skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anytime Lojban comes up I recommend taking a look at linguist Arika Okrent's book "Into the Land of Invented Languages". She learns several conlangs (constructed languages) during the book and has several chapters devoted to the history and her learning of Lojban and some of its pitfalls (some things take a lot of words to say). There's a reason why natural languages have so much ambiguity, so you don't have to write a novel to have a basic conversation. If you go to wikitongues on YouTube you'll see a prominent community member who can only read it and can't speak it...it isn't easy.

Edit: Lojban is ambiguous with how something is said, so when a speaker says something you should never misinterpret the words, but the meaning could be misinterpreted as I understand it. I'm no expert, but would love to see something like this take off.
If GP ends up implementing this I'd love to see the results!
duplicate, please help keep down the noise and check for previous discussions before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14787161
You could share the style, I suppose
I've posted it here several times before, but I made this stream-of-consciousness journalling tool for myself: http://write.itskrish.co

The differentiator is that you choose a fixed duration, and if you stop typing within that duration, all your writing is erased. Such a constraint has been effective at getting me to pour out everything on my mind, without hesitation.

Built w React and open source @ https://github.com/krrishd/write
The food at wal-mart and target isn't any better or worse than that at say a safeway or kroger.
You would think that logically, but I am not sure research backs that up. i.e. states with very strict predatory loan laws do not have less instances of "cannot come up with $400 within 7 days" people.

Happy to be proven otherwise...
What is this supposed to look like? For me it was a lot of random colors.
I never used the word "most". This seems to be the problem in this whole discussion. People throw a fit before they are finished reading.
mac accounting for 3% on steam isn't the indicator you seem to believe it is.
> I've said it before but anyone who put money into Blockstream

You seem to have taken sides against BitcoinCore team, following the typical conspiracy theories. But FYI, Blockstream is not Core, Core is not Blockstream. More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/622bjp/bitcoin_cor...
I'm not following you. I work in multiple repos under multiple orgs. I have my personal stuff, my work stuff, projects I've pulled down to contribute towards, and libraries that I want to test out tweaks upon.

I don't have go/src/ checked in. Is that what you mean? If you do that, you are doing it wrong. I have many, many go/src/$org/$project directories, each of them have their own source control (most of which is different git repos). If I am working on my stuff, cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/sethgrid/$project. That is the repo under source control. Do any development I want, push up any changes to that repo. Rinse and repeat. I can then cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/sethgrid/$project2 and do the same. When I want to pull down $project3, I just `go get github.com/sethgrid/$project3` or manually clone it and I can cd over to it and work on it separately.

Maybe I'm not understanding your criticism.
It's not a given, even if Unity is used. For example, I've played 140 on Linux (via Steam) and loved it, so I was quite excited when the same (indie) developer had a new game, but it's only available for Windows at the moment (and Mac maybe? don't remember). I guess that, even with an engine like Unity taking care of the cross-platform support, you at least want to run a few tests on the actual target platform (instead of just dumping a compiled binary on Steam without any testing). And that costs time, and therefore money, esp. if issues are found and need to be addressed.
You are completely ignoring the fact that if an employee is able to come up with a significantly higher offer every 6-12 months, then the company is probably paying him way below the market rate, otherwise it won't be so easy to come up with a competing offer every 6-12 months.

So if an employee you have hired is able to get a competing offer every 6-12 months, it is worth spending time to figure why things are so screwed up in the company and resolve that.
> half of it ships from China

A good filter to start with is only products fulfilled by Amazon, and a step further, only Prime products. Granted, the due diligence still sucks, but I spend several thousands of dollars a year on Amazon products, and aside from the products that I know are cheap (like $4 phone cases) I've never had any issues.
There is some good information in there and I agree with the limitations he states, but his conclusion is completely made up.

"To lift some of these limitations and start competing with human brains, we need to move away from straightforward input-to-output mappings, and on to reasoning and abstraction."

There are tens of thousands of scientists and researchers who are studying the brain from every level and we are making tiny dents into understanding it. We have no idea what the key ingredient is , nor if it is 1 or many ingredients that will take us to the next level. Look at deep learning, we had the techniques for it since the 70's, yet it is only now that we can start to exploit it. Some people think the next thing is the connectome, time, forgetting neurons, oscillations, number counting, embodied cognition,emotions,etc. No one really knows and it is very hard to test, the only "smart beings" we know of are ourselves and we can't really do experiments on humans because of laws and ethical reasons. Computer Scientists like many of us here like to theorize on how AI could work, but very little of it is tested out. I wish we had a faster way to test out more competing theories and models.
Thanks for the explanation, that makes the bit about 80% of miners needing to adopt make sense.

Why do you lack confidence in the SegWit2X developers? It seems the miners would be the last ones wanting a potentially fatal bug. Do they have less to lose if an exploit/honest bug burns the blockchain?

Again, apologies if these are uninformed questions- I have only a layman's understanding of BTC.
This is basically the Chinese Room argument though?
This terminology goes back to McCulloch and Pitts in 1943, who said they were making an analogy or model based on the behavior of biological neurons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron#History

There are many things that are inexact about this analogy or model, and many of them were known to be inexact in 1943, but that was the direct inspiration.

Apparently there are lots of different mathematical models available about biological neuron behavior:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neuron_model
The Fall of the MOOC Hype
I honestly don't know what's the point of mentioning an offer to your current employer. If you have a better offer - take it, don't let me hold your career back, good luck, no hard feelings on my side.

From my experience the reason why employees who have another offer even bother to mention it to their current boss, asking for counter, is because that other offer has some serious downside that prevents them from just accepting it right away.

Anyway, I can probably replace you with someone that will gladly take your current salary. And if I can't and end up paying your replacement the money you demanded (or more) at least I'll be paying that to the guy who is happy to work for me, not to someone who is already actively looking for other jobs.
Heh. Apparently they are seeking the maximum fine only for the 80,000 calls the FCC verified (http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017...). Had the full 96 million spoofed calls been used, Mr. Adrian Abramovich could've been eligible for a $144 billion dollar fine.

My guess is, this is legislation designed to sting when even large, resource-heavy corporations do it. Example: Dish Network got fined $341 million in two separate TCPA violations recently (http://www.fcclawblog.com/2017/06/articles/fcc/dish-network-...). Such numbers will make even a Dish Network notice. Dish Network is not going to wince once if a fine designed for an individual scammer is utilized.
It is an interesting coincidence that this hits the front page the day after Game of Thrones opens their new season, with the associated HBO Go crash, etc.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=HBO%20Go%20crash...
The Python Workbook – Solve 100 Exercises
"Even my fiancée was impressed after I spent an hour over the phone explaining to her what I did exactly and a brief background on CI/CD, DevOps, Jenkins, Agile, Lean Start-ups, and some other high level concepts. She assured me she listened to everything I said and was very impressed, she only left the phone on speaker so that she could better take in everything I was saying."
Yeah, the description makes it sound like you'll have plenty of playthroughs and they'll each be different.

I bought a card-based "escape room" game that was the same way. The description makes it sound a little like you'll get multiple plays from it, but in reality it's just a set path. The "cards" aspect was just them cheaping out, instead of making something re-usable.

I plan to let some family play it (and the other escape game we bought) but I still think $15 is too much for a single 1-2 hour play session.
>Speculators who just buy and sell go wherever the market is which is wherever the miners are.

Isn't "wherever the market is" wherever spending power is?
No, it wouldn't. You just take down their content, as is their right. If they sue they'll likely lose if they don't first send you a takedown notice but you are going to have to take that risk.
A comprehensive program collection for studying Data Structures using Python
Piece of paper, and a pen, and tackle them on the weekends.....
Data Analysis with Pandas for Kids
That i can agree with.
Oddly enough I've found Coca Cola bought from WalMart tastes the same as from a locally-owned grocery.
How to Handle Inbound Calls in a Financial Institution Using IVR Software
Why should the companies think twice? It's the users who end up suffering, not the companies. The companies will just put an end to abusive users or punish everyone uniformly by increasing prices.
The irreducible error is unrelated to the bias/variance trade-off. It's part of the overall error of course, but the bias/variance error is in addition to that. Unless I am misunderstanding your point.
Huh? There are both ads and paid plans for listeners, and I'm a subscriber.
Here are some quotes from this page:

"Simply waiting 4-8 weeks treats the vast majority of common issues."

"You know hay fever is an allergy, right? And that you are allergic to specific pollen? These pollen are _seasonal_. It's not suprising that your symptoms are now gone, it's very probable that the allergen is just gone (for the season). The snake-oil has done nothing."

"For one, your issues could have healed by themselves, even without it, just through time passing. Since there's a sample of 1 of you, and you did take those drugs, we don't have a control group, and can't know."
> "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met"

We know this statement to be a lie. A deliberate falsehood. There are extra conditions by which you may use or distribute this software.

It was never open source.
...their pre-conceived notions of truth.

This is the wrong way to think about this, I think. Think of media consumers, instead, as Bayesians. We have prior beliefs, we consume media, and our posterior beliefs are a function of both of those. As the process iterates over time, our priors are updated, but more slowly over time.

This is why children believe everything they hear from authority figures, while those with memories e.g. tend to doubt the offered justifications for the new war when we consider how similar they are to the previously-offered-but-eventually-disproved justifications for the previous wars.
You would have to assert equality on the value of the data/file/whatever being mutated.

Here's an example:

##Examples

iex> user = Repo.insert!(%MyApp.User{id: 1, some_state: "whatever"})

...> {:ok, user} = MyApp.Users.DataTransformer.transform_with_effects(user)

...> Repo.one(where: MyApp.User.id == 1).some_state

"new state"
Thanks for the brain dump, I'm always learning more about these types of things. Personally, I think I'm fairly paid at the moment, but this is something to consider if that changes in the future.
Another way is to accept emails only from your contact list.
I don't think they are interested in competing on price, the value proposition is that they save you time, and the effort of meal planning. But they are pitching themselves as cheaper than eating out, and with at least the illusion the food is healthier (plus a pinch of the IKEA effect since you cooked it yourself).
Why Category Creation Is Important for VC and Startup Success
Beyond normal shelf spoilage from super markets there's a lot of ingredients that can only really be bought fresh in amounts much larger than can really be used. For example cilantro or parsley generally comes in either in cheap large bunches or much more expensive individually (plastic) packaged smaller servings but the large bunches is way more than most people could reasonably use before it begins to wilt and rot so it's wasted.
Was it received favorably? A secret sauce, or a failed project.
How I learned as an apprentice developer with no seniors
We're LGPL, actually, precisely so commercial software can use Wine to do their ports.
What is special about stumbles that makes them impossible to fake?
The economics may make sense, but it's also a self-fulfilling prophecy: People don't play Steam games on Macs because there are hardly any games!

There's a reason lots of people dual-boot into Bootcamp. I would love to play more games on my Mac, as opposed to under Windows or on my console, but the selection is terrible. Even when the engine the developers have used compiles for Mac, developers often don't do a port. That extends to indie games, too; still no Downwell for Mac, for example, despite the fact that it was made with GameMaker, which supports macOS as a target. Wadjet Eye, which produces a lot of technologically basic point and click adventure games, are very inconsistent about their releases; some games are releases on macOS, but most aren't.

Mac is also treated as a black sheep by the Steam app, to the extent that it's its own distinct item [1] in the genre list, next to "Action", "Adventure" and so on, and if you're a Mac Steam will still happily bury you in Windows games, despite the fact that they aren't playable.

Apple may be blamed on the AAA game situation, but for everything else (and most games aren't AAA), it's squarely on publishers, developers, and Steam.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/lE4NZsj.png
I love this. There are many situations where audio is preferable to text -- driving, walking between trains on a commute, or even just lying in bed and giving your eyes a break from screens. This seems like it has the potential to vastly increase the number of quality audio options available.

Are there any plans to add high quality tech content to the mix? It would be great to occasionally take in a long article from Medium or highscalability or... lots of other sources in audio form. I suppose a challenge there would be how to read out code snippets in a digestible way.
For me, the big problem with mac gaming is that my $3k+ work laptop has a fairly shitty integrated gpu and even the dedicated gpu is pretty low end compared to what you can get in a non-mac laptop.

This means that, even though 1/3rd of my steam library has mac versions, half of these games don't actually run well.

(Disclaimer: since switching to mac, I typically game only on PS4 nowadays, which I guess probably doesn't have better hardware, but at least has well optimised games and lots of awesome exclusives)
You are conflating "safe" with "bug-free", when safety has a specific meaning in this context, which is memory model safety. Safe code eliminates a class of errors, and thus reduces the possible bugs your program may exhibit.

At this point we can eliminate certain classes of bugs, and sometimes with no runtime cost. The usual example used is Rust, where extra information supplied in the source is used to ensure certain bugs are not possible at compile time. It requires some extra work, but I think likely quite a bit less than the more extreme coding standards used to produce safe C code, but those may cover a different or larger subset of bugs.
They're really only for documentation and the simplest of single function unit tests.
Well, when iTunes wasn't available for Windows there wasn't an Apple iTunes Music Store either though.
I imagine the problem with a feature like that could be that if they know what is in the mixes and they'd try to negotiate a deal for selling the tracks, they'd be asked to please pay or enforce payment of royalties for the tracks used in the mixes? (But I don't know to what extend they already do things like that/have deals in place)
Of my ~500 Steam games, IIRC something like 300 have macOS builds, and about 200 for Linux.

My experience is that most small studio or "indie" games will run on all three platforms, about half of really big games have Mac releases and some much smaller portion also support Linux, and of course anything that runs under Dosbox works on all three. ~90% of the Linux games are indie or dosbox. MacOS is a much more viable platform for a gamer, also aided by being generally much less fussy/buggy for all things multimedia-dependent like games, though hindered by generally mediocre graphics cards. However you might be surprised what runs acceptably on a 2014-vintage Intel Iris graphics chip. I was.
Yes, and the tech giant are the only ones with enough users to let content producers reach an audience of relevance. Think that was the point the author tried to make, describing the switch from "content" to "audience". Content producers for films, music, and other expensive pieces do not have enough power anymore to reach a large enough audience to make a profit
The simple fact of the matter is that hardly anyone needs a mainframe. Most computing tasks these days can be accomplished better / cheaper with big racks of commodity hardware that you can source from anywhere. In addition the huge price tag (starting at $500k I believe) serves to reinforce the marketing message to the corporations that purchase this stuff that is product is much more advanced, reliable and feature packed than the alternative, and that you want it if you can afford it. Why else would it be so much more expensive, right? IBM has likely done these calculations and figured out that their pricing is optimal for extracting the maximum profit from their customer base.
Yet a year ago if Whole Foods announced meal kits for $300 a week it probably would have caused Tumblr to go down.
> Business use would be for the business that signed up for the service, not for storing an entire copy of SoundCloud

What if that business is Soundcloud? As far as I can tell, Google places no limits on business users, numerical or otherwise.
On the other hand: There are very few Steam games for Mac.
"when customers are calling them asking why their transactions aren't being validated that they will switch."

If majority of hashpower would start mining invalid blocks, there would still be some amount of hashpower mining the real chain. Transactions would confirm, albeit more slowly. For the miners mining the real chain the situation would be very good, because less competition from other miners -> more found blocks, more money. Probably the hash rate would grow pretty quickly, and if it wouldn't, the difficulty target would adjust after the 2 week difficulty adjustment period, and confirmation speeds would be back to normal.
StarCraft AI Coding Report 39: The Triumvirate
I have taken sides, but against the general core development process and the corporate interests that are permeating it. Yes, blockstream is not core, but they have exerted a tremendous amount of influence on the team and direction. In addition to directly employing many core developers, sponsoring contractors, and tirelessly advocating for a vision of Bitcoin that frankly differs substantially from anything put forth in Satoshi's paper. It's not a conspiracy theory, I've watched it unfold in person for years.
Ruby concurrency: in praise of condition variables
MPV is great but I wish the ecosystem around it was a little better (at least on Windows). There are a bunch of different GUI players but nothing definitive like a MPC-HC, VLC or PotPlayer.
After the Falkland island war the British anarchopunk band Crass spliced together and leaked a tape that made it seem like the attack was a false flag and that Reagan wanted to start a war with the soviets in Europe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatchergate
As long as one miner is still mining the core chain, the transaction will be validated. It may take a little while at first, but difficulty will adapt.

It's going to be 2 legitimate currencies that are going to differ in value in exchanges. And each current BTC holder will be able to spend 2 coins (provided they take precautions against replayability; like making at first a double-spend to different wallets on the two chains separately)

Now the question is: what will the most BTC-rich people do?
The 2001-era paper by the same name and a different author (Andrew Odlyzko -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Odlyzko) is a compelling read: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742
Video at Large Scale – Contributions from the Developer Community
> Agreed. I've already gotten my team the best raise/promotion that I could.

Then again, this employee has just presented you with evidence that maybe your compensation isn't competitive, which is something you can bring to the higher ups to increase your budget. If you're not competitive, you'll have retention problems and business will ultimately suffer.

So you got the best rate you could at the time with the information available, but competing offers could change that equation.
"Eggs are $1/dozen "

Where is that?
Sure, it is not a bubble, but a new paradigm... Oh, wait.
My entire product of doing in-image advertising[1] was created in order to build a new concept website for my uncle's nautical antique store[2]. He has a store built out of an old lighthouse in Old Town San Diego, and it's basically a museum (where you can buy the stuff inside it). When he came to me, he asked me if I could build a website that has the feel of his museum-like store, so I said, "Why don't we just take pictures inside of the store itself, and let your customers browse the pictures by hovering their mouse over the products and getting more info on the products they're interested in!".

The punchline: I spent months building a pretty amazing site, to have him say that his audience was probably too old to understand how to use the site I built. So far, that technology has led to two granted patents and my startup![3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4pE0xtYTo

[2] http://westsea.com

[3] http://pleenq.com
The Pre-Emptive Counter-Offer (2006)
Exploring Microoptimizations Using Tizen Code as an Example
Not making it up, talking to real people in the space.

You can also check out the SegWit2x mailing list archive [0] for companies actively testing SegWit2x. From there I've seen BitGo, Blockchain, Bloq, OB1 (Open Bazaar), Purse.. these are significant companies in the Bitcoin economy.

[0] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...
The Death of a Technical Skill: Evidence from the Demise of Adobe Flash [pdf]
Section 11 might be incompatible with the facebook Patent+BSD license.
Scientists invents a low-cost smart glove to control objects in VR
Or maybe increasing NN size/complexity is the 21st century version of adding epicycles to make geocentrism work.

http://wiki.c2.com/?AddingEpicycles