skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this happens more than most IT folks here would believe, especially at small to medium businesses that have suppliers overseas. Something similar happened to my brother's employer, and they lost $100k because an employee simply didn't double check the routing number.

Most small businesses are run by non-tech savvy people, employing relatively non-tech savvy people. What people on this board consider common sense security procedures aren't so common sense to all.
It depends on the type of cancer. For instance, a surprisingly large portion of the population likely has thyroid cancer and doesn't know it, and many have it and it isn't treated. It's a very slow-growing cancer usually, and just not worth bothering with until the tumor gets large enough to cause real problems due to its size (then they usually just cut out part of your thyroid, leaving the other part to continue working as normal, or at worst they cut out the whole thyroid and you have to take a Synthroid pill every day).

Other cancers, like pancreatic cancer, are very aggressive so the earlier you catch them the better.

I would think early screening would discriminate by type of cancer so you can see if you have something that needs immediate attention.
arXiv charges neither for reading nor for publication. And for-profit publishers have to be profitable to exist, which necessarily incurs costs on authors and readers.
Uber is killing off its instant food delivery option in NYC
About 6 months after working as the sole developer on a large, multi-threaded project I came across ZeroMQ. In my work, I ended up using message passing as the primary communication between threads and unknowingly (and poorly in many cases) re-invented various message-passing mechanisms. After going through The Guide, I wished that I had known about ZeroMQ earlier! It would have provided a much better infrastructure for my work. I was reassigned to some other projects, but whenever I am given a chance (i.e. when I'm working on a full-Linux environment instead of in a microcontroller) I try to use ZeroMQ for multi-threaded communication. It is truly a pleasure, and I thank you for that.

There are several people whom I have been following and consider to be my "embedded systems heroes", and you are one of them. I am so sorry for your diagnosis.

It may not give much consolation, but perhaps there is a blessing in being given a chance to say good bye.

I'm not sure how much it will mean, but I will be keeping you in my prayers.
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On the other hand, the upper map suggests rapid and massive changes across the country. As if one half of Nevada suddenly moved to the other half. Look at all those deep colors!

I think the Pew map is much better for general consumption.
I don't know a lot about it, but Keirin racing is super highly regulated on the equipment side. Essentially everyone has to have the same bike, with there being only a handful of parts manufacturers that have to make everything conforming to a certain spec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirin
> reading spoilers and looking at source code is sort of like cracking open the persons brain to figure out what sort of general strategies and tactics they will use on you...

No it isn't. That would be running the game in a debugger so you know what will happen. Learning the rules of nethack just tells you what can happen; this is absolutely the norm for everything else you do.
I agree with you that nothing will convince creationists. But Origen's Genesis 1 was far from representative of his time. Sure, he's an early example of not taking Genesis 1 literally, but that's only because he was pushing a gnostic "the physical world is evil" agenda. People weren't that interested in his views of creation, and IMO they're only known because his other ideas were popular. In the places where gnosticism did catch on, it mostly dealt with what happened before the 7 days of creation (eg John 1), ignoring Genesis 1. In the next 200 years, the church declared gnosticism to be heretical, making Origen's non-literal Genesis 1 heretical implicitly without any fucks being given.
*whole turtle neck.

See: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=elizabeth+holmes&FORM=H...
With lots of mutual funds investing in these pseudo-public technology companies, actual investors are at risk.

Thankfully, the SEC has our backs.
It correctly displays those processes, as does the tasklist.exe command line tool, and taskmgr.exe from earlier versions of Windows. Looks like this is just a bug in the Windows 10 Task Manager.
Can you define me a startup?
I'm the same -- I never heard of Theranos before the criticisms on HN.

I also don't read magazines, read newspapers, watch TV, or listen to the radio.
That point was when Minecraft was worthless. It's currently somewhere around the $2.5b mark in value. But that's just splitting hairs, it won't likely ever be open-sourced after MS acquired it.

That said, they also promised a modding API too...
Amazon targets Netflix with standalone video subscription
Essentially the original "Formula" idea.
cycling seems to always be mired in scandal. why is this the case?
Hard pass from Mike Judge
Short summary: The issue is not the cost of solar but the cost of storage.
That's horrible. I would take it up with the teacher and tell them that's not acceptable.

Another thing that irks me about the Australian education system is how it's designed to create pacifists who aren't motivated to protect themselves. If another child in the playground hits you, you're meant to do nothing. That's not how to create a generation of people who can stand up for themselves.

My parents were very pissed off when they found out that's what I'd been taught at school. Sure, it makes life easier for teachers, but that's not the point of education. But it's probably a cultural thing, since my parents came from a country that was at war and that experience taught them how to protect themselves.
Interesting... I explored the area quite a bit by motorbike but was never aware of the train. Another feature of the area is the extreme topography: dead flat plains with sudden vertical bluffs, very similar to far southern India, eg. much of western Tamil Nadu. The similarity is so striking that you find yourself comprehending the thought processes of the founding Indian kings of Angkor.
Seventeen days too late for april fool's.
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Why do you suspect 1 <= len(vals) <= 5 would do something inefficient under the hood?

You can actually get a very good idea for what Python is doing under the hood using the dis module:

dis.dis(lambda: 1 <= len(vals) <= 5)
1 0 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
3 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (len)
6 LOAD_GLOBAL 1 (vals)
9 CALL_FUNCTION 1
12 DUP_TOP
13 ROT_THREE
14 COMPARE_OP 1 (<=)
17 JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP 27
20 LOAD_CONST 2 (5)
23 COMPARE_OP 1 (<=)
26 RETURN_VALUE
>> 27 ROT_TWO
28 POP_TOP
29 RETURN_VALUE

Compare to:

dis.dis(lambda: len(vals) in range(1, 5))
1 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (len)
3 LOAD_GLOBAL 1 (vals)
6 CALL_FUNCTION 1
9 LOAD_GLOBAL 2 (range)
12 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
15 LOAD_CONST 2 (5)
18 CALL_FUNCTION 2
21 COMPARE_OP 6 (in)
24 RETURN_VALUE
Judges may think of their families, communities, and countries; in something of this scale it would be hard to be impartial.
Yes, and their job is to interpret the law impartially. It isn't a perfect system. How would you suggest we improve upon it?
They're the owners of the company; they're already entitled to their share of whatever's left.

Institutional investors are a lot more worried about the (additional) reputational damage, from having invested with criminals, than they are about recovering fractions of fractions of fractions of pennies on the dollar by raiding Elizabeth Holmes' personal bank account.
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Maybe we should outsource much of our government operations to people from western Europe. I propose a new law that only people from Iceland are allowed to run for Congress!
Really pretty. Given how small it is, I wonder how difficult porting it to other languages would be; it might make a decent little reference spec for lightweight GUIs.
> My motorcycle is more dangerous.

So are police officers which kill about 10x as many people as terrorism (155 vs 17). In their defense bad potatoe salad kills much more than them (death from contaminated food is 110 times than terrorism). http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-...
Wouldn't that be more work than just inspecting the bikes?
No the extra weight of a flywheel plus motor/generator would far outweigh any small advantage. The energy density is just too low for any flywheel small enough to fit on a bike. And the gyroscopic effects would mess with handling.
Would you use a dating app for elites only?
Furthermore, mountains, canyons, and valleys are beautiful and valuable as they are.
Hate speech is one kind of free speech, and be very suspicious of anyone who tries to tell you otherwise: They mean to suppress dissent.
The notion that people need an incentive to save money is more or less a contradiction under capitalist dogma.
> If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area that overpowers the GPS satellites, there isn't much you can do.

directional receivers?
It looks cool, though the claim about having no platform dependent code must be false... either they have it or they depend on someone who does. Since it's all in one file and I'm on an iPad right now, I didn't try to discern which case it is.

What is the appeal of the implementation hiding in the header file? Is it a 'thing' nowadays? It makes every file that includes it read all 15k lines, and makes you put a special #define in one of your source files, just to avoid having a C file. That doesn't feel like a good trade-off to me. If I used this code in a project, I'd build a static library out of it first thing, and go about my business.
Why US corporations are hoarding cash and not investing (Paul Krugman)
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> Getting smokers to switch brands is harder and not really worth it.

What I read about this (which dates from the 80s or so) said that elasticity of demand for smoking is very low (no surprise; that's why we call it addictive) and that brand loyalty is also very low. Which means it's easy to get smokers to switch brands; you just need to charge a lower price. In practice, this market structure means that price competition is rather pointless, since all your sales are cannibalized from other cigarette vendors, and if they return the favor you've just lost a bunch of money for no reason. So cigarette companies really like to charge "whatever the other companies charge". This supports the idea that getting smokers to switch brands isn't worth it, but definitely doesn't support the idea that it's hard.

(This comes from a Straight Dope question as to why the price of a pack of cigarettes is so uniform across companies.)
Technically Julia is designed for general purpose computing. It just happens to be really good at numerical applications. The main thing holding it back is lack of tooling, debugging, and somewhat largish changes in syntax still. Having said that writing typed, expressive, and _performant_ DSL's in Julia is easy if not even kinda fun.
i suggest mobile phone fortification before every possible meetup. i don't know in any other country but in mine mobile phone is attached to citizen'S ID.
How much of an effect would $6B really have on the EU? According to Wikipedia[0], their GDP is around $16,800 billion. If I were the judge I wouldn't see any reason to believe my community would derive any measurably benefit from that income.

If a politician came to them and said, "we're going to use that $6B to fund this particular program," well sure, but that would seem to be a subset of bribery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union
Can you think of any examples of wisdom that don't seem blatantly obvious on hindsight? Would sincerely love to hear them
How did you reach that man page from the git manpage?
Is it fair use when Google uses an entire scanned work in a machine learning project that leads to commercial gain?

That to me is a far trickier question...
Cross platform is a key feature. Thats why glfw is so nice. Unless you want to write the grungy windows bits for all your platforms I don't see any problem with useing glfw. Its a solid library.
A significant impediment is handling peak usage power. Maybe solar can provide most of our energy needs, but for those times where peak power is needed, it's probably more sensible to take a more balanced/mixed approach.

*edit looks like the article has a convenient link to another article talking about this exact problem:

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/12/10970858/flattening-duck-curve-...
As Ben Horowitz would have quoted "People never get the flowers while they can still smell 'em"
"who does mistakes a lot" -> "who makes mistakes a lot"
> does not have any dependencies, a default renderbackend or OS window and input handling but instead provides a very modular library approach by using simple input state for input and draw commands describing primitive shapes as output.

It seems that you're expected to provide the layer between the OS and nuklear. They probably have some default implementation for demo's and stuff.
It would be pretty difficult to track 3-12 satellites at a time with a directional antenna, particularly with both the satellites and the plane in motion.

You could employ something like a directional antenna who's radiation pattern will basically look like a half-circle, with the flat part facing down, but, radiation patterns are not black and white, even if 90% of the energy is received from the main side, there is always some signal still received from unwanted directions. With as weak as GPS signals are, it wouldn't take much to drown them out, even on the back side of a directional antenna.
Equinix loves the flash interior decorating but it doesn't do anything for your uptime or latency. Datacenters really aren't that interesting, maybe the "meet me room" have some neat looking network gear but by and large DC are visually monotonous. Question - aside from having a high concentration of wall street firms colocated there what is interesting about this? What innovations are they making?

The funny thing about all the security - the man traps, the palm reader, the alarms systems there is still usually some security guard at the front desk who is often napping. Not that I blame them but its kind of laughable.
The Walgreen's angle is much bigger. From what I've read online, they invested $50 million and built out all those in-store clinics based on Theranos. Add in the retail space and construction costs, and you're looking at real money.
Well, where can't you go? :)
I wanna learn more and wikipedia isn't very helpful; any places I should read?
> i often wonder why "free downloads" often mean "PDF" while ePUB needs to be paid for

> it is certainly less convenient to have a PDF

There's your answer.
If you seriously believe in such endemic corruption, you could equally fantasise that Google has enough money to buy a not-guilty verdict, yet the EU will remain impartial?
YP digital has surprisingly large reach due to its distribution as a default application on AT&T phones. The business prints money, and has a ridiculous trove of local data that very few companies can provide (foursquare, yelp, etc), but which local search providers (Google, Yahoo, etc) need (all about that high intent).
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Most champion cyclists aren't tall. What matters isn't power, but rather power to weight ratio.
If I understand correctly from the article their current use is not resulting in financial gain.

>> Unlike other forms of Google search, Google does not display advertising to book searchers, nor does it receive payment if a searcher uses Google's link to buy a copy. Google's book scanning project started in 2004.

If that changes later on that may be cause enough to for them to be challenged on fair-use again.
Yes...but it doesn't have to be that way. I personally am going to make an effort to not only show that I appreciate it...but also do my best to pass on the kindness to others that need it.

Right now there is someone struggling that needs some kind words too.
But education shouldn't be an industry, especially in public institutions.
> Technology is an intrinsic part of the sport, but it is not allowed to play a dominant role.

I can't make any sense of this. Any bicycle is 100% a product of technology. I can't think of anything that plays a more dominant role in bicycle racing than... bicycles.
Working in Canada as a full-time employee usually accompanied by being low-balled on your salary from many angles.
If you negotiate higher salary - hold you enthusiasm - you'll be the first on a list to be fired if things go soar (which pretty much is a fact of life for most Canadian startups).

High paid people in Canada are working as a consultants mostly for US-based entities or at an enterprises with a strong international exposure or as an entrepreneurs with US- or international exposure themselves.

Being pure Canadian employee in Canada sucks and always sucked.

Degree matters in large companies due to regulations and they tends to hire some extremely dinosauric skill verification firm to cause you major hassles to verify your background.

Smaller companies just need to make sure your skill match your resume and hence they'll bore you to death on their interviews with coding questions.

If you are hired, expect to become the one asking coding questions the very next day :)
If I read an entire book and I use the knowledge acquired from reading the book for commercial gain, is it fair use?
Jamie Zawinski describes it as how a few people who want to work to make a company successful eventually attract a whole bunch of people who want to work for a successful company.
Is that enabled by default? Turned on in the BIOS or early boot?
> you encode it back-to-front

sorry, but i still don't grok it. for example, if you take a person 'object' defined as :

Person {

name string (or equivalent asn.1 type-name, with type-identifier == 1)

age int (or equivalent asn.1 type-name, with type-identifier == 2)

}

since b.e.r is basically a tlv (type-length-value) encoding, a person with name "james" with age '10' i.e.

james_person = Person(name = 'james', age = 10)

gets hex-encoded as :

"james" : 01 05 6a 61 6d 65 73

"10" : 02 01 0A

so the whole thing looks like this:

"01 05 6a 61 6d 65 73 02 0A".

ofcourse this would be prepended with appropriate type-number for 'Person' with corresponding length.

if we assume that 'Person' gets a type-identifier == 3, then 'james_person' instance would be encoded as:

"03 06 01 05 6a 61 6d 65 73 02 0A"

where '06' == total length (6 bytes) of this instance of person object.

may you please elucidate your trick with the above example ? thanks for your insights !
This is already highly regulated; the reason that harsher general legislation is sought is that the uninformed will nonetheless operate UAVs next to airports and endanger lives.

Hence, my tradeoff is between making it difficult to own or operate a UAV ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OR ADJACENT TERRITORIES; and making it incredibly improbable and difficult to simply ride one into an airport and cause a disaster, either by accident or on purpose.

My tradeoff also bears on the doubtful effectiveness of the legislative approach to prevent intentional violation of controlled airspace. In this case you require the sentries anyhow.
+1 for this! For large programs -- server side Julia, but having browser native Julia via WebAssembly would make visualization and interactive analysis for data science fantastic. Performance of running large GUI applications and libraries would be much faster since WebAssembly could take advantage of the huge amount of work done for optimizing JS by tiered interpretation/JIT'ing.
A someone from outside the US, I can say the exactly the same for US-based businesses (though I clearly understand you POV).
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It's another spin on "ideas are worthless" (http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html)
Personal cloud for online entertainment
This longer piece, linked to in the Krugman column, is also very interesting: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1003.lynn-lon...
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I think the use would be considered transformative enough so as to outweigh the commercial use. Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#1._Purpose_and_charac...
Yeah I think that is a tough one, but I do think what they are trying to do is not a bad thing, especially since they are specifically skipping advertising. Bottom line, if books were more searchable I think it makes the world a better and more accessible place.
Ah, I read that three times on the site but it didn't sink in until I saw your comment. I guess with a title like "GUI toolkit" my expectations were set incorrectly. Thanks for that!

So, you glue it to the OS yourself. That's... well actually I guess if someone marries it to SDL it could be very useful.
Demo: http://openduty.herokuapp.com/

Username: root

Password: toor
Are you suggesting that all the rulings from the EU Commission are ilegal and motivated by the fines they impose?
"Is it fair use when (company) uses an entire scanned work in a machine learning project that leads to greater overall technology and a better world?"
Have you ever seen how directors and executives make deals? Meanwhile, I'm sure dozens of engineers were shouting that this doesn't work, but couldn't get the message through the thick layer of middle management. It is not the least bit surprising to me.
We could create a political body that is outside any of the countries. Everyone that agrees to be part of it will have to respect its decisions.

Once this is setup the world will be united. We can then call it the United Countries or something like that. It's going to be great!
Because prestige is given to winners. There's nothing special about cycling.
You might want to familiarize yourself with the 4 factor test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors

Many "fair use" usages lead to commercial gain.
Actually, Rust would support updates for your SSL, ASN.1 and other libraries; because native bindings are widely accepted and used with Rust.
A few of the responses to your comments have covered a lot, but they miss the primary issue: Apple only controls itself. Through the Android MADA, a confidential contract Google forces OEMs to sign in exchange for the Play Store, Google basically de facto controls the majority of the mobile industry. Google has full veto power over all of their Android-based device and software releases.

Google has a ridiculous amount of power, and if they say jump, everyone in the industry has to ask how high. They've left a bunch of "but technically" loopholes to excuse themselves, but given that it's impossible to sell a SUCCESSFUL Android smartphone without signing their contract, those loopholes don't stand up in court.
>I've tried to fix it, to rewind.

Man, focus on line: give your line energy, meaning. Everything else will flow from that.
> Go's deployment infrastructure is a superset of C's...

That is true; but updates to native libs that would propagate to C, Python &al. will generally not propagate to Go because, like Java, Go eschews native bindings.
I've said the same thing to leaders at multiple startups (some well known) and they all gave me a look like I was a neophyte who didn't understand the motivating power of ping pong tables.
Spend five minutes a day playing it. Seriously.