skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not illegal, but it is against Visa and Mastercard's rules, to levy a fee or surcharge to use a credit card. What IS illegal is to prohibit merchants from offering a discount to induce customers to pay by cash or check, which is why merchants that do so don't end up having their Visa and Mastercard contracts cancelled.
These programs were cooked up in the 1980s where many districts were unable to hire and retain teachers.

NYC was paying $10k bonuses iirc.
They also banned small 10 packs, and 7.5g pouches. This seems to really stop people from buying a small pack for a night out, at least it stopped me.

That is until you buy a larger pack and have some.left over the next day that is.
I may be wrong, but my impression is they have more than one target audience. They want to hit the whole public, but also smaller groups who are having problems like government internet censorship.
and I am not sure if it doesn't violate eu law
Style note: when crafting lists whose members include commas, a semicolon is the preferred delimiter. For example, we could amend the above to "... Virginia; Washington, D.C.; West Virginia..."
Ah, sorry, I missed that.
As others have pointed out, lots of places in underdeveloped countries don't have street names and numbers.
> I'm surprised the author forgot to consider platform architectures

That is mainly for binary distribution. Most C++ package managers currently are source-based because binary compatibility is not a easy problem(there are some package managers trying to solve it though).

> Unfortunately, it is still terribly easy to write non-portable code with C++

Yes, it easy to call into a platform-specific API, so cross-platform portability is limited by the testing resources for the package maintainer or library author.
You know, I get the point you are making, and there is some truth to it. But overblown statements like "academia is just not about science these days" totally undermine the rest of your argument. It's unfortunate that you had a bad experience, but extrapolating that to an indictment of _all of science_ seems like sour grapes. A lot of people, the majority, are doing good work. It's not the caricature you make it out to be.
Don’t forget the hard parts... self-replication, energy storage and conversion, damage sensing and repair.
This is why people don't trust the media. They make up a story out of nothing or stretch it to to a point where it has no relation to what actually happened. This article for instance is given a title and claim that bath salts are being mixed with candies but provide nothing to back it up. The video points out the drugs are being made to look like candy, not being mixed with it. They pull in two unrelated sources to drive buzz. Police found drugs in Franklin County then the reporter went to their own Sheriff for a generic candy statement. It is about 650 miles between the two counties.
Technicalities and choice of words are amazing ways to deny what isn't exactly happening here.

For example, why use the word 'recording' when the problem is accessing the microphone at all... Facebook doesn't have to 'record' to stream the audio to their server for audio recognition without 'recording' anything.

Of course all of this is just from the title of the article but the paranoid will pretty much always be able to find wiggle room.
telecom charges worldwide have little to do with bandwidth cost

https://broadbandnow.com/report/much-data-really-cost-isps/
It's only cryptic until you get used to it! I, for my part, would not want to go back to anything else after having used terse syntax for a while, even if it was not linked to the array paradigm.

Of course, the syntax requires a different way of reading/writing code. It is a bit like reading a math book versus reading a novel. In a novel, you can skim over a few sentences or paragraphs, in a math book you get lost when you do this. Personally, I think this is a feature. :)
Security operates in layers. TLS isn't the end-all, be-all for security. It's one layer that prevents a category of attack vectors. Every extra unnecessary sending or storing of sensitive data is an attack vector.
What3Words, the App That Wants to Simplify Postal Addresses
> This had morphed into an 'only in America' story for those of us outside the U.S. - we believed this happened on a regular Halloween basis in America

As an outsider I never got the impression that this actually happened/happens in America, more that this is some strange fear American's have.
Do the fans show up under lmsensors?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fan_speed_control

If so, then you should be able to control them manually.
> 10x

haha, I gave an example of numbers there's nothing quantitative to run with.

99.9999% of transactions on/involving a blockchain are not fraudulent or part of fraudulent projects.
The T470 and the X270 are both 15W.
The only way for anyone to gain financially is for these tokens to appreciate in value...

Sounds like a security.
Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore [2014]
Laptop RMAs are way more expensive since they have to swap the entire board w/CPU or reflow solder on a new chip. Can't imagine any OEM will willingly take that hit. Since these issues are well known, I'd bet AMD has to fix them; OEMs will mandate it as part of QA. Either that or they'll force AMD to eat the costs like Apple did with NVidia.
Finally laptops gets freed from 2 anemic cores. Intel will now 'suddenly be in a position' to rush reasonably priced 4 cores to the laptop market.

AMD needs to be competitive for the health of the industry and consumers. There is little doubt now Intel was holding the market back.

We have seen similar stagnation on desktops with any slight step magnified by the tech press desperate for content. And fortunately AMD have an efficient architecture with Ryzen.
Go doesn't disregard anything. It tried to parse NSS configuration, if there is no Go implementation available for the user conf it parsed, it falls back to glibc.
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Fears aside, I suspect that the larger tragedy is that Halloween treats are now mostly sugary candy and chocolate. I remember a time when there was much more variety. I also remember how quickly things changed after the first (likely unsubstantiated) scare in my community.
I think it's a meme that has carried over to k12 from stories about massive administration growth in higher ed relative to teaching staff.

It also is challenging to make apples:apples comparison between teacher and administrator salaries as the contracts are structured very diferently. That said - anecdotally, admin salaries are commonly 2x+ average teacher salaries in districts that I have had experience teaching within.
> There are millions of companies around the world that need programmers acutely and the larger ones of those need architects/experienced software engineers

List them please.
The strongest argument against torture is efficacy; torture is a shoddy tool with devastating personal and organizational consequences. You don’t even need to examine the moral or legal framework, it just doesn’t work. Arguing for torture in extreme cases is like arguing for withcraft or prayer in the same circumstances, plus the inhumanity of it.
It would not really work that way. People buy houses based on payment. If rates went up, the price would go down, but people would still compete on who can pay more each month.
If you reside in the EU they legally won't be allowed to starting next May.
Reasonable regulation, by definition, is reasonable. But absolutely nothing guarantees that the actual regulation that will be enacted will be in any way reasonable. If anything, experience suggests that the regulation will be written by people who have very shallow grasp of the topic they regulate and are driven more by misconceptions and latest headlines than rational consideration of the costs and benefits of regulation and decision taken only after benefits clearly exceed the costs. In the best case. In worst case, they'll be just acting as a proxy of some special interest trying to get some money flowing their way.

Given that, any regulation should be assumed to be horrible at the start, and only with overwhelming proof should it be deemed to be "reasonable", and even then should be under constant suspicion - since regulations tend to change, and away from public eye and scrutiny, usually not for the best.
As a OnePlus user, what can I do about this? Is there a well supported third party ROM (?) I can use?
The first part of the solution is to completely eliminate mortgage subsidies and mortgage interest deductions. These do not increase the supply of housing, they only subsidize demand for more expensive houses and increase indebtedness, and increase the flow of capital into non-productive areas of the economy such as mortgage lending and mortgage backed assets.

The second part of the solution is to convert all property taxes into Land Value Taxes, so that idle and vacant land is taxed at exactly the same rate as land containing well maintained houses. Local governments would no longer get higher payouts for zoning for high end housing, they would only get higher payouts if they raised the net desirability of all land within the borders of their city as a whole.

The land value tax would also free up vacant, idle and underutilized land for actual use and improvement, by making land unattractive as an asset for investment or speculation. This would greatly increase the competitiveness of the housing market, because if it is no longer profitable to hold onto a vacant building, a parking lot, or a strip mall in a high demand area after the carrying cost applied by the land value tax, the vacant lot might be split up and sold to smaller owner-operators, the parking lot might be replaced by several smaller town houses, and the strip mall might be replaced by a mixed used development with additional housing units builtin above the shops, increasing average quantity of housing units per city block or per area unit measure.

> How willing are banks to issue loans at the lower end?

Focusing on banks and subsidizing loans is what is fueling this problem. The solution is not to make loans easier to get, it is to drastically lower the price of land and increase the efficiency at which land is used. When the price for land is cheaper and closer to a market price rather than a monopoly price, far fewer people will have to bother with loans or mortgages in the first place. Lower end housing can be made substantially more affordable even if all mortgage assistance schemes are eliminated.
My favorite is Wix.com -- "wichsen", which is pronounced like "wixen", means "to jerk off" in german.

Also, the german car company Opel named their SUV "Pajero", which apparently translates into "wanker" in spanish.
I'd love to have the 7 row on laptops which are not that special. I did buy the T25, mind you.
I'd really like Ambri to succeed. It's not clear if the use of low cost materials for the storage chemistry will produce low system costs. The inexpensive chemistry appears to have led to expensive problems with seals/separators. Similar materials problems have kept sodium-sulfur battery costs high, even though the active storage materials are cheap, abundant, and offer good energy density.
Since the DeLorean evolved to such an iconic car, why didn't any manufacturer bought the brand and revamped the car (like VW did with Bentley or BMW with Mini and Rolls-Royce)?
That's still a bit of a non answer. More to the point: Why does a mainstream news outlet care about this small group of people?
Sure, but then it's on them rather than you.
Or rather, I would like to hear your opinion instead. Would buckaroo consider using a standard package metadata similar to what I outlined?

I believe buckaroo uses integrated builds so its likely you would need to supplement it with other information such as source files, but hopefully the core information could be reused.
The NIST's Digital Identity Guidelines are very good.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
My health improved considerably after I started using air-purifier to beat Delhi pollution woes. I take frequent breaks from the city and lock myself in when I feel pollution is bad. I live in one of the particularly worse parts of Delhi (pollution wise).

Is there a cheap way to measure air quality inside the house? Is it a job for a mini drone?

I really care about city-based air pollution, but don't know much about it.
The simple way to download and unrestrict DDL files, torrents and magnets
The regulation is going to get really bad with self-driving cars. There are so many bad things you can do with an autonomous vehicle. Regulators will demand that code must be carefully vetted by government agencies before it can be installed on any of these platforms.

Advanced robots will likely be in the same situation. The trend for drones has been foreshadowing this with more and more locking down of who is allowed to program them and what they are allowed to do.
They do record your conversation [1]

> Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fingerprint is sent to our servers to try and match it against our database of audio and TV fingerprints. By design, we do not store fingerprints from your device for any amount of time. And in any event, the fingerprints can’t be reversed into the original audio because they don’t contain enough information.

And my previous comment :[2]

> Notice how they say they do not store sound or recordings. But what if it is converted to text?

Notice below they say that the fingerprint cannot be reversed into the original audio because it doesn't contain enough information.
Text cannot be converted to the ORIGINAL audio but it can be converted to audio.

This may be just me being paranoid, but I do know that legalese is designed exactly to say something without saying everything.

[1] http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/05/a-new-optional-way-to-sh...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=foxfired
For "Show, don't Tell," Anton Chekhov summed it up best, much more succinct than your quote from the article :

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

That brief quote alone really hit me when I first read it about a year ago.

But you're right, consistent showing of everything can become tedious. Like all things the key is moderation. I find rules like this are only guides, you need to find your own voice and your own style.

But damn. The glint of light on broken glass. Brilliant.
LPDDR4 supports more than 16GB of RAM.
On the other hand, isn't quite a lot of the code in Linux kernel for the same thing, handling hardware complexity?
Delete both Facebook apps from your phone and just use it from Chrome. Haven’t had a problem since.
Okay, thanks for the context. I tried the iOS “long press/lookup...” on Biel and got a mediocre actress and a musician.
so what you are saying is that you, or the government, should be a censor and have the right to determine what information other people are allowed to consume?

that seems like a difficult ideology to defend.
The only way around this that I can think of is if you live in a state that has the wines locally, and a friend or family member wants one, you may be able to ship it to them. Personally, when it is holiday time, I have shipped wine to myself at my parent's address, so that I wouldn't have to pack it for a flight.

Is it legal? My guess it is, but only because you aren't selling it to someone. I am not a lawyer, and of course I am not your lawyer!

In doing so, I came up with some important guidelines for myself:

• ULINE has very good wine shippers, made of styrofoam (https://www.uline.com/BL_5450/Wine-Shippers) and pulp (https://www.uline.com/BL_5451/Pulp-Wine-Shippers). This was a helpful coincidence in that I already like to consume Black Blood of the Earth (from http://www.funraniumlabs.com), and Phil uses those shippers.

• Be safe, and use the shipping option that requires 21 or older delivery. Even if you're shipping it to yourself. This has the helpful side-effect of ensuring that someone is there to receive it, so it won't get left alone.

• Use 2-day shipping or better! That helps ensure that your box never sits on a truck for too long, and especially not overnight. This is very important when shipping something that is almost entirely water, during a time when much of the country is experiencing freezing weather. Or, conversely, you don't want it being exposed to too-high temperatures.
The generic-array and typenum crates solve this at the type level. nalgebra uses typenum to encode dimensions at the type level, not in memory/at runtime (unless you opt-in with the `Dynamic` marker type). RFC 2000 will ease this, but it's not impossible to do at present.
> It is worded to sound like there was kind of a major breach or votes were almost altered.

I agree with you here, the headline is over the top. I do think there is too much hype about anything Russian-related. However, I think you are misrepresenting what the article actually says. This preparatory activity seems like more than just scanning port 22. A few sentences later:

"Officials said there were some attempts to compromise networks, but most were unsuccessful. Only Illinois reported that hackers had succeeded in breaching its voter systems." And "The Wisconsin Election Commission, for example, said the state’s systems were targeted by “Russian government cyber actors.”

So the Russian government was trying to break into US election infrastructure. Does this justify the breathless coverage of the "Russia Scandal" on the news? Maybe not (but 24/7 news is always outraged about something). But does this mean the Russia thing is on the level of crop-dusting conspiracies? No, and it's wrong to suggest that.

> He said that Trump was mean to him basically.

This sentence seems a bit dishonest. Sure, Trump may have been mean to Comey. But we are talking about the President of the United States firing the head of the investigative body of the Department of Justice, not some playground bully. Comey detailed several instances where he felt Trump was pressuring him to end an investigation into members of his campaign. Trump then fired Comey when he didn't stop the investigations, and said that he was thinking about the Russian investigation when he fired him. Maybe this is mean, but there is clearly something here that should be investigated.

> Every minute or time spend on this Russia thing, is a minute not spent on seeing how to organize better politically, maybe clean up the DNC, form a new party.

These would all be good things. The biggest impact of the Russia coverage, IMO, is that it insures the Mueller investigation is carried out to its completion and Trump can't silently make it go away. We already know Trump would try to fire the leader of the investigation, he's done it once. I'm not convinced that the investigation will find anything, but there is enough evidence to justify a full investigation into the Trump campaign's Russian connections.
I don't think the world is 'highly rel[iant] on Facebook', not by a long stretch. Facebook has made its way into pockets of the world and established a firm hold there which makes it look like this to those within those pockets. For those outside - mostly consisting of people who never joined the 'social media' craze - the thought of something like Facebook being essential in some way is alien, their continued existence without any sense of marginalisation being proof of the validity of their stance. For recent Facebook (et al) survivors this is probably harder, they'll need to convince themselves they did the right thing in leaving the bubble.

If you subject the concept of Facebook to some critical thought it does become clear that those outside of the bubble have the most logical attitude: Facebook has the potential to turn its users' lives into real live "Truman shows" [1] with each user playing the role of "Truman" in their own right while their contacts - who also get to be "Truman" in turn - play the role of the supporting actors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show
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What? No. Why in the world do people even ask this kind of question. To a first approximation, the answer to "is it too late to get started with ..." question is always "no".

If no, what are the great resources for starters?

The videos / slides / assignments from here:

http://ai.berkeley.edu/home.html

This class:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

This class:

https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud...

This book:

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa...

This book:

https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...

This book:

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Machine-Learning-Python-...

These books:

http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/thinkstats.pdf

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/thinkbayes.pdf

This book:

https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Hackers-Studies-Algo...

This book:

https://www.amazon.com/Thoughtful-Machine-Learning-Test-Driv...

These subreddits:

http://artificial.reddit.com

http://machinelearning.reddit.com

http://semanticweb.reddit.com

These journals:

http://www.jmlr.org

http://www.jair.org

This site:

http://arxiv.org/corr/home/

Any tips before I get this journey going?

Depending on your maths background, you may need to refresh some math skills, or learn some new ones. The basic maths you need includes calculus (including multi-variable calc / partial derivatives), probability / statistics, and linear algebra. For a much deeper discussion of this topic, see this recent HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116379

Luckily there are tons of free resources available online for learning various maths topics. Khan Academy isn't a bad place to start if you need that. There are also tons of good videos on Youtube from Gilbert Strang, Professor Leonard, 3blue1brown, etc.

Also, check out Kaggle.com. Doing Kaggle contests can be a good way to get your feet wet.

And the various Wikipedia pages on AI/ML topics can be pretty useful as well.
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I just don't think anyone could record an analyze audio constantly without absolutely killing battery life. We're saved by the hardware.
Steve Coast, OpenStreetMap founder and what3words employee on why what3words is a good thing: https://stevecoast.com/2016/03/25/why-i-like-what3words/
$=(m*d)/E?
E=mc^2
c=d/t (distance / time)
t=$ (time is money)
E=m(d/t)^2
E=(md)/$
$=(md)/E

Thoughts?
The meaning of AMP
I'm not affiliated to map code http://www.mapcode.com/ but they also have a similar idea.

What I like about their approach is that you don't run the risk of your business having a silly sounding address.
Regardless, it’s easy enough to dump HTTPS traffic (pinned or otherwise) if you have root access to the client, which in the case of Android is not difficult to get.
Once it happened to me that Facebook has shown me under "People You May Know" a person that was on the same WiFi as I was. We had zero mutual friends and no known connection prior.
How Zoe Quinn survived Gamergate and lived to fight Internet hate