skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doctrine, a French startup is actually doing this. https://www.doctrine.fr [Disclaimer: I'm a Data Scientist @ Doctrine]

Part of the reason why we are the only one providing something clear is that, indeed, law data is a mess, and we working hard to have a clean & consistent database.

As simple point as legal references is really complex. Every country has it's own identifier system , some editor have their own identifier system and people are referencing in really different manners...

The second point is that, we really heavily on NLP/DL to extract insights and informations about the data. This is something that couldn't have been done /easily/ in the past.

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> What Apple needed was another person like Steve, but unfortunately, by letting Steve select that person, they ended up with someone completely unlike Steve.

Paul Graham wrote about this back in 2012:

"I was talking recently to someone who knew Apple well, and I asked him if the people now running the company would be able to keep creating new things the way Apple had under Steve Jobs. His answer was simply "no." I already feared that would be the answer. I asked more to see how he'd qualify it. But he didn't qualify it at all. No, there will be no more great new stuff beyond whatever's currently in the pipeline. Apple's revenues may continue to rise for a long time, but as Microsoft shows, revenue is a lagging indicator in the technology business.

So if Apple's not going to make the next iPad, who is? None of the existing players. None of them are run by product visionaries, and empirically you can't seem to get those by hiring them. Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. So the company that creates the next wave of hardware is probably going to have to be a startup.

I realize it sounds preposterously ambitious for a startup to try to become as big as Apple. But no more ambitious than it was for Apple to become as big as Apple, and they did it. Plus a startup taking on this problem now has an advantage the original Apple didn't: the example of Apple. Steve Jobs has shown us what's possible. That helps would-be successors both directly, as Roger Bannister did, by showing how much better you can do than people did before, and indirectly, as Augustus did, by lodging the idea in users' minds that a single person could unroll the future for them.

Now Steve is gone there's a vacuum we can all feel. If a new company led boldly into the future of hardware, users would follow. The CEO of that company, the "next Steve Jobs," might not measure up to Steve Jobs. But he wouldn't have to. He'd just have to do a better job than Samsung and HP and Nokia, and that seems pretty doable."

– http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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Apple doesn't seem to have anything new. Just minor upgrades of the old stuff. The car project, whatever that was, seems to have been canceled. The watch is something of a dud. Amazon and Google are fighting it out in the voice operated home control space, while Nest doesn't have an entry.

Apple is still making tons of money. Boring but profitable isn't that bad a place to be. It's possible to be boring, profitable, and still be a prestige brand. Look at Rolex.
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I'm quite happy that Google has added this feature.

Sometimes Google maps on PC is that bad I have to get phone out.
Evolutionary instinct is to create your own offspring, not your sister's/brother's. Why would there be an evolutionary reason to help your brother reproduce but not your friend.?
OK, if you insist, let's stipulate that the fundraiser wasn't actually inconvenienced.

Please reconsider the sentence from your own link that I helpfully repeated back to you. In a DoS context, "shutting down access to the internet and email servers" does nothing "to protect patient medical records". (In fairness, it might be the right response to a more targeted attack, which this was not.) DoSing doesn't give one access to protected DBs or delicate medical equipment. At any rate, if too much traffic is causing difficulties connecting outside the hospital, who on earth would "solve" that problem by severing the connection completely? Oh, right, this was in Boston, the official home of nose-cuttingly ill-considered overreactions like the Great Boston Mooninite Panic of '07. (I think they're coming out with a movie about a different yet similar episode...) One supposes that all the patients on ventilators were lucky they didn't just decide to cut all the power in the building. Note also that most of the alleged damages stem not from the DoS, but from the moronic shutdown. If one were cynical, one might suspect that the first step in the incident response handbook is "make the incident worse so it rises to indictable level and also we can get on the news".
On a side note, I found it more useful that the Weekly/Monthly trending repositories are finally working again.

https://github.com/trending?since=monthly

https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
The 13" would benefit a lot more than TFA I suppose, since then we'd upgrade from Intel GPU to "serious" GPU, and not just dGPU to eGPU?
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So, someone like Linus Torvalds?

I’m have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air – even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky* things. Yes, there are vendors that have tried to emulate it, but usually pretty badly. I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. (...) I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room – by far – should be the occasional purring of the cat. And when I travel, I want to travel light. A notebook that weighs more than a kilo is simply not a good thing (yeah, I’m using the smaller 11″ macbook air, and I think weight could still be improved on, but at least it’s very close to the magical 1kg limit)*

People forget that thin, quiet, light, etc are also "function", and more important to some people than function they'll never exhaust in their use cases, like a bleeding fast GPU.
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Hi everyone,

I'm looking at the Sensu monitoring tool to see what can be done with it. (https://sensuapp.org)
Have you already use it ? I need some explanations about the architecture described here : https://sensuapp.org/docs/0.25/overview/architecture.html

If I well understand, RabbitMQ is required only on the server side. The question is what happen if the connection between a client and the server goes down ? Is is possible to store the messages on the client side until the connection becomes up again ?

Thx !
It's a shame that the epiphany folks were never able to really reach the potential of this device... now it's more of an evolutionary dead end oddity than something with any sort of practicality.
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I was taking a dig at the ambiguity of the word "damage."

"Damage control" can either mean "controlling the damage done to the organization" or "controlling the damage done to the public by the organization."

Anyways, I think it's wrong to characterize the WaPo as "evil" in this situation for following an editorial rulebook. There's no evidence that they published the first article with intent to apologize later - if there was, this case would be complicated significantly.
I think about this a lot too, and the question I have is – has there ever been a visionary who made his way to the top of the corporate ladder of ANY company, however enlightened? Would love to hear about it.
The Space Shuttle used autogenous pressurization for its main engines / external tank, and the Delta IV is eventually planned to do so as well. And as you mentioned SpaceX plans to use the same system with their next generation of rockets. It is tricky to get working correctly and requires a larger up front engineering effort, but the payoff in simplicity of operations is significant. Additionally, it provides gaseous propellants that can be used for other purposes, such as attitude control thrusters.
Which is typical for SQLite. And I mean this in the best possible way.
In any case, perhaps replace it? Or you don't much care for electric shock, fire damage, fried electronics, etc?
My first mistake was believing in the founder and his vision.

I actually felt like I was part of the team and making the product a reality. I was a founding engineer, employee #1. I out lasted every other founding member including the co-founder. I ended up picking up his slack.

Four years and lots of revenue later I was let go. Apparently I "outgrew" the team, what the fuck ever that means. Lesson learned, think of yourself first. A business is just a business and will get rid of you as soon as it can, so you do the same.

My second mistake was working too much. I didn't value my own time and should have spent more time with my family instead of slaving away for someone else's idea. Lesson learned, put you and those important to you first. A job is just a job, a company is just a company. None of that is worth losing time with people that actually matter.

My third mistake? I didn't make any more :)
As Paul Graham said, "So if Apple's not going to make the next iPad, who is? None of the existing players. None of them are run by product visionaries, and empirically you can't seem to get those by hiring them. Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. So the company that creates the next wave of hardware is probably going to have to be a startup." – http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Actually, the issue about continuity the article addresses is just the same for word embeddings, namely when there is an ambiguity. If the word has more than one meaning, the correct mapping is context dependent and the "one mapping fits all" approach that we are currently taking here is semantically incorrect. Yet another hard problem not easily resolved, and also attributable to "long-range dependencies".
Did a coal fire sink the Titanic?
Inspired Mobile: A Look into Mobile Marketing
Mobiles' unique attributes have allowed it to become the
‘great connector’, linking all the other mass media that went before.
At one level, mobile is at the centre of our new multi-screen world
(smartphone, tablet, PC, TV and games console). At the other end of the
spectrum, mobile blurs the boundaries and bridges the gaps to unite
our physical and digital worlds.

Mobile in this new and expanded role enables more immersive
experiences, paves the way for new marketing approaches and opens up
more opportunities for brands and marketers to influence and engage
consumers every step of their daily journey. How to build towards this transformation and how your company can benefit from a strategy
that makes every moment mobile?

Mobile is well established as our constant and personal
companion, a position that makes mobile “simply the greatest persuasive
technology device ever invented.” People depend on their phones to manage their lives, interact with companies and brands, conduct commerce, transfer money and even pray. From researching products, to conducting transactions, to sharing a product review
with their social network, people rely on their mobile devices to access advice
and make the right decisions.

Our addiction level to the mobile phone is so intense that the average person
looks at their mobile phone 150 times per day.

This means the opportunity to engage with consumers happens 150 distinct times per day — or more. That’s once every 6.5 minutes of every waking hour.

With that said, do you think mobile marketing is of importance? Is your business mobile
ready? If not, would you consider taking the steps?

Would like to know your thoughts.
Sure, except that OSX's iterm2+Karabiner is so much better than any terminal on Linux. Awesome full-screen switching (⌘-Enter), easy shortcuts to create subwindows, natural clipboard support, great keyboard compatibility with Emacs (after futzing with keyboard settings and Karabiner mappings). On Ubuntu, all of these have been lacking. Hell, I can't even use the terminal for a single session without accidentally triggering the App Launcher several times.
Yes, that made me lose a lot of confidence in the article. This shouldn't have been a footnote. It should have been stated in the beginning that the author was only considering powers of two, and the footnote should have been a reference to ways to deal with other sizes - my very first question, before I got to the footnotes, was "How would I deal with a 3x3 square?"
Hey, Money Plus Sunset is still an available download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...
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Exactly. If you do a lot of work over terminals and ssh anyway, does it really matter?

Most likely (hopefully, if you have a big powerful workstation) you use at least some big fat desktop application such as XCode, Visual Studio, AutoCad, Photoshop, Chrome, Mathematica, Office, ...

Just pick an operating system that works well with your hardware and your big fat desktop applications. All that terminal stuff will likely run anyway.
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Just drop safari support. Vote with your feet, so to speak.
Reminds me of the rich jerk in terms of selling style
That was actually a great advice to narrow down the options. Thanks :)
You can buy tushonka in any voentorg, so it's not reliable any longer.

Visit card or passport left in place is much better than tushonka. It's long way for CIA.
Even five kilometres from a small town can feel like wilderness. These days a town of 5,000 people can have enough to sustain life (medical and otherwise).
Not sure if the issue has already been solved but I have tried with different accounts in different environments we have for our app and it was working fine for all the accounts. Previously, it was very easy to reproduce the problem. Fingers crossed!
Altruism is a way to bequeath a competitive advantage to another who is not your immediate offspring but is part of your gene pool.

Altruism is one of the most pervasive forms of interaction in life on Earth because it is the mechanism by which multi-cellular life functions at a basic level.
Great idea but don't NA air transport regulations require you pack your own luggage? I certainly got asked that multiple times last time I went from Europe to NA.
That is my feeling as well. I walk past the Microsoft store and look at the slick surface hardware and daydream about it being a good device and me using it, then I remember the many years of windows pain that I suffered. I keep walking.
1) Over promising on project timelines. It's better to under promise and over deliver than to over promise and work yourself into the ground to meet expectations, or worse, lose the respect of your peers by missing your own deadlines.

2) Working myself into the ground. I am human - I should have treated myself like it.

3) Ignoring office politics and putting my head down. Do not let office politicians step on you and bend truths at your expense. Humbly, confidently and respectfully speak your piece with decorum.
Because your brother shares around 50% of your genes. Helping your brother reproduce therefore helps to propagate some of your genes.

The principle behind this is that evolution operates at the level of genes, rather than individuals. I recommend Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene for a fuller explanation.
>The failure to provide facts, to challenge assertions and claims, to actually know, in our news media is super annoying.

This is still a result of the fact that technical journalists get paid a fraction of what an engineer gets paid. So if you have the knowledge to write good articles, you're rather going to work in the field than report on it.
So... This last year in Safari Extension world:

* $100 buy in. Yearly. (Firefox, Edge, Chrome, Opera... No license fees.)

* Long, bug-prone, and somewhat idiotic review process.

* No way to charge for an extension, to recoup that $100. So its ads or nothing.

* Installation page only. No reviews. No real information.

Caveat: You can develop for free, without getting listed, but then you can't automatically update the extension.

What's coming in Safari Extension world:

* The $100 fee is staying.

* Xcode requirement. You'll need a Mac to publish.

* Swift/Objective-C requirement. No more HTML/JS/CSS only.

* Mac store listing, which means you can charge for extensions. But the Mac Store isn't known for a nice review process.

* Hugely lacking documentation. Hopefully this'll change... But Apple doesn't have a good track record here.

Result:

Reddit Enhancement Suite has to decide between not publishing for one of the major browsers, or paying out for a longer, harder to maintain process, to achieve the same thing as they already do for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Opera.

Personal anecdote:

Apple seems to hate their own developers. This story, others, and my own experiences tell me that Apple makes everything more difficult than need be to put together a program, small or large, that actually runs on their platform.

Swift was a step in the right direction, a nice language, a decent Open Source effort, and cross platform to boot.

But Safari... Safari lacks in so many areas that it's progress on JS doesn't matter much. Isolating those who build for it is unhelpful.

It almost seems like Apple want Safari to die.
You don't need to deport people; make it tough to earn a living and they'll move somewhere else — that's what brought them here in the first place. Arizona cracked down on illegal aliens a while back and their intensive-English courses enrollment dropped by 80,000 students. While intensive-English course enrollment is an imperfect proxy for "illegal" (some illegals don't need it anymore and some born here still do), this saved the state $350 million a year. Annual ER spending on noncitizens dropped from $167M to $106M. And between '00 and '04, the annual cost to state prisons from incarcerating noncitizen felons dropped 11% from $202M to $180M.

At least $416M saved, per year on average, and Arizona didn't deport anybody.

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>the site's left-of-center leanings

I find HN to be one of the more moderate, centrist, pro-business places I get my news. There are vocal left-of-center members, but I'd hardly call it a left-of-center place. We clearly want to create an environment where entrepreneurialism and technology work to make the world a better place, and admire successful people and companies that make that a reality.
If Rails is his sticking point, then there's no point in paying for something when you can have it for free.
I don't think those ocean liners have anything on private jets when you take time into account.
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Even in portuguese the book is unfortunately pretty hard to find. I actually am thinking about translating it myself, I already asked the publisher if I can make it easily available online(I'm thinking something like a github repo so people can help translate and fix errors), not sure if they'll answer me tho.

Send me a mail at erik@14th.info and I'll let you know if I get something done.
Hear hear!!

"I’ve also run various Linux distributions and BSDs since around 2000, so am quite familiar with them"

Therefor i consider, it is not even a switch just more dedicated usage. Clickbait blogpost, if you ask me.
they might need some cold water for that burn