skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JAWS costs around $1000, NVDA is free. I'm assuming the person doesn't have the budget to buy JAWS. There is a demo for JAWS, but its 40 minutes, that isn't going to be enough to test a page (especially when you need to restart your computer for another 40 minutes).
How do PayPal/Stripe move money around?

Meaning, are they integrated directly with Mastercard/Visa/banks or do they use a First Data/TSYS/FiServ?
The point is that the query I mentioned requires joins.
You can of course get the same information from key value pairs, it will just require a number of scans over all your data, which doesn't scale if you need the queries to be fast.
On the RDBMS side, there has been more than three decades of research on optimizing patterns like this. You don't want to try and reinvent that.

If you can know for sure from the start that you'll never need queries like this, then of course something like Mongo will be awesome. But requirements change, hence this article.
I think the goal is to institute a policy that encourages people to avoid it through services like VPN. Then you get to go after VPN services to "protect law and the children", then the UK is able to more effectively spy on and track their citizens.
Are there really even any good intentions here?
if you click through on the 'read more' to: http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/Welcome.html#Pent...

including the detail that the quark state content is: "duucc: four quarks and one antiquark. "

Theres a further 'read more' link to a powerpoint, http://moriond.in2p3.fr/QCD/2019/TuesdayMorning/Skwarnicki.p... which is way out of my understanding
Well I know what to get people for Christmas now anyway. I wonder if Groupon will have any good deals.
But we reached vaccination quotas above 95% without being mandatory, so that argument evidently does not apply.
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> Mark burned people to get Facebook off the ground. And Mark will continue to burn anyone, including his users, to continue to move it forward

Q: Is this atypical behaviour for someone in his position?
I wish I could be as optimistic as you are.

I think Facebooks reach is just to big to actually force it to become good. Sure, you might make it change certain practices, but at the end of the day, they would still find 'problematic' ways to develop their business.

Other, similar companies as well (did someone say Google?)
I know many people who are very happy to talk to me online but are not willing to hang out with me in real life. In my case it's because I'm inherently unlikeable, but I suspect if I were unaware of this, I would assume it's because people like to be online.
Exceptions don’t make the rule.

For the vast,vast majority of drugs they are dirt cheap once the patent runs out.
Oh good, government regulation of browsing habits. What could go wrong?
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Now the law makes complete sense.
Penta = five. There's a picture of a ball with five balls in it. It decays to a proton (which as mentioned has three quarks) and another pair of a quark and an anti-quark. I'd say it's there.
Criminals doing "serious stuff" are already using secure apps to communicate.
Of course, but the the mass developers aren’t going to spend for the proper materials and craftsmanship for that. However, they will spend more to build high ceilings because people think it looks more opulent.
Yes. I think Sanderson does mention as much in one of his videos that he's borrowing the course and structure from Michael Nielsen.
Wasn't it only has of version 3.4 that Jepsen stopped finding single-node data loss bugs in MongoDB? So it's been 3 years that MongoDB has been suitable for single-node data storage, and apparently 5 months that it's been reasonable to use in a sharded deployment.

Perhaps in another decade, MongoDB can shed its well-earned reputation for eating data.
Like in China, the UK and EU will be banning VPNs and asking ISPs to block their usage.

It may not be tomorrow but it will be here nonetheless.
This is entirely orthogonal to socialism vs non-socialism. Socialism is about economic systems where the means of production are owned by the workers.
4,000 are left after about 90,000 emigrated to Israel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel#Emigration_to_Isra...)
You mean that government is still doing it?
Paul Romer: Ideas, Nonrivalry,and Endogenous Growth [pdf]
The thing is, it's too late. When MongoDB was in its heyday, it got known as something that loses records. Not much you can do now when for every post affirming its consistency, there are two about how someone tested it and it failed consistency checks.
If it’s anything like the CF Foundation that helped Vertex develop Kadelyco, the non-profit saw an absolutely massive return by selling the right to the drug.
For the less socials teens, it's much easier for them to play an online game with each other than to actually meetup in person. I would know, because I used to be one of them.

Meeting together in person used to give me tremendous anxiety and as a result I would always vouch for taking the easy way out. In hindsight, I wish I had actually made more of an effort to hangout during my high school years because deep down I did enjoy those personal interactions. Nowadays I'm a lot more social than I was in the past and a lot more happier as a result too.
Chris Pruett AMA: Top Developer Questions
Occasionally, getting people connected and push to talk configured is a couple minute walkthrough with people, but it hasn't ever been a huge problem.
No. We started with our efforts before VIO was a thing. You can see what we're doing at https://github.com/sapcc, though admittedly that org is quite busy and I don't know every part of it myself.
Is HostGator storing my password in plaintext?
Brexit might have more of an influence than it seems. However, the effect is probably because no one is paying attention to anything else other than Brexit [1].

[1] I read a few sentences of a newspaper suggesting this.
When I got my PhD (1999) the American Physical Society said that you had a 2% chance of getting a permanent job in the field with a PhD. At that point you are not being judged on your merits but on your connections, ability to navigate politics, etc. (The job is way too valuable compared to the value you can give to it.)

I saw a postdoc who is now rather well known struggling with anxiety over his career even though he had written half a book and done a lot of great work. When we were both at Cornell I'd come to the conclusion that many papers involving "power law" distributions were bogus because nobody knew how to test for them with any rigor. It was years later, after he had tenure, that he published something about it in a statistics journal.

Seeing that made me run for the exit after my first year as a postdoc.
That's not how that word is used in practice in Europe now. There are many parties with "socialist" in their names which don't promote giving the means of production to the workers.
Yes seems political to snub him, but then ACM is an American association.
Also it will give a tool for selective prosecution of undesirables...

If everyone breaks the law then the prosecutor has the ability to arbitrarily imprison anyone.
UK VPN providers rejoice.
I assume what Half-Life 2 did was more advanced, but there was iMUSE way before that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE
True, but remember that you're not just paying for the research cost of Drug_X when you price Drug_X. You're also paying for all the research that failed, that didn't produce a useful drug. If you spend 100 million researching 100 drugs, and one of them produces something you can sell, you don't need to make back 1 million when selling that drug. You need to make back 100 million, plus a profit.
This is something I'd really love to give a go, but since transitioning I'm just not so sure about safety. I travelled South East Asia on a shoestring budget before I came out and had a few scrapes that turned out fine, but I'm not sure they would have gone as well if I was just a lone woman at the time, especially if I got clocked!

In my experience the places that sound scary are usually less scary on the ground once you get there, but the stakes are pretty high... I'm still travelling occasionally, but mainly to safer places. I hope to build my confidence back up!

Thanks for sharing! :-)
No no no. Socialist now means anything that helps anyone without direct payment. Except for US interstate highways. That’s totally not socialist.
I'm not sure people share computers explicitly (or even implicitly) for that purpose.
Could you elaborate please on the untold pain part? We use Mongo as our primary storage at the moment and I would like to avoid painful issues. Thank you in advance.

On the other note, I keep seeing people recommending Postgres, but to me that is apples vs. oranges. Just because it has json storage doesn't make it a replacement. How much effort and money a company needs to keep a replicated Postres cluster vs. Mongo? In one of my previous jobs we had to hire a consultant to do that. With Mongo pretty much any experience dev could do that.

My personal view is that MongoDB's main advantage is its flexibility. It allows teams to shape and evolve the product as needed. When specific features/parts require new solutions, new solutions can be used (financial transactions, etc). Features that allowed us to leverage what we have instead of researching new tools were:

1. Schemaless - Logic is in the app; Gives visibility; Can be tested; Less migration headaches; Easier to evolve your architecture.

2. Indexed arrays, attributes (name, value pair) - Allows to be more creative (add tagging system to any type of data you have)

3. Aggregation - basic BI could be done from day one, which business can get value sooner.

Of course, everyone's millage varies
Garbage in / garbage out.
You can’t get away from reliable and predictable data. At that part is shockingly lacking. We have much better, sensitive and high-though put methods these days, but we are still relying on mice or cell culture data. We should be using ML to find what’s dissonance and missing links in the data, not to predict what will work.
I've worked with people from Level Access[1] and Deque[2], there is also TPG[3]. I'm not sure how much money they cost, but they are the real experts in the industry. Some people on Fivver offer services, but I don't know how qualified they are.

[1] https://www.levelaccess.com/
[2] https://www.deque.com/
[3] https://www.paciellogroup.com/
Classic urban legend.

> Views of the Eiffel Tower taken by private individuals for private use do not require prior agreement. However, professionals must contact our teams, who will inform them of the conditions of use governing images.

https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel...

EDIT:

Just to be clear: copyright DOES NOT PREVENT ANYONE from PHOTOGRAPHING the tower at night. It only prevents you from profiting from a photograph that you took of the illuminated tower (and then only if the tower is the main feature of the photograph) without a license agreement from the copyright holder.

This is not supporting either the principle or the consequences of copyright, simply debunking the idea that photographing the tower at night is illegal.
I've been using (and developing a fork of) NeDB [0] that does exactly what you describe: an in-memory database with append-only logs of changes for file-system persistence.

On startup, and optionally at regular intervals, it "compacts" the database by reducing all events to a single JSON string.

The README links to an article by @antirez, Redis Persistence Demystified [1]. It's been educational studying how it works.

[0] https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb#persistence

[1] http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystifie...
Wait, what?

I'm a Brit and assumed this was just an early April Fools Day joke - especially as a few articles said it was due to be implemented on 1st April 2018, but was delayed until 1st April 2019.

What a bizarre policy.
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Yup, same story a couple of years ago with the game Bubble Safari... in the midst of great gameplay, they shut it down just like that. Only difference to Paradise Bay: There were no characters involved that you could get attached to!
For commercial use.

As opposed to Sweden where it is illegal to post pictures of public art installations online regardless of commercial use.
A fair point, but where is the evidence it applies here?
Thanks this is great! I'm looking forward to digging into the specifics of some these. Cheers.
Note, I had the same experience with "That 70's show"

I watched it when it came out, and Red seemed like needlessly cranky, always angry single-dimensional antagonist.

I rewatched first few seasons on Netflix and... man, he's just always right, and those kids need to get into shape and SMARTEN UP...

(not claiming "That 70's show" is great literature, note; but the perspective shift is stunning, given our internal narrative tends to be that we are not changing radically as human beings most of the time)
> Who cares if you can enforce it; it provides probable cause (or whatever they call it) to search any device that doesn't have such a license.

No it doesn't, that's a bizarre interpretation of English and Welsh law and of police powers to search computers.
I came of age in the 80s. I remember finding caches if nudie mags in the woods. Pretty raunchy stuff too, comparatively. Maybe this will trigger a renaissance of the nudie mag in the UK!
That’s an irrelevant distinction. The possibility of an acquisition is what fuels these biotech startups to invest in the first place. It doesn’t make a difference whether J&J is paying researchers or buying the startup that pays the researchers.

As to government funding, mentioned below, the 90/10 rule applies in pharma as much as anything. The last 10% is 90% of the work.
Cynical me thinks that you could use that in conjunction with some terrorists using Whatsapp or similar and you would have some great grounds for mass decryption. In America, there are supposed to be legal processes that involve a lot of work for the government to spy on people. Is there anything like that in the UK, and do politicians like it?
Yes, if said work was for hire, it counts as 70 years from creation and not 70 years from dissolution of organisation requesting the work.
Sigh. Another idiot American who does not understand anything not approved by Sean Hannity and the Propaganda arm of the Neo Fascist Party.
Ads are easy to block, even with this development. The delivery may have changed, but not the how to. Blocking ads at the DNS level is always effective. I enjoy the cat and mouse game with the ad companies. It's always interesting to see how the adblock guys do their thing. Employing a Pi-hole has been one of the best decisions I have made in regards to my own network. Couple the Pi-hole with uBlock Origin, Privacy badger, Decentraleyes, and a few other tweaks, and you get the WWW the way it was intended to be: content only.

I am unapologetic about blocking ads, beacons, cookies, trackers of all kinds. My computer, my rules. Just as I'm not required to look at roadside ads, and I don't, I refuse to allow my network to become compromised to give someone else another BMW. Running a website is the cost of doing business. If you cannot afford the domain name, bandwidth, etc., choose another business model. Ads were and are a horrible business model. I haven't seen an ad in literally years. I plan on keeping it this way.
India tests anti-satellite weapon
I'm consistently flabbergasted that these kinds of unilateral efforts are still tried by naive politicians rather than placing responsibility for monitoring of children's behavior where it logically (to me) belongs: with the parents.
Haha, that is unbelievable...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/government-porn-id-chec...
The world's biggest employer of burger flippers also has a clear economic interest in developing tech that'll be the world's biggest unemployer of burger flippers.

McDonalds is heavily investing into automation for the ordering process; and as soon as it becomes technically practical and reliable enough, they're going to want to automate even more.
It totally applies because (a) the threshold needs to be 98% according to the math that governs such things, (b) we're not sure to stay at 98% (or even 95%) in the face of disinformation campaigns such as the one you're a part of, and (c) it really is important to be sure because the consequences of allowing outbreaks to continue are actually severe. Making other people suffer the burdens of illness could be seen as a violation of their rights, and is impossible to address via litigation after the fact, so prevention is necessary.

You've already claimed that measles doesn't cause serious harm, and been proven wrong. Multiple times. You've claimed that this outbreak isn't serious, despite the facts that are known about how disease spreads and how infectious measles in particular is. Why do you persist in pushing this anti-vax narrative?
Hahahaha.

If you watch the video you have to enter your passport or government ID number into porn websites that will verify your age. If you don't want to enter your passport or id number in random porn websites then you will need to go to a store and buy a "voucher", and you can enter the porn voucher number in the website to access it.

This is going to be a phisher's paradise.
As a home owner I wouldn't be able to go outside without my multi-tool (which includes a 7 cm foldable blade). I use it on a daily basis, and always keep it in my pocket even when going somewhere.

Only reaction I ever got was from a security guard at a store, when I took it up to cut a piece of cable because the store's cable cutter was too dull. He asked where I bought it.

When I was a kid, I walked around with a 10 cm utility knife in my belt, at all times. If I'd done that today on the other hand...
While the immediate goal with this is understandable, it smacks of an 'approved content' voucher.

These kind of things are always ineffective and end up being a way for government to insert itself into your life and charge for the privilege.

These sites could instead use re-capchas featuring trivia from the past which only adults would get - select famous personalities etc.

Or ISPs and telcos could offer 'family' filters built into some of their plans, etc.

So many ways to tackle this issue without the heavy-handed involvement of government.
Agreed, €25/m makes much more sense for that tier than 45. And to be honest why even have 3 tiers if for an additional 8% on the second tier you get 3.33x more anyways?
I believe so, the aim is to try and protect children from pornography – which seems well intentioned to me whatever you believe of the technical feasibility or the state overstepping it's place.
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I am about to defend my thesis in physics and will probably start a data science job afterwards (have had a few second round interviews, waiting for offers/rejections). Note that my thesis work did not contain big data or machine learning, but I have completed a couple of outside projects. I am in the US and in a top tier university/program.

My perspective is that there is just not many academic positions available. I realized I could do a couple of post docs for a few years and hope that something opens up, or not delay the most probable outcome and start an industry career sooner rather than later.
I sort of agree, from my experience, I know what to expect when I see something, so seeing and hearing helps me quickly spot the issue.
> But those communities are less geographic and much more ideological. The communal bond these days happens more in ideas and beliefs than in physical proximity.

If your sense of "community" is so warped that you honestly believe this then I feel sorry for you.

What you're describing isn't a community at all, it's a bunch of strangers who happen to have something in common.
The state of this country. Have to admit I had to laugh, a fucking "porn voucher"
I love video games, but there's something about playing video games for extended periods that really messes with your head. Compared to painting pictures and making music, there's a noticeable "brain fog" that I experience after video games. It's simply not there with music and art.

Not sure what the difference is, but it's definitely different. Whenever I get into a game, I try and limit playing time to 2 hours at a time. Which, can be quite hard to accomplish. Even as a 38 year old.
They did check. Now, that’s not nessisarily enough but it is a defense.
They're just collecting reasons to ban encryption that doesn't have a government backdoor.
You could also try using Plotly Express, which lets you do some of this stuff in a one-liner: https://medium.com/@plotlygraphs/introducing-plotly-express-...
It was written in 2005, thus changing all the code to use OCB3 may be an unreasonable amount of breaking things that work.
Bike trailers are also the bee's knees, if you only need to carry stuff some of the time. Plus it's a cheapish additional expense, not a whole new bike investment, if you already have a bike.
That is different, but doesn't seem less silly.
(PhD, 1996 in general relativity)

Embedded graphics drivers for real-time systems.

I keep the physics part of my brain alive by developing physics based Unity assets (nbodyphysics.com) and supporting a package for GR on github (grtensor).

I still buy WAY too many physics books. Current aspiration is to work through "Modern Classical Physics" Thorne/Blandford.
I worked on third-party package approvals at Google. The reasoning behind reviews was largely due to license compliance. If the license said "you have to display this license to end-users" then we had to make sure that the license was machine-readable and would be automatically bundled into the build to be displayed in that "open source licenses" section of pretty much every app ever. If the license said "by linking this into your code, you have to opensource all code at your company", we had to deny it. That sort of thing.

We suggested that people get security reviews, but it was up to the user of the package to figure out whether or not that was necessary. Often security reviews would be blocking the project's launch and would be done at that time.

The final thing we enforced was a "one version" policy. If everyone was using foobar-1.0, and you wanted to use foobar-2.0, it was on you to update everyone to foobar-2.0. This was the policy that people hated the most, but basically mandatory at the time because none of the languages widely used at Google supported versioned symbols. Having library A depend on foobar-1.0 and library B depending on foobar-2.0 meant that application C could not depend transitively on library A and library B at the same time, which would cause many disasters.
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It seems something out of a Monty Python sketch, well done UK government.
Always best to use a VPN provider in another country ;)
> I'd come to the conclusion that many papers involving "power law" distributions were bogus

> after he had tenure, that he published something about it in a statistics journal

If I'm reading you right, you're saying he struggled for awhile doing bogus things only to question those things outside the relevant field?

(Also, can you say more about power law papers..?)
Was covered. Coke's bottle design patents have been expired for close to 70 years or more.

I had to look this up, because I figured there was somehow a risk that Coke had managed to get century-long patents in America.