skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are reading a lovely article about how "childer" is a plural, and children is some sort of troubling double plural. The word data is somewhat older and its use has had even more time to change. I wish the dictionary would lose the fight on data and we could all just say "the data is conclusive" and be happy about it. It sounds much more natural.
>But this article isn't about the evil class of billionaires and who belongs to that class is it

Only if we restrict our thinking into how the article frames the world. Which is a sad way of going about reading things...
Not what you are searching, but I found Notational Velocity (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) indispensable for quick note-taking. It is very lightweight, and I have a shortcut bound to it, so I'm always just a shortcut away from writing down notes. Searching for notes is just as fast, and with a flat file structure for data it is easily synchronized across devices.
And the MSX standard, pretty big in Japan and a few other places.
Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler

The Road to Reality by Penrose

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

"For a long time, we have tried to understand the world in terms of some primary substance. Perhaps physics, more than any other discipline, has pursued this primary substance. But the more we have studied it, the less the world seems comprehensible in terms of something that is. It seems to be a lot more intelligible in terms of relations between events.

...

We therefore describe the world as it happens, not as it is. Newton's mechanics, Maxwell's equations, quantum mechanics, and so on, tell us how events happen, not how things are...we understand the world in its becoming, not in its being. Things in themselves are only events that for a while are monotonous. But only before returning to dust, everything returns to dust.

The absence of time does not mean, therefore, that everything is frozen and unmoving. It means that the incessant happening that wearies the world is not ordered along a time line, is not measured by a gigantic tick-tocking. It does not even form a four-dimensional geometry. It is a boundless and disorderly network of quantum events. The world is more like Naples than Singapore.

If by 'time' we mean nothing more than happening, then everything is time. There is only that which exists in time."

Very influential in my teens:

Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner

USA by John Dos Passos

Cache Lake Country by Rowlands
The art of fake news: The Indonesian artist fooling the world with his photos
English has some vestiges of the grammatical dual, in terms of having a special word for the case of two: both vs all, either vs any, neither vs none. (And for real pedants, between vs among.)
I read ‘eve’ as ‘never’ multiple times while scanning your simple version...
Makes me think of how Mädchen ("girl" or "maiden" in German) is neuter/neutral instead of feminine:

https://blog.assarbad.net/20090810/das-madchen-why-is-it-gra...
Rulers and nations or nationality are not the same. Just because you happened to be conquered for some time doesn't mean, that your language, culture and customs will change.
But it is a reason why the matrix is not always a great abstraction. That is, the internal layout of a matrix interacts with the use case enough that (sometimes) users will want explicit control that layout.
In the time before app stores, I gave up on the mobile space because I saw this pattern happen at every B2B place I worked and the places by colleagues had worked.

Every network was a unique snowflake and we would bend over backward to get customer 3, creating a piece of code that was so difficult to land customer 5 that we started burning through money and people.

The worst one was the place where management and the sales people thought we should go after the biggest fish first (because they were looking for an exit). This created a problem where we had given sweetheart deals (low or in many cases negative margins) to the people who we should have had the easiest time getting cashflow positive off of. If only we'd waited to land them until we had more experience.

Don't land the whale until you know what to do with it.
I did, I was speaking about -en vs -n. Why -en for children and not just -n. Have I missed something?
It's an important tactic for governments: glorify and inflate the achievements of peaceful activists, write the violent activists out of history, or - if that's impossible - whitewash their violent past. Then bend just enough to the demands of modern peaceful activists to make the public think they are not ineffective.

For achieving major political change, the two most effective means really are violence and the threat of violence.
Which premise of Hotelling's Law is unsatisfied in this circumstance?
Because it is the diminutive form of "Maid" and thus neuter, as all diminutive forms in German.
So don’t use online banking, or email, or online insurance or any online healthcare, or ... ?
Lots of Greg Egan work covers such ground, if that helps!
"kuiken" is Dutch for a chick, a young chicken (curious that in English, the form with the diminutive became the one used for the adult), whilst "kieken" is dialectical Dutch for "chicken". "kieken" and "kuiken" come from the same root, it's just that one of them got mutated by a sound change that never quite spread over the entire language.

"jongen" is another story. It used to be "jonge", which is the substantivized version of the adjective "jong" (young). The -n was later added by analogy from the other cases. This is why the plural is pronounced "jonges" (written "jongens"), and the diminutive is "jongetje" even in the standard language.
One of the attack vector in Java was classes storing native pointers as integer fields calling free on the above pointers in the finalizer. So the moment one can force deserialiazation of such classes one ends up with corrupted heap and trivially weponized exploits. Does pickle in Python suffer from the same problem?
>technology and markets

While I agree in general, in this particular case, technology and markets today are trying to get more people onto less land and in arrangements that require less energy. Current public policy is holding it back.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, it made me learn to start questioning my own thought processes.
I couldn't agree more. There huge benefits to society as a whole in making sure everyone has opportunities to receive support in this area-- I wouldn't be surprised if they vastly outweigh whatever it costs to provide them. Everything from homelessness to school shootings could be reduced.

There's already a stigma associated with seeking mental health services, and the costs on top of that make it a non-starter for many of the people who need it most.
Same with “Frauchen” (diminutive of “Frau” i.e. women) by the way...
Normally patio11 would come out of the woodwork and explain that cash salary is a small fraction of "effective compensation" in Japan:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8576008
I don't know most of the terms you just said... I guess I should try learning some ML? I heard the Andrew Ng Coursera course is a good place to start.
The SAC air defense system for one. Also this was the age of giant industrial enterprises. These things were used for payroll, etc.
Und auch Fräulein.
Fair, I've never heard of that and will drop the expression.
That's because FPTP encourages a two-party system. If you add a third ice cream vendor, Hotelling's law breaks down and there is no stable equilibrium.
Is it fair to say that both sides see the primary issue as demographic change? (Right: illegal immigration. Left: transition to majority-minority society.)

If that analysis is correct, then tensions can't be resolved unless demographics resolve. While I can imagine the US becoming a more closed society, it's hard to imagine ethnic cleansing of the citizenry.

This is a hard topic to discuss within the constraints of the HN guidelines.
If anyone wants to dismiss a movement because a few of its adherents are violent, that's obviously unjustified, because no one can control who agrees with them. Just like we can't condemn the entire anti-abortion movement because a few people bomb clinics. I think the more interesting and larger point is to reject violent tactics.
I used to wear two at a time as a kid :P

Have you seen https://www.gq.com/story/watch-of-the-week-casios-neon-core-...? I had one once and wore it till it broke. Great for 80’s nostalgia
Quite sure I read a paper about graph/code sharing in functional languages and why it's harder than expected. The one paper I didn't save and catalogue... is the one I want to refer to
well theres this comment in the docs:

> Warning

> The pickle module is not secure against erroneous or maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted or unauthenticated source.
The Birth and Death of Privacy (2015)
VK is essentially russian Facebook, Russian hackees use it to store and share login lists from compromised servers muck like pastebin is used, however because most of the description alongside the list is in Russian it doesn't always get the sort of attention that an English language list would e.g end up in Krebsonsecurity it HIBP.com
If we were to reform the terrible two party system this would be much less of an issue. Currently, moderate parties aren't able to capture enough voters to become relevant, so the two dominant parties are pushed further and further apart.

It seems that countries with more parties don't hold this sort of animosity towards each other because party issues overlap more than in the polarizing two party system.
Apple “Late 2005” PowerPC G5 [video]
Makes you wonder how and why the United States was able to recover from its own civil war within a relatively short amount of time.

(Although it could be argued, possibly, that we haven’t actually recovered, but rather buried our disagreements and enmities deep down, and they still occasionally resurface.)
I don't think it is a blunder, these are not emails being exposed accidentally by vk.com, these are credential lists created by hackers and shared or stored on vk
I've been reading Warren Carrol's history of Christendom, and while it's an engaging series, it's hard to keep track of or visualize the sweeping changes. This video is gold. So much of what I've been reading just clicked into place.
Information density isn't the problem (webpages can scroll), but the readability simply isn't very good.
My understanding is that anxiety is a common cause of erectile dysfunction, at least until cardiovascular health takes over, which is usually in the older crowd.
By GAN, do you mean "Generative adversarial network?" I don't have much ML experience so I don't really understand what you're saying :P

Do you know a good place to start? I heard Andrew Ng Coursera course is good.
Why we still type with Qwerty
Right, but you also have to mindful of how many rows are on a single page (or, in the case of the web, in the viewport). When I have to scroll after every paragraph, I find it a) harder to pay attention b) more strenuous on my eyes.

That being said, it's fine at about 50%, and so far, the content is really interesting!
> Otherwise, in what sense did she "overcome" her adversity?

Well, she learned how to communicate and even speak. That seems pretty big. Clearly schoolchildren all over America, when they learn about this, are amazed by HK and her teachers. No one hears that story and says "Well, so what?" if they don't hear the part about how she became a socialist later in life.

> But her ability to become a nationally prominent political activist despite her handicap made her unique.

She was already nationally prominent before she became a political activist. It's not like she became a social activist, and then people said "Hey, we should look into her past and see what her upbringing was like", and then the Hellen Keller story emerged.
Haven't read the article yet but my first question is: what the heck did they use to make that?! It's beautiful like LaTeX but appears to be plain ol' HTML!
When driving a literal explosive feels safer than a driving a battery.
“[Self-criticism] can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging...”

Does anyone know where I can learn more about this?
Lots of people write desktop software in JS.
what does "startup nation" even mean?
nife is fine
Nobodies thinking should be restricted by the framing of an article.

I'm just agreeing that it's blatent whataboutism and kind of off topic to bring up something unrelated. I actually do think Mark is likely more dangerous.

> The very essence of "whataboutism" is to deflect criticism by directing it at an unrelated party.
I'm amazed at all the "big names" mentioned here. Thinking about the quesion, I don't think I could pinpoint a book that drastically changed any "philosophical" views of mine.

I'll go with "Turbo Pascal für Kids" instead. It's the first programming book I've read as a kid and the topic has stuck with me so far :)
A friend of mine who bought a farm reports that you basically have to tackle them, American football-style, in order to shear them. That sounds like it might be hard to automate.
Because of GDPR, USA Today run a separate version of their website for EU users
Thanks much for saying. I mean it's understandable. It wouldn't normally occur to anyone that someone that reputable - professor at Berkeley, former Treasury official - would also be an internet troll. In fact he might be the only person I know of in a position that reputable who behaves the way he does. But he does.
If you want a "reasonable amount of letters/words fits on each row", then make the column smaller. Don't compare this to print - no even semi-mainstream printed publication or book has type this large.

On desktop, the type on this site is unreasonably large. It is considerably larger than any other website that has long form content. It is extremely uncomfortable to read on my 13" MacBook Pro (which is a fairly common laptop/screen size).

Thankfully Safari gives me a 'Reader' version that's much easier to read. Compare the Reader version https://imgur.com/a/gs00JWD to the original version https://imgur.com/a/Waob1VZ
That mainstream Dems would speak well of GWB, tells me the divide is not so much Dem vs Repub, but along other axes like Globalist vs Nationalist. Roger Moore speaks to that, the anti-WTO of the post NAFTA agreement and Trump’s eventual election point to that as well. Elites and globe trotters like Globalization, Unions, the rust belt and “uneducated” distrust globalization.
If you actually read that paper, you'd see that they roughly achieved the same performance (GFlops) as the cubic algorithm when the normalized for the problem instance size.

Please stop wikisplaining.
Lego is the brand name; "let's play with Lego" is short for "let's play with the Lego bricks". I think it's much closer to a group noun :)

See also: Meccano, Duplo, Brio, Scalextric.
One of the best! 42.
> it's hard to imagine ethnic cleansing of the citizenry.

The truth is, no matter what the country or political climate, it's always difficult to imagine ethnic cleansing would happen in your country. The other day an excerpt from a German Jewish newspaper was posted (either to hacker news or my twitter feed -- I do not remember which), it was dated the day before Hitler put into action "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question". In it, the Jewish editor is talking about the rumors and talk of the extermination being put into practice, and they dismiss it off-hand as just being political clout. That it was put forward to advance the party's image among right-wing circles, nothing more.

No matter what the subject matter, whether it be forced deportation, concentration camps, or out-right genocide, it is always difficult to believe that it is being done if it is in your country.
References would be more than appropriate for this title.

Otherwise, the article is full of anecdotes and the old correlation vs. causality dilemma.
>If we were to reform the terrible two party system this would be much less of an issue.

I'm struggling to understand why people think this is true, especially given what's going on in Europe right now where fringe elements are becoming quite mainstream across the continent. Wouldn't adding more political parties to an already fragile system cause more tribalism, not less?
Hah! Thank you.
Heh, probably. I don't know if i agree on your point about companies' development practices. Basic monitoring is very simple to add.

I thought what'd a very basic monitoring & release for a self driving car would look like:

Below could be measured as A/B experiment - (control 1% on old release, experiment 1% on new release).

1. Number of miles driven
2. Number of user intervention.
3. Score rating (assuming users give a rating for their comfort after reach ride).
4. Number of rides completed.
5. Average/median speed driven
6. Average/median G change (like too much breaking would cause a change in G-force user is enforced to).
7. Average/median time-to-destination etc.

The data is already available and collected, what's missing is a way that's plug&play for these companies to push the data and necessary dimensions and integrate them into their roll outs.

You can find such metrics for almost all internet-connected device.

Make a dashboard out of this, give a way to slice data, give visualization tools and a way to query it out, and this is a winner.
She was already nationally famous before she became a political activist. And the reason she was famous was because of the adversity she overcame as a child, not because she had pretty run of the mill viewpoints on socialism.
No. Magic = not possible with our current understanding of physics
It means a bunch of tiny firms that mostly fail.
I would imagine it means a cultural and legal infrastructure lending itself to entrepreneurship. As a US citizen it's easy to take this for granted
In this more specific case, it's very difficult to judge China's policies with an even tilt because private Chinese companies are ad hoc lifted to "public status" when they're convenient for the government to leverage.

But China grants legal exemptions without especially good or consistent oversight over those countries. The net result is an awful lot of folks who get a legal exemption for a specific aspect of their business and then tend to run roughshod in other less scrutinized areas.
The Easy Way To Stop Smoking, by Alan Carr.

Very logically made me realise that willpower was really just about changing how you talk to yourself. Essentially learning impulse control.

I lost a deadly, expensive habit and a fair bit of weight. Clean for 6 years.
https://github.com/miguelgfierro/sciblog - Looks pretty sweet!
Weber's Law – our perception is logarithmic
Analog Migration Equals Redesign
There are some more examples here: http://bunny.xeny.net/linked/Homespring-Proposed-Language-St...
Having used java serialization a few times for POC level work, I'll be sorry to see it go.

I wish they would just rename it something sufficiently ominous sounding that people wouldn't think about using it on untrusted data sources.

Maybe AribitraryCodeAndDataSerialization
"Clear" regulation is a fantasy. Every established boundary of regulation people enjoy in Western civilization was once and unclear, untested boundary that laws and courts had to cope with.

If folks find ambiguity in the GDPR, do NOT get into American Fintech. Here's a great question: what are the technical requirements mandated by the US government to become a bank?
Who are these moderate parties you’re referring to?
Being captivated by the article and diving deep into nostalgia, I just have to recommend an enlighting book about Basic that my parents bought me when I was a child, and that I think it fits perfectly to the topic in question.

Luca Novelli published in the 80s two books called “My first book about Basic” and “My first book about Computers” [1], which are specifically intended to introduce computers and programming to children. After an introduction to algorithms and flow diagrams, the book dedicates a full page to each (GW)Basic instruction, providing an easy-to-understand explanation and -even more important- a small code example (~10 to ~50 lines) in the form of a game.

This means that the whole book is a compendium of interesting games (guess the animal, guess my age, pick a number) that slowly build up knowledge without being boring or pushy, and gives the child tools to build his own games. It may look outdated, but programming hasn’t changed that much since K&R C, so most of the concepts are still relevant today.

Sadly, the few page scans I could find are in portuguese or spanish, but they will serve as an example of the pedagogical approach. I hope anyone interested can find an English copy on Amazon, as it is IMHO an excellent way to teach & learn programming.

[1] “Two children, a dog, and a personal computer explore the history, concepts, and uses of computers, identifying such aspects as binary systems, computer languages, programming, and memory.”
https://www.amazon.com/My-First-Book-About-Computers/dp/0914...

Instructions, strings and numbers
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/tc/2013/10/09/PA0900055...

FLOW DIAGRAMS — AND instruction
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLhzcb3WkAEVrF3.jpg

IF THEN GOTO instructions
https://cdn.wallapop.com/images/10420/39/59/__/c10420p196760...

LIST and LOAD instructions
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/tc/2013/10/09/PA0900075...

Basic and Binary
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/libros-segunda-mano-inf...

More:
https://twitter.com/eduo/status/782934202572472320
http://www.lucanovelli.info/2015/10/07/amici-lettori/

I coded many interesting things in QBasic in my childhood, way before the Internet era: a point-and-click GUI like windows 3.x, a compression format that I thought was marvelous. Later in my life I found I had “invented” Run-Length Encoding, haha.
many fuzzy things wrapped in a taco:

- having a French silicon valley (I believe attempts have been done before but failed)

- jump on the wave of smart iot app fad

- leverage the previous thing for (probably super bad) software education

- Macron seems to be in the self-made man (with state support if you're positive minded) so reviving a liberal entrepreneurship model fits his views

ps: also it doesn't seem to have any major factual impact (they may have helped a bunch of people but I didn't hear about anything groundbreaking); annnnd the disrupt startup motto is not well received nowadays, Uber -> Uberization... gig economy .. it didn't catch on really (for good reasons IMO)
Non paywalled for those who need it: http://archive.is/6N6gU
The author opens by nobly asserting "I take all responsibility for the failure" yet then, everything that follows is how his co-founder screwed him who he is now suing. Feels kind of inauthentic overall.
Are you reading from a mobile device perchance? I expect it would look fine on one.

But I can assure you, it does not look fine on the desktop. I have literally one header and a four sentence paragraph on my screen right now.
I agree, but if something really works the profit seeking soulless bigpharma corporation will run a clinical experiment and start to sell it in bottles.

So if some cure is true and has a wide profitable market, it will be part of science soon. Most of the traditional cures that worked has been absorbed in science and are no longer call "traditional". What we call "traditional" are the leftovers.