skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons I use Elementary OS despite my ambivalence towards systemd is the consistency. It's not your typical Linux desktop experience, it's much more cohesive than Windows or even macOS. I have my main workstation booting both Windows 10 (which I do enjoy) and Elementary, and I find myself only booting into Windows to play certain Steam games that won't install on Linux.

Give Elementary a go, you may be surprised.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ethnic+protests+in+Ethiopia
Last time I flew American, it was a bit different, because the system showed many seats as simply unavailable -- not even purchasable. I paid for seats to ensure I could sit next to my wife... And we had the whole row to ourselves. I complained very loudly to the flight attendant and ended up getting a refund email a few days later. So I guess that worked.

I no longer pay for specific seats on a plane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_van
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Using the instructions I previously provided on how to investigate patents[0], it can be seen that this is a patent application (not an actual patent), and its status is "Abandoned -- Failure to Respond to an Office Action" after a non-final rejection in 2008. This doesn't say anything about whether or not they refiled or not, just that this application was abandoned, and never granted.

So save some trouble, the application number is "10/797557"

Edit: Even more context. This application was rejected on claims 1-4 due to "rejected under 35 USC 102(b) as being anticipated by IBM RedBook, 'Linux For S/360', 2000", and claim 5 is rejected under 35 USC 102(c) from the same source.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981882
Affinity Designer is now cross platform and is starting to provide some of the functionality of Sketch. I don't think can handle Sketch files yet, but it's definitely an up and coming design tool.
Mylar – Eexperimental research platform for building with end-to-end encryption
That's a cool monetization model. More effects are coming up for sure, and we would definitely like to see what sorts of awesome effects the community can come up with!
C++14 implementation of C++17 `std::variant`
The Access Control List (ACL) War
Amiunique.org: Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet
I thought it was fine. It was only 45 minutes, and I thought it was all pretty interesting. Thanks to the local anesthetic, there was very little pain. The parts I really didn't like all came over the next few days, but ice cream and video were enough to get me through.
Yep. They probably don't realize how big of a part "Word of Mouth" marketing plays in their sales.

At every small business I've ever worked at, everyone praised the MBP highly, and if you didn't have one, you felt like you wanted and needed one.

Especially because it Just Worked™, it was kind of this sleek and powerful tool that only people who know the value of their time had, because they weren't going to waste their time on anything lesser. It was almost a status symbol.

Word of mouth is a powerful thing. It can make and later break a product. I bet that'll happen now.

That said, how can I buy stock in Apple? I'm betting they'll look at dropping sales, realize the above, and make a huge come back with a significantly better MBP and Mac Pro in a year or two.

EDIT: The above question is not rhetorical: how can a simple developer like me with no idea about stocks, throw $100 or $200 at Apple stock in hopes it grows a good amount in the next few years?
Yes, it seems David chose specific community member characteristics to criticize the cryptocurrency/blockchain technology. So why not make a book about the community instead of the technology? If he is not clear about this, he is just following a classical fallacy.
Right, the argument in the article is based on one anrcdotal instance of an airline not lowering prices when they introduced Basic Economy to a market. The interpretatoon of the evidence is intellectually lazy; who's to say the two alternatives were not (1) raising prices for everyone or (2) introducing Basic Economy to maintain the current price.

And yes, original commenter, I'm American and I'd prefer an unbundled pricing model because I don't use or need most of the things that get bundled into the price.

The idea that an airline can simply include many more services while maintaining roughly the same prices seems very false: there would never have been budget airlines in the first place if it worked.
> Did the horses get new jobs when cars started taking over?

Can horses perform many of the other jobs the average Uber/truck driver is capable of?

If we're worrying about the 30% of Foxconn workers who will have lost their jobs if the company hits their automation targets and doesn't grow at all, we ought to consider that this would still leave them employing 900,000 more people than they did a couple of decades ago in the manufacture of devices whose sales were comparatively tiny two decades ago. I don't think our desire for new types of possession is fully satiated yet either.
is it common to implement these algorithms yourself anymore?
Preview also now hangs forever converting most .ps files, where previous versions worked a-ok :(

In fact, i haven't found a single .ps file it didn't hang on so far, but maybe i'm unlucky.

(so, basically, when i go to open an older paper, i have to go kill preview, run the paper through distiller, and then load it in something that isn't a disaster once i realize preview is also highly broken for pdfs anyway)
I think I like the farmbot.io idea a little bit better as it seems far more practical. After all I'm not looking to grow all my food but mainly the dirty dozen vegetables/fruits (as well as seasonal ones I like).

One of the main reasons I want to grow food though is some vegetables are not carried by my local grocery stores (I have to go to a farmer market or expensive grocery store). For example many grocery stores do not sell Japanese yams, Yuca, various peppers, or plantains (I suppose plantains would be difficult to grow).

I also would like to do it all inside as well (because I live in New England and have more inside space than outside and various other reasons). Basically a refrigerator size farming appliance that you plugin with plumbing and electricity.
Difference Between Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Deep Learning, Stats
At some point, you need to look towards things like cost, reliability, and speed.

I'm with you on security vulnerabilities and marketing but I'm also pragmatic. Few of the companies we deal and support financially have perfect records.

I'm writing this on a Macbook Pro. Tell me how they stack up on the human rights issue with their Chinese factories.
I think it's anti-humanistic to say that, because a small number of people are born a particular way, that others must be charged more money so that they can be accommodated by more services than they would want consume. See? It's so easy to call people anti-humanistic.

Most airlines that I've been on have started turning the exit row into a "non-first-class extra legroom" row. On a few occasions I've seen very tall people sitting there. And there's nothing wrong with building a range of legrooms into a plane. But I don't see why there should be some requirement that a costly good - legroom on a plane - be provided to more people than actually want to pay for it.
[citation needed] people in power have a problem with it. In large part because it takes to long to build to fit into a normal election cycle.

However, subways for example are heavily utilized when they are useful.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

There's quite a few households and quite a lot of people between $35k and $100k. The claim that there is no middle class is blatantly, provably false. The very, very top has a lot. I don't think anybody is disputing that (I'm certainly not). But there are a lot of people who make a solid, middle class income.
It's worth noting that it was the research groups of the big four that showed up to NipS --Google Brain, deepmind, Microsoft research, etc.

Publishing isn't the focus of hedge funds so they don't get a lot of love.

It makes sense that academics would be interested in working for a company that will still allow the academic to publish.
Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm (2016)
It looks like a start to a remake of the visualization plugin for Winamp, Milkdrop2. Apparently opensource now.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/milkdrop2/

There's many many presets/scripts made for it.

http://ghostco.de/milkdrop_pack/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdL_JSsY6qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoshHRG1Qbk

I see someone started to port it to the web:
https://github.com/gattis/milkshake (though it did not work for me in chrome.)

Edit: here's one that works, you can edit the presets:

https://butterchurnviz.com/
Sounds like you need to specify your active hours. See these settings in the Windows Update settings panel:

http://imgur.com/VfcdIEd
IMO it doesn't need updates. It's stable has tons of widgets and works out of the box.
Loving it even though I have never touched ruby before.

In combination with graphite I can make some cool statistics and graphs
That's why it's called "poverty."
It annoys me as well when people don't enter the intersection on green when waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so that they can turn left. However I don't think it's related to the gridlock discussion unless the road you are turning onto is backed all the way up to the intersection, so that you will not be able to complete the turn even when oncoming traffic clears. In that case I believe you should not enter the intersection.
Bob Coecke writes good introductions to category theory, you might find some of his stuff enjoyable. Although he is often also introducing quantum physics and linguistics at the same time.

This paper is fascinating:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07618
Agree entirely: it is rampant across the entire industry. Look at Angular2. (But then, on the other hand, look at VIM or Emacs. Hmmm.)

Again, I think it is a deep problem, involving the self conception of the tech world (not only the marketing departments, although there is mixes with self interest.)
We talked to the judicial conference of course.
Honestly, it this was a long time ago at this point. We may have only offered to pay what it costs them to run it instead of revenue. It was definitely somewhere between those two.

(I realize there is a huge difference in those two numbers, but we were also idealistic and thought they might actually care about public access at the time. Look how dumb we were)
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"Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm" appears to cover the topic in depth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310038
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It's also worth noting that nearly all of these examples are extremely rare. Homosexuality is the most common one, and as current research suggests a genetic component it seems likely that with further information it will ultimately make sense, if not as an adaptive trait, at least as a consequence of adaptive traits.

The others are indeed examples of memes overpowering genes, and an evolutionary model (of memes) can help to explain them as well. It's not a well-developed field to be sure, but it's a worthwhile perspective. A cartoony example is religions that ban sex vs religions that ban contraception - given that religious memes are strongly conserved in offspring, which meme would you expect to spread better? How does that compare to what we actually see?
I'm not seeing how this evidence points to overeating --> brain impairment. To me it implies brain impairment --> overeating.

> He did that by studying rats that had very specific types of hippocampal damage and seeing what happened to them.

This researcher started with mice that had damage, and observed they overate. This implies brain impairment --> overeating. The other memory studies in the article with obese or lean subjects cannot infer causality.

> However, even though we are beginning to understand that obesity affects the brain, we don't exactly know how [...]

Perhaps the connection is people with brain impairment (either genetic or damage from the environment) tend to overeat, since the brain plays a role in hunger and satiation. Is there evidence that the article omits that backs up the headline?
> The one massive problem for me that keeps me going back to the laptop
> is that the Mac absolutely nailed keyboard layout by separating
> the command and control keys.

The saddest thing is that *nix systems generally did likewise, before the this-is-finally-the-year-of-desktop-Linux crowd arrived to insist on imitating every Windows mistake. No one else was boneheaded enough to screw up the Control key's function of generating control characters.

Traditional X11 programs have (had) fully configurable key bindings in their app-defaults.

Today, KDE (and other Qt) programs at least allow individually changing shortcuts to use Super. Qt has an internal switch to use Super everywhere, but it's hard-coded to the Mac platform. Perhaps eventually there will be enough pressure from OS X refugees to make it a user configurable setting.
> The New York City-area dollar van system is highly used, and in 2011, it was rated the 20th most used "bus system" in the United States. The dollar van and jitney system has been praised as "quietly disruptive" as compared to other ride-share services, such as Uber. This has allowed the vans to operate without being restricted by the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC).

That's very interesting, it fills a void during public worker strikes spontaneously and ends up being a widely popular service. Thanks for the link.
While spell-checking is slow, it is not necessarily as slow as 200ms per word. But it is necessary to have one or else people will struggle with your chatbot.

We have created a chatbot that handles mispellings and dialects just fine for the banking and insurance industry in scandinavia. You can try him here: https://james-demo-test.boost.ai (You need google translate as it only understands norwegian, with some support for danish and swedish synonyms. Support for english and other languages are under development)

For fast spell checking, I recommend reading this http://theyougen.blogspot.no/2010/02/faster-spelling-correct... which uses a bloom filter.
We use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_di... and we use a slightly modified slow python implementation https://www.guyrutenberg.com/2008/12/15/damerau-levenshtein-...

Performance is not a high priority for us, we can easily scale by adding cpu cores. A good precise answer is a lot more important and its where we spend most of our time improving our chatbot.
The product is more likely in Ada or C, but yes!
We looked at using ffmpeg.js too since we wanted faster-than-real-time and constant frame rate rendering. It's too slow though, so we went with MediaRecorder instead. Thanks for the suggestion on the export screen!
This could also be related to sleep.

- Alcohol reduces the quality of your sleep, so you'll likely be playing catch-up regularly if you drink regularly before bed.

- Removing alcohol often removes the social situations surrounding alcohol, such as going out drinking till late. This means less alcohol will help stabilize your sleep cycle and keep you from spending too many nights out late.

I found that (during a difficult undergraduate course) sticking to a strict sleep schedule (and getting sufficient sunlight in the mornings) had a very positive effect on my cognitive ability.
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The industry is not monolithic, there will always be the "move fast and break things" mentality, and there will always be calls for quality and backwards compatibility.

Apple has traditionally been pretty good in the quality department, but they have never given a rat's ass about backwards compatibility. As they move forward with the whole iOS-is-the-future vision and OS X goes into legacy mode I shudder to think how bad things will get.
>Wealth is goods and services.

Wealth is matter, energy, information, and time arranged together in various ways. Leisure, the ability to spend time outside a "work or die" event-loop is a kind of wealth, one that most people have far too little of right now. You seem to be eliding leisure from your notion of wealth, and thus proposing that leisure be eliminated wherever possible.

A lot of people disagree with that.
True. I used to have to connect to fly to see my parents. Add two more hours for that.

I can't imagine interviewing the day of a cross-country flight. Even without connecting that would be miserable and probably pointless.
In the contrib folder in the TensorFlow project, you'll find the makefile subdirectory:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

The readme has a general overview of how you'll approach using it. Note that you'll want to optimize for inference (remove unnecessary operations from the graph) [0] and freeze your graph (convert Variables into constant tensors) [1] to drop in your own model for the pretrained Inception model that's used as an example.

[0]: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

[1]: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...
I guess my wad-up-roughly-and-throw-in-the-bag method is gentler somehow than using the built-in pegs. Laziness wins yet again?
Bad Interface Politics in Facebook's Fake News Filter
Maybe we can kickstart a physical kiosk machine? I heard they're all the rage nowadays [0].

[0]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13584488/snapchat-snap-in...
https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340
People reeeeally overestimate just how many drinks and with what frequency it takes to cross into that "it's negatively affecting my health" threshold.

The mayo clinic recommends these standards

Up to one drink a day for women of all ages.

Up to one drink a day for men older than age 65.

Up to two drinks a day for men age 65 and younger.

The limit for men is higher because men generally weigh more and have more of an enzyme that metabolizes alcohol than women do.

A drink is defined as:

12 ounces (355 milliliters, or mL) of beer

5 ounces (148 mL) of wine

1.5 ounces (44 mL) of 80-proof distilled spirits

Most people from my experience:

- Pour a glass of wine way over 5 ounces
- Drink pints of beer at the bar, which are 16 oz, not 12, and drink at least 2 or 3.

The moderate part is the key, both in frequency, and amount. Not drinking all week, then binge drinking is worse than simply drinking one drink every day of the week.
How does your myopic focus on punishing laziness deal with the situation where there aren't enough jobs to go around, i.e. where unemployment isn't caused by laziness? In your system, how does the worker create jobs? Given that unemployment Cody's is money, would you rather reduce the cost of unemployment or punish the unemployed, given that punishing the unemployed costs more?
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Standards, like compilers and text editors and monitors, are tools that solve one or more of someone's problems. Google's standards solve some of Google's problems. 18F's standards solve a Federal Government Agency's problems. Mark Otto's 'standard' solves Mark Otto's problems. That doesn't mean that any of them will solve your 'problems'.

You're not facing the challenges of a Google or a government and probably not the maintainer of an OSS project equivalent to Bootstrap. The purpose of standards is to make your life easier: it is not maintaining standards for their own sake. It's worth studying standards. It's also worth studying your specific problems. It's probably worth keeping in mind that whoever gets your code next won't like your standard or won't like standards at all.

What's better than a standard is tooling that automates compliance, for example Lint.

Good luck.
Assuming sugars and all saturated fats are both equally to blame is not in tune with modern research, though of course a lot of competing voices exist.
Altruism generates a sense of community. The most successful among us learn to generate an appearance of altruism while keeping the majority of the resources for themselves.

It's really more about deception than anything else.
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>...and even individuals who want to start a farm.

As a person who lives in a farming area this seems like putting a computer and a box of red bull in a box and labeling it "computer programmer kit".

I'm not a farmer but things like crop rotation, regulations, WHIMIS (pesticides/herbicides), dangers such as the PTO on the tractor and other farm dangers all needed training. You see at least once per year some farm hand injured by crushing or falling there are so many dangers.
You say this as if they aren't like 10+ year contracts :)
Also, they often come with crazy requirements and local IT support (designed this way in order to ensure only lexis/westlaw can fulfill them).
> it doesn't automatically mean everything posted by the Huffington Post is a Pulitzer contender.

That's a straw man argument I never made.
> If every language included a Docker or VM with it already set up for some level of demo, I think a rate for adoption/learning them would uptick.

Programming languages are for programmers - the kind of people that run programmer-friendly OSs/distros and figure out how to make their own packages when needed.

You don't need containers and virtual machines when you can simply "emerge dev-lang/pony" and be on your merry way.

Anyway, Pony is not the right example for the point you're trying to make because it already provides Gentoo, Arch, Debian, RedHat, macOS and Windows packages plus a Docker image.