skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Й is absolutely linked with и, and it arose as alphabetic distinction from it. It appeared and disappeared for certain periods; in Russian it reestablished as a letter only in 20th century. It is still commonly collated with И in indexes and dictionaries.

> "Ё" is a bit more tricky, but nevertheless — there's no another letter in Russian alphabet we could put umlaut on and get the result similar to putting umlaut on "е".

This is a bizarre distinction: diacritics in natural languages aren't supposed to be freely recombinable.
I meant saunas get to 80C + - that's the air temperature
Not specifically directed at you but whenever poverty is being raised I keep seeing reactions that bring up drug abuse. It's almost like they are seen as highly related.

This correlation is questionable at best.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/nov/26/josep...
Pepper and Nacl seem to have an uncertain. I read that Google unstaffed some teams. Anyone familiar with what is going on?
I thought they did speak English natively in India...

Regardless, if you don't know basic English grammar you shouldn't be a writer. I'm Italian and even I can catch an error like that.
AGPS is designed to give a quicker Time-To-First-Fix (TTFF) but the accuracy is unchanged.

The application here (driving) constrains the solution to 2D (i.e. known altitude from the map), and hence can since that variable is known quite accurately it can improve the accuracy of the other variables.
I actually love the source breaking changes. The alternative is easier and much worse, and it takes boldness to not roll with the alternative, e.g. add language bloat and keep suboptimal decisions as part of the language just to support code that's already shipped.

C++ is the prime example of what the alternative looks like.
The interesting question is how did your parents' company react to this: Increasing automation? Increasing productivity amongst existing workers? Increasing salaries to attract people? Employing childless people? [in the UBI case that would be analogous to employing non-citizens or illegal workers] Producing less output? Something else?
can you provide some insight on how its built internally, i am kind of new to NLP.
Thanks for the explanation. I understand the rationale (if any), but the irritating part is when one sits down and tries to get stuff done.

The mere fact that there are a lot of ways of doing something, with one tool having many variants, is a pain.

I thought of pointing my NPM installs to a different folder, but that felt like a hack for something that should be simple. I tried out WebPack, but was getting silly errors that were leading me to keep on searching for solutions.

I eventually just copied over the files that I need, and overriding 'require' with a function that returns null, just so I could at least get some stuff done without worrying about too much for now.

I'll spend more time in the coming days trolling Github to see how some people are doing things.

> ES5 is no more broken than ES3 was and ES6 doesn't really fix anything in ES5. If you want to find something broken, take a look at the JS ecosystem instead.

That's my feeling too, it's like we're creating stuff just because other languages have it too.
Ah, got it.

My bad, I thought it was a completely different implementation.
> You can not just compare raw figures. You have to take into account other expenses such as housing

True. Which is why rates in the UK comparatively are even worse. London is one of the most expensive places in the world. I can't imagine how one could even survive there with some of the salaries quoted here.
No, she has more than one supervisor.
It is an important issue at hand. Important issues often have binary outcomes IMO. You can either make an a priori argument for or against UBI or you can make an empirical argument. We don't need to discuss previous experiences with such initiatives. They've had calamitous outcomes majority, if not all, of the times.

It does seem as though people want to try out variants of the same thing (socialism) while branding it with new terms such as UBI or social democracy. I'm simply calling out the BS and saying, it is socialism. It has been tried over and over again and I promise you that just because you've not lived through it, historical context should make you very wary of it.
Two things here:

1. It's because Google finance is old and probably forgotten. Really answers the OP question why it's not a good idea to kill flash right now.

2. Have been trading for a while and can tell that the performance of that chart beat the hell out of any JavaScript charting tool out there. It's interesting that JS/HTML 5 is all the hype now but it's still lagging behind a 10 year old technology.
The Birth of Calculus (BBC Documentary – 1986)
And this entire thread could be detached and marked OT.
Both were deep in the uncanny valley for me, Leia looked worse. To me, animations/facial mimicry is what gives it away. Renders themselves are pretty much perfect at this point, bar barely noticeable fakeness of subsurface scattering.
No I am not surprised at all. People have different opinions over the policies. The point I was trying to make in the parent comment is that do not rely solely on news media for information and opinions about China. Talk to your Chinese friends because they are be a better source of information on China's policies and the government compared to a non-Chinese author. Yes, not all Chinese love their government, but at least they can provide some context and rationale as to why policies were implemented in certain ways, which are often missing in news articles.
Clojure spec Screencast Series
Another way to say this is:
PostGraphQL exposes as an api whatever it sees in the specific database schema. It's your job to show it only the stuff it's supposed to expose and there is a lot of flexibility in the database available to help you do just that (role system, views, stored procedures, RLS, constraints).
It's their offical language, along with Hindi. Many of the Indians I've known have a much better formal command of the language than many native English! Including myself.
That's only true if your country is completely covered in houses up to the maximum possible height of buildings. I'm not aware of any such country (or even city or town -- possibly Singapore or Hong Kong come close).
The name UNIX is just not well defined. Saying Linux is a UNIX is perfectly valid imo, but everyone has a different idea of what UNIX means.

That pdf btw has quite a few misconceptions about the history of UNIX.
http://www.asianage.com/metros/kolkata/181216/kolkata-metro-...

A much better source.
Believe me, making choices as a technical leader is really hard these days.
That's not the Queen's English, HRH speaks RP.
No current open source *BSD is anymore UNIX than Linux is.
Making a language "official" doesn't make it your native language, unfortunately.
"Nairn Bus to Baghdad" - J.S. Tullett
You've shifted the goalposts and erected strawmen so many times in this brief passage, I hardly know where to start...

> No matter how many Turing Test they pass, intelligent machines will be no more conscious or self-aware than the Mechanical Turk!

I see. Well, this is just a rephrasing of the "Chinese Room" discussed in the article. Taken to it's logical conclusion, I am certainly self aware, but the rest of you are all just acting out complex behaviors encoded in chemical and electrical gradients, successfully mimicking consciousness.

I think that if any entity exhibits the behaviors associated with conscious thought, it would well behoove us to treat such entities as conscious, or we may very well find ourselves holding the short end of that particular stick sooner than we'd like.

> That's because solving the problem of self-awareness, or consciousness is a different engineering challenge than solving problems of AI. Consciousness is a more complicated, and specialized a thing.

Since there is no doubt that ML/AI has a long way to go toward AGI, and along the way we can expect the discipline to evolve considerably in many unexpected directions, this assertion of yours is close to tautological.

> Were we to build an artificial self-awarene machine we would not expect it to pass a Turing Test.

Why not?

> Instead we might expect different things of it and ask different questions to determine if it is self aware: can it adapt and survive without human help,

So, anyone severely ill to the point that they cannot do without assistance is not conscious and self aware?

> ie can it trap and store energy and reproduce itself,

So, a single-celled organism is conscious?

> and what purpose does it find for itself is what objective does it pursue ...

Ah, this seems a relevant criteria, but keep in mind that humans can be subjected to operant conditioning ("brainwashing") to impose external goals, not to mention that humans actually require a couple of decades of such conditioning (albeit rather more gradual and haphazard) before being considered competent members of society, but we don't consider humans to be less conscious or less self-aware on either side of that particular divide.

> it's a different engineering challenge than producing information that is organized to be sensible to human mind, which is the AI challenge, and the Turing Test.

Given that people have to be specially educated to produce information that is organized to be sensible to a computer, I don't see why an AGI, whatever it's capabilities "out of the box", so to speak, shouldn't be expected to be capable of learning to be sensible to humans.
Bits of it does have similar levels of automation to the DLR, bits of it don't. The Underground is a large systems where some lines have been upgraded to fully modern ATO, whilst others have manual control and signalling systems dating back to the 1950s.

The DLR is automated but there is still a human aboard who makes the decision to close the doors and start the train moving. They can also take manual control of the train if needed.

If that is counted as automatic the Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines are also automated. They have modern ATO systems as well, it's just the train operator gets their own compartment for historical reasons.

The "sub-surface" lines (Metropolitan, District, H&C and Circle) will have similar levels of automation once their long delayed signalling upgrade is complete.

The more interesting thing is the New Tube for London programme to replace trains and signalling for the Picadilly, Central and Bakerloo lines that plans for ATO without anyone aboard the train (at least where possible, various bits where the lines are shared with other services will need human supervision). But that's currently about a decade into the future, they're mostly still at the planning stage, a report about it is at http://content.tfl.gov.uk/ntfl-feasibility-report.pdf (PDF).
I believe this might be the project you're talking about:

https://flyweb.github.io/

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/09/flyweb-pure-web-cross-devi...

Unfortunately, I'm a little wary of trusting mozilla to support their groundbreaking/interesting-to-developer projects anymore (for better or for worse, many people applaud their renewed focus on Firefox)
So if I want to have a device without doing all the work of getting it built, I can just put together a Kickstarter and then refund everyone once the knockoff is on the market?
Don't German reporters need to be licensed?
Or Apple with OpenDoc and a whole heap of others.
>Work is good. Work allows us to eat, get shelter, clothing and move civilisation forward while at it.

Work may currently be necessary, but it is not "good". For most people it is boring and unpleasant, and a world where they could do something else would be a better world. Telling people who spend the majority of their lives working two jobs and still live in poverty that they "don't HAVE to work, they GET to work" is a hollow joke.
So the only argument for keeping it around is "won't somebody think of the children"?
I think it's more likely they just don't believe anything they are doing is at a scale that could actually have any measurable effect.

The magnitude of the theoretically required changes in consumption to impact global climate, and therefore the extraordinary cost to humanity to make those changes in consumption, are so inconceivable that given our relatively pathetic understanding of the climate history of our planet, let alone the complex systems that result in said climate, skeptics simply aren't yet willing to commit massive resources to try to alter world climate with currently available tools.

There is also a strong belief that scientific progress will continue to reduce the cost of the "necessary changes"
enough orders of magnitude so that we can get to the point where we don't have to start wars or injure billions of people in order to move the vanity metrics the specified amounts.

It's not really "who the fuck cares how the planet ends up, I'll be dead by then anyway" but rather, "in 100 years our science will be so advanced that we'll look back on early 21st century efforts to 'save the climate' and just laugh, and shake our heads at what a waste of resources it all was."
Ask HN: Do you think connecting your car to the cloud worth your money?
I'm working on a Cloud Platform to connect cars to the cloud. What do you think of the idea?
I would define the sample and findings "a little more than anecdotal evidence".
The actual paper can be found here:

http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/27806/

>Participants were recruited from the general population of the north-east of England through poster advertisements, emails to staff and students of Northumbria University, and through social media.

> ...

> were aged between 18 and 40 years of age
No, he doesn't:

> For request, a full rewrite made sense because urllib sucked so much and we had no good alternatives.
It was tongue in cheek my friend. Thanks for nugget of knowledge though; I didn't know about received pronunciation.

Edit:

Tangentially, I happen to speak 3 languages and English is not my native language.
And that impression would be correct.

Furthermore, if you are a big enough customer you can also negotiate for special isa extensions yourself (can't provide citation but heard from people at Intel), then of course you'd be the only one to have the documentation to take advantage of them.
But that has nothing to do with UBI. All the UBI schemes proposed get the money through general taxation of some kind.
Yeah, i do find it odd that Google finance (which is used quite a bit i believe) hasn't had any life breathed into it. I'm sure its had the same design for the last decade now
It's amusing to see the loss of information going on in these summaries itself. My take away from the article was we as programmers (hackers?) need to go beyond the tl;dr to really understand what it is we are doing and be conscious of the fact that what we do affects things beyond the those that we presume our work will affect.
Should have (2008) in the title.

> Posted on Aug. 14th, 2008 at 08:44 am
That's great, but why this then:

>>> tomorrow = maya.when('tomorrow')
<MayaDT epoch=1481919067.23>
>>> tomorrow.slang_date()
'tomorrow'
>>> tomorrow.slang_time()
'23 hours from now'

Huh? Given that we never specified timezone, I would expect 24h (unless DST change happens).

This is actually my biggest gripe with date+time libs. Imho API should always be explicit in what its default TZ is.

EDIT: still, appreciate what you are doing. Requests rule, and there are many other areas (including datetime) that need libs with better APIs. Thumbs up!
Or buy the clones from the copier at the lower price, pass them on to your backers and profit!

What could possibly go wrong!?!

Or - product-ception - create a product, have it ready to sell, Kickstarter it at a higher price; be both sides of the market.
South Pacific island ditches fossil fuels to run entirely on solar power
Twitter is far from dying given the restructuring and the current pile of VC cash it's sitting on atm.
I don't think we have to throw out the baby with the bathwater here. JavaScript is perfectly adequate. Like you said it's just how it's used which makes front-end development exceedingly complex.

So, our approaches and techniques need to change not necessarily the language itself.

I agree that the pendulum will swing back to the back-end again. The question is how we can achieve that without foregoing many of the useful patterns and the interactivity that came along with approaches like SPAs and frameworks like Angular and React.

The approach Rails took with Turbolinks seems viable in some ways. It's lacking in terms of reactiveness / interactivity though. Turbolinks is great for SPA-like switching between views but not really useful for making that views more reactive.

I'm not sure how exactly a technique would have to look like that allows you to have React-like reactiveness but still have all the logic in the back-end. Maybe that's an avenue worth exploring. Another one might be how the same problem was solved with Swing and similar UI frameworks for other languages.
There have been a lot of communistic societies over the years so I would be cautious about declaring them all unable to feed themselves. Having said this the only exception I can think of are the Doukobors [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhobor
Yes, putting all our eggs in the "POSIXy, monolithic kernel implemented in C with MMU-isolated processes, ambient authority, shared mutable state concurrency" OS basket feels unwise.
Nitpick: I don't think aluminium is considered heavy.
Picking names which collide with stuff seems to be the standard these days. Don't get me started on Google(Chrome, Go)
Well, no, but the point is that since it's a community standard any porn could conceivably be found offensive to community standards somewhere.
If you are talking about an app shell and lazy-loading page fragments when you need them, check the PRPL pattern. Polymer provides an easy way to do it.
Property rights are pretty ambiguous when a device purchased by a consumer requires a backend service and/or is managed by an outside company. Yhe consumer has no control and while they might own the hardware they have no guarantee of it's continued utility. Companies claiming DCMA violations against those who choose to alter their devices also limits their effective ownership. I personally avoid buying devices like this in the first place.

I do however think this company should be put out of business as they clearly misled their backers. Is there any information on how many of these wer sold? The device certainly doesn't look like it cost anywhere near $199 to manufacture. And if there enough people interested in hacking the device to do a clean-room reverse-engineering project it looks like it would be a fun little project.

Is anyone who owns one of these willing to loan it out for a while? They might also become cheap on eBay next May.

EDIT: As I've thought about this a bit more, why not push a firmware update for your users that allows the device to collect the information as a fitness device? Surely if a machine in the local mall can take my blood pressure without a technician monitoring it, you can own a scout that provides reasonably accurate measurements?
Nope. I would not connect my car to "the cloud" even if I was paid to do it.

What are benefits? Are they bigger than security problems? No software is 100% safe and cars are considered "critical equipment" - no for cars or medical equipment in "the cloud". But ofc, your mileage may vary.
There's quite some lag between input and arm movement there! I wonder if they're planning to improve that, to enhance the sense that the robot arm is an extension of the operator's real arm, or whether operators just need to get used to it. If the latter, I could imagine this being comical in the hands of an untrained operator, sending everything in their vicinity flying :)
How did they come up with the figure of $0.40 per minute?

I can understand why they say "per Minute" since you think in seconds (which would be too short), minutes (just about right) and hours (which would be too long).

But that $0.40 charge per minute seems odd. Why not $1, why not $0.50, $0.25 or $0.10?
My guess is that many of them will use their free time to make another couple of kids and raise their income with another 1000.
Am I the only one who doesn't really consider that a shame? As a happy Linux desktop user here (considering switching to FreeBSD but switching is intimidating :|), I don't really care that much what other people use.
> It's puzzling why this doesn't wrap np.datetime64 instead.
Perhaps to avoid the numpy dependency. I've found numpy a bit heavy and wouldn't want to depend on it simply for the sake of some datetime syntax. May be boost.datetime or even numpy's implementantion on datetime, but that sounds like a lot of maintenance.
Crystal but not Go?
It's like going to the toilet mid-meal.
Moto+Z+Specs,+Design+&+Features+Review
> But, crucially, only if it could be demonstrated that it had never been exposed to these concepts. Which is probably impossible.

Not at all. I remember having qualia-like questions at 5 or 6. Particularly, "do you see red the same way or do we just have the same name for that color?" An AI could definitely ask these kinds of questions without prompting.
...Does it by any chance resemble the SCSH awk macro?
Sounds like desert dwellers should live longer?

Re oxidative stress, can you give practical examples of how this is achieved for a person, what physical action creates it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidative_stress suggests it's associated with lots of great harms - brain diseases, heart disease, etc.. How does that pair with longevity in practice?
Can't say for certain, but I think it is.

I don't think iOS is anything else than OS X with a different facade (Cocoa Touch, which for UNIX doesn't matter) and a few additional services. It has all the usual POSIX interfaces (and some of the userland) underneath. So even if it violates some models (e.g. with regards to user accounts), it's still the same codebase, heralding from the BSD years.
You assume that limiting factor for houses is land, but in real world it's infrastructure, especially transportation.
I have found that no matter what language/platform I use, the one thing that is always supported is UNIX timestamp. That makes date+time operations much easier:

1) Whenever dealing with users, use local tz.
2) Always save and manipulate in utc.
Conditions are something I miss in Scheme. They sort-of-not-really exist in my Scheme of choice, and it makes me sad.
> Webpack: The most popular bundler for standard JavaScript look for simple starter kit/boilerplate config examples to get things running fast

Unless you're already familiar with a tool, I'd suggest starting with the very Hello, world basics.

For Webpack, that's creating an empty project and incrementally adding config, starting with just an entry point (use a simple script importing some modules) and an output filename. Add one loader/plugin at a time. Move into boilerplates once you're familiar with the basic concepts.

(I wish more projects had a Concepts page like Webpack now has: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/)

A boilerplate is another person's code, and while it's good to avoid NIH, unless it's superbly documented, it contains tricks and workarounds that only cloud real understanding.

---

Eric wisely started the article with
JavaScript & DOM Fundamentals. For people like me, who were familiar with pre-ES6 JS but weren't actively writing JS lately, the basics themselves have changed a bit.
Oh please, there are many a people even on the Forbes list who worked multiple jobs in the beginning. That did not stop them from achieving their goals and being in possession of abundant resources in the long run. Now please don't take that to mean that all people will be on a Forbes list. The point here is that you can start out doing multiple menial jobs but with discipline, hard work and a culture for savings, YOU WILL SUCCEED.