skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's something that I think has not been done, but could be quite lucrative, building a high resolution scanner using the phone camera, multiple pictures and interpolation/noise removal.

Most phone cameras these days have good resolutions, and you could technically take a 6x4 photo, divvy it to 3x3 grid and take close up photos, and have smart algorithms interpolate the pixels to form a single image with high res. I'd even bet you'd results equal to or better than a flat bed scanner.

For better us, just open the camera preview and slowly pan over the image.

Has someone tried something like this? With FOSS apps like mosaic, hdr tools and imagemagick, it should be possible. I'm guessing opencv would be needed for interpolation and noise removal..
If I were a trucker I would look for a career change...
5 channels? those are some whooping-ass channels.
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Thanks, I think. I really need to brush up on my understanding of chemistry.
I absolutely would not rule out that this can open new research on for example homeopathy and acupuncture.
Right, it goes away for a second or so at the turn. But the pattern is pretty accurate, because at a minimum they have the splits.
Krebbs contacted Eddie Bauer last month on the 5th, for a breach which they are now reporting continued through the 17th. So their threat monitoring system consists of waiting to be questioned by the press about an ongoing attack?!

Krebbs plea for better reporting of the IOCs is a bit amusing, because with 100% of stores compromised for half a year, the missed IOCs were probably highly embarrassing.
A comparable PowerShell cmdlet would give you one object per line with properties corresponding to the columns. And no, those properties usually have sensible names, instead of "LastColumn".

Of course, for wrapping the native command you'd still have to do text parsing if you want objects. This was more as a comparison of the different worlds here not so much as "if I ran readelf in PowerShell it would get magically different output".
Consider mentioning Dan Bloomberg as the author of the original work as well as Leptonica. :)
Increase the limit to something useful. Using your example of a contacts database, being limited to 100 records means I can't use your service to run my app for more than a month. Plus, as a side project it'd take me longer than that just to get it working.
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Don't know a specific list, but you may want to take a look at Cluj-Napoca. A few guys from here put together a site, more or less as a BREXIT joke: http://www.transylvaniabeyond.com/welcome#move-to-transylvan.... A bit commercial, but not very far away from the truth. I've lived here for my entire life, but traveled a lot as well (Europe & US) and so far I haven't found another place I'd switch to.
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This is a confusing metric. If I compare two cities at the top of the list I know well and have spent much time in, Vancouver and Calgary, to other cities I know well, I have a difficult time explaining to myself why those are among the most livable cities in the world. Vancouver is a lovely city, if you have money. Calgary appeals to my mountain West upbringing, but it has most of the downsides of mountain West cities in the US, which are not insignificant.

Those cities are not unlivable by any means but "most livable" seems like a stretch. Obviously their measures are quite different than what some people might assume.
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Most readers would expect the "as string" statement to be idempotent; to_radians() isn't, because it's actually implicitly degrees_to_radians(). If your type system isn't going to keep track of which quantities were already degrees, then your function names should be a little more explicit about the fact that value.to_radians().to_radians() is both converting and reinterpreting, twice.
> From what I understand the objects are some kind of COM or .NET thing, which seems unnecessary to me. JSON or some other structured format would suffice.

They are .NET objects, which, in some cases wrap COM or WMI objects. The nice thing about them isn't just properties, though. You can also have methods. E.g. the service objects you get from Get-Service have a Start() and Stop() method; Process objects returned from Get-Process allow you to interact with that process. Basically wherever a .NET class already existed to encapsulate the information, that was used which gets you a lot more functionality than just the data contained in properties.
Why is Firefox "on hospice"?
Dude, I don't mean to disrespect you, but I don't think you have a background in finance.

* "Especially stay away from “tips”." Ha. My friend - most of the big earnings are made from tips. Financial markets are awash in near-insider trading. It's totally institutionalized. "Tips" are how some of the biggest funds make 100% of their money. Do you honestly think these people are better investors? They pay 'consultants' to talk and try to glean info or they're just passed tips directly.

* There are very well established mathematical mechanisms for proper hedging, diversification and risk management. Most stocks are correlated with other stocks, usually in the same sector. There are mechanisms to evaluate correlations across a portfolio and find inversely correlated stocks to properly hedge. It has nothing to do with those companies, usually sectors.

* "Actually, if you have the tiniest bit of patience and a decent stomach, volatility is awesome" - this is your, personal investment approach. It has nothing to do with what funds may or may not do WRT to volatility. You missed my point: some funds will pay a heavy price for more volatility in the market, given their strategy. So volatility is pretty important and relevant to any strategy.

* "I don’t think proper investing is anything like gambling and I’m pretty sure you’re not playing a zero sum game."

Yes - investing is gambling. There is only about 1% GDP growth in the US economy in a given year. This means there are very little surpluses to be spread out. If funds could only fight for those surpluses, then nobody would be getting amazing returns, and most funds would get 0% return. Ergo - it's mostly a zero-sum game. Meaning - your winnings come from others loses. Meaning: it's poker - and strategies mostly involve understanding how other people invest.

Do you know the saying - when you look around the poker table if you don't see the 'mark' - then the 'mark' is you? You are playing against people who have access to inside information, better research, better trading tools, and tons of staff. Do you think you're going to beat them?

Almost every retail investor is a 'mark'. They are giving their money to the hedge funds. The same can almost also be said for larger funds, often lazily managed.
So excited for this - I tried setting up Jekyll without much success a few months back (I'm an amateur programmer at best).

Related question: are there any decent tutorials I can follow for this in the meantime?
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The current C# compiler is no longer distributed as part of .NET. They're separate again (as is MSBuild).
Why is the power8 architecture not more widely used? The performance is competitive with the intel's Xeon series and for memory or IO bound workloads a power8 CPU is often superior.
Yeah, "livable" is inherently tied to some kind of value system. It's kind of a useless metric unless they explain in detail their values. "Safety" and "environment" mean totally different things to totally different people. This would be much more interesting if they took, say, three different value systems and did three rankings.
Do you think Vancouver is getting some of the tech industry sprawl out of Northern Washington?

I mean it's difficult to get work visas unless you have an essential skill, and companies don't want to hire people without interviewing them in person. With Washington so close, companies can interview highly skilled individuals without spending a fortune on airfare.

Conversely, you're not going to get a lot of unskilled immigrants and you need to compete with the wages of your neighbour. It almost seems like the gentrification problem would be terrible.
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Dekatrons work like this :) The actual logical state of the thing is stored using a glowing plasma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8CnG7ee-A
As a techie in Melbourne I can tell you I stand by my city being a great place to live and work for techies.
Here's a screenshot of the main playback interface, which is what I'm referring to: http://i.imgur.com/VMSYsAX.png

The icons don't appear to the right/left of the play button but the buttons are still there and work if you tap where the icon used to be.

FWIW, the icons do still appear in the Control Center menu when a podcast is playing: http://i.imgur.com/mUWrIYy.png
Toronto and Vancouver both suffer from the same problem as SV. Housing is out of control and if you are a person below 25, it really hard to lay any routes and save some money at the same time. Toronto is an amazing city for young people (I enjoy it more than SF), but when it comes to Tech jobs, salaries are lagging, especially at the entry level.
I don't have to handle VATMOSS (yet), but here is a list of providers/libraries that I found most interesting for my use cases:

https://pinboard.in/u:rsto/t:vatmoss

I don't expect to make enough money with my side business that a 3rd party provider would be affordable, at least not one with a fixed rate. The more I research, it seems OK to build your own solution at least for the beginning.
Get-ChildItem -File | Where-Object LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-2) | Remove-Item

If you prefer shorter (and similarly obscure if you don't know the language):

ls -file|? LastWriteTime -lt ((date)+'-2')|rm

I actually find PowerShell's version more readable, even if more verbose. But code is written only once and read a lot of times. I may not know what the +2 actually means with the -mtime argument. How would I change it to look for the age of two hours instead of days?
Wouldn't the presence of quantum effects be the default assumption, and there would have to be some compelling reason for their absence? It's not like nature started from Newtonian physics. Natural selection uses whatever it can get its sticky mitts on. Quantum effects are perfect for information processing.

To me, it's not the inscrutability of the brain that makes this seem likely... it's the bare knuckled win-at-all-costs no-holds-barred nature of natural selection.
The "weak man" argument: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...
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relevant xkcd https://www.xkcd.com/435/
You could put in place servers with larger than normal chassis (4U?) and slow, low speed fans, 55W TDP passively cooled CPUs with big heatsinks on them. But I am curious what your power budget is, what kind of AC circuits are we talking about for each cabinet?
The person credited with creating the term was a mathematician, (and also extraordinarily hawkish). He was almost certainly aware of Nash's work, as he coauthored a book proving the existence of Nash equilibria for zero-sum games prior to Nash's more general proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mutual_assure...

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As a note, I can't find a date for Von Neumann coining the MAD term. It seems likely to me that it would predate Nash's work, though as I said earlier, the existence of such equilibria was already well known (It was jut not proven that for large classes of non-zero-sum games there must exist at least one such equilibrium, which was Nash's contribution).
That was picking an example from my previous try to work with ps. I was not the admin of the server so no installation of extra programs. Or upgrading ps to the newest version.

The shell scripting I have needed has been typically very simple. Like schedule to copy this file from that server and run this command.(what was precisely all that I was trying to achieve the last time, only the file was compressed. Would have done with .bat, but that was even more difficult) As you say, using it as a glue and build the complexity to the programs behind the shell.
I hear this repeated a lot. But I've never actually seen a source from, say, the 90's or the 2000s, actually saying something like "if we're able to classify images better than humans, that's true AI."

I suspect it's just hearsay that's been repeated over and over again.
I bound these under C-n and C-p. Very convenient indeed!
PowerShell is interpreted, as far as I know. Class declarations may be compiled on the fly, but I've never used them; I'm basically still at PowerShell v3/v4.
When your house has a fire, despite all efforts to prevent fires, the fire department comes and puts the fire out.

Healthcare is no different. We don't say, "Better get a bucket and some water to go with those bootstraps."
I think of platforms like Steam as an OS. I don't really want to spend a lot of time there. It is just there to help manage my library, keep the software updated and all that, and just get out of my way. I hear about the games I want to play from other channels, so their substandard discovery doesn't bother me so much. I do miss the days when I'd find a cool game to play on the front page, though.
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You are equating the reliability of a server machine with the reliability of a user's client machine, when in reality these are not remotely similar. Laptops are regularly suspended and move between networks, losing connectivity. Phones even more so. Consumer internet is unreliable, usually with poor outgoing bandwidth. Mobile networks even more so. Etc.

When I share a document with five coworkers then close my laptop, the others need to be able to keep working. Under your model, that means they'd need to choose a new server. Guess what? This means you now need a consensus protocol. One where partitions happen 1000x more often, it is regularly necessary to operate without a quorum, latency is high and totally unpredictable, and all kinds of other properties that make the problem exponentially harder.
For code samples I prefer to have them in separate files and include them so it's just one command that imports them and formats them.

I wrote both my Master's and Ph.D. theses in LaTeX and found it much better than the alternatives. With Markdown I'd be resorting to falling back on LaTeX anyway and many of the additional Markdown features weren't available when I wrote them.

I had a predefined document class for my Master's but the university changed the guidelines by the time of my Ph.D. so I used the Memoir document class and that had a lot of flexibility and I didn't have to include many other packages to format things. I basically set up the format once at the beginning, checked against the guidelines once at the end and that was it.
> It's kind of a useless metric unless they explain in detail their values

It's a pity that the Economist didn't put a link right there in the first paragraph about that!
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Yep, runaway house prices... just like the rest of the top 10 cities.

The reason why the house prices are so expensive in these places is because they are good places to live. Good old supply-and-demand at work.
This is a very interesting (Bayesian?) point.

Probability of enemy nuclear first strike decreased

Probability of enemy conventional first strike increased

Probability of enemy nuclear escalation ?

I am only addressing policy effects on enemies because the policy may be an intentional lie.
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"AI" is a specific term used in academia / research. In that context, ML is most certainly a subset of AI.

The fact that many laymen have a different conception of the term is hardly a reason to change all our uses of the term.
Acquiring wealth is certainly a crucial attribute on making a city "livable", and it's completely left out here.

Just because ISIS mentions a cities name, does not really mean it makes the city less livable.
This article isn't Economist worthy.
Funny, I do something similar. At my work, I'm supposed to submit a time sheet every week through a web based economy system. The system is both slow and tedious and annoying as things may be, so me and a collegue wrote a python script to submit our time sheets from the command line. I've now coupled this with a personal journal system I use in Vim, so that I can submit my timesheets from within Vim every Friday. Very neat!

The same economy system is also used for project management. I also have a script to download and parse the economy data for a project and present it to me in a meaningful manner, which means I pretty much never have to actually use our internal economy system.
This is the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AP0de3yZTs
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I love DEVONthink Pro. I have the Pro Office version. I especially love the "See Also" feature as that will suggest other documents to look at when you're hunting through your references.
>the impact the drug has on its users and society is much different.

Would you like to expand on those? I don't see why crack would be any worse than normal coke. In fact, considering the effects are significantly shorter it seems much more suitable for a productive lifestyle.
Don't know other cities but Istanbul definitely deserves its place in less liveable list.
Yea they did but they also put it behind a link that requires registration.

Besides, the metric value changes depending on who you are and what kind of income you can generate based on the job you can obtain and what you value the most. This is why I never like articles claim to know what's best for everyone.
The more you know about any particular subject, you start to realize that the Economist is not all that great and it really makes you question what they know about things you might not know a lot about.
Wow, that's different from what I've heard before. Thanks for the link; I'll have to keep looking into this.
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I would do the same if I would have the opportunity.
For this person it's likely that it's not League or HOTS... or to make the standard joke... it's actually challenging and for adults instead of an ez mode toy for kids.
The Hawks say every change means they need larger and expensive armed forces, and the doves will come up with reasons why the same change requires disarmament. Such debates have not proven very productive.
The flammability of Lithium ion batteries is the one issue we "might have to learn to live with" for electric cars.

We can try to minimize the risk of it happening in the first place, and Tesla's cars do currently give the occupant ample warning to get out of the car before it's fully engulfed in flames. But it's an inevitable fact of chemistry that lithium wants really wants to burn.

Maybe Tesla could work on segmenting the battery pack, so if one module does catch on fire, it can be ejected from the car (somehow) before the other packs catch fire too.
Windows updates have been so bad about bricking randomly your machines that I've been using slipstreamed installs and completely disabling updates at all.
That explains a bit but it doesn't explain why manhattan's streets are so much more fucked up than cities of comparable size and complexity elsewhere, many of which are much older.
I used to live in Melbourne and now live in Tokyo. I really enjoyed my time in Melbourne, but I don't see how the two can be seen as comparable in crime or public transport.

Tokyo's rail system is fantastic and cheap. I can get to basically anywhere within the city in a very short amount of time. I used to have trouble with train delays and cancellations in Melbourne, and the timetable was more a rough estimate than anything that could be counted on. Don't know if it's changed that much since I left ten years ago.

And to me, safety at night is quite different. I feel safe going out here; whether it was true or not I can not say the same about my time in Melbourne.
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Not to forget otto.de...
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It'd be nice to re-calculate this chart with a sixth dimension added: median income divided by cost-of-living.
With SATA2 you might as well just use a HDD. Of course I'm assuming you actually optimized how your data is layout on the storage medium to take advantage of the sequential read speed of your HDD, SSD or even RAM. Even my HDD usually reaches 160MB/s so a SATA2 connected SSD is only twice as fast at four to six times the cost. Yes SSDs are better at IOPS but an application that heavily depends on IOPS is often a result of poor design.

http://media.bestofmicro.com/Q/0/378072/original/AS-SSD_Sequ...
Vancouver is liveable if you're happy renting and a software engineer. Buying is unaffordable but if like me you have no desire to own property that's not a major problem.

Wages in tech are low compared to the major US tech hubs. That can be an advantage if you contract for US companies as I've been doing recently tho.
Melbourne does have the late-night drunk problem that all anglo cities do, but it doesn't have to employ people in white gloves to push you into those trains that do arrive... :)

In any case, yes, the public transport system has become worse in the last ten years - it doesn't have the capacity for the growing population, and it's of the terrible hub-and-spoke style anyway. Sucks if you're going crosstown.
The Economist is following mainstream journalism in general, then.
I don't know as the value equation is the same as most other jobs (techies are people too) with the difference being how many other people in your industry are around for networking and jobs. Melbourne is very livable although the real estate game is a pain. The choice for most people is rent near public transport or buy a home way out and spend an extra 40 mins on top of your normal commute time along with 10-15% more of your income.

The tech community here seems on par with Vancouver as far as software goes, but much less in terms of hardware. At least it's not as Enterprise oriented as Sydney seemed to be.
right about now the raspberry pi hwrng is about the only random number generator i trust.

https://sites.google.com/site/astudyofentropy/project-defini...

EDIT:
Secondly

This
"Furthermore, the flaw makes a part of the PRNG output completely predictable"

= Predict the random number generator no matter what it is seeded with.

Dear God.

On the plus side, these games have given the Russians near total access to all the important US systems, while they feed disinformation into their non hardened systems. So at least we can laugh at the irony.
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8080 would probably be doable, but the Z80 has over double the transistor count, so it would be (even more) impractical to construct. The 8086 has an order of magnitude more transistors.

Would definitely be very cool to see though.
Would you feel safe in Tokyo if it were full of Australians?
Case insensitive tab completion in Bash
I guess the HTTP/2 PING messages.
Yes, that's how it works ;).
Unfortunately I can't share anything about the deal terms.
>what happens?

It reverts as if noting happened.
Which companies in Melbourne do you think are the most interesting, from a hacker point of view?

I know REA have a good engineering focus but there must be others
well, paper doesn't make it secure either..