skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is clearly not feasible. Just think about it:

Right now, air quality index in central San Francisco is 15 [0]. That's "good". In central Los Angeles, it is 84, a "moderate" day [1]. Those figures are on linear scale [2].

The cities are about on an equal distance from China, and the figure for San Francisco is 18 % of that in LA.

If 20 % of Los Angeles pollution would be from China, then 110 % of San Francisco air pollution would be from China. Hey, it could only be 100 %. You took a bait.

Advice: don't believe everything in Guardian.

[0] https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&zi...

[1] https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&ci...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quality_index#Computing_th...
If there is a right to be forgotten, perhaps there is a right to deny authorship as well?
Huh, when I type out https://www.automicrofarm.com/ , I get redirected to https://automicrofarm.com/ with no warning, on Chrome. What browser are you using?

I thought about replacing the top photo with this one: http://65.media.tumblr.com/4275c7edda5220da60f629d6f7ee5824/... , but it's not immediately clear to people what they're looking at. Maybe I'll just move up the pics on the page?

I am just focusing on the US for now.

Thanks for your suggestions!
If you're interested, please swipe to the right...
I think you made a rather basic maths error, it's 375k per employee.

Firefox still gets an enormous amount of development effort. I think people don't notice because Chrome likely just gets an order of magnitude more.

Xiph is independent but I believe Mozilla employs all the core developers. They're currently working on doing for video codecs what Opus did for audio.
AFAIK LibreOffice is written in C++, not Java.
"stranger" implies "more strange than the mean" while "strangest" would be further out on the extreme.
They built a life-size Noah's Ark
Would love to chat with him!
A less important aside: what license is this available under? Or what's the history behind this source release?

Edit: .s files indicate:

# Copyright:	Public domain.
That does indeed look like what I was thinking of. Shame it appears to be proprietary and windows only.

Have you used this for anything?
From TFA, the plaintiffs are seeking $5 million in damages, plus the painting's authenticity confirmed.
(Brit who is now a Australian permanent resident through tech employee sponsorship and has lived in both Melbourne and Sydney.)

I think your main concern is what kind of visa do you expect to be on?

I have never heard of anyone getting sponsored by a company as a contractor. If you are under 31 and can get a working holiday visa for 1 year, then this could be a good route. You can extend the WHV to 2 years years by doing 3 months of work on a farm in rural Australia.

The points system can take a long time to get through, up to 18 months, and often they will only grant you a visa for specific states, rather than the state of your choice.

If you see your future in Australia, then you might be better off getting sponsored by a company on a 457 visa (mine took 5 months for approval but apparently this is long), then staying with that company for 2+ years and switching to Permanent Residency through Employee Nomination (ENS).
it is one of a group so it gets -er because it is not the singular strangest
I made a pretty nice Android app to manage your email & text notifications. Check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.org.imsono...

Let me know if you have any questions. Been working great for me for 4+ years.
The amount of contortions you need to do with your "adult" language arguably negates a lot of advantages of using it. Just because you don't have pointers doesn't mean that all bugs are now eliminated.

Take Android for instance, getting solid performance out of the JVM there is a huge bear because the language is just not suited to low latency operations. I won't claim that C is a perfect language but I hate it when I see people throwing around that you're committing some sin for each line of C code you write.

If you want cache friendly operations and predictable performance you're not going to find it in any JVM or language that has a GC.
I am not aware of a good obvious default answer. And even when there is a reasonable one (ie xmpp for text chat) it doesn't appear that the open flavor has won in the market place.
Correctness can be very difficult in Assembler, Fortran, and C; and consider the complexity of the systems they're implementing. Though a lot of it probably has to do with hiring.

They could probably do a lot better with, say, OCaml or Rust. Jane Street uses OCaml for, presumably, this reason.
>it doesn't look like average suburbia in the US

I wonder if people would mind contributing examples of what they see as "average suburbia in the US". Here's a couple of examples to get us started.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walla+Walla,+WA+99362/@46....

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.4113052,-105.8455333,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.810146,-100.7572514,3a,75y,1...

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6438991,-116.4085499,3a,75y,...
Oxford Parkway railway station (https://goo.gl/maps/UKa1rz18pN92) has opened in the past 6 months which is practically in Kidlington and the stop before the mentioned Bicester Village retail park as you travel from London Marylebone. I suspect the tourists are thinking they can squeeze a little Oxford visit on their way back to London, not realising that the dreaming spires of Oxford city centre are a fair old way away from Oxford Parkway station.
Astronomers find evidence for ‘direct collapse’ black hole
What happens if you hold an anti-gentrification protest on the streets of Munich without having obtained a formal permit in advance?

Yes, the use of riot police is exaggerated in Berlin, but comparing it to a "failed state" seems rather absurd. Damascus or Baghdad are doing a whole lot worse.

That reminds me of how I'd see people on the subway platform shaking their heads sadly and complaining that "Berlin is such a disaster; public transportation in Berlin has fallen to third world levels" when a train was (rarely) 1 minute late.
(I think?) I agree, but this post didn't make me want to learn more about stats.

This might be because for me it feels like 20% knowledge will work for 80% of situations. Maybe it's a fundamental disconnect; am I going to mess around R when Python works and is more general purpose (but to be fair, there's loads of brilliant Python stats code out there).

At least the standard deviation tip makes sense to me. Yay?

Edit: Man, tried to read up on some stuff and stats is hard. I'm definitely going to go easy on the performance guys in future. Any more tips for getting better at this kind of analysis?
Not sure if this is exposing an absurdity in the law, or in the art trade. Maybe both. All of this stinks of a publicity stunt to inflate the painting's value either way.
Gaffer on Games, OpenTNL are good places to look.
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Bluetooth headphones support 2 or 3 simultaneously paired devices. If you use more than that you'll be frequently re-pairing.
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>It's pretty clear that it was painted by someone called Peter Doige, who has nothing to do with Peter Doig.

I noticed the extra "e" on the painting too. Either that is common for Peter to sign, he changed his name to drop the "e", or he forgot how to spell his own name when he was 17. Or someone forged his name as a signature onto the painting but didn't know how to spell "Doig" and didn't bother to look it up hoping they could pass the painting off for millions of dollars.
>Unless of course the original price they paid for the painting was millions of dollars.

The retired corrections officer, Robert Fletcher, 62, said he bought the painting for $100 from a man named Pete Doige (spelled with an e), whom he met in 1975 in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

But that's beside the point. If it's worth $Xm, it can be used as collateral for a loan. And it's probably also insured for a certain amount.
Tortious interference I would guess. Plaintiff wants to sell a "Doig painting", but defendant is preventing the sale by making a "false claim". So basically he'd owe damages for the lost sale proceeds.
I am not a compiler/JIT expert by any stretch, but I have never heard of a strong technical reason why python could not be as fast as JS on V8 or compiled code produced by LISP compilers. But there are strong factors against it:

* the reference implementation is maintained by a team of contributors, very few people are paid full time to work on cpython. State of the art JIT is hard to come by when you can only afford working a few hours / week.

* contrary to JS, python had a huge set of packages available for a very long time, making "minor" language breaks unworkable.

* also contrary to JS, python had from the start a strong story to interoperate w/ the C ABI, which tightened a large subset of python libraries with the details of cpython implementation. Because of its "niche", JS never really had that problem. If you remove libraries w/ large C extensions, you remove a lot of what make python popular today (e.g. scientific usage is now the 2nd largest area of application of python after web development, before automation, testing, etc... which used to be where python shined).
In what percentage of 1-hour meetings do you eliminate the company within the first 20 minutes?

As a CEO, I've eliminated at least 25% investors in that time period. Given that most meetings start with the company pitch, my guess is 20 minutes would be enough to winnow down the list of hour meetings.
If you like, you can mentally replace "stranger" with "stranger than average".
Just talked to someone who also says raccoons will be a problem. I guess the best solution would be to have a lid/cover for your fish tank.
I'll do some more research on this thanks.
GUI is slow primarily because of naive uploading of six video frames sixty times per second. Not a detail that mattered for this initial work. It should take almost no time with a smarter implementation.
very good talk by Daniel J Bernstein on PQC Hacks at the last 32C3 (certainly separating reality/fiction and one of the best talks I have seen on the subject):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XeBvdm8vao
Thats a great way to look at it! Though lets be honest you wont be waking up from this sleep.
That's true, even outside of the enterprise (J2EE) world, there were some fairly decent (for the time) and mature frameworks like Apache Struts and Apache Tapestry. You even frontend frameworks like Dojo Toolkit available then.
Huh, interesting. In Virginia we have problems with resident Canada geese. They eat everything, shit on everything, and taste terrible.

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/problems/canada-geese/
You could have said it was easier to mine the video for technicalities to exploit, or edit the video, making your friend look like the victim and posting it on youtube, or you could go around harassing police officers, then playing the victim while recording it.

But you went with having a picture of the officer so your angry mob knows who to go after with their torches and pitchforks.
All of the brickwork in your first link reminds me of Detroit:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Detroit,+MI,+USA/@42.428...
The thing you just quoted supports my position, not yours.
Might be unpopular opinion, but I kinda like to look how people introduce will-be-a-problem-in-the-future things (let's say GC) and than heroically are solving following problems (pause-less GC), it's like Don Quixotes of modern age, except you build windmills yourself.
> It's close to impossible to get certain kinds of code correct in C, for instance, string parsing.

Complete hyperbole. Nothing stops you from using a safe string library in C.

> Also until pretty recently, C and C++ did not have a sane memory model

Technically true, but in practice it was rarely relevant.
> The person who bought the painting is not losing millions of dollars, only failing to gain them. By the time the case is over, they'll probably be in the negative. Pure sunk cost fallacy

This is an example of the endowment effect (fear of losing value that one perceives to already have), not sunk cost. Sunk cost would be if they continue the trial based on the amount of money they have already spent in fees, as opposed to the money they believe they can recoup later.

(Even that isn't necessarily sunk cost, because legal fees can be covered by the losing party in egregious cases, though that's unlikely here).
Unfortunately "machines" (AI software, really) are really bad at nuance, subtle or blatant.

The number of papers in the field is a very good example of why: until you've read (enough of) them you have no idea what the state of the field is.

Edit: By this I mean that your assessment about the 3-5 years to "subtle nuance" is extremely, unrealistically optimistic. We're nowhere near AI understanding language. Try 300 to 500 years and you might be closer.
What's interesting is that this is the most up voted comment. If this volume of negativity was directed at a SV tech sector it would be downvote city. Heck, even mentioning "SJW" should have greyed out this post. From a biologist, congrats for beating the system!
Why is sharing the rating with students so critical? I can see why people would be curious, but I'm not sure why it matters so much?
The issue w/ MSVC is not that specific to CPython. It is generally quite hard to write libraries which use multiple C runtimes (Windows or not -- it just happens to be much more common on Windows than on Unix). I would be actually very surprised if that problem did not exist with any other language that distribute binaries.

Note that the problem you mentioned w/ python 2.7 is gone: MS has made a .msi available free of charge to build C extensions for 2.7, indefinitely (thanks to Steve Dower): https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=442...
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Yahoo search is a thin layer on top of Bing these days. Yahoo only ran it's own search (crawling etc) about 2003-2009, all other years it was outsourced (to Inktomi, Overture, Google, Bing)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yahoo-Sells-Search-Business-t... (2009)
The EMTALA was a policy decision we made through our representatives (it doesn't have anything to do with the Hippocratic Oath).

For the same reasons the EMTALA passed, we should be killing sit/lie bills - and hostile designs like this - whenever we see them. Park benches are about the absolute lowest form of safety net you can imagine for a night's sleep, just as ER treatment without asking questions is for health. It's so far below the bare minimum that it would be repugnant to deny it.
Anatomy of MatPlotLib is informative and clear. But, alas, not the oop tutorial you're looking for. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MKucn8NtVeI&autoplay=1
[Edit: appears this isn't so]

There can be only one "strangest" case, while there are many "stranger" cases. Because of this, saying "one of the strangest cases" is grammaticly nonsensical, even though it's in common enough usage.
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I was looking for an explanation of why the lines of a Feynman diagram are called virtual particles when they are really particles in the unperterbed (or free) model. So why do you think of this as creation of a particle for a short amount of time?
Are any of these algorithms suited for PGP signing replacements?

I'm interested in being able to make long term claims based on web-of-trust models, and I've been nervous about basing it around RSA/DSA key pairs.

In that sort of world, what do the keys actually look like? Is it comparable to being able to distribute a single public root key?
I'm not afraid of death, although I hope mine is delayed a long time for the sake of my family. I am, however, afraid of dying, which is often a long and painful process.
Peter Doig is being sued, the person making the claim says that the painting was painted by a Peter Doige. Note the "e".
>> Even modern methods today (deep recurrent networks, etc.) can do pretty well with these kinds of tasks (a very large ontology for instance) if you have enough annotations of the nuance!

Where do you get that from? NLP, with neural networks or not, stays as safely away from meaning as is humanely possible while working in an area very closely connected to it.

Also, ontologies? Very few people are interested in that nowadays, though that includes the team that made Watson. The push is instead to do away with all that and rely on statistical approximation.
Fair enough, but it is a bad signal that they aren't being completely forthright. Thanks for the info.
No it doesn't: https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt

// START_DEFINITION
/*
These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic
Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by
extremists on extremist forums.
*/

$TAILS_terms=word('tails' or 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System') and word('linux'
or ' USB ' or ' CD ' or 'secure desktop' or ' IRC ' or 'truecrypt' or ' tor ');
$TAILS_websites=('tails.boum.org/') or ('linuxjournal.com/content/linux*');

Note the "and" correlating searches involving USB or CD or linux journal with 'tails' and the comment. There is no evidence there that the NSA considers all Tor users, all Tails Linux users or all Linux Journal readers to be extremists. Rather, it appears they consider Tails Linux to be a tool used by extremists and advocated on extremist forums. And they're not wrong about that.
What? I'm a little confused about what you think Native American areas are like and why?
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> there are inevitable race conditions

I've found https://calendly.com/ super useful for eliminating race conditions in scheduling, especially across time zones.
NB. Is how you indicate a comment in J.
> I can't go out and buy stock and sue the company if it doesn't give me a 250,000:1 return on investment

But if you buy stock which explodes in value - even if you didn't expect its value to go up - you'd expect to be able to sell it at the market value as genuine stock, no?
How hard is it to exempt people from child porn laws when the photos are selfies? I guess we're not really there yet as a culture, but someday a teenage student in a situation like this is going to fight the charges with an organization like the ACLU or FIRE behind them and we'll get these insane laws overturned.
No, the person making the claim says that the painting was painted by Peter Doig, who, that person claims, was known as Peter Doige at the time.

(The fact that there are records of an actual Peter Doige, who is now deceased, who has life events that fit the narrative of the person from whom the painting was bought, while there doesn't seem to be substantial evidence connecting Peter Doig to those events, or to ever having used the name Peter Doige, seems likely to a be problem for the plaintiff at trial, however.)
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> extract payment under this threat.

Well that would be simple blackmail.
It was still the time of zope. Mixed feelings.
ok how would you handle information? I mean like work, entertainment, etc
It was nytimes. Sorry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/world/asia/china-also-expo...

https://pnas.altmetric.com/details/2061087#score

Link to the paper. Abstract:

tmospheric modeling shows that transport of the export-related Chinese pollution contributed 3-10% of annual mean surface sulfate concentrations and 0.5-1.5% of ozone over the western United States in 2006. This Chinese pollution also resulted in one extra day or more of noncompliance with the US ozone standard in 2006 over the Los Angeles area and many regions in the eastern United States. On a daily basis, the export-related Chinese pollution contributed, at a maximum, 12-24% of sulfate concentrations over the western United States. As the United States outsourced manufacturing to China, sulfate pollution in 2006 increased in the western United States but decreased in the eastern United States, reflecting the competing effect between enhanced transport of Chinese pollution and reduced US emissions. Our findings are relevant to international efforts to reduce transboundary air pollution.
> content being stolen

It's duplication, not transfer, so "sharing" is a more appropriate word than "stealing".

> I'm sure it's in the contract of every streaming service that they have to protect the licensed content to the best of their ability.

I've also read many EULAs which contain onerous terms; contracts don't need to be agreed to, and negotiations are a two way street. We need more of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2843069.stm and less of https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/14/bbc-hd-dr...

> need to license content to survive

> Considering almost half of all bandwidth (in the US at least) is used for streaming, I'd say it's pretty important to have a well-defined solution to enable streaming companies to do what they need to do.

Streaming companies don't "need" to do anything. If they truly "need" DRM to exist, then they should shoulder that burden themselves rather than coercing others into doing the work for them; especially organisations and structures governing the Web, which was created specifically to disseminate human knowledge.

If that's too much of a burden for media companies to handle, then they should bow to market forces and close down. Humanity has survived perfectly well for millenia without them. Perhaps that will help divert some of the entertainment industry's billions towards causes of some actual importance.
Do you really think her plan all along was to steal from Yahoo? She was already incredibly rich, and no amount of pilfering was going to get her onto the billionaire list.

Quite opposite, in fact. The only way for her to get to the billionaire club would be if Yahoo was a wildly successfully turnaround. She clearly wanted to be Big Boss pretty bad, though.
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I think she is what Game of Thrones would call a "summer child". Her entire career prior to Yahoo had been spent at a company where a) they had only experienced an upward trajectory, and b) she was never exposed to the real business side of things (as you pointed out).

Basically, she negotiated every deal, acquisition, etc. as if the absolute best case was a certainty, because that was the limit of her experience. Now she knows that cargo-culting free food and fancy parties does not a successful business make.
"One of the strangest cases" is perfectly grammatical. There is only one "strangest case", but the "strangest cases" can refer to any set such that every case it contains is stranger than every case it does not contain.
How can there be a punishment for not having perfect memory and remembering everything you ever created? That does not make sense to me, you'd have to prove that he actually knew that he created it and is intentionally lying to warrant any compensation for lost value, which sounds hard to me.
I'm confused by your comment. The article mentions an entirely different person (now deceased) with that name (Peter Doige) and his sister has supported the whereabouts (high school, prison, etc). Are you suggesting that the painting is (a) authentic Peter Doig, but he is lying about it, or (b) that it is a bad forgery?
It's not grammatical nonsense. There can be a number of "strangest cases", either because they're all equally strange, or because you're referring to, say, "the top 10 strangest cases" and simply omitted the number. In common usage, saying "this is one of the strangest cases" generally means that if you were to rank all cases by strangeness, and then pick some arbitrary small number of cases that rank at the top, this case would be a member of that group, and it implies that the speaker has not in fact ranked cases like this but merely believes that this is likely to be true, hence the imprecise language.