skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Gates bought a Porsche 959 for $225,000 (in 1987 dollars) and left it in customs bonded storage for 13 years while he and his buddies successfully lobbied for a law blocking its importation to be changed [1]. The idea of BillG as some thrifty philanthropist isn't born out by reality.

Being the richest man in the world makes pretty much everything appear a trivial expense, but there has to be a limit somewhere.

1. http://blog.dupontregistry.com/celebrity-cars/bill-gates-ame...
I feel like the article represents a school of thought that has been deprecated with the arrival of "serverless" microservice platforms like Azure Logic Apps or Amazon Lambda. The "pain" and "penalty" of microservices is being eliminated by those new platforms. I'm in the process of migrating to this better place, and so far I really like what I see.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181

My understanding is that the main problem is incompatibilities between the CSS and TeX layout models. That's not to say that there isn't still plenty of room for improvement, however.
Am I allowed to puke now?
In the past Snapchat has just used Amazon for fulfillment and sales of physical products

https://www.amazon.com/Snapchat-Inc/pages/10660293011

In terms of "hardware" Spectacles are almost a textbook example of what plenty of people with $0 funding do, tweak/private label a product from china and sell it on Amazon. Look at the range of "camera sunglasses" on Alibaba for starters.

The only difference with these are product design & software, two things that are core businesses for Snapchat. In terms of manufacturing, that custom Snapchat backpack would probably be trickier to get manufactured than this..

The fact that a product with less functionality than a $25 set of camera sunglasses on Alibaba is being compared to Google Glass really shows what a great PR/strategy move this has been for Snapchat.
Because thats not how narcissism works. Social media is everyone's highlight reel; enjoying the moment to yourself doesn't create envy or FOMO in your social circles.
To be clear, the links at the top aren't mine (sorry if it seemed that way). Just sources I've used to create what I've got.
Yes, there's growing awareness of this problem.

This blog post summarizes the paper "Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt":
https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/29/machine-learning-the-hig...
I am not too experienced in Python as much as I am in C. In general, do you think Cython might be better middle ground, or am I completely amiss of the various fits between cffi, ctypes and Cython?
End use is mainly DSP-like code, neural networks (Darknet in C), and OpenCV and CUDA.
To make it even more confusing, there are still commodores in the US Navy, but they are job positions and not ranks.
The stuff towards the top eliminates the insecure keys your server will try to default to. No reason to keep them on the server (IMO) - they're primarily there for backwards compatibility. I prefer to remove them entirely so I know my client/server won't ever negotiate an insecure connection.
Patch Is the New Gawker Patch and Hale Global Sued for Millions
Patch is the new Gawker! Complaint and summons is in below link – Patch & Hale Global sued for millions! Well, that's what you get for being a liberal media scum company that lies about everything under the sun.

Charles Hale, Jessie Sawyer, Warren St. John, Planck LLC, Patch Media busted for spreading FAKE libelous news! The journalists at Patch are NOT to be trusted!

Quotes about Patch:

"Motivated by a desire to garner attention for their marginal publication Defendants made a mountain out of a molehill, turning a non-story into a sensational headline. As a result, Patch Media got national and international attention. This was done through journalistic irresponsibility, using Plaintiff to build defamatory sensational headlines. Defendant must be held accountable for the damages proximately caused to Plaintiff by its false and defamatory stories about him masquerading as journalism."

"Defendants operate purely as a profit-pursuing business enterprise- NOT a serious journalistic endeavor. This lack of journalistic ethics is reflected and demonstrated in these stories. Patch is essentially an “infomercial”- whose primary objective is marketing, advertising, business, and profits." "This demonstrates unlawful access to an internal police document, the arrest warrant application, by DMEP Corporation d/b/a Hale Global."

"The statements contained within the news articles have subjected Plaintiff to “trial-by-media” and exposed Plaintiff to civil rights violations and discriminatory treatment within the Hartford Judicial System by State Employees, targeting Plaintiff for over three (3) years. Defendants impeded Plaintiff's right to a fair jury trial by swaying the public's opinion of Plaintiff before arraignment, revealing alleged witness names, and carelessly endangering and revealing alleged witnesses."
That's because I don't always control the servers I'm connecting to. Setting that client-side will prevent me from ever connecting to something that's completely insecure unknowingly.
California Passes Law Requiring Removal of Actor Ages by Database Sites
New idea for a game: Package Tycoon; give achievements and badges for successfully guiding the robot to deliver all your packages, and sit back while the kids do it for free!

Or wait, scratch that; how about Uber for packages. Bored at work? You could be delivering packages remotely to supplement your income!

I think it's only a matter of time before large scale data gathering service providers form a good-enough model of the environment in which they operate, to the point that the core service can be completely automated.
The US National Academy of Engineering believes there are 14 top engineering challenges - http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges.aspx
Patch and Hale Global sued for millions
"Formal rules", in the context you've chosen to speak in, are defined by this upstream comment:

> NLP is not very good with standard English yet and usually doesn't generalize from topic to topic. Dialects and other languages - especially those without formal rules - will come when we can deal with standard English.

The rules you're talking about, that get printed in books and studied, are not linguistic rules. Crucially, this means they are not widely observed in printed standard English, which in turn means they can't be relevant to training a language model to understand printed standard English.

The "formality" you seem to want to talk about has no place in this discussion. It is not relevant to any language. gordonguthrie is correct to point out that the assumption lqdc13 is trying to make is false. You are wrong to contradict him using a meaning of "formal rules" that you brought to the conversation yourself. It had a meaning -- a completely unrelated meaning -- before you showed up.
prismatic was a good idea but it never worked for me. maybe i seeded it with bad information, maybe i used it wrong.

prismatic always gave me clickbait, it surfaced things that sort of interested me, but i didnt feel fulfilled after consuming them.

conversely, redef.com and aldaily.com and my personal facebook lists, along with hckrnews and techmeme and longform are a lot of work to browse through, but return very high quality results.
The software I used to copy music (1993-2003)
Yet another analysis of GitHub data with Google BigQuery
Stripe launches beautiful new stripe.com
This is really twisted.
I wonder if this works when flying :P
Can attest to the variance in shipping packaging quality.

Bought an 80's Italian steel bike from an Italian brick and mortar restoration shop -- excellent packaging, foam padding, positioning, etc.

Bought an 80's steel bike from a US individual -- really shoddy packaging and positioning of the bike (why would you leave the rear derailer and drop outs exposed to external shock?) that resulted in a trip to the shop to get the drop outs bent back into place. Luckily no damage to derailer.

Moral of the story -- I'll be looking specifically for "professionally packaged by bike shop" for future purposes.
The logical conclusion of that is that they should deliberate leak some of their best exploits to rival agencies, so I think that argument has to be flawed.

Furthermore, they can't really keep using them after exposure for the same reason the Russians didn't start using them: everyone who knows about them can watch for them being exploited and so gain useful intelligence on their rivals.
i think the complexity of tagging, moderation, and metamoderation stunted slashdots growth. digg and reddit were much easier to pick up.
In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute
You two seem to have some feud going on - but there's no need to air it out over here.
Source is in this SF survey linked multiple places in this thread: https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran....

The reason I call it malicious is that it serves a Malthusian argument where doing more to help the homeless will just attract more homeless people to San Francisco, so we might as well not do anything.
I don't think there is anything "formal" about Standard English. Can you give an example of what you're talking about? Which grammatical rules do you have in mind?

I don't know what you mean by formal black English (AAVE) vs. ... casual black English?
How to police in a world of perfect information. For example, we are rapidly approaching a time where the speed of every car or the alcohol level of people's blood will be known 100% of the time, so how will social norms, policies, and policing need to adjust?
Can you give an example where Strunk and White or a style guide vhelp to disambiguate some expression? I can't think of any.
The "never get damaged" parcels are the live chicks we deliver (and the return empty).

If someone told me they improved shipping damage by a simple outside change that much I would say the have poor parcel design and strength to begin with.

Daily I see idiotic mailers with improper packaging. Examples diapers normally on a grocery shelf with open space on the underside (Amazon is famous for this) that are exposed

Liquids that spill over other unprotected parcels and slugs.

LPs with soft cardboard.

Anything sent from an Etsy source. It's a serious joke.

The article claim is very questionable in my mind from my perspective. Even the worst package gets through unscathed. I deliver coconuts from Hawaii with only a stamp and Sharpie address.

The greatest factor in the proper safe arrival of a parcel is NOT the delivery BUT THE PACKING. Take that to the bank.
Apparently Heroine's Quest, a freeware game from 2014, is quite good https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/15/freeware-garden-...
You might enjoy On Moral Fiction by John Gardner, who argues that good literature is about the characters, especially their decisions and transformations, rather than cleverness in language and plot. His model is Anna Karenina, and I think it's people like Pynchon he has in mind for his critique. And he was not just a stodgy critic, but a flowering author himself. His book Grendel is short and fun---the story of Beowulf from the monster's perspective. Sadly he died young in a motorcycle accident, so we didn't get many examples of his approach. Another modern writer that I think he would have approved of is Wallace Stegner. Crossing to Safety and Angle of Repose are both wonderful.
I think you are confusing Narcotics Anonymous www.na.org with Narcanon (the name comes from Narco Non - as in, no drugs) http://www.narconon.org/about-narconon/ which is based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard.

I have a relative that completed the Narconon program in Melbourne.
I don't understand what you mean by "the algorithm" or "true relationships".

Do you know what I mean? There's truth as in what the data says, and there's truth as in what's underlying before social processes " corrupt " the truth. This paper examines ways to get at the latent truth.

Do you think that's a useful endeavor? It's dismissive to say it has anything to do with what the "author likes".
It makes me wonder how the brain excels at correcting and completing stuff. In doing so, it keeps jumping backward and forward until it's done doing its job so well!
Matt Levine said it well about this non-story: "[DiIorio] then decided to put $100,000 of his own money into a penny-stock company that supposedly made computer chips. ("I bought this company on hype," he says.) The company then announced a reverse merger with a travel company, because that is how things go in the penny stock world; corporate identities are pretty fluid. The stock soared, and then lost almost all of its value. "DiIorio took a loss from the peak stock value of well over $1 million," though I am not sure why you'd measure his losses that way."
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> Quotas, deadlines, bottom lines

I guess companies can in some cases track damages backwards and add these to the quotas and bottom lines.

When I was 18 I worked for a few months on the assembly line at a Motorola manufacturing plant, assembling radio communication devices. It was a shit job with minimum wage and we had to meet strict quotas, but assembly errors were also counted, (the goal was "six sigma", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma).

Once defects were a priority as well, and they were tracked to a specific person (by means of a sticker on each assembly stage), people started to care.

BTW the only cool thing about it was that the company REALLY cared about improving efficiency and reducing errors, and anyone who would come up with an improvement to any process, would get a reward, that could be a lot of money in extreme cases. I suggested a very basic "hack" that saved the company $100 a month or so, and got a small gift and a certificate of excellence or some bullshit.
Ah, well, impressive level of self awareness. I exaggerated a bit too much that I overdid my point. The 3 minutes example is extremely rare and it's not acceptable to ask someone to trade their personal boundaries for a free cup of coffee.

But I'd say we all could put out just a little bit better energy than we do, just a bit, with some effort, maybe it even becomes easier over time. For example, I make a concerted effort to make eye contact and smile at the check out line person no matter how I feel. It seems like a small thing but acknowledging people who pass in and out of our field in any given day, with head up eye level, is where the action is. I try to see people when I'm out and about.
Odd how this series keeps repeating that Chris DiIorio lost $1M on a penny stock, when the Part 1 makes it clear that his entire investment was around $100k. He had a big paper gain that evaporated.

TL;DR: don't trade the pink sheets.
It would be really nice to have physical hardware that identifies the same as the VMware / VirtualBox hardware.
I just got a alert from DHS about these vulnerabilities last week which is absolutely ridiculous giving the severity of these exploits
We can all wish to do something significant with our time on earth like this guy.
We live in a capitalistic system (surprise!) - You don't work, you don't eat. So if all tasks are automated, then only big companies make money and everyone else starves. But the big biz will save themselves by going overseas until they've harvested that money.
In the end, it all doesn't matter anyways - "the rich will get richer and the poor, poorer."
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Interestingly in Germany UPS has a good reputation (niche premium carrier). And it really seems that they handle packages better than our local carriers DHL, Hermes, DPD et al.

Probably it's just impossible to find enough good employees (for the salary they are willing to pay), and once you reach a certain scale, you will always face such issues.
Sure, but formal rules are not equivalent to a prescriptive grammar. AAVE has formal, consistent rules, described by linguists. You can make mistakes in AAVE just as in standard English (see: "African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes" https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/aave-is-not-se-with-mistake... )

like most languages in history, AAVE has not gone through a process of codification and standardization to formalize it

I'm not sure what you're getting at - prescriptive grammars of the codified form you're describing are the products of their political and economic circumstances. There isn't some Hegelian trajectory of linguistic validity, where all variants aspire towards legalism.
It's kind of mind blowing that a building of this magnitude would go in a location that is bay fill in a region renowned for earthquakes, yet not have pilings going down to bedrock.

The real aftershocks are going to be the lawsuits over this.
In https://github.com/bijection/g9/blob/master/src/Data2Rendera... each shape gets a unique id.

Dragging a shape calls the 'desire' function in https://github.com/bijection/g9/blob/master/src/index.js , which runs gradient descent with something like the shape's distance from the mouse as the cost.
I don't really understand this 'get the credit' logic. Firstly, CEOs aren't getting the lion's share of the profits - the shareholders are. Secondly, if you or the shareholders think that replacing their CEO would benefit them, they should and would have done that already. The reality is that some jobs are easier to do and hence more replaceable, while others are not.

Just look at how Harvard's endowment is doing after they bowed down to political pressure and replaced their highly-paid management. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-23/harvard-d...
I lived in Houston for five years. Also lived in the SFBA, San Antonio, Strasbourg and currently Boulder.

Yes, Houston gets a lot right.
Heavy profanity can make you sound like you are constantly angry, or it at least imparts some shock value, by design.

It _seemed_ to also be a turnoff when dating (and interviewing?), limiting the field. Not 100% sure.
>The logical conclusion of that is that they should deliberate leak some of their best exploits to rival agencies, so I think that argument has to be flawed

How do we know they don't? Or at least, some of their exploits.

Also, that's not necessarily the only conclusion. This leak could have have been more harmful than no leak, yet thought to be less harmful than publicly burning every exploit.

>Furthermore, they can't really keep using them after exposure for the same reason the Russians didn't start using them: everyone who knows about them can watch for them being exploited and so gain useful intelligence on their rivals.

True, but they could possibly change them in a way to make them less detectable.

The Russians could have done the same, but maybe their reason for believing it'd be helpful for fourth-party collection is that they already had access to some of Russian intelligence's communications and compromised hosts, devices, and networks.

Anything could be possible here, though. We're all speculating pretty blindly.
The left out the porn.

"When I watch porn, I know if I have a few minutes I will be rewarded," he said. "With a girl, it's always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and the reward."
Where in Houston? My experience was that Houston was had lots of green space.
To your comment that was detected as a duplicate:

>I don't think there is anything "formal" about Standard English.

"Standard" English as she is spoke? No. But a3n was specifically talking about the formal version often called "Standard written English". It is very prescriptive and less flexible, which makes it easier to parse.

> Can you give an example of what you're talking about? Which grammatical rules do you have in mind?

Let's start with "every rule involving punctuation".
Not everyone is using Skylakes. My gateway is a Raspberry Pi (for historical and power reasons) and my most often used client is ARM based.
I'm out in Bushwick. I'd be all over that if I could.
The Oxford comma is the most obvious case I can think of.
Makes me wonder what would happen if English had a deprecation system like programming. "Prosody @deprecated - to be removed in 2017."
You not necessarily need to roll out a discovery service. You can put services behind a DNS, load balancer... and load balancers can be smart enough to mark a node as down.

Now if you need more granularity than that, there's for instance Zookeeper ephemeral nodes, that get deleted when the client stops emitting heartbeats.
It's leaning 6 inches so I'm assuming it's going to continue to lean further and further each year unless they make modifications to the building (so lopping off the top 20 floors or whatever else that could fix or mitigate it). At which point does it lean far enough that they have to demolish the building? At which point does the entire building become a safety issue should an earthquake (or even "the big one") ever hit?

Working in the city these tall buildings going up kinda worry me with the area being prone to earthquakes. I'm not a structural engineer so maybe my worries are misguided but they're there.
Isn't that the duty of the tax system and the government? Just because the system is pretty broken down in its current state, in the US, doesn't mean it cannot work. Some european countries are doing pretty well.

I think that protectionist policies are a step backwards, we should come up with new solutions to our new problems instead of looking at the past and trying to selectively apply the nice things in the past.
If not the process of standardization, what differentiates formal and informal rules?
A junior security operations employee at a company I worked at - who was fired for persistent incompetence - somehow obtained a fairly important position doing security for a government agency. That agency was (shockingly) later revealed to have very publicly embarrassing security issues.

I imagine this sort of thing is pretty common.

I feel like NSA might be able to make a stronger case for themselves if they were at least able to show they could do one of the most basic and fundamental things they're supposed to do be doing.
Somehow thousands of children visit that zoo everyday, and nobody else let their kid go swimming with the gorillas.
Actually, if you ready DJB's fine papers he very much touches on this. Curve 25519 (now X25519) is specifically designed to avoid the pitfalls. The reference implementation is not too hard to understand, but granted the optimized versions are a little more delicate. Still, I imagine the optimized RSA implementations are no better.
I have a conspiracy theory that the entire delivery infrastructure in the US (all the u's, p's s's, and f's) have been infiltrated by Scientology/Chucky Cheeze.

I'm still fine tuning it.
Estonia the first country in Europe to legalize Uber
How do they support themselves? Parents basement?
"That's a big chunk of labor that could be used for something, and we're not using it," said Greg Kaplan, an economist at the University of Chicago who was not involved with the new research.

I'm also an economist and this guy is not smart. Others will rush in the fill the void. Marginally there will be almost no difference. This guy is forgetting that directly below this group of men who now play video games is a nearly equal capable group who now has better job opportunities. This logic continues to ratchet all the way down....

This isn't rocket science. Only if there was never a poorer group could this be true
What is the appropriate age to begin using profanity? If I'm out at a restaurant with my "brogrammer" friends, and a mom with kids is at the next table, is swearing inconsiderate, or OK?