skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great point. But it doesn't fully get the big picture.

If you had asked anyone to implement PayPal support 10 years ago, you would probably not experience +370% increase in revenue. It would probably be more like 21,2%.

But because it stuck around and gained traction, it is now a sort of "default" for non-credit card payment. Which explains the 370% figure.

But PayPal is "evil" and we know this. It is a centralized outside your control. It can seize the funds in your account. It can be corrupted by governments. It can be instructed into what it can and can't support by credit-card companies, etc etc.

That not how currency is supposed to work. You own it. You exchange it. You give it to who you like to give it to. Your money is yours to do with as you please.

So we need a new approach which addresses the centralized nature of PayPal and the ownership issue of the funds. And BitCoin does just this!

Today it is 21.2%, but who knows? It may stick around and completely decimate PayPal if it becomes a new "default" for non-credit card payments. After all, if BitCoin is supported and has zero costs and a lower risk, why would anyone need PayPal?
As long as the users want more and more apps very cheaply they might have to accept the performance they get. It has also been a problem that most OS's have different GUI frameworks which means you have to re-devlop every app/application multiple times. This is an enormous time sink. When all operating system uses the same GUI framework (and possibly the same languages) it might be very effective to use that instead of html+css. Until that it is still expensive and as I started with, the users want more for less.
Eh? Explain please.

They made a law of no free shipping, so Amazon charged 0.01 for shipping. Seems like a loophole to me.
I'll throw my hat in by saying I noticed I had this sort of reaction before I ever heard about it. Certain sounds would just cause a reaction I can best equate to getting a scalp massage. The sounds that trigger the effect are pretty widely varied.

It was actually pretty bizarre when I realized it wasn't a universal thing. In fact, I think the most interesting facets of the whole thing is this divide. It makes for one of those weird situation where if you don't experience it, you just have to take people's word that it's not something akin to a placebo effect. And I fully admit it sounds like it's made up, and I probably would be skeptical if I didn't have firsthand experience.
Cross-compilation is functional, and it's how you would bootstrap it. But in theory you could also bootstrap from the old compiler written in ocaml, but that would take ages due to needing a gazillion builds of rustc.
What is machine learning?
Hello,

In the wikipedia entry on Machine learning they mention the 'explicitly programmed instructions' :

"Machine learning is a scientific discipline that explores the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data. Such algorithms operate by building a model based on inputs and using that to make predictions or decisions, rather than following only explicitly programmed instructions."

I'm really trying to understand what do these algorithms really are and what do they mean by 'explicitly programmed instructions'.

How can you write for example a classifier using the 'explicitly programmed instructions' and how do we compare it to a ML classifier ? Does the ML classifier use heuristics where the 'explicitly programmed instructions' one will look for an optimal solution ? Aren't the 2 just 'explicitly programmed instructions' with different response time ?

I read some articles and did some MOOC on ML, what I'm looking for is what do we mean by ML. I'm not that interested in its applications.

I'd appreciate any answers, materials, ...

Thanks,
Actually, that's probably what is going to happen. Google news will will continue operating, just without the spanish sources.

Probably at some point some guy in some country without strong ties to spain (Probably not south america) is going to wise up, make some kind of spanish-content-only Reddit from there, and earn a shitton of money from the ads.
Not necessarily, this could still be cross-compilation. On the other hand, why wouldn't it?
I find it odd and funny that he considers a career in mathematics a distraction. He later says there's more in life than chess, but in this quote he doesn't seem to realize that.

I doubt I'd want to be world champion if it required giving up all those "distractions".
> I sometimes experienced a pleasant physical sensation in my scalp when I was especially intrigued or fascinated by something

I get this feeling as well, but the ASMR videos really does nothing for me.
> The issue with a game like Magic is that you can play perfectly and still lose.

This may also hold for chess.
> Everyone is great about taking time off, we are happy
> for people when they do, and everyone gets their work
> done and is responsible

Can you put that in to numbers? Is the average amount of holiday people take really ~ 25 days a year, with some people taking more?

If not ... how can it be a better system than everyone just getting 25 days off?
Concerning [], many people regret that there is a special syntax for it in haskell
This one puzzles me:

"One of the leading hypotheses on Earth’s formation is that it was so hot when it formed 4.6 billion years ago that any original water content should have boiled off. "

So where would it actually have boil to? I thought gravity affected water also in gas state. Just like the atmosphere doesn't "boil off", why would the water?
I wonder what his 4 letter personality type is.
no Spanish publishers will not be in either google news or have any news content featured the main google serps
As far as I can tell these samples are immediately bailing out of the Java framework and calling Go using JNI. Which means you don't get the niceties of the UI Framework. You could make OpenGL calls from the Go code like for a game or something. Maybe someone will come up with a Go game engine for Android.
I help out on freecodecamp.com they have a really good approach to learning this stuff
NoSQL is web scale.
The Hole in Google’s Mobile Strategy
A thought suggestion:
1.) why this is important?
THE GREAT CHINESE FAMINE - Mao's Hungry Ghosts book.
not against mao or china. Belief in Lysenko - aka "we will grow
oranges at the North Pole."

will the great famine come again due to BAD SCIENCE to the USA?
GMO crops / invasive pests / scientific 'POLITICS.'

2.) Of course will the science review in Japan, the plans are now to
DOUBLE THE NUCLEAR POWER plants, after Fukushima 'incident.'

3.) So, as an average citizen of the USA, sometime reading of HN,
I volunteer as 'anonymous submitter'.'

4.) I've noticed WORLD SCIENTISTS. that your code base is mostly
broken. Even engineering codes use Matlab - What in the blazes???
and compiler tricks.

Obviously, the scientists have NOT heard of Amazon, haskell or
even of open source software.

12.) Basic focus folks like me. yes, how many pushups did you do today?
even TRIPLE BLIND - see 'scientific method.' That means I as a
VOLUNTEER submit the paper. GO AHEAD AND ATTACK 'the paper'
of my repuation. I do NOT plan to be a professor at a majolr
unversity.

for the record, dropout grad school. and yes, I am still completing my
studies when I am a bit older.

Alas, I am not hopeful.

14.) first it was religion, Catholic Church and the inquisition
15.)then it was 'the great leader' like mao, etc or the
suddenly the ROBBER BARRONS like Tom Editson (high school
dropout) becoming sudden geniuses.

16..) now its, the game let's get the professor fired by going direcctly
to the Board of Trustees of California State U or others.

17.) when in doubt use the 'federal agencies' to murky up the waters.

18.) Tobacco is good for you and healthy (when in moderation) some
say.

19.)MY LAST SUGGESTION. the paper be chopped into parts.

I don't want to see the strange science or arcane languages.
I only want some of the sampled data to SHOOT HOLES THROUGH
using python and haskell.

the book is forthcoming - how to lie subtlely with Statistics and
meta heuristics... THIS IS THE KEY WEAKNESS OF PEER review.

Who is really a peer? and most are working at the same college and
same area.

want proof? See OpenSSH - and apple goto goto fail.
I think it may be partially attributed to what Bret Victor calls Picture Under Glass [1].

Bret talks a lot about how we use our phones and tablets all day handling representations of real things beneath glass. We are not interacting in a tactile way with our environment - not like we used to. So perhaps what's happening is that maybe AMSR viewers are yearning for the authenticity of touch that we are losing. This to me seems why watching someone paint their nails would be so potent for some people.

Might need a neurologist to weigh in now.

[1] http://worrydream.com/#!/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionD...
Mobile development will soon be exciting with the fight Go vs Swift
>A classic example of this can be found by searching for "laptop repair bradford pa". This brings up "Illusory Laptop Repair", located in the middle of a railroad crossing. A SEO expert created that phony business listing to demonstrate how bad Google was at detecting such spam. Google still thinks it's real.

This doesn't seem to work.
I don't get it.

The gelatin is simply mixed to go off after a set number of days. How is that better than a label with a date on it?
Of course, there are famous Spanish news aggregators like Menéame, which unlike Google can't abandon the boat and are already considering closing the website or banning any local news source. The "tax" imposed by this law is too big for making any aggregator profitable, and like other similar Spanish "taxes" managed by private entities, the law is so ambigous that you can't even expect to be fined nly once.
Oh, you're almost right. What you're describing has been happening in Spain for years with a blank media tax called "canon”, and more recently (2007) with its last iteration as "digital canon": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedad_General_de_Autores_y_E...

In the case of the digital canon the organization behind it (SGAE) had eight members (including the president) arrested and charged with embezzlement (87 million euros from 1997 to 2011).

I wouldn't be surprised if anything like that happened with this new AEDE tax. Just give them time!
No need for header files.
I can remember when I was in 2nd grade, and I had missed the assignment instructions. A classmate faced me and started giving instructions. I was totally mesmerized. Same happens today. Salespeople explaining/selling a product can also trigger this in me, and they're usually happy to do so. But in videos it's mostly miss for these types of things. The pop and crackle ones work though.
Doesn't that mean that the docs are lacking?
and all newspapers make heavy use of agency stories especially the free sheets.
For me, the coda of Comfortably Numb almost always does it. Interestingly, there is a refractory period too! I haven't considered it a worthwhile exercise to scientifically measure it.
If they added support for `range 10` to iterate 0-9 this would be useful for doing things a certain number of times. Now it's probably mostly useful for emptying iterators.
How I built a website
Isn't it reasonable that Google decides to stop operations if it doesn't make business sense?
Why is this new law only limited to news, and not to random things put on HTTP pages in general (which could also be regarded as a news publication)?
Hmm, this website design seems incredibly familiar :)
Or a Spanish language news paper in the states starts doing an international section.
War against critics is as old as the printing press, GamerGate another example
Move abroad. I did. I'm originally from Spain too.
What a superficial article.

That word - "braingasm" should be completely removed from ASMR and almost everyone in community (at least r/asmr) agrees with it. It has a very bad influence on the way outsiders view ASMR and treat those who experience these tingles.

I've had had number of arguments with people who after short search in YouTube assumed that ASMR is nothing more but some weird perversion and simply because number of the girls who make those videos are attractive. Had to force people to look more - to see that there's a lot of videos that do not feature women. Man showing his pen/coin/knife collection without featuring his face or body - yeah, we all dig that. /s

And here I thought author actually made some effort to get to know the community - he talked to some of the artists, but apparently either not enough or he didn't ask right questions.
For comparison, the market leader, First Data, processes about 50x that. $5B per day. Still, not bad.
I don't really see it - a language made for systems programming (read: non-application development) being used for developing Android apps? Or is there some other kind of Android development in mind, here?
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This is excellent: very engaging, very clear. I'm learning Haskell at the minute, and this really solidified a few abstract concepts for me[1]

NB I'd say my maths knowledge doesn't extend very far beyond GCSE level, and yet this talk was very understandable, everything described made a lot of sense. Very highly recommended.

[1] and I think will ever so slightly mitigate the pain/incredulity of finding x library has, in lieu of documentation, only a category-theory-related paper...only ever so slightly though.
"...order of magnitude..." - you wouldn't be able to even use internet if this was true, I would say "...somewhat...".

"One clever monkey does not generalize to the whole species any more than does today." - In that case the conclusion is that there was at least one capable abstract thinker before the next one already known.
One use case would be to exhaust a channel (that is, read everything off it until it is closed). Another might be to loop over something of a fixed size to correlate with a corresponding number of other things.
Would this book be helpful for those who live in the UK? Or is it very US specific?
Hm,I've ever experienced refractory period. I'm a man, so I'm well aware of that phenomenon, but I do not experience it with ASMR. If video quality is good and triggers are lined nicely I can experience tingles in waves without any change in my mental state. And after that I can return to anything I've been doing prior. Actually it helps very much to clear my head after lengthy coding sessions.
Or this: http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/12/11/0900Z/wind/surface/l...
Could Snowdrift.coop be the future of crowd funding creativity?
Actually, some fractions of the atmosphere do "boil off":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape

Essentially, because the distribution of thermal energy has a fairly long tail, it is possible for some lighter particles to reach escape velocity. The hotter the atmosphere, the more (and heavier) particles escape.
Babbage's language of thought
Because that's how it works.
I think that would be a very good alternative, some overseas viewers would likely buy a license just for this
The article is a summary of a ~five minute report on the Today programme. It isn't intended to be an in depth exploration of ASMR, just to introduce it to people who haven't come across it. Your critique come across in the same way as a Star Trek fan complaining about bring called a Trekkie rather than Trekker.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type
> The problem to me seems to be a budget balance issue: how can Governments pay for services that a large number of the population uses, but doesn't pay.

If the population doesn't pay, who does?

The way taxes work, is that the population pays the taxes to the government, and the government in return pays for/provides certain services. Taxation is basically just like insurance, coupled with some sort of progressive redistribution or wealth.
Is there some way to have a "Firefox shell" instead of a Chrome/Chromium shell?
>we could drop XUL and close the gap between B2G and Firefox Desktop

I hope not. Customisability is always the first thing to die in mobile 'apps'. As soon as that happens on the desktop, I'm moving to Pale Moon permanently.
They are not regular consumer ssd drives, they are the most expensive ones (among the consumer ssd drives)
I do experience, but I'm not a fan of a lot of ASMR videos and for one reason only - they don't feel natural.

From your description it sounds like that's what you feel.

You should check some other category of ASMR videos. For example those where people show their collections of various elements or simply some brushing without any words or videos where author makes candies from special toolkit [1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsiO8XcPo-o
Aside: I was looking for an SSD recently and was considering the 840 EVO. If you haven't heard, this drive has a write performance issue which has been corrected in a recent firmware update.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8617/samsung-releases-firmware...
I've also learned to appreciate slack when learning about Kanban:

http://www.everydaykanban.com/2012/07/27/slack-is-not-a-dirt...
...and fuck those people who can't afford to build a new bleeding edge gaming rig ever year, right? 


Developer arrogance like this is exactly why all software sucks. It's actually a lot worse than it used to be due to mobile phones, which are hugely underspecced but attract the same mentality of "my code is surely the only important thing users will ever run so it's ok to use 700MB for a browser".
CSRF vulnerability at cloudatcost.com
Wow, really? Do you have a source for that?
Always thought USA universities have at least some sort of basic security, given the history of shootings.
Here's a search of the go source for use of that: https://github.com/golang/go/search?p=3&q=%22for+range%22&ty...

Most of them are tests, but I see a couple genuine use cases:

1. Draining a channel until it closes.

2. Since range of a string gives utf8 runes, the RuneCountInString function in the utf8 package simply has an integer count, and does a range through the string increasing the count in every loop.
If by "playing perfectly" you mean making the right moves, not really. If the goal of chess is to win, the perfect player can't lose. If a person plays perfectly and loses, what does that make the winning player?

The point here is obviously that Magic has an element of chance that chess lacks.
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Here's a link to the discussion of one of the related articles on pubpeer https://pubpeer.com/publications/8EB4592F23B61CC3EE7CF29A752...

This is pretty factual discussion, and the fraud allegations are very convincing. Look at the pictures of the gels. (I don't understand why people use Photoshop to create fake images. You could create a fake gel in 30 minutes, make a real photo of it, and noone will ever be able to prove it.)

If I made a discovery like this, I'd also get pissed. I'd probably also contact the employer of this person.
It maybe, but this article and I guess initial report makes quite a number of mistakes which could have been avoided simply by checking couple of ASMR communities. They spend time on tracking and talking to some of the artists - so they must have had time to get to understand it better.
I can weigh in as someone who gets ASMR.

I've been experiencing it for my whole life, literally as long as I can remember, and I was born in 1990, before tablets were a thing. That theory is trash.

Also, painting of nails does nothing for me, everyone seems to get different effects from different things.

The one thing that seems to set off everyone with ASMR is Bob Ross:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX2AEfZpWT8
Ask HN: What algorithm is commonly used in Static Scope implementation
I am currently trying to understand programming language design, and I am also reading source codes of a couple of languages. I would need help in understanding how Static Scope is implemented. Are there some popular algorithms out there I might need to go through? Any links? And if there is someone out there currently designing and implementing a language who won't mind having a mentee (online)?
Tortilla – wrapping web apis in Python
Are All Payments Becoming Invisible? A Conversation with Square’s Jack Dorsey
Chances are, people in spain can still go to news.google.com, but news.google.es won't have any content.
I would be extremely surprised to see a language having no class, no inheritance and no good IDE become successfull in modern app development. Android devs are used to such a different type of programming, i don't expect them to accept banging their heads on so many walls for such little gains.

Ps : my stand is the opposite for server side dev.
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"That’s what happens when human work is devalued to zero cents an hour and people are willing to endlessly chase the carrot. Exploiters turn their exploiting up to 11." - well, that's an inherent quality of pure capitalism, so people got exactly what their ancestors were fighting for.
Quite peculiar, isn't it? So many people who experience similar feeling, but from such a wide range of triggers.

I really hope that it will be studied in the future instead of being dismissed as a hoax as some people do.
Try asking around some hackerspace in your city. SF has noisebridge.net and NYC has hackmanhattan.com and meetup.com
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Even more likely, is that it isn't 'designed' at all, but rather cobbled together by disparate interests that are variously trying to appear tough on crime, scam the system of as much money as possible, advance their careers, etc. None of these interests probably give a shit if the system ends up rehabilitating anyone, nor if it creates criminals, because neither outcome affects them in any material way (that is readily apparent to them, anyway).
Ten paragraphs before they expand the abbreviation ("Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response")!
They aren't all Flash. Some are Java:

http://www.matematicasvisuales.com/english/html/probability/...
Here's a classifier that uses explicitly programmed instructions:

def classify(word):
return word[0]

What you would do instead with supervised learning or other ML methods, is to give the algorithm some inputs and outputs, e.g. "Hello => H", "World => W" and then let the algorithm come up with a model that will know that the answer to "Sunshine" is "S" without you having explicitly coded that.

Of course, in reality you wouldn't use machine learning to alphabetize words. It's most useful when explicit or exact classification / modeling / prediction is simply not possible, as e.g. with spam detection.
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This American Life had a great segment introducing this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/t...
Testing the Firebird 3 protocol enhancements
If anyone wants more on categories for non mathematicians be sure to check out David Spivak's work and his book "Category Theory for Scientists" [1].

1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6946
HTML+CSS are better than any other layout engine and if the performance is good enough to make apps for mobile devices, it's good enough for any system.

Why spend time on other UI systems that will only end up requiring more work for a visually worse result?
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Hey! While your observation is valid, I'd invite to compare MailTrack's review rate per 1,000 installations with other couple-of-year-old startups. I guess you'll get to interesting conclusions. Thank your for your feedback! Conrado
I wouldn't bet on it.

Maybe you are not aware of the new EU VAT on digital downloads, which is taxed in the country of purchase, not country of sale.

http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/nov/2...

The way discussion on taxation is going globally I wouldn't be surprised if more legislation heads this way, or at the very least a presence test is applied to see if the company has a physical office in country.
Actually, it's about ethics in games journalism.