skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am civil, but those who can't help the sick urge to downvote every single comment of mine although they all represent the same points are not civilized.
Thank you for posting the fingerprint, Eric.
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Objective-C is fine, and Swift even more so. If you don't know the platform sure, it is difficult, but that applies to any platform. When you learn native, all those web-tech monstrosities have zero appeal.
speaking of which wouldn't a solid axle with central mounting and hydraulic controlled suspension stiffness work the same and be more reliable?

somethign like this > http://image.fourwheeler.com/f/14536367/129_0903_01_z+dana_6...

but without torsion bar and the suspension stiffening after both axle are in ground contact maintaining contact orientation
Introduction to SVG animation using GreenSock's timeline tool
For basic reads and writes the FDW APIs are quite suitable and they work well for cstore_fdw. However, to get the most out of columnar storage you also need vectorized execution that can calculate aggregates on blocks of values. The FDW APIs are not well-suited for this purpose, since they pull one row of data at a time. We've done some experiments in which we used the executor hooks to implement a vectorized executor for cstore_fdw [1] and it can give dramatic performance gains. However, the SQL support of this solution is limited as the APIs force you to build a new executor from scratch.

With sharding, the distributed executor can work on the SQL level and translate one SQL query to many SQL queries. In that case your distributed executor can focus on issues such as partitioning and merging data, while the low-level work is still being done by the regular PostgreSQL executor, so you don't have to implement it from scratch.

[1] https://github.com/citusdata/postgres_vectorization_test
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I would tend to agree. I took a news writing course in college. We got a bullet point list about newsworthiness: 1) proximity 2) recency 3) prominence... and a few others.

They also taught us to write short paragraphs, short sentences, and use limited vocabulary. Further, you write stories in "inverted pyramid" style, where basically every sentence in an article is in decreasing order of importance, such that you can basically only read the first sentence of a story and know the whole thing.

Given that, I think much of traditional news is pretty much replaced by twitter, youtube, facebook, blogs, etc. Your friends will do a good job of surfacing newsworthy stories. And reporting the facts is pretty easily done by tweeters, bloggers, and those capturing photos/video.

Yet professional news writing about politics, weather, sports, and business will never go away because its crucial to society. Farmers need to know the weather. Vegas needs to know about sports scores. And investors need to know about business activity. All those groups will pay for that news.

But investigative journalism, interviews, in-depth stories, and the like do have inherent value. I hope there are viable business models for people producing that content.
The term to search for papers is "span-dependent instruction", which goes back to 1978.
s/what a world/what a USA/

In the UK (for example) the rules are significantly less unbalanced.
There's an element of truth to that, but I'd argue an effective teacher in a classroom environment also needs to know how to communicate to a group of kids. I've had teachers who clearly had an interest in a subject but weren't able to get it across (for reasons that were a little hard to judge). Arguably that's the sort of thing that teacher training should give teachers a chance to refine, though I don't know if that's the sort of skill that teacher training focuses on at the moment.
It's only undemocratic because electors do not seem to care who they send to the EU. But MEP are elected, and the officials that are not elected are nominated by elected officials.

I think the only viable EU is a United States of Europe, in which the current countries disappear, and you only have a Federal state and what is currently regions in the current countries.

Whether a EU is desirable for the UK is another debate. The UK is one of the rare capitalist countries in Europe while pretty much all the other countries are social-democrat if not outright socialist countries, with the high unemployment and low growth associated.
Humanity is suffering from a collective ADD epidemic

No, it's not. The US and a few other developed countries are suffering from an epidemic of ADD diagnoses. Unrestricted computer use is certainly not a good education policy, but there's no evidence that it causes ADD.
You don't shop at Amazon.com? Because they don't believe in the EV scam either! More on the DV vs EV topic here: https://certsimple.com/blog/are-ev-ssl-certificates-worth-it
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Ha, completely fair and appreciate the feedback. I happen to like it the way it is, but the general consensus does not agree with me, so we'll fix it soon.
Nobody gets earthquake insurance. Everyone's betting on getting bailed out by the government. No doubt, FEMA funds will be released and other emergency funds. No US president would be cold-hearted enough (or electorally suicidal enough) to do otherwise. Of course, that doesn't help you if you're dead, but then again, neither does insurance.

Anyway, even if we all had earthquake insurance, the insurance companies would probably go broke and have to get bailed out by the government. So it's probably better that nobody has it.

Also, California is not subject to tsunamis because the fault lines are inland, not off the coast. The biggest risks are collapsing structures (a lot of our housing stock is ancient and goes back to the 50s or 60s), fires, ruptured gas lines, and I think someone was stupid enough to build a nuclear power plant on a faultline.
No, they don't. What would be the point, anyway?
German here. Could you imagine a Florida army going to war in Afghanistan, while California stays neutral, and Texas sends troops to Mexico? - Why not? People in Texas are quite different from people in California, they have different interests and beliefs. The driving force behind the United States of Europe is that (1) every single country is too small to be influential in the world (and we want to have influence in the world) and (2) that the process of joining forces has worked for many member states before (Germany, Italy, Spain, even Belgium ...) Everyone knows its hard, but hey, most new legislation is now the same in all EU member states, and it mostly works. The refugee situation is the strongest challenge of the Unification of Europe yet, but on the other hand, the objective differences between us never been smaller in the past two decades. The United States of Europe are not a must-have, of course, but to many it would be a nice-to-have.
Hi,

Cairos compositing operations provide a good way of doing this and are available from python via CairoCFFI.

They provide a multiply operator http://cairographics.org/operators/ and others.

For an advertising site we needed arbitrary tinting so we lightened the images with Cairo, then added a color mask over the top in the web page.

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That little triangle looking logo in the to right is the AdChoices logo, Google has that on everything going through AdSense but just because AdSense -> AdChoices does not mean that AdChoices -> AdSense. That advertisement is actually an AdSense ad in this case but not everything you see with that logo is AdSense.
Possibly naive question: How does this compare to qml/qtquick?
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My personal reason for using an ad blocker is the infrastructure.

There is nothing wrong with ads. But there is something deeply wrong with ad networks and automated ad placement.

Giving up a square of your website to some company to place whatever the hell they deem relevant is the reason I dislike web ads. I go to a website to read their content, not what Doubleclick thinks I should see based on my creepy user profile.

So if content creators curate and produce ads in partnership with advertisers (whose products they must actually, you know, like enough to want to promote to their readers) then maybe people will find ads less offensive. Instead of seeing ads for malware, or a private medical condition, or the towels they were just browsing on Amazon in a separate tab.

Great content creators don't use an algorithm and analytics-generated user profiles to determine what content to serve individual users, they just publish what they think their readers will like. Why not do the same for ads?
The north slope of Alaska, is the safest place in the US if you're worried about climate change.

For near term stability and economic resilience the Pacific Northwest won't be too bad until it's wrecked by a bunch of people fleeing the bay area ( some say this has already happened ).

Optimists can hope for a global government that would undertake climate mitigation in the name of long term species survival. Pessimists will suggest that we start learning to colonize Antartica ( which already has a permanent population of around 5000 humans ).

The two scenarios that bookend the spectrum of possibility for climate change are:

1. The interglacial world - risings seas, resource wars and ecological upheaval

2. The hot Venus scenario - literally turning the earth into something that resembles Venus in atmosphere and environment.

Our civilization may be more resilient than our engineers would credit it to be. But it is not infinitely so. This is a game humanity can lose. Our species may be part of the great die-off that is currently winnowing most multicellular life on this planet.

Not only is global warming real, it could kill you and yours sooner rather than later.
Cos'è una fobia
More generally, for an image im with shape (width, height, channels) and a square transformation matrix M of shape (channels, channels), you can do :

res = np.dot(im, M.T)

It will work with affine transformation as well if you add a 1 component to every pixel. It will also work with higher dimensional images if I'm not mistaken.
Chrome has a green lock and green 'https' for this site, which hasn't an EV cert.
The European Parliament has no real power.

The legislative and executive powers of the union are held by the council of Europe which isn't an elected body.
Microsoft announced earlier this year an IE feature called "SmartScreen Filter" that is supposed to detect and block misleading or malicious ads. I assume Edge has this feature, too, but from the blog post (and your experience) it sounds like it is disabled by default.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2015/04/28/cleaning-...
Depends what you call patching together, and what you call organic growth.

If you count being annexed as "patching together" - all states were created that way at some point. Then they might have been annexed by bigger entities, and separated from them again, but originally there were no states - just tribes.

If you want political and not military patching - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth worked pretty well for 2 centuries, but of course Poland and Lithuania were also created by annexing and fighting in the first place.
How does this differ from OData?

http://www.odata.org/getting-started/understand-odata-in-6-s...

https://github.com/OData/WebApi
I think the OP means that many websites rely on Google services and will stop working if you block google.com content or cookies.
Most ad blockers will block Google's ad network Doubleclick and Google search result ads, Gmail ads, by default. What do you mean when you say one cannot ad block Google?
Royal Bank of Scotland and First Direct use a 2FA device that is authenticated first with your bank card pin (3FA?)
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Interesting! I thought Google Contributor was more of a direct micropayment system for content, but from that link it looks like real-time bidding.
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If you start with the most general form you won't always get an optimal solution, because two jumps may be blocking each other from optimizing. TASM does it that way. Consider (16-bit NASM):

a:
times 124 nop
jmp b
jmp a
times 125 nop
b:
That sounds horrific.

All they need is the white boards to talk slogans at you and we are there.

Still I guess we've always been in a corporate war with Eurasian Tech Inc.
This is exactly why some people want a United States of Europe: The EU institutions as they stand are giant hacks to try incrementally to forge a union out of sovereign nations, and the governance reflects this in that the governments involved do not have the authority to cede the sovereignty necessary to clean up the hacks without constitutional changes or referendums.

Properly done, a reformed EU where these hacks were undone and the requisite sovereignty ceded to the EU parliament to allow for a restructured EU would not need to leave the EU with more power, and could move much of what power the EU holds to the elected parliament and actually make the EU far more accountable to people, even if it involves ceding some sovereignty.

There has been a slow and steady move towards this, but there's only so much the member state governments can do via treaties without seeking explicit consent from their electorates, and there's very little public appetite for voting for anything that smells of a unified state, not least because the current EU bureaucracy rightfully is not very trust-inspiring. It's quite the Catch-22.
> Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples).

I'm writing from Bath in the UK where Edgar, the first king of England, was crowned in 973. This united the ancient kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia etc.

Thankfully we've become more democratic since then, but until the EU was founded in 1993, Europe was an anarchy of nations. The countries themselves were democratic, but the group of nations was an anarchy. Europe suffered the problems of anarchy (the rule of the strong rather than the rule of law) and had been at war in some form or other for a large part of its history. Now that we've got the EU, which is a democracy of nations, the threat of war has receded somewhat. In the future I hope that we'll see a democracy of the entire world, a world government.
As to why using RE derivatives might be interesting, this if from Owens, Reppy and Turon's, "Regular-expression derivatives re-examined", which is cited in the originally referenced web site:

Specifically, RE derivatives have the following advantages:
• They provide a direct RE to DFA translation that is well
suited to implementation in functional languages.
• They support extended REs almost for free.
• The generated scanners are often optimal in the number of
states and are uniformly better than those produced by
previous tools.
Learning from building a React Native app
"A big reason developers hate mobile websites is that they lack the push notifications which help re-engage people with native apps."

In other words: "A big reason users like mobile websites is that they lack the push notifications which keep annoying people with native apps."
I assume this article is a summary of his argument, seems more wrong than right with the benefit of hindsight:

http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...

Quote: "Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."

(I work in education, and the software is mostly pretty bad, since its basically "enterprise software", but I don't blame technology as such)
You don't think fascist death squads worthy of monitoring?
These devices could be doing so much more. Showing which kids are struggling in different areas, perhaps even creating groups of mixed skills to try and share the knowledge around. Letting teachers see where they need to spend more time, maybe even issuing tailored homework assignments. All we've got so far is books that can be read in the dark.
Without all the technocratic apparatus of the European Union involved, the crisis would look a lot worse with countries closing their frontier, blaming their neighbor : it does already happen, but at least, we can talk about it in a kind of civilized manner, which is a much better way to find a solution.

In my mind this is obvious a pan European answer is needed. You can not ask Italy and Greece to solve the crisis by themselves, when most refugee want to actually go other countries.
Are there any studies that show whether cross-site user tracking actually increases ad click-through rates? An advertiser can already intuit a lot about a reader from the current web site or search terms without tracking their activity on other sites. The most relevant ads I've seen were from Feedly and Twitter, who have their own profiles based on RSS feeds or Twitter accounts I follow.
This might be better:
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/the-earliest-use-of-t...
For perspective, if could invest one cent in a fund that grew at 2% annually over the last 2000 years, you would have 1.58 quadrillion dollars today.
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Paper notebooks are awesome.
If Lastpass truly believed that warning, they wouldn't let users do it in the first place.
This has been known for years. The only thing computers really help are learning disabled kids.

It's like exercise. You can attach a motor to the exercise machine to do the work for you, the work gets done, but you don't get any stronger.

The same goes for learning. Learning requires effort. No effort = no improvement. Jobs called computers a "bicycle for the mind". Biking will get you further than jogging, but not stronger.
Now I wish a simple proof that pi is transcendental (i.e. not algebraic).
Which makes it such a dreadful pity that die Mutti chose to go unilateral (whether she meant the broad invite or not, it was understood that way). The trick to having great power is not using it, until you really need it. She really shat the bed on this, and we will see the repercussions.

In the space of two weeks, many of us have gone from lifelong EU supporters to anti-Schengen. I'm upset.
"Elected", the turnout for the election 2014 was 42.54%. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_...
Some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill
Maybe also because they can sell space on their colo'd hardware at a big premium.
The very reason for his is that the national governments of the member states don't have the authority to cede much power to the EU Parliament.

Basically there are two ways of making the EU more democratic: Weakening it, or for the citizens of the member nations to explicitly allow their government to cede some degree of sovereignty to the EU Parliament to reduce the need for institutions like the Council by letting the EU Parliament subsume many of the duties.
He would need to be in control of that domain entirely. thecitibank.com is just an address that looks legitimate and is purchasable.
What about the UK?

We have four components with varying levels of autonomy - Scotland arguably being the most "independent" as we have our legal system, education system and parliament here in Edinburgh.

As other poster note - Scotland and England are themselves the result of joining together once independent parts into units that last pretty well - Scotland goes back to the bit 9th century and some of the component parts of Scotland go back to the 6th century (though things get a bit vague by then).
The obvious rebuttal to your first point is that Texas and California share a language. They also share quite a lot of culture. Whether a Texan is more like a Californian, than a German is like an Greek, I leave to the reader to decide.

There is one other thing. Identity is hard to impose. Most Americans of my acquaintance hold the US constitution to be a centrally important document. Otherwise they wouldn't argue so much about its exact meaning. There has been an attempt at a European constitution. It seems to have been a dismal failure. All the other arguments about border controls, the euro, farm subsidies and so on pale when compared to this. If you can't win hearts and minds, you can't win.

Though sometimes it appears you can achieve the appearance of winning through bureaucratic confusion.
Anecdotal evidence: I was shocked how quickly web degenerates when you disable adblocking.

Start with a reputable major news site, click on one business clickbait article -> a bit sleazy but still somewhat readable site opens -> click on different clickbait article -> sleazier site opens with a lousy article -> click again on ad -> full blown video popup ad extravaganza for rather unsavory business opportunities.

I shudder to think what would have happened if I had chosen to read about medicine or sex.

So in some ways online advertising has the same problem that fashion industry does. The immediate suppliers might be decent but a few steps down you get into OSHA nightmares exported overseas.

The problem is that incentives encourage this sleaziness no matter what high moral standards A,G,F,M, et al profess publicly.
why aren't they sponsored by google nor facebook...? isn't it the only way today to support "open internet" ?
I would have liked to see some data on the accompanying human resources and expenditure, if technology investment is taking from human resources investment then it's not a surprise that the results are poor.
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"Computers in education", at least in my country (Portugal), was never about improving pupil results or education per se.

"Computers in education" is all about clientelism; filling the pockets of a selected few which produce mediocre technology, a quid pro quo between politic executive power and the private sector.
Can anyone explain to me what the difficulties of producing secure certs are? What steps do you need to go through to get root CA approval?
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You mean like development with Smalltalk and commercial Common Lisp environments?

Or designing GUIs WYSIWYG with Delphi, XAML with Blend, the UNIX 4GL in the 90?
The website of the genealogist mentioned in one of the citations goes into more detail of who you are very likely related to. For instance, if you are a human, you are almost certainly a descendant of the Old Kingdom pharaohs. If you're a European, you're more than likely a descendant of Mohammed the Prophet as well as Charlemagne. However, this is genealogical descent, not genetic descent; genetic ratio is different (but dealt with in the OP).

http://humphrysfamilytree.com/ca.html
Hm, I don't think "huge" applies to the UK.