skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice idea. I added one of my projects: https://breakpoint.io/84-quotepress-turn-your-customers-into...

Although it looks like one of the screenshots I added is not displaying. Could just be hackernews traffic maybe, I noticed there is also an image error with the ad in the sidebar.

[edit] Looks like both screenshots are showing now.
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Canonical writing their own X/Wayland replacement
Bob's Red Mill is now employee owned, and I think maybe SAS shoes? When I worked at 7-11 they had a profit sharing program you could participate in if you worked there long enough (a year I think), although that was years ago they might not do it anymore.

But yes, I think those are exceptions. In technology I still tend to get stock options and an employee stock purchase program, so there are still niches you can get in, but for the most part the people who can leverage their position is much smaller (I'm certainly not in the 1%, but easily in the top 10%, even though I don't feel like it) these days.

There are some news of companies moving back to the US, but so far finding something actually made in the US is still a rarity, especially something cheap.

Machines certainly improve our productivity, but that's been happening for a long time. Smith uses the example of nails, a skilled blacksmith made at most a few hundred nails in a day, an assembly line of a few specialized people makes many thousands.

At some point maybe robots do everything, but at this point in time I think it still has more to do with cheap labor arbitrage. It's a lot easier for people to blame robots or something rather than their pursuit of profits, though.
Right, but not only that, there was a very plausible explanation as to why he downloaded them, which had nothing to do with releasing them.
Growing up somewhere without JCPenney I kind of thought the same thing when I first came here.. I got a pretty nice couch from there at like 50% off when I moved down to the USA, and the store was actually pleasant compared to a lot of other department stores. It felt higher-end than Sears or Target. Hell, even half the Macy's I've visited have been kind of disastrous. Maybe I just went to a really nice JCPenney.
What browsers do cannot really be called full-text search.

For example, the ability to search for a paragraph that contain two non-contiguous words would be very useful, but no browser (that I know of) is able to return elements that contain a set of tokens.

All browsers do is return exact matches from a string, with no concept of words.

It would be interesting to know if in this solution the index can be persisted to file or if it has to be rebuilt every time?
Perhaps you missed this part:

"As CEO, you can do very little employee development. One of the most depressing lessons of my career when I became CEO was that I could not develop the people who reported to me. The demands of the job made it such that the people who reported to me had to be 99% ready to perform. Unlike when I ran a function or was a general manager, there was no time to develop raw talent. That can and must be done elsewhere in the company, but not at the executive level. If someone needs lots of training, she is below standard."
> Can we please get some variety in the word "Closure"?

Or we could just agree not to use the name for programming things any more. Thus getting, you know, closure. :-)
I think as society becomes more and more specialized, where even educated people will fail to understand issues in a different field (ask a mechanical engineer the importance of Internet security), democracy in its original form is becoming outdated.

What we need, is some form of technocracy-democracy, where only people able to comprehend the problem at hand are allowed to vote.

From an engineering perspective, a more elegant solution might be to allow governments to fail like companies, so that the most suitable form of governance can emerge more quickly, and without bloodshed.
I'm also reminded of a line from Neil Sheehan's classic "A Bright Shining Lie" that has stuck with me since reading it:

Men who succeed at an enterprise of great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth.
App development for Ubuntu touch is currently based on QML (Javascript & maybe C++). I'd love to see them properly support Python in the future, but I've no idea if they will.

I agree with most of what you say. But it seems like there's still a big technical gulf between Ubuntu desktop (X based, with apps in Python+GTK) and Ubuntu touch (Surfaceflinger, apps in QML). I'm sure there's a plan to bring them closer together, but so far I don't know what that will be.

EDIT: And just minutes after I post, at least part of the answer appears: they're making a new display server, Mir, for both desktop and touch devices.
Note: You link to the VPS page, but looks like the "Shared Hosting" is where the $2.95/mo package is, and it says it only comes w/ 50GB of bandwidth.
Everything that's not a web-browser ;)
Nice and pithy, and good advice for investors. What's the strategy for the management team themselves, though? Give up on the business with a reputation for bad economics? Let it run itself into the ground? I have to imagine there are turnaround stories, though perhaps fewer and farther between.
I'm sorry, but is this a joke? Or were they seriously offered server space in North Korea as some sort of political/PR thing?
There is only one lesson here kids. If you have a friend who works in national security, the DOJ, the FBI, Homeland security, local police, or is an officer of the US military don't just stop being friends with them. Actively ruin their lives in whatever way you can without their knowledge. It helps to befriend these people, not ignore them. Sleep with their wives. Get them drunk. Lie when interviewed for their clearances. Tell their children curse words. Spread rumors about them in church. Ask them about old war stories and try to trigger their PTSD. Use your housing association to harass them. Spike the punch at their parties with LSD. Go to the shooting range with them and point out that they should really practice more. Go running with them until you are more fit. Be a better person than their job REQUIRES them to be.
It's not April 1st yet... so, I guess not?
32% year of years sales drop. One of the only differences the reporter could tell about the shopping experience offered free wifi that was slower than his cell service. An example of seemingly arbitrary and, in the eyes of shoppers, non helpful changes Johnson oversaw. What exactly was your critique?
I agree that using head::tail is usually not more readable, though I think that sometimes it is better to be a bit more descriptive than just x::xs (e.g. key::keys). It really depends on the context as well as the experience level of the people who will be reading the code.

It is true that the order of files matters. Presumably this is for the same reason that order matters within a file.
Surely questions of readability should be decided with an eye towards experienced users of the language and not those who "don't know the first thing about F#".

I agree with the GP that x::xs is more appropriate.
Can anyone repost the text here for those of use whose work filters block tpb?
Ross and TJ Maxx are a different category, they get rejects from major department stores. They can't have online stores because they have no fixed inventory. If you can find it, you can get great deals there.
Sounds right to me. The manufacturer will pay tax in Florida, the shipping company will pay tax in New York, and the retailer will pay tax in California— all those taxes get sent down the line to me. If any of these entities are legally based out of somewhere else, I would expect them to pay tax there in addition. If the shipping company and the retailer are owned by the same entity, and they said that their revenue from shipping was $0 so they don't owe New York any tax, I'd expect New York to take a different view.

If I live in Massachusetts and earn money in New York, both states expect me to pay income tax.[0] And why shouldn't they? I'm using both of their resources.

[0] The amount paid to NY is deducted from the MA tax, down to 0. That might be different elsewhere?
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I can only hope the comments on that article are also part of the joke.
Nothing seems to indicate a joke - North Korea does seem interested in strange PR stunts, so this could very well be real. I'm unsure as to how hosting would possibly work there though - I don't believe they have free internet access in/out of North Korea for these servers to run on - perhaps satellite connections could be used.
When I heard he was taking over JCP I thought it was a really good thing. I am the kind of person who buys everything on Amazon, but having actual low prices at a retail store sounded great. Now whenever I needed something in a hurry, or something Amazon didn't have, I could go to JCP.

I tried to go to JCP twice since Ron took over. Once for a dress shirt, another time for some drinking glasses. When I went for the shirt, they didn't have every size in every color. Ended up going to Macy's. When I went for drinking glasses, again the selection was miniscule, went to Amazon instead.

The number one thing they can do to get me to shop there is to stop selling crap! Price doesn't matter if you have such an awful inventory.
Finance is a bad example because the traders that software replaces make an order of magnitude more than median wage. So, the software deeloper in finance could be underpaid making an order of magnitude above median.
This article over-generalizes from one visit to a single store without providing sufficient information to judge whether the author's conclusions are valid for all or most of the company's stores.

According to the company's recent presentations to investors, over the next few years JCPenney is converting its locations from traditional department stores into 'mini malls' with small independently-operated stores and a 'town square' with amenities like coffee shops. Recent data provided by the company shows that those stores that have been converted into the new format are generating TWICE the sales per square foot of stores with the traditional format.[1]

The author doesn't say if he visited a really old off-mall store, or an on-mall store that has not yet been converted to the new format, or an on-mall store in the midst of converting to the new format, or a store that has already been converted to the new format. How can he generalize without specifying which kind of store he visited?

Shame on him for not doing his homework.

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[1] See slide on page 41 of this presentation: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?t=1&item=VHlwZ...
PRESS RELEASE, NEW PROVIDER FOR TPB

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 3 MARCH 102, 평양 (PYONGYANG).

The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information. Today, a new chapter is written in the history of the movement, as well as the history of the internets.

A week ago we could reveal that The Pirate Bay was accessed via Norway and Catalonya. The move was to ensure that these countries and regions will get attention to the issues at hand. Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network.

This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.

We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country's changing view of access to information. It's a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond. We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it's also ones duty to grab their hand.

Posted 24 mins ago by Kim Jung-Bay
I jailbroke my iPhone once. It was terrible
Johnson's ideas could work in retail, but trying to implement them in an existing chain like JCPenney seems terribly foolish. It's very hard to make meaningful physical changes quickly when you have 1000 stores. It's very hard to change staff attitudes when they have been working there for years and like the old setup. And it's especially hard to change customer's attitudes, when they like shopping in the clearance section and getting a great deal at 60%.
Or for those of us who live in a country (UK) where it's blocked.
>"...we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea..."

That's the wrong one, though.

Republic of Korea = South

Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North
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>by Kim Jung-Bay

Of course it's serious.

edit: I thought it's a joke... but the traceroute trully ends in North Korea with the 175.45.177.217 IP.

So ... maybe it's actualy legit.

I don't know what to trust anymore.
The academics in question might have little choice but to give away some/most of the content for free, as it is often mandated by university- or department-level policy. At least as far as internal use of the courses is concerned, the incentive here is clear for the university: reduce your dependency on a given superstar prof leaving (very slightly, admittedly).

As for the ego trip, I doubt it (in most cases): research gives you the recognition of your peers. There is a clear trade-off in allocating your time towards stellar teaching or stellar research. Few professors manage both. And stellar teaching tends to get much lower recognition from the peers.
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Is readability to people who don't know the first thing about F# at all relevant? If that's the most important metric then we should write out all our programs in plain English.

Readability to F# programmers is what matters, along with a host of other concerns, such as terseness.
Full text search usually presumes an index, for a lot of functional differences compared to the browser's naive substring-matching Ctrl-F. And any proper search index is going to be a better user experience than naive string matches.

I haven't read through all of Lunr's docs and source, but based on my Solr/Elasticsearch experience, I'd expect to see (in time)…

Tokenization and (presumably) term normalization/analysis; a faster and smarter query language, for term order independence and boolean combinations of clauses; relevance scores and maybe even score boosting per field.

Better queryability really shouldn't be understated here. Just having term order independence focused on a specific set of JSON is going to be way better than naively matching any substring on the entire rendered page.
I had high hopes when JCP announced their new pricing, I hate having to go to a store and find things ridiculuously expensive, then wait for a "sale", collect your coupons and then buy something for what to me is a fair price. The quality of the products though at JCP was not so great IMHO.
> Oh but it does.... I don't know first thing about F#, so "x::xs" looks alien and very unapproachable (and also will make the rest of method body confusing).

I use OCaml and I think of it as idiomatic naming for pattern matching on a list, in a similar way to how iteration variables are often named `i`, although `index` might be more superficially clear, but in reality it is not really since one "knows" `i` is the interation variable, just like `x::xs` means `x` is an element and `xs` is a list of x'es, that is elementy of the same type as x. Pretty clear in my opinion.
Or you could order online for pickup in store, and skip most of the shenanigans.
Very fun, I've added one of my projects here: http://breakpoint.io/43-trackchat/

As others have said, the screenshots management bit needs to be improvement - it's a bit of a guess as to what'll work best right now. But I imagine that will come with time.

Good luck!
Sample size of one! That's reporting. Just like the New York Times review based on a single drive with the Tesla.
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Our local JCP was one of the stores that were re-made, entirely. The store was formally a jumbled disaster, more along the lines of a Marshalls than a department store. It was blight on the brand, and needed to simply be re-done.

About two years ago, it was refreshed. The clutter was organized, and there was actually room to maneuver about the store. It was a big improvement.

A few weeks ago, I'm trying to help my daughter find some form of clothing that was completely necessary for whatever reason. Looking at JCP, we're searched around in the various departments -- is it here, or there, or maybe around there? I had no idea. Then, we tried to find someone to help us -- hmm, nobody around. Well, let's ask at the counter -- hmm, where the eff is a counter to actually purchase these things? At this point, I called BS on the experience and we walked out. They literally failed at every possible point in the entire process.

As I thought about it, and knowing that Johnson was the guy who built the Apple stores, I came away thinking that the changes JCP made to stores were entirely physical but the experience hadn't changed. I don't mean to sound elitist, but the staff at the store was not of caliber in the way I find the staff at Nordstrom. The products didn't differentiate themselves for me. The changes came off as superficial.

I hope they get it right because everyone loves a turnaround story, but their current results shouldn't be so surprising.
Is it possible that people in the DPRK refer to themselves as the 'Republic of Korea' in an attempt to deny/disqualify the existence of any other 'Republic of Korea'? (ie, 'The one true Republic of Korea' or something like that).
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Old, but I'm still surprised this didn't make it into HN...
This was not my experience at all. I replaced my iPhone recently and was in and out of the store within 10 minutes, despite the crowds. The first guy I spoke with got my phone from the back and took my payment info right there, no line whatsoever.

If you go to the Genius Bar to purchase something you're making a mistake. Any employee can sell you things. (And with the app they have, you don't even need an employee. Just scan whatever you want to buy, put in your password, and leave.)
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Just. Feeling. Surreal.

But, the irony of the Politics makes strange bedfellows does not seem lost on them.
schraeds your account has been dead for 11 months :(
The route goes to NK

traceroute thepiratebay.se output:

12 INTELSAT-IN.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.156.82.14) 127.129 ms 121.898 ms 121.857 ms
13 209.159.170.215 (209.159.170.215) 214.763 ms 196.291 ms 210.602 ms
14 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 697.258 ms 711.336 ms 693.061 ms
15 175.45.177.217 (175.45.177.217) 696.368 ms 699.046 ms 702.013 ms

175.45.177.217 Seems to be an actual IP in NK[0]

[0] http://bgp.he.net/AS131279
Well it's nice to know that "one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship" wouldn't let concerns over something as insignificant as totalitarianism deter them from "forming a special bond" with a state to distribute warez.
> Also, I don't know any F#, but is he correct when he says that the order of declarations in a file matters, and that the order of files in a project matters? That sounds crazy to me. What is the benefit? Both Haskell and Ocaml get along fine without relying on declaration order to do type inference.

IIRC in OCaml you have to compile modules in topological order wrt dependencies.
Why do communist countries insist on calling themselves "democratic"? If you're such a firm believer in that philosophy, why not have some pride?
Nuke tests haven't caused us to invade North Korean but if this happens the MPAA could get it done.
I have to view the BlueFin labs acquisition as the hallmark of days to come. "build apps on our data!" cried the spider to the fly. It's all becoming maddeningly predictable.

1) build a platform

2) get devs to use your platforms data

3) capriciously threaten to cut off access to drive a sale.

There's something basically malicious about building businesses like this. Companies used to pay for innovation, now they're able to simply choke it out.

The key in getting a big acquisition is multiple suitors. If you've only got one company chasing you, you are at their mercy. It's an unenviable position.
Renderscript is proprietary Google API, which uses OpenCL as a backend. It's nowhere as powerful as OpenCL. More like a sandbox to limit developers access to GPU Compute on mobile devices.
To clarify, at this stage, we are okay sponsoring a H1B visa, but would prefer someone US-based already. In the future, we will most definitely have more resources to commit to recruiting to people currently overseas. However, right now, we are small so getting someone already here lets us move a lot faster. Thanks!
I don't think this is true. Will stock trading move to senegal because the NYSE has a per-trade tax? Will the rich move to chile because they're taxed less there? Wealthy people still have to live inside the system, they ony escape heavier taxation because they're allowed to.
Please, this is ridiculous. This is reminiscent of the NY times article about the woman complaining that she's only scraping by on $400,000 because she can only afford 2 vacations a year or some such.
And suddenly changing jobs means either moving home, or limiting your search to within a very, very small radius.
Sure, just like the airborne Raspberry Pi drone servers.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/pirate-bay-plans-...
This pretty nice. How would I use it to integrate with my postgresql db as a data source?
as strange that may sound, it might become true.
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