skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good point.

I suppose they would spend most of their time looking for work or a way to make a living.

There might be a thin slice of people, just below the wealthy but above the desperately poor who just need the opportunity.
What is the title of this WikiHow article?
> Chinese-character based languages are conceptually different to languages employing ...

arguably Japanese is not a Chinese character based language, but a Chinese character adopted language. Looking at Mandarin it kinda makes sense why a character based written language sprung up. Looking at Japanese and Korean, it boggles the mind why only the Koreans moved away from Chinese characters.

Except for the borrowed words, spoken Japanese and Mandarin are as far removed as Mandarin and English.
I have used phaser.js before and its fantastic. But I'm not sure how much life the project will have over the long term. Godot and Unity appear to have more long term stability. Its OK to have a non-native desktop app inside a wrapper like electron. People won't notice a difference in this product.
Hi Thanks for the info. Is there a way I can repost? the system tells me I need to slow down or sth.

Cheers
Ludwig
If you wish to sue someone for copyright infringement, you usually need to hold the copyright in question to have standing.

If you have been injured in some other way, you are welcome to try to sue for that instead.
Philadelphia was built as a grid in the 17th century, with five public squares, four of which are now parks, the fifth is city hall, in the center of the city. It's old enough to have respectable (for an American city) transit infrastructure - electric trains, subways, trolleys, buses, an active ferry to Camden, and more. Fairmount park is one of the largest urban parks in the world, although getting a straight answer about acreage can be a little tricky.
Wow, really important details here; very interesting. Now imagine this chip, but shrunk to Intel's latest 14nm process. If they make that chip I have no doubt that it will revolutionize the entire field.
Easy button for Infrastucture built on microservices
...I'm not sure I totally understand. Here's how I'd solve the problem:

Each filetype is accepted by a program. That program is what we'll want to use to compile or otherwise munge that file. So, in a file somewhere in the build, we put:

*.c:$CC %f %a:-Wall
*.o:$CC %f %a:-Wall

And so on. The first field is a glob to match on filetype,%f is filename, %a is args, and the third field is default args, added to every call.

The actual DMakefile looks like this:

foo:foo.c:-o foo
bar.o:bar.c:-c
baz.o:baz.c:-c
quux:bar.o baz.o:-o quux
all:foo quux

Target all is run if no target is specified. The first field is the target name. The second field is list of files/targets of the same type, to be provided to compiler on run. It is assumed the target and its resultant file have the same name. The last field is a list of additional args to pass to the compiler.

This is something I came up with on the spot, there are certainly holes in it, but something like that could declaritivise the build process. However, this doesn't cover things like cleaning the build environment. Although this could be achieved by removing the resultant files of all targets, which could be determined automatically...
This is why I've learned how to identify wild plants. I've been surprised on a few occasions by people unable to identify plums and cherries growing wild. But if you can't identify wild plants you shouldn't eat them.

Wild mushrooms are harder to identify. Other than the few I can readily identify on sight, I use an identification guide. There have been several cases of people (almost always from the Far East) inadvertently dying after eating death caps (Amanita phalloides) which I've read taste delicious but are fatal, and can take days to kill:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/second-mushroom-victim-critical-i...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-04/two-die-from-death-cap...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-08/woman-dies-after-eatin...

They mistake them for paddy straw mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea) which look identical and are used in Chinese and Thai cuisine. They can be distinguished by spore colour but a better way is to check it came out of a tin before eating them.
The police do not need a warrant to observe you for a short time with standard, widely available technology. If that were not true, the police could not patrol.
Part of the reason that Windows is an approved OS is enterprise support. When you pay for hundreds of thousands of licenses for a product you can demand features. If the DoD went with Debian they would need an entire corps of developers to maintain government specific patches. Ubuntu offers enterprise support but it's from an African country and that is undesirable as you mentioned above.

I've seen government systems running Windows (USA), Mac (USA) but the strangest I've seen is SUSELinux (Germany). I have no idea how they got SUSE approved when Red Hat is more "American" but some agencies don't have to follow the rules.
The notion that a significant number of people in this
country are drawn to a sociopath is fascinating. How do
people get there when other people look and say, “Oh,
clearly that’s a sociopath.” There are sociopaths in the
world but they don’t usually end up getting this far.
Yet there are a large number of people that are utterly
missing the clues.

Yeah, and here's one of those clues: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-...
Japanese is very phoneme-poor. If they switched entirely to hiragana there would be too many indistinguishable homophones. Korean has more phonemes and escapes this somewhat.

Of course, it would still be possible, but Japanese would have to develop some hiragana redundancy (multiple symbols all meaning the same syllable) so that homophones could be spelled differently.
From another comment: http://www.wikihow.com/Test-if-a-Plant-Is-Edible
34 comments so far, some of us find it interesting.
If Bush 2 did not turn out to be Hitler it wasnt for lack of trying on the part of his associates. Americans I find are amongst the most conceited and deluded people in the world. GB2 ran a very bad presidency perhaps the worst in American history; but flag waving idealism prevents Americans from coming to that conclusion.
I bet they had a few pina coladas before this episode, as well as after.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google. My team is oncall for this service and I know exactly what happened here; I probably can't answer most questions you might have.)

> Perhaps your architecture wouldn't "compile" if the network traffic will go the wrong place, or if a rate limit is above the capacity something is expected to handle, or if the change would impact too many servers at once.

So in the first instance, I tend to like this sort of idea. However: we are already substantially ahead of the sort of things that you're thinking of.

Full static simulation of a system as complicated as all the components involved here is... well, I can sort of see how it could be done, but it would be a herculean effort; I don't think it would ever be good enough to catch cases like this the first time they happen. There are systems where this sort of thing can be done, but all the ones I can think of are much smaller in scope.
HTTP/0.9 has been deprecated in favor of HTTP/1.0,
which adds response header support.

Wow, I would not like to maintain software that has to support obsolete standards for another 20 years after they died.
But somewhere in a basement a terribly infested server just got very lonely.
Focus on Clojure.spec's predicate
Ask HN: How do you go about writing a literature review?
I am writing a literature review on stereoscopic 3D displays for a personal project.
My key deliverables are:

* provide an overview of the industry that I can reference later

* summarize key concepts and research findings in the field

* summarize stereo 3D guidelines and their application in 3DTV, 3D cinema, and cinematic VR techniques

This is a hobby project. However, I intend to deliver a 20-page review; the idea is to approach this the same way an industry analyst would while researching a specific vertical/company.

Sadly, I am stuck- I collected all the material that I (think) I need, but I am having a hard time creating a linear narrative.

My question is: what tools, methods, and workflows do you use to review literature for scientific/technical reports?
So... don't do that?

There's plenty of programming/IT jobs that aren't in start-ups.
They are but not in a sense in which, for example, Netflix is, where terms are clear — pay and enjoy content. FB is also a service as an ad platform — pay and we will show your ads to people.

Anyone with FB profile is not "getting serviced", they are a commodity same as peanuts at the store, but it instead of storing boxes in a warehouse, FB hosts your photos. There is expectation that most of users won't block ads, just like most of peanuts get sold.
Where is the video?
I read that someone mentioned it already, but didn't find a good response, so I'll ask again.

When doing web development the browser dev tools are indispensable. Is there any possibility to run a full desktop browser on an Android phone to get those tools? Or some other way to inspect elements, live edit CSS properties, debug JavaScript etc.
Intelligence Inside
These "clandestine courses" certainly exist in rich nations, and are secretly held during lunch and in private homes. For example, to avoid bosses knowing.

Skilled human tutors, free from school/university bureaucracy, can get into your head and figure out effective ways to inspire learning. Leads to faster and surer learning, for those lucky enough to have it.
More people need to think like you.

ROI is what matters. It is not just monetary either, people working long hours often make suboptimal eating and sleeping decisions which damage their health.
> So do things like Microsoft points or rewards work the same way?

Well, they might be digital currency under the definition, but that kind of rewards program appears to be excluded from the (rather lengthy) definition of "digital currency business", which would mean the regulations would generally not apply to them.

> What about stocks/bonds?

What about them?

> I find it amusing that the exempt e-money while targeting "digital currency". What exactly is the distinction?

Again, from the proposed bill at the link:

“E-money” means a digital representation of fiat currency used to electronically transfer value denominated in fiat currency.
Ah. I think my plan9 user detector must have been confused by the air of smugness, and the appearance of desiring Murray Hill purism, something plan9 users have that illumos users don't (SMF, for one, isn't Murray Hill at all in style).

So long as you don't attack my beloved sexprs in your attack on XML, I don't care.
Singapore is clean because anyone possessing more than tiny bit of any illegal drug automatically gets the death penalty.
Great question. As you point out, all of these parameters (rank, num iterations and the actual reg. term) can in some way contribute to the regularization of the reconstruction of the ratings matrix. We thought it would be interesting to include all of them and here are the optimal parameters SigOpt found for this experiment:

rank = 36

numIter = 30

log_lambda = -2.90405347693
In that respect, don't list comprehensions fall under the same category of multiple ways to do something? They didn't exist in the language until 2.0[1], and it's just a convenient way to encode a couple for loops, is it not[2]? At some point you have to accept that it's a trade-off, and the more complex the topic, the less well served it will be by only one or two ways to do it. In this case, there were actually already three ways to do it, since you could always use plain string concatenation with `+`. If python were truly about one way to do it more than anything else, that would be the only way to build complex strings from variables, but since convenience is also important, numerous shortcuts were deemed acceptable and implemented.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_2.0

2: And for my money, significantly more confusing (and less powerful) than something like Perl's `map`.
I think Savannah, GA is the most beautiful laid out city in the country. The perfect grid, symmetry, and plentiful squares and architecture are second to none.
under duress (unfortunately).

many work cultures are tribal, insular, and/or fueled by fear. knowledge sharing is the exception in such environments.
That's because, presumably, the contract didn't say "The first shareholder owns it all."

> under circumstances that make it inequitable [...]

But if that's what the contract clearly said, where would the injustice be?

In lotteries one person walks away with all the money so that alone isn't enough.
'(this is a list)
'((this . is) (an . alist))

Looks pretty distinct to me.
That's bad.
Like Germany isn't an extension of the USA. Only Russians got kicked out of there...
I read your post, but it's very muddled. You might consider advancing a clearer thesis, because it seems that you are under the impression that it's impossible for humans to build systems which are smarter than themselves.

The first versions of AlphaGo were certainly inferior to human players, but the current version is superior to any human.
You're on Centurtlink Fiber I see. I had a very similar experience with them. I switched back to biz class Comcast, which was far superior/faster in almost every area, even though ostensibly slower.
Also feeding it to animals. Might be a tad bit more inhumane and you could run into an issue with some animals that are able to eat poisonous food without issue, but sure is a lot nicer than accidentally dying yourself, I suppose.
> He really isn't examining why Trump won the nomination, but I wouldn't expect him too since he made his mind up already.

Actually, I think he's getting at that very point in his statement. The 'sociopath' and 'missing clues' comment certainly frames it a certain way and reveals his bias, but to be fair he does state in the very following sentence, "What are the fears inside of them that get us to this place"
Fair enough. What do you define a relationship as? I understood it as "any repeated interaction with a person on a meaningful level"
I set that linting rule in JavaScript. My entire app shows up as a lightning bolt.
Thanks for the heads up! We'll make sure to use DataFrames in our next Spark example. As mentioned before, we thought this would be a cool application of Bayesian optimization (especially since the Spark docs advocate the exponentially slower grid search approach as you pointed out), but we are not Spark experts. We appreciate the feedback!
AFAICT, Godot is pretty weak on 3D. But I haven't used it, so YMMV.
The MTA was previously used against companies that simply facilitated marketplaces. I worked for a mobile-ordering startup called GoPago that got hit with a suit over the MTA since we were 'storing currency' (i.e., people paid us money for food that we would then pass on to the merchant that made the food). The only way of getting approval for 'money transfer' was to get a 'Medallion' which took around 18 months.

The MTA was awful, and this appears to be gutting the parts that was applicable to its overreach.

I see a lot of negativity in this comment section about the changes, as CA is moving to change the law to be used to regulate digital currencies which I believe was the original intent of the MTA (not specifically digital currencies, but anything fiat used as currency).
Anyone have inside knowledge of the infrastructure used?

It's hard to imagine a better use case for using AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and spinning up a huge fleet of servers for 24 hours.

I suppose some misguided ideas around data security would have been used to shoot down the first engineer to suggest the cloud.

EDIT: just read to wluu's post. Sounds like we (tax payers) paid for an IBM "private cloud" that couldn't scale.
That's one view. Another is that strict, detailed laws without human judgement inevitably creates absurd results.

Law doesn't work without room for judgement. Enforce rules designed for toy models of reality[1] and people won't respect the law, but rather fear the lash. Of course, a certain type of person likes that, but (presumably) those who want to live in democracies don't.

[1] I'd love to believe that someday, certain economists would figure this out, too.
ekiru picked out the most flagrant quotes that got to me--no need to redo the work.

But yes, you picked out some countervailing quotes--perhaps I was a bit harsh.
Well the most important reason to use Chrome is its unrivalled security track record. Getting it right takes skill, resources and time, and Google is hard to match.
> you end up with something which is not particularly different or better than a human cyborg.

Even if that were true, which I am not sure about, such a robot will have a very different moral status, as an artifact, and one that can be reproduced cheaply and indefinitely. This is very useful indeed, so on this axis it could be counted as 'better'.

The idea of development being important for AI is an old one, but it hasn't had much concrete success. Brook's Cog robot at MIT is a prominent example of a robot that didn't do very much, despite this approach being taken in a good faith effort by talented and well-supported people.
The Nauru files – leaked documents about Australian offshore detention
> It could just play unbelievably bad and appear like a beginner. That wouldn't prove intelligent.

Sure, which is why it's not a very good metric. The correct metric for looking at whether computational game intelligence has exceeded human capacity is that computers can consistently beat humans.

To be clear, I'm not convinced that we'll ever make a generalized intelligence which can pass the Turing Test. My point was merely that the fact that humans create the system is not a good argument for why it's impossible: in many domains, we can already create computer systems which vastly outperform ourselves.
An ad that's relevant to your interests is fine, but that's the best case scenario. How many people's lives were improved by clicking on "one weird trick" ads? Those ads sucked money out of people's pockets for no reason. Running experiments to find out the most effective ways to get people to hand over their money is a valid business practice, but that strategy in no way depends on the product adding value to your life. Anything that can be invented to get you as an individual to click on a buy button will be invented, whether it's good for you or not.

Profit-seeking has led to lots of progress in this world, but its record is decidedly mixed. Keep your eyes open.
well the thing is i dont know if you know it foxconn builds your ciscos i only know cause i worked installing fiber in the plant they have in houston its one of a number in the US.
in there i saw lots of chinese ladies putting together made-to-order cisco switches of all sizes with boards i assume were made in china. oh dont get me wrong the americans worked in sales out front. :)
Why is that fair? They're designed for different purposes. IPFS falls far short of being useful in a transformative way because it lacks this important feature. Otherwise, it'll be a kind of gimmicky alternative to HTTP, "auto-archiving HTTP", that never got used for anything real.
> I didn't think it required a thorough reading.

I guess you missed the part where Conley talked about how short her time-frame is for observing any (potentially) undisturbed aliens, because she assumes we'll be sending humans to Mars in the next few decades.

She also didn't discuss the ethics of killing aliens. Instead the article explained the scientific benefits of analyzing alien life.
It didn't say that they ate it, just tasted a sample of it. That's a little safer. There are many poisonous plants, but usually you need to eat an nontrivial amount for it to be lethal. And most poisonous plants (but not all!) will taste bitter, an evolutionary adaption to protect us from this.

That said it's still stupid, if you aren't starving, to risk this.
AI researchers overestimate the role of language in the development of human-like intelligence understood as a common sense heuristic physics that is built empirically through non-linguistic experiences (e.g. if I turn that glass, the wine spills and leaves dirty stain on the couch what has further consequences). The one that is most difficult to implement/reproduce/emulate by machine.

Language is only a communication protocol most efficient in an interactive context (dialog) that allows two agents with shared but not identical set of experiences achieve understanding in some domain and context with the caveat that understanding is unprovable and not absolute. Understanding that is only empirically tested and behavior probed (e.g. long after successful conversation Agent Alice discovers that Agent Bob "did not get it" as she expected).

By analyzing sole language without experiences, the machine, using something like word2vec, may discover semantic dependencies (e.g. man + cassock = pedophile) but not true semantics that has world consequences.

Even with unlimited language corpora the machine does not have the set of axioms that humans have (experiences and observed stories). These axioms are needed to build further more abstract knowledge.
Here’s a Question: Why Does Quora Exist? (2011)
Reminds me of Godel's incompleteness theorem which says that you can't have a set of axioms which are both complete and consistent. I don't understand law or this theorem (and its implications) well enough, but I felt this has some relation here.
No one ever asked me to pay for it. I never agreed to look at ads.

If anything, I might argue that I am providing FB with a service of sharing my personal info and typing messages to people, so others will be motivated to stay/join the website. But expecting to get compensation for that is as much nonsensical, as expecting me to "pay" for free website (which is exactly what is promoted and offered — free place to stay in touch with friends/etc, not picture hosting in exchange for looking at ads).
I really wish Bandcamp had something to compete with Apple Music's curated streaming stuff. I'd pay for that, especially if I could also apply filters like location, etc. That would be really interesting.

I'm not a fan of streaming for listening to favorite music, but it can't be beat for discovery.

In any case I'm going to have to start looking for alternatives.
Well, PyPy does not actually help much with raw number crunching -- a scientist will use numpy for native matrix math, or numba to JIT a tight loop that can't be writted in numpy easily. PyPy really helps in the in-between cases: a few weeks ago I had to write a script to pull a few million rows from a database, process them nontrivially, and dump them to a file. What do I use here? CPython and Ruby will take days. Perl will probably take days, unless I am just doing text processing which perl is optimized for. I can write C or C++, and have the headache of debugging memory errors in a script that will only run once. Or, I can write PyPy and have immensely convenient syntax that will run reasonably quickly (Luajit also occupies this space for me).
Except the fruit in this article was sweet, AND highly toxic. I really don't think there is any scientific basis for the claim "safe if it's sweet".
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