skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Haskell version of printf does not statically analyse the format string and will raise an exception if the provided arguments are invalid e.g.

Prelude Text.Printf> printf "%d\n" "invalid"
*** Exception: printf: bad formatting char 'd'

The behaviour of F#'s printfn is hard-coded in the compiler and could not be written in F# iteself.
Amazon usually is mostly hands off to acquisitions like these. Look at Zappos and Twitch. I think that what will occur is probably some kind of service that they will tie into Prime Membership. Maybe also integrate things from their prototype store. Usually Amazon enhances experience in this acquistion and they are free to do what they want. Nothing will happen to their employee culture.
Ms PacMan is difficult for current general-purpose models. Nonetheless, it's accurate to say that other groups haven't focused on developing a model or method specifically tailored to the game. The result in the linked article is from a model engineered expressly for Ms PacMan, which makes comparison with previous work from the deep RL community a bit misleading.
The discussion was never about what keys you personally press to edit your code (nobody cares enough to wage a holy war over), but what other people have to deal with when reading your code.
Plus the CouchDB ecosystem has Couchbase for iOS/Android (with their own tradeoffs versus mainline CouchDB) and PouchDB which is a JS version of CouchDB that runs in the browser on just about any platform and can store directly in IndexedDB.
*Morlocks [0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
For software developers and medium sized enterprises, the Duales Studium is an excellent way to grow new talent.
At your college. Put up a flyer or reach out to some computer minded organization. You're not actually going to get an angular / react dev (they cost $$$$), best you can hope for is someone with no skills who wants to be an 'angular / react' dev.
But the links all have rel="nofollow"
Instacart's service model, which allowed them to scale up really fast and cheap, should also allow them to scale down fast and cheap. They still have a brand, customer relationships, and demonstrated credibility partnering with retailers. I'd say the company will be fine, but many of their workers will face tough choices soon.
Super-charged live editing and JavaScript debugging for Angular using VS Code
I really love this article about Fan Hui and AlphaGo, [The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google's AI Play Go](https://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-google...). It's the first time I've read a balanced intimation of what it can be like interacting with artificial intelligences. I come away from this and the Kasparov article feeling that AIs will be friends as well as partners.
No, they don't really control the money. If all amazon balances were gone it would not be a significant event for the US. Evil corp is like a Bank of America or Wells Fargo. If they close, people can't pay rent, food, etc. For Amazon that's (luckily) not the case (yet).
Interesting comparison. In this case, people aren't unionizing for essentially the opposite reason. Rather than state provided social welfare, their needs are satisfied through this capitalistic solution. Employees are empowered and rewarded through their work.
Thank you! I never realized it had a formal description.
I'd be much more interested in reading about modal income.
AFAIK they only run the DMCA checksum when the file/folder is shared. Keeping it inside your own account is OK.
What If Pokémon Were Real?
Oath (Yahoo) unloads Bullet for querying streaming data in real time
It's easy to make PHP segfault. All you have to do is create an infinite recursion.
> You're not actually going to get an angular / react dev (they cost $$$$)
I also make $$$$ programming, but that doesn't mean I'm not willing to do something for free.
So an "aspiring writer" wants to feel herself as equal to one of the great organizational minds of our time, Elon Musk. And what, that she deserves half ownership of Paypal? It's not like this is Marie Curie writing this article.
Take a look at how much of a company's stock is owned by institutional investors. A lot of that money comes from people's pensions, 401Ks, IRAs, etc.
>It's certainly not easy to unseat a powerful company, but it also seems difficult to stay at the top. Whether it's inefficiency, inability to pivot to new ways of doing things, or just markets that dry up as they're replaced by something else, companies have a hard time staying in such powerful positions in our society for long.

Geoffrey West makes a compelling argument that it's due to the scaling laws around growth itself. The capitalist system demands exponential growth, but companies eventually reach a size where all their resources are devoted to maintaining existing "biomass." The exact scaling depends on the scaling properties of the networks that "feed" each "cell" of the system — circulatory/respiratory networks for animals, infrastructural networks for civilizations, social network for companies/cities.

Quite frankly most of the articles on Geoffrey West's work are hand-wavey bullshit, but he outlines it in this talk (including addressing this very question). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc
Not to mention all the chemicals dumped in the air during production! I'm not sure if the stone paper will create less air pollution, but it bothers me when people think creating paper is an environmentally neutral process just because we have the first step of the process figured out.
Since you guys appear to be familiar with crypto, can you recommend some book/article/blog that give a good intro, to the level of explaining the difference between the two concepts above? Many thanks in advance.
so is A/B testing also immoral?
That sounds incompatible with American values on several levels. Locking people into careers and preventing other skilled people from doing similar jobs because they haven't bought into a union or become part of a special group is the source of most things Americans hate about similar systems where we have them.
They're pretty common in Massachusetts as well. Agreed. Need to be able to place order at lunchtime and pick up on the way home.
Thanks, this is indeed a nice idea. However, it reminds me of this comic:

https://xkcd.com/196/

:-)
Same with AWS. First they were the only ones, now they seem to lose market share to Google and Microsoft.

Amazon doesn't have a monopoly in any of their businesses, they're just very successful in a lot of them.
It sounds like pedantry, but it's important: history can't be recorded if there isn't any recording being done. Again, current evidence has the long count preceeding written language in Mesoamerica. That time frame only works for the mesopotamian and nile river civilizations.
Sure: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39300270

"Facebook has agreed to send a team to Pakistan to address reservations about content on the social media site, according to the interior ministry."

But also

"But Facebook has not yet made any public comment about a delegation being sent to Pakistan."

I'm personally not inclined to trust Facebook on these matters.
Why data scientists are blocked from creating value
Pretty good rundown of reactions and implications of this deal here: http://circulaat.com/main/amazon-to-acquire-whole-foods-in-1...
Enpass is pretty nice. Simple, good mobile support, cross platform, and inexpensive.

https://www.enpass.io
"I'm doing it only for fun and to learn new things."

Vs

"I don't want to spend whole summer learning javascript and responsive design, because it would feel more like a chore to me"

Huh?
Don't overengineer it then. You'll do fine with old-school server-side rendering and polling for new posts with plain JS.
Well because a lot of new and interesting ideas have historically come from people outside the field in question. However, having followed him on social media for a few years, I don't expect anything profound or insightful to come from him. He's basically a useful tool for certain world powers against certain others and will continue to get free marketing from them as long as he stays in line with the narrative.
Ahem.. but what can happen to water? Apparently it is not destroyed
Do the back end, make a barebone frontend with bootstrap and open source it. If your product is interesting, you should be able to attract people to help you out improve the frontend.

You can get pretty far with bootstrap before hitting a wall.
I use VScode currently (for Python) but I'm not entirely satisfied with it.

How do you set up this very good autocomplete? The official Python plugin (by Don Jayamanne) seems kind of bad at autocomplete and related features. I get autocomplete that:

- Autocompletes random stuff because I pressed "enter" or "down"

- Tries to autocomplete comments

- If I tell it to autocomplete only on tab, then it will sometimes autocomplete and sometimes insert spaces; the faster I type, the more I get spaces

- Pops up enormous tooltips for function docstrings that are taller than my entire code window
Frieden and Bloomberg are very, very data driven. He provided data to back up his statements. He showed the cost/benefit analysis.

Also, the Frieden, Bloomberg article I cited has additional information from a Lancet peer-reviewed article.
I think your criticism misses the point of this article--it is an article about what it is like to be displaced by AI, not on AI itself. This an interview by perhaps the most prominent and intelligent person to be so publicly displaced by AI. I would submit that AI researchers have zero expertise in what it is like to be displaced by AI. Garry Kasparov on the other hand, graciously and publicly accepted a lifetime of work and his position as the best in the world becoming obsolete. That he came out of that optimistic and interested in continued technological progress, including in AI, is interesting. Also, his observation that humans are explorers who have passion and purpose is a really useful one for (especially non-technical) people trying to find their way in world where AI is a reality.
I'm not sure how unpopular that is unless you are one of the vested interests behind some of these deductions. The cost of enforcing these regulations seems to grow exponentially as the number of regulations grow. Many proponents of UBI, such as myself, want there to be zero means testing as it would save a significant amount of cost vs all of the current regulation behind things like welfare, unemployment, Medicare, etc.
For point one, you can set it so as to have every tag of you in a post (not comments) be queued for review by you before they show up on your timeline. You can untag yourself during reviewing.

If you think Facebook should automatically recognise your face on other people's public posts (where you are NOT tagged) and blur THEIR pictures, I don't know if that's not just reverse censorship.

On a related point, FB could come up with a system that publishes any image with tags of personal profiles only after all those tagged profiles have approved their tags, or removed themselves, but that might significantly delay the post and inconvenience the poster.
Of course you can also buy a lot of pre-prepped food these days if you're so inclined. That said, I expect the main market here is people who are OK with cooking but just don't want to put a lot of thought into planning, making a shopping list, etc.
Or for the case of (e.g.) domain names, splitting on dots. Generally, given a collection of split chars, breaking the string into a collection of substrings.
I'm having trouble imagining a society with mathematics (beyond just counting) but not writing. Are there other known examples?
This article is full of interesting things. This one made me think about traditional small businesses management:

The old authoritarian model won’t work anymore,” Lumpp, who is 49, explained, when I asked him about his kitchen management style.
I have no idea about the existing legal tech space, but this sounds like a really good idea if it doesn't already exist. I hope it works out
> I can't understand why anyone thought it was a good idea to attach the previous message to the bottom

Do you mean as opposed to putting the previous message on the top, or not including the previous message at all?
There is also Bray, Berkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bray,_Berkshire#Restaurants
I've read this as well and from a number of sources.
Roger Bacon wrote about binary notation in the 13th century, although he called bits `fingers'. John Wilkins credited Bacon in his book Mercury, or the Silent and Swift Messenger published in 1641.

Wilkins' book is basically a tutorial on communications security (COMSEC) that touches on channel coding, reliability, secrecy, key management, cryptanalysis, OPSEC, and data compression.

ETA: Wilkins takes a clear position on the full disclosure debate but cautions of the hazard of experimenting with crypto technologies:

`...the chiefe experiments are of such nature, that
they cannot be frequently practised, without just cause
of suspicion, when it is in the Magistrates power to
prevent them.'
It's actually the opposite of what you describe. The company I currently work for participates in the Duales Studium. I've seen very good projects the students did for the company, while they interacted with the usual software development teams. After the study they exactly knew what they had to expect working full time and they moved into the teams without any effort. Additionally there is a lot of respect for the students, because they demonstrated cool stuff early on.
I get the point of the phrase ("light-out fabrication") but I think it's important to note that robots smart/capable enough to replace humans would probably use visible light in a manner quite similar to the way it is used by humans.
iOS Scroll Performance Tutorial from OkCupid
I used to try this. Imagine being the only person using some weird text based thing instead of just simply using "email" (ie. logging on to webmail). Remember there is a huge number of people who have not used anything but webmail (like gmail).
Find local hackathons in your city. In mine I can find some on http://meetup.com. That way you get together with strangers, work on something for a day or a weekend or whatever, and there's no pressure after that. You'll get to learn new things and make connections at the same time.

EDIT: thanks for the correction, it's meetup.com not meetings.com
This is really low effort. If you think this is a chore maybe you just shouldn't do it. You sound like an ideas guy who doesn't want to do work. You also sound like you basically want other people to work on your side project. Maybe you should start something first. People are more willing to help those who help themselves.
What you can learn from Einstein’s quirky habits
You put it better than I did. I would liken the current media frenzy over AI to past media frenzies over quantum mechanics. There's an overabundance of non-experts giving incorrect or overly philosophical opinions on the field. These often lead readers with no background on the subject with incorrect assumptions on the matter (e.g. "quantum mechanics means consciousness is a quantifiable physical phenomenon").
You can't highlight multiple files at a time in VScode. That brought me back to Atom. I never realized how much I use that feature until I switched to VScode for 6 months, I switched back to Atom a couple of weeks ago.
Plex can also transcode, which is more important if your video is on a bunch of different formats that might not have hardware support on all your devices.
`cast` is a lower-level function that isn't really used for parsing strings. Idris has higher level concepts that are more appropriate for that purpose.

For that specific case, you could use an Idris "view" over the string that either gives you a proof that the string is numeric, or a proof that it isn't. Then you have a "stringToInt" method that requires such a proof as one of its parameters. This allows you to write the parsing code as efficiently as possible since you know you'll only work with valid inputs. It's now a compile-time error to forget to check if a string is numeric before attempting to parse it. Also once you obtain a proof of a certain property (in this case by running a runtime check, elsewhere by proving it statically), you can avoid duplicate checks by just passing around the proof object. And of course these proofs are erased at compile time, so the run time code will be similar to an ordinary 'int.TryParse()' method in c# or java, except without the ergonomic issues of using 'out' references or the possibility of accidentally using an uninitialized variable.
I wasn't aware of this ethnic grouping. Thanks.
There is a newer version 2 from 2014: https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v2
Wow. That was amazingly contemporary.
Whole Foods doesn't have one owner. It's a publicly traded company.
New wireless charging technique could power electric cars while they're moving
We already live in that world though, we just pretend we "made" our lives more than lucking into them. I guess some aspects of some religions are attempts to correct that, not in the least the belief in reincarnation. But one way to reach every last holdout would be to make it so.

And a way to simulate it is social pressure I guess. That's what empathy is for, and why sometimes indignation is "righteous". Though in this case, I didn't mean my post so much as finger pointing, maybe it started with that impulse but I wouldn't want to "use" this anecdote for that, after all it was something that made and makes me deeply ashamed of how lightly I take all my luck and my wealth. In a good but still a bitter way that I insist is necessary. It only feels really bad as long as one isn't actively working on helping in some way, after all.

As long as someone isn't free, we're not free. No man is an island, and all that. I don't mean socialism, as long as everybody has dignity and basic necessities, I don't care if someone has a private space ship; I mean just not trampling on the little and the weak and the unfortunate. An idea that shouldn't just be admired as noble, but implemented thoroughly, while writing tests for it. Upgrade it from warning to error, yesterday preferably.
Nope, I happen to think the round images are a bad change.
You misread my post. Black and coloured is not the same thing in South Africa. Coloured has a significantly higher rate than other ethnic groups (black and white). The clash with American terminology is unfortunate, but in this case there is no alternative.
So America has massively increased the tax burden on the poorest Americans (ever increasing tobacco taxes) while simultaneously cutting taxes on Capital Gains and Inheritance and now we are considering a large cut to the Corporate rate?

Not to mention all the states with a lottery, which can also be thought of as a tax on poor people who are bad at math.

This seems like class warfare.
Try putting HTML with some exotic CSS (inline of course because this is email). Ensure that CSS contains some position absolutes and other properties that allows presentation outside the accepted bounds.

Also put some JavaScript in there and see what it does.

I guarantee Hotmail will destroy the original document and do so in such a way that the document evolves from machine that touches the document. The document, from the perspective of SMTP 821/281/5321 (and so forth) is still just plain text.
It would be very nice to have a platform where people can propose/ask for FLOSS projects and subscribe to them as potential contributor / tester / user. It could allow searching by keyword/tag/topic and voting.
Reads as a working lit review (huge collection of ideas the author has come across) rather than a compact synthesis.

Discuss on Lyra: https://hellolyra.com/c/382
When they bought Zappos it seems like they pretty much left the culture alone but helped streamline their backend. Maybe they're planning something similar? I can't see Whole Foods becoming the Wal-Mart of organic produce without completely killing their brand.
HUGE news in the grocery delivery space.

Groceries are one of the few large markets that require some proximity to customers due to costs and spoilage. Each grocery store is a type of mini-distribution center for grocery products.

Shipt and Instacart have succeeded to date because they use existing distribution channels and set up marketplaces for the "last-mile" of delivery. This is in contrast to Webvan in the early 2000's who tried to do grocery delivery by building their own distribution and failed spectacularly.

Amazon has become an expert in distribution and logistics. But it is clear that using their current model doesn't generally work with groceries (RIP Webvan, 1998-2001). Bananas need to be treated much differently than books.

So what does Amazon do? But Whole Foods!! A moderate sized grocery store with a significant national footprint and lots of higher income customers.

Now they instantly have a pre-built distribution channel that is already optimized for the grocery business (which again is much different than non-perishable consumer goods etc).

Things definitely just got interesting in this space!! I still believe that Instacart and Shipt can succeed, but they need to maintain a laser focus on making their shoppers and customers happy! And grow as fast as possible while Amazon digests Whole Foods!

[Note: I was the early CTO for Shipt responsible for building their grocery delivery platform and initial engineering team. Go Shipt!]
This has been covered a few times before. See this for example: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

Data.Text seems to recognize symbols made of several codepoints (like emoji) as one but still counts diacritics and combining characters as different symbols.
I just want to point out that the article says you should disable coredumps by putting "* soft core 0" in your limits.conf file. You should actually put "* hard core 0" in your limits.conf file. The soft limit is user configurable, meaning applications that have code which changes the ulimit for coredumps will still create coredumps. You can test this yourself by typing "ulimit -c unlimited" in your terminal -- you will not be able to create coredumps of unlimited size. Limits have a soft and hard value. The soft value is the user-configurable max. Meaning, users can reconfigure this. The hard value is the system limit, meaning if you set the hard value to 0 no user will be able to change it.
Academia doesn't cover all non-profit uses though. What about hobbyists?
One bit of advice, don't go for React/Angular/front-end unless you actually need to or you actually want to.

Whatever web framework you're using (probably some variation of Spring if you're using Java) should have built in templating which should be more than sufficient to build an MVP/Proof of concept imageboard. I doubt 4chan is running any kind of SPA either.

Then if your project is successful or you want to stick with it, you can build your frontend javascript app as a phase 2. In most webframeworks you'll do largely the same query/controller work to get the data for both a JSON API and a templated web page. The API will just map that data to JSON while the templated page will map the values into an HTML response.
you mean meetup.com?
It's not just very specific jobs, it's most jobs. You work in sales? You learn to be a "Kaufmann/Kauffrau". You work as a house painter? You learn "Maler/in und Lackierer/in". You work as a cook? You learn "Koch/Köchin". For three years at much less than 1000€/month! It's no surprise that the drop-out rates are at 25%.

If you don't do that, you usually can't even get those jobs. It's a stupid system. It's basically what became of the medieval guilds, in modern times.

People like to connect our low youth unemployment rate with this system, but I believe in reality most of these people are attending some form of education or job training program, so they don't "count" as unemployed. When they're done with all that, they're so old they don't count as "youth" anymore. That trick only works when a country can afford it, though.