skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice simulation and throwing in that you know how trees work.

The embedded me would have brute forced it and gone with setting a double variable to 0x03FFFFFFFFFFFF then turning a bit off when that section was covered. When the variable was zero, pavement covered.

In a more fancy version I'd gone with an array to match the pavement length set to zero and incremented each pavement section by 1 to count the drops in each section. Scan each time to find the first zero, if found more rain, if no zeros then done. That would give a bonus, after the simulation ran I could get a histogram of how many raindrops per section.
Yes - looking at tyres is a great general tactic. I learned that doing motorcycle lessons.
Same in my case. I tried LSD, cocaine, MDMA and DXM, and each of these only once in my life. I saw no point in doing any of them again, and I had no problem whatsoever refraining myself from it.
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Does this mean that they will change GCC with LLVM? I would like to see that at least on amd64.
> "Stereotyping" ends up the best description, though it's less than satisfactorily insulting.

Why does it have to be insulting? Rather, why do you have to import shame from an unrelated activity to make your point? It seems to me like that trivializes racism and doesn't do very much to bolster this argument.
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One recruiter said that he'll find out my salary from my tax return when I said I didn't want to disclose it to him. By the way, I think the actual income is public knowledge, not the tax rate.
To me this project looks like really a just reversed and mostly functional one and this is the quality of said projects, I've been there. He has disassembled, transcribed to a C project almost as-is and made it compile.

The developer may not have enough development experience to organize it decently or just rushed it online because of anxiety.

Anyway, very good resource for others if there still any interest at all at Skype compatibility or else, only missing the .idb with renamed subs and comments. :)
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It's definitely over-prescribed, especially by "pain clinics" that hand them out like candy. But in contrast, pain clinics handing out vicodin prescriptions like candy would be a much less serious issue because the acetaminophen limits the abuse potential.
There seems to be a trend in management towards an unwarranted belief in the effectiveness and importance of superficial quantitative analysis, and two complementary myths that go along with the trend: a) any number you can assign to something is significant; b) anything you cannot assign a number to is not significant.

Anyone approaching recruiting with this mindset is neither using critical thinking, nor likely to hire people who can.
From my experience, people at the forefront of innovation have mathematics background.
Quantitate Portfolio Management has a ton of advanced mathematics and the people designing those strategies definitely use mathematics in finance.

If you look at the requirements to be a software engineer for a company that makes video games these days, the mathematics needed is rigorous in the geometry aspect.

I'm not sure what kind of actuary this guy was interviewing but all the actuaries I know in the industry that are respected have used a significant amount of math in their career before reaching management.

I myself am no expert. I have a MS in applied Mathematics from a regular school and make over $150k in the Reinsurance industry.... I only have 4 years of experience. My superiors are definitely making 7 figures.

These days with emergence of predictive analytics which definitely using above 8th grade math, shows the relevance of advanced mathematics.

Because we can program computers, Of course you don't have to write these formulas/equations etc... Everyday but to initially design these systems, implement, revise, research and innovate, the skills are needed.

That's why at these top companies at the forefront of the industry have a very diverse international makeup of countries that excel in mathematics
Parsing emails seems to have got a whole lot easier - most I interact with have started moving to schema.org microformats (eg, https://schema.org/FlightReservation and https://schema.org/LodgingReservation for flights & hotels respectively).

It seems google/gmail are backing this quite extensively, which is how it's finally found traction.
XML is more extensible than JSON. So the latter if a trade off, not an optimization. Perhaps comparing with binary XML would be better.
What's the larger caliber rimfires? I've only read about them, and from what I've heard in passing about the dangerousness of making rimfire ammo (in relation to one of the reasons US manufacturers aren't contemplating expanding production), suggests you're out of luck there.

The classic centerfire flat-nosed Winchester cartridges, though, you can of course reload them after getting some modern ammo for it (don't try this with old mercury fulminate primed ammo, I read an article by someone who had an old Browning police semi-auto carbine, he wrecked it because the mercury fatally compromises the strength of the brass). My father has or had one of those, I think it was from the era when you could buy one with the same ammo for your handgun as your rifle, the action certainly wasn't very strong. Octagonal barrel, a really neat piece of history.

Ah, and for those who aren't into this sort of thing, all the "calibers" I mentioned in my above comment use bullets of the same width, it's a confusing "system", if you can call it that, it grew organically.
Pretty bad recruiter by the sounds of it. I've never been asked my current salary. Only expected salary.

I expect he/she was calling got bluff.
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I'm not confusing these matters. I'm specifically talking about lossless vs lossy. The key point is I'm taking about nominally transparent lossy which for codecs like AAC and Opus is around 160-256 kbps depending on the listener. Even at 256 kbps, that's anywhere between half and quarter the bitrate of FLAC. (Which has an average bitrate around 700 kbps but can swing wildly up or down depending on the specific material.)
Having just deployed a machine vision system (using GigE machine vision cameras): why exactly are you building custom cameras? If you don't mind/are allowed to share this information, of course.
It surely does have something to do with that, but the point is that it wouldn't be possible if Oxy weren't well-suited for recreational use.
If your namesake was alive today, perhaps he would have written a book called 'The Interview'.
Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.? What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)?

I'm pretty sure their public removal was a little harsher and unfair without a so-called minority card to play.
Reminds me of the poison baked-bean menace :)

Start here:

http://www.animationresources.org/pics/fosdickbeans01-bigz.j...

Rest of cartoon strips:

http://animationresources.org/biography-al-capp-2-a-cappital...
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Their code of conduct is sort of stupid in its consistency. i.e. vendor booths have largely the same restrictions as attendees and speakers. For the most part, you really can't avoid a both, while it's pretty easy to avoid a person or talk.
Don't mistake being a contrarian with being a critical thinker.
When you work with the combo set from 5 to 16 hours a day and immediately know the size of the nut on sight, you feel exactly the opposite sentiment.

Probably not the average use case though.
If you follow enough links you'll get to the source of the story https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/50pfl4/appl...

Which does sound like it actually happened. However at current time it shows up in the app store.
Copyright extends beyond the US, due to certain treaties.

But yes, Antigua's IT industry could get very interesting if they get to keep the whole copyright haven thing going.
Pay some random guy to do it for you?
I'm looking for someone to partner with me on http://www.ballotbin.com

The system needs changes (in frontend, backend, sysadmin). It is pretty much the same as in 2002.
What gets measured gets managed.
My prior comment was ill-considered and unnecessarily combative, for which I apologize.

My own experience includes a mother who did in fact mostly raise me, but also a father who was generally feckless in a wide variety of ways. On reflection, I strongly suspect I have based my understanding of parenting dynamics in families with two worthwhile parents primarily on wishful thinking - excusable in a child, perhaps, but not so in a grown adult. I'll keep an eye out for that in future.
When I lived in Norway, I found this to be a pointless violation of my privacy. Still do.
It's actually one if those signals that the company is no good.
Hutton's book is more concise and written better. From first principles covers slightly more material, at the expense of being 4 times longer.
Death as in "someday I'll die" or in the "I'll kill" ?

There was a footage on some simians ambushing and torturing (?) and killing another one.
Yes, the only data they report is:

* current number of cars

* current percentage of people commuting by car

* percentage drop in taxi use

* uber commute cost breakdown for one person

There's no evidence here, just speculation and anecdotes.
Ask HN: What is the most surprising technical skill you possess?
I'm hoping to get responses from a programmer's perspective.

The emphasis here is on practical usage/benefit (productivity, efficiency, simplicity, etc.).

By surprising, I mean what has shown you the greatest returns, though it was not an emphasis in a curriculum or hiring.

For example, something you learned when you were 12 you found not many people understand or use, but has served great productivity. Or it could be something that everyone knows, but doesn't use because of a trend, or some other reason.

It could be a language or a tool, just something technical that you never realized would be so useful.
But where is my ipv6 link local address support?
Yep, I consciously made an effort to avoid PyCon after Dongle-gate
Lots of browsing activity occurs on the intranet where bandwidth is effectively infinite. But I am not sure why more native code is being added to firefox that handles file parsing. An emscripten based extension to firefox could have been just as effective. And to support all browsers, one will need to drop in a JS flac library anyway, making this addition moot.

The discussion in the bug itself covers JS flac implementations https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195723#c2

There doesn't seem to be any testing around security, attack surface, etc. Disappointing, and not recommending that anyone use Firefox for the foreseeable future.
Have you considered the alternative approach of talking to people? A lot less creepy than cyber stalking their tax reports.
Really? What did I misunderstand here?
Ask HN: What's the best metasearch engine?
I want a fully customizable metasearch engine.

Which should I look at? (CLI might be cool for textual)
https://www.starve.de

http://cocktailiciousapp.com

every now and then i do some maintenence but... you know.
Anyone interested in C++/Windows/Desktop products?

Note, this is a commercial product, customers include Airbus, and everyone else.

Mostly pirated, you'll have to figure that one out.

Asking $125K or $500K for everything.
Because TCL was one of the first great scripting languages, so we glommed onto it and it got used everywhere. You would be surprised (and then maybe appalled) at the number of times TCL appears in a tool chain like that.
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The last paragraph is obviously shifting the goal post.
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Creativity and critical thinking. In subordinate position it gets you labelled a dreamer, a weirdo, or an idiot.

In executive position, visionary, maverick, multidisciplinary thinker, etc.

You can only truly creative in a position with autonomy, so you either climb the ladder or start your own thing.
When I say I hate fentanyl, I mean I hate the illicit and recreational use of fentanyl. I'm well aware of its legitimate uses (it's my go-to analgesic in the back of the ambulance). The drug itself isn't 'good' or 'bad', it's just a chemical... it's amoral.

All fentanyl, legal or otherwise, starts out as a powder (generally as the salt, fentanyl citrate, though illicit labs produce a number of variations...). You're right that there is no powdered form sold legally, but most of the illicit sales come from labs in Mexico and China, and is indeed in powdered form.
Did they get addicted by accident?
A surprisingly large chunk of the population has tried opioids, a relatively small percentage become the classic druggie. Much like alcohol is common, but only some people have major issues.

The difference is how long the average person can stay a casual user.
Also done in various other countries, including the EU.
I find this very touching, as, if I understand this right, many of these parents are not very literate themselves. Getting their kids into college must be a very big moment in their lives.
Ask HN: Why is inter-device file sharing still a hassle?
Imagine these scenarios:

* You sit in some pub with a few friends. You show them a video you filmed yesterday on your phone. You're speakers are really bad, and you want to send it to a friend who has better speakers.

--> You try to send the video over What's App. You discover you have no cell reception. You give up.

* You are at a conference, about to give a talk. For some reason, your MacBook won't work with the projector. You want to copy the presentation to some other laptop. The WiFi is overloaded.

--> You spend 5 minutes finding someone who still carries a USB stick and transfer the files.

* You are in an airplane, and you have a bunch of company documents stored on your laptop, which you want to read on your tablet. You forgot your micro USB cable.

--> You are angry at yourself for not installing a file sharing app and for forgetting to send yourself the documents with GMail and downloading them on the tablet.

Everytime I run into one of those situations, I just get angry that there is no easy solution, and most of the time we have to resort to some clutch, like relying on a centralized service like email or messenger apps.

How do we still have this problem in 2016, where we all carry multiple supposedly inter-connected and interoperable devices?

There is an endless amount of file sharing apps for iOS and Android. There are countless protocols and options for discovering devices and sharing files (including "ancient" options like Samba, NFS and FTP).

Why is there no universally accepted standard that facilitates device discovery and file sharing between devices over WiFi AND Bluetooth, with implementations installed by default on every device?

Am I alone in seeing a need here?
No way that the EU is going to remove the UK from its single market; the rest of EU is far too dependent on demand from the UK economy.
That's the line of reasoning behind all law (or at least all law that carries the death penalty).
TL;DR: if japanese companies suffer losses in EU or other markets that import from the UK, since Brexit might have impact in taxes, they might reconsider the headquarters location and then move to continental EU.
It only limits the abuse potential long term—an addict will still abuse the stuff, they'll just ruin their liver in the process.

I could see if it was mixed it with something that made you harmlessly sick in larger quantities. But acetaminophen won't give you the negative consequences until much later when your liver is damaged.
No need to take production offline when using the percona xtrabackup tool to set up the slave. It's super easy to use, and I've done it multiple times on databases in the hundreds of gigabytes.
The knuckle-draggers who voted to leave the EU won't care about threats like this - they'll just use hate speech to dismiss it. Downvote me by all means :)
Generalizations are useful, because they allow us to efficiently reason about the world. Eschewing them because of the content-free statement that "everyone is unique" leads us to a worse, not better, situation. Of course, this does not mean we should allow blatant racism, but in the real world it is useful to say things that are true but not necessarily nice.

Or, if you want, you can stay in Katie-land:

https://youtu.be/b47wP_yMCf4
As someone with a degree in economics, I've always had a soft spot for some of the Libertarian ideas. Which makes me sad that they so often get abused and co-opted.

I worry that it's appeal to young, white, single men is somewhat self-reinforcing and has the potential to lead any political party based on its principals rapidly to fascism.

Turns out, based on the history presented here, that my worry may have already come to pass.
That's pretty cool!
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The point isn't about audio quality. It's about having a free and open way to do it at all!

Who cares what uses it has? It's a whole new area of capability. Somebody could find a new use for it. If we limit our choices based what's currently possible, we get nowhere.
The wierd thing is that this has been supported for years. Firefox has a compile-time flag that allows it to use operating system codecs, it is just not activated in the official binaries. (I think it also uses a codec whitelist on some OSes, and you have to comment out a line.) On Windows, it used DirectShow codecs, on Linux GStreamer, and on OS X probably quicktime. It's great to be able to just point the browser to a file on the local net and be able to play everything the system can play (and even if it couldn't load the system codec, it could load a MPlayer plugin).

I used this for a while on Linux when there was a codec war between Firefox and Chrome (forgot the details), but I could play videos that normally only played in Chrome without problems.

Browser vendors cite usability problems (if one person's browser supports more codecs than the default, then it is confusing for other people with the default browser... and the person with more codecs might create websites that depend on this), and stability problems (plugins in any form have a bad reputation, but actually the default OS media player codecs are of pretty good quality as they are excercised thoroughly). But honestly, I think it is mostly politics that this is not enabled.
What? You cannot do this in every democratic country?

The government should be transparent, therefore everything the government bodies do that does not obviously need to be protected should be public.
The full text can be found here.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000185466.pdf

Japans request is basically "Please don't Brexit or if you must pretend that you did, but don't really..."

Brexit, will lead to an unforced reevaluation of the UKs governmental system by its people. The entire Brexit concept is the most radical development ever started by a conservative party in government.
Thinking about this from the perspective of the Japanese, they've got little to lose by making this kind of threat. Either the British government give them a deal that is just as good or better than they have now to encourage them to stay, or they give them a good excuse to move their manufacturing elsewhere.

The real issue is when a community is overly reliant on jobs from a small number of employers. That gives the employers more leverage when it comes to extortion tactics like this.
DigitalOcean is the source of many DDoS attacks. They've got a lot of compromised servers on their network and ignore abuse complaints.
Indeed the most likely scenario appears to be the 'Norwegian model', where the UK in essence remains in the single market and thus will have to follow European regulations but will have a much smaller say when it comes to the future direction of the EU. They will, however, have officially left the EU so the leave camp can pat their shoulders over their Pyrrhic victory.
Totally agree, and I would add that critical thinking leads quickly to positions that are not generally accepted.
GoDaddy, among others, host servers that are a major source of DDoS attacks. I am not sad that they are also victims.
In Canada emergency vehicles use flashing red and white lights. Blue are snow plows.
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It's really incredible that three months after the vote, we still haven't the slightest idea what post-Brexit UK will look like. Will they go for the EEA (the least destructive option), or will they - as Theresa May threatens - sacrifice everything just to limit immigration?

Three months after the biggest decision in decades, and the subject is barely even being talked about seriously in the UK. I don't understand it.
It turns out that enforcing political correctness has costs.
this "warning" was totally unnecessary and those kinds of acts go without saying anyway. Whoever wrote it up doesn't realize that this attempt at posturing makes them looks weak rather than strong.
The bottom line is that it would be economic suicide to leave the single market, and both sides of the debate know this. If they do leave the EU it will mainly be a proforma move and their single market status will be affected less, if at all.
In northern Ohio bicycling all year is becoming more practical as there is less snow lately. Parts of Canada may have a lot more snow and severe cold.
I won't downvote you but I will question your choice of terms. You do realise there were rational arguments for wanting to leave the EU? It wasn't all about racism.
I think that the EU will. The UK economy is a significant part of the EU economy but the interests of continental governments are now aligned against the UK. They are basically all thinking what can we get out of the UK, their horsetrading has started and the UK has a lot less horses to trade. There are just to many people the UK has to please at once to make the exit smooth for the UK.

But for the next 2.5 years you wont really see it. In 2.5 years the crisis will start. Just like the Swiss are only now starting to sweat.
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Italy did the same in 2008, publishing a list with 2005 tax returns info, causing public uproars. The list was then removed (and never been published again) after the Italian Data Protection Authority ruled it infringed citizens' privacy.

Needless to say, the data is still available through P2P networks: https://torrentproject.se/?t=redditi+2005
They seem useful for prototyping design decisions, but less so for structural needs. Ie, i'm pretty bad at design, i can iterate to something i like, but it's slow and not something i enjoy. If i need a design for a side project, i'm not going to want to spend much (any, really) time thinking of fonts, colors that work together, etc. Frameworks can make that easy, atleast.

Also, there are elements of design in structure, too - ie how consistent you are with spaces between elements. I don't really want to think about any of these.
I think everyone in any position of power understands that they must remain in the single market - now the only question is how to position / sell this to the electorate.
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I am also confused. I think it's your last point - the gym should know the first four, at least for ones where you sign in/show your membership on arrival.

I'm also not sure what the gym would do with most of that information.