skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQL provides users with a lot of facilities and mechanisms to limit, control, supervise, and if performed within a transaction, even undo overzealous DELETE statements. I discussed some of these at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15188619.

AFAIK, with Postgres, there are no known circumstances where restarting your server will result in the purge of your database; that's really just icing on the cake, not the core of the argument. The core of the argument is that SQL provides not only a rational design paradigm for long-term storage and choices that reflect they take it seriously, but also an extremely strong feature set for data management and integrity.

As I've said numerous times now, SQL isn't invincible. But it's inarguably more resilient than Kafka, and it provides the controls necessary to keep some sanity over data in the long run.
>As to your second point it seems to me to be a little close minded. The whole point of a universal character set was that languages can be added to it whether they be textual, symbolic or pictographic.

Representing all languages is ok as a goal -- adding klingon and BS emojis not so much (from a sanity perspective, if adding them meddled with having a logical and simple representation of characters).

So, it comes to "the fact that some visible characters are made up of many graphemes the number of single code points would be huge" and "while some languages it's feasable to normalize them to single code points but other langagues it would not be".

Wouldn't 32 bits be enough for all possible valid combinations? I see e.g. that: "The largest corpus of modern Chinese words is as listed in the Chinese Hanyucidian (汉语辞典), with 370,000 words derived from 23,000 characters".

And how many combinations are there of stuff like Hangul? I see that's 11,172. Accents in languages like Russian, Hungarian, Greek should be even easier.

Now, having each accented character as a separate might take some lookup tables -- but we already require tons of complicated lookup tables for string manipulation in UTF-8 implementations IIRC.
Totally! Space & cost might be the biggest issues or reasons against putting the HQ in #YYZ or #YVR; #YOW might be a great location.
Yes. If the electricity source does not emit any (why would you ever do this with an emitting source?), you get to use liquid fuels in a carbon neutral way.

If you convert it into plastics, it's eventually a bunch of CO2 captured into a landfill.
Minor quibble, in the context of serving static files (ie. from disk), go doesn't use async I/O, the file I/O blocks the thread until it's complete. But since go's scheduler is M:N this doesn't lock up the whole program, so your point stands.
But as happened in Marietta Ga recently, the government officials had already committed the county to 600 million for a new stadium. They got voted out, but the county is still stuck with the bill.
Psychedelics are also called entheogens ("generator of the divine within"), because
one common trait of a psychedelic 'trip' is experiencing the nature of the divine, but also the divinity of 'life' in all living things when 'tripping'.

The realization that plants, animals, water, air, are all part of one whole living system of which we're just cells, just like the cells within us, ...

In other words, the realization of the divinity of nature.

Most people tend to treat divinity with respect hence the link.

I personally think everyone should have at least one psychedelic experience, especially in this age that we're in right now.
I'm rather disappointed, because it seems like there's no support for local vaults.

https://support.1password.com/command-line/#sign-in-or-out
As the head of a company that uses HipChat... Thank you Atlassian. We have intended to migrate to the (free and better) Mattermost for a long time and just have been waiting for it to hit the top of our priority list. Knowing you are abandoning the terrible HipChat for an entirely new product, with no migration path and 50% more cost, makes this an easier choice.

You have been abandoning us on JIRA and Confluence as well. There are many features that are not available on our self-hosted versions even when fully upgraded. Your licensing and pricing terms get worse year after year even though essentially absolutely nothing useful (to us anyway) ever gets added.

We even use Trello a little here and there... I expect that to go south too.

Well, at least we have GitLab and soon Mattermost, both suitable for much of what we need, for free. Thank you for making our decisions easier.
I'm of course in favor of any solution that allows us to do less damage, but I think it's unlikely that we'll figure something out that allows us to continue burning fossil fuels at the rate we're currently doing. Doing both, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, and figuring out methods for undoing what damage we can seems to me to be the best strategy.
Info on the Stride API at https://developer.atlassian.com
"Hidden Voice Commands" prior art (2016): https://www.georgetown.edu/hidden-voice-commands-sherr
Not sure what you mean by "frequency bounds check", but if you mean a bandpass filter, then it is not going to save you. The attack, as I understand the paper, works by having the AM-encoded ultrasound demodulate to the audible frequencies at the microphone, before frequency filtering and ADC. This would imply you could use this method to inject voice even to simple recording software (or even analog hardware!) - it's not limited to machine-learning voice recognition systems!

The paper describes possible ways to mitigate the attack, though. One of them is to let the whole signal pass, and then try to detect ultrasonic AM in software, demodulate it and subtract from the audible frequencies. This is pretty much correcting for the physical structure of the microphone in software.
I am using Chi in several projects running in large production environments.
Totally agree! 50,000 people making 100k+ per year is a lot of taxes, it will increase land values. Please come to my city so my house can double in value. Hm...
Have a look at what St. Louis offered to keep the NGA in the city:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-prepares-f...
Carbon dating measures the ratio of C14 to C12. This ratio doesn't start to change until they die, and are no longer renewing their carbon from the environment. Radiocarbon dating does provide an accurate date (although less accurate than dendro) for wooden items, and works with a wider range of samples.
Looking at the RFP, minus the mass transit, it seems like it was written for Atlanta. And Atlanta has so many urban infill areas available for development.
Why can't voting just be done on the blockchain with a public ledger? Any vote could be verified. I'd feel more secure with this than paper ballots, which are very insecure and have been tampered with so many times.
Possibly, but it isn't what was written. Besides, there are lots of countries that aren't the US who might be more willing to approve this sort of thing. After all, those governments actually have stake in lowering health care costs (if this does, in fact, make costs lower) because they fund health care through taxes.

It isn't like "big pharma" won't make money off of it, since they'll be able to grow their own crops, complete with GMO help to produce more of the "helpful" stuff, afterwards concentrating it into pill or inhaler form and checking for purity. The GMO and the final pill can likely be patented, giving them reason to pressure the government by lobbying. Something similar with health insurers, as lowering costs is in their best interests since Alzheimer's can be an expensive disease.

The main lobby they'd have to worry about in the US is from places like private prisons and the like, because they can lose money with this - but even that is doubtful unless they change the laws for recreational use.

Additionally, public opinion has been increasingly changing for this sort of thing, and that is starting to be shown through government policies (though slowly with the current administration's attitude), as evidenced by the fast-tracking of MDMA trials treating PTSD. I'm not sure that could have happened 20 years ago, and definitely not 30 years ago during the "Just say no!" heyday.
That's all well and good, but that wasn't the argument employed against conservatives when conservative values were mainstream; the argument was "you can't enforce your values because it's not fair to folks with different value systems". This argument was generally characterized as "moral relativism". Regardless of terminology, my point is that the left flip flopped as soon as they became the moral majority.
Note that this isn't a system running in the voting booth. All votes are cast on paper ballots. The software is just for tabulating the results and maybe maintenance of the voting rolls.

It's obviously a terrible situation, but I'm somewhat confident that you couldn't actually throw the election even with complete access. I, for example, always stop by at a polling place a friend volunteers at after the polls are closed and watch them count the ballots. Everyone is free to observe, and you can get as close as you could want, and count the ballots yourself.

There are only a few hundred voters per precinct, so any person can, if they want, verify their (or another) precinct's results end-to-end: count some or all the ballots, then compare with the results posted online.

The volunteers manning the polling places are also incredibly dedicated and professional. I'm pretty sure that at least one of them also verifies the data. It's a diverse crowd (not, for example, party officials or public servants), which makes it practically impossible to get their buy-in to any corruption.
either bot or very confused.
Cool, because this is actually what I ended up with myself in a dummy Go setup of mine (after having reinvented AR's migrations poorly with a Bash script). I'm not really accustomed to Go's ecosystem yet, so:

>and code-generate the basic CRUD Go stuff from the schema

I guess you read schema.rb and output some structs and methods? Because a quick Google search only yielded some Yeoman plugins …
Read this algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_secret_sharing#Exa...

It's a proof of concept, it still has drawbacks, but it proves that you can have a system where all the votes can be accounted for without any information being revealed about any individual's vote: the ballot is secret.
It might have been sold for a high price, but vellum and coloured inks were expensive at the time, and it is a very long document when a much shorter one would still seem to fit the bill.

Seems a bit of a gamble if that was the plan, and the scribes were presumably either well-to-do or trusted by someone well-to-do if they could get their hands on the raw materials. That makes the prank/con/crazy spirit writing theory seem less likely to me but certainly doesn't rule either out.
Thanks indeed. It's been wonderful! Incredibly flexible in how it can be used, it powers a lot of my business, and takes stuff out of my brain for personal tasks as well. Such an intuitive tool.
Well, you could train your dog to attack anyone that emits an ultrasound "Ok, Google", then the attacker will care. ;)
I love living in 2017 when stuff like this is just created out of the blue making my life just a little bit easier, and at almost no cost.
For the privacy conscious, there's also https://www.secure.chat/ if you want a slack alternative with end-to-end client-side encryption. You can choose which channels or even individual messages you want private and encrypted. Of course, the tradeoff with end-to-end encryption like that is the content is opaque to the server and can't be indexed or searchable, but you get to choose how you want to make that tradeoff when you send the message.

Disclaimer: I worked on secure.chat in the past.
You need a hardware LPF, though.

The trouble is that the sampler in the ADC down-converts harmonics of the passband into the passband. To make this concrete: you might sample at f0 to capture all frequencies from 0 to f0/2, but you also get all the energy in frequency bands f0 * 3/2 -- f0 * 5/2, f0 * 7/2 -- f0 * 9/2, etc. Unless you pre-filter that before it gets to the sampler, that is.

By the way, a variation of this trick was used by HP and Tektronix in 1960's oscilloscopes to display multi-GHz signals.

Depending on the power of the ultrasonic source, the hardware LPF might need to have a quite fast roll-off, which might imply a large number of stages, which is hard to design and expensive to manufacture.
Plus it's behind CloudFlare which should absorb a lot of the traffic if headers are configured correctly.
3D-printed mask that reacts to emotions
Indeed, they're still fairly anti-Corbyn (they think a woman should have got the job, no matter how neoliberal she might be), pro-Macron, and they were ridiculously anti-Sanders/pro-Hillary all last year (and still are when the subject comes up).
Not very politically aware then.
To the suburbs, yes. Just a few park-n-ride lots.

Inside the city to downtown is pretty good though. Lots of busses to downtown and oakland from the most popular neighborhoods (East Liberty, Shadyside, Lawrenceville, etc).
God, it annoys me to see so many people spouting Rick & Morty-tier nihilistic verdicts on life and it being "pointless". Seriously, go outside and read some more books, and synthesize your experiences and observations.

Even without going into rigorous philosophical discussion, if you still confidently claim that all of it is fatally worthless even after having seen as much of what there is to life, I think you seriously lack perception.

It's just shallow pessimism, not a thoughtful outlook on conscious existence.
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dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15191640
Although Austin is in Texas, it is famous for being independent. It's also fairly progressive.
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That third chart is a thing of beauty!
Wow! Just yesterday I was researching what options I have for programming with CUDA, having a Clojure library for it sounds lovely!

How is the performance, though? Is there an impact on it, as compared to say the C bindings? I want to write a cryptocurrency miner for nVidia and performance is key there. Any inputs?
The following is a readable and modern FAQ which describes most language features: https://isocpp.org/faq

My preferred reference for the language and standard library:
http://en.cppreference.com/w/

The following is a longer guide on modern C++ style:
https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...
Well done. Will share to help get the word out. Once we finish with this hurricane season and things calm down (hopefully) you might want to transition this to a more generic thing. So that different disasters can be set up simultaneously on a more generic domain.
This was the response I got from Slack 9 months ago when I asked them about this. I get 30% cpu burn if i close the slack window with a animated gif in it

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Hi Sean,

Thanks for getting in touch with your feedback. This is something which I actually raised with our engineering team the other day and it's something we have discussed in depth. For now, we don't actually have any way of knowing when the app is minimized from the webapp portion of your app. Because of this, the gifs do not stop running when the app is minimized. We are considering our options here though and looking into what we could do in the future to improve this behavior.

If there is anything else that I can help you with in the meantime, please do let me know.

Best regards,
I completely agree with that generalization

The people who want to work for Amazon wouldn't like living in Utah, and the people living in Utah wouldn't like the people who work for Amazon

I've been in tech in Southern Utah for almost 20 years, and it's extremely difficult to find qualified people.

If I didn't have a house I love, and family around, I would have left a long time ago.
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Anybody who says People's Republic of Austin (ref: Bernie movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREkqCvLzSo) is not on progressive wing is kidding.

Also, Whole Foods is head-quartered in Austin, so there could be "synergy" there.
Deletes them in what situation? Can you provide a link?
>Try it now

Did you just update his profile there manually? :p
I may be being stupid here, but shouldn't you really be using a comprehensive test suite and a code coverage tool like simplecov [0] to automatically show you your dead code? Or if you don't do test coverage (!) something like coverband [1] in production? That way you get to see straight away which code is genuinely dead rather than having to go spelunking with `git-bisect`?

[0] https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov
[1] https://github.com/danmayer/coverband
The idea is to price CO2 emissions by the cost of CO2 scrubbing. Then a law would be set in place requiring measurement of CO2 emissions - CO2 scrubbed, which is then multiplied by industry median cost of scrubbing, which would be then taxed.
What? Pen-and-paper, with the ability to observe, is a provably secure system, and its security is easily observable by anybody. That

Blockchains are voodoo, and I'd really think the ongoing disaster of Ethereum should have cooled some of these absurd claims of perfect security.
> Before they bundled regular corded buds

They still do. The iPhone 7 comes with Lightning headphones AND a Lightning-to-analog-jack adaptor.

They also sell the bundled headphones separately, so you can replace them.
The Phoenix area would be a great option.
Wait... it's the customer's fault for believing what they were being told by the developer? I don't pre-order anything for this very reason, but c'mon; th fault still lies with the liar.

Please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-tgaE37UE

Even if you ignore the blatant lies, the game just turned out to be boring. An empty universe which lacked the awe inspiring sense of adventure that was promised.
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I guess you could also use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound, which would mean unless you're in it's line of sight you shouldn't hear it.

I'm specifically thinking of the parametric array type.

I'd love to see how directional that is sometime, as there are cheapish implementations of hardware for it.

Edit: Originally I thought a human might be able to hear their sound, but reading a bit more I don't think that's the case since it's exploiting non-linearity of the microphone

Also it seems ultrasound can be used to affect other MEMS devices:

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/07/sounds-bad-researc...

I wonder if there's any acoustic metamaterial that you could place over the mic etc. to filter ultrasound out before it reaches it.
Butter is okay but I highly recommend just making an extract you can vaporize. Most people don't realize that Delta-9-THC turns even more psychoactive when it undergoes a liver pass, converting into another delta analogue of the molecule.

Pure acetone (no colorants or scents added) and a hot plate is all you need. Acetone wash your ground material for 10 seconds, filter/strain through coffee filters onto a hot plate set at ~150F (make sure this is in a well-ventilated room) and let evaporate for an hour.

Done and ready to go. Far safer than most other extraction methods, which rely upon high gas pressures or even more highly-flammable (and explosive) substances.
They've got Google Fiber now, though.
So how do the courts typically resolve the equivocation that the plaintiff has historically and routinely taken advantage of, even as part of this lawsuit?

The root issue is that he created a program whose name happened to be EMAIL so when laymen misinterpret the claim to mean "e-mail" and the plaintiff doesn't correct them, it results in confusion that benefits him. The reporter tried to cast light on that and it seems like the plaintiff is trying to leverage the same confusion to win in court.
This paper has made me significantly increase my estimate of the urgency of moving to post-quantum crypto algorithms. Which really pisses me off because I spent a long time learning about elliptic curves, and soon all that knowledge will be useless. Damn those physicists.
The thing is, those tax cuts are largely offset by income taxes that those employees bring in, along with all of the $ that having a huge corporation like Amazon would bring into the area. It's not corruption, it's business.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is probably the best place for Amazon to place its HQ.

It has a huge international airport which has tons of undeveloped land, good road networks (HWYs, well-built roads), rail road connections, a harbour (Port Credit) that can be expanded and the land prices aren't surreal. Combine all this with a well educated local populace and a low crime rate.
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Doubtful. Just like Worcester is also doubtful. Amazon's not hurting for money to lease or buy land and TF Green is too small (not enough direct flights) compared to Logan.
The comment is referring to meme gifs. Your use case obviously makes a lot of sense.
You don't need to remove those. You just need to make sure they get them wet, so entropy can follow its inexorable path.
exact opposite. NYC subway is in disarray partly because it is controlled by the state and the state political interests are not the same as the cities. The city effectively funds the state as NYC pays more in taxes than it takes out. Not true for upstate.
Louisville has a local payroll tax, even if Amazon Corporate gets property or other tax breaks, 50,000 highly paid employees would bring in a lot of local tax revenue.
"bad" for what purpose? The linear congruent stuff and Mersenne twisters, for example, are leaps and bounds better than a typical rand() implementation, and very appropriate for many uses.
Google Reader PTSD? ;-)
I don't need a Math PhD to use all of those. But if I want to be audit it? Probably. I can audit paper ballots just fine, anyone can. But that easy to use shell? How do I know that it does what people claim it does? I have to trust those people. The people that have the ability to audit now hold absolute power over the result
Yeah over the past few years I've been convinced that beta amyloid is a not a cause of Alzheimer's but a red herring symptom. Too many drugs have failed.

Maybe its a disease caused by glial cell dysfunction where beta amyloid is just the most obvious but not most important piece of trash that collects in the brain. And it's just a terrible coincidence injections of beta amyloid have similar effects as Alzheimer's.
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Come to Atlanta! Great schools, great weather, downtown is under utilized, decent mass transit. One of the fastest grow tech locations in the country.

We offer, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no tidal waves, no forest fires, no flooding, and once every 10 year snow storms. We are on the opposite coast which protects you from N Korean actions. Plus you can fly anywhere from our airport!
St. Louis recently offered up this footprint to the NGA to keep them in the city:

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/co...

That area has lost so many buildings over the last 30 years that it's practically an urban prairie, but they did use eminent domain to get the few remaining residents out.

In short, yes, land is on the table.
I don't think funny pictures are a stupid purpose. They cheer me up and expose a different side of my coworkers, increasing morale and team cohesion. Of course they happen to be the right kind of funny pictures/links. :)
> I too, eagerly await the pre-processing software that blocks all inaudible frequencies. Not sure why this was not done in the first place.

This won't save you. By the time the signal leaves the microphone and reaches the ADC, it's already in the audible range.
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Mostly the same, since every client is a chromium wrapper for a web page.