skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did markets function prior to HFT? They're only facilitating exchange between other algorithms, right? And in that case how is it helpful to the market?

Note I'm actually asking these questions - not just being rhetorical. The whole concept of it seems plainly ridiculous to me but I don't know much about this area.
I'm not French (though I studied in France) I think that's why companies think that they can "push" me to sign without negotiation.

For the 35 hours, indeed the contract says that I'll need to work 35 in standard pay, plus 5 hours with 10% bonus.

(They calculated the salary for 40 hours and not 35 ... Which seemed dishonest to me)
some fake news doesnt care about changing your mind OR reinforcing your opinion. it's just pandering for a click, for ad revenue.
2016 Election – Digital Transformation at the State Level
I friend of mine who works as a translator said that the hardest thing for him to learn was to translate a badly written sentence in the original into to an equally badly written sentens in the target language. The first couple of books he translated he kept getting into trouble for trying to improve the author's language and punctuation.
What Is Virtualization Software? And Why Do You Need It?
Show HN: A tiny Frinkiac and Morbotron client, written in Swift 3
Yikes...
My hurricane was just terrible. I ended up with a scribbled mess because I got that in the first set or two, didn't really have a plan and drew components of a hurricane as I remembered them.

I'm also ashamed to admit I drew some less than ideal stuff due to forgetting details on things and then panicking because of the timer. Like the spots on a panda's face for some odd reason.

Hopefuly my drawings were treated as outliers.
There is a problem with software engineers. Narcissism.

Its disturbing how many software discussion boards routinely refer to other people as dumb or ignorant.

It's as if everyone should leave their area of expertise and become software engineers.

This kind of hubris that allows some to think they are better than others only paves the way for people to dehumanize others and behave unethically.

And we have seen after decades of posing as champions of freedom and liberty nearly the entire industry has been co-opted into the surveillance economy or state surveillance programs without so much as a murmur with Snowden left holding the baby of these pretensions.
This is my go to when trying to figure out why a regex isn't working how it should.
Export Font Awesome to inline image or mouse cursor

https://beryl-seed.hyperdev.space/
Is it legal in any state?
True, the author is no doctor, but in this case this is not the only drug available.

In the article:

“The quiz doesn’t work,” she said.

“Oh. What’s broken?” I asked.

“Well, it seems that no matter what I do, the quiz recommends the client’s drug as the best possible treatment. The only exception is if I say I’m allergic. Or if I say I am already taking it.”
Flicking to the next song whilst driving - if you dont see any particular danger in that it may be worth having a look at this recent event in the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37823457

Family killed by a truck driver doing exactly this, including dashcam footage showing how quickly this happens if you are distracted for even a tiny amount of time. Very scary.

Timing at high speed has a lot to do with it, and lots of things can distract drivers from the road but the margin of error is slim here and so it seems very reasonable to legislate against this.
SO many anecdotes we could share. Mine is, I contracted out to do work on an 80211 radio. The company wanted quicker connections on bands reserved for emergency communications in many countries. The FCC rule was, listen before you talk. But its quicker to ping the access point immediately. Quicker but illegal, and obstructive to emergency communications.

I refused flatly. Phrased it as 'as a contractor I'd be liable. I don't have deep pockets'. So they just got an employee to do it, who had absolutely no compunctions about it.

Its not so much that a company wants to do wrong things. Its that there's always an engineer willing to do them.
It started with the Project for the New American Century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...

"Of the twenty-five people who signed the PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz."

They were planning this for a long time.
I lost trust in climate "science" after the climategate emails were made public some years ago. Maybe it is time people were reminded of what these folks really do.
That's what I'm saying. The reason there is register documentation for that Allwinner CPU is because it's a bog standard ARM. They pretty much just copied it.

That doesn't really speak to Allwinners open-source embracing nature.
Here is a more up-to-date map from 2014[0]:

[0]http://www.btselem.org/download/201411_btselem_map_of_wb_eng...
Lua Newsletter(still WIP): http://luadigest.immortalin.com

Merlot (Rapid website builder, WIP): https://github.com/Immortalin/Merlot

Kloudtrader (Trading platform): http://kloudtrader.com
I agree with you totally. I'm sure the author feels some responsibility for having some played some part of this, but it's the pharma company that should be ashamed.

With regards to advertising, I'm from the UK so we don't get much medical advertising, but in the US it is crazy. Half the adverts in commercial breaks seem to be for medicines with half a dozen potential side effects.

> Then, if a visitor could prove they had a prescription, they were given access to a patient portal with more specific info about the drug.

I assume that it was just further information about the drug. In the UK only a doctor can prescribe controlled medicines. I assume it's the same in Canada... if so it's for the doctor, who has had years of training in this field, to prescribe the correct drug. Yes, some drugs cause side effects for some people, and medicines need to be adjusted/changed as a result. We don't know how many people died as a result of the medicine, but that's what government regulation should deal with not allowing untested drugs to be sold.

> We’re approaching a time where software will drive the vehicle that transports your family to soccer practice. There are already AI programs that help doctors diagnose disease. It’s not hard to imagine them recommending prescription drugs soon, too.

For me this was the most (and only) important paragraph of the post.
What are advantages over Google BigQuery? - if somebody is not bounded by existing Amazon products (EC2, databases etc.).
For $9 per user per month, this seems like not a bad option. Does it have a TV mode for your KPIs, or is that a use case where you still need to use Ducksboard or whatever?
It's absolutely possible to retain idiom, phrasing and even the poetry of a text, all while retaining meaning. Particularly if the source and target languages are culturally and linguistically similar. In fact you have to, as the translation has to retain the original meaning. The tradeoff is in not losing the above.

But sometimes that's not necessary. A reference, guide or manual, for instance. A contract. A patent. Records of legal proceedings. Scientific/medical texts. Dozens/hundreds of examples where it's not necessary.

Fiction, that's another matter, but it doesn't account for anywhere near the majority of the world's $40bn annual spend on translation.

And if you like the original so much, you can always learn the language ;)
Well, it can at least be in situations where incumbants lobby for needlessly complex regulation to stifle competition. See: for example tax code and fda process for epipen alternatives.

And just for an, albeit small, recent example [1], where there could easily exist better solutions, and the regulation could be worded more generally instead of giving specific mandates.

I'm sure there are more and much better examples, but as with everything we humans do, there are good practices and bad practices.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502082110/...
> electing the "right" set of congresspeople should fix that, but it hasn't

It's much more likely that we haven't elected the right set than it is that the right set is utterly incapable of doing their job.

> We've now 2 congressional elections since the first Snowden revelations and congress still seems to be generally in support of the surveillance.

If the issue were important enough to the majority of people then being in favor of this would make it very hard to get elected, as would being unwilling to pass laws outlawing it.
Koch invests $2B in Infor
The mid 2012 Pro still got 7/10

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unibody+...
Strange one from Amazon. They've always provided cloud infrastructure services for building and launching apps, QuickSight departs from this - it's a ready to use app.

The logic must be: more money in apps than infrastructure.

Opposite of Google, they have the apps and now want the infrastructure too - I think it's a mistake for Amazon to go down this route, there is too much competition in this space and so far playing with QuickSight I don't see anything new/different from other analytics apps available on Amazon marketplace [1].

It feels like an experiment vs. a new direction for the company

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/b/2649336011?ref_=gtw_nav...
Deep Learning AI Made More Rational by MIT
1. sun

2. animal migration

that escalated quickly...
I don't get why he didn't consider orgies ... this is definitely for orgies, right? The drunk thing is a cover.
Relevant PSA to file away:

http://goo.gl/zxcvb2+ (toy link, doesn't work)

Note the + at the end: it gives you a detailed statistics page that also tells you what the URL points to.

(NB, the stats come from JSON that seems easy to fetch; ratelimiting/"that's not a browser"-checking untested.)
Not OP. In my state, it is illegal, but we're pansies, and so a cop can't stop you for it - they can only cite you if they pull you over for something else.

You may be interested in this site that summarizes the state of the U.S. with regards to cellphone usage while driving laws: http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/cellular-phone-u...

Summary:

Hand-held Cell Phone Use Ban: 14 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands prohibit all drivers from using hand-held cell phones while driving.

All Cell Phone ban: No state bans all cell phone use for all drivers, but 37 states and D.C. ban all cell phone use by novice or teen drivers, and 20 states and D.C. prohibit any cell phone use for school bus drivers.

Text Messaging ban: 46 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands ban text messaging for all drivers.

-2 states prohibit text messaging by novice or teen drivers.
-3 states restrict school bus drivers from texting.
"Opus supports all bitrates from 6 kbit/s to 510 kbit/s." https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#section-2.1.1

Here's a public listening test conducted between Opus, AAC and Vorbis at ~105 kbit/s: http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
Would be nice to support other currencies
The article also mentioned nothing about the drug being sold on the website either. I presume they must have had to go to a doctor to get a prescription which they would then take to a pharmacy to get the drug... so going to the doctor and saying "I took this questionnaire and it said I have X. I need drug Y" means there are problems elsewhere in the system.
Helmand province FOBs (at least when I was there) were Hesco barriers, artificial dirt berms 8+ meters high and trenches. Some FOBs repurposed pre-built infrastructure and reinforced it with Hesco barriers, but there was very little concrete. I'm sure it looks a bit different these days, but we did not have concrete in most AOs.
The remote working proximity paradox
The touch bar is a separate computer isn't it? So you'd have to do a lot to get both to hang at the same time.

And the power button on the laptops has been part of the keyboard for years now.
I would also like to add that not all Ibuprofen pills are equal. Biological availability should be taken into account too. 400mg pills with 90% of availability will have the same effect for pain as 600mg pills with 60% of availability. But they'd likely have different effects on stomach/kidney.
Sounds like something that needs translating and sharing with the world! Find a publisher, if your family is on-board?
I translated this line from the New York Times - "The dismissals followed the abrupt firing on Friday of Gov. Chris Christie" to Tamil. It translated "firing" as துப்பாக்கி சூடு (Gunfire). Maybe it needs to infer the contextual meaning from the earlier word "dismissals"?
What does that have to do with anything at all? The morale of the story is he or she heard something on the six o'clock news and recommend the sister stop treatment based on that. That's extremely improper advice.

The author is apparently upset about assisting in giving what they believe to be improper medical advice so they proceeded to give improper medical advice themselves.

There's also a huge logical flaw to go from "this drug had a side effect that may have caused death in one person" to "this drug is inappropriate for my sister"
They did very similar things in 2004, after recovering a laptop in Afghanistan with plans to attack several major NY buildings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_financial_buildings_plot#....

Note that these barriers are much less obtrusive than even a jersey barrier, this is something with which NYPD has plenty of experience in a very different light than the article
There were lots of those in place during the recent UN General Assembly

In the UK we've been using them for a long time to provide protection for people working on motorways i.e. separate traffic from lanes where work is going on
you're speaking as someone who takes a wildly extreme position

so the mild liberal/left views in The Guardian seem like "wildly extreme" positions to you

probably you live in a right-wing social media echo chamber
Ok, maybe the initial position, mentioning endorsements, was very strict.

A tool, maybe in your case is a development or design tool, can become a generic skill. It is common to get a rating/review for something that it's not that personal and it can come from a stranger. Maybe we can think about ebay reviews or stackoverflow upvotes.

Although the problem from this point of view remains, it can be a large improvement in general ratings and reviews.

I hope this helps!
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> people can take personal action

They can, but it won't help. Just watch Mythbusters to understand that things you don't consume will be consumed by someone else. When we need to divide our emissions by 10, people who make an effort won't offset people who don't.

Carpooling won't help enough. Economy cars won't help. Renewable heating won't help. Wind turbines won't help. All of that together will never even divide your consumption by 2, plus since we save money by using less energy, we have more money available that we spend on other carbon-emitting products. We need everyone to take action, so that the ecologist worker isn't disadvantaged in his life compared to the meat/petrol/flight/wasteful worker. Let's look at the numbers:

- Nature absorbs 3GtC per year [1] (Giga-tons of carbon. 1t of Carbon = 3.7t of CO2).

- We'll be 9 billion people on Earth in 2050, so each human can emit 0.333tC per year (or 1.23t of CO2). The argument that some (USA) consume more than others (Philippines) is offset by the facts that the development of most poor countries is soaring (hear: China will access the consumer market just like USA) and the poor also use inefficient and polluting processes.

- So our goal is 1.23t of CO2 (=0.333t of carbon) per person per year. We emit 22t of CO2 per year in USA, 9t in France, 5.5t in Romania and 4t in China. You can calculate the rate for yourself [3].

And that's only to come back to nature-reasonable footprints. If we want to offset the carbon that's already in the air, we need to make even more effort.

So the effort in every industrialized country is to divide our emissions by ~10, which is unreachable by simple personal action.

[1] https://www.manicore.com/anglais/documentation_a/greenhouse/...

[2] http://carbonfootprintofnations.com/content/environmental_fo...

[3] http://www.carbonindependent.org/ - Carbon footprint calculator

Since you too believe in the power of markets, a huge tax on carbon will advantage those who emit fewer CO2 and will be much easier to manage for corporations than any regulation. It has to be offset by lowering other taxes, so we don't increase the global tax pressure on the economy. It just has to be high enough so that all the cost of global warming weighs on CO2 emitters only, which probably means some types of jobs (e.g. half of car factories) belong to the past. But it's either that, or a global warming that creates such pressure on our civilizations that we might live in endless wars.
I've considered whether it would be a good system to give voters a certain number of votes greater than 1, say 10, which they can allocate to candidates as they see fit, say 7 for candidate A, 2 for B, 1 for C. Votes would be summed for each candidate and a weighted random selection of candidate would be made.
It is entirely passively cooled. The GTX 950 has a thermal profile (TDP of 90W [0]. The 350W recommendation is for your entire system, it's not asking you to add 350W to the size of your current power supply. The Airtop can passively cool about 200W, so they put in a GPU at 90W TDP, and a CPU at 85W TDP

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9547/nvidia-launches-geforce-g...
"Greetings from the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and
Evolutionary Computation"

Well, that's fitting...
Hint.css - https://kushagragour.in/lab/hint
It started as a side project but now is the most used CSS tooltip library on the planet :)
Add to this, increasing green energy generation produces credits to sell, which enables more CO2 emissions.
This just reminded me how bad I am at Pictionary; I can't blame the AI for more poor doodling skills.

It's interesting how the 20 second time limit forces you to focus on broad shapes as opposed to details, which works well for pattern recognition.
The translation industry is $40bn/pa and growing at some 13% pa. Demand for human translation might well rise alongside these innovations as awareness of the benefits and ROI of good translation spreads.

But software's a good bet too ;)
The "curated news" is not a solution, its a bigger problem.

When you request top 10 voted posts thats what you get. Not the truth. If voters believe 1 like = 1 truth, then you have identified the problem with democracy that have always existed.

> Just like fake science is damaging to scientists. Fake scientific articles are read, quoted and shared through the scientific community and it can take a long time to weed out.

No its not. Scientist = Sceptic.
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Completely agree. While I like the idea that we all share some responsibility about the decisions we make, and I applaud you for yours, it shouldn't be on the implementor to fix. The companies/heads demanding this should be the ones liable, and heavily so.

To make a crude and polarizing comparison, especially since I happen to land somewhat on the other side of that argument:

You can't blame a tool (bat/knife/gun) for what its agent does with it. If one tool doesn't work for them, they'll get it done with something else.
These are all valid email addresses!

* "Abc\@def"@example.com

* "Fred Bloggs"@example.com

* "Joe\\Blow"@example.com

* "Abc@def"@example.com

* customer/department=shipping@example.com

* $A12345@example.com

* !def!xyz%abc@example.com

* _somename@example.com

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate...
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What you really mean is that it's hard to be upfront about saying "Cause your employer trouble over client needs that screw over the user" and still keep a job. The message itself can be crystal clear; broadcasting it where it actually means something is the challenge.
This is a very good point. I understand the comparison to Google Glass, but I don't think it's fair. Google openly experiments. Snapchat openly does not.

Normally this wouldn't bother me, but I see so many early 'start ups' that are just experiments, but because we create benchmarks like this - they put on fronts to be more than they are and we get this ecosystem of show-and-tell.
Dedicated probabilistic modeling environments are also gaining ground and may become standard in the near future.

The holy grail is something like: feed in some data, or parameters and have an algorithm generate the corresponding correct Bayesian inference and posterior distribution. It's very easy for scientists, even with years of knowledge and experience, to implement things incorrectly ;)

Check out Stan and Figaro:

http://mc-stan.org/

https://www.cra.com/technical-expertise/probabilistic-modeli...
It reminds me of Amstrad PC1512 in 1986 [1]:

> "Whereas IBM's PC (and almost all PC compatibles) had a power supply in a corner of the main case, the PC1512's power supply was integrated with that of its monitor. The monitor had sufficient venting to cool itself by convection, instead of needing a fan. The PC1512 was therefore quieter than other PCs. Rumours circulated that an Amstrad PC would overheat, and while existing owners would note that this did not happen, new buyers were discouraged. As a result, later models had a cooling fan integrated into the main case."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512
And yet the true power is the policy makers in governments and board rooms who have(had?) the ability to incentivize and influence adoption of more sustainable actions. These people make decisions every single day. Their primary motivation? Profit for them and theirs. Their business models & the global economy relies on people consuming & throwing shit away, thus creating jobs, increasing production and, in turn, infinite quarterly growth... jusy like a parasitoid or a cancer. The dichotomous messages is what irritates me to no end with every "don't change habits, buy X to reduce your carbon footprint" news piece run ad infinum every. single. day.

I don't have the answers and, luckily, I am not a policy maker or <hardware maker> would be fined for deprecating 2 year old equipment, producers would account for the residual effects of their products' existence after it's usefulness expired, etc..

Now everyone run out and get in that Black Friday line to binge buy all those new XYZs, they're so much newer than the last iterations!
Was it the boolean check that degraded performance or was branch misprediction inside a nested loop the root cause?

The solution you came to seems quite elegant but I'd be curious to see metrics with the debug_on check moved outside both loops.
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Good point, reminds me of this segment in an Adam Curtis documenatary titled "Oh Dear": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM

Basically the idea behind it is that this temporary empathy, followed by apathy and inaction by us after events is a political construct, to prevent the emergence of mass movements.
I think the purported liberal slant of the mainstream media is a separate (though related) issue from the blatantly-false news stories that come from both sides of the aisle, that permeate through social media platforms.