skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like highly privileged rich kids from Stanford and MIT are thinking about how to manipulate people into buying things they don't need.

The best minds can't be swayed from their dreams and goals. Otherwise were they truly the best minds to begin with?
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A counterpoint to consider while you're holding those black and white crayons: Germany started two world wars in the last century alone. Nuclear weapons are arguably acting to prevent a third.
They want every symbol used in a document to have a unique encoding, so that you can change fonts without losing meaning. Fonts like wingdings are a horrible hack.

The idea is one (complex) encoding that will represent the info until the end of time. It creates a lot of trouble, but it's still a good idea.
Autonomous shuttles take over the old town in Sion (Switzerland)
It's the one thing I remembered from my high school US Government teacher. (Or was it Sociology? Same teacher, two classes. What's up, Mr. Swigert?) I always thought it was really cool that he taught us that and it stuck. It had nothing to do with the lesson of the day, he just did it.
12Gbps? Seriously?
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I don't think they have a gerbil either.
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> but the original BMP isn't it and was never going to be it.

I concede this point. I still don't see why the Unicode Consortium should spend effort standardizing non-text as text.
I get 50Mpbs here with Virgin Media - pretty happy about it :D
Dart is not atrocious. It

* has an excellent VM

* is an okayish language

* has a really well designed standard library.
In Swedish it's "stopp".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign#Stop_signs_around_th... shows examples of "Stop" used in Germany and Italy in the 1950s.

The German Wikipedia, at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoppschild , gives an example of "stop" used in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia) in 1939, though it says the sign was an imported variant.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stoppen#German points out:

> As in Dutch stoppen, the sense “to stop” is figurative from water flow being stopped by plugging. Only in this figurative meaning has the form been adopted into standard German proper, under the reinforcing influence of English to stop.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stop gives a list of continental European languages where 'stop' is part of the language. Nearly all borrow from the English. Not Dutch, however.
Because not everyone wants to pull out a calculator or Excel every time they see mention of an interest rate or GDP growth.
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Speaking of Go... would Swift really have a chance against Go on server?
Store-and-forward is an idea at least as old as Usenet. This also reminds me of the way that `%ames` networking in Urbit works. There is more to it than you say, you may want pub-sub from the beginning and features like exponential back-off, without a source to cite I'd say I think intuitively some of these things are likely to be missing from regular packet networking implementations.
“Static vs. Dynamic” Is the Wrong Question
I tried that page from Firefox on android. Wth would they remove the downloads?

Anyway.. their web pages and developer resources are clearly disfunctional garbage, and their cross platform commitment almost non-existent.

I think it's still fair to say swift won't displace java anytime soon.
Tim, these two scenarios are not really comparable.
Memorizing answers to algorithm questions is a poor time investment. I don't see a lot of people doing it. Most smart folks just learn how to design algorithms on the fly, that's much easier and more useful.
Putting together a Windows 98 gaming rig on the proper hardware
> That's the most interesting point to me, I deeply believed that organisms share the same basic set of genes.

It should seem obvious in retrospect. Turing machines have many incarnations as different instruction sets in modern CPUs. I don't see why cells wouldn't have analogous multiple expressions, unless your deep belief was that there was only one way for protein chains to replicate.
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> it is known to alienate people

I've not heard this before. Citation?
I agree. I do see the usefulness of these symbols, but I'm not sure why emojis need official support.
No, they are building amazing software, infrastructure & services.

They are being paid by people who want to sell things.
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not true. 64-bit kernel was previously not possible to examine.

additionally: we now know what Watchtower looks like, something that was previously a mystery and even incorrectly thought to be something that ran on SEP instead of the AP.
Do you have some proof of that? I know you can commonly get multi-gig connections in some countries, but France was next on that list that I know of.
This is trivial and any person can do it.
Why would they need the hearing, its "advice and consent". Why do the standard process when the answer is no. They will not give their consent until after the election.
Hotelling's Law
Legend about mysterious creature named ''Kurent''
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I believe it's an issue with time resources. I would argue that new emoji characters are one of the less important uses of Unicode [1]. You are right that it is entirely up to the members of the Unicode consortium to manage their efforts themselves, but that doesn't mean we can't complain about that. I see a lot of these cases as bikeshedding

[1]https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...
I have Verizon FiOS. Installation of it was subsidized by targeted tax breaks, use of government owned right of ways, and laws which substantially limited their liability for property damaged done during installation. I'm also pretty sure Verizon used funds gained from their other services to pay for the installation.
DID EINSTEIN REALLY Fail MATH?
well said (written)!
I've got to be missing something. The whole purpose of block chain is not to use a big vendor.
Copenhagen Suborbitals have a good blog post[1] (albeit in somewhat stilted English) explaining how they ended up using a similar device (visible here[2] in a slo-mo video of an unsuccessful engine test).

1: http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/to-make-fire/

2: https://youtu.be/f-4n-2MtECE?t=25s
Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider
Onto the next generation :/
Honestly, I think "SVG over UTF" makes a lot more sense. It's impossible to make a character set that supports every character known to man, because that just adds undue effort on every computer maker, ect, to keep up.

So why don't we pick a very good set: perhaps every letter in every language in common use for the past 200 years? Then, for the oddball symbols that someone wants to mix in text, there can be some kind of SVG-like convention. This allows publishing textual information without requiring that every device maker updates their device to support a 1-off symbol.
That's a pretty cool idea.. Up until know I have used JSON whenever I wanted to use NetworkX. It shouldn't be too complex to connect them.
Yeah but I'm willing to bet people are willing work on their own project for a lot less money than their employer's project.
Following a mention of David Reed's [1] NAMOS [2] in the Alan Kay discussion, and review of the thesis prompted a search for what he's been up to recently. OpenCobalt is the continuation of MIT's Croquet Project [3] and looks quite interesting.

[1]: http://www.reed.com/dpr/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed

[2]: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

I've always been quite impressed with Rich Hickey's disambiguation of identity and state, but as always, nothing new under the sun. The NAMOS thesis (1978) is that and Datomic in one thesis.
Particular driving styles. For example, if you have a boxer engine with a turbo and floor it for the duration of a long banked turn, centrifugal force can prevent the oil from circulating through the engine and it can get damaged.

There are gotcha's like this which complicate the equation.
It's "Bletchley".
Everything I know, I learned on Tumblr.

http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/
"This stuff should be taught in high schools."

Strange, so it's not taught in USA? I always assumed compound interest to be basics and taught universally. I did learn about them probably in 7th or 8th grade.
VGA was 640x480, not 320x200. 320x200 didn't have an acronym I can recall. SVGA was 800x600.
Does ArangoDB support streaming queries like RethinkDB?
The Creation engine by Bethesda is still highly mod friendly. For example, there is a fan-made total conversion mod being created for TES V: Skyrim that is a remake of TES III: Morrowind [1]. Also, the SureAI team is creating Enderal, a total conversion mod in a completely different setting [2].

[1] http://tesrenewal.com/blog/blog-post-march

[2] http://sureai.net/games/enderal/?lang=en
Racist hosts, not hotels, are the greatest threat to Airbnb's business
There's one thing I don't understand in the following signature provided for bind :

val bind : ('a -> Result<'b,'c>) -> Result<'a,'c> -> Result<'b,'c>

The author says that it takes one parameter, a function and returns another function, but then why are there 3 args in the signature ?

I would have expected something like this :

val bind : ('a -> Result<'b,'c>) -> (Result<'a,'c> -> Result<'b,'c>)

for something that takes a function and returns another function adapted to the input, or something like this :

val bind : ('a -> Result<'b,'c>) -> Result<'a,'c> -> Result<'b,'c>

for a function that takes a function G and an input I and applies G to I if possible ad returns the eventual result (curried, Haskell-style).

What am I missing about F# ?
>Surely in this scenario the answer to "is it OK to kill one of you now?" is "no".

I don't know about that.

I'm not sure about this intuition pump. If they are truly identical to me, then the world they live in must also me identical to mine or we would have diverged. So if we discovered Earth-2, then Earth-2 would simultaneously discover us (or Earth-3 etc). No actions can cause divergence, so it's not possible for anyone on any Earth to only kill one of you. It would be like trying to kill your reflection.

If we're talking about some kind of god who is outside the mirror/chain Earth system, and has the ability to break symmetry as they see fit, it's still not clear-cut. In effect, from such a perspective, there is only one Earth (albeit with copies) until changes are made. It's not even clear that deleting one of the several identical copies of the whole Earth is wrong. Moreover, deciding to kill someone on one of several heretofore identical Earth's and seeing how they diverge is informationally the same as spawning a new Earth - an act of creation rather than destruction. Nothing is lost - that person still lives their life on an Earth somewhere - but now new lives will be led, new experiences, new sadness but also somewhere new joy.

I think it's pretty clear though that our morality of "no killing" is based pretty strongly upon the assumption that there's only one of someone, they can only be killed once, and it's forever. Start violating these assumptions and it breaks down quickly.
I see no concrete dates set for the end of use of coal. The fact that nuclear power generation is specifically set to phase out in 2022 means that they'll still be using coal by then.
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Currently working in this company, I guarantee you Huawei is working on its own version of everything. Any tool we use is always considered as something we should aim to replace with a version of our own.

A custom OS does not suprise me in the slightest, considering there are custom ARMv8 CPU's in development as well
Aren't most Euroepan headquarters of US companies in Ireland anyway? It has certainly the more preferable tax situation and most big US tech companies I can think of are legally operated from Ireland for EU users.
I have never read a book that had a snowman in the running text, so what's the story for emoji?
Yeah, but that's still progress in a way, progress away from the false goal of unconditional realism. Cartoons are generally cheaper, which means we can have more things, and also has more useful design space. Something like TF2-style "all characters must have distinctive silhouettes" is much harder if you're also trying to do total realism, because you end up so much more constrained with where the distinctiveness can be. (Color? No, nobody's running around on the battlefield in bright red. Nobody's wearing crazy hats or has two-foot-tall bouncing hair. A lot of guns look a lot like other guns. etc.)
That doubles the attractiveness of this rule of thumb. Too bad the author left it out.
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Being one of "those people", sure. It's a statistical fact that the countries with the strictest gun control laws have the most murders per capita. America actually sits at the bottom of that list, with one of the lowest murder per capita rates despite having one of the highest gun ownership per capita.

Those statistics you linked are inaccurate. Up to 2/3s of those firearms deaths are suicides.

If you prefer a more emotional argument, scott adams provides a perfectly good one here[0]. tl;dl: we want firearms to protect our homes and families from the millions of violent muslims you're importing.

Something else important to consider: whether you agree with me or not, there are enough people who feel the way I do about the issue that if a gun control law was to actually pass there would be a civil war.

[0]: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146307088451/why-gun-control-ca...
Or could this be an invitation to make it possible for the XXX to hack the kernel? Seems it could go either way.
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My guess is >Oracle. They want to make the minimum possible community contribution.
Yup, I thought that when I was implementing the nutrition stuff. My guess is that the original implementer went "salt content, well that's really a sodium property"
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> Most large C++ code bases are similar [...] outlaws exceptions

While I can understand the ideas behind it, exceptions do cause head aches, I find it really weird. Enforcing this means using a very limited part of the C++ standard library, e.g. no std::vector, std::map, etc, because all those can throw exceptions. If you say no to exceptions but yes to std::vector then you either need to write code that works in the presence of exceptions (which means you could just say yes to them) or you have shoved your head in the sand like an ostrich thinking if you can't see them they can't happen.
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We have been using ArangoDB (2.8.x) for some time. Solid product with awesome support in Google group and SO. Great job guys! Looking forward to migrate to 3.x especially for the persistent index.
I don't know much about F#, but in a language with currying, such distinction does not exist, given f(x, y) == f(x)(y)
Was there a list of what were acceptable charities for the match?
It's not prod yet, check their mailing lists.
The main issue here is that a bunch of multi-billion businesses are dependent on a company that has its own agenda. Google doesn't care about Huawei or Samsung or Sony. If dropping Android and joining Windows Phone camp could somehow improve their ad revenue and data gathering they would probably do it.

So while I don't think Huawei will get anywhere with their OS. They (and Samsung) are trying to send a message to Google: act like a real partner or we are out.
If Huawei's history is any indication they're probably just taking the android code, and doing a find and replace.
Can I just say how unbelievably good the new Doom is. That game has single-handedly restored my faith in the first person shooter genre.
Sounds like 72 too many if you ask me.

In all seriousness, I'm not sure emoji's really belong in text encoding. Even though it's more convenient, based on where they're most frequently used I don't think they need to be universal.
"I just don’t understand the game industry (and game culture)’s fanatical obsession with realistic graphics. They make games worse."

I just don't understand talkies. They make movies worse.

I just don't understand TV. It's worse than radio shows.

I just don't understand 60fps filming. It just makes the props look fake.

Every entertainment form has its visionaries, master craftsmen, and then the other 95% made up of crap (not to mention the industry learning curve as people discover what works and what doesn't).

This has nothing to do with graphical fidelity. There were shit games on the Atari 2600, and there are shit games on the PS4.

Good entertainment immerses you in the environment, such that you don't even think to question how things work. If it fails in that, the designers are doing something wrong.
> No garbage collection, so no GC performance hiccups.

Swift has ARC(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting) which is a GC strategy. And I don't think it can compete with the performance of the JVM's G1 (currently).

> I wonder whether Java will get displaced by Swift on the server at some point. Anyone want to place bets?

I'd bet on Scala(http://scala-lang.org/) which has far more benefits compared to Swift - OOP+FP, higher kinds, typeclasses, implicits, (hygienic) macros etc. dotty(https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty) will have union- and intersection types with other useful stuff. There is a JS backend(https://www.scala-js.org/) and there'll be an LLVM(https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native) backend too.
256 color VGA mode 13h was certainly 320x200.

I agree it is wrong to call it "VGA", as the VGA (Video Graphics Adapter) was able to display graphics in a variety of resolutions.

The standard resolution used for games was the 256 color 320x200. VGA allowed a couple of other non-documented and harder to achieve resolutions in 256 color, but this was the standard one, and also Quake's default mode.

640x480 was 16 color.

Standard text-mode VGA was 80x25 characters of 9×16 pixels for a total of 720x400 pixels.

SVGA was even more diffusely defined, as different vendors supported different resolutions.
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This just seems like a smart call. Some of the largest companies have made the mistake of making themselves dependent on another company for their business model, which can leave them in a bad place if the relationship sours or the platform changes. The old example of course, is Facebook games, where companies like Zynga pretty much exist or don't at the whims of Facebook's policies.

Samsung of course has Tizen as a fallback. I wonder how many other manufacturers may have fallback plans in this regard. Because if Android goes away, the only other slightly popular OS they can license for their own devices is Windows, which of course won't let them customize the platform as much.
BBC Good Food is not going anywhere. So you can stop the scraping... It's BBC Food (different name, different website) the one who is going to close (even the recipes will remain online, btw)
The difference between an icon and a letter is small and unclear. & is a symbol but was considered a letter as an example. Chinese characters are words etc.
Particularly wondering what this community thinks as AirBnB is a YC company and some of the proposed solutions to this problem are startups:

http://www.innclusive.com/

http://noirbnb.launchrock.com/
Certainly! I hope it's helpful, feel free to share ;)
Here's a presentation by Valve about the visual design of Team Fortress 2: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/NPAR07_Illust...

And here's the paper for it: http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/02/NPAR07_Illu...
I agree. I started Andrew NG's coursera course and it seemed pretty maths heavy and dry. I started reading through the tensorflow tutorial and couple other more hands on approaches. I get a better idea of what is actually happening in the second.

Am I likely to need matrix multiplication if I start doing machine learning, or that the equivalent of writing a sort algorithm for a web dev - maybe useful to know the concepts, but in reality you won't actually use it?
Elon Musk said we're living in a computer simulation. This cartoon explains
In most places FiOS deployment involves huge taxes, such as franchise fees and forced build-out into neighborhoods that will be unprofitable. (Tax breaks, to the extent they exist, are often carrots for the latter). Also, in many (most?) places Verizon pays the utility pole or conduit owner (usually the power company) for access to those rights of way. In Virginia, for example, you'll get a line-item on your bill for the right-of-way fee.
> it can find things like the "sine function" via examples of inputs and outputs

I think this is a really important idea. On one hand, it can save us from re-inventing code which already exists (e.g. "this existing code will satisfy your test suite"), it can help us discover relationships between existing things ("the function 'sine' behaves like the function 'compose(cosine, subtract(90))'"), it can aid refactoring/optimisation/etc.

On the other hand, it could also help us discover services/information which we could not obtain by ourselves. For example, discovering a database mapping postcodes to latitude/longitude.

There's some interesting work applying this to pure functions, using testing https://hackage.haskell.org/package/quickspec and proofs https://github.com/danr/hipspec

It's also closely related to inductive programming (e.g. inductive logic programming, inductive functional programming, or even superoptimisation), where combinations of existing functions are checked against the specification. Of course, that leads down the path to genetic programming, and on to AI and machine learning in general!
I live in the US and I certainly learned about compound interest in High School.
This is one of the biggest problems for a newcomer like OpenAI: They can collaborate on this paper, along with other researchers, from Stanford and Berkeley. But at the end of the day, bloggers are going to claim this is a Google news item, because Google news gets them pageviews.
Price discrimination is an economic concept - charging different prices for very similar products or services to get the value that each customer is willing to pay. That is often difficult and what normally happens is each customer is charged the same price.
The graphics cards of the day didn't have gamma correction, for starters. Plus phosphor had an entirely different response curve. :)
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Agreed.

Although I had never worked with the Unicode Consortium, I [submitted a proposal][1] for an international symbol for an observer and it was eventually accepted.

[1]: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2015/01/international-symbo...
Won't someone think of the advertisers‽
"article implied that the bbc good food website would be taken down. This turned out to be false but by the time I realised that I'd already written this, so here you are."
You're forgetting something about networked code. At some layer of the stack it has to be written in C or assembly.
The quake sources taught me many lessons on how to structure C code!
Curious if it was difficult to implement.