skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big problem with ML is that it's highly based on your training set. There's been a few papers published in computational linguistics that discuss how poorly ML based sentiment analysis is if you try and apply the data to domains outside the training set. For instance, if you train the sentiment data on movie reviews (which is actually a data set commonly used for that purpose) and try and apply it to Twitter or the Web, the results are terrible. But, people keep on trying it.
I wish the same effort would be under way to improve space and time complexity of the non-JS parts of browsers. DOM, CSS, Fonts, images, and the list goes on. There's always some webpage which is super slow in one particular browser due to some CSS feature. Usually it's evident in super slow scrolling.
There's an extension to add partial support of this to Postgres: https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables

I have used it in production for years and it works great, but does indeed use a lot of disk space if you enable it for all tables and have many updates.

It's not a full implementation (it lacks the new syntax like `AS OF SYSTEM TIME`) but you can work around that with `UNION` queries and the containment (`@>`) operator.
Politicians should never have to protest the Law since they
make it.
Canonical Asks OVH 2EUR per VPS for Using Ubuntu
so asking a question is now a 'down-votable' offense on HN? WTF people? either don't answer or point them in the direction of some research. Don't down-vote, you arrogant fucks.

Seriously people, get over yourselves.
After exposure to the C* level, and being on the board of a quasi-non-profit that was trying to transform to a proper non-profit.... I realize the power games at that level are far more "important" - the technical work of course is the foundation, but if you have people with anti-social personality disorders at the helm, all the super improve-the-world tech matters little.

I perhaps am just unlucky, I am not trying to tar and feather all business majors and 'Management". But I have learned not to trust anyone at all when money and power is involved. My psychopath-dar has been greatly improved. Organizations with incompetent or worse management never amount to anything and they are a headache to work for.

When I was just a regular "joe" starting in the first Internet bubble, I went with a company where the management all had a track record at well known companies, and the ones I met seemed like decent people. It was a good company, but the bubble burst too fast before we could get any real traction. The other company I turned down imploded due to some drama and "too young" management.
For the not familiar/lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster
The new canel is estimated to 6 ships a day carrying up to 14,000 containers apiece. You know the old joke about the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of hard drives? The new canal has a "bandwidth" of more a continuous container per second. Hard to do that with a railway.
Because Unicode is the Celestial Consortium of Benevolent Encoding.
Now it's to late to fix.
Battle of the secure messaging apps: how Signal beats WhatsApp
Or change the marketing from cloud connected to owning the cloud. I mean, for someone who would depend on stable Internet connection to be able to control all this shit, he'd be off hosting a personal cloud on the same connection as well. Even better, because if there are operations happening in a local network and WAN goes out, the devices will still operate inside the LAN.
It's good to have a feel for the rate of increase when reading news articles or having a vague idea what an interest rate really means, just like knowing scientific notation helps you get a quick feel for the difference between a government program costing 550 million and one costing 5.3 billion, compared to a country's GDP of 1.2 trillion.

By the way, betterexplained.com is where I finally, after memorizing my way through just enough calculus to get a BS in comp sci, began to understand calculus. Seeing how the area of a circle was derived was wild - I'd easily memorized all that stuff, but never understood. We wait way too long to begin teaching calculus concepts.
so you're saying "innocent until proven guilty"? What a concept. Be careful though. That's considered subversion in some circles, depending on the topic.
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Huawei is working on its own mobile OS in case things sour with Google
It's a new interview so no.
you mean like dealth-tolls into the hundreds of millions when the various gov't institutions implemented 'gun control'?

You are confusing the last 50 years with the last 5000 years.
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I made blogpost about thread weaver some time ago. Not very useful
http://www.mapdb.org/news/thread_weaver/
For all the animals they have in unicode(rabbit, hamster, cow, ...) how come there is no squirrel?
LOL, have you seen who the people are that are going on these rampages? seriously, have you looked at their political affiliations or are you just spouting your political views without checking facts?
Because they are wanting to maximize income. Thus, they charge more profitable ships more money. When the canal reaches full traffic capacity, then they charge more for reservations, which prices the cheapers ships out, and leaves the canal full of the profitable ones.
wrong type of females to be precise, but I guess it depends how much you expect from those...
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>Somewhere in America, there is a college professor who will never buy a Prius. The outlier is not extraneous to the type; the outlier is essential to the type.

sniff and theez iz the essence of the Hegelian dialectic, and so on and so on...
What actually is so bad about doing this?

I'm a data scientist, not the software engineer, so forgive me if this is something you all learned in CS 101.
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How long before we need a defusedunicode to protect users and programs from confusion and scams?

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedxml
Would they consider "fuck you" (middle finger) character? I think it would be very useful and quite popular.
It's mixed. Our most popular game is still supported by an old style of advertising, and some players that have played daily for years still prefer to look at/ignore advertising than pay the $2.99 (now $4.99) to get rid of ads. In fact, that's true of the majority of players - less than 5% of our revenue comes from that IAP. This is why I say people have told us how they want to pay us for their fun and our server costs. They've had the opportunity to pay us with money forever. Most never will.

Rewarded video makes up about 10% (currently it's not in a very prominent placement, some games make a majority of their money that way - see Shooty Skies).

So to kind of answer your questions, the longer people play, the more they're worth to us, which feels fair to us (and again, they can pay to rid themselves of ads anytime they want). We will be featuring rewarded video more prominently, which allows the user to have more choice in the matter (although I'm betting they chose ads over cash most of the time, but that's just years of experience talking).

Edit: I should add that our ARPU (average revenue per user) is less that $4.99, so we'd still much rather people buy ads away with IAP.
China's nuclear doctrine is based on "minimum deterrence", which is why their arsenal is considerably smaller than that of the big two.
20 states require background check for private transfer.
Assuming all the background on him is factual, it absolutely was a terrorist attack on the gay community. Don't know how you can spin that one.
Thank you, this was a wonderfully thought-provoking response (also, the first season of Connections is probably my favourite documentary of all time!).

One thing I will offer is that in my household growing up, television was positive because it was an experience that we shared as a family. We would watch TV shows together, talk about them together, laugh at them together, etc. In that sense, television brought outside viewpoints into our household and spurred conversation. I think that is one of the key factors that may differentiate between TV having good effects and TV having bad effects on different people.

In a sense, I think that although television itself isn't interactive, you could say that our family was 'interactive about' television. So we got the benefits of being able to use television in a positive way.

Thanks for reminding me of how important that was for me :)

By the way, on the limitation of television being a passive medium.... This reminds me of something I read back when I was a kid that was very profound for me. I can't recall exactly now, but I think it was in a Sierra On-Line catalogue where Roberta Williams said something about wanting her children to play adventure games rather than watch television as with adventure games, they had to be actively engaged rather than passive. This really resonated with me at the time, given that I was really getting into the Space Quest & other 'Quest games :)
I think you are confusing Megabits and Gigabits.
Only the star with the left side filled in. And an outline on the right.
XSS persistence using JSONP and serviceWorkers
For ticket management or knowledge bases I would lean toward using open source or paying for a service.

For CRM (or anything else) if it's something unique/valuable to your business where spending some development time would bring value and time savings then go with something custom. It would help if you have a development team that can build it quickly (Rails/Laravel) so the cost/time doesn't get out of control. Building the basics and adding needed features would work well.
With less variation it seems to result in someone complaining about their imaginary persecution.
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What fields would you guide them to instead?

I may be one of the developers you speak of (with academic aspirations), presently considering my path forward.

I'm sceptical if going down the ML swamp is the best way forward.
But that doesn't explain the inconsistency in the current case.

So if a system wants to render "on" differently than "straight vertical line", that's possible.

However, if "off" should be rendered differently than "circle", that's not possible. (Or only possible with out-of-band information or modifier characters which would still have to be defined)
I will make an assumption you've never ridden even decently-engined BMW 3 series (or 1,2,4) or anything better in terms of handling? suddenly the act of driving moves from i-have-to-get-to-that-place into wow-lets-do-more! (all within speed limits).

there is certainly some tipping point for this and after it's not worth it, and poorly-handling muscle cars leave me uninterested, but it works, it can be joy on normal roads and on track even pure adrenalin.
To be fair. With YouCompleteMe and rust-racer support the tooling for Rust in vim is solid.
> Huh? If done right, it will be extremely useful on a PC, the same way Excel is, but as an avenue for far more programmability than Excel.

You cannot be more programmable than Excel, because VBA is deeply integrated and it already is fully programmable. The question is: how will Eve solve the GUI vs. scripting dichotomy that, in my opinion, is pervasive throughout all "innovative" programming environments.

> Besides the 4GL/application builder space left unexplored, Lisp Machines and Smalltalk environment were more advanced than what we use today in a lot of ways.

I completely agree with this.
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Please share your ideas and suggestions.Don't limit it to the questions i have asked.Tell me whatever you have to tell.
Also i need advice on finding sponsors for such a event.
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Although I expect my government to have a greater obligation to its own people than those outside it, I also would prefer (sadly not expect) them to take a longer-term view than "what suits the situation at the moment."

If putting out worldwide propaganda is expected to have a long-term effect of degredation of public discourse, I would expect my government to take this into account and temper their actions. In fact, whether or not it is known today to have this effect, I'd hope my government would analyse these things and take them into account when making policy.
With the exception of things I bought at IKEA (and my desk chair), all my furniture is either things I took with me when I left home (e.g., my bed, dresser) or was given to me used from a friend or family member.

My things from when I left home I've had since I was a kid in the 80s, my kitchen table and chairs were given to me by my sister when she bought a new one for their house, my entertainment centre was given to me by a friend when he was moving across the country, and my couch was given to me by a friend a few months ago when he bought a new one.

I really need a new bed and a new chair for the living room (both date back to the 1970s), but otherwise my furniture is in decent shape. I could use a new computer desk as it got a bit damaged in the last move I made, but it's not too bad.
I see. So, hopefully not being too shallow, this is like Jester with middleware support. I'll give it a try.
Common Lisp (Emacs, Slime) or LispWorks (which has a free personal edition). After using live image based development, going back to the edit, compile, test cycle is like going back to the stone age.

And CL has libraries. See quick lisp. [1]

My own comparison with Python, which I have been using regularly. Python is a toy Lisp with all the adult parts hidden.

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
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Nope. No links to video on non-Mac systems. PDFs only.

Do I need to pay the apple-tax just to use their web-pages? That's basically a huge middle-finger to web standards. Absolutely useless crap, borderlining offensive.

Apple is doing some pro-grade trolling here. Not even Microsoft is doing stuff like this anymore.
"Mir spacecraft 1997 collision: Worst collision in the history of space flight"
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> [T]he JVM excels at computational work compared to the BEAM.

What sorts of scales are you talking about when you refer to "computational work"?

Also, was/were the comparison(s) you're referring to being done using native code?
That looks like your browser is somehow misinterpreting the character set of the page. What you're seeing appears to be something like code page 437 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437) rather than unicode.

What browser/os are you using? Is it possible you're going through a proxy that is altering the HTTP headers?
I don't think it's too late, but it would require fairly large changes in perspective in the general computing community about computing, about scaling, about visions and goals.
The only thing that stands out in that piece is that they're collecting advertising device IDs. Those IDs are anonymous and resettable. Snapchat doesn't need them internally since they have a more persistent identifier, i.e. snapchat user ID.

It might be that they want to pass this ID into programmatic platforms. Some systems treat them as pseudo-cookies for frequency capping, measurement, and basic targeting.
Try Canary Mail http://canarymail.io/, snappy and beautiful. And its slack channel is quite robust (not like Nylas, please forgive me) although there only two people in its development team.
Today I have 11Mbs internet in England. Before today it was the best I could get but today I was made up that my exchange just went live with 76Mbs fibre.

You guys kinda rained on my parade :(
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They already did! http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f595/index.htm
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Don't bully people, it's boring and loathesome.

Maybe you haven't seen the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'll summarise it for you: Be civil or fuck off.
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Awesome. Here you go:

The best minds of my generation are manipulating people into buying things they don't need with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like
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Bug in all SHAx functions in JavaScript crypto library SJCL
"Shit happens." Both scenarios could have played out with opposite endings (e.g. there have been other debris strikes in previous Shuttle missions, without fatal consequences), with very small changes in inputs.

There's plenty of things to be learned from each, but I don't see anything those incidents would have in common, except "IN SPAAAACE!".
Compound interest gets taught in like middle school. The same time we get taught percents and stuff.

That said "compound interest" is and any sort of interest is kind of futile if, like a credit card, the principle is constantly changing, it's also a bit hard to scare people into frugality by telling them if they put these steaks on credit they'll have to pay $12 dollars more later. The numbers don't get scary until well into "they already knew they shouldn't do it" territory.
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It's a French website, and Google Translate doesn't do a terrific job, but there are some links to OVH's tweets.

Seems like they are charged for using the Ubuntu trademark on their website [0], not for using Ubuntu OS on VPS instances, as the post title might suggest. Allegedly it comes up to a million EUR a year [1].

A former Digital Ocean employee tweeted that Canonical wanted $4-5 for each DO droplet (with Ubuntu, presumably) at the time he worked there [2].

[0]: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/744609239075799044

[1]: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/745146459910070272

[2]: https://twitter.com/jedgar/status/744901488468725760
The rule of 7% is more potent and easier to understand.

It tells you that if market grows by 7% annually, it's going to move more volume in ten years than in all years before, combined.

For example, of country's electricity consumption grows by 7% YoY, it's going to consume more electricity in (any) ten years than it ever consumed before that, grand total.
You don't think false rape accusations and convictions are an extreme case of harassment?
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This is entirely about who gets killed or who could be killed. It was legal to openly bear arms in in California until the Black Panthers exercised that right. Ronald Reagan quickly signed a bill into law making it illegal after protesters peacefully marched through the Capitol Building bearing arms [1]. There is currently a petition to allow open-carry at the GOP convention, which many Republicans have said will not be allowed no matter how many signatures it gets [2]. The CDC has been restricted from researching gun violence as a public health issue for 20 years [3]. Take a guess as to what party is enforcing this restriction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

[2] https://www.change.org/p/quicken-loans-arena-allow-open-carr...

[3] http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2016/2016-06-14-gu...
I'm not afraid of running out of codepoints. I just think it is misguided that non-text is standardized as text. It just doesn't make sense. I don't know how people will communicate 50 years from now, but I think it's funny that even then, text strings would still need to support all those vegetables and hand gestures. Written text is pretty much eternal; emojis and pictograms? I doubt it. It doesn't make sense for them to get a similar treatment.
The main reason i am against dead penalty, there's always a possibility to rehabilitation. and dead penalty is always definite,
> not backed up by any major company

That is pretty much the entire reason. Any technology not being backed by a large player in the industry has a much tougher time getting traction.
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Right, those should definitely be a part of Unicode. That's no excuse for emojis.
I also wrote a scraper for BBC Food, and implemented https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger into it quite successfully, I guess I should push it up to Github.
ups. sorry, i don't know what went wrong.

here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11960364
My point is that it is impossible to know where the next code chunk is if it is properly encrypted. How does the page fault handler know which block to decrypt next without first decrypting the whole code module, where module is a closed piece of code without jumps outside.

In my opinion every scheme to enable that will cripple the encryption.
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How big a massacre would it take before a gun control law would be carried by a majority in the US?

You know this is the same exact tactic the FBI is playing to advance their goal of warantless access to web history, right?

But it's different, one may say. One scenario uses the swelling of strong emotion after a news event to try and pass a law curbing constitutional rights. And the other scenario ___________________.
That is only completion? IDEs provide more. Refactoring and Debugging, for example.

(I'm a vimmer myself, but that is what I hear other people complain about)
It is a bit hard to follow the listings as they don't use a monospaced font. A part from that, very detailed and useful article.
I assume he was using the word "terrorist" as it has been used by the media over the years, not in the correct sense. Going with the latter, yes it was clearly a terrorist attack.

Going by the former, it was not - the attack was basically homophobic in nature, perpetrated by a closet homosexual who frequented that same gay bar and had no contact whatsoever with the Muslim community.
> Can you just refuse to discuss a topic at all ? I mean... is that legal ?

It is legal yes. Each house of Congress gets to decide their own rules (by law), in the House of Representatives that is done by and through the Rules Committee.

Initially it would just propose general rules at the start of the session then dissolve, but in the late 19th some realised it could propose bill-specific "special rules" (requiring a simple majority vote) giving it significantly more power and control over House proceeedings, and that's basically what it has been since.

As a result, by controlling the Rules Committee the majority can decide which bills get to the floor (and when) regardless of their order on the Calendar of the House, can decide whether the bills can or can not be amended and can decide how much debate time will be available and who gets to talk.
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Pardon the unwise bit of word play http://www.calcentral.com/~monadrailway/Monad/Welcome.html

To be combined with Amtrak logo obviously.

ps: Dan Pinoni had an implementation running on ascii http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
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> concerns

> getting lower all the time

One of my older comments directly addresses this problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916033
> 2) Regulations always get more strict over time. Eventually everything will be banned (knife, pepper spray...). In UK it is illegal to carry a screw driver on street.

Not completely true. It's not illegal to be carrying a screwdriver/fixed blade knife/other dangerous implement in public if you have a valid reason for it. We are not going to arrest an electrician walking down the street, but we will question the guy in a hooded tracksuit loitering outside the bookmakers with a screwdriver