skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, this sounds like a wonderful addition!

In general, the AI chapter is what I am currently working on most. I mean not "only" on the actual content, but on the applications I want to present in this chapter.

Anton Kochkov has recently motivated this chapter via a dedicated issue for AI/ML applications of Prolog, and I invite you to track its progress at:

https://github.com/triska/the-power-of-prolog/issues/5
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> since 1975

Early 1970, actually.

> Anybody can live in a rent-stabilized unit, regardless of whether or not they'd be able to afford the market rents, and there's no effort made to make those units available to people who can't afford market rents.

But there is a strong effort to eliminate these units. Most of the rent stabilized inventory is not in desirable places to live. The rent can be increased every two years.

The rent guidelines board has voted for a freeze only one time in its 49 year history. On average the increase is 2% every vote and two increases of about 7.5% in the last 5 years. This interest compounds, obviously and also scales up MCI rent increases for capital improvements.

Once your rent hits $2700/mo, you are no longer stabilized. If you actually work out some examples, you'll find from this chart that rent stabilized tenants have had their rent increased _at minimum_ by roughly 34% for two-year leases in the last decade. If your landlord is anything like mine, it's probably close to 45%.

http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/rentguidelinesboard/pdf/guideline...
Sony introduces the DPT-CP1 digital paper tablet with a $600 price tag
I suspect the bug bounties are much more about deterring the sale of exploits to bad actors than about recruiting employees.
About the 'no-go zones' you might want to listen to people who have to deal with them daily, ambulance personnel being among them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5a02MzWjE

https://www.reddit.com/r/svenskpolitik/comments/5wgrzv/head_...

On the subject of Swedish rape statistics it is interesting to know that the number of reported rapes has increased markedly:

https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...

...the number of resolved rape cases has gone down:

https://www.svd.se/andelen-uppklarade-valdtakter-sjunker

...while the willingness to report rape has gone down as well:

http://www.bra.se/download/18.37179ae158196cb1721ac8/1483976... (page 9)
There's some backstory in his Google Code-In article (Summer of Code for younger students) https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/stories-from-googl...

> a student from Uruguay who worked with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is the organization behind Sugar, the operating system for the [One Laptop per Child] XO-1 which the Uruguayan government has distributed to public primary schools. The XO-1 was Ezequiel’s first computer.

> Ezequiel’s curiosity in computer science was piqued when a technician came to his school to solve a simple bug that was affecting most XO’s. The technician used the command line which, up to that point, Ezequiel thought was useless. Realizing that the command line offered him a lot of power, Ezequiel began his exploration.
if the property is owned by a REIT, which is itself owned largely by retirees, who exactly goes on the list?

(i just looked up a bunch of major REITs, and only EQR, Equity Residential, has >1% ownership by insiders. despite that, it has ~96% institutional ownership, with vanguard at 14.4%.)
IMHO testing payment works and getting apk then sending it to owner (proving its working) is pretty ok situation. of coursw you will request refund...

given these days deployment stuff can get infected easily (remember a framework contained malware in many apps in appstore)

there is services providing testflights for such stuff, but if npm/yarn/pypi/insert pkg manager here loads infected package, you're done
The government intervenes on behalf of Global Capital in the housing market all the time, allowing them to turn a basic necessity (shelter) into a vehicle for things like international money-laundering and finacialized speculation.

These are the circumstances that have created the housing crisis we have now and previously took down the entire economy. I’m confused as to why you single out trying to intervene on behalf of the average person over the wealthy as the source of the problem when the “free market” term setting has caused the massive distortions and unaffordablity.
Good to hear a corroborating individual story. Stopped earlier, yes. Stopped before investors got burned? That's a different question. It's hard to stop sexual corruption, and it now looks like that has to be considered as a possible root cause of the debacle. How intimately Sunny Balwani was involved in the initial fund raising hasn't been detailed as yet however.
http://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-president-sun...

But Theranos is one grain of sand on a vast shore:
The laws could be being enforced vs corporations, but they aren't. The great sub-prime robbery could have been stopped, but it wasn't. Could have been punished, but that hasn't happened. Gerrymandering puts laws and enforcement up for sale by taking ordinary voters out of the loop.
certainly its also dysfunctional that we legislate that random property owners must provide the safety net for the poor & elderly.
Wow that is a creepy looking feature image lol
> similar to housing and a college edu - that "government intervention" often has unintended consequences.

There's good and bad to everything and every policy, but this statement is meaningless. How many people have been educated in government-owned colleges, which includes ever public university in the U.S.? Whatever the unintended consequences, it seems to have done an enormous amount of good.
Does this extend to customers who have had their account suspended?
> If driving/vehicles/roads were held to the same or a similar standards to aircraft there might be fewer accidents and deaths today.

Vehicles are already regulated with regards to safety features; seat-belts, airbags, anti-lock braking systems etc. These have and do prevent many deaths and serious injuries.

But holding cars to the same mechanical rigors as airplanes would make them neigh unaffordable for most, to say nothing of yearly inspections many states have which is often considered nothing more than a government subsidy to mechanic shops. It is also entirely unnecessary, as when a car has a mechanical failure, it can just roll to a stop.

As for preventing accidents in the first place, car crashes, as with plane crashes, are caused overwhelmingly by operator error.
You might want to read up about the Berne convention, various international copyright treaties and such. You can "ignore" laws, but you might find yourself in handcuffs on a plane, clutching an extradition order if you get popular enough. In any case that is an irrelevant aside as far as I am concerned. I don't wish for people to be jailed over this.

>What makes you think people have any interest in following this law in the first place? It seems like you haven't really given this foundation, which is crucial for your original comment.

Wow, really? Yes, I admit, my argument assumes that normal rational people don't go breaking laws.
It's not about easier on the eyes. It's about producing melatonin in the brain to trigger sleepiness.
And here is a better definition. It appears you are correct by my interpretation of this simple FAQ:

https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf

- For example, jammers can: prevent your Wi-Fi enabled device from connecting to the Internet

- A jammer can block all radio communications on any device that operates on radio frequencies within its range (i.e., within a certain radius of the jammer) by emitting radio frequency waves that prevent the targeted device from establishing or maintaining a connection.

And more is in there. Judging by these definitions the FCC believe they have a pretty wide reach:

- Any device that jams or disrupts cell phone calls, text messages, or other wireless communications by emitting an interfering radio frequency signal is illegal

As you stated, the courts would have the final say.

I guess with a 'Monetary Forfeiture' being the punishment I have to retract my suggestion. You are better off breaking it with a rock, spear, or a shot-put!
For $15? I'll say!
The worst aspect of high rent costs in cities is that it forces a long commute on the poorest residents. Those are the people who could benefit the most from extra time in their day. These blue collar workers, who basically run their city, have to live outside it and spend hours each day commuting into it after a short night’s sleep. The long term health effects of such a routine are terrible, and even worse for families.
The article goes on to define "dabbling in the tech field" as buying a computer and creating Excel art.
IIRC, Swedish military doctrine assumes that much of their main military infrastructure will be quickly destroyed in an attack, so their forces are designed to disperse and operate from with minimal resources in difficult conditions. For instance, their main fighter is designed to operate from public roads with a small maintenance crew:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Usability_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip#Sweden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49L9BlYQSjw
Breaking copyright law doesn't change anything either. People are still going to publish in those journals. It doesn't address the central problem.
No problem. You've been a good sport, thanks! (I'm still interested in seeing someone take a crack at this.)
I'm with you on both counts. I mean, look at those shades of colour on the sidebar to the left: https://theam.github.io/tintin/01-getting-started.html Give me something concise (and designed for desktop: small fonts, small buttons).
> Now I'm living proof that you can become good enough to read books in Spanish yet amaze people with your inability understand spoken Spanish.

Two quick hacks to try.

1) Stop reading books in Spanish silently. Read them out loud. This will force your brain to create neural pathways between understanding, comprehending, and speaking.

2) Put in your earphones and walk down the street. Play something that is like a Spanish conversation podcast and try to mimic what they are saying. Doing it in public will help conquer the 'ego' that gets in the way of making mistakes in public and eventually with other people.
Facebook has a lot of utility. We tend to look at Facebook through goggles of hatred because it's a corporate propaganda and brainwashing machine, but if you take that away, you have a neat way of keeping in touch with friends. Imagine if content and people were more discoverable, if you could filter the content you see, and better yet, if all the people who hate Facebook and its culture were on the platform because the culture wouldn't be monolithic anymore. It wouldn't be bad at all.
Low-dose cannabis revolution is here – thank god
Not related to autonomous vehicles, but related to the risk of death for light aircraft flight vs. NASA spacecraft human-rating...

The FAA seems to be relatively OK with the current annual fatality rate for light-sport aircraft, homebuilt experimental licensed aircraft, and light aircraft in the size range of the Cessna 172. For pilots with less than 1000 hours, flying a light single engine aircraft is a relatively dangerous activity on a per-hour basis.

If human spaceflight had the same number of annual fatalities as the current number deaths in the US 48 states while flying homebuilt/kit/light sport aircraft, both NASA and the news media would be freaking out.

NASA is requiring spacex to put the Falcon9 and Dragon2 through a very expensive and rigorous period of qualification before it can carry humans on commercial launch contracts. The likelihood that there will be a totally catastrophic disaster that the launch escape system can't recover from is low, but the standard of safety (in terms of flight-hours per human per year) seems to be much, much higher than the FAA's.
Let me know in 5 years how delicious the corporate you're eating is, I guess.

Blah.
I'm not saying __I__ got bored :)

However, the truth is, plenty of books get started and are never finished. Since the bit at the end was so factually important to the discussion of the issue, I didn't want that to be missed.

Imho, he should have started there.
Common myth of the 'free market' - the reality is the market is totally constrained in many ways by the political and legal system.

There is definitely something very 'i am very smart'-like about tech nerds defending 'the market' against any attempts of humanizing life. "um, actually the free market will..."

Governments exist to provide super-market force. Safety regulation being kind of a prime example, especially for employees. OSHA is anti-free market -- there should be no safety regulations, and let employees the freedom to choose safety or pay and let the free market work it out.

Right?
Or "Outer Planet Alliance"
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Nowhere in the (developed) world would the tax authority start garnishing without a notice first -- mostly because they might be in error. And yes, they did take more than their due, more than once.
But Article 27(2) explicitly excludes the requirement of designating a representative according to 27(1), if the processing of personal data is limited within perfectly sound limits.
That could be the implication, but it's not the way Pd works.

For example, when you make a signal connection (thick wires) in Pd you immediately get a signal "flowing" through that part of the diagram. It is similar to making a connection between two modules on a Buchla synthesizer. That is very useful for prototyping because you immediately get aural feedback as you connect things together. (It's also efficient because you are doing computation on vectors of data.)

That doesn't happen with control objects in Pd. When you make a control connection (thin wires) no function gets called until you somehow trigger an event that causes the object to output some data. That is very useful for prototyping because you can make arbitrary turing-complete scripts full of branches of heterogeneous data which only get computed sporadically.

I guess someone could write a library cloning the core DSP objects and have them do "control rate" computations. That is, have them do a single computation per block, and copy that value for the remaining samples of the block. I imagine no one has done that for the same reason Pd only has a single numeric (float) type-- it's good enough as is.
This is the right answer, because ownership of property and rental income has become securitized and made in to these complex financial instruments.

The real work has gotten very complex indeed.
YC did a recent podcast with former Artforum editor Michelle Kuo on Experiments in Art and Technology

https://blog.ycombinator.com/experiments-in-art-and-technolo...

And then there's Mondo 2000. Defining periodical of "cyberculture". Remains deeply influential even today

https://archive.org/details/mondohistory

I'd also recommend the documentary "We Live In Public" as a cautionary tale regarding networked utopias ;)
I’ve made a pretty good money over the years with Magento and even though I’d still recommend it to clients (since there’s no better alternative) every interaction with it is painful. To the point where I mentally add an “insalubrity” tax to every Magento invoice I make.

I don’t know how to feel about this accquisition. I already depend on Adobe a lot more than I’d like to, and this makes it no better.
> In the 90's many of us (yes including me) thought that object databases would solve the problem by eliminating relations on the disk. We all know how that worked out.

What am I supposed to know about this? I've only used an object database for one serious (>100KLOC) project, but it was by far the best part of that system. I always wondered why that architecture never caught on.

The only reason I'm not using an ODBMS on my own projects today is that there's no good open-source one, but that seems like something a company could do something about, and a lousy reason to condemn an entire architecture.
A simple way to understand machine learning vs. deep learning (2017)
Partitions provide separation, not load balancing, and does thus not concern themselves with load or size.

While a can imagine a way to make hashed partitioning sub-divide buckets, it won't really be useful, as you can still have a single user blowing their bucket out of proportions with others being almost empty, which partitioning can never solve.

What you want is round robin distribution and parallel query execution, not partitioning. This of course only makes sense if the tables are on different disk systems/hosts or if all tables fit in memory.
The article doesn't mention torrents. Was it a later development? Anyway it doesn't matter. Why bother? Every song ever recorded is in YouTube already.

A little thought. Internet is like Soylent Green. And the people now is: a) orders of magnitude more and b) from a much more diverse background. So the old Internet is still here, just hidden inside the new one.
> random property owners must provide the safety net ...

Whenever someone says 'it's unfair that I must provide these social benefits', let's recall the enormous amount of social benefits that each of us receives, especially in developed countries: Security, safety, a system of laws, roads, education, food supply, healthcare, sanitation, infrastructure built by generations, rights, research on everything from health to history to gas fracking to something once called APRAnet, etc etc. And then there are the benefits each industry and many private companies obtain from government, licitly and otherwise.

We all benefit more than we ever can repay. So yes, optimally the costs should be distributed in a very systematic, fair way. But at the same time my general response is: stop whining when asked to pull your weight a little.
Can't wait until I can `apt-get` install this tool! (I'm not a huge fan of using docker)
I was interested in your comment about Ariane 5 having a lot more flights under its belt, as it has seemed like SpaceX has ramped up their launches considerably, and the article talks about 5-10 launches per year for the new Ariane 6. So I went and looked up the details...

For anyone interested, Ariane 5 has had 98 launches (93 successful) and Falcon 9 has had 54 launches (52 successful).

However, Falcon 9 has 18 launches in 2017, and is on track for 28 this year (8 completed so far), whereas Ariane 5 had just 6 in 2017 and is on track for 10 this year.

It’s definitely true that Ariane 5 has more experience under its belt so far, but that seems to be changing quickly, and with Ariane 6 resetting some of that experience, I think SpaceX are at a significant advantage here.
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> everyone saves on transport costs

These things became more common in the modern world because transport costs fell so low that it doesn't matter in most cases.
Meh. This sucks but what can you do.

When you have a government where corruption and dysfunction is is tolerated or expected in some parts (police and MTA come to mind) that dysfunction inevitably seeps in everywhere else given the time.

As another commenter said the big real estate companies have the resources to work the system until they get what they want so as long as the system supports sloppy decision making and incompetence they can just work the system until they get the desired result.

Sure this is bad but it's not gonna change until the politicans apply pressure. They won't do that unless someone with connections gets screwed and makes it their mission to right the wrongs or something thrusts the issue into the public eye. It will probably take someone going postal for this to be thrust into the public eye because the people being screwed are mostly poor and nobody cares about what poor people do unless there's violence involved.

Without the politicians to applying pressure no change will happen and they won't apply pressure unless this affects people with connections or provokes outrage. Unfortunately that's just how these sorts of governments usually work.
I’d say your willingness to disclaim a potential bias lends credence to your claim.
> But holding cars to the same mechanical rigors as airplanes would make them neigh unaffordable for most, to say nothing of yearly inspections many states have which is often considered nothing more than a government subsidy to mechanic shops. It is also entirely unnecessary, as when a car has a mechanical failure, it can just roll to a stop.

For engines, yes, but it's scary how many people don't maintain their brakes properly. Or otherwise drive vehicles that are unsafe to be on the road.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/

There's a reason why many states, particularly northern and road salt states, have mandatory inspections.

There's also very good reasons why state patrols and the DOT do mandatory inspections of larger cargo trucks.

Obviously a car does not need to be maintained to the same standard and expense as a light aircraft. If you fuck up your own clutch it's nobody's problem but your own wallet.
Explained: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/speculative-store-bypass-expl...
The whole brake from 60-0 10 times quickly seems like a stupid metric. Would you rather have shorter stop times, but a design that fails at 15 times? Or a brake that adapts to that load and progressively stops more gently. Any sane driver would adjust.

Seems pretty stupid to evaluate cars on such a weird metric. Sure 60 to 0 or 80 to zero, but what sane person is going to accelerate up to speed as quickly as possible and try again.

Maybe Tesla's doing so poorly because it gets back to 60 quicker than it's competition.
> I do not know how it became in more recent versions

It's the same. Expensive fast servers, lots of caching and the upkeep that goes with it.
I'm talking about cheap and easy to get loans.

They created artificial demand - for housing and for higher edu - and as we all know that drives prices up.

I hope this clears things up.

The point is, when you squeeze a balloon...shit happens.