skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the initial states existed before the federal government. So "divided" seems off. Anyway, I don't know the history well enough to have an opinion about the importance of experimentation. I thought that it was mostly about freedom.
I'm going to be honest here and tell you guys that I didn't read most of the article. The more I come across these headlines the more I start to feel maybe these people that are complaining are feeling a little bit to entitled. I wonder how they would feel if they were working at a small publicly owned company out in Indiana. Fix the contrast bias and maybe you wouldn't feel so bad about where you work.
The ability to use multiple cursors is one of Sublime Text's defining features, so describing an editor as being Sublime-like without that feature is somewhat of a letdown.
How big is Europe and how big is the valley? This is comparing apples to oranges...
If just isn't, even in the animal world. The only thing we have an edge in is colour resolution and that not always.
>Never mind that it's fast to write, but difficult to maintain since it is a dynamically typed language and one typo creates runtime errors that any statically typed language will catch at compile time.

This distinction is only important if you do not have tests.

You need more tests if you are using a language that is weakly typed (e.g. C, js) and fewer if you are using a language that is largely type-safe (e.g. python) and even fewer if it is very, very type-safe (e.g. rust/haskell), but the compile-time/runtime distinction doesn't change the number of tests you need to achieve a requisite level of code quality - it only changes whether a behavioral test you should always be writing or a compiler picks up type errors.
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. That's on of the harder problems in vehicle autonomy.
Well, that isn't a flaw in the implementation of value_ptr. The example, as provided, won't compile because the the copy constructor, assignment operator, and destructor are declared `= default` in the header. This causes any translation units that include value_ptr_example_pimpl.hpp to attempt to stamp out the default implementation, which does require knowing `sizeof(Foo::Pimpl)`.

Moving those methods to value_ptr_example_pimpl.cpp, just as you'd normally do for PIMPL makes the compiler happy.

This works for me in VS2017 but should work on any C++11 compliant compiler: https://gist.github.com/SeanCline/55d700d4fbf8cc1bdaeb44b547...
Top 3 reasons to choose Amazon Lex for building chatbots
Stripe is a lot smaller than Airbnb (by headcount, but also financials probably). But it's growing quickly, and things have already started to degrade.

So, it's coming. On the other hand, they are very savvy about branding and comms, so they should be able to defy reality for a while ;)

Seriously, they don't get credit for how good they are at this. And they probably wouldn't want that credit if they got it!

(You know that piece about FB's "far-reaching tentacles" from the other day? I wonder why we haven't seen anything similar about Stripe yet. Hmmmm...)
And she is absolutely right!
Not trying to diminish the use of multiple cursors (I have certain fondness for them despite not using them extensively due to my choice of editor), but using regexes you can still do that (i.e. with /^/ and /$/, which I use constantly with vim-style search and replace)
Waiting for the inevitable: "What if we could guarantee that these coins were made only with renewable / sustainable energy sources, giving you the benefit of digital currency w/o the pollution", and the coming "It's like CO2 / renewable energy credits, but with blockchain!" startups.
Cool, thanks for sharing that.
Lidar is pretty much my favorite animal. Bred for its skills in magic.
Meta-assessment of bias in science [pdf]
Shattered Gradients: If resnets are the answer, then what is the question?
Shared signatures of recent positive selection across human populations
I'm all for more education spending, and I do think it seems like Oklahoma's education budget is in crisis, I'm not convinced that this particular approach (four day weeks) is actually problematic on an educational performance level.
As mentioned briefly in the article, studies either haven't found significant negative effects [1] or have found that four-day school weeks (with a corresponding lengthening of the school day as found in this case) are associated with a weak positive effect on academic performance (at least in rural regions) [1]. There's less context switching with longer periods, attendance improves moderately and having the extra day off results in less cognitive fatigue over time. The article does mention Tim Tharp's dissertation that suggests that over time this effect drops off and performance may decline [3]. Concerning purely educational performance, money saved with this program may be spent better on retaining teachers and retaining elective and extra-curricular programs.

That said, I do think there is an important concern about the increased burden on low income families -- both in terms of child-care costs and food. The article mentions the one district that arranged "low-cost" child care on fridays for $30/child/week, but for a two-child household that corresponds to an extra $240-$300 per month. For low income families that may be 10% or more of household income.

Indeed the cost of their "low-cost" childcare is a bit fishy. The article mentions that the Newcastle school district has an enrollment of about 2300 students, and save $110,000 per year by switching to four-day weeks -- Around $48 per student per year. Yet they charge $30 per student per week for childcare on Fridays. How is that cost being justified?

[1] http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ987605.pdf

[2] http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/EDFP_a_0016...

[3] http://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/10780/ -- Worth noting perhaps that this is a dissertation, and the corresponding research has never been published in a peer-reviewed venue. Not to say its flawed, but it hasn't necessarily undergone a close methodological review

(Disclaimer: Not an education expert. I just went hunting for articles discussing academic effects out of curiosity. Would love to hear from those that know more about the subject.)
I am black, I don't need you to explain what "growing up black" is like. Your entire argument is that of a naive outsider that does not understand the parallels between race and culture.
> React is 275K (nearly a quarter of a meg) when it is minified and gzipped. 750K when it is not minified/gziped.

That statement is completely false.

react@15.5.4:

react.min.js is 21335 bytes uncompressed, 7353 bytes gzipped.
Yes thanks. If I'd allocated more time to that comment I'd likely have edited to better get across that I'm also actively trying not to jump to conclusions on the other end of the spectrum, but I don't particularly care about votes either way and was/am just using this and the past comment to note what I might later look back on as the biased POV I was under at the time.

For GB's sake I hope some minority subdicision forms and at least manages to secure some of the crucial points of privacy or otherwise figure out how they can coexist with their system or one more suited to them... shrug The scarier aspect of globalization.
The interesting part is that distance is not really needed, only good estimate of presence or absence of an object and a real easy model of how a mirror works.
To my knowledge, the scenario hasn't happened in real life yet but it's a thought experiment that tests (abuses) the permanence of an un-erasable consensus ledger. I will try to use the most distasteful data I can think of to drive the point home...

Imagine that a vindictive person embeds the bytes of a graphic explicit child rape video into the ledger. All subsequent blocks will depend on those "bad bytes" so they can't be erased. For the later blocks to be trusted, everyone must have a copy of those bytes.

What is society's response? Live with those bad blocks to maintain the trust in the chain? Or does a majority agree to fork a new chain (ala Ethereum/DAO) that removes the bad bytes?

Even if a fork happens, the trolling/defacing of bad bytes into the worldwide blockchain is a tempting method to force everyone to have a copy of your "graffiti". The new fork would simply be a new target to deface. A smaller example of "bad bytes" is doxing someone's Social Security # or home address. (For all we know, some of the transaction amounts in some Bitcoin blocks may represent "bad bytes" but nobody has made the knowledge public yet to ruin a person's life. E.g. Bitcoin block #403891 has Jennifer Lawrence's SSN#.)

In essence, the permanence of the block chain can be used as a weapon against it. It doesn't mean the blockchain concept is unusable but there doesn't seem to be an easy computer-science answer for it.
It may seem strange but Yahoo is indeed the best maps app in Japan. Yahoo (Japan) also makes the best transit app here.

People give Google Maps a lot of credit but I find it really hard to use as a means for keeping track of places I like, or for discovering new places. For example, if I want to label a custom pin, I have to grant Google some sweeping permissions to use my web and mobile activity data. I couldn't grant that permission if I wanted to, as it's turned off somewhere in the bowels of my G Suite domain management settings.
Sounds like they took that from Android where IIRC a scrollview could only take one child. Coming from Win32 Android, back in the G1 days, always had its own idiosyncrasies.
Why do you think Ambedkar made the constitution with the protections he did?

Why did Gandhi fight for dignity and freedom at the same time.

A country is not its GDP, the GDP is valuable because it serves the country.

You deeply underestimate the intelligence and drive of the people, as well as the protections people need.

Do you think all these people in the west don't see this? See this math on privacy vs efficiency? They do. And they've seen what it does, and it's been bad enough that it's been burnt into them through generations.
Just attach lasers to your helmet and you should be able to divert all the autonmous vehicles away from your path. They're pretty easy to fool right now.
Archaeological Fantasies and Hoaxes
Pressing ctrl-d a couple of times, seeing what will change, and typing something is most of the time easier and faster than thinking about a regex. At least that's how I feel
Job Hopping
Another option would be TomTom, Apple is using their data already.
So you're saying some people find their moral convictions more important than personal gain? What a weird concept!
Oklahoma is also one of the few states that has Pre-K. That is an extra year of state supported education for each student.
Do you feel the same way about Uber?
Thanks for the backing, but I think you're using "Nth poster up" incorrectly - my understanding is that "first poster up" would be 1 place up - i.e. the comment you're directly replying to :P
I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of the Hidden Champions are publicly traded companies. Companies of that size are very likely to be acquired in the US. Consolidation is a constant activity by many public firms and probably (I am speculating) tends to reduce the proportion of mid-tier companies relative to Germany.

Once acquired, these companies have an additional set of factors weighing on them in that the founding team is likely to leave, budgets are controlled by, and, profits are sent to an external firm. Those three factors will reduce the company's ability to determine it's own fate.
Trump, master negotiator.
Michelle Bachelet Inaugurates Construction of the Largest Telescope in the World
This is blowing my mind. I was knocking and wondering why nothing was happening. It simply took Johan a moment to "let me in" it seems? Then we chatted! Impressive if anyone has a link as to how it's built I'd love to see it.
And what's your vested interest in defending AirBnB at all costs?

You raise good concerns, yes... But you shouldn't take for granted that AirBnB is a work heaven.
The site overestimates power consumption by 2-3x, because it gets the estimate from BECI which is grossly flawed: http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/ (Disclosure: I am the author of this critic)

In really Bitcoin's power consumption is ~500 MW as of 3 months ago, which is less than the amount of electricity spent on decorative Christmas lights in the US: http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/
mindcrime is correct - you hdon't need to register a mark to have rights to that mark as a trademark in the US. You just have to use it in interstate commerce in connection with the goods/services at issue.

If you were using it in the right way prior to your competitor, you could have rights to block them. (If you haven't launched in the US, chances are you haven't used the mark in the right way.)

Right now, their application has been published for opposition. You could attempt to block the registration by filing an opposition before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board. You could also sue them for trademark infringement in state or federal court or use your prior use to defend against a claim by them for trademark infringement.

All of this, of course, costs a lot of money. Is it worth it to you to spend a ton of money to protect this name? My guess is no.

Happy to answer additional questions (either on here or you can email me).
Basically the same, h-entry and u-photo with microformats and p-author to show that I made the photo.
Here you go https://wappalyzer.com/applications/vue-js (first page of google results)

From what I understand, Vue is quite popular with the laravel community.
> Studies repeatedly show that spending is uncorrlated with student outcomes

That may be true of education budget in general, but what about these Oklahoma schools that are only open 4 days a week? Would boosting these school budgets be worthwhile?
That's quite disheartening.
Better than a human driver can detect a cat in the road.

In fact a failure where it slows until it confirms with another sensor (probably optical) is ok. Many a driver won't even see the object and will drive though it.
I mean, if OSM is more accurate anyway, then they might as well have a staff to generate their own data. There's no point in being greedy with their POI annotations if the end result is not sufficiently detailed to be useful anyway.
Really puts into stark contrast the power requirements of proof or work vs the chain of trust that everyone else uses. This is the main reason I'll never be on board.
REST APIs –  Back to Basics
I've definitely read about someone putting some extremely illegal data in the Bitcoin blockchain. I'd rather not go searching for it to confirm though.
If you're going to down vote, please state the reason. The truth is that tiny Israel has more high tech software/hardware than any other nation except the US. There is definitely a difference in software quality.
3D-printed antenna radiation patterns in color [video]
That sounds like a centralized approach to the problem. Which ive thought about, too. If the government provided more infrastructure to assist driverless cars it would probably accelerate adoption and the installation and maintenance costs of LIDAR turrets and other infrastructure would ideally be offset by the number of lives saved. Im also wondering if a something similar to air traffic control could be applied to self driving cars.
Sure if having a sharp prediction means ignoring uncertainty.
Texture, née AsyncDisplayKit, for one: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/re-architecting-pi...
I think the ultimate goal in Oklahoma is for conservatives to stop supporting things they don't feel like paying for (things they view as being liberal-inspired, like Art or Languages).
I just tried it in VMware Workstation, both on Linux and Windows. Looks to be 32-bit only. Did not install. Rebooted to black screen. Also did not detect multiple CPUs. Tried settings for windows NT, 2000, 2003, Windows XP and Windows XP-64-bit. I've booted Windows NT 3.51 in here as well as OS/2 Warp, Solaris, and other less used OSes in here. This is one of the very few that didnt boot. I dont get how Windows NT 5.2 (2003-level) is going to be very useful anymore as the two OSes at that level, Windows XP-64 and Windows 2003 are out of support so while this project is impressive Im not what the point of it is outside of being an interesting science project. It also didnt support NTFS, only FAT during install.

NOTE: Just got it working. Seems to be UP only, 32-bit only, works under "Windows XP Pro" profile with IDE only.

Impressive clone of windows 2003 32-bit, 13-14 years after...
Venn diagram:

$x_jobs lost, $y_jobs gained, $z_jobs overlap. $z_jobs is much much smaller than you may think. What does the machinist at boeing do when their job is cut? Teach torch-welding at the local highschool?
I was going for an explanation that spicy food was preserved better in the warm humid climate.
There are 242,000,000 adults in the US. Getting one law changed every 5 years sounds like an absurd amount of leverage to gain from basic civic engagement.
Presumably he wants to see more than just the landing page and doesn't want to bother registering.
Nearly none - most are family-owned.
And BC's current transaction rate is a rounding error. If it ever becomes popular for more than crime and tax evasion, that's as lot of Christmas lights.

Also, Christmas lights can use a lot of power. Your example reminds me of those electric heater ads that say their product uses as much power as a coffee maker.
Considering that the word barbarian comes to us from Greeks describing any language that wasn't Greek as the like the baying of sheep I wouldn't take "bat-like squeaks" too literally.
Feedback systems are much better reward than risk. They prevent much more harm than they cause. They are one of the best replacements for use of force to encourage honorable action. Technology is almost always a net win.
Influencing Machines
Congratulations to Juan Vuletich!

http://cuis-smalltalk.org/pipermail/cuis-dev_cuis-smalltalk....

Hi Folks,

Satellogic was featured today at Nature News!
http://www.nature.com/news/earth-observing-companies-push-fo...

I helped design and build the hyperspectral cameras in our satellites
Fresco and Batata. And I wrote the geometric and spectral processing
software for that image. This is not completely off topic, though: The
geometric software (image rectification and correction), the most
complex part of the processing, was written by me in Cuis Smalltalk, and
runs in a Cuis Smalltalk + OpenCL application.

Please share my joy today!

--
Juan Vuletich
www.cuis-smalltalk.org
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
@JuanVuletich
It sounds like this is being done in order to retain teachers. The pay is too low to keep educators with experience, but by cutting their hours teachers are more willing to stay, probably because they can now work a second job.
Thanks for the link. Winners or no winners, their analysis of the question is hard to disagree with.
> copying/pasting with OS clipboard support

It is supposed to be in vim, but I always forget how to use it and the few time I tried it just didn't work.
Only digital yes although some have physical reels but the actual reels are just for show they have no actual effect even if you move them (it will show reel tilt).

The lower the award the more symbols are on a reel, there are also virtual stops since a reel would need to have a diameter of 2 metres to fit them all on. Blank spaces are also stops. There is only one top award symbol on each reel.

Some slots alter the odds the higher you bet but those are not really common or at least we never had such slots.

I wasn't involved in that much detail to know how each slot machine OS worked other than get the machine working so it can be played. But generally speaking there are multiple PRNGs on old terminals new HD/CF based slots would have similar in software. Nothing is truly random of course, hence the pseudo part, due to limitations of the hardware and the crystal oscillators chips or software used to generate random numbers.

It's random enough although it very common to see a hold of over 100% and way under the optioned in percentage. Usually the higher the denom the higher the payback to the player e.g. 1 cent maybe 80% and $1 95% and $5 may be 98% but those are over one or ten million spins not per player.

Then add in progressives which add to the percentage so a 1 cent progressive at 80% + maybe 5% for the progressive math makes 85% payback. Recently random progressives that award for no reason i.e. you don't need the top five symbols at max bet to win. Some progressive award within a range starts/resets at say $500 won't go over $1000 so if it's $999 it will go soon (people fight over them at that point).

This doesn't include server based slots where the theme (the game e.g. Miss Kitty, Joe's Yard Games, Lobstermania) itself can be changed or the percentage can be altered by hour, by day by player. We never used server based slots but all casinos use a casino management system (CMS) backend to track players and awards points if they have a card and I mean each spin each bet per second every second all is captured. Award points for example may be 40:1 dollars:points it's ridiculously bad you end up paying $400 for a $10 t-shirt in the gift shop.

You may find a Paytable and Reel PAR Sheet interesting https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&biw=1920&bih=1050&sit...:

Delphi has a slot tech forum too. Randy Fromm is another big name he runs Slot Tech Magazine. Randy may even read HN, Mr Fromm are you there?

The industry is amazing right now so many acquisitions. Former slot giant IGT (USA) a huge company was bought by Spielo (Canada) but Spielo was bought by Atronic and Atronic (Monaco) was bought by LottoMatica (Italy). Bally bought Shufflemaster and Scientific Games bought Bally.
The amount of power we're wasting computing a giant rainbow table drives me mad.

We could at least burn coal to compute something useful.

I'm not dismissing bitcoin altogether as it brought a great deal of interesting concepts, in fact I even mined a very small quantity once uppon a time. But right now the whole hashing random number madness is mostly a waste of energy.

I don't think we should afford 1.7GW (apparently 500MW according to a comment bellow) of power as long as we're still burning fossil fuel somewhere on earth.
The rise of the QR code in China
He missed the main reason: currency suppression.

Germany has managed to suppress the value of its currency over the years to make its exports artificially cheap, which encouraged growth, creating manufacturing jobs.

It did this firstly through reunification (dragging down the value of the DM) and subsequently by joining the Euro (Southern Europe had the value of their currencies pegged higher than their 'natural' value, Germany's was pegged lower).

Germany's export boom after joining the Euro would have been short lived if they reverted back to the DM as the value of their currency would have risen in value, pushing up the cost of exports, ending the boom. Instead it continued unabated.

China also achieved the same thing largely by buying foreign debt (mostly US treasuries). As did Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, all of which achieved similar results. There's no magic sauce, it's just a question of whether industry takes political precedence over banking (which likes an overvalued currency).
Holy crap that's really cool! For one, the interface is very pretty, for two he is actually chatting in real time with you once you enter the site! I asked him how he does it, he says he built the chat mostly as a frontend to Slack, so he gets messages on his phone and can respond to them on his phone. Pretty cool!
Wireless Data Revenues Dip for First Time in Seventeen Years
Parent means "control", not "select text".
A significant part of the Mittelklasse is certainly part of the car industry. Maybe BMW, Audi, etc are not that keen on acquiring?