skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is anything in RST that encourages deep nesting level or verbose markup, on the contrary with default roles it can be more compact than Markdown. If you look at good documentation examples, like The Python Standard Library documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html), nesting is very limited and the documentation source is very clean and readable.
I'm surprised very few people here (no one?) is selling physical stuff. I have a profitable side project selling stuff online. I found a manufacturer through Alibaba, set up a website and now most of the work is dealing with shipping items.
It's a very common methodology and it's hard to do sociological studies any other way really. They can't follow subjects around with cameras or something without creating a fake environment.
As someone else mentioned, Coronado Biosciences conducted a large, double-blinded study using pig whipworms for ulcerative colitis.

There was no difference between the treatment and placebo arms.
It seems to me that these alternatives (Chip & sign, chip and pin, carrying a credit card at all) all compete poorly with the "tap my phone to pay" offerings.

Cards are waterproof, and don't require being charged.
What is your programming background? I just wondering because I also do not use classes or even prototypical inheritance but just functions. But I did not come from a class-heavy background like Java. I'd like to see a poll of those who use classes vs not in JavaScript and whether they come from a class-heavy language background (like Java) or not. My assumption is that those who come from Java prefer to use classes in JS and others not so much.
I'm a little disappointed that "automagically" wasn't recognized.
While I think the credit card companies in general are running something similar to a mafia protection racket, they are in fact providing value to retailers. By extending credit to consumers they encourage consumers to purchase more from retailers. The question for retailers is: "Does the 2.x% transaction fee cost more than the incremental revenue from customers buying on credit?"
+1. Another one I use is "generateX()", usually for heavy calculations like image processing or PDF rendering.
Or rather, men just by nature being more assertive.
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If that was the only diary entry that mentioned creepiness or anything close to sexual harassment, then what they "focus on" makes total sense. Their quoting that passage at most suggests that those two problems are flips sides of the same coin.
One possible thing to take away from this: Your competitor might have an inferior product, market share, etc, but possible has better traditional marketing/PR.
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No. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... )
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I have a feeling that you're using an overly narrow meaning for "predict"

Well, I have writing in the context of the article, where people are asked to statically predict the position of an object from watching a video. I would concede it's quite possible that a very accurate object prediction engine lives somewhere in the brain but I think it's even more likely that such information can't be marshaled by a person based on a verbal cues any more than one could verbally describe with accuracy where one's foot should go next while walking.
I do not like the title.

We can recognize Engelbart and his influence without diminishing the many other people who contributed to modern computing.

Speaking of which, the touch screen, which is definitely part of modern computing, did not come out of SRI.
i would go so far as 80% of the places I go don't accept chip and anything. they all have little stickers on them saying "chip doesn't work, please swipe" or the equivalent. i'm pretty sure they don't even have a plan for implementing it.
The comments on any HN thread about barriers to gender equity in software engineering illustrate the barriers to gender equity in software engineering.
Unless your first hand account involves an actual rape, please leave the term 'rape culture' to situations involving actual rape. The linked story certainly didn't invoke any mentions of rapes occurring - why dilute a real problem with unrelated 'creepiness'?

Secondly, females complaining about 'creepiness' is a difficult problem to quantify or solve, as females find attention from unattractive males 'creepy' regardless of their actual intentions.
I don't think it's demeaning and misleading. Professionals--men and women--generally consider "meaningful, interesting work" to be the "fun" part of their jobs.
I agree with everything you say. All I'm saying is that in practice, the rST docs I saw, and the issues that came up around theming rST docs led me to believe that the flexibility of rST was its biggest problem (and strength).

Markdown doesn't have that problem because you can't do much with Markdown.
Actually, it would. Example: "Hey boss, why wasn't I assigned to X project?" is something someone more assertive would say.
That's an interesting data point, but it tells us little of the overall picture. There's so many different parasites, different diseases, and different possible causes of relief[1], that a single study of a single parasite for a single disease doesn't really disprove much beyond possibly that specific combination. Regardless, if we do find some benefit to parasites, I think the correct goal, if possible, is to understand the cause and replicate that without the negatives of the parasites themselves:

Loukas and his colleagues have received funding for a larger celiac trial, but he sees the field moving away from the use of live parasites, toward the identification of the molecules they secrete.

1: From a possible general taxing of the immune system relieving autoimmune dysfunction ranging from allergies to more threatening disorders, to intestinal parasites promoting intestinal wall mucus, to parasites promoting a specific type of bacteria which generates useful byproducts.
But, wouldn't including file IO in JS lead to massive security problems in the browser?
is someone working to port it to tensorflow
What blows my mind is that every time I need to write anything in markdown (once a month or so), I can never ever figure out how to use it without doing tons of googling. Why can't sites add some easily accessible documentation?

Hacker news, tumblr, reddit, github all do it. Honestly, if it didn't look fine in the editor and then throw an apeshit fit when posted, it wouldn't be that frustrating. But I'm so damn tired of hitting "preview" or editing my posts after posting because of misleading previews and text boxes.
Markdown is one of those "worse is better" computer pop culture things that raise to the top, despite the existence of better tools.

I dare anyone to write a scientific paper or book using Markdown. In Asciidoc it's doable. And before you say that a markup language is the wrong tool for the job, let me remind you that nowadays authors might want to produce different formats (HTML, ePub, text-only) from the same source file which is difficult with LaTeX.
The example seems like a problem that quiet people have. Not all women are quiet, and not all quiet people are women.
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That would be a case where you wouldn't want to use a purely serverless model. You'd want a persistent server that loads the data and then exposes it as an API for your other serverless functions.

That being said, it's important to remember that Lambda doesn't reload your function for every function call. It loads it on the first call and then keeps it active for a few minutes as long as there are still requests coming in, so you'd only have to deal with that initial load once in a while (or almost never if your function is active enough).

Unless you had a way of extracting your model into a very fast database.
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At the time of your comment, there were only three other comments in this thread. Two that were mildly dismissive, and one discussing "rape culture".

Are you really disappointed about that dataset of three... or were you just racing to proactively get this comment in before the thread starts, and someone else beats you to it?
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You're maybe non familiar with qualitative research methods? A study like this can be used to discover the kinds of challenges that women face in engineering work environments. It would be a mistake to try to make quantitative claims about these results, but no one is doing that here.
All programs reduce to the same instruction stream Left, AES; right, Minesweeper
- you seem to all be working on a very narrow notion of what predicting means

Again, the original article is about a program "better than people" at predicting explicit coordinates. Whether the brain is predicting in some more abstract way is an interesting question but more semantic since such other ways aren't necessarily testable.
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This tickles my funny bone. Fantastic idea and the whole operation is 3 dudes which is even more surprising.
This makes sense, but seems like a larger workforce issue than scoped just to engineering, right?

If so, I think the same argument could be made for introverts vs extroverts regardless of sex. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
> minus the all controlling AIs.

Give them time.
Leanpub promotes a superset of Markdown called Markua. It is claimed that Markua is more suited to the writing of books and documentation. See http://markua.com/ Personally, for my projects, I use rST, but that is only because the wind happened to be blowing that way the day I made my choice.
I don't think this is accurate. A huge portion of reddit users use /r/all, and therefore the content presented there is what a huge portion of the users see. If the admins are artificially influencing what it seen there, it's fair to called it admin-selected, or at the very least, admin-influenced. Removing /r/all would definitely cause a very big change in the traffic patterns. Non-default subreddit traffic would go down tremendously.
I don't know, but outside of large CS systems projects, I haven't seen much incentive to "build things right", especially from the higher-ups.
Comments that take legitimate concerns with the merits of a particular study and dismiss them as misogyny don't add anything to the discussion either.
Flagged by my Google alert on "three body".

WAY more triple homicides than physics articles, but every once in awhile something good like this shows up!
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That's a pretty limited view of the credit card value proposition. The credit part is, of course, what it is, but also important is the fact that most people have immediate and secure to all their cash (and credit).

Also, not to be discounted is that it's far from free to handle cash. The delay in settling credit card payments + apparently pretty heavy-handed practises around charge backs is probably a bigger problem than ~2% transaction fees are.
This is a very interesting article because it avoids the usual pitfalls of demography-based arguments. ("Group G is underrepresented in activity A. Therefore we should completely overhaul A with policy P, which appears to be pro-G. If you have any concerns about P it can only mean you're an anti-G bigot.")

The article instead asks a novel question and leaves solutions open. How do tasks get divided among peer groups? It seems like people who are vulnerable to peer pressure (girls in engineering, in the examples here) are likely to get booted out of tasks they enjoy and relegated to routine chores instead. It's a testable hypothesis, it opens a new perspective, and if proven true it lends itself to very reasonable remedies for both employers (e.g. formalize the task assignment process) and the affected engineers (watch out and prepare to stand up to it if needed).
I think this is relevant even outside the context of reddit drama. Any sort of censorship (or call it whatever you want) done on a huge scale like this is relevant tech community news.
Indeed. This works even for balances that didn't originate on credit cards - I have a Chase Slate card which has literally never left my house because I only use the account for its 18-month zero-interest offer, which was useful for a small student loan I wanted to pay down quickly.

Many people I know use special card offers similarly. Want those 50,000 airline miles? Better sign up for Delta's Amex, can always cancel after the first year... etc, etc. There are very strong incentives from the card issuers themselves for Americans to carry multiple credit cards, and if you use the cards responsibly you can rack up some serious benefits for no cost.
Text-only Google cache, if you have trouble with the site: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_5WKSpb...
How is the original sentence meaningless? "We think you will like this" (rephrasing) definitely has a meaning. You have probably said something similar when you are recommending something.

Whereas their version actually changes the meaning. It changes the verb from liking a lot to physically changing location. (And to be pedantic, "really" is an adverb, not an adjective, so it is outside the scope of the name of the font.)

It is a cool hack, although, I expect this idea could be put to all sorts of nefarious uses.
When women do that they get labeled "bitch".
Mostly because that's what Torch uses. LUA itself is extremely fast for a scripting language but while that characteristic is vital in video games (where LUA is used quite a bit), it's pretty irrelevant for machine learning since the core of these engines is usually written in C/C++ for speed, and the scripting language is just used as an entry point that makes the API and data entry easy.

Still, I think ultimately, LUA is a liability for Torch, and it's not helped by the fact that not only is TensorFlow a superior competitor (in my opinion) but also because TensorFlow is based on Python (which is vastly more popular than LUA).

Despite all their investment in Torch, it wouldn't surprise me if eventually, Facebook transitions to TensorFlow because it's probably what it will take for them to effectively compete against Google on the machine learning front.
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It is not true anywhere. GP is simply talking out of his ass.
Many of the chip enabled machines in the US I've seen are really slow; there local market has huge lines just after launch because the process was so much slower than the swipe.

The funny part is that this all works quite well in Canada. The chip and pin systems there are quick and completely painless. Send like the card companies in the US drug their feet for years, and then picked up some substandard contractors for implementations...
Asciidoc was created to simplify DocBook, so Asciidoc has the same expressive power with no downsides (as far as I know).
The point is that for the whole system it's beneficial to move to a more secure system with less fraud. For the individual user of course less so.
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That is not quite correct. Neither MasterCard nor Visa charge merchants any extra to use ApplePay. In fact, some merchant banks even lower merchant fees if they adopt secure payment methods like ApplePay.

MasterCard and Visa do pay Apple a minuscule fee (15¢ per $100.00, and less in Europe), however, it is smaller than the amount they expect to save due to reduced fraud from folks using ApplePay (and Apple apparently has also agreed to split some fraction of any fraud losses with them).

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pay#Service
I am amazed at the number of people who use single letter variable names.

It's almost always better to use a double letter: uu, kk, ii, jj.

It's one of the few code patterns that most people will adopt without even discussing it once they see it.
I don't really understand smart contracts yet, but wouldn't it have been possible to implement the DAO in a way such that forks/cancellations could be "voted" on by the network somehow, versus requiring whatever this is going to require? Code fork? It least the fork would have been "decentralized" then... this does not bode well at all.
> Partly it's because corporate environments prefer bluster to quieter expertise but the answer shouldn't be to tell women to be bigger blowhards than the men in order to get to do interesting stuff.

This often seems like a better dimension on which to analyze these "gender in the workplace" issues. That is, these issues arise more often due to the typical characteristics and behaviors that members of each gender display and engage in, rather than something essential about gender in and of itself.

Blowhards versus... well.. what's the opposite of a blowhard? "Introvert" doesn't seem quite right.

My point is that gender issues are often actually personality type issues.
There's a pretty significant lesson here, and it's not that the DAO authors were careless. They were, and so were all of the investors, but the core problem is not the DAO.

It's Solidity. It's the Ethereum virtual machine. Even today, security vulnerabilities are being found in code strategies that are generally considered 'best practice'.

Writing a safe smart contract on Ethereum is extremely difficult, and most people playing with Ethereum don't seem to realize this. There's a pretty well understood maxim, "don't roll your own crypto." Etherem's smart contracts ARE cryptography, and their safety depends on implementation details that are completely hid from users during tutorials, and that even the language designers are only still discovering.

This article does a good job of demonstrating that safety is really hard: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/10/smart-contract-security...

And it's one of the major reasons that the Bitcoin devs have not been excited about Ethereum. It's a project whose ambitions have outpaced our ability to engineer safely.

One day we can have safe smart contracts. But the Ethereum of today is not well designed, and is not a good foundation for smart contracts. A simple hardfork to fix this DAO mess isn't going to be enough. The whole virtual machine needs to be redesigned.

And my money is quite seriously on Bitcoin figuring out the safe way to do smart contracts faster that anyone else. The vast majority of experienced experts in this space are still spending the majority of their time on Bitcoin. As popular as Ethereum has become, Bitcoin still owns the mindshare, and there are good reasons that Bitcoin has chosen not to pursue smart contracts at this time.
Kickstarter idea: a pebble, but just as a 2FA, on your wrist.
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Keep building and trying new things. School (college and high school) is a great way to be surrounded by other young ambitious people, even if it might not always keep your interest.
funny battles for the bathroom

Not so funny as soon as you have children.
rst-mode in Emacs does wonders in this respect.
Here are some of the words it redacts:

beautiful right very love great exciting really

I'm curious what others there are. Also, interesting to see the Scunthorpe problem poke its head up here, with "e----" instead of "every" for example, as the font cannot detect context since it uses glyph substitution, which was designed for ligatures.
Yea, I'm saying prions show that nature is not solving NP-complete problems. What we have instead is that a class of well behaved proteins were selected for but there can still be problematic instances.
What's up HN! I'm David, one of the founders. Happy to answer any questions you guys have and would love to hear any feedback on the app, our marketing or anything really.
My company has desperately tried to hire female candidates into our engineering team, which is currently all male.

From the dozens of applications that we got for the position, only about 5% were female. After interviewing them, they either declined the position, or weren't able to complete our take home challenge (nothing against these women, we have lots of guys fail it too!)

So, yeah, I'd love to have some females on our engineering team. Unfortunately it's really rare for us to have a female applicant, and those we have talked to thus far haven't made it onto the team.

Please, tech, do something to fix this. I would very much like to have women on our team, because I went to university with a lot of smart women in Engineering, and it kills me that now in industry we can't hire any!
Agreed. I was just trying to point out that the % transaction fee is not just for the currency exchange, but also for the risk involved in providing a line of credit.
If the women have to push back because the men got better assignments to begin with, that means the sexist behavior already happened. Women shouldn't have to play damage control constantly.
>> Now that China is an important market for Apple, I find it hard to feel sorry for Apple getting a taste of their own medicine.

Even if the plaintiff is a patent troll, or merely an obscure company with a bogus patent? Even if this "patent tribunal" ruled incorrectly because of bias toward the domestic company? Even if the tribunal had been bribed by the company (pure speculation, but bribery is how you get things done in China's bureaucracy)?

I don't tend to have emotions one way or the other about these kinds of commercial and legal disputes, but corruption and patent trolling seems a lot more likely than big evil Apple stealing the innocent Baili Co.'s intellectual property and getting their comeuppance.
The US is much larger than individual European countries and has an order of magnitude more credit card readers, etc. in circulation. Every single one of those had to be updated to use the new system.
Yeah. I've played around with everything mentioned in this thread, and for documentation that needs refs/math/images, you need to use either Lyx or Word. Asciidoctor might get there if it ever gets a good, free development environment.
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Does this mean that we can do cloud-to-butt as a font?

A whole new universe of possibilities has just opened up....
You used phrases ("bullshit it doesn't", "didn't fucking think so", "your casual and flippant disregard", "Do you disagree? (and keep it on point)") that made your comments aggressive and personal. No one who's trying to be respectful would address the person they're talking to that way. HN threads are for respectful conversation, so please edit that kind of thing out of your comments when posting here. As a side effect, you may be surprised how much more substantive and credible they become when you do so. (You're right, btw, that cussing isn't the issue.)

More importantly, you insinuated that a fellow user had violated an oath. That's way out of line. Casually slinging such a serious charge is the kind of thing that turns internet forums into a circle of hell, so please don't do anything like that here.

I gather that you didn't mean to break any rules when posting, and probably were just expressing yourself forcefully about a topic you feel strongly about. That's natural, but if HN is going to reach the standard of civility that we strive for, we all have to exercise self-control re the 'forcefully' part. Other people doubtless feel as strongly as you do, have had different experiences that led them to different views, and—given how little information online discussions convey—may not even be understanding you correctly (or vice versa). That's a lot of opportunities for conflict, so interesting discussion depends on all of us restraining our impulses.