps you're thinking back to the days of manually configuring CUPS?

Any recent printer I've used has just been plug it in and hit print. A better experience than Windows in terms of included drivers and bonjour support too.
"...QFT...does not work when space-time curvature is important". Forgive the probable confusion of an ignoramus, but is there significant space-time curvature in the vicinity of a gold atom nucleus? I ask because I remember these claims about special relativity and the gold atom: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/ - of course, I could be dreadfully confusing special relativity effects with general relativity effects.
A truly odd article. The posited question is whether Portland can avoid making SF's mistakes, but then it goes on to lament that Portland isn't committed to the same "progressive" housing policies that SF is (rent control, "affordable housing" minimums, stronger lease termination regulation). In fact, I don't see anywhere that SF's mistakes are even enumerated, so maybe the headline was just written by editor who wished that the writer had explored them.
Somewhere I read a while ago: These people do not cross the ocean to get to the mainland or to other far away islands on their boats.

Reason ? They haven't yet invented oars.
Indeed, I think just about every occupation should be unionized.

It would even be beneficial to let small business owners unionize against larger companies.

Imagine how much the economy and small business owners, say gas station owners, could benefit if they all unionized and could collectively bargain against Shell, and could collectively set the wage/prices they sell gas.

One can dream...
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TSA is falling apart
Me too. Are there any others you could recommend?
> I'm sure there is a need for a cobol bridge, just surprised to see it pop up.

Note it’s a Node bridge, i.e. call Node from COBOL, not the other way around.
> Remember in a 2 party system each side wants to minimize the perceived differences.

I don't know that I agree. In practice, it's hardly happening (look at the Republicans and Democrats; at Trump and Clinton), and I don't see why it would happen.
The main problem is people who aren't allowed to take a couple hours off without being threatened with firing. Even if they are able to, they may get paid less which for someone in/near poverty can be unacceptable. Most retail and fast food workers are in this situation, for instance. Many of them will be working/commuting the entire time the polls are open.
What is with hacker news' obsession with pilot wave theory? Many in quantum information consider uncertainty to be a feature, not a bug.
Do want to learn this - does anybody know any interesting projects that can take advantage of the OCaml ecosystem and functional aspects?
I am currently at the Rapid conference in Orlando where the HP announcement was made. When the technology was first announced last year I'm pretty sure they were the only ones using this kind of process. There are a few different powder/binder/inkjet type machines out there now but I don't think anyone is doing fusion in the same way.

The entire discipline of additive manufacturing is rapidly expanding with new processes and applications.
She apparently wrote a book 15 years ago: http://www.amazon.in/Tribes-Car-Nicobar-Madhumala-Chattopadh...

I don't know how one would go about researching Indian anthropological expeditions to find the officially-documented connection to reality, but presumably that's where you'd start, if you wanted to verify the story.
There's a very good book by the same name about Smallpox eradication and the debate over destroying remaining stocks of the virus. I highly recommend it.
I've worked on the Atom plugin for this, itself written in Reason and compiled to JS using js_of_ocaml: https://github.com/facebook/reason/tree/7f3b09a75cacf828dd6b....

Having worked with Reason, JavaScript, and the bridge between the two, most of my errors seem to fall on the JavaScript side. So I guess the type system's indeed working =).
One doesn't need to be "well informed" about politics to express a perfectly valid preference based on one issue that is important to them
(indeed, democracy works much better if people who aren't very informed about politics in general turn up to vote en masse against a politician that proposes something that will harm their relatively uninformed demographic[1])

The real reason not everyone should vote is that it's not a good thing for people don't feel strongly enough about something to vote to deprive those that do of relative political influence.

[1]a corollary of this is that variable turnout is probably a good thing (easier to discriminate against a demographic if you know that 100% will vote for the other guy regardless of how they act)
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Ah yep, I forgot it's the canonical link. That's more of a small computational convenience though, right, at least when fitting a straightforward GLM -- it should be very cheap to fit regardless.

I suppose the logistic having heavier tails than the normal is probably the main consideration in motivating one or the other as the better model for a given situation.

Logistic being is heavier-tailed, is potentially more robust to outliers. Which in terms of binary data, means that it might be a better choice in cases where an unexpected outcome is possible even in the most clear-cut cases. Probit regression with its heavier normal tails, might be a better fit in cases where the response is expected to be pretty much deterministic in clear-cut cases, and where quite severe inferences can be drawn from unexpected outcomes in those cases. Sound fair?
I think we've destroyed the word "competition" - both Lou Gehrig and Ty Cobb were quite competitive.
The real parse hosting providers are back4app and nodechef. Back4app has a very good support and a better interface. I've decided to go with them.
Getting an education has never been cheaper in 2016 then any other time in history.

What you are paying for is validating your knowledge when you go to college. I hope we start the argument by first getting the basic facts right.
Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.

http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers
https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
Not right to be squeezed out of a city you call your home but "weird people" will find/build new places hopefully.

I am sure there are up and rising places similar to the previous forms of SF and Portland that are kept off the radar?
Yes, it works great. The Secretary of State's office solicits a pro and con opinion from interested groups. At the bottom of the opinion is a laundry-list of groups that co-wrote the statement. That list is often more informative than the contents of the statement itself. The booklet also includes a candidate statement submitted by the candidate for each position.
no-op point is true (except for logged out users - then the check is still useful)

Anyway, how do you consistently decide to which 10% you show the new feature?

That piece of data is better stores in your Users table, as I see it. Plays well with authorization libs.
Inheritance isn't the same thing as subtyping:

(0) Inheritance is a (rather undisciplined) form of code reuse - it's literally automation for copying and pasting part of an existing definition into the body of another. It doesn't presuppose a notion of type.

(1) Subtyping is a semantic relationship between two types: all terms of a subtype also inhabit its supertype(s).

There's nothing too wrong with inheritance as long as you're aware that it doesn't always lead to the creation of subtypes. This is, for example, the case in OCaml.

Sadly, Java, C# and C++ confuse matters by conflating classes with types (which is tolerable) and subclasses with subtypes (which is a logical absurdity and leads to painful workarounds, I mean, design patterns, as we all have learnt the hard way).
Agreed. When Spotify stops putting Coldplay in my Radiohead station, I'll begin to worry.
Iirc pilot wave theory better explain wave/particle duality but afaik there isn't yet a theoretical experiment I know of which could tell it apart from the current theory.
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His moving to facebook explains why he didn't do the zork interpreter in F#.

Not sure why the Reason syntax isn't more like F# though.
For B2, making an open source version of the amazon data transfer appliance would be cool.
> How do you intend to get people like me to vote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11715896
OpenPCI driver system released under GPL
There are now several startups claiming to have "fast" photopolymer printing technologies. However Carbon is more about the materials R&D than the machine, it was merely a tool. CLIP is the most legitimized with press, funding, customers, and IP. (I just met the Carbon folks today to see their machines)
A public holiday would be a far less authoritarian way of achieving the same end. Postal ballots and the option of extending voting hours also exist.

And frankly, if people are at risk of being fired for taking time out to vote, the problem is that employment law allows people to be fired for voting, not that electoral law doesn't compel them to choose between the risk of being fired or the certainty of being fined.
I find the "Discover Weekly" playlists to be very good at this.
Based on the user requirements I usually get (or lack thereof) I think it will be a few years yet until I am out of a job.
Yes I saw it hours ago in person
Every campaign website I have ever seen clearly explains the candidates position on all relevant issues. If you are looking for third party sources, you can also see the information compiled be VoteSmart.org and OnTheIssues.org.

Your state's Secretary of State office will list upcoming elections, and BallotPedia.org collects many of these.

The resources are already out there and available. It says something that you didn't even know that though.
Ah. I see. I was conflating your reply with the grandfather.

With regard to mobile apps - I was thinking more about non-commercial or hobbyist apps - the interesting, quirky or niche.
Judging by history, that seems a safe assumption.
I agree, I would guess extensions also probably don't have access to chrome's password store. Trusted code can be handled differently.
One of these days, someone may give me a credible explanation of why printing involves a systemwide daemon, but I kind of doubt it. I'd love to see a rearchitecting of the whole mess such that the whole print daemon runs in in a sandbox with user privileges.
Wow europa has an atmosphere?

It has less gravity than earth's moon.

(I love how google can now tell me gravity of planets and moons)
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The end of code seems like a title created by a sensationalist... I am excited for how these forms of pattern recognition and decision making can allow us to do more with software. There is still plenty of code to be written as we continue to apply software to every aspect of our world.
Great point! And since - as described - it's all open source, there doesn't even need to be Federal oversight or management.

If the only thing standing between now and doing it is the will and tech support, that's an easy problem to solve.
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Have you been to northern states? The roads barely resemble roads.
> Download the installation script from Brother, run it, it asks me for the hostname of my printer and I'm up and running.

But this is already sounding archaic and difficult isn't it? Just download and run an installation script? Give it the host name? No way a nontechnical user is going to be able to do either of those things.

Why doesn't the printer just appear like it does on my Mac? I'm not even sure what my printer's host name is so I wouldn't even be able to do that step myself!
The circumstances under which I discovered/reported the bug were totally coincidental too. I noticed a friend use the file command and thought to myself "Hmm I've never actually used that command before. Let me try it out." Ran it on a TODO list text file I had lying around, scratched my head over the "Erlang JAM file" output, and went from there.
We won't know until we try. People are afraid of this option because they will be called elitist (see parent commenter), but the 'elites' would not be the ones a good solution would favor. If it fails then we fall back to where we are now.
But all they have is quantity. The only thing actually quantifiable in quality is the Likert (1-5) scale stuff marketers use. If it's not quantifiable, how can you even talk seriously about it? Isn't this the flaw in the thing?

Politicians need GDP growth because of how government is financed. This isn't foolish nor power-hungry. It's just more or less a fact.

And turn this on it's head - somewhere, a guy/gal is making something you don't even know you'll need yet, who you have never met. That's the thing least about power I ever did hear.

Specifically, jobs-as-political-fodder is ensconced into law in the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1979, which lays on the Fed the dual mandate of currency stability and employment. If it is oppressive, it certainly wasn't anticipated to be that; quite the opposite.
There are much better ways we could design systems for expressing these preferences than the relative proportions of a losing vote.
The problem this article (and others) make is assuming that "progressive" policies are good for housing affordability. For example, the "There are limits to urban white liberalism" lament from the Community Alliance of Tenants. He's apparently upset that people don't follow through with their politics, but, as far as I can tell, there's no requirement that, in order to be liberal, you have to support specific housing policies.

Maybe some of your liberal friends are in favor of ACTUAL affordability, rather than a litmus test of policies that you need to support to get street cred, but don't actually do anything for housing?
The decision to put Edge under the Windows org and make it Windows-only was a decision made under Ballmer. I'm guessing if Satya had to do it today, he'd try to make Edge cross-platform.
Technically they are licensed as software, so they are not copyright-free.
Did this get fixed, 7 years later?

Yesterday, we had a story about Microsoft's disk management service using lots of CPU time if the username contained "user". Microsoft's official reply was not to do that.

I once found a bug in Coyote Systems' load balancers where, if the USER-AGENT ended with "m", all packets were dropped. They use regular expressions for various rules, and I suspect someone typed "\m" where they meant "\n". Vendor denied problem, even after I submitted a test case which failed on their own web site's load balancer.

Many, many years ago, I found a bug in 4.3BSD which prevented TCP connections from establishing with certain other systems during odd numbered 4 hour periods. It took three days to find the bug in BSD's sequence number arithmetic. A combination of signed and unsigned casts was doing the wrong thing.
We're talking students. They need stamps and probably envelopes.
Some of my favorite hacker folklore:

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
http://edp.org/monkey.htm

The Magic Switch https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

The Battle Chess Duck http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ (#5)

and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

edit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm...
> the will of the people only influences change when it coincidentally is aligned with special interest will

I'm not sure what this means: If many people support something, is that a 'special interest'? Or won't there inevitably be a special interest supporting the same issue?

Also, do you have some research that supports this claim? I have seen research that lobbying's greatest power is to stop things from changing - i.e., to maintain the status quo.
Hmm. I can't seem to get the url formatter working.
Aaaah, this thread. Everybody's got an agenda.
What you wrote is literally the exact meaning I intended with the title, but now reading some comments I see many people are interpreting it as "Google atttempts to patent deep neural networkS for machine translation", (notice the plural) which has a vastly different meaning. I guess I assumed that this audience would know that it wouldn't be remotely possible to patent a broad technique that's already so widely published.

I think that even though the application is for a specific architecture, that this is still worth knowing about, since LSTM is a such well known technique for dealing with sequential data like sentences, and since so far virtually all progress in AI and ML has been driven by academia and has remained open.

I also think it's important to note that pretty much any interesting machine translation task will contain rare words, so even though they've framed it in terms of a specific task, it's one that's actually extremely broad. Machine translation is not so hard when you have tons of data and when you've seen every word many times in combination with its translations. The only really interesting case is when we have to use background knowledge and context to infer meaning. Since natural languages are notoriously ambiguous, this happens all the time. So this app may be broader than it first appears.
What cheng said, but we could also make sure that the syntax for modular implicits plays very nicely with the rest of the grammar. With Reason we can rethink the grammar holistically instead of having to find room in it for new features. The hard part is in the actualy implementation of Modular Implicits, but that's currently being handled by skilled professionals and Reason will be able to use them.