skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cosmos DB has native extensibility to support various APIs Azure Table Storage "APIs" is one of them. If you are a Azure Table Storage customers, by virtue of accessing Cosmos DB using the Table Storage API, you can now get all of the capabilities of Cosmos DB incl. automatic indexing, global distribution etc.

Your Table Storage queries should be really fast with Cosmos DB since, Cosmos DB supports efficient indexing and query.
I'm the author of the site and I didn't know about the theme gallery you mentioned, but this other one is linked: http://emacsthemes.com/

I'll add pawelbx's gallery on the next update. Thanks!
What about the robots? Better to just keep them home and let them color.
Why? Their monetization strategy so far has been brand advertisement interspersed as vertical video ads between Stories. This doesn't require any particular kind of content, only that they can hold your attention for 10 seconds or so while they show you an advertisement.
It saddens me that there are people in our profession for whom implementing such a thing presents no moral or ethical dilemma.
Counterpoint: this tool pegged my 8-year-old as 13 (and she looks younger than her age) and me as 56... well into the double-digit error zone.

Someone recently thought I was 30. People aren't any better than computers.
This is one of my pet peeves with HN.

People here often gang up on a product if it doesn't meet their specific requirements or budget.

Could it simply be that you aren't the target market for this product?

Also, people comparing the cost of this roof with the cost of a conventional roof are being a little ingenuous. This roof has ROOF + SOLAR.

You'll have to include cost of an equivalent solar system + roof if you want to do a cost to cost comparison.

It's obviously not cheap, but if there are people - and there are plenty of people - who can afford it, why knock it down?
It just makes too much sense to show ads based on the demographics. They now have robots in malls too. They are just recording everything, processing, logging, extracting, selling and up selling. There is no privacy. The problem is not only does it make economic sense just to have these robots, the added intelligence from the data mining makes it even more attractive.
I know it's completely subjective and silly on my part. Just can't get past it.
Much more common outside the US, where it's not seen as a slur at all. It's commonly used to differentiate the "Far East" (China, Japan, etc) from the rest of Asia (India, etc).

It does technically mean "from the east", after all.

But yeah, you'll see it everywhere in the U.K. for example
Unsettling existing populations increases chances of political instability and potential war. You can see the reaction to migrations and refugees (Syria, for example) now. That could quite easily be magnified if larger populations were forced to desperate measures. War is a species-ending risk, IMO.
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"Also, people comparing the cost of this roof with the cost of a conventional roof are being a little ingenuous."

Because that's precisely what elon did!

"“So the basic proposition will be: Would you like a roof that looks better than a normal roof, lasts twice as long, costs less and—by the way—generates electricity?” Musk said. “Why would you get anything else?” "

Note the "Costs less" part.

In case you wanted to argue about that:
"Musk told the crowd that he had just returned from a meeting with his new solar engineering team. Tesla’s new solar roof product, he proclaimed, will actually cost less to manufacture and install than a traditional roof—even before savings from the power bill. "

Note very specifically: "Cost less to manufacture and install than a traditional roof - even before savings from the power bill".
Having done a bit of embedded work (I have quite a few esp8266 and esp32 dev boards programmed primarily with C and some using micropython), but also doomg a decent bit of webdev, although more server side backend than actual pure is front end...

You sir win the Internet for today.

Besides a much steeper learning curve to C, it is much easier. If you put the GPIO pull-up to high, the LED turns on. If you put it to low, the LED turns off. It is much simpler in that there isn't much abstraction really at all.
Are young working-class whites skewing more Republican than older ones?
As someone who never has and likely will never use Snapchat (tried it once, didn't see the value), Snapchat has a major problem that Facebook doesn't: it can't attract older users.

My parents, older relatives...everyone I know is on Facebook or Whatsapp.

But they will never use Snapchat.

Snapchat's users are only going to be younger. This makes them an attractive investment 10 years down the line, but not right now.
I think this becomes sinister when it makes the move to being free for the business with the service provider records & collects the data to sell to third parties.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/01/516285/US-Daesh-bomb...
There are many solutions that do this, both proprietary and Open Source. Accuracy is influenced by lots of factors, some to do with the setup (camera angle, lighting) the hardware (camera quality, computation speed) and the subjects (race, facial hair, glasses). We used this in research projects involving elderly mood assessment and in television viewer's emphatic responses. The package we used was marketed by Noldus ( http://noldus.com ) and developed bu Vicarvision ( http://vicarvision.nl ), but most of these packages perform at about the same level.
A side note: I've seen an increasing number of friends on Whatsapp use the 'Status' feature to share pictures (which works like Stories).

It's a very tiny percentage so far - maybe 1-2% of my contacts list - but it is being used.

If this gets to about 10%, Snapchat should be worried. Whatsapp has a massive user base in developing countries.
It's quite lovely but I personally can't stand the domain. First impression: people are launching new Perl projects in 2017?

I know that's goofy and utterly subjective, but it was still my initial thought.
Short circuiting a lithium ion battery rarely causes more than a fire and venting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbVHe5A6rJs
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>This law as it's written has got to be unconstitutional.

...and certainly as it is applied here, to a 'zestimate'.

I predict Zillow will make a motion to dismiss on first amendment grounds. I also predict the judge will grant that motion.

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Not really. You can do a lot of embedded programming in C or Python or JavaScript or even Lua. You just need to be willing to not learn the next hot new framework and instead learn how the hardware underneath works. Checkout say a NodeCMU esp8266 with either JavaScript or Lua. It is a 32 bit tensillica CPU, and it is easy to learn. I didn't go to college for CS and have programmed dozens and dozens of them for fun and various IoS (internet of shit) sensors and relays.

Instead of spending ~100 for a MyQ smart garage opener I spent less than 20 for an Adafruit Huzzah and some sensors. Then I taught myself to program it and boom. It isn't hard if you're dedicated and have a project to learn with a clear bend goal.
Why does every climate change story have someone spreading the same false information? Climate change isn't a threat to the human race. Inventing extreme ideas entrenches opposition and gives them valid reasons to say "you're wrong and I won't do anything to help". If you really believe that, then it's an unconventional idea that deserves references.
Ask HN: Any experience with the SCiO liquid addon?
Hey folks,

Looking for any input on the liquid accessory for SCiO devices. I'm considering splurging for one and a dev license to start playing around with models for cocktail creation. Also if you have a liquid accessory you're willing to part with let me know!
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Well, they're certainly not #1 at moving the goalposts...
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I would think that Zillow would mainly be punishing themselves by not having a quality algo for home values, given that it the main draw of the site for many people.
Really looking forward to AU GCP!
I'm not a lawyer but I think what ultimately bit Microsoft was the fact that they were trying to contractually restrict OEMs from including alternatives (arguably harming consumers) and trying to argue that IE was part​ of the OS when there was evidence it was not. Certainly the settlement remedies after appeal primarily seem to focus on not restricting OEMs from installing alternatives.

Google lawyers have undoubtedly analysed the case with a fine toothed comb and would likely use the permissive open source licenses under which it provides Android and Chrome sources (and allows manufacturers to roll their own versions) to argue they don't restrict anyone.
Not significantly, but in the Hiragana page there are some interesting differences from standard Romanization.

Most notable one is conflation of vowel [イ] and [エ]. Often both are denoted with "i", sometimes one of them is "yi". In modern American English the sound /i/ falls in middle of Japanese イ and エ. I'm not sure in this case that it's because of that, or Ryukyu dialect had shifted vowels.

セ is denoted as "she" (usually "se"). This variation of consonant appears in some Japanese dialect.

ヒ is denoted as "fi". Might stem from old Japanese pronunciation.

Curiously, ヰ is denoted as "i" and ヱ is denoted as "yi/ye/e". Usually they are "wi" and "we", but those pronunciations have been lost in modern Japanese.
Sell out when they offer you $3bn.
There was never an actual legal case. There were just cease and desist letters with threats of a case. Before any actual legal case could materialize the law in AZ was changed to allow automated appraisals without certification as long as no money changed hands for the appraisal.
GDAL 2.2.0 is released
> it still struggles to produce things smaller countries are capable of

Quite.

http://www.actualfunnypictures.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/201...
Here is the software the sign is using.

http://www.adflownetworks.com/audience-detection/
If they want to solve housing, they need to incentivize the hell out of "permanently remote" positions.

It is insane that so many teams in such dense areas have these butt-in-chair policies that require employees to live in expensive areas and commute great distances.

Frankly, there are tons of jobs that can be done just fine from anywhere. Managers have to get over this idea that they can't keep track of people wherever they are.
Did anyone even read the article. The study has nothing to do with complex behavior or "sophisticated" behavior. It's a study on your ability to generate random list of results, like "listing the hypothetical results of a series of 12 coin flips so that they would 'look random to somebody else'"
The Summit contract was signed in November 2014: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8727/nvidia-ibm-supercomputers

Supercomputers have very long planning and development cycles. So do GPUs and CPUs. The contract specified chips that didn't yet exist (Volta and POWER9) as much more than codenames on a roadmap.
It's redirecting straight to google, I think...

but the page seems right according to curl...
Not to forget that for many, many users in emerging markets, the mobile carriers offer free data for WhatsApp. Traveling through Colombia, and I can use WhatsApp status for free over here. SnapChat kills my data.
I think what a lot of people miss as well is a lot of our oxygen output comes from life in the ocean. I don't know real numbers here or what other consequences this entails (just wanted to point it out).
Okay, this I took a quick look at it, and this seems way to awkward to use from a shell script. It's pretty much C only. I guess Plan 9 does better.
Steven Sinofsky, there's a name I haven't heard in a while.
And ActiveMovie, which became DirectShow. (which I only remember since Apple lampooned it by internally naming a window used by QuickTime "InactiveMovie")
Hey, I am also planning to work on exact same thing. Are you interested in keeping in touch each other to share experience? DM me please.
Here we see a cornerstone of HA: redundancy
In parts of the California’s Bay Area, $105,350 is now ‘low income’
Well, I think you are mistaken here. There is an Open Source Community Edition of all versions of Pycharm if you are so inclined to the Open Source. That is quite good enough. Celeron is quite old and slow and it is not fair to expect an IDE to work fast on that old PC. Though you can still disable some advanced features(
inspections) and make it reasonably fast.

Again, it totally depends on the project you are working. For a reasonable sized project, you can do away with an editor. But with large codebases, IDE support is a great difference. And this is coming from someone who has been writing all his code on Vim for last 6 years or so. Basically, all you require is a productive environment that doesn't hold you back and enables you to write faster and correct code. For me and a lot of other people, Pycharm is quite that tool.
This is a smart way to combat these political hacking campaigns, it seems. Make them verify the information like any other venue, or they'll wind up releasing bogus receipts for bath salts shipped to the French Parliament.

Make them double check. Press them for time, and force errors on their part. Expecting your entire staff to be able to spot a phish is simply not good enough.
//Names changed slightly to protect the wicked
public interface IProvideBoolean {
Boolean True { get; }
Boolean False { get; }
}

public class BooleanProvider : IProvideBoolean {
public Boolean True => true;
public Boolean False => false;
}

So.... SOLID....
If there's ever a third value for Boolean, I Will Be Ready.
India has the 2nd largest population. By your reasoning, they should also be huge at manufacturing. It's not just China's population that enabled them to overtake the USA at manufacturing.

Population and low cost are the two biggest reasons China has overtaken the US. There's nothing miraculous about Chinas position in the global economy - it's a huge country. If anything, it still underperforms. Much smaller nations are producing passenger aircraft and automobiles used all over the world.

Average IQ is 105.

Which just goes to show you the disastrous effects of socialism, even though it's been curtailed. A high IQ nation with no wars - it should by all rights be a first world country like its eastern neighbours, or indeed - like its Special Administrative Regions.

My family on the other hand will continue to do business with them because they have a lot to bring to the table.

Why would my thoughts on the economic outlook huge nation of over a billion affect who I do business with? Why would I assume a Chinese business or individual has nothing to bring to the table? The fact I don't think I'll be taking international flights on a Chinese made jet any time soon doesn't really affect my view of things like business relationships.
I don't think I've heard of anyone who "loved" Xcode.
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But if the person who called all 20 flips properly is a math PHD who discovered the Chern–Simons secondary characteristic classes of 3-manifolds which has had a profound effect on modern physics[0] - I might think they've figured out some deep shit about coin tossing.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons#Academic_a...
Most people think I'm around 30 and I'm 42. The software said I was 40 the first time and 44 on the second try.
Right, but "unprivileged user namespaces" are disabled in many contexts, because they've been a source of many vulnerabilities due to code originally thought to only be reachable by root anyway.

Archlinux has user namespaces disabled, docker does not use them by default and does not allow them inside containers by default, on Ubuntu I make sure to disable kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone on all the servers I deploy to, etc.
Skype accounts are also Microsoft accounts these days
> The bubble is bursting.

This has got to be the laziest trope that gets brought out every time a tech company loses some money.
Microsoft released their TypeScript/React boilerplate project
Thank you, this was the first comment actually telling more on the matter after all the "it said I'm X years old!" comments :)

I guess using such a system just to analyze people in real-time might already violate some surveillance laws like you said (in my country all such cameras must be warned about, even traffic cameras). But do you have any idea if those things also record data on customers? I could see how keeping such a database on customers might be dancing on the fine line of creating a "registry", which is pretty heavily regulated by laws at least here. Even more so if there is a possibility to identify real persons from that data.
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> I think it's time to LET IT GO.

It will never be let go, because each new person is a new interaction with the system that prompts the same point again.

It's like those '*porn' subreddits. You can explain and explain 'till you're blue in the face why the subs are so named, but there will always be some sniggering discussion when it is introduced to new users no matter how much you try and silence or control for it, because it's based on a natural response.

Capitalize all you like, but that's just how people work. :)
Conflicts don't cause extinction. The winner survives.
Would ~$500B in revenue count as the economy?
Why Ashburn:

According to [1]:

"Ashburn is the Internet’s boom town. It sits atop the world’s densest intersection of fiber networks, making it an ideal location to store and distribute data. .... It was home to MAE-East, the Internet’s first major interconnection point. A startup called Equinix built its first data center in Ashburn in 1998, providing a “carrier-neutral” facility where companies’ networks could tap into Internet backbones."

[2] describes trend for Y16, Y17. Worth a read. I was told by my SVP about his visit of Boston and he said Boston also hosts some of the major financial and entertainment businesses (e.g Netflix? I thought they shut down their own DC already) for Boston is also atop of major Internet backbone. I didn't verify this claim yet.

[1]: http://datacenterfrontier.com/the-ashburn-data-center-buildi...

[2]: http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/Research/US-North-...
Right. Outside of dense, expensive cities, the %of house value goes up since houses cost less AND the roof sizes also go up.
Reply was to:

tchaffee 2 hours ago [-]

"Leads the world in absolutely nothing... #1 manufacturer in the world."

Which was correct. I think you got it wrong.
I can't seem to find the old DocumentDB prices any more, but it seems like it's a lot cheaper now? Also, is User-Defined Performance something new? since last time I looked into DocumentDB you had to pay the monthly RU fee per 10GB disk.

One more thing, as someone who went from DocumentDb to Azure Storage (Tables) back in April 2016 because of the higher price, slower queries, and scalability problems, is there anything that may make Cosmos DB a better option?
Did you keep accurate written statistics on this?
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I open vim inside Pycharm's Terminal but most of the time I don't really need to open Sublime/Vim.

Pycharm also have scratch file/buffer support and that is quite awesome for one off scripts.
Awesome, I have updated my profile.
That last sentence made no sense to me.
Read away:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Observed_and_ex...
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What sort of data entry? Seems like OCR/human combo would have been better.
Postman only has a v1 and v2 data format. No proprietary format. The formats and the SDKs [1] to use them are also open source. The transformer for converting between versions is also open source [2]. Importing works fine for me. You could leave an issue on Github if you found a bug while importing.

[1] - https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-collection

[2] - https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-collection-transforme...
Isn't this what github and friends are for?
Because unless you go with a metal roof that's a pipe dream.
PR is a thing, but so are internet users who see it in everything their own opinions don't align with. Please keep that trope off HN unless you have specific evidence. Comments you disagree with aren't evidence, just opportunities for self-control.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14313103 and marked it off-topic.
100k in Toronto is 63k USD. How much of that do you get to keep after taxes? The H1B folks working in my office from India earn around 65k USD.

63k USD/100k CAD for a good senior engineer is a very poor salary in the US. Typically they make 2-3 times that in TX.
I don't get it. Why do you need a separate OS altogether just manage surgery equipments and staff?!
I'm pretty sad about this. Most companies let the product orgs own naming after a legal check, but we let Marketing. They're supposed to do market research on names? You would not believe the hurdle that naming causes and how many empty cycles get spent on just coming up with a name. It feels like a battle of attrition.
I've always found that a negative feature, I use different extensions and settings (tabs and Egyptian braces) at home.

And if you've got a corporate MSDN license then the login will be different anyway.
Says I'm 4 years older than I am (31 / 27) and have high levels of sadness.

Covered up my receding hairline a bit and it said 29. I reckon if I shaved I could get it down to about 22 since that's how old people usually think I am.

Pulled a disgusted face and it said 47. Hmm.
Github provides the "issue tracker" side of things. But I'm not aware of any "sign up to pay this developer $X/month" functionality?
Right, noone is acknowledging SolarCity's pre-existing relationships with homebuilders. http://www.solarcity.com/commercial/homebuilders
Might be time to pull out the regulations (a.k.a protections). You could destroy the market for this sort of thing if executives went to jail or were fined out of business.
It added 5 years to my age (42) but got everything else right.

My partner tried it and it took 10 years off her age, and found an angry 31 year old man hiding in the folds of her clothing!
What's wrong with Uber and Airbnb?
seems ok to me, are you getting a 404 error something similar?
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I'm guessing you haven't tried Xcode or Eclipse.
> nor does this Act apply to the procurement of an automated valuation model. "Automated valuation model" means an automated system that is used to derive a property value through the use of publicly available property records and various analytic methodologies such as comparable sales prices, home characteristics, and historical home price appreciations.

If that sentence applies, I don't think they really have a case...
Has nothing to do with morals - people gotta eat