skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classification of the less-divisible "free-form" signs (especially those seen in narrative and spatial arrangements) is definitely a challenge to linguists, but that doesn't mean that they don't consider them to be constructed out of semantic or phonetic units at all. For example, different objects and methods of description are frequently represented using the same classifier handshapes, despite how varied their placement and combination can be.

On a similar note, the linguistic meaning of "word" is much, much fuzzier than native English speakers expect (letters surrounded by spaces). Trying to pin a particular level of structures across language categories becomes very difficult due to morphemic, phonetic, and syntactic processes that can break down word boundaries. (Even consider contractions in English for that matter. What makes don't one word when do not is two?) So the issue is, frankly, a mess, and many linguists tend to avoid using the term "word" cross-linguistically.
> Others, like Yahoo and Adobe, get panned for similar moves as trying to eliminate competing products or otherwise flailing capital.

Yahoo destroys everything it touches, except Flick (which could have been Instagram before there was Instagram...but settled on just being good enough to stay alive).

Adobe makes a lot of bloated, expensive products of questionable value. It's not a horrible company, but nobody would benefit from them having a monopoly.
In my field (Product Design/UI/UX) Photoshop seems to be falling out of popularity. It's being replaced with apps like Sketch and even frameworks like Framerjs.com. Photoshop is very poor for Product Design. These other applications are doing a great job of giving designers what they really want (easily repeatable elements, more precise measuring, better plugins, svg, etc).

I know the Product Design market may not be one of Adobe's bigger ones but it's refreshing to see it being used less and less.
The existence of a wronged third party is not evidence of guilt; the existence of a bitcoin wallet with the stolen funds on your phone, however, would be.

The idea that the digital world is so sancrosanct that it's totally exempt from existing law is enticing, I'll grant you. But not necessarily convincing.
Alibaba IPO ranks as world's biggest after additional shares sold
I'll welcome any technology that improves wireless speeds in dense urban areas. There are so many people on LTE now, that I only get usable speeds in the suburbs.
What if the giant computing platform battle of 2040 is TempleOS vs. Urbit, because everyone else got neurobricked by the iBrain/mindroid 0day of 2034?
ULA Buying RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement from Blue Origin
Why do you consider anything encrypted as an extension of oneself? The 5th amendment protects you from being forced to testify against yourself. It does not protect you from being forced to turn over evidence. That is where obstruction of justice charges come into play. In your example of refusing to turn over a key to a diary is no different to the government than you burning that diary. You are actively preventing the government from accessing preexisting evidence.
Ask HN: What are good spaces to hold a hackathon?
I'm looking to host a hackathon in the near future. Probably ~50 people to start, providing food/drinks, etc. I just need an appropriate space with good wifi. Any ideas?
To take this completely off-topic: I was surprised when the SCD had a good effect. I found it wasn't 100% accurate; there were certain food groups I could tolerate, and others that I couldn't. Which the diet accounts for; everyone's physiology is different. However, for what it's worth, I (and a group of people in a local UC group) found the low FODMAP diet correlated well (which is more recently researched than the SCD, and a little easier to manage). Unfortunately for me, my illness also overcame the strengths of the diet.

Here's the "one weird trick" part though. There's a documented negative correlation between appendectomies and occurrence of UC/Crohn's. There's early, but growing evidence that an appendectomy may work as a treatment for some types of UC (at least in the young). After my last flare, we tried an appendectomy -- the alternatives were a lifetime of Infliximab (which is expensive for our public health system), or a full colectomy (which, in all honesty, I was leaning towards anyway). It worked, and I'm now in full remission. I don't know whether it'll be lasting, but my related eye conditions (which persisted during a limited round of treatment with Infliximab during an earlier flare) have vanished too. I've since relaxed my diet, although I still have a lot of probiotic yoghurt.

It's worth checking Google Scholar -- there are some openly available literature reviews. I believe there's some discussion on https://crohnology.com/ too :).

Good luck with your illness. It's a hard road, no matter which path you take.
On a slight tangent...grey squirrels are considered an invasive species in the UK. They were not originally native to the UK, but after their introduction from North America they quickly outstripped the native red squirrels in population numbers. They are heavier than red squirrels and outcompete them for food. They also carry a virus which is harmful to red squirrels but harmless to themselves.

Grey squirrels are absent from most of mainland Europe (red squirrels are the native species). However, there is a small population of grey squirrels in Italy. The concern is that these grey squirrels may spread into other continental countries and affect the native red squirrel populations.

Earlier this year, Imperial College London revealed details of a study into the genetic diversity of Italian grey squirrel populations:

"Genotyping of grey squirrels sampled from Italy and the UK shows a direct link between genetic diversity and their ability to invade new environments."

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg...
I wonder which community he was referring to that he felt so alienated from. Some communities have a lot of cynicism built into it for some reason.
"The evidence isn't necessarily destroyed, it just cannot be decrypted."

I don't think there is a meaningful distinction between "manipulated such that it cannot be recovered" and "destroyed".
'Sblood and 'Swounds sounds more like Shakespeare. They are archaic curses (corruptions of "God's blood" and "God's wounds" respectively); they certainly wouldn't appear in the Bible.
Can't help but think of "The Running Man" watching Schwarzenegger's face being rendered in 3D.

It's terrifying to think that in the next 5 to 10 years we won't be able to distinguish a forged, high definition video of pretty much anybody.
This really damages the credibility of the article:

"These investors must prove a certain net worth and go through a restrictive application process to become accredited."

In fact, there is no application process whatsoever. No organization "accredits" an accredited investor, and the SEC doesn't keep a list of who is and who isn't. If you satisfy the SEC definition, you simply are one: http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm

Your status as an accredited investor is self-certified. If you go to a hedge fund with a sack of money and claim to be accredited, they'll take your word for it. All that the law requires is that they have a "reasonable belief" you're telling the truth. From SEC Release 33-6455:

"What constitutes 'reasonable belief' will depend on the facts of each particular case. For this reason, the staff generally will not be in a position to express views or otherwise endorse any one method for ascertaining whether an investor is accredited."
And take a screenshot. Makes for a beautiful wallpaper.
Sad to see. We were one of their early paying customers in 2009/2010 (we got a great deal). Performance was fantastic over very large datasets, but the bugs, storage requirements (very expensive SANs) and query limitations became big problems for us. We moved away after a year.

Just recently one of our team has been looking at them again (following a strong benchmark being posted at mysqlperformanceblog). So I went and checked out the forums and saw it was pretty much in a similar state to when I last used it four years ago.

Sad to see they couldn't make it work. The team was always really friendly and quick to help with issues - good luck in the future.
Why systemd?
Made an account just to post on here -- I actually heard about this on Reddit. General impressions are pretty good, I'm curious to check it out myself and see if we can give it a shot. Do you guys have some way to support the move from JIRA to Jixee? :)
> Most public movements only postpone what they protest against -- the labor movement stands as a classic case

The labor movement wasn't protesting against something in the future that could be postponed, it was protesting against the current status quo, which in many of the key aspects it was protesting against, it reversed.

Its true that over time, with less activity, some of those gains have been eroded, but I don't see there being any reasonable argument that the labor movement "only postpone[d] what they protest[ed] against".

If you think there is such an argument, I'd certainly welcome you to present it.
Is there any particular reason why PureScript was designed with a single number type (so no proper ints)? I know that's how JS sees things, but now with a whole proper type system it would seem like we should have proper numbers? I admit I haven't read the entire docs, is there a way to e.g. have the type checker ensure a number field such as a year in a date isn't assigned a non integer?
TED: Hugh Herr on Bionics
It might be more productive if you tried to spell that out.
Almost exactly: http://iop.uva.nl/news-events/content/2014/00/prl-egyptian-p...

just blogspam from JSTOR.
Terry is always a huge inspiration to me!
When a float does not change when incrementing
I keep wanting to take a small inflatable blimp and have it fly around. Infrastructure would then be a small landing pad with an electromagnet to hold the buoyant blimp up so the fans don't have to continue to run while charging. For charging i've been thinking of using the same tech as wireless charging pads for cell phones. This means I'd need somewhere the blimp could find as home to land on. As far as helium replacement I haven't figured out a sane solution yet. Combined with this rfid improvement then I'd possibly be able to finally have a computer that i can ask "Where the hell are my keys" when I'm running late for work in the morning.
You said, quote:

> young(cheap) workers are in large supply so people may actually be fired for asking for a raise

which is what I'm specifically asking about. Is there any case where this causal relationship has been demonstrated?

> I'm just describing, hypothetically, what a person's logic might be

Then we need to preach loud and long how totally mistaken that logic is. "Well Johnson, you're a model employee and get great reviews every year, but you asked for a raise so I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go." - never happens.
Exactly this!!
They were obviously done with a 3d printer, there's clear evidence of stepping.

I'll show myself out.
Or after 3 attempts, or whenever the delay exceeds the time it takes to re-image the phone.
I remember back in the 1970's all these "mystery" TV shows wondering how the South American Indians could fit blocks of stone so precisely that a knife blade could not be inserted into the gap.

Their conclusion, naturally, was that space aliens had done it. (Although this was silly on the face of it, because the rest of the construction was not particularly accurate.)

This nonsense persisted until some archaeologist figured out that such a fit could be obtained in about 30 minutes by banging and rubbing the two rocks together, and demonstrated this on camera.

That was the last I heard of the South American monuments being built by space aliens.

I figure most of the ancient construction puzzles would be head-smackingly obvious if we just saw what they were doing. We often mistake primitive societies for being stupid, when in fact they were remarkably clever in finding solutions within the severe limitations of their technology.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quando_el_Rey_Nimrod
Consider what it would take, writing in C, to store and compute integers in the "double" type, including range checks after every operation. Unless you go the asm.js route or otherwise ensure that your JIT special-cases integers, constructing range-limited integer types out of JavaScript doubles has a non-trivial cost.

Personally, it surprises me that with all the years of extensions to ECMAScript, nobody has added 1) sized integer types like word32, word64, and so on, and 2) transparent bignums, similar to int/long in Python.
Using the "float" or "double" data types could lead to unexpected results if done without enough precautions. For example incrementing a "float" variable could leave the value unchanged, for relatively small values — like 20 millions. Do you think that these dangers are well understood by the average software developer?
Looks exactly like DuckDuckGo's topic summary boxes, only I bet google spins way more CPUs to autogenerate them...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nikon+d7100
Exactly.

The 5th Amendment grants you the right not to incriminate yourself in legal proceedings. Diaries found with a proper warrant can totally be used against you.
Why is the USDA asking for submachine guns?
I recognize the writer from an excellent talk he gave on C extensions at BostonRB not too long ago. He struck me as a really talented and smart guy.
One could argue that governments can take possession of a computer with a search warrant, but even if they did, it violates the right against self-incrimination to have to give up your passwords and encryption keys. That's where the fifth amendment comes into play. It's my understanding that this is not settled law, and I'm not a lawyer, but that's the general idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_S...
I've handled my fair share of large scale functional specs (not as a freelancer though) and I've gone through the process of drafting a 6 figure SOW before. I don't have any examples to give you but if you'd like some feedback/guidance I can potentially help. Feel free to contact me (email in profile) if you're interesting.
I've been following his posts on reddit for awhile now. They're always.. interesting.
Having treated thousands of patients with depression, I appreciate the courage it takes for the author to "open up" about his experience during an episode of depression.

Adding to the other comments made, I'd emphasize major depression is a serious illness, every bit as "physical" as other diseases. It's a leading cause of disability worldwide, and affects >8% of the American population any given year. The economic burden of depression in the US is truly staggering: costing the nation nearly $200 billion a year.

Depression often responds to one or more forms of treatment. Medications can often help but significant side effects are a risk. Psychotherapies, CBT and interpersonal therapy have proven effect. Exercise, nutritional factors, light exposure, social support have all been shown to be beneficial to some degree.

The most important thing to do is seek competent help from one or more resources. There is no simple or singular "answer" to a hugely complex problem. There's no recipe or formula that will work the same in any two people.

Treatment has to be "custom fit" for each person, that is the art of medicine in the real world. Finding what works may not be quick or easy, but the effort usually pays off. No cure is promised, but most patients do make progress.

Success may not be easy, but I am stubborn, insist on keeping at it, using every tool at our disposal, and say "it's not a failure until we stop trying".
"Rotatable sued us and immediately asked for $75,000 to go away. We refused. And we fought. It’s Rackspace policy to not pay off patent trolls, even if it costs us more to fight. Eventually Rotatable offered to just walk away – but we refused again. Just as we promised last year, we challenged the patent and the USPTO invalidated it.

This means that Rackspace will not pay one penny to this troll, nor will Apple, Netflix, Electronic Arts, Target, Whole Foods or any of the other companies sued by Rotatable for how they use screen rotation technology in their apps."

It surprises me why there aren't joint defense funding efforts in place to put these industry pests to bed... Clearly Apple, Google and Microsoft would have been next on Rotatable's target list if Rackspace had caved - and like weeding, rooting them out early will prevent infestations.

Is it because the big corps perhaps view the trolls as worth their pain - what function could they serve?
He has an explanation on the website (scroll below the videos): http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/TempleOS.html
I would say it does matter. If its 1%, that seems well in the realm of natural error and probably impossible (or too expensive) to solve. If its 99%, then that is a problem with the enforcement or interpretation of that law that point directly to abues and seems very fixable.
If you have "showdead" set to "on" you can read his comments and they show some of the same racism and religiosity.
Yeh it's fast, but what's its Weissman score?
But they helped disrupt a trillion-dollar world-wide industry! That's a small price to pay out of their own pockets.
It makes me sad that even with his illness he delivered more working code than I probably will ever do. Maybe not because I can't, but because I procastinate so much and I really have hard time focusing on doing work.
I totally agree with one exception. It's not a thought crime when there's an alleged crime and insufficient evidence. You could have a situation where there's good reason to believe a crime took place but the evidence is encrypted. (ie: a kid claiming to have been abused with photos taken, the accused is found to have an encrypted file labeled "kids", not a thought crime just alleged crime)
My anecdata from hiring a lot of trades (sticker shock!), and having lots of friends and family in trades, is that skilled trades pay extremely well, but you have to go up the ladder. apprentice (crap pay) --> journeyman (good pay) --> master (great pay) --> own your own shop (fantastic pay).

The only people I personally know with paid-off houses in California are tradespeople and startup lottery winners.
I had only encountered the term while watching the carton, which all my friend did too. I didn't learn about the word's origin until much later.
Can't say I agree that "mediocre or even slightly below average talent" should be compensated in the "mid-$150k range" (is that a way of saying $155k?), so close to excellent engineers. This seems to misunderstand how market rate is determined (especially relative to equity compensation), conflate "market rate" and "the value engineers provide their companies," or defend high compensation for mediocre performance. The logic is flawed regardless, as "mediocre or even slightly below average talent" will actually provide the company with negative value, costing the software team and the company much more than they offer.
I have also just joined DailyDiary per your suggestion & would LOVE import capability for my previous OhLife entries as mlsenn & others have pointed out!

The feature of the 'one year ago you wrote...' would also be incredibly great to have and would ensure I stuck with DailyDiary for the future!
Alternative Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwR51ehiTlw
This has really bought rack space a lot of good will in my mind. Everytime I read an article like this I find myself wanting to do business with them more and more.
Indeed. It would perhaps be easier to rephrase - What problem is this actually solving?
I'm not sure I understand the problem, I meant that in PureScript there would be distinct number types, and the PureScript compiler would forbid me to assign an int field with a double value. The generated JS would be all regular JS "numbers" (ie floating point throughout).

I mean there are several compilers from langs with strong type systems, such as F#->JS with FunScript, and in those, usually the source lang has integers...
3D Printing Services at the UPS Store
Let me guess, you were playing Hack 'n' Slash, and the control flow statements didn't make sense.
Why I'm sick to death of being a “woman in tech”
Bath Crayons – The art of the possible
While I agree with most of what you've said here, I disagree with #5.

Feeling shitty because life is shitty, that's not depression, that's normal. "Depression is normal in our era because bad things are happening to everyone" is like saying "Well, schizophrenia is normal in our era, because sometimes weird things happen that you can't explain". The symptoms may be similar, but that doesn't make it the same thing.
Do doctors pay attention to negative randomized clinical trials?
On the way, https://twitter.com/ferenstein/status/514102348382474241
I wish they'd done some benchmarking to demonstrate how quick it is across different data.
Multi-year shift in DAST approaches an apex
Presumably the weight change you're looking to monitor mainly is volume of honey produced? Perhaps there's an analogue for that - maybe reflectivity of the frames or opacity to IR or some such?

Perhaps even just look at the heat retention against time accounting for external temperature (eg cooling rate at night vs. the ambient cooling curve) as that will give you the thermal capacity which should increase with increased honey volume. That should give you a first-order approximation at least (humidity would factor in to rule out waterlogging, not sure what the other main causes of hive weight change are beyond bee numbers which you'll also presumably have from the audio-volume and/or the ingress-egress readings).
The Possibly Forgotten Optional `else` in Python’s `try` Statement
I'd like to ask the authors how they managed to do such great/natural looking reconstructions of the eyes. Eyes are tough because they're naturally specular, transparent in places, and refractive.
This kind of advancements is one of the reasons I don't post photos of myself online. In a few years we will be capable of making videos with anybody's face replaced with anybody else's. It will be trivial to produce a fake video that can cause all kinds of legal troubles.

And yes, I realize it's even possible now, but with all the new algos and software coming out it will be easy enough for somebody to just mess with people's lives for fun.