skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it still possible to accomplish what Readability originally was for -- that is, to click a Javascript bookmarklet that reformats the page you're reading with nice text and no distractions?

I never needed their service that you log in to. I still have their bookmarklet around, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.
If you have a recurring charge, you make the sale once. If it's charge on demand, then every time the customer uses it, he thinks about the cost. Furthermore, $X per month is usually a lot less than $Y per use, per charge. All and all, a much easier sale.
OSH Park: An electric ecosystem
تور لحظه آخری کیش در هتل های ۵ ستاره ویژه ۱۳ شهریور ۹۵
Detroit is a city, not a car manufacturer it has its own set of problems. If GM/Ford/Chrysler filed bankruptcy, you'd have a point
I suppose this is off topic, but I checked one of my email addresses on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and found a LinkedIn hack from May 2016.

Thing is I've deleted my LinkedIn account thrice in 2013. They have no right to stop have my email after that long.
Juste use a tilling window manager split the screen the way you wany and open 2 windows of your favorite web brower
But the only way to justify such a statement would be to point to... current trends. As the OP did.
Yeah read about Kraken a while ago and found the encode.ru thread you pointed. Its unfortunate that we can't compare that side by side. Those guys seem another of those compression geniuses. Overall the world of compression is moving very fast and well these days.

But even with that Yann might be the first. Yan's work on FSE is old [0] and if I'm reading this correctly his work on FSE is a mix of his own work and Jarek Duda. But it seems one of his failed attempt challenged Jarek to invent another version of ANS called rANS [1] and as you can see in the encode.ru comments from the RAD game tools that they seem to be using rANS at least for Kraken. Regardless these are impressive works and these people are bouncing ideas of each others, being challenged and inspired which is a very good thing for the rest of us :).

[0] https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2013/12/finite-state-en...
[1] http://encode.ru/threads/1821-Asymetric-Numeral-System?p=360...
[2] https://github.com/rygorous/ryg_rans
Reading a NY Times article that quotes a HN thread is my through-the-looking-glass moment of the month.
Will you be infecting it with the worm for old times' sake? ;)
Jeff Atwood blogged about this last week. 'Can Software Make You Less Racist?' https://blog.codinghorror.com/can-software-make-you-less-rac...
How I Reach 1M Impressions Every Month on Instagram
I used to like LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org predicive input and I still sometimes wonder why Windows doesn't provide system-wide text prediction like we have on mobile devices.
Example Typing Posture with DataHand
Big Data TM. I hear IBM has enterprise solutions to all of those.
Homeless people go to California because the weather is good and the locals are rich. What do you want SF residents to do about it? Giving the homeless more will just lead to more of them moving in.
I mean libXaw ("X Athena Widgets", and its siblings Xaw3d, Xaw3dXft, neXtaw, etc.). I'd be very surprised if the total Athena project even still uses it for any new code given how old-skool it is.
ktamura is not saying that happened, is saying that if that happened it would be more real than the current one. The current one (while true) looks like a TensorFlow advertising, making it sound easier than it really is.
Quine Relay – creates programs that generate programs in the next language
Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 Battery Following Explosion Reports
Here's something positive: This kind of research might indirectly make people healthier and save a lot of lives.

Calorie tracking is a proven way to lose weight, but all the tracking apps that I tried feel like they take too much effort. So I came up with an idea a few years ago: you should be able to just say what you had eaten out loud, and then use speech-to-text and NLP to search for each item and count up the calories.

I never got around to building that, but these guys did: https://www.nutritionix.com/app

It works amazingly well. Not only is speech 3x faster than typing, it's also much faster to have a free-form text field that is automatically parsed. And they integrate with Amazon Echo, which I look forward to trying out.

I've been thinking about many other ways to automate calorie tracking. For a while I thought the answer would be an AI that recognizes photos of food, but that doesn't feel important any more. I think speech-to-text takes approximately the same amount of time as opening the camera and snapping a photo. There have a been a few minor errors with Apple's voice dictation, but so far I've seen 100% accuracy from the actual text searches.

So anyway, speech-to-text research. It's all important.
The CEO could easily provide proof regarding his resume veracity and turn the situation around.
I believe that 'worse' in this case must mean that the homeless people are more visible.[1]

[1] http://fusion.net/story/148372/san-francisco-homelessness/
What you're describing sounds more like homology theory, where there is an abstract set of concepts (short exact sequences, etc.) which become different theorems in different contexts. But, unless I'm mistaken, most of the time these are closer to unifying foundations, or starting points, from which the special features of each model allow you to say more beyond the abstract framework. So sure you can get some general category-theoretic theorems, but saying the specific model is useless (as the Language folks say about Turing machines) is ludicrous.
In 2009 I was running IT for a medium-sized digital agency. I contacted both Box and Dropbox to inquire about paying them a bunch of money if they could give us some more features such oauth/saml auth, and better logging/auditing of our user activity.

Box sales was super responsive, and even got me on the phone to chat with their engineering team about our needs.

Dropbox was completely unresponsive.
So if I don't want ads to appear on my videos, should I put a bunch of inappropriate content at the end of them?
Let's not forget Biz Stone "faked [his] way into Google"[0]

[0] http://www.wired.com/2013/04/fakeit/
How to Pack for Weeks on an Offshore Oil Rig
Just posted this link to HN because that is insane. Like clinically, and much more insane than this one.
Incredibly curious about this Chinese firm. Are they talking something like BrandYourself, or more... whatever that makes it?

If anyone has any leads/ideas, I'd love to hear them. Again, just incredibly curious.
You could always use the 100% Java implementation of PHP in your app server:

http://quercus.caucho.com
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I like it for compilers, decompilers, interpreters, and parsers. If you're doing one of these, it's worth using Haskell even if the rest of the company isn't using it.

F# or OCaml might also be appropriate for these.
second option, explanation on how options/spreads/etc.
Hmm, I wish HN had reddit's remindme bot! Sounds great.
You can judge, but SF goes further than any city I've seen to provide services to the homeless. So much so that it's a mild weather Mecca to many. So you can turn up your nose and go back home to a city that likely ships them here or "takes care of it" so you don't see it -- but you are being naive. The poor will always be with us, and we are judged by how we treat them.
Congrats WagonHQ folks!
It's really sad. I grew up in the Bay Area and felt like the propensity for fraud was very low if not non-existent. I guess it's not like that anymore or maybe it never was and I've been lucky to work for and with people who don't commit fraud.
Your analogy doesn't work, because of the existence of Medicaid. And the fact that emergency rooms must treat you no matter what.
I have the same problem. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle such emails?
Interesting. Thanks for explaining that.
> They pay the employee $.7X, and charge the client $X for every hr worked.

That's a failing consulting company. A profitable consulting company needs to bill at 3x to 5x wages to support the overhead of sales and management. Even an individual, with no overhead but themselves, needs to bill at 2x what their desired wage would be if full-time.
Spotted the guy whose never been to downtown LA. It is much worse down south considering the weather is much better.

But really, only Alaska is relatively immune from this problem given that they just give homeless people a bus ticket to LA when winter hits.
Turns out the signal astronomers saw was “strong” because it came from Earth
I'll see your bullshit puffery, and raise you.

I'm part owner of an NFL franchise, and it only cost me $250.
My understanding is that that's largely because SF is actually a pretty good (or at least "less awful") place to be homeless in, so homeless people from other areas travel or are sent there in hopes of finding a better life.

It's apparently a thing for social workers and caregivers in places with drastically inadequate social support (i.e. most of the US) to just stick disabled/mentally ill people on a bus to SF; they'll at least have a better chance there.
Very nice idea! Would be great to have this (idea) built-in as part of swarm.
Did you ever try anything like https://owncloud.org/ ? I came across it last night browsing random docker containers.
Looks like the color coding on github doesn't understand it and doesn't gray it out like it should.
The interesting part is that the technology exists to better vet and monitor investments. For example, why don't startup-friendly banks offer authorized investors read-only access to bank accounts, and maybe an investor alert service that notifies them whenever a charge/check of more than $X posts to the company bank account or credit card, or when a wire goes out, etc? Most types of fraud are absurdly easy to spot; the tools and the will to spot them just aren't very strong atm.
not endorsing either, but it is sad that something that has less pirated content than youtube gets so much attention from the law.
You mean the aliens are already here?
> I have some issues with this sort of doxxing.

Or "investigative journalism", as it used to be known. This is what the press is for. If they're wrong, I don't doubt it will end in litigation.
From what I gather, Everett's attacks on Chomsky's theories have taken place in journal articles; most notably this one in 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett#cite_note-3
turbohf claims to be 4x faster than zlib's huffman coding and 2x faster than FSE and is a generic cpu implementation. Even if claims are only partially true and turbohf is a clean dropin replacement for zlib and licensing were friendly the appeal of zstd drops substantially in my book.

http://encode.ru/threads/2276-TurboHF-1GB-s-Huffman-Coding-R...

https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/entropy-coder
Have you been outside of the US? Coming from Europe, SF is utterly shocking. I've never seen anywhere else like it. Government provides a lot of support for low-income and homeless people in EU.
periscope data is great for sql visualizations. Way faster than any in house open source database plus priced affordably for any company larger than 10 people.
>> but we do believe in one thing: property

I thought SV was the world's hardest place to exercise your property rights? Just try demolishing a single-family house to set up a new low-income Section 8 apartment complex. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't.

San Francisco is like the polar opposite of the real-world Rapture you're envisioning it as.
I'd be happy to hear about the important things that the humanities have produced recently. In your comment above, the only claims about their current value that I see is the statement that they continue to be a moderating influence on the world, and that they teach us how narratives shape our ideas.

I'm dubious that their moderating influence is significantly more than the residual influence of old moral ideas, albeit with newly enforced reach (i.e., hey guys, "do unto others" should maybe also apply to women/black people/gays). You couldn't get a patent for that kind of obvious development of an old idea. And the notion that narratives shape perceptions doesn't strike me as a particularly profound insight, although I suppose it could be argued that's a post hoc bias.

Secular humanism and democracy are more than two hundred years old. What have the humanities given to the world since then that compares to those, or that compares to the changes to the world that science has made in that period?

If you care about these kinds of questions, that's what I mean by "my tribe", regardless of the answers we each give. I'm not invested in my perception that the humanities are under-performing their potential, but I don't currently see a strong argument on the other side. Maybe I'm failing to consider something.
My new best signal is if they don't seem to listen during a conversation. They only talk and occasionally pause while waiting to make their next point.
Cold winters can mean death for people who are homeless. It's not a convenience, it's a survival strategy.
No disagreement here. It's a rational decision for a homeless person to move to California, but the locals don't have to be happy about it or encourage them.
> You can judge, but SF goes further than any city I've seen to provide services to the homeless...

That's nice to hear!

I do realize now that my comment is naive; definitely only a tiny snapshot from the limited time that I spent over there and is not a complete picture or a total impression of the place.

But I still do wish that SV had a better situation/solution to these otherwise normal people problems.
"Sami Inkinen, a co-founder of the real estate website Trulia and an accomplished triathlete, made the case for his start-up, Virta Health, while on a ride this year with Mr. Levchin and another investor and cycling enthusiast, Raymond Tonsing of Caffeinated Capital. That was exceptional, Mr. Levchin recalled. “It’s rare that you have someone who can pitch a company while riding hard, and I’m not going to slow down.”"

LOL
Our first 6 months of Kubernetes in production at Movio
instead of thinking of a solution that is cross platform and works on your walled-garden devices, you want to bring a walled-garden solution to your other platforms?
WrkRiot CEO's entire resume fraudulent (nytimes.com)

Somewhat misleading title. The article itself only mentions the resume once. For example, it doesn't provide examples of the fabrication.

If you read the original post. there is little new info. aside from revealed identities.
Probably not too dissimilar to the delusional early employees who sign up for a startup hoping to make millions from their shares...
Declines in Teen Pregnancy Risk Entirely Driven by Improved Contraceptive Use
Wow, that is super impressive! Surprisingly short program too.
Wow so if the merger can't happen before December 31st when Solar City needs to pay back a $250 million debt with its $150 million in cash, it's going to get burned on cash injection terms isn't it?
It's not an uncommon story: My wife's PI got cancer. 3 years in. In her case, she just abandoned the whole thing. A friend of mine's PI instead moved to UCLA from San Antonio, and didn't raise pay a cent, or provide relocation assistance, so people had to follow him. Given the fun rental agreements in Texas, leaving a lease mid way still makes you have to pay for it unless someone else occupies the apartment. This made my friend end up in a nice, multi thousand dollar hole. She did get her Ph.D, but seeing the life of the postdoc, she gave up on that route herself, and now teaches English in Japan, crushed by student debt.

Between all the stories like that I have, and the relatively low improvement in outcomes when things really work out, I am so very happy I ignored academia and went straight to industry.
Except he appears to have started with fraud, given that his LinkedIn etc misrepresents his past work experience.
This is nuts.

The only long term solution here is a distributed decentralized DNS service. When there's "default-trust" at some locations (browser CAs), There's weak-points in the security chain.

What are the best available dDNS solutions. Ideally these are initially backward compatible with redular DNS to help adoption, and then just disregard CAs.
That's because there are currently no "startup-friendly" banks. The ones who say that are just using marketing speak and are no better and often worse to deal with than the majors.
Thundertick:A swiss-army-knife designed for your browser
Is this surprising to anyone? I can speak way faster than I can type even under the best of conditions, let alone on a shitty mobile keyboard. I'm surprised it's only a factor of 3. I tend to avoid writing stuff on mobile and wait until I get home, because it just feels so painfully slow compared to a real keyboard.

I see a bunch of comments disputing the result. To those people, do you really think that typing on mobile is as fast or faster than speaking?
Oh and browser vendors, distrust WoSign now!

Imagine your regular developer performing a npm install which pulls in code from a compromised MITMed github URL. That's straightforward rootkit compile and install access!
California woman holds party before killing herself
> You can't free yourself from thinking in terms of languages

Now would I want to. Why would I deprive myself of the benefits of compositionality, separation of concerns, or simply modeling the problem domain as faithfully as possible?

> For meaning you have to pay real, measurable complexity.

Complexity in the sense of complexity theory? I don't see how. If you mean the computational cost of type checking, that's in practice a non-problem as long as the type system is reasonable. (By which I mean: Types are first-order and there is no type-level computation beyond synonym expansion, so plain first-order unification can reconstruct out all the types. Damas-Milner is a special case of this.)

Or are you talking about complexity in some other sense? I don't see the requirement of making sense as a burden. I'd feel burdened if I had to deal with some random computation I found in the wild, with no indication regarding what its meaning is.
If we take his stated motivations at face value, he's genuinely concerned that we hedge our bets against existential threats as soon as possible. Establishing a colony on another planet is both within planning range and likely the strongest hedge we can currently make. If he thinks he can get there, I'll take his published timelines with grains of salt, but at this point I'll also trust him that the goal is plausible.
hmm.. Could I mirror my macbook screen?
It does provide 3 examples of organizations that don't seem to exist or have stated they have no records.
Now here things gets really interesting [0]. And the fact that the claim is that higher level of compression has negligible impact on decode speed making Kraken really impressive for one time compression and lots of decompression situation.

[0] http://cbloomrants.blogspot.ca/2016/07/introducing-oodle-mer...
The Twilight of Fox News
Sure if your only goal is to make money...I am a CS PhD and at least in this area, believe it or not, I really haven't met many academics who regretted their choices.
The hack is from September 2012. LinkedIn knew about it in May 2016.
Not to the extend that SF has. I have never seen so many homeless people before. And its not like they were starving at all. I heard they get paid by the government a $1000 a month. I even saw some reading books at the park.
The places he claimed to work at say they have no record of him. Another business can't be found.
I'm not sure how you can simultaneously claim that a model has predictive power but is not scientific.
Part of the reason there are so many homeless in SF is because the SF government and local charities provide food and shelter. The tourists handing out money doesn't help with attracting them. Much of the panhandling money is used for drugs, as basic needs such as food and shelter are already covered by the government and nonprofits. If you really want to help them, volunteer at a homeless kitchen or directly donate to them.

I walk by the local drug dealers in the Tenderloin every day, and all the clientele I've seen are homeless people.
I came across https://owncloud.org/ yesterday. I'm going to sound like a shill for bringing it up in a couple of different threads, but I haven't used it so can't recommend it.
a function between any two countable sets, e.g. (Nat -> Nat) -> (Nat -> Nat): pick a representation for the input and output

There isn't a TM-suitable representation for things of type (Nat -> Nat). No matter how you try to encode a Nat->Nat as a Nat (or a bitstring, if you prefer), you're going to screw up equality (which means you're actually encoding some other type). You'll map two unequal functions to the same Nat, or (more likely) map one function to multiple unequal Nats. This is the difference between how lambda calculi and Turing machines handle higher-order things: A Turing machine can always inspect the "internals," so you need an actual bijection from functions to strings, whereas lambda calculus hides the internals, so it's safe to map one function to multiple syntactic representations.
Start every video with

"I pledge my allegiance to one and only true Lord, our Savior , Maker of walls, The first of his name, Sire Donald Trump"
Yep. But not all legislation that pertains to it affects all companies that use it equally.
Parents in those countries choose male children because male descendants are better for the parents. A girl in these countries is seen as a burden. She must be taken care of, and then hopefully married off, so that the husband will take over the burden.

A man on the other hand, is supposed to, by cultural standards, support his parents their whole life.

This is something you and the parent poster seem to miss. And also why "getting rid of all men" would probably have the opposite affect on society as you proclaim.

Frankly, you're a fucking idiot, and it's about time someone told you that.
Although I kind of wish Apple hadn’t baked speech recognition into their parsing algorithm. Not everything I say will be in their dictionary, and there are times I’d rather just be able to type the query in myself than have Siri misunderstand it and then have to manually retype the parts that were misinterpreted.
The Distributed Weakness Filing (DWF) Project covers vulnerabilities which are not tracked by the main CVE system.

https://github.com/distributedweaknessfiling/DWF-Database
If you're into this sort of thing you might enjoy a more rigorous treatment from an actual neuroscientist, David Eagleman.

http://www.pbs.org/the-brain-with-david-eagleman/episodes/wh...
Back then, it really was a bunch tubes.
I once accidentally stumbled into a street downtown LA in my early 20s. It was full of druggies and gangsters. I never felt so scared of my safety before. I definitely felt eyes staring a me like I didn't belong there.

I have travelled to many countries where some places are considered dangerous for travellers. And never have I been more afraid than that day.
>That's not what happened at all. He built the system entirely himself before getting in contact with us.

Good to know. While what I said was meant to be hypothetical, I am happy to stand corrected.

>creating a neural network that can do real work is within the abilities a single individual.

This really depends on said "individual." My biggest issue was the tacit conflation between two themes, one valid and another reeking of "feel good" marketing:

1. That a reasonably technical person can use neutral network to do useful things, no small part thanks to something like TensorFlow (valid)

2. That such individuals are prevalent in agriculture (???)

I am all for hero-making: it's at the heart of marketing and customer advocacy. However, as someone who has been doing technical marketing for awhile, I just find this story exceptional in both senses of the word (as others commented, perhaps I turn out to be wrong!)