skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds great in theory. In practice it doesn't seem nearly as carefully implemented, and/or XML is used where it's actually not needed.

XML is designed to be a markup language. The fact that it has all of these other things bolted on doesn't actually make it a good generic data interchange format.

For things like RDF, maybe it's the best option we have, but that's not because XML is great, it's because XML was used in the only standardized option.

Looking at an example of xml:lang:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<doc xml:lang="en">
<list title="Titre en français" xml:lang="fr">
<p>Texte en français.</p>
<p xml:lang="fr-ca">Texte en québécquois.</p>
<p xml:lang="en">Second text in English.</p>
</list>
<p>Text in English.</p>
</doc>

...this is a nightmare. If I want to translate a document, the last thing I want to do is embed each translation inline like that. Almost certainly the best response is to "fork" the document at the highest level and include separate language versions of the document; otherwise, if you have 20 translations of the document, you need 20x the text in the document than any one reader will need.

Yes, XML gives you that particular hammer. But using XML results in a lot of sore thumbs.

Schema validation is nice to be sure. I'm using JSON Schema Validation myself [1] to verify incoming JSON, and I'm automatically generating those schemas from the TypeScript data structure specifications [2]. This is particularly good for a JavaScript language target, of course, but I find XML and XPath to be ugly or painfully slow in every language I've used it from, while JSON just has a better impedance match to data storage and interchange.

[1] http://json-schema.org/

[2] https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema
Let's look at how to bring Linux X11 apps to the Mac desktop with Docker. Run and test multiple versions of apps. Secure your surfing through isolation.
...in a single U.S. city (Pittsburgh).

This write-up is more about the (lack of) reporting on the research. Here is the actual relevant WaPo article that is referenced: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/27/new-e...
And I think the best Logo implementation was on the TI 99/4A. It is called "TI Logo" and includes sprites. Full manual here: ftp://club100.org/programming/LOGO/TI%20LOGO%20(phm3109).pdf
That's a very good point. Type information certainly help reading. That might explain why Lisp is easy to write but hard to read. I did find myself having to go into a function's code to figure out what it does and what the parameters are. Hard to read code make sharing difficult and hinder widespread language adoption.
At least they didn't watch anything embarassing. My Youtube recommendations page is a dumpster fire.
I want micropayments for web content to happen. I much prefer that future to the advertising-supported present.

Getting there has a massive chicken-and-egg problem, of course, as you need a viable mass of both users and sites for it to get traction, and you can't get one without the other.

Requiring a new browser (vs. an extension to a normal browser) takes your "viable mass of users" problem and makes it about ten times harder.

You are brave, Brave.
I highly doubt that is automatically linking videos. Click the Sega one, it's linked to a specific spot in the video.
As Therac-25 will perpetually tell, when you code your software, best do it well.
Does Solar City have plans to go beyond the leasing model?
L.A. isn’t a suburb. We need to stop planning it like one
He means the cars. When you buy a Tesla the first thing they do is send you marketing materials to get a Solar City install to charge your car at home, as they are an "approved vendor".

So a lot of people with the cars have Solar City installs on their roof.
Been waiting a long time for this to go live. Congratulations, Final team!
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While MySQL isn't the best db, and does have many flaws, it's asinine to say that other solutions are wholly better. Everything has a set of limitations, so just because something like Postgres doesn't have this specific limitation doesn't mean it doesn't have others. It also may be more worth it to work around the limitations of MySQL than to migrate all data to another database.
So what's Bitcoin have to do with it? Seems like that's a gimmick. Just provide a normal refillable/subscription account, then pay out the websites. Isn't that what Flattr or some such company already does? Onboarding customers with Bitcoin is a sure way to avoid making money. You could pay out on the backend with BTC but that's a minor detail.

With current Bitcoin you can't even do micropayments. So they're almost certainly looking at doing some grouping and batch pay system anyways.
If only it weren't illegal for the CDC to look into this and learn more about how this happens...
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People are actually doing this right now due to terrible power distribution networks.

If you work out power needs, you can do AC with rooftop solar up to ~5 story buildings. Building past that point need real infrastructure. But, getting water and sewage is much harder to get working in a city that size than power.

A larger issue is solar has a relatively large upfront cost which is prohibitive in poor areas and ripe for theft.

The low end for AC is probably a 1kW system which can keep ~1,000+sf reasonably cool and runs some lights for well under 3,000$* in materials and the solar should last around 15-25 years. Costs will go up if you have a lot of people or equipment in that space, excess humidity, or want large temperature changes but this is just a baseline. Wiring up for more apartments is fairly simple, but your going to run out of roof for tall buildings.

*Costs without battery storage or grid tie in are far lower.

PS: Most people would want more than just AC and very low power lights. But, costs actually drop per watt as you scale, and installation does not take much in the way of training.
The replaced ads are bought through brave so users don't pay for that. I believe that is the default (would have to check to be sure) Either way most users probably won't really have any balance at all
How is this different than the $650 (list) Boox Max which has been shipping for a year?
The more modern implementation of this (I'm looking at you, T-Mobile) is just to throttle all connections to content providers. They rely on the content providers' own adaptive streaming technology to deliver the appropriate 480p video when presented with a constrained connection.
Thanks! :)

To me it seems not entirely implausible that both the OPs main conclusions can be derived from Culshaw's 1959 paper:

1. "First of all, the radius of the wires matters. As r→0, the shielding goes away. This, we now realize, must be why your microwave oven door has so much metal in it, and is not just a sheet of glass with a thin wire grid."

This conclusion could possibly be derivable from Eq 26 in Culshaw's paper. There's a clear dependence on r there. It's not completely obvious (to me) though, as it seems Culshaw is studying a more general case with a 3D structure of rods/wires.

2. "Secondly, the shielding is linear in the gap size, not exponential."

This conclusion too could possibly be derivable from Eq 26; there's a linear dependence on a there. But for the same reasons as above it's not entirely obvious (to me).

Seems to me that Trefethen should at the very least read Culshaw's paper though, if he hasn't already. :P

Can anyone with some electrical field theory knowledge/experience make a better comparison? :)
On the desktop side, IE9, the last version on Vista, which is in extended support until April 11, 2017, only supports up to TLS 1.0.
Except that Musk currently only has two...

Batista had one EBX Group and the ones mentioned were subsidiaries.

...both are doing quite well and delivering on their promises

They are not profitable, which means they are not doing well.

...he's landing rockets on ships and selling tens of thousands of enormously expensive cars per year.

Batista's companies were drilling for oil, doing construction, shipping and many other things.
Seriously, who cares? POST /deleteThing. Done.
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It's the opposite. Any decent programmer can make a nicely architectured MVP. It is maintaining the code, refactoring it and implementing new feature requests not envisioned by the original programmers that takes real skill.

Stupid analogy time: Building a shiny, new house; easy. Retrofitting a 300 year old house with 1000gb ethernet wiring everywhere, while keeping the original character of the house and with minimal disruption to its inhabitants; HARD.
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Not automatically included :) I came across the Sega Saturn video a couple weeks ago from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074096
What I find even more ridiculous is the whole "volunteer at the games" thing. Working for free at a multi-billion dollar event while corrupt politicians and cronies fill their own pockets is baffling.
Downvoted because: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+kagi
I dont care about brokenness - allowing arbitrary sites to run javascript / store cookies has begun to feel like running windows without a password in the 90s. When things break, I now stop using the website. In rare cases I add it to a whitelist.
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UK bank to replace passwords with voice recognition
As a counter-point to the idea that private equity buyouts harm consumers, here is a recent paper documenting the impact of PE transactions in the restaurant industry. [0]

Key bits from the abstract:

"Analysis of health
inspections conducted for over 50,000 stores in Florida shows that food
safety and sanitation improve after private equity takeover, especially in areas
related to food handling, kitchen maintenance and consumer advising."

"Restaurants also
reduce employee headcount and lower menu prices. This evidence suggests
private equity firms are not simply financial engineers but rather active
operators that improve management practices in the firm. Moreover,
efficiency gains do not come at the expense of product quality."

Unfortunately this does not address the main thrust of the New York Times piece, which focused more on natural monopoly sectors such as water, public transit, and emergency response. It does make intuitive sense that private firms would have less of an incentive to improve operations when buying a monopolistic entity that comes with significant pricing power already baked in. Hopefully good research on these is out there or in the pipeline, as it seems like an in-demand and under-served area of academic inquiry.

Disclosure: I worked briefly as an undergrad for one of the paper's authors, on a distinct but similar project.

0: http://people.hbs.edu/asheen/BernsteinSheen_Restaurants_June...
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Cabs in Shenzhen all have little dashboard printers for the "fapiao." They aren't official and look like a cheap receipt from a corner store. I doubt it is a regulation thing.
but that's nothing to do with what goes into the IOC president's expense account

It does actually, unfortunately: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/11/tokyo-olympic-...
How are you spending your commute? Are you driving? Or taking a train? If you aren't driving, perhaps you can use that 15 hours a week to read, learn a new skill. Then when you are burned out from work and play video games you won't beat yourself up about it.

Also, count the video games as stress relief. We all need that.
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-- Who are we looking for --

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> For members of Team USA — many of whom live meagerly off the largesse of friends and family, charity, and public assistance

This is not true in Canada, although it's a bit of a secret. I wonder if the reporter is ignorant about the situation in the USA as well.

Olympics hopefuls in Canada get generous stipends from the Federal Government to train all year. The amount they get is $25,000 to $50,000 (Canadian) per year depending on various factors such as their location. It's also apparently tax free; keep that in mind when comparing it to average incomes.

Hundreds (perhaps thousands) of "hopefuls" get these grants in Canada. Only a fraction of them get into the Olympics. It's a semi-secret use of tax payer money (and unnecessary and unfair in my opinion). Not a single person who've I mentioned this to was aware of it!

Source: I know two such hopefuls who got this money. (They didn't get into the Olympics.)
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-- What do we do --
We provide lead generation in the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Some of the technologies we are using include Go, Angular2, Docker and Google Cloud.
-- Who are we looking for --
Smart commited people who are always looking to increase there own and team's knowledge. There are openings available in several areas of expertise:
* Front-end http://www.groeienbijyonego.nl/senior-front-end-developer/nl
* Back-end http://www.groeienbijyonego.nl/go-developer/nl http://www.groeienbijyonego.nl/senior-php-developer/nl
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zlatan_is_red 30 days ago [-]

Uber is a really nice place to build a product with a great sense of ownership. You'll be working with a highly motivated peer group, on some of the hardest problems in the real world. As an engineer, it's a very rewarding experience in scaling your implementation to serve the magical trip to millions of users every day.
Disclaimer: I work in the team.
Namely - Software Engineer – Tools
Game of Thrones can teach you valuable security lessons
Converting spoken language to visible sound waves to aid deaf
When watching TV, I sometimes enable subtitles for hearing impaired (not because i suffer from any hearing loss, but sometimes i like reading better than hearing).

When this happens to be a live broadcast, subtitles are often not available, or have a (understandable) noticeable lag when they are being produced on the fly. Not a problem for me, i can simply turn on the volume.

I've been thinking, though, how helpful it would be if there was a live, visible representation of the audio. A simple visible sound wave is probably way too simplistic to make out words and phrases, but if it were possible to more distinctly visualize sounds, my idea is that it might be possible to learn to read this visual output, and thereby being able to follow more directly whatever is spoken.

Does something like that exist?
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Thanks everybody for answers!

From what I gather from all these replies people's main concern is that FreeBSD is generally harder to use/configure and management is hard to persuade into supporting it because it would make DevOps less productive.

From the standpoint of a person who run FreeBSD in production on both bare metal and VM's and manages several commercial applications and websites, I must say that plenty (if not all) of these phobias are unjustified. Yes, there are some edge cases but 95% of the time, there's nothing new to learn you already don't know, except new package manager commands and slightly different file system layout.

Not using awesome technologies like ZFS, Boot Environments, Jails, Qjail, Poudriere and awesome PF is just a plain missing out in my opinion.

I personally don't care about desktop, there are already 2 awesome OS's that majority of people use for a reason and that's pretty much enough I think.

I personally heard nothing but praises from people who are long term Linux users/admins who tried it.

Once people figured out couple of OS specifics its all breeze :)
I see your point.

However, I've been doing this for a year now and, so far as I can tell, there hasn't been a significant uptick in comments in these threads. It tends to fluctuate between 700 and 1,000 depending on the month (more in northern hemisphere summer, less in winter).

I'd also add that I spend a bunch of my personal time answering questions, following up and so on. It can sometimes be fun and sometimes it isn't fun at all.

The referral link is new since last month and is exactly equivalent to any other direct application in getting "close to the person actually offering the position". They both go directly to the staff recruiter responsible for handling that job.

For those folk who don't want me to get a referral bonus, for any reason, you can visit https://pivotal.io/careers and go through the same system.