skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take the sample bias out of your request and generalize it to all of HN, and what you're asking will no longer sound so trivial.

Submitters make up titles all the time that are (to use the sibling comment's words) "clear, descriptive", and wrong. Set aside the fact that HN's rules explicitly ask people not to do that. What would you have us do?

If you say "never change them", that would flood HN with false and manipulative titles forever. (Not that this one was false and manipulative—I wouldn't know. But I do know that that would be the consequence of never changing titles.) If you say "change the ones that are false and keep the ones that are true", you're asking us to be experts on everything.

The submitted title was "Go 1.5 will have iOS support". The submitted web page says nothing of the sort. What should we do? Being an expert on the Go project's internal progress—that is, being an expert on everything in the general case—is not an option. So we look for language in the article itself that is representative of what it says. That has two merits: (1) it preserves the neutral quality of HN's front page and (2) it's doable.

If you'd like to propose a change that doesn't demand superhuman powers of us and wouldn't destroy the character of HN, please do. But getting upset over a single suboptimal example doesn't seem serious to me. HN sees a thousand stories a day. Not every example is going to come out optimal no matter what we do.
Oh, that Continuum, not the Time Traveling RPG.

Shadowrun's future describes a collapsing of the middle class, combination of corporation & state (zero distinction), lots of poor folks and "shadowrunners" who do the dirty work for the megacorps (stealing data, assassinate, etc).

All Megacorps use Shadowrunners but none publically acknowledge their existence or the details of what they do. Sort of like spy agencies.
I did not know the buyer of the CSS was a Greek bank, but that only makes it worse: so GS exploited the weakness of politicians and used some interconnectedness towards this bank to make then take this deal?
Democratically elected or not, this is just wrong anyway you look at it.
So the next question is, will these NWO succeed in any of their goals?
You're right, it doesn't. =(

Maybe they can only really collect on U.S. companies.

From the article:

The change adds a 9 percent tax to Chicago residents’ subscriptions to streaming services such as Netflix and the paid version of Spotify.
Historians baffled by handprint on Declaration of Independence
Print it out and lock it in a safe deposit box at the bank. If you can't print the material, put it on two flash drives or disks and put them in the box. Occasionally verify the drives or transfer to new media over time.

There aren't many alternatives that are both safer and more practical for the average person for long time scales. You probably don't want to spend a lot to keep 2GB of personal files stored. Any tech company or cloud storage solution is less likely to still be operating and still be offering the same storage services on decade scales than a bank.

A safe in a location other than a bank, like your home, is more likely to be stolen. In your home, a burglar can force you to open the safe. There's much lower chance of that happening at the bank.

Should an online service fail, you may lose your stored data without notice or recourse. A company can be raided and their servers pulled out of racks by the FBI because of something just one user of the service did. The FBI is less likely to show up at a bank and take other customers' safe deposit boxes.

Should a bank with safe deposit boxes fail, you are guaranteed access to your possessions by the FDIC. Either the FDIC will arrange for your branch to be taken over by another bank, or if no other bank wants to take it over, they will arrange to return the contents of your box to you. This happens immediately: the FDIC guarantees you will have access to your safe deposit box at a failed bank the very next business day should you want it.

I expect the federal government to still be around in 60 years. If they end the FDIC program, you can re-evaluate at that point.
That does answer the question in the narrow, but more broadly: what are the practical implications for a company with no other presence in Chicago if they don't pay?
If "tricking" is a thing your founders do regularly, then you should probably get the hell out.
"Be careful running the code above, it can bring you into very strange realms!"

Reminds me of Charlie Stross's new novel,

"A brief recap: magic is the name given to the practice of manipulating the ultrastructure of reality by carrying out mathematical operations. We live in a multiverse, and certain operators trigger echoes in the Platonic realm of mathematical truth, echoes which can be amplified and fed back into our (and other) realities. Computers, being machines for executing mathematical operations at very high speed, are useful to us as occult engines. Likewise, some of us have the ability to carry out magical operations in our own heads, albeit at terrible cost."

http://www.tor.com/2015/06/30/excerpt-the-annihilation-score...
I wasn't nitpicking I thought I could learn something.
Why not just use

scale=499

instead of

scale=500-1

? I'm curious.
I'm all for not letting reddit jargon get a foothold here. Reddit culture is downright unlikeable since the entire reason that site seems to exist is to foster echo chambers and cliquish behavior. I'd prefer to keep any vestige of that out of HN. This site is a rare jewel in the sewer of the Internet and it's better that way.
I thought train companies sold their tracks to car companies.
I would say find a niche in your skill set, and then only do projects in that niche, while you are waiting for the projects, write tutorials about the nice, be the person whose blog comes up at google for related queries in that niche. Release free code/template/anything in that niche, let people use that and come to you for more.
Help us understand the difference. How is sales tax on DVDs not literally a cash grab by Chicago?
Nothing spurs local businesses and high-tech innovation like absurd taxes and regulation.

Chicago just got nixed from my "potential non-SV startup locales" list.
I grew up in the smoke filled arcades of the 1980s and think it's probably likely that this procedure won't survive contact with lazy arcade operators outside of the VR vendor's quality experience control.
Except for the minor detail that it literally wasn't kept hidden...
Such things is the reason why I like scientific-friendly Python community.
Wouldn't that have been a better title than that stupid number?
> We are building the deepest, broadest, baddest knowledge graph on the planet.

What does "baddest" mean in English? Doesn't feel like you mean "worst".
Sort of. The physical register file has more registers than what's specified in the ISA in order to support out-of-order execution. Hardware maps the small number of ISA registers to the larger number of physical registers. All sorts of complex stuff happens in the hardware to make it all work out right (e.g., bypass logic between pipeline stages to make sure dependent instructions are able to use just produced data before it gets stored in the register file). All to give the hardware greater scheduling flexibility.

So yes, there are more registers than you'd think by looking at the ISA, but they aren't available to the compiler, which can limit the kinds of optimizations it can make. I think when AMD introduced x86-64, they only increased ISA registers from 8 to 16. RISC ISAs at the time were offering 32-64 (and some also had larger physical register files to support OoO). Granted these days there's also all of the vector registers for SSE/AVX, but you'll need to have vectorizable code to leverage those.

All that being said, I don't think cache is a replacement for the register file.
Improve Sass(Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) with Introspection Functions
Hey, if you can share, in what kind of project are you using shared Rust code on both iOS and Android? That's pretty awesome!
Documentation - http://skoks.github.io/sassy-exists/
Lessons Learned Developing the 99designs Tasks API
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/anil.kashyap/research/papers... this recent summary is the best I have seen in the last couple of days.
I don't know you, so it's hard to tell, but it's possible you are missing something. An editor is an integral part of a programmer. You don't want to be thinking about the editor when you edit. You want to have a thought and have it appear in your editor.

Very good editors have a crazy number of features. Many of these features cover small corner cases that only show up once in a while. A programmer who really knows their editor can use all of these features without thinking about them. It can save you an hour when you really, really need that hour. It can also save you brain cycles when you really, really need brain cycles.

Switching editors is not impossible (I've done it twice in 30 years, though I'm moving my way back to my original editor, emacs). If you are a real expert in your editor you will lose productivity for however long it takes you to acquire the equivalent features of your original editor. My experience is that it takes months, if not years to get really, really good -- depending on how much time you have to fiddle with your editor.

Choosing an open source editor that works on a variety of different platforms and is supported by a large community of people gives you insurance that you won't have to change editors unless you have some really compelling reason to do so.

If Sublime were stop being maintained, sure you could continue to use it for a few years, but would you (could you) be using it 10 years from now? That seems unlikely without an active community making builds for the new platforms you are going to be working on.

I know a lot of the younger people I work with don't understand the benefits of learning your editor to the extent I'm talking about, so they don't understand the cost of switching. Pair programming with someone who is a true expert with their editor can be very illuminating.
mathematica: http://pastebin.com/GfNG8bLU
Looks like an awesome and ambitious project. I thought about doing the same (or something about digitalizing all the existing addresses) but never worked on it.
History of icons
> If you look at the history, systemd was rejected for various Fedora releases.

Perhaps for some pre-release stuff. In reality and in the long run, Fedora was arguably the first distro to adopt systemd (as I remember rather fondly, when I first tried Fedora primarily to give this newfangled "systemd" a whirl; boy, was that a goddamn mistake), and it being owned and operated by Red Hat is no coincidence.

Fedora is a testbed for RHEL. What you see in Fedora now is what you'll see in RHEL and CentOS (perhaps with some stabilization and testing) in the next couple years. Implying that Fedora's decision to incorporate systemd was in any way not influenced by the fact that Red Hat created it is absurd.
I completely agree with you. We should stand together in the face of such behavior.
Yes all games try do ban for using bots if you to gready
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I wonder if this violates the Commerce Clause.
Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany
Realism on all sides of this debate would be amazingly helpful. For instance, this continual disingenuous cry of "the corporations!" is stupid on its face. Are corporations autonomous intelligent entities outside of the will of powerful people? No! It's powerful people lobbying for rules that will help them. Destroy the concept of corporations tomorrow and you will still have powerful people who bend government to their will - you'll probably just have fewer people with much greater shares of power.
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It's so existential when it's about you...
well they call it not taking risks but I agree
> Set aside the fact that HN's rules explicitly ask people not to do that.

Didn't know that. Why don't remind that on the "Post to YC" page?
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The interstate highway system was basically designed to facilitate the movement of nuclear bombs to SAC bases and missile facilities. Why are the highway overpass heights standardized?[1]

[1] http://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/article/a-brief-history-of-...
Rust Traits on Generics
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Hi, author of the post here. Happy to answer any questions, would love to hear from any of you who have used similar approaches to managing failure in distributed systems.
Legislation breeds opportunity.

You could probably make a good business around collecting taxes from customers. Piggyback on stripe, provide an API to take in address and service type, then return the appropriate tax amount.
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This is something Rust really got right. It's so powerful, I sometimes find myself tempted towards Rust even when garbage collection and a higher level language would be fine.

Does any GC'd "friendlier" language get traits right like this, outside of Haskell and it's family?
Local businesses operating physically inside the city consume resources to some extent. They use the roads, sidewalks, buildings, cause people to walk/drive to certain places, etc. They pay for rent and other expenses, but also use/benefit from city resources that they aren't directly charged for.

But netflix obviously doesn't have any physical presence in chicago.
California Vaccination Bill SB 277 Signed by Governor, Becomes Law
Was Chicago taxing Netflix's DVD delivery service?
Or fancy adult car seats :P
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"Divide two into four" to me means that I am dividing two into four parts, which would equal one half.
IANAL... Within the US, you are only responsible for paying taxes in the jurisdictions you reside in. It's pretty simple to cover those cases and ignore the rest.

For example, a business with offices in California and Nevada must collect sales tax when selling mail-order stuff to California and Nevada addresses, but are not required to collect sales tax for selling mail-order stuff to the other 48 states.
Some of us here do not use reddit much, so using slang specific to that site can be confusing. In this case, I don't think that saying "eli5" instead "explain" is worth risking this potential for confusion, as only 3 letters are saved.
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It is straightforward to provide the type of stack trace information people want for debugging in the presence of tail call elimination (not optimization ;) )
http://www.brinckerhoff.org/clements/papers/cf-toplas04.pdf

You can even try it out in Racket.

Edit: to clarify, my parenthetical was meant to say tail call optimization is not an optimization but a matter of correctness (so best to call it elimination instead), not to make a distinction between the two.

Also, that isn't quite the right paper but I don't have time to find the one I meant right now...
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What the hell does eli5 mean? Actually never mind, I don't want to know. I'll just downvote and move on.
[citation needed]

Sure, there's a huge amount of research happening in the field right now. But you make it sound like there's a ton of low hanging fruit, which is emphatically not true.

Also, freezing the representations in the bottom layers usually doesn't lead to very good results. The representation the bottom layers learn in the standard formulation of deep feedforward networks is informed by gradient information in the output layers[1]. If you stop training the bottom layers after some time you're sacrificing representational power and in fact increasing the ultimate amount of computation that will need to performed to train the network to some level.

In fact, in a recent paper [2] some folks at Google describe how they achieved great performance training a huge CNN by inserting temporary output layers in the middle of the network while training (among other things). This increased the amount of gradient information that was propagated back to the bottom layers, forcing them to learn more powerful representations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation
[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4842
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"explain like i'm five."
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This is very interesting but does raise the question of how to adequately define patterns. One would have to have a working understanding of the type of events that need alerts, and how they look on a sensor, as well as what type of false alarm could look the same. But it is a definite step up from threshold-based alerting, which is hugely susceptible to false alarms.
while not city specific we have the Silver Comet trail here in Georgia, follows old rail road tracks

http://www.silvercometga.com/
Huzzah+The+Lafayette+Campaign+is+Available+at+Amazon
Netflix has (had?) a DVD processing/mailing center in Carol Stream, a suburb of Chicago.

Amazon is eyeing warehouse/shipping space in Joliet.
I read stuff like this a lot, and it sounds plausible, but how can you know this? Where can I go to read someone connecting the dots from billionaires working in secret to advance trade deals through corrupt politicians?
You've got the wrong thread, I'm afraid.
It doesn't matter. Chicago residents now subsidize Chicago services some other way. (Via this Netflix tax.) End of (that) story.

Is it good that Chicago is subsidizing services by taxing some other activity, mainly those that are not really utilizing those services, and taxing residents that might not even use or benefit (directly) from those services? Well, maybe not. But since it only provides a very small selection pressure it's unlikely that residents will move out, or speak out.
"Eli5" is 14 characters shorter than "explain like I'm 5".
It was kept hidden for a very long time, considering the size and scope of the operation.
ART still uses dalvik bytecode.
I agree.

"Every few minutes, a line with the current value for S(h, t) is emitted."

Hard to believe the author didn't notice this...

Maybe just some humor for the trending classification overview?
Interesting how this relates to the transition of US culture towards "monochronic" time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronemics
Cato is another front for corporate lobbying.
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I've been lead to believe that gcc can't / won't add warnings to -Wall precisely because of all the codebases that have -Werror.
I played a similar game. Originally released as Subspace in 1997 as a MMO asteroid-type game by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. VIE later abandoned server hosting duties but server software was available so the game became player ran on community servers. Eventually the client needed to be replaced due to cheating, which was done by a player named Priit Kasesalu, known for Kazaa. Years later the server software was also replaced by the community as well.

The game split game types into "zones" that were 24/7. The zone I played, and eventually became a "sysop" of, would regularly have only 40-80 people tops at any given time. Maybe 500 unique people. Not sure exact numbers because we didn't track stats like that.

Anyways, can totally resonate with playing with the game group of people every day for months or years. I had an arch-nemesis who, while we were cordial, always ended up playing league matches against each other. The rivalry was fierce but so was the friendship.

The game has been Steam Greenlit after many years of problems (copyright issues with original company, no source code for client, etc) and is about to make its debut:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144913...

You can play today at http://getcontinuum.com
Yeah because there's no echo chambers and cliquish behavior on HN /s
>I don't see why his affiliation with Doctors Without Borders carries argument-ending weight here.

Because he has the requisite knowledge to understand it and because he clearly hasn't been bought.
This is a great read. Thanks.

On the topic of Instagram, is there any news on bringing the hyperlapse solution to Android? I know Microsoft brought a half-measure solution, and it was a bit curious the way they almost seemed to announce it almost like Facebook and Microsoft had each agreed on their respective turf. It had a very unsavory feel to it.

I ask because I was pinged by a VC about working on a team being assembled to run with Gallus. I had never heard of that product before but was blown away with the tech it has already demonstrated in the shadows. My single concern about joining the team is if Facebook stomps in like a gorilla, representing the only real threat.
Oh you're right sorry, I did not even see that until you mentioned it.