skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is correct. I'm measuring scrolling at low to medium speeds, where the majority of the text hasn't changed (this also corresponds to most editing tasks). I don't want to make the claim that I'm keeping up when scrolling at very high speeds. I think my assumptions are reasonable for an editor, but for a terminal scrolling at high speed is much more common. I have certainly considered fast-pathing monospaced font rendering (it would certainly be easy in the current architecture, and in fact we're doing that for the gutter numbers), but it hasn't seemed absolutely necessary, and going forward I want to make sure that rich text and i18n aren't treated as second class wrt code.
Name 1 that has used that capital to achieve over 10$ million in profit per year.
I'm not sure you can say that definitively based on that article. From the article:

> By looking at crime rates within the two complexes and in Manhattan’s 13th Precinct, which encircles them, two researchers said that their statistical calculations showed no persuasive evidence that the installation of cameras reduced the crime rate in Peter Cooper Village from 2002 to 2006. However, there was stronger evidence for a drop in minor crime at Stuyvesant Town.

They're look at whether or not the crime rate within two complexes in Manhattan have gone down after cameras were installed. In on they didn't seem to, and in the other it seems that they might have. This doesn't seem that surprising; it seems it would be far more likely that a criminal would commit a crime in the same city than it is that they would commit a crime in the same building.
I wish there was a collection of these.
I like D. I learned all the things in D I could never really understand when I tried to learn about them in C and C++. Things like pointers, structs, unions the different sizes of types and other things. It's the first language that really made me appreciate why static typing and memory management are useful and why you can do things in a lower level language you can't do in a higher level one. But i also found the syntax fairly easy to pick up, I could never really wrap my head around C++'s weirdness, and my little bit of C knowledge made it fairly easy to begin learning more complicated aspects of the language. I have to admit some parts of it confuse me a bit. I still don't fully understand Templates and ranges but i've used them a little bit and can see why they're useful. I like the dub build system and code repository and definitely prefer imports to #include.

As far as a lack of ide's goes. There isn't many. I like dlang ide. It has everything I need, though it can be kind of buggy. I also don't mind Vim with dlang plugins. But I don't think they can compare to large established ides for other languages.

I can also understand why it doesn't really pick up for large projects the way c++ is.

There isn't much in the way of libraries, there is no tutorials or help aimed towards beginner programmers, which is too bad because I think D is way better for beginners than Java or C, it teaches the same important concepts as both languages while providing a fairly strict compile time checking and a far less ridiculous syntax than java. With the option to not have to learn OOP stuff until you understand basic programming. It also makes it a lot harder to shoot yourself in the face the way C does.

The standard library docs and most other documentation I've seen for D is fairly technical and not very inviting even for non beginners. Most libraries have little to no documentation and many haven't been maintained.

The only real, understandable learning resource I could find is:

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/

Which is a great book, but also nearly the only readily available one to learn from.

It is too bad because there are definitely lots of benefits to C++ it's just they're not quite worth the tradeoffs.
It was pretty hard to do viz on the web 13 years ago. In 2006 I made a web tool to turn regular expressions into NFAs and DFAs and animate their states as you typed. It took a lot of code (drawing and animating along beziers, AJAX to a server for graphviz and a regex compilation and minimization package I wrote for this). https://imgur.com/gallery/Yqqoh

These days there’s a lot more tooling and components that can snap together to make this kind of thing.
I think this also blows apart some nascent theories regarding toxoplasmosis.
Russians/East Europeans are more visible for their high tech/cheap talent.
When I tell my friends that their startup idea is very complex, they say "I'll hire a Russian developer, pretty sure he will figure out something". Sorry, I've not seen them using China in the same context.
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I won't argue that Oracle isn't optimized to meet and take advantage of public institutional procurement policies but if you've ever seen one of Oracle's offerings, it's easy to surpass their quality and given their rates, trivial to come in cheaper.

My mom was an instructor with the community college system in Colorado and about ten years back they rolled out an Oracle based-and-delivered student enrollment product that failed during its first enrollment after being deployed because it had been set up to only allow 100 concurrent connections to the state-wide persistence solution. Oracle was of course 'earning' something like $90,000 every day the outage continued despite it being their own direct fault.

I can't stress enough how incompetent or over-priced Oracle solutions are for pretty much anyone.
Crime has been dropping for the last few thousand years. Saying this or that small change is responsible for a recent drop is unlikely to be true.
Well done sleuthing!
these numbers seem wildly inaccurate
Allowing people to put in-law units in their backyard seems like a good move in the short term (to increase supply), but also seems like it might cause problems in the long term: NIMBYs are then _even more_ incentivized to prevent new housing because they're making a killing off the overpriced shipping container in their backyard.
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That is the most important question which all these ICOs and tokens can't answer. If they can't be used for anything useful or provide very value that means their price is just a bubble led by naive investors and speculators/scammers.
So if I have been making $300+k as a FE engineer at a big co, I should be charging $1200 / hr as a contractor?
Photoshop has it for ages; even bought the original research.
Does one thing and does it well
Not sure why you are being downvoted because you are right. In addition to income tax, you have to pay the full payroll tax rather than half if you are a full-time employee. Then there is business insurance, workers comp, healthcare, and any other benefits you take for granted as a full-time employee.
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Cool idea!

I'm not sure I could use it. The paranoid part of me will always imagine it copying 'rm -rf /' and me accidentally pasting that into a terminal one day
Allied to the 'profit' reason is that there is nobody strong enough to force a low-enough price for services.

Countries with single-payer health schemes usually have the government being both the payer and the designator of service-providers. If your price is too high, then you have several options:

Drop your price to be in line with the single-payer's payment level.

Lose your designation as a recognized service-provider if you're not going to drop your price. In effect, that takes you out of the common level and into the 'specialized' level of services because you can't compete with other service-providers on price.

Leave the industry altogether.
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Seam carving is also slow and doesn't work well for stretching images beyond around 50%. Moreover, computing optimal sequence of carving steps using dynamic programming for large images is not practical.
What makes you think they would be able to do anything about it. Assume they're above average in technical competence: so what? Whatever makes you think technical competence has anything to do with any of this?
My old workplace had an alarm we would set at closing time when we left. I was a contact on the list of people to be called when it went off. It went off maybe 10 times while I was there, every time was a false alarm. Sometimes kids bouncing a ball against the window, sometimes strong winds, sometimes a poster falling off the wall...
I just don't understand why public works should ever go outside of the local economy, globalisation or not. I don't just want my tax dollars to give me a new thing, I want that new thing to be built in my state. If we don't have the skillset then let that money stimulate growth there.

Recently our government outsourced some naval ship building outside the country at the last moment after having expressed they were going to have them locally built. The reason for the switch was cost. To shave a million or two off the price of a many hundred million dollar project they decided to completely remove our local economy from the benefactors.

Private projects? Do what you like. Global times. But a governments role is to grow the economy and welfare of its people, public works are excellent ways to stimulate that.
Your "contextualizing" of mass rapes of civilians is apologetic -- and thinly-veiled, at that.

It's no less sickening as the contextualizing that Nazis tend to do when someone talks about the Holocaust.
It was closed source when it was gaining mindshare. So they missed the boat
That's a reasonable cost for building a decent quality single story brick-and-tile house in Perth, Australia.

Here's one of a similar size for $190k: https://media.dalealcock.com.au/deals1/
Time to write an iOS app and make millions?
Send someone important: “You got here for your stay in ADX Florence... and we didn’t even have to extradite, torture, or rendition you to get you here! What a guy!”

Send someone not important: “You know what? I’m glad I forgot how to light my liquid-based shoe bombs that need exactly 101ml of fluid to blow a fatal hole in a plane. The inflight meal was much better than I thought it would be. I mean it wasn’t great but it was not horrible either. When I got off the plane, There were infidels and uhhh there was security and umm stuff. I didn’t take any pictures because there was a sign that said I shouldn’t. It was easy to find which suitcase was mine because of the rainbow colored strap my niece chose for me to put on it. What do you think of the mouse ears I got you from Disneyland? ...boss?”
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Flights in the Western U.S. May Get Delayed by Massive Military GPS Blackout
You either shrink picture horizontally by one pixel or vertically by one pixel; seams must be 8-connected and always advance by 1 pixel in the opposite direction to the one being removed. It's a heuristics and by making it that way you can guarantee exactness of 1px removal.

These days it's a popular algorithm to be implemented as a midterm project in computational photography courses at top schools.
Most important question - is it profitable?

My experience was that Chinese companies are loth to pay for anything, let alone software (and let alone EHS software).

Also, I'm more interested in hearing about Fight Club Politique.
unfortunately the number of points I can give this is throttled
Nye is an entertainer, not a scientist.

The author of the paper is blinded by one-sided political views.

The whole thing is a farce.
For the cost of construction or the land itself? The post is from November 2016, which could explain inaccuracies in the latter.
From what I know they seem in the ballpark to me. Los Altos especially is one of the more higher end, expensive areas in SV.
Seriously, who the fuck gives funding to this bozos!!! Haven't they ever heard about liability?

Who the fuck is going to turn out responsible the day when (not if) one of their customers decides to take a serving of shotgun shell for breakfast? This happen to licenced psycotherapist and psyquiatrists, not all the time, but often enought that there are rules and procedures to deal with it. When a professional human is involved there are criteria to tell appart the unavoidable tragedies from malpractice cases.
That's not how auctions work. Let's say A owns advertising business X and shopping business Y. Now, if B who only owns shopping business Z will be paying their competitors. If A bids higher, money still flows black to them regardless of the profit/loss. But Z is forced to bid much higher to get any traffic! This can be used to inflate the price to any level. Sure, others can also inflate the prices but if you try that then the money goes to A and you lose that money but it's not true for A. In this Google operates like A.

Edit: Google has lot more data about a visitor and which enables them to predict more. So, they can sell their competitors (in shopping business) the impressions which never convert while selling the impressions which are highly likely to convert to their own shopping business.
> Crunchbase says they were acquired by Yahoo. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kelkoo

The information is on the crunchbase page you linked. You need to click on View All in the news section.

Nov 25, 2008: Kelkoo: ZD Net — Yahoo sells shopping site Kelkoo | ZDNet

links to: http://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-sells-shopping-site-kelko...
This is both untrue – maybe they don’t check 100% but everyone who put something on that list is going to notice if you leave their needs unmet – and it doesn’t matter unless you know which things won’t be checked. Otherwise you have liability for not delivering, which probably means you take on the same level of complexity as requested even if much of that effort is wasted or counterproductive.
I agree that this is a good move by Red Hat to position themselves with rkt and Quay ahead of Docker going to Microsoft (who will pay a premium to try to put this genie back into the bottle)

Given their self-inflicted XHR debacle that dethroned Office, I just don't see Microsoft passing up this opportunity.

Google, on the other hand, doesn't need Docker to plug any holes in their go to market unless it's a blocking play. However, Docker is already cozy with Microsoft, so I don't see a Google acquisition going anywhere.
The author of alacritty suggests that there's an IPC performance issue with tmux/nvim on macOS: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty#faq
Rich white people tend to ask the question, "How can we stop the crime?"

Poor black people tend to ask the question, "Why do they keep us at the end of our rope?"

And never the twain shall meet.
From your link:

> The labor deals negotiated between the unions and construction companies also ensure that workers are well paid. The agreement for Local 147, the union for the famed “sandhogs” who dig the tunnels, includes a pay rate for most members of $111 per hour in salary and benefits. The pay doubles for overtime or Sunday work, which is common in transit construction. Weekend overtime pays quadruple — more than $400 per hour.

Wow. Seems like programming isn't a good field if you're in it for the money. The base pay may not be far off if you're a big shot superstar in a small market or normal in SV, but which of us gets 4x salary for weekend hours?
Fixated on what? That sentence was half of your comment.

> If you say something like "on average men are stronger than women" and they get offended, then YOU are the problem. You are a poor communicator. No one says things like that unless they are trying to make a point. What is the point you are trying to make? Are you saying men are therefore better at some activity that strength is involved in?

You're misunderstanding the nature of the sentiment. It's silly and provocative to go around saying "Hey did you know African descendants statistically make better runners?" or "Hey did you know women are weaker than men?", for the same reasons you listed.

But scientists who make statistically valid claims like this are often lambasted, and while some of them (Watson) are trying to use these discoveries to strengthen their biases, many more are not.

And there are useful things to come out of this. For example, the notion that women tend to be more emotional than men. Or, put in another way, that men tend to be more emotionally reserved than women.

We could ignore this fact, or we could call it toxic masculinity, or we could actually take it into consideration when dealing with people we don't know well by making statistical assumptions that guide our behavior. We could have more positive intersexual interactions keeping in mind the statistical strengths and weaknesses of each gender, and not agitating or playing into them.

> They are getting offended at the WAY you "teach" them . . . Perhaps, linking pages to wikipedia, as if they've never heard of "ad hominem" or something . . . That's why you offend people. Not cuz the facts are right, but because the messenger is a prick

I didn't link to Wikipedia, I provided a relevant context. Because people who truly understand Ad Hominem and its dangers are careful not to fall into that trap. But you did, and you are doing so again several times with the above quote. I'm not being a prick at all by pointing out your logical fallacy, even if it makes you feel embarrassed or momentarily ignorant. Being corrected is the price we pay for engaging in these discussions, and the one doing the correcting is not a prick for doing so.

Orthogonal to the matter at hand, I have indeed taken on a certain negative attitude towards you in my arguments because you started off the thread by attacking my character and insulting me, accusing me of doing something I never claimed to do. This conversation started off on the wrong foot and if you had wanted me to be nicer, you should not have begun by dishing out an Ad Hominem.

The entire position of my discussion in this overall thread has been one of rational conservatism, I've even spoken against extremism, so to imply that I am being extremist in such a way that you can back out if you need to and claim that I misunderstood you is only furthering to create animosity in this discussion.
Thank you for the insight. Can you elaborate bit more why people are not interested for good reason ?

I have an MS degree but all jobs outside need like 20years of experience for manager
In 2008, Apple wasn't exactly struggling. The iPod reached its peak in December 2008, the iPhone had just been released and it had a market cap of $500 billion.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/02/apple-inc-valuati...
Oh wow, this brings back memories. I almost wonder if you're the person who sponsored my senior design project.

We were given something almost identical to this, and the customer wanted a control algorithm. I had taken control theory, but there were two problems:

1. A lot of undergrad control theory assumes linear systems.

2. They almost always give you the transfer function.

Our system was likely nonlinear and we had no transfer function.

For simple physical systems, you can use basic physics to derive it. For anything else, figuring out the transfer function is a whole course in itself. I went to the control theory professor and asked for tips and he said "Forget it, it's way beyond the scope of a senior design project. I have students who do it for their MS project". Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the course's professor, and my grade suffered.

Oh well, you learn more in failure and all...
We use nanopb on embedded devices; it's quite small & efficient. No real complaints.
No. They are getting tripped up in their numerous lies.

Last time this happened, the story simply disappeared from the media altogether. Expect that to happen here too.
Yes indeed. I know a couple of Oracle salespeople, and they appear to be pushing it hard - they were giving insane incentive bonuses for selling cloud subscription signups until recently. Not sure that they're really making inroads though.
The bourgeoisie are what Lenin called 'Useful idiots' and in that regard, the Guardian writers perform a role. If your reason to hate the guardian is that they vest ownership in a non-profit which uses tax minimisation, you've driven to a very specific corner.

Your root cause argument I suspect is true: because I value the editorial message I overlook the flaws. In this regard, the News Ltd and Guardian are the same thing: they are newspapers. But, my root position also remains. I chose to give one money and not the other. I should just be more open to the reality behind that decision. The only person I am fooling, is probably myself.
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Same here, and I was called a reptilian flat eaether or something to that effect.

I'll never be shamed out of questioning clear nonsense.
PowerPC has addis (add immediate shifted) though, which as it implies, shifts the immediate value 16bits to the left before the add. In this worst case, you can add any arbitrary 32bit value to any register with two opcodes.

So, is it the case that with ARM, you _may_ be able to do the same add in one op, but it's worst case appears to be 4 ops for the full range of immediate values?
I wrote a GUI for another seam carving library back in 2009[1], and it looks like although in archive mode, you can still access the source as well as the windows / mac binaries. Just tested it and it still works!

Not as fancy as photoshop I'm sure, but does have the ability to paint a mask of regions to keep / remove to aid the algorithm and get the desired result. Multi-threaded too!

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/seam-carving-gui/
I'm writing this comment with it now. I use it as my daily driver on my home machine when running in Windows (FF when booted in to Linux). I use Chrome at work because of integrations we have with Chrome.

I'm pretty happy with it. I do notice some sites are wonky in it compared to Chrome, most notably medium. However I don't visit those sites very often and when I do if it becomes an issue I just open it in Chrome and then come back to Brave. I have it set as my default browser and there is a notable lag when clicking a link in Slack or another non-browser app for the tab to open in Brave. A minor annoyance but not really an issue for me.

I'm content with it.
> When I think of user-facing hash tables, I think that the keys must respect object equality (and sometimes equality can be implemented with identity, for singletons).

It's hard to respect object equality when the language itself doesn't have consistent notions of what equality actually is.
It has diminishing returns on the amount of work you get out of each hash, so if you wanted to support millions or billions of transactions per second (world scale) it would become impossible to sustain.
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> there's a good chance their local bank branch won't be happy if he's receiving a wire transfer of $1M

Eh. If I'm Joe Average cashing out my 100 bitcoin in your situation, I call my bank manager a few days ahead, telling him to expect a wire transfer along those lines.

I think the risk on such transactions is _far and away_ "will your exchange honor the cash out?", "how long will it take?" (up to 12 weeks for some exchanges) "will there be onerous restrictions on cash out limits?" (this example would be 100 consecutive days of $10K transfers) - much more so than "Will Chase Bank NA be happy to accept a wire transfer from Scotiabank BVI?"
After the robot and the inflatable blimp die, future archeologists will be able to show that the Ancient Egyptians invented WiFi and discovered Helium, but not entirely able to explain how Horus used them to convey kings to the afterlife.

Is the soul carried in the blimp, or dragged by the robot?
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