skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany has a slightly smaller standing army than France by ~20k and spends about the same in terms of budget (though it's 1% of Germany's GDP vs 2% of France's). Germany is much less active with their military over all it seems, but they're not toothless by any stretch of the imagination. Browsing [0] it looks like France has a stronger military overall especially in the Navy, raw numbers like this don't tell the whole story, in raw numbers and materiel France has an upper hand.

[0] http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.a...
Now I'm curious as to how much sale the author will make. $4200 per "tuition".
Nord and Bert is all wordplay, though. You're never going to know to "call her onto the carpet" and "read her the riot act" unless you already know the idioms.

Other games use it to a lesser extent. I recall a text game called T-zero where you earned points both for "leave no stone unturned" and "leave no tern unstoned".
Forward and backward citations, every paper is a node in a graph of highly related content.
Current version of Chrome on Mac OSX El Capitan.

I'm not using an ad blocker or anything, just have "Block sites from setting any data" checked in Settings > Show Advanced Settings > Privacy > Content Settings > Cookies.

Thanks.
According to fair.io:

> Fair Source License functions just like an open-source license

with the only restriction being that I can't use it with over X employees in my company.

If what you're saying is true then I'd highly suggest you reword that, in reality it functions just like a proprietary license except that I can look at the source and maybe send patches to you.

More similar to that of the proprietary JIRA (which will give you source when you buy it) than the open source Gitlab.
Full disclosure: I am one of the authors of this work.

There was some interest in my other research, LittleD (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10621337), and IonDB has been another focus for a few years in the lab I work in. I thought IonDB might be interesting to this community as well.

Again, feel free to ask questions.
From your first link:

> Two technologies could greatly extend the uranium supply itself. Neither is economical now, but both could be in the future if the price of uranium increases substantially. First, the extraction of uranium from seawater would make available 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium—a 60,000-year supply at present rates. Second, fuel-recycling fast-breeder reactors, which generate more fuel than they consume, would use less than 1 percent of the uranium needed for current LWRs. Breeder reactors could match today's nuclear output for 30,000 years using only the NEA-estimated supplies.

Unless we build a very large number of conventional reactors over the next couple decades, which isn't likely, we've got time to develop more advanced reactors.
DNA study finds London was ethnically diverse from start
Yeah, the "gig economy" gym would be pay-per-use rather than subscription. Subscriptions are of course hugely popular with gyms because people are bad at going to the gym.
> I did not look at the source code, because of the potential IP issues. What would happen if you looked at the source code and then later worked on another open source project and implemented a bit of code that looks similar?

Could this also be an issue with the GPL? What happens if I look at GPL source code and then author similar code under a non-GPL license? I wonder if a precedent has been set that could be applied to this Fair Source license.
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I think some of this might be addressed in the implementation section of the docs.
http://quasiquotes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/impl.html
To summarize: there is no import hook or ast parsing happening. Instead, this works by manipulating the way python reads the bytes and converts it to strings. When the raw bytes are read, it looks for token patterns that match the syntax of a quasiquote. It then replaces those patterns with normal function call syntax that is valid. A cute thing that can be done (that I need to document) is that you can "translate" any python from quasiquotes by doing something like:

'[$qq|this is the body|]'.encode('utf-8').decode('quasiquotes')
"qq._quote_expr(0,' this is the body')"
Haha, funny you mention Onyx! We pipe data from kafka into storm :) Great combo!
Predictably you're criticizing the question rather than answering it. That's boring. Dogs and doghouses is supposed to be sufficiently contrived that you don't get hung up on whether it's the correct model.

Although initially I'm creating one doghouse for each dog, the model will let dogs start to share doghouses. It's a one-to-many relationship, but to migrate the old data I need to do something, so I'm starting out by giving each dog its own doghouse.

Of course I can use stored procedures, but I'm asking if there is any way to avoid that.

"you can't blindly insert data to two tables, because you still need to know which doghouse is shared by which dogs." That is indeed the crux of the question. :-)
Wait till you guys see what sjtgraham has been up to

EDIT: teller.io

He's had to do impossible things to make it
"Shared source"

It's a start.

"if paid software actually has the "key benefits" of Open Source, it is probably because it is Open Source."

You got me thinking on it enough to consult the opensource.org requirements. :) Two jumped out at me immediately:

" Free Redistribution"

"License Must Not Be Specific to a Product"

Many forms of paid software with open-source benefits don't allow this or not for all parties. A license might have to be paid on a per-user, per-product, or per-project basis. Other benefits of OSS can remain. So, it's not traditional definition of OSS but still respects freedoms of paying users to various degrees.
Biologists induce flatworms to grow heads and brains of other species
Can you please provide some links to one or more of these studies?
When I fly I send as much of my stuff checked as possible
except for a backpack I stuff under the seat in front of me.

I just don't want to be part of the crush of people wheeling wheels around the airport, trying to pack as much as possible within the "free limit".

When I do a check a bag that I don't need to check, often the baggage handlers will question why I am checking this bag, they'll tell me it is a waste of money and I tell them I have the credit card so I get a free bag.
I work on climate software at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[1]. My team works with big data and visualization. We support ACME[2] (the Department of Energy's climate modeling program), PCMDI[3] (a team that's been evaluating climate models since 1989), and a number of other projects and groups.

If you are interested in what you can do for the climate, we need all the help we can get. Our code may not be the epitome of hygiene (think decades-old python with docstrings that haven't been touched in that long), but in the time I've been here we've gotten loads better. All of our code lives on github ([4] and [5]), we have way more funding than we know what to do with, and we have more work to do than people to do it.

If you're interested, shoot me an email (in my profile). I'm still hunting for the job application link.

EDIT: Job link found! http://careers-ext.llnl.gov/jobs/4494026-software-developers... Don't worry about all of the skills listed, it's a generic one. Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions.

[1]: https://www.llnl.gov
[2]: http://climatemodeling.science.energy.gov/projects/accelerat...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_for_Climate_Model_Diag...
[4]: https://github.com/ESGF
[5]: https://github.com/UV-CDAT
As someone who has spent the past year and change developing an automation system using the targeted platform (Megas) I can say that this sounds like a very bad way to do things.

While I applaud the effort, and it will certainly be useful for many people for many other reasons, I don't think IoT is the best use case here. If your data is at all valuable/useful, you don't want it sitting out somewhere on some device that will hopefully/maybe be online when you go to query it. Plus now just to be able to query it remotely you will still need to develop some sort of API that lives on the device that can talk to the LittleD database.

Finally if you really are doing 'IoT' you clearly have a bunch of things that you want to view/control from a centralized platform. When you have the devices talking to a server, you can do this. When you have to ask each device individually what is going on with it, this becomes much harder.
Yeah I noticed that the link directed you to a login page. If I notice anything else I'll send a follow up.
I did not target "IoT" specifically if I am honest. Its one of the use cases I envision. But sensors and motes would could find just as much use, or anything having to collect and store data to make decisions with over time.
google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVpBqOsC7o
I suppose it depends on where you live/where you go to school. I went to BYU so my tuition was $2k/yr (then dropped out, so no degree either), and I live in a small town so I pay very little for rent ($800/month for a three bedroom house, work remotely). If you're in SF though, yeah, you're in trouble.
One small volcano vs all European flights.

Now look at this:

| Year | Volcano | Mean Sulphurous Output | Source | Est. Carbon output during year(s) of eruption | |
+----------------+--------------+------------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--+
| 1883AD | Krakatoa | 38 MtSO2pa | Shinohara (2008) | 26.14 MtCpa | |
| 1815AD | Tambora | 70 MtSO2pa | Shinohara (2008) | 48.16 MtCpa | |
| 1783AD | Laki | 130 MtSO2pa | Shinohara (2008) | 89.44 MtCpa | |
| 1600AD | Huaynaputina | 48 MtSO2pa | Shinohara (2008) | 33.02 MtCpa | |
| 1452AD | Kuwae | 150 MtH2SO4pa | Witter & Self (2007) | 67.40 MtCpa | |
| 934AD | Eldja | 110 MtSO2 | Shinohara (2008) | 75.68 MtCpa | |
| 1645BC | Minoa | 125 MtSO2pa | Shinohara (2008) | 86.00 MtCpa | |
| circa 71,000BP | Toba | 1100 MtH2SO4pa | Zielenski et al. (1996) | 494.24 MtCpa | |
+----------------+--------------+------------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--+

Notice how all but one of the individual annual volcanogenic carbon outputs, estimated above, dwarf the global subaerial volcanogenic carbon outputs estimated by both Gerlach (1991) & Kerrick (2001)
There aren't many major US banks that will do this for you right now unless they're actually not banks and in fact prepaid card users that explicitly do not have a bank charter.

This is because online account opening for banks is a very hard problem, and anyone with a bank charter basically can't use the closed loop trick that other services are using to provide money movement and storage without a charter.

Once you are past account opening, it's more about tech politics. No major US bank has publicly pushed an Oauth gateway, for example. But this is more about risk and the politics of contracts with financial aggregators than anything else. You can find hints of these murky waters in the articles surrounding the recent dust up between Chase and Intuit.
When we're talking about banking, those magic documents are pretty important. I wouldn't be surprised if, for example, using their private API makes you ineligible for fraud protection on your account.
Interesting. I use something similar when I am training people. When I want the group to discuss something, I usually leave a relevant image up on the projector. When I do this, I find people stay on topic a lot more and the discussion is more fruitful.

On a side note, images work better than having text up. Something about the image seems to work without distracting them from their discussion
Piss Map of San Francisco
> Strange how much negativity proprietary OSS

"Proprietary OSS" is an oxymoron, like "four-sided triangle".
In addition, Arabic has symbols that can appear either above or below each letter that usually change the meaning of a word completely.

For example:

عالِم (pronounced a'alim): scientist

عالَم (pronounced a'alam): world

Notice the difference is essentially the "i" and "a" yet the entire meaning changes.

I'd imagine this would add complexity to the mechanisms employed by printing equipment back then.
It seems this analysis is forgetting the revenue made by the airline by selling tickets to passengers. If it's too expensive to check a bag, the airline will have empty seats and a lot more empty space wasted.
'Freedom' Trails
You lucky UK folks. :(

Not that you have it good, but holy he'll did starting a not-bank end up being a can of worms in the US.
The most obvious weakness in it is that he criticises numerous regression models (and presumably knows how to build one himself) and even sneers at the concept, but his own arguments are all based on simplistic "the line looks different during the sunspot activity period" generalisations. Which isn't going to impress people on here that work with messy datasets on a daily basis, and know that once you've acknowledged multiple uncorrelated factors impact the variables, the shape of the basic scatter plot doesn't tell you very much.

The scaling of the "to inform, not to scare" graph to show "normal CO2 limits in a confined space" is particularly silly since afaik absolutely no climate scientist has ever speculated we're all about to suffocate from the additional carbon dioxide released.

I'm not entirely unsympathetic to his argument that climate forecasts are an inexact science, humanity is perfectly capable of living at higher average global temperatures and engineers might be better focusing attention on structural adjustment problems (like flooding and regional disruption to crops). But this is a polemic rather than a more compelling approach to reading the figures. And the idea mooted at the end that airline certification levels of certainty should be applied to all public policy decisions is just... amusing.
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Air shippers offer a money-back guarantee on timely delivery of the baggage. If an express cargo package is bumped from a plane, the very next plane will take it to its destination, because failure is expensive.

My checked baggage, on the other hand, is a strictly best-effort affair. If it doesn't fit on my plane, it becomes a "gets there when it gets there" problem. Once it's bumped once, the airline sees little reward in getting it to me faster or slower. There's good odds I will never see it again.

Comparing a $25 checked bag fee to a contracted cargo shipment is quite unfair.

--

edit: Here's another fun item. Technically, the conditions of carriage on your ticket don't require them to bump cargo for your baggage. And there's no incentive for them to do so.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-09/a-lawsuit-co...

“It costs United nothing to remove checked baggage, rather than cargo, in order to arrive at an acceptable aircraft weight because the checked baggage fee is purportedly nonrefundable, and United can simply transport the checked baggage on a later flight to the passenger’s destination.”
> Hindi, Chinese and Japanese, by contrast, may have many characters, but each character is a distinct element.

That's not... really true about Devanagri and related scripts like Bengali, Marathi, etc. At least, no different than the Arabic scripts as you describe it. They have the same considerations with multiple forms per letter (as many as five per-letter, not counting variations in size and joining or conjunct forms), along with the issues regarding character joining affecting meaning in critical ways. Nevertheless, these problems have pretty straightforward solutions when it comes to typesetting.

It's also worth noting that English had many of these same problems as well at the time of the printing press, which is why handwritten English before the 15th century looks so different from what we read today. We literally dropped letters from the English alphabet due (in part) to this problem.[0]

It's frustrating to see this argument persist because it has next to no evidentiary support by accepted literature, and it comes dangerously close to psuedoscientific post-hoc rationalizations of European political dominance. (e.g., phrenology being used to "explain" why Europeans were able to make scientific advances during the Enlightenment whereas African and Asian societies allegedly "weren't"[1]).

[0] For example, the printing press is a major reason that we no longer use the thorn in written English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)#Middle_and_Earl...

[1] which is wonderfully ironic given where numerals in European languages come from (spoiler: originally India, by way of Arabia), but I digress.
While it feels a bit hacky and unclean, you may want to try using IKVM (http://www.ikvm.net/) to translate and import the Java client in to your .NET project.

Given the difficulty in building a client period (distributed systems, race conditions, etc), being able to rely on the widely adopted & supported official client is quite attractive.

In my test cases the performance is on par running natively on the JVM, except when compression is enabled.

Another option is using the REST proxy and accepting the trade-offs that imposes.
I love Paw. I doesn't do much more than Postman (as far as I can tell), but it's much more pleasant to use.
> Many forms of paid software with open-source benefits don't allow this or not for all parties.

I think most people who believe that open source has benefits would disagree that there is software that provides "open-source benefits" without providing this. What specific examples can you point to of these "many forms" of paid software, and what "open-source benefits" do they provide without these?
Url changed from http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregoryferenstein/2015/11/23/why..., which points to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-keys-successful-google-t... which points to this.
"We just don't need guys on an assembly line tightening the same bolt ten thousand times a day for forty years, like my grandfather did"

I would argue that we do need that.

You don't take a child straight from the womb to an r-rated movie, nor do you put a small plant start right into a torrent of rain. Living things need an environment and activities that match their lifecycle.

A society is also a living thing and has strata that are at different points in that continuum ... and if there is nothing appropriate for that strata, that strata will stagnate and die.

So when people look ahead to some golden utopia where we all work half time as knowledge workers and spend the other half on philosophy or maker projects, they ignore the fact that some sect of a society will not have the makeup for that.

You need to have something for them. Your society needs to have depth and breadth.
"You can't just change the meaning of the term and expect everyone to know you mean this alternate definition. "Open Source" is as defined by the OSI, and not whatever loose definition that you use that includes proprietary software."

I've already agreed with you and dragonwriter on that. dragonwriter suggested "shared source" as a start. Might go with that temporarily.

""Proprietary OSS" does not make sense given the definition of OSS! The phrase you should be using is "proprietary software.""

Starting now. Proprietary, shared-source software would make sense and can have most benefits of OSS. Just calling it proprietary software, though, instantly conveys the image of something closed source, for money, not allowing modifications, and with tons of risk. So, I can't just call an OSS-like, but paid, model proprietary due to public perception much like I apparently can't use "proprietary OSS" for same reason.

Hence, need for new terms. Especially one that captures the spirit of OSS with change that distribution/use is paid to some degree in some way, either money or code/doc contributions. Will re-write my old essay, though, as you two got to the bottom of one of its problems.
I find the fact that Guido was considering making Python case insensitive in 2000 very fascinating. 15 years later and case insensitivity is still viewed as being "wrong". I only know one "new" language that is brave enough to be case insensitive and that is Nim, funnily enough its syntax is very much inspired by Python.
Compression is a subtle and powerful thing. The ability to compress is closely related to prediction: if you can predict 95% of the moves a chess grandmaster will make, you can compress the game by explicitly representing only the other 5% of moves. If you could perfectly predict (or equivalently, compress) the actions of a real-world human being, you'd have solved AI.

Despite their simplicity, Markov chains are used throughout modern statistical AI, e.g., the Google Translate language model is essentially a big Markov chain. The fact that deep networks can apparently form better generative models across a wide range of applications (no one has ever actually gotten these kinds of image generation results from Markov chains) means that they really are getting at more interesting structure. They're not a panacea, but it's still a pretty big deal.
It's widely different there are a few large cities booming. Some cities are losing a lot population.

In East Germany you can see around Berlin islands of stability in larger cities. The rest of East Germany is losing population:

http://www.handelsblatt.com/images/k_prognose-einwohner/8552...

The red areas are gaining and the blue areas are losing population... the main factors are jobs, jobs, jobs and attractive infrastructure/cultural life/... Dense urban areas in the big cities are especially attractive.
Is there an answer to the question? Is an n^2 + 1 tiling possible? Is there a proof that it is not?
I want a US based bank to build something like that. I believe Simple was initially supposed to expose an API to developers. The API has never come to fruition and I doubt ever will.

In order to disrupt the banking industry, you need a huge amount of capital to start and you are regulated in a way to prevent fast growth. These 2 things pretty much rule out the 'standard' way of doing startups.

I would love to see an opensource bank, open code all the way down to the core services that a bank depends on. It would help break up the stranglehold that just a handful of companies have on the market.

Too many things are just 'in the way'. The stagnation would probably need to start with regulatory support instead of using banking regulations to make it difficult for new business and ideas.
Url changed from http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/health/malaria-mosquito-strain..., which points to this.
Why would you count a compound expression, with internal spaces, as one word?
Look, data for individual eruptions:

Year	Volcano	Mean Sulphurous Output	Source	Est. Carbon output during year(s) of eruption
1883AD	Krakatoa	38 MtSO2pa	Shinohara (2008)	26.14 MtCpa
1815AD	Tambora	70 MtSO2pa	Shinohara (2008)	48.16 MtCpa
1783AD	Laki	130 MtSO2pa	Shinohara (2008)	89.44 MtCpa
1600AD	Huaynaputina	48 MtSO2pa	Shinohara (2008)	33.02 MtCpa
1452AD	Kuwae	150 MtH2SO4pa	Witter & Self (2007)	67.40 MtCpa
934AD	Eldja	110 MtSO2	Shinohara (2008)	75.68 MtCpa
1645BC	Minoa	125 MtSO2pa	Shinohara (2008)	86.00 MtCpa
circa 71,000BP	Toba	1100 MtH2SO4pa	Zielenski et al. (1996)	494.24 MtCpa

Notice how all but one of the individual annual volcanogenic carbon outputs, estimated above, dwarf the global subaerial volcanogenic carbon outputs estimated by both Gerlach (1991) & Kerrick (2001).

Gerlach is Guesswork ;-)
I've heard of https://plaid.com/ but have no personal experience with them.