skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely as a matter of fact: given Apple's prices, why don't people buy those EU competitors' products then? Apple products contribute to Europeans' lives to the extent precisely measured by how much they're prepared to pay for them. Quite a lot it seems. You could say that the $14 billion or so represent votes for Apple: i.e., it's derived from money freely handed to Apple for something considered of value by the purchasers who have already paid 20% in VAT taxes.

Worth pointing out that no detailed evidence or methodology on the Apple case has yet been made public by the EU. The courts will decide.
Stop re-electing any prosecutor.
Because industrial parks don't have babies.

A tech park is at the end a less smelly industrial park.

It hinders natural population growth other than employees moving in.

Cities need families that will make babies because it roots the population down.

A city full of young professionals that are only tied to their employer is a really bad thing.

Once the economy slows down or their employer isn't the bigest bestest place to work for the flock moves on leaving a lot of empty office space and single bedroom condos.
Oh shit, thanks, I had just set up a 301 redirect on my personal page this morning when I meant to use a 302, your post made me realize the mistake.

I was sure it was the other way around 301->temporary, 302->permanent.
Thank goodness for MAPS.

They're working to get MDMA therapy out to those veterans suffering from PTSD.
You might want to see a doctor about that...
My experience would be the contrary. I felt Libre Office had better document compatibility and a better user experience, so I stopped using Open Office. Maybe it improved since then. I would also like to see something to back up the claim you are talking about.
I believe Apple offers battery replacement programs for most (if not all) of their products now.
It makes them exactly politicians.
Google moved out of University Ave as soon as they exceeded the capacity...they didn't try taking over downtown, they took over boring office park space north of 101 in PA for a while.
Alleged private and ad-hoc deals. Let's wait for the detailed facts to emerge.
People (particularly those with children) do not like to live among the foot traffic, noise, or any kind of traffic/signs of life associated with strangers making their way to and from businesses in a residential neighborhood. Businesses are excluded from residential areas to preserve this trait, which homeowners tend to view as a huge component of their homes' value.
It would have more carrying capacity if it let people live closer to where they work, reducing commute distance, and if it didn't keep threatening to sue public transit providers:

http://paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/01/27/palo-alto-opts-not...
Flooding them with antibiotics isn't just to "keep them alive." It makes them grow bigger (i.e. more meat to sell means more money). This is a big part of the resistance to ending the practice too.
what do you mean when you say "not just jekyll"?
I would investigate some home remedy. Not too strong. You got to be careful with the herbal stuff, they can do a number on your hormones if not carefully used.
The ultimate promise of artificial intelligence lies in sorting cucumbers
The US placed cathinone on Schedule I in the 1990s. This effectively banned khat, a relatively harmless stimulant plant, chewed as a recreational by northern African / Arabia cultures for centuries with little harm.

Fast forward 20 years and shady chemists learn that it's possible to take the structure of cathinone (as a basis), tweak it here and there, and come up with purified "substituted cathinones". AKA: "bath salts" (MDPV), mephedrone, methylone, and countless others. Some of these were frankly nasty.

Today, the US decides to ban kratom, which has been naturally used for recreational purposes in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia for centuries.

I wonder if substituted mitragynines are in the future. Very possibly. If not from the pharmaceutical companies then from future sellers of "bath salt" type substances.

Either way, there's something very culturally insensitive about these type of bans, in my opinion -- these laws carry a whiff of "these are drugs that these other people do". In today's drug enforcement culture, apparently the khat cafe is horrible, but the pub and the coffee shop are a-okay. Personally it's hard for me to see what the difference is between the two, except the pub / coffee shop are accepted by well-off Western Europeans, and the khat cafe is mainly populated by poor Somali / Yemen / etc. immigrants.
One would hope that if they get sufficiently successfuly they'd drop the percentage, but requiring them to achieve wider scale just to initially break even doesn't seem like it sets up good incentives to me.
As I pointed out in the mailing list, there has been practically no development on OO this year though.
CPU, GPU Put to Deep Learning Framework Test
Local governments severely lack the funding and resources needed to engage with the community like they should. It's really sad, but by the time the fed and state take their cut, there's not much left for the city or county.
It's also not offlist in some backroom fogged with cigar smoke and whiskey aromatics.
Really happy about this - literally just ranted to my partner this week about how we should ban antibacterial soap. It has no place outside of a hospital, and is only contributing to the problems we're facing.
I'd root it and install latest Android.
This is actually one of the first things that my econ classes covered: normative vs positive statements.

Proper and correct economic analysis explicitly concerns itself with positive statements. These are statements that are factual and/or scientific. In this case, it would be things like estimating the maximum life times earnings of the average athlete. You can gather the data, develop a model, and crunch the numbers to test the model.

The flip side are normative statements: i.e. how things ought to be, what values should be upheld, etc. At that point you are more properly concerned with philosophy, specifically morality, than purely economics. You can certainly use economic data, economic terms, economic models, etc in making your case, but ultimately you are arguing for a normative statement (e.g. what is a "just" or "fair" allocation?).

That's not to say that economists don't make normative statements, they do and all too often. But that's usually politics.
That already exists: it's called Collabora Office (https://www.collaboraoffice.com/solutions/collabora-office/) and made by one of the largest contributing firms behind LO (Collabora).
This could be said of any innovation. Users want faster horses.
Another way of phrasing it would be: it ensures that things which are truly important to society are available at low prices.

Either way, the corollary still is that roughly, the more a job is paid, the less value to society it provides. There are exceptions of course, but I find it to be a pretty decent heuristic.
Same; as I was reading it and the author started talking about himself working on it I had a bunch of red flags smack me in the face. Sure, be excited about your stuff and it may be completely legit but when someone publishes about their own work outside of a research paper that includes data it makes me think they're fund raising and trying to sell me on all of the extreme possibilities.
I want to like the idea of Brave but have a hard time seeing this project taking off. It requires buy-in both from publishers, who make more money from ads, and from visitors, who probably don't want to spend money, configure a payment option, or switch from their current browser. Good idea for a cross-browser plugin, but an entire browser?
Most of what athletes and actors make comes from the scale that mass media provides. Not much different than the source of internet titans' wealth.

If teachers and other public workers could achieve the same scale, they could probably earn a similar paycheck.
I think the en vogue term for us is "Tech Bro", at least in Seattle that seems to be the case.
I might be inclined to agree with you if a majority of western governments hadn't already figured out how to do it well (or well enough).
As a foreigner I always think of the US as having extremely restricted immigration. Is this the "Mexico problem" or are the legal migrant numbers also very high?
EDIT: After hours waiting in Samsung support lines without success, their shop not working with returns I give up for now.
I was hoping Maciej would make the following crack, which of course he did:

>
And of course, there was John Glenn, monitored inside and out, blood tested, urine sampled, entire organism analyzed for signs of accelerated aging. Close observation of the Senator suggested that there might not be any medical obstacles to launching the entire legislative branch into space, possibly the most encouraging scientific result of the mission.

Bravo.
Open data initiatives might lead to apps that help keep people informed about local politics.

I'd like to see city council votes when I check the weather in the morning, for instance.
It is a risk trade-off: letting the user reuse passwords used in the last X months is seen as less risky than storing the last 12 passwords (assuming the user is made to cycle their password monthly) if you are storing the credentials securely (if anything is plain or reversible, you need to fix that ASAP).

Having 12 strongly salted+hashed password strings is not going to help an attacker much compared to having 1, even if you use the same salt (though I've not doe the maths myself, you'll need to ask a cryto expert for actual risk figures).

You could of course use a different salt per stored password instead of per user, to mitigate this completely.

Remember that password reuse risk flows both ways: if they reuse the password in your application and your application is well written with regard to securely storing credentials, they may be reusing the same password in another application that is less secure so you are more at the mercy of the password data from elsewhere that is storing things plain.
What problems is it contributing to? The article says it doesn't actually affect bacteria, so it can't be contributing to resistant strains.
If you're going to credit Samsung for the phablet form factor then you need to credit Apple for the iPhone and iPad form factor it built off, and so on and so forth.
Google searches on his domain for "Fast", "Quick", "Speed", etc. returns nothing. He never claimed his product was faster than the competition. It is however cheaper.

Why would you be entitled to a refund? Do you buy a Hyundai Accent and then come back the the seller asking for a refund because you saw a Mustang drive faster than you?
I was thinking more like a takeover of the Open Office codebase since its organization has collapsed. Take over the administration, steering committee, etc.

I can see that the codebases have diverged, but will a lot be lost if Open Office's codebase was clobbered with the LibreOffice sources?
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 (Stanford Report) [pdf]
Advanced dev job offer negotiation tactics from a newbie making $220k
Please ask the author on the OO-dev mailing list, I just quoted him

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openoffice.apache.org/msg282...
Why won't you share your idea?
That example might not be the best...http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/community/chatham#?a...
The trend to elect anyone and everyone was part of the American Progressive Movement backlash against the spoils system. Under that system every job in government was given to a crony of the chief executive.

Unitary executives and plural ones each have their pros and cons, but on the balance given the limited attention span of the electorate, I think unitary is better.
Static typing doesn't always require type annotations. Type inference is 1970's era technology.
We need science to be as open source as technology.
What about hand sanitizers? Should we not be using those as well or is limited usage (say keeping a bottle in the car for use before you scarf down a McDouble) ok?
GlobalSign gives free wildcard certificates to open source projects: https://www.globalsign.com/en/company/press/061913-globalsig...
10 Sci-Fi Supernatural Shows Like Stranger Things
it's my opinion that nothing will change at the federal level until the baby boomers die. the propaganda is just too strong.
Electric cars could be a quarter of cars by 2040. How will it affect oil demand?
I guess you could always take a trip to Thailand...
He got the economics all wrong. There's no shortage of people that can play sports well (at a comparable level to the average teacher or firefighter). It's more about the network effect of fans and the marginal value added (think about the value of the Cavs before/after Lebron James).

A better point would have been about how the total dollars spent on teachers and firefighters is many times the total spent on athlete's salaries.
Where's the source code?
Voting for a prosecutor or judge is tough to do, speaking from experience. I tend to rely on outside authorities for this sort of thing - namely, the local papers' endorsements.

The lack of data mentioned in the article is a big deal.

Another thing that's probably underrated in a lot of districts is the lack of competition. Where I live, if you're not a Democrat, you don't really get a relevant primary vote for people on the municipal or county level. The article notes that "85 percent ran unopposed in general elections", but many of those might have had a much tougher primary fight, which excludes the other party and independents.
It's a feedback loop - the better the pay is, the more people are after it, which lowers the pay, and so forth. This loop tends to be more disrupted in highly regulated fields (like healthcare), but there are other factors too. For instance, in my country, an important reason for the shortage of doctors and nurses is simply that they can find a better pay and more humane working conditions abroad, and so they emigrate.
The JVM needs structs so badly. New libraries are not what's necessary. Fixing a design flaw is! /rant
Good

No more soccer mom directed ads pumping BS about how good it is to have your kids live in a bacterial bubble

The same crappy thinking that brought us allergy epidemics
This is idiotic. I live in San Francisco and growing tired of people blaming "techies" for rising housing costs, or "ruining" the culture in the bay area. This is just people complaining that techies make more money than them. It is typical extreme liberal outrage.
Not stone, but clay tablets are probably more volatile than your USB drive. There's a huge sampling bias here.

About the main point, why isn't ECC fixing this for everybody? I'll surely get cheaper, more volatile RAM, and use some of it on redundancy so it works better than the more expensive, less volatile kind.
My main complaint are the blueprints that are needed for forms. The syntax feels overly complex and the output is not pure markdown anymore (escaped markdown stuffed in to a single line at best).

Also I see the admin interface as not client-proof :), they'd get lost and mess it all up.
Basically every time that we need to iterate over the Pix []uint8 containing the pixel data, as this can be run in parallel (or concurrently if running in a single logical CPU).

You will usually see it like this:

parallel.Line(height, func(start, end int) {
for y := start; y < end; y++ {
for x := 0; x < w; x++ {
pos:= y*img.Stride + x*4
// ...
}
}
})

parallel.Line is a function that takes a length int and a fn func(start, end int) and it splits the provided length into segments, then it dispatches the provided fn with each segment range to a new goroutine. The number of segments is defined by the number of available logical CPUs.

So basically each dispatched fn is iterating over its assigned range of the Pix []uint8 and the image is split into chunks by height. Notice that only the y-axis loop is assigned a partial range and we iterate over the x-axis first, this is because we want to move sequentially in the slice as much as possible.

During the optimization stage I would like to benchmark against a tiled segmentation instead of a line one, but the current version only implements the latter.
Experimenting Openstreetmap self-hosted vector tiles and client-side rendering
I really prefer to do what is best for my users: fast loading simple pages for users with slow connections on the other side of the world. (So, HTTP, not HTTPS.) But there is no sense fighting the powers that be.

EDIT: Thanks for the down votes! Unpopular thoughts like mine should be discouraged. Groupthink is best!
It's interesting since a number of other drugs banned are as old as, if not possible older than, tobacco and alcohol.
Alleged? It has been a ruling already
> Publishers hate Brave

This seems doubtful. Brave is almost completely unknown.
Unfortunately, I don't see how right now.
The article includes a comparison with k-means. From the article, mean-shift:

> does not assume anything about number of clusters

> can handle arbitrarily shaped clusters

> is fairly robust to initializations

> not very sensitive to outliers

> time complexity mean-shift: O(Tn^2), k-means: O(knT). (k: number of clusters, n: number of points, T: number of iterations).

[Edit: formatting]
Just focusing on this issue.

Building more space not a viable option in this area of Palo Alto and not actually required.

To be clear this is not "Palo Alto" its a very small downtown area of about 8 blocks square. This is an area which is literally surrounded by multi million dollar single family homes. A 3/2 1200 sqft house goes for 2 million dollars [1] and the area is surrounded by larger 5-10 million dollar homes. Heck Tim Cook lives in a condo in this area.

There's tons more office space available to companies as they move closer to the 101 and further south and north.

In fact most of the burbs up and down the peninsula, Burlingame, San Mateo, Belmont etc have sleepy downtowns with office parks zoned closer to the freeway. It works and most of the populations in these areas prefer having the office parks separate from the residential areas.

[1] https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/1404-Harker-Ave-94301/ho...
IMO, it's the gap in still not the absolute skill levels that are most interesting. Michael Jordan was not just the best player of his generation he was dramatically better than other players. Remove the top 100 players and these gaps shrink dramatically. Collage sports is interesting in part because the smaller pool of people and large number of teams makes for even wider skill gaps.

Rule changes have made the NFL more competitive, but overall the sport is less interesting without unusually good teams.
Hand sanitizers that are just alcohol should be fine if they're high enough concentration but there's sort of a skin damage / actually-killing-bacteria trade off there.
Since I am the creator and maintainer of a scientific web app for molecular dynamics (shameless plug: http://www.bottledsaft.org) which is not on https (yet), I decided to check whether scientists browsing the net will quickly learn to ignore this warning.

Finding so far: Yes, they will. No need to hurry, but I will go https eventually. Of the sites I checked quickly, these are running non-https by default:

http://www.tandf.co.uk (Taylor & Francis, bunch of engineering journals)

http://www.aps.org (American Physical Society, i.e. all the Phys. Rev. journals)

http://journals.cambridge.org (bunch of math and physics journals)

http://www.thomsonreuters.com (ManuscriptCentral, Scopus, the home of Impact Factor)

http://www.sciencemag.org (Science and other AIAA journals)

http://www.nature.com (Nature Publishing Group)

... and I couldn't be bothered to check more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan#Resistance_concerns

At best, antibacterial soap is ineffective. At worst, it's contributing to resistance in some microbes.
How about getting rid of absolute prosecutorial immunity, significantly weakening qualified immunity, and codifying Bivens liability (hey a guy can dream!).
Woah. You're right! Let's ban getting sick!
Its too late Palo Alto is already a city for the elite. Has been for a long time.
> No more soccer mom directed ads pumping BS about how good it is to have your kids live in a bacterial bubble

That's not going to stop. They're just going to switch the messaging to "All natural ...".
The world will never lose its supply of capitalists looking to externalize their costs.
Chinese gov blocks information it deems dangerous, like financial info via Bloomberg, this is useful information if you want to make wise rather than nationalistic investment decisions. So ya, what the GFW blocks is a useful guide in what you should read.

WSJ is incredibly pro business and doesn't give much care about human rights. They take the capatalist pro business guys point of view in ignoring much of the bad about China to make money.
It is wrong to compare Tom Brady to teachers in general. Instead you should compare athletes in general to teachers in general. Or compare best in class athletes to best in class teachers.

The general comparison would compare minor league baseball or local club soccer players to your kids kindergarten teacher. You might find that the teacher comes out on top.

The best in class comparison is harder. There are only 32? Nfl teams therefore there is enormous competition for the 32 best quarterbacks (maybe more including backups). If you are the #200 quarterback on the planet no one cares. Those selection dynamics don't happen for teachers. There might be some elite tutors who are highly sought out by wealthy parents, but not with the same intensity as quarterbacks.

This is compounded by the fact that sports skill is more easily measured than teaching skill. We might debate if Tom Brady is better than Peyton Manning, but it is obvious both are in the top ten in the world. Not so with teachers. Some are clearly better, but the clarity of ranking you can get with sports performance is impossible is any measure of teaching performance.
You have a common misconception. Antibacterial soaps don't cause bacterial resistance. Antibiotics do, but that's because antibiotics must selectively kill bacteria while inside the human body and without harming human cells.

Antibacterial doesn't really have a precise medical definition, but in practice they're dilute antiseptics. In many centuries of use, bacteria have not developed resistance to antiseptics. There's no danger of them developing resistance to these soaps either

...and even if they did, that wouldn't mean they were magically also resistant to some antibiotic.

So basically, the marketing people wanted something more than "just soap" so they used antiseptics and made up a nicer sounding word: Antibacterial. You have (and perhaps this was the intent of the marketing people) assumed this has something to do with antibiotics.
Yes. In the US, members of the judicial branch are either elected or appointed (by politicians). The rules vary by state and by position and both have problems. Right now there are several areas where there are open judge seats but any election of new judges has been blocked (I think PA has/had this problem). Either way, prosecutors and judges are beholden to politics in order to advance their career path and/or even keep their current position
Replace substance with questionable efficacy that works anecdotally with something even more nebulous?
Advancing in the Bash Shell
Because they aren't interacting with an audience composed in significant part of querulous pedants who will promptly proceed to poke every imaginable hole into the metaphor, resulting in a vast and ultimately unproductive digression.

(As a querulous pedant myself, I can hardly condemn such behavior! But I do try not to indulge that habit when doing so offers no benefit to anyone.)