skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a major problem with mathematical language is lack of discoverability. If I don't understand a specific symbol or notation, there is no way to click "go to definition" or look it up on Google.

Furthermore while mathematicians pride themselves on rigor, I would bet that a lot of proofs require the reader to fill in incomplete steps and/or contain notational mistakes. Just try to imagine what kind of code you would end up with if you did not have access to a compiler and relied only on your logical reasoning for writing correct code. Even if the code was reviewed by other peers, who themselves do not have access to a compiler, they would miss some mistakes because, being familiar with the subject, their brain would fill in the correct meanings.
I feel like Uber could get innovative here.

Add 10 cents to every ride and divide that money amongst the drivers in the city each day based upon 1) number of rides 2) rating 3) number of canceled trips 4) distance. It will incentivize the drivers to get good ratings (more so than now) and encourage less canceled trips and more fares.
Thank you for the advice! I did come here with savings and got nailed with unexpected expenses. What I am working on WILL happen, it is just a matter of time. My entire life, when I have been told that I cannot do something, I have proved them wrong. The reason I pay the high rent is because this is where the resources are, this where the capital is and I like it here. I am still building my prototype and want to make sure that is done before asking for money. Also, driving has been excellent networking.
That is still really quite bad though. And all of this privacy invasion just for a wire fraud case?
Hoping this will quickly make into someone's home grown self-hosted version of Alexa.

Alexa, turn the lights on in the kitchen.

Alexa, turn on the kitchen light.

Alexa, light up the kitchen.

Should all accomplish the same task using this framework.
Also when I searched for the Russian clip, most results where about using a nuke to end the Deepwater Horizon desaster, for example here. [1] Although it was obviously, at least I hope so, never seriously considered.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/us/03nuke.html
Lack of Oxford Comma Costs Company Millions
I don't think spaCy will be hurting any time soon. When SyntaxNet was first released last year, Matthew Honnibal had a good writeup [0] of how spaCy vastly outperforms with speed while keeping reasonable accuracy:

>On the time-honoured benchmark for this task, Parsey McParseface achieves over 94% accuracy, at around 600 words per second. On the same task, spaCy achieves 92.4%, at around 15,000 words per second. The extra accuracy might not sound like much, but for applications, it's likely to be pretty significant.

If spaCy is able to increment the accuracy and maintain the large performance gap, it'll still be my go-to NLP framework!

[0] https://explosion.ai/blog/syntaxnet-in-context
Sales Taxes not being included in the price in USA is a similar tactic to hiding true cost to consumer.
Stayzilla founders are in deep trouble and it’s time we stand up for them
My solution is not to use services that have tipped workers. I do not get grocery delivery, in part because I'm not going to tip somebody when I haven't even had a chance to see if all my items were delivered. I visit full-service restaurants less because of tipping. And if tipping becomes expected on Uber, I will stop using it.

I don't think this solution helps tipped workers either. But I'm not going to be guilt-tripped into giving people money.
It's also why if we where rational as a species we'd be focusing on becoming a genuine space borne/multi-planetary civilisation.

Our best shot at surviving the great filter is been spread out enough that when someone goes "Ooops" and levels wherever they are there are other self-sufficient humans far enough away to survive.

Not sure if we'll ever achieve that (though I think in totality it's only just beyond our current technology) though since it would require a colossal investment that would make the Apollo program look tiny to bootstrap it.

barring some significant breakthrough in fusion.
An experimental distributed execution engine from Berkeley
Starling Bank, a digital-only UK challenger bank, launches beta
That's correct. The first time you use docker it automatically configures a boot2docker VM.
Designing and Implementing Glimmer Like a Programming Language
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AMD GCN back end for GCC
> The analogy they use to justify it, the ant colony, is just as inaccurate; each ant is an individual organism.

From an evolutionary perspective, the idea that the "organism" is the ant colony rather than the ant has a lot going for it; ant colonies can and do reproduce while individual ants, in general, cannot.
Visdom: A tool to create and organize live visualizations for Torch and Numpy
Carl Sagan has written at length about the limits of the credibility-assessing heuristic you're following. There's a reason that scientists have been snowed by paranormal fraudsters while professional magicians have not. I know nothing about D-Wave and have no opinion, but you need to look to people who manipulate people for a living—think the Amazing Randi—for accurate assessments of these sorts of things, not scientists. To paraphrase Sagan, the problem with scientists is that they are trained to fight against an opponent—Nature—that typically fights fair.
The best solution for avoiding government surveillance overreach continues to be for nobody to store the data. A service provider can't be forced to disclose information it doesn't have.

I recommend duckduckgo.com for those bothered by this: "We don’t store your personal information. Ever. Our privacy policy is simple: we don’t collect or share any of your personal information."
I'm apparently a broken record today - but Jennifer Pahlka (founder of Code for America) recently did a talk at the Long Now Foundation about this topic. Huge numbers are quoted for (relatively) limited government technology initiatives, but a great deal gets wasted - or otherwise inefficiently allocated - due to how procurement rules are written.

If this topic interests you, I highly recommend that you listen to her experiences working to fix government technology creation by bringing in modern development practices.
Stayzilla case: a murder of personal dignity and respect
No, JetBrains is actually working on Kotlin Native [1].

[1] https://kotlinlang.slack.com/messages/kotlin-native/
Better solution: pay target-site.com to start building an API for you.

Pros:

* You'll be working with them rather than against them.

* Your solution will be far more robust.

* It'll be way cheaper, supposing you account for the ongoing maintenance costs of your fragile scraper.

* You're eliminating the possibility that you'll have to deal with legal antagonism

* Good anti-scraper defenses are far more sophisticated than what the author dealt with. As a trivial example: he didn't even verify that he was following links that would be visible!

Cons:

* Possible that target-site.com's owners will tell you to
get lost, or they are simply unreachable.

* Your competitors will gain access to the API methods you funded, perhaps giving them insight into why that data is valuable.

Alternative better solution for small one-off data collection needs: contract a low-income person to just manually download the data you need with a normal web browser. Provide a JS bookmarklet to speed their process if the data set is a bit too big for that.
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Kai's Power Tools, and later on Fractal Design Painter.

The fact that these achieved live, direct-manipulation natural media effects such as pencils, crayons, markers, oil paints, watercolors (complete with wetting effects and paper diffusion), etc. on then-contemporary (early 90s) hardware (it worked well even on lower end hardware, though not really "live" anymore) was nothing short of MIRACULOUS.

I am still in awe of the achievement.
How do you deal with the issue that most mobile apps have a baked in security key for their private API? Or am I being naive to think that most apps have that?
International Expansion and the State of Transatlantic Tech
I enjoyed my fifteen minutes of fame via e/n, though the attention ultimately resulted in the demise of my site. It was all fun and games until the lines between the internet "playground" and real life were blurred, and my school/parents started getting phone calls. Social media also deteriorated the separation between "online" and "IRL". I retired my site in favor of a career :)
I see your point, but the tasks that you have listed (and more difficult variants) can be easily handled using rule-based systems.
Today I learned that China,India, North Korea and South Africa (though they destroyed theirs) are "western" powers.
Doesn't ThreadPoolExecutor take care of all of that if you store the returned Future from the submit method? Then you just have the main thread wait for those.
Two major differences:

- D-Wave does seem to understand the criticisms and slowly incorporate them into each subsequent test. Theranos instead preferred ad hominem attacks on their attackers.

- The question about D-Wave isn't whether or not it works, it's about whether or not it is useful. Theranos couldn't even get their non-magic technology working right.
Throw a rock. You'll likely hit another possible option for employment. (well, not anymore, since you just threw a rock at them).
Google uses this stuff to advertise for toys etc. Using it to catch a fraudster is more important than that.
I forgot to mention that most of the books I bought are used. They are a lot cheaper sometimes and are in perfect conditions. The last one I've bought, "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be" by Paul Arden cost me only 0.01 pounds(without shipping). It is used but like new. Awesome purchase
The economy never recovered from 2008 but you are likely also competing with low cost remote talent there just are not that many openings compared to the sheer scale of the numbers of people uncounted and pushed out of the economy.
ToS is not a legally binding mutual agreement between the website and the scraper. Only when it's materialized in the form of C&D and it caused damage to the website. In the QVC vs Resultly, they caused a website crashed. In the Craigslist vs 3Taps, the damages were non-existant but they still won because of the C&D letters.

So if a website sends you a letter to stop, do not continue scraping them. Until that happens, it's fair game. ToS is not legally binding. Those two cases were the result of damage caused to the website.

STOP. SPREADING. FUD. cookiecaper. All of your comments are the same unsound legal advice yet Mozenda, Import.io, and a whole bunch of tools & service providers are humming along just fine.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, this is not a legal advice, consult a real lawyer and not random HN comments.
I wasn't claiming only water content, nor limiting to staples. cf modern strawberries. I should have put appearance on the list too. In other words I meant that there is some feature(s) of value in the market (size, uniformity, color, cost/kg to produce, storage, shipability, yield) that trump flavor, nutritional content, sustainability for that market. So we shouldn't be surprised when those don't "win".

That said, as I understand it (could easily be wrong) some modern cultivars don't really optimize yield, but labor. I suspect the math works out differently for different crops.
They did at my crappy small chain (in a Southern state without as many worker protections). It was automatically done in their payroll software based on declared tips/hours (where most servers didn't declare cash tips and were thus more likely to make the non-server minimum wage).
Not open-source but free: Kantu (https://kantu.io) uses OCR to support web scraping. You mark an anchor image/text with a green frame and mark the area of data that needs to be extracted with pink frames. The image inside the pink frames is then sent to https://ocr.space for processing and Kantu api returns the extracted text. This works very well as long as you do not need a lot of data. It is certainly not a "high-speed" solution for scraping terabytes of data.
there's probably a cooler internal name for it.
I whipped up a quick answer to q2; I don't know if it's right.

https://www.patrickstevens.co.uk/misc/TokyoEntrance2016/Toky...
I'm sorry but can you explain the basis of your position? I don't see how the internet makes anarchy any more feasible or likely.
I concur. I play a lot of disc golf, and it's amazing how hard it can be to find something that is in brush and grass.

I've put down my bag while looking for discs before, walked 20 feet, turned around to go back to my bag and not been able to find it. I've seen where discs have fallen, immediately run over to the spot, and not been able to find them despite looking for nearly an hour.

You can be standing with someone, point out something on the ground to them, and they won't be able to see it until to are basically touching it.

I've done Search and Rescue training as well. What I've taken from both is that you do not want to be lost, and if you are lost you do not want to be far from where people are expecting you to be. This is in part because you want to narrow the search area, but also because people have an incredible ability to overlook things that aren't expecting.

One thing I didn't realize before I did all of this was how useless looking for a given shape is. Unless it is extremely flat, you are probably just looking for splashes of color. You would not believe the amount of color there is in the middle of a forest, or a field, etc, until you start looking for a particular color. Flowers, garbage, mottled sun, you can basically get any color you imagine out there.

I think we like to imagine we've reached a point where we can know everything we want to about our planet, and the only limiting factor is what we can focus our attention on. That's not true though. Even with effectively limitless resources, it took over a year to find Steve Fossett's body. The world is an incredibly vast place, and we are incredibly small.
> One reason for film's superiority as an archival medium is that you can hold a piece of film up to the light and see what it contains, whereas to see a digital archive you need to invent all the technology that leads up to decoding that particular file type.

Realistically, unless these nukes are put to intensive use, we are not going to disinvent computers. But your point is certainly valid for codecs. The videos will require to be transcoded multiple times as old codecs become obsolete (who can read real media's .rm files today?)
Small towns are where music happens. I live in Western, MA - I can see music every night. If I drive out to a small town in upstate New York, I guarantee you there will be a bar with live music. Even a run down shithole like Poughkeepsie or Catskill has plenty of local bands. Some huge names in music have come from small towns in Georgia or in Ohio or in Michigan. One of the biggest indie record labels is based out of Nebraska.

If "people would rather hear the best musicians in the world than the best musicians in their household or neighborhood" than why are local acts booming in places like Portland, ME? Why are small bands filling out the bottom portion of huge festivals or starting their own?

Your post reads to me like someone who doesn't seem very aware or involved in music and mostly gets their information from online source and so called historical research rather than first-hand live experience.
This may not be financially feasible for you but offer to be an intern for a few months and if accepted, then prove to the potential employers that you are indispensable and then they could hire you on as a full time employee.
If you're going to that abstract level, what does the dollar amount of the money you're "earning" even mean? Everything is part of a huge system.
What would explain the interest Google, NASA and the DoD have in D-Wave and the fact that they have acquired a few of these devices?
> Alexa, light up the kitchen

May also be interpreted as:

Alexa, set fire to the kitchen
It does not mention what Google's response was, or if they have complied with the order.
That's not really true. If everyone buys golf trips or ice cream cones the chance they will turn into appreciatirng assets is zero.

That's still basically true for most things that look sort of vaguely like assets, such as new cars, appliances, and whatnot.

Very few of the things the average person chooses to incur debt to acquire are even remotely plausible as appreciating assets.
Do the ends really justify the means in this case? I don't think so, personally
You're on to something here. Consequently, it seems to be in the best interest of the affluent class to maintain the status quo, as it supports and furthers the divide.
You've only applied to two positions?
Are you a Daemon Operative?
The few people who searched for douglas would be inconvenienced slightly, sure.

But what harm has been, or might reliably, be done with this info?
If I recall correctly, most of Alexa is simple rule-based systems.
Wordpress honeypot login attempts
I don't think libertarians believe they should keep 100% of their income, in an ancap world a big chunk of their money would go to private competing institutions and charities. In fact some of the biggest donors to charities (and tax payers) tend to be libertarians. Also, let's not kid ourselves, we're all selfish. That being said, not saying an ancap world would be heaven on earth, not that what we have right now is either.
Or it could be that Go is a fairly new language and has so few users (relative to other top languages), the search queries will show up in only one direction. You should note down what is happening in the other "new" languages.
Another thing which seems at least as important:

How many projects are _started_ in a language, and how many _die_?

Given p.e. Java - It may seem that there is a huge flow to go. However, if there are enough new projects started in java, then the number of java projects might still rise faster than the number of go projects.
This is a really interesting idea. Any story that really matters unfolds over a period of months or years, and stumbling upon a couple of articles a month about it doesn't inform the reader very well. And what if the first article you read about it is in the middle of the unfolding?

A wiki-style document, updated as the story unfolds, organized so that anyone can get an overview and then drill down into the details, seems like a really good idea. Some JavaScript and such could allow stories to be viewed chronologically, by topic, keyword, etc. (Something like TiddlyWiki could be a good place to start.)
Try applying for ~100 jobs a day instead of 2.
It's not completely fair to judge the quality of this paper by the first few references (8 and 25, in particular), but it does make me extremely dubious. It's not really appropriate to cite Ed Glaeser in an urban modelling paper (or anywhere, really, other than as a cautionary example), and that interpretation of Bettencourt and West won't bear much scrutiny either. I won't address the…contributions (I work in a department that does a lot of urban modelling and ABM – it's cited in the paper – but I'm not a modelling / ABM person myself)
Court Decision Hinged on the Oxford Comma
Plus being from Square I imagine the data will be biased by the suggestion to tip / preset amounts.
What programing language did you learn? You could contribute to some open source projects to gain a bit of exposure.
Yeah, and any wing loading >1G is going to require increased groundspeed on landing.
How CIOs cope when mobile app development goes rogue
Unless you are prosecuted by accident, news papers write about you and charges are dropped. You apply for a job, someone googles you and reply with "Thank you for your time. Unfortunately..."
"Python 3 support is not available yet." [1]. It's only supported in Python 2.7, Why?

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/syntaxnet
>But it's nowhere near the level of support artists have had for the last hundred years.

I was thinking about this in the context of the John Wanamaker quote -- "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half".

If online advertising becomes perfectly efficient, that might lead to a 50% (or more) reduction in the amount of funding available for ad-supported content.
A few things turn me off about Scrapy is that it feels over engineered for what it does. Why do I need an entire framework?

I'm taking on technical debt to access data I don't have programmatic access to.

CSS/Xpath are very fragile. You most likely will be changing them in the future.
Bashy2: an irc bot for sdf.org written in shell
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I'll second this. When I'm looking at applications, especially at someone without a lot of dev experience, just having a little blog explaining your side projects, even if they aren't super original/complex goes a long way. It lets me see that you're proactive, an independent learner, you can communicate, potentially your sense of humor. A simple web site and/or blog can go a long way.
If Google gives that information, I will stop using it right away
The main() implementing the IRC protocol: https://notabug.org/mlaine/bashy2/src/master/bashy2#L74
Probably because Google still mostly uses Python 2.7 internally.
What are the biggest engineering mistakes that a tech company has made?
Try looking at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html on a phone. (Or maybe Firefox, too.) the side bar zooms too, covering page content, and if it's too big, it doesn't scroll.
The technology is only a tiny part of this. The much more expensive part is getting everyone that should be using the system to actually use it.
For those who want to take a deep dive in the world of bananas, great article about what different people are trying to do about the problem (from 2011):

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/10/we-have-no-bana...
Sorry, kindly do explain what is Audio Programming? I assumed it was something that the composer & arranger does.
You reverse engineer the application, or you run it in a debugger.

If the app features certificate pinning to block MITM eavesdropping through your own proxy, you either use one of the XPosed Framework libraries that removes it on the fly in a process hook, or you decompile the app, return-void the GetTrustedClient, GetTrustedServer, AcceptedIssuers, etc. functions.

If it features HMAC signing, you decompile the app, find the key, reverse engineer the algorithm that chooses and sorts the paramaters for the HMAC function, and rewrite it outside the app. If the key is generated dynamically you reverse engineer that too, and if it's retrieved from native .so files you're going to have a fun time, but it's still quite doable.

All they can do is pile on layers and layers of abstraction to make it painful. They can't make the private API truly private if it requires something shipped with the client.
Precisely. It would be totally sensible also to argue that a trip such as that one paid off even financially later in less obviously connected ways.