skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is regex execution considered efficient? I have always been impressed with its speed.
If you are trying to find a single service to offer ALL SMBs, then sure, you are unlikely to find many things to offer outside of what you mentioned.

However, there are a lot of sub-categories of SMBs that might need technical services.
You're right, wrong terminology. Was trying to express that the largest costs of the trip are the driver's fuel and car costs. By "fixed" meaning the driver has no obvious way to change those other than whatever car they bought in the first place. So, a 20% cut in revenue to the driver is significantly more than a 20% cut in earnings/profit.
> Developers have better things to spend their time on than jumping through hoops to learn the obscure workflow of an old community.

Again, I'd rather have my kernel code written by someone who has respect for others, and doesn't view spending a little time learning how to be productive in a group as 'jumping through hoops to learn the obscure workflow of an old community.'

> If I have the choice of a) contributing to the latest hippest JS browser framework right away, or b) spending several hours setting up a custom email-based work environment, then contributing to the driver for my bleeding-edge Skylake system, I know what I'm going to choose - despite having way more experience with kernel hacking (in a corporate, GitHub-Enterprise-using environment).

That's a-okay by me.
Your absolute best bet is to sign up for Visual Studio Dev Essentials and try out all the 3 month trials they give. Pluralsight in particular is a really great resource.

https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/
This qualifies as drive-by snark, which we've already asked you to please stop posting.
Could this technology be used for measuring water flow in pipes?
Climate change is a problem, and it seems to be the number one problem for atheists and the like, but I'm still skeptical that the forecast of gloom and doom will come to pass.

Unfortunately, it's lose/lose for skeptics:

If you turn out to be right and Florida becomes unlivable in the next 50 years, you turn the skeptics into scapegoats and curb stomp them into submission. However, if you turn out to be wrong you just get off scot-free and say "Well, I turned out to be wrong because of X factor that everyone overlooked, but I came to the best conclusion possible with the evidence I had at hand. The skeptics were still wrong to have rejected science."
This is a good instinct, but doesn't work well in practice unless the prevalence of spaces is very low. And if it's very low, you only need the largest check followed by a single fallback. The problem is that mispredicted branches (for example, 'if statements' that require different code paths without a clear pattern) are relatively expensive.

The scalar operations of reading a character, checking whether it's a space (0x20), and writing it to an output can often be done in a single cycle (the processor is 'superscalar'). A mispredicted branch costs about 15 cycles. Thus for simple tasks like this, if the average distance between spaces is 16 or less, you are likely better off with the simpler straightforward approach.
>If they are that good then more should be expected of them. They should be conducting independent audits - "trust by verify" or do some innovating in the area of compliance. Their M.O. is always to blame someone else, the buck never stops with them.

Isn't that a little extreme? $500MM sounds like a butt ton of money to you and I, but Deutsche Bank has over $800B aum. To successfully audit $800B in assets a year he'd need to look at almost $2.2B of deals a day, assuming there's 0 fluctuation in earnings per day. Then he'd have to no time for figuring out what units are the most profitable and growing those business. He'd spend 100% of his time assessing risk, kind of like that department he hires to handle risk assessments. Even if he spent an hour a day doing random spot checks of deals, their are so many sour ones to clean ones that it'd almost be a waste of time.
Basically you're pointing that quality of tech hasn't increased and we aren't cutting enough scope so that quality is very high which is why only large companies can afford the better software.

I totally believe that the SMB space is ripe for massive disruption.

It is but the incentives are geared towards selling to big clients.
The V = IR equation relates the voltage _difference_ across a resistor to it's resistance and the amount of current flowing though it. So a super conductor in a circuit will have 0 drop in voltage across it, while still having an "absolute" voltage (or rather voltage difference between it and a ground).

In theory this it's unrelated to the amount of current passing through the superconductor, but in reality a material will stop acting like a superconductor if you try to push too much amperage through it.
Alternately, people who are technology geniuses and also were employee #176 at Google may not need to care about liquidation preferences and may just want to work on new and different interesting problems.
It's sort of a semantic argument, but I've never once heard anyone refer to "ASCII" to refer to anything other than the 7-bit standard. There is no "extended 8-bit ASCII set". That's a blanket term (though in casual use, "code page" is more typical) for any of the literally dozens of 8-bit character encodings that overlap with ASCII in the bottom half of the encoding space.

Basically the blog post was correct and precise: it removes ASCII characters from UTF-8. There is no elaboration needed.

Again, though, the post was about using SIMD primitives to optimize what looks like a scalar problem.
Brain drain is also a huge problem in india. Most of talented engineers go abroad mainly US. The mentality of indians is take a good job in US firm. In india their is very less research infrastructure and government polices does not support local market like china so many young indians seek to take job.

That is reason there are many Indians at top positions in US companies.
I just added the OPML to my Feedly without even thinking about how long it's going to take to unsubscribe from all of the ones I don't care about. The second I hit upload it hit me.
It does collect data for use within the OS itself, to assist the user with searching their own system. My understanding is that none of this is ever sent out over the network. You can turn off individual data sources, or disable data collection altogether and use traditional command line tools for searching for your stuff. The linked screenshot is of the default settings under the Privacy tab in Settings, with a tooltip explaining why you would want to turn off collection.

http://i.imgur.com/1FbMQkm.png
Thanks for volunteering to answer some questions.

1. What is the (maximum) range of read lengths that modern gene sequencers can produce? Any timeline on when those read lengths will increase substantially?

2. How do bioinformatics people contend with repetitive genomic regions?

3. Are there any differences in how gene sequencing technology works on DNA from different species? For example, does an approach that works on humans (e.g. gene sequence alignment or de novo assembly) work on something like wheat?
Which is the real identity of the Mirai Author Anna-Senpai?
I got SmartOS running on EC2 back in 2015 as an exercise.

https://twitter.com/aszeszo/status/658115638683115521

The details below may be useful for whoever wants to get the latest images running on EC2 again. Unfortunately, I don't have time to tinker with this stuff after-hours anymore:

Required patches from Delphix illumos tree (at the time):

58b782ef6ec93fef26ab349aff81e8748f673b24 32722 Xen PV disks don't have properties set
09846dfe2cfc30fe54d80637aea0aa38b64127ed 33942 Creating xdf.conf file causes the kernel to panic on boot
2c4f787714ba44c84b8ed4dfb7ad05288c942a0e 34224 Xen HVM VM with 32 VCPUs hangs on boot
1fc3b35c42d5aeadb1e9c8b7308f3c33cfba00ac 34424 Some PV devices should not be configured in HVM mode
91f305d4c307729116dfa89022334083bf817058 34508 Expose xdf minor nodes when in PV-HVM mode
718bba6535f2a3423643aede0067775730a15a23 35310 Fix iostat on the EC2 instances

Files that had to be updated in the the vanilla SmartOS image after building the smartos-live tree:

platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/rtls
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/sd
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/xdf
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/xnf
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/xpv
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/amd64/xpvd
platform/i86hvm/kernel/drv/xpvd.conf
platform/i86hvm/kernel/misc/amd64/hvm_bootstrap
platform/i86hvm/kernel/misc/amd64/hvm_cmdk
platform/i86hvm/kernel/misc/amd64/hvm_sd

I would be cool to see official SmartOS images on EC2!
Most employees use unsanctioned group chat tools
I guess that's how you call peak hype.
Where do you plan to deploy? Its easy enough to deploy to Heroku, and I imagine dockerizing an Elixir app is also a straightforward process. If, on the other hand, you are taking a more traditional approach and just deploying to a Linux box/vps there are solutions for that too (i.e. Chef, Capistrano).

It should be pretty far down in the list of things that influence your choice, imo, since it's basically a solved problem.
I don't remember having that issue specifically, but I do know that on a fresh install the touchpad is not very responsive. I'm currently running arch with the following as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "FingerLow" "5"
Option "FingerHigh" "10"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "-25"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "-25"
Option "CoastingSpeed" "5"
Option "CoastingFriction" "20"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
Option "TapButton3" "2"
EndSection

There's also a specialized Ubuntu-derivative called GalliumOS [1] that you might try. They try to work out all these configuration oddities before you get it loaded.

[1] https://galliumos.org/
2014 review of open-source legal doc repos, with screenshots of each site, and ideas for improvement, http://www.openlawlab.com/2014/08/05/githubbing-law/
He didn't question the dichotomy. Quite the opposite--"Theres obviously a lot to learn from archetypal human behavior." Alternatively, depending on what was meant by archetypal, he at least didn't contradict it.

He was simply saying that its relevance has been exaggerated and twisted. And that's, frankly, difficult to disagree with. The introversion-extroversion dichotomy has been turned into a popular psychology vehicle. But you can't judge the vehicle by the absurd places people take it.

In any event, like most such dichotomies, it's implicitly understood to be a generalization, and generalizations are not suitable for describing or predicting more specific behaviors.
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NLP right now looks like the computer vision 5 years ago: DL methods are starting to work really well, so a lot of "traditional" methods to process text might soon become obsolete.

The goal is to just feed gigabytes of raw text to a huge, complex neural network, and hope it will extract relevant features.
Service Fabric is more like Microsoft's Mesos or Kubernetes.
DVT detection by ultrasound (when there is already a DVT installed) is already pretty efficient, because you don't need to know flow volume for that. We test it by the compression test, where a blood clot will prevent squashing of the vein when pressure is exerted on it with the ultrasound probe. Furthermore, the shape of veins is usually far from circular, making our method less than optimal.

Our method is geared towards vessels which have enough pressure in them to constrain them to a circular shape, namely arteries, but also (most likely) great veins. So it could actually prove useful not in DVT, but to detect one of its deadly complications: pulmonary embolus. Apart from this, knowing the flow passing through the pulmonary arteries would prove extremely useful in many cases. It would have to be tested, though. I cannot be sure that it works in this particular case.
Robot Crop Pickers Means Fewer Farm Workers
NES was released in October of 1985. The Famicom was 1983.

Genesis was released in 1989. The Mega Drive was '88.

SNES was 1991. Super Famicom was 1990.

The reason I'm being "pedantic" about this is because you're (unintentionally?) fudging statistics for a narration. For instance,

* Atari had very little market penetration in Japan.

* Your NES sales figure doesn't include Dendy (which had a substantial hold in USSR).

* Xbox sales reflect North American sales, as Japanese sales were dismal.

* Xbox 360 sales reflect only North American/European sales, as Japanese sales were comedic.

In addition, you should probably include portable/handheld console sales in your lists.
"Star Trek doesn't tell us how their economy is managed or their internal politics. Sure they have replicators, but their are still things that need to be done by people, and resources that can't be replicated."

They probably assume that resources are so widely available (unexplored planets etc) that one doesn't need to live anymore like us to afford basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, and education.
What is very different from our society is we often need to live near big populated cities to get a job that allows us to pay the above. In the ST world they take it almost for granted: you can settle a small colony on a distant planet and still fulfill at least basic needs for everyone with no need for a medium like money. So where's the convenience? Just suppose there are also no patent laws. If you discover something extremely useful you can share it with anyone else because you don't need any bloody "protection" because you already have the resources to extract/transform it, so no need to "invest" time (ie preventing others from knowing about it). Not easy, I'm clearly just speculating, but makes sense to me.

Of course I would sign up in a second to live in such a society, but I'm not sure it's entirely viable, neither now nor in a thousand years. The problem is not money, it's power.
Money is not power per se but just a way to reach it in a context where money has value (like sea shells in some islands etc). If and when we reach the point of inventing LFTL (ludicrously faster than light) drive and finding planets literally stuffed with any possible resource we need, we still need to consider human nature.

People want power. Every time someone wants you to do something for them, he/she needs to exercise some pressure on you, be it psychological or using their power to take away what you have or prevent you to get it. My point is that eliminating money wouldn't solve any problem because the problem isn't money per se. The problem is power, or to be more precise the abuse of it by people who use part of it to escape accountability for what they do.
What is not clear in the ST universe is how the heck they reached this point. I fear time (evolution) alone isn't enough. Probably, as someone I don't recall said once, the secret is: "never ever give any powers to anyone who wants them".

If the above wasn't clear, please blame the language barrier:)
Dunno, I think Yahoo! was basically unfixable. I mean, what would you have done differently? They just had too much dead wood, including the brand name.
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wow thanks, I had to google them but I will definitely find a use for this

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/dfyt-G6SMec
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Palm detection is turned off by default for some reason, but you can just turn it back on.
Have you thought of contracting or getting a remote job instead? I think one of the other posters had the best advice, which was to contract while you get validation that your idea can be a business, and then cut back contracting hours in favour of your own project as it gains traction.
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Microsoft is rapidly losing the entire market of "Desktop" to Android and iOS apps. Intel has a serious competitor in ARM; most $bigcos haven't switched yet, but are definitely looking into it, as a way of applying pressure and keeping Intel's costs down.
Email:

- multiple clients on multiple platforms

- multiple clients on emacs (e.g. Gnus, mu4e, NotMuch)

- does not require a browser, ever

- does not require executing untrusted code on my computer, ever

- open protocols

- multiple servers on multiple platforms

- federated

Github, Slack et. al.:

- may have a decent text-only client (e.g. there's a Slack mode for emacs, and there are some GitHub clients out there, which may or may not be convenient)

- strongly encourage and sometimes mandate use of a browser with execution of untrusted code allowed

- protocols controlled by a single organisation, with no possibility to add functionality on the server side

- servers controlled by a single organisation

- no federation

- fundamentally proprietary

What I value: freedom; TUI clients; emacs clients; open protocols; being able to run my own service.
That's great to hear, With future updates and a little help I'm sure we can improve the performance further and make us the g0-to library.

And thanks for saying thanks, it is rare and always very much appreciated.
Yes, deployment in Elixir is painfull. We use distillery and edeliver, but plan to try move to docker
I love easter eggs in open source code. I was able to easily find this in the code and learned a bit about neocities and geocities URL formats in the process.

I was expecting that neocities sites would have similar URLs to geocities (in the neocities.org/server/user/page format). This is a fun way of learning about stuff.
Plus a million. I helped a small business get their point of sale software back online by re-installing Windows XP on their unlabeled OEM server. The installed the system over a decade ago. Explain to a small business how this system will continue to be serviceable for 15 years and they will consider buying it.
Thanks for the info. What do they do instead?
> so many top security researchers -- who certainly aren't going to be influenced by any particular government or corporate interest

What makes you so sure? The Guardian is fundamentally devoted to reporting the truth even - especially - when it's hostile to the government - the organisation is structured deliberately to ensure its independence. Can the quoted experts say the same about their payroll?
Absolutely, given the pipe is transparent to the ultrasound signal. Actually, it is a well-known technique (see for example http://www.sensorsmag.com/sensors/acoustic-ultrasound/ultras...), because if the angle of incidence of the ultrasound beam to the pipe flow velocity vector is known (which is not the case with blood vessels), the problem becomes trivial.
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"Bhautik Joshi posted a paper to arXiv on the topic of some consulting work he did for a short film, and listed the producer and actor as co-authors to garner publicity."
Why not link to reocities.com instead?
Did Obama get to actually tweet or did a staffer do this?

I was not sure if the secure phone they give POTUS supports twitter apps?
There's some baseless speculation in this thread about what's Singhal's departure meant for Google search. It's important to remember that Singhal was committed Google's knowledge graph, a painstaking, manually constructed graph of entities and relationships that surfaces the occasional answer (ask Google what the capital of Azerbaijan is and you will see a knowledge graph answer). Knowledge graphs are brittle, hard to extend, and hard to modify in the face of changing data. Google has tilted towards machine learning and neural nets for a lot of functions, and Singhal was not part of that tilt. But you could argue that machine learning and neural nets are producing better results, which counters the argument that Singhal leaving means that Google doesn't care about organic results any more. That's BS, frankly.
As others have said, tech sucks. Good for them.
Cheers, will do!
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Out of curiosity, why do you need permissions to:

- Read Tweets from your timeline.

- See who you follow, and follow new people.

- Update your profile.

Also, Twitter asks authorization for "Tweet.li App" while the actual website is called Tweee.co, I found that a bit confusing.
Do you have hardware or can you let me know hardware you are currently using?
As a small-time restaurant owner, I can appreciate the impact the less-tangible services have on my business. My eyes only glaze over because regardless of what's being offered, it's typically from a startup that eventually ends up pivoting or going out of business in some fashion. I've wasted so much time dealing with that. So. much. time. No surprise (even if my day job is writing code) that I'm burnt out on tech for the business.

On the upside: I pay for Yelp ads, and my Yelp account manager is currently dealing with my account being limited because I refused to acknowledge spam messages from an UberEats salesperson. It's the first time in months a tech problem related to the restaurant has made me laugh.
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Initialization in C++ is bonkers
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Not claiming to be the fastest, but here are two Python solutions suggested by Dave Beazley [0], plus one I extended using compiled regular expressions:

# string replacement
s = ' hello world \n'
s.replace(' ', '')
# 'helloworld'

# regular expression
import re
re.sub('\s+', '', s)
# 'helloworld'

# compiled regular expression
pat = re.compile('\s+')
pat.sub('', s)
# 'helloworld'

[0] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Is this similar? I installed it long ago and when looking at it, it didn't seem useful, but perhaps I am completely wrong?
Also, few bigs target small business because, let's be honest, they're a pain to work with at scale

Absolutely. A big business has the clout to request features and demand support. A small business might not even be able to get anyone on the phone, let alone get an on-site rep or have a feature added.

Hence, loads of them run off custom excel sheets.

We use a few spreadsheets and a custom POS system developed in house by me on top of OSS. It's portable and endlessly customizable. I don't have to worry about propriety file formats, services outages, changing terms or cost increases.