skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware of the formulation in my comment when I made it. I was trying to rebut a comment that I felt had a little bit of denial running through it. I am clumsy with words though.
* The US fined VW fair and square. VW has a large North American business anyway - there is no significant US/EU "trade war". Besides, American car manufacturers like GM are also implicated: https://electrek.co/2017/05/25/gm-dieselgate-scandal/

* Ireland is in the EU and contributes towards the EU's coffers.

* The EU is also going after VW ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/eu-sues-germ... ), but the responsibility in this case lies with individual member-state governments, rather than any single EU organ, and there is evidence that VW carefully gamed the situation so their defeat-devices were technically legal in the EU ( https://www.ft.com/content/0b9bf1d2-e486-11e6-9645-c9357a758... )
No, Compaq bought Digital, then, when HP bought Compaq, they killed Alpha in favor of the instruction set of the future, Itanium, and, adding insult to injury, sold the Alpha IP to Intel to ensure it’d never see the light of day again.

The Sunway line of processors developed by the Chinese military are rumored to use a modernized version of the Alpha instruction set (unauthorized obviously): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway
You might want to try Gobble. We tried Blue Apron followed by Sun Basket, and in both cases the prep time was too long for us. Gobble has consistently been much better in terms of both flavor and prep time.
Seriously, stop linking to sources that block adblockers.
As far as I'm concerned they've taken themselves off the web.
CS Monitor shoots pretty straight https://www.csmonitor.com/.
> Growing corn is not a natural monopoly.

In the absence of a third-party with IP rights on seed, dominating corn growing means you dominate the seed supply and have the most variety to select from for improved traits (whether yield, hardiness to particular environmental stresses, etc.)

Seems to have a pretty clear feedback loop where dominance breeds dominance in the same way as with network effects. Sure, the source of the feedback loop is different, but it's very much there.
Can you comment on how compatible this is with asyncio-based applications? Looks like an interesting product and I'm going to try it out regardless, but it would be cool to get some clarity since I couldn't find anything in the docs besides this:

> Time (blocking call) profiler supports threads and gevent.

(from https://stackimpact.com/docs/#getting-started-with-python-pr...)
Anyone else learn of Perl in the footnotes of the "sed & awk" book? :)
Spotify is close to the 50 or 75% threshold. So would they also need to include Shazam's advertisements within their own app? Cause otherwise Shazam would still fail. I'm not understanding how this can work practically.
Way delayed, didn't see your response

I was referring to the claim that it checks for 10/2 positioning of hands.
Nope. Social welfare is crushing the balance sheets of most of the countries you have in-mind. There is no way to escape demographic reality.

http://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficits-com...
I'm a mathematician. I can confirm that I do this.
It should be possible to hack together a basic TDR device, especially if you can calibrate it.

Then one needs a/two metal piece of defined length, and a high-frequency oscilloscope, that can also give a pulsed signal (ideally of high frequency).

The biggest issue I see is that you'd need something like at least 0.5 GHz resolution in the oscilloscope with a metal piece of 25cm (quick mental math and some guesses, don't hold me to it). Probably better to have at least 2 GHz. I don't think computers and software alone is up to it after a quick search. Maybe one can increase the travel time in the probe (metal stick) somehow to lower the needed resolution, but not by orders of magnitude.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/268333/ghz-c...
IE desktop mode on RT devices has adblocking through Tracking Protection Lists by the way :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Firefox doesn't have a proper omnibox. It has an explicitly split search and URL field.
Just remove the limit of 435, increase it to the point were 300,000 people or so per district. That is what was originally intended. If we end up with a 2000 member congress so be it. That would provide better representation and make it very difficult to gerrymander.

While I am on a roll, peg there total salary including gifts and benefits to the State average they are from. Salary to be paid by the state as opposed to the federal gov.
Second Global Ransomware Outbreak Under Way
I couldn't get beyond the paywall, but did they mention which sort of beer? Standard Bud/Miller products? Using a 12 oz beer as a starting point doesn't mean much in a craft beer world with most "good" beers ranging from 5-8% ABV.

Edit: not really understanding the downvotes? Alcohol content is extremely important in understanding the meaning of a "drink". Not trying to be pedantic, but now more than ever, "a beer" is not really a useful descriptor.

I bring this up because I personally enjoy a beer at the end of a long day. I tend to drink IPAs, and those IPAs tend to range from 6-8% ABV. Trying to put this article in the context of my personal habits.
The mistake you are making is about dosage. All substances are toxic or harmless depending on the amount.
I'm not suggesting solving the whole problem. London hasn't -- see, for example, the events that led to the fire and many deaths in Grenfell Tower last week. I'm out of touch, but I think that building was one step above Skid Row.

What I am suggesting is removing the homeless people from the public transportation network, so it's kept cleaner and feels safer for the users.
We hope we produce well made software for our clients which tries to follow the best industry practices when building these kinds of things both technically and in terms of project direction. This all springs from a very close and collaborative relationship with the clients that being a coop lends itself to: user led design with plenty of user testing, short sprints focussed on delivering high value products that can be used immediately, close interaction with clients so we always produce precisely what they are after (standard agile methodologies apply here) a high quality of support and after care and so on.

As for clients perceiving the social value offer negatively, we tend to find people choose us because of the way we share and distribute the surpluses we make. In honesty I've been working here a year and it hasn't come up.

Sometimes clients come to us because they know that we are the only place that would be interested in building what they are after. Amongst other things, basically, if we love a project and think it can help make the world a slightly better, fairer place, we may actually support it's development (or further development) by funding some of its design and build ourselves. That's one way that a client may get value, but not the only way.
It's based on Virtual PC for Mac, MS's x86 to PPC JIT back in the times.
Ceden – grow Cannabis discreetly at home
Probably not. Someone using Spotify and their hypothetical music recognition service is more like someone using Google Search and Gmail which isn't a problem. This is more like is someone would search Spotify and artists from their own record label (or promotion company) were at the top of the search results.
I'm always surprised how slick politicians can take a majority vote and transform it into a gift for an exclusive minority. Healthcare was always an issue in the US, but this is truly worse than pre-Obamacare. A tragedy.
1) Why should I spend the money. 2) The government doesn't have enough money to resource it. 3) Lower profits (money) = less innovation. Its ALL about money, and not inappropriately so.
You can do script style templates, e.g.

<script type="text/x-template" id="component-name-template"> <div> {{ msg }} </div> </script>

Then when setting up your component you specify the template property with the id, e.g.

Vue.component('component-name', { template: '#component-name-template' });

Honestly though this sucks if you plan on reusing components. Can I ask why you don't want a build step? The single file components are great.
This seems similar to Mozilla L20n and fluent except with more emphasis on power that simplicity and fault tolerance. Empowering translators seems like the future of localization but everything about the file formats and tools matters a great deal.
VW and european banks.
At first I thought the kicker was going to be: the gas is helium, it just floats.

And then I thought: why is that a joke? Could you save fuel keeping it aloft with a lighter than air gas and just use the fuel to move it around?
It hasn't because it's based on a Microsoft product which already existed - Virtual PC for PowerPC Macs.
That craft had two pilots onboard, this one had a single remote pilot. It's a real challenge to design a small craft that maximizes payload and minimizes fuel consumption along with scores of other constraints.

Voyager also needed a long runway for launch and probably costs vastly more than this drone. Its use case as an emergency communication device is revolutionary.
No doubt we're talking about years.

But, thinking about servers, for years now the default has been to build software systems that scale horizontally (by adding more computing cores) rather than vertically (by using faster cores).

In such systems, you may find, e.g., that 20 slower cores performs about as well as 10 faster ones.

In that case, you start looking at other factors. A big one is power efficiency. You have to pay to pull electricity into your servers and pay to get the heat away from them. This might be ARM's big advantage.

Now, in general systems, a single core has to be able to achieve a certain level of performance to be considered at all. It has to have enough power that people are confident that it will support a wide range of potential applications before servers using them will be widely deployed. But it's arguable that we're already there now, or almost there.

I think the way this is going to go down is AWS (and/or their competitors) will add an ARM option for EC2 and other compute services. It will be cheaper than the Intel option. People will try it and find it works fine for a wide range of uses. Then the dam will break and things will transition quickly.

Now, I'm kind of assuming here that ARM will continue to improve but will hit limits and will settle in to a place where it offers performance in the ballpark of Intel yet maintain significantly better power efficiency. If ARM somehow finds a way to surpass Intel then things will move more quickly and if it stagnates only a partial transition will occur.
for me, if I exercise well and keep my circulation going, I tend to have better ideas. I try to fast walk every morning for 2 miles. This gets my mind thinking.

trying lots of stuff even if its just throw away small stuff really helps in the initial stages.

you need time to focus on the bigger projects. If you are in a job or some other situation where you are always putting out fires, you will have less of a chance to build things.
Isn't the grocery store already basically one large meal kit?
One UK unit is 10 ml of pure alcohol.

Alcohol strength is indicated with Alcohol by Volume (ABV) as a percentage.

UK drinks are usually measured in ml, apart from pints and half pints. (One pint is 568 ml).

To work out the units you multiply the serving size in litres by the abv value.

Assuming your bottles are 330 ml, and the beer is 5%, and you have 5 per week, you'd be drinking a bit under 9 units.

This is comfortably under the current UK levels, which are no more than 14 units a week with some days drink free and don't "save up" the units for a weekend.

For context: People in England drink, and they drink a lot. There are many people who have a couple of glasses of wine most evenings, and these people don't think they have a problem even though they're drinking quite a lot.

Public Health England have a nice website called "Fingertips" that collates a bunch of public health data.

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/liver-disease

> Deaths from liver disease are increasing in England. This is in contrast to most EU countries where liver disease deaths are falling. In 2014 the number of people who died with an underlying cause of liver disease in England rose to 11,597. This rise is in contrast to other major causes of disease which have been declining. Liver disease is largely preventable. Whilst approximately 5% is attributable to autoimmune disorders (diseases characterised by abnormal functioning of the immune system), most liver disease is due to three main risk factors: alcohol, obesity and viral hepatitis.
It's not like grocery stores keep a bunch of extra food on hand that they don't expect to sell. But, to your main point, a number of chains and other stores have started doing this. I'm a little surprised it's not more common though, of course, there's a lot of pre-chopped vegetables etc. so once you're in the store, gathering up the ingredients for a quick meal is pretty straightforward.
That's not a good strategy for getting into Google.

Getting the interview is not that hard, you don't need to show astonishing projects for that.

Passing the interview is the hard part. You should rather focus on getting really good at writing algorithmic code that is asked at interviews.
> You're continuing to conflate knowing theory with focusing too much on theory in the interview process.

That sounds like the social skills issue. If the interviewer signals change of topic is needed and interviewee does not follow, you definitely know the person has limitation in the social skills area. Also, if the person can not talk about practical aspect, they can't.

However, "15% actively dislike overt CS discussion" does not suggest companies that merely wanted to talk about practical aspect and could not. It suggest companies that are hostile towards people who attempt to talk about theory - talk about it too much and you are primary theoretical despite being also capable practicaly.

In any case, I do not want to work somewhere where I am expected not to talk about what I know (beyond the normal "don't have long monologues they areally not interested in"). I want my collegues to talk about what they know too.
I thought that was achieved by having applications in Java bytecode with a Java virtual machine doing just in time compilation. In fact I thought that was the whole point of the Android ecosystem.
Take a lesson - always write parsers in C and then execute them as root, and be sure to send as much malicious content to them as possible. Bonus points for hooking it up to the internet.
I love awk, it's my go-to. Somehow learning perl sufficiently (yet another programming language) is more mental work I'd rather not undertake, what with its idiosyncracies and often implicit nature.

I find awk easy to understand when I read a script after not seeing it for a long time (though I have to google each time I'm writing string manipulation and use arrays) .
ETERNALBLUE / DOUBLEPULSAR Used in Ukraine 'Petya' Attack
This presentation was posted recently on the general OpenJDK mailing list

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/talks/2017_Vectorization_in_HotSpot_JVM.pdf
If I ever become CEO, remind me never to post online ever. People hang on every dinky statement, take it for gospel, and then try to burn your house down with it.
>Even moderate drinking causes atrophy in brain area related to memory, learning

Well, that's for the better. Seeing that I drink to forget.
especially not retroactively, didn't know they do that :(

Regardless, there's always another mirror somewhere else; nothing on the internet dies.

http://archive.is/GXxIc
Around Digital Humanities in 80 Days (2014)
The instruction set support is quite recent tho :)
No AVX there.

MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4.1/SSE4.2/POPCNT/AESNI/CTMUL
Linux kernel fix for “Stack Clash” breaks Java apps
I remember when we used to call them model airplanes.
This is accurate (I take losses on an LLC occasionally against W2 income).

Regarding business vs hobby criteria: https://www.irs.gov/uac/business-or-hobby-answer-has-implica...
That seems like a conservative estimate, IMO, considering how lucrative/easy it is to get into Messenger/Groups spam.
A fix is being worked on: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2017-...
I have come to the realization that SF's homeless problems cannot be solved. It is simply because this is probably the only city in America that is willing to not unleash the police on homeless population and tries to take care of them. After all they are citizens of this country as well. In my suburban city in the Bay Area, homeless people are not tolerated in any of the neighborhoods. In a way I applaud that SF is doing something to help poor and mentally ill folks, but the price is degradation of quality of life for everyone else.
Haven't you heard of culling the herd? Meaning, in this case, deliberately killing off weaker brain cells to make the brain as a whole work faster.
Actually, ARM64 Windows uses double-WoW64.
Two WoW64s are running at the same time - one running ARM32 code - and another x86_32.
The US has a "standard drink", but it's different to a UK unit.

A US standard drink is 14 gm of pure alcohol. A UK unit is (as you say) 10 ml or pure alcohol, which is roughly 8 gm. (I think).
What does it have to do with credentials?
I thought of that the other day, wondering how well you could possibly control a hot air balloon (or helium) based drone. My guess is wind forces etc would be extremely difficult to deal with
PrivacyBadger generally blocks the ad-block blocking scripts (for now)
It's a marketing issue. People likely to get hit with ransomware are incredibly unlikely to understand what that means. Hell, even main devs have trouble writing contracts, so even if a user knew there was a smart contract, verifying it would be another thing. So it'd get reduced to "guys on Twitter said this one works".

I like the idea though.
I think you just invented the dirigible?
Former Valve initiative CastAR shuts down
> 550 civil servants

Bureaucracy causes brain damage. Those with heavier damage took refuge in alcohol.
Q: Are we conflating two issues?

Is there a difference between the "sole developer problem" and the "lack of funding" problem.

I mean, even if a project finds funding, does it follow that it will attract more talented developers?

One way to distinguish the two issues is to look at for-profit software. In the cases where there is one primary developer, do they find it easy to keep the software going when the person retires?

I ask this because, I think, beyond the very real monetary issue, there is a question of how development works. Do we need one very talented individual who does the lion's share of the lifting?
This just shows how writers like to sensationalize people and real life events. It is obvious that this guy was a math person who didn't know what trajectory to take. He was not good in math for his own standards, which are certainly much higher than for the rest of the population.
So, then how would you explain it to a five year old?
> Mostly they were moved to small/half abandoned villages out of sight.

That's not a whole lot better.
I think that it is a form of protectionism by the EU. The EU does not want American companies to have monopoly in Europe. At one point, EU was giving grants to anyone who can build a competitor to Google. With this and similar rulings, EU is twisting the arms of American companies and making it harder to do business in Europe. This strategy is straight out of the playbook of China.
The Android NDK is heavily used - so you end up using native code apps anyway...
libhoudini was Intel's dynamic translator for running ARM libs on x86 Android devices.
You can compile JS (or pretty much any other language, really) to native code with sufficient effort. I'm not sure that alone is sufficient.
Would you mind letting us know your favorite and least favorite foods as well, please?

I'd hate to consume anything you don't like.
Perfect, would you be willing to write one?
Think about it this way, unless your research is something you could write a scientific paper on and have it published in a peer reviewed journal, it will not qualify.

That's not true at all. In the US, at least. As a tax lawyer, I've had to have this conversation quite a few times with accountants who misread the law and don't think it applies to their clients.

The US R&D credit has 4 basic requirements, and "cutting edge" is not one of them, nor has it ever been.. Generally (broadly paraphrased), it is sufficient that the R&D result in new (or improved) functionality, etc. of a business component (specific to the taxpayer), in a systemic process of a scientific, engineering, or computer-science nature.

For example, a game developer developing a new game engine would qualify for the R&D credit; as would a retail company developing an improved inventory system. (The latter is in fact one of the examples that IRS employees give at tax seminars.)

The real issue with the R&D credit isn't claiming the credit; it's supporting the amount claimed with proper and sufficient documentation. It's the documentation part that gets most taxpayers, since the R&D credit is one of the areas that the IRS still devotes resources to auditing.

Further edit: by the way, Gusto's article is about the new small business R&D credit from the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act (PATH) which went into effect for the 2016 tax year. The original credit is limited to taxable income, so you couldn't use it until you had profits or if you were subject to AMT. The new credit applies against federal payroll and AMT.
What I've learned in Germany is that many homeless are homeless by choice.
The problem with Dart, is that it is a pain to interact with JavaScript libraries, let's see if Dart 2 makes it better.
My understanding is that the preferred way to launch PulseAudio is to launch it as part of your X session so it runs as your user. MPD supports launching in the same way. So done this way, everything runs as your user and therefore plays nicely together.

This is the approach I took, and I think it works very well.
Alcohol is getting a pretty bad rap to me the more I read about it. After reading this I was curious about ways to _increase_ hippocampal function. According to [0] it seems like exercise can increase hippocampal function. Another link I can't find again since I found it on my phone and am now on my laptop indicated things like learning languages, and an omega 3 rich diet can also help.

This is good news for me since NYC is very much a drinkers town and I enjoy partaking, but am also learning Italian, exercising more, and frequently eat with omega 3s in mind.

Here's to hoping they cancel out!

[0] - https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/nature...
Ha, yes.

I guess another way to phrase the question would be: why don't they use dirigibles to solve extended air time problems?