skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For (2), you may want to look at a couple of module systems for R:

https://github.com/klmr/modules

https://github.com/wahani/modules

Neither is perfect, but I've found them helpful in my projects. They involve much less overhead than writing packages, especially when the modularization I'm trying to achieve is purely internal to my project and I don't intend to publish the code. At the same time, they provide much better encapsulation compared to `base::source`.
This is essentially https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12268737 without the complete URL.
This was submitted yesterday as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12264581
Keep in mind its at least 400k, it does not include money given to PAC's or given directly to the DNC to get her elected via the victory for Hillary fund[0], also her foundation takes many questionable donations[1]. Add to that favors, like donating to allies campaigns, speaking fees, board postions and revolving door type jobs for friends.

[0] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/23/460762853/how-hillary-clinton-...
[1] http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/08/another-day-an...
If you give me a few billion dollars, I will build you a nice portfolio of services, too. What Google lacks is a large portfolio of services that actually make money. From a money making point of view, Google has Adwords.
Microsoft has graned "free" subscriptions to proffessors and researchers before, so it can't hurt to ask :P
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/community/education/
Yeah primarily that, fills aren't instant, and there's basically nobody home
Arianna Huffington leaves Huffington Post after 11 years
I mean, it doesn't necessarily solve anything if you're using it for public facing apps, but if you're doing a hybrid solution with Azure you can buy unmetered ExpressRoute ports and at least avoid the metered bandwidth costs back to a datacenter.
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Thanks. I was glossing over the details. The point I was trying to emphasize is that the Azure instance gives you the whole K80 board (i.e. two GK210 processors), unlike the AWS G2 instance which effectively gives you a virtualized half of a K10 board (i.e. one GK104 processor)
How the World Bank’s biggest critic became its president
but provide telemetry data back to the coder.
The only way you're going to stop the evaporation in that climate is by moving the lake underground.

Another comment mentioned fixing the Colorado River - how about expanding that to include restoration of the entire natural river system throughout the Western US? In my mind, that's close to the economic scale of what would be required to keep this artificial sea in the desert from becoming a toxic brine pit.

For context -- total domestic production of salt in 2015 was 48M tons; there's ~128M tons of salt in a cubic mile of seawater; and
about 1.8 cubic miles of water in the Salton.
Of course it was drug money, It was seized.
I’ve built a few ESP8266[0] (so not Ardunio but same space) based sensors and have them distributed throughout a building so we can see how changes in one part affect the temperature and humidity in other parts.

They’re very cheap to build (we only use the project boards to prototype, final builds are on PCBs) and they can be run on small batteries when they’re just doing simple data collection.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266
Right. Maybe that's a bad example because that does represent the will of the churchgoing populous, though.

I can come up with a plausible explanation for that since it does seem to serve the will of a lot of people who also happen to be people that vote heavily -- especially considering the time period the law was made.

For banning municipal broadband, though? I can't think of any way that serves any significant bloc of people in the state.
> While Google may exist in many product areas, they need to find a new source of actual revenue.

I suspect the fact they make so much revenue from advertising has actually blown tepid at the efforts to seek revenue elsewhere (e.g. is Youtube even profitable? Google Docs?).
Some of the money certainly was, perhaps even most. It is, however a grave injustice when money that is totally legitimate gets seized from innocent people, and some of the people mentioned in the article had strong evidence for their money being from legitimate sources.

The fundamental problem is that the standard of proof required is much lower than in criminal law. The legislative remedy some states have started to use is to require a criminal charge to seize property and a criminal conviction for forfeiture.
New quantum computer module combines proven techniques with HW/SW advances
I've had my share trying to convince someone that a perpetual motion system they described did not conserve energy or momentum. They refused to believe my assertion that momentum and energy were conserved quantities.
Agree 100%. Paul provides incredible support and he's a real engineer. Teensy family are amazing little machines, and I've used them for many small side projects. The latest one was a custom fight stick.
Paul even provides support you if you want to make your own version of teensy, once you're out of the prototype phase.

Link: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
> And 3rd party. If there's ever a year where they gain traction, it's this year.

No, to all evidence, 1992 was a far stronger year for that; while things might change between now and November, for pretty much the entire election season then Perot alone was polling above the combined total (at the same point in the campaign) of all non-major-party candidates this year. (And, during the primary season, sometimes ahead of both of the major party frontrunners in head-to-head polls that year.)

In terms of the electoral votes, there's essentially no chance of a third party result this year more successful than 1836, 1892, or 1948, and little chance of either electoral or popular vote success of a third party candidate more than 1856 or 1924.
I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that a) racist and sexist abuse are a thing which b) in the US and other western countries white men experience rarely, by virtue of being neither women nor belonging to an ethnic minority group.

That doesn't mean that all white men are to blame for such abuse, and it's fallacious of you to claim the article is advocating that. It's also super important for us white dudes to consider that the volume of such abuse we see ourselves is much lower, because we are not targets of it. You gotta give weight to other people's reported experience, too.
Exactly what I was thinking. Not sure this article is making much sense. Google's cloud business alone is lightyears ahead of anything Yahoo! was ever capable of.
Sounds like Penna Dutch... Sag mal -> say now (would cha have any ring bologna?)
"We have detected you are using an active AdBlock on your web browser. Please disable it. Do not worry, we will not bother you with ads. However, some parts of our website may not work properly or stop working, if your Adblocker is enabled."

That's a first. And a huge put-off from continuing to view your site.. I closed it.
If you are setting up a company, one check to Google can be your IT department, and people already know the tools. That's a pretty good potential revenue stream.
No,the only thing which guarantees oss projects in the longterm are enthusiastic people who want to work on them, not some piece of paper.
I live in Chattanooga, home of EPB, which was one of the municipally owned ISPs that was hoping this case went the other way. The common argument we hear for the laws that restrict EPB from expanding is that it's "anti-competitive," since they aren't a private business.
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Yeah, I pretty much threw all my Arduino gear in the trash after I bought an ESP8266. I kept some Micros just for the analog pins, but I haven't had any use for them since.
And that's exactly right: the only way to get more people of working age to a region without increasing the world population is with migration.
> 'competition fixes everything' argument.

Not making this argument, just pointing out that it helps to surface information.

> Private firms generally have far less internal accountability as far as I can see

- Fannie and Freddie had been exempted from releasing public financial records for several years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

- Wikileaks revealed that information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was classified solely to help support the government's narrative about the success of the war effort and the lack of Iranian involvement, etc.

With those two examples alone, we see that significant corruption exists on a massive, world altering scale.

In terms of accountability, private firms have an obligation to shareholders to behave ethically and legally, and to behave in a responsible way with the capital provided by shareholders. Specific behavior (such as dumping pollution into public waterways) is dependent on laws and on the enforcement of those laws.

Why do we still see smoke stacks leaking disgusting filth into the environment? Why do we still see pipes carrying all sorts of waste into the oceans? Because the firms doing the polluting are friends of the lawmakers and help keep them in power. The lawmakers are certainly not the "good guys".

Also, notice that in US newspapers there is a steady stream of stories talking about how bad it is to live in other countries. People would leave to find better regulated, less corrupt places, so there is a pretty significant theme of "America is the best country on Earth", and for some reason Americans like reading about problems in other countries and ignoring our own problems.
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Don't forget about Google Apps, Vault, and Google Cloud. Google Apps for Business with Vault costs my employer over 18 million dollars a year and my department has a five figure monthly Google Cloud budget.
How does a mortgage drive your net worth down? Sure you owe a lot of money to the bank for a while, but you have the value of the property to cover for it. Or is it only for cases where the property value dives just after one bought it with a new - now over-estimated - mortgage? Usually banks perform their own evaluation of properties before issuing the mortgage.
on the front page already...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12267544
I'm pretty sure that, assuming you're a government employee, any work you create that would normally be covered by copyright as part of your job is public domain. There's no license legally possible.
Mostly because it has echoes of eugenics. I agree this would not only control growth but pause our use of natural resources and would allow people in poor countries to do better economically as resources would not have to be shared among a growing pop.

Alternatives to contraception, form a pop growth perspective are delayed reproduction (say at 35) or more same sex pairing.
I really don't see the point of the arduinos when you can buy an esp8266 that is arduino compatible (you can use the arduino IDE and sketches).

You can get the bare esp8266 chips for $1-$2 from aliexpress, or buy a tricked out one from adafruit (the huzzah) for $9. They have a full wifi stack, support micropython, etc.

I think we're in a post-arduino age for microcontrollers. There are simply better options out there, of which the esp8266 is just one of the current better choices.
What about comparing against spot market prices? Those AWS GPU instances are frequently $0.10 or $0.20 rather than $0.66. Not clearly a better deal anymore.
I just did a little dance at my desk.
If we actually work together and not argue about licences, then yes ... :)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/29/hillary-clinton-w...

Just a reminder, this is the presidential candidate in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM
The ESP8266 [0] is, in my mind, one of the most interesting things in the microcontroller world right now. It's cheap, small, easy to use, and connects to WiFi.

If you go into real computers, the C.H.I.P.[1] is quite an interesting device. It's $9, which is price competitive with the ATMega644 chip (in single quantities), has WiFi, Bluetooth, and runs Linux. It's also got lots of GPIO, like the Raspberry Pi, so it can be used in places where a microcontroller might normally be used.

I'm sure there are others, but these are the two that are on my radar at the moment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

[1] https://getchip.com/
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Good way to put it yeah.
The Particle Photon is pretty awesome: https://store.particle.io/

Program in JavaScript, from a web IDE even. Wireless uploads to the board. $19.
Open source software can capture a large usage surface by the myriads of contributions they can accept.

It would help fight the more general NIH syndrome, and maybe educate people towards having sound IS urbanization, architecture.

I'm currently battling with an organic data processing pipeline written in 5 languages operating on 4 databases. A proper ETL properly architectured would have saved money.

This week I had to insert yet another slice in a time sandwich. I dream of sound mutable/immutable separation, disk space, retry strategies, idempotence, and rematerialization.

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So, I'd be in favour for it.
Because they're much friendlier to get started for the novice, most of the widespread examples seem extremely trivial to someone with experience.

Now- I'm DEFINITELY not an expert, probably barely mediocre with the EE fundamentals, but I did take a lot of EE and some robotics at Uni to get my degree in Computer Engineering. I am nothing more than a hobbyist but some of my cooler projects have been:

- Autonomous 4WD robot

- Quadcopter

- A USB nerf gun that shoots at the developer who broke the Jenkins build

- Used an electronic photo frame as a display to show happy birthday tweets and Facebook posts to my wife from all the friends and family on her birthday

- WiFi/Proximity garage door opener (before they were cool)

- Garage freezer monitor (after an accidental unplug that spoiled a season's worth of salmon and elk)

- A vending machine that let you pay with your work badge from 'points' you earned (this involved a Raspbery Pi and a surface tablet as well, but the Arduino was what actually controlled the vending machine)

I've done a ton of random home automation IoT gizmos, mostly just for the fun of it, and a lot of robot builds for the boys. But the reason I use a lot of Arduino is that they are pretty friendly to use, there's a lot of help when I'm stuck, and I often don't need more. When I do, sometimes I just add another Arduino (or 4) and use serial or SPI communications between them. I've got some PIC chips for stuff, and some other random chips laying around, but I get more done quickly with the Arduino.

Now, if I ever got on to an idea I wanted to make more permanent I would look elsewhere, but for a hobby, everything else provides more friction and ramp up in the few hours a month I can free up to work on stuff.

EDIT: I'll add I've gotten some ESP8266 chips/breakouts that I've gotten more used to and I may start using them in a lot of places I've previously used Arduino + WiFi because the WiFi breakouts use a LOT of the available I/O and are usually the most expensive part of a build. I think I have 2 or 3 that I reuse.
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> Which GPUs they offer and how much, nobody knows.

They might not offer GPUs at all. It may be that Google is planning to build a cloud using their own proprietary "Tensor Processing Unit" chip designed for TensorFlow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit)
Dealing with PJRC, by contrast, has been basically frictionless :-)

Lovely fella too when I bumped into him at BAMF.
>Twitter is discriminatory against whites.

Citations please.
Here it is! https://medium.com/@gabrielgambetta/how-i-wrote-my-first-nov...
Just for reference:

K1 (AWS): 1 GPUs x 6 H.264 streams (max single stream 720p@30fps)

K2 (Azure K80): 1 GPUs x 6 H.264 streams max single stream 720p@30fps)

M6 (Don't know if it's used by anyone ;)): 1 GPU x 18 H.264 streams (max single stream 1080p@30fps)

M60 (Azure M60): 1 GPU x 18 H.264 streams (max single stream 1080p@30fps)

You can sacrifice encoder bandwidth (max streams) for higher resolutions or frame rates.
Oh, yeah, it took only a few moments to go up to the address bar and pop off "blog.", but it throws up a barrier to conversion. Doesn't matter much to me, honestly, but I had to be more than casually interested in looking at their offerings to make the effort.
Ok some cognitive dissonance here I see:

If someone told you Brazilian police were taking people's cash you wouldn't for one second think there was some non self serving aspect to this. You wouldn't even look to see if there was any law supporting it. You would just dismiss it as corrupt police officers in a corrupt system, just like you should be doing in this case.

Forgot for a moment that you recited that pledge every morning for 13 years of your life, and think about how someone not from America would perceive this
There should be a separate domain for buzzfeed's long form articles. I suppose I could make an anti-listicle filter but having it be explicit would be nicer.
Very good talk. I learned about practical side of running code in AWS Lambda (black) box with peeking inside to fix problems - I need to try lambda-shell. And I enjoyed the 2001 theme though too bad that animations do not work in SlideShare.
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Apples and Oranges. This is like the way bloggers used to compare facebook (the next AOL, like yahoo) with Google.

Google was founded based on a set of highly algorithmic methods for Search (part of today's AI), which is something that is extremely difficult to do correctly and even harder to duplicate (just ask Apple). Google never morphed into a 'content' site, like AOL. It was not founded based on easy-to-to duplicate code and content of others.

They've come a long a way in terms of real innovation and real technology in addition to revenue that is 10x greater than twitter, facebook, yahoo and others. Now add to this traffic reach, if you look at the top 10-20 sites on the net in terms of traffic, Google actually owns several of them including YouTube, Gmail etc. http://www.alexa.com/topsites Add to this an entire operating system that runs most of the worlds mobile devices. If you aggregate all their platforms and properties, it's orders of magnitude greater than any other.

There are deep technology companies and then there are not so deep technology companies that have limited lifespans.

Google probably has another 10 years before it begins to crumble within. Meanwhile and in a larger historical context, the new AOLs will come and go, repeating a cycle of duplicating one anothers content and so-called technology.
I messed around with several versions of these and will say they are all sorts of a pain in the ass to get going. The Python stack I was using on them kept crashing when I would put it into power saver mode.

Still, it's pretty cool you can buy one for like $2 and basically have a computer that runs Python with some minimal microcontroller functionality.
I like to hang out in IRC channels of things I'm just starting to learn for this reason. I can't answer much of anything in #clojure, for example, and I don't have much to ask. But I like to scroll up through the channel every few hours or even days to see what people are commonly asking about, or seeing if I can work out the solution to someone's question myself and compare my thoughts to the answers in the channel. It's a nice way to passively learn something. Like hanging out with a group of people who are always doing or talking about something.

Mailing lists tend to be nicer for slow or more niche topics. I've seen maybe 10 messages total in all my time idling in ##dsp, but there are several active and friendly mailing lists on the topic. It was surprising to see names of authors of books and research papers just casually responding to questions via email.
Ironically, and somewhat of a trend with these kinds of articles, the author is a white male.
It's a hairy issue. On one hand, municipalities are purely organs of the state governments. The states should be able to tell them what to do without interference from the federal government.

On the other hand, the whole point of the federal government is to preempt state action when it comes to interstate infrastructure like the Internet and the wires that carry it.
I've run 6 of those GPU instances for $0.60ish/hr.

Pricing does go up near computer vision conference deadlines though. Many research labs are too poor to buy our own hardware. :-)
Yahoo went from a $125 billion valuation in 2000

2000 was the height of the dot-com bubble, so comparing it to 2016's Google (with strong revenues and earnings) doesn't seem that apt.
I was being charitable, as both are Turing-complete computing devices of similar physical size.
Not at the point where you have one worker for two retirees. "Ultimately" you're talking about might never be reached as every government in the world scrambles to cover its own ass by any means necessary.
Vulnerability in the Linux kernel's tcp stack implementation
Classification of the natural world into separate bins is almost invariably a "leaky abstraction" anyways. A lot of problems just solve themselves once you remember that. That's why I don't find questions like "Is Pluto a planet?" or "When does a fetus become a person?" interesting.
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They're definitely trying here, but from my understanding, Google Cloud Platform is a distant third to Amazon and Microsoft's clouds, and the revenue total barely is worth mention in Google's earnings calls.
Would it be possible to add Egypt to the list? :)
Slides from a presentation I gave about WebAssembly at StuttgartJS (August 10th, 2016) are available here: https://marianoguerra.github.io/ricardo-forth/resources/slid...
True, however that's AVRs and not Adruino. You very quickly get out of arduino-land when you have any constraints like battery life or performance. By far the vast majority of people contemplating either Arduino or RPi will never know enough to be able to tune things like that.

Heck the last time I looked into doing sleeping on an AVR-based Arduino it basically said go look at the 328's manual to set the registers directly. (Although that was a long time ago.)
Ahh breitbart. The only honest, independent, impartial, and non-sellout media remaining. Everyone else is MSM-shill. /s
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Low frequency sounds are more difficult to localize than high frequency sounds, for a variety of reasons. I would be surprised, though, if a widely-spread grid of detectors wouldn't be able to find it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization#Evaluation_...
It's really not that unusual for resellers to be given geographical territories within which they can/can't sell. Try looking up your favorite electronics on Amazon.com and see if they will ship to Europe - most times the page will say 'for US delivery only'.

It is a shame that the Arduino guys split up but I would argue the situation would be even more of a mess if both new companies were able to sell into the same territories with the same name + similar product.
A better argument would be to simply publish a chart of company lifetimes. It's rare to live forever.
AWS still doesn't support IPv6. Good to see them talking about HTTP/2.

Waiting for AWS to embrace IPv6.