skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semantic Databases can easily encode that kind of statement, adding any new kind of relationship is quite straightforward.

That particular relationship is outside the goals of DBpedia, which is primarily intended to represent the "summary blocks" that appear in the upper-right corner of major pages on Wikipedia.

Freebase allows anyone to make new relationships, though, so you could go into Freebase today and encode those dependencies if you had sufficient source data. This leads to it's own problems! It's common in Freebase to find the same conceptual relationship encoded using multiple different relationship classes. For example, we've seen more than ten different ways of encoding geolocations within this one dataset!

Semantic Databases are remarkably flexible, but -- as with Javascript! -- this flexibility can be its own curse...
Because you can sell it?
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Mail Transport Agent ?
>Thats the ground state of this system as they have designed it.

As I mentioned, excluding the bonus, and prior to the dollar surchage, that wasn't really true. The values were perfectly divisible by $2.5.

But if you look at the author's own images, the "Other Amounts" button is pretty prominent. Short of a brand new auto-rebalancer option, what would you suggest? If my claim is true, and that they wanted to have the cheapest transition / software update they could manage, that option would violate that. They essentially changed a table of numbers (I assume) and most of their old UI was reusable.

The next cheapest option that would satisfy your requirement is to blow out all 3 quick options (and eliminate the bonus) and have only an "Other Amounts" path, essentially forcing manual re-balance.
Thanks for sharing! hahahah xD
Isn't this the point behind Quizzes? You don't treat them like tests, you bomb what you're gonna bomb, and you improve for the real thing.
is this a porn comments scraper? The only thing more diabolical would be a youtube comments scraper
They have a history of not making enough money

Except, you know, when they discovered that they had an extra $1.9B dollars (surprise!)

http://jalopnik.com/nycs-mta-finds-unexpected-1-9-billion-st...

This has happened in the past too, where they magically discovered a surplus. I'd have to dig for the reference.

They are terrible at bookkeeping is one reason New Yorkers hate the MTA.
An alternate way to ensure your album is only sold as an album would be to design/compose it as a single piece, deliberately making it difficult for your label or anyone else to chop it up into singles. Obviously this wouldn't work with all types of music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(Mike_Oldfield_album)
If the company can increase the value of your share by spending the money rather than giving it back as a dividend, why would they not? Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is famous for never having given a dividend. Amazon is still seeing good revenue growth year after year, I see no reason not to continue down that path as long as they can afford the growth.
I've done it before and found it surprisingly difficult but not impossible to break the egg. In order to break it, I had to put more pressure on the egg with my fingertips, which should probably be considered cheating.
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I run FreeBSD on most things that I care about running long term these days, tho PC-BSD probably makes more sense for end-user use. I'll caveat that by saying *BSD isn't Linux, and it does a lot of stuff differently, so expect a learning curve and a need to embrace certain new ways of doing things.
I worked for a while for Morgan Stanley and have 20 friends that work in finance.

They pay a lot for IT. Good hacker can make 300k, but the main problem that big banks have is complexity. Years of M&A, 20 systems that do the same. Simply paying more is not a solution.
The whole reason for my comment was that I thought the analysis going on here was wrong. I put forward a pretty solid case for why the chatter up to then wasn't the right way to look at the dynamics here.

If we're analysing it and getting it wrong - how can we reasonably assert that the average, passive consumer is correctly informed?

The use of the word 'theft' was evidently an almighty error here. How about:

Monopolistic profit-seeking behaviour which is enabled by the consumer's lack of information about the transaction and a purposeful complication of the transaction mechanism

Further, in what way does it "disturb" you? Are you terrified by the notion that maybe one day you'll try to sell me something and I'll scream theft? What a spine-tingling, yet wholly unlikely, nightmare that would be. And are we talking Girl Interrupted-disturbed, or something deeper?

I'm going to get blasted for saying this but what I find mildly disturbing is the willingness of people to jump to the defence of organisations which are trying to screw them (even after a blow by blow explanation of exactly how they're being screwed) just because they're publicly-run.

Hating on econ is trendy in this kind of scene at the moment, but most economists aren't these mystical agents fighting for some kind of fantasy right-wing utopia - just scientists that observe things and speculate on their properties. Economics is fundamentally the mathematical description of aggregate human behaviour, and so any paper with a new idea that makes it into popular culture is all too easily interpreted as some kind of manifesto for social change, after which the hate piles on thick and fast. It's an unfortunate misunderstanding that's creating biases which could ultimately end up depriving society of a lot of very useful knowledge.
All the state-altering functions of Haskell are kept separate from the non-state-altering ones. That's what makes Haskell "pure functional" as opposed to "functional". The state-changing functions were designed after the non-state-changing ones, which is what we've been trying to tell you!
I've often thought that hand coding custom business apps from scratch (even with the multitude of frameworks, libraries and themes available) is going to be looked back on in years to come as a painfully inefficient and costly way to build things.

I run a custom software house. There's a huge amount of overlap in what our customers ask us to build in terms of features. I've longed for some kind of plug and play platform, that allows the us to include modules such as authentication, a reporting UI, workflows, email scheduling and templates etc, and then customise them to produce a functioning app as per the client's requirements. We've actually had a go at creating something similar to this in .Net and it's some of the way there. We use it and I've often dabbled with the idea of commercialising it.

I'll be interested to see how close this is to my vision...nice work :)
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> We're talking about a game in which, all parties stipulate, your playable character can physically assault a stripper.

That a work depicts a world in which it is possible to commit violence against women is a pretty weak argument for the work being mysogynistic, especially when that particular example of violence is not one which the game rewards, while the game does center around, and reward, murdering all kinds of other people.
Are You a Bayesian or a Frequentist? [pdf]
Neural Networks class at University of Sherbrooke
Rich text editing on the web is complex, Markdown is simple. Adding rich editing for something as simple as a comment box typically means adding something like TinyMCE: half a meg of JS to build the edit UI and attempt to paper over browser quirks and edge cases. Markdown is just a <textarea> plus a call to your renderer on the back end. It's offloading complexity to the user.
Because you can sell it for more than you bought it for. Look at Warren Buffet's Berkshire: You would have doubled your money in 4 years if you bought in 2010. They've pretty consistently increased the value of their shares without paying a dividend in 50 years or so.
Bitcoin Upheaval – NY Regulation, Summer Vacations and Media Coverage
Those foreign devils needs the jobs more.
- "You cannot update your server’s configuration without committing and deploying new code"

I admit while I agree with many parts of 12-factor, I have never full understood the rational for this. What is the rationale of moving from versioned, concise config files, to un-versioned ENV variables?

- "Due to Ruby’s lack of type checking, the following code has a full code path that is not tested."

Add this to your specs: Rails.stub(:env).and_return('staging') ?

- "Bundler won’t install ‘production’ grouped gems on your staging server"

Use identical gems under staging, or override Capistrano's bundle install

- "It’s easy to make mistakes when configuring code by environment."

How about defining a new config value in staging.rb? Your::Application.config.mount_admin

I may be missing something, but how can ENV variables scale beyond a few config variables? I can see an argument that we should all be striving for fleets of micro-services that will only require a few, but many codebases cannot and won't ever realistically meet this goal.
are there more distinctions than a duality ?
"You cannot update your server’s configuration without committing and deploying new code"

- I admit while I agree with many parts of 12-factor, I have never full understood the rational for this. What is the rationale of moving from versioned, concise config files, to un-versioned ENV variables?

"Due to Ruby’s lack of type checking, the following code has a full code path that is not tested."

- Add this to your specs: Rails.stub(:env).and_return('staging') ?

"Bundler won’t install ‘production’ grouped gems on your staging server"

- Use identical gems under staging, or override Capistrano's bundle install

"It’s easy to make mistakes when configuring code by environment."

- How about defining a new config value in staging.rb? Your::Application.config.mount_admin

I may be missing something, but how can ENV variables scale beyond a few config variables? I can see an argument that we should all be striving for fleets of micro-services that will only require a few, but many codebases cannot and won't ever realistically meet this goal.
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I suspect also that fewer people have used a Miele (or seen advertising for one) than a Dyson. They are not fancy, but are very, very well made and designed.
Europe is not a single country. Some countries have refrigerated eggs, some have non-refrigerated.

Denmark - European - refrigerated eggs.

See also: Every other discussion about refrigerated eggs on HN.

As far as I know, once refrigerated, always refrigerated. But if your eggs have never been refrigerated there is no need to.
It is, or as I like to call it, "keeping that old insecure library around forever".
Rockefeller was a human hurricane, a truly unique individual. He practically invented the modern corporation. He was also a product of his time. I don't think a comparison to any of today's tech giants could be anything more than laughably superficial.

There are plenty of ruthless people in business even today. But Rockefeller was driven by the belief that cooperation in business, rather than competition, was the way forward for society. The business he built reflected that. Eventually the world learned from his model and now business isn't quite so cutthroat.

But it took Rockefeller to create this new order. Someone so genius at business that there was no stopping him from doing anything he wanted to do. Not even the full might of the federal government could bring him low. Maybe they could have eventually, but the government's position on monopoly softened after it realized what the economies of scale it generated meant for our wartime industrial efficiency. There were other titans in that time period. Rockefeller stands above them all.
How big is the model? Training these kinds of networks is expert work and requires enormous infrastructure; but if they released the model, I'm sure people like us could come up with all sorts of very useful applications.
As much as I love the Nexus benefits, I really can't stand the weak batteries Google keeps putting in them. I'm sure it helps with the cost and form factor, but compared to other phones, the Nexus devices just drain out way, way too quickly.
Uber sponsoring San Francisco police militarization conference
Because Kay Sievers SAID SO! <insert boilerplate insults>

:-)
Very cute! Will you open the source?
Yup. You like supporting COBOL? FORTRAN? How about some PL/1 running on AIX or something equally as byzantine... M&A can ruin your will to live.
Still fundamentally wrong. They should ask: "How many rides you wan't to buy" instead of offering an amount to load after which you have to make the math on your own.
Unfortunately it's only for Linux at this time.
One easy change you can make is to give up meat at restaurants, which rarely use meat raised through sustainable practices.
This is shockingly old news. I can't find the LA Times article on this from 1999, but here's a story from the Independent, circa 2000:

"Documents obtained by the Independent on Sunday reveal how the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) - propelled by the newly-elected Clinton administration's policy of 'aggressive advocacy' to support American firms compete for overseas contracts - have immersed themselves in the new hot trade war. Targets have included UK and European firms. At stake are contracts worth billions of dollars."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110901092355/http://www.indepe...

EDIT: found it. Covered in the US press in February 2000:

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/24/news/mn-2072

EDIT AGAIN: And while I'm in the mood for digging, here's a story from 1995. French caught CIA engaging in economic espionage:

"In the French operation, the CIA was, in effect, spying for Hollywood: At least part of the mission was reportedly designed to determine the strength of the French bargaining position in television and telecommunications trade negotiations. The United States was opposed to French demands to restrict imports of U.S. television programming into Europe."

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-11/news/mn-55816_1_cia-o...
What is the performance of an attribute selector?
You don't want to increase wages really. Improve quality of life.
Search for "HyperTalk" in the transcript below the fold at

http://javascriptjabber.com/124-jsj-the-origin-of-javascript...

and you'll see what I wanted to do absent the "make it look like Java" orders. More natural language syntax, no curly braces -- like Logo, Smalltalk, Self, HyperCard.

/be
I think the key one here is "XHTML:HTML". Like HTML markdown offloads the responsibility onto the parser writer to figure out what was intended. So while I sympathize with Github and Stack Overflow, as a user it should just work. And usually does.
Did you mean to link http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg44948.html?
Interesting question.

One nice feature is that markdown makes text annotations explicit and obvious. There's no hidden styling. Empty lines don't have a font size. Its obvious when a bolded region doesn't bold the spaces between words. In the Rich Hickey[1] sense, markdown is much simpler than rich text editing because all you have to worry about is the semantics of your text (this is a heading) and not how its actually styled.

Weirdly, its kind of a huge throwback to LaTeX. Thinking of markdown as a "modern, simplified LaTeX for the web" seriously hits the mark.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
"Interestingly enough, after reading that, I realized that Google doesn't stand a chance in hell of beating them at commerce."

I used to work for a strapping start-up. Our competition had a lot more money, and people than us... but it didn't really matter because we were smarter in how we approached building the product.

The future of eCommerce is going to be very heavily dependent on AI & robots. Product Suggestions > inventory management > ware house > packing > delivering.

AI makes your customers buy more, and robots make delivering it cheaper.

As good as Amazon is at creating this infrastructure, google has demonstrated a mastery in AI, and they're purchasing every robot company around. The competition is on, and I wouldn't count them out.
Well, at the time, the kerosene market was declining and there was nothing bringing it back. Right after the breakup, Henry Ford finally perfected the automobile, and Standard Oil came right back.
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> I don't need games

I also have Moto G first gen. It launches every game I through at without any problem.
In Rails 4.1, you can actually use ERb in the `secrets.yml`, so something like this should works:

defaults: &defaults
secret_key_base: <%= ENV.fetch('SECRET_KEY_BASE') %>
default_hostname: <%= ENV.fetch('DEFAULT_HOSTNAME') %>
redis_url: <%= ENV.fetch(ENV['REDIS_PROVIDER'] || 'REDIS_URL') %>
debug: <%= ENV.fetch('DEBUG') == "true" %>

development:
<<: *defaults

production:
<<: *defaults

Though not as convenient as Figaro, I've been pretty happy with the setup so far.
> believing that because facts or formulas or arguments are easy to remember right now, they will remain that way tomorrow or the next day.

This is sad, it confuses education with memorization. I was fortunate in winding up at Caltech, which had a policy of open book / open note exams. The idea wasn't to memorize formulae, it was to learn how derive the formulae and then apply them properly.

For example, in AMA95 one of the lectures went through deriving the fourier transforms. On the final exam one of the questions was to derive the hyperbolic transforms. If you understood the fourier ones, you could derive the hyperbolic ones. If not, well, you were lost.

In Physics 2, one lecture showed how the characteristics of magnetism could be derived from the idea of electric charges. An exam question was to show the characteristics of electric fields given the existence of magnetic monopoles.

Anybody can look up a formula in a book, and then misuse it.
If that was a valid argument, it would apply equally to non-expired licenses, since people can order a duplicate of a non-expired license and sell or give away either the duplicate or the original.

Heck, people could, in principle, transfer the original even if they didn't get a duplicate. (There's a reason IDs have photos, signatures, height/weight information, and tie to databases with fingerprint and other data -- you aren't supposed to rely on the uniqueness of the document you are supposed to rely on the match between the information on the document and the person in front of you.)
Nice. I should have known to spend 5 minutes looking for a gem instead of writing a comment. I suppose the parent could have done the same before writing their ENV wrapping and a blog post. ;)
Honest question: why would I want to use ptel?

Glancing at them real quick, they're a T-Mobile MVNO and their mid-range unlimited plan is $50/month with 2GB of high-speed data. Straight Talk, which is usually on T-Mobile but depending on device and region also uses the other three major carriers, is $45 for an unlimited plan with 3GB of high-speed data. And MetroPCS, owned by T-Mobile, is also $50/month for a mid-range plan, but with 3GB of high-speed data.

Unless it has better roaming priority, I don't see what it brings to the table (maybe pay-as-you-go is a different story, though, if that's what you're interested in).
Don't believe the hype of pico projectors. I have one on a Sony camcorder and it's really not useful at all. You need a very dark room to get a good image. To make something usable in normal light conditions would require a super powerful multi-watt LED with big heatsinks and maybe even a fan.
never is a long time.
" I am arguing that Haskell was never useless in the first place."

Okay, let's get break this down. The Haskell project was started in 1987. Version 1.0 of Haskell was released in 1990. Version 1.0 had no monads (they didn't come until version 1.3). If you had to code something that was both pure functional and useful in version 1.0, could you do it?

"he is saying they are moving in that direction..."

Yes, of course, because "useful" is a relative term. It's a goal, but the work on making a language more "useful" is never complete. The sketch is not important here, it's just a simple sketch, listen to SPJ's words.
Motorola's new smartphones and watch could impact global markets
Descriptional noun.
Exceptional price.

repeat 10x
I've seen this tested with an uncooked egg. A lot of pressure was required and when it finally broke the mess was unbelievable.
I'm never sure what the point of these articles are. It's supply and demand. If there's a crunch, there's more demand then supply. When that happens prices go up.

So really the tl;dr is, companies want more talent at the same price.
This is a great read especially about making spam expensive to reduce or eliminate it.
At 2:00 a.m. EST today, Motorola’s product announcement went live to give equal attention to mature and emerging markets. The timing of the announcement is indicative of Motorola’s aspirations to increase its brand throughout the world with Lenovo.
Am I the only one shocked that online sales make up only ~8% of US retail activity? I buy everything I can online, and expect to maintain that trend as much as possible. Is this just a case of me being relatively young and affluent, or are there sectors of the economy that will never go online?
I think a stronger example of popular culture impacting criminals was the movie "Scarface" with Al Pacino. I saw a documentary about the impact the movie had on low-level gangsters even a decade after it was released (people acting, dressing and talking on purpose like Tony Montana), but I'm too bored to search onine for links :-(
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Shell access by default. A complete unix toolset. Some type of init system I can hook into to run daemons.

Logically separated layers. Not "you don't like the display server... well you have to re-implement everything from scratch yourself". You know, normal computer things.
Really awesome, I've been meaning to build something that can append data to rows. This looks like it will do the job.
Not sure but I guess they will release a 4G one if it isn't. I bought a Moto G 4G last month here in the UK and it's fantastic, really happy with it.
Tips on finding new business leads
Yep, I'm coming up on a contract renewal and I think I'm going to use it to resell the new iPhone and then buy the Moto G and the new iPad.

I just don't use my phone enough to play games or mess around with apps.