skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The corpusEN.bin file is the training data provided by OpenNLP which I used to split sentences (http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/models-1.5/). It's not the training data used for summarization.
What? Radio clock is a small radio receiver. How a receiver can interfere with the signal?
There's a very sad story of a kid who told his DARE teacher that he found a couple of joints in his parents' room.

This resulted in his parents being led away in handcuffs, and the children being taken away by social services, in tears. When he was asked about it, he said, "They told us that people who used drugs need help, and I just wanted my parents to get help."

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2010/10/welcome_to_the_ussa_kid...
More indicative of "this is likely a Good Neighborhood with low crime, good schools, etc. if a man who can live anywhere lives here".
>Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing.

He pointed that out. And he pointed out that the industry was still foisting it on him. That is why he wants it to die. This was the summary at the end of the article in fact.
OP here, thanks for the comment.

This topic is on my mind at the moment because I'm having to decide which features live and die as we migrate from a legacy platform to a new one. We're very keen to avoid unnecessary technical debt in that process, and to put better decision-making in place around new features as they are introduced.
I agree with the sentiment but as a publicly owned company it may be considered in breach of duty to stockholders to commit to such a thing. These companies are about only one thing: how much money can we get? If they make good stuff along the way, that's OK, but that is not their purpose. It's a reversal of proper means and ends. In our system, money is the end, creating things is the means. In a proper system, it's the reverse.
I don't get the body shots with people you trust part. What sort of girls do these? Honest question. In my culture we call such girls sluts.
I disagree

So you believe that if you do a body shot of off someone, you then have permission to sexually assault them? Wow..
The real name policy on Google+ makes more sense now and makes it seem as if this was the plan from all along.

Endorsements from internet pseudonyms are less recognizable and look weird/fake.
> Wordperfect still is very popular in law offices. Lawyers love the "make it fit" feature, which word doesn't have. Lawyers are always trying to put 17 ounces into a 16 ounce glass.

Word does not have a "Make it Fit" feature, but it does have a shrink-to-fit feature. You do have to shrink it one page at a time. You start with 13 pages and shrink it to 12, then shrink 12 to 11, etc.

However, the feature has been removed from the default Ribbon UI -- probably because only lawyers were using it. (College students tend to want to expand their documents rather than shrink them.)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2664217

WordPerfect has clung to a niche in law offices because lawyers are inherently conservative. Even then, Word still has a majority share in law offices.
So maybe global warming is not a good indicator of anything? Instead we should use some better measures. It reminds me of the average temperature in the hospital being perfectly normal 36.7 C (40 and -10 on average in the reanimation and morgue accordingly).
Yeah, you're right... It's way better to do expensive joins on the database where horizontal scalability is just a fantasy than in the shared-nothing www frontends that can be duplicated in clusters ad infinitum.

If you're building SomeSimpleBasicSite.com and you do this, you're probably a bad programmer. If you're truly facing scalability problems, it's table stakes.

Based on your comments in this thread you're out of your depth, man.
In this case this was a full time side project that had plenty of deliverables - enough to highlight why these would be a great addition to the team.
This is an interesting article and has generated some good discussion, but blaming Word for mixing style sheets and control codes seems off to me.

> Arguments raged internally: should it use control codes, or hierarchical style sheets? In the end, the decree went out: Word should implement both formatting paradigms. Even though they're fundamentally incompatible and you can get into a horrible mess by applying simple character formatting to a style-driven document, or vice versa. Word was in fact broken by design, from the outset -- and it only got worse from there.

Back in the 80s and early 90s, WordPerfect was the market leader - not MS Word. And WordPerfect 5.0 supported style sheets when it was released in the 80s, alongside the existing control codes that were already a core feature of WP.[1] Even after it supported WYSIWYG editing, WP still enabled users to Reveal Codes - essentially toggling from WYSIWYG to the underlying markup.

I'm not defending MS Word as a program - I hate it too. I wish WordPerfect or something better had won. But I don't see how Microsoft alone can be blamed for deciding to support both control codes and style sheets.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#Styles_and_style_li...
Not photoshopped. NOT. PHOTOSHOPPED. http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ind... [NSFW]

"I am death, the destroyer of worlds"
Not 3D printers, but there are advances in sewing robots; it's a nontrivial problem of mainly computer vision and manipulators, but it's progressing well.

As far as I know they already are able to make okay clothes, but currently they are more expensive than humans at sewing machines - the moment they become cheaper than workers like Meem, all those millions will be out of work.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Ganges

By any reasonable measure, yes, almost every U.S. river is substantially cleaner than almost every Indian river. Take fecal coliform bacteria. They grow in poop and they make people very sick. Western sanitation, for all its flaws, has largely solved the problem of coliform bacteria.

The standard scoring for fecal coliform bacteria is the number of organisms found in a 100 ml sample. In the U.S., anything above 500/100 ml will close a beach or river for swimming. In the Ganges, the count ranges from 60,000 / 100 ml to 1.5 million (!) / 100 ml. [1] Compare to the Mississippi River near New Orleans, where the EPA found averages between 382 and 2,528 / 100 ml. [2]

I'm sure there are other measures, but for the simple measure of "is this water safe to drink or bathe in," the Ganges really is one of the worst in the world. Improvements have been seen, but this isn't one where we can say "it's all the same."

[1] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MG02Df01.html
[2] http://www.epa.gov/waters/tmdldocs/ms_riv_3fc_tmdlsfinal_mar... (see page B-2)
Relevant xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/593/
if anybody with enough rep point on SO can edit my post to put my mockup image inline? that would be great :)

http://i.stack.imgur.com/HXb4K.jpg
There is very little true security in retail establishments.

This lady simply swapped bar codes on expensive items for bar codes of inexpensive items. Got away with it for over a year and made as much as $30,000 per month in some months:

http://miami.cbslocal.com/latest-videos/?autoStart=true&topV...
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It's funny how analogous this is to the underlying debate driving modern politics.

Should the state (Rockstar in this case) offer direct monetary provisions to the citizens without requiring productivity in exchange? The tough part is that both sides of the argument make sense. It's not fair that some players have had an unduly difficult time getting started, but it would also be unfair to diminish the value of the achievement of people who have succeeded by distributing gobs of cash to satiate the masses.

The analogy breaks down in that there's no inflation in GTA (as far as I'd guess, haven't played), but interesting nonetheless.
I am going to guess one of their test environment has an album with pictures of Tunas.
I'd suspect it is limited to Cocoa stuff, so GUI only. It should be controllable via a setting anyway.
> As an aspiring mathematician, the thought of not using LaTeX for mathematics frightens me. The thought of using Word for mathematics terrifies me.

Why? You can type LaTeX into the Word equation editor -- a fact that is little-known in the math community.

The main problem with Word for mathematics is that you cannot automatically number equations! What good is it to type equations if you can't refer to "Equation 7" and have the reference update when a new equation is inserted? That makes it useless for math, physics, theoretical computer science, etc.
> Microsoft Excel could just about cope but was struggling to scroll or filter data. Eventually I gave up and threw it into MySQL. The right tool for the job.

Although Excel has since been corrected for this use case[1], it isn't even the right Office tool for the job. That's what they created Access for.

[1]The SQL Server team built PowerPivot for Excel 2010+, which basically imports your data into a SQL db that gets embedded into the Excel file and transparently queried from Excel proper. Runs smooth as butter, and pacifies the Excel purists who refuse to lower themselves into using Access (I've worked with several of said purists).
Yes, it is psychologically harmful regardless of societal expectations, like a punch in the face is physically harmful. However, I read your emphasis on this as implying agreement with the common idea that it is irreparable and should have lasting consequences for someones mind, which is something I strongly disagree with.

I'm putting much weight on it because of two reasons. The first is that the only way Justine is going to be happy again is by dealing with what happened in a different way. The current way obviously isn't working: she's being selfdestructive. The only way I've seen work is having people change their assumptions and beliefs, generally taking up beliefs not shared by 'society'. I'm strongly channeling Nietzsche here: society has a vested interest in making the individual feel weak, powerless, insignificant and it is ruthless and cruel in the ways in which it achieves it. The second is that I believe preventing these things from happening is hard and that they will keep happening for a long time to come, no matter how hard we try. The 'prevent this' angle is covered well by many others, but the 'prevent these things from having such a strong impact' isn't. I believe it is a damn waste that so many people are made to believe they are weak, worthless, insignificant, guilty, for whatever reason, due to whatever history. I believe Justine is a prime example of what is wrong on this front. One incident had enough power to completely change who she feels she is, how she should behave, what she represents. This one incident has taken over everything. Why can it have this power? Because we allow it to have this power. And we are responsible for taking that power away!
I think a lot of this "gov is incompetent" is overblown. Complex systems like this rarely work exactly right on launch (and rarely launch on time). People have another 2.5 months to register before any coverage actually kicks in. This whole episode was just a layup for right wingers to torch government.
It's part of the current human condition, where people want instant gratification and don't want to take the time to figure out or learn a properly designed editor.
The Radeon driver is still, despite it's faults, a way smoother experience then the fglrx driver - notably so if you want to use a compositing window manager (support still missing from AMDs proprietary end).
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The Banality of Privacy As A Service
Remember that evolution article the other day? It's not "survival of the fittest". It's "survival of the fit enough".
No, he is wrong in this case. It would work fine. What he probably meant to show is that a list with a single item also has a tail. Meaning if you wanted to do:

map(F, [H]) -> [F(H)];
map(F, [H|T]) -> [F(H) | map(F, T)].

Order does matter
Hi, I focus on blog posts because I don't want it to be broad. This was because TextTeaser is my research for my graduate studies. And having a broader research means harder to accomplish. But it doesn't mean it can't be used to other type of text. It can still be used. It's just optimized for news.

I'm a little bit familiar with TextRank because I stumbled upon it when I'm doing my research. I also read several algorithms but forgot what they are called.
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Please calm down. Neither have I said that, nor do I believe it.

For unrelated reasons - namely that I don't believe naming and shaming is a working justice system and that it diverts from the underlying social issues - I would prefer to leave names out of such blog entries.

But the reason for my post is that I found the quoted passage to be one of the many oversimplifications that crop up again and again in these discussions.

[Edit: Rewording and fixing stupid grammar mistakes]
If you define a 3D printer as either something approaching a Star Trek replicator, or alternatively as a machine with a ton of different tools for specific tasks, then yes, why not.

In the foreseeable future, you really would need a sewing machine as part of it.
Certainly that's true. But that has nothing to do with sexism or glass ceilings (a term she's misusing here).
>Big corps like these: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.htm.... ?

No, not at all like those. Big corps like these: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/full_... When someone says "big corp" they do not mean "Jason's Deli".
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I do so very much enjoy the posts that say "Joe is an absolute asshole, pig and chauvinist and should be led out to the shed and shot, but Justine xyz...".

It says a lot about society that in order for anyone to criticize a woman, one must first seek absolution by criticizing the man first, and harsher, than the woman.
I think you've forgotten that alcohol is such a drug that makes it harder to resist. It doesn't matter why the drug is in your system. So this situation goes back to the rape category.
hardware security aside, if credit card readers employ proper encryption, that in itself would probably be an effective deterrent against such leaks, but only IF such encryption is implemented.
Yes, you are right, nowadays Vietnamese did not use Chu Nom anymore. I think the main reason is because of its complexity.
I'd like to point out that alcohol does reduce inhibition but doesn't actually cause you to perform any action you wouldn't willingly do sober.
This looks quite interesting and quite topical to a discussion I had just yesterday during an interview. I almost clicked the installer but hesitated. A link that discusses the impact and especially any issues if/when your product was uninstalled would be reassuring.
IS THIS REAL UFO,SINKING SHIP
You CPU doesn't have to run at the full GHZ when it isn't in use.
I live close to an area where, in a previous "gilded age", business magnates acquired large tracts upon which they established estates.

Over the subsequent decades, many of those were sold off and turned into -- often quite nice -- housing... well, "tracts", doesn't really fit. Nor does "sub-division"; the use of that word came later and also does not connote the upper scale nature many of these areas.

(Hey, as I suddenly recall, my home is more modest and is not located in the heart of the area I'm thinking of, but I live on what was formerly a substantial country estate of one of these magnates.)

Anyway, my point is, the trend for several decades has been that old estates have been broken up into smaller units. Sometimes, a smaller "core" of the estate remains as an actual estate, perhaps even in the original family, but land-wise, people have "downscaled".

Now... We in the U.S. appear to on the verge of having a new round of estate creation. Gilded age, indeed.
"It's his company, and he can do what he wants. Your opinions are insignificant to him. We as a society need to start learning how to deal with this, accept our place in the food chain, and obey those more fortunate."

I trust this was dark humour.

On the offchance that it was meant seriously, try reading some history. Especially European, and especially in the period 1914 to 1945.
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It can happen if you upgrade Apache and/or mod_php, and for some reason mod_php fails to register for .php files without being a fatal startup error. Then apache will serve the .php files as plaintext.

It's one of the things that make one-off .php scripts easy to deploy (just chuck it into the webroot). With a little effort, this can be mostly prevented: let the webroot .php file just do an ' include("../outside-webroot/actual-script.php"); '
Microsoft fanboys bitched that Apple took the flat UI from WP, but they'll probably give this one a pass.
chip and fucking pin. sigh This problem is solved, yet practically nobody in the US is demanding the established solution. Until we do, this is only going to continue.
> See the whole "Bing rips off Google's results" thing.
> No less than Stephen Colbert fell for it and the truth
> never got as much publicity. People still believe Bing
> scrapes Google.

http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... is a comprehensive and detailed writeup of the accusations. Do you have an alternative explanation for how the results for those particular obscure random text strings propagated from Google to Bing?

> Interestingly, the whole thing was instigated by Vic
> Gundotra, who's ex-Microsoft...

In that same article the author says he was contacted by Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, not Vic Gundotra (they don't even work in the same division):

> My last meeting of the day was with Singhal and Cutts —
> where they shared everything I’ve described above,
> explaining this is one reason why Google and Bing might
> be looking so similar, as our columnist found.
I have written a more quickly paced Erlang tutorial some years ago, it is not even online anymore, but here is a copy from archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080708140354/http://www.stifflo...

I must shamelessly say it seems to have aged reasonably well, unlike some other things I wrote I actually read it now with interest, especially I haven't dabbled in Erlang since and forgot some details.

I recommend everyone who finds fun in programming to give Erlang a shot, I don't think it's great for all the use cases (what is?), but, for example, for writing servers of all kinds it's totally awesome, especially with OTP, which I didn't cover in my tutorial. It's also completely different from everything else, even if you know Prolog or Haskell/ML, which are related in some ways. One day I would really like to get myself together and write something like a game server for poker or bridge in it.
So what if they can't access those?
Scott - I liked what you said so I forked to your music site. Very nice but wanted to point out that the links at the bottom left ("video/music/calender") don't work for me in Firefox 24 under osx 10.8.5.
I still use Word regularly, and yes there are styles in the ribbon, along with a panel which can be opened as well. But the ribbon only shows six styles (until you pop it open), it doesn't do a good job of warning when you have overridden a style, and it confusingly mixes default styles with user-defined styles.

There are a couple other big fundamental differences with how Word supports styles:

1. Copy/paste behavior. If you copy formatted text into a Word document, it brings the styles with it. If you pull a lot of styled content into your document (including HTML), you must constantly work to restyle the imported content. FrameMaker (IIRC) helps you remap the pasted text to existing document styles.

2. Character styles in Word have always seemed like neglected step-children relative to paragraph styles. Both FrameMaker and Pages treat character styles as full peers of paragraph styles and give them separate picker lists.
I have a AMD 5970. Default gallium3D are 40-80% of the catalyst drivers in the testing I've done, similar to the numbers phoronix gets.[1] If you're willing to put up with some glitches, you can enable the SB backend and bring it to 80-95%, especially at higher resolutions.

I have a steam account and several Humble Bundles. From my experience, the catalyst drivers always perform better and have fewer glitches. Many indie titles are unplayable with gallium drivers. From openbenchmarking, Unigine won't even run under the gallium drivers.[2]

What I'd really love to see is AMD commit to merging their Catalyst and gallium drivers/teams. Sure the current 1 or 2 AMD open source guys can get good results running Quake 3 derivatives. But without a full team backing them up, I don't see how they can test hundreds of games for glitches and performance regressions.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd500...

[2] http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1109040-LI-AMDRADEON19
I have done it and it's not bad. Well worth the trouble and makes a 2008 feel like a new machine. There are detailed tutorials online with pics and everything you need.
In lieu of a functional website, healthcare.gov put up a plan viewer
Does anyone know if the memory swap issues[1], which plague Lion and Mountain Lion, have been fixed?

[1] You could have 20GB of hard disk space free, but use XCode, Firefox and a few other apps, and soon you're down to 10MB and you get the dreaded "Your Mac is running out of disk space" dialog and you have to force quit all your apps, and type "purge" into a Terminal in a desperate attempt to get the swap released...
>how about you recognize that she knows whether it's true or not

In this case, yes, sounds very clear. But there are cases where it's not clear. The waters get so muddy that there are rapists that don't even know they've raped anyone. And lack of clarity only serves to compound the other problems.

Basically I'm trying to say that it's not as simple as truth vs. lies in many cases.
> obviously it's not for competitive players.

Yep, I just wanted to explain why it isn't :) Having to click rather than press a key is a big downside, but if I remember correctly SC2 already has a keybind mode that limits you to a subset of the full qwerty keyboard. World of Warcraft is a good example of a PC game that uses a huge swathe of keyboard, players often have 30-60 unique keybinds.

My point about the 180 was that you need a wide range of different motions. Sometimes it'll be 170, sometimes 145, etc, sometimes only 2.4 degrees, and if a mouse user uses 1 swipe when you need 2 or 3 you're toast. A common tactic for Scouts in TF2 is to stay in the air above your head, which from experience is basically impossible to beat on a trackpad.

I'm looking forward to the Steambox/Steam controller, if only because I have quite a few Steam games accumulated and the biggest reason for me to avoid consoles is that I'd be forced to buy multiple copies of games.
Sure, but the other players are sitting on 500k as well, so the warm feelings of charity are a little lost.
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I would rather they not starve!

I'm OK with children working in factories if that is the reality of their situation

At no point here have I said we should shut the places down, in fact I've acknowledged the opposite. I'm not saying we need to transform third world nations into first world, that is just absurd. What I am saying is that they should be paid enough to afford proper housing and real futures, not the slim possibility of working themselves out of poverty over generations.