skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculous (not the article; the treatment she received)!

I'm a bit surprised no one has mentioned here the thought of passing every message through a sentiment analysis system. This seems like a perfect application for that.

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What kind of development could have occurred under 40 years under a Tsar? Remember, it was the actual workers who made all of that progress - presumably they would have done even better had most of them not been starved.
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US = corporations. Look at the war on fake news. This started from politics. Now the corporations are scrambling to implement it. It doesn't matter how many alternatives to App store US has, they will all implement it. And obviously, if a US court decides a video needs to be blocked, it will be blocked by all corporations (likely it will be blocked globally), without making the news. It's only news if it's Russia.
You are suckered by PR if you believe FB or any other corporation has any other principles apart from making money.
I was going to say that my local Fleet Farm carries it: https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/-dmso-dimethyl-sulfoxide-ge...
It's literally the first link in the first words of the first sentence of the article. And in this case you'd miss the commentary by experts in the field who were not on the paper, including Mason Porter, Steve Strogatz, and others. Klarreich is one the few respectable science writers and adds concrete value in her writing.
Yeah, I do the same - I plugged in Postfix, Dovecot and SpamAssassin and haven't had to touch it other than occasionally confirming backup scripts and automatic security updates are working.
Please don't be nasty. If you disagree with OP's idea, that's great. Just don't call OP or the idea pathetic. There's nothing wrong with the idea of getting paid for one's work. Let the market decide--it's ultimately smarter than you (or me).
This result is explained by Hsu in a recent talk at the Allen Institute.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386749
Your analogy fails because for most people facebook is not a "stranger" as they already have an account with them. In the case of acquaintances there is more of an onus to inform them if you wish to minimize your contact.
Started with Python + Django + MySQL, hosted on PythonAnywhere.

At some point, decided to rewrite the project from scratch in Clojure using MongoDB, since Clojure was much better suited for solving the problem in question (modelling the grammar of a natural language - https://www.pealim.com) and MongoDB was better suited for the constantly evolving grammar spec. The rewrite took around two months and I believe that it was the right decision, though I still miss some of the things that Django provides for free (like the admin interface and user authentication).

I also use ClojureScript + Reagent, though not yet on the user-facing parts of the app.
You can use gensym in common lisp to introduce a new symbol that is guaranteed not to exist already. If you do this your macros become hygienic. In my experience this isn't that big a burden. And sometimes you want to access existing symbols through your macros.
It’s an illustration, not an argument. The prior deletion of the logistics operation illustrates the company has been on the chopping block / raider mode for some time.
Not as uncommon as you might think!
Fascinating idea. I don't mean this in a bad way, but it fulfills the same role as prostitution - a basic need met with money.
> "oatmeal with fingerclips mixed in" (quoting Larry Wall)

I still chuckle at that quote and Larry Wall is great, but given the look of traditional Perl I wouldn't put much stock in Wall's language syntax aesthetic ;-)
Of course this is “commentary on the rightness or wrongness”: it’s the same old “I’m taking my toys and going home” we’ve been reading in the comments for every single story on EU regulation for decades. I remember people making it for Microsoft’s European antitrust troubles in the 90s.

The fact that no company ever did such a thing should be a clue as to the wisdom of a strategy based on one’s fragile nationalistic ego.
They really meant both -- the eventual victory of communism, and that they would help, with nukes if necessary, to achieve it.
It seems like you're of the opinion that it's our duty, as member's of society, to serve as people's parents after they've grown up. E.g. This guy is behaving poorly on the internet, therefore, it's my duty to punish him by whatever means necessary.

Don't worry about such people. They will reap what they sow in time.
Not a lawyer and I had to translate from Dutch, but the first legal encounter involved the Privacy Commission looking for interim measures. Facebook first lost, then won the appeal. This is (sort of?) the same case, but now they're looking for a final judgment on the merits of the case.

The current process started a couple of months ago:
https://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.3080677
True, but.

sum(1,2,sum(3,4))

isn't a list. so sum() isn't a list member and things passed to it aren't list either.

Lisp code is more consistent.
The stock placed in online reviews is delusional.
> I think this gets at Wirth's law a bit.

I think Proebsting's law is also relevant. Compilers did an impressive job of optimization in the 90s, and while yes there have been advancements in the last 18 years, it's foolish to over-estimate the progress.

Also, considering how much hardware changes have improved performance (speculative execution, register renaming, etc...), it wouldn't surprise me if many compiler optimizations have become less important with time. For instance, peep-hole instruction scheduling has to matter less than it once did.
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Sometimes a bad idea is just called a bad idea.

Sometimes a terrible idea is just called a terrible idea.

and sometimes a pathetic idea is just called a pathetic idea.
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You think he should build it for free? How is he supposed to pay his bills or eat while he's making it? Profit is not necessarily a dirty word.
that's like 3 hours a day. this comment took like 1/18th of that.
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I am genuinely curious what you mean by this. Why do you view James Damore-types as sexist and/or racist?
Until gmail/outlook/yahoo start silently blocking a percentage of your emails for some obscure reason. It’s really hard to get self hosted email right - it is very user hostile.
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Yes. Talking with professor in front of you, and trying to pull everything out of my head is the hardest part. There I just don’t have enoigh time to sit down think about something and try to prove theorems on my own. And I’ve been on 2 faculties, more or less the same story on both. Forst had harder written test and assignments, second on which I’m currently has brutal oral part. I leave satisfied when i got the exam right, but the process of preparing it is fairly boring and fatiguing.
If you're lucky you just get chewed out. My wife used to work retail and in one store, you had to push credit cards, often to people who really should not have another one. If you failed to meet your quota you get a warning the first time and then fired the second time.
A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)
https://dna.land/ (New York Genome Center/Columbia University) has a height-model based upon genome data which you can just plug your 23andme data into.

(You can also give them your actual height so they can improve their data set)
> I see no reason what you just gave isnt isomorphic to

> sum(1,2,sum(3,4))

> Which is not "code as data"

Says who? In Prolog it would be. Whether or not some syntax is a data structure literal depends entirely on the syntax of your language. Your example is isomorphic if you make the corresponding change to your language's data structure literals.
Nah, because most paywalls I've experienced are sidestepped by some combination of:

- disabling JavaScript for the page

- opening in an incognito window

- saving the article to a read it later service like Instapaper

(The fact that most paywalls are implemented strangely is a whole other topic.)
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Reminded me of Tokyo Breakfast. :D
It's even deeper than that. It's not just how code is handled in a von Neumann architecture, it's how code is created.

Data is just a sequence of bytes. Source code is also just a sequence of bytes - it's just a data file with a particular structure and intent. And then an executable is just a sequence of bytes - it's another data file, though on Unix it's one with the executable permission set. A compiler reads in a data file and writes a data file - they just happen to be source code and executable programs, respectively.

(Now, when Lisp people say "code is data", they mean much more than compile time. For other languages, that is less true, other than self-modifying code...)
It feels rather like we have too much software.
(redacted). But still disagree this is not what the underlying study is concluding
Most Java compilers are quick because they compile down bytecode, leaving virtually all optimization to the JIT.

AOT Java compilers certainly exist, but I don't recall Microsoft having one -- I fully admit my recollection of their Java dev environment is quite foggy at this point, though.

Regardless, the Java AOT compilers I've tried didn't seem particularly fast in relation to their level of optimization.
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I totally agree with you, but I feel like with math theory there is always good chunk of knowledge that needs to be somehow inserted in your memory as is. That’s the most irritating part for me personally. If i find a way to overcome it or make it more accessible, I think I will enjoy math theory much much more. :)
Is there anything like CLIM available for JavaScript? My time playing with McCLIM years ago made an impact. I've made things inspired by it over the years, but nothing close to the framework itself.
I would encourage going one step further, and finding a repository for the data outside of the journal. Journals can be terrible at keeping supplementary files around, and I have people email asking for the supplementary data after a website redesign, or similar. Journals also sometimes do weird things like convert moderate size tables to PDF (making them nearly useless), and it's not clear what's happening when you're submitting the article always.

The other advantage of a repository is that it gets included in large data collections, and is in a standardized format.

Often it's a lot of work to upload to repositories, nearly as much as the analysis (if you have a good analysis pipeline), but is well worth it both for oneself and for the community.
> I'll fire anyone on the spot who expresses bigoted views

Ironically that is technically a bigoted view.
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Performance tuning – Matt Godbolt
The DOM is accessible from WASM, Javascript functions can be imported and called just like regular functions.

In fact, that's also currently the only way to access other APIs like WebGL from WASM.
It's the GNU way:

1. Refuse to do something properly because it will make it too easy... or something.

2. Wait until someone else gets fed up enough and makes a better version.

3. Fade into irrelevance.

See: GCC/Clang, glibc/musl, Bash/??? (someone please make something sane)
When I was at BN around 7 years ago or so, we were experimenting with this capability on the site, and we had some processes like 1) rules around allowing no competitive sales ads and 2) if the probability of purchase calced by a set of models was higher than the estimated ad revenue, we supressed ads. This worked really well, in that "browsers" who tended to visit and not buy on the site (and who, based on models combining digital and loyalty card data, were not expected to go to a store) might see ads (non-competitive, so no other booksellers, for example) and every visit, even non-purchasers, had some chance of revenue on the visit.

Obviously, we knew that many visits are shopping visits on the journey to buy in a later visit or at store, so the models needed maturing, but the concept had legs.

But as BN looked to add 3rd party sellers of the same products they offered in store and on site (ala amazon, ebay, etc.) and with the myriad leadership changes, clearly they went away from our original approach... And you wind up with this comment's experience.
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I blame both. I never said I only blame Facebook.
Different learning styles are appropriate for different learners, stages of learning, and lesson types. What's important is that you found a learning style that works for you and that you can build on.
CNBC investigates company changed name to Riot Blockchain and its shares rocket
No code in paper, correct. Very easy to implement via R or python. One of the authors (Gustavo de los Campos) has alot of code that could probably be coped/pasted with little editing from his website.

Algorithm is actually painfully simple. Just relying on massive data (500K individuals)
> they have to respect a ruling from a US judge

It's not the US, it's the EU, and it's not a ruling from a judge, it's an agreement directly with Getty.

http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-files-competition-...

http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-and-google-announc...
Not sure if the internet freedom bill was written maliciously, or with a "one problem at a time" approach. I would have loved for there to be a proposal to replace title 2 with something better, but maybe Ajit Pai knew straight up removing it would be more popular with the Republicans interests.

I believe the "violations" people cite are very blown up, example being Comcast blocking bit torrent, they worked with bit torrent and made their service much more efficient, win win for everyone.

That being said I do not trust big cable companies, and that's why I don't share the "The free market will take care of itself" approach some republicans seem to have, which ignores there is no competition in some areas to begin with. I'm pro net neutrality, and am hoping some future law can ensure this without being inherently suffocating for ISPs.
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So what? It's not Microsoft's job to maintain the OS, it's the user's job.
I don't think that he should build that, period. It is an abomination of an idea.

Just like the "professional huggers" which he mentions. You can't purchase human affection.
I think maybe "coming to the mainstream" fits better. I too saw it in Ada in school, and of course Haskell and friends have had them for ages.

There does seem to be recent trend of popular, highly visible languages that are adding the feature though. I think the biggest thing though is really that the pattern matching syntax that makes them so easy to use is becoming more common.

You can have Sum types without pattern matching, and vice versa, but it seems to be much more common now to expect any new language to include pattern matching.
They don't grill me for PII, and that is at least a part of why they have an easier time getting it. The local bookstore put out a sign up sheet collecting email addresses, with a little blurb at the top saying what it was for. Nobody ever mentioned it, but after a couple trips of looking at and reading it, I just threw it down on a whim. By contrast, the sense of being actively pressured for my contact info at major retailers just makes me dig my heels in on the subject.

I actually don't think finding a book is harder, either. If I know what I want, I just walk up to the counter and ask. If it's in stock, I go grab it. If it's not, they order it, tell me it'll arrive within a month, and I swing back buy to pick it up it about 2 days later. If I don't know what I want, the staff recommendation slips most independent bookstores put out are great, especially now that I've gone enough times to know which staff members share my reading tastes. And have led me to many, many more delightful books and authors I wouldn't have tried otherwise than Amazon's sad attempts at getting something useful out of collaborative filtering. ("You liked Pride and Prejudice? Well, how about... Sense and Sensibility!! Ta-daaaa, isn't AI amazing!?")
Those prices seem comical. Rudin passed nearly 8 years ago. Who is this benefiting? America is off its rocker.

Google the title + PDF
Waymo is readying a ride-hailing service that could directly compete with Uber
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TFA does that.
Sure; I'm not calling this article out in particular, just bemoaning the general state of science in journalism and that they generally bury the original paper so far down the page.
No.

Here's the problem with paying for social things: I already feel like nobody ever treats me like a human being unless money is involved. The only time anyone smiles at me is if they're chasing a tip. The only time anyone speaks to me is if they need something or are getting paid for it. And that hurts.

So, using your service would hurt emotionally. That's kind of a tough sell.
No, not even close. Comically uninformed take right here
You guys are reporting deliverability success precisely because you've (like me) been doing it for decades. The gmail filters know that your IP and sender domain are kosher. However if you were to set up a new domain and new server today the filters would default to "spammer" for your status.

Remember that the spam filters are aiming for "deliver no spam" rather than "deliver all legitimate email, but no spam" so your new server's messages being delivered helps the bonus prospects of nobody at Google.
US diplomats in Cuba have unusual brain syndrome,but no proof they were attacked
Then their competitors will and steal their market share via lower prices.
> Hose would argue with the http protocol and standard then.

Which part of any version of the http protocol spec covers this?
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No, it's equally consistent. In lisp, everything is a list. In the example I just gave, everything is a scalar.

Like I said, this is a very bad justification for lisp.
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WASM can already be debugged with the browser-integrated debuggers, source maps can map back to the original files.
> Unlike the Internet, when a break-and-mortar fails it's not easy for a competitor to break into the space and scoop up their market share.

Also, in this space, there's a competitor that's on it's way to a monopoly. if B&N goes belly-up, I'm not even sure where I could buy books besides Amazon.
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A very secure solution is building your own box to run OpenBSD. There are some good guides on how to set up OpenBSD as a typical NAT router / firewall here: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

I like PF a lot more than IPTables. I've found it to be far simpler to configure.
Writing essays by formula teaches students how to not think
I figure the board must be getting their pockets lined as the CEO guts the company as fast as possible. It's going to be sad but completely predictable when Sears goes under.
Selective in vitro fertilization has been around for at least a decade now, where you select fertilized eggs based on genetic markers.

It's not direct genetic engineering yet, but we're pretty much already in Gattaca.
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I'm willing to bet that a course in post-secondary school is the context for the vast vast majority of people studying mathematics.
It can be impossible to determining intent in some cases but that has not stopped law writers and politicians from defining intent and guilt in the absent.

The pirate bay case was actually a such example. The law that the judges cited in the case was based on the concept that if the majority usage of a tool is illegal then the owner of said tool can be held as an accomplish. The background text of that law was biker bars. The politicians wanted a way to confiscate the buildings, so they created the law. No intent needed of the owner, only establishing that the primary usage of the "tool" illegal and there you go. If you had a gun shop and the primary customers you got was murderers you could in theory be charged with assistance of murder in each case that the police can guess is likely to have happened. The pirate bay case also established that someone can be charged with with assistance even if the "original case" has not been proven.

Not saying any of that is good. The law is ugly, inconsistent and full of subjective aspects.
All mathematics gets applied sooner or later, no?
I generally agree with your appraisal here, but it is worth it to note that although those sorts of comments are usually pushed to the bottom of the discussion, they are almost always there on every thread where these sorts of issues are raised. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that a significant portion of the tech worlds holds those sorts of beliefs; there are probably even more people who would post things like that, but don't because they know they'll just get downvoted.
I cannot stress the importance of working problems yourself enough. There is literately no substitute.
Facebook tracks you even without an account.
But what if this other person is on the company's payroll, and is/acts really cool? And perhaps they are being rated by other users, so you'd know in advance?

EDIT: removed some ambiguity in wording.
This used to work for me but lately, way too much spam. Looking to install rspamd but have not succeeded yet.
I'm not crazy about the current state of internet privacy, but I think it's a missed opportunity if we don't teach the general public just how much control they have over it. Most tracking being done can be prevented by a few modifications to web browser configuration. At the end of the day, we are sending Facebook our ID to be tracked. This is avoidable for a user with some knowledge and agency.
Well, then Nazis also made some progress in science and industry, but surely you would not defend them.

Bersides, a lot of that industrial progress ewas built by Americans anyway, with USSR, at best, supplying slave labor.
Trolling behavior is generally against the rules of these sites. Often, it's actually a crime. If someone is harassing or threatening someone, just report them to the actual authority that will hold them accountable. If they don't do their jobs, by all means start calling their bosses, take the issue to twitter, write your Congressperson, etc.
Why? Who cares? Shouldn't we be optimizing towards everyone having at least the chance to do the thing they like for a living, or something along those lines?
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Western society's concept of justice is largely focused on punitive retribution. A transformation to restorative action is needed here.
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Well but that's my point. The given example doesn't take advantage of any code as data features. It's entirely user transparent whether code is data or not.

As a motivating example for why one should use lisp, or what lisp brings to the table, it's very poor, because it is wholly unmotivating and doesn't appear to demonstrate anything unique.
It’s sad to see that the top-voted comment is one of those bemoaning general uncivilized behavior, when the story convincingly shows that we’ve created a world where women’s lives are made impossibly difficult, and men are treated with respect.
Or they can just say "try and sue us, we'll be in bankruptcy before you get the papers filed anyway".
Are those laws not applicable to their own domestic companies? Or are you saying the laws themselves are hostile to any business?