skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love stuff like this, and I think "unreasonable" is almost an understatement.

It's "unreasonable" mainly because it occasionally captures subtle aspects of the data source for "free".
If you've worked with procedurally generated content, Markov chains, and so on, you probably have had to perform a few tweaks in order to get plausible results[1].
From the article, an excerpt of the output from an RNN trained on Shakespeare:

Second Lord:
They would be ruled after this chamber, and
my fair nues begun out of the fact, to be conveyed,
Whose noble souls I'll have the heart of the wars.

Clown:
Come, sir, I will make did behold your worship.

VIOLA:
I'll drink it.

Sure, the individual blocks are similar to what you'd get from a Markov text generator-- but it gets that after a full stop, there comes a newline, a new character name, and a new text block.
To my eyes, this is a qualitative leap in performance.
It suggests that the model has figured out some things about the data stream that you'd normally have to add in by hand[2].

It's also unreasonable that the same framework works well for so many different data sources.
My experience with other generative methods has been that they were fragile and prone to pathological behaviour, and that getting them to work required for a specific use case required a bunch of unprincipled hacks[3].
It used to be that when a talk started to veer towards generative models, I'd start looking around the room, wondering whether I could survive the drop from any outside-facing windows.
But with RNNs using LSTM (or neural Turing machines!) you can consider incorporating a generative model in the solution you're putting together without having to spend a huge chunk of time massaging it into usefulness and purchasing time on a supercomputer[4]

1. I once wrote quick a Reddit bot with the aim of learning to repost frequent highly upvoted comments and trained it using a simple k-Markov model... it was not good at first, and in order to get it to work I had to do a lot of non-fun stuff like sanitizing input, adding heuristics for when/where to post, and at the end it was mediocre.

2. Alex Graves (from DeepMind) has a demo about using RNNs to "hallucinate" the evolution of Atari games, using the pixels from the screen as inputs. It's interesting because it shows that same sort of tendency to capture the subtle stuff: https://youtu.be/-yX1SYeDHbg?t=2968

3. As in occult knowledge and rules-of-thumb, but you might also read this as a double entendre about myself and my colleagues.

4. Well, you still might need an AWS GPU instance if you don't have a fancy graphics card.
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This is from the era when people were in a creative trance.
OCaml has had type-directed record disambiguation for a few versions now. So you can quite easily reuse field names these days.
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Further making everyone a renter, and eliminating any chance of widespread economic security as there will be even greater dependency on month-to-month cash flow.

What needs to happen is the exact opposite, via eliminating repossession of residences in bankruptcy or otherwise breaking the financial abstractions that create the never ending positive feedback in housing prices. Then we can finally have a housing correction and people will be able to buy homes instead of only renting them from banks. Labor will then have more bargaining power and wages will raise naturally.
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This is one of the things I love about some of the Turing tarpits. Pretty much any input works, for some definition of works.

It's also the reason why I have a soft spot for (some) visual programming languages (the one for old Lego Mindstorms, for instance).
For fast food it certainly is the largest cost. Other industries are different, but shops with a brick and mortar presence often are wage bound.
sadly, Varoufakis combines alternative policy views with a personality a bit too over the lines.

I think a more "traditional looking" minister might have produced more results, as Greece work seems to suffer from his "big personality".

On the other hand, this[0] wouldn't exist without him.

[0] the funniest video on an economic minster I've ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afl9WFGJE0M
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From an office scenario, having a coworker knowing your salary is very different to having a close friend knowing your salary. This is especially true if the average salary of your peers makes it difficult to have a comfortable lifestyle. Luckily for the most of the HN crowd, this is not the case.

Salary is something I have an open discussion with my manager about, actually my manager encourage this type of discussion with him. This is a healthy practice.
Did it in 1214 and wasn't fired, would run a ver public labour board lawsuit if i was too.

Companies hate the publicity.
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I can't run. I'm trying to run a 20:00 5K in 100 days
Good practice when literally 'poking around' in an amp is to use a chopstick
> What if someone hijacks a domain?

But that's a registrar problem, not a "proof that this connection comes from someone who controls that domain" problem. These aren't EV certificates.
Then don't donate. It's their project, their time and effort, their choice.
Potentially, you can have your registration revoked, but usually the address information isn't checked. If you don't want your information appearing in WHOIS, go with your registrar's WHOIS service, if they provide one. Don't use a third-party 'service', as you'll effectively be in breach of their TOCs (because you've provided inaccurate information to the registrar).
This is something I wished browsers would do in general.
"First of all, some studies are just poorly designed or hopelessly biased. Second, even the best individual studies have their flaws and limitations. This isn't because all science is bad or untrustworthy. It's because it's an iterative process, and it takes many studies to get at the truth of the matter. Individual studies will almost never give the final word on a particular question. That's just how science works."

It's pretty basic, but I think a lot of people lack this insight and it causes them to lose faith in all of science when they see contradictory studies.
They're definitely part of the problem, but they're a powerful kingmaker in the industry. Without their approval several vendors won't include the Let's Encrypt CA at all.

So it ultimately boils down to: Dance with the devil and become relevant, or maintain the moral high ground and accomplish nothing.
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> I thought there was some scientific method and Well Witchers/Dowsers had been relegated to history

Nowadays a professional hydrologist is who you'd contract for the task. They will do a geologic survey and fracture trace analysis using data from satellite imagery, the USGS and related state agencies in order to identify fissures within the underground rock formations that are most likely to hold a suitably sized pocket of water with good recovery. Then they might conduct electrical resistivity tomography to directly measure and image the density of subsurface material to identify water pockets and narrow down good drilling spots. It's a far cry from the sort of thing that might be characterized as dowsing.
You can make a pretty compelling argument that we are already at a two tiered system (at least in the west).

The problem is the definition of "basic necessities".

Imagine that functional immortality becomes a possibility. Does it fall into the "basic" tier or the "luxury" tier. Drawing those lines is precisely what we are doing everyday with politics.
> It's not a natural condition. The natural condition of a free market is an equilibrium between supply and demand.

That's the natural condition of a theoretical free market, real markets are not theoretical. As Keynes said, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Also, poor people have more children than rich people.
> Your last point would hold if we only had the mental capacity to pity one person at a time, in which case would Rebecca Black really win over, say, victims of child sex trafficking?

My point is that the irrationality and hostility of the Internet and its users is by no means a new thing, and - as much as I sympathize for Ms. Wu - nobody is exempt from online dickery.

> Are these obscenities received every waking moment, or only during the game?

Depends on whether or not you choose to connect a real-world identity to your in-game identity. This is often the case for, say, screencasters, "Let's Play"ers, etc.

> Do they know your real name, your home phone number, your address, or just your avatar name?

Depends on how motivated they are, and - again - whether or not you've made any connection between the real and unreal worlds for these sorts of trolls to latch onto.

> Are they threatening your online personality, or threatening you?

The latter in many (if not most) cases. That's how it works in a lot of these situations; the other players are real people, and therefore not subject to Fourth-Wall-induced restrictions.

> Please don't trivialize these threats by comparing them to in-game banter.

You'd be surprised how frequently "in-game banter" is the understatement of the century.
Augur's key differentiator is that it's decentralized. It runs on Ethereum, a programmable blockchain. There is nothing to shut down: it runs on thousands of computers around the world.

Prediction markets are a well-defined interaction between people. Blockchain technology lets us build anything in that category with near-zero transaction costs and huge censorship resilience.
No more than they would send you several hundred separate bills. If all the domains are linked to the same account, verify the account and you're done.
Let me upgrade that service:

- Generates real-looking names

- Generates a "social live" across the internet, with pictures, Linkedin profiles, and "friends"

- Generates "obviously valid" email addresses

- Provides an email forwarding service to your real address as above

- Provides a "Post office box" pseudo-service so that you can add that as your "real address"

- Generates extensions for a (800) we all can use to as to protect our real phone numbers

- Signs up to your registrar's information and updates it

You just got yourself a "valid" info set in the eyes of ICAAN (without having to pay anon services).
I just thought I'd through this out there since it would be perfect for anyone thinking of the Berlin scene, and I'd really like to see a stronger European startup scene!
Also, if you update any contacts associated with the domain.
If you want to create class material, have a look at http://challengeu.com - they've built an entire service around providing a platform for teachers to share content. It's pretty cool! (Disclaimer: I used to work with them)
Actually has value for law enforcement despite what some commenters seem to be saying here. For example if the contact info is not valid then it would be a quick and easy process to take the site offline for a cooperative registrar.
> It's about being able to connect with people across vast physical spaces with a lot of the same quality of the connection as in-person.

This can be done trivially today with Facetime and other video software. Its largely seen as a gimmick. In the end, people value efficiency, not meatspace equivalents of things. That's why Amazon has all its products with an easy search box and a one click button, instead of a virtual shop assistant.

>I wasn't sure how a shoe would look based on the one or two angles a site provided.

That is a fairly obscure edge case here. Neurotic shoe buyers aren't going to buy a $500 headset and a $1000 gaming PC to buy shoes. They'll take themselves to the store, to you know, actually try the fit, which is fairly important.

>IKEA can go to the next level and actually project the furniture you want into a 3d mockup of the room you want it to go in.

That sounds a lot more like AR, not VR, nor the meta-verse.

>You're not wrong, but you seem to be missing a huge part of the picture.

You sound exactly like the people who were telling me Second Life would change everything about 8 years ago. The concepts are exactly the same, you're just putting on a fancier display. The metaverse is a failed concept for what are fairly obvious reasons. SL proved the skeptics right, so why are we still having this ridiculous conversation?
True. I'm on the fence here.

Keeping "real" thickness slows down rendering by a factor of 1.5-2 depending on browser used. Images look better though. I'm not sure what users want at this stage of the project. Perhaps a toggle?
They're always regressive. That's why the rich love them.
Oh, you're talking about decentralization to mean remove any authoritative control over a zone (rather than ability to choose the delegation system), which also requires upending the resolution design. I'm largely just referring to the namespace management and rules attached. In that respect namecoin isn't a particularly interesting entrant. It doesn't really fix problems with namespace coordination unless you decide they're irrelevant next to maintaining namecoin's ideologically purity.

If namecoin were to take off it would just collapse under it's own weight once squatters move in. So, outside of ICANN pushing huge and onerous changes down to their TLDs, I don't really see the utility for namecoin beyond providing resolution for services that would get their domains revoked by a registry for policy reasons or following legal orders.
> We can't even deploy IPv6

Actually, all my traffic is v6 by default using Telenet (Belgium) and XS4ALL (the Netherlands). And yes, those are mainstream ISPs. Lots of services, most noticeably Google and thus Youtube, use it by default as well.

We're nowhere near 100% yet, but as the need increases we are getting there.
If you want to make graphs like those on their page, it's fun. But once you want more it can be super annoying and hard to understand.
For blogging, WordPress is about the least worst there is.

The key thing is: you don't have to run it yourself.

For almost all users, wordpress.com is the answer. Automattic take care of all the rubbish for you.

If you're fussy about themes, there are any number of third-party providers who will give you more wiggle room than wordpress.com but take care of the tedious rubbish for you.

If you really want to run it yourself, there is a huge ecosphere of designers, consultants and sysadmins.
Anytime I see "Not needed" instead of "No" in a feature comparison chart, I am inclined to just stop reading.
This should really include http://ecomfe.github.io/echarts/index-en.html
Neat. I'd love to have a playable Super Mario Brothers game like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM

Would you run an emulator in the background and interpret the 2d output to drive the 3d game or would you extract the physics of the game similar to this article and just re-implement so you're not relying on an emulator.
A few years ago I actually read the experiment regarding the NJ fast food workers and the PA fast food workers shortly after NJ passed a minimum wage. I saw it consistently being brought up in conversations regarding minimum wage, which is very interesting to me for some reason.

So this is the report that was supposed to show that minimum wage increases don't affect employment rate (infact, they actually might improve it), however, when you look at the data presented within the study itself, you find that indeed, the NJ employment rate seemed to increase, and the PA employment rate seemed to decrease slightly. However, when you look at the number of employees per fast food restaurant, you'll see that the NJ restaurants started at a much lower number per restaurant than the PA restaurants, and then that employees per restaurant metric raises up by the end of the study but it never reaches the same number as the PA restaurants.

What that study actually seemed to show to me, is given the ample notice that business owners had about the minimum wage increase, they thinned out their workforce. Then the minimum wage increase came (the study actually started shortly after the increase had already been put in place, I believe), and the business owners realized they over thinned out the workforce, hired a few more people to get to the right number which was still less than the PA number with lower labor costs.

And since we don't exist in a vacuum, once a business owner realizes their store in NJ can run on 18 people, why should they run their store in PA with 20? It could probably make due with 19.

However, no one ever brings up the point that per restaurant, NJ never had as many employees as PA, essentially stating that PA was using more employees to accomplish the same job as NJ, which is exactly what you would expect to happen from an increase in labor cost.

Instead, everyone only focuses on the jobs added/lost during the short time of the study. It's like I'm the only person in the world who actually looked at the data in the report, instead of just reading the author's findings. Very Frustrating to consistently seeing this study shown as proof that minimum wage doesn't affect employment numbers.
That is true for all the whois protection services. You have no recourse if the registrar takes the domain.
> The C pitfalls you listed are easily avoided using C++ builtins like std::shared_ptr, templates, the STL, and the rest of the C++ standard library.

That was exactly my point.

> And I'd have to strongly disagree.

OK, let's agree to disagree.
Could you post it on github or something like that so it's easier to suggest edits and fixes? Thanks.
Give http://ecomfe.github.io/echarts/index-en.html a try. Sounds capable of more data than DC.
How does this compare with Nylas (https://nylas.com), who claims they're the "next generation email platform"?
Actually bytecode manipulation doesn't make JVM alternative languages impossible, on the opposite Quasar allows them to be easily integrated and investigation/work is ongoing to avoid even having to do that. Plus, depending on the language implementation, in some cases integration is just not needed.

Of course you can use Akka with Kotlin (and Clojure, although not sure how convenient that would be) but there's no idiomatic API (yet?), while Quasar offers them.
Since I studied economics I can attest that what you say is true for markets of n infinitely lived households that require no minimal sustenance, given a few technical conditions such as free disposal of excess supply and such. In a world perfectly corresponding to this model the supply and demand relation is perfectly understood. How it changes when the conditions are not exactly equal to those used to solve the model is much less clear
Thanks for this.

We're adding licenses to our examples that we have on GitHub and we're also adding a pointer from our inboxsdk.js file to our terms of service.

Over a longer time horizon, we plan on open sourcing the entire implementation of the InboxSDK but just not yet.
I dont even understand how ICANN can make that decision which has very dubious benefits. The equivalent would be to require all newspapers to disclose the real name, telephone email and address of everyone who writes an article or puts an advertisement in their pages. I might even get it if ICANN required a private registry with these data; But the useless whois database only serves as a goldmine for spammers that want me to renew my domains for $1000. this is illogical and i m at a loss
Law enforcement were still the ones who demanded it. ICANN and the registrars didn't particularly want this. In fact, what the LEAs were originally demanding was full verification and validation of all contact details supplied to the registrar.

I know this, because I work for a registrar and was privy to the 2013 RAA negotiations.
Profits tend to get hit first and hit hardest.

Inflation follows for businesses with particularly thin profit margins, but the effect is usually muted.
Thank you for your comment.
I also always found that the interesting part is analyzing a philosopher's way of thinking based on the context he lived in and the other philosopher's arguments. Same with literature. Studying these things out of context is completely missing the point.

> I think philosophy is to the mind what exercise is to the body. You don't become an athlete by memorizing trivia about famous athletes; you become one by emulating their daily routines

This is a good way to put it.

I also hated that philosophy crash course. I understand why my friends despise philosophy because of that. In fact I'm looking for arguments to simply redeem the idea of philosophy in their minds so they do not reject it immediately after hearing the word.
If your domain is with a scummy registrar, then you're screwed regardless. It has nothing to do with WHOIS privacy.
Neither choice is great (the other ones that I've tried auto-convert \r\n to \n so it's impossible to test a \r\n string). I don't think there's anyone in particular that's at fault, \r\n causes a messy set of problems.
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Nylas is really cool.

If I remember correctly they are building a base email application that can be extended with plugins (like the atom editor). This does require people to adopt their email client.

The InboxSDK takes a different approach in that it lets you extend Gmails functionality and write apps for Gmail. End users don't have to switch their email client (assuming their using the gmail web client)
This is very interesting and has been resubmited a few times. Most popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238 (570 points, 655 days ago, 112 comments )
As for the moment Spotify is the only one I have spotted. I have also written an article about how Starbucks could achieve higher engagement with marketing personalization based on weather information (matching with device location).

You can read it here:

https://blog.onliquid.com/data-driven-awesomeness-2/

If anyone else knows of any other apps or companies doing the same thing, feedback is always welcome ;)
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Shouldn't a higher minimum wage drive additional spending, which depending on the skilled laborer's market, potentially increase their wage.

Hopefully the minimum wage will be enough of a boost that their children can then become a skilled laborer.

Even so, so what? I'm making more than some people with more education, and there are morons who were in the right place at the right time who spend more in a year than I'll ever be worth.
I recommend that inform yourself about the decision making process on the ECB board, and who's the majority there. Germany almost always votes against the ECBs decisions but is outvoted by other countries. several German ECB members have resigned because of that.

This gives a pretty clear indication in whose interest the ECB works. Namely in the interest of the majority of the board members.
I found a helpful primer to meditation and associated benefits in a good book by Dan Harris - "10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works"

Mainly he decouples the practice from the spiritual part of it. so you can go in without expecting a monk to come out the other side.
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