skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By any chance are you thinking of Antonio Damasio's book _Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain_?

Also, this (paywalled, sorry) article seems relevant.

Antoine Bechara, Antonio R. Damasio, Hanna Damasio, Steven W. Anderson, Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex, Cognition, Volume 50, Issues 1–3, April–June 1994, Pages 7-15, ISSN 0010-0277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(94)90018-3.
(//www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010027794900183)

Abstract: Following damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, humans develop a defect in real-life decision-making, which contrasts with otherwise normal intellectual functions. Currently, there is no neuropsychological probe to detect in the laboratory, and the cognitive and neural mechanisms responsible for this defect have resisted explanation. Here, using a novel task which simulates real-life decision-making in the way it factors uncertainty of premises and outcomes, as well as reward and punishment, we find that prefrontal patients, unlike controls, are oblivious to the future consequences of their actions, and seem to be guided by immediate prospects only. This finding offers, for the first time, the possibility of detecting these patients' elusive impairment in the laboratory, measuring it, and investigating its possible causes.
>All Uber drivers I talk to alternate between Uber and Lyft and exploit any promotions or incentives either firm offers.

This is what is generally called "attempt to survive".
What insight does the patent offer, which you won't get from reading the word2vec papers?
And that's why I fail to see the value for this.

Does anyone use this for reasons other than blocking license validation checks on pirated software? Because that's the only reason I can think of for getting this.
> the best cubicle

No small thing on a place parent presumably spent a lot of time.
Deploying to production is a pain in the ass to setup the first time and has a lot of gotchas. I know, I've done it.

It is getting better but right now the few things I can recommend the most are:

• learn what an "OTP release" actually is and what it means. This alone will save you days of your life.

• do rolling restarts, doing live upgrades is difficult and not necessary for the vast majority of applications.

• read the prod.exs config, there's a commented out setting you'll need to enable. I forget the name of it, but it's on my github "tehprofessor" with the repo "flying with Phoenix" (its probably outdated in many ways but that setting is essential).

• remember the application is compiled and then run, so you really won't get any runtime configuration (likes Rails' environments).

• Docker can alleviate build pain a bit, as it stabilizes your environment-- I don't use it myself but it makes building a bit more pleasant from what others have told me.

• you'll very likely need to include all the applications, including ones listed in your dependencies (it's a pain in the ass), in your mix.exs applications list if you're using exrm.

... it's been a couple months as I've been on a coding hiatus for health reasons (and a broken arm) but I believe most of the above should still be very true.

That said and even with all the bitching I've had about it, I still love Elixir and Erlang. Though I've been moving more to pure Erlang as time goes on (FWIW).

Edit: clarity and note about loving me some elixir/erlang.
Ask HN: Website concept for better dialog in society
When a user visits this website, he/she is asked a random political question from a pool of questions. The question has Yes/No answer. For example,

Do you believe US should build a $4bn wall on its border with Mexico?

If the person answers Yes, he/she will be put in a chat room with a person who has answered No. Both of them will be anonymous to each other. The chat room will be private and only the two can talk to each other. But if both of them agree, they can choose to make it public for others to read later.

Can somebody build this? Or can an existing website (say Reddit) be used in this way?
Apple sues Qualcomm for roughly $1B over royalties
People are saying "VACCINES CAN KILL", not "VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM", FYI. One is true based on honest scientific research.

And headlining it that way in The Guardian would be just as grossly negligent as what they did.
When you fix your gamma, it's light gray on white.
We have Elixir/Phoenix in production on Heroku (with Heroku Pipelines) using a custom buildpack [0]. It's been great. We'll probably look at Docker. We use CircleCI, and this setup script [1] was a great starting point.

0: https://github.com/HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir
1: https://gist.github.com/joakimk/48ed80f1a7adb5f5ea27
That depends on your POV. Is iTunes phoning home legitimate traffic? Maybe for some/most, but I certainly block those attempts, to me iTunes is just a nuisance app, like GarageBand and a few others. LS does an excellent job at selecting the vital connections as valid and then let you decide if you want to tell Apple & Microsoft & Friends more or if you actually preferred the OS would not.
No it didn't, it overestimated the popular vote too much in his direction and was off by about 5 points. Most polls were better than that.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/315145-one-la...

Since the 538 stuff is mostly a summary of all of those other, better polls, they got the popular vote pretty much bang on. Their modal of how that translated to the electoral college was better than any other model too.

Except for the "Donald Trump will win the popular vote, therefore he'll definitely win the electoral college, oops he didn't win the popular vote, but let's just pretend we're polling the electoral college instead" model.
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Beyond ignoring the side effects of prohibition and all the crime it creates one thing about the article I found eyebrow-raising was the dismissive tone they took towards ending the drug war. It's only 20% of the incarcerated population. Ending it would ONLY save the lives of millions of innocent Americans.

It's definitely not the whole story, not even the majority, but 20% is ENORMOUSLY significant. And the most crucial thing is that it's a no-brainer. It's easy. It is the first of many steps, but it's the first and that's important in a way I think the article misses. If we can't convince the electorate to stop brutalizing innocent people who prefer safer and healthier alternatives to alcohol in the privacy of their own home, for example, how will we ever get to the point where we can consider releasing a serial drunk driver before 20 years of being beaten and raped and humiliated?

The biggest change the drug war has made is to the law enforcement apparatus. It has given law enforcement unlimited power because it has turned everyone into a criminal: drugs are ubiquitous, especially in poorer communities, and proving that someone possesses something is MUCH easier than proving someone has done something in court. When everyone's a criminal and it's easy to prosecute all of a sudden you get enormous power concentrated in the hands of LEOs and prosecutors, it's all about who they choose to exact punishment upon. Prosecutors will get lazy and instead of going after someone for a real crime, use the drugs to force them into a plea and call it a day. It's quick, cost effective, and serves some sense of justice -- you get the person you've decided is the "bad guy". Getting rid of the war on drugs would stop this, so prosecutors would have to drop cases or prosecute real crimes, which I'd imagine would lead simultaneously to more prosecutions of those problem crimes with huge sentences mentioned in the article and fewer convictions. It's another factor.
Nuanced information requires nuanced explanations. This coverage is not nuanced: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/whatsapp
> I was born in a hospital run by Hyundai with equipments manufactured by Hyundai. The apartment block was built by Hyundai. Every morning, a bustling crowd of dads get into a Hyundai car, driving on roads paved by Hyundai, spend the next 14+ hours in Hyundai offices, factories, shipyards. If you were not of conscription age you were attending a school built by Hyundai reading a textbook funded by Hyundai justifying the sacrifice of millions of Korean labourers, now cast aside and shunned into a life of poverty. If you were due for military service the next 2+ years would be spent working in Hyundai built facilities and Hyundai Rotem (also built the Canada Line Skytrain in Vancouver) manufactured tanks. When you are finished you would return to your post-secondary studies sponsored by Hyundai with campus built by Hyundai subsidiaries. We called it, Republic of Hyundai, 7th largest city in South Korea. If you lived in Seoul, it was Samsung Empire.

Reminds me the book Jennifer Government [1] by Max Barry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government
Zealotry.
I would challenge you to consider if job #1 of a leader is really to build a great team. I can think of a lot of great teams working on bad problems (not bad = hard, but bad = not useful). That sucks.

On the other hand if a leader can figure out what problems are important to work on and clearly communicate why this is true it becomes easy to attract a great team.
It's a vulnerability. The article says only that it "could be used by government agencies as a backdoor", which is true of almost any vulnerability. If a vulnerability exists in a given cryptosystem then to a large extent it doesn't matter whether it's there by accident or design. At least, that's been the security community's line for decades prior to this particular incident.
We have a new Erdos-Bacon number! (I assume)
If you really felt like the possibility of a 'real' discussion was nil, just don't post. taxicabjesus made valid points, and you just condescendingly insult him. For what purpose?
Does anyone know how to do such a benchmark?
I build releases with distillery and deploy them with Docker, the combination has worked really nicely for my projects.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of exrm and distillery, so I'm probably biased.
She has a defined Erdős–Bacon number now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
No, I presented the consequences of their goal. Removing paywalled results from search engines will result in it being harder for people to be paid for their work. Why is it considered bad form to remind people of that?
A number of the 8-bit sets that embedded the ASCII 7-bit set were informally referred to as ASCII especially during the 1980s; this may have been encouraged by microcomputer BASIC interpreters using the ASC() function (named for ASCII) to return the character code of a character in the system code set, which was often an 8-bit set that embedded ASCII.
Google's former head of search joins Uber to lead its maps division
Wikipedia:

In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress in the porn movie Deep Throat, mocking Ada's tribute to Ada Lovelace).[6] Bill Joy cites Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.[7]

On June 24, 1993, Gelernter was severely injured opening a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber. He recovered from his injuries, but his right hand and eye were permanently damaged.[8] He chronicled the ordeal in his 1997 book Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber.

He helped found the company Mirror Worlds Technologies, which in 2001 released Scopeware software using ideas from his 1992 book Mirror Worlds. Gelernter believed that computers can free users from being filing clerks by organizing their data.

In 2003, he became a member of the National Council on the Arts.[11]

In October 2016, he wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for President, calling Hillary Clinton "as phony as a three-dollar bill," and saying that Barack Obama "has governed like a third-rate tyrant."

Gelernter's book Mirror Worlds (1991) "prophesied the rise of the World Wide Web."[14] Bill Joy, founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, says Gelernter is "one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time."[14] The New York Times called him a computer science "rock star".
And I'd prefer to have my kernel code written by a community that cares about its long-term health and efficiency rather than respect.
my first python thought was

s = ' hello world \n'
s = ''.join(s.split())

again probably not fast, but simple
My company's first choice is always Azure since outside of my team we're C# head to toe. Though after skimming through a few deployment articles I might push for a Heroku deploy.

I can honestly say I've not been this excited about a language in quite a while. Working with Go is pretty straightforward... but it's a complete bore. The more I dig into Elixir the more I desire to use it full-time.
Simple regexes can be reasonably quick, but you're almost certainly never going to do better than linear time, and if you get fancy, it's easy to go exponential with a large exponent.
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I completely disagree. Google punishing sites for using paywalls will have the affect of making it harder for people to get paid for their work. And I don't believe that having a paywall is in any way a "bait-n-switch".
I am using an Ikea Vollmar ($250) currently (for up to 14h per day) and I like it. The back adjusting mechanism could be more fine grained. A few years ago I used a Vitra office chair, which was better and I might one day buy one. However, the price of ~1500$ is a bit hard to swallow and as long as I don't get back pain I will stay with my Volmar.
i'm sure using a fully featured regular expression engine would be several magnitudes slower than a handcrafted 128bit routine.

those engines too trade power for speed.
It is a vulnerability and it is a flaw. Do you think this is the first time a group of authoritative experts have tried to claim to the Guardian that their truth-telling is not in the public interest?
> If you want a long prison term for some number of DUI convictions, then I hope you're okay with having prison populations much higher than any other first-world country, because they're the same thing. There's no way to cut that number down much without more lenient sentences for DUI, sex crimes, assault, murder, etc.

TLDR; Yes, a habitual drunk driver deserves punishment (up to and including jail).

--

By sheer numbers, the US will have more convictions for drunk driving due to the vast number of cars. There will be some portion of the population that drives drunk. A portion of that that drives drunk a second time. A portion of that will get a third conviction. So on, so forth. I don't think it is unreasonable to punish someone for a third DUI/DWI conviction.

This isn't stop and frisk or police/government overreach. You literally have to drink enough to be over the legal limit (which everyone with a license knows), get in a car, and drive (and honestly it has to be bad enough that you get pulled over for it). You have to then be convicted (probably receive probation and classes) for the first offense. You then have to repeat that a second and third time... That is a series of choices that are made. Why do you think more leniency is needed at that point?
There are plenty of channels for this sort of thing, for example on reddit you have sub-communities like /r/AskAVegan and /r/AskDocs
> Heavily de-contextualised true information can be just as misleading as actual lies.

Don't they end up being lies of omission at that point?
No, they actually did write parts of the paper.

Leaving them out as co-authors would be misconduct.
Git Can't Be Made Consistent
Stability of the solution is a major issue.

Look at websites for example. Many small businesses that have been around for 5+ years probably have a website that works well on a desktop monitor.

Every time Google rolls out a new change to the algorithm, everyone has to update their website. Look at the change that favors mobile friendly sites in mobile search results that happened a few years back. I still have a dentist that has this huge website that is not mobile friendly. He spent thousands making it. Now he is reluctant to spend thousands more to make it responsive.
Another Markus chair review.

I think it's an ugly looking thing but surprisingly comfortable, had mine for ~5 years, it has a bit of play where the stem fits in the base that I keep meaning to shim out with some aluminium can but have never got around to.

I score it 5/7
Thank you for distillery, it's a very nice tool
Crazy thought but does Digits have value for Google with adding SMS to Allo?
> Someone committing a robbery with drugs in their system would usually be included in drug crime

"included" in what context? Are you saying that publications like the FBI uniform crime report have a designation, "drug crime" under which these things fall? Can you link me to that?
> As long as ridesharing companies need human drivers network effects ensure that Uber will remain at the top.

I think it is the opposite... Uber's only real way to turn a profit while staying competitive is to get rid of the cost of drivers.

> What's stopping an upstart company to buy/lease 10,000 self-driving cars and let them loose on the street?

The fact that Uber is already working on this, has a platform, has tons of data?
Strawmen are stuffed full of perhaps. It makes the best kindling.
Deploying releases has been fairly painless in my experience, but I also have had my head in Elixir and releases in general for a long time, so I may not be a great sample. You get a tarball containing everything the app needs to run, and all you do is extract it and run the boot script - other than entirely self-contained binaries like Go produces, I don't think it gets much better. Deploying without releases is probably a lot more painful though, due to the number of dependencies required, particularly web applications (Erlang, Elixir and Node). I recommend anyone deploying Elixir applications look into releases - it makes life much easier (imo).
> Why is NLP Hard? ... Language is highly ambiguous - it relies on subtle cues and contexts to convey meaning.

This is true, but it is only part of the answer.

Another part of the answer is what I call the Long Tail of Grammar. It turns out that if you try to write down all the rules of grammar, you will not get 40 or 60 rules, but something more like 100s or maybe even 1000s of rules. Most of those rules are obscure, rare, archaic, or useable only in specific contexts or with specific words. However, they are part of the language, a native speaker will be able to use them and comprehend them without difficulty, and an NLP system must be able to "understand" them in order to extract the correct meaning from a sentence.

As just a minor example off the top of my head, compare the phrase "peeled peach" with "hairy-peeled peach". The former phrase means a peach without a peel, while the latter means a peach with a hairy peel. So a good NLP system must not only recognize the existence of the two grammatical rules, but also be able to disambiguate them correctly.
I'd say somewhere in between. I've started with a very high level fluent API since I see that as the most common use case but have exposed a couple of important properties that will allow more low-level operations (pointers etc).

I have also created a generic image pipeline Image<TColor> that uses all the packed pixel color models used in XNA and Monogame which make it useful in gaming for loading textures.

The dream is that eventually the community will help port a lot of the algorithms over from libraries like Accord, OpenCV and AForge to allow usage in more scientific scenarios. Some of them will fit in the fluent API most will not but the tools should already be within the library to allow porting and usefulness.
Totally agreed!!!
This proprietary application has been under development for almost a decade. While it has had it's share of vulnerabilities as would any application it's age, they've also had that long to develop a reputation in the MacOS ecosystem. I'm no expert on LittleSnitch or Objective Development, the company behind it, but I can't remember any time they've been caught doing shady or unethical things in the time I've been using it (since about 1.x days). The last disclosed vulnerability that comes to mind (CVE-2016-8661), while being a nasty privilege escalation, was responsibly disclosed and quickly dealt with.
Why the downvotes? I saw a couple replies why this isn't a viable strategy for Uber, but it doesn't make his post of low quality, does it?
Ohm's law is like Newtonian gravity: an approximation that ignores quantum effects. V=IR is not precise; across every resistor there is also a quantity of Johnson-Nyquist noise. This nearly always doesn't matter except when building high-precision instrumentation amplifiers.

(What I don't know: are superconductors also free of thermal noise? That could have useful properties of its own..)
Which is exactly the issue? At any time the server can request a key reset and have messages resent. I don't see how it is at all irrelevant since it is exactly what the cause is here.
what is the key difference comparing to wordpress.com
I think the right pole is Robert Heinlein's novels like Stranger In A Strange Land or Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
I think this is a good idea for a series. Although I think more detail needs to be given on the actual path, that is after all the purpose of the series. Most of this article seemed to be describing what NLP is and why it's hard. This isn't bad and some attention should be given to it but people looking to find the path into NLP will already be familiar with most of this information. I was expecting a bit more of a syllabus type format. There was mention of needing some college level algebra and statics, I would have liked more detail in this area with links to more resources (classes, articles, datasets, etc). Keep up the good work!
Ask HN: What are other marketplaces that developers can earn money from?
I'm looking for marketplaces that developers can build "apps" or "extended functionality" on top of. There are some obvious examples that come to my mind: iOS/Android App Stores, Steam store, Chrome web store, Wordpress themes/plugins, Slack apps.

Are there other (less obvious/known) marketplaces that developers can build for and earn money from?
That was a pretty sensible position in the 90s. Linux was in its infancy, and the commercial UNIX vendors all had very robust offerings (Solaris/Tru64/AIX/HP-UX/IRIX; all very good systems at the time).
Like "self-employed" package deliverers. Many of them only can get their workload done by constantly breaking speed limits.
How Philips Is Using Augmented Reality to Improve Spinal Surgery
Little guns are still a thing. They go boom, just like their bigger counterparts.
Darpa is working on a “one-way” biodegradable cardboard delivery drone
> text summarization are examples of NLP in real-world products

Can someone point me to a satisfying demo of a professional text summarization software?
Yeah they have a lifetime warranty.
Its a volume license of our university.
You can disagree all you want. It's still a fact that nobody is saying what you are claiming. Sure, it makes it harder for people to get paid, the same way that it's hard for me to get paid if I advertise this: http://i.imgur.com/fvKbzDZ.jpg but when you arrive, I try to sell you this: http://i.imgur.com/MkhP1MW.jpg
Why is that link flagged?
I agree, although I think that the western countries outside of Europe can do so much more for the humanitarian crisis that's going on and can drastically increase the refugee quotas.