skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions screenshots. I am interested in running the browser as a rendering tool, but ouputing not just a bitmap, but something closer to PDF. The goal here would be to crawl a bunch of pages and spin up the CPU to run all the needed JavaScript to render things, but to obtain an identical version of the page that runs about as fast viewing a screenshot, but also includes text. An offline "web OCR", if you will.

NeWS, Display PostScript, Quartz all come to mind. I know you can save webpages as PDF documents, but I am thinking of something that is like PDF but closer to HTML-just more closely coupled to what is being displayed, and not whatever arbitrary style or JavaScript abuse the developer decided on.

Even just outputing some neat, canonical HTML based on the state of the page once everything is loaded would be helpful, so that the bitmap could later be combined in some kind of new document format.
I tend to disagree. This is the moment in which people are most likely to read and perhaps even listen. It's amazing how fast people want to and will forget about it if they weren't directly impacted. This is when it is most relevant.
Yes that's true, but that doesn't mean they're being performed with ulterior motives.

Whilst we can appreciate the benefits that have been brought forth, we shouldn't be blind to consequences both short and long term and potentially hidden.
A very blunt and hyperbolic analogy is giving infection ridden blankets to indigenous populations in the depths of winter.
They are not "useless" for cars, just currently impractical. The problems are the catalyst requires rare, precious metals and, even using hydrogen, efficient fuel storage.
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I don't think anyone reasonable would argue with the state's portion of the tax abatement ($20M). 80% off property taxes in year one decreasing steadily to 0 through five years. That's just good economic development.

The rest of the tax abatements are _local_ government property taxes. Given the large pledge of funding otherwise, who cares. This is not money that would go to subsidizing energy programs. It would go to doing whatever the local government does, like city maintenance and parts of the police, fire, schools, etc.
I mean, that applies to all local government actions. And in any case, we don't need to speculate. You can just total up these costs.
Brief differences between tracepoints, kprobes, uprobes and USDT
It is disingenous to negate the dangers of such powerful organization being able to prevent any negative opinion about them. Or interested.
Ask HN: How does Google Docs do print layouts?
I am trying to figure out if there is an HTML WYSIWYG editor available that displays documents in a print view mode the way Google Docs. If not, how does Google accomplish it?
libhybris would still exist if Android had been running glibc. You still have architecture-specific stuff at the end of the day. Just like how XWayland exists to map X11 to Wayland, even though both use the same glibc.

Looking through the source of libhybris it looks like very little of it has anything to do with bionic itself.
>If .NET (using C#) can produce a native binary I'll switch to that for as many projects as I can.

We've been compiling our large C# games to native code for some years now because iOS only supports signed code. The main problem is you can never JIT; this creates all sorts of limitations with generics, dynamics, expressions and reflection.

Xamarin has become better and better at handling generics but there are still a couple of things they just can't do anything about.

>Memory

Yes, the memory looks bad because it will not get completely collected until needed. The framework code is big, but that's a flat cost. It might take a little more memory for the runtime up keeping, but it is not 10x. However, memory profiling is a breeze compared to native, so it becomes easier to optimize on a large complicated project.

>Performance

If you don't want to bound check there are a lot of solutions, from simple to advanced. Most of the time we end up just iterating the whole array anyway, and in those case, there are no bound checks.

In the rare case where we really need raw power (graphics, path finding, physics, large file access), we use native code and thin wrap it with P/Invokes.
IMHO this namedtuple is non-issue compared to buildout.

buildout tends to append millions of path to os.path

Annnnd your python project start time requires 1 minute or more because each import requires scan millions of directories.
A single spinning disk is already capable of >200MB/s sequential write:

shttp://www.storagereview.com/wd_black_6tb_hdd_review

100 of those in parallel will suffice to achieve >20GB/s, with roughly the same capacity of a few hundred TB.
This law will affect everyone but it seems like it will devastate companies that have no monetization strategy other than collecting user data and either selling it or mining it for targeted ad placements.

https://unroll.me/ is a good example. They provide a free service to users but make money by leveraging their total access to your inbox to sell ad analyics and competitive intelligence.
Session history management APIs are a W3C standard supported by all major browsers. This is nothing like activex.
And maybe there will be autonomous crowd control drone....

And seriously. Going by history, people will suffer plenty before they are willing to become subversive for an economic cause.
Good lord get over yourself.
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The blast zone of Hiroshima was less than 1.5 miles. What on earth were they storing there?
Implying that not taking advantage of every legal avenue to minimizing tax burden while incorporated in Delaware is exercising your fiduciary duty to your investors is willful ignorance.
Archived post:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170830230931/http://www.arkema-...
As long as you have clearly defined retention policies I don't think saying, "your account has been deleted. It will take 90 days for the deletion to filter though our backups. After that point all of your data will be gone forever" would go against the spirit of the law.
But it scrolls off the screen? So getting rid of it is just scroll down?
404, but archive.org got it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170830230931/http://www.arkema...
I don't think Hiroshima's blast zone includes a safety margin.
Uh, because it's an open standard rather than a proprietary one?
It's a little more than that. A sine wave originates in the frequency domain but actually sounds like something, but images originating in the frequency domain are just noise and not pictures of anything.
Agreed. In the current form, Agile is management's answer to "I have no idea what we're doing but I need to be seen doing something".

At my workplace they even invented a thing called "Agile Transformation Journey" and hired a bunch of scrum masters who call themselves "Agilists", because the whole org is falling apart on technical debt and clueless managers standing around pointing fingers. A few years into this "journey" and everything is exactly the same. Everyone knows this. The devs know this, the agilists know this, the managers know this but we all pretend to get along because it's an echo chamber. It's almost too fun too watch.

You-Can't-Fix-A-Broken-Culture-With-Agile.
I think you're assuming that most companies roll their own backup systems. You're underestimating the number of companies for which their backup system is something like Windows Server Backup or Veeam which isn't doesn't have that kind of granularity.
or revolutionizing the field
I don't know a ton about chemistry so I did a bit of looking. The trouble with organic peroxides is that the oxygen bonds are unstable and decompose easily. There are compounding effects:

1) The higher the temperature, the faster the decomposition
2) Decomposition releases energy, driving the temperature up

There's a threshold called the "Self Accelerating Decomposition Temperature" at which point the released energy can't flow into the environment as fast as it's being produced, causing a runaway reaction. Didn't find specific temperatures, but they're cold enough to require refrigeration. Without power to run that, the stored peroxides will definitely become unstable and explode.

The facility in question on Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arkema+Inc./@29.9494556,-9...

Thankfully not much around it within 1.5 mi.
It's true that nearest neighbor is bad, but the important part is the YUV->RGB conversion. It distributes the missing high frequencies out of the Y channel into all three RGB images.
I believe they were trying to make a point that it doesn't take a whole government, or a class of people to be wronged to change things in court.

It takes a single person whom was wronged. That's it.
Cant we see a way to backhaul radio telescope data from very remote locations, in the same way that Cloudflare is using asymmetric website traffic patterns? Is there any potential for collecting radio data inexpensively, I mean can we substitute network scale and geography to such a extent that commodity radio observatory is possible, in the 20 years to my retirement, or in my life, or beyond?

I hear you loud and clear about the potential, but I am desperate to get a clue about how much the ramp will become steep and quick?

Funny thing, if it weren't for the cheap and distributed way of inexpensive intelligence that had bombarded my senses with new information, I should be very possibly unaware of the potential for this immense explosion of discovery!
Yes, but I got the number slightly wrong, 7.3 %, not 7.6 %. So a maximum of 317.55 Euro per month, at least roughly, insurance companies can and do charge an varying additional premium from employees of up to about 2 %. I, for example, currently pay additional 1.4 %, so 8.7 % in the end, my employer pays 7.3 % on top of that.
In my experience, if you want your PhD to be enjoyable you probably shouldn't do it at a top-tier university. Top-tier universities are pressure-cookers. On the other hand, the job market favors folks with Ivy League (or Ivy equivalent) degrees...

One of the moments that caused me to nope out of science was when I (as a research assistant) received a work e-mail from a postdoc at a high profile northeastern uni at 11:00 PM on a Saturday night. There's no way in hell that's an appropriate time for work in my book.
Hey thanks! One of the founders of Pastel here. Re: viewing comments on apps with complex state, it's something we've thought a lot about, and it's tough. Our current solution is to take a screenshot and attach it to every comment so that you can view the application state as it was when the comment was left. Not necessarily ideal though. Do you have thoughts on this?
> Take the right to be forgotten. First of all, it should be common sense that no one has the right to force legitimate news articles to disappear because they don't like the content, but that is what the EU has ruled should happen.

That is not correct. The right to privacy is not an absolute right. It has to be balanced against other rights, such as the right to free press. In a normal news article case, free press would prevail.

> There is a good chance your little startup that isn't cash flow positive will have to spend $1 million of its VC money on becoming GDPR compliant.

I advise a lot of small customers to implement manual procedures to retrieve or delete data in case a request for it might be done. And to set up a basic privacy and security policy which they should have had already. This doesn't cost much.

> Except that controller must agree to every sub-processor you use.

This can be a generic agreement where the processor notifies the processor.

> Want to switch from AWS to GCP? You can only do it if all your customers agree.

Not true, you do however need to be able to tell customers what companies receive their data. Which can be quite a challenge with sub-sub-subcontractors.

Want to use try out a new metrics or logging service? If it will have any PII you can't do it without customer (controller) permission.

Not true if the processing agreement contains a clause that instructs processor to perform metrics or logging. Customer consent is often not needed unless it has big impact on their privacy. Consent is only one of the legal grounds.

> You will basically need to hire full-time compliance officers to deal with this. The big tech companies already have compliance officers, but GDPR is so massively invasive to businesses that even small companies now need compliance officers.

If this were true I'd be a lot busier. It would be wise if companies assign the responsibility for privacy and security, but it doesn't always need to be a full time job with a level background.
Stimulate those lashes ladies.. they can never be too long
I just thought "ruled out" makes it sound like they have some criteria for a "alien" signal vs natural.
It will definitely be faster on the newest intel processors, which have dedicated FMA units.
In fact, to max out floating point on the things, you'd likely have to intermix FMA into the normal FP stream (IE FMA by 1 or FMA of something plus 0)
Ignoring the gratuitous insult, here's the NCA 2014 report
(the report itself is about the impact of climate change; Chapter 2 lays out the case for climate change caused by humans. Citations are at the end of the chapter.): http://s3.amazonaws.com/nca2014/low/NCA3_Climate_Change_Impa...

There's also a web version where you can explore the highlights: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/.
The references are cited right there.

If you don't find this convincing, then I'd like to understand why. Also, if you don't trust this source (a US gov agency), I'd like to understand what kind of sources might you find more convincing.
Oh and I sent with a 3c txn fee!
The article mentions the plant manufactures organic peroxides. I'm not sure how it would compare but, for example, the PEPCON disaster[1] (which involved ammonium perchlorate) caused severe damage within a 1.5 mile radius, with damage extending all the way out to 10 miles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster#Damage_assessm...
Thank you - I love the comparison! To your question, Pastel does work on JS SPAs. I'm actually using it currently on a React SPA (we like to dogfood our product internally).
Their post on the incident has apparently moved to

http://www.arkema-americas.com/en/social-responsibility/inci...

Maybe the link should be updated to point there.
Sure, I use it every day to do small things that, yes many I could have set custom bindings for, now have dedicated space.

Also touch screen for volume, brightness, and video scrubbing === better than keys.
Vanity Fair launched 6/23/2016, the first brand on the Autopilot stack. Sorry if I didn't mention brands that launched AMP on Wordpress. That would have probably added confusion to readers outside the company that do not know about our Wordpress -> Autopilot migrations.
I think the 51% attack of bitcoin is a similar phenomenon. If someone owns 51% of the market, trust from outsiders/customers is basically destroyed. At that point the dominate player can systematicly destroy the competition through pure economic power.
Property tax is based on the assessed value of the land and what's (permanently) on it. A lot with a house is assessed higher than one that's vacant. A parcel of farmland is assessed quite a lot lower than one with a hundred million dollar data center built on it. The tax abatement says Apple gets to pay the property tax for X years assessed at the value before they build anything.
To add to what nehanarkhede said: I'd rather see it as a testament to the powerful building blocks of Kafka and its Streams API that you can actually implement a project such as KSQL with very few engineers.

Also, the commits in KSQL reflect only parts of the work -- it doesn't include design discussions, code reviews, etc.

Lastly, keep in mind that the git repository was cleaned (think: squashed commits) prior to publication, see the very first commit in the repository's timeline. So you don't see the prior work/commits of other Confluent engineers that went into KSQL.
> headless mode with a customer launcher

Where does one find a customer launcher?
I used to religiously research movies on RT - with a lot of success in my mind. With the user rating, the critic rating, and the "top" critic rating, you can infer a surprising amount about who is going to like any given film, and you learn over time where you fall on the critic/top critic/audience graph.

Recently, however, it seems like more (imo undeserving) movies that are "just ok" - like decent, but nothing special, romantic comedies and big blockbusters - are scoring above 90%. I might be being curmudgeonly about it, but I've nearly stopped checking it because it feels like there's no information there. My theory is that this started happening once Roger Ebert died... without such a leader in the field, no one is willing to say they didn't like a film unless it's obviously very bad.
This only applies to home grown backup systems. If all you're doing are VM backups of your SQL database there's 0% chance you have the granularity to delete a single user.

"Then don't do that"

Sure, but now you actually have an imposition because the ability to do this kind of thing can't be done on any commercially available backup system.
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considering the low price of the shirts, how do you cover the capital costs of the robots?

I'm having a hard time imagining the robots putting out 6 digits-worth of shirts per robot to cover the costs?
I don't think it's this specific peroxide, but TATP is "acetone peroxide". Supposedly pretty powerful as an explosive. Probably also lots of debris to fly around, nasty clouds of burning chemical laden smoke, plus some margin for safety.
So the comparison becomes even more lopsided when put against the I9?
Yes, we should make sure everything is totally proof from any possible disaster, no matter how unlikely or how little economic sense it makes. For example, we should make sure cities can survive not only 500 year floods, like in Houston, but 1 million year floods and direct asteroid strikes up to 1km in diameter. However, I think even when we do this, eventually a city will be hit by a 2km diameter asteroid, and qz.com will blame developers.
You can do WiFi monitoring with a vanilla macOS install. And I do mean vanilla.
Hilarious to learn this week that the federal government eats a net loss while subsidizing correlated flood risk.
The whole thing gets crazy when you realize the federal government was basically subsidizing development in these high risk flood areas. The federal flood insurance rates were not properly evaluating the risk to insure these areas. They were using older flood maps which don't account for changes in urban sprawl and global warming

https://www.vox.com/2017/8/26/16208230/hurricane-harvey-floo...
Why was the word "exploding" muted in that video? Is that a normal thing?
Powerful oxidizers. The PEPCON disaster in 1988 was a different oxidizer, ammonium perchlorate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster

Derek Lowe has a good post on some very strong peroxides: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/thi...

Of course quantity matters. But messing about with strong oxidizers is scary. The article doesn't say which organic peroxide it is, and that matters a lot too.

Edit: Given the list of products made at the site[1] (PVC, acrylic paints, etc) it might be MEKP[1]. That's quite a strong explosive.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170830090410/http://www.arkema...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_ethyl_ketone_peroxide
UBC students can now study the human brain using holograms
Assuming each github fork has modified the code, I see 16 violators of this project's license. (If you're not familiar with creative commons the ND stands for "no derivatives" and means it's a license violation to publicly distribute adapted works)
A corporation is purely a legal notion. In real life, when you shake down a corporation so that "we" can have nice stuff, you are shaking down that corporation's shareholders, employees, and customers. These folks already paid their fair share of income and sales taxes. And they can also be referred to using a first-person pronoun.
If there were a law that states could not make deals with individual entities, it is likely both states and citizens would be better off, and companies would be unharmed.
Don't worry. Total nit-pick on my part :)
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BTW, what tool did you use for your commit/diff search?
The Hiroshima bomb only weighed about 10,000lb.

I suspect this site has a LOT more material than that.

Nuclear bombs don't have a monopoly on large explosions - their claim to fame is how light the bomb can be, not how large the explosion.
Dupe, please delete.
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IANAL, but my understanding is that the exam mode could be fully protected by the trademark; the ND clause is not needed. Just like non-official builds of Firefox are limited in their use of the Firefox trademarks (thus iceweasel).
Similar with Dec/Alpha.

Amusingly they are suing Qualcom for doing the same thing to them in the mobile market.
I just learned that the ND license exists. It probably shouldn't.
There is nothing wrong with states competing with each other.

If one state has poor schools then companies won't want to be there because they won't be able to find competent employees. If one state has no government healthcare subsidies then employees there will demand higher wages so they can pay for healthcare.

The states that have better schools and more subsidies will have correspondingly higher taxes. The only way that creates a disadvantage is if the tax money is being spent inefficiently, so that the benefits don't outweigh the costs. Or, on the other side, the state is giving more to a company in benefits than the company pays in taxes and the company becomes a parasite.

But that is not a race to the bottom because ineffective programs and corporate parasites are bad. Pressure to eliminate them is good and the state that best eliminates them wins, as it should be.
sr system programmer (mainframe middleware)
a cheap dumbphone that retails for less than $20 has a BOM of around $5 and has CPU, battery and screen. so $20 retail for your cartridge is achievable in volume
The TI-89 was itself created as a new version of the TI-92, but without a qwerty keyboard, since the standardized tests banned all devices with a qwerty keyboard.
What I believe is that you're a cunt.

Hey, this belief thing is great.
Doesn't that make every single person who has forked it and modified it on github (16 as of now) a violator of the license?
This makes me very nervous about data loss. If I accidentally wipe the hot database then I've effectively deleted all my backups. It also makes corporate ramsomware attacks much easier.
The T Project (2010)
Citations? I'm happy to read any research you have. (You can also come over, crack a beer, and record balloon pops and acoustic instruments... and an electric guitar... and electric kazoo.)

The xiph-cited studies I've seen show an identification of difference and a preference for... MP3. Hey, we want what we want.

Otherwise, go read Von Békésy's work for the foundation, established in the pre-digital era, but transferable if you understand digital audio.

For recognition of difference in high res audio, see:

Reiss - https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/134...

...And the papers referenced.

It's an interesting meta analysis and a good survey of the last 20 years of publication on the subject.

If you have some properly controlled double blind trials that show no discrimination ability, I'd be happy to read them. I'll admit that I haven't conducted statistically sufficient tests. I have, however, double-blinded (via software pseudo-random sample randomization).

Like I said, though, I've got work to do. Do some listening. Read some papers.