skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3% of Instagram's Users Are Iranians
Thanks. They can be happy with small silver. From the enterprise or startup side, how will one pick who is the right partner to go with.

It appears like, there is no pain point in choosing a cloud/hosting provide?
In general, it's possible to create a combined work made from parts with different licenses, provided that the licenses are compatible. So if you have part A licensed under, say, the MIT license, and part B licensed under the GPL, then the combined work falls under the GPL (due to the GPL "virability", and since the GPL and MIT are compatible in the sense that the GPL restrictions are a superset of MIT ). You can still later on extract part A and distribute that under the MIT license.

I don't know the details of the D compiler frontend that has now become part of GCC, but I'd imagine its something like that. E.g. the GCC Go frontend is, AFAIK, BSD licensed.
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> This will be a deal-breaker for over 95% of the applicants. Even though the H1B Visa is a non-immigrant visa, there was no such clause attached to it like this one.

Except you have 20% chance of getting the H1B when applying.
How to Play WWDC Session Videos in Chrome?
I love the idea, the execution is OK though. Keep working on it please!
Somewhat related to this, the US Navy did operate the SOSUS[1] network at one point.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS
Then their support staff sucks. I've worked support for years and I'll be the first to admit that I gave the 'nice' users better and faster service, but even the most belligerent of users got their issues resolved (eventually) because that was my fucking job.
I agree. It was like listening to my six year old tell me what happened. Every story begins when he woke.
Even if the world is fundamentally discrete, that does not mean that continuous models are not valuable. They are.

We are used to doing discrete approximations to continuous problems, but the other way around works too. For example, evaluating the sum

1 + 1/4 + ... + 1/n^2

is quite hard. On the other hand, we may approximate by the integral over x^2, which remarkably has an easy formula.

Continuous and discrete models complements each other, they are not mutually exlusive.
Apply category theory to modeling and software development
LIDAR doesn't work in inclement weather, that's the point.
Man.

Man, Man & Man pointing at random thing, woman looking at thing.

Man.

Old Man.

Their branding tells me I need to be a successful
(business)man to use this service.
It amazes me that this is still a problem, how branding like this will hurt a businesses.
I think diversity is key.
More death on the Feed: Facebook's stupid solution
Is there a linux headless mode already? Selenium chrome driver headless is pretty much useless in linux because important methods like `send_keys` need X anyway for keyboard mappings or something like that.
RAII is incredibly attractive, especially if you disable exceptions.
I know it exists and it can be even started, but so do various other vestigial utilities; the question is "why would anyone do that besides downloading an actual browser" ;)
Grades don't either, their composite is at most beta distributed and probably not even that.

First of all, finite. There is a minimum and maximum. Second, questions tend to be internally correlated. (After all, they correspond to subjects.)

Third, students are not expected to be average but pass all the questions.
Agreed that the API Gateway is overpriced, but what is your alternative - build a Lambda that somehow is your API gateway?
It doesn't necessarily hide anything. Imagine Python augmented by this display. With C or Java you can show the curly braces but fade them into the background a bit and highlight the overall structure. I've seen similar things done for Lisp in the past, all the parens were there but deemphasised in favor of structural highlighting like this frame based editing concept.
Cisco's 'encrypted traffic fingerprinting' turned into a product
Casi reali di esorcismo e possessione demoniaca
It feels straight out of a shitty indie movie.
Markets don't go irrational? Ever heard of the Tulip bulb craze or the dotcom bubble?

In fact, one could argue that markets are fundamentally irrational since no one has perfect information!

The only rationality is the reaction to change!
Ah yeah, my bad, forgot I never set up my profile. Best email is thom@sfedb.com, my supervisor's email is in the paper, but best to contact me.
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If you disable exceptions hoe do you handle failures in constructors?
How practical is that? I guess more concretely, what kind of discount would you have to accept if you weren't willing to stay on for 2 years or whatever the standard practice is?
I remember Dr. Zeillberger from my graduate days at Rutgers. He clearly had a lot of interesting stuff to say which he packages in sensational and emotional form. I found it off-putting then as well as now.

But to be charitable, I think it comes from a place of pushing with tremendous force a pendulum of thought back from the axiomatic nature towards more exploratory and relevant mathematics. It reminds me of Howard Zinn's intro to A People's History of the US in which he says that he purposefully did not water down his arguments to be more neutral because of the overwhelming nature of the opposition.

The infinity issue is quite interesting to ponder. Obviously with our current understanding of the universe and humans, the number of numbers ever encountered by all humans over all history would seem to be finite regardless of the fundamental nature of the universe itself. There is a very strong notion of our world being discrete in that way.

And it is very interesting to pursue these ideas. For example, the proof of infinitely many integers is to assume there is a largest and we add 1. But what if the largest is unknown as is the case much of the time? This is true, for example, with computers (it can be known for the native format, but that can obviously be extended in programming in an arbitrary way)

It is a practical question to ask about existence questions that require an axiom (axiom of choice often) which gives no constructive way of doing something. To what extent is that actually useful? And if we had an approximate construction of something without the axiom, but the thing itself may or may not exist depending on the axiom chosen, what would that mean?

It is also interesting to think about doing away with infinity and thinking about how annoying it would be to not be able to talk about pi or e or even sqrt(2). There would be no irrational numbers, presumably, in this framework.

One can then see the wonders that embracing infinity can lead to as a crutch for dealing with the horrendously messy world of the finite and discrete.

Discussing these issues when learning mathematics strikes me as elevating a great deal of bland rule absorption and gives students power over the tools of mathematics. So this debate is useful in my opinion though it would be absurd to try and draw a conclusion.

One last note about his discussion of the lack of rigor in QFT and that it was good. Recent work (at Rutgers[0]) suggests that at least some of the infinities and problems come from not appreciating the proper physical picture of what is actually happening. Nonetheless, the standard procedures worked to give us needed answers before such insight was discovered.

I think the basic answer should be that formal and exploratory mathematics are both useful and it is important to avoid dogma from either side.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04476.pdf
Assuming that's a job which you want. Some people want to screw around with a project for a while and this is a good opportunity to test your skills on something interesting and real.

Worst case scenario you get some "free" money and some other people you don't know get rather more money out of it.
Garbage-collected Rust? I think Scala is very close, particularly with Scala-native.
Verizon-owned Yahoo is killing off the best app it’s ever made
I should have appended an /s
Are you saying that meme is inaccurate?
clickbaity as the headline may be, it is yet another indicator that the only way to secure future employmentrates is to invest in education. "unskilled" workers as the article calls them, wont be needed anywhere in the not at all distant future.
Go is a bad choice for game with its unavoidable GC. And Rust is simply too complicated for a person wanting sane C++.

D or Nim (or even C!) would make more sense.
> Roger Smith still gets mainsprings, balances, sapphire crystals, and screws from outside sources.

I wasn't 100% sure about that and knew someone would point out if I was in error. I also want to be clear that my comment should not detract from the work of Masahiro Kikuno either, which looks incredible. Whether there are one or two people in the world doing this makes little difference to what an achievement it is.

Also Roger Smith now has a fairly large workshop with apprentices doing some of the work for him. He's no longer one man working in his spare room, although that is how he started.

In fact, when he first approached George Daniels about becoming an apprentice, Daniels told him to make a watch by himself and he'd appraise it first. So he did. Daniels told him it wasn't very good and made him do it again. So he did. After that, Daniels gave in.
Planck's constant arises in continuous theories of quantum mechanics, such as Bohmian mechanics and its QFT extensions.

There are limitations to how much we can know, but not limits to what can be.
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>they can get more fatiguing than I'd like after a few hours of listening due to the horizontal snugness
They get quite loose over time. I've had mine for a while, and I can barely feel I'm wearing them.
What kind of minutiae of ES6 you mean ?
you get the users?
Bridging patterns and programming
Completely agree, different topics, but for anyone interested in low-cost scaling it's an interesting read.
People behind China’s A.I. Revolution. Worth following them
Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
How do you match arbitrarily repeating patterns, which may/probably have a combinatoric expansion, without effectively writing your own parser? If you're using a language where writing a parser is relatively easy (e.g., Lisp, Haskell, etc.) or your patterns are trivial, then fair enough. Otherwise, good luck with that.

For example, in Python, if I want to match "foo" followed by any number of "bar"s and/or "quux"s at the end of the string, I could write this:

if re.match(r"foo(bar|quux)*$", my_string):
...

...without going to the trouble writing a recursive-descent parser or state machine, your way would be something like this:

def ends_with_foo_etc(s):
if s.endswith("foo"):
return True

after_last = len(s) - s[::-1].find("oof")
if after_last > len(s):
return False

good_tail = True
while good_tail and after_last < len(s):
if s[after_last:after_last + 3] == "bar":
after_last += 3
elif s[after_last:after_last + 4] == "quux":
after_last += 4
else:
good_tail = False

return good_tail

if ends_with_foo_etc(my_string):
...

That's both excessively terse -- for a really simple pattern -- almost certainly slower and, most importantly, brittle in that it couples your pattern to your implementation in a non-trivial way. If your pattern changes, you may have to completely rewrite your matching function.

It's also worth noting that a typical regex API will do more than just match patterns; e.g., extracting subpatterns/groups, splitting, etc.
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A little bit of pair programming does not work
Human Activities Creating Natural Disaters
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356681

Support headless flag on Linux, RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 55
I mean it's kind of a smartass answer, but—don't fail during constructors. Move all possible code that can fail into an initialize method; check explicitly for allocation failure and/or put things on the stack instead of heap when possible; consider failing hard with a stack trace or core dump over catching and processing exceptions before (likely) failing anyway.
Here you go: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena
>Why so much obsession about the country where people were born into? It wasn't their choice at all. It just doesn't matter.

Because nationality does matter. The oft-repeated meme that we're all the same doesn't hold to even superficial scrutiny.

Nationality is not arbitrary in the sense that it's a crystallization of centuries of cultural values. People's place of birth predicts their attitudes about a vast number of political and social subjects. This includes, for instance, how they feel about such subjects as:

- democracy

- freedom of religion

- minority & women's rights

- the belief (or not) that certain races are superior to others

- etc...

(Apologies for the multiple edits. It took me a few tries to express myself clearly.)
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This is just what stock exchanges were like in the 19th and maybe early 20th centuries. Reading "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" which covers the period ~1890s-1920s I was stunned by how common (relative to now) inside trading, price manipulation and short squeezes were.

Most of these are now prohibited which I'm sure doesn't eliminate them but it makes them much less common - short squeezes in particular are now very very rare. BTC markets obviously won't have any restrictions.

Amazon link for anyone interested in the book (make sure you get the annotated edition): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0470481595/
Because the form factor hasn't changed since the iPhone 6?

Do note however, that Apple’s customer retention rate, while significantly lower in China than in the rest of the world, is still higher that any other phone manufacturer’s in China.
This comment is so asinine, it's depressing it's at the top of the comment section right now. Why can't you just be nice?

Anyways, C++ is much easier to manage than any GC language for a real time application such as this. And your Rust "pun" is a rhyme.
Yeah but the UK is not exactly an investment/entrepneur-friendly economy any more. Brexit, at the rate it's going, will be either a hard Brexit or a chaotic one, and without a soft Brexit (i.e. access to the European market) all a potential investor has is the British market.

Also, UK does not have a constitution and civil rights (e.g. right to privacy, to unrestricted, unfiltered Internet access) are being torn down further each day... so if I were an investor, no way I'd set foot in this country, much less invest in it.
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SpaceX may recoup $1B investment into reusable rockets in less than 2 years
Do you need to use selenium to control Firefox in headless mode or does it have something lower level like Chrome's devtools protocol?
Fabien Sanglard and John Carmack definitely disagree with you on this regard:

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php
http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/interviews.php#qc++
Well then please, tell me how to interpret your post about the "self perpetuating inequality" of the search for health and wisdom.
How is it controlled when in headless mode? Still via Webdriver or does Firefox support Chrome Debugger Protocol?
Aleppo, utility functions written in JavaScript
There are some stellar smartphones designed and made in China. I'm certain similar things were said about their smartphone ambitions. It's only a matter of time before smart, dedicated and focused people achieve what they are after.
Their website claims they use mysterious "patented algorithms" to do whatever they do with minimal battery hit (though I have not yet found a patent after searching the databases of the US, the EU, and France; that said, I only searched for the current company name, and maybe even failed at that)?
A lot of coverage, but nobody provided any proof for this happening on any significant scale - aside from anecdotes.
Ethereum crashed $319 to 10 cents on one exchange after multimillion trade
It appears that he forgot his phone in the car?
... and always results in holier-than-thou ideologues trying to shut down any discussion through shaming tactics and pedantry.

What's your point?
Elastic acquires application performance monitoring company Opbeat
There are many poor people in developing countries who sacrifice a lot of things and save every bit they can to invest in the education of their children. This phenomenon is very pronounced in China and several countries with Confucius influence.

Families with this kind of mindset are unlikely to stay poor for more than 1-2 generations. (This is probably one reason why hundreds of millions in China arose from poverty to middle-class in a single generation, although I do not see many economists in the West discussing it in the context of China's rise.)

---

"Zhang Yang, a bright 18-year old from a rural town in Anhui province in China was accepted to study at a prestigious traditional medicine college in Hefei. But the news was too much for his father Zhang Jiasheng.

Zhang's father was partly paralysed after he suffered a stroke two years ago and could no longer work. He feared the family, already in debt to pay for medicines, would not be able to afford his son's tuition fees.

As his son headed home to celebrate his success, Zhang Jiasheng killed himself by swallowing pesticide.

Zhang's case is an extreme. But East Asian families are spending more and more of their money on securing their children the best possible education.

In richer Asian countries such as South Korea and emerging countries like China, "education fever" is forcing families to make choices, sometimes dramatic ones, to afford the bills.

There are families selling their apartments to raise the funds to send their children to study overseas.

---

Extreme Spending

...

It is not just middle-class families. Workers also want their children to do better than themselves and see education as the only means of ensuring social mobility. Some go deep into debt.

"Families are spending less on other things. There are many cases of rural parents not buying healthcare that their doctors urge on them... Part of the reason is that they would rather spend the money on their children's education," said Mr Kipnis.

"

From http://www.bbc.com/news/business-24537487
+1

I think that apart the "less drunk drivers", "entrepreneurs", and all that fandom talk, Uber went ahead to bump heads with one of the most "exclusive" professions (taxi drivers are the favorite voters for any government), and managed to carve out a portion of their business, out-of-nowhere.

It's like, me starting a soft-drink company and, take on Coca & Pepsi and carve out 10% of their sales globally within 5 years.

They, of course, achieved this "by hook or by crook" but hey you need a ruthless team to succeed this.

Business-wise, a job well done.

Sexism, rape, stealing, avoiding taxes, etc... a big fat NO - thou shall not pass.
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Very nice description. This is how I feel about mathematics as well. This is also why I have no problems with infinity: In a lot of situations it describes problem and solution just in the most succinct way.
America is now a second-tier country
Wonderful anecdote about Smith getting his start in Daniel's workshop, I had never heard that before.

It seems like the late 90's and 2000's saw somewhat of a renaissance in independent watchmaking. You've had people like Smith, Voutilainen, Dufour, Laurent Ferrier, the Gronefeld brothers, Romain Gauthier, Daniel Roth all become successful to varying degrees. I feel like the internet played a huge role in making this all possible since it allowed them to gain exposure on watch forums and now Instagram without the heavy cost of marketing.
I don't think many people claim this things can happen in such scale any more.

I see this article as an additional proof that the spike back then was caused in large part by the ponzi scheme MtGox was.

(Having said that, there were also other good news back then that helped the price - like the hearing in US Senate regarding crypto, that went very well)
I think you're dramatically underestimating the cost of providing personal care. It's incredibly expensive because it's so labour intensive, and as you point out it's the personal part of that which matters, which makes the costs so hard to reduce.
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Royal Mail don't give me a 12 hour delivery window, and other merchants actually pay their fair share of tax as well
Blockchain.info raises $40M from GV and Lakestar
The fry cook is not the franchise owner. The Uber driver is not an entrepreneur.
Because the original analogy was a fry cook, similar to an Uber driver in that neither is an entrepreneur.

This is referring to a McDonalds franchise owner, who is much more likely to fit the description of entrepreneur.
Also, such attacks make the system more robust in long term.

Kind of like open source systems end up safer long term, because every single day people are trying to find bugs in their source codes.
Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch
These are features and concepts kicked around by mainstream engines. In fact, this work is inspired by Bitsquid/Stingray.
I guess this is a better URL: https://www.elastic.co/blog/welcome-opbeat-to-the-elastic-fa...

It would be interesting to get the Opbeat's founders perspective on why they'd sell and close a product they've been working on since 2012. Just to soon do it again, but this time for someone else's company.
Imagination puts itself up for sale amid Apple dispute – Business – The Guardian
Maths is logic with axioms that are intuitively true.

Physics is maths with the addition of experimentally verified axioms.

Chemistry is Physics with the addition of heuristics that explain phenomena which are too complex to express using casual logic.

Every step after chemistry just add additional heuristics.
On the other hand, there is an obsession from humans to find a reason for everything. One of my hobbies is to read financial press to see them find reasons to explain the smallest moves (and these guys are really inventive). On the opposite side, there is Elliott waves theory, which sees market moves as general and predictable growth patterns. This is not science (yet), just empirical observations, although it has remarkable connections to the Fibonacci ratios.

I'm not saying what is described in this article is wrong, but we should certainly take this obsessional need for explanation into account when reading such interpretations and consider that growth patterns are also something that could be at play, disregarding of any single individual intervention (we're dealing with statistic level high numbers, after all).
Education is an easy answer, but are we sure education will be enough? Is everyone educatable to the point where they will be skilled enough to contribute to the economy?
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Be careful when drawing conclusions based on market share. Usage share is the more relevant statistic, although unfortunately more difficult to measure. Apple's usage share is almost certainly significantly higher than their market share, because iPhones are premium devices that get used for many years, whereas many Android phones are cheap devices with a significantly shorter lifespan as useful devices.
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