skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But surely the locals were upset that they were losing money, not that the money they lost went to city hall. In other words, I doubt they'd be relieved that their money was going to corrupt policeman rather than the city government.

If all the available money for fines was being extorted from drivers by corrupt cops, the city would have to get money another way, or cut services. This would likely upset the people of Ferguson even more.

Another way of looking at it is, what wealthy, safe, clean, productive societies regularly engage in bribery?
yes and Tax consumption instead of production and it doesn't matter where the robot is set up!
TOP 100 medium articles related to AI / ML / Deep Learning (until Jan 2017)
My profession is computer programming, and my area of expertise is full-stack web development and all that that entails.
At most jobs it's more important to communicate effectively than it is to know the historical definitions of words.

Of course, words don't have universal meanings. Lawyers and scientists use the word "theory" differently, for example. In any given environment, you should use words the way the people you need to communicate with expect them to be used.
The US happily enforces its own legislation outside of its territory (particularly in the financial world). By almost every single metric, the EU is bigger than the US. You could argue the EU is merely following the US footsteps.
Studios work in 32bit-Float all the time...
>Mountain glaciers serve as a crucial buffer as they help to provide water (as melt water) when rainfall is minimal or nonexistent (Vuille et al., 2008), such as during the dry season or during drought conditions. This implies that some melting is necessary to fuel the existing hydrologic processes and fulfil consumption needs.

https://na.unep.net/geas/getUNEPPageWithArticleIDScript.php?...
Congrats to the author. I remember first hearing about this as a side project and thinking it was a super cool and fun thing to work on!

As a side note, nearly half this thread is talking about health insurance...really?
They clearly had a concept of similar triangles, and a concept similar to our notion of “slope” or “tangent” (apparently they actually used the reciprocal of slope, i.e. length per unit depth).

However, they may not have had the concept as of ~4000 years ago of “angle measure” per se. You’d have to ask an expert in the history of astronomy when that concept was first developed semi-formally; my understanding is that it was 1000–1500 years later by subsequent Mesopotamian astronomers.

Angle measure (another word for circular arclength corresponding to a particular rotation) is actually quite a tricky thing to get right. It’s the logarithm of the rotation (a pure bivector quantity) with the orientation stripped away – if we call our rotation R oriented in the plane of the unit bivector i, it’s θ = log(R)/i. To go from an angle measure back to a “complex number” (scalar + bivector) with which you can do anything useful, you need to put the orientation back in and then exponentiate it: R = exp(iθ). In dimensions higher than 2, you need to use rotation operators via a kind of sandwich product, because composition of rotations is not commutative.

This is not an obvious concept, didn’t really get figured out properly until the late 19th century, and still isn’t taught very clearly to students today.
Many hats, mostly c++ these days.
Kenya's GDP's growing at 5.8%/year. In 30 years that would be 5x. All Africa's developing fast at the moment. A lot of it's probably down to modern communications. Africa used to be really cut off. Now they've mostly got cellphones etc.
Just don't do this for things you intend to make public - it makes installing and packaging it really difficult
California has very roughly a billion acre-feet of groundwater capacity[0], and it is so severely depleted from being pumped out to cope with surface-water shortfalls over the years that the Central Valley is sinking (and eroding groundwater capacity in the process.)

California doesn't need 75 million more acre-feet of surface water, but it could probably benefit from multiples of that being pumped back into the ground.

[0] CA Dept of Water Resources estimates between 850 million and 1.3 billion, http://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/groundwater/recharge/
Intriguing, go on...
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You jest, but there are serious (abstract) proposals[2][1] to build inter-regional water banking mechanisms, such as pumping water from flood years in the Missouri/Mississippi watershed to be stored in CA/NV aquifers, and vice versa. It's not a bad idea.

[1] http://www.hcn.org/issues/47.4/the-water-czar-who-reshaped-c...

[2] https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/exit-interview-mulroy-tal...
> Of course this affects american companies, as the whole thing is primarily designed as a weapon for the EU against US dominance in the consumer space.

It really isn't.

The EU are global leaders in data protection, and it comes from a belief that the right to a private life is a fundamental human right.
You cannot make decisions simultaneously via "one person one vote" and "whoever has most capital calls the shots".
The print could have buttons to trigger different filters.
HN doesn't understand irony.
I prefer all my lakes to be hexagonal or octagonal - please edit your comment.
We have a FAQ[1] which is being fleshed out but take a look if it helps.

We are 100% non-rent seeking.

In Ethdex we incentivise Trading platforms by allowing fees to be charged in Eth, the natural currency of Ethereum. Not by creating a token and forcing its utility (ala ZRX and 0x).

We also support Multi-Relay, which is something 0x does not support. As a maker you can submit your order to every trading platform, every slack channel and every subreddit. Other platforms cannot do this.

We also don't have any obligations to VC's to ensure they make profit.

[1]: http://ethdex.io/faq
Ultimately, the issue is this: it costs less overall for the author to just comply with the standard way studies are done, than for the committee to carve out and justify exceptions just for his study.

The author complains of the IRB not doing Methods 101. Perhaps the author should have done Methods 201, then he would understand the concerns (which many human experimenters in this thread have elaborated on). As stated elsewhere, so many of the author's wounds are self-inflicted.
That's not a profession.
Right, but what about consumers that want the rating to be meaningful? Assumably netflix has a history of videos you've seen entirely; they don't need your rating to know you consumed it.

Personally I just stop watching the moment I feel regret—the thumbs down button has no role in how I consume.

Two star ratings, though—that is meaningful, at least to me.
"The comments I don't like are noise".

Sorry, but I think that sentiment sounds more hostile to the platform than the assertion that one should consider a different point of view on a subject. ballenf's comment was made succinctly and without any personal attacks; just because you disagree with it doesn't mean its noise. I think it's fair to criticize the comment as striking a dismissive tone, but at least it's addressing the substance of the OP's comment, you, on the other hand, categorically dismiss ballenf's comment as noise without taking the intellectual effort to address its substance. That seems a lot closer to noise than anything else up to that point.
> Even though JavaScript is a weakly typed language it doesn’t mean that it is inherently insecure. Yes, the programming language used plays an important role, but at the end of the day it is the developers obligation to write secure code in the first place.

Sorry, but I just don't agree. Javascript is a popular language, and has an important role to play in frontend development, but for financial transactions and critical contract code, the lack of safety almost guarantees catastrophic bugs and vulnerabilities will be made in production code. Maybe this is fine for hobby projects, but if you are talking about moving billions of dollars around in the real global economy, I don't see it being done safely in Javascript. I like that projects such as Tezos are integrating formal verification of smart contract code, that seems like the right way forward.
These are rather viewpoint-based articles. As a thought experiment, test their cause-and-effect explanations against the historical floods that Houston has experienced since it was originated by the Allen brothers. Houston had terrible floods even in the 1920's and 30's. There was very little concrete and pavement in those days, especially in the areas they claim are lost prairie.
Oklahoma native here.

The state is an interesting mix of utterly dysfunctional state government and reasonably competent city governments, in a state where most of the people live in either Oklahoma City or Tulsa metro areas. I don't know much about Tulsa but Oklahoma City has repeatedly passed sales taxes over the last 30 years in order to bring about civic improvements. These tax plans are known as MAPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Projects_Pla... These plans have been executed pretty much according to what they claimed to do, and the administration over the years has been competent and uncontroversial.

The state government, on the other hand, is totally dominated by the homophobia, Islamophobia, and the rest of the guns-and-gays distractions of the national far right. State government has repeated slashed taxes on oil and gas extraction, plunging the state into the crisis described in this article. No meaningful debate ever takes place in the state legislature or executive. Campaigns are fought entirely on the basis of who hates gays and loves Jesus more than the other guy. It is really sad, and a strange contrast to the major local governments.

When I was going to high school in Oklahoma I was offered a perfectly adequate education at the public school nearest my house. We had all the AP subjects. We had music, drama, and art. We had football, baseball, basketball, swimming, and any other sport you'd care to think of, even rodeo. Of course we didn't have sex education, which is why Oklahoma suffered from, and continues to suffer from the worst teen birth rate of any state in the nation.

Back then, people went to private schools only because either their parents were utterly unhinged Jesus freaks, or because they failed out of the public schools. Private schools were for weirdos and losers. Now it's the opposite. No family with any kind of money sends their children to public school in Oklahoma. The state educational apparatus has completely failed in the span of only about 25 years.
What works in NY and CA is often very harmful in low population states. Laws like AHCA and agencies like the EPA often give little consideration to the economies of low density states. It doesn't have to be this way, we can exploit natural resources safely, and we can have affordable health care, but not in the current fashion.
The diagram of the huge cube of water hovering over the city wasn't enough to help you visualize that it's a huge amount of water?

They included several other visualization descriptions in the article. They can't put it all in the headline.
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This looks really nice, but what is the advantage of a dedicated graphing calculator in a world full of smart phones?
That's like a 50+ word sentence. I do hate these legal shenanigans. If you can't write it in plain English is not worth the bytes taken.
> You can now build a decentralized Internet of Things application which allows you to securely (with authorisation!) turn on gadgets with a simple transaction, which can be just a push on a button.

Why would it be necessary to use a transaction to turn something on/off securely?
Wow that's disingenuous. No, comments that are off-topic are noise. You want to debate something else (like you're doing now!), go do it in a different thread.
Main reason is that there is a lot of hardware that never got binary blobs / drivers updated for newer kernels.

We're talking input controllers, wifi, bluetooth, nfc chips, gyroscopes, amps and half a dozen other parts that never attempted to have drivers mainlined in Linux kernel.

It's a chicken and egg problem - they won't make updated blobs until Android doesn't include newer kernel. Android won't use newer kernel because that would block 2/3 of the phones from being upgraded because of Broadcom bluetooth chips alone - Samsung might decide they are better off forking Android than waiting for Broadcom.

Edit: Sony has a bunch of phones that can run on 4.4 kernel: https://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/
File under: terrible ideas made possible by buzzwords.
Radiology resident.
Exactly. Just repeat 'free healthcare', never mind that many people in Canada can't even find a family Dr, let alone get things like MRIs. Michael Moore said we have wonderful healthcare just like Cuba, so it must be true.

Oh it appears that now ERs are shutting down, but hey, free healthcare. Did I mention that you won't get a bill for dying on a waiting list if you use free healthcare in Canada? It's amazing and you can pay for it easily. Don't even have to leave your house to get free treatments.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/doctor-shorta...
There's no genuine, credible anti-corporate voice in American politics.

There are plenty, actually. They just don't get a lot of airplay in the... corporate media.
Serial?

No, connect them via the USB and configure one of them to appear as a USB Network Interface. Point-to-point connection established. Plenty of HOWTO's available.
Oklahoma's natural resource exploitation regime is so lacking in regulation that they are notorious for their man-made earthquakes. It is near the theoretical lower limit of regulation. It is unimaginable that excessive regulation is the state's foremost problem.
I believe that in many countries there has been laws for a while mandating the deletion of personal data after a certain number of years (for instance I believe this is the case in banking). This is not new and if your backup system does not comply with regulations, it's probably more of a design problem.
It's not hard to comply.

Don't collect data you don't need. Don't collect data you don't have explicit consent (or a legitimate need) for. Don't use data collected for one purpose for another purpose.

That'll get you almost all of the way to complying.
Blocking double-free in Linux kernel
For some people here, yes. For others, this would be like reinventing the wheel for the Nth time. But everybody is free to do what they like, of course, no question there!
IIRC it's exactly 1X. Children are covered by their parents' insurance.
I have to imagine a failed public education system is going to reduce the likelihood of any state elected officials being held accountable. A democracy requires an educated populace.
Why implausible?
Plus, as long as both EU and US are part of WTO, they are required to enforce each other's laws. Otherwise Europe could legitimately raise tariffs for the whole IT sector...
For startups - GDPR is like Y2K at the time, a GOLDMINE.

Unless you're a start-up that handles personal data, in which case it's another bureaucratic overhead that also carries a risk of draconian penalties if you make a mistake, even if you have perfectly sensible reasons for working with that data and you're not doing anything at all surprising or dubious with it.

Of course, the EU has form for this, given its similar approach to both consumer protection and VAT rules in recent years. It does seem to have an unhelpful habit of imposing regulations at big business scale to deal with big business scale problems, but not considering that both of these may be wildly disproportionate for smaller businesses.
Nanocoin: A Cryptocurrency in Haskell
The word print has meant many things throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing

The most broad definition: To make an impression or set a mark upon a surface. You could easily call this printing.
I want the base model to have 64GB. That's the sweet spot for how much data I keep on my phone (and I suspect I'm not alone). I'm afraid Apple is going to cripple the base model somehow in order to keep us paying for higher capacity ones.
Is it the same in CS as far as industry positions are concerned?
It's serious, probably because reservoirs and inundated lands are conveniently measured in acres of area, and depths of water in feet.

For water resources and agricultural uses, it's (given that you are using US Customary units for length and land area to start with) a reasonably sensible unit.
It isn't that simple. When people think about these privacy laws that is what they think about, some evil corporation tracking tons of private info.

The company I work for has no ads. It does no analytics on personal info. It does nothing you would care about. What it is is a SasS product for businesses. We aren't the controller, so we don't need permission from end users, our customers need to get permission from their customers. But end users can ask our customer (the controller) to delete data, and our customer can ask us (the processor) to delete it.

Fine, we now have an engineer building GDPR features instead of features that benefit our customers. Oh well. But it isn't as clear a win for end users as people make it out to be when they only come at it from an anti-Google and anti-Facebook perspective.

It sounds good in theory, but things like Article 28 certainly make it harder to move quickly.

> The processor shall not engage another processor without prior specific or general written authorisation of the controller. In the case of general written authorisation, the processor shall inform the controller of any intended changes concerning the addition or replacement of other processors, thereby giving the controller the opportunity to object to such changes.
That's it! We need a new unit of volume to replace gallons. A gallon is way too small. A barrel is difficult to understand. If only we had something standard like swimming pool or something...
What's the difference between what they said and what you're saying?
This looks like a generalist's scope explosion - you might have tried to do too many things both horizontally and vertically. Maybe you could consider reducing your coding activities and only focus on higher level project aspects? Some roles like Analyst, Product Owner, Solution Architect etc.
Yeah agreed. We should make that explicit, or even give people a CloudFormation template to set up a restricted policy.

And to be clear, we don't need s3 access unless you want to serve files from a private s3 bucket. Most sites don't use that at all.
Yeah, if by "fun" you mean "catastrophic"
The new pixel 2 phones coming out in October are on 4.4
It sounds like what you really mean is "I want the 64GB model to be cheaper".

But really, the lowest-tier price should not be the "sweet spot" for storage, because why should all the people who want less than the "sweet spot" have to pay for that extra storage? The "sweet spot" should be the middle tier.
Hardware is $99.99 (https://www.numworks.com), and the hardware design is open, too (https://github.com/numworks/dieter)
Maybe this could be a solution?- http://www.martinhajek.com/the-1st-accessory-for-the-oled-ma...
Another nice visualization:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16217626/ha...
Check out the Emeddinator. It turns .net assemblies into native libraries.

https://github.com/mono/Embeddinator-4000
Do you need to run your server in a browser?
The main source of savings in a single-payer system isn't simplified billing, but increased negotiating power on everything from drug prices to salaries. With that being said, I agree that if every US citizen should enjoy the quality of service, that people with premium health care coverage has, it would probably be more expensive than most European single-payer systems.
They'd have a tough time doing so; this is a Regulation (as opposed to a Directive) which means the legislation is written by the EU and applies in all EU territories automatically without being transcribed into national legislation.

That means in order for it to be changed then the European Commission would have to propose a new law, and the European Parliament and Council of the European Union will have to agree to it. The former doesn't really care about whether national governments can get on with their jobs or not.
There was a time when common internet protocols we take for granted today were a buzzword, too.

Buzzwords are buzzwords until implementation is (or isn't) proven useful. Lisk is making an attempt. Let's judge the attempt and the fruits or lack thereof.

Disclaimer: I am not an investor, stakeholder, or employee in Lisk.
NYC has reservoirs close to 500 billion gallons of water combined. And the water level only goes down to 80% during the summer.
Germany, self-employed, single: I pay about 760 EUR/month for the statutory health insurance. This is the max, it can get cheaper if you make less revenue. Price increases about 2% every year. Can be fully deducted from taxes though. I think the system is kind of fair. I paid 80 EUR/month when I was a student.
"Expunging" criminal records might be a bit too much, since this information might be still be useful for public statistics bureaus and for policy makers. Making criminal records past a certain period unavailable to the public would suffice.
It's interesting to me to see the huge level of nostalgia for local sodas and candies that people often have. (I have it too, like Moxie from New England, distinctively flavored with gentian violet roots.)

It seems some candy and soda shops with a broad selection are doing really well with this nostalgia, maybe especially with the amount that people move around these days. ("Oh, I haven't had this in ages!")
The user experience of Desktop Gmail .mp4 video attachments
Also, I'm curious about portable (i.e. across different Unixes) low-level graphics, if such a thing exists.

I assume that the interfaces discussed here are Linux specific, and the BSDs have something different.

Does POSIX have anything to say about graphics interfaces?

What is the lowest-level portable way to draw graphics? X11?

It's funny, because I always thought of X as being more of a windowing abstraction, rather than graphics in general. Perhaps I am making a distinction that does not really exist.

Obviously I am not a graphics guy :)
> the immediate liquidity benefits allowing them to manage risk

Sure, everyone loves liquidity and anyone can manage risk in an orderly two-sided market.

If there is 1) no legitimate profit-making endeavor backing your security & 2) no current bid, your security is worth exactly $0. You have faith that we needn't worry about (1) because (2) will never happen. I don't.
This is not new and if your backup system does not comply with regulations, it's probably more of a design problem.

Perhaps, but it's a design problem that approximately 100% of otherwise reasonable backup systems will have, and working around it comprehensively will be extraordinarily expensive.

Do we really want to impose rules that incentivize businesses storing personal data on behalf of their customers not to back that data up properly, in order to avoid any potential liability under the GDPR? Because that's exactly what this law does, as it stands.
I see what you're trying to say, but not really. There are several countries with comparable or lower top tax brackets and much cheaper health care, particularly if you live in California or New York.
> Ralph Nader? Noam Chomsky?

They are 83 and 88 years old, respectively. Where are the Naders and Chomskys of the next two generations? Do they have any influence?
Here is a short clip my brother sent me a few days ago. http://i.imgur.com/QllUKZe.gifv

They are very much alive.
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