skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once paid a guy to walk around the city with me to teach me Spanish. We would meet for a coffee and from that moment the conversation was entirely in Spanish, and he would grade the complexity of the lesson according to my ability. As we walked around I could point at things and ask what they were and he would explain. I remembered much better than in class because I had associated the words with the walk.
The right solution on earth, with its fancy pants atmosphere.
That's not too inconsistent, we've depleted stocks of fisheries all over the world, and the solution is - fish-farming, on land!
I like the use of compression to find out about repetitions.

There is some theory out there called Kolmogorov Complexity [0]. It says that something is as complex as how much information you need to express it. In your case, lyrics are as complex as how many symbols (letters? words? bytes?) you need to represent it.

And one good way to calculate it is as you done: compress it. If you're using the same compression method for all the lyrics, you'll find that the ones that are more simple (and more repetitive) are the ones that have a great reduction on their sizes. In that case, the choice of which compression method you use is somehow irrelevant. Had you used Bzip, PPMD, etc., the results probably would be similar.

In case you want to extend your research, for example, as 6stringmerc said, you might consider that the composer matters more than the actual artist.

And, for that, you can use Normalized Compression Distance (NCD) [1]. That way you can measure how two lyrics are similar. Basicaly, you compress those lyrics together. When they are similar, clues from one are used by the compression to also compress the second one, so similar lyrics get more compression than lyrics that aren't related.

And by doing that you can even discover who was the composer of the songs, i.e., the authorship of the lyrics, since each person usually has the same writing style... [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

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

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-34475-...
You need to be slightly technical to set one up and make sure your devices use it, and if you use a VPN that intercepts DNS like mine does, you need to host it on a publicly addressable IP.

Personally, I'm glad more people don't use it or I'm sure Microsoft would resort to hard-coded IP's and other methods, which require a very configurable router to block (like OpenWRT).
If it's any consolation, your doggie didn't mind. That's what makes them such great companions.

edit: r/care/mind
> it will need to be translated

Is translating it harder than trying to look up what a picture means on the internet? Is it harder to learn what the word "SAVE" means than to learn that a square box with a circle in it means "save"?

The idea that icons are universal is utter bunk.
I've started buying it every time I get paid from my wage_slave job.

I don't know what to do with it. I mean some stores support it, and I found you can buy Amazon gift cards.

It's not like you just "turn it into cash" and Xappo is not supported in the US. I realize there are alternatives.

I don't have much anyway, but it's crazy! Worth more than gold. I wonder about that 4K $ value that someone estimated.

I'm just buying for FOMO I guess.
Public transit doesn't suck, but the biggest problem as you say is that it fails to solve the last mile. Public transit is incredible if you live very close to the designated routes. For now.

Once cars are fully autonomous and become cheaper, faster, and more efficient than current forms of public transportation, current low speed trains and buses will become unused and obsolete. Except for the hyperloop and air travel, I see any investment in public transit infrastructure (trains, buses, subways - hell even parking lots!) to be a complete waste of money. In the 10 years it would take to build a new train through a city, cars will make it completely useless.
Almost all the Lego my parents bought 30-20 years ago is viable and relevant when my kids are old enough.

I wonder what the story is around LEGO and not having to make their product obsolete over time. Could you imagine if they changed the scale just a little bit every 5 or so years?
Jail for hundreds of millions of dollars..if I got to keep it? I'd do it. Nope, never been to jail and I know it's dangerous, but then no doubt it's navigable, with that type of crime and money.

Not if I already had $120 mil like he had, of course.
I cannot believe they are stupid. On the contrary they are clever enough to side with MS.
Yes, but fortunately a user vouched for it. You can do that too: when you see a dead comment that shouldn't be dead, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch'. (There's a small karma threshold, currently 30, before such links appear.)

In the meantime we've marked Pino's account as legit so this won't happen again.
What about digging up 100 million tons of earth to get enough lithium to make a battery for your electric car which is powered by coal?

Fake environmentalist love Elon - no reason why they won't like this.
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I didn't see Dashbot (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/dashbot-a-49...) mentioned here: it's pretty much the same thing but instead using Alexa and not using (potentially scary) OBD port connection. With Ford announcing Alexa integration coming this summer to SYNC3 (https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017...) it seems devices such as these will be more commonplace.

Question to HN: What can Alexa/GA integration enable in a car other than the mundane music search, ask directions, etc. scenarios? How many of you would want to use it to send short messages (e.g. "Sorry!" after cutting someone off) to a small LED display mounted on your rear bumper?
I live in LA, and I don't drive. I use public transit and Uber.

The biggest problems I have with LA's public transit have nothing to do with a lack of lines.

LA's public transit is unreliable -- sometimes the scheduled bus just doesn't show up and you have to wait ~45 mins for the next one. Hope you didn't have a meeting scheduled! London by comparison has GPS on all their buses, so you know precisely how far away they are and how long they'll take to reach you.

But more importantly, LA's public transit is not terribly safe/comfortable. I'll never take the train after dark again after a homeless person had a psychotic break and threatened (in a very serious way) to kill me. Gang members are a common sight. They need security on the trains themselves.
Which of course makes the line from TFA 'Elon Musk, a man of means by no means,...' make no sense.

I get that it was presumably a reference to the song 'King of the Road', but since the rest of the story had nothing to do with being a hobo, I'm unsure of the author's intent.
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I agree. I always click the wrong button for Paste in Android, often resulting in copying instead which means I overwrite the clipboard. This is very annoying as I almost always have copied something from an entirely different page/tab/app.
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When I look outside of my window I can see that cars in the city are mostly useful to generate traffic and block ambulances. Car is a fine tool if you do not live in the centre. This tech aims to alleviate this, obviously, but still for me this seems like a huge waste of energy.
I have used Linux as my primary desktop system for over ten years. Usability really sucks. I'm not talking about a new UX model, systemd vs sysv, or wayland vs xorg. I'm talking about not needing to know about unix-isms to run a desktop operating system. Gnome and KDE are okay-ish now.

Honestly the best desktop system for linux I've seen is Deepin https://www.deepin.org/en/ , which is produced by a Chinese based group and marketed mainly at Chinese audiences.

It installs updates on reboot, which removes many corner cases for desktop users. It has a nice dedicated admin panel that feels like a single interface rather than 20 different panels glued together. It focuses on efficient desktop use rather than some new hotness UI concept which Unity and Gnome3 both got infatuated with. The desktop interface is fast and gets out of your way, but providing useful quick tools to open, close, and switch apps.

Why do I think governments haven't used more open source? Because we care more about systemd vs sysv then a single good consistent UI. Because we think writing desktop components in javascript and python will give good (enough) performance that won't feel sluggish; hint, they won't. Because coders (often) care more about how their code looks, using the slow interpreted language they know, or "getting the job done" (as they define it), then they do about concrete performance evaluation, benchmarking, and end user use cases and long term person off the street testing.

Sorry, that was kinda a rant. But seriously, checkout the deepin desktop. New users can be really productive in it quickly and maintain it themselves.
There's opportunity costs for engaging in ransomware rather than doing other activities. If you're good enough with computers to do ransomware, you're also probably good enough with computers to do legitimate work. We don't need to completely starve out the ransomware actors, we just need to make it less lucrative than their other alternatives.

There's still a problem - nothing's stopping India, Australia, and Ireland in your example from benefitting from the reduction in ransomware without paying the costs for disincentivizing it. Free riders are a problem for public goods, such as low-crime environments.
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I feel the same way about hate speech laws.

Edit: I'm glad this is a popular opinion. 31 upvotes within 12 minutes.
You're confusing ethics with legal liability. Nobody is saying IT is ethically responsible, they're saying they are legally responsible since the entire reason they get a paycheck is to prevent these sorts of things. Reduce it to a contractual matter if that assuages your conscience.

If you hire a bodyguard and still get shot while the bodyguard is on his phone both the perpetrator goes to jail and the bodyguard gets fired/pays restitution. Not that unheard of. It's not like one person gets all of the legal and ethical blame and everyone else is entirely absolved.
We lease 1 car because it will be under warranty. All scheduled maintenance is included - oil changes, tire rotations, etc. That's probably a few hundred over 3 years. Tires and brakes aren't so we have to keep an eye on those towards lease end.

Some things to consider:

When we were pricing out the options, the higher end model actually worked out with lower payments because the residual value (price they think it will be at end of lease) was higher for the higher end car.

It is a good way to "try" a vehicle/brand and if it turns out to not be super reliable/has issues or you just don't like it but can deal with it for 2-3 years, then you are done and walk away.

If you are looking long term - buying a used car is the better option. Financing a used car means monthly payments and if you are looking at things from a monthly cash flow perspective, leasing can be cheaper monthly - but pay more long term. Usually the rates for auto loans are much cheaper than credit cards so if you have CC debt, leasing can get you a lower monthly than buying and you can put the extra money per month towards debt.
Actually my proposed solution would be single payer. Reducing political issues to "x wants to kill y" is never productive. FWIW my anecdote was from when I was living at approximately half of the poverty line and after ACA took effect. Similar things have happened to me in 3 different states. So forgive me for not having confidence that required insurance is really going to do much for me, or anyone. But let me know when you're voluntarily forking over all the money you don't need to survive to help save lives in third-world countries or something.
It's extremely fun to program in Elm
The author's first sentence regarding "novice" shell programmers I think may be applicable to the other submission about shell scripts currently on the front page.

For example, in C the idioms often combine several instructions into a single line, i.e., "nesting". Kernighan suggested nesting in an early C tutorial:

while ( putchar( getchar( ) ) != '\0' )

In the shell maybe it is better to test each "expression" on a line by itself. Or maybe not. I do this anyway.

More often I see on the web that other shell scripters prefer to nest as many commands as they can, perhaps to reduce the number of lines.

For example,

variable=$(command1 $(command2));

This could be alternatively expressed as something like

variable1=$(command2);
# can now test variable1 before proceeding to next line
variable2=$(command1 $variable1);

The result of nesting is subshells and complexity that I am not sure reluctant, occasional shell scripters are prepared to think about.

And if I am not mistaken that was at least part of the problem that Jane Street had in the other submission.
I’ve stopped playing Zelda on my TV completely. The handheld mode is just so good. I can’t believe that I have no complaints! This is going to be big for Minecraft.
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> Managers keep making bad decisions because they can always find someone who will write the code instead, but for some reason developers are unwilling to act in concerted opposition to this and so find themselves endlessly ignored and overruled.

A labor union that protects you when you refuse to implement things that should not be implemented?

IMHO it is a difficult thing to manage and integrate into the tech culture.

Leaks? Maybe, we're seeing them.
The issue of pesticides was considered and some countries did pass legislation based on it. While intuitively the connection between pesticides and insect population collapse looks attractive, the facts are a little more murky.

Some scientists suspected that neonectide pesticides were linked to the decline in insect populations, particularly bees. Despite the fact that this connection was not fully proven, many EU countries banned the use of neonectide pesticides in 2013.

While bee populations recovered slightly, the issue is that bee populations started recovering before the ban was even issued. Also the recovery was also felt in Canada, where there was no pesticide ban 1. This suggests that the decline in bee population was more related to climate than to insecticides . . . suggesting similar possibilities for other insects.

Yes insecticides kill insects but I don't think that's enough to conclude that they are causing the general massive collapse in insect colonies - which is a relatively recent phenomenon, while insecticides have been used for quite some time.

1. http://www.agprofessional.com/news/bee-population-rising-aro...
In general, one also trust's one's bank (in the US at least) because it's an FDIC-insured institution; the government promises that it will use control of fiat currency to make you whole if the bank fails.

That guarantee hasn't always existed, and the Great Depression was partially exacerbated by the problem that in the event of a savings bank failure, there was no institution to make creditors whole. As far as I am aware, the BTC ecosystem has no such guarantee anywhere within it, which makes it not as safe a place for stored wealth as a US bank (assuming you trust the US economy to not implode over your lifetime, of course... Current track record suggests you should trust it more than the BTC economy ;) ).
Even the ancient Egyptians gave up on icons and assigned sounds to them, turning it into a phonetic alphabet.
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> but maybe $120 million could have been invested into some slightly more useful things?

No. That's precisely why products like this get built.

Interest rates are through the floor, causing assets (stock market, housing, everything) to be pumped up to non-sustainable levels. everyone knows the stock market and housing returns won't be good for the next 10 years. There's waaaayyy too much money floating around. They have to invest it somewhere, and since all the meaningful moonshot innovation is locked up, all that's left is to go for products like this.
I've been in a state of burnout for a few years. Turns out that it's possible to just stop caring about anything. Kind of like how too-hot peppers make your mouth numb.

Thanks for writing, but I just don't care.
For other industries, roles may be reversed.

For example, another headline could be: the US is living under ASML's digital killswitch
It is sad that bug has been open for so long.

It seems like it would be better to have some kind of dns proxy daemon running that libc talks to that can pick up these changes immediately but I guess that is out of the scope of libc :)
The more important issue here is reciprocity, not whether an open source license should be considered to be a contract.

From your ethical perspective, yes. From a court's perspective, reciprocity can't be enforced without the existence of a valid contract because there is no legal obligation for people to be nice to each other. Contracts are the mechanism we use to establish obligations between private parties.
Yeah, I think most people become highly motivated when the work they're assigned is actually meaningful and important. But most people don't get such work, so big surprise that people have "gotten" lazy...
Sorry about the snark - if you ask an American, they'd inevitably say they'd want better roads as well. Cars have a place in the world, for sure - just not for daily commutes and inner-city travel. There are model public transit systems throughout the world. It's not just possible it actually exists.
Longhorn feelings here.

Will they be able to pull off a redesign like this?
That doesn't really affect your rights: You still own the program, you may still use the program, and you may even still sue the software vendor if the program doesn't work as expected.

What the disclaimer is supposed to achieve is state that there was no contractual obligation to deliver a piece of working software. For software distributed free of charge, this might be viable, but I would find it rather surprising if such an obligation wasn't automatically implied to at least some degree by any commercial sale.

But this is above my pay grade as I'm not a legal professional or even amateur, for that matter.
Are there many places in the US with hate speech laws?
Aren't London commute hour trains just as crowded as those in the US? Whether the train shows up and departs on time, or goes where you want it to, is rarely the problem for existing systems in major US cities. It's about the experience of being inside the train for an extended period of time.

I'm about to double my rent and halve my square footage to get away from BART. It has noting to do with reliability and everything to do with standing on a crowded moving vehicle for 90 minutes a day.

Modern cars are palatial. Even the best (fast, frequent, good coverage, reliable) train systems are squalid and cramped when they are needed most.
An organization's security shouldn't be solely focused on breach prevention and placing the blame on someone for clicking on an email. Given enough time, a motivated, sophisticated adversary _will_ get in. Rather, the focus should move to detection and response: knowing where you've been pwned and knowing what to do about it
AFAIK about the US, no. The UK though is an example.
I would if I could get it, unless you live in CA and know people it isn't exactly easy to get.
I feel hate speech is an offense against free speech, but I still don't think it should be allowed. Honestly, things like being racist to someone on the street shouldn't be allowed in any country.

I guess it just comes down to the lesser of two evils.
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hiring a graphic designer usually means you get exclusive rights to their output, which is a tremendous difference.
This is one of my big problems with the idea of money being so separated from actual good these days. It also creates huge wealth gaps, and I have no idea what could be done to re-align it. Basically, I believe that the concept of money as it exists today is deeply broken and should be aligned with something which benefits humans vs something which is required in small to moderate quantities to not suffer yet which people obsess over, collect, and seek to increase with an unrelenting fervor, despite any damage it does to society or individuals.
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FF 53.0.2 (64-bit), Chromium Version 58.0.3029.96 Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit); using a big Dell in portrait mode. Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/vFhNc By the time I've scrolled down far enough to activate the animation, the graph has disappeared.
While I struggle to empathize with the sorts of folks negatively impacted by hate speech laws, making speech of any sort illegal seems dangerously close to criminalizing certain ideas or thoughts.
also Canada, which soon will also consider mis gendering as hate speech.
Yes, I concur that resistance to burnout depends on having a broader context to your life and humanity as a whole. If you understand your own life within the perspective of the billions of humans that have lived and died before you, and that will live after you, it adds a very resilient drive and resistance to small setbacks.

Personally, I was able to achieve this using the recursive why, or chained why, which is a thinking pattern I'll describe here:

1. Come up with a random statement about anything at all.

2. Ask "Why?" about that statement.

3. When you come up with a reasonable answer, ask "Why?" to your stated answer.

4. Repeat step three until you arrive at the meaning of life

This really works. I did this riding the bus for hours when I was a kid because I had no friends. Now it's like I live on another planet compared to people who have not done this. Stoic, content, and driven is the result
this is basically going to be a "rich west side and valley people can get to the airport really fast in their luxury cars" solution until they bootstrap it into a larger metro network.

kind of like the tesla roadster begat the model S begat the 3 (supposedly).
NHS in England hit by 'cyber-attack' with ransomware demanding $300 in Bitcoin

Excuse us but we just found out that you're NHS. Please make it $300,000 or else.

Asking for just a little is a pretty good tactic, used by these guys, patent trolls and the mafia for protection money.
Nature's attempting to curtail the numbers of a particular highly-invasive species.
That means that if I want to pay the ransomware, I also have to pay the (ongoing?) blackmail fee so the ransomware installer doesn't tell anyone I paid the ransom?