skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple Poll Example Using PHP, Bootstrap and MySQL
It depends on what's included in society, though.

In Japan, you get healthcare and pay as low as 5% of the cost of care. That's a pretty significant difference.
You can download a BBC Research report on Ceefax from August 1977 that gives an overview of teletext from it's birth to initial launch.

Report summary:

> The development of the CEEFAX information broadcasting system from initial work in 1966 to the end of the two-year experimental period in 1976 is described.

> The background to the choice of transmission and display parameters is given, together with details of laboratory and field experiments. Particular emphasis is given to the selection of the addressing and coding systems to give reliable reception throughout the normal television service area.

> The basis for the choice of the many supplementary facilities of CEEFAX, such as colour and graphics, is presented together with indication of the provisions made for future expansion in the use of CEEFAX.

CEEFAX: evolution and potential (PDF):
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1977-26.pdf
Out with pesticides, in with wildflowers
Human life spans may not be limited
If you've been in the industry for 14 years, know JS and CSS inside out, and still don't understand why anyone wants to use React... I think you're the one missing some understanding, not the people who choose to actually learn the framework in question.
Not sure how relevant those results are for CCTV. Looking at the pictures in the dataset (http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/dataset/subset.html#facesb...), these are nowhere close to what CCTV looks like.
You may want to consider writing one additional post that speeds through the rest of the development process. It would be a great opportunity to pull everything together, reinforce the lessons from the series, and leave students with something they can show off to their friends.

It's much more powerful to show your readers that you've taught them everything they need to know, than to simply tell them.
I'm jumping even further.. beside the price of renewable energy transformer (solar, wind, hydro..), the tools (heating, cutting, radio, etc) and the metatools (computer, network) what else is there to buy ?

How close to a closed loop synergy are we ?
Can I use this outside of Apple Ecosystem? On Android or Windows? Of are the Map Views strictly Apple devices only?
Awwww man! That sucks, but screw those naysayers. They ain't the ones running point on quantum computing.

(I don't really have much to ask you since anything I could comprehend is easily googlable and I don't wanna waste ur time. Just wanna say keep up the good work and thanks!)
I've recently written a related library - given a DataFrame it'll run sklearn's RandomForest to check which columns predict other columns. The goal is to learn which relationships exist within a DataFrame.
Typically in the exploratory process in machine learning we want to learn how the data holds together - this tool helps with that discovery exercise. It'll auto-LabelEncode text and allows classification or regression.
There are two example Notebooks (Titanic & Boston) to show what it is doing. Correlations (Pearson, Spearman, Kendall) can also be calculated. The RandomForest result can show non-linear relationships that aren't exposed by correlations.
https://github.com/ianozsvald/discover_feature_relationships
The concept of anti-face recognition make-up is around since a while: https://cvdazzle.com
If the same questions keep coming up, isn't this a usability issue? Can the user interface or workflow be improved to address this confusion?
> At one point in my life, a long time ago, things could be purchased for a penny.

What were 3 or 4 such things?
First off, in hindsight i should perhaps have likened it to AOL or some such.

As for losing something, best i can tell this came about because ISPs were loath to become the "paymasters" of the internet.

Consider that for a brief moment, before all this hoopla about app stores, the mobile world had something akin to what minitel had. I could fire up a WAP page on my phone, pick out a game or similar, hit download, and the cost would be added to my mobile bill at the end of the month.

Nothing says that we could not see something similar on the web, except that ISPs do not want to be in the position to bill us for those downloads etc.
They are experts. The article is written by skilled financial journalists based on the work of experts.

I used to write trading systems for market makers, and still have friends in the business. I also have friends who are professors, including a finance professor. Trading is not really about market knowledge; it's a skill and an orientation. Being a professor is much more about knowledge, but it's also about skills and orientation. They're different kinds of people, doing very different work.

Your "the only people who can possibly understand this are the ones who agree with me" approach is essentially religious thinking. You're making an argument from authority, except the only cited expert is you, an anonymous person with no credentials and no provable experience.
Good article but for much more detailed argument I like Cal Newport’s books like Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You better.

I had a summer job programming in 1970 and really didn’t like it, but I was making something like $5/hour and learned FORTRAN. When I graduated with a BS in Physics and wanted a job I took a scientific programming job. I thought, ‘yuck, oh well.’ Funny thing was, after about 6 months I realized how good I was and that made it fun. I even gave up all free time for 2 years to take undergraduate and graduate CS classes at a local university.

Yes, the better you get at something, the more fun it sometimes is.
Look for DOI, then enter that straight in SciHub.

For books, I generally use Worldcat for search (DDG !worldcat), then hit http://b-ok.org (!b-ok).

For copyright-unconstrained works, Beatrice's old shop, The Internet Archive, is pretty awesome.

Archive.is often bypasses paywalls.
> tons of weight and bulk

What is your height and weight?
Stable releases are very old. 'Experimental' builds are very stable and most players update to newest build regularly. Some prefer to use a launcher for automatic updates: https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/releases
That... makes perfect sense. Thanks!
You keep responding to things I didn't say, while ignoring the inconvenient things I did say. So I think we're done here. But just to be clear, I'm saying his repeated failure to hit goals is the not the definition of failure, but rather the sign of a severe process problem.
Scott,

Do you think it's a good idea that all the teams working on quantum computing have put their money on the surface code? What are your thoughts? Do you believe that we are putting all our eggs in one basket?
Without wanting to be deliberately picky, I'm not sure I see anything here that could not be done with a few clicks/commands in a dedicated remote sensing/raster analysis package, with GDAL and GRASS being a couple of obvious free options that spring to mind.

The maps in the Vatican museum are indeed very cool, in fact the Vatican in general blew me away, and I've seen a fair number of impressive historical sites in Europe/Near East.
Did the US ever respond to China's use of the "Great Cannon" on github?

Having a nation state actor so publicly attack/censor a small company shouldn't be tolerated.
I'm truly bemused by your response.

First, if you truly believe that the code I showed is "a snippet of code completely made up or taken out of context and then anonymized by renaming variables", I can only say that I don't believe you've ever worked on large codebases. There are millions of lines of code, in hundreds of thousands of application, in dozens of different languages, all over the world, precisely like the snipped I showed. If you've been coding for 20 years, as you say you have, and haven't seen snippets like that on a thousand occasions, you must have worked in very strange environments. If you really want me to, I'll spend 5 minutes and give you multiple links to exactly similar snippets in various large open source projects.

Second, I'm mystified by your comments regarding my trivially simple code question. that "Interviewers come up with their games with their arbitrary rules and a bunch of prejudice about how a good or bad candidate should react".

Wut? Let's make the question even simpler:

X := Y / Z

Would you not expect an applicant to say, "What if Z is zero?" ? Would you actually expect the candidate to say - quoting you:

"This looks like a snippet of code completely made up or taken out of context and then anonymized by renaming variables. I have no idea what it's supposed to do, I have no idea why I'm looking at it, and I have no fucking idea what you want from me, and I don't play guess-the-rules type of games."

Are you seriously telling me that you'd hire a candidate who said that? Over one who said, "What if Z is zero?" ?

I think one of us is missing something...
I know on our PCjr, the first 128k was built in, and above that only worked when we had the memory expander card attached, so there is a location difference. The cynic in me says it was an administrative decision to show the jr as a lower cost lower performance option.
AFAIK any MD can write a script for methadone.
Have you tried weaning off?
Why don't you just do what I do: when you buy something in-person with cash and there's change, count the paper money and then just hastily count out the change, knowingly giving more then the exact cent amount, and say "Keep the change, and no need for the receipt." Precious seconds can be saved every time. Also, if I'm in line behind someone who is taking too long with anything up to 2 dollars, I just say "I'll pay it" or I even quickly hand the cashier the money.
It Is a little hard to understand, how 6 years went by and they still have nothing to show for. The only map I find that that good enough is in China. Mainly because there are only a few Data Sources and they are all backed by government. Other location, I have yet to hear a case where Apple's Data is better then Google.

It has been going for long time. For example in Japan, where Apple has 50+% market share, has a Mapping services that is utter crap. Ata Distance [1] has been covering everything Apple in Japan, and I think they are doing fine there because everyone uses Yahoo Map.

My problem is these sort of rebuilding from ground up ( Which they state started 4 years ago ), is going to take years before it is any good. I doubt they could get it near to their current 3rd party Data sources within 3 years. And possibly another 3 years before it reach better than current solution.

[1] https://atadistance.net/category/maps/
Same here, located in the US.
This is may be a silly question to ask. Apart from Google, and Apple. What other Mapping solution are there that has its interest to be the best Mapping services? OpenStreetMap is good but far from competitor to Apple or Google.
Open Letter to Amazon Against Police and Government Use of Rekognition
I think tools 1 trillion years from now that stumble across that headline will wonder what humanity was.
Same useful familiarity with lapack; more practical signal processing background, system identification & etc. Also better work personalities.
My employer recently changed up their prescription drug plan and now we're required to get any and all regular 'maintenance drugs' via expressscripts (we're also now limited to using Walgreens for acute/temp medications - apparently dictating which pharmacies you can use is becoming a thing with medical insurance).

ExpressScripts is absolutely terrible. What once was a simple problem: Get a Rx from your doctor, go to any pharmacy and get it filled, has now become a painful process of:

- Call doctor's office, ask them to send the Rx to express scripts.

- Call express scripts, verify they have the Rx.

- Two days before you run out of medication, you get an automated call from Express scripts telling you to call them back.

- Call Express Scripts, wait on hold for 30 minutes.

- Someone finally tells you that there's a problem with the Rx, and you need to call your doctor and have him re-send the Rx specifiying dosages, etc. in a a very specific way. This is Friday afternoon, of course, and your Doctor's office is already closed.

- When you explain you're going to a miss a dose of a medication that is dangerous to stop suddenly, they absolutely do not care ("You'll have it in 5-7 days, once we receive all the info we need", click).

It isn't just me. I overhear a lot of angry phone calls between employees and express scripts in the cube farm at work now. Employees are wasting work-time dealing with something that used to be simple - getting their prescriptions filled. Hope the shareholders are happy.
For political structures the NIH syndrome isn't as innocuous as for software, you can't have a powerful political organisation without a powerful mandate, if people feel like they didn't have much of a say in the creation and functioning of a political structure you can be certain they will want to tear it down and build it from scratch.
>“but it’s all irrelevant unless the software meets the needs of those using it”

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but TDD does just that. I tried to read the rest of this, but the logical fallacies are strong with this one.
Throwing away food is a common practice also in production factories to keep prices fixed. If a resource supply becomes too much available compared to its demand, the price lowers, and we aren't anymore at the "get an apple from a tree and sell it" level: if the price lowers too much entire production or distribution companies can go bankrupt.

It stinks badly, but is a sad reality.
There is literally an option for geo prioritization right next to the search bar.
Gaming Gets X-Rated–and Very Profitable
Well I guess "more traditionally associated" is one way to put it, but... 11 out of France's 12 fields medal came from people who studied at ENS. The only other country to even have 11 or more fields medal is the USA at 13. They literally exude math competency.
I started going through this but got stuck on Lesson 4. I copied this file [0] as is and tried running it locally using live-server but I get an error.

Uncaught SyntaxError: /Inline Babel script: Adjacent JSX elements must be wrapped in an enclosing tag. Did you want a JSX fragment <>...</>? (36:4)

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kay-is/react-from-zero/mas...
Postgres 9.5 Probabilistic Data and Columnar Storage Layout Testing
all stars outside the Local Group of galaxies will no be accessible to us since they will be receding away faster than the speed of light.

Can anyone explain what this means?
Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect
1. Is this something you'd be interested in listening to?

Very much. I voraciously consume Radio 4, radio plays and audiobooks, and a few podcasts.

Tried episode 2 at lunch - ooh it's a bit long. Might have worked better as a 2 parter? We're very impressed with your level of quality for a new project. :)

> 2. Any suggestions how to gain initial traction and reach broader audiences

Random thought and perhaps not relevant or of interest as it's a bit of a tangent.

Have you thought of looking into submission requirements for BBC Radio4 Afternoon Drama? No idea what the rules are, but I know they feature new playwrights and experimental content fairly often. They also often make series of 5 linked daily plays exploring some SF theme or alternate reality. The Beeb are surprisingly easy to have email or social conversations with for an org their size.

Episode 1 honestly wouldn't have seemed out of place had I heard it in that slot. Audience is around 1m I believe. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz
A lot of people who take L-Theanine with Caffeine are taking it at a higher dosage than what you can from even a few cups of tea.

I’ve read about this combination quite a bit and from my personal experience, you have to get the mixture just right. Even at high doses of caffeine, the right amount of L-Theanine can stop the jitters and give a calm focus. That all said, these dosages are so individualistic that it’s chasing a dragon.
This is cool. I'm starting to use Terraform in September at a new job and the more it becomes like programming, the easier it becomes to express things.
I'm not necessarily an advocate of planned economy (or actually, economy in general; the system I'm looking for has been aptly described as "the end of economy") but what you're saying completely misses the point of what GP was trying to say.

These people are responsible for themselves, and they want to follow a passion, to pursue it, despite there not being very much money in it. The money is constantly telling them to do something else, you are correct. But do we really want a society structured around what money tells people to do? Doesn't that seem even a little dystopian? I heard the phrase a while ago: "a dystopia without a despot".

You say that they have nobody to blame - but that's exactly what's wrong. Why should they have to blame themselves for following their scientific, artistic, philosophical or religious passions? Should they have to "choose to risk it all"? These are the questions that need answering, because I'm not convinced that people need to be considering artistic passions as a risk at all.

I don't think there's a solution to this problem so long as the market decides whether your passion is worthy of you being allowed to survive or not.
Who Wins, and Who Loses, in the Proposed Plan for Elite Schools?
Haha, this is what you get if you don't review PRs :D

Guess the array needs a comma and the fragment has to be React.Fragment

Nice find!
Yes, I just stumbled accross this the other day, and was surprised that it works pretty well:

https://www.rtp.pt/wportal/teletexto/

RTP is a major Portuguese news outlet.
Puzzled as to why it's so important to some companies to grill on this stuff

Because contrary to the narrative, there is no shortage of developers, there is in fact a glut so companies can not only afford to be choosy, they actually need to filter early to keep volume of applicants manageable. At least that is my interpretation of the evidence, I am curious if there is another explanation.

I can remember when there really was a shortage of developers, the dotcom boom. Companies couldn’t shove people in the door fast enough, an interview was a quick chat followed by “when can you start?”. Today it’s nothing like that. In a genuine shortage there is no ageism etc either, noone can afford it.
It would work, and actually that is a great idea for the situations where applications are actually deployed and running in production, if it can be enabled on demand.

The advantages of RxFiddle above Zipkin-likes are:
- the means to extract the right information. The tool integrates with RxJS, and the format is universal accross Rx’s of other languages.
- the visualization which is a better fit, compared to trace spans. I didn’t use Zipkin in practice though, does it have other visualizations than spans?

Of course RxFiddle is nothing like zipkin in terms of how polished it is and how much it is carried by the community. RxFiddle so far has been my research result and while it is open source, I’ve not received contributions, so feel free to share more insights or efforts!
Here's one of three parts on coding your own TCP/IP stack. I haven't gotten around to it, but it looks solid.

http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-ar...
Ah ha, an expert. So I've recently been using Firefox, uBlock and DDG. A few sites, including DDG take a super long time to load. It gives me the TLS handshake message for a while before eventually loading. How can this be fixed?
Understanding Boolean Operator Precedence in Ruby (&&, And, ||, Or)
There is a theory that the universe is expanding faster and faster. At some point in the future, stars would be moving away faster than the speed of light and we couldn't ever see them again or reach them.
Not really:

3. Find a job you love.
Cuban says there's an easy way to tell if you've found a job that can help you build a career.

"If it matters how much you get paid, you are not in a job you really love," he writes. This doesn't mean that you should not strive to make as much money as possible, but you need to prioritize your passion over your paycheck if you want to put yourself on a rewarding career path that allows you to thrive.

"If you love what you do so much that you are willing to continue to live like a student in order to be able to stay in the job, you have found your calling," Cuban writes.

4. Be the best you can be.
Once you've found your calling, whatever it is, you should have only one goal, Cuban says: "to be the best in the world at it."
See reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread#wiki_iii._to...
the universe is expanding and the expansion is accelerating
C# has foreach loops, available for decades i.e. since very beginning.

C# also has LINQ, available for many years i.e. since 3.5.

Also, when management is asking “How can we ensure that the same thing never happens again?” they rarely interested in language level. In my experience, they don’t care whether the problem was caused by for or any other f-word in the code. This question is usually about QA and deployment workflows.
How could they be moving faster than the speed of light?
I worked at Google on maps during those times. There was a lot going on that isn't public and some bad behaviour by Apple, Jobs very much saw Apple as the dominant partner and didn't treat the maps guys well at all. It was a very difficult relationship in which Apple was unwilling to compromise or negotiate, not even to get what they wanted.
Isaac Arthur made a compendium called Civilizations at the End of Time [1] that goes into this territory. This guy, in my opinion, goes above and beyond even your typical hard scifi. Can't recommend highly enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58yFf7aZsM&list=PLIIOUpOge0...
“The idea of someone trying to resurrect a sunken island is such an American idea to me”

This did make me smile given the amazing work of the Dutch over hundreds of years to turn what is effectively a delta into a (not only viable but) thriving living space, including the resurrection of areas that were previously inhabited, subsequently flooded; though it didn't always go to plan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeftinghe
They support the integration. Dell support will support it and if something is not working it will be covered by warranty the same way Windows is.
> I don't think about whiteboard code the way I think about production code.

Isn't that the whole point of an interviewer writing code on the whiteboard? To see how the applicant would view that code if hired to work in the offered position? Why would an interviewer want the applicant to view that code in any other way? Is an interviewer likely to think, "I'll treat the interviewee's comments as if he was just writing the code as a hobby throwaway, nothing to do with the offered position"?

> the variable names and magic numbers are bad practice / but it's on a whiteboard. I'm not going to waste time writing long descriptive names out by hand on a whiteboard

Great! But in my post the interviewer wrote the code on the whiteboard. The interviewer did not ask the interviewee to write any code on the whiteboard. Where did you get the idea that the interviewee was to write on the whiteboard? Software development requires attention to detail, yes?
I've been using search engines since Yahoo and Altavista were relevant players in the search space, I think I know a trick or two.
The first few paragraphs of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe do a reasonably good job at describing what I assume is the source of your puzzlement (namely how can something recede faster than the speed of light)