skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more of a description than an explanation. If they're trying to establish metaphor to the real world then this obviously simply doesn't meet the bar.
A carbon tax initiative was on the ballot in (very blue) Washington State, but sadly went down in flames. Which is strange considering how blue the state is.

A carbon tax is one of the best ways to address CO2 pollution.
The critical mass only happened, because it is written by Linus and a must have for anyone working with the Linux source code.

I very much doubt it would have succeed if it wasn't for those two factors.

As such I would put it on the same basket as C, PHP and JavaScript, regarding adoption vs quality.

As for Github, it is just the new Sourceforge, helped by the way they mismanaged it.
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can anybody tell me why Apple didn't try harder to max out the battery??
apparently the 15" version has even more unused space:

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/15/2016-macbook-pro-non-removabl...

if this is really a compromise to hit some weight target I will have to join the "Apple don't care about the Pros anymore" camp...
It's again due to the ubiquity. Even if I get stuck in a git UX hellhole, I can do a google search and be 99% sure the top result is a StackOverflow post explaining the steps needed to recover.
"Doesn't have much market share" really depends I guess on your domain doesn't it? For example, if you're building something that's going to get a fair bit of mobile traffic iOS Safari would represent a fair chunk.

Besides, most applications of backdrop-filter would fit into 'progressive enhancement' and the rest of the browsers that don't support it would just fall back no a non-blurred transparent background which is fine most of the time.
You can use a mask to hide your face :), in case you are pointing the camera to your face ...

Also, video needs more bandwidth. Hosting a text comment implies storing and sending 500 bytes. A video is much much bigger and the browser support is more complicated.
I can recommend the NoFan passive heatsinks. The CR-80EH costs less than many premium HSFs and will easily cope with an i7-6700. It's now possible to achieve dead silent operation without compromising on performance or spending a fortune on exotic parts.

http://www.nofancomputer.com/eng/products/CR-80EH.php
Or Mohammad.
> The first mistake was for a free software project to require a proprietary one to participate in development.

This isn't true at all. Anyone could download the source code, tweak it, and submit patches. You can even use your own version control system to track your changes.

The project managers may have used bitkeeper, but to everyone else the only thing that bitkeeper provided was, at best, convenience.
The cron process can be killed by the oom_killer, resulting in missed crons. This may be aggrevated If the cron service is never respawned later.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people doing it are never spotted by police officers. I walk to work most days, and I can't remember the last time I didn't see at least one person (usually it's at least half a dozen on a 30 minute walk) texting while driving.

This morning, as I dropped my daughter off at school, some woman pulled off from the side of the road and drove about 30 yards before bothering to look up to see if there were any kids crossing.
I've been successful in getting a few friends to use Blackberry Messenger. It's polished, has a lot of useful features, and is now free.
I had the same experience with high volumes.

However, I think a lot of issues was due to documentation not being written at all (or being in very bad shape).
Thanks, I didn't realise that it was meant to be this way. To me, it sounded a bit like MSVC was the only option, and you had to install if for cross compiling.

Since this is actually harder to do (from your own post), I worry a bit that a beginner might try to do it right away, to the risk of failing at it.
To be fair, KAF would look like the picture on the right when a nice big dust storm kicks off.
I think it's fine to make adjustments, but the destroying, or making the raw data harder to obtain is unscientific and unethical.

I know we've moved on from Climate Gate but I didn't realize that actually happened IRL, and I thought that was one of the more important revelations.

The real problem with getting skeptics to believe is that agw is tarnished science. You have people saying things like "it didn't snow in Kansas in October, clearly global warming is real". The silence from the scientific community when people make statements like this tarnishes there validity of what they've actually proven.
Nice tool. What someone might should consider that you URLs are not private. They are quite guessable and each saving leads to an "increment" in the alphabet:
https://scri.ch/acc -> https://scri.ch/ace
I just found out about Element last weekend when I thought about porting the SemanticUI components we need to VueJS and looked for alternatives. It's fantastic to see an English version now, though Google Chrome already translated the site well enough to get started.

The only component I am missing is a from-to range slider to narrow results.

Element UI would even be better if it would share the same API with MintUI.
>Is 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 for content consumption?

Considering that using USB3 bandwidth disables WiFi[1], yes.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o
As my sibling has highlighted, there is a shadow on Windows 10 when one window hovers over another.
Weirdly, the popup menu on the desktop DOES have a shadow but the right-click menu on the start menu does not...

One disappointing part of Windows 10 is this lack of consistency. Icons are the worst - 25 years of icons all bundled together. Looks at the icons inside C:\Windows\explorer.exe or shell32.dll for a mishmash of graphical styles from yesteryear. This makes programs like MMC feel out-of-place on the modern system.
Ditto. Switching between branches in SVN was painful. We would use branches, but it was definitely a necessity to have a few separate instances with the main branches I might have to use pre-loaded. (Also a lot more work just got done in the "trunk" than ideal, just out of expediency.) Git is a huge improvement.
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This is a bad argument because there are tools (i.e. every other DVCS) that achieve the same effect without the interface problems.
> I told you SSD will be permanently soldered to the PCB, received downvotes in return

Just because your prediction/information turned out to be correct does not mean that your comment was useful at the time. Why would anybody trust information left in a random HN comment by somebody that isn't even going to attempt to explain their source or reasoning?
Yes it is there for me, but the functionality is different on Xcode as it will find all references when you open the menu, so you can see the results straight away. One less click (and perhaps one less popup hidden "find symbol results" pane in VS).

That was what I was highlighting, not the fact that Visual Studio somehow doesn't have that functionality.
Humans are great at learning abstraction from concrete examples. That's also what deep learning does and the big reason for its success as well. I'd guess that some neural nets architecture can do the same with your cat example (perhaps with adaptation). Can any expert weigh in?

An idea: We can also run several cat photos through image processing algorithms to filter out details. The output would be outlines similar to the drawings in the Google Quickdraw app. We put those through the app to generalize (perhaps the app needs some training with a few categories of objects, not necessarily animals). Voila! Software can now recognize drawings based on photo examples.
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It's detrimental to the openness of a project if the maintainers and core contributors have other, better tooling than the rest of the world.
>2. Currently it is often use as a way to shape future laws. E.g. AirBnB sues some city against new law. Uber does the same.

It's used to contest laws that are believed to possibly be in violation of existing law.

>3. The 2. case is very tricky. No doubt both sides will spend tons on legal fees, but outcome can be very arbitrary, not based on interpretation on current laws/.

Huh? What's the outcome going to be based on if not on the current law? Unless you're specifically referring to common/civil law difference that makes no sense.

>4. This system most likely benefit the most lawyers, as the benefit from the ambiguity. Maybe we should accept the fact, that not all conflicts can be solved in court room? E.g. city can pass stupid law that doesn't make sense (e.g. ban AirBnB) and nobody got right to sue because of that. The only exceptions should be conflict with upper law (e.g. no city can ban minority or pass law not to pay federal tax).

It sounds like you're suggesting that cities should have significantly higher legislative powers not restricted by the courts? I must be misunderstanding, but in case I'm not... why?
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Too much compromises and too expensive. For this money you can buy a normal i7-k processor with Noctua cooler, Asus Strix video card with DirectCU and PSU by 'be quiet!'. Put all this stuff in a good case and you will get a PC with a great performance and almost no noise.
For people not familiar with the industry or the issue, compare the documentation available for the broadcom processor in the popular raspberry pi 2

https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/tree/master/har...

and that of the Allwinner A64 in the far less common "Banana Pi":

https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/tree/master/HARDWARE/A64...

As you can see, the Broadcom documentation is non-existent, with the exception of a tiny document created by a third party.
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For multilingual programmers, assume your day job only let you program in 1-2 languages, how do you keep your skills up to date for all the languages you are able to program professionally?
Could they not easily avoid this by using their Google Search images database? They already have a filter for "drawings". Combining that with the title of picture/alt attribute, you could pretty much avoid that scenario.
I think the problem here is they are proxies for those who really want the suits to go forward. Most of them cannot make an informed opinion about much in their early teens nor even by college as views can be heavily influenced by those in positions of authority they are exposed too.
Linus's initial commit of git makes it easier to see its essential simplicity: http://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23c...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650483

Content-addressing (ie hashes) enables decentralization (hashes are the same whereever you are) and integrity (changing content will change the hash). (Perhaps inspired by Tridge, who did rsync which uses hashes to test for content changes?) It's incredibly fast because commits are almost as simple as copying, and because Linus knows how to C.

Linus left out some features, like renames (which bitkeeper has), so this simple idea would be enough.

Some people rave about the index/cache, though it's separable from the core idea.
What Tridge did was something to prove a point rather than to make a feasible BK alternative, so it was ultimately a stunt. I don't dismiss the importance of it and LKP should've not indeed depend on a proprietary tool, but it was one of less civil ways to go about the issue.
Is it safe to say Clarity is for Angular 2 as what Blueprint (http://blueprintjs.com/) is for ReactJS?
Bunker busters are designed to go through a few meters of reinforced concrete and soil a 10 inch concrete wall won't protect you either.
There were 1.25 million estimated road fatalities worldwide in 2015, so a 1% blip would amount to 12.5 thousand. So yes this blip represents very real entirely avoidable deaths, as the offset of the traditional downward trend suggests.
I get that you have to network with people. My question was if there is something that you need to do differently that the standard way of networking, attending conferences etc?

What are the tips that can help you get domain knowledge faster?
Just a casual naming online stating that these practices are on purpose and not a bug, so when I search for the company and the issue on google, I'll know to not give them the benefit of the doubt.
"Not X so much as Y" is pretty much always be translated as "Nicht X sondern Y". "Sondern" should be used here.
This is really fun.

As a designer/amateur artist, the most interesting part about this to me was seeing other people's drawings/most-basic-concepts-of-a-thing drawn out: which lines they draw, which ones they don't, how they express an idea in the most essential way, basically. (the 20s really helps)

It's a great window into how people think about things.

As a reference: I couldn't understand why it didn't recognize my keyboard (http://imgur.com/fXk6Gg9) but then it hit me hard when I saw other people's drawings (http://imgur.com/J7Lqodw).
EUR20m isn't a cap - the fines are up to EUR20m or 4% of annual worldwide turnover, whichever is higher.
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Degaussers render the drive nonfunctional.
In that case it enforces your opinion. So it's still of influence.

There are however a lot of votes that decide last minute. There are also voters that have decided, but can't be bothered to vote. In that case it might change and opinion.

You can't say that it's impossible for fake news to influence anyone. How many people believe that Obama is a muslim because they read it (repeatedly) on Facebook? I'm guessing millions.
Thanks, are there any European conferences that you would recommend? We're from (Poland)
Yeah, I agree, vim's default regex syntax is infuriatingly inconsistent. I pretty much always start my REs with "/\v"[0], to the point it's in my muscle memory: I'll find myself looking at that in the cmdline before I've even drafted the pattern in my head. (Then sometimes I'll realise I just want to find an exact string full of symbols, and have to back up and capitalize the "v".)

... I should probably come up with some mappings so the \v is inserted automatically.

[0] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#/\v
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Ultimately though, we can only speak for our own moral choices. If you're happy with doing something unethical or illegal, then go ahead. If you're not prepared to, then don't. If you refuse though, then what happens afterwards isn't up to you and doesn't impact on your morals and/or character. The best you can hope for is to know that you played no part in the wrongdoing.
We really need some way for whistleblowers to reveal all the dysfunctions within their company, and a way for consumers to easily get access to this information while they are surfing the web. Some combination of wikileaks + Glassdoor + yelp, in a fraud-resistant manner, that's easily accessible on-the-fly without too much effort. If companies knew they would be held accountable for breaking user trust, they would really think twice.
Argh "the little prince".. Here's what happens when you live your passion for computers, programs, etc. 24/24 : you miss the good books :-)
IMO 120mm+ fans running at low speeds combined with large heatsinks and SSDs pretty much solved noise problems for desktop PCs.
Is there any information about their total battery production capacity?
If they manage to reach 99% translation accuracy of German texts, I say they achieved a very remarkable feat.

I know that Modern Standard Arabic is not supported yet with the NML system but I just went and tried the translation for a small excerpt from an article on DW [1]

"بالرغم من عدم وجود تأكيدات رسمية منها على نيتها للترشح مجددا، قال قيادي بارز في حزبها إن المستشارة ميركل ستترشح لولاية رابعة. جاء ذلك على لسان المسؤول عن لجنة العلاقات الخارجية في البرلمان الألماني نوربرت روتغن. "

"Despite the lack of official confirmation, including the intention to run again, a senior leader of her party said that Chancellor Merkel will stand for a fourth term. This came on the tongue in charge of the Foreign Relations Committee in the German Parliament Norbert Rongn."

Of course, the translation is not perfect but good enough. However, I believe that they could do better by working on their Arabic text-to-speech synthesizer and having a toggle option for diacritics that would definitely help them with the synthesizer as there are many words pronounced wrong or actually very wrong that's disappointing.

All in all, great work by the people at Google Translate.

[1]: http://www.dw.com/ar/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D...
Sure, that's a good idea, but a little bit time consuming and we would like to start with our own product next year. How do you identify specific issues that you can tackle in AgTech?
Except for discreet graphic cards, of course.
The TNN didn't use watercooling it used heatpipes. These are not waterblocks, they're heat absorbers. The part that's bonded to the case would be a heat spreader.

A regular case wouldn't be that good at dissipating heat though.
The correct symbol for the inch is the ″ (DOUBLE PRIME).
The tooling wasn't better. It was just different.

It's also entirely irrelevant if people use different tools to do their job. No one was hindered by anyone else's personal choice of tools. Anyone in the world was free to download the source code, change it, and contribute patches if they seed fit. Bitkeeper did not hindered this, nor did the linux development process changed once bitkeeper was replaced.
Funny/scary anecdote: I have a PC whose CPU fan has stopped working about 18 months ago. The thing has been running as my home server, reliably, and it is very stable.

Of course, the fan sits on top of a huge heat-spreader, which still (passively) works, and the case is open, and the machine has not all that much to do serving me. On hot summer days, the system log tells me frequently that the CPU has throttled itself to prevent overheating, but that's about it. And that's Core2 Quad, so it has not been exactly engineered for this scenario. And still, to my utter surprise, this thing runs along merrily, with an uptime of currently 148 days.

If I can create a "fanless"[1] computer by accident that works and is - in face of the rather modest load I put on it - rock-solid stable, building one intentionally should not be that hard.

I own two notebooks, for Pete's sake, that are fanless, and they work well.

So, yes, the idea that a computer must make some kind of noise to show you it is working is gradually becoming a thing of the past. If sufficient cooling can be achieved without moving parts, that is preferable.

OTOH, the sounds devices emit used to be indicators of what was going on inside them. With SSDs, you can no longer hear your hard drive work. When I sit at one of our CAD workstations and watch a designer model something in Autodesk Inventor, more and more fans are spinning faster and faster as the temperature rises - the noise level correlates to the workload of the system.
If the computer becomes absolutely silent, we need substitutes for those metrics. Blinkenlights, maybe.

[1] Strictly speaking, the power supply still has a fan, and that one is not all that far away from the CPU, which might improve the situation somewhat.
It's a private business, they have every right to decline to provide service to (hateful, bigoted) people. Don't like it? Start your own damn website.
Fortifications are still needed and are cheap then instead of human grunts you'll have t-1000's digging trenches.

A drone or a soldier it doesn't matter a sandbag that stops a bullet is still cheaper and faster to make than training or building a new combatant.

All modern wars are in effect industrial wars at least when both sides are even remotely equal in military power, the US simply out produced both Germany and Japan to win the war.

If you are fighting a war then it's always better to reduce force depletion than to increase manufacturing if nothing else than it's cheaper, faster and leaves you with more options for the long run.
The fact that a lot of media didn't think Trump would win is unrelated to the fact that fake news is damaging to democracy.

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.

How many people still believe Obama is a muslim because they read it (repeatedly) on Facebook? I'm guessing millions.
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Speaking of Winograd Schema, it seems to manage some pretty simple cases, which I thought was pretty cool. No idea if it could already do that before this update, though.

It correctly translated "I asked my son to take my bag because it was very heavy" and "I asked my son to take my bag because he was very strong" correctly from French, despite the 'he/it' both being the ambiguous 'il' in French.
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For those of us who don't watch the show, what's the context here?
Tried to draw a bear, got teddy-bear as an answer, failed. :/
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This is extremely disingenuous. Pretending that the primary workflow of a group and metadata about its work amounts to convenience seems poorly thought out on your part.
Lithium ion capacities are limited by the FAA to 100Wh per device, so it's not that.
Disable privacy badger. Without it the app "works" but says it can't guess anything.

When it couldn't even guess my envelope I was suspicious and disabled pb. Then found out it "live" guesses as you go!
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If you have an em-drive cubesat, just putting that (battery-powered, closed system) on a balance beam / torsion pendulum in a vacuum chamber is a more rigorous experiment than anything that's been done so far.
Being a private business is not a shield against criticism or hypocrisy.
Yeah... so you already have physical access... then there are 10+ other ways to bypass this authentication.

- Get the disks from the machine
- Interrupt grub (if it doesn't have a password)
- Boot from USB or ISO
- etc...
The tooling wasn't better. It was just different.

BitKeeper was better than the alternatives. This was literally Linus' rationale for using it.

Nothing what you say in the second paragraph contradicts what I said, but it also doesn't address the point at all. Do you understand why a difference in tooling and ease of working reduces openness?
The problem is that their documentation contains only selected information and every time the community needs information about some other part they have to beg Broadcom for information. Most often the request was denied.

So here we are, with a partially functioning linux on an overheating pi3 that no one knows how to fix.
What they haven't had recently is the option to vote in anyone who'll take climate change very seriously.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12953368
Wow, that was surprisingly fun. It got 6/6.
Kind of. SAX parsers usually read from a blocking InputStream. In Actson you can feed the parser with new input. It produces events until the input has been completely consumed and only produces more if you feed it again. This push/pull pattern is necessary to implement a reactive application with non-blocking I/O.