skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True.
Also I'm not saying people didnt die. But from what I've read, it was not such a huge deal as it has been painted out to be in Sweden. Remember, health care back in those days meant people died from all sorts of things. Perhaps there is a lack of information or it simply was not a big deal. Different people are also more or less sensitive to different bacteria and viruses.
I'm not sure if it's related to his work at Monsanto and the exposure to GMOs and herbicides, but based on his info, he is an obvious case of illeism [0]. I'm joking, of course. :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism
Currently, peak electricity costs are in the daytime. This makes no sense if storage is the biggest problem of the present.
Not so long ago, physical phones and software markets were separate. Apple did a fine job muscling in its app store by leveraging the early dominance of its phone hardware.
The moral ambiguity was the best part!

Put the party into a situation where they could ally with a profoundly evil power to achieve a great good. Or maybe give them a powerful magical item that they discover is slowly corrupting them as they start wielding it for the right reasons...

I wish more of our current crop of politicians had played RPGs that way...
Problem is, we still have jpgs. As long as we have raster images (instead of vector images), we'll be laying some things out based on pixels.

And as long as we have photographs, we're going to have raster images, for the foreseeable future.
Only if there was no competition. Otherwise your 8 buyers at $200 would be buying from your competitors at a cheaper price.
What should you do if you caught ransomware mid-operation?
Although we've used to call support and request a higher capacity ELBs (you can't get this automatically), recently we stopped doing it recently and handle spikes from 1,000 to 100,000 concurrent users within a couple of minutes without a sweat. By the way, many people are unaware, but CloudFront distributions also need to be upgrade to handle spikes similarly to ELBs.
At least mgnacl's nick is explicit in telling you to take his/her comment with a grain of salt.
Cheaper, or better subsidised? Politicians are usually quite keen to describe their pet projects as either cheap or free when in reality they're just taxpayer funded.
So why is it that when people want to paint Apple in a positive light they dismiss market share and point to profits? If Apple pulling in 90% of the profits in the industry is what counts when evaluating the relative strengths of both platforms then why doesn't it matter when considering abuses of market position?

I think it's pretty clear that despite selling a minority of devices Apple has at least as much power to drive the overall direction of the market as Google.
It does mention they can be read in the dark, which would definitely be useful if you knew which area you wanted to get to without being able to see it
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> there is no actual line between the use of gears and the use of motors.

There's a very clear line in this case. Cycling is a human powered sport. Battery, gasoline, nuclear, and other power sources are not allowed. This is why mopeds are not allowed. Also prohibited is temporary power storage like a capacitor or spring, which might be used for regenerative braking.

You can put all the motors you want on your bike (IMHO) so long as you don't energize them.

Only a specific set of technology is allowed in a bike race. Under UCI rules, cyclist aren't allowed to use aeroshells, and recumbent bicycles are also prohibited, even though both are much more "similar" to a bicycle than your proposed monkey with a walking stick.

The rules attempt to describe the ineffable concept of what it means to be a "bicycle race". They are meant to encapsulate a mass consensus based on tradition and expectations, including the idea of how to balance "human" and "technology". The rules must also face the challenge of changes in technology, and ever-present rules lawyering. The Lugano charter, mentioned earlier, tries to capture and influence that mass consensus.

There are different interpretations of what a "bicycle race" means, which is why there are different rules organizations. If you want to run a race which allows a monkey with a walking stick to compete, feel free!
Assuming you are referring "Bonus Use case" that I mentioned, I would say it is Chromecast As A Service + Content, for your phone/tablet. That makes it more like Apple TV.

Or to put it another way, It is also a Chromecast, but with Content and without proprietory hardware.
Ok. Maybe I shouldn't lump wind together with solar.
Why would we raise prices on ANY solar panels? That seems self-defeating to me. It doesn't really matter where they come from. Any solar panels are good solar panels.
nuklear.h is 20,000 lines long. Is the whole thing written in the header file?
> federal subsidies have provided wind and solar developers with as much as $24 billion from 2008 to 2014, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

-- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/say-goodby...

Absolutely ridiculous. Can you imagine if we spent $4BN annually on nuclear energy and public outreach on how it isn't dangerous?

Yet another case where leftists would rather feel good than do good.
I'm certain that the call to range is significant there, but if you think of how this actually plays out, it may be doing a naive list compare. if a compare operation is your limiting operation, then the former has to do nine operations (Is x == 0? Is x == 1? ... Is x == 8?) vs precisely two in the latter (is x >= 0? Is x < 10?). The math on that is pretty close - 2/9ths of 0.351 is 0.078, quite close to your result.

From a formal CS perspective, that's why this is wrong; It's because 'in' is an o(n) operation, while the two comparisons are constant time. It may be abstracted away by the range object overloading, but that's a fairly narrow optimization it's able to pull off.

On modern CPUS, branching operations like compare usually are your problem; An unconditional function call is easy to optimize, but a branch in a looping construct is guaranteed to lead to one or more mispredictions. Trying to minimize the surface area of comparisons is an important part of performant code.
When I look at GUI APIs, the first question I ask is, "How easy is it to get things where I want them on the screen/page?" Because that is the fundamental problem for any layout engine.
Then train the pilots. The airlines have out-sourced the training costs to the pilots, and then expect them to (at least initially) work for a pittance. $25K starting salaries, weird seniority rules etc.

And then they wonder why no-one is biting...
Yes! https://github.com/nothings/stb#why-single-file-headers
The "sky falling" hyperbole would be believable with shorter copyright terms, but with life plus 70/90/120 years, enforced by DRM technologies meant to lock us into specific proprietary platforms, ripping us of any sense of ownership for the things we buy, the whole industry can go fuck themselves.
That's one of the few things legitimate Government is for: prosecuting people for fraud.
Title, basically: Google is a privacy watchdog in Europe.

Content, basically: Google secretly passes judgement on millions of people's right to be forgotten and does not want to talk about it. Some French organization (which does not seem to be anything government related, but it doesn't say) agrees with Google "most of the time", though, so we've got that going for us.

I fail to see how this is anywhere close to a "privacy watchdog". Speaking as a Dutchman, organizations like Privacy First or Bits of Freedom (both are Dutch) would be privacy watchdogs, not Google who passes judgement on over 500 cases a day just because they're a big player.

> "Other search companies, including Microsoft, have been given the same authority, though their number of judgments pales by comparison."

Yeah, and their market share also pales by comparison. Big surprise.
C++ open source implementation for Eulerian Video Magnification
Eulerian Video Magnification(EVM) is a way to reveal subtle changes in the world. With this method you can directly see a man's pulse, or the vibration of a camera while taking photo, etc.

Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ASH8IBJ2U

This Github project provide a C++ implementation of EVM, based on OpenCV and Qt.

https://github.com/wzpan/qtevm
To stimulate local production. But local producers just raised their prices. And, when the new import tax was announced it immediately resulted in shortages because companies kept solar panels in stock to sell them after they raised their prices. Sounds like some good lobbying to me.
a long way, as there are many unpredictable unforeseen combinations of events in the sky. A much more likely scenario is single pilot commercial flights, especially for regionals, effectively doubling pilot capacity.
This was in my inbox this morning:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11415510/solar-power-costs-inno...

Suggesting that costs are not falling fast enough to overcome value deflation. Seems quite US-focussed though. The numbers in the two articles don't seem directly comparable.
Yes. But what is happening here is not "misfortune" in the sense of something undeservedly bad happening to someone.
If cornering 80% of the market is so terrible, the EU should make it illegal to sell the Nth Android phone that pushes past 79%, and/or make it illegal for the customer to buy such a phone.

The absurdity of such a proposed law should make it obvious that Google is doing nothing wrong by selling popular devices with a certain operating system.
Say hello to another Permian-Triassic extinction event?
You could always give me a hand to get https://github.com/voltagex/minecraft-rebridge up and running again, and then use HTTP from Python to talk to Minecraft-proper ;)
Does anyone know how Jaycar are doing these days?
One of the most damaging notions of creativity is that of the lone genius, as portrayed and developed by the Romantics.
To be creative you have to situate yourself in a tradition (it could be furthering the tradition, or rebelling against it).
Pieter inspired me to explore the "0" in other things through the success of the simplicity of 0mq and what it brought to my work. Things are simpler and easier for me, thanks to Pieter. I hope everyone gets to see the beauty and power of minimalistic approaches. I'm humbled to know him.
Note that nuclear is also not exactly grid-friendly, since you cannot quickly change the power output of a nuclear power plant. They are useful for base load and nothing else.
Nice job! This looks great.
India wants 8% domestic production, and the US has a cry. What a bully. How does the WTO enforce that sort of ruling? India has The Bomb.
They're probably closer to what developers use as "cheat-sheets" - stuff you actually know and have used before, but don't always immediately remember. Maybe some of those coast line routes they only navigated only once a year for some seasonal trades or so.
That would actually be very interesting. Instead of drivers competing, it would be code competing.
Don't forget about gaming history that could be/is lost. We have emulators up to PS2 and almost everything on PC without always online is cracked.

But with current decisions that game companies own your play-trough (they were able to shutdown streams on copyright grounds - it is as if the person that supplies the paints has copyright of the painting) - and with emulator servers moving more and more into the illegal - we could enter a digital history dark age. A lot of the cultural phenomenon that was WoW is lost and unexperiancable for the future generations.
For me, reading the source code was part of what made the game fun. It was a sort of metagame, learning how to cast "real-world" spells by studying the arcane tomes that held the secrets of the universe. It by no means made me invincible (my death/ascension ratio was still topheavy) or even cut out the mystery; it just moved some of the action and exploration from the game screen to a text editor. Two games in one.

Every 5-10 years I end up losing a couple days to NetHack. I'm overdue.
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Well, even among serious hobbyist cyclists, very very few of them are or can be fit for world class pro cycling. Still, it's perfectly okay to use whatever clothes and bikes they enjoy, and it has nothing to do with pretending to be world class.

I imagine a nice lycra suit would actually be comfortable. I don't know, I go with jeans and a T-shirt (when the weather is warm enough for that) but proper cycling wear should help with chafing down there as well as stopping your clothes from dripping sweat while still keeping you warm enough for when you're starting to get exhausted or the weather gets chilly. These problems exist even for non-sporty people cycling to work as long as they ride fast enough for their bodies and have a long enough commute...

Toys? I guess. I would say all hobby equipment is toys.
MIT's new AI platform can predict 85% of cyberattacks
What’s a triangle diagram?
An alternative (in C++, but with C API maintained):

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Cost of solar panel is dropping every year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law

The question is not whether you can get cheaper once, but whether you can be cheaper and maintain that advantage by improving each year.
From the project homepage:

> The Wyss team is currently seeking the right curriculum and translation partners to help put Root coding robots in every classroom.

It's very vague but at least it looks like they're pushing for making it more broadly available. I really hope that works out because this seems like a fantastic teaching tool. The heavy focus on whiteboard usage is quite smart.
Single payer manages to function in plenty of countries with worse corruption than the US. The US is one of, if not the only rich country without a universal healthcare system.
The mapping between the coastline and the maps looks distorted though - it seems that what matters on these is the succession of capes and creeks rather than proportions or topography. Any insight on how useful this would be while navigating in the dark ?
Or maybe India does not want to bleed billions away with barely anything to show for it (Yes, they get the infrastructure, but the tech is proprietary and foreign and potentially an endless drain)

Instead they try to develop inhouse production that they own and have to cover the initial capital costs.

There was a theory in ~19th century that Portugal/Spain trading wine for machinery from Great Britain mean it was equal to growing said machinery on fields - Britain shot away technologically and that was that.
(I can't find the name of the theory though :/)
I'm currently taking a coursera typography class - I'm glad I can understand some of the historical context here.
A critique on bias in a normative commercial press release
As someone would have loved to become a pilot, but went into another industry because I wanted to be able to feed my family, the airlines have no one to blame but themselves. The pay for regional pilots is insultingly low.

I don't think pilots qualify for H-1B but perhaps the US gov't could come up with a scheme to allow experienced foreign pilots to come to the US and get trained and certified at the airlines' expense.
Using ASan feels like using the C I always wanted but never had
Wind is getting cheaper and more reliable, too. I think I read that it's because we're building bigger wind turbines.
The vast majority of artists. You think Damien Hirst has picked up a brush in 20 years?
The whole idea of NSS is to be pluggable to let the local administrator chooses what they need.
That takes you towards HTML- or XAML-style UI definitions. I'm doing something like this in my (experimental) layout lib for embedded devices. I've written a bit about it: https://www.eiman.tv/blog/posts/liblayout/index.html
It is available in Debian unstable.

apt install ansiweather
One interesting point is the reduction in hw costs due to higher integration and built-in hw (there's a slide there with some info)
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I thought the monkeys got bikes rather than sticks?
Any hint on how to compile any of the demos on OSX ?
The punchline will be kissinger dying weeks before the law finally catches up with the p'tach.
There's an initiative to do just that.

http://www.roborace.com
If you've been there a while, I probably met you, or at least your colleagues - a few years back at Maker Faire (where you were showing off a yellow motorcycle, from memory R6 based?), and again at Sears Point for the first US TTxGp back in maybe 2010?

One of your guys (Richard?) offered to get me good prices on Agni motors and packs of A123 cells for $300-ish per kWHr. (I should have taken him up on that... My current ride is a probably-illegal-in-CA 125cc two stroke Cagiva Mito - which is a barrel of fun! I could easily see myself looking for 30 or 40kW of electric motor/controller/battery to jam inside it next time it needs a complete engine rebuild...)
HTTPS auth provided by Github et al. don't support client certs, only username/password pairs. There is no equivalent to ssh-agent for HTTPS (because authenticating to HTTPS URLs is not a standard).
Never. As always. DVMB.

This is not green field, but as the neighbor's lawn next to mine, it may or may not be greener. Time and fertilizer will tell. Smell the dirt Spartans.
These problems pale in comparison partly because these sustainable forms of technology aren't being used any meaningful scale yet.

How much area do we have to cover with solar panels to power a largish metropolitan area?
What is it? Yeoman (a project template system)? NPM2: NPM Harder? It claims to reduce boilerplate and provide the best developer system out of the box...... with no indication of what that even means. It's self-parody of Javascript that this makes it to the HN front page.
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I believe the parent meant they'd shut down coal plants in favour of nuclear.
They don't spin fast enough nor with enough mass to help you climb a hill ...
Because 8% of India is huge - that would mean India has a functioning solar energy tech sector - perhaps one that might be able to compete worldwide
If 30MB is the application size: If you reduce recording of source code info, then it should be quite a bit smaller.
> Can someone explain to me what bots are for.

Anything the bot-builder wants really. I think the aim of this grant is to explore the limits of what bots could be used for.

Bots don't have to use AI or ML to be useful: right now I use the @gif bot to search for and reply with reaction gifs inline (without having to launch browser->search->download->attach into chat). You can create a Jenkins/CI bot that chimes in when a build fails, or create a weather bot that tells you it's going to rain
Or maybe they forgot to show processes from all users.
"Maritime breakfast" -- incredible!
We will need big wires to bring electricity to the dark side of the earth ;-)
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I agree, and if the defendant wants a judge and domain experts to go over it, fine, but the public does not need to know for this particular case.
Actually, the POSIX subsystem is part of the user mode portion of Windows. It's classed as an environmental subsystem.

The portion of Windows that handles processes is in the kernel mode part of Windows, and is part of its executive subsystem - I believe Microsift call it the process manager.

Windows just ran POSIX compliant programs in a POSIX environment, so the process manager shouldn't have had any problems.

Edit: I researched this years ago whilst studying for the MCP, and documented it on Wikipedia [1] - I even drew a diagram in Word which has since been converted to SVG :-) Since then someone else has written an article about the POSIX subsystem of Windows and it notes:

"The runtime environment of the subsystem is provided by two files: psxss.exe and psxdll.dll. A POSIX application uses psxdll.dll to communicate with the subsystem while communicating with posix.exe to provide display capabilities on the Windows desktop." [2]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
On the other hand, if the performance benefits prove to be true, you might be able to test Scylla with much less machines than you have for Cassandra.
USN-2951-1: OptiPNG vulnerabilities
Well, solar installs have still decreased in price overall. I'm writing this as they are in the middle of installing solar panels on my roof in the sunny Netherlands. ROI in <6 years, solar is doing well here. The refund of VAT (BTW) on the full cost of the install does imply the government is serious about solar, too.

Although I do agree government policy as a whole can be sorely lacking in some areas. The gentle, incremental approach has led us to fall behind almost all EU members in meeting renewable goals.
Github repo: https://github.com/rocjs/roc
If verified, the LinkedIn history [0] at least shows some expertise and progressive advancement in medical device design and manufacturer, which I don't think Theranos' CEO has.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendian-shi-21757833
Shortages? Raised prices?

I've been tracking prices for solar for the last couple of years, and I've only seen them go down. Pulled the trigger and purchased our own install because they went down yet again this year.
How much faster is a quantum computer than your laptop
Those bikes tend to get stripped down every day. Some of the frame designs have at times been rated for less than 10k miles, meaning they wear out at some point, possibly before the end of the race.

For instance a commercial aluminum frame is overbuilt so that it doesn't vibrate itself to pieces, but if you are going to get a new one in a week why bother?
Hopefully not before taxes on greenhouse gas emissions.
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The best location for covering a large area of land for purposes of solar energy would arguably be a desert. "90% of the world’s population lives within range of a desert and could be supplied with solar electricity from there", says this article, which also shows you how much needs to be covered to supply the entire globe in theory: http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/22/half-a-trillion-dollars-...
And people spend a lot of money to make them store just a tiny little less energy.
You mean like this? :) http://www.pv-tech.org/news/asian-super-grid-could-get-go-ah...
Tinfoil hat: underpay the pilots... "oh look we don't have enough pilots"... automation time!
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As I've rediscovered time and again while hunting and hiking; if you haven't been to a place in a couple of years you may recognize landmarks but not remember exactly how they fit into your mental map of the area. This kind of problem would have been deadly in places like Greenland, so any kind of mnemonic could be a life saver.

Also, when you are hungry, thirsty and tired, self doubt can be debilitating; a map can give a little extra assurance that you are heading towards fresh water.
You're making me imagine a Mario Kart style escalation of cheating and anti-cheating techniques.

Maybe an EMP equipped tortoise shell would do the trick!
Even in the US there is a whole lot of open space. And I don't think massive distribution centers are in extremely urban areas with high population density.
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I thought it was abandoned by dev's in a buggy alpha'ish state
Hi HN!

I’m the developer behind this. I’ll be happy to answer any questions.

We’ll also be releasing iOS and Android ports soon.
Strange parallels to Bitcoin mining where you're worried your rig might not pay for itself before faster mining hardware comes out that pays better.