skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually the original meaning. "Factoids... that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority."

The meaning has since mutated, and of course there's no reason we should be constrained to the original.
Connecticut's estate tax only applies to estates worth over $2,000,000. Either that doesn't apply to your parents' estate, or they're probably doing better than middle class.

Connecticut's income tax ranges from 3%-6.7%, which is pretty decent. The upper percentage is almost the same as my state's lowest! Admittedly, my state has higher than average income tax rates.
> In fact, I've been to cafes where a "meal" of tea, snacks, etc. alone came to over INR 700/pp.

I've been to restaurants where the expense (including drinks) was 5k per head. One of the companies during placements took new hires out for dinner, the bill was 12k per head. I've been to places in USA where the bill was 200$ per head. This isn't a "decent meal".

> You would be hard pressed to get a decent meal in a clean, hygenic and modern restaurant for INR 200 anywhere in North India.

I can suggest dozens of places in Chandigarh and Delhi. Even McDonalds, Dominoes would cost less than 200 per head. And those are considered a decent place in India.
I am convinced that a lot of podcasters take their cues from radio and other forms of broadcast journalism that lack the ability to let the user jump back 15 seconds if they missed something. I have never had a conversation with anyone where they talked as slow as people do on podcasts. Maybe it is some sort of post-production process to slow things down and make it possible for people who are not really paying attention to follow along, but if it were not for the ability to speed things up I would have abandoned most podcasts a long time ago.
Why do you think they are not considered cost centers?
So, what makes newspaper exempt from this? They can publish opinion pieces on who to support, and they are spending a lot of money in producing newspaper. Surely that _should_ violate McCain-Feingold? Except it didn't, because there was a special exemption for media. What makes that fair?

Let's say I'm an individual, and I support Santa Claus for president. But I'm also a famous personality, and I spend a million dollars to put on a free speaking tour where I support Santa Claus for president. Aren't I using money to support my speech? I'm not just using my mouth, I'm using my money to pursue my first amendment rights.
Lotus did a good job shooting itself in the foot. It's easy to second guess in hindsight, but it always amazed me that they didn't have any Windows story at all for their one major product, Lotus 1-2-3, until 1991 or 92. (And even then it was amazingly buggy.)

(And they did have multiple text-mode PC versions, VMS, Unix, Improv for NeXTStep...)
I believe it literally is choppy. Chipmunk voice happens when you compress the waveform, I believe the way they avoid that is NOT by compressing it and then somehow shifting the pitch, but instead by sampling less of the waveform. So I believe 2x is literally playing only half of the audio. I hope to be corrected if I am mistaken.
Thanks so much! This cleared up a lot of things for me.
Marketers: Do you seriously still optimize like this? Time to grow up
The "Project Boards" feature was replicating Trello, this is similar to Basecamp. Good features, might be handy for small projects that don't want to keep 10 separate tools to manage their teams.
I recently started to code some Solidity, and there are some syntax expressions in the language (e.g payable function) that you wouldn't find in other languages because they don't deal with those concepts. Could you have used a modified version of Java or simply embed those concepts in a library, probably. I guess they wanted a specialized language.
The -oid suffix means "similar to" or "resembling."

For example: a humanoid is something resembling a human, but not a human.

So, traditionally, a factoid is something resembling, but not, a fact.

However, it has been misused for so long, it's now considered by many ok to use "factoid" to mean a trivial, related fact.
Sometimes they are, that's why HR and Accounting get outsourced at many companies (or portions of them).

See what companies outsource, that's what they see as cost centers.
I speed listened to the Stanford iOS course. Some lecturers just talk too slowly, pause too often or speak with low information density.
> In that scenario, we're effectively no longer in control of our own free will as long as someone else can profit by controlling it.

This is a self contradiction. You always have the choice to turn off or tune out the distractions and focus your attention on more important things (which is the essence of free will). That people don't feel like doing that is a psychological problem not a problem with capitalism or profit seeking.
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Well, I know that if I was applying to school these days rather than ten years ago, I'd be applying to Canadian schools over most of the non-elite American institutions.

My alma mater has had to shorten its semester by something like four or five weeks since I was there, due to state-level austerity. This kind of thing has become normal at public universities across the USA, so your "cheap" (ie: ~$14k/year) in-state tuition is now buying strictly less education. Research is centralizing to the most elite institutions, or going abroad. There was a government shutdown in 2013 that literally cut off the flow of already awarded NSF funding into academic coffers.

Meanwhile, Canada considers $10k/year for tuition to be expensive, and hasn't cut everything to the bone. Australia and New Zealand are similar. Parts of Continental Europe have dirt-cheap degree programs (on the order of $5k/year, even for foreigners), some of which are conducted in English, and others of which require you to speak the language.

If you do take a high-quality degree abroad, you can either subsequently apply for a work permit and enjoy better basic labor provisions than you'd usually get in the United States (cheap health-care and lengthy vacations as defaults), or come back to work at a high-paying American job if you can get one. It's a more diversified portfolio, you could say.

This has gotten to be a serious rot, like mushrooms growing out of a dead tree. The USA has gotten too used to importing its STEM professionals by brain-draining countries who seriously invest in education, and itself radically under-investigating in both STEM professionals and skilled tradespeople. You can't run a First World economy on nothing but low-level laborers, asset managers, and business owners.

I mean, sure, if someone has to do the real work but nobody does the real education, that probably means that us personally who got educated and trained in the "good old days" will have more bargaining power for salaries, but we'll also face a "hole" in the labor market of suitable juniors to train.
> release happens

Release of what?
It's also the case that often there aren't spaces between words. One of the surprising things when you first start doing audio analysis is that the pauses between words that you perceive aren't actually there in reality -- which makes them a lot more difficult to 'remove' algorithmically.
That is probably why you don't own WSJ.
So that's why there is no gravity over there?

Seriously though, the statement is ignorant at best. Please help me understand the point of posting it?
Weaveup is hiring (Remote Ok)
Why not have the passenger be the one in the driver's seat ready to take over in an emergency?
Don't see the point of this article. There are accounting mechanisms that allow to activate money put into IT infrastructure as an asset in the balance sheet, at least in my cold and dark part of the world.

Some IT expenses are indeed cost centres and should be just deducted from the profits immediately.

However, other "IT expenses", like creating "back office cost reduction software" and generally IT infrastructure are no different than acquiring some fancy machinery that enhances an industrial process. This also applies to companies whose main revenue model is building software and cloud services.
If you're behind a corporate firewall (and want to be mitm-ed by it), you should install their root CA instead of adding an exception for the invalid certificate.
This happened days ago. The price of ether was going no where for some time, only in the last few days as the uptrend started.
> I'm also anticipating the rise of spam 3.0. Spam 3.0 will be fully automated and AI-powered, with AI being used to create an individual "persuasive agent" for each human target.

This already happens.

The other day I was exploring internet ads; I clicked on every one I saw to see where it would lead me. At one point I ended up on a dating website.

All of the profiles were good looking Asian ladies. Creating an account was free but messaging users cost you points. You have 15 free points so you can messages ladies but after that, you need to pay for points.

Problem is, all of those women were robots. Very good quality chatbots, you wouldn't know unless you were tech-savvy. (I pasted them each other messages and they broke) They use emotional manipulation in order to pressure you to answer. At first, it was simply "Hi!" but it quickly turned into "Please answer me you beautiful man" and then "I'm looking for a man like you in my bed".

You need to pay to answer, but also to do things such as change profile picture, post a message on a public profile, etc. The bots pressured you into doing those things.

In short, this means that there are already people using "AI" that pass Turing tests good enough to fool people in order to manipulate them into giving out their money.
Sony is becoming the new Yugo (as in cheaply-made Zastava Koral car). And, by the way, your statement chain is right on; nicely done!

[I'll disclose that I'm quite biased against Sony. In fact, where possible, I avoid purchasing any Sony product at all...and it all goes back to the Sony rootkit scandal of early 2000s. I don't hold a grudge too often...but in this case, I still don't trust (nor wish to purchase anything from) Sony.]
Agreed, I never use list comprehensions in Haskell. I feel like they're almost always harder to read.
"The root of the issue is ... capitalism"

FTFY. The structural issues mentioned in the original article are inherent in a free market economy. Democratic deployment of capital and technology would change the dynamic substantially.

An alternate approach would be to have substantial regulation on speech by companies (aka advertising and propaganda), but even this would require major changes driven by the democratic process, e.g a U.S. constitutional amendment.
was there a showdown with experts rating each company? I get that Google has a much better PR machine
They probably point out because Karnataka state elections are due to be held in a few months. And this isn't the first time this government (or any government for that matter) has launched popular schemes so close to the election.
Uber strikes deal with Volvo to bring self driving cars to its network
Interesting. Are there any other words in the English language with two contradicting definitions?
Had the same thought. :) I wonder if anyone has done a challenge using that game which has simpler inputs I believe?
> Choice is such a messy thing to dive deep into, because then you realize that nobody knows what it means to choose.

Actually, I think I do know what it means, but I have the feeling that many people do not like the idea, that their decisions are based on past experiences and that their free will is actually just the evaluation of their perceptions (of their truth) and therefore, it is nothing that comes from some spritual origin within them, but instead is something that happend to them.

While it feels a little incomfortable at first, it explains a lot of human behavior as for example the impact of advertiments. The important part is to also understand that it does not free you from your own responsibility as the fact that you have beeen tought ethics is also part of the evaluation.
HOSTS file to block all known NSA/CIA/FBI spying servers
On the rare occasion that I can just sit and listen I'll use anywhere from 1.7x-2.2x. More commonly when I'm driving I rarely got above 1.2x. I just can't retain anything if I go faster while driving.

I hadn't heard of the silence skipping feature but just checked and my player of choice (Podcast Addict) has it. Just turned it on so I'll see how that goes.
Can I overload the tracking filter with, say, easylist[1]?

[1] https://easylist.to
Faster Angular Applications. Pure Pipes, Pure Functions and Memoization
I do an exercise where I'll visualize geometries. Starting with a point, then a line, then a triangle, a square, a tetrahedron, and so on. At each stage once you really have control over it (you're able to translate/scale/rotate your visualization) add another point to the object.
I thought it was crushed _coral_, not rock?
That raises interesting questions -- how much free will does an addict have? Are those who exploit an addiction for profit complicit in that addiction?
I'm curious why this is getting downvoted without any response. You may not agree 100% but it's an interesting perspective nonetheless and certainly warrants a rebuttal instead of simply being hidden.
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After 15 Years in a Vegetative State, Nerve Stimulation Restores Consciousness
> danjoc 39 minutes ago | undown | parent | flag | favorite | on: Our NIPS 2017 “Learning to Run” Approach

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#cite_ref-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#cite_ref-...

Equally relevant, which is to say not relevant at all.
Honest advice: find a local community or a chat group for this.

What you want is not discussed on forums, this kind of stuff is gained by experience usually and is kind of the meat of peoples' pay checks.
I watch/listen at 1.25x-1.5x for some Vlogs and Youtube videos because the pacing is just too slow. A lot of Youtubers and Podcasters just drone on and on, or speak at a very slow pace, that I just lose interest. When pacing is done right, its actually fun to watch/listen to, and there is always something interesting, and I find it enjoyable to watch at 1x. The scene/topic/point/illustrations switch quickly to the next one, and the story moves forward without wasting precious time. One example of good pacing is Casey Neistat's vlog. Unfortunately, most Youtubers just don't.
So, uh, factoids collectively were the fake news of their day?
I really did mean to say OOP - I have been attempting a real project in Go and I'm smitten.

Still, even Go has a prescribed way of approaching problems; as unusually broad as it is for a statically typed language. As a very relevant example, there is far more syntactical overhead in Go if you wish to fake FP (e.g. `func Foo(a A) func(b) func(c) func(d) e` to allow currying); where-as in JavaScript you simply bind or apply.

I've yet to see an article gushing over how natural functional is in Go (which is fine, Go isn't designed for that). This must be the 20th article I've seen on HN about functional in JavaScript.
Whether you go in to debt or not is about how much money you start with. ;-)
From their perspective, you are doing work for them, for free. What you just described is a benefit you receive (or more accurately, perceive) but ultimately cost them essentially $0.00 to provide.
We almost have that. VIA Rail operates "The Canadian" line that runs Vancouver-Edmonton-Saskatoon-Winnipeg-Toronto, as well as a line that runs up the ON/QC corridor from Windsor-Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City.

I can't speak for the latter, but we took the Canadian from Vancouver-Winnipeg for a family reunion a few years back. It was a great trip, except for the 6h delay sitting just outside Winnipeg due to backed up freight traffic (I believe VIA leases access to most of the track, and has to yield to any freight trains) that meant we were getting off the train and had to find a hotel at midnight, instead of getting picked up by family at a reasonable hour.
I also noticed that. I tend to buy the heirloom perennial artichokes which have a shorter season than the continuously planted annual varieties. Also, saw asparagus which even near the bay area I don't think is in season, most of it seems to be from Mexico.
Lots!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
Vaadin is built on GWT and seems quite alive. https://vaadin.com/
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Tesla’s fate still hinges on the Model 3
Media has always been a way to manipulate people. What’s different ? People love to reinforce their own beliefs on the world and what they read. They will select what to read and what to ignore. People read newspapers and would believe the things that appeal to them.
> The decline of Perl's mindshare for new domains was totally separate from "sigils".

When you quoted someone saying "how Perl managed to become quite so profoundly disliked" and said "the conspicuous reasons seem to be a combination of: 1) PERL's usage of sigils," I took that to mean you were saying that sigils were a major reason that Perl isn't well-liked by as many people anymore. I'm sorry if that was a misunderstanding.

> Because special non-obvious symbols that "don't explain themselves" are perceived as terse.

The Merriam-Webster definition of 'terse' is 'using few words: devoid of superfluity.' It is not a synonym for noisy. 'my @list' is terser than 'List<T> list,' but both are wordier than better-liked-than-Perl languages like Python, Ruby, and Javascript, which is where Perl's mindshare went (I've been taking that last part as a given). I'm not claiming Perl isn't terse, I'm just saying that it was nonsensical to say that 'PERL's usage of sigils [...] makes code compact and terse.' Compared to C#, sure, but Perl was never competing with C#, and most of the mindshare it used to have didn't go to C#, so it's not really relevant. If the extra terseness (not noisiness) afforded by using sigils was a major reason for Perl's unpopularity, then Python, Ruby, and Javascript's popularity is very strange.

print while (<>);

Is definitely terser than

for line in fileinput.input():
print(line)

But you'll notice there aren't even any sigils in the Perl version.

Sigils being ugly and Perl being too terse might both be problems it has, but they're different issues.
" so I started doing 1.5x and 1.7x up to 2x. What's amazing is how quickly you adapt..."

Listen to folks using screen readers reading off menus and navigation and such. Those users adapt to stuff going much much faster than 2x!
This is an insightful comment and I can't understand the down-votes.
In London there are adverts on the steps I walk up on the underground. The busker spots are "sponsored". It's like the Clockwork Orange "aversion therapy" in terms of making you watch. I'm very aware of what the media is doing but it has to get through on some level. Much of advertising is telling you that you are incomplete and product x will complete you / cement friendships etc. Of course that is crap, but even just being told the first part has to have an effect.
> The "cost centre" concept is so silly, and it only ever seems to be applied to the IT department

That isn't true, and this comment is weirdly defensive. HR and accounting are considered cost centers too.
One of my siblings is quoted in this article, and most people in his life are annoyed both at how much time he spends listening to podcasts (even at hyper-speed) and how much he talks about them.

I don't have a problem with listening quickly, it's the very long list of podcasts that suggests misguided focus.
I can easily see insurance companies being convinced of that a lot sooner. Why, you might ask?

An "auto" will have less incidence of wrecks and drive provably safer. And the "auto" will also record everything as proof, so if there is a wreck involved, it's a simple "download and review the footage". Guilt is now easy to prove as well as trivial to exonerate.

And all of those things will bring the cost of insurance down for the insurance companies. And many of them will then lower their rates appropriately given very high standard of proof they provide.

After all, insurance is heavily based in the sciences and mathematics. If they weren't, insurance companies wouldn't last very long at all.

Now, I have no clue on how to get politicians to understand science. I'm not sure if that's even possible, as science can easily go against an ideology - and thusly their political stance.
You may have made a mistake linking to this page for Rust; as the URL says, it's a backup: the only ones that exist today are *, &, and ', and the former work the same way they do in other systems languages. (With the exception that & is borrow checked but like, it's a pointer inside, same exact deal.)

We in fact removed these sigils from Rust because user feedback was extremely negative about them, and ' still gets a lot of complaints. Nobody has come up with something better though.
Is quantopian a viable platform or are you just going to food for the bigger fish in the pond?
Yao's Millionaires' Problem
> considered by many

It's the first definition in the dictionary.
For Rust, yes, you're right. That's why the ! exists in the invocation, the parser can skip over the stuff after it and it's fine.
If you can't generate positive user perception, at least you can buy it. I'm glad this is happening, but it's hard to see it as a fulfillment of the company's mission rather than a cheap ploy to get some positive media attention.
i've noticed that, whenever an adult enters the picture,
hobbes turns from a bundle of energy into a paper tiger.
Another short, important paper:

E. W. Dijkstra, “Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control,” Commun. ACM, vol. 8, no. 9, p. 569, Sep. 1965.

Just one page, no references (understandable, since it is one of the very first papers on concurrent algorithms), proposes a mechanism for mutual exclusion between N processes.
>When you are first building your platform or product, you need to focus on a couple of things: The technology, putting together a great team, user acquisition and gaining traction, and hopefully earning revenue as well.

>Once you have all four of these things, you will be in a much better negotiating position when it’s time to talk to investors about raising a round of funding.

until of course seeing your product, revenue and traction would only worsen the impression :) Watching how some acquaintances have been showered with money (investors have been borderline begging to get in, and they were right - one is already a unicorn in just a few years with strong revenue and pile of cash in bank) just upon starting i can't even imagine how a better deal is possible :)

Though it is B2B where to make a Fortune 500 sale in the 1st/2nd year, you have to start selling well in advance, just from the get go, well before MVP(if MVP even makes sense at all, instead there is POC)and you can't do that on a shoestring budget. Development too must be scaled pretty quickly to be able to deliver of what was already sold. There is no time to find a business model, for market exploration, etc. typical B2C startup staff. The people here come with experience, they know the field, know what they want to do.
Would this mean that the "driver" seat is an open seat (intentionally leaving the accessible the controls)? This seems interesting, but legally would this be problematic? Who is at fault when the malfunctions and the user tries to help yet the accidental is most likely unavoidable given the disconnect between being the driver and being the stand-by driver? I would think that your reflexes and lack of actually controlling the car would be harmful to reaction time.
Any bets on the next sharks they'll jump?

- Uber phone OS

- Uber IoT platform for cities

- Uber edge computing on smart cars