skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I take medication specifically to prevent the scenario you have described to me."
>Do these kids not think that Twitter has the ability to do this.

Don't know, but they aren't.
True. Also, just having unconnected systems that use different types of features / heuristics should be enough to at least pull the car over when they wildly disagree over what to do.
I'm writing an article about this... Questions to anybody that knows:

1. it looks like this was just a CSV download. Was any form of authentication (even just a Yahoo login) required to download the CSV? I'm just trying to figure out how, if Yahoo actually thought of issuing a warning, it would have known who to send it too or how to get news of the shutdown circulated to the right people.

2. If it was a CSV download, how up to date was the data?

3. Does anybody have a sample URI for a filtered version of this CSV request. For example, just two symbols?

Thanks

David Berlind
ProgrammableWeb
> Is this a joke, or is it based on real-life experience?

I think it's a joke, but there is actually real advice along the same lines. When cold emailing someone with the goal of getting a phone call, you want to avoid giving the person enough information to say no.
Very few, if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_electric_propulsion... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-class_submarine#Elect... are to be believed. The latter claims that as of 2013 there is exactly one nuclear submarine class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triomphant-class_submarine to be exact) that uses electric engines.
The Wikipedia article mentioned Willy Ley's "Engineers' Dreams" which I remember from my youth (in the Pleistocene, apparently) as being really interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Dreams-Willy-Ley/dp/9997483...
It's starting to look like PWAs will be soon powerful enough for mobile and Windows cross-platform development. I'm somewhat hopeful that maybe we'll finally start to see more PWA APIs and Electron/Electron-esque desktop integration APIs converge.
Locally, a community can decide to remove tariffs and export duties irrespective of reciprocity. The only agreement required is within the community.

As for non-state parties, perhaps in part that depends on how one does or does not view organizations like the WTO (World Trade Organization) and is not a question I find very interesting to discuss on the internet as there is merit in both opinions and the basis for holding one or the other is typically externally rooted. I suppose it also might depend on one's view regarding the political legitimacy of anarchy and the economic legitimacy of black markets and similar points of order and those are also not questions I find particularly interesting to discuss on the internet for similar reasons.

Though I suppose participation and non-participation in black markets might be a minimal viable example of free trade as local and limited decision.
I can vouch for that statement. A daily standup that exceeds 30 mins, a grooming and planning meeting that extends all 8 hours of a day in a sprint with unclear stories, surprise bug triage meetings ranging between 30 mins to 2 hrs, meetings where I cant possibly contribute, updating user stories with questions about the story, convincing people on why we shouldn’t be working on backend and ui without well defined contracts all account for over 30% to 60% of my time on a team with over 4 members.
> Real people don't tweet about Hillary 100% of the time, no matter how awful she is.

I disagree. Real people use pseudonyms as well. I have multiple twitter accounts and while I don't have an ax to grind against Hillary, I can imagine some of my friends in Texas would create and devote a twitter account solely for venting about something like this.

Of course, there is a difference between someone in Katy, Texas tweeting "lock her up" versus someone using a farm to make it look like there is a groundswell when there is none. However, is it wrong, immoral, or illegal? How do we define these things? We have to be really careful because we might end up making advertising illegal.
You won’t believe what we have coming next. No really, it’s unbelievable. Even I don’t believe it.
As a person living in a former communist country I find it quite amusing that after the communism was replaced by capitalism population increase went from a steady increase to steady decrease.

But you know while we talk about how many people has communism killed, we never talk how much child labour and slavery has capitalism produced.. Anyway you get the point.

And by the way it's not that I care about communism. I don't. Never liked it although during these years I was a kid so I didn't have adult Experience. But I don't like capitalism any better.
We'll see this change as SQL Server on Linux matures.
No, but it's a great way to case a house to see if you should come back later.
Market value is based mostly on emotion. A lot of people buying into the hype have heard of BTC, but not as many have heard of ETH.

People are mostly buying it to resell it. BTC price goes up because BTC price is going up. ETH price is not going up because it's not going up.

Sometimes the inferior technology wins too as long as it's been adopted more widely. Cryptocurrency value is based heavily on network effects.
? Hourly workers who live further away dont get paid more.
They're on Crunchbase:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/niolabs
Detect and Track Twitter Propaganda
> I think what people are fed up with, is to spend effort learning the "method du jour" of putting a button on a screen and updating the view on a click.

The bajillion constantly changing web frameworks says that people are perfectly delighted to spend the effort to learn the "method du jour" to do those things.
Well, still the remaining water in new lower mediterranean has to go somewhere for this to be sustainable and I don't believe that just evaporation would be enough for any significant power generation capacity.
Looks really nice.

What resources did you use to learn to do plugin development if you don't mind me asking?
Many people have a VPN with 2-Factor authentication, in some cases even then all work is done over remote desktop.
SBI ATM withdrawal limit per day details
Or a 3D fly through view. "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
Yeah, these guys have absolutely no cost for being wrong.
Trillo.io – A low code application builder
> What's a language you think does generic programming 'right'?

The most obvious examples are ML and its derivatives.

> C++ has good support for static / compile time ADTs (the STL is very much built around the idea) and also supports 'runtime' ADTs through interfaces. In neither case is friend needed to abstract over types.

The STL is built around ADTs in spite of the language's lack of support. If C++ had an actual notion of abstract types, then templates could be type-checked against ADT specifications (so-called “concepts”), rather than having to wait until instantiation time.

> In neither case is friend needed to abstract over types.

You can't encapsulate a single abstraction providing two or more ADTs without using `friend`. That's a fact.

> Static polymorphism in C++ currently relies on duck typing but this is what the Concepts TS is addressing.

This is a reply to the wrong thing. Concepts are ADT specifications, not object specifications.
Wow this looks awesome. I think I might use this for some notes on topological quantum computing or something .
>So say you're making software for car washes. Don't lead with the fact that you make software. Instead, show the benefit by saying something like "Book 73% more car washes" and then say "Car wash booking software to increase revenue."

That still actually tells me what the product is, which is way more than we keep seeing for all these start-ups, open source software etc, which seem to revolve around hippie meaningless B.S. that doesn't provide any value proposition up front.
The other part is how exactly do you know all of these deaths are result of communism directly

Because they were directly attributed to the Great Leap Forward. Same as the millions killed by the Khmer Rouge in Year Zero.
Why is it better than AWS or others?
That site is a gem: https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools
We're running our Debian farm on Azure thanks to startup perks. It's been up 100% for us the last 2.5 years. Azure service is no less or better than AWS.
I am confused. I see half the performance and 3-5x the area of IEEE754, but the conclusion is that UNUM is comparable. That would not be my conclusion. What am I missing?
Thanks for the feedback. I'll take it up ASAP with the team.
Our data model generally doesn't require this. We're actually okay with less guarantees than RethinkDB provides. AFIAK NoSQL stores in general are a bad choice if you need this. You should use a SQL database.
The New Version of Tensorflow 1.4.0 Released
Algorithms can help in redistricting
If there's any way to spur adoption of renewable energy, it's this.

Once renewables become cheaper than fossil fuels, almost everyone will start to switch.
Siraj Raval covers PyTorch very well in a 5 min video (https://youtu.be/nbJ-2G2GXL0).

It comes down to design decisions, of which I'm not qualified to go into. This article made the front page last week, about the downsides to Tensorflow which people rarely talk about: http://nicodjimenez.github.io/2017/10/08/tensorflow.html

And this interview with a Tensorflow engineer (10 mins) explains a little bit about those design decisions (https://youtu.be/axRHotkkTVI).
Try 15-30mins on an exercise bike, or/and at intervals in the reading get up to do push ups or something. Same problem I end up mind wandering while trying to read and having to flip back pages but exercise solved that. Taking active notes helps too, I'll have emacs open and write down anything I'll likely use again, index it in org-mode then year(s) later I'll need to look up something like generating all n-tuples and have an index.org file that spans the three books I read on the subject.
The Cloud Wars: making sense of the Cisco/Google partnership
Or at least they aren't publicly
3 Reasons Why AI-Powered Customer Service Is the Next Big Thing
Sorry in this day and age using a product makes you a customer and the product. Facebook, Google considers you one.
Oh :) now it's 65 million. I thought it's 55 :)
I really thought the more like 25 million on Soviet Union side were during the WW2. While you can attribute some of the to communism most of them you should be the Germans fault.
Yes, but I feel there is room for more than one approach. For something as specific as derivations--which tend to have a linear, step-by-step approach I think this makes sense. Similar to how different programming languages excel at different tasks I imagine different thinking media will also excel at different cognitive tasks.

There is also the terseness of mathematical notation to compete with--I can't think of a better way to replace the sum of something over the range 1 to 1000 than the current sigma notation, or even a for loop or some other construct like "sum(f(x), 1...1000)". I don't know if there is a good way to make something like a large summation visual but I am definitely open to any ideas. I wish that every mathematical concept or object could be visualised effectively but again I doubt this is the case with the hope of being proven wrong.
Are text mining tools capable of getting specific data from files?
I'm trying to parse and extract out data from unstructured file formats such as docx, xlsx, and pdf. I'm having a tough time finding ways to get data from these files as they're not all consistent in format and have some structured data that I need to extract.

For example, some of these docx files have tables and when I extract out the text, some of the data is split into different lines, but some of the other tables spit out data not in any reasonable format...

So I'm wondering if any text mining tools or even AI/ML tools and packages are able to do this. By 'this', what I mean is to find a field that might be labeled "author" in these files and then get the corresponding data.
The author would never have been able to sell it anyway since it's impossible to authenticate.
I see most work places tend to sway ‘remote heavy’ or ‘commute heavy’. Too much either way is clearly not working out. Like all efficient mechanisms, I think the key is to allow a certain degree of flexibility and handing it over to the employee to make what he/she can from it. Maybe a pilot program just to see how it fits into the company culture ?
I was hoping nobody would point me to something like that :D So either my idea sucks, or they didn't do a good job advertising the feature...
Based on what I've read, pre-agricultural people nursed their children until the age of 4 or 5 when they could keep up with the tribe on foot, which limited the birth rate. The explosive growth in population we have had for the last few thousand years dates to the agricultural revolution, when we settled down in one place which allowed women to wean their children sooner and have more. So in a sense the absence of birth control is the new and unusual phenomenon here. If you look at ratios of sexual activity to pregnancies human beings are extreme outliers- we clearly are evolved to use sex for bonding first and reproduction second, so the idea that birth control is going to change our behavior through selection pressure seems wrong.
Fight bots with bots. I like it.
> VR should be considered as completely new medium.

I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. There are plenty of teams working on brand new UI/UX experiences in VR, and I'm sure that in time the old 2d paradigms will have more competition. But also, I still choose to use a terminal for git when I could use a GUI, so I'm not actually convinced that "2D windows in VR" are going to or should go away.

The OP shows a great step towards being able to replace your workstation with some VR goggles, a keyboard, and a CPU. That prospect excites me more than any "new medium" VR experiences that I can see on the immediate horizon; being able to work from a beach hammock and not compromise on workspace efficiency is incredibly appealing.
> Lots of emotional comments with the usual I-hate-MS bent

How do you even get that from these comments? Is 3 comments 'lots' now?
Not OP, but I admit that's not a problem I've ever had. I've done a lot of webapps supporting data-science pipelines, and I've built some major components of those pipelines. It's not something I've felt the need for when I've used postgres.

What do you use that for?
It sounds like I'm disagreeing with the person because I'm disagreeing with the person. I don't think that what Twitter can do and what they should do are at variance, because I don't think Twitter has a moral obligation to allow others freedom of expression on their tool.

Even if Twitter wanted to promote freedom of expression, there's an inherent contradiction between allowing others to express their opinion and them expressing their own opinion. I think someone whose promotion of freedom of expression involves denying themselves that same freedom is sending a mixed message. Because their support of the principle would have those reservations, they don't have an obligation to provide it.
2 hours a day. You spend about 9 hours at the office, you sleep 8 hours (hopefully), household chores, including shopping food etc will take you an hour (probably more, but let's say). So this leaves you with 4 hours a day 'free'. Wokring from home would net you a massive 50% increase in 'free' time. Talk about QoL improbvement.
I guess whatever qualities both platforms have does not really matter compared to how much traction they get. If the world converges to one platform, then you should probably go with that platform, no matter how good the other platform is. The reason is that things are just moving too fast, and you don't want to spend your time porting new research from one platform to the other.

That said, I'm curious why PyTorch (or specifically Autograd) couldn't have been built on top of TF.
We already do split the world, if you think about it. Despite looking and behaving alike, servers and workstations/phones/etc. diverge quite dramatically. You manage them differently, interact with them differently, use them for different purposes, and so on. Every hacker can relate to this: "don't use root for day-to-day work." Well, do I need root on my workstation? Maybe not. Do I need root on my server? Yes.

I think split world is livable if that divergence is embraced. Running a Xeon server as a workstation is something a lot of developers do. As clients get more locked down, it's probably the direction we'll have to go, and really differentiating what makes a "server" from a "client".
Just like any other cash-settled commodity.

http://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2017/10/31...
$0.005?
Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off
>They start a thread/conversation/request, and then are slow to respond, or disappear.

That's the primary benefit of qorking remotely IMO. Not having to immediately stop everything im doing allows me to stay in flow state. It also improves the quality of my responses and solutions since i can let the request percolate in my head. Usually, I come up better answers when Im not actively thinking
If it's only desirable because it is rare, still the project would destroy all the existing coastal supply making what's left grotesquely overpriced. Also all the people of cities on coasts currently will be virtually expropriated.
I just got a call from someone trying to peddle a Bitcoin trading site. Didn't catch the name of the site, but he was very persistent, was reading from a manuscript and didn't know that the maximum supply of Bitcoin would be 21M, when I asked him.

I think it's time to get out, if you own any coin, to be honest.

While we were talking (for maybe 30 minutes - normally I wouldn't do that, but this was interesting like a train wreck kind of interesting), I could hear cheering in the background, when the price reached an all time high. This is super weird, man...
When is there ICO ?
They definitely work in a lot of languages.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/derecho#Spanish
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direito
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diritto
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinister#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dexter#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laevus#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%8C%CF%8...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recht#German

and many languages related to these. Some Slavic languages have a close cognate between words meaning 'right (direction)' and words meaning 'right (correct)', although I didn't immediately find examples in current use on Wiktionary where the two forms are identical. A "dated" example is Polish

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prawy#Polish

Edit: a Finnish friend pointed out that this works in Finnish, which is European but not related to any of the other languages above.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oikea#Finnish

I don't know if these linguistic phenomena definitely occur in non-European languages, but I think that many people in the Middle East, many parts of Africa, and South Asia consider the left hand unlucky or impure not only because it's weaker in most people but also because it's conventionally used when going to the toilet. It would be a little surprising to me if that attitude didn't show up in languages from those places too.

Edit: it looks like it works in Arabic too

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84#Arab...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%B1#Arab...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86#Arab...
FIX – Could not create a preboot volume for APFS install
I need some really substantial Marx citation on that, because in the Communist Manifesto, chapter II, he says:

> In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Marxist view of property is that as a manifestation of capital, which can be converted between freely. If you allow private property, you allow its inevitable emergent concentration (e.g. via bourgeois family), and hence amassing of capital and means to exploit other people.
With Revolut cards?
I could see the hand tracking being useful for people who don't know how to touch type (and have to look at their keyboard and fingers) and who need to type while using a headset.
> Given that it can't occur under socialism or communism

While the domain may be limited, it has been permitted in some degree in most real-world implementations of socialism or communism (and it was also widely practiced in pre-capitalist systems, like feudalism.)

There's a relationship between the two terms (capitalism-the-economic-system was named “capitalism” by it's critics because it organizes the structure of society around the interests of those who have been most successful in in capitalism in the sense of private endeavors to acquire capital, after all.)
How does Renjin run the BLAS and LAPACK Fortean code, and the C code in R?
No, ideally they know how to do their job well and do that instead of getting in your way.

Your boss doens't need to know how to do your job.
NFL Network story on the mother and son:

https://vimeo.com/183657086
> For a lot of people the main selling point of a flat tax is its supposed simplicity. They have fantasies of spending two minutes a year doing their taxes. I say "supposed simplicity" because many of these proposals still include numerous deductions and exclusions, and THAT is where 99.99% of the complexity of the tax system resides.

Exactly, no matter how many tax brackets you have, without the miscellaneous deductions, calculating your total amount of tax to pay involves simply looking at a table of income ranges for a set of three numbers that applies to you and then doing the calculation top_marginal_tax_rate*(income - top_tax_bracket_lower_bound)+tax_on_income_in_lower_brackets. So the entire work to calculate your tax burden is one table lookup, one addition, one subtraction and one multiplication.

The flat tax proposals simplify that by getting rid of the addition (by making tax_on_income_in_lower_brackets zero) and making the table lookup only contain two rows instead of many. So you have removed one arithmetic operation(or three if you are under the 0% bracket cutoff), and cut down on the number of rows you have to scan through by a single digit number. That is completely negligible to dozens of pages of reading you would have to do if you have even relatively simple deductions.
Government handled it pretty well, but the chip maker (Gemalto) hid the security problem for months before telling its customers.

And can't find any information about security breach in Gemalto's website...
The company doesn't have to be different, but you are right that if they articulate the value the tool/software brings better than the other guy, they may win the day.

What you're describing is fast becoming a reality for most software businesses imho - the days of feature differentiation are rapidly declining.
Yeah, I've considered playing with Quasar, but I'm a bit concerned about the "colored functions" that it imposes. In any case, I'm mainly interested in Fibres as a code generation platform (for some toy languages I'm playing with), and obviously there I could avoid having to use Quasar/bytecode rewriting by simply emitting functions as state machines in the first place... My hope for project Loom is to be able to avoid this, i.e. to have it taken care of automagically by JVM.
Ssshhhhh, the emperor's clothes are so handsome!
Yes, but some of them aren't available yet, specifically dplyr:

http://packages.renjin.org/package/org.renjin.cran/tidyverse
More and better layered services (e.g. MLStudio), more regions/locations, option of going hybrid (Azure Stack), better container support with per-second billing, the list goes on and on.
How much are they paying for power?
Twitter is no startup.