skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it be a third party click fraud? For example, if you buy ads in Adwords on thrid-party sites, their owners' income depends on how many clicks are made so they might be motivated to add bots to real user traffic.

And even if you buy ads on Google's own sites (like Youtube), the channel owners could hire bots to maximize their income.

Regarding Facebook, I don't know if there is any third party, maybe this is just people who clicked on ads accidentaly?
Ligatures. It's easy to not notice them at all in english &#64258; (ﬂ) vs. fl [ﬂy vs. fly] but some languages use them very extensively and the combinations are more significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner

* It's entirely possible that the browser you're using isn't doing a very good job with ligatures which explains the strange look of my examples
USSR had one as well, the Soviet Ruble. You are right about the Latin Monetary Union, it is one of them. There was also the Scandinavian Monetary Union (SMU), and many more.
powertower, If I recall properly, I think that the nature/idea of the EU was from the nazis originally, is that right?
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-...
The infographic doesn't make it clear what substantive differences exist between H1B and L1 visas. AFAICT from the text below it's more like transferring within the globocorp.

From [1]: "The new U.S. office must have a corporate relationship with your foreign entity abroad where you have been employed as a manager, executive, or worker with specialized knowledge. This means that the new U.S. office must be a parent, affiliate, subsidiary or branch of the foreign entity, and that both the U.S. office and the foreign entity must continue to share common ownership and control."

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/l-1-intracompany-transf...
Unemployment caused by the euro.
Bringing back Facebook's news summaries
they also need to work for the company for over a year in an office abroad before applying.
Not the maintainer, but I assume because it helps developers looking for it in such a format. Saving them the time of converting is a nice move, IMO.
With unlimited money almost any engineering problem can be solved.

A lot of them can be solved. Knowing which ones can be solved economically is the whole point of Elon Musk's First Principles approach.

(I should apply first principles to games and simulations.)
That's a quite humorously inaccurate depiction of early American unity. Under the Articles of Confederation, the burgeoning country almost collapsed because individual states pursued independent agendas that undermined the efficacy of the whole. The British would have loved for this to continue so they could sweep in and rest back control. Thankfully, the states later organized around the more centralized, federal authority outlined in what we today call our constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Articles_of_Confe...
People don't really have a problem with immigration. They have a problem with terrorism.

The various eastern European migrations subsequent to the fall of communism did not come with terrorism.
I think I recently pointed out that focusing on H1B was a red herring.

Any way, I love publicly posted salary information for every H1B applicant by company and date! http://www.h1bdata.info Way better than Glassdoor or Payscale or any of those "give us your Facebook account and a ton of information before we show you outdated base-salary-only information but since you clicked we're sure the ad worked" websites

Don't know about the history of that transparency and don't care, can probably convince Congress to extend it to other work visa types "as a compromise to study the effect on citizens" lol!
This is Nature trying to make out that their problem is something wrong with the Gates policy. Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.
The full quote is:

In the past, I have advocated learning Deep Learning using only a matrix library. For the purposes of actually knowing what goes on under the hood, I think that this is essential, and the lessons learned from building things from scratch are real gamechangers when it comes to the messiness of tackling real world problems with these tools. However, when building neural networks in the wild (Kaggle Competitions, Production Systems, and Research Experiments), it's best to use a framework.

Which makes a bit more sense in context. Certainly I think taking CS231N has put me at an advantage going through fast.ai because the quality of the notes (and discussion on backprop, how neural nets work, etc.) is significantly better. Andrej Karpathy and Justin Johnson have done an amazing job with the whole website.

The downside with CS231N is the lack of really real-world practice if you're want to work with image data. The implementation examples only focus on CIFAR-10. I think the two courses are definitely complementary and I think if I'd only taken fast.ai I would be left a bit unsatisfied about knowing what I'd been doing when twiddling parameters.
The answer to just about every question that begins with "Is Uncle Bob wrong about..." is yes.
The entire field of game theory grew out of von Neumann's work on analysis of how people play chess[1].

Quote: What should be noted here is that the format of his intended talks follows exactly the development of game theory up to 1928, beginning with Zermelo on chess, and culminating with von Neumann groping for a theory for three and more players: game theory was still the mathematics of parlor games

[1] http://elaine.ihs.ac.at/~blume/leonardjel.pdf
Thinking about functional programming
Your graph makes look like "L1 + spouse worker" is a little bit more than 100k.

The source document says ~78k L1 were issued in 2015, and ~86k L2, which included spouses and chidren.

How do you know how many L1 spouses are working?
OK, we've updated the title from “eLucy”.
Yes, the geopolitical motivations were pretty obvious. Of course you were labeled a hopeless conservative or conspiracy nutjob by the europhiles if you brought it up.
https://github.com/raszpl/smplayer4YT

its a mess, but ~works :)
eval
expr

I got nothing for "mocha", though. Edit: apparently (from below) there was a Yahoo! mail filter that replaced "expresso" [sic] with "mocha"; but either the story was misreported or the mail filter was wildly misconfigured. So the entry should be "expresso" [sic], perhaps.
There's also Vimium for Chrome.
Not sure how similar they are, but the only feature that matters about Vimium is pressing the F key, which allows you to open links without using the mouse.
It's the greatest idea I've seen and it should be a native feature of major browsers.
Also the L2 holder has to apply for an EAD, which takes 4-6 months.
That is a cynical, but not wholly implausible view.

Big companies' ad campaigns do have their weaknesses. Their keywords can be poached by small competitors. Well-known brands invite comparisons, e.g. "HipUpStart.io is a better $BIG_BOX_BRAND."
Letting bulk cylindrical metal shells slam into the ocean is a bit less sophisticated than tail landing a liquid fueled rocket. Landing the orbiter was a technical tour de force, but the effort went into increasing cross-range, taking away from the economics.
VP9 version file has higher bitrate and is bigger.
Sadly, I did go by journal title, but not the way you think. In antibiotic research and microbiology I finally arrived at the point where I assumed anything published in Nature, Science, or Cell was likely to be so fundamentally flawed that the only reason to read it was so I could explain why we shouldn't waste our time in journal club with it.
"it doesn't matter, or at least I wish it didn't."

It doesn't matter to you, but I am sure it matters a whole lot to the people of Poland (but fuck them, I guess?). Apparently they've changed their mind about this deal, and just want to be left alone.

The EU isn't a suicide pact. People can and will change their mind, and will change the deal along with it.

"You just can't send people back to active war zones, and that has nothing to do with EU regulations."

Then send them to Germany or Sweden. They love the refugees! It is a win win situation. If they really do believe all the things that they say, then it should be no problem, right?
> Let's be honest - internet users are cheap. They want stuff for free.

There are 3 problems with this statement.

1) There is a lot of free content, easily found, and content gets more rapidly out of date nowadays. Paid content must deal with this (newsworthy, in depth competition).

2) Your view is US centric; the vast majority (read: not all) of internet users from other countries generally have less money to spend.

3) The cost of loss of privacy is indirect, therefore hidden, and US companies generally get away with it. This is why data mining is currently profitable.

In order to solve #3 shit must first hit the fan, to increase awareness. #1 is solved by collectively putting the high quality content behind paywall. #2 can in theory be solved by globalisation in long-term. Short-term, dynamic price makes sense, but it makes #1 & #3 worse.

Let me quote the rest of your statement:

> [...] They want stuff for free. And if site A starts charging, they will jump ship to site B, until eventually it's a race to the bottom.

Agreed, except for example for (local) newspapers who also provide online access as part of their sub. Global newspapers have more competition. Especially given the widespread English language.

> Ads seems to be the only model that works (thus far).

For Google, yes. For privacy, no. In apps on an unrooted Android device, yes. On recent iOS and desktops, no (the latter 2 due to ad blockers).

Also, streaming media such as Spotify proves a subscription in a new market (not newspapers) can work. Netflix proves it for video.

> And recently Mozilla's Brendan Eich is doing Brave, with bitcoin micropayments. I'd love to see it gain traction, but I don't see it going mainstream.

Not yet a final, stable non developer version released AFAIK. Also, Eich is no longer part of Mozilla.
It makes an assumption that 25% approximately end up working. Forgot to specify that. Will fix it. thanks
One interesting thing going forward (over the next decade) regarding deep learning and high-performance computing will be if we can circumvent the big serial bottleneck - that is, depth. The best benchmarks have generally all been set by networks with significantly increased levels of depth compared to the previous records. Gradient descent, however, requires propagating residuals back through every layer of the network (to tune the lowest layers, at any rate). This is inherently a serial task. Recurrent networks can be considered to be infinitely deep - in practice they're truncated to some finite level during training.

There are a couple of solutions to these problems that are being worked on - including various "learning-to-learn" approaches. One approach (DeepMind published, I believe) is to locally train an auxiliary network to predict the back-propagated residuals coming down from the top. It will be interesting to see if these approaches pan out, or if eventually we start to run into real serial bottlenecks again as we build ever-deeper networks.
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"expresso" with "mocha", surely.
WATCH: Arnold Schwarzenegger Goes Bezerk in Rare Footage
ZWJ and ZWNJ are also common in Indic scripts. It's basically used to control the appearance of glyphs, for example half-forms and consonant clusters (क्‍ष vs क्ष, both are kṣa). As usual, wikipedia has good examples. The Unicode Standard also contains details about these.

ZW[N]J as a standalone character or at the beginning of a word is very unusual on a day-to-day basis, so it's understandable that Twitter fails to recognize this pattern.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZWJ

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZWNJ
>> No right-thinking or peace-loving alien species would choose us, humans, for alliance.

The saddest thing I read today :(
Speaking as an unreconstructed Stallmanite, I do sometimes wonder if Microsoft will actually turn out to have been worth it.
There are quite a few of these screen-capture tools around (Inspectlet, Mouseflow, Hotjar), most of them for UX optimization.

If you're looking for a more developer-focused product, you can also check out LogRocket (https://logrocket.com).
Of course it exists for matters that concern everybody. Who said it's not?

The problem is that those laws are not modifiable because you need the unanimity of all the countries in the EU. Which is extremely difficult because, again, all the 28 countries have different interests in all areas of the treaty. It's basically stuck.

As far as you saying that every member state can have its own set of rules, no. We had this issue multiple times and found ourselves having to pay insane amount of penalties because we were not, for example, accepting to grow GMO in France. If the EU says "You guys should do this and that in that matter", we can't have a rule that goes against that. That is the real problem, I think that the people of each individual country do not decide anymore, and the people in charge have no power, since they cannot take their own decisions.
In Brooklyn, I got rid of half a bike (missing front fork and seat) by setting it outside for about 20 minutes.

I guess you could say I got rid of the first half by setting it outside overnight, poorly locked to a post, but it was unintentional.
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Ask HN: What's your job?
Curious to see if there are commonalities or not
It could be that the 10% traffic does give them an edge, or you're right about the CPC inflation argument as well. Overall, there is something wrong with the current model since it impedes innovation by allowing smaller players to properly reach the masses. A weird way of defensibility via marketing.
> Firstly this is a complex issue because from what I understand these papers validate and ensure quality in the publishing of the article.

I think you'd seriously have to show your working there, in detail. Nobody who does that work is paid, AIUI. The publisher probably does a bang-up job of the typesetting ...
How do you make the tabs go away?
Google Drive with unlimited storage
Sounds like a bad product
Been contently using Vimperator for at least a good year now (coming from VimFX), but I'm trying to find something to jump ship to once support drops. It's going to suck losing Rikaisama and uMatrix/uBO. Between the idiomatic :o/:tabopen <se-keyword> searching, marks, recording and buffer management, a simple Vi-like navigation extension can't compare. The fact that there's a .vimperatorrc might be overkill for some, but, like any dotfile, a boon for others. If Vimperator had splits I'd probably stay on some compatible fork.
I remember in grade 7, 2002ish before reddit was invented and the internet was discoverable, I somehow found this site and spent several days poring through it.
Nationalists didn't have the massive propaganda engines they do today.
>bow shock created by the engines is enough to serve as an ersatz heat shield

Source pls. Google search yeilds no results.
We're all just waiting for that moment Elsevier chooses to go full SCO.
>> Over the decades, the list of features posited as universal to human grammar has been laboriously reduced to an almost catchy formulation: human linguistic expressions are linearized, recursive hierarchical structure, with differences in structure associated with differences in interpretation, and, in principle, no limit on the depth of hierarchical structure.

What the article is describing (in very broad terms, probably to suit a diverse audience) is knonw as "merge". It, along with a discussion on the evolution of language, is discussed in the paper below:

https://chomsky.info/20140826/
There is more than 22% of unemployment in Spain. Furthermore, more than 43% of people under 25 are unemployed.
"It's so obvious that the single states can't control immigration on their own."

Britain can. Breaking into there is MUCH harder than anywhere else. Island nation and all.

"and then the people won't even have the option of going to Berlin and work as waitress"

Orrr..... they will just negotiate and change the deal, so something like this CAN work. This is not all or nothing. There are better solutions, and they will be negotiated.
That's a fluke ;)

$ node
> _ = "hi"
'hi'
> _
'hi'
> foo = "bar"
'bar'
> _
'bar'

(See mattnewton's reply for explanation.)
Hahahahaha reminds me of a saying about spherical cows.

If Game Theory was being used as an "explanation" to show why deep learning outperforms other methods then maybe it would have been fine. But then we already have Statistical Learning Theory and PAC learning which try to explain/prove bounds on Machine Learning models.

There is nothing wrong with having a theory but these days Deep Learning has become a bandwagon that any/everything gets related to. And I just don't see how Game Theory of all mathematical tools is applicable to Deep Learning.

Finally the misguided theory driven approach was exactly the reason why Deep Learning was so controversial initially. Turns out making a theory like SLT and deriving ML models like SVMs is a really bad idea. Deep Learning succeeded because the ML and Vision community adopted empiricism over the fanciest/longest proof with covex loss. So when someone goes around claiming Game Theory as a savior/future of Deep Learning I find it perplexing.
That paper doesn't mention game theory or the Nash equilibrium at all.

Perhaps you mean [2], which does. However, the article seems to misinterpret this: the fact that that system approximates the Nash equilibrium should be expected. Any system (including humans) that performs well in those types of games will, almost by definition.

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.01121.pdf
Commercial surveillance is a problem, no doubt, but the problem isn't just Google - any held commercial data is susceptible to government snooping. Which is why people just blindly throwing their data into The Cloud annoys me.
I thought this was going to be about "Unwarranted chumminess with the compiler" - in the original C implementation of regular expressions and subsequently copied into every language port thereafter.
The owner of several 1 letter NPM packages
> If you can show me someone actually managing to land a launch-capable rocket, and not just some testbed demo capable of throttling to less than hover, I'm all ears.

Are you saying only SpaceX is capable of doing this? Seriously?
Any difference is barely noticeable to my eye. Even having them side-by-side with the same default macOS Sierra background does not feel like two different displays. Even if I try hard and focus on specific details the quality, color, contrast look the same to me.
For me it really is about making sure I'm being an attentive and good, equal(ish) partner for my wife as we age together and things change. She does the same. Both men and women want consistency, especially in marriage. Inconsistency makes people uneasy and sometimes just doesn't meet expectations based on their prior time together. I don't think it's bad to challenge your partner either if their behavior or contributions to the relationship change over time; it's just a discussion if you've built a good relationship in the first place. But if you harp on the past and use it to beat down the other person, yes that's definitely bad.

Regarding the roles for maintaining the romance - it can differ on the relationship. From the article, it seems the husband's role and contribution is to be a good dad, a good team player and attentive to her idiosyncrasies. She appreciates that and finds it sexy and attractive. That's his role in maintaining the romance. I'm not sure of her role for maintaining the romance; she doesn't get into it. But they both play parts in the success or failure of romance, regardless of their definition.

Regarding the video - I like it and can relate; Thanks for sharing.

Some good stuff from the video:

> Feeling obligated means, you don't feel responsible for that, but others are demanding that from you
> If you feel obligated to somebody.... today or tomorrow you will take revenge on them..... You won't be able to handle ... somebody demanding part of you and sitting inside of you nagging
> Go for completion as early as possible. Let you be free from all obligations

Both my wife and myself have actually found ourselves at times putting obligations on ourselves when there's no reason to. That can cause stress and impact our relationship. And once in awhile we do make each other feel obligated to do things. Sometimes her pushing me to an "obligation" to go out with her after dinner during the week to meet a new business acquaintance.

I don't like obligations pushed on me and it has gotten me in trouble with my wife. I've had conversations with her and let her know that it feels like she is demanding things from me, not asking and that since I run several companies I usually just want to go home and spend time with her relaxing; that's all. I also expect her to check with me before trying to organize these types of events because that's just courteous. She's been very good with understanding that and I do the same with her. We're going on 10 years so we've gotten way better at discussing these things and also being more mindful of each other.
Of course if you cherry pick your immigrants, you can claim immigrants are not problematic.

If all your immigrants turned into Muslim refugees overnight, what would happen? I'm sure you guess it.
Any of you figured out how to get vimperator / pentadactyl to work with all of the SPAs that have their own shortcuts? e.g. Asana or Reviewable or Gmail etc? I've always had a pretty bad time with combining those.

Also, is there a solid Chrome version of any of the above?
Author is spanish, and gender rules in spanish are quite different from what they are in english.

I'd advice against disregarding somebody's technical skills because of their foreign language skills.
Fun fact: these two are married and the cutest couple. They walk to Rice's Coffeehouse almost daily together talking about whatever it is compiler professors talk about.
From what I hear, most of those who find the EU "unpalatable" have huge misconceptions about how it is organized, how the various bodies are staffed, how representatives are chosen and what the different bodies do. It's in part because national news give little focus to it and, therefore, its function becomes obscure, prime material for propaganda.
Maybe it depends on the product.
That's in the political philosophy sense. You can argue that there's a universal moral sense above that and that's fine, but that's not what we're talking about when we're talking about the just-ness of government actions.

I am pretty sure people are talking in the philosophical sense when they say "taxation is theft". I don't know what it accomplishes to simply state "a democratic state has instituted it, therefore it's not a crime" - you could see how this would fall apart for other things we would consider crimes like murder.
'Git ta werk. ;)
> Google failed to find correlations between performance at college and performance at work [1].

Well, in Google employees. Which belong to that 1% of the 1% ... etc (and not to mention that many Googlers did not go to school in the US)
This account is clearly squatting. Not only do they hold several one letter package names but also many other names that are generic. The majority of them have nothing more than a package.json
Yep - both him and Zuckerberg are awful people is you are about privacy.