skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really great to see something that appears to be a genuine leap in progress, and shows that HP has been able to continue innovating.
I don't wish to handwave, misconstrue or dismiss facts, in fact that's why I suggested you google those things!
They bill out 20x what he earns because they're not just billing for his time. They're billing for the time of the sales person who chased the lead, the time of the team who read the brief and developed the proposal, the time of the people who travelled to the client to deliver the presentation, the time of the secretary who handled the callback and the time of all the people who did all the same things the half a dozen other times where they DIDN'T get the contract.
It's not an internal product but I wouldn't call it boring either. There were some new ideas and some non-technical reasons why they couldn't be used at that time but they could still be viable and potentially something we wouldn't want public.
That would massively disadvantage US companies operating abroad, compared to foreign companies. E.g. Ford builds a car in Spain, ships it to France and sells it. They pay a US tax to do so. VW does the same, but pays no US tax, therefore the VW car will be cheaper. It would kill US companies global competitiveness.
The article is from 2013, the guy has gone to greener pastures since then, quite literally: he's "farming trees".[1]

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/kneath
in order for his meaning to have been co-opted, he would have had to be communicating it in the first place. he says it's "the strength and power fo the american people", but i always saw pursuit of a financial goal without concern for collateral damage, like a bull in a china shop.
I don't know much about the topic, but going off the article, and assuming a non-ornamental set;

There's really no reason to claim its non-functional; its just not useful for games against arbitrary players.

But its hardly a complex adaptation, requiring but a few games to achieve proficiency (this I know from my own experience with an ornamental set, against my brother)

Anyone you play with repeatedly can be played with on a variant set; and since I imagine most don't only play against randoms in a park/tournament, there's quite a bit of use to find.

And as the article notes, knowing an additional set doesnt detract from knowledge of the first (bilingual)

Tbh, the only reason I can think of to explicitly deny owning or using non-standard set, ignoring random pick-up games and tournaments, is either pretentiousness or genuine love for the Staunton set
Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality than journal articles
Of course many DVD players could be region unlocked, so people didn't complain too much. Same with libdvdcss.

Even in the vhs days, ntsc v pal, and the lack of international awareness that was common pre internet, provided region locking of a sort.
Reason is more then a "slightly improved syntax to help attract programmers from mainstream languages".

It also improves error messages and tooling. It has something akin to JSX built into the lang.
Yes. I stopped reading after two paragraphs because of the hiccups it caused in my parser.
In the U.K. it is very difficult to get a CGM - unless you are young or manage your Type1 very badly.

Even with doing finger prick blood tests 5 times a day, for years, I feel mostly clueless. And rely heavily on how I feel. Given how much time this condition (?) costs healthcare, this seems a poor way to manage it.

I'm desperate to learn more about my body's glucose trends. A watch that could do that would be awesome.
I can testify that the the Discord channels are a very welcoming place.
All true. But one extra step and the most important one: users need to know that is possible. Otherwise they'll never get to point where they know what to google.

Most people see websites as they see movies: they type facebook.com and hey, an image. Enter login and password and enter and hey, another image.

The fact that things are built on top of other things (websites -> html and assets) is deep magic.
Think you know the top web browsers?
I think the real issue is there is an IP moat - Eink corporation was pretty much a monopoly which kept prices high and research and innovation spending low - but the patent has been partially annulled in Germany so there might be more innovation in that field coming soon

http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2015/03/02/german-court-fin...
The problem with the latter explanation is that it doesn't explain where "u" came from. Etymologically, "kraina" is indeed "country" or "land", that's true. But "u" is a preposition meaning "at", "by", "near" (in both languages - it's unchanged from Old East Slavic). So "u+kraina" would mean something like "near the country"... which sounds a lot like borderlands, does it not? At which point we're back at square one.

In general, when linguistics gets politicized, and there are multiple competing theories with various implications, take a look at the geographic spread of each. If it's politically relevant for one country, and one particular theory is only popular in that country, it's probably being promoted for political reasons. If it's widespread in academic circles of many different countries, including those that don't have any stakes in any associated politics disputes, it's more likely to be factual.
Not saying you are wrong but there may be a bias if you are English speaking. As a person with a another language as english as my first, lots of the internet I see is in my native language. Lots of new music and movies is as well.
christ - reading through this person's website he seems like a parody of the 'arrogant engineer' stereotype.
Yes, banks take that money and use that to fund loans, which are assets for banks, which then earn interest and the loans go out into the market for people to use. Usually to fund houses or investment, or certain other big ticket purchases for consumers.

There's more to it, and you can go deeper, but for the context of a simplified comparison, loans and investment were excluded.

The full explanation is that investment focused money has to be supported by consumption. You cant keep investing without people consuming stuff. Otherwise there's really no economy.

So consumption in the middle of the pyramid and bottom of the pyramid, generally has more impact on the economy:

2 million distributed between a bunch of people who will spend all of it immediately in purchases (toilet paper, food, clothes) has an immediate and direct impact on the economy.

Vs.

2 million to 1 person, who spends only 50k on daily expense, buys 1 car, and invests the rest, (there's only so many houses/cars and big ticket purchases people are going to make with their money. You don't need 7 dryers for example.)

That's the reason. Investments aren't going into the economy directly. They need someone else to be creating demand, thus creating investment need.
>Which means it can be faster. If you need to be able to write a file, but have the build system recognize that the new one is the same as the old; this can be accomplished with a simple `sponge`-like script that only writes the file if the new version is different than the old. (I like to call the script write-ifchanged)

> If you don't tell it to, no it doesn't. You can easily combine the above write-ifchanged with the technique described in the article to declare dependencies on variable values.

You can make Make do a lot of things with enough hacking, but the defaults matter. The majority of projects that use make don't bother. Meaning you need a 'make clean; make' if you change compiler flags.

> Which means that it works with NFS, doesn't have race conditions involving renaming directories, ...

It has plenty of race conditions without that: if you change a header file in the middle of a make run, it will happily continue without warning.

A lot of Make's design decisions make sense given its history. Given its ubiquity it's also the best choice for a lot of projects. That doesn't mean it's perfect.
Actually most languages have more sounds than letters. Some use diacritical marks, others use multiconsonant groups ("ch" in Spanish, "th" in English), and another option is just not to care (in English most letters can represent various sounds and the mapping is often arbitrary, requiring one to know the word in order to know how it's pronounced).
Shareholders are not the first to benefit, they are the last to benefit. Profits are by definition what remains after everyone else has taken their part, if anything.
Unfortunately all I've got here is that the behaviour can be seen in my boilerplate React app:

https://github.com/technion/awesome-sec-audit/blob/master/as...

If you insert the element directly in line 25 you'll get:

error TS2345: Argument of type 'HTMLElement | null' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Element'.
You can easily create additional letters by 1) diacritics, and 2) combining letters. Have a look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Turkic_Alphabet

In addition, some of the Cyrillic letters currently used represent two phonemes rather than one - notably letters like "ё", "ю", "я". These would be more naturally represented by "y" + vowel in a Latin-based alphabet.
Sounds interesting, whats it called?
The world's now oldest person Saro Dursun - born 1899 june 01 - lives in Västerås Sweden.

Public record of age: https://www.ratsit.se/18990601-Saro_Dursun_Vasteras/qEQWdEbn...
> Looks pretty neat...tiny 300dpi rewritable epaper display that needs no power to retain the image.

You just described regular paper.
... But we care about pixels. Particularly the few that make up apostrophes.
Just renouncing US citizenship costs several thousand dollars in legal fees and could take up to 5 years. What you are suggesting is similar to telling someone who is complaining about rent prices to just buy a house.
Somebody designed a financial instrument to make money, in a zero sum game somebody has to lose for somebody to make money. I would rather shake someone’s hand and agree to commit to an outcome. It has always worked out well for me
https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst is a godsend.
Why are my taxes being used to fund the NSA exploiting our software instead improving it?
Devil's advocate: suppose humans succeed only 99% of the time, but we can understand and characterize the 1% of failures fairly well. Now suppose machine learning-based approaches succeed 99.9% of the time and only fail 0.1%, but that 0.1% is for totally unknowable reasons. Is the former better than the latter?

It's fun to imagine someone constructing adversarial examples to cause self-driving cars to crash. But is that really a big deal? Humans can just as easily be tripped up by an "adversarial" example: I can pretty easily point a laser pointer from my window at random humans driving a car. The legal system has well-defined mechanisms for dealing with this.
> The whole language is, to an extent, a compromise over various paradigms that are very nearly mutually exclusive outside of ML.

I'd say the MLs are functional-first (with imperative/OO on top). Like Ruby OO-first (with some functional on top).

For me this type of multi-paradigm is ok. It starts to hurt when all the paradigms are "first", which I see in Scala.
I think what you said is true. But the main point implied here but I didn't mentioned is the mindset or competence is quite different between programming competition & real work. After all, being good on the job depends more on reflection, going slowly, making things right. ;-)
As a Type1, I wish they'd give them different names - diabetes is too often seen as a 'fat person disease'.

Maybe I shouldn't care, but it is upsetting to have to explain to people all the time. Even more so when they close their ears to the response.
The value of the shares goes up because, even if the business and profitability stays exactly the same, with fewer out standing shares, the earnings per share goes up.
Pay attention to the accents though. They make the two words sound very different, one has heavy accent on "i" and the other on the preceding "a".

Украи́на [1] vs. окра́ина [2]

But I see what you are saying. They are related.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B...
Sam Altman: Social Change and Startups
I think you're mixing up two different things though: one is the question about whether AI is good or bad for humanity, the other about what the limits of its capabilities are
Now that JaneStreet and Facebook are investing so much in the language, I think this feature is more likely to be implemented then ever.
Because, cynical as this may sound to some people, that's what government does, in the name of national security. The argument that we keep zero-days exploits secret is basically security by obfuscation. That will only last until another smart person discovers it and sell that to the highest bidder. But the interest of national security in modern cyber warfare is about gathering intel. Otherwise, we wouldn't be looking at this news right now, we wouldn't have government websites hacked or classified documents stolen or government officials using their personal mail servers, if we are serious about the safety of our national computer infrastructure.
At 32m 41s in this podcast.

"People should be able to support a political candidate and express the reasons they do especially if they're unpopular, without someone ascribing all of [the candidate's] worst traits."

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.commonwealthcl...

Altman makes two revealing claims:

1. That it's possible to support a political candidate without being accused of supporting all their views.

2. That the protests against Thiel are inneffective at changing Thiel's mind.

Taking each of these:

1. If the candidate is openly inviting a historic national adversary to disrupt an election, if he is a direct attack on liberal democracy itself, if his platform is a direct translation of fascist platforms from the 1920s and 1930s, and all this is being openly discusse, then no, there is no conceivable way in which support for that candidate, by someone claimed to be "one of the smartest guys in Silicon Valley", can be considered to be anything other than absolutely anathema, deliberate, and abhorrent.

Peter Thiel deserves all the approbrium he's received, a millionfold.

2. The audience of the outrage is far from Thiel alone. It's to /all/ the political and entrepreneurial class within Silicon Valley and elsewhere: you must not do this, or tolerate those who do -- or their counsel, presence, or money.

That Sam Altman, CEO of Ycombinator, and personal friend of Peter Thiel, fails to grasp either point is beyond profoundly disturbing.

Wake up, Sam.
Completely. As a T1 I could complain that it is draining, but, hey, it's just the way things are.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A culture of hyper reality made paranoid delusions true – Aeon Essay
Assuming he's a software engineer given that this is hacker news, you really don't have to be that smart to get _a job_. Being the best or even good at it requires intelligence, but its not difficult to get a job you cant due when you have hiring managers who don't understand the work or if you can get certification just by spending a lot of time and money.

For the software engineer example again, if just being able to do the job proved your intelligence, then no one would ever have to go through the marathon interviews to prove that they are competent
I think the implications of switching a script are fewer than people imagine, especially between Cyrillic and Latin. These two are closely related alphabetical writing systems. People will not lose the ability to read old books, they will not change their political positions. Usually, the "new" and "old" characters correspond one to another perfectly.

I think what is more important is the "drive for expanded international recognition for the Central Asian nation that formed part of the Soviet Union until gaining independence in 1991." that is mentioned in the article. As you can see every foreign article still believes its to be necessary to mention the Soviet union, 26 years after it ended. So it might not change people's lives much, but it will change the perception of what Kazakhstan is.
Being smarty pants here, but I wanted to point out that "Brain in a Jar" usually refers to something entirely different: that one is a victim of thoroughgoing error induced by a God-like deceiver.

Hypothesis, skeptical argument etc in detail: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-content-extern...
Parser combinators tend to work by recursive descent, so cannot handle
left recursive grammars [1], and tend to be really slow. The latter
is not a problem for many applications, but removing left recursion
can be irritating even for small grammars. It is possible to build combinator parsers that can
handle all context-free grammars [2], but I'm not sure any of Ocaml's are built that way.

In any case, Ocaml has parser generators that are fast, do bottom-up parsing (hence handle left-recursion without issue) and not based on parser combinators, e.g. ocamlyacc [3].

I'd use parser combinators for quick prototypes, and, if measurement shows a performance problem, replace them with a generated (e.g. by ocamlyacc) parser. As far as I remember the parser in Ocaml's (superfast) compiler is generated by ocamlyacc.

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

[2] T. Ridge, Simple, functional, sound and complete parsing for all context-free grammars. http://www.tom-ridge.com/resources/ridge11parsing-cpp.pdf

[3] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/lexyacc.html
Just like in sports, you get paid more for what you have done vs what you could do.

Having a few really good pieces of work to show off is no guarantee that you'll consistently pump out good work, or that you haven't left clients high and dry before. Since a third party has no real way of gauging that except by your track record, they're taking more of a chance on someone with less of a track record. More risk means they need more reward, which means you get paid less.

Most of us COULD run a Fortune 500 company as well as the average CEO but we won't get the chance, nor compensation, until we have the experience.
US was well past subsistence farming in 1776. Guns and Ships don't grow on trees, and people don't eat cotton. Further with a population of 2.5 million and huge tracts of land there was a lot of low hanging fruit such as fur trapping.

Just track GDP in (1776 vs 1913 / population in 1776 vs 1913 ) / (1913 - 1776). Well don't do exactly that you need to use logarithms because exponential growth. You end up with significantly less than 2% annual growth.
That is the strangest down-vote I've ever received on a textbook answer straight from Finance 101.
Great job, congratulations!

My first reaction was : "well, if it's sentiment analysis, it doesn't know anything about if the news is bad or good, only about the mood of writer". But I then realized this is actually even better. I don't want to filter out news that are not good news, this would be plain denial. For a same news, an article can be written in a positive and analytical way, or trying to incite hate or bad feelings. This is the later I want to filter, and sentiment analysis is probably the perfect tool for that.

I would love to know how you built your training dataset (how good and bad labels were decided), because that's ultimately the choice that shapes the whole decision process. Maybe this should be a standard kind of page for products offering ML based filtering.

Also, thanks a lot for providing an "all stories" tab, additionally to "good stories" and "bad stories", this is something automatic curated content misses too often. I really love the "stories to read" mode of google now, which provides me stories based on my interests, that's basically the first thing I check every morning. But I always wonder, when I read news from there : "is this a thing for the whole world or just for me?". We need referential, the possibility to see the whole picture and to switch easily between "content for me" and "content for the world" to take advantage of the bubble without being harmed by it.
I don't know about Turkish, but German is not phonetically spelled.

Of course it is better than the mess English is, but there are still many exceptions, silent letters, dypthongs, etc.

For an almost phonetic language try Italian, for a completely phonetic one try Serbian with the Cyrillic script.
Yeah but if you transfer an asset (cash) out of the company, all other things being equal, the value of the shares must go down.

This McKinsey article is old but explores the topic in some detail.

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corp...

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"Sending signals

The market responds to announcements of buybacks because they offer new information, often called a signal, about a company’s future and hence its share price.

One well-known positive signal in a buyback is that management seems to believe that the stock is undervalued. Executives can enhance this effect by personally purchasing significant numbers of shares, since market participants see them as de facto insiders with privileged information about future earnings and growth prospects. A second positive signal is management’s confidence that the company doesn’t need the cash to cover future commitments such as interest payments and capital expenditures.

But there is a third, negative, signal with a buyback: that the management team sees few investment opportunities ahead, suggesting to investors that they could do better by putting their money elsewhere. Some managers are reluctant to launch buyback programs for this reason, but the capital market’s mostly positive reaction to such announcements indicates that this signal isn’t an issue in most cases. In fact, the strength of the market’s reaction implies that shareholders often realize that a company has more cash than it can invest long before its management does.

Therefore, the overall positive response to a buyback may well result from investors being relieved that managers aren’t going to spend a company’s cash on inadvisable mergers and acquisitions or on projects with a negative net present value. In many cases, a company seems to be undervalued just before it announces a buyback, reflecting an uncertainty among investors about what management will do with excess funds.

Such shareholder skepticism would be well founded. In many industries, management teams have historically allocated cash reserves poorly. The oil industry since 1964 is one example (Exhibit 4): a huge price umbrella for much of this period, courtesy of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), provided oil companies with relatively high margins. Nevertheless, for almost three decades the spread between ROIC and cost of capital for the industry as a whole was negative. Convinced that on a sustained basis the petroleum industry could not deliver a balanced source of income, many companies committed their excess cash to what turned out to be value-destroying acquisitions or other diversification strategies. For example, in the 1970s, Mobil bought retailer Montgomery Ward; Atlantic Richfield purchased Anaconda, a metal and mining company; and Exxon bought a majority stake in Vydec, a company specializing in office automation. All of these cash (or mostly cash) acquisitions resulted in significant losses."
Understanding poverty and what it really takes to lift a person or a family out of desperate poverty and into a steady state of self reliance is an enormously complex issue. It involves whole communities and societies as well as giving them a sense of value in society. You are a brave and kind soul for trying, be pragmatic and hire a social worker to make it real
I didnt even notice.
they should enter the airliner industry, electric passenger jets or glider jets. and take that worldwide quite quickly.
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