skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science journalism strikes again. Between this and the Guardian's "dolphin language discovered" the findings have been completely overblown for what is really a trivial finding. All this article really says is that cetaceans communicate in the audio domain; NPs are one way to conceptualize the subunits, which are obviously far from human phonology. But we still don't know anything about the structural properties, and hence the similarity to human speech. The paper says "we can assume that each pulse represents a phoneme or a word of the dolphin's spoken language." First, that's an assumption rather than an empirical finding; second, there's a pretty big difference between those levels of structure, and third, we'd want to know something about syntax, semantics, or pragmatics before we call it a 'conversation'.

That said, if this brings more money to the study of cetacean communication, then I'll accept whatever nonsense appears in the popular press. Pretty sure they were talking about the fusion reactors in Atlantis.
So it only takes massive support from a superpower, being a tiny nation, building an actual wall and manning it, and spending an absolute fortune on defending it?
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/israel-shells-ou...

This just in... Europe is quite a bit larger than Israel, and composed of different sovereign nations.
I get what you're saying, but the reverse is also true - other languages have concepts that don't translate nicely (or at all) to English. I'm not sure it is easy to quantify, between two languages, which one has means to express more ideas and concepts.

And, of course, having more ideas and concepts doesn't necessarily translate to more open-mindedness, or being more receptive. For example, one of those concepts could be extreme emotional-level xenophobia. Or, say, loss of face that is only preventable by extreme measures (such as suicide or "honor killing").
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Ask HN: Is there a way to turn off voicemail parsing in IOS10?
Is there a way to turn off voicemail parsing in IOS10? Or is this something you can not opt out of?
What are you talking about? You have the same power right now, just go open an AdWords account.

Your fear should not be of Google it should be of money. The more of it you have the more you can get your agenda in front of people.
Japan has plenty of homeless people and people who live outside the system, they are just much tidier than those in other countries, but extremely visible if you just look around a bit.
When you don't have a home, cold and damp are literal killers.
Could you elaborate on the fallbacks? Possibly with a reference?
I posted it already but we have a bank holiday in my country (12 days!, finishes this monday).
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Disclosure: I've been living in Japan for half a decade now.

There are a number of interplaying and compounding factors that are responsible for creating this situation. I will list a few in no particular order.

- The hours are absolutely insane. My partner rarely leaves her office before 10pm, and by the time she does, she is completely exhausted and unable to do anything other than hit the sack. This type of situation is extremely prevalent and generally affects both men and women. It is no wonder that young people have no time to socialize, go out and meet potential partners when they spend 90% of their waking hours working or otherwise subordinating to this insane work cult.

- Japan is a country of predefined roles and expectations, and at different ages people are fully expected to meet certain benchmarks and seamlessly transition into new roles. One such role is that of a provider, and men are expected to be able to become full-time breadwinners by the time they hit 30. With the economy being what it is and the traditional Japanese notion of lifetime employment being a thing of the past, a lot of men aren't able to live up to these expectations and simply drop out of the dating pool. Some of it is involuntary, since Japanese women tend to maintain very high expectations as to what a man needs to be able to provide.

- Sex is generally highly available and there are all kinds of parlors, services, salons, middlemen and clubs catering to both men and women. It's cheap, legal and safe, thereby creating a disincentive for people to attempt and engage in the old fashioned mating process. On top of that - and this is going to sound completely nuts to those who aren't familiar with the country - there are full-time gigolos, both foreign and domestic, whose only life goal seems to be getting as many notches as possible. They approach women on the street, in bookstores, train stations, malls, you name it. I know a few of these characters and many of them have notches in the 3 figure range and juggle up to 7 women at a time. It's all they ever do, and I suspect that they tie up a huge number of women at any given point in time. I can't say I've noticed the same phenomenon in any other country.

- The local culture isn't exactly touchy-feely and even when people date, it's something they do because it's what young people are supposed and expected to do, not because they like their partner or dating in particular. Just a curiosity I've noticed with many couples.

Obviously, the situation is very complex and cannot be explained with a simple narrative, but I hope this helps clarify things a little.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12521609
Same thing happened to me: I wrote the module that does Microsoft Office files in Python. At the time, the solutions for doing it in Python were 'talk to some Java library' or 'talk to some .net library'. I read the openxml spec and made something which did basic creation, extracting text, modifying docs.

I totally didn't have time to maintain it, then Scanny took over. It's now hugely popular, the code handles non-Word OpenXML docs, and most of the code has been added or refactored under Scanny.

https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Why would I choose Perl over Python other than it's what they use where I work?
Cool! Is it possible to bring up Tabist with a hotkey? (Ideally configurable, but I'll take whatever I can get.) I'd use it all the time then.
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yes, and it's a completely different behavior then Go, where it's perfectly defined as well: you call that method with a nil pointer as the receiver. Please don't act like those 2 behaviors are anywhere near similar.
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Just because you aren't paying for something different mean you are the product. And just because you are the product doesn't mean you are the only product.
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Yeah I feel like science and some test strips would do the job. But eating blowfish to begin with is ridiculous, and based solely on tradition. Testing for toxins could be seen as disrespecting the tradition.
But the problem is that it is needlessly complicated, and the complications are what make the decisionmaking difficult. If the question was "You must flip a switch to the left or to the right. If you flip it to the right, one person will die. If you flip it to the left, five people will die. Again, you must flip the switch. Which way do you flip it?" everybody would give the same answer.

Instead, of "you must flip the switch" you get a speeding train. Instead of the switch you get fat people and bridges. Are the five people children and does the fat person have heart trouble? Is the fat person fat because he's greedy, or does he have a glandular problem. Will anyone see me pushing the fat man? And again, what guarantee do I have that a fat man's body will stop a train? How old is the fat man? How young are the kids? Are there suspicious looking people around who, if the train fails to run over the five people, will just back the train up and try again?
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The golden age may not have existed as a reality, it reflects old ideals that did exist -- especially for those of certain privileged classes, sexes, and races, and to the detriment of the rest. That's why they're opposed and called regressive or reactionary by progressives.

I'm sure conservatives would consider it "progress", but I doubt many of them would want to adopt the term "progressive" to their cause, as that term has an anti-conservative connotation. And certainly those who do label themselves "progressive" would not call that "progress" but "regress".

Also, it should be pointed out that the golden age that conservatives often refer to did not exist as they describe, but aspects of it did exist in a much seedier and painful form.

For instance, the golden age that some conservatives paint of the institution of slavery being a benefit to and desired by slaves -- that did not exist. But slavery and slaves did exist. Those conservatives that do favor slavery would have us go back to a slave-owning society, and would paint a rosy picture to convince those gullible or uneducated enough to think it would be a good idea, or to try to give themselves a fig leaf of respectability or deniability.
> It is easy to laugh at Bitcoin but with Bitcoin you can send $15 from New Jersey to France immediately but the fee to do a bank transfer is many times that.

Then use PayPal.

One of the few uses I have for PayPal is small value transfers and purchases.
I would like to use Emacs on terminal, but few of keybindings don't work well based on terminal to terminal. For example, last three months I got a Mac for work, and on iTerm "C-/" didn't work for Undo, or some keybindings starting with "Meta". I guess that could be solved by configuring terminal properly with key sequences, but I just ended up using GTK (but well the GTK version crashed whenever I closed one of the multiple frame open). On linux, so far it has worked flawlessly for me.
Not really. Self driving talent is hugely valuable. I am curious though how much of that 700 went to the talent at Otto.
> Fewer than half the jobs promised at the industrial park, built after 366 farmers were evicted from their lands, have materialized. Many millions of dollars earmarked for relief efforts have yet to be spent [six years later]. Mrs. Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham has turned up in business ventures on the island
There is no intra prediction. The proto-block-chains are just an optimization to choose which encodings will be tried for each block. An alternative is exhaustive search for each block, which is feasible, but slow.
Surely we can start with basic emotions? Affection, gratitude, rage, cruelty/spite, tranquility, fear, bitterness, rejection, confusion, kindness are all mind states mammals or at least the smarter ones seem capable to express and maybe put into words.
Full changelog: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NE...
TO be fair, I think the type of folks that these company needs aren't necessarily the ones doing original research / math heavy work. They need people who can translate what the PHDs do into practical solutions.
Thanks! Did not know about package-install, that's very helpful.

Spacemacs looks cool. I have so many years of emacs keybindings that I'd have to turn that off, but I really like the look of what they're building.
I'm Norwegian and I find this to be a fascinating read. I don't want to comment on the content until I've read it all the way through. I just wanted to say that I would love for this to be a live document, kept up to date on a platform like GitHub. I wish I could see what those 2015 changes were. And it'd be even more amazing if you did another revision in 2035.
Except the 100s of people walking by and having another obstruction they didn't ask for and don't want in their path. Or stupid sign hanging from the roof.

It is not unreasonable NOT to want these things in your neighborhood.
1/25 suitable after only 3 questions. I think the selection might be flawed.

Anyway, any reasoning that divides distros between easy to use and hard to use is nonsense. Just because I'm used to Linux doesn't mean Ubuntu isn't the right distro for me. The questionnaire logic goes: well, you're capable of running this distro so you should run this distro.

Reality is if you're a developer you either use RHEL because that's what corporate chose or you use Ubuntu because that is the platform chosen by library devs and unless you use it as well you will waste time sorting out issues.

If you're a user then it doesn't matter what distro you use, they're all fine. If you want to play games then your best bet is Ubuntu.
I think "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" had a lot to do with this as well.
Don't be an asshole. I was asking out of curiosity.
How do you explain this? Are Japanese homeless less mentally ill, or less anti-social?
If it had been a decision concerned with "humane" considerations, there would have been a transition to outpatient treatment, family resources and education, and generally an attempt to change rather than destroy the mental health infrastructure of a country.

The result, which is an ugly combination of the profoundly mentally ill being incarcerated in jails and prisons, often among the general population, and homelessness, is hardly a decision calculated to improve anyone's lives. The population of people with schizophrenia living rough in this country also testifies to the lack of humanity in both the decisions that were made, and total lack of concern for people once they left an institution.

Now, we have to act shocked every time the Jared Lee Laughners of the world act in a tragically predictable course and murder a group of people. It's not shocking, it's predictable; when a family can't do a thing for a loved one who is falling apart in front of their eyes it's true that most of the time it only ends badly for the sick person. Sometimes though, it ends badly for society as a whole.
Exactly, just like facebook. Every restaurant should be like your example, every startup should be like facebook. Accept no substitutes.
The worse is not, that. I think the worse is that, unlike Java, a race condition in Go has a totally undefined behavior that can corrupt the memory of the entire system your Go app is running on. You can effectively shut down your computer with a race condition in a Go program, and it actually happened to me many times on Windows, with 3rd party Go tools that didn't handle concurrency carefully. Go concurrency is truly unsafe, C style.
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Central Florida has a lot of homeless and near-homeless people. Some of that is mental illness, some people are just "outside dogs" and some of it is veterans.
The generation right after the war was different.
And there is no lack of cars in Oslo now. Many, many things have changed.
Since the dynlib support probably uses GPL3 headers and runtime symbols, I doubt the result can be licensed anything but GPL3, so I'm not sure what RMS would complain about. This is also the reason why LLVM's ld.gold support is a plugin IIRC, because it has to include a binutils header (/usr/include/plugin-api.h, which is weirdly generic name for such a thing to exist in /usr/include).
> I don’t recall the author now, but the gist of the argument made was that we’re too protective of our code - if you give someone responsibility, show that you trust them, more often than not, your intuition about people abusing their freedom is way off.

Maybe it was some of Pieter Hintjens writing and/or the C4 process:

* https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/

* http://hintjens.com/blog:112

* http://hintjens.com/blog:106

Edit: oh, as the author mentions a blog post from 2012, it probably isn't any of the above posts (which are newer) but maybe something related to C4.
> But most importantly you can blame Ronald Reagan for dismantling the states mental health infrastructure.

Again, with this.

Any time the "Reagan dismantled mental health!" argument comes up, all I can ever find are references to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act - which was co-authored by Democrats, and followed the accepted medical advice of the time - and vague accusations of acts by a Congress more often than not Democrat-controlled under Reagan's tenure.

What specifically did Reagan himself do?
Note sure if the author or the poster got the since-fixed "Your" wrong (which is what I think HoopleHead was getting at), but the author definitely botched "'Till" (sic).

The eBay companies must have a similar botch right in their style guide or something. They use "'til" everywhere instead of "till" or "until".
> Please do some reading on this.

I really wish people wouldn't use this line in HN comments. It shuts down meaningful discussion by implying that someone would see things your way if only they were more well informed. Maybe they have done the reading and don't agree with you.
Great, here I was looking for a chaffeur with experience in self-driving.
Mobileye Rips Tesla Autopilot Safety as War of Words Intensifies
Can you confirm you have Big 4 tech graduates who were hired fresh from getting their Udacity degree without prior experience?

For example since I attended a mediocre state school these companies did not come to interview at my school, and never granted interviews to those who directly applied.

A few years later I ended up getting hired by these same companies based on the merit of my actual experience.

However you see the big difference here? I couldn't fairly say that the big 4 hire from mediocre state schools (or from Udacity), just because someone ended up getting a job there later.
We optimize our curriculum for those who are unable to spend all of their time on education. 10hrs/week is our recommended amount of learning.
Is there a breakdown somewhere of where those costs are coming from and what they can probably knock out to hit profitable? It's only a few, hundred million over revenue. I mean, that's a big problem but I've seen rebounds from worse when better management came along.
If you want to attain a deeper understanding of coding, I suggest you try another language once you get the working basics of R. Maybe some basic MOOC on Python or C. You'll understand concepts of CS that are hard to grasp by learning only R.
Why wouldn't he be able to work down from that? It seems to be working quite well. The Model 3 costs $35k, which, while by no means cheap, is a lot more affordable than the Roadster and the S.

There's a lot of R&D going into this, and it's just easier to bootstrap a car company out of nothing while building expensive, high-margin luxury cars than when building competitive mass market cars. The mass market will come, but before it gets to that, costs have to go down more, and infrastructure for electric cars has to become ubiquitous.
I thought the recommendations are excellent for me.

Plenty of useful feedback from other users here. The one idea I'd develop from what one other said was improving the results page descriptions. You could actually use a couple of question responses to mildly tailor the descriptions - eg, a less experienced user could have text with a lower level of assumptions made and a more experienced user would get responses more relevant to where they were.

Finally, I'd have preferred to know it was a probabilistic recommendation up-front (as was initially concerned that I'd rule out choices with some responses)
One the other hand, I've run into people who live out of an old van or are otherwise either homeless or close to it. Some have substance abuse problems or mental illness ( or both ) but many are just sort of hoboes.

I'm somewhat of a musician, and that's the nominal career most of these guys (It's almost always guys ) have had.

It's complicated.
I've seen this sort of thing for fraud detection before. Given that they make money off of clicks, that seems important.
SF spends $241 million on homelessness. Per year. The reason SF has so many homeless is because it provides the most services, the most programs, the best support network and a sympathetic population (not to mention rich tourists and locals to panhandle from, and a good mix of urban and park areas).
Just to be clear, there are two things going on:

1. Your character gets hungry periodically and needs to be fed. I'll refer to this as the "hunger system"; I don't really have so much of a problem with it, although I wouldn't be sad to see it go either.

2. The amount of food in the game is finite. This is the hunger clock. If you take too much time in any one area, you will starve because there is no more food available; the only way to get more food is to move into a dangerous, uncleared area, and you'll need to spend that food exploring the new area. I'd like to be able to play slowly and carefully if I want to.
Can't you do something like broadcast on Facebook with pages or something that have commenting disabled? Or it just usually doesn't work out? Just curious.
Put words in their hands.
Social pressure is still there. They can crash in the park, even setup tents, as long as they are discrete and clean about it...the police/society just have a contract with them of sorts to let them be if they aren't too bothersome. Their are definitely those who are mentally ill, anti social, or just down on their luck...Japan doesn't have a very strong welfare system, which is a bit surprising.
The media didn't kill people at Charlie Hebdo. They didn't kill people in Orlando. The media didn't kill people in San Bernadino. They didn't kill people in Paris. They didn't issue fatwas to murder Norweigian cartoonists. The media didn't deny the holocaust or call for the total annihilation of Israel and it's people. The media doesn't run or finance Boko Haram or the Taliban. The media didn't shelter and fund Osama bin Laden and al Queda. The media doesn't launch rockets at civilian populations, and the media doesn't behead people.

It's not racist. The US police force is similarly scary. I'm scared of them not because of the media. It's because they kill people, and beat them up, and take people's money, and they get away with it. The media didn't do any of those things.

I don't believe all arabs are bad or police are bad. I know muslims who are great people, and I know there are good police out there too. But the harm that police and Muslims do is real, and is not because of the media.

My worldview is inclusive, and I believe in diversity, and in egalitarianism. But there are groups that are horrible. Nazis, The Children of God, Scientology, al Queda, ISIS, the Taliban, Boko Haram because I know what they've done, and the people they've hurt. Muslims are associated with a great deal of harm, maybe that's unfair, but that association is not the media's fault.
Yes, this is the true answer. Like many KPIs, Inequality is not a good measure of anything on its on.
This would be Canada's version of Australia II's 'winged keel' ?? ;)
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The comment you're replying to isn't questioning the likelihood of the event.
> Austin, SF, Portland, San Diego, Dallas, NYC.
> But they have other commonalities: They're expensive to live in, and owning or renting a home in those places is more expensive than a lot of surrounding cities

While Dallas is more expensive than the rural cities and towns not far away, the real estate market in it (median home price around $150k) is a night and day comparison with cities like SF and NYC.
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