skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I needed some real-world MS Word & Excel documents years ago to test some parsing code against. So I started crawling Google results for 'filetype:.doc .xls' style queries. Left it running for a weekend, then the whole Monday was wasted as I was sucked into looking through the results - some stuff in there was certainly not meant for public disclosure...
Superadobe is a fun example of a "solution looking for a problem," and I don't think that's categorically a bad thing.

These undeniably have a cool tatooine look. For someone with a bit of land (even a nice sized garden) in arid climates, this could be a fun project to do with teenage kids. Do the workshop(s), plan a structure and build something cool. If you can get salvaged windows, doors and a floor it could be a genuinely useful structure like a studio or fun guest cabin.

Landscaping would also be a good project.

It would be cool if they had some photos of structures, and the number of hours it would take a couple of amateurs to build it.
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For more try https://commoncrawl.org/
> With any sort of proportional vote system

The problem with extrapolating how the result of a proportional vote would have gone from the results of a first past the post election is that people would vote differently. e.g. someone might vote tactically for lib-dem to get a conservative out under first past the post whereas they might vote labour under proportional representation.

Edit: I'm in favour of proportional representation.
You might enjoy this thread from the discussion on r/programming[0]. I was lucky enough to ensnare a PL professor.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31qitu/introduc...
This is possible, but even taking out the near minimum wage clause I am still surprised that rainier thinks that a 22 year old paid to look after his daughter cares more about her than him and his wife.
A lot of people who believe in FC and it's variants believe that there's a big conspiracy to silence the voices of their children. They don't think it's relevant that there was a facilitator who was just "supporting his arm" or "providing contact" or something of the sort. So they are unlikely to do this; they want to promote a notion that the child is producing the text, not the facilitator.
This article is a stretch at best. There are too many subsystems in a car that are already controlled by software from Bosch and a few select other companies that have no or little interface into the UI of a car. The author here either doesn't get that cars are a level of magnitude more complicated than computers or he doesn't care. Electric cars can simply things somewhat as it takes a lot of sensors and cpu power to make a gasoline or Diesel engine run and meet emissions standards. However there is still a lot to manage in electric cars too that goes way beyond Bluetooth control and maps.
In general I agree with you, but Apple, Google, and Amazon all have very risky, very high profile internal projects in their portfolios.

When you're that big a failure tends to be written up as "They tried and couldn't do it, so it must be impossible. But weren't they brilliant for trying!" Failure is marketed as success.
This is only true if you do two unrelated things simultaneously: have a monolithic repo, and keep the whole thing checked out at all times. Provided you have a sane build system (pants, Blaze, Buck, etc.), then the only thing that should need to have the full checkout is the CI server; you should be able to safely work from a narrow clone.

That said, I find your note a bit amusing. I'd have agreed a decade ago, but nowadays, 50 MB should take effectively zero time for you to both download and apply. It's worth revisiting things like this as LANs and the internet get faster; I think the speed comment is a bit outdated now.
jump in and ask questions. :)
and that is still the current state.

I wanted to replace it with free software, but it's still a PITA --syncthing seems the best so far, although it requires more experience to be a DB killer
>What is Superadobe?

An oxymoron.
At first I started reading this as though it were a paper, and was surprised to realise that it doesn't reference Microsoft Probase[1], which is probably the leading concept-relation knowledge base around. Nor (as noted below) Cyc, WordNet or NELL.

Actually, it's a somewhat interesting tutorial on how to implement graphs like these in Python.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/probase/
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Differing parental styles will have different outcomes. It's part of what makes these studies so useless.
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I'm not afraid of reflection or silence, not at all. Just doing things isn't fun alone and after a couple times doing something alone I decide staying in is more entertaining.
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This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_St...
gives a number of examples of US authorities shutting down diploma mills.
The short answer is you won't invest money; you'll use it for another expense or to reduce a liability against you.

The medium answer involves understanding your finances to know how 25/week on Starbucks impacts your budget. Is it 1%? Is it 10%?

The much longer answer involves analyzing the stock market and spending habits, and understanding that to become wealthy in the sense referred here, managing your money is only a part of, you do need to work on generating a lot of income.
"It's too slow" is not a trivial problem to solve.
Anything but.

Depends on your viewpoint, but I'd argue it's not actually that hard to solve unless you also require you solve it within the context of Git. For example, in most systems, you can do something called a narrow checkout, where you only grab part of the tree of the whole repository. Subversion, Monotone, Perforce, and (soon) Mercurial all support this, whereas Git does not--and, the last I looked at the Git protocol, it wouldn't have been sane to implement. (Been about two years at this point, so I apologize if that has changed.)

Beyond that, even local commit in a single repo is actually pretty easy to solve if you have file watchers (powered by e.g. inotify, kqueue), which at least Mercurial does, and I'd honestly swear Git does also.

At that point, I don't think there's a lot left that inherently has to make commits take the better part of an hour. If you are at such a company, please take a moment to run strace or something; I'm really curious where the tool's spending so much time.
nope, it's still there; it's just a couple more clicks so they can upsell to support their living

https://www.hidemyass.com/proxy
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there are two types of technical analysis, subjective and objective.

subjective ones, like "head and shoulders" patterns, are totall bollocks. Objective ones, like MACD, EMA, RSI, etc... can be useful when applied correctly.

Unfortunately it seems like the author of the paper was working with some very naive use cases, causing him to not get very good results (I will admit, I only skimmed the paper as it didn't seem that useful to me).

I can tell you from first hand experience that technical analysis trading strategies, when applied correctly, are very, very, very effective.
Website timed out for me.
<wrong>Google is still using don't-look-behind-the-curtain-it's-totally-not-Perforce-but-it's-Perforce</wrong>

Google is using a Perforce lookalike that is not actually Perforce, but they're moving to Mercurial. Subversion also scales up to similar sizes, although I confess to not knowing what "similar" means. (I do know that Google did an experiment and concluded that Subversion would scale to their needs, but they were already committed to Perforce by that point.)

EDIT: Got corrected by someone who has good reason to know.
> Have you checked with the customers? I have never heard of a customer commenting software features of a car. It looks to me that car buyers are interested in other things in a car.

Even as a fellow auto enthusiast, I get the sense that we don't represent the majority. There's a reason most car salespeople can't explain anything technical about the vehicle they're trying to sell you -- most buyers don't care about those details.

If Tesla (or anyone else) comes out with a cheap enough car that can't do over 50mph, runs on a user-friendly electric ecosystem, has terrible driving dynamics, and can autopilot between home and work?

I feel like they'd seize 25%+ of US auto sales at least.
Or maybe not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
How large is this machinery for online-learning ?
How about we rephrase this. Daughters of those mothers that earn enough to make putting their children in childcare are more likely to earn more than mothers who's wages are too low to afford childcare. Phrased this way we come to the startling conclusion that the children of the middle class grow up to be middle class. I am shocked.
Caring is a separate issue from having the aptitude and temperament for the labor of child care. I'd do anything for my daughter, but let's face it, she's boring. She's slightly smarter than a puppy, and while it's all magical a couple of hours a day, I can't imagine engaging with her day-in and day-out, any more than I can imagine being a factory worker who just does one movement all day long. I'd go crazy.

The daycare worker certainly wouldn't run in front of a bus to protect my kid, which I'd do in a heartbeat. But that's not a day-to-day need.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/29/the_simpsons_...

"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", 1998.
I think classifieds sites tend to have this phenomenon of being localised to regions simply because, by nature, its usefulness derives from finding people and services in your physical area. And much like social networks, the more people use it, the more useful it is.

In Australia, and I think Britain, most people use Gumtree. And in New Zealand they use a similar site called TradeMe
> Why don't they ...

Why don't you RTFA? In which you're questions are answered.
"...working with them on crawling, walking, talking and...

This amuses me. With things like that (crawling/walking/talking) I let my kid find his own way, in his own time. I have no intention of helping him with anything like it, or from school, ever - unless he asks.

What I do do with my son is play. Building radio control cars. Jumping on car hoods/bonnets in a scrapyard. Lego. Jumping in puddles. Flying kites. Making fires. Going on the odd helicopter ride. Concerts...

He will spend such a silly amount of his life being a student that my mission is for him to just be a boy. Without the spectre of under- or over-achievement. No judgement, regardless of his performance. Because no matter what, he is, and will always be, enough.
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I believe the intent was that if robots.txt claims to disallow a section of a website, then French law would say that section is off-limits to visitors and visiting disallowed sections is punishable by law.

I doubt that this is a valid interpretation of the law. The robots.txt file simply mentions parts of the site that shouldn't be indexed, not which parts of a site shouldn't be viewed by the general public. You use a robots.txt file to prevent a search engine from following links that would enumerate all the possible dynamically-generated content on your site to conserve resources and to prevent junk results appearing for a search user.

Tangentially relevant: when you do have something you want indexed, it should probably be a static page that lives at a permanent URL. But never attempt to use a robots.txt file to "hide" sensitive data.
Google for "Lisa Wilberg esc" (just like what a stalker might do to narrow it down to the correct uni) and you get the robots.txt file itself in 3rd place. The author isn't doing any more harm than Google already is. It's already easily searchable.
I can't agree with this. Having had a lovely time with depression a couple of times you could double that amount and it wouldn't even register. Depression isn't a lack of motivation, a lack of motivation is a symptom of the greater issue

Merely anecdotal evidence of course, but I don't think you're on the right path here
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"Thinking fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman dedicates an entire chapter analyzing why traders think that they know how to predict the future of markets, even when faced with real data that proves otherwise. In fact, a completely random algorithm often outperforms professional traders.
Strongly agree. I emailed the school to let them know about the error on their part. How hard would it have been for the author to do the same, and to change the name of the victim and institution to protect her?
It might be emotional for some/most (mainly linked to the private situation of the employee?). But this doesn't mean it is irrational.
There is either a clear reason for the fire or the problem lies with the employer. This basic premise is very rational. Some divorces and breakups might be like that, a lot of others not.

Tears will dry up. The reason/facts can help the employee a lot more than a short term comforting moment.

This doesn't mean I completely agree with the author, of course some empathy sounds like a good idea. But that's second to the facts.
Off limits to robots, hence the name.

edit: I think you edited to clarify since I commented. Thanks.
I agree with you, and my children do many things at day care we'd not think about (or not have time to, or not feel like) doing with them at home. But there are (or rather, 'used to be', as in most places in the West the law doesn't allow it any more - I don't know about other places) also many 'child care' facilities where 2 overworked staffers on full-day shifts spend their day running around spoon feeding and changing 20 children ranging in age from 3 months to 4 years in too-small, damp and cold (or hot, depending on climate) buildings, with the 'playground' consisting of concrete, a few half-broken plastic bikes and a swing. The devil is in the details.
You don’t need to know someone’s CPR number to look up someone’s address (if it is not protected). A name and former address is sufficient to get a current address, and you can request a single lookup as an individual for a fee.
How convenient, I'm currently tasked with classifying some data and this will surely come in handy.
Thanks for the offer. But I believe that the decision to remove the Forward button when there is no 'Forward' history was a design decision. Unfortunately, it has the unpleasant effect of resizing the address bar as well. So as you click through tabs, or click links, the address bar keeps resiing depending on the state of the history in that tab.

These 'design' decisions are quite silly IMHO. But I will find the original bug report and CC you on it.
You should look at ember pods - it's already built into ember-cli. It basically organizes your project's folder structures live you've described. All 'posts' related items go into a posts folder - its routes, components, templates, controllers, etc.
Trading Google for Yahoo is just trading one company trying to track you around the web for another company doing the exact same thing.
It just says daughters of working mothers are more likely to become working mothers themselves. They consider working moms to be a good thing, and prove it by showing that working moms have working daughters, which is in their opinion a good thing.

A bit circular. I am not against working mothers, just saying one should be clear about one's judgement. For me it is not a given that working is a good thing. At least not in general (not for any kind of work).
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On one hand, I am in favor of people striving to increase longevity and maybe even eliminate death.

On the other hand, I view organizations such as SENS as nothing more than "wizards" of the past who promised kings that if they drank the blood of their foes or consumed gold, they would find eternity.

I think, for me at least, the comparison of death to a dragon is a poor one. Death is not some malignant entity that causes harm. It is, now, and for the foreseeable future, the reality for all living creatures. I understand people are afraid of it, but I think the real dragon is the fear of death, not death itself.
The author is bringing more unwanted attention to a victim. Why not contact the school and let them know of their error, or change the woman's name? Reprinting her name and the institution name accomplishes nothing good.
Probably because neither him nor his wife is getting paid to do it...
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https://beecanvas.com/en

Just had a play on it. Seems an amazing collaborative tool.
The average nurse cares more than her wage pays for. I guess it's the same with the average daycare worker. At least it's my own experience (against all odds daycare workers have pretty low wages here in France)
perhaps some are spending more quality time with their kids because the are not home and feel more obligated to do so. throw in the idea that children learn from the actions of their parent and so success is more likely from seeing parents already in the workplace the outcome becomes expected
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I think Conway's law applies: the structure of the repositories reflects the communication structure of the teams that are using them. SemVer is appropriate when you have a low-bandwidth communication channel with the other side, when it's too expensive to go into the details of what and how you need to change, so a summary is appropriate.

In an organization where everyone's familiar with and works on every codebase, you don't need that. But my experience is that codebases need to have an owning team and teams that are larger than ~12 become unwieldy, and from what I've heard from friends who work there even e.g. Facebook tends to work in smaller teams than that.

So fine, I know that the people who depend on my library are the Foo team in Australia and the Bar team in New York. But I still wouldn't want to refactor their codebase without, at least, a code review from someone on that team - in which case I want separate pull requests for the library change, the project foo change and the project bar change. And I don't want one PR to block the others, so I want to make a library release but have foo depend on the old version until their change goes through. In short I think I'd always take option 3.
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Of course peer groups matter a lot. That's why concerned parents try to stir their kids into the right peer groups.
I didn't realise this kind of thing applied to people with enough motion control to hold a cup of coffee as seen in the photo. Surely they can type on an iPad themselves at that point, without the need for an interpreter or go-between?
The Wikipedia site mentions that today, Forth is used in BootROMs - is that because no heap (=initialized DRAM) is required to run it, so the CPUs onboard memory can be used? I guess you need something for the very early stages, for when the peripherals are not yet available.
> I can tell you from first hand experience that technical analysis trading strategies, when applied correctly, are very, very, very effective.

I don't doubt that you have traded to some large financial advantage, but it's unlikely that your specific experience is systemically repeatable. In particular in justifying technical analysis with the qualifying phrase 'when applied correctly' smells a little like 'No true Scotsman'.
We basically said the same thing but you seem to be focused on my statements regarding helping them with academics. I wonder though - when your son says, "I catched the ball" do you purposely not correct him because that's the school's job?

Everything you listed under your play I've done with my three kids with the exception of jumping on hoods in a scrapyard. I could add endlessly to the list including stop motion animation, working with electronic circuits, learning to dive, etc, etc.

I think essentially we agree; the time a child spends with his parents should be the best time for both the child and the parents.
I agree with you (on risk is acceptable) but I also believe you underestimate the pettiness of people. I'm sure there are people who believe the ind label or your friends are enemies (for whatever real or imagined reason). But the set of those people who also have technical ability or access to technical ability to enact this "revenge" is almost certainly empty.
The most interesting point I think is in the conclusion, namely the idea of central banks adding uncertainty in the hopes of bursting bubbles while they're small.

"...if the policy-maker (Central Banks) intervened by randomly buying and selling financial assets, two results could be simultaneously obtained. From an individual point of view, agents would suffer less for asymmetric or insider information, due to the consciousness of a 'fog of uncertainty' created by the random investments. From a systemic point of view, again the herding behavior would be consequently reduced and eventual bubbles would burst when they are still small and are less dangerous; thus, the entire financial system would be less prone to the speculative behavior of credible 'guru' traders."
That depends on which dimension of success you look at it.

As an investment, it probably wasn't successful.

As a 6-year education program in entrepreneurship, it was probably very successful. If the people running that company take those learnings and apply it in their next venture, or within the company that acquired them, it could lead to great outcomes later.

If the company paid salaries to employees, then it employed people for six years. That is success.

If the company contributed to open source or otherwise gave back to the community in whatever form they could, that's positive. Depending on how their contributions were used by others, it could've been very successful.

I'm sure there are other dimensions you could consider.
A very nice visualization and explanation of Poisson disc sampling for images can be found here: [1]

[1]: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
If the car can drive itself, what will the person inside be there for? If not to view ads and consume media?