skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah much like the Apple ones. I have a copy of the code though. But seriously do not play with it....
Like Portal, World of Goo, Talos Principle? Or are those too RPG/adventurey?

Seems most people want puzzles in a context, rather than just raw?

If I go to search and put "puzzle" I get pages of puzzles and can choose a tighter genre to narrow it down. If I go to Portal 2, say, I get "more like this" (Qube looks interesting).

What's your best puzzle game?
It is not the OCR that is costly. It is the JavaScript execution to render the page so you can do the OCR. You can even increase the JavaScript execution cost if suspicious.

You will also have to automate all page variations and the traditional challenges (login, captcha, user behavior fingerprinting, ...)

At the end the development time, cost and server cost will kick you out of business if you are too dependent on the information or you start to loose money every time you scrap.
You can probably google it to find some stats, but its got to be several billions if you're including anything uploaded to fb, instagram and snapchat.
I've always found abstraction to be a double edged sword when trying to understand codebases. Sometimes it helps define the intent, but other times I'm going "WTF is this thing for real?" and tracking the abstractions through several files.

My favorite is tracking down a member function and being completely confused until I realize that I missed one of the layers and it was overridden in that instantiation.
I don't think they need to actively sabotage anything and I would not want to dwell on those lines of thinking. I think a large part of the open issues are in corner case territory or due to the freedom of users to go wild with their document layouts, creating a mess of nested frames in tables etc. Let's roll up our sleeves and fix them anyhow :) !!

Here is our meta report for MSO formats: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?i...

"depends on 1394 open bugs" - this includes all the further meta reports.
Looking at that project on github[1] I can't help but to think the algorithm need to upsample anime images (like in this project) might be different than the one needed to upsample photos. Anime has the benefit of having a lot of sections of solid colors.

Edit: Actually looking at the source further it appears they also have models for photos as part of that project in addition to the model for anime.

[1] https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
People tend to buy cars with loans or with monthly payments
Genetically speaking, we are basically still living in tribes.
Alternatively, it may reflect a non-insane accounting for the externalities of personal car-based transport.
It's non-uniform there, which is a little weird because "progressives" in the Bay Area are arguing strongly for more infill development while other "progressives" are arguing strongly against new development.

I think it's because San Francisco was "progressive" back in the 60s, which means that there's been time for the past couple generations of progressives to become entrenched NIMBY's with a vested interest in the status quo while still maintaining their "progressive" identity. It's a very weird yet oddly lovable city.
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People can still drive, though. Are you against taxes in general?
China (practically synonymous with Han ethnicity) has been shockingly racist by modern western standards for thousands of years.

And that largely stems from the fact that Han culture has been mostly stable and very successful for most of those thousands of years. They only got a blip of doubt in their total confidence of racial superiority when American-European culture suddenly lurched ahead economically within the last 200 years. White people earned temporary, grudging status as near-equals by making a colossal pile of money while building massive new empires around the world, while China was busy still being the best China that ever China'd.

The thought in the back of the Han-Chinese mind is that the success of the West is but a temporary condition, and that once the technological gap closes, China will once again be the undisputed center of the world, populated by the best, smartest, and most sophisticated people. There is almost zero self-awareness of their own racism, and barely an inkling of consideration that racism might even be bad.

China is 92% Han. The remaining 8% are largely sequestered in poor regions of the interior, like the Indian reservations in the US, so any city you are likely to visit for business or tourism will be 99.9% Han. And if you are not already Chinese, it is nigh-impossible to gain citizenship without being a full-blooded Han (tragically born into the wrong country) or by marrying a native.

So don't pin your hopes on being able to follow the money if China becomes the dominant global economy.
Yeah, I'm real curious how much that factors into things.

I think the "no mass transit" problem isn't really a real problem; most American cities don't have mass transit that is good enough for people visiting from another office to use. I've tried visiting Mountain View with and without renting a car, and it's technically possible, but I gave up on not. Buses are perfectly cromulent forms of mass transit, but tend to be too scary for visitors to use (buses can go anywhere, and it is very confusing/stressful to try to figure out if you are at the right stop and if the bus that just stopped is the right bus, when you are unfamiliar with the system).

I can see the objection to not being a hub airport from both ends. As a normal traveler, SWF is great: easy to get to, park, and navigate, not too expensive, and pretty much anywhere I'm going is one connection away.

From the perspective of a company, yeah, I can see it being a bigger negative. The VPs may not personally want to take non-direct flights, the costs might be more noticeable, and if your destinations are also second-tier airports, you're now talking probably two connections. Especially for what's supposed to be their #2 office, a hub airport may just be a hard constraint.

The upper Hudson Valley probably is too far from New York to really mooch off of its infrastructure, but the lower Hudson Valley (Peekskill, Croton Harmon) probably isn't; however, not coincidentally, you've got a lot more empty office parks in the upper HV cities you mentioned.
People who "hate politics" tend to create a lot of it.

Being politically savvy/expedient is as much about knowing how to get along with people as it is getting what you want.
Your mention of pause reminded me of this. It's a good read.

http://virtualwayfarer.com/nordic-conversations-are-differen...

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205907
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Fuchsia is permissively licensed; it definitely avoids the GPL (whether or not that is a key motivation), but is not “going proprietary”.

Now, it permits proprietary derivstives, but that's a different issue.
It'd be great if you could instead grant approval for specific search/query strings.
"little-to-no traffic"

As someone who lives in Durham and frequently commutes to Chapel Hill and Raleigh, the existing infrastructure would NOT support a big increase in commuters. During morning and afternoon rush hours, the highways are just BARELY large enough to prevent total gridlock. If you add just 10000 more cars commuting to Raleigh from Durham or Chapel Hill, you have a traffic nightmare in the making.
Yeah I was running down that walk during construction, very odd area but I guess cool if you work at one of those corpos, dig whole foods, and don't mind a lack of local character. That walk would be beautiful to run on if it weren't Houston, I am not used to that humidity!
South African table grapes are mostly farmed in... (wait for it).. a desert, in the Northern Cape, but water is ample from the Orange River that runs through it. Cape Town is some distance from that area, though.
I don't really see a problem with using taxation as a mechanism to encourage behavior while still allowing a market for it. Alcohol has a lot of negative impacts for society, so making it a luxury is probably a net good. I think the arguments around cars are a little more nuanced, but if a country decides it wants to encourage public transit & walkability, that seems like a fine goal.
In contrast to GAFAM, consider the counterexamples -- Western companies who have done well in China. Including: LinkedIn, Coursera, Evernote, Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC, Coach, Airbnb, GM, Coca-cola, Flipboard, Pocket, ... list goes on.

There's something really interesting about connecting with your customers and understanding how they use your products as opposed to assuming they are the same as your North American customers. The ones who succeed tend to do a good job on localization, not just translation but local product market fit research. (McDonalds, Starbucks, and Evernote are great examples.)
They're not excessive - they're more in line with true cost of car dependent society. In the US we shower subsidies on car owners. Some examples: using general fund money to build highways, charging low gas taxes that don't cover cost of maintenance of roads, providing free/underpriced parking in every downtown in the US, undercharging for pollution and other negative externalities of driving, requiring minimum amounts of parking in new developments (instead of capping parking quantity or letting developer choose how much to provide), qualifying infrastructure using car centric metrics like Level-of-Service, federal gov't providing automatic 10-to-1 match for highway projects but 1-to-1 (in good cases) for transit projects to name a few
Former Santa Monica resident. The problem with Santa Monica feels like the problem with Silicon Valley.

It's nice if you can afford to live there, but current residents seem hell-bent on blocking new housing.

In particular I'm thinking of the Bergamot Transit Village [1], a proposed mixed-use project that spent years in limbo. Current residents complained about traffic impact.

Eventually, the developers gave up and turned it all into office space, which has a similar traffic impact, but didn't involve the same level of scrutiny.

[1] https://la.curbed.com/2015/1/9/10003866/developer-giving-up-...
uploaded an image—says ETA 22 minutes! I guess I have to wait until the machine finishes dreaming all the missing details...
I was even daring enough to install the superb Google keyboard on the iPhone but only because they explicitly repeatedly say that they do not send my data home. if they ever do Google is dead!

Speaking of: Why does Siri (mother of all bitches) thinks she needs my GPS in order to tell me the weather??
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Some people do stuff just because they can. Some because of bad day and some because of thinking those doors are always open so just drive without paying attention.
So do employees of companies: income tax and sales tax and property tax. Even if Amazon gets a fairly large tax break, but net effect is overwhelmingly positive. The main downside of increased local wealth is higher overall prices and gentrification, which isn’t an entirely bad thing as long as it’s at reasonable levels. So all these new residents come to Philly or wherever, drive up rent prices. That means the local Philadelphia landlords become wealthier. I hate high rent prices, but I feel like this is a net benefit to both local residents and newcomers who come for the job.
You aren't considering the context, such as infrastructure costs, environmental costs, etc.

See Chesterton's fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
I disagree. When talking about things you don't need to go out of your way to indicate you are the same as 99% of the group you are in. It is assumed. You need to go out of your way to indicate when you are NOT like 99% of the group.

and the fact that it's for the switch doesn't make one automatically assume it's part of the visual programming group because most of the switch games were probably programmed with text based languages.
.doc is more stable, but it's also much more onerous to be fully compatible with. .docx was at least designed as a reasonably modern, rational document format with a specification. .doc by contrast evolved from generations of MS Word that for efficiency saved files by doing raw dumps of internal data structures as binary blobs, which got more and more complicated as things accreted over the years and versions. And there was no public documentation of the very complex binary format until 2008. Joel Spolsky has some on that here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
Many countries are similarly bad, yet still have cars; Singapore and Hong Kong for example, which are otherwise libertarian paradises. They tend to have excellent public transportation, however.

There are also still cars in Denmark (no problem seeing them when I visited Aarhus), just not as many as in the states.
The code in question (had to wget from the github referenced below - I'd rather not visit the domain OP posted at work):

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"></head><body><script>

const a=[];

while(true)
{
a.push(42);
}

</script></body></html>
If 180% is excessive, then Singapore begs to disagree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki51vh6ihJs

Anyway, I don't think it's a ban. There are literally cars in Singapore :) If you think a regular sedan is worth >$100k (it's normal in Singapore), you can buy it. But make sure you pay for the externalities (traffic, pollution, parking, road-building, ...) that is caused by your choice.
People will buy kitty's, borrow against them and use funds to buy more kitty's building a leverage position on Kitty's.
Your definition of intelligence is quite unorthodox and so is idea that brilliance somehow excludes suicide or risk taking or over confidence - all things that can make you loose big time.

Hitler ability to speak was not luck. It was work, skill and talent. And world did not just spontaneously arranged itself for them to get power, Hitler took a lot of calculated deeps to make it so, it is not like he was only one trying to get that power. Saying that it was nothing but luck is ahistorical. Not that it makes him any less immoral.
For one problem it's a regressive tax, unless they carve out means based exceptions that means it puts transit for some rural people out of reach.
I don't get it. This is just a link to another attempt to explain the facetiousness of another comment which was itself also downvoted. Why don't we downvote facetious comments instead of the comments that try to redeem them?
I know right??? Ive been using samsung dex as my primary computer for video editing and web design ive been craving a desktop version of some windows programs tho haha
Once you understand the basics of Docker, which is containers, then look at Kubernetes. One place you might start is with spinning up a single VM with RancherOS.
The OOXML specification is over 5K pages long. Even Microsoft's own online products do not implement it entirely. One should not be surprised that outside parties may face challenges achieving 100% implementation and interoperability.
Personally I'd want something more graceful like halting JS execution on the page and some sort of message...

When I was a teen I rudely tricked a friend to load an infinite alert() page, forcing them to kill their browser and lose some state. These days browsers don't let alerts block switching tabs or closing the offending tab, and with too frequent alerts you can check a box to block any more. It's better.
God technology sucks nowadays.
Well, John Kerry had a privileged upbringing and always gives out a 'smart' vibe. But he did worse academically than Bush.
London and Paris also have large streets made for cars, and also has lots of streets that are empty at night. Even the Champs Elysées and Oxford St will be empty at certain times during the week.
I'm not the OP but I assume "laws that would make hiring difficult" include laws that would shock the conscience of the sort of people you would want to hire if you were Amazon, not to mention the existing employees. Bathroom laws, etc.
Cool ! Thanks for your vagrant setup I will have a look and maybe make a video out ot it :)

Btw this is my utube channel of tutorials for ethereum / blockchain development:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZM8XQjNOyG2ElPpEUtNasA
Have Microsoft completely solved compatibility between different/same versions of MS Office now?
I am not from the south but I believe I understand your feeling and I certainly respect your desire to improve your homeland.

On the other hand as an American that is from the rural northwest I was shocked by the overt racism I witnessed in the south. I am sure improvements have been made but the south still has a long way to go.
I obviously don't know where you live, but it sounds crazy to people in the US because in most of the US public transportation an bicycle infrastructure is not where it needs to be to make them viable for daily life. In places where public transportation is better (like say NYC), car ownership is the exception rather than the rule.

The reality is cars have a massive public cost that we all subsidize via various taxes and paying higher prices for goods already. Keeping up roads, traffic signals, parking structures, etc. is very expensive. Higher taxes on vehicles (and/or gas) helps put the cost directly where it belongs.

Obviously instantly going to 100% tax on vehicles in most of the US would be a complete disaster right now because of the above lack of public transportation, etc. but it's not a crazy idea if you give people alternate means to get around and structure your cities so that 1 hour (or longer) commutes via car are not the norm.
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Your assumption is that GPS is required to know where you are. But each cell tower has a well known physical address and your phone connects to multiple towers making it trivial to triangulate your location. Much less exact than GPS and highly dependent on cell density, etc.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC...

But even just the connection cell tower number is enough to determine whether or not you're at home or work.
I think it would be hard for us to understand each other, but I can respect that you very feel differently about cities.
Do you have examples or references for the types of charismatic speech and creative metaphors you used?
Peeved by price gouging and shortages, hospitals will now make their own drugs
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I don't really know much about hacking but i followed my guts on Ross and he did beyond my expectations, got me info on my cheating wife's social media accounts after hacking her phone with deleted text messages and provided me full access to her mail. Thanks to him for curing me of 4 years deceit. I'm still going to sue her. She doesn't know whats coming for her. Anyway, you can find out about your spouse by contacting him (rosswilly@cyberservices.com). Thank me later.
I started as a kid with BASIC on an Apple II, went on to get a computer science degree, and worked as a developer for 22 years before becoming a teacher. The limitations of BASIC actually created a desire in me to learn better languages like Pascal.
My bad, you are right.
While the article provides a basic definition of various types of pricing tactics/strategies, it doesn't address important questions such as which pricing strategies work best for which types of markets and products, and what kind of marketing/sales is required to support the choosen strategy.

The best book I'm aware of on the topic is Nagle, but it's getting dated and is focused on older B2B business models. If anyone had recommendations for a more recent book on the topic, I'd love to hear it.
I can empathize with this. It's a tough thing.

However, the main purposes of communication are to connect with the listeners and to convey information to them.

Speaking in a way that is hard for them to understand makes the communication less effective at both of those things.

The best communicators make a deliberate effort to connect with the other participants and adjust the message such that it makes as much sense as possible to them. This can take a lot of practice and empathy to do well.
Or GW-BASIC, for people and computers of a certain age.
Companies don't have constitutional rights nor obligations. If wrong, please correct me on this.

As it is private property, it is free to set its own rules, even if those rules impede on my free speech. If Facebook was a government, it could not make those rules as per first amendment.

You can still sue of course.

Look, I feel AI-powered surveillance is scary, and think China is going too far (perhaps showing us a glimpse of the future) in this. But where it is state-run surveillance in China, it is capitalist-run surveillance in the West. That Europe needs to step up and protect its inhabitants is a sign of what happens if you give companies free reign in handling (private) data: A big privacy mess.
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I wouldn’t be so sure of that. My parents, who are both in their 60s and not the least bit affiliated with technology, are both aware of Amazon’s headquarters search and brought it up with me when I was visiting over the holidays.
People drive. A lot. It’s just widely accepted that this is what a car costs.

The main problem I see with a high tax is that people might circumvent it (illegal imports etc).

An interesting effect of these high taxes is that you can very “cheaply” subsidize EVs now. It’s lost revenue so it’s still a cost - but it’s easier to swallow and administer.

Just tax them at 10% instead of 100% and a Tesla Model S is immediately competitive with all the boring ICE vehicles. Look at how Tesla is the most sold car in Norway.
I wonder how long it will be before someone comes up with the idea of using iPhone style facial recognition to tell whether a human is looking at the TV/Monitor or not.
> Singapore and Hong Kong for example, which are otherwise libertarian paradises.

Wait, what?

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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/hong-kongs-bus...
Possibly, very possibly you're wrong. You're operating on superficial impression and comparing that to people who know him?

Part of the reason he is blamed for stupid decisions is that he never sloughed off responsibility. (Unlike some certain other recent presidents and president wanna-bes)
To answer your question, I haven't met anyone in Cape Town who takes a WC secession seriously. There is a very small political party that advocates for it, be its treated as one of the joke parties.
Really great idea. The USA needs this badly - even for people currently in government.
I think for the cost, a RasPi is always a nice board to tinker with. And having a bunch of MicroSD cards to experiments makes it easy to test multiple scenarios easily.
People feel that leaders they can relate to are more likely to take their interests seriously.
Maybe PoS will accept crypto kitties
Even if your site isn't for emerging markets, you still care about performance
actually I'm pretty sure it in Europe it is illegal. thanks for pointing it out.
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