skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a made up number. So what? It's not made up out of thin air though. I should expect to be wrong about 1% of the time when I make such a prediction (and if I'm not it's because I was over or under confident, and should adjust my confidence accordingly.)

So where did the prediction itself come from? My brain, obviously. And that's not a bad thing. Humans are generally good at estimating probabilities. It is essentially what the brain evolved to do. This isn't unique to humans though, there are computer algorithms which can do similar tasks, and mathematical formalizations for calculating certainty.

You can and should be able to assign a probability estimate to anything. When you open your garage door you should expect not to see a dragon. You should be very certain that you won't, actually.

You can't not have any degree of certainty about something. You can expect something to happen. You can expect something not to happen. You can be slightly certain that something will happen. You can be moderately certain. You can think it might have just as good a chance as happening as it does of not happening.

But you can't have no idea what so ever how likely it is to happen. You have to have some expectation of how likely an event is to happen, you can't have no expectation at all.

There is no such thing as a "separate realm" where ideas can't have any certainty values of how likely they are to be true.

As for moving the goal post, religion has moved the goal post plenty. From perfectly testable predictions, to less testable claims, to claims that can't be tested at all.

If you are upset that I, personally, moved the goal post, then just pretend that it was my ancestors that claimed there was a dragon in my garage, and my grandparents decided it was invisible, and my parents decided that it was impermeable to flour, and now I believe that it is a completely untestable dragon, and have decided that dragons are not a matter that is testable by science, and that I've been completely consistent with this belief.
No we haven't. We're targeting programmers who want to write software. (Sounds glib, but it's true.)
Way to contribute.
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This makes scala web development very fast!
The fact that the quote is pulled from a site named "disinformation" aside, I find it hard to believe that anyone worth reading would make claims as to why those two groups' workforce participation (?) rates declined in such certain terms.
He had already accepted the offer, attened product meetings, and discussed hiring strategy for employees, then he threatened to bail at the last moment. Don't you think that's a bit flaky? Since after renegotiation, he joined the company after all, did he then flake on the anonymous other company with whom ehe had supposedly accepted a better position?
If they are off in their own totally isolated little IE6 only world, I don't get why we care about them then.
I find Korean easier to speak and be understood. I know some Mandarin, but native speakers don't even know what I'm trying to say to them when I attempt it.
I've had the same experience with Clojure in vim, and that's great to hear. Thanks!
Hmm, alternately, don't make sweeping, unjustified proclamations?
Yes, I think agility is the most important thing for web app development.

Scala's type-safety is a very strong point but I believe that we shouldn't waste our time to wait too long compilation time.

Skinny framework enables developers to create web apps very fast as well as Ruby on Rails!
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In regards to the 180 degree spin, this demonstration shows exactly the opposite of what you say. At about 1:34 (elevator in portal 2) he performs a 180 with a single swipe from left to right.
It's very Austin Powers.
Now replicate MacDraw, FileMaker, HyperCard, and Microsoft Word 5.1 and my computer will finally be as usable as it was in 1993.
The standard, disingenuous "we stand for civilization" line that apologists of colonialism like to make. Not a single mention of the fact that England with all its stated commitment to freedom ruled India and dozens of countries around the world against their will for two hundred years, systematically stripping them of their wealth for the benefit of the mother country.

Notice how casually the number of Indian soldiers in WW2 -- 2.4 million, more than the other countries combined -- is slipped in, well after NZ and Australia. And of course they all volunteered out of their love for the Queen -- unrelated to the fact that a coercive foreign power was ruling their country at the time.

Honestly, the world should be too evolved to be accepting thinly veiled racist garbage like this any more.
Jebus christ, it's because they're close. Like IN the cpu. Not nuzzled not ON, not NEXT TO.

Hell, if you know and optimize for registers and don't know why they're fast, you should be shot. Otherwise you're using a language that doesn't really give you control over registers why do you care?

Okay okay, I like reading about the blackbird and I know that I know nothing about how it really works other than lots of fuel. Still. Okay, I'm a Hypokrite.
Yes, however he is still a higher up (President) and the new employee's title is vice-president with one connection from the president not manager or sr. connecting to VP connecting to president.
Wish they understood that in the USA South. Just recently moved here.. In the north, yes -- people understood not to call. I get so annoyed as everyone calls me for the most silly reasons in the south! NEVER is there a text first.
I think perhaps an even better place to try this would be where I currently live: West Virginia. The oil/coal/natural gas industries account for a significant percentage of the state's economy, yet the people who benefit the most from it are mega-corporations from outside the state. On top of that, most of the people in West Virginia are dirt poor, so a basic income would probably have a huge impact.
great advise
There's a wide, wide gap between not being at everyone's beck and call and being so wound up in your own distractable, techno-depersonalized self as to be annoyed by pesky human contact.
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The Obamacare software mess
Because he was happy to join the company reporting to her co-founder, who seems to be about the same age as she is (early 30s). And as I've pointed out above, he had already accepted the position, started attending company meetings, and then pulled out a few days before he was due to take up his full-time duties.
What is false about it? How is a copy of you not obviously you? The physical material your brain is made out of doesn't matter. I could swap it all with different material and you wouldn't even notice. It could be happening every 1 second and you wouldn't have any idea. The universe would be exactly the same as far as you are concerned. Hell we happen to live in a universe where it doesn't even make a difference. Atoms don't have little tags saying "atom 1265". And your physical make up does change all the time.

It's not the physical material that is important. It is the information in it, the pattern or algorithm that represents your consciousness.
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> It comes at somebody's expense.

Bullshit. You are not entitled to any particular piece of software, not a single thing is taken from you when you find a software license intolerable. So something isn't licensed how you like... so what? Negotiate new terms, or move on with your life and use something else.

Bitching that something is 'Do no evil' licensed so that you cannot use it is no better than bitching that something is GPLv3'd so you cannot use it, or something is only licensed under proprietary licenses so you cannot use it.

People getting upset over licenses that render software unenjoyable to themselves is the sort of entitled bullshit that makes me want to seek out the most obnoxious license possible. Somebody should make a AGPLv3/Do no Evil hybrid license and write some mildly useful piece of software to use it for, then refuse to duel-license for any earthly fee. That should make some people squirm.
Don't forget DMA which is like drop shipping with a guaranteed delivery date, like 3 days later, but they just shove it directly into the shelf
> To British eyes, the whole process seemed bizarre. Rules had been drawn up in the clearest language that lawyers could devise. Yet, the moment they became inconvenient, they were ignored.

I find it very difficult to take this seriously coming from a Conservative MEP (I note the article makes no mention of his party affiliation), mainly because his party is proposing to do the exact same thing with the EU Convention on Human Rights.

To wit, the Conservative Party has upon numerous occasions frequently chosen to ignore their legal obligations, such as trying to deport people who have been charged with no crime on the basis of evidence gained under torture, denying some prisoners the right to vote, and retaining DNA of those arrested but not charged with a crime indefinitely. All of which are, according to the EU courts, illegal.

So when faced with these 'inconvenient' laws, the tories are proposing to ignore them, tear them up, and replace them with a 'British' bill of rights that largely duplicates what's already enshrined in EU law (a pointless exercise).

I also think it's rather disingenuous of the article to gloss over the fact that Daniel Hannan is not without his critics, and that his positions on issues such as immigration are not, in my view, particularly enlightened. I leave it to other commenters here to determine whether it's really 'racist garbage' (as someone else suggested), but whatever he's pining for something that simply doesn't and cannot exist anymore.
I've been wondering why the government is supposedly so interested in what Schneier is doing.
-- snip --
I responded and she continued: “Right, well, it’s because you’re young and female.”
-- snip --

I feel like I missed some steps here. It sounds like it went like this: Person agrees to job. Person signs agreement. Person declines job.[1] The male cofounder contacts this person and offers more money, a better position, and reporting to him.

Then we also learn the author had been considering leaving for a while.

So three things in play:

a) candidate was offered a much better deal to come on board[2] and

b) maybe the candidate picked up on her potential lack of commitment, even the fact that in her mind she was not sur about staying with the company. Perhaps he did this on a subconscious level - making this something that would be hard to put his finger on. Comments about her "energy level" seem to hint that this may be true as well; and

c) maybe the candidate had an issue with gender.

A couple of other revealing snips:

"As a co-founder, your role is to attract the best talent to compete in the market" and "The answer is not hiring quotas or prettier bathrooms. It’s strong leadership."

It seems to me that - regardless of gender - it is possible that the author does not or did not at the time possess these qualities. And that is a deal breaker to certain types of potential hires.

There are simply too many variables in this equation to conclusively state - as the author has done - that her gender was the obvious catalyst to his vacillation.[3]

[1] Do you really want to hire someone who breaks his given word so easily?

[2] Actually this means one of two things: he went back on his word to another company, or he never had another job lined up and was just playing them for a better deal. Either way: not someone I'd want at the top of my org .

[3] Alternatively there is information omitted from this account that would make the rationale more clear.

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"In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements to shoot them down before anyone had a chance to ask if they were true or not... In 1940, any argument against Churchill's aggressive policy was "defeatist". Was it right or wrong? Ideally, no one got far enough to ask that.

We have such labels today, of course, quite a lot of them, from the all-purpose "inappropriate" to the dreaded "divisive." In any period, it should be easy to figure out what such labels are, simply by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention."

http://paulgraham.com/say.html
Is there a specific sentence or passage in the essay that you feel is false and would like to refute? That would be more convincing than mere accusations of isms you feel the author is guilty of.
But they are not just doing this for publicly shared posts. Even posts which are shared privately will appear besides the ad when a person whom you have shared the post with is viewing the ad.

That by itself is not a problem. However, to curate the post, somebody from Google would have to read it. Else, they have really good natural language processors.
In theory even non-profit colleges will want more money but for profit ones have investors and CEOs that get paid based on this year's / this quarter's performance. So soon or later the obvious will happen: shady advertising, more students, less staff and resources for them and so on. It's not like they care much about the college's reputation 20 years from now.
Well, CDs contain BPA for one. If you enjoy endocrine disruption, this could be your easy ticket!
Absolutely, and it takes CSS (preprocessors at least) closer to the LISP ideal of code is data and data is code.

Now that I've seen it, in hindsight I'm struck with several thoughts: 1) in hindsight it seems so obvious, 2) why didn't I think of this, and 3) LESS/SASS/Stylus/etc are obsolete.
Can you give an example of a specific sentence or passage in the essay that you believe is false?
But this wasn't a straight rejection. He had accepted an offer, signed on with the company, and started attending strategy meetings, then announced he was quitting only days before he was due to begin full-time. And if we beliece his version of events (about going to another firm), he did the same thing to them. that's very far from professional behavior.
Show HN: Runscope - Solve API errors fast.
Luxembourg's data protection commissioner Gérard Lommel on Friday afternoon confirmed an investigation into the activities of Skype in the Grand Duchy, following concerns over data protection.
..Lommel said: “I confirm that we are conducting an investigation into the activities of Skype. I also confirm that the investigation into Skype's activities concerns the supply of data of Skype users to secret services.”

he did reveal, however, that the probe was launched after the data protection commission had received a complaint.

“We received a complaint and are obliged by law to look into such complaints,” he said. “Our mission is to ensure that Luxembourg law is followed.”

http://www.wort.lu/en/view/luxembourg-data-protection-commis...
> No, I think he's referring to C# which runs on a VM.

This is not true. The CLR is just one of many C# implementations.

Mono provides a native compiler for C#.

Bartok is a native compiler for C# from Microsoft Research.

> You couldn't write an operating system, or realtime code in C#.

Except people have already done it in the past.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=5271...

http://singularity.codeplex.com/

http://cosmos.codeplex.com/

> It's not even in the same league as the other three, and would be better compared to Java.

Similarly to Modula-3, C# has all the required low level capabilities for systems programming with unsafe blocks and annotations.

It should be compulsory for everyone to learn about compiler design, before comparing programming languages.
Why has IE been replacing Chrome/FF the past two months?
D is more like C++ without macro and with GC plus some engineering features (unit test is a language feature? weird). Rust looks different and does different. For example, idiomatic foreach block in Rust is a syntax sugar of passing lambda, which is more friendly to parallelism. While in C++/D it is a syntax sugar of classic for-loop with iterator, which is more efficient in unparalleled environment.
The central premise is true, and bears repeating.
Remember that everyone above median income is going to end up paying what they receive right back to the government in taxes. Only half the adult population will actually see this money as a check and not just a tax break.
It was discussed at length here at the time even though it is new to you.
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He writes,

Here is Havildar Hirram Singh writing to his family in India from the sodden trenches of northern France in the same year:

We must honor him who gives us our salt. Our dear government’s rule is very good and gracious.

If you know anything about Britain's salt monopoly, Gandhi and the Salt March 15 years after Singh's letter above, you'd see how messed up this article is.
Monopoly or not, it's the only wsywyg text editor I've ever found truly usable. I now prefer Google docs for convenience but it's not quite there yet for composition/edit experience. Hoping for more good alternatives, if anyone has suggestions.
I'm not sure that's true, but that's not what this is about. When I search for something I want to know which places my friends have +1'd. I want the best, not the worst. I don't think Google is taking away the ability for you to see the bad reviews if you go click on badly reviewed local/search place.
The truly irreplaceable product is Excel. It is fraught with quirky bugs and limitations and odd conventions (how many people actually end up storing dates before the magic February 29 1900?), yet no alternative can hold a candle to Excel. On the other hand, there are solid alternatives to the other products in the office suite
an alternative is rework: https://github.com/visionmedia/rework. both absurd and rework use https://github.com/visionmedia/css-parse for parsing CSS. the difference is that rework already has a bunch of great plugins like https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer. i'm not sure why this guy doesn't leverage any of the existing ones.

the only difference is using JSON and JS input vs. a CSS string, but he could have easily written that in less than 100 lines vs an entirely separate framework.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of writers were less technically savvy, happiest writing in Word, or simply wouldn't know how to write in any other format. It makes sense from the publishers point of view to pick one format and stick with it, so they have a consistent editing style and ability, and only have to deal with converting one format into a final publication.

I do feel that this is one of those cases where you should be able to write in the way you feel best for you, and if the publisher insist on having the final document in a word format, it should be straightforward to convert your chosen representation to theirs. It's hard to say without knowing precisely how the publisher expects the file to be formatted, but if it's fairly straightforward, there are libraries that will write to doc files for you, or there are open formats that MS Word already knows how to convert into .doc files that you could target instead.
Since the title (headline) of a news article usually summarizes it, TextTeaser arguably is less an article summarizer than a headline expander...

EDIT it would be nice, from a UX POV, to request the title if it's missing, rather than silently deleting the story... also, you might emphasis the importance of it (because it doesn't seem important at all). Perhaps just labeling it as "headline" or "subject" instead of the generic "title" would help.
You mean do you support SLA?
"This was a political land grab spurred by a perception of female weakness. I’d acquiesced too soon and it was still my fault, but for a very different reason."

So there's a "perception" of female weakness which spurred the exploitation of said weakness and the female in question acquiesced? It may just be me, but this isn't about the glass ceiling, it's about the author perpetuating the stereotype that women are weak by doing exactly what the bias suggests.

Personally, I'd have send an email to the "company" who hired the "rockstar" and congratulated them with a little passive aggressive message of "I was quite surprised to hear he decided to join you after signing papers with us."
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I quoted one. He suggests the British found it bizarre that Germany would ignore its treaty obligations to preserve Eurozone fiscal stability.

I don't think that's true, especially since his own party is doing the exact same thing (ignoring EU treaty obligations), just with human rights instead of fiscal responsibility. If he found it so bizarre why would he do it himself?

He is attempting to project his own Euroscepticism onto the UK as a whole by making blanket statements about what it means to be 'British'. I think these assumptions are false. Whilst there are vocal Eurosceptics in Britain they are not representative of the whole (if they were, his own party would have a majority, but they don't - they're in coalition).
If Go can do, most languages can do, in an easier way.
What I'd do if I was in charge of it (and I never would be) would be to outlaw all semiconductors in the car.
Hey guys, I made a userscript at HackMIT last weekend that adds article summaries to the HN front page. It doesn't use the TextTeaser API (for the time being, at least) but the summaries seem to come out about the same anyway.

Check it out here: https://github.com/lukechampine/ADHN
No, I believe he actually meant LSA = latent semantic analysis, which is an algorithm used to extract topics.

I am also curious about how the NLP/ML parts are implemented, as it's claimed by the README on github. Briefly scanned the code but didn't really spot it.
I signed up for a law-over-internet school. I dropped it within 6 months - partly because I was unable to get any other students to turn up to study meetups, but mainly because the school's 'interactive' learning approach consisted of a book list, a to-do list to be completed at some point during the academic year (which consisted of nothing more than copying out a set of legal definitions from their study aid), and a couple of hours a week of Q&A that took place in a chat room that could only be accessed by an incredibly old and flaky edition of Blackboard software, and in which the Q&A was mostly from students to teacher. Going through a simple exam problem required a whole month.

I was (and reamin) furious with myself for dropping out, partly because it cost me a few thousand but mainly because I did and do love the subject and found the material itself easy and interesting - I am the sort of person who actually enjoys reading unabridged versions of judicial opinions and trying to 'reverse engineer' the judicial reasoning process. But I would have done just as well to purchase the books and sit at home reading them, the 'school' part of the experience was so bad that I actually felt more isolated than before I began. After attending a law student seminar where I was surrounded by hundreds of students from brick & mortar colleges my confidence took a complete nosedive and I stopped even logging on to the school's website.
Tell it to South Africa, or Rhodesia.
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I'm not sure it is still a problem nowadays but until some months ago if you used the zoom function of the browser Google docs had very bad problems rendering and managing your input.