skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a port of gspread which uses API v4 - supports new features like formats, notes etc. Checkout https://github.com/nithinmurali/pygsheets
Look at usenet posts from circa 1990. We've had a deficit of communications skills and a deficit of maturity for more than the current generation. And this is all within a much less culturally diverse group than those on the internet now.

I don't like CoCs either, but they exist because of a real problem. Let's say we adopt a CoC of "you're an adult; act like it":

What corrective actions are taken against those not acting like an adult, who takes those actions, and who is the arbiter of what qualifies as non-adult behavior?

Very small communities and communities with a single BDFL can resolve this because in the former consensus is easy to come by, and in the latter there is an ultimate point of appeal. All other communities need some way of resolving this, and adopting a CoC is one way of attempting to do so.
For us screen space worked a bit better but I'm sure it varies by use case. Getting the right fall-off on non-aligned pixels is always tricky(including 0.5f offset in Direct3D).
Is Google Plus Even Worth It for Businesses
Measures of entropy and complexity in altered states of consciousness
> It's a practice that just doesn't make sense except for people playing games.

A) Why should playing games be illegal? It's legal to spend money on UFC tickets, why not on trying to out-guess the stock market?

B) Playing games in the stock market helps improve the accuracy of pricing for everyone else.
Oh come on. You do realize "recycling" exists, right? Cars don't just go into a landfill when they reach the end of their useful life. They're salvaged for parts, and once all the useful parts are removed the rest is used for scrap metal. Lead-acid batteries have been recycled for decades now, with extremely high efficiency. Lithium is much more valuable than anything in a lead-acid battery, so of course it's going to be recycled as well.

Yes, mining has an environmental impact, but 1 ton of aluminum used in a car does not necessarily mean 1 ton of aluminum was mined for it.
Harvard is not on a quarter system, Fall and Spring semesters are about 15 weeks long. For students who already have some programming experience, there are many opportunities to challenge themselves in the problem sets and especially the final project.

As for the t-shirt, CS50 has one of the largest enrollments and Malan puts a lot of effort into making it fun, engaging, encouraging, and fostering a sense of community. Out of such a large enrollment at a liberal arts college, of course many will not take other CS course, but the course has definitely contributed to an increase in the number of students declaring CS as their major (what Harvard calls a "concentration").
I regularly need to apply patches written months/years ago to a branch that's changed many many times (maybe a thousand) - for example, patch written at a specific point in time spends 2 months being reviewed, and by that time it no longer cleanly applies to trunk.

Rebase may let me replay all of the other changes on top and save me lots of manual effort to get the patch so that it applies cleanly to trunk
Harvard likes to do things differently, course numbers don't convey level of difficulty like that.
So, what I'm wondering is, why is this its own continent, and the Indian subcontinent isn't considered one?
> "The cultural heritage of the country or region plays a big role. For example, unlike the Muslims in China or other neighbours, those from India are peaceful and harmoniously co-exist with people of other faiths. It is the same religion but culture makes the difference," the Tibetan spiritual head told 139 IPS probationers and 15 officer trainees from Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal at the event. [0]

0. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/indian-mus...
Thanks for the correction: I am completely changing my comment to avoid confusing others.
The Forgotten History of 'The Oregon Trail,' as Told by Its Creators
Federal Circuit Sticks by Its Bad Law on Personal Jurisdiction in Patent Cases
so what? a little non-sense is fun.
Your resume has embedded chinese characters on the website url and email address. Instead of being able to click on it, you get a set of Chinese characters which one cannot decipher.
I think a big part of the concept of a reasonable person is recognizing that others have something to offer and giving them respect. Someone I very much disagree with may have good points to be made and I should be open to that. Now that said, I sometimes fail.
Why the CRISPR patent verdict isn’t the end of the story
To spoil the ending he mentions telling at shows, he ends up giving the money back knowing the bank was in the wrong [0].

I wonder how much of the story is true, surely over years of telling the story for audiences he's found that slight modifications have made it more entertaining. Combine that with the fact that our memories are already not that great, and I'd imagine that while the overall story is probably true, a lot of the specifics aren't.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-13/performer...
Assume both doctors are rational and make optimal predictions given the information available to them. Let X represent the information that the first doctor, and Y represent the information that doctor second knows.

We know that there are only P(C | X) = 0, meaning that you cannot have disease C because the first doctor is positive (and therefore has incontrovertible evidence) that it is not C. Similarly, P(A | Y) = 0, meaning that you cannot have disease A. As a result, the only possibility with a non-zero probability is that you have disease B.
Bill Gates Advocates Taxing Robots to Slow Spread of Job-Killing Automation
"Someone steals my credit card, and if I notice within 2 months, I can get everything back."

No. You may still be liable for $500 if you fail to report it within 48 HOURS:
http://consumer.findlaw.com/credit-banking-finance/are-you-l...

"Another advantage is that it doesn't take several hours"

You hold a common misconception of how transactions work. Bitcoin transactions are transmitted/notified instantly (like credit cards). Transactions will be confirmed and spendable by the recipient within 10min on average (with CCs it takes 1-3 days until the merchant gets the money). Finally transactions are considered irreversible/definitely non-fraudulent after 6 blocks or 60min on average (with CCs it takes 60 days since charge backs are possible for 60 days).

So if you compares apples to apples, Bitcoin is always faster than credit cards.

"huge amounts of wasted electricity"

This is not wasteful: http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-mining-is-not-wasteful/
> Btw, how do you monetize the Date Range Picker?

The AdSense ad on the documentation website

It gets quite a bit of traffic -- https://www.w3counter.com/stats/90840/dashboard
Show HN: Alternative FLAC encoder with slightly better compression
At my previous company we used Haskell for a very complex, edge-case ridden, algorithm heavy path finding and pricing backend.

For other uses, [0].

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
Y Combinator CEO Michael Siebel AMA on Whale
Maybe because moxie marlinspike keeps telling the general public WhatsApp is using signal? Which is bullshit... because WhatsApp isn't auditable, it admits it uses metadata collection, it has the ability to cache identical messages (supposedly notnpossible with unique encryption keys, right?) amongst a host of other super suspicious shit. Now Facebook can audit the content of those messages, well big fucking surprise it's not private or the same as signal then is it?
Never argue with Police; Call a Lawyer;
Not on mobile. Not to launch an app.
Wasn't familiar with Azure Logic Apps, but yes it would appear so.
There's a concept in law enforcement called a "lawful order", which is when a police officer orders you to do something and if you don't comply, he can arrest you for obstruction. The thing is, the order must truly be lawful; he can't order you to do something illegal, and he can't order you to (for example) take off your clothes or give him your money.

Typically a lawful order will be something like during a domestic dispute, ordering one of the parties to find somewhere else to stay for the night and not to return home for a certain number of hours (a "cooling off" period). This avoids an arrest for domestic violence, which carries harsh repercussions even if the aggressor is found not guilty, and gives both parties a chance to work on their issues (as well as gives the victim time to leave safely if necessary). Another example might be in a civil dispute, where one party claims ownership of a 50 year old vehicle and the other party disputes this, and there isn't enough documentation to support either party's claim. The police are called, and the officer issues lawful orders to both parties to not touch the vehicle until they've sorted it out in court. If one of the parties tries to take possession of the vehicle later that day, they can be arrested by that officer.

The problem with the camera issue and lawful orders is that some jurisdictions have statutes prohibiting video and/or audio recording of the police or other government workers, and this empowers the police to issue locally lawful orders to stop recording. However, if this ruling carries any weight, the Constitutional right to record will theoretically trump the local restriction, rendering the order no longer lawful.

All of that said, even if the order is supposedly lawful, I agree that you should keep recording and ask for a supervisor. In some jurisdictions you may end up arrested for obstruction, but chances are the supervisor will realize the implications of continued harassment of a lawfully recording citizen and drop the issue.
Machine Learning at Netflix
I try not to keep such people in my life. Not a strict rules. My three year old daughter is often unreasonable. Also, I hope people can forgive me at times.
If you look at the quad complexity view and that will give you a good idea. That will start getting red when your triangle edges are dense within a 4 screen pixel area and I think it will match up pretty close with the MSAA costs.
An artsy music teacher once told me that music to her feels like math. That was both an epiphany and a disappointment.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that all of the arts involve learning a good deal of technical craft. In fact, obsessing over tools (whether you have the best trumpet, paint brushes, videocamera, etc.) is a special kind of bikeshedding, rampant in art forums.
That seems like a broad generalization, especially seeing as how this article was about a small town.
Is anybody capable of putting this into plain English, or ideally, link an authoritative source which does that? For us with no time on our hands.

Particular queries:
1 - Does this apply nationally? Where and where doesn't it apply (user @aerovistae & others asked and remains unsettled, debated in comments here)
2 - Does this apply to both video and audio recording?
3 - Are there limits where and when I can record? (public vs private spaces?)
4 - What should one do if police forcibly interfere with your right to record and retain information?
I'm sure there are ways to automated the backup procedure. Most of these files are exported to known formats (doc/docx, xls, etc.). A quick Google search gave me[1], but I'm sure that this can be made via API calls and a lambda function running freely on AWS.

[1] http://www.driveexport.com/
No, because they have firmly established that right by this very ruling.

"Although the right was not clearly established at the time of Turner’s activities, whether such a right exists and is protected by the First Amendment presents a separate and distinct question. Because the issue continues to
arise in the qualified immunity context, we now proceed to determine it for the future. We conclude that First Amendment principles, controlling authority, and persuasive precedent demonstrate that a First Amendment right to record the police does exist, subject only to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions. "
India is a former continent underlain by its own craton and its own tectonic plate that has collided with the much larger Eurasian plate in the epic Himalayan orogeny [1]. Eurasia is a multi-plate continent that forms a continuous expanse of continental crust that has geologically interacted with parts of itself for millions of years.

On the other hand, Zealandia is a continent which broke away from Gondwana (much like India did) and has since stood independently apart, not accreting to any other continent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_orogeny
Do people really voice search for things like that? Aside from drivers going hands-free, I have never seen a colleague or friend use voice commands where it wasn't just for the novelty.
I had a bloomberg article about it bookmarked but the link rotted:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a4OuC...

The title was: "Double Voting in Proxy Contests Threatens Shareholder Democracy - Bloomberg"
Absolutely. Big autos have huge engineering know-hows as well as resources to poach talent.

One thing that may work for in favor of Tesla though, is the fact that self-driving car will fundamentally shift people's relationship with cars. Out goes the needs to have best-handling, best crash protection, best-feedback providing cars.

Value of those engineering know-hows will be greatly diminished because computers will be doing the driving. Instead, there will be more emphasis on comfort, software, and efficiency.
Are you one of these proponents of denying the horrifying Turkish terror and atrocities against our predecessors, and of rephrasing it to "a peaceful and enriching coexistence with the charming Muslims"? And that the blood bath of children and women in Batak was just a manifestation of an odd cultural trait from the Turkish bashibozuks?

That kind of morally relativistic BS happily doesn't ring true for the majority of contemporary Bulgarians who haven't been a subject of liberal brainwashing.
That's disappointing... I thought he might've donated it to legal funds for people who got screwed over by banks or something of the like.
> It's just that the actual benefit is far from reducing link time to "O(changes in the input)"

Not sure exactly what you mean by this. If you give up determinism, it can be O(changes) - except for time spent statting the input files which, at least in theory, should be possible to avoid by getting the info from the build system somehow. I can understand if LLD doesn't want to trade off determinism, but I personally think it should :)

One practical problem I can think of is ensuring that the binary isn't still running when the linker tries to overwrite bits of it. Windows denies file writes in that case anyway… On Unix that's traditionally the job of ETXTBSY, which I think Linux supports, but xnu doesn't. I guess it should be possible to fake it with APFS snapshots.

> In its fastest mode, LLD actually spends most of its time memcpy'ing into the output file and applying relocations. This happens after symbol resolution and does not touch the input .o files except to read the data being copied into the output file.

Interesting. What is this mode? How does it work if it's not incremental and it doesn't read the symbols at all?
One big factor you missed is Tesla has the best talent.
Of course not. Haskell is a purely functional language and Rust is an imperative systems language. It can hardly be more Apples to Oranges.
The gist is that this court intends to settle this 1st-Amendment question with this case. Although no lower court had held that people DON'T have a right to record police (and several had held that they DO), it was not deemed a "settled" matter. Now it is: You can do it. Audio and video.
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The text of the ruling seems to imply that the Fifth is not the first circuit to reach this conclusion.

"We agree with every circuit that has ruled on this question: Each has concluded that the First Amendment protects the right to record the police."

This has a footnote to it:

"See Alvarez, 679 F.3d at 595–96; Glik, 655 F.3d at 82, 85; Smith, 212 F.3d at 1333; see also Fordyce v. City of Seattle, 55 F.3d 436, 439 (9th Cir. 1995)."

Are there any lawyers here willing to decipher this for us?
I'm just going to buy a Chevy and install Tesla OS on it. The forums say it works most of the time, and almost never crashes.
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> Silver plating would sterilize some pathogens in as little as 5 minutes

That would be very expensive for very little benefit - five minutes is more than long enough for multiple people to use the same buttons at a busy hospital during the day.

It's much better to promote behaviors like washing hands before touching food or mucous membranes (like rubbing your eyes) and using alcohol-based hand sanitizers when that isn't practical. That's why you see hand sanitizer dispensers every few feet at (good) hospitals, and why infection rates plummeted when hospitals introduced them.

In addition, never touch those buttons with the tips of your fingers. Use the knuckle of your pinky instead - it's much less common to accidentally use that to touch a mucous membrane later on, so it's slightly better.
UCLA banned my book from a free speech event
Everyone is missing the point on vertical integration. It's to iterate faster. Even in atoms not bits? Yes!! This is nearly the gigafactory motto, the machine that builds the machine etc.
Uh.... everything. Backups, history, knowing who made certain changes, being able to see the context for a change via commit messages, (hopefully) having commits associated with a task ID, being able to see _what_ changed and when...
More info for those interested:

I ported Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS! - AMA
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3fdf8j/i_port...

Retro City Rampage 486, MS-DOS Retail, 3.5" Floppy Disk Box Set (SOLD OUT) http://www.retrocityrampage.com/msdos_retail.php

Digital versions still available for download: http://vblank.com/store.php
An election is easy to rig if the roll relies on two databases for confirmation. I believe, at least in Contra Costa County, that someone tampered with one of the roll DBs, which then caused a large number of people to be given provisional ballots (deduced from noting a high number of names were highlighted in the main roll I signed during voting). If you got a provisional ballot in Contra Costa County during the election, holler at me!
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AI requires energy in order to function. I've seen a handful of sci-fi scenarios where money is replaced with energy, and units of energy are traded and stored just like money. The second law of thermodynamics even ensures a certain amount of inflation.
"they get a hold of your private keys, you lose everything."

Hardware wallets solve this (Trezor, Keepkey, etc.) This makes Bitcoin more secure than cash. Most people accept the (imperfect) level of security of cash, so they would be OK with the higher level of security of hw wallets.
Reminds me of this subducted tectonic plate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Plate
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Except the British, or at least Mancunians. "Ugh tastes a bit dodgy" does not sound foreign to me in any way.
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In the original link, Zimbardo misrepresents things a little bit by saying that he was ultimately the one who intervened when, in reality, it was another researcher (who was romantically involved with him and who later became his wife):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Maslach

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970108prisonexp.html
That contract is called a CFD and I'm not sure it's legal in the USA, but there are other synthetic forms of shorts that are. They do not have to follow the same rules as short sales such as respecting the uptick rule when it is in effect.
I really wish they had implemented Julia in C++11, instead of C. The source code seems to be very difficult to comprehend for anyone who is not one of the original developers. [1]

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia.h
Putting your savings under the mattress instead of in a bank account wouldn't have prevented the Great Recession. It was caused risky mortgages (debts, not savings) being sold as low risk from bank to bank, and then defaulting.

Putting your savings under the mattress instead of in a bank account wouldn't have prevented the Great Depression either.

The only thing it would have accomplished is making your savings easier to steal.
MULESOFT. It kick's the llama's ass.
2 year old gone off crisp?!

Anyway, I just don't think I've seen a product with both dates on!
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Most professors think their students are borderline incompetent
Ah, yes. It's the Dempster-Shafer theory example in the case of high conflict.

The complete/original example goes as follows:

"Suppose that one has two equi-reliable doctors and one doctor believes a patient has either a brain tumor, with a probability (i.e. a basic belief assignment—bba's, or mass of belief) of 0.99; or meningitis, with a probability of only 0.01. A second doctor believes the patient has a concussion, with a probability of 0.99, and believes the patient suffers from meningitis, with a probability of only 0.01. Applying Dempster’s rule to combine these two sets of masses of belief, one gets finally m(meningitis)=1 (the meningitis is diagnosed with 100 percent of confidence)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempster–Shafer_theory#Example...
Wouldn't giants just imply monopolies? I suspect to a point we are going to see the pendulum swing away from far-right politics towards far left politics. It'll be sexy to break up these giants for political points. Some talk has already be muttered here and there about Trump possibly targeting Amazon. After the Trump presidency, if we manage to get a far left progressive with the intention on breaking up other giants it works to be seen then that under neither political wing are giants protected from witch hunts.

I've long been in favor of ending the Sherman act for this reason. You can target companies that are politically opposed to you by just a bit of rhetoric and government over reach. One interesting way to think about what good breaking up companies do is think of Standard Oil's breakup leading to a butterfly affect so to speak that encouraged the increase usage of carbon base fuels. There were relatively crappy electric car models in the 1900s, there was actually a point where the electric car worked better than gas (1). If Standard Oil was to remain together and lack of competition meant higher oil prices this could have led Ford and others to research ways to make the electric model more capable for the masses as consumer demand would seek such alternatives. 100 years later, we may be in a much better position environmentally..maybe. Just a butterfly effect thought nonetheless. All that said, the best thing to do in order to combat monopolies in the free market is to legalize insider trading and spoofing. The markets will figure it out. Insiders acting on information they know without having to go through SEC hoops would be able to react more quickly and damage firms in ways that could work to destabilize such giants.

1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...