skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For example, when aligning that header, they're moving the leftmost pixels into alignment with the body's leftmost pixels. The correct state is well-defined, it's just not understood by the program.

Most typographic programs can perfectly understand "align leftmost pictures of title wit leftmost pixels of body".

>The ideal spacing is a function not only of what's being separated and by how much, but also the gradients that border it.

Only there's no real "ideal width". Not only it depends on the look of the heading font as well -- some designs might ask for more or less space, but it also depends on other elements on the page.

Even more so, it depends on the desired intent / impression, which might not be the same when typesetting a math book, a poetry book, a news article, a lifestyle article, a kids story, and so on.

It also varies by culture (country) and by era -- things people thought OK in 1660 look garish today, and even things people though OK in 1970 or 2006 can look out of place today.

At best, the "mathematics" can give something that more or less looks appropriate for certain situations -- TeX does that for math papers.

It doesn't and can't solve a soft science like typesetting in general (not without designer AI).

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1831/
I agree with you.

Still it is a kind of first step.

Tooling was the major problem. Swing could be made to look as nice as WinForms, but defaults matter when developers are lazy.

Android is another example where if one wants to make cool Material design applications, some UI programming skill is needed.
Buttershakes, have your thoughts about the bitcoin November HF changed at all since your comments before the Bitcoin Cash fork went down? Would love to hear them. Have read that thread several times. So much drama, but I can't see a way where the majority fork won't just simply obliterate the minority fork.
Ask HN: Learning NoSQL, papers and books
In your opinion, which papers and books are mandatory to really understand NoSQL subject?
Fairchild Semiconductor: 60th Anniversary
It's not silly games. It's a business transaction, they're negotiating. I think it's fair to not counter offer for reasons stated elsewhere in this thread but you can't accuse people of playing games when this is such an important part of our lives. So much is dependent on money, to not negotiate with other offers is foolish when the moment a company decides that an employee is less valuable than their cost they're out the door.
They won't eliminate you. Just ignore you to play videogames in your parents' basement until it is clear that your future is gone. After all, in parts of most western countries, that is already what they are doing to local youth.

Starvation, elimination, or enslavement? Why would they bother. They'll probably be quite generous with the foodstamps -- you're less likely to act up if they toss you a tin of beans now and again, and they can bemoan the ungrateful idleness of today's youth.
For engineering problems, TRIZ has classes of solutions based on principles of previously solved problems, a semi-structured "random" walk, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~jps7/Lecture%20notes/TRIZ%204...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
Intel CPU History
I think they have to be better than you in something you care about (or aspire to be better at) for it to matter to you. Seems like you're overcomplicating this... :-)
In terms of percentage gains they can do almost as well. Put a dollar in the bank and in 20 years you'll have $2. But I agree that having $2 isn't being rich. Or for middle class people, buy a house in a neighborhood before a property boom and sell after. Guessing future property values is just as hard for both the rich and the poor. You still have to work to find out and risk bad luck.
English Through Cartoons
after parsing the symbolic calculations
you can execute them as a normal function call

in case of single variable for example
var result = SymbolicVariable.Parse("sin(3*x)").Execute(2);

in case of multi variables you can send the values based on their alphabet order

var d = SymbolicVariable.Parse("a^b^c");
Assert.AreEqual("a^(b^c)", d.ToString());

var r = d.Execute(3, 2, 4);
Assert.AreEqual(43046721.0, r);

or by assigning them to a dictionary of Dictionary<string, double>
Except that we are pushing for the same old "solution" and apparently the problem is getting worse. That should be enough reason to do a u-turn on the war on drugs.

I am not so worried about drugs as I am about false advertising and lack of awareness. I agree with the main point though. We need to treat this as a health and wellness issue, not as a crime. At the very least, possession itself (yes I'm making a whole sale statement) should not be a crime. Now if folks start selling poorly labeled drugs, the seller I'm ok vilifying.
I know latex expressions .. but I don't know exactly how do you want to merge them.

a use case would be helpful for me.
This is the reason why https://freedom.to/ exists
you can check my opensource project that seems to make the same as smath

it is called Quantity System
http://QuantitySystem.org

and it blends numerical and symbolic in the same context
and it supports units in the context of quantities

check the specs and tell me your opinion.
Most (all?) legitimate colleges, public & private, are non-profit. For profit schools are things like DeVry college and Corinthian Colleges. These are pretty widely considered scammy.
Give me sources, or I'll say you're just plain wrong.

Conduct that amounts to war crimes will amount to an offence either under the Defence Force Discipline Act or under civilian law - ADFIS and AFP do investigate this stuff, though admittedly they haven't had much luck recently with actually charging or convicting anyone, but the same can be said of any other country currently in Iraq. I'd find it hard to believe that Australia is any worse than the US, honestly.

(FWIW I'll allow that parliamentary scrutiny of the ADF is probably not as stringent as in the US Congress.)

In this case, the police are using their Controlled Operations authority that was originally granted to allow police to conduct drug importations as part of sting operations. Other jurisdictions do have some analogous laws, though potentially not with such broad scope.
I first came across these guidelines in Robin William's books[1]. I read a couple of them (The Non-Designer's Design Book and The PC is Not a Typewriter) back in the mid 2000s and found them to be very useful as an amateur desktop publisher. I thoroughly recommend her books for any lay person with an interest in understanding the basic principles of typography.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams_(writer)
It's really the expectations I was commenting on more than the pricing. I have heard devs on 100k plus whinge about $80 for a professional programmers editor, and rule out IntelliJ IDEs from their consideration because they're not 'free'.
The effect is the other way around; diseases like aids, malaria, polio were/are the scourges of the third world, because the poor do not have the means to treat them; the viruses/bacteria in the third world suffer low evolutionary pressure because the humans only fight back with their immune systems. In the first world, we grow super resistant bacteria due to evolutionary pressure from our modern medical treatment. It's the first world that we should fear from a "shared biology" standpoint.
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Redux Connector – Connect to redux state from within your JSX
Tools like this have always been how Microsoft segments the highest-price "Ultimate" version of Visual Studio (or whatever MS marketing has renamed things this month).

As best I can tell there is no mention in this article of how this feature will be priced, which winds up limiting how often it will be useful simply because of availability. Let me know when this shows up in the free SKUs ("Express") or perhaps even the drug-pusher-like "Community" (first hit is free, unless/until you're making money) edition.

It is perfectly reasonable​ on their part as a company selling dev tools to do this; I just feel like I'm window-shopping, unable to actually afford the really cool bits. In my dreams I am way off base and this functionality is freely available for all now - I kind of have the feeling something similar been around for a while in the Ultimate SKU.

(Also, let me know if this ever comes to managed code.)
For those not fully aware of why; if you can get a copy of a section of the kernel stack (which should have been zeroed but wasn't) you'll get the kernel memory (which is different from user memory) addresses of function calls, data structures, etc which then allow you target where to insert your own code / data. In other words it allows you to accurately hijack kernel functions and/or compromise kernel data structures, e.g. change the owner of a kernel object, process or task. It's half of what you need to compromise the kernel (you now know where to inject code/data). The other is having a way to inject code/data.

EDIT - grammar fix.
Cheers. I might have a go at some JavaFX stuff for fun sometime (or more likely TornadoFX with kotlin).
That is peanuts compared with what other professionals have to pay for quality tools, specially if they require some kind of regular certifications.
Will this all be on a SOC? Are these plans public?

It'd be great to get some single board computers on the market based on this architecture...
But at that point, will it be too late to do anything about it?

Like most things, it depends where you are in the scheme of things.
Breakthroughs are situational. Many first tier militaries spend time thinking about urban pacification. Within those contexts, it really is a breakthrough.

Just like how stealth aircraft were a breakthrough, and also totally useless in this situation.
We also don't have the same type of deep distrust of government that some other Western countries have - which is not to say that Australians love their governments, far from it, but we don't exactly have a strong anti-government streak. In many ways this is a good thing, but it does tend to mean we don't spend much time thinking about checks and balances.
Access to all kinds of information is good. It will always be up to the individual to investigate and draw up conclusions. People who state that they can just look something up on Wiki and be knowledgeable (or gasp experts!) will have been ignorant 10 years ago, 100 years ago etc. If they wouldn't have had Wikipedia or a newspaper, they'd have had religion (or anything else) to allow feeling knowledgeable.

Also, I disagree that reading a book is a REQUIREMENT for study. It can be beneficial, but it's just another tool.

There are a lot of wrongs on this planet, unfortunately.
There were 14 year old kids releasing C64 and ZX Spectrum games.
Mortgages cause real estate to be more expensive than if everyone had to pay cash. So yes, mortgages payments are cheaper than rent. But rent would be much cheaper in a would without mortgages.
> On the other hand, there are tons of overdoses from prescribed opiates, which are legally obtained;

So what? Nothing is worse than the prison system. Literally, nothing. Risk of death by overdose does not justify shoveling people into the horrific US correctional system.

> tens of thousands of people will die every year via ingestion of legal drugs unless some kind of intervention is made to remove their access to those drugs.

Thousands of deaths per year? That's your justification for giving the prison system more chum? (500k per year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra... )

I don't mean to be emotional, but: I'm curious if you've ever known anyone who spent time in prison, and have heard their candid description of it.
and... you were on a cruise ship. had a similar experience on a cruise ship a few years back, and I don't think the feelings were entirely just 'info detox'. You're in a physically different space, probably exposed to the elements more than you normally are day to day (more sunshine, etc). You're around a whole other set of people, many of whom are more relaxed than the normally are (because many are on 'vacation' of some sort). Normal issues of food shopping, housework, etc are taken care of for you (well, those concerns are replaced with other concerns, at minimum).

So... agreed that the 'info detox' aspect is not bad, but I suspect that just doing an info detox in your 'regular life' wouldn't give you the same boost you experienced.
Yes, you're right. I was thinking of no-dividend shares and the part of the value that comes from speculating on the future price.
We've been the path to the "darkest timeline". Mark Blyth (Prof. of political economy at Brown) has been warning his hedge fund friends that that, "the Hamptons is not a defensible position. ... Eventually people will come for you."[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzl4B3mrKQE
تعرف علي المعدل الطبيعي للسكر و مرض السكر و كيفية قياسه فى المنزل
After 18 years as a (mainly contract) BA with some PM work on govt and big Corp business and/or software solution contracts, I'd had enough and did a diploma in enology and viticulture (wine making and growing). In one of my first assignments I referenced Wikipedia on malolactic fermentation and sent it in for marking.

The lecturer gave me a b+ and went on to berate me for using Wikipedia as a source that was not to be trusted. I was 42 (older than than the lecturer) at the time and had innumerable experiences of people questioning facts during my previous life because they didn't fit their narrative, and politely asked him to point me to where in the Wikipedia entry the political manipulation strayed from the science and process... He couldn't and after a phone call to confirm, my mark was bumped up.

Utter academic bs and cognitive bias clouded all judgement on his part. I was pretty pissed off he'd dismiss something before reading it, and the rest of the diploma was spent playing to what they would accept as sources.

Two years later my Pinot noir got 95/100, ironically marked (in part) by our other (more experienced and realistic) lecturer in a blind tasting.

Fuck academia and their fucking higher than thou bullshit based on nothing other than their own ego. And don't get me started on that other clusterfuck Turnitin.

/rant
I have got Samsung Galaxy Tab S3. It comes with S pen stylus. My setup involves, OneNote, Xodo (pdf reader), Squid (note taking), S Note, Termux (terminal emulation), Firefox, Office Lense etc. OneNote is perfectfor taking notes and sharing them immediately with fellow classmates in pdf format or sharing the whole notebook. There are plethora of note taking apps available in android including native Samsung app, but I have found myself fixated with the OneNote because of the reliability and desktop version of the app. I dont use android in stand alone mode, I have windows non-touch laptop which I use for fixing my notes in desktop version of OneNote as android version of OneNote lacks many essential features.

I hate the inability to copy rich text or images to clipboard inside android, otherwise Tab S3 is good to go as a slate.

If you are thinking of buying an android tablet, make sure you get a good stylus for yourself, otherwise your transition to paperless will be painful. for example you can check the features like palm rejection, pressure sensitivity, battery life, tilt support etc.. Surface devices are hailed for surface pen, but when I use them I find the pen bit heavy and big.

You can use office lense to take photos of your previous notes.

That is all ,there is to android.
At one point you stop watching TV, because there are no more new things to watch, you stop reading novels because they aren't novel anymore, you stop going to the bar because there's a fixed amount of alcohol you can consume, it costs money, the bar has opening hours.

Smartphone follows you everywhere, all the time.
I somewhat agree with your examples, except Wikipedia. It has no business being much more than a server farm and software tweaker. That's not something that needs large ongoing investment by many people.

http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/09/21/wikipedia-keeping-it-fr...
I haven't read these particular books but normally I have one "huge" CS book under progress at any time. It's usually a topic I want to know more about and get a basic fundamental understanding of, so mostly driven by the need for knowledge and the feeling that my knowledge is lacking in this area. That said, it usually takes me months to get through with one and often I already know some of the contents which I end up speed reading/skimming.
All we have now are examples like Google and Facebook.
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So what's the point of GPL if it's written in assembler?
> the code-change-reload cycle is quite fast

I work on a 20K line enterprise CLJS app. Due to incremental compilation where only recent changes need to recompile during development, each code change (meaning, saving some source files) is on average 1 second of recompilation. With the Figwheel tool, there is no manual reload required, as it automatically refreshes the browser to reflect your most recent change.
Facebook Can Absolutely Control Its Algorithm
Kids want to get high and they’re cheap?
Indeed, the SO codebase itself is not open.

And with good reason; there are already a thousand garbage UI clones of the site. It's clear that if the code was actually open that there would be a thousand garbage clones chock-full of terrible ads, but the UI would be so good people would actually use them. That would dilute the quality of SO itself, and render it all less significant.
Copyright law
I should have worded my response better. What I meant was TSPs are intractable. But the author used the word infeasible. In optimization, infeasible and intractable convey different meanings.
Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances
True, WinRT is built on COM.
Apparently the 64-bit version is under another non-commercial-only license.
Author here - opensourcing the tool we used for the last few months internally, to assist with visual checks and test automation. Under the hood, Appraise uses headless Chrome to take screenshots, so it can inspect anything that Chrome can render.

Appraise makes visual tests easy to compose and maintain, by letting people describe what they want something to look like instead of describing how to test it (eg 10 pixels left, this css color).

I'm currently working on a version that will allow running tests inside AWS Lambda, which should take care of the last mile of visual testing (so it's no longer slow).
> If we're going to be totally honest, then first, let's call social media primarily talking to your friends and family. Which is one of the most deeply and fundamentally human things you can do.

I disagree. Pre-social media, people would talk with friends and family using e-mail and programs like AIM, and there would actually be deep and meaningful conversations. This has been supplanted by social media, which is often simple banal comments on an article/rant that someone threw up for everyone to see.

If someone told you 15 years ago that people would stop having conversations by e-mail and communicate by LiveJournal posts/comments instead, it would have seemed like a hilariously terrible idea, but that's more or less where we are.
Assembly language can be reasonably structured and have comprehensive comments to name subroutines, for example. There is some value to that vs what you would get by de-assembling a binary.

Depending on the GPL, this would also ensure this OS doesn't run on restrictive platforms like iOS.
Mozilla Cliqz experiment in GER, 1% of installs, collects surf data amd URLs
TTD is a feature of WinDbg (free), not VS.
And Facebook has written a transpiler to C++, then a new language based on PHP, and a VM for it. Seems like quite an investment.

To over-simplify, Google probably just tunes the Hotspot JVM.
At this point, in the evolution of compilers, assembly does not make it faster (by means of "running faster" though it does by means of "it's harder to write, hence bloat is kept smaller")
I would say your phone in your pocket is probably 100,000 times more powerfull than computer in Apollo 13.
I’ve found and reported multiple critical bugs in .NET Native compiler.
http://stackoverflow.com/q/34187890/126995
https://github.com/Const-me/EsentSerialize/commit/ea2cc7be58...
The third one (only reported via e-mail), .NET Native fails to marshal custom COM interfaces implemented in C# classes to C++ libraries, at least on ARM for Win10 IoT.

Maybe .NET Native should produce identical results, but in practice it doesn’t always do that.
just throwing this out there. found it was not clear how to count operations for more complex algos

http://greggman.github.io/doodles/sort.html
Awful. Who are the suits that are sabotaging Mozilla's core mission? Don't they understand that Mozillas Unique Selling Point is trust? Why the hell are they fumbling the ball?
Concentration of wealth is bad because it can't protect the rich from disease? I don't understand your surprise or your point.
I use django with transactions and tests work fine. I think a transaction within a transaction is treated as a checkpoint.
Facebook does this everyday to 100% of its visitors. You can login right now to FB ads and buy insanely targeted ads based on their er' 100% legal click-data. ha
Sorry but in “serious” writing you should never cite Wikipedia. Check and cite the original sources instead; every claim on Wikipedia should have a corresponding source per their no original research policy.
Almost GPL.

MenuetOS has both 64-bit and 32-bit variants.

The 32-bit version has a fully open source kernel, the 64-bit version's kernel is closed. Light details and strong hinting of drama here: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=16822 (just found this to cite the 32/64 open/closed thing and TIL'd)

What IS interesting is that it uses flat assembler. fasm is kind of interesting. Anybody looking to play with it on Linux may find this (very) high-level/vague/rough idea of where to start helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15282073
No, it’s not just you. But that contradicts your earlier comment, which is why I found it strange:

> … it is better to use a sans-serif font for the body … because it is easier to read. I think that's more true for printed stuff than on the screen though.

It’s truer for the screen rather than the print.
The problem is not legalization, is the US society that's particularly vulnerable to addiction.
Look at EU, the situation is totally different even where drugs are legal (Holland) or addiction is treated like a disease (Portugal)

Everywhere else you don't hear about "opioid epidemic"
True, but I don't think social media addiction is as bad as addiction to tobacco, heroin etc.I will look into specific data points about the points that you have raised.
Though I have my issues with it, I'd put Meetup[1] on there. Since it's relying on fees and not advertisements, it's more focused on using the internet to get people to meet in real life and not on getting people to avoid real life to spend more time on the site.

That's the type of stuff smartphones and the web should be used for - supplements that make us have a richer real life, not addictive junk food that competes with reality.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/
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How big are you, and what are the cofounders core skills?

Getting a 500 person org setup founded by 3 lawyers would not apply to a 3 person startup founded by engineers.
There are numerous articles on the Shuttle's computers. I seem to remember the Apollo had quadruple redundancy, AND an extra backup failsafe, and lots of protection from degradation from cosmic rays, and I think the Shuttle had 5 computers too. I'm sure there's lots available, frmo NASA and other sources. https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-3.html