skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a program has affirmative action built in, it is indeed serving a political agenda. AA is a causal relation: if (race == black) score += 10.

But if it merely programmed to show ads for "Think Like a Man Too" to people who watched "Think Like a Man" based on a rule about sequels, there is no agenda there beyond profit.

In both cases they are disproportionately targeting black people, but in the latter case it's only a composition effect. If you run the sequel targeting program on a group of asians who enjoyed "Think Like a Man", you'll get the same outcome. If you run the AA program on a group of asians, you won't. AA is a causal relationship on race, whereas the sequel rule is not.

From previous interactions with you, I gather that you want statistical equality rather than equal treatment. That's great, but many people only care about equality of treatment. The do-calculus (or similar tools) helps with the latter problem, not the former.
This is a question of taste. Personally, I like "Unix'y" identifiers -- though as you say, they should at least be consistent.
I wonder if it isn't badly phrased, there's a difference between rendering templates in strings and in the DOM after all.
I'm almost sorry for him if that's the best lawyer he could get...
How does ngettext handle "Your query matched %g files in %g directories"?
The little details like sympathetic vibration and hammer sounds make a huge difference in realism. Particularly in making the player believe -- most sampled synths have an "uncanny valley" due to the absence of subtle cues like spatial effects, velocity detuning, and hammer damping. Pianoteq Stage is the first piano synth I've used where I don't immediately miss the acoustic piano I grew up with.
thanks. I see one other attempt, covered in another HN thread - not yet released though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854818
Wait, are you really sYing that when you see "irregardless" that your first response is not "that's an error and they mean regardless[1]" but "they mean regardless but negated so regard but that doesn't make sense so they actually mean regardless"?

[1] why not irregard instead of regardless?
Wikipedia mention only singular, dual and plural ? What is the one for 3 and 4 ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_grammar
Not attacking free software translators. I'm one myself. As amateur as I can be. When one can't code, it can at least translate ;)
You may not notice it. But there are other people who do.

That is the difference between a very well designed product or a product, which just does the job.

That is the reason why engineers should not design interfaces. That should be left to UI/UX experts. Just the other day, I as an engineer myself, complained to another that his product does the job nicely and looks OK. But it was missing this little twist of a finished product that I'd really like to use. Because the interface was designed how I would have done it myself, because lack of UI/UX knowledge.
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I _totally_ second this comment.
(disclaimer: I'm italian and I live and work in italy)

I agree that Italy has a big fiscal pressure, but aside from that, the issue with mafia and corruption that keeps appearing into this topic is misleading, it makes people think that once you have a startup, mafia will come to you, and that's absolutely not true.

I think there are only 2 main elements to keep in main when running a business in italy
1. Fiscal pressure
2. Bureaucracy

They are the only blocks people opening a startup here might really need to figure out how to handle.
nothing ever is quite the same in move from analog to digital, but yes it is harder to see the use cases in digital
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Your body / unconscious brain is perfectly capable of

- making you intensely crave specific calorific foods,

- making you prefer the taste of higher-energy over lower-energy foods when offered a choice,

- demanding your gut absorb more of the calories you normally consume,

- making more frugal use of the calories you normally consume,

- throwing you into hibernation mode, making you sleepy, lazy, and disinclined to move.
CHF appreciated 40% in 15 minutes and then retraced about half of it. That's Bitcoin-comparable levels of volatility.
That is interesting. Asserting "I created this" and having that validated, is different from saying how I want to control that.
Yeah, lets throw more of taxpayers money in the drain. FCC has one job which they cant do properly and now they want to create one more problem.
Possibly, but this pattern has been shifted at such a dramatical rate since the last 10k years and the advent of agriculture that evolution and genetic selection may not had time to catch up. It's even possible that some forms of applied science (via medical care) is introducing a bias against natural selection by relieving some pressure bu it's possibly too short a timespan to judge that, although evolution sometimes can operate at very short timescales. (Short term I'm OK with that but lacking data I can't decide if long term this is good for us humans... Well we'll end up merging with our metal overlords anyway!).
Huge. It was like NFP at 9.30 am today. Was wondering why my dev code was using more memory than normal. Looked at live graphs to see all hell was breaking loose. US open could be interesting.
When I was in Japan I did proof reading for a Japanese feature phone. A major Japanese brand, actually. That was really comical.

There was an Australian guy for English, an German guy, an Italian lady, and me for French. What they did prior to the meeting is:
* translate from Japanese to English by Japanese people with a poor English level (maybe the software engineers actually)
* translate from weird English to other languages by translators who had only the strings, absolutely no context.

In the meeting we had all the strings, and one person from the manufacturers who had access to the "super-confidential" unreleased device.

More than half of the translations were off because of lack of context. The French guy actually translated "Garbage day" to something like "Shitty day", apparently he thought that was a way to mark in your calendar that you had a really bad day.

Pretty often we had sentences like "delete one", and invariably one of us had to ask "One what? I need to know if it's masculine/feminine/neutral". Of course they didn't prepare to that, it was too late to change the code, so they made us do ugly things like "%n item(s)".

Also the Australian guy was loosing faith into humanity:
- That sentence, it's completely wrong, it just doesn't mean anything in English. People will just go "WTF?" when they read that
- We're not allowed to change the English strings, they're already validated
- .....
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I think i found the solution here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_%28grammatical_number%29
Most likely a lot of that traffic is just SEO traffic that bounces away when they don't find what they look for.

50M sounds like a vanity number of unique visitors.

Still a lot but not comparable (thus actionable or risky-to-destroy) to eg "50M active users"

(to be fair twitter/fb and co usually also communicate the unique visitors afair)
Wow, I would never have expected such level of pessimism and negativity from my compatriots. There are many things to improve here and this new effort could be a little step in that direction. Surely many other things must be done and our bad political class has not helped at all.

I've have co-founded a couple of startups here (one http://www.eidosmedia.com has had a very good success worldwide; another one http://catflow.it is gaining momentum) and I continue to have a great optimism for what can be done in this country, maintaining a good lifestyle.

Fiscal pressure, crazy laws? Yes.
Is it a suicide working here? Absolutely not.
Was about time ...
> But if it merely programmed to show ads for "Think Like a Man Too" to people who watched "Think Like a Man" based on a rule about sequels, there is no agenda there beyond profit.

But that's not the dynamics. It's like, there's this whole universe out there with its own forces and dynamics, but you're saying -- nah, I don't care about that, I just care about the current snapshot. Suppose for a second that every school taught blacks to like that movie you referred to. You just created a (causal!!) proxy for race. So now if decisions pertaining to your future income are based on you having watched the movie, then all of a sudden they become pure of ideology? First, we create a proxy, then we discriminate based on the proxy, and finally we claim no political agenda because we're "only" discriminating on that proxy.

> but in the latter case it's only a composition effect.

Why does that make a difference? Why do you think targeting correlations is somehow less political than targeting race directly? Your direct intentions are not what matters here. What matters here is what future your actions serve. Any directed (i.e. non-noise) changes (or lack thereof) to human society caused by humans are politics[1].

> I gather that you want statistical equality rather than equal treatment

Quite the opposite. If there's a society with built in mistreatment of certain races, then that mistreatment must first be addressed. You see equal treatment only because you don't try to learn how society works. Politics changes society all the time. What society looks like now is a result of yesterday's politics, and what it will look like tomorrow is a result of today's. You're simply suggesting implementing conservative politics that don't try to change society today. But there's absolutely no objective advantage to the current situation over a previous or a future one. That's what's known as the naturist, or is-ought, fallacy.

What I find quite interesting is that as a a scientist, you take absolutely no interest in learning how things work and how we can change them. You want to hack computers but not society. How is that not a political agenda?

P.S.

I tried finding a good starting point to learning the topic (of politics), or at least understanding what issues researchers are looking into and what they've found. I think a good introduction is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics and in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics#Politics_as_an_academi...
Why/how is this better than a cross-platform & cross-device app? You know, like Pocket or Instapaper?

I mean if I would want to save pages for later to read on the same device I saved them, I'd probably use bookmarks. In browser.
Weird. I usually burn about 400 kilocals in a 30-minute run on an elliptical machine. Technically, I am programming it to push my heart-rate to the top of the safe "cardio zone", but, well, exercise is all about pushing yourself, no?
BT is not the last-mile provider for every UK ISP. For starters there's Virgin (cable), but there are also a growing number of smaller providers that bypass BT/OpenReach to provide both fibre and wireless services (LTE in particular) without it.

And while I agree with about BT as a whole, OpenReach - the subsidiary of BT that handles the last-mile network - is very different from BT as a whole even though they certainly share a lot of history and baggage. For starters, OpenReach is vastly more tightly regulated (leading to, for example, all prices being publicly available on their website), but OpenReach is also subject to a lot of additional scrutiny and pressure from the 500+ companies that rely on their network to provide services, especially because many of said 500+ companies are directly competing with Virgin for business.

The baggage of BT is also less of an issue simply because while most ISPs uses OpenReach for their backhaul services (relying on OpenReach to provide an IP connection from the subscriber to the ISPs network), OpenReach also provide raw access where the ISP can put equipment in BTs exchanges and get a direct physical connection to the subscribers line, and a number of providers have and do make use of this to provide faster connections than what OpenReach offers for backhaul.

With LLU unbundling the only limitation provided by OpenReach is down to physical constraints of a network they inherited and was not endowed with enough cash to somehow instantly upgrade.

But most ISPs are not willing or able to cover the costs even of taking advantage of the LLU unbundling, which should illustrate that there really isn't a willingness for most to pay for much faster rollouts of higher speeds.
Weight loss is a poor metric. I don't really care what I weigh. I'm primarily concerned with increasing my strenght and building muscle, so if my weight goes up but my %fat goes down I'm more than happy.
Doctors and patients do not know what you mean when you say "your risk has gone up 50%". When you say "in a group of ten thousand people we would expect 4 to experience this thing. But in a group of 10,000 people who eat peas we expect about 6 people to experience this thing".

Gerd Gigerenzer has a book explainin it better than I do.
You need to use %n in that case.
If it's intended to be a romanization of ね, then yes, "ne" is more common. Alternatively it could be a reference to Ender's Game, where "neh" is used in the same way.
iOS localization handles this with its stringsdict format:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MacOSX...
The Swiss Franc just increased in value by 15%; so I got a nice salary raise as I transfer my money regularly from CHF to EUR. (http://www.cnbc.com/id/102340182)
One difference is that the primary currency manipulators involved with bitcoin are unknown (I guess it is not even really known how much the price is manipulated, I'm sure some insiders have an idea though).

Whereas the Swiss National Bank is known to be the manipulator here, and they publish a lot of information about their activities:

http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/stat/statpub/statmon/stats/statm...
Tried it, works really well.
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Russian Programmable Calculators (industrial controllers) produced since 2007th
produced since 2007th.
Used as industrial controllers, based on i8051, equiped with 200x64 screen, RS-485, RS-232, SPI, 12-bit ADC etc.

May be programmed onboard, without Win/Lin PC. But bundled with SDK and full documentation kit.

Available as desktop devices (MK-152, MK-152M), as portable device (MK-161) and as embedded device (MK-1152)

and an article with some technical details in English
http://arbinada.com/pmk/node/56
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Well, this actually isn't so bad. The good thing about Italy is that if you live here life is pretty cheap - compared to Silicon Valley. So, you could consider Italy like "a garage" where to start your venture or even a place where you can localize your programmers while running your business somewhere else. Of course it doesn't apply to people not living here, ... so why on Earth a startup visa program?
Open the gates to founders is not enough is you don't create a income tax + regulation free + labour tax + notary free zone in the country to attract talented people here. Until today we don't have it and this thread is just a proof of Italian high tech entrepreneurs discouragement.
Italian here. I've been employed, a freelance and also been an employer (had an ecommerce ltd).

My experience is that Italy is not a fertile place for both employers and employees because of tax pressure, corruption, lack of skilled workers and low salaries.

There's no reason for an EU citizen to choose Italy as there's more chances to succeed in other countries.

Popular companies have moved or planning to move away (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/11...).
You can browse your bookmarks/articles from web, browser extension and Android app. Not only Mac App. It syncs with all your devices.
In near future we release iOS (iPhone/iPad) app, Windows, Linux client and also API.

In addition, you can get personal RSS feed of your bookmarks and read in your favorite RSS reader.
Of course, I'm sure there are people who notice this. My question was whether something like this makes enough of a difference to justify the investment.

As a developer you only have a limited amount of funds and time to spend on your product. Your goal is to invest these in a way that gives you the biggest returns. Of course it's great to not just have a translation that "does the job" and if you can do better you definitely should. But if that you takes a lot of work and only has a negligible effect on your sales, shouldn't you be prioritizing other things?
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The brain also appears to have dedicated network structures that are not trained, but constrained, i.e. programmed to one transformation, say, the equivalent of feeding both an image and it's edge enhanced version to the same DNN.

Current approach of feeding raw bitmaps to DNN falls short of that and is very sensitive to training data[1]

I remember an old paper I cannot find now about how to normalize image for NN processing in face recognition. Software extracted the face, centered it on a square and projected that square on a circle around the center to make face orientation irrelevant (hard to explain without images)

Anyway, it is unfair to expect a DNN to perform vision recognition tasks from raw bi-dimensional image points.

[1] http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...
For websites, http://l20n.org seems the most natural version so far. Or is there something better?
I can't helping thinking of this:

https://www.jupiterartland.org/artwork/landscape-with-gun-an...
True, but that is rather motherboard-design and core-stacking question. x86 CPUs are made for consumer use-cases, but that doesn't mean it can't be stacked almost linearly, like the Knights Landing CPUs.
Nice. First time I hear about this but it certainly contains lots of things which make a lot of sense to me or which I do already myself and/or are backed up by reserach. Except the part of the squatting position :P

Not everybody accepts this though. Especially about point 2 and 3 I've had discussions, almost religious fights sometimes. People sometimes get offended when I question if just going to the gym and train a couple of standard groups or just jogging are sufficient exercises. They might be, just from the point of 'getting enough exercise', but I somehow believe it is better for your body in general to have way more types of movement trained, like the third point says. Not sure if this is backed up by research but it just seems logical to me? Another impression I have: the body of a person doing all kinds of sports always looks way more natural and healthy to me than persons doing only one or two sports where not all muscle groups are trained.
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> not a single sane person on earth actually wants his purchasing power to decrease

As with all things in life, this is a tradeoff. I'm willing to concede decreasing purchasing power in exchange for some other advantage. Like I'm willing to exchange shitty battery life for a better and faster web browsing experience on my phone, or how I'm willing to exchange years off my life for some added pleasures like cigarettes and alcohol.
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He also mentions 'piracy' (the data sharing kind, I presume) - it seems he will stoop to using any convenient buzzword/bogeyman.
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I get my salary in CHF and I am quite happy as I transfer it regularly to EUR.

Nothing changed for my Swiss colleagues who don't shop in Euros.

Here the official reasoning of the SNB: http://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/reference/pre_20150115/source/pre_2...

More of my experiences within Switzerland you'll find in here: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" http://goo.gl/EIX4UX (Full disclosure: If you're from the EU and looking for a tech-job over here, I'd be happy to help out).
They got smarter and now they are in the government structures. Not everybody of course, but recent facts emerged in gov corruption that mafia and criminal organization in general were directly managing billions of euros in public infrastructure building. Those billions were paid by Italian taxpayers.
Ah! Ok, you got me fooled with the title: _Mac app_ for bookmarking and read it later.

And the site doesn't help too much either...
Bitcoin price plummets as investors flee the currency
I'm pretty sure we can sidestep degree requirements and the associated mess with a better candidate screening technique. Why not?

Also, the computer programs take into account the desired outcomes and the information they can obtain experimentally (through A/B testing for example), not just existing data.
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Translation is like dates: hard to get right.

I like the Visual Studio approach. I usually resort to running the software I'm translating to get context. Sometimes it's very hard to get some of the text to show up.

I can only think of one way to give translators context: Comments, the exact same way you give other programmers context for your code.
>Of course you are. I'm sure you don't believe there are any social issues that cannot be solved with the healing power of the holy market.

I find libertarians obnoxious too, but he's actually parroting our meme on this one. "Auctioning" work visas is usually taken to mean auctioning them by salary, turning the visa-application process into a competition to push up wages.
Still, assuming that Bitcoin is inherently less stable / more volatile than a "hard" currency like the Swiss Franc is, as we've just seen, not supported by evidence.

(We have just witnessed a "fast-forward" view - but I have always assumed this happens on a daily basis, albeit at a slower pace)
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I'm really surprised that this is the first time you've seen "OT" being used. I can only presume it's because you don't normally ready English websites/discussion boards but I still find it intriguing that you've never encountered it before.

In Sweden we use "OT" as well but it's referring to "Off Topic" and not something Swedish.
It made me remember the Norwegian customer I had.

I needed to write Norwegian localization strings in a YAML file which did not work for some reason.

After 4 hours of debugging, the problem was;

In YAML, the "no:" string (for "norwegian") defined in a YAML file was parsed as a boolean, and this makes the application broke..
>Using aggregate numbers, of the exceedingly small proportion of the world’s foreign communications we access, NSA algorithms filter out approximately 99.998 percent of the data it sees.

Keeping 0.002% seems like just little bit of data, but is it?

79% of the Internet traffic is video. If you filter out almost all video content and other uninteresting transfer to everyone (50 companies deliver more than half of all Internet traffic), I think you can retain all metadata and all or most unique text based communications. Speech to text filter can keep metadata and at least huge number of keywords from all phone conversations.
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It's funny how, even without any other context, you know this article must be written about an American college.
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