skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please explain how you arrive at the conclusion that an Earley parser optimises entirely for the wrong thing. What is the wrong thing?

Competing with a manually written parser is easy: Earley parsers are derived from a CFG in standard format, such as ISO EBNF or IETF ABNF. Such a grammar is much easier to reason about than parser in a general programming language such as C.
That link http://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/Galois.pdf (syntax - semantics as Galois Connections) in the comments seems pretty interesting.
It was actually the longest day in history where I am :)
Waw, there are a few quite cool products I didn't now before. And I know the community quite well ;)
Managers who hire specialists in a field (i.e. me) then proceed to tell them how to work. It's solvable, but the cost is me taking on the risk of ignoring managers and proceeding, or present the reasons why their approach will fail and wait.
I disagree. I'm from Slovenia, and in this culture both parents have been working parents for generations (i.e. both my parents and all 4 of my grandparents were working). Marriage still makes a lot of sense, simply because (1) people like companionship, (2) it's easier if you share domestic tasks, and (3) you need 2 people to make a baby. Probably other reasons as well, but these are the most basic ones, I think.
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I didn't know about it.

It does seem like the investment requirements might be a bit tough (50.000 pounds, disposable), but at least they allow them to be applied to the entire team.

I think the "impossible" part is:

"You can apply if your investment funds come from one or more of the following:

a venture capital firm registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

a UK entrepreneurial seed funding competition endorsed by UKTI

a UK government department making funds available for the purpose of setting up or expanding a UK business"
Sony hacker language
Is that what it shows you? I just searched for that exact thing. The first two were ISO standards, the third wikipedia, and the fourth a paper on crane hook stress analysis.

Not as good as a directed search by a professional, sure (and I haven't actually looked at any of those papers, so who knows how relevant they actually are), but my experience seems a lot better than what you're implying.
A package manager that only handles a subset of the software, in its own part of the filesystem, while duplicating a bunch a of libraries already installed is not "The package manager". It's a crutch.
Anyone thinks they might be holding off because of insane laws? Getting kicked out of your own house (that you bought with your own money) as if it's a given. Getting ruined by divorce, or losing half your stuff as if it's so natural.

I've read an article a while back. The cheapest divorces are those of billionaires, the most expensive ones are those of artists and athletes who married without a prenup. Who were naïve enough to think that in the case of divorce, they'd be the same as when they first met, and they'd treat each other with the same respect and love.

Looking at the state of things, the question to ask is How can anyone get married in the U.S.?
No, this is the place where you get with the program or get downvoted into oblivion.
No, my remark does not give any useful explanations. The main point is that if we start thinking about how our universe could come into existence from absolutely nothing, we could reach a model for it more quickly than by "just" matching theories to experimental outcomes.

Think bottom up, instead of top down.
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The same guy also controls a dirauth, not only exit servers.
You need to define the value proposition a little better. Maybe you can find some great ways to integrate it with startup investments too, you should check out Angellist API.
Especially when the media has better information than the customer.
Yes, I've just done it. I was already based in the UK, on a Tier 2 (sponsored) visa, but was wanting to turn my side project into a full-time job, which meant switching to Tier 1. The £50k threshold isn't available for people switching from Tier 2, so I had to raise £200k for my startup. Having done that (with 3 days to spare before my old visa expired!), I then submitted for the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur), and received it about 2 months later.
Prism is a good light-weight alternative.

http://prismjs.com/
I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time parsing what you're saying. Both meta analyses supported my initial point.
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My main development machine is a desktop that I assembled myself so the hardware was bought with Linux in mind from the start. My laptop is an old Dell Inspiron 1525 with zero problems under Linux because I did my homework before choosing it.

>Also the UI is far better than any Linux distro can offer.

I'm a programmer. I do most of my work in a terminal emulator. Openbox takes care of the rest.
I'd definitely echo @nkantar's comment, I generally refresh every 2-10 lines, depending on what it is I'm writing. I'll very often just dump out raw results from whatever database querying and data mangling I'm doing until it looks right, then start tidying up the output.

A while ago though, I was working on a C# .NET MVC application, debugging in Visual Studio, and the round-trip time for making a change in code, reloading the development server (hot-code reloading was not working, spent ~3 months trying to fix it but never did) and then refreshing the page, ended up being around 1 minute rather than the < 3 seconds I was used to. It was amazing how much this affected my productivity, it was a severe hit.
GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring software engineers and designers in London
Can you post a message?
Fintech in Germany Is Quietly Big but Lacking a City Magnet
Digital Life in 2025: the Future of Privacy [pdf]
Okay, so on what do you base your belief of HFT, Uber and "traditional capitalism"? I have to assume that information inferred from data.

HFT is the easiest, it provides liquidity, helps to keep spreads narrow, flash crashes are nasty, but so rare there have been only 2 (and the cost of those was minimal, a few failed margin calls, oh noes).

Uber is tricky, because it's run by assholes, but that's not really different from the taxi (cab) industry in most cities. Plus they skirt the law, which was largely instituted to protect the interests of the incumbent taxi companies. It arguably helps to make the taxi market healthier, thanks to its increased efficiency, lower prices (larger supply), which leads to a bigger overall market, which likely leads to better relative wage for drivers. The potential negative externality happens when demand dries up, drivers are forced out of the market pretty fast, due to the more efficient pricing they must apply (or lose market share). And of course, Uber has competition Lyft (in the US) and Wundercar (in Europe) comes to mind.

And on traditional capitalism, the simple truth is that it's inescapable. People are locally rational, they have limited information, and oftentimes they have utility function that are non-optimal even locally, but they are rational nonetheless, and again, people are price sensitive. So capitalism is just the machine of progress that seeks more efficient allocation of capital. And even if you do away with property ownership (and try to opt for a temporary property possession model) you'll find that other types of capital still remain, they just get more perversely important (human capital, who knows who's who, influence, reputation, use of force, and so on).

And you can see that for these inferences you need evidence, but these are not single instance based cases like the Sony hack. It's much more sound and safe to trust and act upon these aggregates, than upon a single FBI "post" and the resulting drama.
I'd like to know also.
It's not the current rate that is important, it's the trend. People marrying today will be getting divorced in 10-20 years; by then, the divorce rate could well be way more than 50%.
Maybe you haven't invested enough time in choosing and getting to know your distro. My Gentoo Linux ~amd64 is the most reliable system I encountered and it's being rebooted only when I want to upgrade the kernel.
I'm not sure what is meant by the main marketing activity going from "links and algorithms" to "shares and people".

In 2000s, a lot of time was spent on getting people to give you links back to your site - PR teams generating content, viral/guerrilla marketing that people posted on their blogs, etc.

In 2010s, understanding the algorithms that decide when to show what content to whom is essential. If you just buy a load of advertising on social media and hope that people see it, like it and share it, you're going to burn through a lot of money very quickly.

It sounds great to say "wow, we're going through another revolution!" but in reality, social media is just another channel that sits alongside search.

For me, the biggest change is how we share stuff:

* Private to public - we used to share stuff either offline, or through email, with a small select group of people. Now we typically share things on Facebook or Twitter, where it's either completely public, or with a large group of people that we barely know.

* Unstructured to structured - we used to share 'stuff'. Maybe it was a picture of my son, maybe a set of funny picture of cats, or an urban legend about some guy dying in a bath. Maybe the recipients were my colleagues, my family, my friends from university - the platform had very little idea. Now the content that we share is analysed in detail. The platform can be precise about the nature of the content, who it's shared with (and who reads it and then re-shares it).

* Distributed to centralised - rather than millions of independent Wordpress, PHPBB and email servers, we now predominantly use a few platforms - Facebook, Twitter (plus a few smaller ones like Reddit, Hacker News).

For me, those are the biggest changes. And now that much of our lives are public, centralised and structured, it's fairly easy to sell targeted advertising in a way that would either have been impossible or ineffective 10 years ago.
Do you have a working URL?
Trade Agreements Aren't the Place for Internet Regulations
you might wanna rephrase the 'impossible' to 'difficult'.
I don't believe that is meant exclusively: You can get your funds from other sources, but funds originating in the UK are valid as well. There is no requirement that this be inward investment.
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I am interested to hear about practical application of type theory and how it helped solve real world software and hardware problem better.
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More ad-ridden crap. No thanks!
There are tens of popular Linux distributions out there. Choose one that doesn't rely on PulseAudio instead of caving in for the shiny GUI and the used car salesman bullshit.
I really do hope that the FBI's "secret" evidence was quite a bit more substantial than this. I'd like to know what it was—it's really irrational to accuse someone, especially the North Korean government, and with no one to verify their claim, the FBI does not seem smart. Of course they may have no secret evidence at all and are making this up which is much, much, worse.
For simple languages they are easier to maintain than a custom parser.
Introduction to i3 tiling window manager for *NIX
I was lucky to be an old sack. I moved from mainframes to so called open systems, around the time when IBM decided to ship OS without source code. And when the dot.com burst, I had my mainframe skills, still rusty but good enough that my Y2K PTFs had been the ones distributed by CBT Tapes. So I was in hot demand to supervise Y2K tests, and later to migrate mainframe scripts and applications to Unix.

I did not stay in enterprise for long. I like mainframes, but I hate the culture of big companies. I next helped founding a university, and when tired by ivory tower, I left uni to fund a company to focus on machine learning for industrial applications.

So, most important advise from an old sack: stay flexible, and dont be surprised that old skills in solid technology might be worth good money at the moment when the hypes end.
Most "enterprise" things are mainly server-side and the mobile clients are just CRUD interfaces, so yes, some of it would be considered enterprise, but only the really boring stuff.
Contact @techhub on Twitter - I think there are quite a few people there who got visas, and some startups who arranged them as well.
An incomplete guide to Facebook thrift
http://eocean.pk/sms-services/short-code-management/
http://eocean.pk/sms-services/short-code-management/
EOCEAN provide Short Code sms services. Short codes are 4 or 5 digit numbers which provide a 2 way communication
Get a free Jawbone/Fitbit/Misfit/Withings device from @addappio
Nice that it found a niche there.

That's however orthogonal to what I wrote, I think.

It's not like it has a software ecosystem, community, drivers, etc, to be adopted over any major OSes as something that "all others being equal" is also "formally verified".
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You can read more on the press release: http://addapp.pr.co/92748-addapp-labs-launches-to-better-und...

This is not a scam but an actual program to help verify our data collection methods.
Nice! That's almost as fast as the C++ one using caching; your algorithm must be better.
> I like the game for an open-source project, but as a serious project, it's not very difficult to program otherwise(no pun intended).

I don't think that's a very good comment. Obviously this isn't the next Angry Birds, but it's a fun diversion during the Christmas week. It's a game a hacker should love - it's obviously just a simple clone of something else, but it's one obviously made for the right reasons (probably learning and/or "shits and giggles") and comes from a spirit of whimsy.

Or I could just be high on the Christmas tree air freshener my girlfriend put in my car. :)

Happy Holidays.
Sorry I'm a bit late.

No. It's not possible to guess someone else's article (I guess you probably mean reading records here). Those reading records must be get or set with a cookie that indicate the user has logged in with the right account (which is done by ajax in the code).
You make a claim here but don't back it up.

I think that a functional program, compiled to native code is STILL a functional program. You seem to not think that. Edit: If so, why?

Edit 2: Oh, maybe your point is that FP is statically typed?
Islamist groups are not so fixated on martyrdom and the proverbial 72 virgins as you may have been led to believe.
> For example, the FBI discovered that several Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with known North Korean infrastructure communicated with IP addresses that were hardcoded into the data deletion malware used in this attack.

The biggest surprise was the IP address traced to NY. Why wouldn't the FBI seize this system?
I never thought of that before—as much as I'd love to get rid of this advertising-centric business model, I wouldn't want to go through another crash.
Or a smokescreen to keep the market balanced more in their favor...
That's a good summary. I'd like to add a fourth group of which I was a part: people who were trying out startups but weren't entrepreneurial. We went back to being employees for mid-size/larger companies.
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I usually just tell myself "bad code gets run". Optimizing string concatenations and the like is something I can do after the code is done, doesn't leak, and has enough form that I can write function tests around it.

Its not something to do before.
Third try is a charm: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.html?pg=2
>The erratic price prevents it from being a store of value or a unit of account.

Which doesn't matter. That's the entire point of the author's article.

It's unfortunate that the majority of HN comments are about "currency" and "medium of value" in response to this particular article. The author tried to talk about The Other Interesting Thing that seems to be flying under everyone's radar: the authentication of information by distributed digital consensus instead of a central institution.

That's why the author tried to use the Linux analogy. While many folks were measuring success via the meme/joke "2001, 2004, 2014, etc is the Year of the Linux Desktop!", Linux has quietly "won" on the backend servers, on Android phones, on cable DVR boxes, in Raspberry Pi, etc. The desktop as a health indicator of "Linux success" becomes irrelevant.

Linux: ignore "desktop war" and substitute "servers, internet-of-things, embedded devices"

Bitcoin: ignore "currency vox populi" and substitute "decentralized trust of information."

To meta analyze why the discussion about Bitcoin's "other" tech possibilities is always derailed by "currency" and "fluctuations", I think it's due to:

--The word "coin" embedded in the name "bitcoin"

--5 years of breathless hype stories (on HN and elsewhere) around bitcoins rising

--Silk Road money laundering, etc

Since bitcoin is so tainted now with "currency", we need a mental reset. Here's what the author is saying the world wants:

The time is ripe and the underlying technology exists (internet reach, cryptographic hashes, etc) for the adoption of a decentralized authentication of information platform.

Let's think about it. If we were to list the technical requirements for a "decentralized authentication of information" service, it would include things like cryptographic hashes, block chains, a transaction API, etc. Basically, it would end up looking a lot like Bitcoin!

We could call the service GitHogAnyInfo (to riff on the names of decentralized source code Git Mercurial). Or call it ConsensusInfo or whatever. Just call it any name that does not have "coin", "doge", or "money" embedded in it. If you do that, everyone's brain shuts down and we get trapped in the discussion about "currency fluctuations".

For example, look at these:

https://www.globalsign.com/en/timestamp-service/

https://www.digistamp.com/technical/how-a-digital-time-stamp...

Neither of those services have "currency" anywhere in their description. Can a bitcoin-as-info-platform instead of bitcoin-as-currency compete with, or replace services like those? That's the thesis the author is trying to convey. That's the angle the SV investors are envisioning.
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I think there's a lot being said about blockchains because of Bitcoin, but other then Bitcoin I haven't seen any appreciable or desirable uses of them. At the end of the day, you're spending a lot of power and CPU cycles on something very transient.

EDIT: This is distinct from various toy applications of the "you could do this with a blockchain..."
Very nice interview

"The Italian culture is a big part of the things I try to make. One of the main characteristics of stuff I make is that they are "strange", don't resemble how a given problem was solved in the past, and I believe that this is a common Italian trait. Also I try to make things that are simple, but trying to get the fine details right"

This is something to think about, and I believe this is right (even though Italians make this too weird sometimes - e.g. excess bureaucracy)

"Your parents are your first VCs, they are investing into you in a moment where you are full of energies."

Heh, typical Italian. (Not complaining,though)
This little tool is neat for making quick flexbox structures: http://maxsteenbergen.com/fibonacci/
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With addition, subtraction, multiplication, power and streaming operators.
I like what the author is suggesting. It's thought-provoking and is consistent with many experiences I've had in life.

An interesting analog in the arts is the notion that a chosen or imposed constraint can provoke creativity and open up new possibilities.
Keep in mind that the majority of the 22M EUR has been spent in the past on various P2P aspects (e.g., semantic overlay for search, modifying BitTorrent for live streams, modifying BitTorrent for Video on Demand). The anonymity/privacy aspect is quite new for Tribler (< 1 year).
"Kennedy personally rejected the Northwoods proposal"

So you've got:
1) something that was proposed but never happened
2) Al-Qaeda attacking the US
3) this ?

How you made a leap from terrorists attacked the US therefore the US is very corrupt I have no idea, complete non-sequitur.
Also the idea that Bitcoin can't be easily stolen is foolish. It is theoretically hard to steal...that hasn't been born out in practice.

Whereas gold is actually, physically heavy. Not only do you have to be local to steal it, you actually need a good deal more then just being there. Moreover, physical security has the benefit of having straightforward to follow principles - i.e. no one's breaking into a sealed vault by walking through the walls because of the time it takes the vault door to open and close.

As opposed to the digital realm, where you can steal cryptokeys by listening to coil whine.
I'm sure Alfreda Bikowsky was psychologically damaged by being doxed as the key apologist and senior officer at the center of the CIA's torture scandals. But not as badly as the people who were physically damaged and killed by the torture she ordered and flew to witness because "She thought it would be cool to be in the room".

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/19/senior-cia-off...

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

So how is what Alfreda Bikowsky did and was doxed for not as bad as anything script kiddies have ever done?
The late '90s were fun.

Money was flying about in all directions and all you needed to do was stick your hand up and grab some of it. Your silly internet company would get $25 Million for the worst idea you could think of. If you'd read a "For Dummies" book, you could take your pick of $75/hr contracts or just grab as much $200/hr freelance work as you felt like. You could stick that surplus money into the market by picking any stock with an "e" in front of the name and watch it double in value every few weeks.

Then 2000 happened. And it went back to normal.

Normal.

Not a disaster. Not the end of the world. Just back to regular jobs for regular companies with regular business plans for regular developer wages. If you were good at what you did, you were fine. If you were a converted business major, you went to law school. No sweat.

Everybody (at least everybody I was aware of) saw it coming. We were in a bubble. Yahoo wasn't going to double a fifth time that year, so it probably wasn't a good idea to accept that 10x leverage your brokerage offered and dump your life savings into it. We still partied like it was 1999 (since it was), but we were all ready for the day when the party ended.

Then it did. And we went on with our lives.

We might just do the same thing in a year or two. And again, it probably won't be that big a deal.