skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting statement.

I suspect this is an excellent heuristic for a media organization to become popular.

However I also don't like it because it would limit the range of thought. Most things that I find interesting are at the peripheral or in the cracks, intersections, oddities, peculiar facts.

Without countervailing narratives you don't have a benchmark for topic variance, and like the OP, become incapable of believing there even exists alternative models of reality.

In a relatively non-partisan example, I find that people who believe in God don't really understand atheists. Surely deep down these people believe in The Creator. I also find that secular oriented types do not really believe that religious people believe. They think they are faking it on some level.

These are serious, even dangerous errors.

So I submit that we need, require, something I'll label The Truman Clause or Exit from the Matrix. I do not know what that looks like in an ethical information aggregation system. I suspect it exists as part of meta-cognition in either our culture or in the human brain, since one of the most important functions of higher learning is to teach you to question your premises.

More so than any elite university I've seen, the kind of culture developed at LessWrong is perfectly suited to tackling these kinds of meta-cognition issues.
Looks like a tailings dam to me, containing waste materials from the mine after processing. The solution has partially evaporated leaving a salt residue.

At least thats what it looks like to me. I don't think its a raised pyramid like the other reply says, pretty sure it is a hole.

If you do a google image search for 'tailings dam' you see some things that look pretty similar...
Nah, they should just embrace Kotlin, even if it wouldn't solve the platform API issues. Java is not for this day and age, but frankly so wouldn't be Python.
Yes but if you are right and the world ends and he doesn't have to pay up. That's the joke.
How hard - or detectable - is one tapping on an underwater fiber?

I suspect it's very hard to tap and easily detectable.
So you argue that aggregating public data is still wrong, iff the publicizing party is an agent of an authority?

Would you then limit the impropriety to only those times when the agent is acting in official capacity upon that aggregating party, or do you think gathering social data about authorities should be blanket-banned until the aggregators take a class first?

In essence, I'm trying to figure out the implication of your use of the word "only". I suspect you intended it to qualify surveillance as a sanctionable, active operation, ignoring unordered or time-sensitive relationships and profiling.
What one considers news is inherently biased and since you cannot report on everything, you will have bias. For instance, a person can value bird lives really highly and find that not reporting on bird deaths caused by cats biased. Then there is the interpretation of events: terrorism vs triumphant fight for freedom, win or lost, etc... Conservative vs liberal is a very, very narrow way to view the world.
This is great! thanks. I will look into adding the dbpedia.org data.
Though it is not too much to ask for to be able to edit large files. 30MB should easily fit in memory, even with metadata like syntax highlighting. And if it really doesn't fit, only load a portion of the file into memory (maybe scan the whole file for newlines once) - that was a solved problem already 20 years ago.

As to why I'm opening such large files: It's not like I chose to do so, but sometimes I have to. It's great to be able to (in Sublime) `<Ctrl+P> log <Ctrl+F> blah` and see immediately what I'm looking for without switching to another tool. I even have a simple syntax highlighting definition for my log file that makes it really nice.

I'd really like to like Atom, but the fundamental problem is that it tries to emulate a text editor widget in a web browser. That works, but creates a certain amount of latency that I can't work with. It's really irritating.
I get redirected to the Wordpress install page, which cannot connect to the database?

https://raptureinvenice.com/its-been-real-android-why-im-ret...
Friend of mine has a 2016 subaru with built-in GPS systems. His "free trial" went out last month, and Subaru wants him to pay monthly to use it.

Yeah, no shit people use the free alternative on their phone that is constantly updated.
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So this is a lot like what Google experienced for a long time. Its algorithms would get manipulated.

However, would you prefer Google to handpick (let's forget about the volume of manual labor for now) which sites get to be at the top? Or would you rather just keep improving those algorithms?

I think Facebook is in the same situation. Facebook, Google, and to a lesser extent, Twitter, have a lot of power to influence elections.
Is auto completion really useful, if it's a lot slower than the rest of the program? Maybe if a part is too slow, you should either optimize it or get rid of it?
Slow builds in eclipse (Ant or Maven) were caused by Eclipse, not by the build framework.
Ant or Maven run very fast on commandline, compared to Gradle
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I like comparing iOS to Android development as similar to playing Mario Kart and Dark Souls... It truly is a mess and I won't be surprised if/when someone releases an Android SDK SDK (SDK squared!) that generates all the horrible boilerplate so that you can start a network request, rotate your device and get the result in your view with no additional headaches.
> I have a pretty complete understanding of current events from reading those sources.

Are you aware of the cathedral? What about the stagnation?
If there is an oncoming car you don't overtake.
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Pryor Cashman law firm as sponsors. That's the firm that did the Ethereum sale too.
Disappointing that it's only HK, not mainland China. Nobody's going to notice the difference. From the headline, it sounded like FB and Google we getting some kind of toe in the door, but their cable is going to be useless to the Chinese who have their international data throttled for political reasons, not because of a lack of cables.
Karma, culture, governance.
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I was amazed that my EE degree didn't required it. We had a rushed treatment as part of a required ODEs course, but I didn't really get it until I took a theory heavy course dedicated to the subject. It and probability both made my life a lot easier and are essential parts of my daily work.
> Don't even need to go that far. Just short all the pins and you will will kill a lot of motherboards.

Interesting. USB 2.0 spec mandates overcurrent protection on the power rail and ability to withstand continuous short circuit to ground or power on the data pins. I think 3.0 lifted the latter requirement, though.

But I never tested actual hardware for that, besides power short-circuit protection which seems to work on my machine (YMMV).
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No. It wasn't. And by the way, the iPhone 7 can still output to a 3.5mm aux jack just fine, which you probably already knew, or should know.
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They also did other Ethereum stuff. Setting up to be the lawyers of the future :)
This is exactly what I thought when I saw this project. Having worked with DBPedia data and the triples format<Subject,Predicate,Object>; I was just wondering how Outpan just stole the idea of Triples and packaged it as a new idea
Check out https://www.wikidata.org/ for another similar project with additional data! Their keys tend to be more opaque [1], but otherwise it's a very similar approach.

[1] e.g. the key for "Earth" is Q2: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2
In this author's case, I agree that the intent doesn't appear to have been malicious. But calling it just "an outdated synonym of Asia" is like saying Negro is just an outdated synonym for Black (after all, negro is just Spanish for black). In both cases, it ignores heavy historical and cultural implications that come with the words.
Hyper-V runs under Fusion, Qubes OS and Xen also work. Have not tested others, but this is one area where Fusion excels. Yes it will be slower, but for testing the concept that is usually fine.
Taiwan doesn't count as China. It's like saying South Korea is part of North Korea.
Well, considering that as far as developer tools are concerned many of the best sellers are IDEs with Intellisense (intelligent code completion, based on syntax and semantics)...
You spelt 'government' wrong.
Reminds me of: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161007-00/?p=...
Personally I'd prefer if everything else were more like vim. Most platforms seem to have complete abandoned keyboard navigation as a priority.

Actually the vimium plugin for Chrome is great in that respect. I guess I can do 80% of my work with vim keybindings now.
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> even if the performance is not noticeable it's a waste of cpu cycles.

If the performance hit is not noticeable, nobody really cares about the waste of CPU cycles. Especially since a text editor uses something like 1/10 the resources a large, complex program uses anyway.
I like Barack and this is not a party political statement when I say I am about as interested in what he thinks about tech as Jim Carter, George Bush Jnr & Snr or Bill Clinton. Now he's not likely to affect much in the way of policy there are just more insightful people to read and listen to so what we're left with is a bit of celebrity worship, which is fine with me as long as I acknowledge it as such.

What the two possible next presidents think is more interesting simply because they may affect policy, regardless of their being more or less insightful than B.O.
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Would you be open to having a little chat via email?
hi@outpan.com
Some people say it's impossible to have unbiased news. Of course this is true in a trivial sense, in that anything written by a human with intent to be interesting to read is likely to have some bias. And of course one can bias the news simply by choosing what to report and not report (eg if all you report are all the things fmr Pres. Bush did wrong, then the audience will get a bad impression).

However, there is absolutely a difference between journalists attempting to report news in a neutral way and journalists intent on spinning news to forward some agenda, even to the point of using strategic omissions and what not to completely mislead the reader about a conclusion.

Moreover, a reasonably intelligent human can (and should) read a variety of new sources (that at least attempt to be unbiased) and generally can get an idea of what actually is going on. When you read 3 different versions of the same news story by BBC, NPR, and NYT (for example), then hopefully the biases sort of cancel out and you get something closer to the truth.
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From what you've written, you are at the stage where you put in "sweat equity".

Not meaning to sound harsh, but at this early stage, you're not really investable - and other than your immediate circle of "the 3F's (Friends, Family and Fools), no one is going to invest in you - until you prove that this is more than just an idea.

You need to get your first PAYING customers, and establish some numbers that would entice an Angel or other professional investor to take a closer look.

You will have to be creative (part time job, consulting, sell your car etc., etc.),as to how you survive or feed yourself until you get to the stage where you are "investible".

If I got a dollar everytime someone approached me for money for investing in their MVP - without first having proved that it is a viable business - I'd be a very, very, very rich man.
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I'm not an Android developer, but I've seen my Android phone and tablet greatly deteriorate in performance over the last couple of years, mostly due to Android updates which were forced on me. I rarely use my tablet anymore because of this.
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Many developers on the core Android team are former Sun employees and most likely very Java biased.
Even if the SoCs are standardized and drivers are updated, do you think the manufacturers have any motive or incentive to provide updates to the customers for older models? Most of them sell phones for low prices at very thin margins or at a loss and rely on releasing newer models more often to keep up sales.

Even with standardization, hardware differences will necessitate testing on older devices. That does not come for free for the manufacturers, and it has been, and is seen as, an entirely avoidable and unnecessary expense (which is one big reason they don't provide updates for a longer duration right now). Are the majority of customers even capable of dealing with rooting the phone or flashing it with some un-tested firmware? The phone makers and customers are used to not having updates for a long time, and neither of them really care (if you look at the majority non-tech crowd). Why or how would all these other dynamics change just because SoCs get standardized (if that happens)?
Sorry guys, probably a stupid question (googled quickly, doesn't worked), but does this kind of stuff involve ML? Do I need to train it?
> After you're done, destroy the Pi's SD card.

Or sell it on eBay...
Moving to Gradle was a terrible mess. Ant was simple, effective and fast. Even now every time I fire up an Android build with gradle my laptop feels like it is going to fly.

However Android has come a long way since the early days. The author focuses on the bad things we all know about. Android development is incrementally getting better every month.

On top of that Android Studio is a way better development tool than Xcode. To the point that I wish Apple drops Xcode completely and starts using AppCode.

- Android Studio has powerful refactoring tools. Xcode lets you do some basic refactoring only on Objective C

- Despite gradle being a pain, it gives you dependency management. To get that on iOS you have to resort to third party tools like cocoapods or carthage (though swift has now one too)

- Autocomplete works reliably, every single time

- Translations are way easier to do. Android studio comes with a translation editor and translations are in one place. I welcome you to try to translate a storyboard on Xcode and maintain that.

- Android Studio UI editor is now way better than what it used to be. Despite that, Interface Builder is still the king of UI editors.

- Editing the UI XML is trivial on Android. Try to merge a storyboard or a xib... and Android Studio does not automatically modify your UI xml files every time you open them.

- Signing on Android is a thing you configure once and that's it. I have wasted days dealing with signing problems on iOS.

- Etc...

However I enjoy more doing iOS development. I cannot explain why, it is a more pleasant experience. At least to me.

I still love both platforms anyway.
Yeah, I even remember the HN discussion and black banner from then, but when someone posted it on Facebook mistakenly, I just posted it to twitter, and technically it is correct so didn't delete.
Spot on!

One of the biggest strengths is just this. I use VIM key bindings everywhere: Chrome, FF, Terminal, even Emacs. Back in the day where I also did much work on Windows, I also had them in Visual Studio and MSSQL Manager.
There is one universally acceptable rule: Do not choose your victim. If they are unlucky, they are unlucky. That's all there is to it.

Choosing who should be "unlucky" doesn't solve the problem. By assuming unavoidable failure you effectively give up solving the underlying problem. The solution is to avoid the failure in the first place.
I just get infinite redirects.
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I started to think that Google employees on Android Studio team are using something like hexacore Xeons with 64 GB and 1TB SSD as their development machine.
Android is just one of those Big Corp projects were you hastily throw enough shit at the wall and see what sticks. It wasn't "designed", it's just the way it came out.
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That is the same with all computer platforms, though. I think it is OK if companies have a limited time of support for their OS, but you can debate how long it should be. With Android, it is also the responsibility of the phone manufacturers, not just Android/Google alone.
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haha. We should use this as the project mantra.
tail -f *
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Not sure about this JS version, but just tesseract comes with trained database for selected languages and fonts and it should be able to work out of box.
Why is Google considered an IT company?
I've heard this from a lot of family and friends, and they almost always get the performance back when they reset the device and all the apps are reinstalled. A friend just did it with his Note 4 (or 5, not sure which).
It's known as industrial or scientific archaeology [1] and is a fascinating area of study. I found a good book on it, called 'Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions' [2] which most university libraries should have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_archaeology
[2] http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780387226088
I think his point is - why make a native app that just re-renders the data which you can just as well look at in a browser.
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There is a certain amount of trust involved in pretty much every job. Whether it's a cashier at a supermarket or a Barkeep in a pub.

Most jobs involve some referencing, talking to previous employers etc. I guess this is different because the banks all agree to abide by the black mark.
Not enough jobs is not a consequence of tech, it's due to globalizing low skill labor. Which is great.
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Ideally you'd want to configure the browser to open JSON files & co with your default editor, since that makes for a very pleasant workflow.
I agree :-) you are welcome
I guess this one? https://github.com/dcw303/mindmeld

Could not get it to run. Broken with current meteor?
This is certainly true of Windows (which I don't use anymore on the desktop). Until as late as Windows 7, I would do a wipe/install every couple of years, just to get my performance back to the way it was after a fresh install.

I haven't done with this macOS, but I've heard of people doing this.
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Basic income really seems like the path to take when you're a narcissist who wants to appear as though you're guiltily taking the high road. It implies a smugness that you both caused and can solve other peoples' problems. tldr gfy
You can divide physics into roughly these core subjects: classical mechanics, classical field theory, special relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, general relativity, thermodynamics. What you are asking for is basically what is already taught in a physics curriculum, so you could read physics textbooks on the subject that you are interested in.
does silicon valley now suddenly discover the semantic web and triplestores :O

if you want really all the data:
http://lod-cloud.net/

but still, neat project.
The title and description are very misleading: this is technically "pure JavaScript" but the JS is compiled from the original C++ library of the same name using emscripten. I think "pure JS" would imply that all of its sources are written in JS which is not the case here. It's mostly the C++ code doing the actual work, with a little JS wrapper on top.
Ah ok, this helped. At least, now I know more about tesseract. Thank you akerro
There's a peculiar detail in this story.

It refers to "the 'Association of American Physicians and Surgeons' — a discredited libertarian medical organization."

1. First, why the quotes around the name of the organization? Is this not its actual name?
2. Discredited? By whom? Isn't "discredited" an objective judgement -- and thus, one the author should support with a rationale?
3. Further, it's odd that of all the examples mentioned, the AAPS is the only one not linked to. Why? The release must be online, if Facebook linked to it.

Curious.
Things like surgery or a military operation are very different than creating a system to avoid licensing requirements. The people who make the life support system for the surgeon or the comms for the officer always take compliance seriously.
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That would be wonderful!

I hope you're fireproof though, because that would make a lot of people very angry.

Not to disabuse you, because I do think it is a good idea, but many people are simply not interested in asking the right questions. I used to belong to a millennial cult which had formerly been proven wrong about 'The End of the World' half a dozen times in the 20th century, and each time they decide the past prophesies were metaphorical while next time it is literally the 'Big One'.

Each time they do this they do lose a lot of support, so disseminating information about what happened in the past is not completely meaningless. I wouldn't have left the Truman Show without the Net I think, that and books.

> was the underlying narrative correct?

This is the one I want to have done most of all. The others you mentioned are easier to do but this is the crux of it. The cult believers treat every news articles as further evidence of their faith, and every discrepancy as a test from the Devil/oppositional lies.

There is some deep stuff here. I remember reading something from a person who lived under Communism, and like some kind of conspiracy theorist they had every detail about their 'Matrix' wrong but they did know instinctively that something was very wrong because of the mismatch between reports and anecdotal observations.
Fake news are better than biased news.
Semantic web is too good of an idea not too iterate on constantly :)
There's probably a fairly large set of people who would never consider hitting someone in the chest with a hammer, but would fire up a device like this for the lulz, not knowing that someone with a pacemaker was within range.
Sure it can. Phased shifted arrays of monopole antennas are often used to steer broadcast signals in a particular direction (If you've ever seen a group of 2-3 radio towers sitting close together in the country side, that's what they're doing).

That said: if you're in the US and transmit outside of the ISM bands or at anything above about a few hundred milliwatts of power, you risk the FCC coming down on you with some hefty fines or jail time.
Treating big companies as monoliths never works well. Different teams will inevitably choose to use different hardware, but the nVidia Tesla Kxx is popular among a lot of these "big four" types.
I really like your point about remote work - I think San Francisco in particular forgets sometimes that supply and demand is a two-sided problem. There's likely a lot of value in incenting diffusion of tech workers into lower cost of living areas.
A much better idea would be encouraging people to take their vacation days.
What takes 3 hours for ios development takes 3 days for Android. Things are little bit better now that android studio is maturing, though.