skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I've been thinking about learning Go or Rust since they've been almost on the front page of hacker news lately. Is it worth it or should I stick with Python?
Lady, I have some Russian friends who are convinced electricity was invented in the Soviet Union. This conversation is shaping up in the same line of rhetoric. You need a mental jolt - you are showing twitches of brainwashing. Let'say say I concede your point in the last quote. But, (a) Quakers are Christians, and (b) even if you prove that the movement began apart from the Bible, it does not prove that the movement was not empowered by the Bible and was brought to completion because of the Bible. The person who started the project does not get all the credit for completing it - the majority weighs.
Filed here! https://github.com/sourcegraph/checkup/issues/4

Pull requests also welcome :) The code is very well-documented and easy to navigate.
Some people are hard to wake up.

Have you never set a game with alerts that make noise if something interesting is happening, so you rush back and play?

The delay in waking up is how long it takes the "player" to get back to his chair.

If the player did not go back that would be seen by us as fainting, or in longer situations, a coma.
> I have never used the real gun emoji, but I might certainly use a toy gun in fun. The problem is that the composer might be trying to send a fun message, but it would be received negatively.

Is there a class of people that you're both (a) comfortable enough joking about shooting with toy guns, yet also (b) slightly nervous about them coming after you with a real gun?
Well, it kind of is. A pistol is not the same as a water pistol. An image of a pistol is likewise not the same as an image of a water pistol.
You don't really recalculate that stuff over and over, do you? Every electrician I've worked with has a couple of the main ratings memorized and just applies it to standard. Anything more complex requires a calculator or tables either way, and once you're not doing the math in your head, it really doesn't matter what units you use. They're all arbitrary, so you may as well snap 'em to an integer value of convenience.

You'd certainly also want a universal one for conversion, but not for every day tedium. Fahrenheit is nice because it spans the human experience in a nice range (say damn cold 0 to rather hot 100). But that's bunk if you're in context of chemistry where water's properties are far more comparative (0 freezes to 100 boiling). Though absolute scales are always a bit sporky, since they latch to a scale and wonk it sideways (-273 is a silly number no matter what anyone says).

And so on. Scales and units are merely benchmarks. Literally. Pick the right bench for the job and follow the marks.

(Though with enough effort you can make any scale work. Kinda like hammers and threaded carpenter nails.)

Edited; typing on phones ruins grammar.
The Sumerians divided the circle into 360 degrees because the Sun's annual path took 360 days to come around a full circle. It's no wonder that 360 degrees feel natural for directions.

Another thing I've encountered: in South India, there is a measure of distance & time called a "nazhika". It is 24 minutes. 2 1/2 nazhika is one hour, 60 nazhikas make a day. A nazhika is also roughly the time taken for a normal person to walk 1 mile. Hence a nazhika is also used as approximately one mile. Seems a bit weird until you remember that light-years involve the same identification of time and distance.

Non-metric units like these and others ("foot") have probably very good reasons behind them, and they could be used by people in their day-to-day activities while not carrying measuring instruments with them. Metric System is more systematic, but people "lose touch" with intuitions of quantity.
One correct diagnosis is simply not that significant, except for the woman concerned. The real news will be A/B testing on much larger data contrasting Watson's diagnoses with those of doctors sans Watson, and checking both against a ground-truth value, if that is possible. Newsworthy would be a marked bump in accuracy across many cases with Watson...
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN SONG
Emojis are supposed to represent a specific meaning, though the visual representation can of course change across platforms. Any gun would be an appropriate representation, but a toy gun is not as it occupies a separate semantic space.

Your own source seems to exemplify why a toy gun doesn't fit. It specifies "pistol" or alternatively a handgun or revolver.

If someone wrote "the man walked in holding a pistol/revolver/handgun in his right hand" you would justifiably be surprised if the writer later explained that it was a bright green toy gun. They're different things.

Imagine if an IME decided to substitute the GLOWING STAR emoji with SUN WITH FACE. They would not be following the guidelines as the sun and stars are semantically separate concepts, even if technically the sun is a star.
Exactly. To the extent the change is meaningful, it's Orwellian. To the extent the change is meaningless, it's unnecessary.
Too bad we had to go and make displays with different pixel densities...
Dimensionful Matrices
One of the neat things about degrees and plane geometry is how regular polygons you can have without partial degrees.

The number of sides depends on the divisiblity of 360 by the number of angles so:

3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 30, and so forth.

For angle measurement where you want a closed geometry figure at the end, degrees are extremely elegant, and 360 is 2^3x3^2x5
Sorry, this is about America and guns, which means that it is absolutely relevant. For the record, I am Canadian, love guns, but I don't think every fool should be entitled to his tool of rage. All Apple is doing is making an emoji into a toy. If you want to talk about guns, you can do that by spelling it out. If I say, lets bring and AR15 to the gun range, I know what you mean and Apple has done nothing to stop, change or control my speech.
I could easily imagine it happening.

Maybe you played a prank on your boyfriend. It's entirely possible that he would get you back by shooting a water gun at you. But it's also possible that he might get really mad about it and threaten you.
For reverse engineering of protocols and formats for legacy software that was developed decades ago with no source code available. This is totally legal in many cases since there tons of companies that lose source for their own software.
When I say lunatic sociopath, I mean Donald Trump.
How cycling is challenging Santiago's social barriers
Which promises?
I assume that the Sumerians were observant enough to realize that there were still a few days missing, and that 360 was better because it was a more divisible number actually.

The Sumerians did, in fact, periodically insert intercalary months in order to offset the difference, which suggests that this is in part close approximation and on the other part nice for application.
A Bit at the scarier end of the possibility curve one hopes!
Apple is not alone though. On windows i get a colorful lasergun: http://i.imgur.com/bOC6M6H.png

http://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10/pistol/

Additionally, your pointing out that the example glyph looks like a beretta only has any kind of weight if you can also point to guidance that specifies to what level it should be followed.
> Pick an emoji and Codemoji will use it in a unique formula to scramble your message.

This seems a bit misleading - it feels like they're implying it's some proprietary algorithm, when it's just a plain Caesar cipher.
Cost of IDA is nothing. Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee. Plenty of people would be happy to buy it, but they can't.
Imagine how many jobs we could create if every US state had to manufacture its own cars!
There was a great article I read about this question a few years ago, I couldn't find it though.

Basically the question was why gold and not silver, platinum, etc., as the desireable metal for commerce/jewelry. The answer lies in golds uniqueish properties, it is rare (not the rarest), it is unique in color (platinum is hard to distinguish from other metals by sight), where gold is confused for other things or to determine its quality a simple bite test will determine its quality, without needing to melt it down (unlike silver colored metals), it's soft enough to be easily formed into jewelry.
Yeah, right up until your car lease contract limits you to 2000 Swedish Miles per year. (Note, these are about 6x longer than American miles).

Or you buy fruit at the supermarket in Indonesia in ounces and kg (an ounce is an hg).
Checking the RingPlus site, the "free" plans seem to be $0/month for service + $X per unit of usage. One of their plans, for example, is $9 for (250 minutes voice + 250MB data + 250 sms + 250 mms). There is also an overage charge, but I don't know what that means. They are also ad supported, apparently, playing an audio ad before each outbound voice call you place.

This seems reasonable for some people. By contrast, for a tracfone, in addition to voice-minutes/data/etc. you also have "service days" that must paid for, even if you don't use the phone at all.
No, YOU are a battery that runs on ATP.

Wait, what are we doing?
Actually, that part is right. They do take that seriously. But aside from safety, their products are bland and built to last as long as the average toaster. Even the corvette, which is America's sports car darling, is having issues with its motor blowing up. Their culture is about pumping out products that are cheap to build, cheaply built, and will not last long because that boosts sales. Tech still does not suffer from that. Although we are getting there.

Don't confuse this with an attack against the many talented people that work in the auto industry. Detroit has amazing engineering and design talents. They are simply out ranked by the accountants and suits.
I'm not sure how this is relevant to the post?

They're not talking about giving Firefox a "tor mode". The Tor browser uses Firefox under the hood with a few add-on and flipped default settings. Currently, it uses a fork of Firefox with slight modifications (like the ability to disable mathml). They intend to make it so that this fork is unnecessary. The Tor browser will probably continue to be something you need to install to use.
And Hillary isn't? Have you been living under a rock?
Yes, but the procession of emoji seems to be different from the order specified in Unicode, so it’s slightly more complicated than a regular Caesar shift.
Interesting. I do think there's demand for smaller devices. For example, some people get their work done on a tablet.
> It would be really cool if Tor became like an open web standard that every browser supported.

Isn't it already? My understanding is that nothing is stopping you from using the Tor service as a proxy for all your traffic. They just offer the Browser Bundle to make it dead simple for users. You could download their so-called "expert bundle" and use that to route any traffic you want.

https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en
When I read the title, I was thinking of dashboard for (my) personal health instead.
I think they mean it only uses the "data" (MB) portion of your usage, not the "voice minutes" part. As long as they keep below a few MB per month, the cost for RingPlus will be very low. Example, they give you a trial with 100MB literally free, so perhaps they can make that last a few months or years with typical usage.
>>Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee. Plenty of people would be happy to buy it, but they can't.

This is patently false. You can buy all HexRays products online.[1] I've done it myself. I'm confused as to why you're claiming this.

[1]: https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi
I'm personally in the big screen camp as well, having recently bought an iMac 27. When I used a laptop, it was a 15-inch. But others prefer smaller screens, even getting their work done on a tablet. I do think there's demand for that.
That was a lot of words to say the problem is the bottom type.

In other words, "too practical to be academic".
This change was actually a community suggestion: https://openradar.appspot.com/26897761

(Source: https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/761223785076797442)
SUMMARY

Dealt with a scammer.

Told the board that he wanted to invest a fortune.

Failed to do due diligence.

The scammer failed to pay his bills or invest.

Became insolvent.

DO DUE DILIGENCE EARLY
Why would there be more eyestrain working on a smaller device (assuming the same font size)? I don't feel more eyestrain when I use my iPad for half a day at a stretch than I do my Mac.

Regarding your point about who wants to work on a smaller screen, people say that about the 12-inch Macbook as well. Or about working on a tablet, which some people do. I, like you, prefer big screens, but different people make different tradeoffs.

To each their own, indeed.
The problem isn't the bottom type. The problem is that, in a lazy language, bottom is a value. And this is by no means practical. It's a pain.
As the blog post says, this device wouldn't have some of the visual overhead desktop OSs have: menu bars, dock, title bar, etc.
The dimming is probably a dark matter nebula passing between it and us.
I did not know this. Thanks.
As the blog post says, it would be practical if the apps / web apps / web sites are redesigned for it. Which may or may not happen, granted.
"reversing" in this sense is shorthand for "reverse engineering" or the analysis and reconstruction of the code for a executable binary at the assembly language level without the benefit of the original source code or debug symbols. The most common legitimate use is for analyzing malware and viruses. The best known product in this field is IDA Pro. (It would have been nice for the site to provide a comparison between the two, since such a comparison is inevitable anyway.)
Haskell* is essentially an extension of System F. System F has no set models.

* Need to enable a few extensions.
I am not sure. American units usually focus on divisibility and factoring of integers, while metric units focus on quick base-10 math. So they are different concerns and this is why, I think, people from elsewhere in the world have so much trouble understanding American units.

If you are brought up with metric units, the units are built around the number system.

A good way to understand the problem by for the HN audience is the problem of using IEEE floats where precise numbers matter in programming. The problem with IEEE floats is that we usually think about them in base 10 but they represent something in base 2, and no lossless conversion across the domain is possible. American units bridge that sort of gap much better than metric ones do because they usually focus on divisibility than on quick representation and conversion.

There are certain areas where metric makes sense. If I have prices in kg and I want to know how many g I can buy for a certain amount of money, because the money and weight systems coincide we are well optimized for that problem.

But, imagine calculating the angles of a triangle or a hexagon if your degree system was base 10.

In other words, American units are abstracted around actual application.

There is of course a happy medium. We could change to duodecimal numbers and come up with a duodecimal metric system. Then everyone would get what they want, right? ;-)
does that one use cellular a network? I couldnt find that out from their site.
I don't think she is a lunatic. The current situation is dreadful.
> I'm sympathetic to taxi/uber

Not me. In SF at least they tend to block the bike lane and force bikes into vehicle traffic. For confident cyclists this is ok, but for many I can see that they do dumb things like try to pass on the right or not signal their intention to enter traffic.

This is why I suggest that the best thing would be to fully dedicate the entire road. As to fully protected lanes, this is good, but like you said, still leaves issues like left turns.
Strict languages have the dual problem where products aren't really products.
I think parent means natively supporting tor as a protocol in the browser. Eg another "incognito mode", and native support for the onion tld. It would indeed be cool.
Hi Terry,
Do you have a document describing the stack machine intermediate code for TempleOS?
Oh I feel you, I really put a lot of time and effort into watching and participating in all the Q&A sessions and what was claimed were not defining factors ended up being totally shot when the results came in. Places and prizes went, suspiciously IMO, to college teams and questionable rubric evaluations. I mentioned the body panels of my submission but it was 1 of 3 innovative approaches to make a holistic concept...as they required...

To wit: They said "just replacing the panels / bodywork for a vehicle is not innovative in the way we are evaluating things" and then one of the top 3 prize winners was just that - a type of sandwich material that was only beneficial if it replaced panels and bodywork. I'm still sore because I hate being lied to especially when there's money at stake. In hindsight the whole process was flawed but that don't change what was said versus what was done.

They might try to argue but I studied their TOC & shit so extensively that when they already had a fully developed winner announcement video that debuted on the date they said they would notify winners, I smelled something rotten. I can't prove anything but if I had forensic level access to their communications I certainly wouldn't hesitate to invest my time in finding out what the fuck actually happened.
I understand your sentiment, but I'm sure others would take that tradeoff for a smaller, lighter laptop.

Your comment is like saying, "No keyboard and trackpad? I won't buy the 13-inch iPad." Perfectly fine, and representative of the majority, but there are 13-inch iPad buyers who are happy to make that tradeoff.
> It has nothing to do with evidence.

If you understand Bayesian reasoning, then we all have unjustifiable prior beliefs, perhaps due to innate personality, or due to our own experiences.

Calling someone a cynic is often just a way to bash someone who has different priors.

The better thing would be to ask where those priors come from, no?

> Its not cynical if you've actually had any dealings with IBM and Watson.

Maybe GP knows something you don't and he's talking from experience?
See the comment by teddyh:

> The unicode code chart¹ actually says “PISTOL = handgun, > revolver”, and the reference glyph (with a larger version > on page 4) is pretty clearly a Beretta M9.²

> ① http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf#14

> ② http://www.beretta.com/en/m9/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_M9

This is Apple breaking from standards to enforce a political agenda, and while we may disagree this is still Apple "changing" your speech, albeit not stopping or controlling it.

Weapons aren't the only thing that can be used as a tool of rage, as we witnessed in Neice France just recently when a packing truck was responsible for more deaths than many acts of gun violence put together. Hiding guns and their representations from the public wont stop criminal elements from abusing them, what we need is laws that punish those who use or brandish guns outside of self defense in a very severe manner. As in your threaten someone or brandish a weapon during the act of a crime and you go to jail for life, case closed. Gun violence would cease overnight and we could still respect the rights granted by the constitution.
I feel like unit debates often result from a misunderstanding between sides of "is perfect the enemy of good?" I thought it suspicious that they would have miscounted the days, but you're right: it's so dang useful that it's worth a little error (with occasional corrections) for such convenience.

Of course, at some point it becomes a huge pain and you buckle down and choose something just as arbitrary but easier to handle. And that's why we don't count angles in the milliseconds since 1970. Or days in a year; though we do sometimes measure 3D angles in solid minutes, which seems like a metaphor taken too far :)
HackerJack?
Of course. But I'm not terribly interested in categorical products. They are types inhabited by objects (in the OOP sense: records of methods).

I'm more interested in tensor products (types inhabited by plain tuples of data!), which strict languages do have, and which actually distribute over sums.
> Edit: sarcasm guys, geeeez

Bringing sarcasm to what is, at least on some level, a serious discussion, usually creates unintended results. Honesty is a worthwhile policy.
I have also wondered why Duroplast (stamped panels made up of leftover cotton and resin) never made it outside of the Trabant to the wider automotive world.

If anything, the bodies lasted too long.
Oh, that's another thing that makes me really angry too: GHC's lack of distinction between first-class polymorphism (functions from types to values, à la System F(ω)) and second-class polymorphism (values, not necessarily functions, that admit more than one type, à la Damas-Milner). But that's a topic for another day.

EDIT: Also, I forgot, I haven't actually seen Haskellers use ImpredicativeTypes much. Are you really sure that the predicative subset of System F (just RankN types) has no set models?
Most of the companies which target specific schools do so only for new grads. Once you have a decent résumé in the industry, it doesn't really matter where you went to school, or even if you did.
And they're certainly not the first to do so, and in great company: http://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10/pistol/
Nope, the income cap on SS-taxable income is the unfair wealth transfer that has been going on for some time.
I wonder if it is an internal/external optimization. The whole point of metric is that it is built around the number system, leading to easy conversion between units.

The whole point of the American unit system is that they are optimized for specific use, but definitely not for conversion.

ISO paper sizes are a great counterexample, actually, because they took an application, rather than a conversion-centric approach. I.e when you print a signature you do so on a larger piece of paper, and then you fold, crop, and bind. Each fold cuts the paper size in half.

So ISO paper sizes are much more like American units than American paper sizes are.
I could see that being a reasonable objection -- It would be really easy to provide evidence of effective deployment of open source in my network if there I had a support contract, right? But, that's not the objection she made. I wish I could have recorded her making her case against Firefox.

We also maintain a premium OpenDNS account, integrated with Active Directory to assist in web content filtering. Because the word 'Open' appears in the product's name, she assumed that the solution was FOSS, and determined that it was insufficient in the context of the audit she was conducting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...
Since you've seen his comment, please also see my response to that comment and address the points made therein.

Besides, the argument "no av program can catch ALL viruses, so it is pointless to use any av program at all" doesn't carry particularly well, regardless of how you reword it.
No not at all. In fact we know we a missing the piece of the puzzle that explains how quantum physics and gravity interact but we don't know where to look. We can try building a bigger accelerator but it would be very expensive.
Evidence Mounts That Rembrandt Used Optics to Paint Self-Portraits
Man why you gotta call it bulma.
I haven't kept up with CSS practices for a loooong time. How do I use a css framework on my site for a few pages without causing the user to download hundreds of kilobytes of unused rules?

I imagine there are linters which only compile the interesting bits; do they support jinja/django templates?