skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall Feynman having something about his experience on a textbook selection board for California public schools. I'll see if I can link an open access reference.
> You'll always find people who are either very principled (yes, they do exist)

If only we could select our politicians in the same way.
A gun being smuggled into the UK is only going to be used by a criminal (and by criminal, I mean they're committing violent crimes other than ownership of a gun) for killing someone - a gun smuggler, therefore, is providing a killer with a murder weapon with full knowledge of what it's going to be used for.
Do they have a publicly available api though? It seems like you have to contact a sales rep just to get access.
This reminded me of an article I read ages ago (National Geographic? In the 80s?) of Roman writing found on "wood shavings" during the excavation of a Roman fort in the UK. This article was most likely about the "Vindolanda tablets" [1].

The thing that stuck with me was that the Romans were using wood shavings instead of paper. And they were doing this because they didn't have paper! How can you run an empire without paper? The Wikipedia article mentions that papyrus was used in other parts of the Roman empire, but presumably it wasn't available everywhere, and I'm under the impression that it's quite a bit more fragile than other forms of paper. It would certainly be more fragile than wood shavings! Parchment would also have been available as well, but it's always been expensive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets
Vindolanda tablets
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They could almost certainly make the price of gas so expensive via taxes that it effectively bans them though.
What I am after is equality. I just think to do that we have to acknowledge the historical situation in which a lot of the inequality is rooted. (And I'll note that I didn't have "upper class privilege", just white and male privilege.)

If you decline to have sympathy for other downtrodden people, I believe that's your problem, and I don't think blaming me will help.
APIs allow anyone to request and use the data without have to host all of the data. At least thats what I was thinking.
As long as it's only [action, that I agree with] applied to [current understanding, that I agree with] of [current issue, that I agree with], it's not a big deal!

It's not like a [government entity] would apply this to something like [other issue]!

People forget that when the [other side] is elected, they'll do the same thing but in the opposite direction.
But when is it pretending? I can introduce you to holocaust deniers, do they have salient points? I bet I can find people that believe the Earth is the center of the universe and the Sun does rotate around us.

There is no healthy skepticism in denying human participation in climate change. The efficacy of myriad proposed solutions are still out for discovery and debate, but that's where we should be accepting alternative viewpoints, not on whether or not human activity has any causality.
Thank you for your comment. It is very true.
Perhaps a more nuanced reason is that you don't know it got lost in some spam filter. Out of sight, out of mind...

[1] https://consumerist.com/2012/01/04/how-facebooks-message-spa...

[2] http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how-to-check-facebook-spam-emai...

[3] http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a42460/anot...

[4] http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-filtered-message-requ...
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/
That is obviously not their "early investment thesis", nor what that article says. The circularity in fact is yours: you assume stupidity on the part of others, then find it. (And then mock it, which is presumably the point of the exercise.)

This is a good example of why I think we should add the Principle of Charity [1] to the HN guidelines. That's the one that says you should respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of another's position, not try to knock it down to the weakest. The word "charity" makes it sound like an ethical principle, but it isn't, or needn't be. It's simply that assuming stupidity on the part of others makes for weak discussion.

(FWIW, a stronger plausible interpretation of that passage is this: since our success depends on funding the few companies that generate most of the returns, we need a strategy that gives us an edge in getting to them, so let's focus on promoting ourselves to founders. Maybe that wasn't it, either—it's what I got from skimming the article for just a minute—but if we're practicing the Principle of Charity, it's preferable to a moronic one like "let's only fund winners", chosen because it's easy to caricature.)

1. http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html
I don't undertand why the mobile version doesn't have a link to the talk page. For some articles it's a very useful additional reading to the main page.
Owncloud is NOT a backup solution, it is a remote access/sharing solution. At least one client syncing to an account on the Owncloud server should have an incremental backup solution. My personal setup is that my OSX clients backup to a Time Machine. Easy peasy. If I have a server-side failure, I keep motoring on, albeit without remote access/sharing until I get the server fixed. If I have a client-side failure, I can restore to a prior moment in time off the Time Machine or sync to a new client off of Owncloud depending on the nature of the failure.
Would you accept a geography text that explains to your kids that the world may be round and that the evidence suggests that the earth is not the center of the universe?
purely just a coincidence...yeah, that must be it.
Very much so. Especially if it pulled in other tangental data such as weather at the time and location of the game.
I think I said it pretty well. Others have had no trouble understanding me. If one demanding anonymous person doesn't understand my point, I can live with that.
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Ray Kurzweil has done a fairly decent job of predicting the future and judging by some of the insights attributed to Tesla he also foresaw much of what we call life today.
I think we are about to enter a post-recording era relatively soon. Recordings are not native to the medium we use to interact with music anymore. It's no surprise that engagement levels are dropping together with the tolerated prices in the market (selling files/access to files containing recordings). The way to upset and bury the current industry will be to create tools that let us move past this 20th century notion of music consumption - imagine for example hosted song projects with interactivity baked in. The next 10 years will be super interesting.
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> he also said that Jews are devils

he actually quoted the Bible and said "Jews and gentiles are devils", according to the context of the interview in which he said it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJu8sVWQ-wk
Not quite zero, a couple of months ago they launched a support channel on Twitter. https://twitter.com/AppleSupport
If Wiki Desktop has a lot of features or content that shouldn't get loaded on mobile...

Except it doesn't.

The whole idea behind the iPhone's browser was to avoid the need for crappy "mobile" versions of web sites. It's a crying shame that this vision had to fail because a bunch of underemployed web developers were obsessed with fixing things that were no longer broken.
Most of these sound like reasons not to use Facebook in general.

While the seen indicator is a legitimate annoyance, it's been commonplace for some years now. I don't know of a modern chat app that doesn't have it.

As for the rest of your points, Facebook's money comes from ads. These concerns are not limited to chat, but using Facebook in general. As you browse the web, Facebook is tracking you and using the data to deliver more relevant ads. As you comment and make posts, Facebook uses the data to deliver more relevant ads.

Every part of the service is designed to help them do this, saying that these are reasons to "not use Messenger" is missing the point. The point of using Messenger is that you're not tied to any other portion of Facebook. You just get to message friends, plain and simple. The benefit is you're not being enticed into scrolling your news feed, spammed with notifications about upcoming events etc.

Plus, there are rumours they're going to bring e2e encryption in a la Whatsapp, which would pretty much squash points 2 and 3.
Would it be possible to move more parts of the operating system into hardware to realize an improvement in speed? So for example say Microsoft announced Windows 10 was the perfect operating system and needed no new features/bug fixes would it make sense and would it be possible to realize the OS software in hardware?
That's what I was thinking. I'm sure live games you have to manually enter but other than that it can be automated. And I really want to help mobile developers and developers in general. There are some great apps that can be built out there. They just need data access.
That's how almost all goods in the world are allocated. Is a lottery more fair?
Yes if you see the code, I extract the JSON object from response by removing the for(;;); in the beginning and then parse the json to hash and flatten it to array of strings. As there is only 1 value that will have the html content, I found this by using some css selector of the content and then parse the html and used unique css selector class for the names of the users.
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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How far off are we from using machine learning to gather data from video, removing the manual entry cost?
So stats and meta data such as weather, location, and time are what you would look for?
Good point to bring up. After all, responsive design is about accessibility. I'm currently redoing my website and you've stumped me. :)
Email me if you want me to run some tests for you.
Immediately after the school board meeting, residents were invited to a CO2-free book burning and BBQ.
You probably won't beat them for B2B. The service is good but not great, but the switching costs are too high that even if your service was better in some way you wouldn't win any customers. They're competent and get the job done and with B2B if you have an existing foothold that's normally enough.

The service is definitely too expensive, the data is occasionally wrong and I have to hound them to fix it, and the developer experience is surely lacking, but at the end of the day a working JSON API of sports data is a working JSON API of sports data, all the other stuff is just noise.

The proper way to beat sportradar would be to find a way to pursue a B2C model instead of a B2B model. i.e. instead of 3k a month to license the data if there was some way to pay $25/month for a similar experience you might be able to capture a much larger market share that sportradar prices out. If you could get college kids hacking on sports stats to use your service because it's the only thing they can afford you might be able to grow that into something.
> A couple of my friends are scalpers.

You have bad friends.

Edit: Aren't scalpers viewed as the scum? Why the downvotes?
Some scientists think the complexity of life might be evidence of intelligent design.

Scientists believe the Grand Canyon could be evidence of a global flood 4000 years ago.
I would accept one that cited the IPCC report noting a warming hiatus for the last 15 years :)
Do you have a system in mind that would be more fair?
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As someone not from the states I was genuinely surprised to see that non-science was potentially preached in schools for such well proven topics such as this. For genuinely debatable scientific theories sure I understand but this was a bit of a jarring realisation.
I've been looking at this to review OS fundamentals: https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-operating-sys...

and also this: https://www.udacity.com/course/advanced-operating-systems--u...

My university also has its own recordings for the introductory OS class: https://recordings.engineering.illinois.edu:8443/ess/portal/...

with the corresponding course website (for the latest term): http://illinois-cs.github.io/ and lab slides http://weichunstevelee.github.io/labs.html

Unfortunately, access to the machine problems code isn't available unless you are an enrolled student.

But if you are looking just for video recordings, what I linked to is a decent resource.

For Operating Systems Design (a more advanced course): https://recordings.engineering.illinois.edu:8443/ess/portal/...
Where I live, messaging using Facebook is the most effective way to communicate with my phone company, my ISP, etcetera.

That is the only reason I use Facebook messaging (I communicate with friends using other services) and one of the few reasons I still have a Facebook account.

Installing Facebook messenger app is too much just for this.
- Much more polished
- Every single element rewrite
- Fresh new coat of paint based on WWDC 2016
- Fresh new code structure
Season tickets cost thousands of dollars and in many cases have extremely long waiting lists. When I still lived in the DC area, the waiting list for Redskins season tickets was decades long.

It's important to keep the sport seemingly accessible for the long term prospects of the sport.
Do you have children now? I had a similar upbringing and similarly didn't get sick very much. However, once we had a kid, I have been sick way more and more severely. Generally immediately after my child. Do I want to protect my child from getting sick so I can stay productive, or do I want to allow him to exercise his immune system more but reduce my own health and productivity?
I'm interested as to why someone like yourself, a likely tech-savvy HN user, the kind of person who notices how their chats effect ad serving, does not block ads on facebook. Care to share?
Wouldn't this be case-by-case? That argument makes perfect sense if we're talking about a bar hosting a band, but I can't apply that same logic to a stadium whose cost was largely borne by taxpayers with the promise it would enrich public life.
At the very least the actual artist and venue are not seeing the profits during most of this price gouging. But the resellers are.
What strikes me most about these documents is the mundanity of life back then. Like an agreement to pay someone back is one of them (a basic IOU), the other is a telling off for some financial reason. It's strange to think back then people were having equivalent disagreements and deals as they have now.

Ancient times always tend to feel very untouchable because of the massive span of time separating us and them, but I see that the basic tenets of human life still existed back then from this limited material. It makes me wonder how far back we would have to go back to find proto-civilisations that make no sense, human sacrifice not withstanding.
I'd support that.

Elememtary textbooks contain almost exclusively the seminal theories that we are very sure about. If we expressed our certianty there, kids might get the idea that all of science is similarly so.

In science, "the evidence suggests..." is a very high seal of approval. I'd place more emphasis on making them understand that than I would on adding a few nines to their certianty that the earth is round.
One, FDA. Two, litigation/risk.
"You can buy a big house, but you can only sleep in one bedroom at a time."

This might be the most down to earth thing I have heard in a while.
I would totally say this face to face, then back away slowly from the person who is quite possibly an E. coli carrier from eating raw meat. :)
lol, only in the US would this be a big deal.
Right. That's Facebook's compromise on privacy. EPIC is suing them over even that.[1]

Face.com did facial recognition on Facebook with no limits back in 2010.[2] Then Facebook bought them and killed the broad face recognition.[3]

There are other face recognition companies now, but they're keeping a lower profile about how broad their database is. Except for Findface[4] in Russia. They loaded up the entire photo database of Vcontact, a social network in Russia. 70% success in identifying random young people on the St. Petersburg metro.

[1] https://www.epic.org/privacy/facebook/Facebook-Biometric-Rul...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100701083622/http://face.com/
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20120723211743/http://face.com/
[4] http://findface.ru/
Although Perl6 exists, Perl5 is completely unfit for any purpose on the modern world. And just the memories from helpless hours debugging any simple 30 lines script means that I'll resort to Haskell before trying Perl6 for text manipulation uses.

An younger developer may think differently, but I do think the 'Perl' brand is already too damaged for surviving the transition, even if Perl6 is better than modern languages (what I didn't see anybody claiming yet).
No money in it?
A few years ago Louis CK started selling tickets for his shows exclusively from his website. His post announcing the process is worth a read. I bought tickets for that show from him and the process was as simple as he describes it.

https://louisck.net/news/im-going-on-the-road
These things are relatively easy to demonstrate with experiments. I went to a church that believed in a 10,000 year old earth but accepted 'micro-evolution' because it was so easy to demonstrate. (Note: You may safely put me in the climate change denier/skeptic, etc category, but I believe in evolution and old round earths, and vaccinate my kids)

The problem with 'climate change' aka. 'observed warming is attributable to humans therefore we must start recycling, blah, blah, blah' is one it's mostly political, two, the science is not clear in a 'These are our predictions we passed the predictions', eg. it's clear the earth is warming, but it's also clear the computer models don't work, and it's really not clear what will happen if the warming continues, because a) we don't know how warm it will be, and b) we don't know what that warmth will do.

When people say words like consensus instead of hypothesis you can tell they are having a political debate that involves science rather than a scientific debate that involves politics, in the exact same way that the intelligent design people do the same thing.
I don't think that's fair. Andreessen had an avid following on HN in the years before A16Z because his pmarca blog was one of the most astute out there. Or at least seemed so; I haven't gone back and read those posts. I do know that smart readers frequently lamented when he stopped producing them.
Yeah thats what I was thinking, a very low entry point. I don't see any problems associated with only charging $15-25/month to access the data.

One thing that I have been wondering is, how do I get away with using the data without the leagues intervening? Or do they not own the data because the stats are publicly accessible
But does it have something similar to React Native?
For reference:

libmill was a project to copy Go's concurrency model to C 1:1 without introducing any innovations or experiments. The project is finished now. It will be maintained but won't change in the future.

libdill is a follow-up project that diverges from the Go model and experiments with structured concurrency. It is not stable yet and it may change a bit in the future.
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You're probably better off with an OCR system that's configured per channel display format, rather than an ML solution. ML systems require training regardless of effectiveness.
Have you looked into what the MLB, NFL, NBA, etc would do to block you? While they have no legal protection of facts, you can't copy their facts from them and hope they won't come after you.
This was a full page headline on BBC News earlier today as well.
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An #erlang battle-story about parsing ints and floats
Except ADS-B is a shit show. Watch this video [1] and tell me if you really want to still trust it over radar.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXv1j3GbgLk
Yes indeed. I have an ongoing project with college football and I was surprised nothing good for this actually exists.

Correctness and comprehensiveness is probably more important in my mind than having the information immediately. I'd wager most people around here would want to use it for training data rather than any sort of real-time system.
I, too, spent my childhood playing outside. And I was never on antibiotics.

At 30 I would have told you I was in perfect health. No allergies or asthma or anything remotely like that. Then one day my immune system got out of whack and develop chronic urticaria. (Thankfully modern medicine makes it a minor issue).

My childhood didn't retroactively change during that interval. Sometimes you're lucky. And sometimes your luck suddenly runs out.
...aaaand the federal government (via congress, the executive, or the courts) could find some way to intervene and challenge that and hold it up indefinitely.
https://github.com/formula1/tEmbO?files=1

Was doing something similar for a while. Very cool stuff! Excited to see where you take it!
I think with the shell you have to adapt your abstractions to the "unix-way". For example, a queue to process will be a directory with N files, and each file can be processed in pararell by just something like "for f in dir/*; do process.sh "$f" & done;" but yeah ... it has limitations like everything.
If the demand for hamburgers exceeds the supply, then the market will hopefully do its thing and supply more hamburgers. On the other hand supplying a few more copies of your favorite band or sports team is not going to happen any time soon.

Whether a lottery would be more fair depends on your point of few. Many would certainly say no because the artist or sports team would make less money than they could and people willing to pay a lot of money to get tickets would lose their ability to do so.

Others like me would consider it more fair, it is a kind of failure of the free market and favors rich people just because they are rich. I would argue that one should actually favor the poorer people because being able to go to a concert or game for a reasonable price may add lot more value in terms of quality of life for them as compared to rich people already having access to all kinds of niceties.
No I have not. But is there any way for them to know if a fact was copied from them or not? If Steph Curry made 10 out of 11 field goals in a game. How would they know if I watched the game and found that data out or looked on their website?
'As we can see from the previous discussion on the Law of Accelerating Returns, RankBrain and other forms of artificial intelligence will at some point surpass the human brain.'

I think its unlikely we will still be googling for answers ourselves ones AI becomes really smart. Because AI then becomes really helpful. I will just ask my device for a solution to me problem or even to solve my problem. It will search for itself and maybe explain later how it did it.

The internet will get optimized for AI and not for humans.
Nontransferable tickets seem terrible, mostly because they screw regular people as much as "devious resellers." Would no longer be possible to gift tickets or recover costs in the case of an unexpected cancellation.

I'm more curious why they have to be sold on a FCFS basis rather than an auction or via random selection.
Not sure what you're asking but I'm just saying that I ride on trails because it's currently allowed and fun. When and if the law changes I'll reconsider.
So many people are going to feel stupid, and just as many will say they knew all along there was nothing to it.
Don't... read the comments. Just don't.
Gates was a real programmer. He wrote a number of early BASIC interpreters for early PCs in assembler, which was not easy and not a thing many could do. His story has a good bit of luck as a factor but so does anyone's.