skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the influx is due to a plethora of things, which are not all mutually exclusive:

1) The Internet has indeed produced large data sets which allowed statistical AI approaches to flourish opposed to logical AI approaches.

2) Somewhat better algorithms. However, I'd say that the algorithmic development hasn't had as much progress as the comments elude. We've only had a few notable innovations like NMT in the past ~20 years.

3) Computational Power to run the algorithms, so we can perform more experiments on large data sets, more computationally intensive algos, and induce better hypotheses.

4) Libraries like scikit-learn and keras have "democratized AI". Grad students used to implement algorithms themselves in the 2000s; now middle-schoolers are doing ML with the tooling already available.

Those are basically it. I think (2) could even be taken off, because again: learning algorithms have barely changed IMO.
An old truck is a vastly more practical vehicle in Africa than a landrover - LRs need a lot of maintenance, whereas trucks generally just keep going.

The only major mechanical issue they had was caused by dirty diesel, and if they'd had some sort of pre-filtration setup they could have probably avoided this.

Their major issues were simply down to the weight of the vehicle and poor route selection.
Agreed, I had the same experience. I might be waiting for a password reset or shipping email, or something on a mailing list, and with Inbox it was more of a guessing game.

I've gone back to using standard Gmail but added the Inbox Categories, which I find to be very useful on top of the labels & filters I have in place.
Norway's treatment of Breivik has nothing to do with Breivik and everything to do with the sort of society Norwegians want to live in. They simply aren't prepared to abandon their values and respect for human life because of the evil acts of a maniac. I applaud them for it.
The question is not whether or not the food picks up bacteria, but how likely the bacteria is to endanger our health (and how likely a deficiency of bacterial exposure caused by being too careful is to endanger our health).
Nonsense. My statement relates to the realities of fighting a "war" against an ideology rather than a nation state, to which all those niceties (Geneva convention) were designed to accommodate. The system we have for fighting traditional wars does not apply to the shit we're dealing with. Bombs in Chelsea? Asshat stabbing spree in Minnesota? Geneva convention _that_.
Last edit in the wiki was: 10:56:16 03/20/14.

Let's implement http://news.mit.edu/2016/stay-anonymous-online-0711 (http://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/pubs/riffle.pdf) instead.
Terabit fiber optic technology gets closer to commercial use
(My Opinion) All of Apple's 40,000 foot view is walled garden. iTunes, DRM Wireless Headphones etc..
As someone who spent a lot of time in Congo -- you also don't get the full picture from the media or even State Department statuses. In the example of Congo, the problem area is limited to a couple towns versus a country that's the size of Western Europe combined, and even there it's pretty infrequent. To go by what you read, the whole country is in constant chaos.
.. nanoc, http://nanoc.ws/
> Go isn't a functional language

And that seems to be sufficient cause for the FP enthusiasts to lose their shit in Go threads.

That sort of thing is the only exposure many of us have to FP people, for better or worse. When they pop in to tell everybody they're doing it wrong in the craziest fashion possible.
It pains me that so many beautiful sights on our planet are in what is reasonably dangerous territory or at least perceived as such.

I would love to see all of Africa, but have only been to Morocco, which seemed very safe at least.
The US has the death penalty, they have the death penalty, why would one conclude that the death penalty is what makes the difference?

even if a country with a harsh penalty for drugs has less drug crime, other confounding factors have to be looked at, like a large potential market for illegal drugs, a large population with no better means of making a living.

I would expect that a draconian death penalty may be some deterrent but it may not be the best policy, either.
However Gmail does support inline CSS.

If you want to show your styles to Gmail users and you have to inline your CSS in every HTML tags you want to alter, which is very ugly and made the email size unneeded large.
Yes. Yes we do prefer to have situations where a mass shooter is in-prisoned and denied access to the latest Playstation 3. I'd rather have people like Breivik exposed for their childish behaviour in prison than to have the death penalty for them and innocent people.
With this type of adventure, you can get your cost down to maybe 5-10k/year if you travel light (bicycle, motorbike) and camp out a lot. Source: Quit my job and rode a motorbike from Central Europe to Mongolia. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
Try smelling the logic.
Is this really true ? Most of the distress I've seen in my friends is due to bills and student debt, when they have leisure time, their legitimate worries consume them.
I don't think so. AFAIK, ARM performs well in computation/watt on the low end of computation. But you have to get above a certain performance level to amortize the power overhead of the rest of the computer (motherboard, ram, etc).

But that's mostly a guess.
Wasn't this posted a few days ago?
This gets pretty complicated and subjective.

Strictly speaking, a "note" cannot define a key. To determine a key, you really need at least 2 intervals, wherein interval a somehow resolves to interval b. Keys are just a mapping of relationships; how does each of the 12 notes relate to each other? If you just play a C major chord, you aren't really playing in the key of CMaj, you're just playing a CMaj chord.

For example:
Play B+G, then C+G. This is (arguably) C major. The B note resolves into the C note. That's the 7th moving into the Tonic (#1). This is an example of a V-I resolution, the strongest possible. If you'd like more examples, look up "cadences". There are 'principles' for determining the key, but they should not be understood as proofs.

I think you're also asking if/how to change keys. This is not only possible, but often highly encouraged. There are two extremely common key changes in pop music:
1) Up one step: This is incredibly common and can be heard in "I Will Always Love You" (album version, right after the 3 minute mark when she starts singing the chorus again). Once you start hearing this, you can't stop. It's all over the place. If we're in the key of C, we'll just play a D chord with a lot of confidence, typically after a G chord.
2) Minor to Major (or reverse, moving from sine to cosine in the analogy): This is much more subtle than the previous example. Typically you'll recognize this as a change in 'mood' or 'feeling'. You'll find a lot of Am-Em changes, then the chorus will be a lot of C-G changes. The tonic changes from Am to C, even though all the chords and notes being used are still the same (although the duration of said chords will probably be different).

Most "classical" music moves around keys pretty frequently, in extreme cases multiple times within a measure. And then there are chords/sections in which the key is debatable if not indiscernible (I would argue that the intro to Smashing Pumpkins "1979" is changing keys every 2 measures, but I think there's also a strong argument for it being in a single key)

Thinking about keys in terms of phases is a good basic explanation, but ultimately phase is much easier to measure. Perhaps I see it this way because my understanding of music is much better than my understanding of physics.
I think that in such cases the rightful owner would point to the RAW photo on the blockchain and argue that his was published long before yours.

The remedy, in other words, remains legal. I see this as a tool for facilitating legal remedy. (Or have I missed your point completely?)
Well no. I had my iPad on a trip and left my phone at home plugged into the wall. Could send and receive text messages without problems
Oracle’s Larry Ellison Compares Company’s Offerings to Amazon’s
In a systems language, it's important to know if you're passing around things by value or reference. We follow the Python maxim here: explicit is better than implicit. This means &s to indicate where something is passed by a pointer, and * for dereferencing. This is the same as C++, we just do less magic coercions. We also tried to not make up too much syntax, and stick to "curly braces and semicolons" for most things. Even lifetime syntax isn't new, though OCaml uses it for a very different purpose than we do. (There also aren't any @s in there, unless I missed something? And . is the same as in any language: for method calls, and we made it _simpler_ than C or C++ here, by having . instead of . and ->.)

I agree that you can make a language without many syntactical constructs, but Rust has other goals as well. Language design is hard! There's tons of tension between various choices.
Pasteurization happens at 140F, if you boil Raw Milk isn't that the same thing just more crudely executed.

It would seem boiling milk defeats the purpose of raw milk.
jnordwick's excellent point is that demand can grow without any obvious bound. That has an impact on both ends of the labor market. Sure, people will be willing to work more to acquire the things they want, but that demand itself generates a need for jobs and leverage for labor. Somebody needs to design and manufacture the next iPhone or fancy TV. Somebody else needs to refurbish and maintain that lovely seaside Airbnb for jnordwick's next vacation.

This can be a self-reinforcing cycle, and it's how the economic pie can grow even as everyone on the whole takes more.
goddamn am i boring.
If you're imprisoned for years and then found to be actually innocent, you can go home. That can't happen if they already chopped your head off.
With 3,800 employees Twitter is a medium-sized company?
"These days, speed and security is the name of the game." And it´s no problem to achieve both with WordPress. Maybe my mileage varies enormously from everybody else, but I am maintaining about 40 WordPress instances.

We have tools to manage updates remotely, make fully automated daily backups, all sites are rated with 85 or more points on Google Page Speed Insights (YSlow and Pingdom Tools don´t rate bad either), we didn´t have any breaches or hacks in the last two years (been in the company for that long) and our clients can easily manage their sites with the built-in tools from WordPress. We have locked the sites down, eliminating attack vectors as far as we can. All sites are using caching tools or even full page caching to improve the speed. No complains and complications at all. Oh, and we have comments and user registrations and more...

It seems most people just can´t handle WordPress the right way. It´s complex software and you have to know (and learn) what you are doing.

Installing the first plugin you stumble upon, ideally from a shady developer who sells it to a malware distributor 2 months later, is a pretty fine way to run you into "WordPress is slow and insecure". Free themes, always install several at once , you never know when you need one, are another great way, too.

But yeah, just throw some fancy JS framework and Markdown at the problem and then start to wonder how you could possibly get some commenting system up and running.

WordPress is quite fine software. For sure, it has flaws and some of them get fixed slower than you would wish, but it´s not bad in the end, if you know what you are doing. Finding people who know what they are doing is probably hard, but that´s the same for everything.
Reddit Posts by Hillary's IT Guy Proves She Ordered Emails to Be Stripped
That makes sense(especially about the germs paranoia).
Off topic, I know, but which OnePlus do you have? Do you like it? I'm considering the OnePlus 3 to replace my 2013 Moto X.
What sort of bike did you take? A shitty 600CC that was knackered to start with, or did you go for a BMW tourer a la Long Way Round?
He got 21 year special detention (forvaring), meaning he'll probably sit for life or until he is no longer deemed a threat to society. The detention will be renewed every 5 year or so by a special court.

But this is also problematic as the prisoner is locked up for an undetermined amount of time, which is suffering in and of itself. But I don't think it's worse than life without parole, which seems like absolute torture to me.

BTW, after 2015 the maximum sentence in Norway is 30 years.
A swiss army knife of debugging tools
Popular Coding Convention on GitHub
A common argument for functional programming is that it's inherently better suited to parallel hardware [1]. So if you buy this, and agree that future hardware is likely to emphasize more cores over faster ones, you have an argument for functional programming being the way of the future.

Of course, this argument has been made at least since the 80s...

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/293851/what-i...
Not as badly as English is broken.

I mean, it's generally agreed that English as a language has accrued so much historical baggage that it's shed any elegance or coherence it may or may not have once had. It would honestly be surprising to me if the same thing didn't happen to musical language.
Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (1994) [pdf]
That's sovable in numerous other, simpler ways than exotic DBs. For example, a project I worked on for a few years had a read-your-write issue. Our solution was to keep track of the timestamp of the last write each user made in an encrypted cookie. Then, we used the timestamp to control which slave (or even possibly the master) was used for queries. The result was that a user would always see their own writes, even if other users lagged a couple seconds behind.
Then the marauders will thank you for your pile of guns as well.
Are there any credible development projects I can support that will reduce my rent by £400/month?
"With no eyewitnesses or technical forensic evidence to connect him to the crimes..."

So no, not like that at all.
Just as it can be said that music requires at least 3 consecutive notes or beats to have a tempo and a rhythm, it can also be said that it requires a "cadence" which at bare minimum is two consecutive pitched notes but usually at least three.

C-G-C is a simple 'harmonic' cadence. It is, for example, the basis of oom-pah music (think military marches which repeat C-G in the bass with a melody on top, and end on C when the melody is done).

There is a form of musical analysis (Schenkerian) that can be used to show that nearly all music has the basic form C-G-C, which is usually expressed as I-V-I (chord I is C major and chord V is the 5th chord of C major, which is G major). It is of course nowhere near as simple as I've expressed here!

So resolution is basically the cadence of the piece's harmony, much like a story has beginning, middle and end, so does harmony.

The reason chord V and chord I are so powerfully related is that the 3rd note of V is the leading note of chord I and the 7th note of V is the 4th of chord I. This is actually significant to understand because it is how one can see the purest relationship between harmony and melody. In early music (eg medieval plainsong) the fundamentals of more complex harmony were first developed from melody.

In the case of C major with two voices, the notes would provide resolution from notes F and B to notes E and C. The FB is a tritone, which is dissonant and wants to be resolved in the human ear. The EC is the major triad of C major, which is harmonious and consonant and resolves the dissonance of FB.
The world ran out of Australias to send people to.
I'm currently using data from Yelp, and chances are that Yelp is not too popular in some countries. Is TripAdvisor the go-to for Istanbul? I have toyed with the idea of implementing Yelp, TripAdvisor and Google Place for different countries due to their database.
[edit: Ignore this. The "self replicating" bit probably addresses below.]

Doesn't appear to address the multiple devices issue. With this we're back to conflating addressable device/NIC/application[1] with addressable individuals.

[1]: your email address
There is the Python -> OCaml story for 0install:

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret...

This article in particular tackles polymorphic variants http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain... which solve one of the issues that the author had with Rust (enum subsets)
The link is to the reddit thread discussing the headline. The comments are particularly interesting as the user in question is deleting their comment and post history as the discussion is ongoing. Fortunately (or I guess unfortunately for that user), there's also additional links in the comments section to archived copies of the user's history.

It's pretty crazy watching this change in real time.
We should replace it with 'collateral murder', maybe.
OSX users can't even handle having buttons on their mice. Imagine the confusion if they had a whole keyboard!

(I have to use a Mac for work. I'd kill for a touch pad with physical buttons, or even better, the Lenovo clitmouse.)
About the math: I don't think it's just you. I'm pretty sure math is easier for everyone when visualised. So there's no need to introduce a theory of "learning styles" - it's just that some subjects are better understood using one sense, period.
> the final chord tells you the key

That makes it sound like a definitive rule, but it's just a common convention.
The corporate controlled media likes divide and conqueror as a propaganda technique, you'll see people copying it a lot.

Why do international megacorporations like it so much? Probably some tangential hangover of union busting.
“Magento Imagine 20016 was my last one” said by Magento ex-CTO Yoav Kutner
Next up: "Stepping on Cracks Not Injurious to Mothers' Spines."
Thanks to everybody for the replies. Yours in particular feels like a whole introduction to the sport! There are multiple rules in this game! Thanks a lot.
People are quick to argue that a life sentence can be reverted with the underlying assumption that all damage is reversed.

I don't buy this for an instant.
Please define "hallowed" for me. As I explained, I believe the only definition of "hallowed" with any consequence to the debate is "must always be preserved."

If that is the definition we're working with, it precludes "justifiable" exceptions, because there are no exceptions allowed. You'd need to equate passively allowing someone to kill another life with actively killing to preserve a life, which is another entire debate before we can begin to take that as a premise.

If that is not the definition, then why should we bother saying something like "life is hallowed"? What could it mean that would have any consequence for, or add any further meaning to the debate? "Life is meaningful."? "Life is to be respected."?

This is the complexity inherent to engaging in dialectics, and in my opinion words like "hallowed" should simply be avoided unless they're rigorously defined by all parties.
Agreed!

I would wager that 90% of good software (by a most liberal definition) is designed to be that way by the methods employed to construct it. It's the leaders and managers who set those processes and standards. If they are well versed in the state of the art and understand how to make it work for the business you can end up with crystalline entity software. Most of my job is presently "hacking the process" rather than the code itself so that the team can produce the best, desirable results.

I'll check out that book, thanks for the recommendation.
Polyethylene bone implants offer new hope to patients
Like most of what freedesktop.org does (pretty much since dbus), I look at Wayland and think, "hmm... that's a probably-interesting solution to a set of problems I just don't have."

I've never in my life seen this "tearing" that people keep complaining about. OTOH I use X's network transparency daily. I'm sure several years from now Wayland will be able to replicate the use cases I get now from X, at which point I'll probably switch. So, I wish the best to the people working on it, even if I scratch my head over their intentions.
I don't think its like VR given how there are real use cases for it and the technology is advancing quickly. Plus its going to make/save companies money (VR was seen as a cool but not money in it thing back then).
This App Is Connecting Foodies with Home Chefs Close to Them
> If learning styles exist at all, these are not "hard wired" and are at most simply preferences.

What does it mean for a learning style to be simply a preference?

I would think that such a preference (for, say, visual rather than text-based descriptions of a geometric concept) would be founded on something. And I suspect the "something" is that it's easier to understand.

Yet even if we all agree that it's just a preference, not something that's "hard-wired," does that really require a practical shift in how we teach things? Should we not defer to people's learning preferences, even if they are just preferences?
MS have a vested interest in convincing people to migrate to newer Operating Systems and Applications. They could have supported the original WinSXS for 16/32bit thunking in Windows 8 -> 10, but chose not to.
Indeed. If anything is going to be an "e-mail killer", it's not going to be Slack, et al., but allowing more "freedom of design" for the senders. We'll drown in crap, and people will switch to using anything that has stronger restrictions on content (like most IMs).
I find, through personal experience, that the most important way to teach differently to students is to build upon what each student already knows & their interests outside of the subject.

For example, a student who loves football might learn math better by creating games that incorporate popular players' & teams' stats. It is more likely to keep them interested which seems to be at least half the battle. It also shows them how learning this is useful in an area they're already interested in. A minor benefit, if you can truly create unique content for each student, you make cheating more difficult.

Through individualized content, students can also progress at their own rate. I find these methods of learning to be much more important than classifying things as "visual" or some other method.

This was always my understanding of why it is important for students to be taught in different ways.
Juries have many times chosen to take a more holistic view of the law, determining that sometimes prosectution is not in the public interest, known as jury nullification.

See especially the case of a British leaker:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Ponting
Thalmic Labs (YC W13) Raises $120M Series B
It was made back in 2003, when DHTML was the latest buzzword! Here's some background info: https://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer...

Some additional fun facts:

- The author doesn't host the game anymore on his own site, because he was served with a seize-and-desist order by the local copyright bullies (Stichting BREIN). Can't have nice things :-(

- Apparently the game progress doesn't get saved anymore, because it uses a cookie with a fixed expiration date: https://twitter.com/tinozijdel/status/149243951625412608
"however I contend that life inprisonment is even worse"

Possibly that's an appropriate punishment then, for the very worst of offenders.
I'm not an expert, but Indian classical music isn't known for having harmony in the same sense [1]. Modern Indian music is influenced by Western music. I know even less about Chinese music, which isn't mentioned in that article. But in all the sources I've read, the concept of deeply developed chordal harmony is pretty unique to the Western music tradition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony