skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polluted air is a symptom of being poor, and making the reasonable trade off between cost and long-term health risks. China doesn't pollute now because they somehow have to learn valuable lessons in democracy; they pollute because they can't afford the same luxuries we have in the US.
Hence N.B.
Hmm is this when Tim Cook announces his entrance into the race ? :P
Like the idea of the codec: trying to minimize the error
> First of all: I was not saying that this is necessarily the best choice, or that I endorse Remain or Leave.

Oh I understand, my post is mostly aimed at those who appear to believe defying the vote result will be just shrugged off as if it were just another case of politics.

The working classes are quite hard to politicize, but once they are involved it is like a train speeding up on a track. The middle classes tend to have, ah, more flexible opinions and less conviction about the world and their beliefs shall we say. This isn't good or bad for either case, it's just so.

I think the chattering classes are underestimating the effects of a backlash because they themselves are more flexible / less committed and their (wrong) intuition that everybody else is the same. Sure there are lots of enthusiastic and firm believers of <political paradigm> in the middle class, but they are a minority. Most middle class people will eventually accommodate the idea of a Britain without the EU. The working classes will not respond in the same way, because once they commit to a political ideal it is much harder to shift them. That's a grudge that's never going away, even if there somehow magically was no rioting.

> I was just trying to explain what - from what I read so far - seems the most probable strategy for the next months.

That would be my hunch too. Looks like we're about to enter interesting times.

> Also, while the economic results of the Leave might be exaggerated (as part of the same strategy I was explaining) do you think that Leave supporters have properly considered the risks of splintering UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland and possibly Wales deciding to get independence)?

No. I don't even think the Remain side considered this proper or they would have emphasized it much more in their propaganda instead of economics. However Scotland wants to leave anyway, Brexit is more of an pretext for that than a cause. I am confident Wales and Northern Ireland will stay with England. Politically speaking the Scots and Home Counties don't have a lot in common, the South is much more right wing than the North, so I don't think a 'deal' ameliorates the situation if it succeeds in Scotland staying and Britain stays in the EU.

I suspect, and I'm not very sure of this, this is just a guess, that the EU officials are going to deny Scotland entry to the EU even if they become an independent state which will piss them off no end (this is to prevent a precedent setting off country fragmentation in Europe e.g. Catalonia). I think the closing of ranks against Juncker has something to do with this. Then an olive branch will be offered to the British. Obviously there's quite a gap between the cup and lip here so we'll have to wait and see.
Kidlington's mystery tourist influx continues to baffle locals
Programming languages were designed for people, compilers are designed to interpret that language into instructions for the computer.

Natural language is horrible for a programming language, but don't forget that the reason we write code in higher level languages is specifically to make it easier for humans, not for computers.
Well given that a lot of the Industrial Revolution came at the expense of forceful colonisation, I would say this subsidy would be a great way to structure reparations to India from the UK. [..Ducks lower..]
I believe the GP was refering to the production of films and movies. For example, much of the Lord of the Rings films were shot with forced perspective. How would that translate into a VR medium?
I don't see how. Particulates don't persist in the atmosphere that long. I understand a little bit of this stuff makes it across the Pacific, but not a whole lot. Living on the east coast, I'm basically unaffected by it except when I go to China, and most Americans don't do that.

If we're talking about reducing CO2 emissions, then yes, further cutting emissions in the US is probably not going to do much good compared to putting similar effort into China. But CO2 is just one piece of the puzzle, and it's one which can even be at odds with combating other types of pollution in some cases (as we saw in the VW emissions scandal).
If this were to be rewritten in a high level language, I wonder what would it look like?
Such a fascinating problem! For efficiency you want large aligned loads and stores. The source and destination alignment are independent issues; so the CPU uses registers for a sort of shift-and-realign engine.

And you want to unroll each case, because speed is the goal.

The longer the alignment size (4-byte? 8-byte? 16-byte?)
the more permutations of start and end conditions there are. E.g. moving from a 15-byte aligned source to a 3-byte aligned destination. Maybe 256 combinations? Only 1 of which is zero-aligned source and destination (full-register move) which is all most folks think of writing to begin with.

Add in cache-line size considerations, and overlap possibilities (are we moving a string in-place left or right by 7 characters?) Can the bus do unaligned loads? Stores? How do they compare in performance to multiple single-byte transfers? So many things can affect performance, each case becomes a heuristic. After all the theorizing, testing is the only real metric.

I've dived down this rabbit hole before. Wrote a test app to move 0-128 bytes from source aligned 0-128 to destination aligned 0-128. The memcpy I was testing on a RISC architecture hit 11 bugs (processor faults, incorrect result) before I was through.

Its refreshing to find somebody else with an appreciation for the depth of this problem. Thanks for posting, gens!
Come on, add the SPX for objectivity's sake.
Pencil, eraser, paper,
Punchcards, punchcard machine,
Punchcard reader, computer, papertape, papertape puncher,
AGC computer, Command Module, LEM,
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins.

These last 3 are software QA.
I find this story believable. Some years ago my neighbor had a similar problem. He wasn’t a spy, but had lawful reasons to live in our country. After months in jail and courts he needed to leave. As far as I concerned he moved to Europe.
Anyway, I believe in fair trial and wish a good luck for Mr. Skoro.
That's fantastic, thanks!
Not shocked that Apple, McDonalds who have both changed global habits on a massive scale have 'trumped' Trump but what is more surprising is that the New York Times Co, with it's global reach, content and presumably lower overhead costs, faired quite poorly compared to Trump.
So...it's an event bus?
> It sounds like it outlaws all use of algorithms to evaluate people. The right to explanation is just for the rare exceptions where a "member state" authorizes it.

Who says that this is rare? That's a pretty standard way EU regulations are written to mean "Action A can only be allowed if conditions B are met".

If the regulation is approved, member states take a look and change their laws accordingly. They could outlaw algorithmic decision making if they wanted to (but they wouldn't need that regulation to do that). Much more likely is that they impose those conditions on the companies that use such algorithms just like they already impose a lot of conditions (such as "ethnicity is not allowed to be a direct input variable" currently is).
I didn't know there was a real "portia" spider... the things you learn everyday
Random note: When I was in the 5th grade, our math teacher taught us the meaning of Nota Bene, and used a NB sign to mark important notes when deriving formulas. Still use to this day when making notes
They're two-stroke. Small engines in the developing world are typically terrible - very dirty, very noisy ... and also cheap and easy to fix.
What it looks like to me is this:

Beijing decides that innovation needs to be a key focus for the economy (for face maybe). It announces funding, sets development goals for local politicians, and writes the buzzwords in all new economic plans and development documents. Local developers and politicians read that, and their instincts kick in - they know now that any development that can show "innovation" will get a green light and throw themselves into it head first. So now, any new development that goes on is not "grass roots" or "green" or "core" - it's innovative, creative. So a bunch of pretty standard, low quality office buildings go up, but now they're called 'Creative Parks'. Rent is low for any business that is 'creative'. So local entrepreneurs fill them with creative businesses - fashion studios, wedding photographers, ad agencies, designers. The businesses do well because they are effectively getting direct government support and investment, and because there's no other genuinely creative competition around to challenge them. Innovation all round!

It's a blunt and wasteful approach. It won't necessarily encourage creativity, innovation, new approaches, risk taking. More likely at best it will create a superficial impression of innovative industries, and maybe, maybe that might result in some innovation. This is the China way, and the reason China isn't a global creative or innovative superpower. <Mic drop>
Does anyone know what methods are state of the art in machine learning for data extraction in general or where I could get an overview (invoices,images, documents etc.)?
Manufacturers will still abide by EU regulations. Otherwise their products won't be able to sell abroad.

The UK government just won't have any input - that's a REAL loss of sovereignty.
That satellite image of the haze is scary. Scarier still is how the deterioration of air quality in the cities is affecting health. (The WHO estimates ~15 million bronchial asthma patients in India.)

You haven't experienced air pollution if you haven't breathed in the evening air in Mumbai or Bangalore during the rush hour.
I don't think his point was that we should loosen our restrictions, but re-direct our attention on the biggest abusers. Right now that's China. And it's not even close.

You would need to combine the emissions of the U.S, India and the entirety of the European Union to equal China's annual CO2 emissions. See for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

Basically, China emits as much CO2 as the next 3 countries. And they do nothing to curb it. Oh, they have regulations on books (Hey look, see, we have laws too!) but there is virtually zero enforcement unless something big is coming to town, like the olympics. And then they only focus on the relevant region, not the whole country. Oh, and they tell the factories to turn off completely rather than adding scrubbers or filtering.

China could reduce its emissions by orders of magnitude if they could get these factory owners and coal plants to put the bare minimum filters/scrubbers in play. But that cost money, and factory owners/government need every penny. Regulations you say? I must have forgot my monthly bribe money. Here you go sir. That's how it plays out, and will continue to play out until there is a massive systemic change to China's culture. The corruption is simply to high for anything else. They rank 100 on corruption, with 1 being the least corrupt. The U.S? Usually between 13 and 17. Source: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results
The sad-hilarious thing is that I would pay Netflix exactly as much money if the content weren't DRM'd, in fact I might pay more since they currently limit to 720p on Widevine (which is disappointing for my 1440p displays).

The reason I'd still pay Netflix, is that I can already pirate all of the shows they license. I pay for their reliable adaptive-rate streaming technology, the content I can get from almost anyone. In trade for the convenience, I lose quality because the widevine streams only go up to 720p. Even sadder, I could torrent good quality screencaps of the 1080p Netflix streams if I wanted to.

The publishers are just being ridiculous, so the DRM is enabled for everything. Though I wish they would put their money where their mouth is and disable the DRM for Netflix originals.
Considering that the binary was woven by hand using copper wire into the computer's core rope memory, I imagine the flight revision had to be finished months before the actual flight.
Cherry picking successful businesses seems like fair play when you are evaluating his claims of business success.

McDonald's doesn't seem like a terrible choice, it's not exactly in an exciting high growth industry.

I guess it would be a good idea to do a couple of baskets though, to compare to market average returns.
There's always custom ringer tones - no reason "silence" can't be the default ringer. Custom vibrate patterns too. :)
> The point is that in supervised learning for example, if you optimize prediction accuracy with respect to your human generated examples, you will get a model that exactly reproduces the racist judgment of the human that generated your training set.

In which case you aren't optimizing prediction accuracy. Prediction accuracy is measured by whether the predictions are true. If you have bias in the predictions which doesn't exist in the actual outcomes then there is money to be made by eliminating it.

It seems like the strangest place to put an objection where the profit motive is directly aligned with the desired behavior.
Interesting map of the France
And the name inspiration [1]

## At the get-together of the AGC developers celebrating the 40th anniversary
## of the first moonwalk, Don Eyles (one of the authors of this routine along
## with Peter Adler) has related to us a little interesting history behind the
## naming of the routine.<br>
## <br>
## It traces back to 1965 and the Los Angeles riots, and was inspired
## by disc jockey extraordinaire and radio station owner Magnificent Montague.
## Magnificent Montague used the phrase "Burn, baby! BURN!" when spinning the
## hottest new records. Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of
## soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to
## the mid-1960s.

[1] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...
Explaining how neural network models generate their output is possible, see
http://cs231n.github.io/understanding-cnn/
https://auduno.github.io/2016/06/18/peeking-inside-convnets/
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590v/14au/cse59...

Also it should be possible to train the NN model to explain its decision, even in plain language.

I think the "right to explanation" law is pretty sensible, people should have a right to question the algorithmic judgment that impacts their life. It will be somewhat inconvenient for big companies applying ML to make these decisions, but it won't ruin their business.
You're welcome, it was in the Readme though :)
Cxf-spring-boot-starter, 1.0.6.RELEASE released
No dependency is often not the right dependency. For example, http depends on tcp, because an http stack cannot work or be reasonably tested without a working tcp stack. Yes, the tcp stack can be provided as an injection. Yes, the tcp stack can be defined as an interface and faked or mocked with a minimal implementation that barely supports the required execution, but still, without providing the depended tcp module, the http module does not work "independently". Sure that the http stack semantically only depends on the tcp "interface" to "compile" (if that was a thing in javascript), but as an http module that ideally should just work out of the box, it should always be shipped with a default tcp "implementation" that just works fine, rather than having the user of the module to "register" a tcp module.

Using centralized message passing/routing/registering is just being lazy on handling dependency, it is like abandoning structure programming and starts using "goto" for every branch, which makes the logic flow eventually untraceable. For a system of N modules, it ideally should have around O(N) dependency edges, but a centralized hub is essentially modeling a possibly O(N^2). It only makes sense to introduce a hub when everyone potentially wants to talk to everyone.

And worst of all, every module using the framework now depends on the "hub" now. While the actual logic-related dependencies are all converted to "dynamically" instantiated ones, this "static" dependency on the hub becomes extremely hard to remove in the long term. It's like a cancer. It is not a good "pattern".
The code may bloat, but only because of the permutations. Each call, you execute only the small case that applies. Maybe not that bad; probably it all fits in the nearest instruction cache?
Not in the EU (or at least not in The UK where I currently live).
Probably because the model isn't mapped to anyone's actual face (or a character if you prefer). This can be changed.
I'd argue that having a poster and memorizing it is actually counter productive. It's easier to know the data structure and think about how they work in the different situations.
4-stroke, but this is anecdotal.
So all four parts are available, just click on the link in the last paragraph to go to the next.

I love projects/blogs like this, since it is "back to the basics" and we all learn something by better understanding how things from codecs, to compression, and so on work. This one is wonderful and one of the best reads this week.
There is friendship between states. States do symbolic acts for some states, which they do not do for others. Germany hates getting involved in wars, but when the US (Afghanistan) or France (Syria) get attacked, it joins (symbolically) regardless of the NATO definition of attack. There is a long tradition of friendships between France and German leaders [0]. Of course all of this is partly because they are dependent on each other, but I think there is no clear distinction here.

To your second point: I would argue that France and Germany have more to win of of a hard line here. Yeah, the auto industry will tank, but as this very article shows, there are many sectors in which Britain might lose to the other big nations. We should definitely take our slice of that financial industry pie. We want to avoid an avalanche of exceptions for other countries so let's not start giving them out too easily. We want to keep the club together.

And final argument: At least Germany or France are not at risk of losing half of their federal states. Exciting times. Would be a really strange and random reason after all this years of violence for a more united Ireland.

[0]: http://media0.faz.net/ppmedia/aktuell/feuilleton/3725638940/...
We're not talking about CO2 emissions here, we're talking about local pollution such as fine particulates and ozone.

I've noticed that discussions about pollution frequently mix up CO2 and other types of pollution. It's weird.

If you want to combat climate change, then yes, efforts should be directed at China. But if you want clean air in the United States, then efforts should be directed at the United States, and possibly parts of Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. (Although I doubt Cuba contributes much.)
This absolutely changes habits and the ways of life. When my significant other and I lived in Texas we were 40lbs overweight with a huge lawn that was a PITA to maintain. Now in the city I bike 12-15 miles a day and we use the nearest Park a few blocks off.

I'd argue the green space is immediately available and better than a backyard I have to maintain.
Time to go for fishing or paddling a kayak
Among other problems with benchmarking SSE versions, your operating system may implement lazy FPU save/restore. SSE memcpy suddenly turns every process into an FPU using process, increasing context switch overhead. This is something you won't see in single process microbenchmarks.
> Is there any reason why they didn't develop one?

“Now you have two problems.”

Edit: OK, maybe that deserves explanation. First, an optimizing compiler is a much bigger project than the AGC code. Second, current optimization techniques didn't exist in 1969, even assuming NASA had enough budget for machine(s) to run them. Third, you need to verify the binary anyway, and small source changes (in either the guidance code or the compiler) can lead to large binary changes.
But the algorithm enshrines and possibly amplifies it. Or as the old saying goes:

> To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.
There is a gap in reasoning here. Prior to timezones, all localities had their own time, and it was generally based on solar time. Thus, abolishing time zones could mean going back to local solar time, but the article presumes that this means going to UTC. (Whether it is UT1 or UT2, it doesn't say).

This isn't all that complicated. Pick some astronomically-based event, say when the sun is at the zenith on equinox, and tie local time to that. Then, given that you have coordinates for every significant place on earth, it is an easy computer calculation to calculate the delta of time to where your uncle was sleeping.

Similarly, the offset to UTC is trivially available.

This is a calculation that ham radio operators, among others, already use to know what UTC the sunset or sunrise is (these are interesting times due to ionosphere changes around those times) at some random distant place far away, say Vanuatu.
I didn't get this at all from the article. He didn't say that other browsers are stupid, he said that they have bugs; the outline thing is a particularly nasty Firefox bug. It might also be a spec bug if the spec is not detailed enough on how to draw outlines; but it's also definitely a Firefox bug because it looks terrible. There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.
Implement carbon tax over any product - no matter if imported or domestically made. That would force them to make their act cleaner. And it will trickle down to their cities too.
Not enough people understand this. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
Don't think so, India is typically 4 stroke because of pollution norms and 4 strokes are more fuel efficient which we're very sensitive to.

Frankly, India's problem can only be fixed by population control. If Sanjay Gandhi hadn't been an idiot and forever poisoned the idea of population control, India would be much better off, especially if we can get the population to around 300M - 500M
These are great, well done.
Dare we suggest that air pollution (the old-fashioned kind) is more important than global warming?
Do you really need a super long battery life when you are sitting down and working?
https://sc4.us/hsm/
Let your teams plan for themselves
My style is continually evolving, especially as I get more familiar with TDD/BDD. The biggest thing though is to do as much planning as possible before even writing a single line of code.

For front end stuff this includes wireframes and mock-ups.

For back end work I try to first model the data structure with as many features as I can think of so that I can picture what a mature version of the app may look like. This helps contextualize things so I can structure them properly. From there I will prune it down to only what is essential for MVP and then start building things out to support that model.
Star Citizen – This War of Mine
Funnily, I assumed the ipad Pro was the target for such tools.
The UK is not going to get free market access without free movement of people - this has been stated repeatedly - so that outcome will upset a lot of leave voters.
No, almost all two wheeler sold in india are four stroke
meta dna might explain how some local portia are able to recognize egg sacks, and others are not?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130319091256.h...
import apollo_eleven

craft = apollo_eleven.apollo_eleven()

try:
craft.launch_mission(debug=False)
except:
print("Houston we have a problem")