skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also considering there weren't that many 52s on the planet, much less the boneyard fleet, until the late 50s, it's a safe bet it wasn't '49.
I think you're doing an epic job, keep up the good work.

As for suggestions:
I think that you should recognize that the entities who are most likely to be able to deploy hexayurt broadly for humanitarian reasons (air drops, etc) are established businesses, well-funded startup companies, or individuals and groups who are in some way tightly coupled to the larger business community. Although these may groups vary on a diversity of issues, they all pretty much share one thing in common: they either

A. identify with what you would call a "statist" ideology or B. benefit financially from being perceived as not opposing the prevailing social norms of the local business community with regard to recognizing the state.

Therefor they are very likely weary of association with any project who's leader argues for a dramatic reform of those community standards (no matter how rational those underlying arguments may be).

My suggestion to you as someone who recognizes the enormous potential benefit of hexayurt technology is for you to perhaps adopt a softer approach towards corporate america and startup culture in general. Perhaps this approach could highlight the potential for corporate entities to rapidly catalyze positive externalities while generating strong network effects by leveraging a technology with an architecture that could make an impact globally via a relatively small pool of capital. To me it seems likely that the motivation for this kind of an outreach project might stem from the ability to rapidly surface a branding event by generating a humanitarian "PR wave" and then surfing it. This overall approach could serve as a mechanism for expanding global relationships, enhancing brand visibility in foreign markets, and even facilitating entre into new markets.

As it currently stands any corporation contemplating research into the deployment of a hexayurt grid as a humanitarian project faces several challenges. One challenge is that they must first somehow leverage a PR firm to figure out how to rebrand the underlying technology in order to separate the positive humanitarian PR from the negative PR stemming from the fact that the project was born out of a libertarian or anarchist social milieu, burning man, etc.

Another challenge is how to motivate other businesses to join in to see how far this can be developed and safeguarded all while fostering business relationships and strengthening brand identity in emerging markets.

TLDR: If you feel that corporatism is a problem, then perhaps instead of trying to attack that snake with a club, you could somehow tame it into consuming it's own tail like the mythological ouroboros.
I'm surprised Google hasn't made a bigger push with Go on Android. It seems like there's some rudimentary support, so maybe it's on the way.
It costs LG $10, they sell it to Best-WalGet for $10.012. the price range you see is depending on how much it gets marked up for retail.
It's true. But bad stuff is still there for you to (ab)use. I don't like C++ because (at this point at least) it's not opinionated enough. 10 ppl can write 10 completely foreign (in terms of feel) pieces of code and all of them would be correct in some sense of the word.
No proof in pudding. Proof is in the eating.
A few ex-Amazon startups have exported Amazon culture and failed in industry . Pelago, for example.
This is what the President listens to on Spotify
Phaser is pretty impressive. i am building my first game on it and i am in love.
"The questionable SHA3 competition"?
If you look at the hugely successful companies like Facebook, Uber, Google, Stackoverflow, etc. they all use the likes of mysql, php, python, ASP, javascript, etc. Airbnb uses RoR, which although fairly new is now pretty mainstream.

I can't think of any really successful companies that use new-fangled frameworks and the latest rockstar languages.
What subset of HTML are you talking about here? HTML is not regular. Regexes can't do recursive things, such as matching opening and closing tags, and abusing regexes to sort of match HTML is generally considered a terrible idea.
Everything needs to be balanced, and the pendulum is too far towards the capitalists at the moment.

Counterpoint #1: Delighting customers is what makes a business successful. MBA's obsessed with extracting that last 5% of profit is what leads to diminishing returns. Mandatory conversion of 'C' corporations to 'B' corporations would be a good start towards resolving this issue.

Counterpoint #2: Labor doesn't demand more and more if the market is truly balanced. (If they can't quit and go elsewhere to make more money, they tend to stay put).
Yes, the unions overreached as well before 1980.

I suspect that this balance of power will change by one of many different ways.

1. Pitchforks and torches. The capitalists will be run out of town on a rail (or worse).

2. Business leaders realizing they overreached, go back to the way things were prior to 1980 when there was more balance in the workplace.

3. Business leaders attempt overthrow the current government to keep the Opulent Minority running things as they are now. (This was attempted in the Great Depression see the "Business Plot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot for details) and it causes a violent revolution. See #1 and the French revolution to see how that works out.

4. Universal income is adopted and those which are unemployable have their basic food and shelter requirements met. Those who have real skills will be able to augment their income. The rest will subsist on basic income.
Oh right, having a shitty laptop that locks up when I have chrome and intellij open is my fault.
So the whole "family" has to pay for the uncle's drinking and drug habit? I am not gonna pay for your "belief".
> the battery life is definitely comparable to the bigger brands

Sure, but the budget phone also isn't pushing a quad HD screen and a beefy processor. The runtime may be similar, but that doesn't mean the capacity is.

I did a quick straw poll by looking at some budget Android phones against some flagships and it seems like the budget batteries are about 1000mAh less than the flagships. In a bigger case. So, bulky and low capacity.
So just to be clear, here, you claim to have worked for PGP, so you've been in the security industry at least a day or two, and yet you consider the opinion that the United States cannot possibly be the only bad actor rhetoric? I'm disputing your claim that other Western governments aren't as bad as the United States. Nobody knows that, everybody with half a clue assumes otherwise, and the irony of you going after my lack of substance in doing so is palpable.

I'm going to reiterate, because I can't believe I'm having this conversation: you said, nearly verbatim, the other Western governments do not spy like the United States. And you consider that a sane opinion in the wake of these disclosures, and call me a shill for disputing it.

The retroactive immunity to which you refer is one disclosure we know about. What I was speaking to was President Bush's PSP, which they made a significant effort to satisfy legality on. Everyone is in accord on that: them, Poitras, Snowden. They were wrong, particularly Gonzales, but they still tried to base it in the law until they lost the Justice Department. Even the FISA court is an attempt at legality. I'm not saying I agree, I'm saying the government made a conscious choice to try to play by the rules, even though their rule book was absolutely bananas. I'm making the case that in other governments, that same zeal might not apply, and there are probably governments wherein rights are more freely trampled upon.

Again, that you think I'm a shill for presenting the completely normal security industry philosophy of don't trust anyone is just hilarious. I've been charged with multiple felonies by the United States justice system for CFAA-related offenses and convicted of one. I have the most stake in criticizing the way we do things. You're laying down smoke to cover your own opinions going after my "shill" status, and I want you to know that it's entirely transparent.

Sometimes I think Hacker News is just trolls trolling trolls.
>There's criticism of serving something in a bad way, and then there is calling someone an "idiot".

True.

>Should we instantly call every single person an idiot for making a mistake?

No, but what if they do that first by pointing fingers at the stupid FB devs?

>This is off topic, but I don't think people should share less. If you are bothered by it, you should read less.

This still leaves the problem of an overproduction of pointless stuff, which aside from the ecological issues and time wasted by those producing it, also makes deciding "what to read" among the avalance of BS more difficult.
Yeah like they are still not corrupt enough. Let's concentrate all the money in there! Just dumb!
This is not the case. Breaking (in OpenBSD terms) doesn't mean release is unusable. It is/would be if you were to use apps from previous base/ports. But you don't and you shouldn't - what you get with each release is complete, working and sound. If you have custom code, then yes, you may need to adapt. But there's enough time to do that with each release. There's a stabilization period that's "long enough" and you always know when new release is coming out.
This is a really good idea.

- Olympic construction could only be a real benefit to a permanent location

- Greece is the only logical location

- Greece could use the stimulus

I spend a lot of time in Tokyo but plan to avoid the city during the 2020 Olympics. High prices and crowds, a mess. And presently the upcoming Olympics completely distorts the market for construction, for facilities that will hardly be used after 2020.

And its a great idea to develop tourism in Greece. Assuming the Greeks like it, I'm all in favor.
Show HN: Minimal video search
Might be worth adding another note to one of those bugs in a few days when it's a year old.
Kenny Paterson is the new co-chair of IETF CFRG and a professor at RHUL. Best known recently for his work breaking RC4.

Lucks is a well known research cryptanalyst and one of the co-inventors of the Skein SHA3 finalist.
Don't forget the quick access to their secret Swiss bank accounts... /sarcasm
> 1/2 students quit after the first year. 1/2 those left over never complete.

For what reasons though?

I am advocating a more community college model, smaller introductory class sizes, with a faster paced, but shorter term curriculums, that don't hurt as much if any one particular course is failed. A more targeted model than "grade level".

Traditional universities have a high attrition rate not just due to course work, there is a huge cultural shift, a complete loss of one's traditional support network, a lack of structure that used to be imposed by parents, and many new opportunities for distraction.

I'm not proposing we add any of that to high school! :)
At least in my case, the clawback clause for the first year bonus is on a pro-rated, daily basis. So you'd only have to pay back the difference. The second year bonus is paid out monthly, and the last monthly chunk has to be paid back on a pro-rated, daily basis. So no, you don't have to pay back the entire $10k or $20k or whatever if you quit 9 months in.
You needed to have done it within 2 hours of submission. It looks like it's now gone, so don't worry. If you want notifications of replies to your submissions and comments, look into http://hnnotify.com/ - I find it extremely valuable.

If you email me I will, when I have time, make more comments about your site. Personal opinions only, YMMV, others will not agree.
Is this comparing allowed levels in drinking water to whats allowed in food? if so then its apples and oranges. I would like to see if it compared to whats allowed in food.
lets aim for perfect privacy and see where that gets us, how about that....
if you pay back pre-tax, you also reduce your income by that amount, so you pay less taxes. You aren't "in the hole".
SES: Simple Emacs Spreadsheet
"The interesting thing is that stuff from pure maths ends up being useful anyway, even when they were studied just because they were interesting at the time."

I agree with this statement. In fact, I am inclined to believe that it is not by chance that the results in pure mathematics become useful in the real world.

Much of math is dealing with hypothetical situations before they arise. These hypothetical situations may have real world analogs, or they may just be solutions to other abstract problems. While its real world utility is often obscured due to the lack of an immediate direct application, the truth is that by definition, the results derived will be useful if and when an apt situation arises. Granted, many results may never see the light of day, but are still potentially useful in inspiring solutions that require a novel way of thinking.

To judge mathematics based on its current real-world utility would be extremely short sighted. We probably would not have much of the technology we have today if mathematicians in the bygone era decided that they would stop developing it due to the lack of a real world application.

Now there are definitely certain things which can in no conceivable way be applied to the real world, such as the concept of infinity, but those concepts seem to complete a comprehensive framework for us to think about problems.
No, they don't.

They treat the FC workers horribly on another level. Refusing to install air conditioning in a hot warehouse and just having ambulances outside instead. Having people wait in line 30 minutes coming and going and refusing to pay them for it.
SEEKING FREELANCER

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Send GH/Linkedin/CV to jobs@minbox.com
Third party battery replacements can be purchased for ~$10 or less for most phones. With first party batteries you're mostly paying for a warranty, maybe a higher quality battery, and nicer packaging.
> To me, I look at math as a collaborative language of precision in dealing with units.

Although this might apply for early number theory, how does it fit with more abstract mathematics that doesn't deal with numbers, let alone units, at all?

However, I completely agree math (as in the human practice) is a collaborative and inventive process. The directions in which it progresses is often determined by what mathematicians consider "interesting", and not some purely analytical and sterile reasoning.
> There's no one right view

How can you possibly know that?
There is a conceptual version of HTML that's non-regular, but HTML as used in practice is regular, because the standard allows parsers to impose a maximum nesting depth, and all browsers that I know of do so (e.g. Webkit limits to 512). Every finite language is regular, so HTML with a finite tag-nesting depth is regular. Therefore you could in principle parse the subset of HTML recognized by Webkit using a regular expression.

It's impractical and error-prone to do so, of course, but that's not a computability issue. You could write a compiler, if you really wanted to, that took a context-free grammar plus an integer specifying maximum production depth, and mechanically converted it to an FSM or regex. Therefore I think the article is barking up the wrong tree with computability; the issue isn't what's computable by a finite vs. pushdown automaton, but that parsing nested data structures with regexes is virtually impossible to do correctly.
The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece.

What better place to hold games originally religious in nature from Greece than this region?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos
> Hosting the Olympics also many side effects: - improved infrastructure - increased tourism - stadiums, hotels, training grounds - good way to get people into doing sports

I would I imagine that sinking £9.3 billion into road or public-transport improvements would have a bunch of favourable side effects too. The magnitude of those effects compared to what else could be done with the money matters.

> While hosting the Olympics costs a lot of money, income from tourism and media attention surely makes up for it (correct me if I'm wrong).

At least going by this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_the_Olympic_Games

8 profits 10 losses

Far from an exhaustive analysis, but as far as back of the hand stuff goes it looks like a questionable call from a financial perspective....
Essentially it worked like Internet Explorer's DOCTYPE sniffing, my binaries always felt like they were running in some kind of "quirks mode", and I agree: it can be extremely infuriating... different parts of their mechanism seriously even check for different notions of "newness"! :(
Jamie Dimon: Silicon Valley startups are coming to eat Wall Street's lunch
The Square Root of 4 to a Million Places
The segment that doesn't care happens to be the majority. Which is exactly the point the original post made.
Yes he can, or at least nearly the same price with very little slippage.

The S&P is not a single illiquid penny stock but a collection of 500 of the most liquid investments in the world, and 500 million dollars is a pittance compared to its capitalisation even back in the 80s. Sure, if he had to invest it in half an hour he would move markets - but if he had a year? No slippage from adding 2m a day distributed over 500 stocks...
I'm not the OP but I've worked at Amazon for four years as an SDET. I think "hostile dev work environment" is a good description of working here but it's different from what you describe. What you describe is more like just dealing with a culture of pervasive incompetence.

Just a couple of examples. There is an immense amount of pressure to perform and deliver results. A lot of the time I don't even know what we are supposed to be delivering but I can tell there's a lot riding on delivering it. I've seen multiple managers demoted to individual contributor roles for, well I'm not sure what for. Presumably not delivering.

As for my own personal experience, there is the expectation that you as a developer will perform the work of several developers. I am expected to keep up with sometimes a thousand email messages a day, many of which require some action on my part, work on JIRA tickets assigned to me, attend meetings, answer questions from coworkers and fix bugs. But that is not nearly enough. One needs to "deliver results". So on top of the full time job described above, it is expected that I will conceive, plan, organize, and implement new features and new projects that deliver value. And I have to organize meetings so everyone knows about the new project and is aware of the value our team is delivering.

And yes, as you described, we also have to deal with figuring out how to get things done in spite of the incompetence of other teams we are working with.
This would be Switzerland that passed a law against building minarets, didn't give all women the vote until 1989 and hates Balkan immigrants with a passion?
Here is Google's code for doing it:

https://code.google.com/p/s2-geometry-library/source/browse/...

The lookup table it references is generated up here:

https://code.google.com/p/s2-geometry-library/source/browse/...
Ask HN: Running an online consultancy
There has been lots of valuables threads about consulting. But most of these are targeted toward local consulting or with a local-only consulting mindset.

What if you are in a geographically limited place and want to start a remote consulting working for clients oversea.

I'm looking for advice on that.

- How finding clients is different and how to do it online.

- Pricing.

- Communication with clients.

- How feasible this is.

- If you are running one, and don't mind linking to it and advertising your agency.
Not sure what I did to deserve that hostility. I respect you and your work, and I agree that deprecating NPAPI is a good thing.

I don't know anything about why Unity stopped supporting NaCl.

But the fact remains that Chrome has left Unity no good option. Chrome's asm.js performance on Unity (and large asm.js codebases in general) is lagging. NPAPI is gone (again, a good thing by itself). NaCl exists, but would require Unity to maintain support for a platform only for a single browser.
> If so, is there something else we can do at the margins to improve primary education by a little or by a lot?

One thing we have done that is completely backwards is mainstreaming class rooms, for both special needs and gifted students.

I remember when I was in 1st grade, students who read a little bit slower where in a different reading group from students who read at normal speed versus students who read above expectation.

Students would get pulled out per curriculum type to different classes.

This continued in middle school, where there were 4 levels of math class (remedial, normal, and two levels of advanced), 2 levels of English and 2 levels of history. (The special needs program was separate, and I am not sure how remedial English or History worked)

This type of system works, but it is more costly and harder to manage if we treat it as a "one off".
Was it that necessary to keep it in the browser? Why not just give it to the user as a normal Unity build download instead of redoing everything to keep it on the browser?
Interviewed twice with Amazon, had an offer the first time decided to not continue the second. I don't recall any particularly blatant behavioral questions. The one I do recall (and was part of a writing sample) was writing about one of the hardest challenges career-wise and how I handled/approached/etc. the problem. It could have been technical, but I went with a non-technical issue (delivering for a customer when it was out of scope). It was actually one of the better parts of the interview -- in terms of back and forth.

Both times I've decided no on Amazon was due to commute and flexibility first, narrowness of the role in the first occasion was the other issue.
I have a pretty good deal with OVH. It's a dedicated server with 3TB of disk storage, 100 Mbit/s bandwidth and a quota of 5TB per month for about 15 euros a month. I use it only for personal stuff like email, remote backups, and hosting a couple of low traffic wordpress blogs, so I don't know how well it would do under load. The deals are always changing and often oversubscribed so you might not find one with those exact specs. They had one for 5 euros a month last year.
> The Olympics are more than the direct cost of infrastructure or tickets sold...

I don't think that anyone would argue that Barcelona was a success relative to other Olympics, but it still left much to be desired.

Gys is taking issue with the claim that Barcelona was handled "pretty well" in an absolute sense considering the fact that the sports-related infrastructure went WAY over budget.

Maybe things worked out overall for the economy, but I submit that incremental value from investments in public infrastructure and what sounds like capable governance made the difference. You have to wonder if these changes could've happened without the burden of financing the sports side or hosting the olympics.
Dangerous Python Functions: Part 2
I keep hearing people talk about how inaccurate the everything store is.

In what ways is it wrong?

Keeping your ego in check? They