skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I refer to an 'ad', I'm usually referring to the content. Whether I see it in a newspaper, on TV, or on a website, I call it an 'ad'. What are marketers referring to when they say 'ad'?
I just read a bit of documentation from the Picolisp page. It looks really cool, but can it reach arbitrarily far up the call stack? That's the quality of tcl that I don't see other places. The capabilities of 'upvar' and 'uplevel'.

[Edit] I should say "one of the qualities." The other important one is that Tcl has no types. Even all the lisps I know have types.
Windows Live Movie Maker 16.4 Crack and Serial Key Full
How many other folks here had never even heard of Intercloud?

I think that if I had heard of it, I'd have initially placed it as a middle-of-the-road choice. Cisco's no Amazon or Google, but it's also not a Microsoft[1], IBM or HP. It's certainly not an Oracle.

[1] I'd only initially place Azure as bottom-of-the-stack; I've heard enough good things about it that in an actual greenfield cloud project I'd consider it a contender.
A personal attack?!

Being a protector of the hypothetically imbecile user is why some software has been rushing full speed to lowest common denominator design.

This toxic culture strives to corral users and remove features.

These are the same projects which seem to be getting slower and buggier with each release. It's making me absolutely abhor the industry I work in and I'm ashamed of such workmanship.

I don't know when it became so fashionable to try to excel at making terrible software.
I did something similar a while ago (2012) (it even made it to the top of HN).

http://thredis.org/

Thredis also added multi-threading to Redis. The code is here: https://github.com/grisha/thredis
Has Content Been Dethroned by Distribution
Execution + full knowledge and access to what everyone else is working on.
For someone trying to define how harassment should be dealt with, you're certainly keen on dismissively calling women "girls".
>> When you summarize language in a similar way, you essentially produce multidimensional maps of the distances, based on common usage, between one word and every single other word in the language.

The problem with word embeddings, or any distance-based model really, is that language doesn't work that way.

Chomsky has a standard example he uses to make this point: "Instinctively, Eagles that fly swim". He points out that in this phrase, the "instinctively" goes with "to swim" (as in "instinctively, they swim") even though the phrase, and the attachement, mean nothing (the phrase is nonsensical by design).

If the relation was really based on distance, we would expect "instinctively" to attach to "fly". The fact that it doesn't suggests that there is something else that makes us pick the correct association out of all the possible interpretations in that sentence.

Word vectors in their original form also have trouble with homonyms etc "faux amies": for instance, the word "cat"- is it referring to the animal, or to the Linux command? In vector space, there wouldn't be any difference, so the animal would be associated with the symbol ">" and the Linux command with "small" and "furry".
> These days asking questions of an expert usually gets you a response of JFGI

To me it seems that most people I ask questions of are happy to respond. But the key thing being that the ease of asking people questions means that you need to ask people questions they haven't heard a thousand times and written a book about. And that you can easily answer with Google.

It's lazy ad insulting if you e-mail and ask something you'd find a whole article about on the persons site, for example, because it implies you couldn't be bothered to even see they've already written about the subject, and don't respect their time.

But if you ask about the finer points of something they've written, on the other hand, they are more likely to be flattered, intrigued or at least willing to point you in the right direction.
Great point about recounting instead of describing, it's really important to stay objective in such cases, especially as both sides (there are more than two however) continue to get more aggressive and vocal, each, maybe unconsciously, trying to push an agenda. This means like you said avoiding using ambiguous descriptors that can mean one thing for someone and something different for someone else. I would at this point add that through personal experience I'm led to believe the author entirely in the objective part of her description, one day we'll be able to partially criticise what people do or say without having to also point out to others that we agree with them, just not yet.
The Mario Run big promo video[1] seems to have just copied the marketing approach for Pokemon Go[2]: feel epic and show people in real life. However, Pokemon Go actually involves walking around in the real world, but Super Mario Run does not at all.

Seems like a definite miss in the marketing message, since I thought the same as you on first watch. I even saw the announcement at the Apple Event, but upon seeing the first video ad Nintendo created, I thought, "wait, does this have a fitness element to it?"

Definitely makes me wonder what kind of fitness-minded games could be done by Nintendo, though!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpdfg5km60w
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sj2iQyBTQs
When my health insurance lapsed I was put on Adderall because despite modafinil being a generic, it was still too outrageously expensive to pay for out of pocket. I got no euphoria from Adderall. I was able to stay alert but I was jittery and wildly irritable. As soon as I was able to get good insurance again I dropped it for modafinil. I guess I should be thankful that Adderall didn't appeal to me due to its addictive potential.
There was no quote because it was him being nicer to me than to the other men thought he should have been - it was actually him not treating me like a second class citizen. It was this "equal" status that made the others feel that I got better treatment. I made no remark about anything else because I do not wish to speculate about anyone else's intentions or motivations - and that is not relevant to the point of this article at all.
On iOS 10.2 it just craches as soon as it's opened. Not too impressed.
in what jurisdiction is it legal to speed due to a medical emergency ?
Pity that it became so associated with the Tk GUI toolkit -- half the Linux GUI apps in the 1990s were in Tcl/Tk, and when Tk fell out of favor so did Tcl.
I'm not who you were asking, but this seems to be along the line I've been thinking as well.

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to offend. If I do offend, please give me the benefit of the doubt and tell me why I'm mistaken.

The idea that interaction is key means there can be nothing supernatural. Everything that can cause an observable effect must do so by some natural means, and must therefore have some natural component to it as well. And if there is a natural component to something, then its interactions with that component must be via another natural component. Follow the reasoning and this precludes supernatural phenomena completely.

In brief, this is why I can't believe in any kind of deity, unless understood in the Clarkian sense of sufficiently advanced technology. I just haven't been able to see how the concept is not a logical fallacy.
This exact command:

sudo firmwarepasswd -setpasswd -setmode command

enter in a password to lock down Option ROM, reboot. Now you're protected.

source, the hacker-now-Apple-developer: https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/809418554428657666
But only a quarter of the people who have access are using the service so far.

> with fibre available to 1,006,741 users, of which 240,525 have signed up

And the goal is to cover 75% of the population (1,340,000 households).

So it's around $1000/household. And of those households the majority will not be using the service but they'll be paying for it assuming the household pays taxes.
I'll allow for the existence of your mind, for instance.
They shouldn't be subsidizing one form of low-carbon generation but not another. That will distort the market and lead to buying subsidized forms that are more expensive overall.
Marketing, not confusion.
Opening the article with "as a woman and minority" in tech is exactly playing the victim card right up front.
It has no weight on whether the supposed actions of her managers and colleagues were wrong, because they'd be wrong no matter who they did this to.

And by your standards even the OP is "just an anecdote". We have no proof whatsoever that she was in fact mistreated.
Until they want to click on a Facebook news article (or a Instagram image in Twitter or a GroupOn link in GMail) and Access Denied message.
Show HN: Dungeons and Dragons - Too Long; Didn't Read
Media companies being disrupted by the platforms that distribute their content
> In Canada, and in a growing number of jurisdictions - there is 'harassment' so long as the victim feels as if there was.

Nonsense, it's still an uphill battle for victims to get their harasser convicted in Canada. See Jian Ghomeshi, Marcel Aubut and the First Nations women v. the police in Val d'Or for recent examples.
Are you implying that major companies can never do wrong? I don't care whether UI is designed by big or small company, usability is what matter and what we discuss here.
woman = minority
It would not be foreign to you if it happened to you directly. It's not entirely unreasonable that a loser manager fawns over a hot girl on the team, and gets special favours. It happens all the time with gender removed - i.e. the 'suck up' gets the treats.

And more perniciously - it's entirely possible the guys may have a legit point (I'm not implying they do, but indicating that it's a possibility), though obviously not expressed well. People are crazy.

My ex girlfriend got a job working in Montreal, for a 'vaping' company, working in the back. She's drop dead hot. I told her - there is absolutely no way they are going to keep her in the office, she'll be promoted to sales instantly. She did not believe me, but I was right. Within a a few weeks she was outside-sales. The management there is kind of greasy, like guidos at a sweaty gym. They fawned over her, and she definitely had very special status. Favours. The other staff were super jealous. Understandably so.

Anyhow, it never came to lawsuits, but the second I knew she was going to work with those greaseballs, I knew there would be trouble. It's human nature. When gender/race gets involved, we start to apply different words.

I just think people should grow the f* up and just behave responsibly, but also to be a little bit tolerant of weird behaviour now and then.
I was curious about that, so I looked it up. Pretty interesting stuff.

[0] "On the afternoon of October 1, 2013, officers watched as Ulbricht entered the library and made his way up the stairs to work by the window at a desk in the science fiction section, Kiernan recalled. Meanwhile, sitting on a bench outside of the library, homeland security officer Jared Der-Yeghiayan — who had been working undercover as Silk Road employee "cirrus" — initiated a chat with Ulbricht, requesting that he log in to Silk Road's back end to fix a technical problem. As soon as Der-Yeghiayan could confirm that Ulbricht was logged into the site, FBI agents entered the library.

Two plainclothes FBI agents, one male and one female, walked up behind Ulbricht and began arguing loudly. This staged lovers' tiff caught Ulbricht's attention long enough to distract him from his laptop. As soon as Ulbricht looked up, the male agent reached down and slid the computer over to his female colleague, who quickly snatched it up and handed it over to Kiernan for further investigation."

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbricht-will-be-sentenc...
What's I dislike the most about this situation is that I cannot even shut down my yahoo email account, as it could be re-created by someone else, i.e hijacked.

It's also terrible that such bad password policies are being pushed onto users, yet no guarantee of security is associated with them.
thats not devil's advocate as much as it is a "racketeering advocate" [1].

[1] Racketeering, often associated with organized crime, is the act of offering of a dishonest service (a "racket") to solve a problem that wouldn't otherwise exist without the enterprise offering the service.
Companies have a duty. Of care to protect their employees from harm in the workforce.

As a shareholder you should be pleased that Apple is taking action, because the legal costs plus compensation is more expensive.

Plus, you don't want to be the kind of cunt who says stupid shit like "stress isn't real" - only a fucking idiot would say something like that.
Does anyone know of a fitness tracker that doesn't push data to a backend service operated by a for-profit organization? I'm searching for a device that:

* Has decent battery life (at least better than the Fitbit Charge 2)

* Performs heart monitoring, activity reminders, sleep and steps tracking

* Has iOS and Android apps that let you push collected metrics to a backend service that you can host yourself
Yes, exactly. New Star Soccer is one game that did this; original purchasers lost features they'd paid for.

I also thought it wouldn't be allowed, but apparently it is. If they just released a separate free version there'd be no problem.
Pentagon experiments with open data strategy in new site
FmVRBgospel
The problem with this thinking is that "accurate" is not a binary property.
He said per person, not per household - not the same unless you're living alone. Also this doesn't make your internet free you have to pay for the service on top of that.

And believe it or not a lot of people don't care about having fiber internet available.
I would be careful to separate out exactly what trust he violated.
He certainly violated the trust of his superiors.
He certainly upheld the trust of his nation - that is to say, all of us being spied upon by those superiors.

Remember, it is up to us citizens to tell our government what we will or won't accept as proper behavior, no matter what legal framework the government tries to surround us with.
It sounds like the poster was angry because Best Buy wouldn't let the poster exchange their money for the watch that Best Buy had in stock. I can understand that, it would be pretty annoying to go to a store, they have something in stock, but won't sell it to you.
A modern passive house could keep you warm in the winter with a heat source as minor as a candle. It's actually amazing how poorly our homes are insulated.
Is the roman alphabet actually simpler? In some sense it is, but that's partly because it obscures a lot of detail that Devanagari captures.

For example, consider the name "Poisson". One one occasion I repeatedly tried to communicate it it's pronunciation in English, but failed. Then I wrote "प्वसैं" and my friend totally understood it.

In spite of speaking virtually no Hindi, I find it far easier to express various phonetic words in Devanagari than in Roman letters. And as far as learning pronunciation, it's virtually impossible learning Hindi correctly from Roman letter transliteration.

In my view as a native English speaker, Devanagari is a much better alphabet than the Roman one.
Open data should be easy
Yep. Many forms of petroleum are also very convenient for energy storage. So even an EROI less than 1 they would still have utility.

1 L of diesel has about 39 MJ of energy. That's about 10 kWH (a Tesla Powerwall) in the size of a Nalgene bottle.
Gauss Facts
I'm no fan of the NSA, but the number of reports means nothing if a large percentage of them don't actually involve them doing anything "wrong."

A friend is a regional HR director at a large corporation I used to work for (120k employees). There was an ethics hotline to report bad behavior, and he saw most of the complaints that came through for his region. Most were groundless.

In fact, one was a report on me because I wouldn't exclude a poor customer survey score for one of my indirect reports. That score affected her ranking for raises, etc.

When that went nowhere, she reported me to the FBI. Not even kidding. Some people are nuts, and some nuts file lots of reports.
Fractalide [1] just removed cargo from it's build system, and opted for nix to take up the role [2] of cargo.

[1] https://github.com/fractalide/fractalide

[2] https://github.com/fractalide/nixcrates
> What is the best way to explain the concept

With net neutrality, all websites you visit are equally fast and equally accessible. Without it, someone else is allowed to choose for you which ones are fast, and which ones are accessible. As a consumer of a web without net neutrality, you lose some ability to choose, and you may lose some access. It is fundamentally about the freedom to choose, not about payments or bandwidth numbers, but choice.

As many of us are burgeoning web site creators and entrepreneurs, lack of net neutrality gives advantages to existing businesses who have more money than their competitors. It allows bigger sites to drive traffic to them and away from competition. This will make it harder, not easier, to start new businesses that rely on internet traffic.
Ask HN: Where do tools like DreamWeaver fit into current workflows?
I remember everybody and their mother used Dreamweaver years ago, around 2008.

These days I don't see any mention whatsoever or even marketed courses or tutorials.

Do WYSIWYG tools even fit in the current worklows?
Depends on the area. At least in London, PrimeNow delivers under one hour for only parts of the city, the rest is in under 2 hours.
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring Sr. PM and Many More in SF
> threadis is more a redis fork. While rediSQL is a redis module.

Thredis author here - Redis did not support modules back then, had I done this today it prolly would have been a module (though it's been a while since I hacked on Redis and I don't know how modules work)
These aren't users which would be something else of course :p. These are [qualified] leads. Not that they aren't worth anything. They are. But the distinction is big.
I've been using Battery Time Remaining for a while and it has some useful features that even the old indicator didn't have (for instance, which apps are draining the battery the most).

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-time-remaining/id551...
A note: Constantly referring to women as girls is a part of the problem. There are certainly women that I know and would use that term to refer to them, for various reason. Familiarity, primarily, as in: "Hey, what are the girls doing tonight?" as a question posed to a female friend about our common group of female friends. But you use girl not just for the specific person (Julie Horvath) but for all women ("If a girl feels harassed..."), and not in a case of familiarity. It's removing them from the category of peers (as adult persons) and putting them into a subordinate group (child persons). And it presents the possibility of dismissing the claim because they're not mature and don't really understand the difference between harassment and ribbing.

Language matters.
Fine. Show me the proof and we'll build it.

... except there is no proof. We have no proof but we talk about it like its a given. We talk about "intelligence" as if its an integer value that scales from 0 to infinity. These are ideas that we do not question enough.

I assert that its a possibility that we are incapable of building ourselves beyond reproduction.
Nope, I just live under a rock apparently. The S3 nails the sweet spot of functionality and form for me, but from the looks of it I apparently could have gone all-in much sooner.
If we only looked at feed forward conv nets, then you'd be correct. However curriculum learning in environments like Universe and Labs are a critical step toward generality and planning based AIs. Solving catastrophic forgetting and increasing the time interval between behavior and reward are non-trivial steps. I'm not saying it's raining right now, but yeah I'm saying you should buy an umbrella.
Agreed about linked lists; that virtually all functional languages make them the default/literal data structure is IMO a poor practical design choice (no matter how theoretically elegant) and is the primary culprit for their reputation for slowness.

And the tendency for functional compile-to-JS langs to emulate linked lists in Javascript and keep them the default data structure is downright laughable.
"Nonsense, it's still an uphill battle for victims to get their harasser convicted in Canada. See Jian Ghomeshi, "

A) I don't doubt it can be difficult for women - but my statement holds true.

B) Referencing 'Giah Gomeshi' entirely validates my point. He was put on trial by a woman who was blatantly and vindictively proven to be lying through her teeth.

Gian Gomeshi's trial was a farce - he should have never been prosecuted.

As for his terrible behaviour at the CBC - that's another thing entirely, he should have been dropped years before. It seems his office behaviour was no appropriate - but his trial was not for that.

His trial was a witch hunt. He's a weirdo, not a criminal.

That trial also demonstrated how far some women are willing to lie, to the courts, to the public - for whatever reason (retribution?).

Lucy De Coutere was asked by the Prosecution if she had ever had contact with Gian in the years after the fact, she responded 'no of course not' because of course she hated the man for what he did, why would she communicate with him? As it turns out - she had 5000 emails worth of correspondence that she magically 'forgot' about. 5000 emails. And all of it fawning, appreciative, and most of it about her trying to elicit his attention, to get him to visit, to go out with her - over many years. And so she tells the court that none of this happened? She should be jailed.

Anyhow - the Gomeshi is another very terrible example for women, it it's not going to help those women in actual need, it will only add a layer of cynicism.
Ignoring what any particular toolset chooses to do, building software and package management can conceptually be separated.

Of course they get intermixed in practice, package management provides build prerequisites, and completely separate tools are not necessarily conductive to getting information from the build system (or dependency list in the tarball) to the package manager. Or for the download/installation provided by the package manager to be at the perfect scope for the software build.

I, unlike grandparent poster, am not making statements of "ought" for build systems. Just providing context.

However, I can still generically say, the tightness of the build and package management limits user flexibility. I'ts not even a particularly interesting phenomenon. It's just another case of software coupling. There are benefits to high coupling and benefits to low coupling. Typically tight coupling means the normal use case works better at the cost of all abnormal use cases. It's the same-old-same-old of all software design.

----

As a side note, I will say that in my experience an inflexible or awkward to use "offline" build mode is not an offline build mode. If "offline build mode" means:

-The tarball contains (or build system generates) a list of files that can just as easily be fetched with `wget -i deps.txt` and dropped into a subdirectory manually.

That's cool. If it's:

-I have to reverse engineer a one-off package manager architecture, write a script to fetch build-deps externally and hack the build to support my particular flavor of offline build because it's not the type of offline build envisioned by the tool author

Then that's bunk.