skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github (and indeed most open source) projects are not created out of a sense of altruism. How many people treat github as an online resume? These projects are meant primarily to show off people's coding capabilities in order to sell services, and are not the primary means of making money. These people get a full-time salary writing custom code for businesses.

This approach does not apply to most artists. Nobody is going to pay an author a full-time salary to write new books just for them, or a musician to make new music just for them. The better option for most artists is to invest in creating the best work they can and sell it for commodity prices to a lot of people.
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Everyone has their thing, and I definitely see the appeal to urban living when you're young and have time to yourself. Why anyone would want to live in a highrise or in a dense city when they have children, though, over having your own yard or quiet, safe neighborhood to play in, doesn't make sense to me.
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mod_perl and CGI are no longer recommended for modern perl development. We have Mojolicious, Dancer, Catalyst, Plack, and many other modern frameworks (and libraries). Most of these will run circles around mod_perl, without giving you the horror that is mod_perl's global variables + namespacing hacks and its propensity to segfault.
If you read the about page, I have a very detailed explanation of why I created this project. First of all, I'm using this library as a basis for teaching my class on algoritihmic graphic design (http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/), and I cannot expect the students to know about the DOM or SVG. Also, there's a ton of functionality in the library that you don't get from using SVG directly: powerful color conversion and manipulation, a scene graph, debug mode to visualize bezier curvers, grid system support, etc.

I'm working on Safari support, but it's still a somehow young library.
The litre is defined as 1dm^3, the mass-based definition was dropped in '64.
It is always good to have a backup system, in case the primary system (GPS) fails. Celestial navigation has a proven track-record for centuries.

I wonder more why it was dropped in the first place...
Beautiful music is composed for video games. For instance, the work of Yasunori Shiono for the Lufia series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6J55nuklps
Some countries require health checks on drivers so they don't act as super spreaders.
"Gypsy cab" is a slang term for an unlicensed taxi, and no longer has anything to do with the Romani people. It's not a term I personally use (outside a descriptive context like this), but it doesn't seem intended as an insult.
Does this common math misunderstanding have a name?
Not getting a 33 percent discount is the same as paying about 50 percent more.

A 33 percent discount on a 100 dollar item makes the price 67 dollars. Not getting the discount makes the price go from 67 to 100, an increase of 33 dollars, which is a 49.25 percent increase.

While we're at it, is there a name for when people tell you meaningless things like, "I doubled my sales", only to discover the sales went from 1 unit to 2. It's an error so common that I imagine it must be named by now.
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The almost $3K price tag on a "Linux OS" is disturbing
I hope your last sentence will come true.
More completely, ħ = c = G = kB = ke = 1.

That system is mostly irrelevant for cultural and legal purposes. Even in the specific philosophical framework where getting rid of the kilogram 'absolutely essential', the current importance of the kilogram would simply migrate to the importance of the specific conversion factor to traditional units.
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Russia abandons hope of oil price recovery and turns to the plough
I have not heard that tech salaries are nearly high enough to write off Bay Area rents as a negligible expense. Property-owners win again.
That's fine in theory, but it's not a universal heuristic, and even then, different smart well-intentioned people independently applying it won't necessarily come to the same result.
Even with a mobile app, it may still be worth knowing how to navigate the old fashioned way. I would imagine that books / hand calculations are more resistant to power failure than apps and GPS are.
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"While we're at it, is there a name for when people tell you meaningless things like, "I doubled my sales", only to discover the sales went from 1 unit to 2. It's an error so common that I imagine it must be named by now."

Don't know if it has a word but it has its own xkcd comic.

https://xkcd.com/1102/
Should movie studios be worried about Netflix’s first feature film?
Two reasons:

Because when researched and managed properly you can still get a quality product at much lower costs. It just requires more effort on your part (a decent supply chain department that does their research and manages the risks, mobilizing an appropriate team in country and all the costs associated with that, which may or may not end up working out more).

I'm not from the US but we (Australia) have similar issues here. At the moment I work on projects with fabrication of big steel structures with high quality requirements, design once, build three or four slightly the same. So maybe take what I say next about manufacturing (design once, build millions) with a grain of salt. Chinese manufactures can do things that no one else can. There was a blog around 12 months ago where a group of MIT students went to Shenzhen. This quote stood out to me and really summed up the situation for me.

"In an interesting twist, the factory boss suggested that we could build the precision molding tools in China and then send these tools to a US shop for running production. Due to our requirement for clean-room processing, he thought it would be cheaper to run production in the US -- but the US shops didn't have the expertise or capability that his shop in China had to produce the tools; and even if they did, they couldn't touch his cost for such value-added services."
http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2014/09/01/shenzhen-trip-r.html
First thing that came to my mind...
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but one way that fractions (and by extension, ratios) are tricky is that a larger denominator gives a smaller value. Five is greater than three but a fifth is smaller then a third. I've seen my children struggling with this.

"It's an error so common that I imagine it must be named by now."

Not really an error so much as an attempt to mislead.
The reason why the comment is insightful is that suddenly Erlang has found itself in the crosshairs of an industry that it is particularly useful for (ad-tech) but there are many more applications that have nothing to do with adtech which erlang is also very well suited for. So for adtech to start pushing the direction in which erlang/mnesia evolve would be wrong.

As for the drop in $/TB of storage, that drop has been steadily going on since the 70's of the previous century and for a very large chunk of that period Erlang/mnesia have been adapting bit by bit to take advantage of that price-decrease.

Persistence of time series and event type data does not (usually) require the kind of storage solution that mnesia offers, a much simpler storage medium would probably suffice and/or be a better choice for that application anyway, storing such data without further processing in a relational database is a bit of a cop-out.

Most of those applications could benefit from digesting and compression which is something you're not going to easily retro-fit onto an existing database.
> Best content is often created by people who want to create something so that it exists, not just to make a buck out of it.

While true to some extent, if we want these people to keep making more of this "best content", we should also enable them to "make a buck out of it". Else they will (and do) go do something else to make a buck and we'll be worse off for it.

> Open source code is not an exception, it's the rule.

How often do people get paid for open source projects? How often do people get paid for writing custom, proprietary code? If your answers to these questions don't make obvious the fallacy of your statement above, all I can say is you're living in a bubble.
The mentioned talk "What's Next for Phoenix" by Chris McCord is now online https://youtu.be/-7Q3bD4qSVE?list=PLE7tQUdRKcyZb7L66A9JvYWu_...
Any such conversion would not need a physical object - just a set of arbitrary constants (which is fine).
In fact, the problem with having one single "reference implementation", like in Python, is that other implementations never get to be "compliant enough".

The situation in C++ is saner, since both GCC and Clang are moving the standard forward, and together make sure that the standard can accept multiple valid implementations and code tends to be truly portable.

The problem is really simply that Microsoft was never interested, at least until very recently, to have a truly standards compliant compiler.
$862m isn't that huge in the grand scheme of things. Not to mention, it's most likely not going to be $862m, my guess is it'll be less.
I liked the line "typical example... of social engineering which met neither the hopes of the benefactors nor the needs of the beneficiaries, but produced social disaster."

In 100 years time, will 'rewilding' create a new version of that quote, replacing 'social' with 'ecosystem'?
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Some people act like "classic" things are inherently purer or even different than modern ones, but for example Shakespeare has vulgar jokes and was performed to earn money, just as modern entertainment has "baser" content and motivations. It doesn't mean both can't also teach us about timeless themes, the human condition, etc.

Eh, I doubt that even this snob needs to be told that - opera (which was instrumental in the development of the forms that define the classical repertoire) is replete with sex, violence and bawdy humor and the giants of the repertoire are very colorful characters.

My hunch is that his anxiety has more to do with the constant fear of "the new" in orchestra halls, where anything less than 100 years old is looked at suspiciously.

As a nerd for all kinds of musical genres, including "classical", this kind of anxiety is evident just about everywhere in some shape or form - indie rock, metal, rap, country, etc, etc. Every genre is constantly changing and crossbreeding, and everywhere there are purists trying to hold on to their image of the genre and performance scene when they fell in love with it.
That's one of my favorite stories.
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So... what is the most dense, reliably machine readable, format that can be printed on ordinary paper with a consumer inkjet?
Its not silly it is the crux of the issue that you evade.

Tell me, what happens if you don't go along with govt nudges? Don't they fine you or sanction you in someway? And if you continue on this path, refuse to pay your fines and continue to disobey what happens? A man with a gun will come and take you to jail. It is that simple.
Patent in question: http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5781752
> The used to be defined as one kg of water

I think you meant 'one litre'
How to solve this fucking sales tax problem with a faster Stripe integration
> It's frustrating that we Hacker News citizens seem to have adopted a list of taboo topics that we aren't allowed to discuss - such as anything related to discrimination against a non-minority.

And yet the topic comes up repeatedly every time there is the slightest possible way to bring it up, even if it's completely unrelated to the article, like the grandparent's post. The original article had no mention of female prize or anything related to discrimination.

Edit: reduced hyperbole
I am a bit disappointed... from the title I immediately thought that someone had applied Deep Learning techniques to a large set of Use Cases (UML or whatever) and found something interesting :-/
I did not follow the Meteor course, but my impression was it was trying to get my email address to sell me something later on

Perhaps a short sentence in Gray near "Next Lesson" telling you will never sell emails (or similar) would help
Since October 2014, we've been building an automatic invoicing solution for businesses throughout the European Union. After a year of customer feedback and a lot of US market demands, we have decided to simplify the payment implementation and integrate the tax calculation feature to the checkout. We aim to automate all billing without needing any developing knowledge.

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Are you an expanding startup and want to solve this fucking sales tax problem?
"A State is authorized to require a remote seller to collect sales and use taxes under this Act only if the remote seller has gross annual receipts in total remote sales in the United States in the preceding calendar year exceeding $1,000,000." - Source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/698...
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The kilogram is still the only base unit that contains an SI prefix in the base unit's name.
so the proposed definition was set by fixing the numerical value of the Planck constant to 6.62606X×10−34 s−1·m2·kg

and the conundrum was that they still needed to have a precise enough measurement of that constant because it's an experimental measurement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_redefinition_of_SI_ba...

https://www.quora.com/How-is-Plancks-constant-derived
I upvoted you because you have the right sentiment imo. Special prices for black people or people with red hair would be ridiculous and those groups are even more underrepresented than women are.

The thing is though that women have it harder in chess the same way as in boxing, tennis or sprinting.

People try to run circles about the fact that there are very significant biological differences which influence performance in chess but if you ever were a part of competitive chess world (or any intellectual game really, for example bridge) you wouldn't argue with that. It's just too obvious looking at children taking up chess and seeing the pace of progress they make.
There are many lazy slobs who are better at chess than the most dedicated women out there (maybe with exception of Hou Yifan). It's the same way a lazy smoking overweight aged player from somewhere in top 200 of ATP would absolutely destroy Serena Williams, it's just the difference is smaller in chess but it's still there.
> The extension mechanism is open, allowing programs using Transit to add new elements specific to their needs. Users of data formats without such facilities must rely on either schemas, convention, or context to convey elements not included in the base set,

The extension mechanism is writing handlers in all languages communicated with, since its stated purpose is cross language value conveyance.

In contrast, a schema language allows extensions to be described once, in one language.

I was expecting this to be a sort of macros for data notation (an inline schema language), but it seems more like an extendible serialization library.
I don't know enough about US government bidding processes to be certain but sometimes your Front End Engineering Design (FEED) may be done my another consultant. Once FEED is over Detail Design and Construction contracts will be up for tender and could be won by someone else.
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GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules
That's not the problem I'm outlining. It is that semantics around type handling are implied rather than specified by schema.
join the club: g++ and clang++ also have different opinions about what's acceptable.
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Just checked and it works fine using default settings. If you added more filter lists, the issue is likely caused by one of them.
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You ask why the report doesn't say who fired the missile. The report explains why. You are right: the report does not say who fired the missile. It merely makes it obvious who did.
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Just remember that it's against Netflix's TOS to use VPN
Every change that stops people from reading this awful newspaper should be welcomed..

though I somehow have the feeling that few of the people using AdBlock actually read Bild..
My inner geek is longing for an affordable Power8 desktop machine ... do I NEED it ? Well ... you know ...
"Do you have data? Because there is enough wind potential alone in the US to satisfy the US power requirements 10x over."

When it is blowing, possibly. However it requires backup power for those inconvenient times when there is no (or little) wind. The cost of backup plants is one of the hidden costs of wind.

"While China continues to build a handful of nuclear plants, their wind generation capacity is already far ahead of what they're producing from nuclear"

China is planning on 400-500 GW of nuclear electric production by 2050. That will likely dwarf the real output of its wind farms.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/why-china-will-go-all-in-on-n...

"Wind is already cheaper than nuclear without subsidies in the USA and the UK. It also kills less birds and bats than buildings, cell towers, and cats."

Wind might be cheaper in the very best siting areas. The long-term durability of the generators remains to be seen.

Regardless, the affordability and effectiveness of wind has long been exaggerated by advocates. Here is a more balanced treatment:

http://www.strata.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Full-Report...

The report's conclusion:

'The true cost of wind energy is higher than most cost estimates calculate. Mandates requiring the use of wind energy increase electricity costs for consumers, and subsidies mask the actual cost of doing so. RPS require intermittent renewable energy to exist, but at the expense of utilities and consumers. The PTC makes wind power cheaper for utilities and consumers, but at the expense of taxpayers.

Through such policies, U.S. policymakers have essentially decided that electricity consumers will have wind power, even if it is more expensive. The cost of this decision has fallen to U.S. taxpayers and consumers of electricity. When weighing the costs and benefits of wind power, not including all of the hidden costs makes wind power appear to be a more attractive option than it actually is. Energy policy decisions, however, should be based on a more complete estimate of the cost of wind energy.'

"You mention next-gen nuclear tech will come in at 5 cents/kwh. Utility solar is already below 4 cents/kwh"

That is heavily subsidized, and also in the very best siting environment. Obviously those installations produce nothing at night, and even during the day average well under their peak output.

Solar is in no way a replacement for reliable, 24/7 nuclear generation.
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"Table based data speculation" - so a lookup table?? Would be interested in knowing how innovative the patent is from someone with more knowledge in this field.
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If it's $862m, last I checked, it will take them about 30 hours to bring in the necessary revenue--if they want to pay out of profits (I'm totally guessing here, what are real net margins on their hardware? 15-20%?), it'll take a couple days.
Your corporate overlords will love it however.
Excuse me, one slight objection: the American political system is not a natural result of "the OS of collective human behaviors". It was designed to be exactly as bad as it is, and damn any human nature to the contrary.
Lived next door to a PHD NPL physist who was working on this a few years ago. I think they ended up handing the project over to Canada or somewhere like that IIRC. Fascinating project and guy.
A logical fallacy perhaps.
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I'm not sure the Google Books Library Project is actually continuing. Have you seen any books they've digitized this year?
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XML is eXtensible (via DTD or XS), but JSON is a better Object Notation than any Markup Language.
The person-hours required to digitize a sizable collection is, generously, maybe 12¢ per page. See my breakdown upthread.
Sure, you can use your film camera. Then what do you do with the picture? Scan it? Your new scanner has DRM preventing you to do that. Circumvent the scanner's DRM with a mod chip? The software refuses to display it. Use unofficial software that shows you the image? Your screen refuses to display it. Mod your screen, encrypt the image, share it on a darknet using steganography to disguise your traffic as web surfing. Congrats, dozens of cypherpunks are now able to see the image.

I don't think such a scenario is likely, because it requires far too much cooperation between hardware manufacturers, but it is possible. The move to mobile makes this scenario much more plausible than it was a year ago.
i was hoping this was going to explain the kg differences between the original and the copies. instead it just resolves it by changing the standard. good for science i guess, sad for my curiosity
> Deer don't kill livestock or humans.

Deer (and large herbivores in general) kill plenty of people. Statistically, they are more dangerous than any other animal (e.g. snakes, bears, sharks, alligators) in the US or Europe. The only thing I suspect might be more dangerous is insects such as bees and wasps that people have allergies to.

In 2012, deer caused $4 billion in damages and killed about 200 people in the US. Of course, many more than that were seriously injured.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/10/24/267...