skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why people are downvoting. This is a legit complaint about AMP. Even the HN homepage is showing this as "google.com", not "thestar.com".
Unfortunately (in terms of programming credibility), it's done manually. The process is extremely fast though -- just seconds to do a highlight, and a built-in search that hooks into all affiliate networks (Commission Junction, Linkshare, Affiliate Window, Share-a-sale, etc.) along with allowing custom links.
I do research on Deep Learning. That seems the exact kind of question they would deem relevant to their field.

I don't know much about NLP but if I had to guess the answer to your question is include it in the training data. I don't know what model they use, but presumably it parses out sentence structure in a specific format and uses that as input to some neural network architecture.

Not really sure why he didn't answer your question, it's the exact kind of question people do NLP to answer.
In the book she has no choice, knowing the future doesn't allow you to change it, it's deterministic. Free Will doesn't exist. In the movie they went out of their way to make it clear the future can be changed, and she does change it with the phone call. Which undermines the much cleaner scientific premise of the book and also makes her a bit selfish to decide to have the child anyway and only tell her husband months before she gets sick.
Get your own VPN server. Convince your friends to get the same and just share resources with them. Mini VPN company :)
That's actually really interesting. All the literature I've read suggested that switch statements were some horrible performance killer and you had to speed or portability. Cool to see that it's changed.

I think even the Lua Paper had a bit about that.
Were managing to convert the underground in London to be wheelchair friendly, you guys need to make a start too.

Start with new stations and ones a few apart and work your way in.
When people talk about AI entry level they generally mean people with PhDs.

and yes, people are taking home that kind of money.
Kamifusen, the self-inflating Japanese paper balloon
Agreed all around. At the very least, I don't think it was obvious what message the author was trying to convey.
Yeah, zero FEDERAL income tax but most of those pay for SS, Medicare, and state taxes. Those in a lump sum vs withholdings would still be a different experience.
> I think that's useful, but I see no reason to expect a priori that the government would end up doing a better job with that than the private companies (like Intuit and H&R Block) whose revenue depends on doing that well.

Intuit and H&R Block could of course _still_ provide their services if they happen to be so accurate. In the past, I've used Turbotax only to receive corrections from the IRS (and by the way, the IRS was right). Certainly would have saved me time to have access to that info from the beginning.

> The comments that suggest that Intuit and H&R Block were lobbying to keep the tax code complex don't make sense to me. Maybe they are, but that's not what they were lobbying for in lobbying to defeat this particular, reform is it? Rather, they were lobbying to keep the pre-filling process private.

Of course that keeps it more complex. It means that it's harder for your average tax payer to input information (starting from scratch is always harder than starting from some partially filled point). It unquestionably increases the amount of work required since tax payers have to do work the government has already done (at a much more efficient scale). So yeah basically by lobbying against this, those companies are essentially economic parasites.
This is probably worthy of a blog post, but!

We took investment for a few reasons. One is diversification, we can put our own money other places. More importantly, I think, is it's not weird when someone needs to get paid like it would be if we were personally funding the company.

And, honestly, we wanted to be able to move faster. We can try riskier things, be more generous with free plans, etc, etc.
I find I have context switching and settling in time just as much (sometimes more) at my home office as I do at my office office. (IOW, I don't think I'd be inclined to count it as a cost of commuting.)
There is none. We develop ember because we need a tool to solve our problems and the existing solutions weren't good enough in at least some aspect that mattered.

The idea is that opensourcing software makes people you don't know can use it, improve it and ultimately you get those improvements yourself.
Wow! This is a fantastic application of Tensorflow. I am a mechanical engineer and I am constantly thinking of ways I can use AI/ML in my systems/work. I think that there is tremendous opportunity for using tools like Tensorflow in unsexy applications such as recycling.
> Feudalism wasn't unjust because the kings had a lot of money, it was unjust because they got a lot of money through force and not through productive economic activity.

What if they just inherited it?

How confident are we that everyone who has a lot of monetary power today got to that place originally through productive economic activity vs. illegitimate/criminal activity, or unproductive economic activity, or inheritance, or just being the first to colonise (or often just plain steal) some land, or some other less savory source?
Farage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigel-farage-vows-leave-uk-074302...
Ask HN: Does reading code actually make you a better developer?
I've been writing software for quite some time, and one piece of advice I hear a lot for improving is "read lots of code, write lots of code, repeat".

I get writing lots of code-- but reading lots of code? I'm not so sure.

What are your thoughts?
2011 Facebook login was broken because they had assumed a function on Date- maybe a date.js function? Working at LivingSocial we relied heavily on Facebook login working. So did our competitor Groupon. I recall we figured out the Date dependency and patched it externally and deployed before Facebook or Groupon had it fixed a few hours later. Was a lot of fun and rewarding seeing this fixed so quickly.
It doesn't necessarily mean that, but it's the strongest evidence I could possibly imagine that it would.
I don't think you quite realize just how much energy we're talking about here. Most asteroids have enough mass, which at a realistic speed could shatter the moon.

If we shatter the moon, well, let's put it this we : at that point we're fucked. As in close to end of human race fucked. There will be worldwide constant meteor showers for years, which will impact with enough force to penetrate nuclear bunkers. Oceans will boil for years.
Agreed, he's one of the best sci-fi writers. He's got the rigor and imagination of Greg Egan but he's a much better writer and his characters are better defined. For me, the perfect combination. If he wrote more he'd be the best. Unfortunately his output is tiny.
It's pretty common to use words like this to indicate the approximate intent rather than a precise alignment with every possible thing the word could mean.

Just toss "family plan" into Google and look at the results that come up. It's a really common term and they pretty much all have arbitrary limits like this, because "family plan" means "plan that might be more suitable for families" not "plan that suits every single family ever."

It's common with other words too. Happy hour isn't limited to happy people, nor is it guaranteed to produce happiness. Kids meals have an arbitrary age cutoff even though "kid" is often more varied. Express lanes are sometimes slower than the regular ones. Hacker News is rarely about cutting things with rough or heavy blows, and often not about news.

You ask, "whose problem is that?" My answer would be, nobody's, because there isn't a problem for anyone to have in the first place.
In London (Clapham Junction at least) they have tracked vehicles that can take a wheelchair up the Victorian stairs
The hole is already dug. Instead of going in the hole, the waste is sitting in collecting ponds or concrete casks very, very close (100 yards) from major waterways.
Greg Egan. If you like solid science there's just nobody at that level. Chiang would be if he wrote more.
We should clarify this, but fly is best suited for the "valuable" requests, and we've been recommending that people put their static assets on a more traditional CDN.

We should _also_ document a policy on DOS stuff. We don't intend to run people out of money if they do get attacked. In fact, we have some ideas for middleware that would end requests early and not bill at all. Still, when we've done metered services in the past we were really generous with refunds / credits after bursts (which is basically what AWS et all do too).
If you don't read other people's code, you are stuck understanding things in terms of the idioms of your own comprehension.

Moreover, reading code is a skill, and much of being a good developer involves working with other people code, which means being able to efficiently parse other people's code.
Thanks for giving me yet another reason to hate Grover Norquist. Ugh.
Untrue, actually they both use the same system (and almost identical formulation). The difference being the focus on the FDA process and US market that vaselgel is taking, you can see the cleverly worded non-answer on their own FAQ, quoted below. They do "filter" the vasdeferentia and not block it. This is actually preferential as it can alleviate a small chance of pain or sperm granulomas after a vasectomy, also quoted below.

Although Vasalgel and RISUG® are based on the same concept of using a polymer gel injected into the vas deferens, the formulations are not the same. And RISUG has been developed and tested in India over multiple decades, while Vasalgel is being developed in the United States to conform to the latest FDA and international codes of production and safety.

And

only a small percentage of men who have had a vasectomy experience chronic pain (1-2% according to the American Urological Association). Our current understanding of Vasalgel is that fluids can pass through the gel, but sperm cannot. This will likely reduce the incidence of back-pressure. Sperm granulomas are formed when the vas deferens is severed in a vasectomy and sperm leak into surrounding tissue. Since injection of Vasalgel does not involve cutting the vas deferens, this should not be an issue.

Notice the non-answer below:

Our understanding is that Vasalgel works by blocking or filtering out sperm. In the past, RISUG (a different product) was described as working by shredding sperm by an electrical charge process as they went past the contraceptive that lined the walls of the vas deferens. Vasalgel makes no such claims.

https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/vasalge...
Your might not be from the US, so I can understand how you might have such an impression, but wheelchair ramps, although universal for new construction, are usually not installed until either new construction occurs nearby or the sidewalk itself needs to be replaced unless a high traffic street. For example, although I think the installation of wheelchair ramps on sidewalks has been going on for at least 30 years, probably only about half of the curbs in my relatively-urban neighborhood have ramps.
What an amazingly snobby reply to an article about someone writing good fiction.

I'll leave a much better writer than me to do the arguing, Ursula K. LeGuin, although I realize you won't read either of these articles because you're too busy "working on [your] own things now," but I'll post them because they're great.

Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction. [1]

> And that, of course, is the lingering problem: The maintenance of an arbitrary division between “literature” and “genre,” the refusal to admit that every piece of fiction belongs to a genre, or several of genres.

> Realism is of course a tremendous and wonderfully capacious literary genre, and it has dominated fiction since 1800 or before. But dominance isn’t the same thing as superiority. Fantasy is at least as immense as realism and much older — essentially coeval with literature itself. Yet fantasy was relegated for fifty years or sixty years to the nursery.

On Serious Literature. [2]

> But it [Genre fiction] was dead, dead! God damn that Chabon, dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its decaying eyes! What did the fool think he was doing?

1. https://electricliterature.com/ursula-k-le-guin-talks-to-mic...

2. http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-ChabonAndGenre.html
In an ideal society, we identify theft/criminal activity and get the money back. That's part of what we have government for right? Also inheritance is ultimately the extension of the will of someone who was economically productive, so I see no problem there.
The stated goal is to enable someone to verify "that they have gotten the same version as the rest of the world and not a special, possibly compromised version." This is actually two goals: (1) verify that your version is the same as everyone else's, and (2) verify that that version is genuine.

Why should one care about (1)? All that really matters is (2). As long as I'm using a genuine release, does it matter what the rest of the world is using? Unless I wish to establish trust in a binary based on how popular it is, or unless I care about interoperability between the version I have and the version others have, it doesn't really matter what version everyone else has.

I wonder if the author has heard about Nix or Guix? The purely functional software deployment model pioneered by Nix solves (2) trivially, for practically all applications in general, not just Firefox specifically. It also solves many other problems in the field of software deployment that this article doesn't even mention.

Long story short, don't reinvent the wheel. Use Nix or Guix. Learn more by reading the first chapter of Eelco Dolstra's thesis, which describes the problems and how the Nix model solves them:

https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

Edit: Even if one is concerned about (1), the Nix model enables ways to verify that the origin is actually sending a binary that was built from the source it claims to use. For example, consider "guix challenge":

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-...
His wealth doesn't really come at the cost of the wealth of others though - he has probably been a net benefit to society through job creation and investments and things like that. If wealth was a zero-sum game it would be different, but it is not.
I'm pretty sure the problem would be that the second someone like Grover Norquist came out against it, you'd lose a huge amount of support. The fact that those very same people would love the system if they tried it (as the 99% approval of the system attests) is irrelevant.

That said, it would be interesting to see it put to a vote.
Listen to the podcast. THis has nothing to do with changing what taxes are paid. It's about simplifying the tax-paying process, which is unnecessarily a pain in the ass for the benefit of a few software companies.
Note that the size increase is in the _bitcode_ portion of the binary. This slice is stripped from the binary before it makes it to the user's device. This means the size increase is merely an inconvenience during the development process, and has no impact on the size of apps as users see them.
China to close ivory shops and factories as price plummets
Hi. I'm against vasectomies and all contraception because my religion (Catholic) teaches they are gravely sinful, but aside from this, I've read that some very small percentage of men have recurring pain for years following vasectomies- something to Google/ think about if you're considering this. Like the top commenter said, another option is Natural Family Planning - the Symptothermal method taught by the Couple to Couple League, which sells a home-study course) boasts an effectiveness rate rivaling hormonal contraceptives for couples who follow the guidelines. This does require periods of abstinence, which sucks sometimes, but is otherwise free and side effects and free for both couples. Another Symptothermal way is Daysy, which my wife and I haven't tried but looks cool since it does all the charting/rules for you. God bless and best of luck.
Also relevant I think is that novelists are a vanishingly small part of the population. Very, very few people make a living writing novels or other lengthy texts, and not that many people write novels as a hobby (or hoping to sell their book). Not many people write songs either, the other example given here.

All in all, I'd say that there just aren't that many jobs these days that require a lot of individual concentration and focus. Those that do seem to have the reputation that it's needed: novelists, some college professors (when they're writing theses/dissertations/whatever), etc.

But it's weird; if you asked most people if they think novelists would be more productive at home in their private office, or in a loud, bustling open-office environment, I'll bet most would answer the former. But for some reason people don't seem to think programmers need that.
I asked him about this at a reading he did a few months ago – apparently he still does technical writing for them, and at least some of it is still in their C++ documentation.
Only on new lines with straight platforms. Older ones are almost all on curves, a guy in the sliding doors business told me they looked into but the cost was too high as each station is on a different circumference bend so they would all be custom jobs.
somewhat yes.

I really dont believe your best friend is a guy.
On one of the previous comments argued that he would not could call Beej's work "a definitive guide". Fair enough but "classic" is very accurate.

I don't know why your response is graying but I hear you ... nostalgia! I miss the time when this classic was magic.
I'm definitely a nuclear power proponent, and not a militarist, and I think that the militaristic-ly driven decision to prefer the uranium fuel "cycle" exclusively is the reason we're stuck with these shitty BWR's and PWR's, to the exclusion of anything else. Nuclear as it exists today definitely doesn't live up to the hype, and that's because the nuclear power industry is essentially frozen on 1960's designs, with incremental improvements tacked on. If the auto industry were as slow as the nuclear industry, we'd all be looking forward to next year's new Ford Model C.
This is like so many articles and books I've read (several mentioned in this article itself). Ok, AI is a threat to jobs up and down the ladder. I get it. Now what? What are we supposed to do about it?

Honestly, what is the purpose of articles like this other than fear-mongering? It offers no constructive suggestions, and the only reason it's on the front page of HN is because "Artificial Intelligence" in the title.
The parent post as more about component based styling then css-in-js.

As for css-in-js, there isn't much of an advantage to using it vs importing sass files as scoped.

With Sass you get:

- Familiare Syntax

- Avoids inline styles

- All benefits of the Sass community

vs with css-in-js you primarily gain:

- Dynamic and regular styles together

- One less compiler dependency

- Benefits of full JS for style generation

So I think this really depends on the project and your preference, I don't think there's a massive benefit either way.
Darek Mihocka has a nice writeup on inner interpreter efficiency on modern-ish architectures: http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx25_nostradamus.htm

[edit: get his name right. you'd think i'd know it, since he rubs my nose into some bugs I wrote 30+ years ago every time we meet. hi, darek! :-)]
I've tried that, and it doesn't work, in fact it makes it much worse. You get lulled into deep concentration successfully, and then some asshole comes up behind you and taps you on the shoulder.
"According to open data[1] the largest contributor to her campaign is Intuit and it's employees."

And without even looking, I am going to guess it's some shockingly low number ... let's take a look ...

Ding!

$30k. That's all it took.

Should we have some fun and see if $31k is enough for (whoever this lady is that nobody has ever heard of) to tattoo "rsync.net" on her forearm ?

$32k ? What should our offer be ?

Maybe she can help councilman Ben Kallos pull the rickshaw.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13972360
My iPhone is a pocket computer that just happens to make phone calls (which I almost never do).

Why weren't you happy with an old Nokia?
> Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:
The industry has literally been saying this for more than 50 years.

Soon is relative. Nuclear power has only existed for just over 70 years. These things take time, and progress is intensely stagnated because of the fear and regulation involved.
The Deck was just one leg among several on the DF revenue stool. Weekly sponsorships for the RSS feed and my podcast are still going strong. And, Jim Coudal was open about the problems The Deck was facing -- the end didn't come as a surprise to member sites.
I haven't seen opinion polls, but I doubt that's a widely held view. Why should people conform to your unusual position on property, as opposed to the mainstream one?

Personally, I quite like owning things that are mine. The cost, that other people can own things that are theirs and not mine, seems well worth it.
This video, and subsequent works, are discussed in TFA at length.
Ask HN: How in the year 2017 does Google Maps only have three voice levels?
When Buying Sudafed Is a Crime
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case.

Binary sizes in iTunes connect (from our Xcode 8.3 build) all were 2x-3x larger depending on device.
That's not withholding though (as the parent referred to; withholding towards your federal income tax bill); as you mention, that's payroll taxes, which you're going to get in retirement back as entitlements.

Consider what would happen if the IRS was efficient enough (through these automated tax accounting systems) to not get an interest free loan from working America for an entire year (ie dynamically modifying every pay period how much was collected in federal tax withholding based on estimated total year tax liability); the federal government would have to be more judicious about its cash flow.

You'd think that's something Republicans and small government advocates could get behind. Go figure. "Fiscal conservatives" in name only.

EDIT: For the pedantic: s/IRS/US Treasury/ in my comment.
Recover Data from Samsung Galaxy S7 Broken Screen
You are obviously missing the sarcasm.
So limit free speech. It's already not absolute, never has been, never will be.
This appears to be bitcode.
It probably means they just starting making use of more metadata or something that is now included in the bitcode.

Bitcode also now deliberately trades off size vs speed and includes indexes used for LTO, etc.
They could be including those.

You should almost always expect bitcode to get beat by "llvm-dis|xz", because the goal of bitcode is not to be the most compact possible format, but instead, a compact format the compiler can use effectively :)

Now, if actual on-device binary sizes increased, my guesses would be:

1. it now includes bitcode, or another architecture, in the binary (which would be interesting)

2. Something has gone horribly horribly wrong :P Really, speaking as a guy whose org maintains the toolchains for platforms like this, there's a 0% chance we wouldn't notice a 2x-3x size increase.
I don't think you understand how outrageously overpriced our medical system is in the United States.
Rethinking Recurrent Neural Networks
They're a symptom that has just successfully lobbied to keep the disease going. At this point it's reasonable to say that they're actively helping to cause it.
very interesting, thanks!