skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just line breaking that makes LaTeX beautiful. It's also space placing too.

Sometimes you can adjust the distance between letters in a word or distance between words to not break to many lines.

The algorithm is similar.

The algorithms do find the best breakage but as you can see, there's no need to look for good enough, there's already a nice n log n solution.

These algorithms work so well that then you get the problem of rivers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

The reason why efficient DP algorithms exist is because the evaluation function you're trying to minimize is decomposable over the decisions (of where to put a line break). Rivers on the other hand can be optimally evaluated only after you've put your spaces and breaks.

Similar issues are encountered in machine learning for sequence tagging or natural language parsing, where the loss function does not always decompose over sequence of decisions. The statistical models used there (that replace Viterbi-like DP algorithm) try to compensate by reinforcement learning or decomposition tricks. It works quite well.
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I have 4 kids, two of which are at an age where they just throw ALL their money at these damned games. The other two will hit that stage soon enough.

In my mind these games are no better than poker/slot machines. Adults should be responsible for themselves but kids can't be held to the same standard. So just one more thing I have to police.

This system is a rotten, rotten idea.
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> But it's either them being sued or ISPs being ordered to block the website.

Sued by whom? Afaik gutenberg.org is registered in California, no German jurisdiction, the cease&desist orders usually used to shut something like this down don't apply here.

Same deal with ISPs: Afaik there's no legal framework to support anything like that, it's for exactly that reason why law firms like Waldorf and Frommer uses cease&desist letters to pretty much blackmail people into stopping the "distribution", it's all based on civil action.
I'm sure it's not difficult if you're in SA, it was hard from Australia, because quite a few of those ecommerce sites won't take international cards (to protect against fraud).

We got there in the end.
Chromecasts can't be set up on Amazon devices such as the Kindle Fire, because Google prohibits Google Apps from being installed on Android forks. Therefore, Google was refusing to permit compatibility, functionally, with Amazon's devices. It appears that Amazon attempted to negotiate with Google over compatibility issues, and didn't get anywhere, and hence, chose to not sell devices which were intentionally blocked from being used with their tablets. (And of course, they did similar with Apple TV for the same reason.)

There's no technical reason Chromecasts can't be set up by Kindle Fire devices, it's an intentionally-implemented block by Google.
But they are not publishing content in Germany? German citizens are contacting and downloading content hosted in US servers, aren't they? This is like saying HN is publishing in Spain and has to obey Spanish laws just because I'm connecting from here.
> "Because the German Court has overstepped its jurisdiction, and allowed the world's largest publishing group to bully Project Gutenberg for these 18 books, there is every reason to think that this will keep happening"

Why do German courts think they can overstep jurisdictions?
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Thanks :) It's less geared towards censorship and more toward keeping potentially malicious users at bay for example preventing credit card fraud, preventing users from signing up for multiple free trials that kind of thing.
That's weird. A couple of days ago their comment was visible fine, and they only have one comment.
> (From the article) Our brains reason better with causes, rather than with numbers. In variation B, the idea that Ones are more prone to the disease is a cause we can latch on to, and it helps us discount the results of the ethnicity test as we should.

The fact that variations A and B both have the same answer means that the likelihood of Ones having the disease is irrelevant to the problem statement. It's really funny that "Ones are more prone to the disease" in variation B is supposed to help us intuit the correct conclusion when it's not actually relevant information.

Writing the math out shows that P(disease=True) does indeed drop out of the P(identity=Two | disease=True, ethnicity-test=Two) calculation.

Edit: Adjust quote formatting.
And may I add that he STARTS THE EMAIL with this (the point):

"I'm upset, because I expect better quality control. In fact, I expect some qualitty [sic.] control, and this piece-of-shit driver has clearly seen none at all."

Then he goes to describe the details to prove his point.

He is _upset_. That's a feeling, you know. Then he calls the patch shit. So there is a guy who gets pissed off and calls code shit once in a while. Maybe he has Tourette's, we don't know. Why do you actually care? Why are you so sensitive exactly?

Oh yeah, and I think he has been wrong in my opinion on many topics. I don't think he's god. But LET HIM BE HUMAN!
Tcl/Tk/SQLite, obv
Alexa can control Nest, yes: https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-and-Amazon-Alexa. That skill would be hard to get rid of, unless Amazon explicitly forbade access to Nest APIs.
Can you unpack their explanation of [5]? It rings false to me, because I think it's based on a false assumption of the distribution of baseball weights. I think their assumptions are that both the weights of the total ball and weight of the core follow normal distributions, but after showing that the cores do not, they continue to assume that the weight of the whole balls does. This feels like one of the classic critiques of frequentist statistics, where effect size gets conflated with sample size.

Worse, shouldn't we presume that there is a (strong) quality control step, which eliminates the tails of the distribution for overly heavy and overly light balls, but perhaps not for heavy and light cores? Which means that our assumptions that both the cores and balls follow the same normal distribution for ball weight is wrong from the start, and thus the notion of "statistically significant" shouldn't depend on total weight of the ball.

That is to say, I think the evidence is just as strong that the cores are .5 g lighter as that the balls are .5 g lighter, but it's just a quirk of p-value and our (known-to-be-false0 assumptions of normal distribution that make one conclusion "significant" and the other "not significant". They did find that the balls were .5 g lighter, right?
"Sure you can point to a couple of ‘bad apples’" - Literally every female colleague I know well enough to be comfortable talking about it has encountered more than a couple "bad apples".
Are these idiomatic perl 5 programmers, or programmers converting it to their language of choice? And if the second, would it have been any easier going from Lisp or Haskell to Python, Go or whatever?

Point being that translating from unfamiliar syntax to familiar is always a challenge.
While Sony's sensor technology has been great, until last year there were significant issues with the full frame camera line up that prevented many people from switching: poor battery life, difficult controls (no joystick for moving focus point), slightly worse colors, complex menu system, not great autofocus using adapted lenses, small range of native E-mount lenses.

This changed with the A9, then A7R III and now the A7 III, and the Sony lens range has really improved. While the configuration is still a bother e.g. setting up eye autofocus (eye-AF), the other issues have been addressed. Weather sealing is below the competitors.

The A7 III represents tremendous value compared to the competition, I think it will shift people to Sony — I switched to Sony after 12 years of shooting Canon DSLRs and quite an investment in Canon 'L' glass.

At the same retail price the Canon 6D Mark II is an embarrassment compared to the A7 III. The A7 III is probably better than the Canon 5D Mark IV, retailing at 1/2 the price.

Now, the camera itself doesn't make you a great photographer, but if you are parting with that kind of money you want a tool that helps you, and the Sony is very impressive. Eye-AF speed and accuracy alone has breathed new life into my Canon lenses and allowed me to get shots that I would have missed with my Canon bodies.
"Verlag" is just the German word for publishing house.
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I'm all for letting people do their thing and try different approaches.

But honestly to me it seems the elm community wants to have their cake and eat it too. Of course that is not a trait unique to them.

As somebody not involved with elm I mostly get to hear about the language from the marketing side. And it does get advocated as production ready (or as least as production ready as anthingthing else in the js world, to paraphrase some talk) and the alpha status, it being still a young language and use in production at own risk only ever seems to really come up when there is some push back.

E.g. I can't see any mention of being "alpha" or warnings on the elm website, besides the version number indicating it. Instead it says things like "elm guarantees no run time exceptions in practice", but when I go to Github issues, I find several of them, including intentional and accepted ones.

It seems to be a neat language, but for now I'll just stay away from it and let them do their thing.

edit: grammar, wording.
Now fast forward 200 years and that clean separation you describe starts looking like a tangle as you and your sister marry people from different 'generations'.

Basically, if you want to understand how people actually behave you need to exclude the living as their relationships are going to be more complex than such neat abstractions suggest. It's only with dead people that you can really understand their life story after-all someone can get married at 25 and again at 95.
> law that extends the copyright length to 2100 years, creating court orders for the 1 billion people who own a Bible or other old text without paying license fees, and collecting all the money in the world?

Generally speaking: Nothing. Practically speaking: Impossibility to enforce unless you’re a major power. Look how american laws often get enforced world wide while North Korean law doesn’t practically matter.
If you clicked just for that anecdote about the powered wheelchair, like me, it happens right after 11:13
Expectations are in relation with the money involved.

Even in engineering for instance, mechanical engineering was way more strict and difficult than CS, as screwing up industrial machines or physical artifacts (at school and on the job) had a bigger impact than bugs in a CRUD app.

I think as long as the English course is not directly linked to an activity that costs to screw up, (like law school for instance) expectations won’t change.
I'd be interested in this, please do drop me an email if you do put this on GitHub. Thanks.
If you ever visit the Facebook website directly the cookie is set because then it’s a first party cookie. Then it keeps sending this cookie on other sites.
PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing_(sport)
A quick google search [0] suggests that the alternator can provide 200 amps of power at 15V, so I doubt it (but I don't know).

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-electrical-power-do-cars-supp...
Having children with a sibling isn't anywhere near as dangerous as people think it is. People seem to think it nearly guarantees birth defects. It really doesn't.

Cousins are even less dangerous.
The issues that concern me the most aren't ones arising from production scale.

I think the project was just fundamentally flawed at the beginning because of the choice to use cryengine, and they never corrected it. They doubled down and poured huge amounts of great work after bad. At the very inception of any software project you need a very small handful of experts to decide some fundamental things eg. What language / framework / engine to use. What platforms it will be on, what networking model it will use.

In the case of star citizen, Chris Roberts picked cryengine himself (probably just cus cryengine games tend to look nice), even though he hadn't produced a game in years. It did make sense for the demo-video. As I said, it worked, he got funded, but after getting funded he should have scrapped that visual demo and hired a few experts to draw up a plan for how to realise the actual game. I would have been looking to headhunt people who were architects for battlefield or planetside.
Instead it seems like CIG just started hiring everyone like crazy and dogpiling work ontop of the visual-demo.

It seems from their dev updates that the team is putting in a heroic effort trying to work through the issues, though it also looks like a perfect realization of the sunken cost fallacy.
Yeah, that quote seems a bit sexist when you think about it.
I dont say that such interpretation of international law over web content is practical, reasonable, etc, but it is as it is. Better be aware of this if you publish anything not trivial, otherwise your US (for example) lawyers will be happy to work on your hopeless case.
This appears to be an artefact that occurs with silent shutter mode in some cases. Regular shooting mode doesn't have this problem. I've read about this but I don't know the cause.
Medium isn't free?
When I read "but they hover at the edge of marine protected areas" I'm wondering if anyone's done any analysis to see whether the AIS signals for some of those ships mysteriously disappear for periods which coincide with them reaching the edge of marine protected areas...

(Edit: they have done this for a region of interest: http://globalfishingwatch.org/fishing-vessel-behavior/signal... )
Works (Search, lookup, random German authors) fine for me.

PS: I'm surfing with (mostly) this configuration:

http://12bytes.org/tech/firefox/firefoxgecko-configuration-g...

No idea, if this might affect the outcome. IMHO, not.
> Also, you can't cheat physics and have big sensor complemented by lightweight tiny lens and expect good result.

Noob here, how does it work with traditional 35mm film cameras, or the Leica digital full frame bodies that have small lenses then?
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I didn't mean to indicate that it was a problem with buying a computer in SA. Rather that buying from Australia was problematic.

Aside from the roadblocks, such as preventing the use of international cards, there was also just not knowing who was reputable.
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The License looks like a modified MIT, with 2 extra clauses (the binary must produce the copyright, and the author's name can't be used to promote anything else).

Reading through the thread, others don't want to fork because it would split the community of an early language. They don't want to take Elm in a different direction, just bugfixes.
I would disagree that our society (presumably, North American society) judges a man's success solely by his wealth. Our society values men who are responsible - who can provide the best life for their family and protect them. I imagine if you had a ton of wealth but spent it only on yourself and didn't take care of your family, society would not deem you a success.
>female advantage in school marks

If this were the other way around, it would be decried as a biased system and enormous effort would be put into 'fixing it'.

As it is, it's just assumed to be normal and expected.
Are the nitrites particularly risky versus the alternatives? I recall the world health organization warning about basically all forms of red meat and cured meat: http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
What a tidy explanation. It might surprise you to learn the US destabilized Ukraine in the first place, when the Ukrainian president put the brakes on their joining NATO and it looked as though they might instead join CSTO, the Russian version. This is all documented.

Also Crimea IS the piece of Ukraine.
This is nonsense. The self-signature on a root certificate is irrelevant unless you can easily calculate second pre-images, and that's not true even of MD5, and accepting a root doesn't mean that the validator would accept that hash function on a non-root.

Equifax is only a 1024-bit RSA key, which isn't ideal, but it expires on Aug 22nd this year and the key-size of the root doesn't impact confidentiality.
The first elevators in Europe (mostly legacy ones in Germany now I think) that never stop and don't have doors still terrify me.
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Amazon's fork of Android is not a platform Google is obligated to support. Amazon chooses not to include Chromecast support in their Amazon Video Android app
Also, ABC is anything but a crap media outlet. A vision of SA from outside that may not tell the whole story, sure, but they do great investigative journalism.
Another reply touched on the possible differences in extending devtools, I can't speak to that.

I've built several extensions now that worked seamlessly in both Firefox and Chrome. Firefox exposes a `chrome` object that very nearly matches the Chrome extension API and a `browser` object that goes beyond it (e.g. Promise-based async handling instead of callbacks, some additional functionality).

The only incompatibility between the two that I've specifically come across is that Firefox doesn't allow background pages to be specified as persistent. Otherwise if you're doing fairly standard stuff with content scripts, background scripts, browser actions and page actions everything should Just Work.
> it is not true that the nitrates in green vegetables are entirely benign. All sodium nitrite potentially metabolizes to sodium nitrate; depending on what vegetables you consume and when you consume them, many have nitrate content; all nitrate you consume potentially metabolizes to N-nitroso compounds.

I think that this point is made in the article:

> It’s made with nitrates taken from celery extract, which may be natural, but produces exactly the same N-nitroso compounds in the meat. Under EU regulation, this bacon would not be allowed to be labelled “nitrate-free”.

You also say:

> prevents the germination of botulism

The article also talks about botulism, seems to claim it's overblown propaganda by the meat industry:

> Does making ham without nitrite lead to botulism? If so, it is a little strange that in the 25 years that Parma ham has been made without nitrites, there has not been a single case of botulism associated with it. Almost all the cases of botulism from preserved food – which are extremely rare – have been the result of imperfectly preserved vegetables, such as bottled green beans, peas and mushrooms. The botulism argument was a smokescreen.
Steel cut oats, my man! (or woman)
I'm just trying to figure out what training would fit between lay person and

> I'd also expect that drivers would be specially trained ... in recognizing imminent life threats

And trying to consider what that might look like.
> I don't see why Project Gutenberg thinks it isn't subject to German law.

For the same reason that it's not subject to North Korean law, or Saudi law, or the laws of any tin pot dictatorship: It's not located there.
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> How can anyone possibly make a reasonable, intelligent, a priori assessment of how long that data will be useful for that kind of purpose?

By first coming to grips with the fact that this isn't your data.

Keeping data is always a risk. You risk being hacked and jeopardising losing control of people's personal data. The longer you keep it, the longer you are putting that data at risk.

How long can you be expected to go without being hacked? A year? Five years? Ten years? At which point do you think you can be compliant?

> > If you're not using IP addresses for those reasons [fraud detection], you shouldn't collect it. It is good advice to mask off the bottom bits of the IP address since it will still likely be unique enough for you, without being useful to someone who has an unrelated list of IP addresses.

> That isn't necessarily true if, for example, you're using IP addresses to detect a pattern of abusive access within a general pool of acceptable access

Why do you say something is not necessarily true when I have already given this exact reason?

> Doing this effectively without immediately becoming self-contradictory

No, it requires keeping the two or three requests for data or erasure posted to you, or emailed to you.

This isn't complicated. I have email from over twenty years ago.
"sodium nitrate"?
What are you looking for? You have native 35mm, 50mm, 85mm at f1.4, not to mention the very sharp 55 f1.8. You have the 16-35mm and 24-70mm at f2.8. Sigma have just announced their range of primes for E-Mount.

I use the Canon 135 f2 and 35 f1.4 using a Metabones adapter. Not as good as native E-mount but pretty good.

Sony lack the range in long zooms though.
I think that the main problem with Elm is that Evan wants to design the perfect system.

This is of course a laudable goal but I think that clashes with the complexity of the real world.

A consequence of this is that if you want to do something Evan spent time designing a solution for you're going to have an awesome experience, he is a great designer, but on the other hand as soon as you try to do something different you're out of luck.

This has the nice effect that what's there is really nice but there is no middle ground and you either get something that is well deisigned and extremely polished or nothing at all.
Could someone explain what these style of graphs are and how do I interpret them in relation to the running time? Why does their orientation change?

They are very appealing visually.
It's even easier than that: Just keep the requests for deletion in a separate database, like hardcopy in a filing cabinet. Then train your staff to check the filing cabinet whenever they restore from backups.
And for a decade I had to swallow the "explanation" that men CONSPIRED to put women out of STEAM jobs... Who's gonna reimburse me?
Data's here for registered noncommercial project use http://globalfishingwatch.org/research/research-accelerator-...

More generally, there's plenty of AIS data providers who'll sell you raw data and have visualizations on their website, though there's a lot of cleanup work to narrow it down to things like fishing activity. AIShub offers free feeds, but only if you've got AIS data of your own to share (or maybe if you have a particularly good reason and ask them very nicely)
Proper conversion maths is:

Focal length x crop factor

Aperture x crop factor

ISO x crop factor squared

This is a general statement. Something like ISO performance can be affected by engineering if the sensor (BSI vs old tech for instance) but based on the underlying physics the above holds true.
That's not entirely true. It must be cured, but it doesn't necessarily need nitrites to cure it.

You can buy salt cured bacon here:
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