skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you want to highlight that the company is owned mostly by a charitable foundation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH#Corporate_af... ), but I think it's important to realize that the company itself still operates as a profit maximizer for its shareholders. You only need to scroll down to the section about their involvement in the Volkswagen emissions scandal for proof of that.
I love this comment and I kind of want to replace "chatbots" with "cryptocurrency" in a few years.
And that is why patents should be abolished, in a nutshell.
A library is not a framework. A library provides the basic bricks and typically the users build a layer that fit their needs. It could be, for instance, C++ classes.

Furthermore if the authors of the library think they know better with regard to allocation, they can provide an allocator as a separate addition to the library.
Causation is an ill-defined concept. Already Aristotle had to define several kinds of causation, and philosophers still struggle with it.

It's even possible, per Hume, that causation doesn't actually exist.
In case the author decides to do this, might I request Nim be included too? I'm curious how it would compare.
What cheap alternatives to small bits of metal could be used for the weight?

Metal could interact with and damage a lot of different things.
This should be of no surprise.

Any data available from data brokers is available to gov agencies. It's being obtained via legal means, and therefore (afaik) is not covered by privacy law and other legal protections.
This is an interesting long-form article and relevant to HN.

But the title should be changed to "First Canada Tried to Charm Trump. Now It’s Fighting Back" or "Inside Justin Trudeau’s campaign against the American trade war".
>>> I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I'm a high-school dropout.

It's easy to say coming from a generation where higher education was not the norm.

A 20 year old saying he dropped out of high school will not be received well in any job interview. 98% of the population can do better than that.
Still I wonder, why go through this guesswork in order to try to figure out what the user wants, instead of having an operator which clearly states what the user wants?
The easiest way to perform this analysis is to use a statistical package that features Vector Autoregression and Vector-valued Error Correction Models.

Example: http://www.statsmodels.org/dev/generated/statsmodels.tsa.vec...
It makes for an eye-catching headline.

Also, the author has posted other articles with the theme of “native peoples did it first/better than westerners”:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/did-early-easter-isla...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-...

Unearthing democracy's roots:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6330/1114
> Copying data is a fundamental operation that all computers are able to perform and it costs nothing.

That is not true. Running, maintaining, etc the IT infrastructure is costing money, electricity etc. It doesn't come for free.
Please read my previous posts - we have been "interventionist" since the 70s (if not earlier)
Could you tell us more about the kinds of indices you used, and what you mean by boolean filters? Thank you!
It's hard to do any business when you're homeless. Likewise you can't do any business while you're starving.

A company's rent for their office space is considered a business expense. That's what I'm proposing for individuals. Each person is an individual "business" selling their services on the open market. Every expense that is necessary for them to be able to do that should be deductible.
I've just tried fman and I love it.

I've never heard about this tool before. I'm pretty sure that you would be able to sell more if you market it a bit more. Thanks for the software!
They're "data scientists", what did you expect.
Reminds me of a quip from Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw: "The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language."
That usage means "was the optional value set?" That's the whole point of an optional type, and there is absolutely no reason to prevent it.
> With Oracle remaining evil and Microsoft making waves in open source these days

MSFT is not making as big a wave as you'd think. A lot of the hype is MSFT PR machine running rampant.

I use Visual Studio/.Net on windows and only on windows because it's what many corporations use. But I use linux and bsd + vim/etc at home.

A lot of MSFT software may be going open source but they also bring with it "spying telemetry" and I suspect eventually ads. It surprises me how little outrage there is over MSFT spying as there is with facebook. Windows is literally a keylogger and scanner all in one. It's pretty much spyware.
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Or a blood relative.
This title feels like political click-bait. The first two paragraphs describe what most people would consider a privileged background and the core of the post goes on to discuss the merit of using GitHub as a hiring signal. What the author is really describing is how GitHub can be a way to get your foot in a door or stand out from the crowd where you otherwise don't have any social connections.
None of this is causal. For a problem to be, in a statistical sense, causally identified there must be some random or as-if random manipulation of treatment. The two major ways of thinking about causality in statistics are Judea Pearl's DAGS (a representation of causes and effects as an acyclic graph where pathways between variables must be clear of "colliders" which threaten causal validity) and the Neyman-Rubin causal model (also called "potential outcomes", where a unit's outcomes under treatment and control, hypothetically, are considered).

One example of an identification strategy here would be to find two languages that are identical in all regards (including in their overall popularity and exposure across the world), but where one was more popular than the other on SO specifically. This would be a matched selection on observables strategy, where selection into "treatment" (popularity on SO) is not globally random, but random conditional on certain pre-treatment covariates, such that the non-treatment potential outcome of both languages would be expected to be the same and the difference between the observed outcomes (the level of popularity of both languages on HN) is only a product of the treatment.

Here's a simple inferential threat; the author ascribes the popularity of technology on SO as causing the popularity of a technology on HN. What if, instead, some third common cause caused both, but it caused SO spikes faster than HN spikes. Now, in the world I've described (where the true treatment effect is zero), what statistical test involving comparing SO and HN data, even incorporating temporal ordering, would correctly come up with an estimate of 0? If your answer does not come up with an estimate of 0, then its real-world causal estimate is also presumptively wrong.

I also have concerns about how the author measured both treatment and outcome.

Overall I think there is an interesting DESCRIPTIVE (non-causal) question somewhere in this article, but it's bogged down by the author trying to apply something they heard about from a Wikipedia article as though it were a substitute for taking causality seriously. We've all heard Alexander Pope's adage that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".
duh, I am an idiot. Too early.
I agree. However, I can't see the situation changing anytime soon.
The US used to have a great First-To-Invent patent system. It disappointingly switched to First-To-File in 2013 and these patents you are seeing are the result. With FTI Google could use the compression technique without filing because if someone else later filed Google could show that they had reduced it to practice first.

However with FTF, any technology Google might potentially use in the future, they must file a patent for - this compression tech, or one of the DNN techs they've recently developed. Otherwise they could start using the technology and another company could copy the technology, file a patent, and be granted the patent because of FTF. They could then pursue Google for patent infringement.

In FTI they could develop and use tech without patenting it. in FTF they have to patent it because if they don't they'll lose the ability to use the tech to the first copycat who files.

FTF is just continuing the trend in the US of making it harder and harder for IP to be in the public domain - moving more towards the privatization of IP.
That's great to hear. Thanks!
We are (literally or figuratively) in Silicon Valley, disrupting everything.

Why is anybody suggesting that innovating in the form of investment into companies, is creating jobs? Value, yes, by definition since it produces enormous wealth done properly. Why would anybody think this behavior creates jobs when ideally it tends to eliminate ALL jobs and charge eagerly into that Star Trek future?

'capital investment creates jobs' is a completely outdated concept that will never, ever return to validity.
The Hourly Wage Needed to Afford the Average Two Bedroom Home in Every State
Considering the replies this has gathered, I'll add this (half-obvious) anecdata FWIW: you can, in I'd say 70-85% of cases, recover all of the product in a spray or pump if you don't mind (potentially repeatedly) fiddling with the hose.

Just pull the hose out and bend/twist it really hard in a specific direction. If it's not utterly stiff, winding it tightly around a pencil (or your finger, or just twisting the hose to that tight of a bend radius) is ideal. Hopefully this much flexing means that after naturally uncurling the curl will still "stick" to a useful degree for longer than a single usage.

One non-obvious extra detail: if the product is in a non-transparent spray bottle, before replacing the lid, rotate the spray pump so it faces the direction you've bent/curled the hose. Now a) you know which direction the hose is pointing and can eliminate "where is it in the bottle", and b) you just have to face it forward for it to work, which is intuitive.
> though surely recognising that some of his policies are heading in the same direction and that his followers espouse much of the same views are worth noting.

So trump ( pro-israel zionist ) with a jewish daughter and a jewish son-in-law is hitler? Do you work for CNN or the washingtonpost by any chance? The current lunacy is eclipsing the teaparty lunacy when obama got elected.

> The historical directions are striking. while he's not yet another Hitler, the risk may well be there...

What policies and what historical direction? Your statement is as absurd as the teaparty fanatics claiming obama was born in kenya.

Yes. Trump, a protege of a jewish businessman ( Cohen ) and a father of a jewish daughter married to a jewish man is "literally" hitler.

Is this really what has become of hacker news?
The key difference is that designers are free to show the work they've done in their current jobs or internships. Programmers usually aren't at liberty to do the same.
Design for Non-Designers [video]
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Downside: it's harder (read more expensive) to prevent a soft tube from collapsing under the vacuum.
It depends on the complexity, which language(s) you are using, and how you will parse the search string (which Context Free Grammar it will obey). Just recently, this was a task for me that ended up landing me an interview. A take-home problem. Even a simple search engine needs some clever reverse-indexing for speed. Add any sort of logic like And or OR that not even Google implements and now your parser has to work, and you have to be able to translate from tokenized parse tree with operators to results. It's a great learning exercise for someone with experience, initiative, and enough background with CFG parsing, building a reverse index, and set logic -- but without some key Computer Science building blocks it would end up being quite a challenge.
Corporate income tax is just an indirect tax on the populace.

regardless, just flat tax all income equally and refund everyone a set amount that can be adjusted as needed. In other words, use the old flat tax that some have pushed to get your tax equality and basic income in one step. (no cap on income or tax from it)

in this day and age the computational power and such is such that we can easily do it all.

the reason it won't? because a flat tax/etc takes power away from politicians who use the tax code to punish and reward, it never has been fair
This is not how FTF works. Prior art still trumps the patent filing.
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No other business endeavor on the planet operates on "production time" when pricing products. Products are priced according to their value. Given a reasonably competitive market, that value will be accurate and fair for customers, and the customers will be able to find a similar product that does most or all of what they want at the price point that they can afford.
Xoshiro/xoroshiro random number generators and the PRNG shootout
You're assuming that the US collects less information on people than other governments collect. That is not necessarily a valid assumption.
I came here to say the exact same thing. To me the hypothesis put forward by the author (SO influencing the popularity on HN) seems unlikely. I visit HN to find out about new technology and only visit SO when the technology I've already chosen isn't working out - and even then it's only indirectly via Google search results.
I use Linux and most free software projects allow donations. I even donated to projects I don't actually use, like FreeBSD. I donated money to many free software projects, Ardour, Mozilla, LibreOffice, OpenBSD, etc. This is clearly a false dichotomy.
Shouldn't it be beige?
Welcome to venture capital.
Sphinx is another full text search engine.
So obviously this is impressive for a 14 year old in 1984. What were your sources of information? What was your line of learning? It's very interesting not only that you were able to do this, but the path that led you to being able to do it. 14 year olds don't just re-discover years of work in their heads.

Thank you!!
There are modified GR theories[0][1].

[0]http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988PhLB..202..497B
[1]http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9612099
Do I have better resources?
No, the way to protect yourself is to disclose anything you don't want to patent, but don't want patented against yourself. IBM had a great system for several decades[0]:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bulle...
Not sure why a patent is a better guard against a lawsuit than clear prior art. If everyone knows you'll win if sued it doesn't matter if the reason you would win is because you hold the patent or if you demonstrated prior art.

I think the actual advantage is "mutually assured destruction"; big companies accumulate large patent portfolios so that they can (among other things) have enough stuff patented that they have the option to counter sue or if they get sued they can find some way that the suing company is violating something else in their portfolio and threaten to sue over that.
This review of What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics and The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) contains an excellent introduction to Kant's ideas:

http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-philosophy-religion/t...
My Life Isn't Your Porn: Why South Korean Women Protest
How to make a paper pyramid box
Renters Have Shorter Commutes Than Homeowners: Trulia Report
Note 2 on this:

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/pdf/171110_point_c...

"Checking my application, I got 40 points for having > 10M JPY in the 35-40 year range."

Were you paid that by a Japanese company? The clarification on Note 2 seems to imply that they'll consider any income from a Japanese company (i.e. in the case of transfers).
You can pack 10^18 times more computation with the same size.
The melody is very strong. Also when Trane's last solo kicks in is something really strong.

What I really like about him is when he just screams like a total madman through the saxophone. That's why one of my favorite albums from him is the last live The Olatunji Concert with Pharoah Sanders, where the sick man just roars like a lion. Horrible sound quality but I'd say his strongest band and absolutely brilliant music.
I don't want to say I invented a FORTRAN variant, but I also wrote a stack-based arithmetic engine for gbcpu (similar to z80/8080 but NOT THE SAME). It was used like:

ld hl, myNBitSizedVar
push hl
ld hl, myNBitSizedVar2
push hl
call addNBitSizedVar

Result returned is a pointer to the result in hl. This way I could chain many operations.
This video[0] is very very long because it's a kind of reinforcement class for students who didn't get it at first. But I watched like the first half of it and now I finally understand how to build scales.

(Gb needs to be F# there. One reason is that theory can't assume instruments to be equally tempered to begin with; some brasses won't for example.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK-jr2AkMQ4&t=5407s
Home-Made Fully Automatic Crossbow [video]
PCG is covered in sources [0-2] and my comment. It's great, but without AVX512, it's ~70% as fast as AES-CTR, lehmer64, splitmix64, and the xorshi*[0-9]\+plus families of RNGs, which in [1] were all roughly the same speed. In [2], Lemire's PCG implementation is even faster than his AVX512 version of xorshift128+.
I really hope this guy is solving real life problems with his intelligence. He's probably one of those dudes that doesn't get past those stupid white boarding exercises, so never gets into the workforce.
There's active disdain (or at least snide jokes) among the senior Waymo engineers for the approach to autonomous driving taken by Tesla. I can't see a partnership in the cards, probably ever.

Source: used to work there
I live in a different jurisdiction, but based on what I've read on these discussions in the Internet, it appears that in the USA the loser doesn't pay the winner's court and lawyer costs. Having a stronger defense could allow the court case to finish on an earlier step, saving a large amount of the costs.
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I do plan on adding a navbar link. However, I don't think this eliminates the advantages of bookmarking or directly visiting the desired URL for someone who finds no value in the homepage. (For example, I never visit Reddit's homepage.)
Are they able to explain the Bullet Cluster?
Introducing MapKit JS
The switch was from "first to invent" to "first to file". Prior art is still prior art, just the same in both types of "filings".

The "first to file" setup changed some of the critical date ranges around slightly that determine under what statute clause any given publication (i.e. prior art) may be used, but did not change the fact that a prior publication effects the patenting of a later application.

Now, getting that prior publication in the hands of the patent offices so they can utilize it to effect a later application, that is the hard part. Esp. if that prior publication was not somewhere big and well known (i.e., a personal blog would be a prior publication, but it is doubtful any of the patent offices would discover the personal blog on their own).
Totally agree on licenses and transparent pricing in general, but I think you've missed the context here.

If a commercial entity wants to add the core functionality of my product to their offering then there's definitely going to have to be a negotiation first. AGPLv3 wouldn't be appropriate, as the commercial entity's code being open source isn't a material consideration for me.

(The license text I was referring to is here: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core#license. I could hire a lawyer and put a proper, proprietary license on the repo but I'm bootstrapped and don't think it's necessary.)
I will say, as an employee myself, I don't feel like my company cares about me and how well I do as a person. So why should I care about the company and how well it does for its shareholders?

When you as an individual don't feel any sense of doing better for your organisation. How can an organisation composed of diverse set of people think of your cause?
Why create gRPC if you can run REST over HTTP/2, and there is websockets?
If you say communication, then isn't websocket already there for that? gRPC honestly looks like it could have been just websocket with library enforcing data contracts.

I'm confused, over actual benefit here. It seems it is being forced with promise of benefits that already exists..
> by owning the codebase I can protect myself from a larger player copying my work

I find this statement confusing. In what sense do you not "own" your codebase if you release it under the GPL? And if the software is released under the GPL, large players have no advantage, because they have to release all of the changes they make to your code if they're using it to compete against you.

What you're saying is that restricting and hiding your codebase allows you to make more money. And there's nothing wrong with that, but it's not right to spread falsehoods about free software licenses.
My understanding is the states were fighting it.

A couple years ago there was a thing that you couldn't get through airport security with an Arizona drivers license but had to go get an ID card that complied with federal rules, not sure what ever happened with that though.

My theory is it has something to do with DLs being valid until you're 65 so there's a bunch of old ones floating around without all the fancy modern technology built in but who knows?
Life in the Silicon Prairie: Tech’s Great Migration to the Midwest
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the US patent office doesn't check for prior art (that was one of the cut backs several years ago) so instead prior art is now something that has to be challenged in court.
It has nothing to do with advertising. It's about control and propaganda. The elites want to take control over social media. They want social media to be like the rest of media. Where the masses see what they want us to see.

It's why europe has been on a censoring rampage. It's why china/russia/etc are very strict about social media.

Do you think that advertisers, who are stepping over each other to advertise in china ( where they kill prisoners to harvest their organs ) or saudi arabia ( where they stone rape victims for adultery ) have any morals?

Ultimately, reddit, facebook, youtube and others doesn't need advertisers. The advertisers need them. That's why the establishment has been waging a war to take control over social media. Social media is where the people ( young and increasingly the older ) are.
We switched from "first to invent" to "first to file," but published prior art still invalidates a patent.

The change just means that if two people try to patent something that they've invented privately, then the one with priority is the one who filed first.
That would make the (largely hypothetical) problem of deepfaked news far far worse. It's the same problem we see with TLS where a green lock just means people's brains turn off. "It must be tied to a real person's ID" is trivial for anybody determined to bypass (they can just steal, forge or make an ID) but when people view it they will see that it's been verified by the government's big brother identity system, so it must be legitimate. It's literally arming the bad guys with the tools to make their fakes look government endorsed.
Taxation of carried interest really made no sense to me. Sure, get the capital gains benefit off of your investment, but why should one get the capital gains for doing one’s job?
Yep. That casts doubt on the scientific validity of everything else claimed. For this statistic, either the percentage is wrong, or they really meant 10/11 or 11/12.