skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>India is a power surplus country now.

In summer. Bangalore sees 2 - 4 hours of rolling power cuts due to shortage. Your friend needs to supply his secret power surplus into the grid for the benefit of all of us.
A cash fine would teach a more effective lesson.

I doubt he cares about the words as much as money.
Apple isn’t a sovereign state. It’s subject to US law. Sure it can challenge those laws if there’s a realistic chance of winning, but when there isn’t and they’re faced with a court approved demand based on settled law, not so much. They’re a consumer products company not an insurgency against the US system of government. Are you really saying you can’t see that distinction?

The link with accessibility is just evidence that when Apple says they do something to benefit their users because it’s their right thing to do and not for financial gain, that they have history on that to back them up.
What are the downsides for 1) China and 2) chinese citizens from an objective PoV?
whats the point of having branded stores then?
Violent crime runs in families: a total population study of Sweden (2011)
Running ads also dry your battery.
> Maybe we're defining 'scam' differently. I take it to mean a premeditated act of defrauding people by embezzling funds that were received under the pretenses of being spent on development.

I think we defining it in the same way. It's just that I don't believe that 90%+ of ICO's I've seen are "poorly planned" projects. I believe they're cases of asking people for money with no intention whatsoever to deliver anything in exchange.

But yeah, come to think of it, you're right that outright ban is a stupid idea. A better one would be to tighten up regulatory scrutiny a little bit, putting just enough barriers to discourage casual scammers. You're right it's worth to have this experiment in the open, and to see what good things can come out of it.
Yes, the front door will do fine /s
Anyone knows where this guy is from?
no problem selling to a minority of users worldwide. The rest simply enjoy PCs and other options and ignore Apple.
I forgave him for all his sins when he proved how well he could make fun of himself:

http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf
I would say it is due to him not being a native speaker; just guessing tho.
I thought birds were the closest living relative to dinosaurs?
Hey all. I have been working on PantryPlan for the past year (ashamed face) and I think it is more than ready for prime time.

The current service is split into two tiers, self-serve and sous chef. Self-serve is your typical SaaS offer where you get to click buttons and plan meals yourself. Sous Chef is a plan where someone (read: me) plans your meals for you without having to worry about technical limitations or UI.

The twist is that rather than throwing meals out at random, PantryPlan plans meals by trying to use up what you already have on hand. The menu planning algorithm isn't just a fetch command, it takes into account variables like whether you liked the recipe before, what ingredients you like or dislike, measurements of the ingredients, numbers of ingredients... tons of others as well. :)

Also, I made a coupon for you all: hackernews. It is $10 off the first month, so self-serve will be $2 and sous chef will be $20.
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I wonder what the state of technology is for this yet. Most existing battery and solar installations can't be used when a blackout occurs, to protect the safety of workers rapairing lines. Seems like a bit more work needs to occur to be able to isolate the house from the grid, and then run the house system in isolation.
Households in IT in Bangalore were shared with around 4 or more afaik when I was living there in 2009. Monthly salaries were around ~300 USD which was not enough for most to comfortably live in their own apartment.
True.

Most people are confusing “power surplus” by countering with “but I still see power cuts”.

Distribution and how a state manages demand and supply also is a huge reason as to how and why power cuts happen.

Only recently did all of India get connected to the national grid.

Once distribution capacity is up, then it is possible to have 24x7 uninterrupted power. Even then, a state’s ability to manage the demand and supply can mean power cuts (e.g., Enron blacking out California even though rest of the equation was all set)
Last time I asked that question, someone posted this interesting comparison screenshot of their search on Bing and DDG: https://imgur.com/P1akOab
Yes, it's a "court shoe": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_shoe

The piece is called "Scarpa" if you want to search for it. :)
University cops, assuming we are talking about those that are actual police departments, are authorized by their respective states to perform that duty. It operates similarly to any other police department, which means they have the rights and responsibilities of any other police officer. In my state, they are also required to have a public oversight committee with elected representatives, and I assume this is not uncommon in other states.

In most, and perhaps all, states, there are state-level commissions to handle cases of problem cops. However, I will be the first to admit that they don't always work as intended.
> How does your system deal with students that just refuse to do anything?

How is this dealt with in normal schools? From what I remember, students that didn't do anything just got passed on to the next year (maybe having to go to summer school which just meant showing up and you get passed on to the next grade).

Obviously, software can only help minimally here (by giving teachers better insights sooner into which students aren't doing their assignments, etc). I think overall, you really have to lower student/teacher ratios a lot. This helps significantly with misbehaving or problem kids in my experience and creates a more personal connection to the teacher.

If you have any ideas yourself on ways to solve this problem I'd really like to hear them.
(^predictability)
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>>And anything a former prime minister tells about the opposition party, I would take with a pinch of salt.

A former prime minister who was a distinguished professor of economics at top universities. Has served at the seats of world's top financial institutions and councils. And led the leadership in multiple tenures of Indias central bank. Plus being the finance minister and responsible for drafting and implementing Indias most succesful open market policy ever. This is all mildly putting his career highlights.

How quickly we forget the whole concept of expertise.

These days you go and see experts even in case of a throat itch. Here, we are talking of redoing the entire country's monetary system.
Is he a "bad" judge, or a corrupt one? I don't think he was purposefully trying so hard to keep patent lawsuits in his district just because he was "bad" at his job.
Actually, not only did they do exactly that, they could even be induced to do so through a symlimk, with hilarious results.
Name 5 present day Chinese writers, pop stars and movie icons without referring to the web or using google. Then name 5 present day American writers, pop stars and movie icons.
Quibble all ebooks were produced by programs in a computer?

Your looking at it as if the output is the programming piece. Heck markdown outputs to HTML. You wouldn't look at markdown as a programming language in the general sense?

Look a little closer my friend and you will see that this is very unique and special.

"Pollen gives you access to a full programming language (Racket) with a text-based syntax that makes it easy to embed code within your documents."
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Cool, i actually didnt know that.

Guess ill be adding a "sort" option too, as soon as I'm done with the other features that has been requested.
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> A lot of things that made them seem evil turned out to be exaggerations and propaganda

Such as?
Both DFS and ADFS used .
I think you are right. I am a Chinese netizen, and I find popular trends in tech areas like new deep learning papers have lags to be posted in Chinese tech communities. People who don't know arxiv.org or can't read English well tend to get news and knowledge from WeChat official accounts. Just a few weeks ago, people get arrested for using Shadowsocks, they were ordered to delete the proxy software and make commitments about not using tools to bypass the great firewall. The gov is clearly getting more control, but when will they hit the price threshold? Will they stop when they know they are in a dilemma? Which side will they choose? That are questions we Chinese still can't answer.
Uber and the anti-regulations bandwagon
Bjarne is a defensive lecturer so he always allocates a few extra safety seats.
I'm somewhat curious about the verification process here. Wouldn't this be a prime target for would-be blackmailers?
Will be major material cost for this, though, just buying the copper would be very expensive.
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I can't believe Eben Moglen's FreedomBox isn't a bigger project. It would help solve a lot of these problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox

https://freedomboxfoundation.org
Another important advantage of ECC RAM is early detecting of malfunctioning memory. I've yet to hear from anyone that he's regularly running memtest. While cosmic rays might be rare event, bad memory stick is certainly possible and it'll produce much more errors than cosmic rays. Some people live with it for a long time, cursing their blue-screened OS or "access violation error" programs. It's hard to distinguish software bugs from hardware bugs. ECC will let you know about it immediately.
The GDPR relies on international treaties to make the location of the business irrelevant. Any company processing data of EU citizens must comply IIRC.
I think that it is because most archaeologists tend to explore places where they live and where they know something about. And where they can get funding. Like Mediterranean sea. Underwater archaeology is very expensive. There are guys who explore shipwrecks to sale treasures from them, you can look at their financial reports here (it is not easy for them): http://www.odysseymarine.com/
Gender expression is how people show their gender to others.

Gender identity is how people identify.

(gender disphoria is a mismatch between gender expression and gender identity)

It's possible that at the time of disclosures, Manning would already identify herself as woman, even if her gender expression was entirely masculine. Using the feminine gender is a matter of respect.
The most sketchy back of the envelope calculations would indicate that the 2.5B is off by at least an order of magnitude. In other words, this is a nice press release but it won work for that money and it definitely will not work within the next 15 months. But it sure looks good in theory.
Is there a tool like an AdBlocker for crypto coin miners ? Or are they recognized by AdBlockers ?
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I'm not sure what you think Equifax's business is but you misunderstand it. Nobody gives any of their information directly to Equifax(1), they are a third party data broker. They get their information from third parties, otherwise it would not be reliable ("I totally paid that debt, trust me.)

Equifax's customers are banks, credit card companies, phone and utility companies, gyms, background check services, and landlords

(1) other than to ask them what information they already have on you.
I always felt a bit silly logging in to Facebook in a private browser window in every other week, many times through a VPN. Also not sharing much more than jokes and cartoons or memes. Not to mention my absense from the hip social web, including Tinder, but many more as well.

I don't feel silly anymore. :)

(btw: my name is not zoltaan ;) )
As an example, this site shows information about the British power grid.

The frequency is currently 50.034Hz, at some point it will be below 50Hz to keep the average at 50Hz.

http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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I like it! Just listened to both.
Some background about him here.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aek3pp/the-small-...
People living in fear. Strong and full censorship for political reasons (it turned out neither strong not being done for political reasons, but rather economical ones). Population control through forced abortions and murders everywhere (it turned out to be not true). Evil communist leaders. Shit-quality manufacturing (that's the fault of western companies; China manufactures to the specs you give and pay for, it's western companies that decide to cheap out on products). Those are all things I've been led to believe through media reports.

The point being, whatever happened there 40 or 60 years ago, currently China is not that much different from the US, and unlike the latter, it's only getting better.
I know. People die so easily, then just give up. Kids these days!
Thanks! Will probably be ready by Thursday/Friday
"To make shit work", that is where the devil is. In the same line as, "how hard could it be". Having a tunnel vision to get something fixed right now with no regards to what will happen in the future. How the code will be maintained. Who will maintain it, and such.

As you might appreciate the "loop-hole", I'm sure there are many developers whom hate it because they have to fix your "fix" in the future.
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> I wonder how you fare with using more complex software, like a web browser...

That snark isn’t necessary. It’s easier to use a web browser than to delete a file called - from the terminal. Or haven’t you used a non-GUI system before?
You couldn't do hierarchy though, it was only one deep.
I might have to use this! Thanks!
Of course his books and wider accomplishments show that he's very smart; he manages to explain everything he writes about, in detail, with the least amount of words necessary - no less, not more. In that sense, his books are a bit like "The C Programming Language" - concise, yet don't read as 'abbreviations'; but also complete, often answering the questions that pop into your head as you're reading something in the next sentence.

But I only got a real appreciation for how much he truly 'masters' programming from his description of an n-dimensional data structure in the 4th edition of 'The C++ Programming Language'. There, he transfers those qualities into software design; very clearly laying out requirements, and writing a beautifully concise implementation as he goes along. There is so much to be learned from that chapter alone.
Well deserved. His books on c++ are great and easy to consume, he is a great writer as well.
How do they compare in extensibility ?
Yes, Wes is. My comment isn't about him.
From my experience it depends a lot on the country. Apple Maps was for me excellent in China or Japan and terrible in Thailand for example.

Both Google and Apple buy basic maps info from third party and the quality depends a lot on the deal they get. For example it is not possible to save area offline in Google Maps for Thailand due to some legal issues I guess.

Google has much more user engagement and stars and recommendations give Google a big advantage.
To be fair, that was not at all obvious from your tersely worded post.
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Oh hey, someone registered that!
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But that is not the right question to answer. The right question is is the cost of mining crypto currencies in a browser more or less than the cost of dealing with advertising?
The idea of literate programming is to write explanations of programs in human language as the primary form of communicating what a program does to others.

OP link is about using code to create a document.

Probably you could use OP tool to write literate programs but that is not the primary intention.
I doubt it has much to do coordinated efforts to achieve globally optimum results, and more to do with practicalities of where researchers are located, what sort of funding is available and the like.
Let me be silly: go back to the nineties.

Provide your email address as an image, receive the comments in your inbox, append the really interesting ones to your blog article.

You really want to remove the spam and will have to do some moderation in order to keep your comments feed clean and interesting anyway. Making it a bit more difficult for your readers to comment has the advantageous effect that they'll think twice before writing. Moreover it also changes the way they write, because now they are addressing to a specific person instead of talking to everyone.

For sure it will probably drastically reduce the number of comments you get, but which one do you prefer: quantity or quality?
$89.000 or $89,000?
Thanks this is cool. I just quickly glanced but you are using Python 2.7 ... maybe make a note of that in the readme ?
sublime text, git, docker (preferably using hyperv)
anything else can run inside a docker container
Find the closest point in O(logN) complexity?
"Given a billion points p1, p2, p3,...,pN in which each point is of the form (x1,y1). Also given a point Q which is of the form (x,y). Find the closest point P from Q. Constraint: Time Complexity O(logN)".
The Naive's solution to this problem is of the order O(N). I'm wondering if there's any optimization to this to get the best case order O(logN).

EDIT: Each point {pi} is unique.
JP Houdin seems to be involved in the Scan Pyramids project (www.scanpyramids.org).
In his 2010 documentary, he was waiting to be able to do that in order to confirm that infrared anomalies he discovered are really linked to the internal corridor.
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Both are laudable. But, Spanner is closed source and hosted on a high egress cost cloud. So use cases are limited. And Cockroachdb is promising, but in it's 1.0 release. Follow the current bug list and performance numbers...you wouldn't use it just yet for something important.
DUI is objective human transgression against safety. Treason is more relative and arbitrary. One country's traitor can be another's hero.

Treason is more like blasphemy or copyright infringement.
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> The main difference is the privacy aspect since I don't track users or serve ads.

If history has shown us anything, it's that everyone has a price and if someone comes along with enough money you'll change your tune. No thanks.
This is a pretty neat thought experiment- good job on the simulation. The central thesis though that money attracts money, and without any feedbacks or corrections power and money tend to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, is pretty well understood, and intuitively obvious.
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Nice story, but unrelated. And I'm not sure why you mention Linux at all.
What's the source format? If you're dealing with PDFs at least you have textual data, which could be matched against a recipe database. I haven't checked but services like Epicurious might offer an API for that.

In that case you wouldn't need ML at all but pattern matching combined with named entity recognition probably would do just fine.
Wide scale adoption is almost as good, if not better, than "ground breaking".
I see ads, I might not realize that the website I'm browsing is using my CPU to mine coins. If the website is upfront about using my browser to mine I don't think it's particularly unethical.
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"any of the sexes", if you don't mind.
We have a similar situation where our customers actively prevent us even mentioning that they use our products. It is a grind.
We had a source directory named "core" in an early version of the Rosegarden sequencer. At the time our build system was a simple Makefile, but in 2000 we switched to Automake and quickly learned that in some circumstances, using the Automake-generated Makefiles, "make clean" would delete the entire directory. Have generally avoided that name since then.
If you're at a border, they can copy all your files. They can force you to give your fingerprints; or an iPhone face view to unlock your phone.

In the U.S., if you are not at a border; law enforcement needs a warrant based on probable cause.
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I'm not ultra familiar with the topic so if someone wants to correct me please do but :

- Linux has always been described as just a kernel, which translates as just a syscall table. The fact that this table is stable or not is not relevant here.

- *BSD on the other hand are shipping a kernel plus a lot of libraries/binaries, if you want to simulate a BSD system, you have to expose those libraries/binaries.

It's not so much a technical difference, it's more of a different approach to OS development (kernel space vs kernel/user space).
NoSQL is practically useless for succinct and efficient queries
We're talking euclidean distance measure, right? If you are performing many queries against the same set of points {pi}, then yes. Create a structure such as a BSP or quadtree containing all N points {pi} in O(n log n) time, then you can perform a single search of it in O(log n) time. You'll have a bit of extra bookkeeping since it's possible that points closer than the "best point so far" could lie within more than one branch of the tree, so you can't naively follow the usual quadtree, bounding box type algorithm.
I found it an interesting and well-written piece of history.
Build your own AI assistant without coding
Advicenode is a platform for building, sharing, and using AI assistants. These assistants can solve others’ problems, advise them, or even help them make decisions. Building assistant doesn’t involve coding at all. Moreover, if you like to have a standalone website for your AI assistant, Advicenode can get you the domain, deploy it, and provide all the necessary website tools. Finally, Advicenode is totally free. You can build any number of AI assistants without paying a penny.

How these assistants work?
In order to operate, each assistant will ask its user for some information. After getting this information, it will be processed using the logic defined. Defining logic is done through a drag-and-drop interface. Afterwards, the processing output will be formatted and organized to show the advice, the solution, or any other relevant information. These assistants are not based on NLP due to the high failure rate in the current technologies. We’ll consider adding NLP functionality once it matures. Advicenode AI assistants can perform much more complex tasks than existing chatbots. It can solve personal/business problems, provide consulting, guide users, help them make better decisions, etc.

Examples:
I've made super simple assistants ( suggestcar.com and vilytics.com/app/catbreedselector ). The first one has its own domain name, while the second is deployed under advicenode domain. All the new accounts will have a sample assistant to play with. I will add new samples to all accounts by time.

Here are some training videos:
Getting started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYjzJD92ZI
Decision making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htjc7gBvk5g
Data collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXTJ3m3LOCE&t=9s
Data resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHNKp4zC0HU
Processing logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQx_-Px6ZKE
Reporting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcYb0VIWT3Y
You will also find these videos in the assistant guiding page.
Exactly. Or just enable the guest account. That's what I always do.