skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook Live's API is a mess. The docs have rotted links. Webhooks don't work unless your app has explicit permission for the API, which you need to go through app review to get. How do you submit an app for review that you haven't been able to test for lack of permissions? No one at FB seems to know what's going on with the Live API.
Ah, thank you!
Disregarding all regulations to be cheaper than all competitors certainly is missing from your list.
I wrote my dissertation on this
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Thanks Alan, will dive in

http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/specpub.php?id=773

http://worrydream.com/refs/Smith%20-%20Croquet%20-%20A%20Col...
Changing any connector you had in place for a decade or more is user-hostile and stupid and yet it's been done for decades. Don't worry, we'll all be fine.
All night will be spent desperately trying to get all the FTP logins back from this man! facepalm
The language as a phenomena is obviously neither purely functional nor purely statistical. Purity is an abstract nonsense, an abstract category of abstractions.

It is obvious from serious psychological studies of the process of a language acquisition, that it is similar to training a neural network - there is some knowledge representation grows up in the brain, but the process of training/learning is possible due to having appropriate machinery in the brain.

It seems, like we have more that two apriory notions - of time and space, we, perhaps, have, apriory notions of a thing (noun), process (verb) and attribute (adjective) and even predicate at very least, as reflections of our perceptions of physical universe around us with sensory input procession machinery we happen to evolve.

It is a mutualy recursive process - we evolved our "inner representation" of reality constrained by senses, but nature selects, in some cases, those with more correct representations.

How these apriory notions maps to sounds - details of phonology and morphology is rather irrelevant - we evolved machinery for that. This is why, there is no fundamental, principal differences between human languages. The difference in in a degree, not in a kind.

It seems also that we learn not the rules (schools are very recent innovations), but "weights" by being exported to the medium of a local spoken language. Children do it on their own, at least in remote areas, like among nomads of Himalaya, no worse than Americans. This, by the way, is prof that we have everything we need to be Buddha or Einstein.

How exactly training occurs is absolutely unknown but it has nothing to do with probabilities. Nature knows nothing about probabilities, but it obviously "knows" rates - how often something happen. Animals "know" how often something happen.

Probabilities is an invention of the mind, which leads to so many errors in cases where not all possible outcomes and its caused are know, which is almost always the case. Nature could not rely on such faulty tool.

So, like every naturally complex system, it has both "procedures" and "weighted" data. Language capacity is hardwired, but grammar "grows" according to exposure.

To speak about hows, and especially how-exactlys in terms of either pure procedures or pure statistics is misleading. It is both.

And Mr.Chimsky is right - mere data, leave alone probabilistic models, describe nothing about principles behind what is going on. They does not even describe what's going on correctly, only some approximation to an overview of something unknown being partially observed.

The more or less correct model, as a philosophy, must be grounded in reality, especially in that part of it which we call the mind. It has been pointed out, that mind itself is possible because of hardwired apriory notions (grounded in physical universe) of succession and distance, so models should be augmented with these notions too. Pure statistics is nothing.
Because its close to their job? Commute time is highly related to happiness.
Understand Erlang in what sense? You would still write Elixir code but would need to understand Erlang code and syntax because there is larger amount of docs and examples for Erlang ? Have you ever felt that you miss something greatly in Elixir?
> At the end of the day, as long as Ecuador doesn't kick him out, all he has to do is wait for the statute of limitations to expire.

Don't know about Sweden, but in the U.S. the statute of limitations is not granted to those fleeing from the law.

> No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice.

- 18 U.S.C 3290 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3290):
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Wouldn't multiple possible factorizations require numbers that both are and aren't divisible by certain numbers? If it's divisible by a number, the number must appear in its factorization and vice versa.
There are several questions here.

A prime UI design principle -- which is also an education principle -- is that you have to start where the learners/users are. ("All learning happens on the fringes of what you know" -- David Ausubel)

For children especially -- and most humans -- a main way of thinking and learning and knowing is via stories. On the other hand most worthwhile ideas in science, systems, etc. are not in story form (and shouldn't be). So most modern learning should be about how to help the learner build parallel and alternate ways of knowing and learning -- bootstrapping from what our genetics starts us with.

And -- everything we are immersed in causes "normal" to be reset, for most people invisibly. This should be a conscious part of the "helping learning" process.

This could be too elliptical an answer ...
From the docs:

"This is a new behavior in Erlang/OTP 19.0. It has been thoroughly reviewed, is stable enough to be used by at least two heavy OTP applications, and is here to stay. Depending on user feedback, we do not expect but can find it necessary to make minor not backward compatible changes into Erlang/OTP 20.0."

It's honestly hard to overstate how excellent seeing that note is. It's a significant change in tone regarding community involvement in the design, structure, and implementation of core OTP components. It's really exciting to see.

I can't help but see this as part of a halo-effect that originates in the inclusive and thriving community around Elixir. It really seems like both ecosystems are getting a lot from each other right now.
I don't think so, but even if they were, you can buy a crypto co-processor for less than $1/unit.
$400! No thanks
Forgive me, but this comment reads like yet more FUD. Do you have anything to add except more scare tactics? Of course I'd like assurances regarding anything with my life on the line, but why would I be special? Why would Assange be special? The law is the law, and an important principle in western law is that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. Should you or I be allowed to flee abroad and then demand to be questioned where we are?

Sweden's government can't give any assurances beforehand, since every case must be judged independently. Sweden can't extradite Assange anywhere after he's been extradited to Sweden from the UK without the UK's permission [0, 1]. If the US needs Sweden and the UK to cooperate, why wouldn't they just ask the UK from the start, who's a much closer allied?

[0] http://jtl.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/04/F...

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/07/wikileaks.assange/index...
John Gruber's response (http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/headphone_jacks_are_the_ne...
):

> Should the analog headphone jack remain on our devices forever? If you think so, you can stop reading.

What's the advantage to removing the headphone jack? Is the jack some sort of bottleneck to sound quality that nobody noticed until now? I really don't see a benefit in removing the headphone jack, now or anytime in the foreseeable future.
$400!! No thanks
This fulfills a need that I have had for a long long time. No more resource bundles which nobody wants to translate.
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You aren't forced to buy a new iPhone, better yet the one you have probably doesn't really need to be upgraded at all. Apple will understand you're displeasure if you vote w/your wallet; they won't care about your displeasure if you tweet them or complain in the comments section.
I thought the reason why he couldn't be extradited directly from UK was because he was a high-profile UK citizen, which meant that it would be far simpler if they could get him to Sweden first?

(Disclaimer: I don't know nothing, I just think I heard.)
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Writing Ikiwiki plugins is often very easy, because triggers for most events you'd want to get involved in are available, and because much of Ikiwiki's own functionality is implemented as plugins. Reading and understanding internals, as you point out, can be challenging.

Tricky and/or important bits of functionality are often covered by automated tests (and I've test-driven new functionality in: http://www.schmonz.com/2013/08/22/tdd-by-example-an-ikiwiki-...). A sufficiently motivated person could incrementally test-protect more of the internals and refactor under test. I hope to have more time for this soon.
I stumbled on this book earlier. How would you rate it, it is pricey.. Does it provide solid explanation of the concepts with the code to go with it?
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Folks buy new headphones for their phone all the time. Just get the right one.

Headphones with wires fail all the time, so wireless is arguable better for most folks most of the time. The arguments about sound failures are cherry-picked to ignore that. Also phones are compromised by every hole in the case (water, dirt, static etc). So now there will be fewer catastrophic failures.

And now you can walk with your phone in your pants pocket or purse (or anywhere), without a wire dangling!

{edit: explain}
The Intel commercial with Jim Parsons exhorting the armored car drive to get a new, more secure laptop where "your face is your password" is definitely a cringeworthy moment, not just because of its ignorance, but because of how mainstream it is (plastered all over the NBA Finals).
So there is a great amount of lists, blogposts and information about awful/bad IoT things, but if someone like me want to have a list about IoT things that are actually secure and well-working, where would I find that?
If two cultures isn't enough for you, there was an interesting blog post from a year ago called "The Three Cultures of Machine Learning":

http://cs.jhu.edu/~jason/tutorials/ml-simplex.html
We've already had a few people contact us to say that they're using it as a template. Hopefully it removes some of the mystery from the process.
I was a big fan of science fiction in the 40s and 50s -- pretty much literally "read everything" -- and tapered off in the 60s -- partly because science was taking more of my time than science fiction, and partly because in many areas science and technology over-ran sci-fi, and partly because my favorite authors were writing less (and writing less good stuff).
Constantly - for editing crontab, or occasionally to tweak some config stuff on dev boxes. I also do a lot of PHP though so that could explain it...
It's too big (at least according to those "slim" worshiping designers).
There was a deliberate suppression of entire fields of research & education from the 1930's onwards. Biology being one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sov...
I need to correct myself. The license in the footer references the map tiles in the background. Those were created from pre-2012 data and at that point OpenStreetMap still using the CC-YA license.
Some of the charges against him has already expired, the rape charge expires in august 2020.
Also worth mentioning that liability laws can be rather different from country to country. Germany (and Austria iirc) is somewhat notorious in that regard as you can't completely "get rid of" liability and warranty. There's no public domain for example (technically that's still debated but the main opinion seems to be it's not possible for me to release anything as public domain, see §29 UrhG-D).
This is a great list of highly actionable items. Could you please elaborate a bit on the value proportion point?
I think the argument that is made is that it's stopping phones becoming thinner - which looking at the size of the jack on my Nexus 5X, I can believe.

However, personally, I'll live with a thicker phone if it means I can have a larger capacity battery, let alone a 3.5mm jack
To paraphrase grandparent, if it were you, would you be willing to risk it? It won't be much consolation to you if it happens and somebody in Sweden might feel ashamed about it.
The US today isn't in much of a different boat. Granted, a human being a mushroom is quite an extreme one, but I'm sure a well-crafted documentary reaching a wide enough audience could still have a deplorable impact. Here's a 2013 poll on conspiracy theories:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/04/conspiracy-t...

I was in high school when one of the "moon landings were a hoax" documentaries made the rounds. A significant portion of my class was instantly converted by the documentary. I lost a little of my faith in humanity at that time, though much of it was quickly recovered thanks to an excellent math teacher who paid attention to his students, found out about the phenomenon, and dedicated half of a class to thoroughly debunking it.
By the way, the chips of smartcards are enough to perform encryption, as well as storing keys.

(fast enough for streams in 'real-time' - I don't know)
For some time this triggered a Facebook 500. Now just a 400 and a blank page.

https://www.instagram.com/%ed

That "%ed" trick works with some pages, I wonder what it does to them.

https://www.reddit.com/%ed
https://outlook.com/%ed
You aren't forced, just coercively "suggested" into it, via updates pushed out by the carrier that inevitably make your phone run slower than a Celeron laptop from the early 2000s
I heard it was because he was a (high-profile) British citizen.
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i just dont get it -- whats the problem with the old analog headphone jack? it works perfectly for me. wheres the benefit in ditching it?
As usual, "it depends".

If this thing is capable of running OpenWRT, it can run some sort of SSL for what it needs. Might be tight and might have to not be OpenSSL, but it can be done.

Lesser-capable devices may have issues. But note that one way or another, the devices must speak some decent encryption to get on to WPA2 networks. Of course that's probably done in the Wifi hardware, but it still shows that it's not like we're living in the 1980s where we literally wouldn't have been able to afford the silicon in a consumer device. Hardware acceleration of SSL shouldn't be that hard to get a hold of, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_acceleration#Central_proce...
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Its common today to make a robot that kills anybody that comes within a foot or two of it. Without any image recognition at all; much more damaging than a gun; and 100M of them already deployed. This conversation is silly and pointless, until we clean up the insane number of land mines deployed around our planet.
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Let us not forget the exceptional spaghetti harvest of 1957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

Thanks, in part, to an unusual lull in population numbers of the notorious Spaghetti Weevil.
From the same rant:

> As an aside, whatever the merits of this decision, it’s not about device thinness. The iPhone 6 is the thinnest iPhone to date at 6.9mm. The iPod Touch has a headphone jack and is just 6.1mm thick. The iPod Nano: 5.4mm. The analog headphone jack is more costly in terms of depth than thickness.
There's so much potential in the market for proper, well made IoT devices that would bring around the hardcore skeptics like myself. I mean really well made products, properly encrypted with well made API endpoints that come with good apps for the uninitiated -AND- the ability to be scripted and automated by the techies. (You can do both, there's no reason why you can't and I don't understand why everyone refuses to). Oh, and not having them phone home to who-knows-where-istan around Australia, or at the very least, having the ability to TURN THAT OFF.

Seriously why have NO companies come forward with products like this. I'd buy a house worth if someone did.
>Basically, Elon Musk is walking into the history books and folklore and we are the ones to witness his humble beginnings.

That's possible...

..it's also possible that we witness one of the largest corporate blunder tales in history.
Russia is on verge of bankruptcy. Average Greek has much better life that average Russian.

China have even bigger structural problems: corruption, aging population, empty cities, lack of own technology, weak retirement system, bad education etc.

This choice about Brexit will impact mostly economic situation. If UK vote for Brexit people will start losing jobs.
I don't think there's much reason to be confident that the first AGI will be like a low-IQ human, at least for very long, even if it starts off as an emulated human brain. Machines have the huge advantage of faster materials (neurons are slow), perfect memory, perfect calculation, ability to scale horizontally, backups to restore in the event of bad self-modification experiments, and no need for things like sleep and food to take up its time from learning, improving itself, and acting upon the world.
I don't think abandoning the headphone jack is a bad idea.

I think abandoning it for lightning is a bad idea.

Is apple so desperate for hardware money that there is not a single "open" connector on the iPhone?

Why Lightning as opposed to USB-C? Why make it so that people need a completely different set of headphones just for apple devices? (Bluetooth not withstanding)
I think that's your answer.
Your comment has destroyed the browsing experience on mobile :)
Already mentioned, but deserving to be mentioned again: in a normal criminal law case you don't have multiple nations deny airspace to a prime minister's plane on a hunch the suspect is on board.
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> It's all a bunch of FUD, and people seem to eat it up because it fits their narrative.

Not even particularly original FUD. Jacob Appelbaum was able to get away with a lot of things because he could always point to his accusers as being planted by the FBI or whoever.
And those satellites can be used to find places for the homeless in the US :)
The way I see it, if you contribute to a project for example by sending a patch to it by email or pull request then you agree to be bound by the license. Even if there is no copyright assignment. Otherwise you would not have the right to modify the software to write your patch in the first place. This just seems like common sense to me.
I saw some opposition research guys in the UVM Bailey Howe Library late last year. They stood out like a sore thumb, dressed like hipsters--in the special collections room, and pulling multiple boxes on Bernie Sanders at a time. I'd never really seen someone pull that much stuff at once before. Then again, I don't visit special collections that frequently.

One of the people who work at the library contrasted it with when Howard Dean was running for president. There were opposition research guys from that election. However, instead of dressing like hipsters, they wore black suits.
Just use Maven. It will be the lowest maintenance cost over time for your project. Nothing else matters, it's a frickin build system -- get it working and move on.
I understand your point: if sales go up then it matters fuck all how many people complain (see: Facebook redesigns and growth from 2004-2011).

However, ideally you will both not purchase and complain publicly, preferably with well-reasoned arguments. Not only will this potentially help dissuade far more people from purchasing a new iPhone than your meager 1-person boycott will, but you can bet there are factions inside Apple that fought tooth and nail against this change, and a large amount of press supporting their opinion helps them make the case internally.
I can't speak for shrugger, but when I see the manpower invested in improving Java, .Net, JavaScript, Go, LLVM runtimes/compilers, I'm personally wondering if BEAM will be able to follow. We are starting to see languages like Python fade away because of that, when fast execution starts to matter.
Taxonomy isn't an arbitrary classification for convenience akin to call numbers in a library, but a reflection of our best understanding of evolutionary history, and as such changes as we learn more. Already in the 19th century many biologists already doubted that fungi were plants based on the fact that they don't have chloroplasts or photosynthesize and thus need to feed off of other living things as do animals. However, with the development of sequencing methods, first for proteins in the 1950s and then for DNA in the 1970s, more quantitive support for the similarity of fungi to animals were obtained. And in the 1990s when whole genome sequencing became possible yet more information supporting the grouping was obtained.
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This is an absurdly naive view of a utopian hyper-rationalist.

The laws are created by those in power to serve those in power. They do not stand on their own, because they are enforced by cops, lawyers and judges, who are people. These people choose to enforce the law based on the situation at hand, and this can lead to a large disparity in outcomes given technically similar cases.

Assange and Snowden will both rot in Guantanamo the second they leave their safe houses. If you think otherwise, you are absurdly naive to the geopolitics of the world we live in.
I think the right approach is to stick to your single product and don't get bogged down with one big client's special needs. If a big company says they would buy tones of subscriptions / licenses if you had feature X, and feature X doesn't disrupt your core product and enough other people would buy your product or keep renewing if you had feature X, then go ahead and implement it.

Then I think the other approach is to make your app moduler enough that 3rd parties can customize and extend your platform to fit special needs clients.
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Why not make some argument about 1. Symbosis between fungi and other life forms, and 2. The fact the some parasites are known to alter the behavior of many creatures (specifically the one that influences a flea to climb grass to be eaten by cows for reproduction).
The Golden Age trilogy is great. A Fire Upon the Deep is also good.
echinoderms. Related to sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc. Fish are an entirely different kettle of Osteichthyes
Apple's reasoning is that the problem with the old analog headphone jack is that it won't work with all of the new lightning-based headphones that will be coming out soon.

/sarcasm
It's not old, it's "mature".
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Comparing the 3.5 mm audio jack to the floppy drive is ridiculous. The jack has become far, far, more ubiquitous than the floppy drive. Additionally, the things that use the jack are often of higher quality and not disposible like a floppy disk was. And this ignores the fact that the floppy disk/drive was technologically usurped by other removable storage formats.

The 3.5 mm jack still delivers the absolute best sound quality compared to the other options available on a smart phone.

Most, if not all, of the other solutions will be a step backward.
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