skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the simplest example I can come up with, and it's something I do all the time.

I have an array of objects in my state. For this example we'll say they are Todos, and each one has three properties, id, name, and checked. I have a function `checkTodo` with the signature `checkTodo(id: string, event: InputEvent)` that I want to call if one of those Todos is checked.

So say I'm using React. I can use arrow functions like this:

todos.map((todo) =>
<input type="checkbox" onChange={ (event) => checkTodo(todo.id, event) } checked={ todo.checked } />
<label>{ todo.name }
)

That's okay, but having arrow functions like that in JSX (which you'll have several of in a complex application) can get a bit unwieldy. Currying gives us another option that can be cleaner and avoids having to declare functions inside our render. If we change our method signature to this: `checkTodo = (id: string) => (event: InputEvent)` then we can write our JSX like this:

todos.map((todo) =>
<input type="checkbox" onChange={ checkTodo(todo.id) } checked={ todo.checked } /><label>{ todo.name }
)

It's a bit cleaner, and can make certain patterns a lot easier in the long run. For example, say we make a shared <Todo /> component like the one above which can be rendered both in a list, as above, or on it's own. In that case, it would be bad for the method signature that the Todo component expects to be the id and event, as the id wouldn't be necessary when we're not working with an array.

Instead, currying means our Todo component can simply expect a function that takes in an InputEvent, and currying can move the other logic where it's needed.

Does that make sense? If you don't know React I could rewrite this using native DOM calls.
On a trip to coastal Alaska some years back, I saw a small launch packed shoulder-to-shoulder with cheerless, unprosperous looking people, motoring along the shoreline -- but away from the harbor. A local explained that these were cruise ship workers out for a sightseeing tour, a perk of their jobs. The boat would however never land on shore, because the workers had no visas. And might perhaps try to escape.

"Supposedly Fun" brought that moment back for me in a rush. Wallace could not feel at ease being "pampered" by workers themselves forced to maintain a facade of permanent delight. Such a feeling could only make alien to him most of his fellow passengers. Unlike them, he had to see the workers as complete human beings coequal with himself every way, except for what opportunity the world had denied them. With such empathy, he joins Dickens, Melville, Orwell -- and in other ways as well, Hunter S. Thompson.

So yes, DFW chooses sides, and his contempt for callous, oblivious passengers shows. But the real vitriol he reserves for interviewees in the management class, none of whom will give a straight answer to his plain questions about the crew's welfare. A certain whip-wielder in the officer's quarters -- "I wish him ill".

And best of all, the Press Liaison at corporate who tells him "The people on board -- the staff -- are really part of one big family..." To which DFW responds: "...the preterite staff lived in mortal terror..." (footnote 13)
An infinite spacefiller that produces a flood of wikipedias in a simulation will simply trigger out-of-memory exceptions, silly.
I’d be interested in everyone else’s opinion about the odds that Bitcoin becomes an asset class to rival gold (say at least $2T market cap vs the $8T gold currently is). Right now I’m guessing 20%. Those odds still make the current price a positive expected value (since the 1/5 future has such a handsome payoff), but with a 4/5 chance of failure it wouldn’t be very smart to do this with more than a few percent of net worth. Thoughts?
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His point is that in general, the patronage model doesn't really help the majority of creatives, and doesn't really work to create a small business model of creative work. It's just a few people making a modest living, and a lot of people who are just really making patreon rich in aggregate.

We're going to have to deal with the devaluing of creative work somehow, or eventually people will just stop.
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Right now it looks like they don't, but if the city wanted to it could. I visited seoul last year and one of the coolest things for me was that in most of the city they had a small yellow rubber path along most all sidewalks, roads, and metro stations; the path had several small ridges which ran parallel to the path.

At first my partner and I had no idea why these were here until we were taking a walk on Namsan mountain and saw some blind folk strolling freely along the roads using the path to navigate with their walking sticks. It was incredible once we realized the extent of this network and how much freedom it added for those with vision problems. Still not sure if that is why the paths were there but their use by citizens was clear.

I dont know if it would help in a free-for-all space like this, but cities could help their citizens with disabilities better.
Truth in headlines:

Apple is close to to acquishuttering Shazam, say friends of Shazam founders to shake the bushes for a bidding war.
This is fantastic, and as it should be everywhere.
Finance/trading does the same.
The loophole that allows the wealthy to avoid paying taxes usually has nothing to do with hiding money though. In the EU there is a lot of talk right now about companies like Apple avoiding taxes, if you buy an iPhone in France pretty much nothing of that sale goes to the French government, but it’s not that they are saying “no we won’t give you money”, it’s that the law allows their company to be setup in a way to avoid paying these taxes in France.

If anything Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are going to allow you to hide and transfer wealth even more. Yes Bitcoin isn’t truly anonymous, but it’s so much different to a traditional bank where you need to prove your identity and they actively report large transactions to the authorities.

And as for the taxes you mentioned, it’s pretty easy to avoid those too. If I live in Russia and I buy an iPhone in Europe I’ll have to pay VAT (consumption tax) of around 20%, but when I go back home, which is outside the EU, (home being where I am a tax resident, not necessarily where I live on a day to day basis) I can claim that 20% back. The same applies for visitors to the US.
Possibly also more demand for their labor, as more people are able to more freely express their needs.
If all you have is a hammer... Australia cities are dominated by cars, people can't imagine a world with them, even the cities are cars first. It is a joke.
I'm going to be a bit facetious here, please forgive me – are most machine learning frameworks run on desktop hardware at scale? If not, then, I kind of get why Apple creates a framework that doesn't work on their consumer devices.

I mean, do people complain that DeepMind doesn't run on a Chromebook?

I'm sorry but your argument seems totally misplaced. I'd love to hear a case for it though – Apple hardware is very powerful and does a lot, and I wish it did more – I'm sure we all do, but why are we letting that distract from them contributing to open source and releasing great tools?
One very important aspect of Clojure is lock-less, STM(software transactional memory) based concurrency that just works. In clojure, shared memory is readily available and with a few lines of code, you can get rid of entire third party projects typically used for in-memory caching, message-passing and background job processing. This is a huge win if you are writing long running server applications.
Do you mean 'Excel for solving machine learning problems' or do actually want to design ANN architectures with an Excel-like tool?

If the second case, have you ever done that task without it?

Because while there are pain points (eg, keeping track of the shape of your data) there seems to be a lot more critical problems to fix than that.
Ted Liew is always on-the-ball and challenging DC bozos. Props.
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On the contrary:

- Chapo Trap House, a podcaster, makes $88,074 a month
- Philip DeFranco, a commentator and YouTuber, has 13,823 patrons (amount kept secret)
- Nerd3, a gaming YouTuber, rakes in $8,003 per month
- 1,393 other members make at least $1,160 per month

These numbers are from the article itself, whose headline is "No one is making a living on Patreon." Normally I would be fine rounding "2%" to "no one." But I think it's astounding that so many people nowadays can make a living taping themselves playing video games, posting photographs of dried leaves online, writing a travel journal, or being a social commentator.

The focus of the article is on the social injustice of it being just 2%. It would be unjust if we deserved to make a living chasing our dreams. Before Patreon, people moved to New York or Los Angeles or Paris, worked low-paying, hard jobs while struggling for their big break into whatever. After a year or two, they ran out of money, headed back home, and settled into the best job they could find.

Was anyone's first choice to be a farmer, electrician, plumber, sewage worker, schoolteacher, nurse, or factory worker? If everyone knew they could get a livable wage from Patreon, who wouldn't sign up?
The fast.ai courses are designed for engineering people coming to ML. They are excellent.
> not to mention sending every single url you visit to google servers to check for malware or something. just like chrome. ...though I think that is now a local search recently.

Safe search/browsing has always been local.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing
Happens in St Petersburg Russia a lot. While there are road signs and markers, the only acknowledged rule of the road most of the time is "we go this direction on this side", and even that isnt always carefully followed.

Sometimes it's great and inow traffic times the flow is fine. Other times every intersection is an adventure to get through as cars pile into the middle hoping to get through. Lot of horns beeping and lots of swearing. Even worse if the traffic lights go out.

Maybe this works in certain conditions, but too many cars on the road just seems to cause chaos without something enforcing order.

(Many of the traffic jams are further complicated by Russian insurance policies when it comes to accidents in that you may compromise your version of the story if you move your vehicles before the police arrive. This means that an inconvenient accident in an intersection can stop traffic for a long ways until the police decide to arrive and write a report. )
I'm wrong actually. Just checked and it still works as before if you use the mic icon. That icon is now an extra tap away, however.
You can fix this:

Update feed processing language to English (AU) :
Seller Central > Settings > Account Info > Business Information > Language for feed processing report

https://sellercentral.amazon.com.au/sw/AccountInfo/FeedProce...
welcome to basic audio design practice in place for commercials and marketing for about 30 years. the approach hasn’t changed only it gets easier.
Technology is always a double edged sword. It's up to all of us to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.
Ur/Web doesn't redefine “correctness”, since, by definition, your program specification is the definition of what it means for your program to be “correct”. Ur/Web merely guarantees the absence of certain behaviors in programs written in it.
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they do have https://mt.amazon.com/
> What's the point of giving them a local monopoly if they are going to abuse it?

Exactly. We need to be rid of it.

> Your "basic econ 101" quip doesn't go very far to explain why it is that the governmental organizations which regulate these hospitals aren't, you know, regulating them to prevent such "basic econ 101" problems.

My quip was directed at gas prices exclusively.

I don't have an explanation as to why the government does what is does. It seems to me it does everything in its power to make things worse. That's why I'd like to see less government in this industry.

> Even when there is more than source of care and when there is plenty of time and the person is interesting in comparison shopping, in practice that is still difficult to do in the US.

This is true for some cases and false for others.

In the cases its true, I believe its at least partially due to the fact that these hospitals have huge amounts of market power. Whether thats monopolistic or oligopolistic market power I leave to your judgement. But it undoubtedly plays a part.
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...

In the cases its false: wellness, vision, dental, ENT. Practices are very upfront about their costs. Even though these might entail shooting lasers into a person's eyes or putting a person under general anesthesia.

Why is it that I can call any dental office in America and immediately get a quote on a procedure but I can't call one of the two hospitals in my area and get a single price on anything at all?

I ask that genuinely. Why the difference? There are areas of the healthcare industry where its trivial and areas where its impossible to know.
I really like Game Boy development - one nice thing is that its graphics hardware is more regular in comparison to e.g. the NES, and its sound hw is legendary. Also fun is the DS, which although being far newer still retains the tile-and-sprite graphics hardware. Flash cartridges are also plentiful.

It seems to be the season of homebrew - Tobu Tobu Girl is another Game Boy game on a physical cartridge to come out this month, with full source code (also using GBDK) http://tangramgames.dk/tobutobugirl/
I use "What's playing?"
It is funny, because this is the argument against most use of macros in lisp. To the point that everyone knows that macros make it harder to debug code.

The lost part, is few people actually "debug" in the "interactive debugger" sense of the word anymore, such that many things that were frowned upon in lisp and related languages are now getting a lot of exposure. And I feel it is truly sad how few people know how to step through a program nowdays. (Obviously projecting some. Maybe I'm in an odd corner where nobody uses an interactive debugger, but it has been a long time since I found coworkers that were used to using one. And, in this, I'm including REPL based workflows. Yes, I know they are strictly different. I just feel they are in the same family for this discussion.)
https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
Let's find an algorithm that can reliably detect this junk and turn it into a browser extension.
It seems much more likely based on what?
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http://coinmarketcap.com

Click a coin and it has all the info you need. Website, social, etc. Do some googling with the top 10-20 market cap coins to start and find some with ideas you like. Just stay away from Bitconnect.
As the population size increases so does the error-rate in stylometry. See the case of Andrej Holm.
This is a fantastic analogy. Since you've pointed out how alterable text mediums are, I'm now thinking of services which provide a ranking of accuracy for text publications. Off the top of my head, I can think of two metrics:
(1) The number of sources a publication cites, like a bibliography.
(2) The number of publications which refer back to a publication, like PageRank.
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I have perfect vision now but massive genetic risks for ARMD and glaucoma; when I get much older, blindness is likely without proper lifestyle and care. I’m fine with periodically going to optometrists who’s expertise will catch such issues. I can understand people whom have stable prescriptions not needing expertise all the time, but effectively decimating optometrists would be a horrible idea. As a diversification of risk, optometrists need to specialize and/or get side businesses because automation will incessantly nibble away at every profession and risk institutional wisdom that isn’t easily rebuilt.
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I disagree that it plays with perfect information, in that it is playing against a different version of itself. It can "discover" that it is playing with perfect information, i.e. learn strategies that are more effective against a clone of itself, but it first has to develop some "sense" that this is the actual case.. and throwing in some random stock fish opponents or opponents that are clones of itself, but cloned at different stages of thier learning process, would remove this "perfect information" caveat. Unless perfect information only applies to the state of the board.. in which case, perhaps a "fog of war" visibility algorithm could push that boundary.. but then your talking about self learning with a blindfold type scenario.
Wow. He must be a cool guy to work for because the guide doesnt cover the real issues students in applied sciences struggle with:

1) conflict of interest

2) your PI not killing a project

3) your PI making you do everything but graduate

4) visiting scholar becomes the first author on your paper (happens a lot)

5) we can't do the right thing because we dony have any money

6) I validated my hypothesis, god forbid we run a replicate. Or I have all the data I'm a going to get, how do I publish a paper with it?
Ask HN: Is there a source of intelligence on the US financial services industry?
I am looking to sell compliance software. A lead source that goes beyond contacts and delivers intelligence about key players would be great. Is there such a service?
That's a bit harsh... There are always some advances in technology that society needs to adapt to. This is inevitable - and no amount of regulation will help it. It is also not something bad, that's just the way it is and always was.
Why would you expect otherwise? If you're asking for some niche feature of course they'll blow you off. It isn't worth their resources developing features which only a small niche cares about.

Firefox is open source, so you could always put your money where your mouth is and write your own fork with the features you want if neither ff nor any of the other forks work for you.
Yeah. Our human chess heuristics are biased toward strategies that fit within a human working memory. Alphagos working memory is orders of magnitude larger.
All it will take is people to start focusing on creating "fake news" for it to start to appear.

From 1997, 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ix5IYz0cc
Some things I learned the hard way:

1. Keeping a good notebook means not having to repeat work because you can't remember what you did. Being unable to reproduce my own work was a massive handicap.

2. Your results "decay" over time. Even if nobody is counting your hours, the level of intensity required to overcome that rate of decay is intrinsic to the nature of the research itself.
I'm surprised they have blatantly named it ObamaNet. Will it not make them vulnerable to defamation or impersonation or some other legal violation? Is this kind of use of a person's name, face and voice legally allowed in US?
This has turned into an interesting question since some coins now are specifically designed to be resistant to ASICs. The downside for those coins is that botnets or general purpose hardware (that can be purchased or rented for an attack and then resold for other uses later) are a serious threat to the network. A potential benefit for Bitcoin is that the network may actually be more secure with custom ASICS because the people investing millions into developing the custom hardware stand to lose everything if they attack or seriously harm the network. That equipment would be useless for any other purpose, and that same dominating hardware makes the Bitcoin network immune to attack from general purpose hardware.
Great TED talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNMQ_w7hXTA
That'd be a plausible explanation if they didn't run the $10K discounts outside CARB states, which they did. There were no "compliance" benefits to offset any theoretical losses on those sales.
honestly, this paper seems to err on the side of too much (scary) numa details, and not enough on the simplicity of the idea itself i.e. 'only 1 thread for the data-structure'. having used it in fast-forwarding dataplane applications, the only thing that comes to mind is the high amount of discipline required for these kind of things. and humans seem to be quite bad at it.

immutable functional programming nerds may now gloat wisely ;)
>specs can be used at runtime as well.

What do you mean "as well"? I thought it was only a runtime check at all.
Sorry about that issue. We have been working on the migration from the Chrome app to the Electron based app for a while. The final set of changes in the runtime went through in v5.4 (collection level auth, variables, scripts etc.). Changes closer to the network layer will start trickling in through soon. It seems like a long time for a bug, but we have been releasing version updates almost every 2-3 weeks. :)
TDDwI is much more focused on more common programming problems than SF and using it like a general purpose language. Don't get me wrong, I love SF, but it might complement it, and be worth coming back to SF after TDDwI.
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If you have never watched Aaron Koblin's TED[0] talk about visualizing humanity with crowdsourced data I cannot recommend it enough.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin
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But was creative work ever supremely valued in the average case? Even the 'original' patrons, the kings / aristocrats didn't patronize hundreds or thousands of artists. They patronized a few good ones. I feel that the presence of some rock star musicians / YouTubers / whatever sends the wrong message that life as an artist is all hunky dory in the average case.
When I did the first pass at this architecture about 6 years ago, we had a few servers in a rack at a local datacenter as well as virtual servers at Rackspace and AWS.

Since then, I haven't shed the habit of designing for the general case (this is also known as avoiding vendor lock-in :)
Yep. This is a work in progress. Watch out for an announcement in early 2018 about these and other description formats and protocols. :)
Could you have mailed the SIM back to a friend in Japan?
Would you prefer only the Russian government had access to this technology? By making the technology publicly available we can all fully understand its power. It's mathematics, and mathematics cannot be suppressed no matter how much you want it to be.
There were programmable cartridges in the 90's but IIRC Nintendo sued them all out of business, even the ones from Hong Kong. Did Nintendo lose interest in them after they stopped releasing new cartridges on those platforms? I didn't keep up after we cancelled the cartridge project I was working on at the time.
I think they named it exactly this to highlight the possibility of malicious use for defamation/impersonation attacks. Plus if it was really used to say impersonate Obama, it'd be rightly referred by name in the news as "Obamanet", which to a layperson would sound like a smoking gun.

Lyrebird.ai similarly followed this approach as they realized their own technology could be used for nefarious purposes given the current political climate.
> Maybe Facebook is the wrong company to present this app

Of course it's wrong. Why would you continue giving more free data to this evil monopoly?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK2tcZbU8AA0Trn.jpg
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No need to be so dismissive. The abstract term "decentralized" hides a lot of the complexity in Bitcoin. It is also programmable money, irreversible money, geographically unbound money, fast money, and transparent money.