skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will definitely keep this in mind and flog myself on a bimonthly schedule.

Luckily I havent seen any Belgian chocolate on sale here yet, ha. Hopefully the Swiss have stayed isolated long enough to not add in any more European guilt!
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That is an awesome choice of domain name ;)

For the uninitiated: (form Wikipedia) Moe (萌え, pronounced [mo.e]) is a Japanese slang loanword that refers to feelings of strong affection mainly towards characters in anime, manga, and video games.

http://nic.moe/en/
It did make it to ES6, but the engines failed to implement the spec.
The only known? I guess the problem is that "socialism" means a billion things to people, from "don't be so greedy all the time and help others out" to "specific governments Eastern Europe etc.". But I don't even buy that early Christians were the first example of that, I think exploitation is the invention, not socialism. Anyway, open source software is really just an example of this:

> If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson (13 Aug. 1813)

And if you look at the date you'll notice these thoughts are real old hats :P Doesn't take away from them of course, to the contrary... it's about time we actually implement the wisdom we have. But let's not think any of it is or should be new.
The photo in this article inspired me to do a google image search on mongolia. Never did I realise how much beauty is over there. For some reason I just gathered Mongolia consisted of either just desert, snow, or desert and snow. Just beautiful, perhaps one day I will make it there.
Not anymore, you can't. Just about every supplier on the Internet is sold out at this point.
Where I live the government does compete with private companies. It works good for the people.
SVG or MathML are supported by Word and available as export from this tool.

There are several online tools to do this as well: https://viereck.ch/latex-to-svg/ , www.tlhiv.org/ltxpreview/ , http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
> You, on the other hand...

Ad-hom?

> Please, correct my wrong assumptions

I've asked you to quote the memo, or provide citations. How can I correct your assumptions, if I don't know how you came to those conclusions? Do you want me to guess the ways you might have come to those conclusions, or which parts of the memo you might have misread? I'm not going to speculate if you aren't going to substantiate your assertions.

> You seem to be well informed in the subject

The subject in this case is "What the google memo says", we've yet to advance from there. Given the tone of your posts, I'm not inclined to enter into a general discussion on the topic. But you've misrepresented Damore's memo, And I think this should be corrected.

> This is the study..

Which paragraph of the memo cites the study? And where did you source your version of the memo?

> Google for more, it's not that hard.

No, it's your burden. And Google is not research.

> what is the number of women

I think I made myself clear. I'm not answering your questions until you rescind or substantiate your assertions. And this question isn't one you want answering, you are just asking it to imply it's relevant to the content of the memo, which it isn't.

> switcharoo

Problem is "pointing out someone else's racism" requires "someone else's racism". You flipped out because you don't want to conflate Damore's situation with Parks', but you'll happily conflate it with that of racists of the same era. You asked "what has [the memo] got in common with Jim Crow" in disgust, but now you're equating google engineer writing a cited memo about gender differences, to exactly that.

> racism is .. doing great in the US

So far as the events in Charlottesville are representative of the entire country - which they aren't.

> You, my friend, are one of them.

In your opinion. And you opinion is informed by a severe lack of comprehension, in both the contents of the memo, and my own posts. So long as you are not arguing in good faith, I doubt this will change.
I think you and the other guy want that single conversion to be evidence, but in reality, it's statistical noise.

It is evidence, just like any other properly collected data point. It's just very weak evidence, is what we're saying.

Of course in real world situations there may be a lot of variance and the correct answer may well turn out to be the other one. But in the absence of additional information, that is true for literally any number of samples that is less than whatever proportion of the population would give you absolute proof that your chosen answer is correct. If you have 50%-1 samples and every single one went with option A, you're still wrong if the other 50%+1 would have gone for option B.

What you're calling "noise" is an ill-defined concept. Qualitatively there is no difference for a result in a two-way test between a single sample and 50%-1. You still don't know for sure which answer is the right one. However, you're going to be much more confident about having the right answer in the latter case, which is what I think closed was trying to explain to you.

Again, it's not about going in with an assumption of which is better, it's about realizing that in split testing the biggest challenge is disproving the null hypothesis.

But if you're running a test with null and alternative hypotheses, you are going in with an a priori preference for one outcome over the other. You are literally saying that if the result is close enough, you will prefer not to reject the null hypothesis, and therefore whichever variation you have arbitrarily chosen to be your null hypothesis will be the answer.

That is self-evidently not a neutral assessment of option A vs. option B, and therefore there will be some cases where your test is more likely than not to make the wrong decision. In short, you are using an inappropriate test for the situation that closed was describing.
It's like trying to launch open Facebook or Google after these established the network effects.

Although the university base is far smaller, so this will be interesting to observe.
I don't recall any slowdown in Metal Slug 2 playing the rom in MAME in the early 2000s so you are probably right.
Drinking coffee doesn't make you a better programmer
Just tried to sell 2 ipod nano's on Amazon today, I had to get approval to sell Apple branded items with an invoice or an authorisation from Apple that I'm a reseller.
> One is with macros, which you can change the definition of when necessary.

I concur on this. In my phd thesis, I defined macros for all frequently used mathematical terms and expressions. This way, many places got almost as readable as the rendered formula.

For example, "\tfuzzy(1,2,3)", denoting a triangular fuzzy number with min. support 1, modal value 2 and max. support 3, is pretty clear after using it once or twice. We can then decide later how exactly to render it by changing the macro definition.

Similarly, when citing a lot of names (just using the names here, not actually paper references) wich characters which are not in my commonly used alphabet, I frequently define macros for them too. Then I can use e.g. "\Mares" in the text instead of "Mare{\v{s}}". Much easier, also when compared to hunting those special chars in a character map in a WYSIWYG word processor, or copy-pasting all the time.

However, I find this use of macros really only really pays off when working on larger documents, or living documents that keep changing, like CVs. For shorter and short-lived docs, I'd use Latex only if they have at least some math or special layouting requirements. I tried using Word's formula editor, but even though one can sort of get used to it, I find Latex much easier to use, especially with amstex. But for shorter documents without math, I find a word processor just much more convenient.
anything non-drug type?
When the deadline neared, [I] descended into near-madness trying to get LaTeX put the correct page numbers where I wanted them, don't have empty blocks of whitespace in arbitrary places and actually render citations as it did all the weeks before.
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That "impact" scoring system is utterly useless. I hope it doesn't survive the next non-Tory government.
Blocksteam teaser suggests Bitcoin transactions from low-Earth orbit
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There's a direct relationship between present dominance/power and the amount of guilt you're supposed to feel. That's basically how it works.

Spain and Portugal are no longer powerful nations, in either a military or economic sense (Portugal ranks behind Slovenia in GDP per capita for example).

If Italy were a super power today, they would be endlessly targeted for derision for their past connections to empire/s. It would be proclaimed that their present status was a direct result of abuses from the past and that they should feel guilty about it all.

Britain lost its empire and has persistently reduced in importance the last century, so they're rarely targeted for guilt regarding that (save for a few exceptions). It's a chapter in history books now, like so many former empires.

The Ottoman Empire? Long gone. Turkey isn't a major world power. As such, most of the world simply doesn't care about its terrible past.
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Great article with some photos, about the same family: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ...
To anyone wondering why stuff like this matters, it's because the benefits of functional programming reach new heights when coupled with efficient immutable structures. In C++, for example, you can do functional programming in the most basic sense of the word, and it's actually pretty fun. But it can be very expensive because you are not working on efficient data structures that support the mangling and idioms that make FP really shine. There have been interesting efforts to bring structures like this to C++ but nothing mature or known widespread. When people talk about FP, it's about a lot more than what you can do with functions and expressions; it's about making sure that these functional manipulations remain very fast without lots of copying, and that's what is so fascinating about data structure research: how it supports new ways to write programs.
Compromising Computers with Synthesized DNA, Privacy Leaks, and More [pdf]
Ask HN: How important are Gartner rankings / reviews?
When you are evaluating technology (from evaluation through approval), how important are reports from analysts like Gartner and Forrester?

- For your own research
- For approvals

What do you look at?

(And of course, what size org do you work for - a startup is going to look at this differently than a public enterprise org.)
Do you have a public website for the course so I can see the problems ? :)
Amazon is already selling large quantities of food, food-supplements, and OTC medications.

I'm wondering how these practices have been able to go on without any reports of poisoning.
Sexual torture: when police touch black men against their will
Oh yes, absolutely. "The bedrock" is what defines the culture.

But it's quite a vague predictor for whether you're going to build a good business together; or whether your jokes about other cultures or sex would be perceived as racist, ironic or simply a matter of pragmatism; or what is acceptable as part of your personal life.

Honestly I find the perceived notion of having a shared culture is detrimental to actually realising that you disagree on many deeper important issues.

For example, many of my current middle-class co-workers were quite surprised by the results of the Brexit referendum, while it wasn't that clear to me as I've spend a fair amount of time in Leeds hanging out with the working class or working for a few supposedly full of middle-class media agencies. They didn't tend to be too humble to share what they actually thought of being a part of the EU, while they were quite humble at sharing this with their friends (shy tories, etc.?).

Besides, I would never agree I know British culture in it's full depth. It's funny you mentioned "fork handles"/"four candles" - which is exactly the thing a friend of mine said this weekend. I just Googled it. A culture enthusiast would follow this up with a binge of the show.

But this still does not make a foreign speaker seem more genuine if he suddenly starts speaking northern accent, uses common grammatical variations (I was/I were) or borrows from a local vocabulary. Neither does it do any good for someone northern to come to London and try to negotiate a contract with someone of South African descent without any appreciation for a more common pronunciation or cultural grounds (although well - aren't they both practically British?).
> favorite web front-end ressources?

A spell checker!

ducks

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Here is an interesting exchange on twitter between two insiders: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt/status/896931182369099777
That's scheduled for release in 2.1.0
The military shifts a whole lot of tax payer money to private corporations. And as Smedley Butler pointed out, without the impetus of private corporations there'd be a whole lot less war for the benefit of private corporations. From the taxpayer perspective, a bomb dropped into the middle of nowhere is just wasted money, a bomb dropped on people in a war of aggression is money wasted on murder. From the standpoint of the corporation the sold the bomb, both are highly profitable. And that's even before we get into the the spree of fucking countries to allow access to US corporations.
Key exchange with the help of a public ledger
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Where would you suggest one could get one?
Exponential notation doesn't need any approximation either, xey just means x * 10 * * y, and both x and 10 * * y must be rational numbers.
The signal ios app is really bad though, much worse than telegram's for example.
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Thanks, had not heard of Skia. Will check it.
$60B of the $100B number is from countries (Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi) where human rights issues are still a big thing these days.

Maybe we can think about that whenever we see where SoftBanks new fund is invested in - it's 60% money from folks which do not care much about some basic human rights.
It's ethically dubious that the advertised function of the app is a VPN to "keep you and your data safe", while the reason it exists is so that all phone traffic goes to Facebook.

This is not clear from the app description -- there is only a generic message about monitored app use, to which users are so used as to not pay any attention.

> "The app's privacy policy says it may share information with "affiliates" that include its owner, Facebook. "As part of this process, Onavo receives and analyzes information about your mobile data and app use"

> A Facebook spokesman said it is clear when people download Onavo what information it collects and how it is used. "Websites and apps have used market-research services for years," the spokesman said, noting that the company also uses outside services to help it understand the market and improve services.

Then Facebook can attack the competition by seeing in real time how usage of competitive apps varies in response to new features and inform acquisition decisions.

> Onavo's data paved the way for the purchase of WhatsApp for $22 billion. Onavo showed the messaging app was installed on 99% of all Android phones in Spain -- showing WhatsApp was changing how an entire country communicated, the people said.
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As far as I can tell, they're basically not available at this point, even in areas far from the path of totality.
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It's not magic by VSCode, other web-based editing components such as the ACE editor are also lightning fast. There are two main reasons:

- VSCode is rendering in the DOM what you see, not what you scroll to.

- VSCode is using the correct datastructures, so an insert of a line at the top, doesn't require updating/relayouting all lines below it, but more likely something like log(n) lines.

And these two reasons you can summarize as the difference between old skool engineers with proper training in datastructures, cache behavior and algorithmic complexity -vs- new skool "full-stack developers" that rely on a billion lines of code they haven't written (or understand) and who mainly script a bit in between. The (wrong) assumption in the recent decade was we don't need to train engineers to understand the algorithmic complexity of their code because 'computers will continue to become faster'. That was never true and never will be true, because an exponentially slow algorithm simply won't ever be fast enough regardless of the amount of transistors. And making something like a simple text editor (without syntax highlighting and all of that -- just being able to edit the code), is actually an easy test to distinguish between the two wildly different skillsets.
> So what all these guys need is a separate FOSS organisation exclusively dedicated to fund-raising.

I'm afraid that such an organisation will gradually be taken over by people looking to make money more than to help open-source software, and in the end we'll end up worse off than not having anything, because most donations to that organisation will get used for "internal expenses".
Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny?
Atari games and Intel processors [pdf]
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I just donated to Arch after reading your comment as I've been using Arch for well over 7 years now, and it's by far my favourite Linux distribution.
There is an official emulated version available on the PS3 PSN store. It was developed by a supremely talented small Japanese company called M2. In the game, they included an option to overclock the CPU and it makes a big difference. My favourite way to play the game.

M2 was also responsible for the 3D Sega classics on 3DS which are incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_(game_developer)
Depends what you are warming - cold pasta dish? Just pop it in a pan with a little water or oil and will be hot in no time - can heat with gas (or wood, or biomass if you want to be truly off-grid [off-grid doesn't always meet environmentally friendly sadly...]). I guess that is one of the 'benefts' of off grid living in the UK - you will likely always have a fire burning anyway much of the year.

Heating with energy generated from solar is going to be 'costly' for some time. Amazed they run a tumble dryer - but guess it is very humid there?
Tooling is the main issue for me. I love reading about Perl6 but would be hard to break away from IDE like Pycharm or Visual Studio Pro/Ent.
Here's the archive.is link if you hit the WSJ paywall: http://archive.is/r7GhC
I thought that Masayoshi Son's Wikipedia intro was interesting:

> Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫 正義 Hepburn: Son Masayoshi, Korean: 손정의 Son Jeong-ui; born August 11, 1957) is a Korean-descendant (Zainichi Korean) Japanese businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile, and current chairman of Sprint Corporation. According to Forbes magazine, Son's estimated net worth is US $20.4 billion and he is the richest man in Japan,[2] despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).[3]
I've been testing mine with a red laser pointer (NOT into my eye!). The glasses reflect a lot, even at a high angle. What does get through does not project beyond the filter itself, and is very dim, even in a darkened room (yes, I'm being careful, I know a reflection can cause damage). When I look at a 100W equiv CFL bulb, it resembles what you photographed. I've also looked briefly at my smartphone flash when in flashlight mode, it is quite dim and 'shifted' toward yellow. Just wondering if I can extrapolate these into a transmission spectrum.

I'm leaning toward throwing on an ordinary UV blocking pair of sunglasses on top and then limiting my time anyway, you can basically see the same thing with the pinhole technique. This is a risk I would take for myself, if my children were still young I would not risk their eyes, nor do it in front of them and tell them they couldn't.

Also, I can distinctly remember staring directly at the sun as a (dumbass) kid on multiple occasions for as long as I could stand it.
Cheers for the reply. That's interesting about them both using Zilogs for sound.

It's been a while since I played with it, I'll have to dig it out again.
I disagree that puns require exact homophones. Each language (group) has different tools for building puns. English, Chinese, etc. use mostly homophones since they are abundant.

Romance languages, in particular Portuguese and Spanish, and Italian to some extent, use many types of pun-building techniques that do not depend solely on homophones: clever rhymes, heteronyms, homographs and other quasi-homonyms. Having longer words means you can embed and concatenate into portmanteaus and puns. Latin and Greek word root prefix and suffix are also rich and an infinite source of puns.

Portuguese speakers are very found of puns and specially word play. So I think pun is a more of a cultural thing, as noted in this thread by some people, than a language feature.

Here's a few Brazilian "trocadilhos" (puns and word play).

- "Fora Dilma vez!", instead of "fora de uma vez" - meaning "Oust [president] Dilma now".

- "Lula: Presidente da Silva", for "President for sure" where "da Silva" is Lula's last name but also colloquially means "for sure".

- "Filhos da Fruta", fruit shop in São Paulo. Word play with "sons of a bitch/fruit"

- "Rock in Rio", rock festival.

Spanish word play culture goes back centuries. Francisco de Quevedo for instance used this device often in his poems, and word play have been present in popular culture ever since. Here's a sample:

- "El calvario de la alopecia", a title to an article ("the calvary of hair loss"). Word play with "calvo" (bald) and "calvario" (calvary).

- "Digamelón", instead of "Dígamelo" ("hello?") when picking up the phone, a pun meaning "hello you moron".

- "Timofónica", portmanteau of "timo" (scam) and "Telefónica" (phone company).

- "Yo loco, loco, y ella loquita", (I'm crazy, she's crazier) which sounds like "Yo lo coloco, ella lo quita" (I put it in, she takes it out).

- "La Tapilla Sixtina", a tapas bar, word play with "Capilla Sixtina" (Sistine Chapel).

Hopefully that gives an idea of the possibilities that make Romance languages pun rich.

But I have to say the English and Chinese press (and readers presumably) love puns more than anyone else for even serious articles, like the OP mentions. The former gets in trouble sometimes [1], and the latter was even outlawed [2]!

[1] http://www.espn.co.uk/football/uefa-champions-league/story/1...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-wa...