skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends how you do it. Giving money to the poor to not have kids kind of sound like eugenics.

Educating them (especially women), giving them contraceptives, etc., is the positive approach to this, in my opinion.
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It's hard to spellcheck too, but there's hunspell which is pretty good and is used by a lot of open source products: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
Chrome banned it, but you can still install it. They link to https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on...
That's a very good point. We recently had Chad Frischmann on a company seminar. I remember him talking about releasing the models. I'll try and reach out to see an ETA. We do need science and not well intentioned belief.
I am thankful for Safari. Opinion: Safari is underrated.
Croatian is the same. Noun declination makes some sense, as it sometimes allows you to omit prepositions (although I sure am glad English doesn't do that). But gendered verbs are just stupid.
Rand Paper: Qualitatively
Finally some statement regarding future of Java on Android
Android Studio's engineering team did an AMA on Reddit, and out of it came some statments regarding Java 9, 10, 11 and beyond feature support

https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/av3lhx/were_on_the_engineering_team_for_android_studio/ehcpukt/

https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/av3lhx/were_on_the_engineering_team_for_android_studio/eheb8sc/
It seems YouTube is doing a lot these days to the detriment of creators and vloggers. YouTube is by far the best platform out there for posting videos, but are there any viable alternatives? I think we need another YouTube. Vimeo comes to mind but it's a bit fringe (mostly weird videos), and I'm specifically looking for creator videos. Maybe this is a startup opportunity for an eager HN-er, although I suspect running a video site is insanely expensive.
Good thing they have such settings for non-tracking ads.
That's now illegal in many countries (not that tactic, just advertising for cigarettes). Faking legitimacy by implication of (spurious) association with something seen as trustworthy is unfortunately entirely legal, as far as I know.
There is the possibility of storing a binary-encoded json object, which uses far less space than regular json, and since the server is doing the encoding you aren't going to need custom client side libraries to decode it.

There is also the possibility of magic 'compression' by having the server automagically extract common schema elements of the stored data to probably cut the storage size in half again.
That's true for now, but I believe we will get there eventually. Who is writing assembly code anymore ? You can argue that compilers produce unmaintanable spaghetti assembly code, which is certainly true. But almost no one will look at the assembly output.

The next step we are currently in: a lot of new languages compile to C. And it produces absolutely unreadable code. But who wants to read and write C when you can get the same speed with a much nicer language ?

I agree visual editing may be more complicated than compiling / transpiling, but I believe we'll get there eventually, and people will no longer read and write css manually.
The saas and self-hosted versions don't even have the same features.

For example, there's a two year old open "high priority" ticket for adding the ability to restrict pushes to branch patterns, yet still allow new branches to be created, for the saas product. The self-hosted version has apparently had this feature before the ticket was opened.
> And what's wrong with wearing more clothes in the winter?!

Likely house lacking enough insulation - this is what is wrong.
The article seems interesting but misses to take into account the uncertain nature of human behaviour. There can't be something like "there's a 40% chance s/he likes me" and similar thing.
However, after reading I am forced to do a thought experiment of Monty Hall problem in the context of love. What do you think the outcomes becomes if we are to simulate the "Monty Hall for Love" problem? Just a curious mind here!
Are you using a prelude like Prelude, Doom or Spacemacs?
> Quite often the biggest challenge to any given story is understanding the impact of a single line change on a code base.

Isn't that a test coverage issue more than a navigation issue ?

Opening 3 files via keyboard shortcuts vs opening them by clicking on 3 different buttons won't solve spaghetti code and low test coverage.
Nothing to do with eugenics. Eugenics is about selection to improve the gene pool.

The issue here is to make those who have a lot of children have less children.
Giving money, and contraceptives, and free sterilisation, and education should all be done.
A Critical Review of Neural Attention Models in Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processor broken by Finnish language.

:D

Okay, I'll see myself out now.
Hey, I'm co-founder of inkle, the company that's developing it. It's not out yet, but I'd say it would be great for a bright 10-year-old!

Our release date is "Spring 2019", so it should be out very soon! We have a mailing list here if you want a notification when it comes out :)

https://www.inklestudios.com/heavensvault/
Facebook plans to monetize a 2B user e2e encrypted messaging service
No, it's not nostalgia, goddammit. It's because it contains good visual affordances. Skeumorphism isn't pretty, but it works because our eyes are naturally trained to perceive the visual hints. Our eyes are trained to subconsciously perceive depth via shadows. To perceive clear edges and group things by them.

I really, really hate that 99% of all UX designers are basically graphic designers who are good with visual flourish but without the tiniest bit of interest into half a century worth of HCI research into what makes interfaces visually easy to read. So they end up with whatever graphical look is hip without understanding the usability consequences. That may make a page look good as a whole in the "conforms to current graphic design trends", but it destroys the ability to organize the individual elements.

EDIT: Also, skeuomorphism when done right can be pretty, and if you really want you can still combine it "flat" design by using hints of shadows and depth for better readability - look at games like Snake Bird for examples of that. In general I agree with Bret Victor that the best place to look for good interface design these days is successful computer games, because if it doesn't feel right to play (that is: interact) with, the designers tend to throw it out, and it is the most likely place to see experimental interface design.
Heh, my car is on a 18,000 mile interval for the oil changes. It will also adjust based on how you drive it, it only asked for it's first service at 19,000 miles.
> I think there is no evidence of the mechanisms you describe.

Which part? If we are talking about this part:

>> I think that there's an element of validation and indoctrination that is a serious concern here.

Then I think there is evidence of that being true.

Take for example “incels”. They gather in online forums where they construct a worldview built entirely on misogyny, entitlement and hate. The ideas they are spreading among themselves are much worse than probably most of those people would come up with on their own. In their echo chambers they validate these ideas to one-another and make them seem acceptable.

https://www.ft.com/content/d71f3156-f94d-11e8-af46-2022a0b02...
It is quite scary to think that less and less people know how to write good assembly. So in a few years (decades?) we will have to rely on backends, with almost no one knowing how they really work, or how to write another one.
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> Seriously: when was the last time you were infected with malware from ads? This is a talking point from a different millennium.

I still see this very frequently. I work in tech, so broadly speaking, I'm less likely to find my machine infected by malware from ads because I know enough not to fall for their tricks. Smart, but less technical, friends and family end up with malware infected devices all the time due to malvertising.

> This attitude has already resulted in almost all professional, reliable news sources to implement (metered) paywalls. So instead of being informed by dozens of sources, citizens now get their news from just reading the headlines on Facebook, or sometimes the single site they are willing to pay for.

I'd actually posit that the reverse is true. Because advertising pays publishers for reader's eyeballs regardless of the quality of content on their websites, fake news and clickbait are rampant. Harmful news outlets flourish because they don't need to convince anyone to pay for their bullshit stories - just get enough people to click or share. If they relied on users paying to read their stories, I reckon a lot of ad-supported extremist sites would die overnight. There shouldn't be a financial incentive to drive clicks and shares regardless of content quality.
I'm afraid it very unambiguously just means fucking cunts.
What's the problem with Japanese? It's highly regular language, so it should be easy to tokenize.

AFAIR the whole language has maybe few irregular verbs, compared to few hundreds in English.
You are now talking about the cost of the technology, but that's not the complete picture. Switching to carbon free energy will probably work, but it will take longer to get to where we want to go. If it takes longer to stop climate change, there will likely be higher costs in undoing the effects of it. There are already severe droughts and highly unusual weather right now, if it takes us another 20 years to undo what we've done, who knows what kind of extreme weather we will see?

However, if we can prevent (more years of) extreme weather and rising sea levels by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, then the total bill for the whole project will be lower because we don't have to pay for undoing the damage.

Additionally, who says that money spent on climate change prevention is money wasted? I'm fairly convinced that these investments will actually create jobs, in addition to preventing disaster.
Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
The commenter you’re replying to isn’t saying “performance first”, they’re just saying “performance matters”.

In other words—don’t go to extremes in any direction.

It sounds very much like this conpany took an extreme perf-first approach from the outset, and advocate a reactionary overcompensated opposite extreme in their postmortem.
Keep the context in mind: face recognition. Plastic surgery is expensive.
Something smaller, that fits into our pockets perhaps but with its own screen.
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Yeah it's spacemacs. Any soup to nuts emacs distribution like this is going to be slow. I experience it all the time in doom. You don't have anything misconfigured.

Features like helm, ivy, projectile, etc cost. Linters and autocomplete can really make emacs jank. All this stuff is configured out the gate in these distributions.
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Usually that just means you have to think much harder about the problem you are trying to solve within the new set of requirements (borrow checker, lifetimes).

Weirdly enough these things should also be a hard problem in other non-Garbagecollected languages, but you get away with a lot more when the compiler doesn’t force you.

From a purely practical level there is so much already that I had a hard time finding some data type that had no existing and tested solution for it. Looking at the code in the std library can be enlightening.
Congratulations on your book! May I ask why you choose self-publishing road instead of publishing it on publisher? I am not saying one way is better than the other. I am just wondering.

Is it because no interest from the publishers? Or is it because you think the royalty percentage from publishers is too low? Or you don't have any particular reason? It's just feel natural to do self-publishing.

Also, do you hire editors?
Books aren't priced by the number of pages
I look at it this way: some sites might be worth paying for, none are worth being tracked for or being eye-raped by ads.
I don't know why anyone would think it is a good idea to try and make money on something no one is willing to pay for.

About the adnauseam topic: while paywalled sites makes it clear that you need to pay for their content or services, the one with ads don't.
You are candidly browsing the web and suddenly they just shove tons of trackers and ads down your browser, no question asked.

This is read by some people as an act of war, who are then motivated to retaliate using weapons like adnauseam.
Of course they should just ignore or block the whole websites in questions, but no one can pretend they drew first blood.
not the same codebase, one is a python code base the other a java one.
That implies we can all "just" switch. I have a feeling Skynet will have a better chance than I do!
> Commits often touch files for completely arbitrary reasons, so the last commit tells you almost nothing. I can’t think of any case when somebody would need that particular information

You sir are using git in a very wrong way it seems. Its not dropbox, you get to decide and see exactly what changed and why. Not just do a `git add .; git commit; git push`
Few people use it overall, yes. That doesn't mean it's not a differentiator in some areas.

You can often find a Prolog system behind complex scheduling and resource planning systems for example. It's no longer pure Prolog nowadays, you also have constraint logic programming and other solvers hooked in (see my other comment on ECLiPSe CLP, http://eclipseclp.org/) but Prolog is still often the host language. The ECLiPSe web page has for example a reference on Opel, the car maker, optimizing its supply chain with it. Sicstus (https://sicstus.sics.se/) is also present in this space.

In a very different domain, IBM publicly commented on how they use Prolog in their Watson system, the one who won Jeopardy (the name was over-used afterward):
https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-process...
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As someone who is implementing a Lisp interpreter (admittedly in C#, not Prolog) I've decided that this sort of project is somewhat analogous to restoring a classic car. It'a a good way to get a handle on earlier times.
Sorry that's directly brought from French.

English is my second language. I did a quick google search just to make sure it was correct but it's hard to gauge if a word that happen to be in the dictionary is also widely understood.
I intentionally didn't list that, because that's something else that's often cited as a reason why people aren't jerks in real life compared to the internet, but I don't think that's true in most civilized cultures.

If I'm a jerk in public, outside of racist/prejudiced violence or a mentally unstable antagonist, I'm not at serious risk of being physically attacked unless I start breaking laws or pose a notable threat to someone else. Because about 90% of the less edgy side of trolling (just being annoying or verbally mean, mostly) won't really draw physical violence in meatspace, you'll just be treated like a jerk or risk being politely asked to shut up or leave by an authority figure. Yes there's a risk of physical violence, but it's overplayed as a reason why people aren't trolls in real life as much as they are online, and I think it's significantly superseded by the things I mentioned, and probably other things too, which stop people from being jerks far before physical violence needs to be brought to the scene.
YouTube comments is the only real democratic and open dialog on the web.

Everything else is one's or another's ideas for "right" dialog imposed.
Trying to convince me to set up a subscription upon any visit (and especially upon the first visit) isn't gonna be very effective. It requires thought and some calculations.

"Liked it? Pay me $2" is a way more simple decision to make. If I make it to the end of your content and see a PayPal.me (or Ko-fi) link, there's a reasonable chance I'm going to click on it. I can't say the same for links to Patreon.
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> Over the next few months, we will be winding down many of our stores

Who needs repairs? Just buy a new one; it's cheap and easy.
HN has some pretty toxic behavior, depending on the topic. it’s not as egregious as others due to moderation and flagging but definitely not low.
Or, more practically, maybe conversion rate just isn’t a good metric for determining the “value of a slot to the network.”
I wonder if a little bit of lipstick can defeat pig face recognition.
I used to work in advertising. On the rare occasion we were deploying display ads the most common complaint was: it doesn't show up. The reason was that literally everyone, from developers, designers, to project managers, account managers and the client has been blocking ads.

In Poland ~90% of desktop browsers, and >50% of all browsers (desktop+mobile+tablets) have some kind of ad blocking enabled. Only 9% of users will allow ads when the website asks them to, most will always (43%) or usually (30%) leave the the website.

Anyways I agree this plugin is just click fraud.
>I'm sorry, maybe this is arrogant, but I can't learn something from everyone who has a different worldview. There are topics like climate change where most people's stances follow stereotypes. If I encounter such a stereotype, I'm 99.9% sure I won't find anything new.

You don't need (and I didn't ask) to learn "something from everyone who has a different worldview".

But you (or, at least, an active citizen) needs to learn why tons of people share the same different worldview.

E.g. why is there a dissent on "climate change" being real. And the circular non-answers to those questions, like "because they follow stereotypes" or "because they're dumb" are not insightful.
My suspicion is that most NLP techniques were invented by native speakers of "easy" languages

Though romance languages/germanic languages (and even English ancestors) have their quirks they're not at Finno-Ugric levels

(Not that English has no quirks - especially in pronunciation - but it is "easy" to deal with most of the weird exceptions)
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My bad! And I can't even claim not to be a native-English speaker.

It is a good idea and in fact I'm already sort of going down that route. I'm finding that using macros to define new functionality (rather than extend the core set of built-in functions) is a good way to tease out implementation issues as they somewhat stress the underlying mechanisms.

I think my first lib functions will be IO-related.
That’s pretty obviously false. I think you mean “anarchic”.

Democracy would allow the majority’s idea for “right” dialogue and would censor minority ideas. Which is what moderation does.
How does compile time compare for GNU Emacs vs remacs?
So, quality instead of quantity? How horrible.
What about Bitbucket Server if you need to be on premise?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/bitbucket-s...

I dont think it is in active development anymore :/
Nordic Web Ventures raises a second fund, picks up Atomico Zennström as backer
But this is what will happen by itself because fighting global warming means little but opening economic opportunities for others - and exploitation of them means MORE global warming.

Basically, if Germany introduces a carbon tax and as a result, its industry will become less competitive, its output will fall, it will be displaced by Chinese output (because demand is still there), which is produced with a lot more CO2 output than energy-efficient Germany would produce.

So, best way of fighting global warming is just adapting to it. Other method will be world policing, i.e. enforcing worldwide policy for CO2 reduction, so no displacement as i described, happens (subs threat to merchant ships sounds like best way to do it). But it's a bad idea to suggest in this liberal forum :)

People migrating to EU because of global warming? Don't give them visas. They arrive on boats? Machinegun the boats, that simple.
Have you seen www.gov.uk? It's not Amazon, but as a german I truly envy the work they're doing to reduce authority interaction and friction as well as informing citizens from a central hub.

Sticking with your exmaple, you'd probably search for "dog" and receive actually useful results that range from relevant forms to complex guidelines[1].

The UK's portal has been discussed on HN before and in my opinion it's something other countries should emulate.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/search?q=dog
As more web pages you visit, as more tracking markers you've get. Yes, your tracking history will be skewed because of random clicking, it's kind of GIGO effect, but such kind of junk data is very easy to filter out. When you clicking on everything you provide too much events, which become suspicious and irrelevant. Also all clicks are made in background, which means that there is no rendering, no view tracking, which is obviously easy to catch. Check how vCPM and viewability work.
If you just want to browse/search the source tree in a public project, sourcegraph works great (though it's a web app, not a local application).

Just prepend sourcegraph.com/ to the hostname. That'd be https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/user/repo for your example.

It can be self-hosted as well.
>Tracking by government is dangerous, tracking of your interests to get you better, more relevant advertising is good.

No.
This aspect of many Microsoft products is pretty under-appreciated. Many of them are immensely programmable from the outside, and expose pretty decent object models on top of which to write programs. First money I ever made with my coding was writing VBA in MS Access for some warehouse which wanted to keep track of tens of thousands of different train parts. It was so easy I couldn't believe how much I got paid.
I’m a big fan of nested hierarchies. But hierarchies only work when they are logical. And on GitHub they patently aren’t: For instance, I’ve got to search for the Releases tab every single time. Its placement below “Code” makes no sense whatsoever. And even though I know this, I’m still disorientated every time. The same is true for some of the other tabs. I agree with you about the Issues and PR tabs, but I think it’s still a better solution to flatten the hierarchy and simply pull these two tabs to the left, directly after “Code”.
I think it would make the "pay per click" option disappear, leaving only the "pay per view". And you would determine conversion rate from the view, not the click.
maybe try git
You might even say it has been discussed here ad nauseam…
> It's personally been very eye-opening for me over the past decade to see just how much the size of a country's economy can wielded as club to silence international opposition and how easily the international community goes along with it.

Just the last decade? The United States has been doing this to other countries for the last century or more.

The British Empire did it for hunreds of years before that.