skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I logged in here with a throwaway account just to caution people that for a small percentage of users it is highly addictive. Some call it 'hippie crack' with good reason. After using it off and on for years and becoming more addicted, my last binge lasted two weeks and I ended up in a dissociative nightmare with nerve damage and a rash all over my body.
No, it's more like saying that a toothbrush mustache (look it up) does not make one a criminal against humanity nor a comedian.
Who cares if evolution doesn't care (pun intended) - we are known as the hackers of this planet and we've evolved to start to master genetic engineering ourselves (for good or for bad), so, evolution will become less and less relevant with time.
Wow. I met Fabiano in an elevator once. I watched a couple of his games, too. Unfortunately he was so far above my level I struggled to comprehend what made his game work. At a certain point it just looks devoid of even the slightest mistakes. That was a long time ago.

That Carlsen-Caruana game, Round 3.1, is very interesting. After 15 Bxf7+, for sure! Most players don't handle kingside pressure so well.
"Both of them thought that independence was a bad idea, but could not provide much reason for this. "

The reasoning is generally that the plan is to keep the pound or join the Euro but sharing a currency but not a government is dangerous. The past decade of Germany's "fuck you got mine" agenda dominating EU monetary policy to the detriment of the periphery is normally used as exhibit A here.
Cloud in a box using Sovereign
Pattern matching seems very limited compared to subclass-based method dispatch. Using pattern matching requires you to know every case in advance. But most "standard" OO languages allow subclasses to be created without touching the original base class. This allows injecting new behavior into existing systems. AFAIK, pattern matching alone can't do this.
Why Marketers Fear The Female Geek
If the difference is just by one year, as one of the studies suggests, why not shift grade/age by one year for boys? So six year old boys will be kindergarten age with five year old girls, etc.?
Everything back then was heavily based on MU*s (ie also MUSH, MUSE, MUX, etc), for instance Designer Dragon (aka Raph Koster) came from LegendMud.

For those who were around back then, there is zero question that many design decisions of EQ were chosen as a direct reaction to the state of things in UO and evolving customer tastes. Put simply, the average gamer simply was not (and still is not) ready for the sort of sandbox that UO initially provided, but a Diku on steroids was definitely in the cards.
Really this, I hear from a lot of people that Apple products are shit because they are much more expensive for similar specced devices but no one ever considers the hardware outside of the specs. Sure I can get a huge Galaxy note XYZ with 10gb of ram but at the same time it has a subpar UX and is made of cheap plastic and cheap glass and a cheap display and has no where near the build quality of an iPhone, same goes for MBP vs Any Other Laptop.
They do. Pre-patch UO was much more of a free for all. Then the 2nd Age created a mirrored server that prohibited all but mutual combat. It took a lot of the excitement out of it for me. The risk/reward of going to dungeons and territorial feuds were what drew me to the game.
Just FYI, there's a fax API service similar to Twilio already named Phaxio[1]. Not affiliated, just a fan[2].

[1]: https://www.phaxio.com

[2]: https://www.petekeen.net/command-line-faxing
It's also possible that they're on a journey to Go, not FP.
I look forward to the day when people stop regarding businesses which operate online as "technology businesses" just because they have a webpage or an app.
I skipped that one for some reason - think I went from Espadair Street to The Crow Road and didn't like the latter, so I took a break from his 'contemporary' fiction for several years. I'll go back and check it out!
Yep, a fully specced macbook pro costs around $2500. I'm betting you can get the same specs at around $1000 - $1500 from someone else. What you won't get is the insanely nice display and build quality. You'll likely get a shitty 1080p or less display and a plastic chassis.
Minor correction: this article was written by Ben Laurie, not agl. (Same company though.) But you also mentioned 2011 so I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to.
You also forgot to include the money you have to pay for the lawsuits you will get for doing it. /j
This is still overseas cash, for which it otherwise doesn't have much use. What's it doing with its spare US cash, which is real money? It's using it to buy back its own shares.

Buying Skype, Nokia and Minecraft is gambling, but what are the odds that one of these will ultimately move the share price more than buying back a few shares?
Acquisitions with much of the purchase being done in stock. My understanding is that this is very common.
Hardly. First, it's not really a metaphor, more of an analogy; it could be reworded as:

My brain is to Carlsen's as Carlsen's is to the best computer's.

It's pretty obvious he isn't talking about his brain qua a biological organ. He's referring specifically to chess skills.

In that regard, the best computer chess engine in the world absolutely dominates the best humans. Even with a pawn or two removed as handicap, the best humans struggle to get draws.

There was a recent match played between the world #5 human (Nakamura) and the world #1 computer (Stockfish). Even when Stockfish played black, used a handicap of removing the b-pawn before beginning, and didn't use any opening books, Nakamura was still beaten.

The age of Human vs. Computer competition ended pretty conclusively in the mid 2000s, and the gulf has just widened.
It sounds fun, but this course covers some really heavy material. In particular, the work on PCPs and the unique games conjecture has won multiple of the world's top computer science prizes.
The rich typing of most OO languages and frameworks means that the "defined interfaces" are usually many and varied, and the system is less composable and reconfigurable as a result.

Unix pipes work so well in part precisely because the medium of exchange is so unstructured, with every "module" speaking the same language. You may need to massage the medium between two modules, but guess what, we have other modules like cut and sed and awk, that are not only able to transform the medium so that modules can be attached to one another, but themselves only had to be written once.

I think the Unix pipe pattern of architecture works very well in the large, and you see things very close to it elsewhere. C#'s Linq is fundamentally based on transforming iterator streams - little different, architecturally, than Unix pipes. The Rack middleware stack in Rails has a similar structure - every module has a single method, and recurses into the next step in the pipeline, and gets a chance to modify input on the way in and output on the way out. Both get their power by using fundamentally the same "type" on all the boundaries between modules, rather than module-specific types. It's the very antithesis of a language like Java, which even wants you to wrap your exceptions in a module-specific type.
Time for a Retraction Penalty?
They could buy an Instagram or two.
It also has knowledge about the world... So here for example we're training a image classifier to distinguish paintings by different artists:

https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/051a4cda-5c0e-423b-8872...

I don't think there's another language you could use to do that in ~5 minutes.
iOS is better than Android
Sure, and legally in many ways corporations are people. But in this specific case, corporations do not enjoy the protections of the 5th amendment.
One of the big banks has instituted this policy recently of firing a certain percentage of the seniors-and-above every year till they get become small enough. Now, do you want to be senior in this firm? :-)

There is a way to ensure career progress even when you are denied career progress : keep doing stuff and talk about it. For example, write a paper. Or write blog posts of this level of quality : http://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra/. Be good and be available. Then politics and denial of career progress at your current firm will become their problem, not yours.
In the same way that many recommend programming to interfaces rather than concrete classes in static OO languages, programming to typeclasses rather than concrete types (when you can't avoid that kind of dependency and write completely generic code) is an important recommendation in Haskell.
To my mind, this is a side effect of the 'Capitalism, right or wrong' zeitgeist we have today. Capital markets are fantastic for allocating resources, but if you leave them to their own devices, that's all they do. They allocate resources to the entities that want them and have the means to acquire them. They coordinate action, to be sure, but they don't coordinate action in the broader sense that you're describing here. We have to hope for the Elon Musks of the world to drive progress, but while there are actually a lot of Elon Musks, most of them did not have the foresight to co-found Paypal.
1) First off, what's so different about an IPO? The road show? Please. Investors aren't plunking down ~20B for a piece of Alibaba 'cause of a slick powerpoint presentation.

2) Secondly, companies routinely do secondary sales in which they sell stakes of themselves far in excess of 0.1%.
EQ was not inspired by meridian, nor was it the first popular mmog. UO was the first popular mmog by any measure. And EQ was inspired by muds (just like meridian was). They were mainly inspired by opposing camps in the mud world, they don't really have that much in common. EQ is basically dikumud with graphics. Meridian and UO came from the virtual world camp.
Seems to me that you were being interviewed by a technocrat not a business person. My reading of the interview suggests to me that you are a person who can see an opportunity for business improvement and implement a valuable and reliable solution.

If this project is representative of how you look at the world, then maybe you should be focusing on how you can solve business problems. That is you are valuable for that level of insight and execution. Arguing over Java 1.7 vs 1.8 and PHP vs AngularJS doesn't increase business profits and doesn't recognise your true skills.
First of all, the NSA is not omniscient. Second, the NSA is tasked with national security- ie, they don't share data with prisons even if they have a juicy scoop.
But you can't buy 100 shares of Yahoo! stock then turn 24 of those shares into Alibaba stock. Just because Yahoo! owns a 24% stake in Alibaba doesn't mean your ownership of Yahoo! is fungible with ownership of Alibaba.
A JSON-formatted return value would be convenient
Pretty good marketing move on their part. Though it could also be useful when you need an math/data image generated.
This can be easily done with "Faker", see: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
It can create fake names, locations, account info, credit cards and so on...
This is pretty awesome stuff! I'd love to tinker with it and it sounds like a few others would like to as well. Do you have any plans to open source this?
then wouldn't let their users export their photos

I understand the fundamental argument here, but were people really thinking that twitpic was some kind of online image archive? Are there lots of people operating on the assumption that twitpic was going to be forever available and available as an image catalog?

I see twitpic, imgur, Facebook, and even services like flickr as temporary methods to share photos online. Berating twitpic for not having an export seems a little bit odd to me.
An academic like that doesn't tend to retire, as they don't tend to be 'working' like the typical office plebe. He'd no doubt be making his own hours and effectively 'working' to satisfy his interests. Retiring is equivalent to stopping his passion.

My observation is that it tends to be the case with any industry-leading expert that they sort of transition into part-time work but pick and choose the work they do so that it isn't really 'work' to them. Holding that much clout has upsides.
After 9.7B in "profit" those legal bills as significant as they could be would just be a rounding error.
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> This is new technology entering the market.

Just to be clear: we're talking about a 6 year old company, and new technology that entered the market 6 years ago.

At this point, it's worth asking: in your opinion, how long is a company permitted to break the law after introducing new technology?
The Equality point focuses on Java's issue with string equality but doesn't mention that other OO languages let you overload == in order to provide the type of equality you want, such as C#.
The most likely explanation, which was suggested by someone else but unfortunately I forget who, is that the founder of TwitPic was simply tired of dealing with Twitter and their increasingly-hostile stance towards third-party developers (even though in this case it's a service and not a client). This trademark thing may have just been the final straw. And in light of that, being acquired makes perfect sense as it means the founder still gets to stop dealing with Twitter and let the new owners deal with them now.
The Santa Barbara outpost is rather peculiar because it's devoted exclusively to quantum computing.
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I feel "willingly giving some [privacy] up" and "being incapable of even assessing one's level of privacy" are two very different conditions to be in.
Or those rare cases where people upload it on a device they no longer own.
Right but was the small-town lawyer prepared to work with hotels or the result of thousands of home-owners with an extra bedroom?
Well, the article is beginning to understand!

Some recently reported research (I apologize for lack of a reference) explains that already in the crib girls are paying attention to people and boys, to things.

Then what the OP is describing about differences in K through the early grades is essentially just that the girls are more interested in people, e.g., pleasing the teachers, and the boys are more interested in the material, at least if it has to do with things, which in those grades it mostly doesn't.

In particular, of course the girls are much better behaved in class: From the crib, the girls are much better socially than the boys, and that means girls do better in groups, e.g., the social behavior in a classroom.

Next, in those early grades, the girls have much better verbal aptitude so do better at reading and writing, learning languages, etc.

Next, by paying more attention to people, girls have much better understanding of people in the fictional reading that is common and, thus, do better in that reading. Also the girls have much better understanding of emotions and, thus, better understand the emotional content of fictional readings. Also, as in D. Tannen, the girls are much more active in talking with their friends, i.e., their girlfriends, with gossip, and, thus, get still better at understanding people and social situations, including what is in the fictional readings, the classroom social dynamics, etc.

The OP also claimed that the girls are better at "math", but here I start to question. Sure, for math in K-8 or so, the girls are much better because they have much better clerical accuracy and much better handwriting (better at getting the columns of digits lined up important for accuracy). And, again the girls are better at and more interested in pleasing the teachers.

And, with some teaching and grading styles, the girls might be able to seem better at math through grade 12 or so. It can continue to be a really big advantage to be really good at sensing how to please the teachers, and girls are better at that.

But my experience in math (and I was a math major in college and my Ph.D. is in applied math), really, for much of anything like real math, the girls are a big step down. Somehow they don't get it; here maybe the main problem is lack of interest due to cultural stereotypes that girls are not supposed to concentrate on STEM subjects.

Last I heard, on the math SATs, the boys still do much better than the girls and, yes, on the verbal SATs the girls do better than the boys.

Then for the girls/women along come marriage and babies, and then on average their ability to compete with boys/men in most of more important work fades.
It's probably still valuable for Microsoft to have an east coast presence, especially if it allows them to recruit from Boston-area tech schools, MIT especially.
I believe this refutes your statement:

http://www.ibtimes.com/origin-ebola-outbreak-may-be-bat-viru...

300 mutations since May?
They kind of do, if you look at their offline documentation download links they say that they're powered by Read The Docs.
If you have the file then you're uploading a copy, not the original. You're never _moving_ files to Twitpic. That makes no sense.

It also wouldn't be smart because, as regular users quickly discovered, Twitpic's system often didn't work so you had to upload the same pic again. And again.

Then there's the fact that -- very, very obviously -- if you upload a 4000 x 3000 photo, Twitpic reduces it to the sort of tiny size that fits into a tweet. (Twitter does the same.)

I used Twitpic daily for many years, and I know it very well. The only thing that would be worth retrieving is the hit-counts for various pics, some of which went over 20,000. However, it's hardly a big deal if I lose those numbers. They're not of any practical value.
Correct. It does now, but it didn't when Twitpic started.
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I didn't say it was new technology at the moment? I was talking about when it entered the market and started to grow...

At that time it was unclear whether or not the homeowners should have tax liability or AirBnB. And it's a global service, the tax law is different everywhere.
If you're going to count stuff invented before 1970 that didn't make it to market for 20+ years, then you also have to count all the technology that is being developed today but won't be market ready for 20 years. Carbon nanotubes, nanomachines, genetically customized medicine, Turing capable AI, etc.

Of course, since we don't know which of those technologies will be viable, we mentally don't count them.
Call me a geek and I'll rip off your face.
> At that time it was unclear whether or not the homeowners should have tax liability or AirBnB.

And it takes 6 years to figure that out? Do you seriously believe their lawyers that incapable?
They didn't say that Twitter bought them...
Minor correction: Renaissance, not the 2nd Age, split the world into two mirrored facets.
Telling the Google Open Source people to use Piwik instead of Google Analytics seems like satire.
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Lawyers? You mean lawmakers. And yes, it almost always does take that long unless its politically popular. Which it typically isn't popular until startups employing the new technology reach scale and become wealthy. As we're witnessing now. Same with Uber. No one cared when they were blossoming.

Rational choice theory.
That is hilarious. Here's a Google search of all the companies blindly ripping off Wordpress.com's TOS: https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=%22If+you%E2%80%99re+...
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Am I the only one here that doesn't get what I should be looking for? I see the txt fields have google-site-verification and peniscorp but what is that doing?
I agree.

The 20th Century was the century of the computer, the 21st will be the century of the gene sequencer.

We are surrounded by a cornucopia of time tested solutions to problems and we now have the processing power to really start to understand them.

We can now sequence in days on hardware costing less than a family care things that used to take 3 billion dollars and take a decade, to say progress has stopped is asinine in the extreme.
s/make something people want/make something people want to pay money for/
Sales and Faith. With a pre-revenue, pre-launch company, from the entrepreneur's side, it is pure sales. And from the investor's side, it is pure faith.

Build a good story, believe in it, and sell it. I can build a financial model with the best of them. But as Brad Feld once said about all early stage companies, "Your revenue forecast is wrong." You have to believe enough in yourself and your company to convince someone else to believe in you and back that up with cash.

It's a bet and always will be. And like any bet, some are more sure than others. But lots of "sure things" fail, and more than a few long-shots win and pay out big. Sales and Faith.
I find the name "reduce" unfortunate, especially since the classic example,

(defn sum [xs] (reduce + xs 0))

(or whatever) only reinforces the naive assumption that it makes the thing smaller. It was only after playing with dozens of problems on 4clojure (a great site), that I grokked how reduce can make the input much bigger, or anything you want.

So in that respect, I think "transduce" better fits the concept of transformation, which is what this is all about.
He was already doing the CTO job, in effect. He's just retaining that post as well as becoming Executive Chairman, where he will still be in charge....
Very cool! Could find an interesting numerical instability https://plus.google.com/photos/109059794947950815445/albums/...
Then you have a poor understanding of what technology means. AirBnB wasn't simply a webpage.
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I was reading today of the first person to have a 3D printed skull implanted that was an exact physical replica of the one she originally had before disease deformed it.

That lady would have died 20 years ago, now she is expected to live.

Progress has stopped....bollocks we may not do showy grandscale stuff anymore but the sheer rate of improvement across so many fields is there if you look.
> The stronger companies tend to do Series A over convertible notes.

Would it be fair to say that the stronger companies also tend to have either (1) strong fundamentals (i.e. historic financial numbers to base a valuation on) or (2) rapid growth (i.e. the future is clear and the network effects are clearly on the horizon).

My general assumption is that most angel deals are done "pre-curve" and equity deals are done during the curve. Every investors wants to be during the curve as it's the highest upswing in short term returns.

The better argument here is probably - why are angels even entertaining debt deals then?
Another example, to show off:

By running this code:

CloudDeploy[
FormFunction[
"text" -> "String",
Classify["FacebookTopic", #text, "TopProbabilities"] &,
"JSON"
],
Permissions -> "Public"
]

I get a web form that can be used to enter arbitrary text and have social media topic inferred on it:

https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/0cda973b-8e12-43d7-a9d3...

Try something like "I just had the most amazing meal at Four Burgers today".
> "The question of how we expect to run the internet economy and preserve user privacy is becoming more pressing for everyone though."

It should be run like the economy should be run, with consumers paying for the things they consume directly, rather than via an advertiser proxy at significant additional costs to us all[1]. Then there would be zero need to violate user privacy except where it strictly required for end-user desired functionality, and users can vote with their wallets.

The invisible hand only works correctly with such a direct buyer-producer relationship.

This notion of "free" websites and web services is a lie and needs to be exposed[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773