skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your comment about Austen's female protagonists. The article's author appears to have assumed that because Austen writes in the third person, equal weight can be given to she/he bi-grams. But, a writer can still internalize when using the third person and that could explain the differences much more than the gender of the subject.
I like this. I run the boutique audio plugin company Airwindows http://www.airwindows.com and last year I ran into a little problem: my payment processor, Kagi, went out of business owing me hundreds of dollars.

Your reasons for the No Exit strategy resonate with my thinking when I flipped Airwindows over to a Patreon strategy, decimating my income (I'd grossed close to a quarter million dollars by this point) just so I could release all future plugins as free AU, Mac and PC VSTs. At that point, the tactics became flooding the market with VST versions of software that had been AU-only up to that point, and coming up with promises (such as an open-sourcing program under the MIT license, and I've also debated using the GPL) to motivate people to join the Patreon.

If you starve and die, you can't do any work. If you're incredibly poor, you can only work on that which you can afford. (no modeling of Neve consoles here, not properly!) If you have incredible access to capital, sky's the limit, but it seems compulsory to screw over your users because capital demands to be returned tenfold, and this puts HUGE pressure on any dev or creator to turn full-on evil.

I don't know the answer and I'm not doing that awesomely, but that's not so different from how things were going before: that market is shriveling, in part because people simply can't pay money for things any more. There are major players which are, I think, staving off total collapse by setting up the most heinous DRM treadmills imaginable and trying to latch on to all the credit cards they can, all while trying to race to the bottom and starve everybody else.

I can't target capital as a goal anymore. I'll beg if I have to, I'll accept ugly and scary poverty, but I can't be part of the system geared to leave all the users with nothing. It's open source and tool-distribution for me. The whole concept of being rewarded with wealth for valuable work has become a charade when it gets crowded out by 'rewarded with lots more wealth by helping Microsoft screw everyone over'. The link's broken. And this is a rather big deal in a world where that link's axiomatic.
I can speak of based on the ~100 interviews I conducted hiring SDEs. There are very few who could pass an SRE I/II interview, yet I know of few.
Ironically, it was the defense industry - not Hollywood - that initiated Southern California's ascention to an economic juggernaut.
>to claim trespass you first need to have the right to exclude the person. "I don't feel like performing my part of my contract with this person" doesn't get you there.

It doesn't? Trespass is criminal while a contract is civil. The police don't enforce contracts do they?

Further, I should be able to break a contract at will (how could that ability even be taken away?) and accept the consequences.
How to use neural networks to do image inpainting
Fascinating travel through time with Relativity of Time
You also don't have to do it every day. Do it two or three times a week.
Although what you find frequently is that SmallQualityCorp was started by BigCorp at arms length with a view to bringing them under the umbrella once they have traction.

"Sports nutrition" (the "what the hell do we do with all this cheese making byproduct industry") is rife with this - there are only two suppliers, and many, many brands and offshoots. It happens in retail, too - you see a single entity pushing multiple seemingly independent brands to target different market segments.
I also find the economist to be one of the best. The articles it produces on Argentina are spot-on, which I always find amazing.
The article seems to center more around pests than just drought:

> There will be no miraculous recovery of these urban ecosystems after the beetles are done with them.

> ...If we cannot control the shot hole borer, it will kill all the sycamores in California.
> It's pretty clear that Google's strategy is that making the web better for Google

FIFY.

I have no idea why the belief that "what's good for Google is good for the internet" persists - those days are long past. Google is best understood as a huge surveillance operation with bait services attached.

The obvious reason for them to push their own ad blocker seems most likely; it is to suck the oxygen out of the space by exploiting their privileged position as a browser maker to destroy 3rd parties that can block their ads. The ad blocker-makers are tiny, fragmented and unfortunately muddled with some crappy products that sell whitelist entries; this is a good time for Google to try to knife them, before a market leader emerges.
I like using :r ! <command> for running terminal commands.

What I liked the most about your article is that 'further reading' section at the bottom!
Freshness also raises comments higher, not just voting. In time this one will drop.
HITBSecConf2017 – Amsterdam – CommSec Track Day 2 [video]
To be fair, anecdotally at least, a ton of seniors/intermediates just migrate elsewhere. The pay for dev work in the US is _WAY_ higher than in Oz, especially at that level. Though, I've been away for almost ten years so maybe that has changed.
Maybe I missed it, but did someone point to the actual site with "millions of visitors and 5 PETABYTES of traffic per month"? Is that right?

Don't want to seem harsh, but I don't care for unqualified rants against a named entity, when the "accuser" doesn't name his own source.

And using vague words like "inappropriate/troublesome" seems a bit mysterious. Were they ISIS propaganda posters, nudity of celebs, or penguins making out? Might make a difference.

And as others have already stated, it's pretty SOP for hosting and domain companies to have this standard in place. Hate to say it, but it's in the User Agreement. Else, run your own servers and domain name registrar (oh, and also be liable for those same posts possibly).

Why we insist on not understanding that DNRs and hosts are, basically, publishers, who have some rights, is beyond me.

Let me guess... this guy is upset because he might have not gotten the email within 24 hours (in 2017... yeah, right). Is he off-the-grid hunting sea lions in the north sea? And if his site is so big, he has no one to help him and no backup staff except... only him?

This same crowd will balk that FB didn't remove that last murder video in 12.3 seconds, but demand that THEIR host or registrar give them 30 days.

Sheesh... internet shenanigans never stop, do they?
a bit more complicated. I believe what I read was

United knows the cheapest tickets on the flight are $200. They know DOT mandated compensation for involuntary bumping is 4x cost of ticket. Hence, its not worth it to them to offer more than $800 in compensation as they can just bump people involuntarily for the same value.

Demonstrating why the DOTs rules for involuntary bumping create perverse market incentives re overbooking.
Big Enter key master race on the physical front! Most (all?) European keyboard layouts have big physical Enter key.
Yeah, there's also a plausible argument that you're not really a volunteer, especially when United has released a statement saying "Police were called after the passenger refused to voluntarily deplane".

"You can volunteer or be arrested" is an interpretation of "volunteer" that is neither the letter nor spirit of the definition.
Shopify announces launch of 'Shopify Pay'
> what set Wunderlist apart

A nice wood texture (not even joking, was totally sold on the visuals in the early days)
I don't know Kotlin, but judging by their "Kotlin for Scala Developers" article I don't know if it would be a big enough jump to get people excited, especially since a project like this would take years to come to fruition. I think Scala is a good first try at what the successor language could be, but it has two problems: its reputation as a hard language, and the fact that it partly deserves said reputation. (Maybe if Odersky succeeds in simplifying the concepts underlying Scala as he's trying to now with Dotty, the result will be a potential Java-killer.) Oracle would have to fund a research project to choose an existing candidate and spend years developing it to fit the role it would play in the market. Which sounds very unlike Oracle, so I'm not holding my breath.

EDIT: And to your point, I think it's a bad sign if their most profitable customers think that none of the Java language updates they've released in the last ten years is worth upgrading for. The longer their customers stick with 2006-era Java, the longer they pass up Oracle's current offerings, the less attached they feel to the future of the platform, and the more likely they are to make a big change when they do make a change.
Does this mean that they'll finally offer alternative/better keyboard layouts on their laptops?

> Laptops are more complex and will follow much later.

Oh... I guess not.

Custom desktops aren't all that interesting. Especially not with the KickStarter / other funding platform culture that caught on with the custom desktop case community. I really don't see System76 being able to outdo enthusiast communities in terms of what people want (SFF, quietness, form factor, etc.). Their best bet is to work with enthusiast communities, take the cases people are supporting/testing, and create verified + supported Linux configs for those systems. I think they'll have far more success in creating truly unique and useful systems going that route.
One thing that always fascinated me is that although BBSs connected people, they were necessarily constrained by distance given the difficult (and price) of long-distance calls. That reflected on the shape of the community around it. There were some things that would be common between them but overall different area codes had very different scenes. This is somewhat diluted today, since you can connect with whatever community you want. It creates a different sort of bubble.

Anyway, that constraint was also somehow reflected on the choice of tools, maybe in this case especially in the software used by the BBS itself. The US had plenty of different BBS software being used. I know Wildcat was popular in Europe. In my native Brazil it was dominated by PCBoard (major) and Remote Access (minor), and the underground scene was heavily invested in the "cool" Oblivion. I actually thought PCBoard was a major player until I realized very few boards in the USA used it.
There's tmate: a tmux fork wich allow instant pairing without the hassle of ssh'in into the other computer and running a shared tmux. You can instant-run with the online service or install and use your own tmate server (BSD-licensed).

https://tmate.io/
It is hard to become a developer
Pre-boarding bumping is legal. There's some discussion about whether post-boarding bumping is legal, with many people saying it isn't.

$800 is not "what they have to pay by law"; it's the maximum someone would be able to claim if they had to force the claim. There's nothing stopping the airline offering more.
Actually, over the past few years you've probably found more British accents than not - because they are using domestic prison labour at an increasing rate.

Oh, for added gags, one of the massive call centre operators (Serco) also operates prisons, which have quietly gone private over the last decades.
Find the tools to get lost
That's one space that Google is gobbling up with this sort of thing. It's not the only one.

Try: status flight 111 american airlines

That used to result in a visit to aa.com

Now they are way below the fold at around #6 or so.

Google isn't planning just to eat up traffic for trivia sites.
They've been tried elsewhere, and they usually work out pretty well.

Countries that try them may not be utopias, but they do have consistently high citizen satisfaction scores.

Perhaps a little more realism and a little less moralising would be helpful.

To add: these science programs are good examples of collective action. Can anyone seriously imagine Facebook or Google paying for a project like Cassini?
As are torrents, didn't stop the founder of this site being arrested for hosting them
Second to meditation, even on days where everything is fine. The app Simple Habit is a good one for a variety of themed meditations.

http://www.simplehabit.com/
MIT/DARPA also have a combined solid state steerable beam transmitter and sensor using phased arrays:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectr...
"He said he spent about three years building a dozen prototypes before devising Juicero’s patent-pending press. In an interview with technology website Recode, he likened his work to the invention of a mainstream personal computer by Apple’s Jobs. “There are 400 custom parts in here,” Evans told Recode. “There’s a scanner; there’s a microprocessor; there’s a wireless chip, wireless antenna.”

Honestly, this right here, is probably indicative of a lot if true. Nothing says "effective engineering culture" like custom building parts for your innovative-unicorn-10x-juicer when you can get cloned Arduino parts from China. Wankery of the highest order.
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The pattern matching I have in mind is very dynamic in nature and does not concern itself at all with some static notion the data that is being matched. Either there's a match, or there isn't. It's a very binary outcome.
As a wannabe-hacker, I had the super pleasant surprise, once trying to login into a BBS (for which I had no password, of course) that the line was interrupted in the middle of the screen and the sysop started typing "what are you tryin' to do"... It was just like in a movie. This was my first day on the "scene". BBS was located in Belgium, don't remember the name... I wonder if one could do that with, say, ssh (and without IRC :-))

After that, the problem was paying for long distance calls to more "3l33t" BBS's (usually in Sweden). But we had our ways :-)
Tech Takes the Top 5 by Market Cap
What set Wunderlist apart is that they have been the archive of my project ideas for the last who knows how many years. While other apps came along and disappeared, I was sure Wunderlist was just "there" when I needed it.
A little nit-picky, but your "What Our Users Say about Us" section is just people describing their mistakes. It says literally nothing about your platform itself.
About missing those days - I still find joy in doing a lot of the same things around software, and although I did sell Dementia for $50/copy, it was a passion project and not a job.

If I was retired and didn't need to work, I'd still find some software to build and spend my time building it because that's something that I love to do. That's essentially what we were doing back then, so it was a good time.

I think there is some truth to what you're getting at with less noise and constraints and creativity.

Although - during this time, I dreamed of a future when every house and every business had their own BBS. That basically happened in the form of the www. The www and internet would have AMAZED a teenage me, it still does.

I remember that past fondly because they were exciting times for those reasons, but current times are also exciting. :)
That looks to be a result of those flight radar sites doing heavy SEO for the terms vs aa.com =/
Always impressed with the expressiveness and flexibility of the tidytext framework for analysing text. Well done Julia!

Julia and David Robinson's book Tidy Text Mining with R[1] has plenty more great text mining examples like this one.

[1] http://tidytextmining.com/
Interesting Question.

My Take: Redefine what ad means for web browsing, e.g. any information coming from a third party like iframes. All other types of information, paid or not paid, is part of the web page and not worth blocking.
Getting a node server running the first time is actually very difficult. The libraries constantly change so fast tutorials frequently don't work. It was easy once I understood everything, but it wasn't easy the first time at all.
One of the most well executed marketing stunts ever seen must be the "Powered by Ubuntu Linux" stickers that System76 provided back in the day when your OS was still relevant and people thought Ubuntu would be the next big thing in the desktop/laptop space.

I have personally learned so much from that experience that it is very difficult to overlook when thinking of brand hacks.
> all the good apps just get bought and killed

isn't this what the developers behind them are hoping for these days?
Yes, because European airlines are a lot nicer in that regard. "200 EUR" (or whatever amount).

In the US you hear "offered $800 compensation". It's not cash. It's a voucher for use only on that airline, only within 12 months, and only on select full-fare ticket classes. So an $800 ticket may only get you another round flight from Chicago to Louisville (around 500km/300mi).
Nothing works out of the box, especially if you are trying to make two plugins work nicely with each other.

If you want IDE like features i.e Autocomplete than you have to spend days to make it work and even after that it doesn't work like other "GUI" editors.

+ Terminal interface is very limiting to have nice plugins...

I'm really glad I've switched to VSCode..
Binocular depth perception doesn't work past maybe 20-40ft, and safe one-eyed drivers exist. Other forms of depth perception could theoretically be done just as well with a camera as with an eye.
Saw this on the livestream, really great stuff!
I'm getting ready to test out commuting 14 miles, but with an electric bike. Traffic is horrendous here and the metro has been awful. Both take 1hr+ on good days. I'm willing to sacrifice the battery so I don't sweat when I arrive and then use my commute back to get exercise :) I hope it works out.
Not at all. They are saying that classism exists and people wouldn't care if it was a plumber, that doesn't mean they think that plumbers are lower status.

If they had said this happened because racists chose Dr. Dao since he was Asian that wouldn't make them racist either.
ianal but according to this analysis, this particular situation hinges on the fact that United's policy only applies to unboarded passengers, and Dr. Dao was correct to assert his right to stay on the plane: http://www.natlawreview.com/article/united-airlines-dr-dao-a...
Google is going to do just that in Chrome. Of course doing this change means that some existing domains will now stop working correctly which may or may not be ok with their owners.

The other option would be to do this based on the browser's current language preference configuration. But that means that unless your domain is in ASCII, you can never be sure how it's going to be rendered on your customer's browsers which would make IDN domains second-class compared to ASCII domains.
the website is 'experiencing technical difficulties', so i will retype and repost it here:

second sentence; "that that"?? what is the benefit of using these computer things if we do not allow their basic built-in grammar check for those of us who, for whatever reasons, do not even read their own writings?
Thank you very much, will do that right now :)
"Advertising company will block ads"?

or is it

"Advertising company will block ads (obviously except its own)"?
"Content providers - use Google's ad network if you want to make sure you get ad revenue from Chrome!"

Will Google try to remain "fair"? Does the profit-maximizing moves align with "fairness"?
There are deaf drivers, and I'd wager the vast majority of human drivers pay no attention to the feel of the road.
I'd suggest you check out both Golang and Rust. Being comfortable with both won't hurt - but if you had to choose just one, I'd say play with them both and then make an informed choice.
That explains #6, but the "below the fold" is because Google injects their widget: http://imgur.com/a/tr5cs

It's handy, sure. But it does take away a customer interaction that AA used to get.
You'd think so, but Grandma isn't paying $300 for goggles to strap on her face to view baby videos. Meanwhile gamers are chomping at the bit for quality VR experiences and have deep pockets as well.

Mobile gaming didn't stop console and PC gaming, why should VR be any different?
Hooked: How We Got 10M Teens to Read Fiction on Their Phones
> Eye of round is irredeemable cut of meat.

To be fair, that is actually fairly accurate.
Thumbs up ACiD! iCE! ASCII art, we had to be joking :-) I remember those multipages drawings... And, what was the tool ? TheDraw I guess ?
> abuse of the "deny boarding" part of the contract of carriage to keep their expenses down

If they keep their expenses down is does benefit customers in paying less for tickets.

> They offered $800 vouchers, which are limited flying coupons. Legally they're required to offer cash up to $1350.

Legally, they can negotiate with customer. If they refused to offer cash that is illegal. But they can offer whatever they like.

"As you can see, in many cases you’re entitled to a sizable cash payment, up to $1,350. However, here’s the dirty secret of the airlines. In a vast majority of cases they’ll only offer cash compensation if you specifically ask for it. Otherwise they’ll offer you the same voucher they gave anyone who was voluntarily denied boarding."

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/04/11/what-are-y...
My favorite part of Wunderlist was the wood background option, makes a beautiful desktop wallpaper

I'm really glad i exported it out:

http://imgur.com/Hjajl
>It's probably easy to find statistics on their readership showing they're far more educated and international than average.

That doesn't say much -- in fact the idea that these university degrees say anything of importance about the readership is totally contrary to how I view this, which would be much closer to the concept of the "intellectual yet idiot" (IYE) as proposed by Nassim Taleb (and similar ideas, put forward many more prominent thinkers through the last few centuries, e.g. the idea of the Philistine, or Flaubert's mockery of the educated middle class' "received ideas").

>But I'll use a slightly more fun way to show it: it's the only medium I know that regularly has classifieds in the back selling whole airports in Gambia, refineries in Vietnam, or inviting applications to be the UN's High Commissioner for Complicated Negotiations regarding Time Zones in littoral Antarctica.

Kind of makes my point. The ruling elites where never known for their intelligence -- but it's even less so in the 21st century (Trump anyone? Bush? Even Obama and Clinton are more mass media darlings than men of state the way someone like Churchill or De Gaulle was, with a knowledge of the world's intricacies and world history).

As I said, I'm not very much for received ideas and preconceived notions of what's worthy and what's intelligent. And degrees really don't tell me anything for this. Any idiot can have one (I should know, for I have one). Even more so, any idiot can have the money to buy a "refinery in Vietnam". It might take business savvy (if the money weren't inherited in the first place, or stolen from the public, e.g. by some corrupt public official), but that's not the same thing as someone understanding foreign affairs.
Oh man thank you for this link.
I would also add that if they can also get the same quality trackpad as that of MacBooks, I would also flock to it.
I'm not sure whether that isn't just a business decision. CMOS cameras are cheap, small, and they don't change very much. Ergo, once they manage to develop a solution using cameras, they won't have to retrofit the hardware in customers hands to support it, and they can still claim that oneday this car might drive itself.

With LIDAR, well, there's a new type of LIDAR coming out. Then there may be different successor designs and form factors.
>They've been tried elsewhere, and they usually work out pretty well.

To which one are you referring, China or North Korea?