skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this make sense? I always want the currency I have to increase in value, not decrease. Does anyone actually like it when their savings lose value and they can no longer afford things they used to? Sure it helps exporters export more stuff, but they're getting paid with more worthless money so what's the point?
>This is a pretty fascinating pattern to watch once it settles. Does it have a name yet?

Pretty sure the name is Chip, per the post / repo title.
"I know for a fact" and how do you know this? do you work at facebook? Someone who used to work there just gave a contradicting statement
> I expect that if you try out the Python version on your system you'll also get the "right" answer.

I don't think so. In my tests standard python (2.7 and 3.5) ignores grapheme clusters.
Dole's CEO Got Himself Too Sweet a Deal
Yelp, in the end, after trying to complain to Google (and still only getting referred to using robots.txt) then called the EU commission and asked them to do something about it.

That’s how the whole thing started.

Google – with their new statement – isn’t trying to explain or answer, but to win a PR victory: Tell everyone the EU is doing some new crazy regulation, and hope the EU stops it.
My partners and I created a startup during the last severe downturn. It was indeed the best time since resources ended up being cheaper for us and we got a longer runway. We ended up never needed to raise capital and had our exit in 2012.
Here in the UK, if you call the emergency services they ask which service you require (police, ambulance, fire). It would be absolutely unthinkable to respond "fire" if there wasn't a fire. How does it work in the US? Is the fire dept. a different number that is somehow acceptable to call for this kind of problem?

There have been a number of times when I've been in difficult situations with severely drunken or otherwise vulnerable people, and every time I've called the local police station (rather than the emergency number) and they've sent someone over. But it's always the police I would call - never the fire brigade.
For reference to the conversation above:

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

A declaration was made and unconditional surrender requested. The Japanese were warned that they would face complete destruction if they refused. The Japanese refused. It is only at that point that the US dropped the two atomic bombs.
I wouldn't call recursion boring. Quicksort in Haskell is probably my favorite two lines of code:

quicksort [] = []
quicksort (x:rest) = quicksort [y | y <- rest, y <= x] ++ [x] ++ quicksort [y | y <- rest, y > x]
Here's a nice, approachable treatment of some of the ways psych studies can go wrong; it also offers concrete suggestions for fixes:

Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn
"False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant"
Psychological Science November 2011 22: 1359-1366,

Free full-text (no paywall): http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1359

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I'm sorry, I don't understand. Who, in this situation, has exercised power over me, the Bitcoin user? As far as I'm aware my Bitcoins at safe and I am still able to transact them with anyone who has an Internet connection and a little time. Without interference from any governments or banks or what have you. Isn't that the Bitcoin contract? What exactly has failed here, due to a power bubble?
Uber routes me through an alley for absolutely no reason every time I take it to work.
If you wanted to go after photos for everyone I would agree with you. Probably just as interesting would be grabbing everyone's private messages, and although a large dump, would be nowhere as hard to store. A further option would be to filter whose photos you steal, so you only target celebrities and/or the rich and famous for maximum effect. It all depends on the aims of the hacker, but I would imagine you could make a devastating attack without stealing all of Facebook's data
There are lots of websites that will extract mp3s from youtube videos which you'll find if you just google "youtube to mp3". There are also browser extensions which do this. Here's one:

http://www.video2mp3.net/extension.php
But not different from the tale of Turin Turambar in "The Silmarillion" (as the article points out), or "The Children of Hurin" which is a longer version of the same story of Turin. The latter was published only recently in 2006.
You just repeated exactly what the OP was saying.
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I'm Sheraz
Some people making the fake I'd of Facebook please you send me hacker name
Under EU law, quasi-monopolies are treated the same as monopolies.

That’s how the ISP market in most EU countries is still competitive: The largest ISP has to rent their lines to competitors at normal market price. They can not refuse.
> Here in the UK, if you call the emergency services they ask which service you require (police, ambulance, fire). It would be absolutely unthinkable to respond "fire" if there wasn't a fire.

Although most people have no problem saying "police" not "ambulance" when they see someone in psychiatric distress.

(Admittedly that's sometimes the right thing to do. Police have section 136 powers to take people to a place of safety for assessment, and there's started to be street triage services working with the police).
The answer is that fire departments respond to any call where there could be an injury or other related need, because they are also EMTs, and in the U.S. you just call 911 and tell the operator what's wrong. If you say you want an ambulance, chances are, you'll get an ambulance... and a fire truck. This is partly due to the fact that most ambulances are a private service and don't really represent the service of the city (which firefighters / fire EMTs do represent).

The problem is that we don't really have a sort of emergency first responder triage department. The operators are it. There's isn't an EMT who can speed to the scene in a fuel efficient car on his own to bring you some bandaids or water and check your blood pressure (e.g., in the case of a homeless person prone with a needle in his arm), and then call for more help if needed, so, instead, a $300,000 hook and ladder truck full of 4 highly trained firefighters (also trained as EMT) is deployed to do the same thing.
I totally get that. Even though I spent 50% of my time on a take-home math final writing it in XeTeX from scratch (or "article"), it was still worth it, even if only for the motivation. I love the choice of Minion in your paper, but I needed something more math-friendly so I went with my other favorite: Arno Pro.

Oh, and thank you for including a colophon, I really wish more books did that :)
There's also the 'Ruby syntax and performance at the same time' option - which used to be limited to JRuby but is quickly being replaced with Elixir.
That’s the intention of the Yelp!™ trademark. Not that I agree with it, but I like to, at least, quote properly.
Taken together, Coca-Cola's beverages might come close:

>Today, products of The Coca-Cola Company are consumed at the rate of more than 1.8 billion drinks per day. [0]

However, it's hard to say how that translates to unique people, since it's not uncommon for people to drink more than one soda a day. Not to mention the fact that the product lineup is very diverse: you could have orange juice for breakfast (Minute Maid), water for lunch (Dasani), a sports drink after your workout (Powerade), and soda with dinner (Coke) and be individually responsible for four drinks.

Probably unnecessary disclaimer: I own a small amount of Coca-Cola stock.

[0] http://www.coca-colacompany.com/contact-us/faqs
The recharge takes 30 minutes...

>What should I do if all Supercharger stalls are occupied when I arrive?
Check to see if current users have left contact information on their dashboard and give them a call. Most customers charge for 20 to 40 minutes.

http://www.teslamotors.com/support/supercharging
Still better than 2012.

KOKA author is now on this http://2015.ecoop.org/profile/daanleijen

and also tutoring PhD (I assume) students for http://goto.ucsd.edu/~nvazou/koka/icfp15.pdf
I hope they will live there too. I look forward to the day where repatriation occurs en masse from the US. I think it would allow the return of intelligentsia as well skill labor to areas that sorely need it. While I admit there will be a loss for the US, I doubt that whole extended families will up and leave. In the end, I hope that it will lead to a better understanding and camaraderie for US and formerly hostile countries.
> What are the other algorithms that would be impractical without recursion?

Interestingly, writing a compiler. Since expressions nest, it's very hard to write a compiler for them without a recursive function for compiling an expression.
Ask HN: When did PCIe support become such a confusing mess?
I've been out of the PC building game for a few years and coming back into it to build my latest rig, oh boy....

What the hell is going on with product segmentation? It seems like there's a confusing mass of very subtle differences between motherboards and processors that's only spelled out in fine print. Slots that only work in certain configurations if you don't have too many drives or an M.2 card plugged in; no SLI support on motherboards that call themselves 'Gamer' motherboards. Confusing numbers wrt. to PCIe lanes on processors vs. chipsets. Argh.

Is this some conspiracy to make things confusing? Or is there actually some logic behind this that I'm just missing? I'm looking at you Intel & Nvidia....
I love how the only option to get your route reviewed is "my driver took a poor route." There should be a "your navigation is inbred" option.
Thanks for the information.

When specifics come out, I think its sane to trust them. The political fall out if Roadsters upgrades aren't delivered is too great.

> Early Model S cars lack the hardware for driving assistance, and my friends who think they know about such things predict that additional computer power will be needed to achieve all that Elon is predicting for self-driving.

Yeah, this is the danger I'm trying to warn against. It isn't necessarily that Elon Musk or Tesla is "lying" to people, they're just vague about upgrade packages. So dreamers begin to dream and some misunderstandings may occur.

Its best to wait for specifics, like that Roadster info you've linked.
The main difference is one of perspective. From the inside, it is simply belief; you believe what you do, and there is no need to argue it. From the outside, it's "belief", because others do not necessarily believe as you do. The article is targeting unbelievers and so needs to use the language of "belief". The main job of a startup founder is to turn "belief" into belief. Staying at stranger's homes was crazy 5 years ago; now my wife and I do it every time we go on vacation.
As used by the Intel RealSense depth camera (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ICUq6I74X7A/VMvn4I4ujWI/AAAAAAAALZ...)
Fixed headers and footers aside, it's tolerable on old Android mobile as well. Fairly effective design though, yes.
Yeah.. I ran into perf problems with that in IE9 in a VM. But that may be the price to pay for a single source of truth.
That doesn't really answer the question.

Why is a fire truck helping a drunk instead of an ambulance?
Well, good luck burning gas and filling up your tank during the Great Depression.
You've moved the goalposts so far I'm not sure you're even in the same stadium anymore.
I was so disappointed when I realized I couldn't profile on OSX without a kernel patch. I wonder if there is any path towards enabling that in the future.
WoSign[0] do free revok and will give you up to 100 altnames. Failing that I'd rather pay $10 for a cert from somewhere else, or pay a premium for my domain at Gandi and get a cert thrown in.

[0] https://buy.wosign.com/free/
> I don't understand what's weird and special about recursion

Here's one way to see why recursion is special. Look at it from the perspective of implementing the language.

If your language doesn't have recursion, you can treat every local variable in your program as if it were a static global variable. It's local in terms of name scope, but you can give it a fixed blob of memory that you pick at compile time.

This is exactly what early Fortran compilers did. foo()'s local variables go here, bar()s go here, etc. You can do away with the stack entirely, I believe.

So, without recursion, you can make your entire program only use statically allocated memory. You can be sure it will never, ever ever run out of memory.
I always believed asking for Credit Cards and verifying it before giving away a free trial was a way to ensure that same person does not repeatedly use the free trial with different email accounts.

I guess, there can only be a limited number of Credit Cards a person can get access to. But I can create any number of gmail accounts I want.
HandUp Launches Donation Gift Cards for Those Living on SF’s Streets
When asked for my title I used to reply, "head geek".
I want to preface by saying that I am not an expert by any means in the blogging domain, but so far I like what I see. The homepage shows all the benefits of your platform in a clean and well formatted theme and has a nice flow.

The one thing that I will bring to your attention is that your platform seems eerily similar to that of Posthaven's, especially the page explaining your pledge. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that you offer that. However, you may want to include a table that lists your platform's features vs that of your competitors. Just a thought.

All the best
Unfortunately that term has been used in so many ways that it's practically meaningless at this point. Did you have a particular definition of 'Cloud Computing' in mind?
> another 12,804 pull themselves out of it

That does only take the possibility of "pulling themselves out of it" into regard as possibility to get out of the statistics. I can think of several other ways to get out of the statistics: E.g. Dying, moving into an other area ...

I accept, that the numbers are not complete and somehow misleading, but simple conclusions are too!
SaaS in China: Subscription Software Behind the Firewall
Vastly more personal damage and hardship was caused by the forced removal of populations than the actual event itself. This happened both at Chernobyl and Fukushima.

The confirmed radiation related death's at Chernobyl was 13, the occurrence of cancers and other illnesses possibly related to radiation in the population is to close to the statistical noise floor to be significant.

The current popular narrative on nuclear energy is not doing us any good.
I liked this too.

I definitely prefer working with a stack I know how to wield, and using it to solve problems. New things are good and useful, but having a focus means you can understand all the nuances that go along with it.
Yes, you're right: Microsoft has been pushing into "mysterious cloudy things for the past few years, with Windows 8 and Office 365". Windows 10 isn't fundamentally different from Windows 8 in that regard: the only new thing is Cortana, which came from Windows Phone, and which is optional.

Apple and Google haven't crossed this river yet because they don't offer versions of Siri or Google Now to PC users.

It's playing away from their strengths and proven successes, and into the two fields (on-line services and mobile) where they have consistently lagged behind and had their lunch eaten by other big players.

Nadella says "Mobile first, cloud first" because that's where the market is going. So far it's doing well with Azure (which is second to AWS) and Office 365 (which is overtaking or has overtaken Google). Both Outlook.com and OneDrive work well. Microsoft also has a couple of dozen apps on both Android and iOS, which makes it more cross-platform than either Apple or Google.

Sure, it has a very long way to go. On the other hand, it has a strong cross-platform strategy with very clear goals. It also has a track-record for coming from behind and beating incumbents (albeit not recently, unless you count Xbox).

reliance on remote services for some of its basic operations that is new, and a degree of compulsory updating

It has run Windows Update for a long time. The only real difference is that Windows Update now delivers both patches and improved features, instead of just patches.

This is a bit ahead of the competition (what's innovation for?) but smartphone users are familiar with having apps updated automatically on a regular basis. It happens almost daily on my Android phone.

We're talking about the consumer branch of Windows 10 here, and most consumers don't want to look after their PCs, even if they had the skills, which they don't.

Otherwise, re the hysteria about "privacy intrusion" see
http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-microsoft-is-not-spying-on-y...

PS Wish I could give you an extra upvote for correct use of English in "the past few years". ;-)
This is amazing! It would work very well with any API gateway like KONG [1], especially to test unexpected network conditions for our internal APIs.

[1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
Nice idea. Unit handling can be hard though, there are several problems that you can bump into:

- It's not always evident what unit you want show after a calculation. (As/Vm or C/Vm, kV/m or V/mm)

- You should handle fractional power of units (like V/sqrt(Hz))

I recently discovered orpie and that one has unit handling. It has electrical (and all sort of physical) units and handles both of this problems fairly well. For the calculation result's unit it uses the one that comes evidently from the source terms (1kV* 0.5mA=0.5kV* mA), then the user can convert it to other equivalent units or to SI base units. It's an RPN calculator so one has to get the hang of it.

Edit:

Oh, electric engineers like to think of "rad" as a unit (like in rad/s and Hz). I think it's impossible to handle it well.
I think there's a difference between a moderate downturn and a cataclysmic crash, and since 2000 was especially bad for tech and 2009 especially bad for everyone we're not used to mild to moderate downturns around here. A downtown doesn't mean people stop using technology, just that the market conditions change.
Glue controlled by electricity
I was thinking more of just international lobbying, even though that sorta sucks and doesn't work (ex. Syria). We would hopefully be able to use the ICC and international law to help our rightful citizens.

I can't think of a better solution to that yet, and there may not be one.

And no, you would still be a citizen without paying taxes, but you would lose access/be restricted from all services.
No, no contradiction just ... We are all in the gutter, covered in the same mud.
This is an explanation forwarded by my mother, who knows a thing or two about scraping by to make ends meet:

Being poor sucks.

Yes, that's right: being poor. I'm talking about the constant stresses placed upon a person that is working a minimum wage job, barely able to afford their rent. Constant stress about money.

Now imagine for a minute I could tell you that stress is a choice. The alternative, the very scary "homelessness", "on the streets" --- is it really much worse? Could it actually be less stressful?

I think what happens is some of these people become homeless and realize that it isn't all that bad. For a subset of the population who can already get by on not a lot, not having a home (and the stress that comes with it) must be welcome. They become homeless and realize "I can do this, this could be my life. Let's live in a tent."

And there you go, someone who has decided to become "chronically" homeless.

I'll have to say there is something to be said about releasing all the conventional trappings of modern society: you no longer have to worry about bills, responsibility. You get to be outdoors. Sure, there are other problems, like where to find food and keep clean, and avoiding the police, but for some that is better than competing in the rat race of life, at what is the very hardest and poorest levels of society.
thanks, not up to speed on current Texas laws, clearly. Good to see.
"A more open and connected world is a better world."

Well, it depends on the baseline. The goal should be to get the balance right.

If you cross some threshold and become too open and too connected, the motto can easily flip to: a more secure (less open) and more independent (less connected) world.

It would be to Facebook's advantage to think of the other half of the problem because it could be worth another billion users.
Indeed, and my awkward essay https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=10132884 shows that we know we let the Japanese know prior to the bombings the one condition we were willing to allow, maintaining the position of the Emperor (well, eventually his position was diminished, but not abolished).

The Government, that is, the ministers including Army and Navy forming their parliamentary Cabinet (NOT a US style Cabinet), rejected it out of hand prior to bombings and the Soviet invasion of the Army's precious Manchuria.
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if 9 to 5 job attitude can create any amazing startup, please give an example.
Ask HN: How to develop an app with no money or skills?
If someone has an idea for a mobile app and wants to develop it without any funds or developmental skills how would you recommend going about it while protecting your idea?
Can you be a little more vague?
That's why the most ironic passage in the bible is the bit about how "God created man in his own image."
It is not the case that you have to "wait in line 30 minutes for it every time". I've waited in line for 5 minutes, twice, out of the couple of dozen times I've supercharged. The other times there was a free charger when I arrived.
"If you're not trying to become an olympic lifter, barbell squats and deadlifts will do more harm than good."

Sorry, but this is utter insanity. The squat and the deadlift, properly performed, are the most important lifts _any_ human being – young or old, male or female – can do. And a person _does not_ need to go heavy on either of these to realize tremendous benefits in their day-to-day life. Spending 6 weeks to get up to a 135x5x1 deadlift (bar + big plates for 1 set of 5 reps) – and then just doing that once a week in perpetuity – would be single most efficient way the average human could improve their daily wellbeing.
Dear god. I don't know if we should give you a Nobel Prize or put you in prison. Probably both.
Ancient Tomb in Spain Destroyed and Replaced with a Picnic Table
Nice!

Let me add another plus for Rust is the community around it.
You both seem to be saying the same thing - actively clicking on a like button gets counted as a real genuine user of Facebook. That seems reasonable (one is logged in, and clicks something sending data to FB)

Neither of you have said just having FB button appear on a 3rd party site counts - that would get what 3bn users :-)
If I recall, America first said, "surrender, or we will unleash an unimaginable weapon upon you." Japan says, "go pound sand." America drops the bomb and says, "if you don't surrender, we will do it again." Japan says, "there is no way you have more than one of those. Pound sand." America drops the next one. Japan surrenders.
Ancient Iranians were hackers in the best sense [1], and experts at long range transport of water. Water was conveyed from the Alborz mountain range all the way to the south. The mongols destroyed much of this network (that was still functional after a thousand years) and that pretty much put an end to verdant growth in the central and easter regions.

[1]: https://youtu.be/k6cmvM5oj3Q
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No one works for free

If you don't have the skills get them... its the fastest course, and it shows your serious.

Bad and working is worth a lot more than an idea on paper.