skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've struck on something, sort-of. How's this Neo-Chomskian theory:

The structure of the Universal Grammar and its related parameters is not encoded in the brains or genetic codes of humans, but in the very nature of the universe. The Universal Grammar is universal. If you wish to describe an action, any action, you need a subject, a verb, and an object. The verb must be transitive, and the subject and object must be both nouns but distinguishable from each other. In other cases where there is no part of reality that takes the place of an object, you can have an intransitive verb, but then you cannot have an objective noun.

The parametrization of the language, such as in word order (SVO, VOS, etc.) occurs through the historical development of the language, by symmetry breaking and the requirement that language be a one-dimensional, temporal structure.

The relationship between language and the human brain, or even the human mind, is largely accidental. The mind may or may not have a "recursion" module, or slots for "subjects" and "verbs", but whether it does or does not is immaterial. The Universal Grammar is the fundamental nature of reality, not the nature of the brain. Whether the brain has such structures or not depends entirely on how well the brain represents reality, and we already know that is imperfect.

In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with god, and the WORD was god.

Somebody notify Noam.
Works great for me, too.
Even I was able to identify the sarcasm on first sight.
The first one is the title of a song [1]. The attackers probably have a lot of common phrases, song titles, and other catchy excerpts in their dictionary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I915tOiR9sM

If it weren't a song title, it would probably have been impossible to crack. That sentence has 12 words. People say that most English conversations only use 3000 words. 3000^12 is 2^138. It has quite a bit more entropy than what we can crack nowadays. Besides, "stripper" isn't part of the 3000-word dictionary.
I really doubt it's his politics. George Layoff and Chomsky had (have?) a protracted, acrimonious battle over the relationship between syntax and semantics, but they're not miles apart, politically.

I find Chomsky frustrating because he comes up with these incredibly elegant theoretical machinery--and then is totally disinterested in empirically testing then.

For example, the "Language Acquisition Device" absolutely HAS to be the brain, but a lot of the discussion of it--and Universal Grammar--are totally untethered by psychology and neuroscience.

For a while, it seemed like he regarded recursion as a key aspect of human language, versus animal "communications." Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky had a 2002 article in Science that seemed to argue as much, and they were excited to show that humans, but not monkeys, can learn center-embedded recursion patterns[1]. However, Chomsky seems to have subtly backed away from that and now says that recursion important but might not manifest itself in all human languages (or something along those lines).
> There was no inherent underlying English grammar structure hard-wired into babies' brains as the chart suggests.

There was in Chomsky's original theory. His original claims have been significantly mellowed out after the mounting weight of counter-evidence crashed down.
There is no better town in the US than Missoula, Montana. Bozeman's nice too, closer in proximity to Yellowstone. There's just something magical about a summer in Missoula.
It's an ad hominem attack, an attempt to distract from the actual issue at hand. I.e., focusing on Chelsea Manning's sexual preferences, or on Snowden being a "narcissist".
When I lived out there (10+ years ago), I remember the locals always grumbling about people from California moving in and ruining it. I wonder if that has changed.

I prefer the Glacier/Whitefish area, but Montana is a thing every American should experience. I miss it every day.
> A guild can't access the objects of other guilds.

> 2. Transfer membership or Move in short

How is this enforced? What exactly happens at runtime if a guild tries to manipulate an object that belongs to another? (Absent a compile-time check, this is always a possibility.)
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At least the RPM one seems okay. You should elaborate.
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Unicycling is seriously difficult! I failed at learning to ride one.
Note that this is very outdated. Modern fingerprinting techniques can identify you much more accurately than panopticlick can.
Some ISPs in the US are still throttling Netflix...
What he argues makes some sense, but his total dismissal of IF paired with low-carb seemed counter-productive.

"The one question that remains unanswered is whether or not the intermittent fast followed in a low-carbohydrate way will lead to these same problems. To me, that point is kind of moot. Why? Because I looked at the IF as a strategy that allowed me to eat a lot of high carb foods that I would normally avoid and not pay the health consequences for it. If I’m going to limit myself to low-carb foods, why go on the IF? I can get the same results just following a regular, whole-food, low-carb diet without having to eat only every other day."

Okay, so you only care about IF if it lets you indulge in high-carbohydrate food, so you aren't even going to try to determine if your thermogenesis argument holds for people doing both IF and low carb?

Considering I'm currently doing a low-carb diet and using mild IF (basically skipping breakfasts and not eating after ~8pm, so roughly 14-16 hours fasting most days) to try to break my weight plateaus and meet my weight loss goals, that paragraph, while valid (and I'm glad he shared it), rubbed me the wrong way and doesn't give me any information to help me determine whether I should be skipping that meal or not.
>I miss the usenet days where people actually had similar opinions to me and it was still a 99% male space where women were universally hated - long before fuckbook, twatter and young engineered brainwashed by colleges into becoming social justice warriors.

Is this a serious statement? I can't imagine someone would be so fragile and yet bold (blind?) enough to post that they miss their safe space while at the same time lambasting that perennial "SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS" boogeyman.
Indeed -- the demographics of Montana in particular are overwhelmingly white[1]. As of the 2010 census, 89.4% white, 6.3% native (many of whom live in one of the seven reservations Montana has, rather than the "star" towns of Billings, Bozeman, and Missoula), and less than a percent each for any other races. The state also has only just over a million people total, so there are about 4 times as many white people in New York City as there are in the whole state of Montana.

This isn't to excuse the white-washy-ness of the video (e.g. lots of cowboys, no Indians), but just to say that the problem is at least a couple of levels out from just this video.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana#Demographics
NES had only two types of games: either you jump on top of enemies or you constantly move right and kick them. Actually there were only two games but with different sprite images. But even that was wonderful in 1982, because it happened on your TV, like movie, but controllable by you! And they're trying to sell the same 'magic VCR where you can control retarded boy jumping on mushrooms' in 2016. Except on phone handsets instead of TV sets. Maybe someone will be heavily impressed that instead of dialing and talking you control virtual italian plumber right on your telephone!
Have you missed the substantial news about the David Brock led efforts at "CorrectTheRecord?"[0] He was a GOP operative for a long time until he started working for the Clinton candidacy. His organization has even been accused of posting child pornography to Bernie Sanders facebook pages in order to get them disrupted and shut-down.

I don't doubt there are similar efforts on the part of the GOP or Donald Trump supporters.

Bernie Sanders was subject to vicious propaganda and a generally adversarial mass-media, then when the Democratic nomination was "clinched" by Hillary a sudden swelling of negative media stories on the Green Party's Jill Stein and Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson filled the media channels.

Up until that point, they received almost no media coverage.

This has been the nastiest and most manipulative Presidential election I can remember, though I am only 37 so take that as you will. One thing is certain, hard-core progressives and leftists now know for certain what the DNC and Democrats are really about, and how low they will go to accomplish that.

[0]http://correctrecord.org/about/
Don't forget all the events that don't happen because of your military spending. A country with a weak military could be an attractive target.
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It seems like what they really want is someone with twice the skills for half the pay.

My friend's dad always told me it was hard to find people to hire, but he also said to hire someone he'd need to be able to make 3x what they cost to keep around.
>Combine that with the fact that most people don't want Trump to win

Just to bring you back to planet Earth, all the latest polls show the two major candidates in dead heat.
The main problem with the python docs is not the verboseness. It's that they are entirely unstructured. If there just was a standard list of bold parameter - explanation and finally return value it would help immensely.

My own favorite is urllib.request.urlopen, the description mixes arguments, return values and exceptions in a blob of text two pages long. It's very confusing to read if you are a beginner just trying to fetch a file. The examples are way, way down on the page where you will never find them, the table of contents is so long you can't even see there is an example section unless you scroll down the menu.

On the bright side though, everything is explained in the text. It just less accessible than some other projects' documentation.
> In Sweden is called "rape" but in the US would be called "consensual sex"

If you have sex with someone and tell them you will use a condom and don't, that isn't consensual.
Most people agree with you. There are far more young people living outside SV/NYC than inside.
Whether it is or not, I suspect you'd have to take the question up with Thomas Kuhn.
Wikileaks politicized themselves, look at their Twitter. They clearly made a conscious decision to take a side in a partisan election, rather than just releasing documents and letting them speak for themselves. You can agree or disagree with that decision, but I don't think there needs to be an astroturf conspiracy driving this narrative.

If they only commented on their leaks, that would be one thing, you can't really blame them for not having any Trump documents. But they've given extensive commentary on the email scandal and the FBI investigation, which frankly have nothing to do with their leaks.
Claiming someone is alt-right is starting to have the feel of McCarthy era claims of communism. We are supposed to associate that label (and thus the person) with the deeply unsavory, without looking at their actual, specific positions and actions.
> trendy fashion items

Exactly. They're already selling wireless ones, and have been for a while; I see them regularly on the train. Now they're making the ones with wires subtly uncool. They will succeed in so doing.
Or maybe you were sad because you only saw package downloads from S3 and you were looking for an actual Debian repository? Well, that actually already exists. See:
https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/introduction/insta...
For better or worse, companies aren't directly responsible for what news agencies write about them.
I'm looking forward to learning about the W1 chip and what is different than existing technologies. If they've truly pushed things forward it would be great, instead of simply making sure to put all the highest available specs and capabilities in both device and headphones
I laughed too....

He actually has a pretty consistent agenda - reveal shocking stuff that people don't want revealed, and do it with a dramatic flair. Yes, a couple years back his releases on Iraq / Afghanistan had some things that enraged Republicans and were praised by Democrats. Now he's exposing their house.

He's an agent of chaos with a self promotion streak. Saying his agenda is anything beyond that ignores history.

I'm not a big fan, but I think endangering the non-decision makers is bad.
and then you get everyone arguing over what counts as "popular enough to get support attention". its an implementation detail and this is hypothetical, so it doesn't matter much.

in any case its pretty clear how the Android app ecosystem actually works: no support for developers. The advantage you get from that is a more open app ecosystem with lower barriers to entry and lower fees from Google compared to their competitor Apple.
This confused me, too.

I think what they meant with "1000 nodes" is that the dataset they're using for the benchmark is synthetic monitoring data (where the thing being monitored are servers).

And the way they generated the synthetic data set is by having 1000 imaginative servers produce one sample per second, (i.e. have a script that writes out 1000 * duration_in_sec fake samples -- I believe this is the code that does it https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-comparisons/tree/mast...)
I agree that the USA and Canada should accept refugees. However, I am disturbed by the fact that most other middle eastern countries are accepting very few or no refugees. I can't help but wonder why...
Last weekend I did a 60 hour fast, part of my motivation was research like this.

What I discovered after and into this week is that my self-control has increased dramatically.
California seems like an interesting case. A disproportionate share of Nobel prize winners and other exceedingly bright people live here.

At the same time California has a large number of impoverished residents, a huge backlog of unfunded repair work on roads and bridges, huge unfunded worker pension obligations, much of the nation's worst traffic, a housing shortage for the middle and lower classes, severe water shortages in various places (like East Porterville), a persistent diversity problem in tech employment, a low credit rating, low per-capita spending on education, state college and university funding shortfalls, mediocre educational results at the elementary and secondary school levels, etc.
I would say the exact opposite. Politically motivated speculation about someone's motives are irrelevant, it is the content of the leaks that matter.
Half of the answers are something like: "It would be super evil of Facebook to allow this kind of search".

The other half are like: "It does work".

Hmmmm...
That is great that you have a work life balance you are comfortable with but why not enjoy working? Given the choice of getting paid to do something delightful vs doing something that just works but not super enjoyable, I pick delightful. I don't know that anyone ever said it needed to be delightful but there are enough people who would prefer it that way.
Like read books or have someone tutor me? Right now I spend zero time doing this. I just gave up. I tried but nothing stuck, and it was so difficult for me on an intellectual level that quite literally after one hour of study I was so mentally worn out that I could not do my job. I had to sleep through the rest of the day and I literally felt like I was going crazy.

I don't get it, I can learn (and remember) a new programming language and have some practical level of competency in hours (even with Haskell, actually, Haskell was one of the easier languages), but with real languages I am totally inapt.

In school I studied 8 years of French, two or three classes per week, and it was a real course, nothing leisurely, lots of homework. But I can't speak a single word of French. Believe me, I worked really hard those 8 years just to get a passing grade, and if I weren't exceptional at Physics (won 1st prize at the National Physics Olympiad, and many other national contests), I'm pretty sure my teacher would have failed me.

I spoke my first word while being 3 months old, and at 6 months I was using coherent sentences and engaging in conversation with people. I guess I used up all my language acquisition skills in that stage of development.

What is going on?
"I'll pass on this intermittent fasting "fad" for now!"

Presumably you've tried it ?

That is to say, starting from a very high baseline of both cardio-vascular fitness and output as well as a high level of muscle training[1] you then tried IF and didn't notice a positive effect in your training or output ?

Fair enough. IANAD and YMMV.

[1] Since you're not going to notice the effects of marginal changes in a loosely coupled, highly variant system anyway. Adding a high flow air filter to your 1997 chrysler minivan probably won't produce noticeable results.
Lesson #1: Don't try to preserve social harmony by delaying indefinitely the consequences of bad company decisions. Clean up quickly and effectively instead.

It seems like most countries have learned the lesson (or have never had to) and avoided the mistakes Japan has made, although the EU is headed in vaguely similar directions.
I'm going to have another go at this, because I just realised I did something I hate. I really wanted to make my comment something that could change your mind, rather than just express my displeasure at your opinions - so here goes...

Your statements about how you see the world are very black and white, but the world you are talking about is very very complex, and there are infinite shades of grey. If you went outside and interacted with other people without prejudging the outcome I think that you would have plenty of experiences which do not conform to your expectations of how the world is. I say 'expectations' because I don't think you've attempted to disprove your own assumptions - and I think your assumptions are based not on your own experiences, but on anecdotes from echo chambers (usernet, etc.) (now i'm assuming too much - but you can tell me if i'm wrong).

Maybe you have had some bad personal experiences that lead you to your views on harpy women, proles and aggressively muscular men. I would like to hear what they are.
What an odd article. It seems slightly perverse to point out that an existing settlement system has blown 2bn on a platform that processes <500k transactions per day for < 2000 participants. That might be true but it no way follows that it'll be successful solely because it is so cost ineffective.

The article also misses a key point about the finance industry. You "only" need to convince a dozen organisations that what you're doing is valuable and they'll effectively force the rest to follow. It's also quite incestuous, get a couple of big players interested and the rest will come looking pretty quickly. Not only that, once they start relying on a technology they are very good at ensuring that it gets backed well.

Now, I'm not suggesting that that's easy and I'm sure a lot of companies will try and fail. But it most definitely does not need billions to get started.
If this article is correct, if firms aren't flexible enough to train workers with specific skills if they can't find anyone with that skill set that suggests that the firm is not filling jobs it needs and thus not as productive as it should be increasing shareholder value.

That means that there is bad management and the board which represents shareholders should dump the current management and find management that is focused on doing what it takes legally to improve shareholder value.
This I can get onboard with :)
Lessons in reality from particles that don't exist
Quoted from slides:
> GC/Heap
> * Share it. Do stop the world parallel marking- and lazy concurrent sweeping.
> * Synchronize only at page acquire timing. No any synchronization at creation time.
I don't get it. What about weekends. Or the (frequent) national holidays? I've never heard of people in Japan being forced to work regularly on weekends or on national holidays that would be pretty strange in my experience (though long working hours less strange of course).
Interesting. I grew up in Kalispell, went to college in Bozeman, and now live in Missoula. I would agree with some other people in the thread that Bozeman and Missoula seem like the 'cooler' cities, but I think the Mission and Flathead valleys take the cake when it comes to views and recreation.

I mean, you cant beat the mountain views of the Missions and Swans with Flathead lake right in the middle. AND Glacier Park just to the north. But I'm biased I guess :).
Considering that the phone runs seven hundred bucks, it might as well be zero. The phrase "penny wise, pound foolish" fairly somersaults to the tip of one's tongue, doesn't it?
Sending audio is not what consumes the power. The screen is on if you're using it for directions and the radio is constantly going on and to ping GPS and cell towers for location.
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> Technology and capitalism are the only one's we can blame in this situation.

You can also blame the Government. The reason manufacturing wages are so low is because the few manufacturing companies left in the US can't compete with foreign manufacturing. It's hard to compete against companies that do manufacturing in countries with few to no labor laws. Tariffs on raw materials coming into the country are surprisingly high while tariffs on completed goods are low. That situation needs to be reversed if we ever want to increase the wages of factory workers.
We're working on the cardinality problem. Will be resolved in an upcoming release. Moving the index over to a disk based format that will hopefully still be fast and not sacrifice lookup performance.
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"If this is just a learned relationship between things, the order of the adjectives shouldn't matter."

Have you any specific evidence for the inference, "learned relationship implies order does not matter?"
In Copenhagen we have: letsgo.dk, gomore.dk, drive-now.dk (the latter also exists around Europe). I've never used Gomore though; it's the other two how I got to try the cars.

edit: I should mention that gomore isn't EV exclusive, drive now is EV exclusive here though.
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If I know that I'm going to try to compromise a system and access its username/password lists, is there an advantage to creating a number of accounts to which I know the password prior to the break-in?

Does this make it easier to break the other accounts once I have access to them encrypted? As in, I know that the account with username X has an unencrypted password Y, so now I have guideposts to tell if my cracking attempts are pointing in the right direction, trying to get back to password Y from the hashes. I imagine there would be something of an advantage to already knowing, say, 10,000 plaintext-encrypted pairs in a big list.

If this is the case, should one be concerned in managing a system that sees a dramatic uptick in new user registrations as a precursor to an attack?
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There is some evidence to indicate that high iron levels are a risk factor in heart disease. And thus donating blood could help lower that risk for some people. However I don't think any sort of "boost" effect has ever been demonstrated.

http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20001025/too-much-ir...
No. The zip file contains a JavaScript file that the user has to click on to get infected. Typically, the target is Windows, which hides the file extension of known file types by default. So the user ends up seeing a file called 'transactions 31234' (actual example), which has an icon depicting a document. Double-clicking on it causes the script to execute in Windows Script Host (WSH), which gives the script access to internal Windows APIs.