skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with that, regardless. My general take is that i want life empowering features driven by data. Of course, i would prefer to not give X company my data, but until a home-brew solution comes to light it's unrealistic for me to expect privacy and these types of features. In the end, i want the features. I want Google Now (well, i want what it represents.. it still sort of sucks haha).
This is not what they want to be good at, because human-to-human interaction doesn't scale.
When reading 'gas', the client will have to figure out whether that is about a liquid, in which case it has to choose a colonial 'g' (when written with a British 'g' 'gas' always is a liquid). If the meaning is that of a gaseous substance, the client will have to do additional work to determine what kind of 'g' to write.
Wouldn't that just cause the clients that came by car (because of distance, health, whatever) to go somewhere else because there is no parking space? It looks to me like just another gentrification result. The new hip clients never needed those parking spots.
> Not unifying them means that the fonts automatically work when you mix text/names written in these alphabets. It also means that mathematical/physical/chemical stuff (that typically uses Latin and Greek letters together) will just work.

These are already completely separate symbols. Ignoring precomposition, there are at least 4 different lowercase omegas in unicode: APL (⍵ U+2375 "APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL OMEGA"), cyrillic (ѡ U+0461 "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER OMEGA"), greek (ω U+03C9 "GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA") and Mathematics (𝜔 U+1D714 "MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL OMEGA").
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If you're talking protection in the physical sense, for 99% of women you're absolutely wrong.

I'm in the military and there are only a few women I know who would hold their own in a fight against a similarly fit man. I can think of maybe 1 off the top of my head.

Years of evolution made us this way, it can't just be undone by an egalitarian sentiment.
The precise composition of the resin isn't specified, but the online material and methods state:

The ramp test patterns in Fig. 1C were printed with trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) using the photoinitiator, diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethyl-benzoyl)phosphine oxide. Other objects were printed with a combination of monomers from Sartomer (CN2920 & CN981), TMPTA, and reactive diluents such as n-vinylpyrrolidone, isobornyl acrylate, and cyclohexane dimethanol di-vinyl ether. We also utilized the photoinitiators, phenylbis(2,4,6-trimethyl-benzoyl)phosphine oxide, 1-hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone, and 2-benzyl-2-(dimethylamino)4morpholinobutyrophenone along with an assortment of dyes from Wikoff and Mayzo.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2015/03/16/science.a...
>> the M3800 which is Dell's beefy 15" Linux laptop.

Actually, the 6.3lb M4800 is Dell's beefy laptop.
If chase.com uses dkim and spf records and if your mail server is properly configured then it is indeed impossible.
"OK you say you owe me a beer from last week so here's a $20 and we're even"

"Oh you need the full $27.50 because your life will collapse due to a lack of $7.50 in cash although nobody uses cash, well, there's an ATM in the lobby thats free on my network, I'll spot you $30 on the $27.50 and you owe me a can of soda next time"

The problem with a bazzilion services all trying to extort small transactional fees either short term or long term is the marketing about their fee can't avoid mentioning that the fee is really small and we're discussing fairly small amounts of money.
My advice: Keep your resignation letter very short and sweet. The purpose of a letter of resignation is really just to formalize your decision to leave so there's a document that can be used to manage that process. All it really needs to say is that you've decided to leave, when your last day will be (I strongly recommend giving two weeks' notice), and something like, "I appreciate the great opportunity I had to work here, and I wish you all the best in the future".

I'm writing a career management guide, and one of my chapters ("How to leave a job on the best possible terms") is exactly about this. You may also have an exit interview coming up, and that situation is similar (my chapter covers exit interviews in detail as well).

Here's the summary section from that chapter—maybe there are some things here that could help you make sure you leave on the best possible terms :)

— Leave on the best possible terms, even if you feel slighted — It’s always difficult to put on a happy face when things aren’t going well, but this is a time when you can really boost your reputation.

— Ask your manager and co-workers what you can help with before you go — Do this and you will make a lasting impression on your co-workers.

— Document the projects you’re working on so your successor is prepared — Your successor will have a much easier time absorbing your work, and they’ll thank you for it.

— Bundle up relevant documentation, emails, etc., and make sure they’re saved somewhere that others can get to them — Most companies are moving to cloud-based storage, so it may all be out there anyway. Even so, put together a master document that points to everything they’ll need.

— Make sure to return all your equipment in good shape, and do it quickly — Most of the time, you are just borrowing company property. You should return it in good shape, just like you would want your own property returned if you lent it out.

— Reach out to your closest co-workers to make sure they’re part of your network before you go — Your network is one your most valuable assets for finding future career opportunities.

— Reach out to your colleagues to say goodbye and share your contact information — If you’ve done all these things, you’ve left a great impression. Make sure your old co-workers know how to find you if they need someone like you in the future. And be sure to reach out to your closest co-workers to personally say goodbye whenever possible.

— Be vague and use positive language in your exit interview — It feels strange to advocate for being vague, but the exit interview is one of the times when it’s necessary. You won’t benefit by baring your soul on your way out, and the company isn’t going to change because of your feedback. Keep it short, sweet, and surface-level.

That's a one-page summary of the chapter, but the chapter itself goes into quite a bit more detail.

You can get the full chapter for free here: http://JoshDoody.com/leave?ref=hn6
You say its not malicious, but then I see the misery and harm proprietary copyright licenses do.

Abuse of a tool is not an argument against the non-abusive uses of a tool. I was going to say more here, but this really distills everything down.

People are going to find a way to be bastards to each other, and the FSF pipe dream of everything being Free does not change that.
Sorry, I'm not making this out to be competition. We all come to this discussion with different backgrounds. I'm fascinated by economics. So when I see claims that really aren't backed by the literature I feel obliged to bring it up.

As far as your other claims ... those are harder to measure really.

Rent amounts is a pretty easy number but things like lower quality (how much lower, what kind, where, is it predominant) and higher competition (amongst whom, using what process, which strategies aren't in play any more) ... well those are much harder questions. The microeconomic topic here is called Welfare economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics and in economic theory is the social welfare function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare_function

I'm not saying those broad ideas don't hold ... but defining things like quality and competition can be a much trickier business than price.

And unfortunately, if you are going to approach it as a science, you can't really go off anything other than definition, observation, and measurement.
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Yeah, I know about SAM support. But that will only happen if the type is known, and type-annotating every short {} is a pretty big price. Or can I do something like:

myKleisli >=> {a => Option(a.toString)}

and have SAM figure out that that's another Kleisli?
If your debts are in dollars, I don't see any point in Bitcoin with its fluctuating exchange rate.
What's funny about this is that this happens to be snapchat's monetization strategy, too. It's funny because FB wanted to buy snapchat, snapchat said no, and now FB has implemented their strategy.

I'm amused.
The Uber API is pretty nice to work with. I built a mobile-web surge avoider: http://nomoresurge.divshot.io/client/

If you load that up on your mobile phone you can search for the location nearest to you with low or no surge, and then deep link into the Uber app to actually call the car.

Now I can implement requests directly, which is very cool.
"like something out of a Gibson novel.", "models in an agency".

While not politically correct, it would be interesting to run an outcall escort service with this. Throw in an AirBNB API...

Disclaimer: The above is just a thought. I do not condone this use case.
In what ways? Mail servers can be configured to require only encrypted connections. You can also use GPG to encrypt your messages.
Yeah but even Haskell (and I'm assuming Scala has something similar) has unsafePerformIO...
How fucking melodramatic do you have to get before you can invoke the invasion and colonization of India by the British Empire in a conversation about Unicode?
Its not an AI issue, just a small matter of having lots of rules. Moreover this is not just an issue for non-Western languages: the character â (lower case "a" with a circumflex) can be represented either as a single code-point U+00E2 or as an "a" combined with a "^". Furthermore Unicode implementations are required to evaluate these two versions as being equal in string comparisons, so if you search for the combined version in a document, it should find the single code point instances as well.
My 70 year old dad can use bitcoin. I'm sure your friends can learn.
> So if you hit FooCo's corporate website and get one certificate, and some other guy hits the same website and they get another, it's likely something fishy is happening. Replace this model of two people with a few million, and you have a pretty decent verification system happening.

In this model, the trust root is the verification system which compares your "hit" with other people's "hits". If an attacker can pretend to be the verification system and tell you "everything's fine", the system won't work. Also, it's centralized: the verification system itself becomes the central component.
Is Bengali your first language?

While one can make the case that ত্য is simply "'to' - 'o' + 'ya' = 'to'"[0][1], it's rather confusing mental acrobatics, and it doesn't reflect either how the writing system is taught, or how native speakers use it and think of it on a day-to-day basis.

If anything, your comment makes a stronger argument for consolidating ই and ি (they are literally the same letter and phoneme, but written differently in different contexts) than for combining the viram and য into the jophola.

[0] To non-Bengali speakers reading this, yes, this is how that construction would work, and yes, I am aware that the arithmetic doesn't appear to add up (which I guess is part of the point).

[1] Also, now that I think about it, the য is a consonant, not a vowel, so using it in place of a vowel is doubly awkward. This is particularly an issue in Bengali, where sounds that might be consonants in English (like "r" and "l") can be either consonants or vowels in Bengali, depending on the word.
GMOs are perfectly safe. Stop believing the scare tactics and read the actual science.
I have had the previous m3800, with 3.5K screen, and a 512GB SSD. I'm running dual-boot windows 8, but with Ubuntu 14.10 as my primary OS. The touchscreen and scaling of windows is great. On Ubuntu they are non-existant. I can't use my finger to scroll, but can launch apps with my finger. Using my fingers is something i'm really getting to like. Things like getting a putty connection to my server in 2 seconds works now with three quick touches.
The big problem has been that suspened doesn't work now - both on windows and ubuntu. I "upgraded" to 15.04, still no joy. I assume it's a motherboard problem, but I don't time to leave it back. Killer for my productivity, though. Pity, as it ruins an otherwise nice laptop.
Unfortunately, that's really the result of the API/ABI choices that the Linux kernel developers have made. There are no stable interfaces for kernel modules, and they frequently break existing interfaces.

This means that any third-party driver that is not included in the mainline kernel source is effectively broken either via API or ABI almost every kernel update.

So it's not specifically a proprietary driver issue since even third-party open source drivers that are not in the mainline kernel break too.

Yes, nVidia could choose to open up their driver and contribute it in a way that it was included in the mainline kernel and therefore breakages would happen far less often. But ultimately, the real problem is the API/ABI instability on Linux.

With the above said, as others have mentioned, it shouldn't generally break every update if you have dkms, etc. setup properly.
Well it's also 1.1 billion active users per month, so that makes it slightly better IMO.
You're welcome. An example is: I searched Eminem, clicked on Royce da 5'9" and the only song that came up was Bad Meets Evil even though they have done an entire album together. Same goes with D12. There's only 3 songs, but they've done 2 albums worth of songs together.
Some.

I know that not every letter has been Han-unified, but I don't know the specifics.

Is it possible, that this problem of yours has actually been taken care of?

If not, is it possible that it's just a mistake instead of a big evil conspiracy?
It's been an explicit goal of Rust to not use cutting edge PLT. For an industry language, Rust's stuff is pretty new, but that's because industry languages lag so far behind PLT as a field.
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How do these ones hold up over time? I haven't had a Dell PC of any kind, laptop or desktop, last longer than two years (and thanks to switching jobs a few times and being the family PC tech support, I've seen quite a few Dells). I had given up on the brand completely, but this is a very tempting piece of hardware.

I hate how hard it is to find the specs I want in a laptop computer. Some sites will let you filter by specs, but sometimes I'd be willing to compromise on some specs if other specs hit certain thresholds. And then, it seems like some products get selected by the filter that should be, and others get filtered out that do match the specs, so I'm just back to reading pretty much every product page until I find what I want.
Awesome, I'll check it out. Thanks!
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It still seems a bit weird... I go to a barista to get coffee (well, tea in my case), I don't go there for extended political discussion. I'm fully behind equality on every front, race, religion, sex, whatever; but when I go to get a drink, I honestly don't care what the barista's political opinions or affiliations are. It's also not my concern to have them probing what my political opinions are... I have them, I'm happy to discuss them - endlessly, in an appropriate forum; but I came in to get a drink, not to get sucked into a political debate - no matter how much I may agree (or not in other cases... ahem, GMO labeling/Monsanto) with it.
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User interface isn't the problem, though - bitwise representation is the problem. How do we represent all the valid characters in Unicode? Data entry is an entirely separate issue (as is display).
The points are that you don't need 1. a bank account 2. a debit/credit card 3. facebook messenger in order to send money instantly.
It's () instead of [] because it's a regular function call. It's related to the scalability thing that Odersky also mentions (as much functionality in libraries as possible, rather than in the language).
If IE was an issue for users, pretty sure that means they'll continue to use Firefox or Chrome, not Spartan.

If Microsoft wants to "win the browser war", in my opinion the best thing they could do would be to create their own WebKit (or even Chromium) distribution and have it installed in Windows by default.
So it's a rehash of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com, right?
> 1: you leave a biometric footprint everywhere you go,

Latent fingerprints, high resolution video, facebook profiles...all examples of how i can pick up someone's biometric. This is not an unknown problem.

> 2: once compromised, you can't reset your biometric profile.

Clearly. Just based on the definition you can draw that conclusion - a unique, unchanging trait that is used to separate the user from a group.

Common and justified criticisms that people think are just the 'silver bullet' of why a biometric should never be implemented. I've posted replies to these a few times. Feel free to check them out.

Either way, the difference between a corporate login system, and me logging into my laptop is huge. MS implementing a biometric for a consumer laptop is fitting given the current state of the field. Use it or don't, no one is forcing you.
That's not the only trick, but it does help. A much more important factor is the openness/candidness with which you present yourself, and the amount of perceived empathy & compassion you have for the person you're engaging with. A one sided conversation is not a conversation at all.
Isn't is better to use async/await over for comprehension, since its more clear and easy to understand.
Edit: My bad just did my scala assignment, overlooked the details and thought it was a Future :)
Interesting article and the little "What class are you" quiz though is wacky. I played with data points, when asked how often do I pray, I answered never because I'm an atheist. Apparently though praying daily raises my class from 6.5 to 7? Also, working part time vs full time vs unemployed had no bearing? MSNBC has seems to have stouped to Buzzfeed level quizes.
The space of invertible matrices of a given size is not a compact connected Riemannian manifold, so besides the problem of non-uniqueness you probably don't have existence of geodesics for every pair of points.

You can't connect a matrix of positive determinant with one of negative determinant without going through non-invertible matrices. (EDIT: I somehow missed that you made the correction about disconnectedness yourself in a later paragraph.)

Even restricting to matrices of positive determinant (the space of which is connected), I don't think there are always geodesics between any pair of matrices. For example in the 2x2 case, I bet there is no geodesic from I to -I.
Generally, I agree. I feel like I'm wasting my money when I unwrap something with overly "beautiful" packaging. It's a tiny fraction of my experience, I've already bought it at this point and figuring out all the nested little components hidden away and all the custom printing is just adding to the price with expensive trash.

I know it's heresy, but I hate Apple packaging for exactly this reason. Startups seeking to emulate wasteful and expensive packaging are convincing me they're more concerned with image than substance.
This is perfect and provides the exact amount of detail that you should offer in your exit interview or when pressed in person.
>You are dismissing the reality that some people are actually smarter than others.

I never dismissed anything like that. If I did, please quote my dismissal. In fact, this sounds like an assumption you made before reading what I wrote. Change your assumption and try reading it again.

> There are some people who really do have a real vision of a 'best' solution.

This statement only works with quotes around "best" and phrased as "a best" instead of "the best." I do not question that it is possible for a single person to have a driving vision, but what happens when this person, instead of explaining their reasoning to their collaborators, uses aggression to dominate them and force them to accept his or her solutions? Do flaws get pointed out? Or are we under the assumption that "smarter" people do not make mistakes? If not, with everyone on a team looking up to a single person to make all the decisions, who will catch the mistakes?

The question here was never "collaborate vs. don't collaborate." We're talking about teams, where a degree of collaboration is necessary to move forward, and individuals who disrupt the collaborative process via aggression.

>But, the collaborative effort and resultant end product is always, by necessity, a non-ideal solution for at least a portion of the end-users.

How is this different than non-collaborative effort? What exactly are you saying here? That a single person can build a completely perfect product that meets the needs for all end users while a group cannot? What you have said above is true whether collaboration is involved or not -- everything has flaws.

>Keeping this in mind, it can be understood that "the best product doesn't win" -- rather, the most popular and most agreed upon solution or product is what wins.

In a working collaborative environment, these two can be the same thing. When one person makes all the decisions by fiat, the solution that wins is that person's favorite, not one that has been thoroughly vetted or necessarily correct. I would rather rely on a vetting process than on a single human's biases. This is what collaboration is for, diluting biases and natural cognitive flaws. No one is immune to all biases and flaws.

>Perhaps, if the collaborative environment was less collaborative and more constructive, I would participate more.

What do you see as the difference between "collaborative" and "constructive"?
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The thing I don't like about this is that I'm forced to become Facebook friends with someone to send or receive money. That's an unnecessary layer of consideration.

I want to send and receive money quickly, easily, and cheaply. Now I'm also seeing what Ted is up to on my news feed. He's my Facebook friend now because we were all at a restaurant last week and they didn't let us split the bill.
You just need a bitcoin balance and the recipient needs a bitcoin address. Which practically seems like way more friction than the three items you listed.
What's wrong with encouraging them to be creative? At that age many are already learning artistic skills that need to be encourage, not snuffed out in favour of grade chasing.

I have no idea how playing the piano, creative writing, drawing is somehow "unsafe".

If there's something that I'm seeing suffer badly it's being able to express yourself. Too many are caught up just saying what others want to hear, conditioned to be the poster-child for college admissions reviewers to fawn over.
> The educational philosopher Harry Brighouse has suggested that the ability to think about something for 20 minutes at a time (sustained focus) may be one of the most powerful cognitive skills we acquire in school.

What school did this guy attend? The one I was sent to as a child was little more than a zoo. If anyone left there able to concentrate for 20 minutes (myself included), it had nothing to do with the curriculum, the teaching methodology, or even the values espoused by the teachers and administration.