skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even better than Markdown is Org-mode: the latter can do everything the former can do, and has every advantage other than being massively hyper-popular, and it has many, many, many other features (definition lists, scheduling, time-tracking, task-management &c. &c. ad infinitum).

Yes, Markdown is an improvement over Word — and Org-mode is an improvement over Markdown (other than not being as popular).
asciidoc via asciidoctor (https://asciidoctor.org) covers a lot of this, though not bundled into a system. Comments/edits via something like GitHub, tables (https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#tables), tables of contents (https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#user-toc), and with some docbook work (admittedly annoying), you can get header/footer and page number (https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#docinfo-file).

It's not perfect, but it's very similar in concept to Markdown, has several adaptations to make the md->adoc transition easier, and is much more feature-rich, thanks to being based on Docbook (which is used for creating much more complicated documents than Markdown historically has been).
I'm with you on this. I'd like to see ML applied to compositions of single artist (MIDI files) to try and emulate his style. Then you could create a blend of Santana and Gilmour. Even better, model should also work in real-time to supplement live performance with virtual band members. Is anybody working on this?
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Seems like the publishers could relatively easily figure out whose credentials are being used by searching for presumably uncached files, which will then trigger an access to the file using the credentials Sci-Hub is using, no?

But I suppose it's no use since the authentication credentials to scientific portals aren't that exclusive anyway, so playing whack-a-mole would be pretty ineffective.
The GNAT compiler suffices for general programming in Ada though, so I'm not sure I understand your objection.

Also, Adacore is not the reason Ada didn't catch on. There were a lot of limitations in the standard library as of Ada95, because Ada focused so much on the embedded space. Because of this, some things that were easy in C/C++ were unnecessarily difficult in Ada.

Frankly, I think Rust achieves better ergonomics without Ada's verbosity, but Ada still has some great features that I wish were in other languages, like ranges.
> You don't need a seat there to use the extensive C++ ecosystem.

Thanks to GCC and Sun, and later Apple.

GCC was a toy compiler until Sun decided to start charging for their UNIX development SDK, which made many companies contribute to GCC's development.

Likewise if it wasn't for GPLv3, Apple would probably never bothered to create clang.

> With Adacore it's either GPLv3 all the way or you pay up

Actually I do have issues with people earning money with the work from others for free without contributing anything back.

GPLv3 is quite appealing for free software.

Want to earn money without contributing anything back? Use commercial licensed software.

> Also, to underline their gatekeeper status even more: they could one day decide to stop releasing their compiler to GNAT, without giving any reason, and there's nothing anyone could do about it.

There is always the very latest GPLv3 version, that everyone willing to contribute can carry on using.
Or one attacker with (intentionally) multiple intents.
You can't just link a random analogy without any provided mapping.

That analogy is not applicable. Google's profit taking is not the overall global nation state profit taking. It's just one company.

Whereas currently the money velocity is lower because it sits on Google's books, employing people will increase only increase it overall, and more in the case of people living in EU.
You can buy it from me, which is what venture capitalists do. You can buy it from me and use it as collateral against a loan provided by a bank. I don’t see anything wrong with this.
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This is all interesting to me. Probably around 40 years ago someone in management decided that certain people were winning the economic game because they were better (meritocracy) and then when we went through a series of technological disruptions we came upon a funny variant which I will attempt to paraphrase "those who are successful are the best at increasing their at-bats and therefore their opportunity to have 'lucky' events." This system seems OK, it selects on people who aren't afraid of failure, and that can't be bad. However, the new problem we have is a situation where there are basically monopolies whose heads still have the 'fail fast' mantra stuck in their heads....
The EU Parliament gets to edit all legislation. There are often thousands of amendments offered, debated, voted on, and approved or rejected.

Here is an example with 500 proposed amendments to draft legislation on cybersecurity: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/amendments.html?...

Click on the pdf icons to read the actual texts.

Please don’t spread falsehoods.
"An highly unequal society is not a healthy society."

That's the most important point. If people stop feeling that they have a part of growth in the economy they stop engaging and a country loses cohesion.
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You've missed the point and are throwing a false equivalence argument at me. It's not about what's bad or not bad, it's about a non-elected, unaccountable corporation deciding what (non-illegal) content to make vanish. Just because you think all cryptocurrency is a scam doesn't mean it is. My drug discussion example is another example of protecting people from themselves (in the same way you want to protect them from the cryptocurrency world because your personal feelings have directed you towards the word 'damaging').
Madoko combines LaTeX and Markdown, has git on the backend for diff tracking, and is built into a web frontend. http://madoko.org/reference.html
This is true, but the root of modern democracy has its birth in the same line of hard working and responsible way of living humbly.
What makes you think that often it boils down to intelligence and work ethic and the exceptions are inherited wealth. The law of averages is just as likely to support the idea that those who are born into high class families will stay high class as it is what you're proposing.
You might like Crystal https://crystal-lang.org
Are these the same jobs that have a history of inciting PTSD-like symptoms in minimum wage employees, jobs that the tech giants limit to 4 hours a day?

I'm not sure I can agree that this is a positive thing.
Would you recommend it compared to feedly?
It probably means he was hoping for a fun surprise, (Something like You're 10% Inca!), but didn't get one.

I did the same thing - my Ancestry test came back with a whole lot of "Western Europe" - even more than I expected, actually.
Epigenetics are fascinating. In my D&D headcanon, the reason Drow Elves are so obsessed with spiders is because they picture DNA as a three dimensional web whose spatial arrangement is central to gene expression.
I was only .111 in probability of a bot. So I was classified as probably not a bot. Of course I am not big on retweets or likes.
There's a fantastic update of the Weblocks framework going on: https://github.com/40ants/weblocks/blob/reblocks/docs/source... it's more or less like React, components based, but server-based. We don't write any JS, the framework does jsonp calls and updates the UI.

I tried it, it works fine, but still very alpha and moving. However, thinking about the possibility to write a SPA all in Lisp (no JS!), and then with easy deployments, executables, easy inclusion with Electron (Ceramic) is extremely exciting.
You contradict yourself. You say that "those who do make it are hard working and intelligent", while also acknowledging that there are people who "made it" who aren't "hard working and intelligent" (Scott Disick, Donald JR).
I like to keep it simple; if you have a sympathetic, wealthy father/mother--you will have to work pretty hard to screw up the lucky lottery ticket.
It would be more interesting to find something unexpected I would think.
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In the US, people say "no accent" to mean what the rest of the world calls an American Accent (even though American Accents change with region, just like any country). It's a very US-centric way of looking at things, but means no harm.

I've lived here in the US for 25 years and I notice the phrase every single time. :-)
While using Markdown everywhere is probably a misguided but well-meant effort, I think it can be more easily agreed that Word is damaging as it basically limits the user to Windows (or having to import to LibreOffice which seems to be doing better but still blows up on seemingly simple office files)

We should be trying to remove .docx and use more widely available standards that everyone can use, even if it's just LO's format.
>>> that Word will render it reasonably well.

You know MS products are pretty bad when the best one expects is that content cut from another owned product renders "reasonably well". We should expect, demand, that windows clipboard integrate perfectly with Word.
However, everyone still wants the hot girl and the jet.

I'd settle for decent healthcare and enough stable income to raise a family.

Should the group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society not have proportionally more say?

1) They haven't and 2) no. You appear to be advocating plutocracy.
The original emacs paper[0] noted that many of the users who started programming were secretaries who didn't know that they could. Learning how to truly use a computer is as important in the 21st century as learning to read was in the 19th: those who find emacs obtuse need to learn it just as certainly as those who found letters confusing.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC29
That wasn't my point. How can a post teach recurrent networks, if the "recurrent" part of it is redundant, and the network would work perfectly well without it?
Ugh, so close...

I've been working on translating a scanned PDF [1] back to Markdown, and I've stumbled on some issues:

* we're kinda targeting Github Flavored Markdown, but there's also an online version which uses Docsify, and some incompatibilities have tripped me up: hard line breaks, specifically.

* I've tried Mou and MacDown to edit, and the preview pane drifts out of sync, and sticks there. Both require awkward tricks to reload the files if you edit them elsewhere.

* diagrams and math formulae are, well, I'm kicking the can down the road on those.

* footnotes with text aren't exactly standard yet.

Glancing at Dillinger and StackEdit, mentioned in the article, I see other issues:

* multiple lines aren't automatically paragraphs

* StackEdit sorta supports diagrams and math expressions, but, not in a way they'll render on the target.

Having vented about all that, to come back to the article: this is still far preferable to Word. These obstacles don't feel insurmountable, and I was easily able to whip up tooling to go back and forth from one file for the book to a file per chapter, and it's mostly easy to track changes with git and Github.

[1] PAIP, previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469167
Really happy to hear this. These guys have such a massive hold on US radio stations, we might finally get some more variety in music selection and programming now that they're out of the picture.
One of the devs here, would love to hear feedback.
So as not to scare people potentially interested in Common Lisp away, you can play around with it using just:

- SBCL (or whatever Common Lisp implementation you can get your hands on)

- a text editor

- (maybe rlwrap)
There's a xkcd about that: [Watches] https://xkcd.com/1420/
In another story popular on HN yesterday/today about DNA [0], some of the commenters discussed epigenetics, and the fact that the DNA sequence is simply the "hardware" that encodes what is possible for cells to produce, but there is "software", if you will, above that which determines how sequences of DNA are actually expressed.

In these cases of analyzing really old DNA where only the DNA remains, I wonder how researchers make decisions about selecting what they want to express between varying attributes? I.e., the example used in the article about representing "Cheddar Man" - did they have some basis for selecting the traits to visualize or was it arbitrary?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16589412
The Oberon book by Wirth is something Per references quite often, and is also linked in the README. I think that is the only companion text you'll really find. Other than that it's reading up on the concepts in general from different sources.
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A portable Spacemacs built with Portacle would be another great step. AFAIK Portacle is ready to be configured, it just needs to be done.
I think that's the thing a lot of people don't appreciate about various device form factors. Pretty much no one needs them but they're more convenient for certain things. I think this was also true of tablets when they first came out. (And as phones have grown in average size the relative advantages have shrunk.)

I don't personally use an Apple Watch. I have a Garmin Fenix that I don't use much. (I usually just wear a $30 Timex.) But I can see why people might like them.
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> Just a quick note, the intention of lobbying is to help politicians [...] make informed decisions by getting industry experts to advise them.

I don't think you're referring to lobbying. What you're talking about sounds more like expert panels or independent investigations that produce reports, which are then used to inform politicians.

Lobbying is effectively where someone works to convince a politician (or group of politicians) that a particular point of view is in the best interests of their constituents (regardless of the truth of such a claim) -- and the success rate is generally proportional to how much money the lobbyist spends. There is no peer review or qualifications required for lobbying, it just takes money. So even if it's true that the intention of lobbying was to get "industry experts to advise politicians", it would be a horrible way of doing it because industry experts aren't the only people with money.
> At that time, Congress attempted to protect migratory birds by statutory law. However, both state and federal courts declared that law unconstitutional. Not to be denied, authorized parties subsequently negotiated and ratified a treaty with Canada to achieve the same purpose. Once the treaty was in place, Congress then passed the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 to enforce the treaty.[10] In Missouri v. Holland, the United States Supreme Court upheld that the new law was constitutional in order to support the treaty.

That doesn't make sense: how can the federal government (whose power is only that granted by the Constitution) agree to & be bound by a treaty which is unconstitutional?
I can offer some insight on this, as I've dealt with translations of papers before (Chinese to English). There have been countless times where I've been asked to check the translation of a paper and ended up retranslating it completely. I was often curious as to why the original translation was bad - it was typically either of the following two reasons: 1. The so-called translator was just an overworked research assistant who knows a bit of English. 2. The translation was outsourced to a dodgy company that spends more on marketing than on their translators, usually hiring college grads who did English-related majors.
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It means in order for someone to first hose your system, they must first have already hosed your network.
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I don't think he is. Let me try to explain why.

I haven't done a DNA ancestry test yet, but I imagine I would be pretty happy to learn that there were several peoples/races?/cultures behind me, beyond my apparent South Asian heritage. This does not imply that I am ashamed of my origins - quite the contrary, in fact - but that I imagine it would be nice to ... be more, a citizen of the world, in a fashion.

I would expect this outlook of anyone with a cosmopolitan upbringing by default, as well as anyone who has exposed himself or herself to other cultures via media (books, movies, etc..).
How much of that is due to inertia ?
you said it yourself: "a few lucky breaks".

if we affirm the existing power rather than redistribute it, we're exaggerating the impact of luck by affirming that those who are lucky are by definition those who are more deserving of luck and power. even though the major differentiating factor between them and legions of identical people was luck.
I wasn't even trying for the oldest, just something that was outside of the present generation and directly tied to harms that would be familiar to most people as soon as you mentioned the conspiracy itself.
I don't read that claim being made. Microsoft Research has been generally left alone to do good computer science, in which "left alone" has included "by the marketing department"
That is part of the solution, but you're dreaming if you think you can tax people at 90% and expect them to continue to produce. I've packed up and relocated for less. I've also turned down work that I otherwise would have accepted, just because I know the government will take half. There would have been no Steve Jobs (at least not in the US) at 90% marginal tax rates.
Git is a decentralized version system there is absolutely no reason to have to use Github to work on any open source project.

Youtube is no monopoly. You have hundreds of sites offering video streaming services and you can broadcast your own as well using other services not affiliated to youtube. The fact that almost everyone uses Youtube does not make it a monopoly.
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Long ago I stumbled upon bound copies of the Journal of Parapsychology in the basement of the university library, when looking for written lectures on Nietzsche.

One of the articles was about finding people who attract more good luck and people who attract more bad luck while ruling all kinds of psychological, behavioural or environmental factors. The relevance the authors argued was that persons with bad luck could be screened for to not work for nuclear facilities. I really wanted to find that article again, but the library has been rebuilt and I don't come there often.
OP: sci-hub.tech has a list of good working links. There's some contact info on there as well in case you want to get in touch. Maybe you could add them as an alternate data source.
I'm not quite through part 1 yet, but I highly recommend Crafting Interpreters to anyone who wants to see what it is like writing a recursive decent parser and building a language out of it from scratch.
Na, creators are superior.

There's nothing wrong with kids playing dumb mobile games. But they gotta spend some time making something. I don't care if it's a video game, a short film, or a bird house. When you're making things, you're learning. And when you're passively consuming, you may not be.

With games like Minecraft, kids today have no excuse. They can be making things and playing a game at the same time.
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Ok I admit the mistaken word in the article. Still the argument is valid, don't you agree? :)
>But a person familiar with its strategy said the company credits a specific show for luring someone to start or extend a Prime subscription if that program is the first one a customer streams after signing up. That metric, referenced throughout the documents, is known as a “first stream.”

That seems disingenuous as described. It would really only make sense to use that metric if that was the first prime interaction they had at all, but if they first bought a couple things and then listened to some music and only then watched a video I don't really believe that you could say they were acquired through the video.
The world is not limited to the US.
Very interesting.

Would you mind posting the results of nslookup and traceroute to sci-hub.tw?

If you don't have nslookup ping technically works.

On Linux mtr is a good traceroute utility if you don't have one.
I tried feedly shortly after Google Reader shut down but didn't like it much then. Don't know how it is nowadays. Inoreader is very close to the Google Reader experience without being a 1:1 clone.
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I did not write a lengthy thesis to explicate every idea, but I would associate inherited wealth with high class and would certainly not consider that a slight stretch.
As an arbitrary number it is fine, but to me it sounds like "Mysterium Cosmographicum"

In essence, while it could be, I think it's a plausible explanation given our understanding at the time but it might 'get old' soon.

For all we know maybe they might be trying to communicate in an ultra-wide BW that sounds like noise to us. Or using some other method we know nothing about or have just heard about it, like Higgs field perturbations, or ultra-high frequencies.
MAL (Make a Lisp) is a good one around building a lisp.

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Lots of examples across 72 languages.
> we'll accept decreases in wealth in exchange for more equality indefinitely.

That doesn't necessarily follow, I imagine that there is a level of inequality where total wealth, or at least total utility, even for the rich, starts to go down. For instance once you start having to go to private school, and live in a walled off community to keep the unwashed proletariat out so they don't steal from you / kill you.

You have to accept that people are irrational and deal with it, or modify them genetically.
> Every true mathematical proposition is a tautology. I don't find this point particularly convincing. As long as the model's predictions match reality in interesting ways, it can lend possible insights on why reality might have certain characteristics.

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say here, do you mind clarifying? Are you saying you don’t find the point convincing because it’s vacuous?
Neural networks modify their behaviour by changing their data. Any non-trivial program does that. Some GOFAI programs (e.g. Eurisko) could modify their instructions, not just their data.

Searle's argument is confusing, but how the program in the Chinese Room is implemented doesn't matter. His argument is solely against strong AI. He claims that the Chinese Room (or a suitably programmed computer) cannot be conscious of understanding Chinese in the same way that people can. He doesn't deny that a suitably programmed computer could, in principle, behave as if it understood Chinese, even if it wasn't conscious of anything at all.

However, the machine translation program mentioned in the article behaves as if it understands Chinese only within the limited context of the translation. It wouldn't be able to answer wider questions about things mentioned in an article it had just translated.

Previously it was thought that machine translation systems would have to understand the text they were translating in the way a person does, to produce a useful translation, but that's now shown not to be true. Without hindsight, it's a surprising result, but less surprising when you think of translation as pattern recognition, and think of how a person might go about translating text on a highly technical subject they don't understand.