skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not assume our feelings about things are universal. That way, we won't be surprised that there are people in the world who don't feel exactly the same way we do about things we consider important. While we're not assuming that, let's not assume that our way of doing things is normal or correct, so that we're not tempted to say things like "you seriously don't do [this thing I do]?" which serves no purpose other than to make our beliefs seem more important at the expense of others'.

Not everyone feels the same way you do about their family, their loved ones, or their social bonds. Your comment makes it seem like your way of doing things it the correct or normal way, and only crazy people or weirdos would even think about doing it any other way. Which has the potential to be very alienating for a good deal of people in a community that encompasses many diverse people all over the world.
Privacy issue? Chromium always connecting to Google
See also https://www.openttd.org a remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
> The solution is to release fewer phones

My wife went into the EE shop ( UK mobile company ) recently to see what was on the market as her old Galaxy S2 was dying.

She came out with a list of six Samsung phones alone and a couple of Sonys. Is a Galaxy Alpha better than an S6? What's a Galaxy Mini? So bewildered by the permutations that she just threw away the list and bought a second-hand Galaxy S4 on eBay. Potential sale for Samsung lost.

Android vendors might think they're satisfying all possible market requirements but actually they're confusing potential customers. As you say, probably easier just to go to the Apple store and choose between two.
Its a mind hack that companies use to trick naive people out of their time, money, and happiness.
A lot of posts here are mixing "look the same" with "function the same". Familiarity is fine when it comes to function but to look the same is boring.
"It's like a song fading to static versus just stopping."

Great analogy, yet also one which may eventually be lost to the mists of time. Much like "disk" icons for "save", younger folks today may have no reference point for what 'radio static' is, or may certainly not in a few years. Between internet radio, self tuning radios, spotify/ipods and satellite radio, "radio static" isn't something I've actively heard myself in many years. Haven't seen a tube TV picture fade away in to a glowing dot in decades either. :/
We open-sourced on early stage because we want to get feeds back from the community and build the project with community involved.

We will consistently deliver new features like HBASE support, and the documentation will be improved as well.
Once Again,Stored XSS Vulnerability found in Paypal may hack account remotely
Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering
Dinner and deception
> That way your project is just a mod.

Little correction needed. "Mod" usually mean derivative work of original game, but open source engine projects are not derivative work.

So it's just an engine that have nothing to do with original game or it's copyright holder.
I don't, unless I'm working for someone else. I was in Macy's once, and this angry salesperson was having a bad day, and I just wanted to avoid the dude. Moved to another counter. Well, Mr. Happy came over to ring me up.

I started to write my check and couldn't remember what date, and even what year, we were in.

Actually, why rushed, or don't like a person I interacting with; my memory fails me, or I say things I don't mean. This one car hussler was trying to buy my car, and doing the "dance"--it's just worth this much to me--dance, and I'll half your advertised price. Well he took me by suprised, with the hard bargaining/bad manners in my garage. I just wanted the guy to go. When he walked out he noticed a '68 Karman Ghia(no rust-complete--good orig. condition). He asked how much. I told me $200.00 I told him I mistook his question later, but to this day I wonder why I said 200.00. I sometimes wonder if I'm that guy who that's not too savy, and gave always to much over the years? I remember giving away my inheritance, and look back and regret it. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but I have a feeling this particular family member manipulated me when I wasen't felling well psychologically?

Anyway, I think stress can play with judgement, and memory. To those that prey on weak individuals, or capitalize on someone's misery; you're not a good person--no amount of denial will take the truth away?
Your well-funded startup is already dead
Anybody got this running without downloading the whole lot and hosting it locally? http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/gloomyson/S... loads up to the splash screen but no further.
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Just about every country in the world recognizes some form and variation of copyright and trademarks.

You do know that, right?
An open, more distinctive BBC
Monifu vs. Akka Streams
Incredible work!
Which over the years and thanks to a massive effort of contributors have managed to create its own set of graphical and sound assets and is now a stand-alone game.

(Still some copyright issues remain)
Amir Najam Java Blog
I still don't know if the move to open source was a success or a failure ? I have seen articles written from both perspective. Obviously, some actors are really interested to paint it one way or the other. At least, it seems they are sticking with it, and not moving to another solution.
Not sure if trying to "trap" the liar is always the right way to go. Once I had to work with a freelance web master and we were trying to cancel his contract and make him transfer the domain name to us (an association I was working for). I confronted him by asking politely for a written copy of his contract because I thought he was lying about the length of the contract. He was insulted and claimed there was a verbal agreement several years ago. I don't know if he was right or wrong about that, but after that he would make up things about basically anything (such as, that changing the owner/registrar of our domain would cause his other customers' files to be deleted etc.). We now offered him money to break out of the "contract" early, but now he was already stuck in his lies. If he would say that it was technically possible to move the domain name, he would also expose his earlier lies.

After almost a year of arguing with him, he offered to transfer the domain before the end of the "contract". But for "technical reasons" it had to be done after the hosting company had shut down the web site and e-mail, which caused some downtime for us. In retrospect it would have been much easier if I hadn't questioned him in the first time.
Illustricons
They're going to have to work hard to top this.

I'm an inside counsel guy, but I'd love a clock that counts in dollars.
> Speeding up a dog 1000x doesn't generate a dangerous AI.

I would be scared of a dog that could think and move 1000x faster. Would it not see a human as a (practically) non-moving piece of meat? That does not sound very safe.

> It's easy to see how a "wider" intelligence could be much more productive, more creative, more useful, and more dangerous than any meat brain in existence.

It seems to me one of the most dangerous things in existence is ignorance. If a machine had less ignorance, then in theory it should be less dangerous.
I suspect that were they to open up access to the iPlayer for non UK users and charge a fee in the region of Netflix's, the Beeb would fix their funding crisis. And as they would circumvent advertising concerns, there would be no threat to their impartiality.

I feel that were the UK to lose the BBC because of Hawkish government ministers who are ideologically opposed to public service broadcasting that values quality above commerce, than the loss will be not just theirs but the world's.

I would be very sorry to lose the BBC World service.
No, that's from 11 years ago.

The actual paper was linked lower down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180932
Maybe yes. I'm not part of the hardware team so I can't really tell. Was just quoting the FAQ here.
You probably are not Arab then...

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/palestine-...

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/israel-bor...

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/do-you-feel-more-arab-or-more-...
I mean, maybe it's a cultural thing (I'm from Eastern Europe), and I certainly approve of parents spending more time with their children and vice-versa, but I personally don't see my extended family getting in a group of 20+ people and spending more than a couple of hours together without a major fight starting in less than half a day.

It's either fights about who's going to inherit what (and we're not talking about the Taj Mahal, but about a stupid piece of agricultural land in the middle of nowhere), or some grand-mother accusing her only daughter who went to college of "you could have done much better! and why did you have to marry X?" (with X, the son-in-law, being present, together with said couple's kids) followed by the grand-father from the other side of the "family tree" accusing X of marrying "bellow their family status", and so on and so forth.
If you haven't seen his website front page, it's well worth a look too: http://acko.net/

I think it's been on HN before, It was the first WebGL site I've seen that just worked.
If you send to much stuff back, they become less nice/ after a while start blocking your account. It gets ugly when they close accounts that are "similar", there have been cases where people got their accounts closed when their neighbors in the same building created trouble.
Social Media Sales Tools
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They are almost certainly question-for-question copy-pastes of US visa forms. I remember the questions about military service details, weapons experience and countries visited from my student visa 15 years ago. (Apparently DS160/DS260 has done away with some of the more pointless questions.)
> I lost heart quickly because I could find no tools that were interactive, simulating and stimulating to use, preferably visual like this.

This is because there is no use-case for professional users.

When it comes to computational chemistry there are two possibilities:

The computational load is low, but also accuracy like the implemented force-field method. Now you can calculate molecular properties so fast that it feels interactive.

Or you use more accurate methods (hybrid density functionals). For decently sized molecules (>100 atoms) you now might want to consider using HPC (speak supercomputer). Now you have something which is state of the art, but it's not interactive anymore.

If you however use computationally cheap methods, you probably want to calculate properties of a LOT of molecules (high throughput calculations, screening). This means you must either use known structures, or generate them programmatically (using some genetic algorithm usually). Now you don't need anything interactive either.
In my experience pip has always worked quite well.

About the only thing I would like to see from it is making it a bit easier to use, for example something like `npm install --save something` instead of having to tell people about `pip freeze` and venvs etc
Rape is also a crime where people incorrectly judge what a real victim acts like, and are likely to assume actual victims are lying.
> Apple invented the smartphone

No they didn't.

> (and the tablet)

No they didn't.

> Facebook coined the concept of social network.

No they didn't.

In fairness, the iPad was the first tablet to matter all that much, if not the first tablet as such. But seriously now. Blackberry? Myspace? These were enormous and important businesses (BlackBerry still is). Hell, you could date social networking back to usenet if you wanted. It would be nice if people writing "mythbuster" articles did some elementary fact checking.
Google's partially homomorphic bigquery client
Except that you are not picked from the whole population at large, but from a subset of it. Namely the subset that (weakly) believes they have dementia. This changes the incidence rate (or likelihood function) probably by at least an order of magnitude.
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US High Tech in Europe : massive tax evasion + not respecting the law.
If you as a liar are good at detecting liars, then wouldn't it be logical that you could detect honesty as well, being the opposite?

Well then take the opposite. What about honest people, do they recognize honest people better? I don't know, just asking, wondering. It could even be that honest people recognize honesty better than liars, while at the same time liars are better lie detectors.

Then there has to be a middle group I guess - what are they?
Bill Gates' Idea for a History Class (2014)
The author runs the UK's most successful pre-seed accelerator. I've wondered for a while if accelerators could get away with gathering far more structured (and invasive) analytics about their cohorts to measure things like this.
Live online unveil of new Rolls-Royce Dawn: Tomorrow 2pm
Tomorrow at 2pm, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will unveil its brand new model, ‘Dawn’, live online.

For the first time, Rolls-Royce will unveil this new model digitally, which is a major step for such a historic British brand and one that brings it firmly into the 21st Century.

The live digital launch will involve an online press conference tomorrow at 2pm, which you are invited to join (please email for invite). Following the launch, we will also be able to provide you with an edited video of the car and its launch. We would love to be able to work with you to deliver this news to your readers in a compelling and interactive way. Could you let me know if this is of interest, and what you might need? In the meantime, we have three teaser images which you can feel free to use.

The Rolls-Royce Dawn will be available to customers in 2016, and until this point, the appearance of the car has remained a closely guarded secret, under development at Rolls-Royce HQ in Goodwood. It will be the first new model launch since the Wraith and was announced earlier this year when the Prime Minister David Cameron visited Rolls-Royce to receive his letter from CEO Torsten Muller Otvos, laying out the marque’s plans to introduce a new model.

#RollsRoyceDawn @RollsRoyceCars

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Sam
Financial Times > Tim Harford > Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century (2015-09-03)

Try this:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bbf1f84a-51c2-11e5-8642-453585f2cf...

or this:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KxM7NvY...
Speculations about the Rise of Polyphonic Music (1976)
Perhaps the Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry smartphones that could install and run 3rd party applications were not smartphones for the author.
Great presentation, however I must say the transition effect on texts are a bit too much. As soon as they appear I try to read them but they move around for a half second. A bit annoying
It's a form of lottery. Rewarding one in a million. Keeps the machine churning.
Badtameez Dil First September 2015
Like iPhones being massively subsidized by the carriers (at least in the US), at the cost of Android offerings, because "We NEED to be able to offer iPhones!"?

Like the abysmal messing around of the carriers everywhere in Android phones' software, crushing any hope of a good, speedy upgrade system for any of them from the very beginning? A thing nobody would ever dare ask of Apple, because "We NEED to be able to offer iPhones!"?

Nope, sorry! At this point, the reason for the iPhone being big is first and foremost the iPhone being big. ~90% of the profits at ~15% market share? Please!
The article touched on smartphones, but I think missed a point - a huge part of the recent "acceptability" of public transport is that people have got something to do during their trip. In fact I kind of get the feeling people almost welcome bus/train trips now as a chance to get in some uninterrupted "phone time"! Previously, unless you brought a book, riding public transport meant a long look out the window. I think that's huge.
I think "dead horse" just meant "discussed and debated to death already", not that the project itself is stagnant or ill-fated.
Sony supports their older model. As late as last year every Z-series could be updated to the latest Android.

Also they are waterproof and generally good. I love mine and sometimes walk around like a living advert for them - hoping they can stay in business for many years.
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Taking a look at mobile apps' first time user experiences
this is actually an awesome implementation of the Reactive Streams v1.0 protocol.
Spotting petty liars is the least of one's problem. As normal people expose more information in the Internet, it becomes increasingly difficult to be a liar, almost impossible.

Still, the 'big lies' are just getting stronger and these techniques are useless on them. How many political identities can be dismantled by 'surprise'?
> We occupy some very valuable real estate and if the singularity is indifferent to us we won't last long.

At the same time, there is not much reason why we would need to occupy the same real estate. After all, we land animals like oxygen, liquid water, and modest temperatures. The common computer would probably prefer CO2, dryness, and cold temperatures. A computer would probably be much better off on Mars or another distant planet, granted it had enough sunlight or other sources of energy.

To make an analogy, do we humans want to destroy all the Ocean's fish and other sea life because we could in theory live in the same region, or would we rather live on the land while they occupy the water? Sometimes creatures with different ideal living environments can exist harmoniously.
Clever way to bootstrap a franchise business. Nice work.

I've stayed in some really basic hotels in India. You get to choose between cheap and awful or expensive and decent. The bad places aren't always bad to keep costs low. Often the proprietors don't have the skills to run it any other way.

A lot of mom & pop businesses could benefit from this sort of approach.
Presumably, liars don't lie all the time, so they do both lying and honesty enough to be able to tell the difference.

I also don't really know, but it sounds plausible :)
I'm talking about the "study, just 50 out of 20,000 people managed to make a correct judgement with more than 80% accuracy" which was asked by the grandparent post, not the paper by the people interviewed in the article.
The whole point of BMI is to eliminate those programs and the perverse incentives that come with them (ex: people on CA-TANF are not allowed to have more than $2500 in savings or something.) and replace it with just cutting a cheque.
A place where all fictional characters meet. Outside of time and logic
Did you consider Sony Z-series? (Full disclosure: I have one but other than that I am unaffiliated : )
How to measure brand's online presence?
He succeeded because he solved a genuine problem. I have experienced the stay at the Hotels branded under OYO rooms. It is better in so many ways than other similar budget hotels.
Cars do not rely on science, primarily. The existence of cars is primarily due to engineers developing technology (a different process than that of science), not scientists doing science.

If you believe that science can explain everything, your conceptual map widens the concept of 'science' to include practically everything that refers to the objective world, making the concept less useful for precise thought about epistemology.

And philosophy is more directly useful to scientists than cars are to philosophers. For one thing you're comparing a concrete artifact to epistemological processes. We're comparing processes, not artifacts. The concepts developed by philosophers have direct relevance to scientists, see my examples above.
Amazed in Bangkok at the degree to which I only ever see Samsung or Apple phones. Many more for sale in the shops, but I feel like Samsung and Apple absolutely dominate. Lots of very old phones, mind you.
Maybe they're just thinking in terms of touchscreens or something, but that's hardly what makes a phone 'smart'.

And it doesn't explain how they managed to forget myspace, friendster, friends reunited, etc, etc, etc.

It's quite remarkable how quickly these things get forgotten, even by people who (judging by the byline pics) are more than old enough to have been around at the time. These gentlemen must surely have been the target market for blackberries in the mid-oughts.
This seems like one big strawman
As a teacher, I tried this site out a few years ago[1], and it didn't work out too well for us. Mainly because of timing and the fact that we didn't try to market it at all. I may look into it again, but it almost feels like the old stories of people making millions off of the app store, very few and far between.

I was quite proud of the piece, worked a lot on the layout, and search far and wide for public domain images to use. The friend and I who developed it have used it in our own classes to great success.

If anyone wants a copy of it, my email is in my profile, or leave a comment here and I will send it to you...

[1] https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dear-Santa-You-S...
Overview
kingshard is a high-performance proxy for MySQL powered by Go. Just like other mysql proxies, you can use it to split the read/write sqls. Now it supports basic SQL statements (select, insert, update, replace, delete). The most important feature is the sharding function. Kingshard aims to simplify the sharding solution of MySQL.

Feature

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client's ip ACL control.

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supports prepared statement: COM_STMT_PREPARE, COM_STMT_EXECUTE, etc.

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In 7 years in London tech I have never heard once of 'GAFA' or 'NATU'

Edit: the article mentions that too, it just misleadingly refers to 'Europe' in the title when it probably means France and Germany. It also refers to the UK and Scandinavia as being 'elsewhere' when UK is in the EU and Sweden on the Euro.
I once vacationed in Colombia and upon return to the States (I'm American) was questioned by two 'tough guys' upon entry. I was with my brother and they both asked us 3-4 rapid-fire simple, unopen questions, repeating the questions in virtually the same ways about 3 different times in just a few minutes. Our only thought in the moment was they must have been simpletons or simply bad at their job.

- Why were you there? - Vacation.
- How long were you there? - 2 weeks.
- Who did you go with? - Him (points to brother)

Treating people like idiots, and while asking dumb questions, doesn't seem to be the best way to spot a liar. I'm glad the science of it is improving.
Right, because we all know that Silicon Valley and STEM fields do such a good job hiring the type of minorities who typically work in the fields: "many of today’s rakers are of Latin American or Caribbean origin. Others are Native American or aboriginal people of Canada"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/study-...
*Half of all non-Hispanic Asian STEM degree holders go into a STEM job. But the likelihood is lower — 30 percent — among Hispanics and non-Hispanic Black and American Indian and Alaska Native workers
Cue the usual HN hatred affair with cars..and how if we just had better public transport, and how if cities were planned better.....blah, blah.

This thread will be just another repeat of countless other HN threads on this subject.

HN is just a parody of itself.