skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. I'd love to test it on some of the typically used corpora. The issues I have are:

1) Most segmentation research papers are done by Universities which have access to the Penn Treebank data (WSJ and Brown corpus). However, the cost of that data is $1,700 https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC99T42

2) The Brown corpus is available for free in NLTK (http://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/). However it is the tagged corpus. I've contacted the researchers for all of the top segmentation libraries but never received an answer to any of the following questions:

a) I’m assuming you preprocessed the text by removing the tags. Is this correct? Or did you use the untagged version, and if so do you have a link to that as I only found the tagged version in the NLTK data?

b) When removing the tags did you also remove each carriage return and newline so the text was one long string, each sentence separated by just one whitespace?

c) The download contains 100+ files. Did you analyze each individually? Or did you create one combined file? If you created a combined file how did you space each individual file within the larger file? Also, if you combined them what order did you combine them in?

So sure, all of these papers use the same data, but we have no idea if they are actually using that data in the same way, as none of the papers actually release their code and tests, or tell the steps they used to preprocess the corpus.

To test more broad coverage on my library I added the full text of Alice in Wonderland https://github.com/diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter/blob/master/s.... A grad student from Stanford offered to test my library on the WSJ corpus a few months ago which was very kind, but I'm still waiting to hear back on that.
The WinSXS bloat has been fixed in the latest versions, so the disk space required for an OS is more or less static now, barring any new functionality that requires new files.
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But, what about Dicking Around?
Only some people can fart around all of the time, but everyone can fart around some of the time.
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The other companies don't claim to be hacker-friendly, except for MIT, nor do they try to forbid you from making your own thing or practicing free speech.

Pearson sucks. Why would anybody want to be compared to Pearson?
>Intel has been aggressively updating the software

Indeed. With the January update to GPU drivers, the SP3 is able to drive a 4k monitor @ 60Hz while still having the built-in display on, also @ 60Hz.

Not all 4k monitors though, only the older, MST ones.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/2v7te8/reduce_cpu_...

For gaming, get an USB fan.
> Unemployment in the US is around 5.5%

That's an official statistic (US Bureau of labor statistics) that is, in all reality, fiction. Might want to look at ANY other analysis, other than the announced statistic. Like simply comparing the (est) population to the (est) jobs. Turns out it's more like 10% at best, but that's not the end. Yahoo, Experian, Amazon, etc. The vast majority of the tech employed have become contractors. At least be reasonable enough to do your research.

Saying GDP has increased is another statistical mischaracterization. There has been some very clever manipulation by the USG (http://seekingalpha.com/article/1368001-u-s-governments-new-...).

You seem to be woefully glib about topics you haven't been following. Growth hasn't helped the situation as there hasn't been much at all, if any. Rigid financial systems have failed and will do so again if the interest rate (inevitably?) spirals out of control. The executive branch talking heads and investing-in-debt schemes have been paying off for the last few years. It's been increasingly difficult to determine what lengths the fed will go to, in stabilizing the economy and maintaining a positive spin.
I spoke to an NSA employee recruiting on campus a few years ago, well before the Snowden leaks. I asked him if he genuinely felt like he was defending America or if sometimes he felt like he was just a tool in someone's political agenda. His answer was, "no - I wouldn't say it always about some political agenda". Conversation ended pretty abruptly...
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Thanks for the validation. I was surprised that I got to -3 within 5 minutes of posting. I agree that the dark side of sales is forcing/tricking people into buying things that they don't necessarily need or want, which happens once you attempt to expand outside that natural market for your product.
I don't know how legally sound it is, but the article quotes Kenneth saying "You’re not selling the shares, so the right of first refusal doesn’t apply".
> now there's talk of it being replaced by a completely closed alternative

If Mozilla and Google both do X, but Mozilla's actions are judged as "open" while Google's are judged as "completely closed," then the words open and closed are losing their meaning.

How does Google's other business activities affect whether, in principle, an HTML/JavaScript-based OS is "open" or "closed"?

Yes, it's true that OS platforms are moving towards sandboxing their apps more and more. This is mainly being driven by market forces, because more sandboxed platforms offer important features:

- more resistant to malware

- more secure (one stupid little app can't steal/delete all your data)

But no one is taking away your Windows or OS X boxes. If people keep wanting them, manufacturers will keep making them.

And while mainstream consumer devices are moving towards being more sandboxed, the ability to tinker is being addressed in other ways, like Raspberry Pi, which are very cool in their own way.
And Mark Russinovich got an executive job at Microsoft. That doesn't make the Windows license(s) any more palatable.
Perhaps I'm just glorifying an age I don't remember, but I'm somewhat jealous of a time when computers weren't black boxes - everybody who owned one had to buy separate components, do bits of physical maintenance, and write code.
> But what I see is the cost of these things skyrocketing: education, housing, and health care. That is -- the things that real people actually need!

You have to be careful about that, because in those areas there are confounding factors. I went to Georgia Tech in the early 2000's, and paid about $60k for my degree. Today it'd cost well over $100k. But it's also a totally different product. More services, fancier buildings, smaller classes, etc. Also, these institutions aren't growing as more and more people go to college. Instead, they're lowering admissions rates and becoming more elite products. The admissions rate at many top universities is half of what it was when we went to college.

Same thing with healthcare and housing. People are using more and better healthcare than before, and living in bigger houses. I grew up in an 1,100 square foot three-bedroom built in the 1960's. Such a common floor plan at the time that my wife grew up in an almost identical house on the other side of the country. That's about the size of your typical two-bedroom apartment in this area now. And the neighborhood is also a different product. What was a sleepy D.C. suburb 20 years ago is now at the heart of urbanization in the area. Rents in places like New York and San Francisco and DC are skyrocketing, but again they're much more desirable products today. When I was growing up in the 1990's, middle class people didn't go to D.C. except to work or see the museums. They wouldn't dare live there.
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Might be great, but I'm not going to sign up just to find out.
Video posted in the reddit thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fgWWQLWa8
See my comment below for some of the reasons I've had issues trying to test the commonly used segmentation corpora. I completely agree it would be great if there was a free (as in both speech and beer) common training set. One key would be that this common training set either provide the exact text that should be run in the segmenter or exact instructions on how to produce the text to run in the segmenter (re: see the issue I mentioned below of the ambiguity around how to actually test the Brown corpus).
> It's not possible in a number of countries to give up copyright

So, what status does IP have when its copyright expires?
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Codestarter's Ubuntu Package comes with Minecraft and other programming/educational resources.

I am running an Acer 720 with 4gb of Ram and 128gb SSD - best laptop I've ever owned.
After all, you're taking advantage of the host language for every single aspect of the new language, even tokenizing/parsing.

Everything except for actually carrying out function application (which is pretty much the only computation in a language this tiny).
Okay, this conversation is over. You said it was an uncommon clause in a legal document, I showed that it wasn't and tried to comfort your fears, and that's as far as I'm willing to take it. You seem like you have an agenda against Pebble for something other than what is being stated, and I'm not going to get into that.
>> One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries. The comparison conjures up the dreary life of medieval peasants, toiling steadily from dawn to dusk. We are asked to imagine the journeyman artisan in a cold, damp garret, rising even before the sun, laboring by candlelight late into the night.

>> These images are backward projections of modern work patterns. And they are false. Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their incomes, it also took away their time. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that working hours in the mid-nineteenth century constitute the most prodigious work effort in the entire history of humankind.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
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Have you done this? If so, what JRE are you using for Minecraft? I know that trying to run Android Studio with the OpenJDK JRE on hardware with a similar clock speed, is pret-ty slow even when that hardware is x86. I can't imagine what it would be like on ARM.
Pretty cool tool all though it should be said that combinations of the keywords are important as well as the keywords alone.

I made a small script to allow searching in stores other than the us and in general for experimental purposes.

https://gist.github.com/k0nserv/adc136f35c696584c0aa
> the consequences of the change make some kind of sense

You've never played Myst, have you.
Who says a language has to be text based and have a tokenizer or parser? The point is it really isn't that relevant to the language.

It's kind of like saying in order to learn how to exercise we should play some video games first.
Maybe some day, Flickr will actually start to care about CC a bit and log licence changes from CC licences to other licence. Current workflow allows photographers to revoke these CC licences after a while and this effectively prevents many people from using CC pictures because nobody wants to be sent to trial because he's used CC pictures with correct attributions that have mutated to All Rights Reserved suddenly.

This sucks.
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I remember when Ashly Burch said she did some voice acting for Valve. People thought it might be HL3 related, but it turned out to be for a TF2 video. The lesson: Of course Valve is working on something, they're a video game company, but saying a voice actor did some voice acting at a video game company says almost nothing.
One of the many great things about being an antipodean is getting these April Fools gags first.
But you're still left with bruised apples.

Had you gone to the market you would not have bruised apples.
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I want to agree, but then I remember that emerging markets are skipping a generation of technology towards cellular phones. In a few ways a laptop is a step back in terms of connectivity and utility right?

I'm just curious... will the laptop be their first device or their second?
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I doubt individuals studying their own records and diagnosing themselves is the big thing that comes from opening up patient data. Most people lack the combination of intelligence and tenacity to do that.

I also doubt the real gain is in spectacular cases such as the brain tumor in this example.

I find it way more likely that we will see some advanced version of IBM's Watson use that data to cross-correlate data and suggest things like "with your genes and current condition, you should use antibiotic X, rather than Y, even though Y is the better choice for most." or even "you should stay home today, or you'll be ill for 2-3 days."

Each such choice may only give a small gain, but there will be way more choices to make.
like the fact that NSA analysts spy on their gfs using military equipment ?
So are marketing gimmicks that masquerade as conveniences.

What's your point? Neither of us knows which products are here to stay and which aren't.
I think almost every AI-guy have tried making a boids simulation. They are such a good way to show emergent behavior from very simple rules.

I'm a TA for an AI-course at my uni, and this semester my students had to program a boids simulation for the first project. In addition to what's shown here, the boids also had to avoid obstacles and flee from predators. I think the students liked it, it's very rewarding to code and actually see the result.

The students also had to implement sliders, for how much cohesion, separation and alignment is weighted. It's pretty fun to change them and watch the behavior of the boids change.
No. Why would they? You think Asus, Lenovo and HP are giving sales data to Google?
So in other words, if your apples show up bruised, you're still stuck with bruised apples? And then you have to wait for the new unbruised ones to arrive?

That sounds like a much worse experience than simply going to the market and picking out unbruised apples.
They probably do, but all those are public companies. They all report sales a certain way. Google isn't going to mess with reporting sales that other companies are making. That's irresponsible.
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> For reference: you're the jerk.

For reference, only a huge (and incredibly hypocritical) jerk would write that as a ban message.
This was in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9299916, but we've detached it as off-topic.
And yet somehow, FreshDirect's managed to stay in business since 2002.
> types are way overrated.

Please show your scientifically rigiorous evidence. Because it appears very few other people have any (either way), so at the very least you could earn a prize if you shared yours! :)
"a family to support". ah the ole "but think of the CHILDREN" argument. so sophisticated.
We released Ekstazi tool (http://ekstazi.org/) last year that implements novel test selection technique for Java. (The details of the technique are discussed elsewhere.) Ekstazi has been adopted by several projects. Hopefully it will be useful for some developers that see these lines.
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Wouldn't it just be magical if you could download any file to your phone without needing a computer? Because that's what my $180 (without a contract) Moto G allows me to do.
Maybe there is room for some kind of 'accelerated history of computing' where you get to replay the last 40 years or so.

Just like in school we start you out with arithmetic and progress from there it might make sense to see the computing world through some kind of compressed time curriculum to increase understanding and possibly avoid the re-learning of some rather painful lessons from the past.
Comparing the light regulation of the past to the current strict regulation, sure the current regulation is better.

But legally anointing an "accredited investor" class based on their current financial resources clearly advantages the rich over the poor. There are other ways to protect investors without categorically denying opportunities for savvy, non-wealth individuals (and people who are currently wealthy also deserve protection from fraudsters).
Yes, really.

Do this: pretend you own Tide. Do you want people pressing a button that sends you money for more tide, or do you want them going here: https://www.google.com/search?q=laundry+aisle&espv=2&biw=144...
> If you can get a laptop/tablet that can do the same thing that this Chromebook does and has a full OS for a few bucks more, would you do it?

Are there really any sub-200$ Windows laptops that have 10 hour battery life on an 8 second boot?

I find that pretty hard to believe. Maybe they have similarly specced components but the experience will be much worse.
I can relate a bit. Even though assembling components was a thing until early 2K, it's barely not anymore. Only gamer or very demanding people picks the pieces. Any laptop will do now, and even though I love my ThinkPad, I miss the physical interaction with wires and cards. It's not rare to feel that way, we like to sense, so miniaturization is taking something away from us. Also, even in the 90s, assembling a computer wasn't the same as in the 80s, the interfaces were complex and it was transitioning between DIY to plug'n'play so you didn't understand a lot of what was happening. Not the same as really controlling all the pieces with your own code.
The parent is being a bit of a dick, but he does have a point. Not every job in the world is ethical, and simply being good at something is not always enough reason to do it for a living.

This is ultimately a deeply personal choice that everyone has to make, but sometimes we really can't both have our cake and eat it too.

I also work at a government sponsored R&D lab, so I'm familiar with the conundrum (not for myself - I'm just a dumbass programmer whose skills are so pitifully generic I could go literally anywhere in the world... some of my colleagues - not so much)
As well as the one click limit, there's an easy fix for this assuming your kids aren't aberrantly tall for their age.
It seems like automation gone too far? There can simply be dash button(s) in the smartphone app itself like a quickdial list, but for pre populated Amazon items
How ubiquitous is Java? Containers, VMs, etc..., ARE all the rage. Sun was correct as to what technology belongs to the future, they just couldn't position their company properly. Odds are we're all using technology that's part of Sun's legacy...
I'm positive that there are many companies out there using Windows, Outlook and Excel being very successful in producing the kind of software that runs our world while being very innovative at that.

There are also many companies populated by "prima donnas" with their Macs on their standing desks being very productive at nothing that actually matters.

I fail to follow your reasoning. I also fail to follow your reasoning that this kind of trivialities implies something about the prospective employer (as I said, there are other items in your list that are perfectly reasonable). It does not, but it may imply something about the prospective employee.

I don't know you, so I'm not making a judgment on you personally. I am, however, making a judgment based on your list. Just like any potential employer would do (even those that would otherwise happily comply with all of the items). If you have to argue against this, therein lies the problem.
I would agree that libphonenumber is the go-to for what you want to do. The JS build process for it is... involved, but you can find pre-built versions of it for Node, UMD, etc.
The way it should work is that any conflicts that require changes are noted in the motion - by the clerks drafting the law.

If you pass motion A implementing this new law the Law x and Z a deemed to be negated or changed appropriately.
Some people don't distinguish a knife from an elephant, but those people are wrong too.
You get to choose when you pay the taxes. All the money you pay in taxes is no longer invested and compounding.
As a technicality, they're not asking it as part of the job interview itself, they're asking it as part of either a security clearance, or a "pre" security clearance to see if they should even bother.
"full Windows" means it's not the bastard child that was Windows RT

Business users will get a Windows 8.1 Pro.
Surface 3
There are orders of magnitude more UI kits for HTML/CSS then there are for native.
> Google's goal is to be able to address the affordability and at the same time not sacrificing quality.

Google's goal is to sell its cloud services, not the hardware here. The specs are crappy and that laptop is basically useless if you are doing anything else than internet. Sure it cost 150$, but that's an expensive surfing machine. And Google is off course selling internet services...

> I think this product will do well especially for students, start-up businesses, or even for leisure use.

You know, the exact same arguments were used to sell netbooks(students,leisure), which were an horrible failure,and you're still falling for that? at least most netbooks ran on windows... You don't even get that with Chrome OS.

People are not idiots, especially those who have a tight budget, they'll be even more vocal about crappy cheap products because it represents a larger share of their income. That thing with these specs... I bet most people are ready to invest $100 more to have at least a proper notebook. You can get a 11 inches Acer laptop for 50 dollars more. With a browser AND windows,with a proper Hard drive.Why would people want to pay JUST for a fucking browser? they wouldn't unless they have so much spare money they don't care.
Yes but how will I smell them?? hmm app idea. There could be places like that... one could be in several spaces, like chatrooms/channels. Most lobbies on the internet are filled with noobs and cat memes though...
You can actually prop it up on your lap; at least with the SP3. Still not good enough to satisfy my typing needs but not as bad as I feared.
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One of the great advantages of Shen is that it is built on top of a very simple Lisp called KL of which you can (at least basically working) implement an interpreter or compiler in any language in a day. And when you did that, Shen will run on it. That's why there are so many targets and that's why most targets are not mature. I find it a great advantage though; you can make a compiler or runtime embedded in whatever you are doing really fast and then optimise it as you go.

Edit: I would say, if you want to practice on implementing a compiler & runtime (or VM with JIT or LLVM frontend etc) KL is a good place to start. It's so easy (again, to get something working; to optimise etc is obviously just as painful as with any other language implementation) that it is a lot of fun and you learn a lot if you never did it before.
> When my grandparents and parents ask me what computer they should get, or my in-laws ask what they should get their kids, I'm going to seriously consider Chromebooks. If they need to run Office, or Minecraft, clearly it's not a fit. But for the tweeting / facebooking / gmailing universe, a Chromebook is a very nice box.

If you really need Office, and not just Google Docs, you can actually run Office on a Chromebook.
Well, sure. In itself. But in terms of a security clearance, a use of drugs means you might be susceptible to bribery/ extortion/ blackmail over such use (or someone might helpfully keep you supplied in exchange for information).