skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often use http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?lon=-17.41738&lat=14.73861&zoo... when comparing between the different map providers.
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The reason that they were sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden was because he was building roads, schools and hospitals in Sudan while the rest of the world didn't give a shit.
Aww, I thought this was going to be a table of metal oxides and their chemical & physical properties.
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I don't see the point of a duodecimal system of units when a base 10 system is much more elegant. You would never end up with a 1/64th of something in the metric system. Fractions are a hack.

As an aside, I wonder how technology affects the units or systems we use. They had to rely on decimal or duodecimal systems for their units because they were doing all of their calculations manually (so did we until about 20 or so years ago btw,) but now that everyone* carries a computer on his/her pocket, what better systems could we design?

I guess binary might be an example of that. 2 values is not something that applies to everything, at least not naturally in the way the human mind works, but it is much more efficient for machines to process information, that makes sense.
You're joking? Actually, I think you're on to something there.
No, using the Either type wouldn't be the same at all. Yes, you can do choice [Left "foo", Right 42] (from Data.Arbitrary, used by QuickCheck) but it's not really the same thing. The two elements in the list both have the type Either String Int, unlike the Python example. Further, an Either can have only two possible kinds of values (but no-one prevents you from writing data Either3 a b c = Left a | Middle b | Right c).

You can achieve something like this with type classes, though. This is somewhat similar to requiring all the elements to fullfill an interface, kind of like List<Comparable> in Java-like languages. With existential quantification (there are other options) you can make a list where every element in a list can be of a different type as long as they derive from the same type class (like Eq, Ord, etc). The type class is still a constraint that Python doesn't have but it makes static typing possible.

See the heterogenous collection link above.
Shouldn't you be out on a ledge somewhere?
Fungus Free Plus is a anti-fungal treatment used on animals but primarily on horses and dogs.
It works great on Pythiosis, Pythium Insidiosum, Thrush, Swamp Cancer and Summer Soars.
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Seconded. Do you just go to all the local businesses with craptastic sites, offer to bill them introductory rates then hope network effects happen?
Rust turned me into a boring, methodical bandit and looter
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That's like saying the rest of the world shouldn't care about the UK's content filtering. None of us live in isolation; all our lawmakers are friends and they like to share ideas and cut deals.
Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example
The parent is referring to the performance of the database driver. The performance of the database driver doesn't affect the performance of the rest of the application.
So when I'm living in the Netherlands I cannot continue? (its not in the list)
Are you American? They say that their training set has an American bias (reason for the "may indicate European ..." disclaimer).
This is a good question. Currently we've integrated the queue in two projects in production state: user-space proxy server and VPN capturer (Linux kernel module).

In both the cases we enhanced the queue with conditions like is the queue empty or is it full, so we can drop packets if consumers are overloaded and there is no sense to put a packet to the queue.

Secondly, the queue is designed to work on multi-core environments and this is usually multi-node NUMA systems for modern hardware. So we adjusted both the applications in such manner that administrator can assign different number of cores for all processors for consumers and producers depending on current workload. This makes the system mode balanced, so queue is empty or full rarely.

And finally, for kernel space we also implemented lightweight also lock-less condition wait for the queue (http://natsys-lab.blogspot.ru/2013/08/lock-free-condition-wa...). It also gives us lower CPU consumption when there is no workload (so the system eats less power) and even better performance due to reduced cache bouncing.
You know that posting irrelevant information or bias just to be controversial in order to raise attention is called "trolling", right?
I'm not really convinced of this at all. Especially since the fear of monopolies seems to magically vanish when its monopolies the government creates (and no I'm not talking about the water plant or whatever).

For example, for all the fear mongering about Microsoft's monopoly in the 90s, the reality ended up being that the free market is a fickle mistress and Microsoft's power dwindled pretty quickly when mobile and web came around and changed the game on them (see: innovator's dilemma). Another great example is AOL/Time Warner. All those lawsuits and extensive government intervention were complete wastes of money, and I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now all the current "dominant players" have been overrun as well.

Compare this to the monopolies granted and supported by the government in the form of patents and copyrights. Disney, while gaining its early success from taking from the public domain, enjoys Congress' approval to basically get indefinite copyright extensions and never have to relinquish any of their work. We the tax payer get to subsidize reducing Disney's competition. And hopefully here I don't have to go into the details of how detrimental technology patents have been to both consumers and new businesses (and arguably even the companies that hold the patents!).

In other words, I'm actually not that scared of "natural" monopolies: i.e. monopolies that get to where they are legitimately through actually convincing 100% of consumers to buy their product, vs. by filing paperwork to the US government and then sending cease and desist letters to competitors. I also believe it would be much harder to attain such a "natural" monopoly in a patentless world.

What scares me is the interaction between corporations and governments to establish monopolies that legally cannot be challenged, or alternatively, to augment their monopolies by influencing high ranking members of congress. I'd gladly trade the risk of doom-and-gloom potential monopolies for eliminating patents.
I don't think that is what he wrote, but anyway, what you say has to do with how each OS works and neither is inherently bad. I do think however that the way Windows maximizes applications is more consistent, which is always better. Maybe that is why on a Mac one tends not to maximize a window as often as on Windows.
wget. curl. Seriously, if you're dealing with malicious files, you don't want some massive software package interacting with it. Attack surface area, and all that.
It's everybody, not just the women.
The issue of Net neutrality is a global phenomenon/risk. Telcos in Nigeria abuse their positions as the primary carrier of data and they are protected by having 'licenses'

MTN and Rocket Internet recently tied a deal. I wrote about the risk here

http://oonwoye.com/2013/12/17/mtn-rocket-internet-deal-worri...
"The mystery of why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?"
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Discuss : Google will do to physical what it did to Internet
Driverless cars, Internet balloons network, robots, home sensors, optic fiber network.
I think Google is building a big puzzle. It will be a bit creepy when it is completed.

I think Internet was just the beginning. They will follow the same pattern for the physical world : crawl it, measure, analyze and build free or cheap services then put ad on it.

Imagine Google Taxis. They would be driverless. They would transport you, know where you go. they would also capture every bit of information about the environnement : every shop, every car, every work in progress in every city ...
I think Google Streetview cars are their very first real-world crawlers. They are the early websites directories of Internet first years. Based on human drivers, not automated, not so up-to-date ... Then will come driverless cars, sensors at home, balloons, maybe ships and drones.

Data quantities they own about you, about the world will explode.

Although their mission is "Organize world information ...", not only Internet information ...

Someone has the same vision ??
I hear him, Internet could become a caste system for businesses. But from what I understood, the ruling was more about the FCC trying to bend rules to accomodate everyone with carrier types (common carrier?). Yesterday's ruling raised awareness but the game is far from over.
Nice product, well executed. Reminds me of IMified a few years back.

If you want to build something similar yourself for your own app, it's very easy with the Wit API [1]

[1] https://wit.ai
Of course. You need roads so you have somewhere to detonate IED roadside bombs.
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I kinda hear ya.

However - I always thought of twitter more as a communication protocol rather then a content app. I think twitter today is indeed already full of noise, and anyway there's no way to use it for content without curation tools.
This hack does require a high DPI screen though. If you have a normal monitor on OS X, and just want to make stuff a bit bigger, it's going to look like crap.
Thank you, hopefully our little hackathon experience will inspire others to build their own Apps too! :D
Yes... Also, you can get anything you like over the counter in Cambodia and presumably other less developed countries ... good luck to anyone trying to regulate that.
I asked this of a curator at the British Museum several years ago. And he replied that it was the Sumerians that first adopted the 24 hours in a day convention. But he didn't know who came up with 60 minutes in an hour.
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There was a proposition for a day of 10 hours, each having 100 minutes, each having 1000 seconds.

And later, with the calendar came a simpler version with 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute, and so on (Article XI of the "Décret de la Convention Nationale concernant l'Ere des Français" [1]). It was only official (and mandatory) for a few months, however [2].

Edit: the one with 1M seconds a day was only an earlier draft version that never made it into law.

[1]: http://www.gefrance.com/calrep/decrets.htm (in french)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#France
In Spain on contrary, pentadecimal:

diez, once, doce, trece, catorce, quince | dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve
Hmm, popcorn is a single chatroom within a location. Ripple is multiple chatrooms within a location, but based on a topic. There is no signup. That actually creates some really interesting use cases. Hopefully, you'll decide to try it out! :)
They can only overcrowed because of corn feeding. Grass fed cows can't really be mass produced and factory farmed.
New health care regulations significantly complicate the lives of those trying to start or grow a business (at least businesses smaller than big corporations).

I must be missing something because as someone who is growing a small business, the ACA (and its Massachusetts predecessor) has significantly simplified my life.
One advantage of high-density displays you sometimes see mentioned is that "we won't need to use anti-aliasing / sub-pixel rendering!"

However at the common "high" density used in cellphones these days, 320+ DPI or so, artifacts in non-AA fonts are still visible (not always, or to everybody, but sometimes anyway).

So, at least, there are some cases where higher-density than today could yield some benefit.
Is anyone familiar with this? How does it compare with VNC or NX?
Unfortunately, there is no good explanation of the algorithm which you refers, also I didn't find a source code for this.
Ok thanks. It's a pretty cool idea. The freelance market definitely deserves having a service such as yours.
US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers
In Russian, decimal:

восемь (8), девять (9), десять (10) | одиннадцать, двенадцать, тринадцать, четырнадцать, пятнадцать, шестнадцать, семнадцать, восемнадцать, девятнадцать.
Synchronise your clock
Here in Brazil, if you're friends with the pharmacist, this is easy.
There's some bias, no doubt, and the sample is barely representative. But the thing is that there's lots of new hardware, like Thinkpads, that ships pre-configured with higher DPI. Drop by drop, but this will tilt the scales .. if it hasn't already.
IMified? Was acquired by Voxeo in 2009. Was the same kind of tool, but on IM networks rather than Twitter.
This actually might be good for my grandparents. They live pretty far out from the nearest town and during storms in the winter the roads can be blocked for a week or more. It seems like this would be something good to have in their first aid kit.

Are there antibiotics that keep well and are good for general infections? (Purely as a last resort if there's no way for them to get medical attention)
What this article is saying is that Google is finally putting together a SERIOUS challenger to their Ad revenue business in the form of consumer devices.

Google is now "serious" because they bought a company with $300 million in annual revenue? If you must talk percentages, that is less than 1/2 of 1% of Google's revenue. It is 1/10th Motorola's revenue last year.

That argument doesn't fly at all. Google bought Nest to continue the same strategy they've been using for many years, which is finding ways to leverage their technology and name[^1]. That Google makes enormous sums from advertising doesn't diminish those attempts, nor does it undermine the intention of the people behind them.

^1 - I've seen quite a few people talk about how "most" people are now concerned about Nest/privacy, etc, where their most is a minuscule sampling of their blogging and twittering peers. Among the mainstream public sentiments are extremely positive regarding Google, and I would wager that the overwhelming majority would see "A Google Company" on the box as a huge positive.
I realize all that but pulling the cord is the only sane thing to do. The food that gets produced is basically poison anyway so excluding it isn't the end of the world. I would be fine with increasing food stamps before continuing these market distorting crop subsidies.
That's weird. I can easily buy erythromycin in the drugstore. I thought this drugstore was for humans, well, I have never checked...
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"Since these medications are not regulated for use in humans, there are no guarantees as to their quality or potency."

Also no regulation as to how they are used. Super-bugs are being bred by over-use, and a careless or ignorant individual can make his/her own infection hard to kill by using antibiotics in other than the approved way (e.g. not finishing the course).
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Wow, great tool, thanks!
Isn't the fact that the rest of the world uses those definitions an advantage in and of itself? What is there to be gained by being inconsistent?

Relevant picture I found on twitter: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bdp2YLFCIAAM1Dy.png
> public relations exercise

Without reading through it, it would seem it may have a great deal of effect on public relations in the participating countries. I'd imagine it may be used as PR leverage against countries who did not participate as well. "Just look at how little Russia and NZ care about the environment!"
I'm sure it tastes better and in small doses is probably fine. If the cow is eating enough corn to get sick then you have obviously made a huge mistake.
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I remember coming to the conclusion at the time that the security researcher must be kind of going nuts or something; doesn't seem quite so nuts now. Surely a professional would spot a rogue chip or device though?
This app makes me think of Popcorn..

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popcorn-messaging/id71841670...

I wonder if more people are using Ripple because so far I haven't had much conversations with Popcorn.
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I think the main problem isn't the quality of the system of measurement used by the US, but more that it is one of only three countries still not using the metric system.

The world would be an easier place without that headache.
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Getting a Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor
> It’s fast because it compiles source code to native code

Actually, that's why it's slow. pypy is significantly slower than cpython in fact, primarily for short-life scripts.

The initial start time can easily double or triple the run time in some cases.

To be fair, it's only a couple of seconds extra, but for many tiny scripts this amounts to a lot of wasted time. It's not a magical cure all in all situations.

...that said, its so fantastically easy to drop in, in most cases its worth trying to see how it performs just for fun~

pypy setup.py install
pypy app.py
[INFO ] Kivy v1.8.0-dev
[INFO ] [Logger ] Record log in /Users/d/.kivy/logs/kivy_14-01-15_2.txt
[INFO ] [Factory ] 156 symbols loaded
...

(drop in replacement for fun times? without having to change all your print and import statements? yes please~)
Although OS research is being done with OCaml by Xen Foundation and Cisco

http://www.openmirage.org/
They "fixed" this in Mavericks by only allowing a window to be on one screen. The window only renders on the monitor it is the majority on.
Curiously enough I'd expect meat to get cheaper because its' production would have to get a lot more thoughtful to be profitable. Right now what we have is expensive in direct and indirect costs. The meat is of poor quality and will make people sick so all these government programs pay for these costs on this side of the equation too. Basically the consumer pays for the meat, subsidies, AND healthcare to cover the cost of the subsidies making the meat of poor quality that made them sick.
As a European living in America I disagree. The one value of metric vs imperial is that you (for the most part) don't have to do any math when converting between units.

If I have 1.73 miles, I have to do the math to figure out how many feet that is, 1.73*5280~=9134, which is not something that's easy for me to do in my head.

However, 1.73 km is 1730 meters, which is way easier (at least for me, but that might be my bias).
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This is already reality in some countries. Like India for instance.

1st Indian entrepreneur: I plan to launch a search engine that understands Indian languages and contexts better than Google.

VC: Well since Google has already paid telcos like Airtel (http://www.airtel.in/free-zone/) so their searches and even some results don't use up any of the data plan, we are passing.

2nd Indian entrepreneur: I have an idea for a social network that is better than Facebook.

VC: Sorry, Well since Facebook has already paid telcos like Airtel (http://www.medianama.com/2014/01/223-airtel-facebook-free-hi...) so their site/app doesn't consume data while being used, we are passing.
Which is precisely the reason why the US military has adopted the metric system.
Why do you think there must be a crash for mass adoption to happen? I'd say on contrary: some amounts of BTC must be owned by almost everyone in order to become a regular money, but that would mean that the price of 1 BTC would have to go north of $10M. The price is merely an indicator of the demand (since the supply is fixed).
I wonder what else they might need help deciding... Who should be the next CEO? What shall we have for lunch tomorrow? How clueless should we present ourselves online?
Haha you aren't alone on that one.
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They keep the animals in unhealthy, unnatural conditions where they will get sick more often. The antibiotics are there to combat that and the side effects of eating corn (in the case of cows) make them very unhealthy and prone to getting sick as well. The whole thing is a mess.
The FDA only regulates drugs in the United States. Presumably you are located elsewhere, or if you are in the US you are likely referring to the same phenomenon described in this paper.
> Exactly how many citizens in Hong Kong are dying because of hunger

Depending on how you count it, measures of food insecurity in HK show about 1.5 million [1] (in a population of ~7 million). Oxfam in 2011 [2][3], for example, tracks 16% of poor households with children suffer from frequent starvation and 30% from simply not being able to afford enough food.

Homelessness is less severe...relatively. Surveys in the city find ~1000 people sleep in the streets -- and local weather makes this a less severe option than say...Toronto. You probably won't die on the streets in HK from exposure. But HK also offers a surprisingly unregulated housing market that allows for people to sublet incredibly small spaces and even stack rental units in a single dwelling like kennels. Estimates put 100,000 people living in these conditions [5] Significantly more live in apartments between 24-40 square feet. [6]

But this you could find out for yourself with a minute of googling, that you didn't shows you are simply trying to reinforce some preconceived notion.

1 - http://feedinghk.org/the-big-issues/hunger-101/

2 - http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1630.aspx

3 - http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/1630/FoodSurveyReportAug2011...

4 - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/youeprj/hope/homelessness.html

5 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-c...

6 - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photo...
"Germanic languages have special words for 11 and 12, such as eleven and twelve in English, which are often misinterpreted as vestiges of a duodecimal system. However, they are considered to come from Proto-Germanic ainlif and twalif (respectively one left and two left), both of which were decimal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin
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This sort of change is a great idea on a fundamental level: define our units in terms of fundamental constants or processes that are absolutely reproducible. But as the article explains, any such definition has to be at least as precise in practice as the less fundamental definitions that they replace.

Hence the challenge (mentioned in the article) of defining the kilogram in a sensible way. The obvious method would be to say "1 kg = the mass of [###] of carbon atoms" or something like that. But counting 10^23 individual atoms is impossible for all practical purposes: it's still less precise than just weighing that reference lump of metal (despite the flaws of that approach).

The remarkable thing described in this article is that scientists are evidently at the verge of being able to count one electron at a time fast enough for use in calibrating actual, practical current measurement devices. That's pretty cool.
What kind of processor and transmitter do they use to get such a long battery life without sleeping device?
It is memory safe as long as you use SafeD mode (@safe).
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I've never heard of this project or person, but it looks interesting too.
I remember here in the UK, Three (a UK mobile network operator) allowed for free access to Facebook. This was before the days of the iPhone though and it took you to a stripped down mobile site.
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