skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"then steer the conversation to their work. I also learned quickly that I should have no opinions on THEIR work, or my night would be bad. It was a rare event to have to explain further, most people were delighted to talk at length about themselves."

Sounds like it's time to add Applied Psychology in the Academic Sector to the resume.
Mexico has an interesting similar concept, it's called UDI: (Unidades de Inversión, Investment Units), it's a currency tied to inflation, its a currency tied to inflation and it's used by financial entities to hedge against inflation.
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>Factory (19th century)

Specifically, a factory with a steam engine, hence the language of internal "drives" and so on.

The 21c part of this analogy should be "the internet," following the principle of us basing our mind-model on the newest technology around at the time.

I always thought it odd to say that our mind is like a computer, when we created computers in the image of our minds.
The methodology and reasoning behind this study is dubious at best.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=myspace%2C%20facebook...

If google trends is of any predictive value, Uber and Instagram should not exist (or at least be worse than myspace). The keyword 'snapchat' also shows near zero volume.
Cavemen's home was not a cave
I think this is basically the case. Here in indianapolis there is a local Amazon warehouse and I got notification that this service is now available. I think they've been working on this for a while w/ various strategies.

For example: I order diapers via Subscribe-and-Save. Sometimes the diapers come in the standard amazon boxes from UPS/Fedex/USPS. Sometimes a guy in an unmarked pick-up truck filled with diaper boxes drops off the diapers(with an amazon shipping label adhered directly to the pampers box).
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I lived in Brazil for 3 years during the early 90's and I distinctly remember two currency changes: Cruzeiro to Cruzados and then Cruzados to Cruzados Novos. While living there, our strategy was to keep our money in US Dollars until the last second when we decided that we wanted to buy something because inflation was so crazy. Then I remember hearing this story on NPR almost 2 decades later and I was blown away about the psychological game that was used to stabilize Brazilian currency.
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Linaro 2015 – Developing Android for Modular Smartphones [video]
The appeals court overturning Posner's decision about the general copyrightability of APIs and the amicus brief are both good things, because they are based on the correct legal rationales. Assuming your position is that copyright protection should apply to software at all, that is.

The fact that the existing fair use exception language is not clearly and explicitly permitting Google's use of the API is a bad thing.
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And, among people who are employed, they are often paid so poorly as to still be below the poverty line.
The cost of any given book might be "meaningless". It adds up. Imagine spending that $50 a few dozen times, and you've got the beginnings of a decent technical bookshelf - but now we're talking about thousands of dollars, which is a financial obstacle to most people.
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But was also a natural name from "URV", which means Real Unity of Value - using 'real' as something real.

Maybe the irony is more that URV was a virtual/fake currency named "real".
So do the vast majority of other Prime shipments, the occasional <$35 item/order may quality for free 2day shipping depending on some undefined circumstances

Edit: Whoops, I was thinking non-prime 2day shipping
Letmespace the “Airbnb of self-storage”
I think separation from Google+ will be the big thing.
I am impressed this got upvoted. A couple of years ago, telling everybody I am not on facebook and have never been for such uncool reasons, would have drowned like a lead-duck.
In NYC they bought a huge property in a super busy area (Herald Square) next to the Macys building. I believe there were reports that stated it wasn't a warehouse, but people have seen Amazon carriers go in and out of it.

They've been doing Amazon Now / Amazon Fresh in the metropolitan areas for a while. They can accomplish the 1 day delivery basically by piggy backing off these services.
This a thousand times. Hire for attitude, pay for skill (and keep pay in line with skill as skill increases).
I wonder how are they going to improve from there. Previous day delivery? "We deliver before you buy" (tm)
In some cases in NYC Amazon is using the subway
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Thanks for the feedback, flipmonk. What's your OS / Browser / Resolution? Maybe I can repro.
Thanks for the recommendation. If it wasn't $73 I'd definitely grab a copy. Why is Haskell "if you must" though? Are the others better at expressing code algebraically?
Inflation is just as much about public confidence as it is about the actual amount of money in circulation. That money doesn't have intrinsic value. People give it value by using it.

The claim is that public in the government-issued currency (what ever they renamed it to) was nil. This 'hack' brought back public confidence by saying that it wasn't "really" a currency. Once public confidence built up for the URV, they merged the "not currency" with the real currency, riding the coat tails of that confidence.
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Some of the features of PyCharm that I use every day are built-in, and probably have plugins in Sublime that do similarly:

- The best key-binding interface I have ever seen in the settings.
- Find Definition: I can press F3 (my keybind for it) and see where a class, method, or variable was declared. This makes it trivial to
- integrated git-blame ("annotations") when in a git repo

In short, it's a Very Polished environment that does all the things you can likely already do with Sublime + Console, and does them in a fast and convenient way.

PyCharm also has built in git support, but I still do that on the terminal. I also use the console to run my app, tests, etc, though PyCharm does have some integrated testing ability, because it happens to be more convenient for the codebase I work in. I don't consider the IDE a replacement for those, just a convenient way to Read/Explore code.
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They use their own vans.

edit: They basically leverage their amazon fresh / amazon now deliveries.
Yahoo must face email spying class action
They're already on it [0]

[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/
Depending on the country, and they type of clearance?

I got one years ago, but civil (government). I found it odd I was asked about my grandparents' occupations. No harm came.

Large companies, particularly those in finance, also ask for clearance which they also call security clearance. That's mainly ensuring a clean track record. One big area that I've seen people mess up is 'Directorships'. Having once registered a company, and keeping that company running, is a directorship, even if the company is idle. It takes a lot of unwinding with HR and audit when these things that are often only sometimes checked, or an international check is not run. Do declare directorships; as long as there is no conflict of interest there's noting to worry about, and if there is a conflict of interest, get it in the open because you could be accused of criminal liability.
The Forest vs. The Trees: A Story About Focus
Would be interesting to see if swiss watch makers adopt an existing tech for the watch or write their own.
You're right. It seems that jsudhams is exhibiting a kind if ingroup bias. People of lower classes can believe that the upper classes use their wealth to strongarm people, and people of upper classes can believe that the lower class people have less to lose, and have easy links to gangs, so they can get away with criminal behaviour. Of course, it's all bull until it gets backed by data.

jsudhams wrote "Any of my know circles will surely slap the guy in the same place." But you know, this is true across all sectors of Indian society. Indians are generally rather prone to violence.
I'm super psyched about this. Photos was easily my favorite part of Google+, but I was never comfortable having my entire phone connected to a public-only social network.

I never trusted photo backup from my phone to a public-only profile page. I understand that google respects privacy and tests their code well and doesn't auto-share photos, but the reality is I will never be comfortable with a public-only profile page directly connected to my cellphones camera with auto-upload.

I may be that tiny, tiny minority but I'm very psyched I'll be able to finally use some of the great tools without having to worry about the fact that my phone is being dumped into a public-only social network that "should" protect my privacy.
The slides immediately brought to mind the "Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned" article from a day or two ago [1].

Looking at them strengthened my tentative view that:

(1) Most slides should contain a short, complete sentence and optionally a picture -- no more.

(2) Each "chunk" of information should get its own slide.

[ADDED:]

(3) When using slides with information-dense graphs, charts, etc., slides with one-sentence summaries and explanations should be interspersed. Meeker's deck has some of that but could use more.

(4) Title slides should be more prominent than in Meeker's deck.

(5) Pictures are nice but shouldn't dominate a slide.

The above are just personal preferences, of course. I do a lot of teaching in which I use slides, and will be experimenting more along these lines.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9606345
Komar and Melamid is an art group that took surveys of art preferences in different countries and then made the logical favorite and least favorite paintings.

America's most wanted painting: http://awp.diaart.org/km/usa/most.html

Survey results: http://awp.diaart.org/km/surveyresults.html
Why would you want constant time access to code points? What can you do with constant time access to code points that is actually correct?

Every time someone tries to promote UTF-16, UTF-32, or some imagined encoding like UTF-24, they bring up constant time access to code points, but I have never heard of a reason why you would want that.

Pretty much every use case I have ever heard for constant-time access can be handled just as well by constant-time access at the code unit (byte in UTF-8, 16 bit value in UTF-16, 32 bit value in UTF-32) level. Matching text exactly? Matching works just as well at the code unit level. Doing any kind of fuzzy or regular expression match? You're going to need to iterate over each item anyhow to normalize it or classify it. Need to store offsets? That works just fine at the code unit level.

Most of the other suggestions I've heard for what to do with constant-time access to code points is incorrect when you consider combining characters, normalization, different character widths, need for linguistically appropriate word splitting, etc. If you're doing something that doesn't take these into account, why are you using Unicode instead of just ASCII?

In addition, for the ASCII range, UTF-24 would take up 3 times the space as UTF-8, and the vast majority of text processed is actually in the ASCII range due to verbose markup formats like HTML, XML, etc. Plus if you do anything with the code points in UTF-24, you need to do a bunch of bit-fiddling to move them into 32 bit alignment, so as far as actually decoding the individual code points, it's pretty much a wash with UTF-8.
> Its not a foregone conclusion that commodities will rise in price if everybody has a bit more money.

Yes, it pretty much is. If everyone has more money at t1 than at t0, and nothing else changes, then you've got more dollars chasing the same goods and you would expect that the price of goods would increase.

> The rich have a whole lot more money.

That's not relevant to anything.

> So the influx may raise prices, but never as much as to make the BI useless.

That's what I said: "The things disproportionately demanded by those who are better off with UBI will have some rise in prices (but not enough that they fail to be more affordable to those purchasing them in normal cases)"

> And its entirely likely the money will be conjured up from nowhere - minted for the purpose.

Every UBI proposal I've seen has called for it to be funded by some combination of replacing existed tax-funded programs and increased progressive taxation. So, as actually proposed, it would not be funded by money conjured from nowhere. (If it is, however, the expected effect on market-specific price levels is still the same as a tax-based funding mechanism, after you adjust for the increase in overall price levels resulting from the overall increase in the money supply in the "mint new money" approach.)

> And if the BI isn't universal, if its means-tested, then you're missing the point entirely.

That's fine, I didn't suggested doing that, so I don't see the relevance.
If I understand well you set up a time with the customer, it's not "a la Uber" right? Minimum 6 hours in advance.

I have read one of the founders had that pain with his family. Does any of the founders work or have worked as IT Technician before? Have you ever experienced the service by yourselves and perform the service before going live to make sure you have a good workflow? There are many right now in this space but, none seems to have the background to really make a difference.

As a "tech pro" myself is there a place to find more information about working with you? How much does the tech earn x service? Is it related to the final rating?

How do you compare yourself against Geekatoo, Techy, HelloTech, Convoy, Boomtown...

Thanks and best of luck!
I'd hardly trust Google again for a service I'd have to rely on in the future. Let alone for a service that doesn't force Google+ down your throat today or tomorrow. Sorry, but Google Reader, Hangouts and Android have been too much already.
Dilbert did it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0560459/
What percentage of government revenue and GDP is being lost to Mandal, etc, versus the coal scam, the power scam in Delhi that Kejriwal tried to expose, the cell spectrum scam, etc, freebies to Reliance and Ambani?
I LOLed. +1
Nope - it's two mini-DP cables

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/28/15-mbp-supports-dell-5k-...
Startups are now at lowest levels since 2002
This is probably the best name for anything ever.
They actually do something like this: Amazon ships stuff to a logistic center close to you when their machine learning algorithms decide you're likely to buy a specific item shortly.
They can't guarantee you will get it the "next day" since the store owner is the one who puts the packages into the locker themselves.
>Oh dear. More quantum mumbo jumbo and obvious fallacy.

If you were a philosopher you could actually refute my so-called fallacies with logic rather than insults :\

>1. Quantum mechanics tells us that matter obeys the Schrodinger equation and has wave properties. Therefore, the classical definition of matter is slightly wrong. This in no way implies that matter doesn't exist.

It's not "slightly wrong"... it's TOTALLY wrong. Schrodinger's cat is completely incompatible with classical materialism. You can't just be "slightly wrong" at this.

>You're right that "matter" as imagined by many classical scientists doesn't exist (because they didn't fully understand it), but you're ignoring the fact that it obviously still exists independently of how classical scientists imagined it to work.

It doesn't exist but it obviously exists???

It either exists or it doesn't, or we don't know either way. "Matter" is no longer treated by science, the concept has been dropped by physics. Science has "mass" but this mass behaves nothing like "matter."

>Quantum (in)determinism is still up in the air. We don't know exactly how it works. Anyone who uses it for philosophical arguments is probably not making a good argument.

Tell that to every physicists who speaks in public then. All of them try to reason about quantum physics and this is a major area of interest. I agree that it is "up in the air" but... philosophy has ALWAYS been about stuff that is up in the air. So to say that quantum physics is somehow off-limits to philosophical argument is just absurd.

>In what way do bosons refute materialism? Is helium-4 immaterial? Obviously not. I can hold it in a bottle. I can feel it on my skin. I can fill my lungs with this boson and talk in a squeaky voice.

Well you are just flat out not familiar with the standard philosophical canon, because none of those empirical phenomena depend on matter to be explained. They can all be explained by, for instance, empiricist idealists like Berkeley. No empiricist is claiming that sense perceptions don't exist. We are claiming that sense perceptions are not underpinned or explained by matter, that is to say, we are saying that materialism does not actually explain those things at all and that materialism can't be right. Materialism being a 2500 year old philosophy that everything is deterministic, solid, extended, based on atoms, etc etc.

The fact that we (the empiricist idealists) made these arguments before quantum mechanics proved us right is just grist for the comedy mill. When all of reality is shown to be underpinned by substances that have none of the classical properties of matter/materialism, then that philosophy is debunked.

But for some reason people still cling to the word and want to then redefine the word to mean its 180 degree opposite.

Shrug
I have seen this called "chunking" by folks who study learning http://smile.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra...
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(responding here to eli since we've reached the depth limit)

>My definition of stealing includes theft of services.

That's fine. You can go off and speak your own private language.

The rest of us don't get to redefine words arbitrarily. This is necessary for us to be able to communicate in a common language.
Ugh. This is super annoying. You can only see this filter and the eligability if your default address is in the region. I live in a valid area, but often have things sent to work which is just outside the valid area.

I wish I could see the fast shipping option, and just know I have to send it home.
"All due to welfare policies."

Really, all due to welfare policies? It doesn't have anything to do with India's colonial history, corruption, inconsistency in the legal infrastructure for new business vs. old established business, etc.? (I'm genuinely asking. I am not at all an expert on India's business climate, but I know that most of my friends who have immigrated to the US from other places, including India, to start companies did so for a wide variety of reasons, and none of them ever said it was because of welfare.)
In England: http://www.bluelightaware.org.uk/?p=239

When you're driving you either pull over and slow down (if it's safe to do so); or you keep driving at a safe speed and pull over when it's safe to do so.

If you're at a traffic light you can either try to move to the side without crossing the line; or you can stay where you are and allow the emergency vehicle to sort it out; or you can cross the line if a police officer directs you to do so (and blue lights is not a direction).
We just published an API update that allows multi-account endpoints for each shipping provider. I'll be here if you have any feedback!
Don't miss C Olah's blog where Figure.1 was copied from

http://colah.github.io/

Very very visually insightful on the nature of Neural Nets, Convnets, Deep Nets...
> That question doesn't really make sense. Unbounded cluster sizes is simply a result of unicode design because there's no reason to bound it.

If I'm trying to draw a character on the screen, it makes a lot of sense. I guess I'm struck about how hard it would be to select the 4th through 8th character displayed on the screen from rows 3 through 13.
Both of these things are necessary, in the end, for the controller backing any text-editing control, right? A text-editing control is thinking in terms of "grapheme clusters", not in terms of codepoints. The codepoints come out of it when you ask it to export its current value, but otherwise, for layout and such, it's holding on to the moral equivalent of typesetting dice.

And, philosophically, I'd say that something close to (but not quite) this, is what people want to know from a lot of systems when they ask for a string's "length." They don't care how much memory the string is taking up (though they can have some low-level assertions to that effect); they care about whether the supplied text will fit in a given em-width container, or a given number of form blanks. This is what Twitter actually cares about these days; this is what wc(1) or Microsoft Word wants to tell you when you look at "character count"; this is what ncurses thinks in terms of in order to lay out monospaced text between various borders.

Now, ligatures and digraphs are a slight problem, in that people think of ﬂ/ﬁ/etc. as two characters, even if they are visually composed of one, but they don't think of, for example, ß as two characters. Thus why I said "glyph"—people expect "ss" to be two glyphs; "ﬁ" to be two glyphs, and "ß" to be one glyph. On the other hand, they expect diacritics added to any of those things to not add any additional glyphs, even if they introduce kerning; the Japanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokuon, for example, is part of the glyph that follows it, even though it makes the word wider.

It's not a presentation-level characteristic, it's a "the way humans count things on the page" characteristic. But you can very easily build the presentation-level characteristic (grapheme cluster length) from it.

Which is all to say, maybe raw Unicode strings are good for systems languages—but in my day-to-day programming solving business-domain problems, I'd much rather be using a "text library" that provides "text objects" with a length measured in glyphs.
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Netflix now accounts for almost 37 percent of our Internet traffic
and other people live outside of third world US internet bubble and have access to modern networks with no data caps and decent speeds.
Potential life possible only 16 light years away
It's a warehouse. Place a Prime Now order for Manhattan delivery and they show you where it's originating, and it's the Herald Square building. (on 34th across from the ESB.)
If you're interested, read "The Everything Store". I just finished it, and it talks all about this.

It's not as written as well as other books, but it's definitely factual and based off of new information (interviews with Amazon employees).
RoboVM 1.3 released, 5 second redeploys, 5MB overhead for basic app
Unfortunately this would break the idea of Linux distributions listing optional add-ons as dependencies of a package to make things easier for the user.
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afaik nothing stops you just downloading highest quality DASH stream, I do it with YT everyday.