skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a hacker who is interested in linguistics, you might want to check out the work we are doing at my startup Ozora Research (http://ozoraresearch.com).

Our goal is to build high-quality, sophisticated NLP solutions for "cleantext" : text that has been professionally written and copy-edited, so that it doesn't have obvious errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.

What makes our work different is that, unlike almost all other research in NLP, we don't depend on human-annotated data (like the Penn TreeBank) for training and evaluation. Instead, we build our models into lossless data compressors, and evaluate by invoking the compressor on a large text corpus.

In addition to this change in evaluation methodology, we are also deeply interested in the empirical study of text - that is, in the questions of traditional syntax research. For example, an important part of English syntax relates to verb argument structure: verbs differ in the types of arguments they can accept. Some verbs can accept infinitive complements, that-complements, or indirect objects; others cannot. Our system contains a module that handles argument structure and forwards this information to the parser and compressor.

I wrote a book presenting a rationale for why scientists should be deeply interested in large-scale, lossless data compression. Roughly, empirical data compression research is a variation of the scientific method: if theory A achieves better compression than theory B, then A is closer to the truth. Scientists can use this principle to search systematically through theory-space and find high-quality theories.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466

Interestingly, compression has a direct link to generation. By sending random bits into the decompressor, you obtain sample sentences that illustrate the model's "idea" of what English text looks like. By studying the discrepancy between the sample sentences and real text, you can discover ways to improve the model. This is a very productive technique that we use routinely. Chomsky declared that his goal was to build a machine that generates grammatical English sentences, but none of his followers actually tried to build such a device. So in some sense our research is actually closer to Chomsky's stated goal than what Chomsky's followers are doing.

I would love to hear from people who might want to collaborate on linguistics work, or use the data compression idea to explore other fields (eg. computer vision, bioinformatics, astronomy).
Agreed. But building a smart watch isn't that much different than building an iPhone. It's quite a jump to car manufacturer.
The REAL reason Slack became a billion dollar company
https://github.com/kragen/500lines/tree/master/search-engine explains a simple version of this in Python.
yeah but mainstream culture is always defined by a small group. and it is recognizably American. like having a million of those ribbons and plastic trophies from science fairs or organized sports. or republicans calling poor people "freeloaders".
Please do not spread false misbeliefs. Wow's Lua is 5.1-flavoured afaik, and that's completely different language from 5.0, 4.x or what you describe.

This entire thread mentions fatality of function substitution in Lua, but that is easily prevented (by setting proxy metatable on global table and system libraries, even any lua-noob knows that, blizzard devs are just losers). But even that missing protection is not what breaks security. In dynamic languages like lua or javascript you control the dynamicity via localization of global values at eval-time ('eval' as in repl). 'local trim = path.to.sys.lib.trim'. So, once trim function is localized in console code, you can assign anything to original location and that will not interfere with console logic. Lua is just too hot to handle for wow-devs, and python, perl, javascript have the same issue more or less the same way.
This only occurs for a minority of women.
I haven't had access to the Thomson gateway device for long enough to see how the traffic is segregated. If I do end up changing to Telstra I'll have a look, although I'm not sure I'd be allowed to solder up the serial-out on their device ;)

$10/day is $300+ a month - I pay $50/month for 7GB of data on Telstra's 3G/4G networks. I haven't actually needed to use Telstra Air because the middle of the city has free wifi by iiNet/Internode (RIP).
My employer has been pushing remote work for a while, and they've recently recanted and are telling everyone to come into the office. Why? Because for all the benefits you imagine those tools to provide, they are not actually helping people be more productive than they would if they were working face-to-face.
Sounds like a fun game. :-P
I visited the NeXT factory in Fremont, and it certainly seemed state of the art to me at the time.

NeXT Computer Inc. eventually became NeXT Software Inc. and ceased manufacturing hardware. That was 23 years ago. I'd be surprised if any significant presence from that manufacturing team remained in Cupertino today.
> Maybe something with a local stack, recursion assistance, an iterator? [...] supplanted with meta-information to indicate the completion of a group of cells to allow a message to propagate?

What you're describing sounds a lot more like many CPU cores connected by a network than like an FPGA. The point of an FPGA is that it gives you very precise and flexible control over things like timing and interconnects. Without that, FPGAs are actually pretty slow and you'd better use a CPU.

> With relaxed constraints partial, on-the-fly and self- modifications could become regular features.

There's a reason why self-modifying software is restricted to niche use cases: it's hard to reason about. Dynamic partial reconfiguration is slowly becoming a thing in FPGA design, but it's typically used to work around resource limitations.
If anyone wants to improve the website, open an issue on https://github.com/mxe/mxe or raise a pull against the gh-pages branch.
These wild birds help humans hunt for honey
Similar to this, I work as a freelancer and I would never go back to a "full-time" job. When I'm working, I'm getting paid - no expectation for unpaid overtime. I can alternate between a busy week or a kicking back week completely at will. Or just spend time unpaid working on side projects/interests. Not being in the US means I don't have to fret about health insurance.
I think you misunderstood, or I wasn't clear:)

The reason they have clean data is that big firms have teams of people dedicated to just cleaning data.

The little guy has to spend time cleaning data even before he/she starts to compete.
It is a little disingenuous to say that zipline doesn't support python, the short description from github says: "Zipline, a Pythonic Algorithmic Trading Library".
Zipline also supports equities at minute and daily frequencies.
There is no charting built into zipline itself but tearsheets and graphs can
be generated with pyfolio (a project by the same people as zipline).
Zipline also comes with the ability to pull pricing and splits data from quandl and yahoo.

I realize I can't win you over but I wanted to present a fair comparison for others ;)

Also, I work on zipline
I love Google Auth, and SMS really does have security problems, but you need a 2FA method for dumb phones, don't you? Are there Java apps for it?
Related, here is a one-click-install OS X to Linux cross compiler, based on musl libc and its Makefiles.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/homebrew-musl-cross

$ brew install FiloSottile/musl-cross/musl-cross
How is this possible if most employee stock has right of first refusal built-in?
The problem with this idea is that programmers generally never do anything 'correctly', so if you go home early, you're leaving the job unfinished.

This is far less applicable to an auto mechanic who simply has to replace a part with another stock part and let a customer walk away with it the same day.
The O365/Azure app does this, but using it doesn't meet other NIST requirements.
The author might be onto something here. There's definitely a lot to be said for the social pressures of feeling 'in' with company culture, I can see why a limited-history, always-scrolling, continuous stream of group chats would create that pressure.

I see an analogue to Snapchat, another wildly popular app (in entirely different settings), where this 'fear-of-missing-out' is also very real, with the equivalent of 'status updates' disappearing in 24 hours, and the default 'picture message' being self-destructive. It incentivizes you to pay attention, and to check up often on everyone you're actually interested in, driving more engagement with the service.
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Ah cool, that's similar to what we did. I think http2 gets a bad rap, we saw a lot more positives than negatives from it. You should do a writeup after you test sctp and quic, I'd be pretty interested in reading it and I bet others would too.
I learn Smalltalk a few years ago to port a C++ interactive geometry software (http://drgeo.eu) to Squeak/Etoys then Pharo. I can testify documentation was never an issue, there are plenty of free books to learn from and a very helpful and talented community.

Smalltalk is still so revolutionary in its concepts, I am afraid you have to do your home work to get it and work on the text book.
Show HN: Hacky zine making tool for iOS lets you share a bunch of images at once
Only if they don't have a good answer to the question.
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> I just don't answer the call. If I don't know who you are, and you can't be bothered to leave a message … why should I care?

Just a few months back someone called me on the morning train and told me they had my debit card that I had forgotten in the vending machine.

This summer I have tipped of a couple of parents about their kids belongings because I found their phone numbers on the stuff and they didn't block me. In one case it was a rather expensive outdoors jacket forgotten by the sea that they had been searching for to no avail.
Comparative advantage. Even if they're absolutely better than you at every possible strategy, there are still going to be opportunities in markets that it isn't worth their time to invest in.
"Nothing to add..."
People know her name only because the media forced it down our throats since she is a woman.
I dont believe it's directly beneficial for the company as others have listed.

But its actually because programmers are mostly men.

Society doesn't accept the benefits of men working part time yet so a mutually beneficial system like many female/equal ratio oriented positions have has not been pushed in IT.
A small group of artists and coders from NYC, SF and Paris worked together to make this hacky zine app. The goal is to make a tool for all your unused awesome photos you hoard in your phone. Users can create print ready zines from the app.
The thing that worries me when an app wants (all?) my contacts is: are all my contacts also happy about their number being shared?

When I give my number to someone, I am aware that my number is going to end up with Facebook/Snapchat/LINE/whatever but does everyone think like this?
It shows as compatible with my Note 4 and installed fine.
This means your incoming call data goes to Google. Previously, only the carrier saw it. Now they can use that info for marketing purposes.
These things are great devices and very functional. Still, I curse these guys since they enabled people to waste countless hours of my time over the years on ridiculous conference calls that would have been better handled by . . . email.

Oh wait, I hate email too.

But I loved the old Radio Shack. On a tangential note, Tandy Leather Co. took a precipitous dive as well. Where have all the makers gone, whether of circuits or leather things?
Android client uses Scala - might be changer for Scala on Android
I actually think Tim Cook's more methodical way of solving problems will succeed far better with cars, than Jobs method of radical leaps.
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Nope. Perl (e.g.) calls this 'tainted' data and it should never be passed to any kind of evaluator. And that means that console should never pass arrived data to anything initially unknown. It's implementor HAS NO RIGHT to call functions that can be overridden, he should save startup values of all used functions as local values and never look there again, at least. As I already said in this thread, blizzard devs are just incompetent in trivial security.
This sounds like an urban legend designed to humiliate an enemy. Japanese records give a different reason for the attack:

>>"An ad hoc pow-wow is convened in officers' quarters to choose a suitable target, using a list of West Coast locations drafted prior to the aborted Christmas Eve shelling last year. The waterfront of San Francisco and the town of Castroville are among the rejected objectives. Lt Yamazaki Atsuo, engineering officer of I-17, finally suggests they bombard Ellwood's oilfields off Santa Barbara. His suggestion is approved, since it provides an easy access and escape route."<<

http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-17.htm

Edit: I also found this:

>>"Local legends, according to Hough, maintain that Nashino targeted Goleta because oil workers mocked him after he allegedly tripped and fell into a patch of cactuses in front of an off-duty working crew. After this humiliation and mockery, Nashino, an oil tanker captain at the time, swore revenge.

Hough said he disputes this legend entirely.

“He was a career naval officer and, thus, had never worked as a farmhand in Goleta,” Ken said. “The story of him being a captain of an oil tanker that stopped at Ellwood where he came ashore and fell into a cactus patch is not true. It’s a long told Santa Barbara legend, which may have happened to someone, but not to Captain Nishino.”"<<

http://dailynexus.com/2013-02-28/goleta-remembers-oil-field-...
Every time I see someone use it I get a little iPhone envy. Can't wait to get my hands on an Android version!
One possible impetus is the rise in SMS phishing like this: https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/739232334541524992

How do you verify that the SMS is really from your service?
Apple is pretty good at scale manufacturing and lithium batteries and metal and better at AI than any car company except Tesla.

Electric cars are much simpler than ICE ones. So they have a chance...
I don't think it's fair to group all government bodies as one entity. The FBI may frown heavily on end-to-end encryption because they want to be have access to everyone's messages, but that doesn't mean that NIST isn't still trying to make everything as secure as possible.
Or a hardware token. It doesn't have to be a software token running on your existing phone.

That being said, several companies [1][2][3] have in fact made software authenticators that run on J2ME.

[1] https://guide.duo.com/j2me

[2] http://www.aradiom.com/SolidPass/2fa-OTP-security-token.htm

[3] http://www.eset.com/us/products/secure-authentication/
With smartphones, Apple had Blackberry as their competition. But with cars, Apple has Tesla. Completely different.
This might be an odd place for this question but I've recently gotten a retro compute bug for ancient engineering software. If anybody has good links or references to those, drop me a line!
This policy affects foreign persons, but the issue is really foreign capital. As you say this does nothing regarding the issue of persons buying citizenship via the QIIP and coming over to BC, which is what the vast majority of people using the QIIP do.

I have no idea what the process would be, but a real step forward would be to for the Federal government to work to end the QIIP, though I recognize this would probably open a can of worms and raise a bunch of new issues with Quebec.
Some things are too long to type.
Can you give an example of the kind of trade you can make in that kind of market? Doesn't matter if it's an old one, I'm just curious where to start looking.
Human beings herd cognitively very, very well (by which I mean very tightly.) Human culture couldn't have survived and grown amongst relatively small groups in prehistory if it weren't so.

Only unusual, and not in every respect nice circumstances and cultural practices shake that herding up enough to allow consistent innovation. (See Kerr, How to Write a Bad Play re the history of playwriting; which shows how rare periods when great plays were written are in human history a bit of an illustration.) Otherwise the other crabs in the bucket make sure norms are maintained, and novelty is supressed by the immune system that is human culture.

Normal, well organized, stable societies that are highly integrated and provide calm peaceful lives to their citizens under clear, concise, consistent and sensible rules systems... don't innovate. Because cognitive herding is the norm of humans. Innovation at anything other than a glacial pace is what's bizarre; not consistency.

Dynamically unstable societies on the other hand, have the chance to develop much better weapons systems and tactics and take over the world, from societies which worked much, much better at providing happy and smooth lives for their citizens. Which is what happened to get us here. Free speech disrupts. Free movement disrupts. Choice of belief systems disrupts. Choice of lifestyle disrupts. Etc. Disrupts physical health. Disrupts mental health. Disrupts marriages and friendships. But to get to a steam engine and then an aircraft carrier with steam catapults, also requires, as a necessary condition, the unconscious acceptance of disruption as part of life.

Therefore, it makes sense to judge (ethically, morally, etc) societies that DO produce innovations - they have wildly higher divorce rates, substance abuse, chronic illnesses, stress, PTSD, mental illness and on and on. Terrific weapons though. And toys. Gotta love the toys.

To live right AFTER a golden age of human progress is wonderful. To live DURING such an age, pretty much totally sux, if you read any history.
That is awesome

Yeah i get the promise: professionals do this, pay a premium for that

Until they don't because someone provides the data for free or next to nothing

In this town we call it disruption
What percentage of those potential investors in Dallas have lived and worked in the Bay Area for a significant length of time?

What do the best of the founders expect? Do they have businesses that will still take off even without the investors throwing more gas on the fire? Or are they just looking for a pile of cash to gamble with on unvalidated hopes?

Finally, where do all these people live? Are they concentrated footsteps away from each other downtown, or are they all isolated apart from one another in the suburbs?
Be more courteous.
I use Duo Mobile for some accounts; it supports push. Definitely nicer than rushing to type a number in before the timer expires :)
Haskell, Ocaml, etc. There's nothing at all functional about Common Lisp, not even a little bit, far from it, if anything the opposite.
Instead of SMS, wouldn't email notifications suffice? Apple (iCloud), Gmail and Salesforce does this when there's a new login on a new device.

Furthermore, I'm not too in favour of using SMS... I have two numbers and when I don't have both phones with me, it's a huge hassle. I end up setting up my phones to auto forward such smses.

I use 1Password OTP support and love how it works seamlessly across my phones.

(Edited for clarity)
Dr. Lun has a PhD from MIT and is doing original AI research. If that's your profile then do what you want=)
Police and security services are just one part of government. In the US, we're in an "encrypt all of the things" phase in most places regulated by the Feds. NIST stuff is pretty good, and is the basis for most of the mainstream security standards.

The government plays a weird dual role. NIST gives good advice, but you need to understand what you're doing. Part of that is data classification and risk assessment, which is always art and science.

When they get real explicit about guidance, that means the thing is broken.
How is 'the same year as smalltalk' predating it?

Simula was working in like '67, which is like 5 years before smalltalk.

My point is that functional languages do not predate OO languages, and if anything come later, and you never really addressed that.
I wrote some python bindings to the sqlite4 lsm store:

http://lsm-db.readthedocs.io
No, not the occupation.

To the extent the recent actions (or inaction) of the West can be blamed, you can blame it on getting rid of Saddam, or you can blame it on leaving Iraq too early, or you can blame it on policy in Syria. You can't blame it on sticking around in Iraq. Iraq was getting objectively better after the surge -- a (flawed) democracy was emerging, the economy was taking off, violent deaths were way down from their peak.

You can argue that Maliki forced the US out and let the country go to hell (in which case "deposing Saddam" is the Western sin), or argue that the US could have stayed if it wanted (in which case if you're a Democrat you can blame it on "deposing Saddam, because we couldn't stick around forever," and if you're a Republican you can blame it on Obama wanting to get out before the job was done to score political points.)

Other than that, though, you're left with earlier Western actions (Bush I, Sykes Picot...) or Assad or Maliki or every crazy Wahhabi cleric in the region of you want to give Arabs some credit and capacity for self-determination too.
There are lots of companies where that's the case. I have unlimited time off and don't have to be in the office on any set schedule. It's rare that I work a full 40 unless it's extremely busy.
Regarding the Microbiome, I'm currently reading Rodney Dietert's "The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life". I haven't finished it yet, but it's been a great read so far.

[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101983906]
You're never going to find a solution to a hard problem by appealing to the whims of the masses.
If we leave the OS discussion and focus only on the Hardware. I think Apple has already made the sweet spot in PC for most users with iMac and Macbook. While it was easy to dismiss its Server product range. Apple is neglecting its power user. There were little to zero loyal Apple Server hardware users. ( Again OS / Software is different story ). But there are LOTS of Professional and Enthusiast Apple Mac users.

They are small in numbers. Small in terms of iPhone users, small in Mac user base as well. By all business decision and cases Apple should have disregard them and focus on other areas.

But to me they are the bread and butter. They bleed Apple. Not a lot of youngster these days could say the same. They buy Apple's product when it was near bankrupt. They fuel Apple with cash for R&D when Jobs came back. They are, by historic account, as important as Bill Gates investment into Apple. They are the reason we have iPod. They are the reason we have iPhone, and iPad. They are the reason we even have Apple today. They were the reason some business had to be forced to make a OSX version of their Professional Apps.

So Apple, rather then handing out cash to buy back stock, I would have rather you invest those into paying back some dividend to those very old loyal users. A proper Mac Pro, just to put a smile on their face.
My understanding is that both the tallest and the shortest men are in Africa, and this is due to that continents having the highest genetic diversity - only a small subset of the human genes left Africa.
Almost 100% of political tweets of Twitter right now are about Bernie Sanders
1,606 different protein types essential for newborn growth

I read that as "if the baby doesn't get all 1,606 of this proteins, it won't develop normally."

That sounds like a ridiculous statement.