skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just call those two SafarIE. Safari is shaping up to be the new IE so we might as well just say them in one phrase instead of always specifying them both.
Apps that run directly on the SIM card are relatively unknown in the US. We (in Canada) normally download apps that run on the phone's OS, like Android or iOS apps. Running apps directly on the SIM card is very unlikely.
Thank you lotharbot ^_^. We appreciate it! Great GIF btw
I love it. You should probably get another domain though for the imminent C&D
Thank you JT :D
There is only 20 people there under 15, must be lonely for those kids.
I'm sorry I was not clear. It's not the negative part I don't get, it's the "every other number". Other than what? I'm not an english native speaker so it might be a math-related english expression I don't know. Is it?
Yeah thumnail thing we have to work on. Thank you ^_^ appreciate the comment
ahahaha YESSS the create gif enter is something we wanted to change but just never got to :[. Will do soon!
An important corollary is that "the happiness of current residents" may negatively correlated to "the happiness of new migrants" (who won't have the deep family roots).

Therefore, using this research to plan a relocation may be counterproductive.
Very good point! Will do this :D Cheers
I have studied geology and believe that to be FUD.
I think Bezos just turned the newsroom into whores standing in red-lit windows on the street.

Possibly something like this would be OK if it was in a separate "Resources" section at the end of the article.
Darn both taking! Will keep thinking :3
If you guys know a lot about the period, I just transcribed it on Genius and I'd appreciate some help annotating it: http://history.genius.com/George-orwell-review-of-mein-kampf...

(full disclosure I work at Genius.)
There are some phenomena, such as a failure of long term averages of some actual physical-world stochastic processes to converge

That's a general property of levy-stable probability distributions, which occur all over the place, and you don't have to resort to unconventional probability to explain most of these processes.
Whoever made your site. Don't fire them, shoot them.
Actually _those_ are relevant. You are judging from the side (just like me). Those people have to work with whatever their environment provides.

Belittling their issues is not very helpful.
The air transportation market is sort of like two markets though, agree with everything you said for a flight from NY to Chicago, but I could believe the market is underserving potential travelers in rural areas. More of a lack of services issue rather than a cost issue.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana

Somebody asked, why this document is so high up-voted. I would say, we can't up-vote it enough, when we have the chance to learn from history and especially from the dark sides of history and from people like George Orwell.

Chance is very big, that a new era of darkness could fall on humanity, if we don't stop it at the right time (and nobody knows, when the chance is over).
The capital-intensive entities that own all the robots and whose revenue comes from human consumption.
Uh, from the article:

>>barely one in 20 of the population under the age of 15

>>[the population] more than halved again, to below 10,000

So 10K/20 == 500.
Definitely :3. Any suggestions?
Really good idea and well executed.
Would you mind saying a few words behind the code?

Do you scrape the whole video, or just the part requested? And is the conversion to gif a library or something you wrote?

I'm totally ignorant when it comes to scraping videos and converting them, but I find it interesting.
Quote again from the article, did you read it?

> What no one here knew that day, May 30, 2013, was that the investment company, DC Energy, was reaping rewards from the swelter

Price offset gained was greater 1.5 million (* this is on one occurence of a grid overburden. The wholesale price jump was 550%, which is somewhat of a hint to the initial investment).

> Those profits are a small fraction of the fortune that traders at DC Energy and elsewhere have pocketed because of maneuvers involving the nation’s congested grid.

Key term here is 'maneuvers'. They don't plot down a one big bet scheme. How sophisticated? Here, let's look at the article:

> Across the nation, investment funds and major banks are wagering billions on similar trades using computer algorithms and teams of Ph.D.s, as they chase profits in an arcane arena that rarely attracts attention.

Their _intent is to ensure they are not signalling_.

(editted: *)
Perhaps constantly seeing and feeling the read and unread pages of the book reinforces the sense of when things happened in the story.
Here's a Mr Worm game (Snake variant) that I made:

http://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/index.html?gist=f3685a7581...
Apologies. I don't right off. If you can't find it, let me know. I should be able to look for it tomorrow AM.
from __init__.guess_bytes(): "This is not a magic bullet. If the bytes are coming from some MySQL database with the "character set" set to ISO Elbonian, this won't figure it out. Perhaps more relevantly, this currently doesn't try East Asian encodings."

The world is a very large place, there are many codepages in use besides latin-1 and "ISO Elbonian". All central european contries use latin-2 (1250), or cyrillic codepage (1251). Since they are all single-byte codepages, they cannot be detected by try: convert() catch: try_another_codepage() and must be distinguished statistically. LTR/RTL language and asian encoding detection is even worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_code_pages

Another python Unicode conversion module which is slightly less US/English-centric: https://github.com/buriy/python-readability
The hedonistic conception of life gives people no meaning at all -- there are many better psychological concepts around, that fill people with a meaning and not only with gadgets.

Why do you think, the catholic church survived for 2000 years -- that is longer than the US capitalism currently lived.
At least in the non-food printers, it's printed in color. They use dyes mixed into the binder and print it out exactly like an inkjet printer does.
For context

> [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades…. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.

I'm not sure this appeals to people more then peace and prosperity but it can have a strong appeal to some people some of the time especially to young men(see ISIS) and especially when your side is winning the war and civilian losses are low.
You could create a backend service that generates 1px swatches of a color; of course, this will only make it one step more difficult to cheat.
It sounds completely wrong to me (my opinion). It's a very utilitarian view of people where, as Orwell describes it here, you get to define some "great" goal, and convince people to fight for it, getting them to sacrifice things of their own in the process. It's all very subservient, manipulative, and a bit inhuman.

Given how prosperous and successful such societies have turned out to be in the past (they all failed), I would have expected someone to just reject it outright in favour of all the other ideas like individuality and freedom, as they are clearly better. I mean, you can't say some ideology is "psychologically sound" and have all its adoptees crash and burn everywhere causing untold amounts of damage. That's not sound at all.

So I was wondering if he meant it, or he was just depressed from how the war was going in 1940. Plus, and maybe I'm just ignorant, I always thought he was against totalitarianism.
Some people go where the store is open. I have a Safeway near me that's open until midnight, but it would have to be something of unusual urgency to make me go there late in the evening. Generally I just wait and go to my preferred supermarket a day later.
I like that the newer character sheet fit on 1 page +items/spells. It was always a pain trying to get someone on the edge to fill those out. "okay you have 14 dex, which is +2. You need to fill the +2 in here, here, here, here, here and here."

I'd suggest trying the starter box. I think I was able to find it for ~12-14 on amazon and it was fun for many of our new players. Pathfinder is still the goto for many of the vets as it's what they know.
>Would you be happy doing that for 10 years? 80K is nearly not enough for most ambitious folks.

Most of the US population lives (and will die having lived with) making less than that annualy.
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I found many of these creations to be remarkably similar to diatoms:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=diatoms&tbm=isch

Also the concept of coloured sugar reminded me of the coloured sugar cubes my grandmother put out for tea with guests. These were proper bought ones and commonly available many decades ago but I have not seen them since.

Generally if someone has a taste for sugar (in tea) they really have no taste. So sugar sculptures as edible food items are going to be 'playing with food' to a certain extent, not that 'yummy' to most people. Maybe sculptures such as 'diatoms' is where this technology can excel rather than 'food'.
Luminoso cofounder here (we make ftfy, among other things). Our use case is fairly specific: a customer uploads text documents, often as a spreadsheet originally exported from someone else's tool, but doesn't think hard about the encodings involved, so in order to serve them well we have to fix whatever happened. Accordingly, we put the most effort into solving problems that happen for our English-centric, US-centric customer base; they're the most important problems for us (though Russian has also gotten some love, as you can see from the commit history). On top of that, making Asian language exports from other tools work correctly usually requires enough encoding-awareness to mitigate a bunch of the problem[1], so we see those problems less frequently.

That said, if you have examples where ftfy fails in any language, please submit them! We want this tool to work well, because anything that we can't fix will cause us to have egg on our faces with a customer someday...

[1]No peeking: how many format options in Excel's "Save As" dialog, excluding Excel formats, produce a document from which Unicode can be recreated accurately?
Totally negates the monetary values of a college degree.

The idea behind science is not to study it because you'll make a lot of money off of it. Even less it is so for humanitities.
Thank you! Are you behind midacru.sh?
Not my site. Just found it and thought it was worth sharing.
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Can you go into more details?

I travel a lot and use a hacked up Chinese phone since it supports dual SIM pretty well but I'd rather use an iPhone. Unfortunately I want both my US and UK numbers and contacts slightly more.
+1 simplicity!
Generally speaking, large companies tend to suck at executing on anything but their core products. Other startups are a far greater threat, simply because they tend to move faster and with greater focus, usually with a much higher-quality product.

In this case though, I'd say the threat is about equal since eHarmony has a massive amount of users. Keep in mind that many startups looking to foster a two-sided market fail because they can't reach the minimum threshold of initial growth required for their product to work as intended.
Uh, I guess? It looks like you're making fun of your own original argument at this point. In this case, if you use these numbers as an indicator of demand the UK clearly has greater demand per capita. And per capita is a much better measure since a country with a bigger population can assimilate and/or integrate a larger number of immigrants, thus it can comfortably have a larger immigration demand than a smaller country.
An amazing book covering the efforts to connect the two oceans is "The Path Between the Seas" by David McCullough.[0]

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_Between_the_Seas
What's wrong with this site?
Feedback welcome. My email is: diafygi+3AT5MGn7bCpHsE6T8vDDfd5oAqaRVxV6pmnFg8gSbUAV@gmail.com
"every other number" == "every second number", i.e. the first, third, fifth ... coefficients are positive, while the second, fourth, sixth .. coefficients are negative. Hope this helps.
gifi.fi (gifify.com is taken). The domain is as of now not registered.
>I always thought he was against totalitarianism

What he writes, does not imply that he is pro-totalitarianism. He only says, that the concept to give people something to hope for, to fight for, to give their life for a "higher meaning" is a more sound psychological concept as "hey, have a good time ... and just live for the next gadget"
"every other X" usually means, every even or every odd X, like:

... 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 ...

Every other number is 0 above.
>This seems wrong (with hindsight, I suppose).

Not that wrong. The whole passage tells more about how he meant it: that people don't just want ease and hedonism, but they also need struggle and passion and meaning and hurt.

People that have it all too easy more often than not fell in for drugs, depression, etc. And conversely, some of the most "happiest" place on earth, according to their citizens own estimations in polls, are places with tragic poverty and harsh conditions.
Awesome concept!

I am not a lawyer, but it seems one could easily argue that an "idiot in a hurry" might confuse this for youtube. Which is sort of what the threshold is for this sort of thing nowadays. So, yea, start thinking about a domain that doesn't include youtube
He meant the Binomial series (i.e. the Taylor series about the origin of (1+x)^n. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_series
Read it in context. Hedonistic utilitarians believe in the alleviation of suffering and the delivery of pleasure (in the sense of such things as comfort and intellectual pleasures as well as baser pleasures). This is in the tradition of John Stuart Mill, and many English thinkers, including socialists such as Orwell, take this premise for granted. The phrase "the greatest good for the greatest number" is commonly used as a description of this kind of hedonistic utilitarianism. The type of socialism that Orwell subscribes to is meant to be an attempt to achieve this end.

By my reading, Orwell is giving Hitler a bit of credit, not only in the fact that he rejects this premise and emphasizes patriotic and militaristic virtues above quality of life, but that he could move an entire nation to agree with this vision. What Orwell means here is that people don't just want comfort and prosperity; they are in fact willing to actively sacrifice these things to achieve a vision, especially one expressed in warlike or patriotic terms. Orwell might be a bit disappointed, and is definitely unsympathetic to fascism, but he does give it credit for being able to inspire people to a grander cause than their own comfort and well-being.
If they put windows phone or blackberry tape on that might defer theft.
I think there is a difference between how you paraphrased him, and what he wrote. He didn't say "appealing" (which I think would have meant the appeal was superficial), he instead chose to say "psychologically sound" (meaning he thought it was not superficial at all). To me those two concepts are quite different.
So cool, congratulations! I made this in a few seconds - http://share.gifyoutube.com/lin.gif
You have it backwards. The conception of hedonistic comfort and "the greatest good for the greatest number" is the definition of utilitarianism; the fascist concept Orwell is calling "psychologically sound" is in fact the rejection of utilitarianism.
I mean you don't have to go too far to find similar themes in say the US. The whole "War on Terror" sure has a very similar feel to it. Not as extreme as in Fascist countries but the general components are still there.
That's a terrible name - they should change it to Either.
We always call things "result" in code, but I've never called a variable "either". That's why I think Either is a better name - it's less likely to clash with valid names.
This is why we can't have nice things!
Has anyone here actually read Mein Kampf? Doing so is probably banned in Germany and I am not sure what there is other than kiddie porn or some al-qaeda training manual that you totally would not want in your browsing history. There could come a time when no living person has read Mein Kampf and nobody would know first hand why it is wrong.
The way I read it he is not saying that totalitarianism is good. He is just saying that it should not be underestimated, since it allowed Hitler to get into power and rally a people into war.
Many people in the US are using CDMA phones that don't even have SIM cards.
The notion that the people are there for you to give them something to hope for is somewhat totalitarian by itself.
Well of course you're getting a speed difference, look at how much extra work you're doing in the std::string code! The char[64]s are allocated once but you reallocate the std::strings every time. By pulling the declaration of s1, s2, and s3 to the top, I'm getting equivalent speed (g++ 4.4.7 with -g, 0.02s each time, clock() isn't any more accurate). And for essentially no runtime cost, you're getting memory safety and exception safety.

C++ is all about low-cost abstractions. Any speed difference between the C++ way and the C way should be very small, and the C++ way is safer. Use std::string (and std::vector and all the rest) unless you have a very good reason not too, and then you should probably just write your own custom implementation. Reverting to the C way is just asking for issues.
$80k in San Francisco (especially right now) is like $40k in many parts of the country.
It seems like that in some cultures people need clear excuses or pretences to be together with other people (atheists going to church looks like a pretense, i.e. the church and faith itself is not interesting, but the congregation is). Then religious people might very well become more sociable and communal than non-religious people, since they have a life-long activity and community to engage with. Would it be crazy to, umm, just drop the pretence and hang out with people? To strike up a conversation with a stranger with which you have apparently no activity, institution or familial bond in common without being looked at like you're a weirdo?

Though I guess human interactions are so complex and subtle that it might be a lost cause to try to drop the pretence, sometimes. But maybe some cultures do this a lot, for all I know.
It has nothing to do with economics. It is about strategy.

US is the US of America because of the Panama channel, without it transporting something from coast to coast is so expensive.

That is the reason they basically invaded Colombia and make independent Panama (from Colombia, it made it dependent of the US).

Now, while in theory Panama is now independent from the US, in practice it is not.

If the US wants to create sanctions to those that treat the petrodollar or US hegemony, like Russia(now) or China(tomorrow), and make their commerce with West Africa-Europe and Brazil way more expensive, they could simply close the Panama channel to those countries.

This is unacceptable for China. So China (and Russia) wants an alternative.

It is also a good way to spend their huge stockpile of US dollars China has that loses value with each Quantitative easing.
Sorry, I didn't mean utilitarian in its formal sense, just as form of treating people as a utility for others.
And driving a leased M3? Better watch the mileage limits.
My videos get stretched from 4x3 to 16:9 (they're stuff I've transferred from film). Example: TcoLoIcxCRg
Unlikely. I've worked as a delivery driver for a couple of different places and it was always W2. If you're scheduled to work and you deliver only for Instacart, the IRS will almost certainly view you as an employee.
I agree with you on that. "Either" suggests 'either this or that', to me. "Result" feels too generic. Any value can be called a 'result'.

Though I don't know what the reasoning is on the naming of that type; for all I know it might make a lot of sense within the context of rust and be very much in line with the conventions of the rest of the standard library.
I'm a little jealous of my friends in Louisiana. They have a few acres and have 3 generations of family on it. They live modestly (although not poor) but they're very close and happy.
I strongly suspect you're right. I know that before I could 'grep' digital text, when I remembered something I read in a book, I'd have a rough idea of its page-depth and position on page (in addition to general context) which aided in a visual-scan to re-locate.

Perhaps an e-book interface with stronger indicators of progress could cure the discrepancy. (One idea: shift the entire page slightly inside imbalanced margins based on how deep in the book you are.) Or perhaps people who have only ever read e-books wouldn't be as dependent on pending-pages-physicality.

Or maybe future Kindles could actually become flatter as you progress through the story, via some sort of deflation mechanism.
For some reason i have that NDA shit on my back, but i can show you a few options available on ebay that works well too!
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This is a great reminder that at one time Hitler was not the caricature of pure evil that he is now. He was real and nobody knew what the future held. Amazing snapshot into that time.
> I.e., it is a theorem that long term averages of stationary processes should converge, and these don't.

Maybe they're non-stationary then? Doesn't sound like a failure of probability, just a failure of a particular probabilistic model.
It is required reading in many university courses that cover that time period. Nothing is really taboo when trying to understand the past as it actually was than how we would rather remember it.
The language you know. If you don't know any language, toss a dart at a wall full of pieces of tape labeled with the names of different languages.