skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want to hate that project (too much hype and the UI looks like this just another crappy and locked in office suite). That said there is someone out there who is going to get it right. Excel has too major problems:

1. Legacy: newer versions will always need to support VB6 and activeX and all that garbage - that's quite a big drag.

2. Inability to track changes easily. (Just move a table one row down, and it becomes impossible to compare the 2 versions) which causes what people call "spreadsheet risk"

That makes Excel "somewhat" vulnerable to asymmetric marketing attacks. It is in fact surprising that this hasn't happened yet. I think one of the big reasons is that most SV people don't use much Excel (not like we financial guys do)

I'm just hoping that Mike Bostock and the 2 other guys as Observable HQ are going to nail it. I'd much rather have a totally hackable front end that does the DAG for me, than a cloud-based document-editing-with-formulae...
I just searched for something like this about a month ago and found nothing. I think both an ipad app to design 2d dungeons for print or use on sites like roll20 as well as an AR app could corner the market. The only good d&d mobile apps are on iOS only and have no real competition either (Fight Club 5 and Game Master 5).
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My recollection of the 80's and 90's was that almost all businesses required a solid chunk of cash to start.

The idea of bootstrapping is only valid in recent 1-2 decades because it is now possible to start businesses without a chunk of cash, thus "bootstrapping".

I'm not convinced bootstrapping existing under another name in the 80s.

For the pedants, I'm not saying it was impossible to start a business in the 80s and 90s without cash, just saying that such a path was rare enough to not have a common name such as "bootstrapping".

In fact, prior to Amazon ec2, even Internet businesses required typically the cash to buy/house a server in a data centre which was often thousands of dollars, and even that was considered incredibly cheap for access to a global market compared to what it used to cost prior to the web.
Not bad ... but the fans do make noise. Which is OK for a party with music anyway, but for something more romantic - not so much. At least not for me ...
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No I really mean phonetic. Any system where you combine graphemes more or less freely to form words will be parsed groupwise. Though much less so for Greek monumental majuscle writing than modern books.

Take Japanese writing for example, you definitely don't parse individual kana. Same with hangul, as you mention.

Even for Chinese writing it is true but to a very small extent, but my point was that it is much more important for phonetic writing, and most important indeed for alphabetic. I have even heard that it is less pronounced in Cyrillic, because all letters basically look like majuscles so the outline of words is quite uniform.

I don't quite get the comment about alphabetic script not being very phonetic, it's true that this would promote parsing words as units, but the main reason we do it is because it's much faster, not because some spellings are opaque. Kana spelling is almost completely one-to-one but it still makes sense to read e.g. -ma.shi.ta as a unit.
Interesting, I have implemented some version of the above in the past (albeit not in an opensource/free solution).

If you have a specific document/data extraction need in mind, you can email me a sample and I will let you know if I can help.
Tagged it to Javascript Frameworks and the alternatives are much better now.

Agree, we do need to split developer tools more granularly.
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Yeah, there's definitely a decent set of people who won't go today because of the personal risk but would participate in the Saudi economy if the risk to themselves was removed. I wasn't talking about people with a moral objection though but even among that group there'd be a number willing to participate probably giving a 'show them that this is better and works' justification to themselves.
A stock price doesn't reflect how profitable you are today, it reflects how profitable you'll be tomorrow.
The truth is they don't really care about diversity, it's all a PR exercise.
Thanks! It was 1.5 years of making no money, so it's definitely been a grind... Feels good that something's working, and would love to save others the trouble we went through!
Someone should have asked the kid what they meant by their question. I've noticed that kids generate strange questions in the way you might generate a grammatically correct, but nonsensical phrase using BNF. Asking them to clarify their question either highlights that they actually have no clue what they're looking for, or that their question is much much simpler than it first appeared (for example, maybe the kid just meant what happens if the word "six" didn't exist).

All that being said, the modulo world that the article mentions does't make sense to me. If 6 doesn't exist, how could you have modulo 6?
Of course, this means outsourcing the decision back in time, too. You're basically hiring for "the best students by <questionable metric> from four years ago" the moment you factor the college into the question.
Maker here.
I use Slack with 24x7, and read HN almost everyday.
When I am chatting and inputting some url, beside the slackbot give me the page snapshot, I also want to get the HN item. Since HN are already decade year, the url should be hit very often.
And I also want to get the replies for my HN ID in slack.
And I also want to follow some interesting HN thread but without too much noise.

So it should be worthy to give a bot app to deal with such things automatically. Then the slack bot - @HN get real.
Hopefully HNBot can add you and your team two cent fun.
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What kind of pricing schema would you prefer for this?
Monthly or one time payment?
> Memorisation

It is memoization, not memorisation! Although for two weeks in algorithms class I did in fact think our prof was just pronouncing memorize in a cutesy manner.
Hey ElbertF - I'm on the product team at Sift Science and definitely want to understand more (33% is incredibly high). I took a brief look at your integration, but should take the conversation to email - send me a note! quan at siftscience dot com.
It'd be like immigrating away from a country...
Yep, moved it over to the 2GB server. :)

Looks like we didn't have enough confidence in our marketing capabilities! Wasn't expecting #1 on HN for one of our first posts.
6 still "exists" in base 5, it's just that it equals...ahem...is congruent to 10.
excluding sovereign laws labor laws

Will it be possible to have sex slaves? Kill people just for pleasure? Make things that would only be possible in westworld?
Do you have a link for this type of village used in Vietnam? I've only heard of the Strategic Hamlet program, which was designed to protect rural villages from the VC, not to imprison any Vietnamese.
I've noticed the same thing. It seems common enough that maybe there is a valid reason (rather than it simply being an oversight)?
So maybe I'm missing something, but the graph of the "distribution of school tiers on interviewing.io" is nearly identical to the 1% line in the "where 25 year olds went to school" chart.

Not sure how this is really any different than just sourcing from top schools?
It's a fine line. The important thing is to emphasise that there was nothing unique about Germany or the Nazi party. What happened there could happen anywhere. If you emphasise the Germanness of the Holocaust, you risk casting it as a uniquely German phenomenon.

The German people didn't suddenly become evil in 1931, nor did they suddenly become good in 1946. They were perfectly ordinary people who were complicit or active in perpetrating awful atrocities. It happened there and it could happen here. There are people in your life who would, in the wrong circumstances, be perfectly capable of kicking people into cattle cars or gas chambers. They're not psychopaths or monsters, they're just people who do what they're told. That's the awful reality; blaming some aspect of the German character is an easy get-out from confronting that awfulness.
I remember fingering to read these .plan files back in the day. :) Is twitter the modern replacement? I don't think we have anything quite as succinct.
No. That still uses ASM. It's effectively low level IO mirroring and needs fast data-centre interconnects and low-latency.

I work a lot with RAC and it introduces more problems than it solves tbh.
Either way I'll be sure to post here when I get the email!
I submitted the application on the last day.
I would also throw in that board games have blown up in the last decade or so, especially with the advent of Kickstarter. There's a lot of crossover between between the communities (as the article illustrates) and, I think, a bit of a push-back against the lack of choice/flexibility + social disconnect in most electronic games.
Totally what that guy on Gold Rush needs to get his barge up the Yukon. ;)
I don't know how helpful we can be, but we (and other companies like ours) have much higher Let's Encrypt limits. If it'd make your life better send me an email and we'll help you out.
I haven't received any updates yet.
I'm shocked by the number of people popping out of the woodwork. I've been gaming consistently for the past 35 years, and while gaming was more popular overall in the early 80s and late 90s, I know more gamers right now personally than ever. I have a game group, of older people, on my fucking street!
>Most schools try to teach the fundamentals.

No, they don't. Read as many thousands of resumes from across the planet as I have, then get back to me.
Why would someone who already knows AD&D 1e switch to the new one? What does that person gain?

Imagine this hypothetical person wants to spend as little time as possible learning and on details, and as much as possible on creative experiences.
I still remember the launch of The Escapist. It was so different with its styling and content, sort of an online version of the Edge magazine. Alas that didn't last long.
I'm kind of curious about this myself. With the recent wildfires in Northern California, there was plenty of confusion on the ground as residents groped for a solid news source. The local radio stations (KSRO, in particular) were key communications infrastructure for citizens and first responders.

As much as we like to think we've got the technology thing figured out, your smartphone becomes a useless brick when the cell towers start melting. Don't take your infrastructure for granted.

One by one, with the exception of AT&T (salt water battery backups anyone?), the wireless networks and cable TV went down. When you've got your bags packed and you're ready to bug out, you tune in to the local radio station because the spotty overtaxed 4G and Satellite TV can deliver only so much relevant information.
Daniel Goldhagen does a good job of illustrating the involvement of everyday Germans in the Holocaust in his book "Hitler's Willing Executioners."[0]

This book has received a lot of criticism from historians but it contains a lot of fascinating information.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Willing_Executioner...
Finally! Now they just need to add support for specifying cert length from 10-360 days.
No, it wasn't. They also used to ask for high school transcripts if you didn't graduate college -- even for senior folks with decades of experience.

Google's interviewing process used to be extremely absurd. They have reformed it somewhat since around 2013.
I guess I was assuming that it’s possible to have a good life in my 90’s. Your sample size of the 2 people seems a bit anecdotal. Know anyone famous in their 90’s?

Jimmy Carter

Henry Kissinger

Dick Van Dyke

Stan Lee

Chuck Yeager - broke the sound barrier

Anyway, that’s your choice. I suppose if we do learn how to treat aging to delay some of the symptoms, you can always change your mind.
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Deep integration with rules may have licensing issues, and as D&D Beyond expands, apps which lack such integration may have trouble competing with the growing first-party service.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun also used to run a regular column called Saturday Morning Crapshoot, which covered a lot of old, weird, and less than stellar games. I think they stopped, but the archive is good for a chuckle every now and then
It's 100% factually accurate. After hours trading is down 10%, and drops in revenue were announced. How was it biased?
In practice people do tend to disagree less about what is good code and not in Python versus C++?
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Apostasy and consuming any kind of drugs is also punishable by death. Drinking alcohol and having sex outside marriage are severely reprimanded.

And you also have all the vexations of "normal" regular life. Women were not allowed to drive at all until recently. Movie theaters simply do not exist in Saudi. Movies that you can legally watch (at home) are heavily censored (so piracy is your only option). And you have segregated areas for males and females in restaurant and most shops...

A project like Neom would totally work if they promised the locals that none of the bullshit rules would apply. Young Saudis would just swamp the place and work their asses off to make it happen... but I doubt the old religious guard would like that. Just marketing BS. They'll just build fancy buildings in the desert at great expense, and nothing will come out of it.
My grandfather was on the ferry from Norway to Denmark with my sister. We're all from Norway. He had quite reduced hearing and used a hearing aid.

They were having dinner at the ships restaurant, and the waiter asked my grandfather something. My grandfather just didn't understand the guy and asked the waiter to repeat several times. After the 4th time, my sister told my grandfather: "Grandpa, he's Swedish". My grandpa paused for a second and then immediately recognized what the waiter had said.

Turns out he had assumed the guy was Danish, and thus failed to interpret the limited sounds he could hear, given the hearing loss and background noise.
Nope. No 9 for you. Also what do you mean with repeating, you aren't suggesting strings with more than 5 symbols, are you?
Not having to use THAC0 ever again would be one thing they would gain.

I'd make a silly wager that the net time saved by using 5e rules would outweigh the cost of learning them.
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>"When companies stop using WordPress, its most frequent substitutes are HubSpot Website Platform (32.6% of the time), followed by Drupal (21.9%), and by EPi Ektron CMS (6.9%)" (https://siftery.com/wordpress/alternatives) //

I don't understand why the first listing Craft CMS isn't one of the hot alternatives that people switch to as mentioned in the prose? Why is it even in there? Why is the third hot substitute not even in the list below of alternatives?

I'm clearly missing something major here?
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The New Yorker's editors seem to really like board games.

Other related articles: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dungeons-drag...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-hottest-new...
How an Ivy got less preppy: Princeton draws surge of students from modest means
Have you ever considered that pizza cake is delicious?

I don’t know about you, but I wanna try this: https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9
They won’t ever offer > 90 days, but certificate lengths of about a day would certainly be interesting. I’d certainly switch to 24h valid certificates as soon as possible.

Ideally even separate certs for every subdomain, but as Let’s Encrypt has cert limits, and I want to avoid SNI in the future, I’ll probably have to use wildcard certs.
I did play some RPG when I was a kid (born 1981) and I’ve been thinking about how to get back to it for the las 5 years. I was probably difficult not so long ago, but my friends are starting to freeze their fb accounts and restrict mobile use, might give a try!
Yea, I was really surprised how light the stats part are.
Your comment is a perfect example of what the parent was commenting on. The notion that a few select Germans misled the rest of Germany and brought upon the Holocaust is unfounded. WW2 and the Holocaust began because of a confluence between the German government, it's citizens, and its culture.
I'm guessing.. Portland?
>>> Huge numbers of people I went to undergrad with had uncles at hedge funds or big law firms.

Yes, in a top school in NY.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not for "penalising" or "rewarding"
anyone for their skin color. I hope you didn't get that message from me.

I am way more into personalised life experience reward/penalty system. And that should be limited to scholarships based on socio economic situation, not test scores.
the wait....
The link seems to redirect to https://rivyt.com/ for me?
There are the CHiME challenges (http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/) that have test data with distant microphone speech and noisy speech data, and IARPA ran its Automatic Speech recognition In Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) Challenge in 2014/15 (https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/prize-cha...).
I'm a physician. There are a lot of problems with the original article.

The body is excellent at maintaining glucose concentration in the blood with food or with days of fasting. Glucose is the primary short-term energy source for most cells. The brain's energy requirements vary very little with "thinking" despite the assertions to the contrary in the introduction of this article. PET works by noting the slight transient increases in some brain regions with active thought, but moments later (as that 20% of blood flow goes swishing through the brain) more glucose is available. Meanwhile you are digesting sugars and carbohydrates, and your liver is supplying most of your fresh glucose if you are a fasting adult.

Already, before reading the article, I have a low pre-test probability of their hypothesis being true, so they need extraordinarily strong evidence to make their point. Instead, there is a very weak chain of experiments, poorly reported, with borderline statistical significance. Poor charts, no tabulated results, just terrible.

The primary problem is that they assert that glucose fluctuations occur due to the exercise of willpower. They try and fail to show this with their first experiment. However, their "results and discussion" combined section shows that their control group before and after glucose were very close to their post-intervention group glucose. p327 para 1.

This shows how weak their statistics and data are, and from this point, you can throw the whole study in the trash.
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Further proof that SV use of the word diversity is closer to a euphemism for assimulation. That is, diversity isn't a source for different backgrounds and experiences; but a biological signal to be optimized in order to maximize public perception, while ideas remain essentially the same.
If it didn't exist then we'd invent it. Pretty much like we invented sqrt(-1)...
I don't believe absolute monarchy and liberal society are necessarily mutually exclusive.
The story is split among three articles; I posted the primary one but here are the others:

Pell Grant shares at top-ranked colleges: A sortable chart:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/2...

How a ‘hidden minority’ of the disadvantaged gained strength at Princeton:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/2...
It would reveal that despite popular belief, 786.
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I think the idea is that 6 modulo 6 would just be 0, so in that system the only integers used are 0 through 5. Six is used as a concept in structuring the system, but it would not be present in the usage of the system.
in my opinion they really missed the opportunity to name it:

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or the Rocinante, which would be a nice meta-Expanse reference and itself a pretty decent literary reference.
The landing ship is the size of a football field, not something I'd call small by any means. The booster that lands on it is approximately 14 stories high (230ft / 70m).
Side note, today I found out the Yankees don’t have names on their uniforms, only numbers. Apparently this used to be the tradition in all of sports until about the 60’s. Absolutely mind-blowing that I never noticed this, and it made me like the Yankees a little bit more and appreciate their (to some extent) humility.
> Why would someone who already knows AD&D 1e switch to the new one? What does that person gain?

Aside from network effects, the rules are much easier to use in play without referencing fairly arbitrary tables; there's a lot of streamlining and consistency that lets them handle more situations with less lookups, different mechanical subsystems, and fiddly bits.

Notably, a unified success mechanic that covers skill use (including what were “thief skills” in core 1e, as well as “nonweapon proficiencies” from some of the 1e supplements), attacks, ability checks, and saving throws is a big improvement from 1e (D&D has had that in some form since 3e, though.)
I hate juggling dev tools, opening, resizing, detaching them one by one, for each tab. It fucking sucks.
Actually, it is quite simple. You just need some basic computer (I use a 400 USD laptop) and a couple of thousands of hours of time :)

You can start by making a PPTX file parser, or PPTX to HTML converter, and then you can start adding some user interface, etc.
Could you build a "show me what this would look like on my site" feature that takes their site, and fakes a version on your server (maybe in an iframe or using javascript)?
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A further weird problem with this, even given the one-dimensional universe with only six locations, is to form the power set of points in the universe. Now it's true that there's nowhere in the universe to write down the elements of the power set because no representation of them fits anywhere in the universe at a single time. But one might still feel that this power set is well defined. (You could try to describe it as "How many groups of places in the universe are there?", although indeed no useful representation of that question can fit into the universe either.)

It contains 64 elements. ... oops!
Would you care to show your work? I'm sure there are many here that would be interested, not only in your results, but how you arrived at them, particularly if they're presented in a way that would allow others to apply them to other papers they come across.
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We already invented it in that same sense—it was just a more obviously useful thing to invent ;)