skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things can be crowdsourced, but not cell towers. These are just gateways to an underlying infrastructure. Someone needs to manage the fiber to the towers. Someone needs to get the permits, hire the diggers and occasionally lobby various governments. That takes years and won't ever be done by a F/OSS volunteer backed by donations. There are things that corporations do well, or at least better than the general public.
Write down the worst-case scenario. Write down some other bad scenarios.

Write down the good scenarios.

Evaluate them, and keep in mind the worst-case.

It's probably not very bad. I hope you go.
BluePotion is the Android version of RedPotion and these projects have a company backing them:

https://github.com/infinitered/bluepotion
Visualize 15 trillion dollars of world trade
He would probably think much the same thing. "Greenbacks" (which is was what the currency printed by the US at the time was called) traded at a significant discount to gold when redemption of demand notes in gold was suspended. [0]

--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback_(1860s_money)
> How can I convince you this is worth reading?

I discovered that it was … by reading it:-)
Right, and it's also HTML/CSS/JS for site owners to program interactions of their site using SQL queries that are prioritized against the underlying torrent.

Imagine sharing wikipedia dumps, along with an index.html page. TorrentPeek will render the index.html and expose a `sqlTorrentQuery(yourQuery)` method so that site owners can program the site around that.

You'd be able to do stuff like:

<form onSubmit=() =>
sqlTorrentQuery('SELECT * FROM wikipedia MATCH ' + this.value + ' LIMIT 50;'),
result => console.log(result))> ... </form>
Good points on the moonshots. I wouldn't rule out data centers though - for whatever reason they're getting pretty common in the Reno area: http://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2017/02/15/switch-la...
Yes lol, I remember. Even back then you had anchor tags.

Or are you talking about the way way back? I wasn't around for that.
Your Inner Spock might determine that it's Highly Illogical to only look at cheap transportation and not consider externalities like pollution.
For those interested in reading more about this idea, the term is "monoid cached trees". The Fenwick tree is a particular well-known special case.

(I looked into monoid cached trees for float placement in CSS at one point in an effort to come up with an O(n log n) algorithm. I succeeded, but the constant factor was so high that it wasn't worth the price. I ended up switching to an algorithm based on splay trees that, while O(n^2) in the worst case, ended up being O(n) with a small constant factor on real-world pages.)
TeaVM [1] does this, but I don't know much about it.

[1] https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
The process is slow because if it IS an explosive, you might get blown up trying to verify that fact.
Yes, you are right that the 1800x has better multithread performance.. In my workload, the single thread performance was what mattered, so that's what I paid attention to.
I don't think it's really that hard to ban short-term rentals. If you want to still allow long-term rentals you can set a minimum length of any such agreement. Certainly it's less complicated than addressing every single undesirable thing that could result from having them.
"Since it is generally advantageous to have a heterogeneous mix of tree species planted in the same area, the planting UAV is capable of carrying a mix of seeds and control their planting pattern.​"

Cooooooooooool. Thanks!
I'm not sure this argument holds up. Ryanair in the EU flys so many point to point flights from little airports to other little airports. Why does the point to point model work so well within the EU but not in the US? Ryanair has actually said that they don't really do market research for routes but rely on the fact that opening up the route increases demand.
I'm going to guess that someone who has never left Kentucky has enough local environmental concerns -- fracking, flooding, tornadoes, for starters -- to not care one bit about a coral reef somewhere, no matter what some economist values it at.
We have always had the potential to move that fast, but you can think of the difference here for features as: rather than scrambling to bring features to release faster if they're ready, we can choose to hold some features back for an extra 6 weeks in Nightly, for more development if they need it.
> "It must either be of intrinsic worth, like metal coins, or represent somebody's credit, -- that of the Government, of a corporation, or of private individuals."
> I wish Firefox Nightly automatically did the new-profile thing like Firefox Dev Edition/Chrome Canary does, though. Not being able to run them side-by-side out of the box is quite annoying.

I don't know about Nightly or the most recent release, but the following has always worked to open the profile manager and setup a new profile:

firefox.exe -p

If you want to run two instances of Firefox side-by-side, start the first instance and then use the following command (again, untested on the latest releases and on Nightly):

firefox.exe -p -no-remote
There's a general rule about people who harm others with externalities. They always loudly wonder why the people they victimize can't just mind their own business.
How do you guys match an interviewer with an interviewee? Its a fairly interesting problem to find best possible match for a interview setting. Might extend to figuring out who is a best suited interviewer for a candidate out of whole pool of interviewers at a company.
Mozilla's real-time digital forensics and investigation platform
One thing to try is to map 2D image data to 1D using Hilbert curve or some other locality-preserving space-filling curve.
Make Your Own Amigurumi Bunny
The main reason why regulation needs to exist:

- Unregulated markets often become oligopolies or monopolies, see the 19th century US robber barons (the reason for existence of FTC, antitrust laws, price dumping regulation etc)

- Unregulated markets can pose massive health and safety hazards, because operators pursue cost cutting at the price of safety - see the accident rate Chinatown buses between Boston and NYC, or see the regular food scandals in any developing country of your choice (reason for existence of OSHA, FDA etc)

- Unregulated markets can pose big fraud risks - particularly unregulated securities markets (reason for existence of SEC, NASD, etc)

- Unregulated markets will ignore externalities like pollution, public health, damage to commons both environmental and infrastructural [roads, buildings, trash, spectrum interference]. Regulation is needed to avoid the externalities or to internalise the costs into the market which causes these costs (reason for existence of EPA, FCC)
The problem with thinking you know more than the experts
I've seen exactly one ad (for Onedrive) in Win10 after daily use since it came out. It actually runs stuff too, which is a nice perk to tout over Linux.
Python doesn't have 'mutable variables'. I think you mean 'not binding mutable values as default arguments', but that's totally fine. What's wrong is not understanding when default arguments are bound. There's nothing inherently wrong with this:

class Wrapper:
def __init__(self, wrapped):
self.wrapped = wrapped

def counter():
def inner(w=Wrapper()):
w.wrapped += 1
return w
return inner
IMHO it didn't mean anything, just like when you're logging to console a lot and you want to quickly mark/separate something quickly, you're maybe adding bunch of '======', similarly XXX is just a quick mark to go back - so it's easy to find it - and sort something out there.

I think it was used more in days when we didn't have meta-comments - comments that ide is smart about now (FIXME is highlighted, indexed etc).

Novadays I'd use it in the code that really needs to be fixed because it smells. I wouldn't get offended when team member would say - don't use XXX, use FIXME or TODO only - because XXX'es shouldn't leak to commits anyway.

That's my opinion/gut feeling.
>such as OpenCL not as cutting edge performance as NVIDIA CUDA or OpenGL not matching MS DirectX features[4]

I think that's a slightly different reason because OpenCL is just a spec with no real teeth. NVIDIA/MS have a pretty tight grip over the market both in h/w and s/w, and creating a CUDA like spec does nothing meaningful if there is no alternative source for hardware and software. Everything including drivers, libraries, compilers etc. is closed, whether it's CUDA or OpenCL. So aside from some vague promise of portability, OpenCL doesn't really open anything.
> Just curious if there was a specific reason to do this over maybe throwing together a basic HTML page before submitting to a news aggregator.

Articles or links can be submitted by anyone not necessarily content authors.

Further I think a lot of people here (myself) included are quite happy with plain-text (it loads fast, it works well with various font/screen sizes) - note also that the README is in fact markdown formatted, so feel free to open it in your reader of choice.
You could try something akin to tessellation, with either more than one hilbert curve, or a truncated curve.
> fsck
ERROR: volume / is mounted with write access. Re-run with (-l) to freeze volume.
> fuck
No fucks given
It is-- what is the perceived downside?
Israel and Palestine: Apartheid, United Nations Said
As a father with an infant daughter, I am so looking forward to (carefully) introducing her to video games. My wife couldn't care less about them, but I'm hoping she inherits my love of them.
Nice script :) I did a similar thing by hand with graphicsmagick and sox a couple years ago - the most fun result was from wahwah, pretty much a wide bandpass filter with centre frequency varying cyclically over time: http://lewisinthelandofmachines.tumblr.com/post/59405537096/...
How Negative Thinkers Can Train Themselves to Stop Being Grumps
The most notable restriction being a prohibition on encryption of any kind.
Ask yourself what use you have for an FPGA on the desktop that you couldn't use the GPU for. Fact is, your desktop will include a GPU anyways. So that FPGA will not be in lieu of but rather in addition to.

So this will only change when either of a couple things happen. One is demand side: a killer application on the desktop which requires an FPGA comes along and drives demand. The other is supply side: the demand for CPU+FPGA is so great from Amazon+Microsoft+Google that chip manufacturers just supply it in desktops for 'nothing'.

An example of the demand side is game graphics. I don't need this but a lot of people do and then my UI graphics get better.

An example of the supply side is that I don't really need cryptographic grade random number seeds, RDSEED, but I get it for free because someone who buys a ton more than I do does need this.

I don't see this happening for 5-10 years.
Exactly. The database syntax is the same. You're still writing SQL queries against the SQLite engine. I'm just replacing disk-access with network-piece-access.

TorrentPeek goes one step further and puts this idea to use in sites, where interactions on an HTML page can be programmed to perform queries. Instead of AJAX calls, you get these sqltorrent calls.
I think the question really is, does it do anything for file size? If there were a radical difference in total size, the quality degradation might be an interesting compromise.
Quite so. And the words "toxic" and "toxin" are used for every single snake oil solution/problem out there in relation to health. It's become a great example of a failure over time in scientific communication and how the common usage of terms has been rendered useless in meaning for the common person.

It's a tragedy, but it's what's happened.
I've been wondering lately if it would be possible to make an entire compiler stack incremental, so that the binary changes on disk as I type. I am positively sick of waiting tens of seconds or even minutes for the compiler to redo all the work it's already done thousands of times just to make a one-byte change to my binary.
Seeding programs. You give your hardware to selected partners so they can develop for it before it hits general availability.
That's related, but not the same. The dependency chart isn't showing the set of all possible player actions (though it can grow to that). And then, unless it's implemented formally, as described in the article it's a design tool, and not a formal tool. So you could leave out things (unintentionally).

For instance, if you don't model that the player can drop an object after finding it, you can't guarantee that they'll have it when they need it. So, using the original post's game, Alice needs the red key to get to the red room (final goal). Let's say it was in the west room, also with the green key, where Alice begins the game. She grabs the green key, goes east, hands it to Bob who heads west. Now Alice cannot move. This particular game is solvable because Bob can grab the red key and take it to Alice, but not every game permits this recovery action. Supposing it only had the one player character, and the keys were consumable (as happens in some games). She has no way to return.

The dependency chart only shows that she can solve the puzzle, not that she can always solve the puzzle (that there exists a path, not for all paths), until it gets a lot more detail than a hand-drawn graph is likely to get.
Fiat currency doesn't match any of those, though. It is of no value, not even credit.
Since when Apple is a server company?

All their SSD's use their controllers.

As for external disks, Apple couldn't care less, for them, the future is cloud storage.
How can one get any more functional than plain text?

It could have been worse, they could have published it some binary format!
It doesn't have to be an abstraction; it could have been an API standard for IaaS providers, with OpenStack itself serving as a reference implementation of said API. No higher-level concepts like containers; just saying things like "the VM lifecycle controllers in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DO, Linode, Rackspace, some random company's private cloud, etc., should all 'speak Nova', so that any Nova client can control VM lifecycles on any of them." Such providers could expose extra features with their own proprietary APIs (think e.g. the features exposed to the Gmail users through the web-app vs. through IMAP) but the standard protocol would at least be there for everything.

Not that asking AWS+GCP+Azure to commoditize themselves in such a way makes much economic sense, but that's the proposition.
Sure, but it's a garbage in, garbage out thing. If you're using those in production in something like, say, google images, you wouldn't want to lose accuracy on a one-time pass. Anything can be quantized lower, but you start making the tradeoff of losing information that may affect the quality of your product later.
This is not really a decision you need to make now. Take a week or two to rest, ponder where you might go and do some tentative planning. If you start to get jazzed about a particular destination, hey, start making it happen. If not, start job hunting.

This is not a situation where you need to make some big, final decision today.
I will give 1 star and zero tips to any driver that mention tips even once. Tips is one of the things I hate the most about US.
HDMI out is a thing that most people can't realistically use to connect their PC to their TV because they're in different places.
I feel like Hitchhiker's is meant to be an exception to the rule.
It was 60 euros total a night, split between two people. Nice hotels were at least 200 euros per night.
It's not impossible to make those in power give it up, but it requires a revolution and revolutions sadly imply violence most of the time.

Switzerland was always an okay model of how to run a federation.
Parity was never was common in PCs.
I have the same.

# Because sometimes you gotta be harsh.
alias fucking="sudo"

# And sometimes you gotta be nice.
alias please="sudo"
State dependent on whether those laws exist
Not an answer to your question, but a resource that might interest you:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/business-bootstrap...
>Governments are made up of our elected representatives and those our elected representatives appoint/hire. If we're unhappy with those decisions, we vote for someone else and tell them to change them. See Trump and the EPA for a current-events sample of this in action - the Right feels things are too regulated, they won the election, and now we're getting a bunch of regulations removed (to our likely detriment, IMO).

This paints a rosier picture about the possibilities of change in such systems than I think are warranted, though I know some might argue that the sclerosis of politics is a feature as much as it is a drawback. That said, we make decisions, sometimes daily, regarding things we want in life. It may be as simple as which kinds of coffee to drink, or which laptop to buy, and those choices result in areas of society that can and do change with some speed.
What we arguably need is more "stupid" (as in "keep it simple, stupid") regulation

Double right on. Needless complexity is probably the number one enemy of technology projects, consumer protections, market regulation, and good governance. Everybody at heart is a freaking architecture astronaut, and it's doing us no good at all.

As an example of how things might work, government certainly has a role in defining products in a complex market; otherwise consumers would be at the whim of anybody who could make a good sales pitch. In the airline industry, I buy a ticket to go from point A to point B at a certain time. You can do a lot of hand-waving about how "normal" tickets don't guarantee any of this and how a more nuanced pricing system can allow all the seats to be filled, but that's bullshit. You can accomplish the same thing by simply having a two-tiered system: tickets that get you somewhere at a certain time, and ad-hoc tickets. Add one rule, say ad-hoc tickets can only be purchased in the 48-hours prior to a flight leaving, and you've got all the features of our modern system without all the crap that goes along with it.

I think everybody means well, it's just that there are a ton of people in any regulatory system that can stop or slow-down things, yet they have absolutely no feedback mechanism in place at all to tell them whether what they're doing is actually helping rather than hurting. It's the same exact thing as we technologists see when we work in large organizations with byzantine structures that get in the way of progress and make no sense to anybody.
Airlines don't want you to comparison shop for amenities, because then those will become a race to the bottom as well, and airlines will gradually reduce the amount of legroom available in Economy+ until it's just barely above regular Economy.

Anyway, basically all the major airlines except Southwest offer this. It's Economy+ on United, Delta Comfort on Delta, Premium Economy on American, Main Cabin Select on Virgin America, Even More on JetBlue, etc. I found this out through looking at the front page of each of their websites. Prices range from $40-50 (additional) per seat per leg. You can select it upon seat selection at the airline's website (which is where an aggregator will take you, anyway): the extra economy+ seats that are available are shown together with the price for the update, and you just have to click on them and it will adjust your fare accordingly.

So now you know. Incidentally, this is pretty good evidence of this subthread's point: you expected to be told all of this by going through a 3rd-party aggregator where you can search by cost. If you are representative of the average American consumer (which is probably pretty likely), it's no wonder the airlines compete on cost.
The only species to go extinct twice.
If it's obvious, then what purpose does your comment serve?
Plain text is fine.

It's a shame mobile browsers are so dysfunctional that they struggle to cope with plain text or minimally marked up HTML, but the blame lies with the browsers, not the content.
There is an idea known as the "Regret Minimization Principal". It seems particularly applicable here.

You have two options: travel or not travel.

Looking back, which choice might you regret least? Choose that one.
This is why campaign finance reform is so important.

Arguably it's not that law makers are incompetent at recognizing good regulation vs bad, but the incentive structure is messed up.
YOLO for "I have no idea how or why this works (it might not even work for all cases)"
> the only difference between non-profit and for-profit is that the owners of a non-profit don't get to keep them money for themselves per se, although they're just like for-profits in all other ways, including the ability to name their own salaries and waste money frivolously and use their resources inefficiently ...

That overlooks the most important difference, the reason non-profits exist: For-profit companies exist to make money for their owners; non-profits exist to serve a public mission, such as protecting and furthering the free and open web (or feeding the starving or promoting peace or etc.).

Also, the salaries are not at all comparable. If the founders of Mozilla had made it a for-profit company, they'd be among the Silicon Valley billionaires (and the founders of Mozilla's predecessor, Netscape, are indeed among them or at least extremely wealthy). There are many very talented people who gave their careers to the free and open web, when I expect they could have been making a lot more money elsewhere. I doubt Mozilla competes with Google on salary.
I wouldn't mind this feature, so long as the drivers have to rate you before they find out if/how much you tipped them.
I take modafinil on a daily basis each morning, and have a regular sleep pattern of 7-8 hours a night.

It even helps with going to sleep earlier, because I feel depleted by 10 PM, so there's less incentive for me to stay up and waste time that I could use resting for the next day.
As an American I'm often confused about it, too. Luckily in day-to-day life I pretty much only tip waiters/waitresses but it gets confusing when I'm travelling.
I was a software developer at a company that produces LAL-based endotoxin tests. The best alternative[0] is an enzyme produced recombinantly in insect cells. It triggers an enzymatic reaction similar to LAL's (but more complicated).

It is effective for testing most of the same products as LAL, and it has been accepted as an "alternative method" by the FDA and European Pharmacopeia. That means it can be used but with more extensive, expensive validation testing. There are some products it's not compatible with, and there is a small set of products that are more easily tested with the alternative enzyme.

Also interesting that the article doesn't mention the standard before the LAL method was discovered: rabbits were injected with the test material and monitored for developing a fever.

[0](http://www.lonza.com/products-services/pharma-biotech/endoto...)
If you think Uber "must" do this if required by law, you don't get UX...

They could almost certainly comply with any law like this by adding a tiny little "Tip your driver" link in your receipt, which would be seen and used by .001% of riders...
Thats actually much higher than I would have thought, I was under the impression they operated on 1% or less margins. Maybe not a great margin, but 2.6 billion isn't anything to sneeze at.