skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many small businesses do not use these services due to that cost. I know many people who run small stores that casually walk a couple of thousand dollars to the bank after a good day.

Hell, I used to work at a pub that had it's staff carry over $100k to the bank every Monday morning, though that amount is arguably grossly irresponsible both from a business perspective and with regards to staff safety.
https://multibit.org/faq.html
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Be useful to document the distinction between:

match x { (y) => { ... }

and:

match x { (ref mut y) => { ... }

In there too. I think ref x matches (particularly from Result) are pretty common.
Is this Italy's Mark Zuckerberg?
> If the will of "the people" is to exterminate a minority, and the military carries out that intent, that's not anti-democratic.

Well then, I don't care much for your notion of "democracy", and don't particularly understand why it would be worth defending or even necessarily better than minority rule in the first place.

Most reasonable definitions of democracy delineate between mere mob rule, and democracy as a governmental philosophy (including aspects like equality before the law).
Quite. Additionally:

"...will also make fraud virtually impossible..."

I'm pretty sure this line is trotted out every time a new payment technology is introduced. But one that's tied to some irrevocable, personally-assigned 'key'... yup: nothing could possibly go wrong there!
> Okay, even if, why does this matter? Lots of suburbanization was motivated by white flight.

Anyways, this tangent is so completely unrelated to my original point that we might as well be quibbling over wording.
Nano-pixels" hold huge potential for flexible, low-power, high-res screens
Is routine use of pesticides on 'organic' farms an american thing? I'm not familiar with the US organic standards / regulations.

In the UK, the Soil Association (organic standards body) claims [1] that pesticides are used "Very rarely" on organic farms. So it strikes me as quite odd that there's all this discussion about organic pesticides as if their use is on par (or even greater than) non-organic pesticide use.

[1] http://www.soilassociation.org/frequentlyaskedquestions/your...
"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
New russian 8-core CPU
Not really. Sometimes it's faster to do the calculations and check after the fact if NaN flag was set instead of checking for division by zero at every point. Languages that auto crash on division by zero will always be slower at such applications.
Healthy living needs global governance
Man left dog in hot car while eating out
I think there recently was a proposal for reallocarray in glibc. Not sure what happened to it though.
The idea that you need 154 packages to run Apache is pretty sad. Part of it is base system bloat, the rest is tge idea you better link packages with all their possible options (unless you use gentoo).
To go along with the Gospel of Matthew references [1], "No one can serve two masters" (Matt 6:29).

This is a lesson your arguably most relevant predecessor, the NTS project from the early 2000s [3,4], learned too well --they too found TeX82 hopelessly quaint and monolithic, frozen in time for the sake of backward compatibility [2]:

"The stated aims of the project are very simple: to continue the tradition of Donald Knuth's TeX by providing first-class typesetting software which is both portable and available free of charge. But whereas TeX is now frozen (Knuth no longer has either the time or the inclination to extend it), NTS is intended to remain flexible and extensible. Indeed, its very raison d'être is to provide a portable platform on which experiments and extensions can be easily layered."

And how could anyone find fault in their reasoning? It felt right after all: in the dawn of the 21st century, with modern programming paradigms and all that computing power, why get stuck with Pascal and outdated space concerns? And so they did [2]:

"NTS is written in Java; the group debated for some time which language was the ideal language for a complete re-implementation, and although the original desiderata stressed that it should be a modern, rapid-prototyping language, further introspection suggested that a modern, object-oriented, truly portable language was even more important. On that basis, Sun's Java was chosen, and experience during the first year has suggested that that decision was justified. Even though Java lacks something in terms of type declarations and static polymorphism, its genuinely portable nature ("compile once, run anywhere" is Sun's justifiable claim for this language), combined with its network-awareness and widespread availability, make it an ideal language for the task."

Suffice to say their efforts didn't pan out as they hoped. It turns out, efficiency is a thing --even with modern hardware [5,6]-- and, as it happens, high extensibility/modularity and efficiency are very, very hard to achieve in the general case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8026671

[2] http://nts.tug.org/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Typesetting_System

[4] Or their immediate successors, the ExTeX project - http://www.extex.org/

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
A note on "The worst programming interview question"
The purpose of most work in programming language abstraction is separation of concerns, it's not like we weren't doing that before someone coined another name for modularization and a new mechanism (AOP) for doing that.
> is 100% built and owned by private companies.

You left off the part where de facto government granted monopolies helped build the capital base and in many cases directly funded infrastructure investments.
It would be cool to see a comparison between AOP and the monad stacks of Haskell.
I had that feeling too, so I started publishing his posts in GitBook, which has nice formatting and syntax highlighting: https://www.gitbook.io/book/aminb/rust-for-c

The repo, from which the book is built, is available on GitHub: https://github.com/aminb/rust-for-c

I tried contacting and asking him before, but didn't hear back, so I just went ahead and did it myself.
Or you could use mixin layers or virtual classes, or open class patterns. There is literally a million ways to do this. Today, I use partial classes and approximated mixins (C# doesn't have real mixins).
What a great startup idea. Most CCTV footage analysis services focus on identifying individuals or following paths, but why not actually try and classify things like actions? Things like:

1) Service staff movement.
2) Cell phone usage.
3) Menu opening/browsing.
4) Average length of time.

Charging a restaurant $250/month for something like this would be a small portion of the rent they pay. And if you can decrease "Average Length of Stay" by 10% without decreasing service, you could significantly grow revenue.
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And this is another in a list of things that drive me batty about US banking. I had a contactless debit card, issued by Chase Bank, years ago. They renewed it with the non-NFC version and won't give anyone (apart from accounts opened in 4 states, even if you now live in one of those states) an NFC card.

Chip and PIN is even worse. My employer gives me a company American Express that has a chip and I got a PIN. Because Amex marks their cards as "signature priority," most places ask for a signature and a lot of unattended kiosks break, even in Europe. I can't even get a chip/PIN debit card.

Why does banking here have to suck so bad compared to every other developed banking system?
I've long argued this same point. Somewhere along the line "startup" become synonymous with "tech startup" and everyone seemed to decide this is the way it'll work. There are plenty of elements of these startups that are as important - if not more important - than tech.
I was unclear. I agree with this and was trying to say essentially this. Rich and powerful can try to contain those at the bottom through various means, but eventually those means won't be able to contain them.
لمعرفة نتيجة الثانوية العامة علمى وادبى 2014 موقع وزارة التربية والتعليم
This is actually new, OSH Park has made a couple big improvements in the last year or so; it wasn't possible the last time I looked into it, and even then OSH Park was a bit of an outlier in terms of the small process sizes they could do.
Alpine Linux might be helpful for minimizing both RAM and disk footprint.
I recommend working through this book as a starting point:
http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfphp/

If you are just getting starting with html/css there is an html/css book that would be a good idea to work through first.

The head first books will give you a good foundation in PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS.

After working through those books you need to pick your own project to work on . . . pick some type of website or simple web app that you need . . . and work on that . . .

Build a few of your apps from scratch, writing your own login system, etc (using one of the tutorials out there). It's a good idea to write everything from scratch so you can understand what goes on behind the scenes in an app.

After that you're going to want to learn a framework. For PHP I recommend Laravel. There are great screen casts at laracasts.com.

As far as future employment . . . I would recommend trying to pick up some freelance projects as soon as you're comfortable with html/css/php. Wordpress might be a good skill to learn to get you familiar with php/mysql uploading files and it's php based.

Once you are familiar with php and laravel you can look for a php job using laravel. Also consider learning Rails (Ruby Framework) as there are lots of opportunities in Rails.

When you get stuck on something google for it and look for answers on stackoverflow.com.

That should get you moving in the right direction.
The purpose of declaring a C empty structure
There are also:
- Erlang on Xen (http://erlangonxen.org/)
- Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (http://corp.galois.com/halvm)
This assumes a NumPy matrix.
I took my kids to play with loaded guns ... when they end up bruised from the kick-back of a shot-gun and see a clay pigeon turn to powder mid-air, they gain an appreciation for why guns aren't really toys. We played with toy guns while growing up, but I never would have considered trying to open my dad's gun cabinet.
In some ways, the most startling thing about this essay is the work affiliation of its author: "John Beckman is an English professor at the United States Naval Academy and the author of 'American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt.'" On my own part, as a parent of four children, I encourage my children to be defiant in applying higher principles to analyzing whether or not to follow arbitrary rules. My oldest son coined the phrase "conform to nonconformity" when he was stifled by some of the silly customs at JHU-CTY camp. But for the most part, although young people try random misbehavior all over the world, there is a lot more personal development to be had from self-discipline in pursuit of curiosity and independence than from mindless thrill-seeking.
I'm not an AOP practitioner or apologist (Greek definition) but I think that AOP is emphasizing separation-of-concerns that are non-functional and non-core algorithm. Logging, audits, safety, etc. This is different emphasis of thinking from the abstraction/modularization of passing a custom compare() as a function pointer to quicksort().

I believe that speaking of AOP as an isolated concept is reasonable. Whether it reduces down to "hooks" or reduces even further down to assembly language "mov, add, jmp" instructions is not that interesting to me.

We have text editors that are 1-dimensional and linear. The programming code is not in "layers" like layers in Photoshop or AutoCAD drawings, and yet we're trying overlay N-dimensions of concerns throughout the code. We have some crude attempts such as text editors outlining collapse/expand of code regions (code folding). We have syntax coloring of programming language keywords but not of the higher-level concerns. Can the tools make this better?! Maybe. We (the computer scientists and programmers out in the real world) are trying to figure out how to interweave all this in a sane way. A focus on this issue of coding all the N-dimensional cross-cutting concerns will naturally lead to a umbrella concept that's researched in isolation.[1]

I don't believe in AOP as the The Next Big Thing. I also don't believe reducing it to just "hooks" adds to the research about it.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=n-dimensional+concerns+progr...
Not to mention my very favorite "feature" of being non-revokable. Well, only once per finger. And you only got a finite amount of them by nature. It'll be so much fun when the payment database gets compromised!

I always thought most biometrics vendors were fishy, and this is no exception.
Do you realize that you just jumped headlong onto the slippery slope of complete subjectivity that can only lead to a paralyzing inability to set a coherent thought to paper?
Seems not to be "new" but an implementation of a Sparc V9 ?
Yes, installing camlimages is very tricky. Newest versions of Patoline try to work without it.
We are talking about risks to people working in the fields. Every time a farmer applies anything to a field, he will have to put on safety gear, measure out an amount, mix it with water, load it into the sprayer, drive the tractor around, and then clean up afterwards. When you are working with enough of a chemical to kill a hundred people, every single one of these steps carries the risk of an acute exposure. Dead is dead, regardless of how it happens. Don't dismiss it.

edit: From source [1]:

> Chronic toxicity: Vineyard sprayers experienced liver disease after 3 to 15 years of exposure to copper sulfate solution in Bordeaux mixture [8]. Long term effects are more likely in individuals with Wilson's disease, a condition which causes excessive absorption and storage of copper [25]. Chronic exposure to low levels of copper can lead to anemia [8]

So yeah, its still bad for you.
From Obamacare to Marks and Spencer: when websites go wrong
paper: http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/67/43/79/PDF/paper.pdf

basically the idea here is that you can select on attributes like "fewest packages installed" or "smallest installed size" or "fewest changes to existing system" of the resulting set rather than just picking the first solution that satisfies the dependency tree.

I don't know how useful this is, given that (from the perspective of a package maintainer) most code is written to use one specific library; iow, there are few || dependencies in the tree, even for Gentoo, which supports almost every configuration that upstream does. other distros will have significantly fewer, given that their binaries will, by the nature of Linux linking, be linked to a single set of libraries (assuming no dlopen).
http://campmediterraneo.com/en/node/36446
You can purchase 8.5x11 sheets with integrated cards. The cards can be plain paper, laminated or plastic. They can be printed using standard ink jet or laser printers. Usually the card is at the bottom center of the page leaving the rest of the page to print a welcome message etc.

A Google search brought up http://www.blanksusa.com/products/integrated-cards
she certainly is a lot more exuberant in her points than me, however as someone who has "lived abroad" for more than 8 years now, I don't consider it "living abroad" at all - yet I agree with her conjecture... I believe that "living abroad" should be something that intelligent countries require their citizens to do (instead of something idiotic like required military service).

things I find most notably true in her article are the following:

1. I find myself much more patient

2. I find it difficult to express myself in "only" english anymore

3. living out of a suitcase is possibly one of the most liberating experiences ever.

4. the learned concept that all over this planet there are so many individual experiences happening at the same time, and many of which I could never even understand because I don't know the culture, or am not aware that this is even a possibility of existence. amazing.
Probably to differentiate from swimming-pool swimming?
There are other, more subtle differences. In Python 3 this doesn't work.

>>> filter(lambda (x, y): x > y, ((1, 2), (4, 3)))

And 2.7 returns the filter result in the input type.

>>> filter(lambda x: x in 'ABC', 'ABCDEFA')
'ABCA'

In 3 it's an extra step.

>>> ''.join(filter(lambda x: x in 'ABC', 'ABCDEFA'))
'ABCA'
As a person who used to drink coffee from McDonald's in that era, it was extremely hot, with italics. My surprise about the reaction to that case was that I assumed that the vast majority of the US had had a cup of coffee from McDonald's. I'd been burned by their coffee before; it was just one of the many risks of my morning commute.

I just think that we rationalized the risks to our safety because a company as large as McDonald's must have done a lot of studies on their coffee and figured out a temperature that was the perfect compromise between preventing disease and putting meltdown hot liquids in the hands of people driving cars. I thought that their goal in making the coffee that hot was to lower their net liability (and hence, the public's net danger) rather than what it really was - a way to serve coffee that got very old.

It was a business decision that had a money value for the company. They undertook it in order to make money. Paying for the externalities in court is a good place for McDonald's to learn how to recalibrate how much injury is worth, and see if their price calculation for raising the temperature of their coffee still makes sense.

At the time, the reactionary corporate rhetoric parodied the position of consumer advocates as requiring businesses to cover coffee cups with long elaborate disclaimers about how coffee could possibly be hot. Go buy a cup of coffee at McDonald's today - you'll see nothing of the sort. Turns out you don't need much if you just don't serve coffee as hot as lava to save money.
Design Inspiration / Bench.li
Big agra has been able to shrink the cost per calorie at a rate which has kept food costs in check, so I'm not sure I can allow the assumption of increased costs being a given. We can talk portion of costs, relative costs, or per capita... there could be advances that enable a new green revolution... if you would just pray at the altar of big agra and wear your nitrate and phosphate filters according to the directions. :)
>You might choose not to eat the non-organic food but you can't avoid the Atrazine [1] in the rain

That's a very US-centric point of view. It was banned in the EU for a reason.
Airbnb's legal troubles. What are the issues?
Location: Shanghai

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: YES, even frequently

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Email: my username @ gmail.com

I'm graduating this October in Computer Science from University of Padua, Italy. Born and raised in Italy, I'm now ready to work with super talented people around the world, to solve the most exciting and competitive problems, and to plan and execute tremendously complex projects.
Good idea. Can you share source code?
I've built pagewerk which takes files from one directory and wraps a jinja2 template around. No configuration needed.
https://github.com/thomersch/pagewerk
Watch Germany vs Argentina Live http://campmediterraneo.com/en/node/36568
Very neat. Particularly like that you've included instructions for running locally. Kudos.
Why downloads on OS X show a modified date of 24 Jan 1984
Have you hand plucked bugs by hand from potatoes?

My mom has a small garden (and I helped her around when I was little), it takes a LOT of time to pluck all insects from just potatoes. That is time just for that can easily be 4-6 hours. Also plucking in the evenings is like reading a book on dark side of Mars, in a barrel.
You can't spot the fuckers in low light, you need best light available so only morning and in the afternoon will do.

What this comes to is this, if you use 0 pesticide that means you have to pay workers to do so which means lower efficiency and higher prices. Price for organics should (under given circumstances) be between 4-10 times more expensive.
seconded. Anand, I would pay for this as a service. Please let me.
> No longer can teachers be reasonable by allowing you to solve a problem your own way, as long as you show your work and get the right answer.

Suppose after a week of lectures on sorting, you ask your students to implement a sorting algorithm. From one student, you get back a 400 line monstrosity that somehow, miraculously, does the right thing. Do you shrug it off and say "as long as it works", or do you grow very concerned that the student is somehow missing the forest for the trees, even though they arrived at an apparently correct answer?

In my experience teaching, it's far more likely that the student doesn't understand some basic, necessary underlying concepts than that the student is very bright and was trying to come up with a super optimized sorting algorithm. Both will exist, and you have to differentiate. The worst bit is that often the idiots know this, and imagine themselves to be super intelligent, so they're impossible to teach.

IMHO "just get the right answer" has never been a reasonable way to teach math.

> All this has done is remove parents from the teaching process.

I hear this a lot. We're basically just talking about different ways of doing arithmetic or multiplication.

It's akin to bitching and moaning because someone taught your kid insertion sort, and you only know bubble sort so now you can't teach your kid sorting.

Is the problem that the curriculum developers are being obtuse, or is the problem that many parents and teachers never really had a deep enough understanding addition/multiplication/division in the first place?

It's pretty scary how few of our elementary/middle school teachers -- who teach math -- cannot differentiate from the definition of addition (a set of axioms), and algorithms which implement addition. Because they don't know the difference between a specification and an implementation, teaching multiple implementations seems silly. But it's not silly at all, and the difference between the definition of a thing and an algorithm matching the definition is something our elementary, middle and high school students can, should, and hopefully will understand -- unmotivated and stubborn teachers/parents be damned.
Thank you for this pertinent observation.

I must confess that after examining all the failed attempts at "writing modern TeX" when I got upset with the TeX packages I wanted to write, I got despaired that so many people had tried and failed before.
NTS is probably the worst example, since "rewriting software X using language Y" is something I do not really understand nor support (especially when language Y is only "felt" superior to the original language, using only non-theoretically-backed dogmas such as "object coolness" to support these assertions).
Lout is certainly a more pertinent example, but there are also others, including Microsoft Word.

After examining the possibilities of doing something usable, and reading great books (most importantly Bringhurt's Elements of Typograhic Style) we felt that we could do something different, and that the world really needed a different tool.

And right now, Patoline is already different, because we are not serving any master. The idea is the following: imagine you have two users, God and Baal. God wants a forward-compatible tool that he can write stable rules for the universe with. Baal wants bleeding-edge experimental features to be added all the time, and compile his documents to web pages for ever-changing standards.

When we are ready to release Patoline 1.0, both will be able to combine the modules into their favorite tool: God will be able to write something that will work in saecula, and Baal will have his fancy stuff.