skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terminology question is not the interesting one. That would be sort of like asking whether "Ah, perdona al primo affetto" [1] should be considered art despite being part of a crass commercial effort (Mozart needed money, so he composed an opera for the coronation of Leopold II). Such questions of terminology can be discussed endlessly without gaining much from them.

But the question that Ebert was fundamentally asking is whether video games are capable of the same level and kind of intellectual or emotional stimulus as traditional works of art such as Beethoven's Fifth or Hamlet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx1Esy_jE_A
Well that's not what I'm trying to say all. I'm saying specifically the war on Iraq and Afghanistan was manufactured by the powers that be. They either made the attack themselves on the twin towers, knew about it, or capitalized on it nevertheless as soon as they were fortunate enough for such thing to happen. They are willing to make sacrifices that the rest of the world might not agree with in order to create how THEY envision a utopian earth. And because they are going about it in such an uncooperative manner they are destroying the likelihood of the cooperative/integrated outcome they are aiming for. They are rushing it so they can see it and benefit from it during their lifetimes. They are shortsighted and dangerous to all.
Agree but the real issue here is that the Fed seems helpless with their tool set. They can pump money into the economy but that money is not used for productive but only for speculative purposes. By pushing in more money at the asset side of things they devalue relatively the labor side of things. Re-balancing would require enabling more small scale capital accumulation vs. the current policy of supporting large economic entities.
>Gambling certainly gets you status - walk around Vegas and check out the businesspeople playing together.

It's the money (they can spend) that gives those businesspeople status.

Nobody looked at them and said "they are gamblers, hence they have status".

>And on a smaller scale, it gets you enjoyment.

Heroin too. But nothing lasting and nothing sociably valuable.
the way some other repl improve this is by allowing to tab complete form latex definition. For EG: \habar<tab>, \pi<tab> or 8^2<tab> will expand to what you expect. This also allows for combining like F\vec<tab> of \theta<tab>\dot<tab>
There's a way out of this that doesn't involve self-driving vehicles if Uber's willing to give up some control: 3rd party integrations.

If they allowed other ride-share/delivery services to integrate seamlessly into the Uber app/driver onboarding process, they don't need to build self-driving vehicles. They just level up from a driver dispatch service to a general dispatch service.

It'd be pretty tough for any one car manufacturer to go their own on a ride-sharing/delivery platform as long as Uber does everything they can to keep competition on both their inputs and outputs thriving.
Well, considering the wealth and power concentrated in those rooms during the meeting, these people would have a good shot at foisting whatever system they want over the world. I'm not arguing it should be disallowed, but it is disconcerting when every billionaire in the world might agree on the same set of policies.
You are welcome.

Using a forced aligner usually improves the results a lot when compared to using an automatic speech recognition system --- because adapting the language model to your specific text prunes a lot of choices w.r.t. a generic language model which is supposed to cover any kind of text in that given language.

Anyway, if you feed aeneas an audio file < 2 hours, 4 GB of RAM should suffice, and the default parameters should be good as well. If you just need to recognize the splits doing a full alignment is an overkill, but I guess you will happy to "waste" 5 minutes of computation time instead of spending more time implementing your own code.
Washing machines cost between $250 and $2,050; dryers cost anywhere from $200 to $1,750. http://www.kitchens.com/product-guide/washers-dryers/washer-...

And people complain the average machine does not last 10 years. So, unless you found the cheapest washing machine from 1950's it's not exactly a direct comparison.
An entrepreneur, programmer and user walk into a smart contract
Thank you for the feedback. You can use `ans` to refer to the last result:

> 5+20
25
> ans+10
35
I think you could make a similar argument for a lot of important choices: when you pick a doctor, an employee, a job, a computer, you're going to pick the best you can afford even if the middle of the road doctor or computer could get the job done. Generally people want the satisfaction that they chose the best in the business and so aren't leaving anything in the table.
>What if that dream came at the expense of today’s Asian and African elephants, whose numbers are quickly dwindling because of habitat loss and poaching?

Humans only had a partial role in the demise of the mammoth. When it comes to the dodo or the thylacine, I suspect morally it won't matter if that means less pigeons and dingos in the wild. They're removal from our ecosystem was artificial and by human hands and the culling of animals that took their place probably won't raise too many objections.

On a more sci-fi front, I wonder about our future extinction. I wonder if aliens would later find Earth and try to revive us. Maybe this has happened, maybe its has happened more than once.
There are a handful that I actually look forward to reading:

My Quora Digest

Money Under 30 [0]

Strength Sensei [1]

[0] https://www.moneyunder30.com/

[1] https://www.strengthsensei.com/
If 100M people from Africa/ME showed up in Europe, you think this would be a good thing for the world?
Techstars launches a new program in Paris
How could a relay and a 555 timer possibly "take a beating"?

I can't think of more time-tested electrical components.
I didn't intend to claim it way, just using examples.
If you dial a taxi you need to provide your pickup place and name usually, accidentally dialing it won't make a car get to you. Not sure that's what you mean.
That should be in the docs!
Relevant video on the influence the Rockefeller family has on modern first-world healthcare systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6J_7PvWoMw
I added the "[PDF]" in subject line when I posted the link.
Ask HN: How did you learn to design big systems?
For those who have architected big and/or distributed systems, how did you learn various design techniques? What learning resources helped you the most?
I have met many people who call themselves a data scientists. it is very easy to call yourself a data scientist, and justify the label.

if the vocabulary of your community doesn't support your needs, then you need to modify your vocabulary. Swear words like 'data scientist', invite the idea of casting a wide net with a large set of poorly defined skills to arbitrarily select from.

I appreciate the communities' use of the term 'data engineer' to quarantine out some of these skills. For those writing a job description, or vetting candidates, these words really matter. when you muddy the soup, by expanding definitions, time gets wasted.
I think he was trying to make the point that the embarrassmen of not knowing the capital was going to make that fact stay in the journalists head for much more time that the mere fact of hearing it mentioned. Even if there is no logic on naming cities.
Semantic arguments are wrongfully vilified. Philosophy requires precision, and imprecise definitions lead nowhere. At a meta level, it's an interesting question whether we can satisfactorily define any term at all; see the failure of philosophy to adequately define what is and is not science: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/
The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble? (2002) [pdf]
I am genuinely interested in the source for that if you have it.
Are washing machines not still being made with concrete in the base? I'm sure balancing has gotten more intelligent, but there still needs to be some mass to keep the thing from walking.

Of course if that 10kg of steel was on the drum, the stationary mass would need to be increased as well. But I doubt washing machine drums are really a high failure part, so a hypothetical "10kg of steel" is a useless in the context of a washing machine.

It's hard to make a comprehensive argument about entire machines when the problem is designers having a principle agent problem for every single part.
That is super impressive! I can't find the part on incomplete AST or AST reuse in their reference docs though.
Because it's self-defeating? It amounts to throwing up your hands and saying that nothing is knowable, which feels like it would be an uncomfortable position for a creative person to hold.

Maybe you and I have different definitions of "art", for instance. But by arguing the question we can both come to a deeper understanding, both of what we individually believe art to be and why we hold that belief. The act of interrogating the question forces us to inspect our position more closely than we would do otherwise, which can lead to insights we would otherwise never encounter.
I think once an article begins summarizing Schopenhauer it becomes a bit of a stretch to call it "mere semantics." Maybe you don't like the ideas, but if you think that it has none, you haven't read it carefully.
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I get that. There's some give and take, and people view things differently. Previously, we've agreed that having a stable economy is something that's in everyone's best interest. I'm not sure whether or not people still find agreement about that.

People on all sides are asking what their country can do for them, not what they can do for their country.

During the next economic crisis, will we allow another TARP, or will we vote to do nothing and sink into a depression for a few years until we decide to dig ourselves out, possibly allowing an aggressive international power to gain a military edge?
I can tell you some things where were rejected.

One example of non-one-token lookahead is lambda functions, 'x -> x*2'. This means when you read an identifier, before you check if it valid in this scope you have to check if the next thing is '->'. If it is, this is a new identifer, if it's not, it's a variable reference and better be in scope.

Now, let's consider multi-argument lambda functions. One possible notation is: (a,b,c) -> a+b+c. However, (a,b,c) is how GAP denotes permutations, and it was decided that parsing a whole permutation as "maybe this is a permutation, maybe it is the beginning of a lambda expression" would be too annoying, and would mean we couldn't print out some errors until we got to the end, and knew what type of object we had.
It's things like this that make me wonder what the world would be like if we had embraced the Church-style Lambda Calculus model instead of the Turing system. I don't know if it would be better or worse, but I think it's an interesting thought experiment.
> just to make an app (which is already made) and run some servers

I assume they want to do more than let the product stagnate, not to mention the resources they are putting into driverless vehicles.
Is Expense Reporting Going Away?
Well sure, but that prioritizes the "well-being" of the species at the expense of the individuals that make it up - a mindset I've never understood.
I'd love to have a Techmeme for the finance industry.
In my opinion, the best resource for programming keyboards is Xha Lee: http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_blog.html Agree or disagree, there is a lot of information accumulated over many years.
> What makes gambling wrong but insurance right?

Is this serious?

In insurance, I cannot say, "I want to quintuple-down on having a car accident this year; let me pay a $5000 premium instead of $1000 for a 5X payout!"

Insurance typically covers specified perils. When they occur, the payout is in proportion to the actual damages, not to the rarity of the odds.

If insurance were like gambling: "Oh man, I won the insurance jackpot! My house was leveled by a rare meteor---500:1 payout---not just your everyday 4:1 fire."

Also, there is the obvious general observation: insurance compensates for losses. You don't win; you lose stuff and are compensated. You don't get compensated unless you lose first. People don't always feel adequately compensated by money. Money won't bring back the memorabilia you lost that got burned up in the fire. It won't grow back a severed arm, or replace people who died.

In gambling you don't lose anything to win; just your time and the bets, which loosely correspond to insurance premiums. The win is a pure win, not a compensation for loss.

`Nuff said.
This reminds me the vilains in the older (60s-70s) Bond movies. I always found them to be visionaries and were simply a step removed from great leaders (if not for their penchant for killing remorselessly).

Not trying to compare David R. to such monsters, but I can see how some people can cast him as such, even with the best intentions on his part (I can only assume).

Regularly most of us step on others peoples toes (knowingly and unknowingly in more mundane settings). It just happens that some people have very, very, very big shoes.
Q to the community:

Should the wisdom of investing in ML depend on the probability of finding problems in that domain that can be solved by: regression, classification, clustering or prediction?

So, if Baidu has many problems that are likely (by whatever estimate) to be solved by those techniques, then this is wise.

The solutions would have to be valuable to Baidu (presumably, though not necessarily, by being valuable to the customers).
Fonts are also the only resource that you have the option to install directly into your operating system's system cache, as well, and know that your browser will prefer local cached options. A tool like Skyfonts can be used to automatically install the top 50/100/etc fonts from Google Fonts directly into your system's fonts directory.

The trade off is that there are system font thumbprinting disclosures that you potentially open yourself to tracking, if you are concerned about your privacy on the web. (I think a good idea would be for one or more of the operating systems and/or browser vendors to directly encourage installing the top so many Google Fonts, because the more people do it, the fewer privacy concerns.)
How NFL Players Lost Their Leverage
You know when a startup has money, everything is happy.

When they don't, it's terrible.

Norway has tons of extra Oil money. The sense of security that comes from that should not be ignored.

Even aside from the emotion - when there's 'extra cash' to pay for all the little stuff, it just makes life easier all around.

I don't think we can ignore the big Oil elephant in the room.
Because when the super-wealthy collaborate, it's usually on stuff that benefits them, to the expense of everyone else, e.g. software patents, copyright extensions, and trade agreements with all sorts of fun stuff hidden inside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership_inte...
Trying out PostgreSQL Bloom indexes
The big secret of lock picking is that it's easy. Anyone can learn how to pikc locks.

There seems to be a large number of spelling errors. Not sure if it's indicative of anything other than lack of editing.
I don't think it's a conscious, malicious strategy. Just a reality of manufacturing.

Let's imagine a market where 1,000 people need a widget, with 10 new people per year. You design and develop a 100% reliable widget and quickly sell 1,000 of them (recouping your development costs). You need to sell 10 per year to stay in business. Other companies see your success and rush to market with a less reliable but cheaper widget. No one buys from you since it takes years for reliability issues to surface in your competitors product. You probably don't have enough cash reserves to wait it out. Ergo, you go out of business.
I've found parser expression grammars (PEG) to be a good solution to avoiding the ambiguity stated at the very beginning. This is done by making all choices (|) into ordered choices.

I've recently used PEGs to write a Python parser (parsing all of Python, except for possible bugs) in ~500 lines of Python [2]. Its entirely interpreted. No parser is generated, only trees.

I'll also add that Floyd's operator precedence grammar [3] includes an algorithm which can deduce precedences from a grammar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar

[2] https://github.com/asrp/pymetaterp

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_grammar
Over a long period of time? Why not. America is nearly 100% immigrants.
Maybe you didn't actually read my original comment that you responded to, but I never defended the article - in fact I agree, it seems to mostly be baseless stereotypes explained away by the author working in totally different type of jobs in the cities (management consulting vs. startup). I was just speaking to a single point, from the perspective of Americans vs. Europeans. If you disagree then feel free to actually address any of the points I made with a counterargument. "Hey more stereotypes!" adds nothing to the discussion and devolves the community towards being another Reddit, where people just bicker like children rather than engaging in constructive debate.
People in town were literally talking to each other saying it's not right that one guy owns two stores and makes so much money, encouraging each other to shop elsewhere. This was in Ørsta in Sunnmøre.

Obviously there is some geographic and socio-cultural variation; you wouldn't see the same degree of skepticism among most people in the biggest cities, but I am pretty confident I haven't misunderstood what Janteloven says. It's not a positive thing, and not conductive to an environment of high performance.

Granted, things might be better now than when I went to public school 15 years ago, but back then this attitude was practically institutionalized. I eventually went to private school after 3 years of being forced to sit through science classes of stuff I already knew, that were regardless torpedoed by uncontrollable classroom clowns. In private school, we had "choose your level" classes, and things improved. Many friends in university had similar experiences.

It was quite a surprise to hear of high schools in the US that actually cultivated students who wanted to learn more than the minimum.
For a simple example, this is like the difference between

function sum(lst) {
if (length(lst) > 0) {
return head(lst) + sum(tail(lst));
}
return 0;
}

vs.

function sum(lst, currentSum) {
if (length(lst) > 0) {
return sum(tail(lst), currentSum + head(lst));
}
return currentSum;
}

In the first case you don't actually start doing addition until after you get to the end of the list, while the latter is doing addition on the way down.
Ask HN: Any good recruiter experiences?
I have a recruiter who's been more dedicated than most at trying to get me to interview for a job. The job sounds interesting, but I personally think I'm underqualified for it, and I'd hate to go and make a bad impression. I'm concerned that the recruiter is more concerned with getting bodies in front of the hiring manager than with finding a good applicant, but I don't know if I'm off the mark there. Has anyone here had any positive experiences with recruiters, especially ones where your mind was changed about the job or the process? Or are the horror stories mostly true?
The Microsoft Hololens integration and packaging is quite impressive. It's a full, self-contained AR system in reasonably lightweight self-contained headgear. The HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift are big, clunky devices with cables.

If the Hololens could be brought down to a price point where the Pokemon Go crowd could use it, it would be a success for that alone.

How good does AR need to be to do HyperReality?[1] Not much better than the HoloLens. More field of view would be needed. The ability to draw dark would be nice, but isn't essential for that, because it's explicitly a bright overlay on the world.

[1] https://vimeo.com/166807261
If you see it from his perspective it is as altruistic an action as is possible for a person to take.

He is providing a services to help people in some day to day way. While he is providing that kindness he is taking the time to save them from being tortured by fire monsters forever. Also a very altruistic action, if he is right about the fire monsters that action is really about the only altruistic action that is not trivial and temporary.

Perspective is important, if he was poking their eyes out to save them from fire monsters that's one thing but feeding people and making sure they are safe and happy seems pretty legit to me
This should be the default state of every appliance, just because it should outcompete every other player. (Who would buy something that breaks?)

It isn't. So, there's something very flawed on my reasoning above. Do people want stuff that breaks, is the problem a market for lemons? Or what else?
Responsive Daft Punk Artwork in HTML/SCSS
Shock tactics: how the arms industry trades on our fear of terrorism
I think the History Channel had a good show about the lives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al. and how they intersected
Every resident of New York should thank him and Nelson Rockefeller for tag teaming to take down Robert Moses.
SEO does not work that well anymore, unless your budget, I suppose, is absolutely astronomical and you spend years and millions of dollars to build a brand http://greyenlightenment.com/seo-is-a-waste-of-time-and-mone...

Even though SEO does not work well, my advice is don't buy links from link brokers...they won't work, and such services are almost always a scam. The websites selling the links have inflated/useless metrics... Hiring an SEO agency also not worth it, unless you have millions of dollars. Any mid tier SEO service is almost is guaranteed to be a scam. They will bill you $2,000/month for links they buy for $200 that you can buy yourself.

Buying links off forums worked well in 2005-2007 before Google cracked down and removed the pagerank metrics.

Zillow can spend millions buying links to rank for all the real estate and mortgage keywords, because they have a blank check. Few have that privilege.

In 2005-2007 SEO was much easier..now all those techniques no longer work well.

The problem is google changed their algos to discount links from many sites (such as Reddit and elsewhere); second, they have put much more emphasis on domain-niche authority. That means, if you write a viral article about daytrading and it gets shared and voted thousands of time on a social media sites, it may temporarily get a good SEO boost for those competitive keywords, but then slide back to page 8 or so. A the old, established daytrading sites established news websites will outrank, due to authority.
As a developer with a weaker background in mathematics, I face a language barrier with many modern algorithms. After lots of research I can understand and explain them in code, but I have no idea what your artistic-looking MathXML means.

Visualizations or algorithms described using code are much, much easier for me to understand and serve as a great starting point for unpacking the math explanations.
You don't even need to make up your keyboard example -- just look at Pebble.
Ask HN: BigQuery vs. Redshift vs. Athena vs. Snowflake
I'm investigating potential hosted SQL data warehouses for ad-hoc analytical queries. I've read quite a bit about all 4 of these technologies and their high-level tradeoffs, but I'd love to get people's first-person accounts of the pros and cons of each.

Dimensions I care about: query performance, load performance, cost, stability, maintainability, features (e.g. views, UDF), limitations (e.g. concurrent queries, schema restrictions), and all of these at scale.

If you've used any of these and have thoughts, would appreciate hearing them, thanks!