skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly the point, but the other way around.

If the timestamp is defined in local time (e.g. "a meeting is scheduled for 15:00 every second thursday") and you generate a list of the next events as UTC, and then the DST rules change, you have to go in and fix all the UTC timestamps for future events.

If you store local time + timezone name, the stored time doesn't have to change, and if you need it in UTC for display you can calculate it on the fly, using the most recent rules you know.

If intervals are more important (e.g. do something every 30 minutes, or exactly every 24 hours), then UTC is better, or if you are recording events as they happen.
What are the best strategies for preparing for the GMAT?
Thanks, replaced it with a better example.
It is relatively easy to have multiple users sessions open at the same time. Whether this is a good idea with X windows GUIs is another matter.
I like Jeremy Leggett's monthly "State of The Transition". Note, the author is firmly in the renewable sector, so not exactly unbiased.

The latest: http://www.jeremyleggett.net/2016/11/state-of-the-transition...
We run a global booking service. Fixed timezones are simple to accommodate, but abolishing daylight savings would save me hours of scribbling clock faces.

The issue is that when someone books a given time across a DST change, you need to adjust the unix timestamp in the right direction. And in my experience, your first guess at the direction is always wrong - even if you know your first guess is always wrong.

Still, I guess that making a few developer's lives easier is less important than saving several lives a year due to reduced pedestrian deaths.
I think you have to identify what problem you are trying to solve. Your site essentially charges by the number of properties which presumes there is value in them building a site with just their properties.

Do real estate agents have a problem listing their properties?

In the U.S., there are a number of property listing sites and, presumably, there is value in seeing listings from multiple realtors, not just one.

So...

Is your site really solving a problem that realtors are trying to solve?

If not, does open sourcing make this service more valuable?
I think that you are under-estimating the processing power required to do speech to text.

The likes of Siri and Alexa use large computer clusters in the cloud to do their stuff. The phone is merely an I/O device.

Since the RPi has about the same processing power as a cheap smartphone, you might get more usable results using Google Cloud for both speech to text and text to speech.
I mean, I'm pretty sure you can lock the bootloader again after you've unlocked it.
You're right. For future events it does make sense to record the local time zone. Thanks for the clear explanation.
Sure, as a novelty. Who here has ever seen one like that in the wild? And yes, I think 24 is much harder to read, and not necessary either - in those situations where you don't know (when looking at a clock) whether it's 3am or 3pm, you have much bigger issues to worry about :)
The time the sun rises and sets drifts around (and drifts differently depending on how far north you go). It's really a separate thing that you should have an almanac (or an approximate expression) for.
At least since the invention of SI prefixes
As a father of 7, I agree. You have to train your children how and when to sleep or someone is going to be up once or twice every night for years to come.
your tax dollars at work (doing some excellent work) :
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/

this is new and a little lightweight (don't sign up for their email, it's got some really insulting promotional stuff):
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/
1. It's frowned upon for you to talk to women in coffee shop, you can't get Tinder dates and you don't like getting matched with plus sized women, so marry a woman from 'back home', I think you can find a woman who is educated also. (And please don't flinch just because they're from home - otherwise you're doing the same thing other women are doing to you) Hurry up you're hitting the wall soon.

2. Learn to pray and meditate. (The grateful kind of praying and wishing things for others, as opposed to the wishing for things for yourself kind)

3. Make a friend with a psychologist and see him or her in private off the record. Best get one who is spiritual from your own religion.

Pretty simple.
How do you guys deal with grandparents / family members / other 'grown-ups' that don't know and or don't follow your 'laws?'
It is not an acronym. It is indeed an abbreviation for 'facsimile.' FAX is a common mis-rendering.
Hubbert was dead on correct about peak oil for conventional sources.
Versor Geometric Algebra Library
>I am, however, dubious about Jack Welch as a role model. Steve Ballmer's adoption of Welch's employee performance system did more damage to Microsoft than any other single policy I can think of.

I think people can apply something as clear as an equation the wrong way, let alone what a person says. Just because I can't make the maths work doesn't mean mathematics don't work. Maybe I'm just clumsy.

I've become aware of the resentment some people have towards Welch after reading "Winning" (which I liked a lot). I'm not familiar with the controversy, but from what I have seen, Welch is revered by a lot of people too.

It appears GE's valuation increased 4000% when he was at the helm. Though the S&P was +1400% in 2000 with respect to 1980. A bull market.

Here's GE under Welch during the boom:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v4hgl8zpzrtg34k/Welch_GE_SP.png?dl...

Here's GE from 2001 when he left (dealing with two crashes must have been terrible for Immelt):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k6gk4vztyzvxnp0/GE_2001_2016.png?d...
What's wrong with this? Would it also be wrong if Facebook changed their algorithm but deployed the update to 100℅ of users?

If not, why is 50℅ somehow bad while 100℅ is ok?
Remote for US only?
Thank you for this comment. It clearly captures a nagging feeling I have wrt to the general idea floated frequently in tech circles that somehow, the emotional "baggage" of a conversation is an impediment to be suspended by agreement rather than a valid channel of the conversation. It also frequently feels like special pleading: "Please limit the conversation to the aspects with which I'm comfortable," which is deeply ironic when one is asking to exclude other's comfort.

I can imagine certain people in certain conversations usefully applying Crocker's rule, but I suspect that, in practice, it's more frequently a bludgeon used as another commenter in this thread did: as a ground rule to which all (should) implicitly consent in order to value some tokenized version of "free speech".
Bitcoin mining uses lots of integer manipulation. AMD cards are faster for integer operations. Hence bitcoin miners used to use AMD cards.
The fact that two reasonable people like you can argue about it proves his point that Facebook shouldn't censor people's posts because they don't fit the mainstream narrative.
Using 90 or 45 angles is a restriction on your design, not a feature. Also, it would be naive to assume that they dropped those constraints just for the lulz.
do you mean 50%
So instead of multiple clocks, you tape sticky notes on your one clock when different cities have high noon.

You must always do the translation, with or without a universal time zone. The difference is that with universal time, it discards the entire set of translations around scheduling conversion that already happen, and it fixes the horrible mess of anyone living near a time zone boundary being in perpetual scheduling hell.
The tone of the parents "in comparison with" others. I am not arguing that they were good or poor parents, but I think it is arrogant to assume they were completely ignorant.

They were talking about well after the physical addiction aspects would have subsided. Their issue was that they could not stay off of the drugs, beyond just the issues immediately following quitting.
well i still think it's a lot of money to run a site like this!
When I've spoken to folks running infrastructure, for a lot of companies straightforward advice such as this always worked to cut costs:
Move from Heroku/whatever other managed provider for your actual database/worker/webserver as costs will rise as you scale
Start using AWS Reserved Instances and Spot Instances (or similar) for your workloads

Advice such as this has often saved > 30k/month hosting. The caveat is these were mostly SaaS companies dealing with data.

Interestingly enough in Unspash's case, their actual cost on Heroku/etc is fairly minimal as they don't seem to be doing much with the data. If they start building things that collect a lot more user data, run ads, do lots of stuff with it transforming user data, run analytics, etc., their heroku infrastructure will be a bottleneck. Right now, it's not.
This description of how business is done on Japan makes me sad. It can't be all true, I really hope I didn't get the jokes and the author is exaggeration facts more than he described.
I was recently featured[1] in collection #127, and as a long time user it feels really awesome to give back and let others use my work.

I've also been to a few of their NYC meetups and it's clear that the site is backed by an amazing community.

1 - https://unsplash.com/collections/curated/127?photo=jYYpTndzo...
great points; yes, the challenge becomes considerably more challenging with MCMC!
Facebook modified certain users' feeds to only show "sad" or "negative" posts and effectively hide "happy" or "positive" posts, while simultaneously doing the opposite to others' feeds. Grade A+ psychologically manipulative experiment. This is why I don't engage in the Facebook nonsense anymore.
>I think I'm just parsing this wrong

Yes. Grantparent asked "How does the Unsplash license [1] differ from the Creative Commons Zero license?" and parent answered: "All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero" implies literally nothing".

Which should be read as meaning "implies literally nothing [is different between the two licenses]" -- and not that what they wrote means nothing.
Even if the glue failed, the cards inside may still be worth something, especially from that early. But highly dependent on the set. Check here for the expected value in cost to buy of the cards inside each pack, opened, but in very good condition (i.e. effectively TCGPlayer mid pricing): http://mtg.dawnglare.com/?p=sets&pack=1
The inprovement in question is pretty tenuous, beyond the bias of believing your preferences are superior.
When you travel now you have to either adjust your clocks anyway. If you have software changing the time, you can also have software adjusting your alarms.

The difference is that your expectation of your circadian rhythm never moves. You know when you classically eat and sleep, and unless other appointments require you to disrupt that cycle it is often best to stick with what you know when traveling than disrupt those cycles for whatever span of time you are away from home.

Even if you do not, it is incredibly simple to shift your planning the number of hours according to the shift in sunrise time wherever you are, because you already have to do that with time zones anyway.
> The nice part of using going through a photo agency or pro photography that despite the extra paperwork and cost, you know you have the rights.

They say that you have the rights, but "pro" photo sites have also been found guilty in the past of either intentionally or not, misappropriating and onselling copyrighted images that they had no right to.

Perhaps the terms of agreement will protect you as the end user (purchaser) of those images, but will it in all cases? Could the fact that you purchased copyrighted images in a commercial transaction actually make it worse as it opens you up to punitive damages or other legal action?
you can't seriously believe indias rape problem is "normal" or that it's not an issue compared to other countries. It's an order of magnitude worse.
>If NVIDIA can't be asked to fully support their hardware on Linux, the least they can do is release some documentation so the Nouveau devs don't need to grope in the dark.

I don't disagree in principle, but they've killed it, releasing information to make it work might be a problem for them, and since this thing is no longer supported adding compatibility for older devices isn't a high priority for them.

It worked poorly on many windows machine, it's effectively still doesn't work on Windows 10 [0] and it's been effectively killed since 2014.

[0]https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/860554/geforce-mobi...

It's also worth noting that NVIDIA couldn't get the darn thing to work on Linux, it's also worth noting that AMD also had/has similar issues with PowerXpress on non-Iris based Intel CPUs, it does somewhat work well on AMD's own CPU's with integrated graphics and it's more modern "APUs".

>Do you have a source for this?

Source for what? under Iris Intel the CPU handles the switching between GPUs not that it works that well, but it doesn't work well on most OSs other than windows mostly due to how the display driver infrastructure is setup and how the composition manager works (even on OSX you still likely to want to use gpu-switch than rely on the OS).

If you want to blame some one blame the OS tbh, if OSX and Linux had proper user mode display drivers like WDDM, had modern display drivers like WDDM and actually had a composition manager capable of using multiple GPUs then there might be better solutions for this.

But overall it works, it does require you to use the proprietary drivers from both NVIDIA and Intel but it works, at least on Ubuntu I never had issues with following a similar guide to this http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/04/switch-intel-nvi... (reading the comments on that guide it seems that it missing an important part which is apt-get install nvidia-prime) So this just works...

To switch between the 2 on demand you can simply use these commands:

-prime-select intel

-prime-select nvidia

On other distros (or if you are not using nvidia-prime) you might need to use /proc/acpi/bbswitch
And modprobe/rmmod to do the switching, there are bash scripts online ready to use which are available as long as you have the proper drivers installed.

P.S.
Sorta OT but relevant: http://i.imgur.com/Ql1dsZC.jpg
The most important principle for current technologies is #1, “Don’t change any properties besides opacity or transform!”

Hopefully everyone will start copying the approach Servo uses in its WebRender engine which is basically treating the browser rendering as though it were a game, using the GPU for rendering everything; therefore guidelines like this become obsolete.

This applies to a slightly lesser extent with #2, “Hide content in plain sight.” #3 is also obsolete in Servo, as is #7, mostly.
In Quebec, 24 hour time has changed from being a nerd thing, to being the standard way of saying time. That's how the media pronounces time, how people write it down, etc. As others have mentioned, cell phones probably have something to do with that too.
Isn't all versions of Android are now rootable with Dirty COW?

https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_COW
I work in M&A. Yes this is how M&A happens.
I don't understand why they call it an Unsplash license. I would have understood (and been thrilled by) this immediately if I had realized it was CC-0.
Measure B is mainly roads, with little for transit. Does anyone trust VTA to manage mass transit development?

Funds for transit should come from fuel taxes, vehicle license fees, and development fees. Sales tax increases are very regressive and a terrible way to pay for transit. But that's always what the Silicon Valley Non-Leadership Group favors because it avoids their members having to ante up for the transportation problems they create.

Glad the NYT article author at least quoted me correctly. He was going to characterize me as "anti-growth," which is completely false. Growth is just fine as long as it's sustainable growth with transportation, housing, and school impact taken into consideration. But developers don't want to take a systems view and look at the long-term impact of their projects.
As a referral source for new business in your marketing budget it would be a very good investment even if it only generated $150000 a month in new business. And I have no doubt they are getting a heck of a lot more from it than that.
The point was that people have a rhythm dictated more by the sun's relative position than the time on the clock.
China officially does this, but if you travel to some western provinces, you will find that people still secretly keep their own informal local time.
I discovered geometric algebra about a year ago, and it's been eye-opening. Bought the book Geometric Algebra for Computer Science.

The Versor library looks really useful, and the guy's PhD is a must-read: http://versor.mat.ucsb.edu/ArticulatingSpace.pdf

From the site:

GA combines many other maths (matrix, tensor, vector, and lie algebras). It is holistic. CGA uses a particular mapping (a conformal one) of 3D Euclidean space to a 4D sphere. Operations on that hypersphere are then projected back down to 3D. That how it works in a nutshell.

[...] basically, Geometric Algebra offers a particular richness of spatial expression. Imagine needing glasses and not knowing you needed glasses. Then, when you do get glasses, the world changes unexpectedly. GA is like glasses for the inside of your brain. Conformal Geometric Algebra, especially the 5D variety enlisted here, are like x-ray glasses.
If you think ransomware affects the aggregate that much, i'd call that hyperopic.
American English is all about factions. The use of 24hour time gives the impression that the speaker has ties to the military, which is a rather high percentage of the US population. I've had several people correct my use of 24-hour time (ie 0945) as being "dramatic" and that 9:45am is more "friendly". I had one person comment after a talk I gave (lots of slides with timestamps) that they thought I was talking down to the many military and former military people in the room. But the slides were originally created for Canadian university students. I'd used them several times north of the boarder. There, nobody noticed the timestamps as anything other than functional.

Whatever you do, don't mention metric time in the US. The 10-hour days and 100-day months that we find so normal drives them insane.
From a metagame and game balance perspective Control and combo are totally different, unless they are mingled in the same deck.

In a typical Academy deck (pure combo) you just built a 56 card combo deck and slammed in 4 force of wills for protection. A game will another is only slightly harder to win than a game against a goldfish. If the metagame decisions around your control go beyond "How do I defeat the one thing that stops me" you probably weren't playing an optimal version of that deck. Academy decks should be winning before turn 3 100% of the time.

Someone mentioned Prosbloom, I was under the impression it won 3 or 4 with a city of solitude in play. Pretty much the only question you need to ask about that metagame is "How do deal with someone stopping my turn 2 squandered resources?". Versions dealt with that with copious use of 4x enlightened tutor and 4x vampiric tutor, not a real metagame choice.

In Illusions/Donate (combo/control) you build and play a blue/white control deck with a win condition that sometimes saves you the hassle of having to interact. You are still playing a two player game with removal and sometimes even creatures, but your wins come in fast from nowhere. There were several ways to interfere because the win could come well after control was seized or sometimes just before the aggro player attempts to win.

Try pulling off anything of that consistency when you cannot run duplicates of your combos and need to run 100 cards. This is what EDH looks like. Actual thought on deck design because you can't easily build a well oiled machine from cookie cutter parts. When running it feels like trying to win a race while building the racecar from secondhand parts. There is immense challenge and complex decisions.

The combo decks look totally different and barring an extreme outliers (Arcum Dagson and Narset) it is nearly impossible to build a deck that wins consistently without actual board interaction.
For friends and family of newborns:

Hold the advice unless it is asked for (and don't be offended if it is then ignored)

Looking after the baby may not be what the new parents would prefer you to do. Offer to do chores - laundry, shopping, bins, cleaning etc. Don't be offended if they also take the opportunity to sleep.

If you are giving presents - include something that is purely for the mum that is not related to motherhood - great book, fave. magazines, skin care makeup etc. as appropriate.
I have the suspicion that their overlay drawing is fairly low level as it seems to manage to draw over programs which are injection unfriendly and exclusive fullscreen.

Evidently it does not handle getting the rug pulled from under itself well. :)
6 months ago I wrote a couple little scripts to download new unsplash into a directory every 6 hours. Then I pointed macos to use random images from that directory for wallpapers. The whole thing is great - its a source of tiny delight throughout my week. Its also a small step toward making my workspace feel more hackable.

The whole thing was super hacked together - I'm sure there's nicer solutions around but I'm plenty happy with what I have. Details here if anyone wants to copy what I did: https://josephg.com/blog/shiny-background-images/
While Heroku charges a small premium over other hosting services

The "small premium" is not small at all.
LIBELAS: Library for Efficient Large-Scale Stereo Matching
So mister Dauthi, playing some mono black shadow?
That's another issue, but it can also lose other data which will cause warnings but play most likely with correct color reproduction.

I don't have such a source file handy to reproduce, but if you try enough ISO MP4 containers with H246, you will hit one where this is the case.

Is `-t` different from `-to` which I've been using?
My point was more in the second para, that 12 hour clocks aren't a platonic ideal, they are likely a result of practical demands. We make 12 hour dials rather than having them thrust upon us.
A sample size of 1-10 C's isn't necessarily better than a sample size of 100ks of users who aren't intimately interested in their privacy. I think C's don't have the time to think about the multitude of possible workflows in their apps. On the other hand developers are so intimately familiar with their apps that they have a hard time "not knowing" what to do.
12*30+1 = 361.

One solar year: 365.24219 x (86400s days).
"climate change deniers"

What does that mean and how is it relevant?

CO2 is not causing the smog and elevated PM 2.5/10 levels in Delhi.
> 30 day months, with 1 New Year's Day

And the other 4 days?
About white male privilege
Sure...but you'll get what you pay for. It's unlikely that Getty, Mangum, Ford Models, etc, is going to risk screwing over their reputation or their photographers. But you go through a "pro" on Craigslist, then who knows
I have the feeling that it is fairly recent. When I was a kid, I think that nobody used it regularly, then it started to be used on the radio and TV, and then, when I came back home after having spent 8 years abroad, I was surprised to hear it used by the average citizen.

I am not fond of it. It is heavy and in most use cases, doesn't bring more information than 1-12, because the context makes generally obvious to know if we're talking about AM or PM.
Well, for one thing, a great many people commute to their jobs. For another, I doubt the zones would be far enough apart in hyper-local time for this to actually help congestion at all. That's before we account for headaches of the time changing six times as you drive to the grocery store.