skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting theory actually. And so simple (and as academics say "elegant"). You have to wonder why the US isn't raining down "propaganda porn viewing devices" instead of leaflets. (I'm serious a self contained unit with an LCD and enough memory and power to play some porn..perhaps with solar charging to boot.)

Of course the reason they would never do this has something to do with how porn is viewed by mainstream folks and how an aghast media would present this even if it was an actual practical solution to a problem. Would seem to be worth a try.
I actually didn't realise that the energy extracted by a turbocharger, more than any residual gas expansion from still-burning fuel (if any), is also dropping the temperature of the exhaust gases. So we are extracting some of the heat energy using a turbo. neat. Yes I take your point on diminishing returns. Still it seems that there is quite a big chunk of energy otherwise being thrown away, and turb[os/ines] are getting better and better at harvesting it.
They certainly will, so this is something that would only happen once Elsevier is in a death spiral.
Perhaps F1 is just a model number here? VW certainly don't supply any Formula 1 teams currently, and a 2014 spec F1 engine would have to be a V6, not a four cylinder.
The programmer in me can't help but think about the maintenance map-based flags incur with border changes.

I have similar reservations about the US flag. :)
Why is the "Professional Standards division" a division of the force? In New Zealand the equivalent organisation is very specifically NOT part of any police force. In fact, it's in their name: "Independent Police Conduct Authority". Maybe that's one reason why New Zealand is usually in the top five "least corrupt countries in the world". The USA isn't. This is one reason why.
It's a government agency that used some horrible contract vehicle to contract with a horribly inadequate contractor to build something half-assed. That's why performance is bad and I guarantee won't be notably better on even the best day.

My guess is that map cost about $150,000. I'd go look through records to find out if I had the time.
A History of Programming Languages for 2 Voices [video]
I don't doubt for a second there was a closed-door deal with the state. But we also shouldn't dismiss the fact that Baidu is still the leading search engine in mainland China so for Microsoft it makes total sense to switch the default engine to Baidu. Windows 10 is actually pretty cool (speaking as someone who have abandoned Windows for several years). If the integration experience works out I actually think the switch is going to help (I am also looking forward to seeing what the AI team at Baidu are doing). The biggest challenge today is still making use of all the data, bring them to user in the most comfortable and usable way possible. Lots of fancy words, but I guess I can summarize that down to "shadow me, guess what I want before I ask, and do the things I want as I ask."

Surely censorship, privacy are big issues but I just want to voice my opinion on both ends.
> When you pass an object into the wrong function, the code usually doesn't even pretend to work

It very much does! It pretends to work whilst, in many cases, performing buffer overruns, arbitrary code execution, and so on.
How about the third option, both public and private companies are overvalued. And no, they can't both be undervalued, it's not possible, especially in this market.
Ah yes. Operation "me loves you long time".

Ref: Full Metal Jacket (link is a nsfw video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE
Snooze button gamified
> it takes more than 30 second to divine whether or not a conversation is going to go somewhere interesting

I think that's an older-generation thing. If you go 30 seconds without getting to the point, of course people will think that you don't have one.
(FWIW, this comment is not [dead].)
You should be able to reach any Go library, in fact. Aside from the Prelude, the Gsp Stdlib[0] is in fact just bindings to the Go stdlib that casts every value from interface{} into the required type. You can make bindings to any other library in this manner.

I do not know why Go-routines would not work, though I have not tried yet.

Another difference from the lisp you brought up (and the one I'm more familiar with, glisp[1]) is that Gsp is compiled as opposed to interpreted. This would ostensibly have speed features.

I am interested to test how this fares compared to these other Go Lisps and Clojure.

[0] https://github.com/gsp-lang/stdlib

[1] https://github.com/zhemao/glisp
The primary use case for Julia's coming array slices is to provide views into an array that you always intended to keep alive anyway.

Iterating over the columns of an in-memory matrix, for example, is the use case that this change is meant to speed up.
I did some research on the topic and apparently audi was planning to jump on to the f1 game (based on redbulls plans). But sadly with recent VW related issues audis presence in f1 will not happen soon.
I haven't seen explicit guidelines for "Ask HN" anywhere, so I assume that it should still follow the general HN guidelines. For example, if you have a question that's relevant to HN, could be interesting to HN readers and could generate interesting discussion, it would be good for "Ask HN".

The answer to one person's Python programming problem is not of general interest. If everyone posted questions like that, nobody would want to read HN anymore.
Interesting. I don't know the specific wording, but how much of a contract holds up if one side doesn't hold up their end (not paying the other party). I know it's all down to what's in the specific text, but.. certainly morally, when you quit fulfilling your end of the bargain, I don't feel much of a need to uphold mine. Yes, I'm older now, but I know I felt that way even as a kid.

That particular story just bugs me. Somehow they'd rather pay attorney fees against her for doing something she should be allowed to do, vs just using that money to ... pay her for services rendered in the first place. Touches a nerve, cause I had someone not pay me. But they had money to respond to my lawsuit, and in extremely great detail (20+ pages to detail all the ways they do not owe me anything for the several weeks I built their project and delivered it to their client).
There may be something to that, given porn in Japan has been prevalent for longer, albeit, pixelated and they are going through population contraction due to many people of reproductive age being kind of indifferent to real sex.
What's your point? And I've been using the wink smiley for 30 years. You're the first to say something about it.
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Agreed though I don't let it bother me much. I have a front row seat to the internet all day, so the last thing I want to do at lunch is futz with a phone.
Perfect for the on-demand economy: The motorbike that thinks it's a van
Too late, we've already sent self-addressed envelopes out into the Cosmos.

http://www.exploringbinary.com/binary-code-on-the-pioneer-10...
Well, then I will suggest you have a poor understanding of how most women experience life. And I will also suggest that my position might make more sense if you just think of it in terms of female empowerment and try to not get too hung up on the word rights.
>Also reading timing is just as subtle skill as reading faces.

I understand people "read timing" and interpret it as adding to the conversation but timing in a text conversation is so unreliable I personally give it no importance. More often than not the timing of my IM/text/email has more to do with the situation I'm currently in rather than how I feel about the conversation. I didn't reply to that last text because I just stepped into a meeting, or started driving, or got in the shower, etc.
MS is keeping software sales, but handing search, distribution, cloud, backup and mapping services to what is effectively a Chinese google? How exactly do they expect to make money from this?
Japanese sushi chain abandoning conveyor belt for tablets
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Can you (or someone) comment on some of the important differences, in your mind? I'm quite new to NLP, so a knowledgable comparison of the two would be appreciated :)
But we also shouldn't dismiss the fact that Baidu is still the leading search engine in mainland China so for Microsoft it makes total sense to switch the default engine to Baidu.

Well ... Google remains by far the leading search engine in the U.S.

Quite obviously they don't plan to switch the default from Bing to Google for us any time soon.
Ask HN: How to give away a popular(ish) codebase?
I developed a project for NodeJS a few years ago that has gotten quite popular since then, and is something that I know a lot of businesses and individuals use. Last I checked it's getting 5k+ downloads/month (that obviously doesn't mean 5k new people per month). It's a binding to a C++ library and I worked out most of the bugs last year.

The thing that sucks? V8 has changed considerable, as has NodeJS's api. I'm getting tickets to keep up, but I just don't have any motive to do the work (I've moved on to golang). I've stopped caring about Node, as I actually think it's not that great of a platform anymore. I think it's useful for small, one-off things, but I'm not really interested in developing with it anymore. Any suggestions for getting rid of this thing in a way that's fair to the people who are relying on it for their organization?
Definitely a cool idea! And it sort of works, but then if you need to remove failed services quickly you need to use a non-DNS interface for it :)
Looks like Nadella is moving away from Microsoft's products that don't fit in with an "Office + Azure" future. Bing, Windows Phone and XBox don't really fit their strategy any more.
Can't wait for a "batteries included" NLP solution to come to Golang
Sorry to hear that; which zone are you in? I don't see any notice of an outage, but I'd be happy to investigate for you (I work on Compute Engine).

To your other issue with Cloud SQL, there is sadly a mandatory downtime with every release they do (often weekly). The team is working on it and knows it's unacceptable for serving workloads.

Edit: Here's a link to the maintenance note in the FAQ for reference - https://cloud.google.com/sql/faq#maintenancerestart
Nothing but blue sky and it pays off
That will be huge if true. Gravity wave will tell us many things about the very early universe(first few 100,1000s of years!), for which we have very little data now. Its an amazing achievement for LIGO just after 10 days of its start.
"But we also shouldn't dismiss the fact that Google is still the leading search engine in the US so for Microsoft it makes total sense to switch the default engine to Google."
The private market for VC backed companies is illiquid -- there's no real market. The private valuations are mostly sales fluff and politicking about dilution.

For conventional companies, reality is different. WalMart is what it is, nobody is going to pay a 100x multiple for it.
I am 99% sure you're talking about Dutch, and in that case: we owe a lot of those non-borrowed terms, including the very term 'wiskunde' (mathematics) to Simon Stevin[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevin
According to Wikipedia, Williams would have accepted remote answers to the puzzle too:

"To ensure that readers from further afield had an equal chance of winning, Williams also announced that he would confirm the first precisely correct answer sent to him by post."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)
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Yep, I have been writing some really tiny Docker images with static Go binaries for a while now. It's great! If you can get Docker baked into an Amazon AMI, for instance, you can easily bypass the need for things like upstart using `docker run --restart`.

I feel as though you may want to look into the library ecosystem a bit more. The awesome-go repo is seriously invaluable. https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
Can you imagine why and how any of those powers -- or any of the others -- would agree to anything else?

If the security council can agree on a policy how to represent Earth, they have armed might to back it up.

If they do not, all the bets are off, but I suspect that most of the powers and many smaller countries would do their utmost to fight down any independent movement claiming to represent the Earth their governments do not approve of.

The UN is a bloated thing of corruption, but so is most of all of the organized humanity on any scale, so that's quite fitting. Most of our existing international operational frameworks both de jure and de facto are coordinated under the UN or very related organizations. Assuming the world will resemble the one we live in now, if a need to represent the Earth arises (like, say, alien contact) and if everyone who matters agrees how to deal with the aliens, they'll probably just stick the UN sticker on that decision. If they do not, sucks for us.

If someone not-UN will start their space adventure to find aliens, they'll use their own nationalist / corporate / ideological symbolism. If they in addition claim to represent the Earth or the Humanity instead of just themselves without everyone's approval (can't see that happening, I doubt the permanent members would agree precisely because the reasons you outlined), they will probably have a war at their hands at home. In that case and without drastic changes in the international political reality, I'd wager that the ones who can make their claim to stick would be the UN permanent council members, because that's how they got in there in the first place.
I think recipients of federal grants are expected to patent anything that comes out of their research; some of the grants may even require it. (It's definitely the case with some EU-funded ones. Which was why, for example, the creator of golden rice was forced to patent it and sell the patent to a private company even though he didn't want to - it was a condition of the EU research grant that funded development of it.)
As I said, Earth-the-planet already has perfectly good symbols. And, as dietrichepp already said, planting the Flag of the planet Earth on Mars just seems weird, so I don’t think the symbol was intended to symbolize Earth as a planet, but rather Earth as “where all the people are”.
The Chinese government wanted its backdoors and censorship, but the US companies didn't want to look like they would enable that in China while promoting privacy and security in the US.

So the Chinese government offered them a "compromise" - let our Chinese companies be the "front" for your products, in which we can include all the backdoors and censorship we want, while you get to tell everyone else how much you care about your users' privacy.

When anyone asks why the Chinese version of Windows 10 or Skype or Cisco routers or Cloudflare services come built-in with backdoors and censorship, just say "it's not us, you see, it's our Chinese partners doing all of that! We care deeply about our users' privacy and security."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/us-cisco-systems-c...
I'm reiterating what's already been said by others, but as more explicit instructions:

1. Download the code and figure out how to build it.

2. Figure out how to run it.

3. Figure out how to attach a debugger to it.

4. Figure out where to listen/break for an event whose purpose you pretty much understand (like the initial DNS request).

5. Follow the code down the rabbit-hole, you'll be amazed at how quickly it connects you to everything else in the code.
My comment focuses on the positive of his work and not to enter the category of personal attacks; which there is plenty of room to do so. But this is not a forum for discussing medical or psychological issues is it? It is for technical discussions. So I discussed the related I observed.

My advice though to you directly though is there is more to life than casting judgements, and when it comes to personal desires I have a hard time telling someone they are wrong if they are not infringing on anyone else.

You might do better to keep a more open mind to what drives people yourself.
Planet Money is one of the flagship programs of National Public Radio which has notoriously high journalistic standards. I'm pretty sure non-disclosed native advertising for pay would be a severe breach of standards for them.
If the earth needs a flag, then the flag has the purpose to identify the earth and indicate the origin of an earthling. Thus, it should look like the earth as seen from space. Which would result in the borders of our continents. This would be boring for us, but it would make sense for aliens.
Bing goes the way of Ping?
Well, there’s always the “against centralized authority” symbol: Ⓐ
No content here, just an announcement of an announcement. And has already been posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10281746
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10286569
Maybe that means Azure will finally get some love. So many processes and technical decisions they made when building the platform are absolutely broken. The whole thing is half-baked in the worst of ways.
The article is about China, so the same business (and political) strategy does not apply in the U.S.

Simply put, maybe oversimplified, but with the political support and native integration:

* both Google and Bing are born in the U.S.

* Google and Bing cannot compete with Baidu in China

* Google and Bing cannot compete with Yandex in Russia

I wouldn't be surprise to see Yandex becoming the default in the future.
This comment makes no sense to me. The "While Using" is a user setting / choice in the Privacy options.

It corresponds to kCLAuthorizationStatusAuthorizedWhenInUse authorization status in the SDK.

If an app tries to use any of the background location API without the user having previously authorized kCLAuthorizationStatusAuthorizedAlways (and I believe the user is prompted again in a few days after the initial authorization by iOS8+) the app API calls are denied access with an error code representing unauthorized.

It has been my experience that adding the "Location updates" background mode capability indicating to Apple that your app requires background location sets off closer review during the app store acceptance process.

I have had apps rejected that a reviewer felt did not have a good enough text "reason" for requiring location tracking displayed to the user in the message box.

There are many reasons for a Yelp-type app legitimately to know about your location while not in use. It could make better recommendations, limit searches to "local" sites, etc.

None of this of course stops iOS itself from "spying" on you. The CLVisit seems to be always recording but experts with more knowledge on that topic than me might know how to turn it off.
One of the folks in Developer Relations made this side-by-side service "mapping": https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/docs/map-aws-google-clou... (some aren't really 1:1, but you know close enough). It's not a "migration doc" but at least gives you a sense of what pieces to put together. Some services have really easy mappings (say S3 => GCS which supports the S3 XML API except multipart uploads) while others have really obvious "conceptual" mappings (say EC2 => GCE).

Does that help?
Because Google won't pay Microsoft for it, won't partner with Microsoft, etc. Baidu is not a total competitor to Microsoft the way Google is.
We can just say it is for national security reasons.
I used it a couple months ago. Performance wasn't bad then.
You might find "Don Jon" a good watch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/
That's what I'd do if you weren't interrupting and pressing me for face-to-face conversation. Also, it's you who invaded my space, so why don't you go somewhere else?

The point is - in my opinion, it's equally rude to pull out a smartphone in the middle of a face-to-face conversation, as is to approach someone "fiddling with their phone" and expect undivided attention.
Microsoft would never do that willingly. would they offer Baidu as an option? Sure, but they wouldn't make it the default. That would be a silly "strategy". This was forced upon them. No doubt they get some "benefits" from this, too, though, but nothing that can outweigh Bing not being the default in China.
The game is to promise the girl whatever gets her to the set, make the film, then look for whatever reason you can come up with not to pay her. Often there is no enforceable contract. In this particular case, the signed contract was with a fictitious company that had nothing to do with the filming or distribution (a sham 'talent' agency). All it took was a phonecall from someone familiar with the many rules regarding adult films. They paid as soon as they knew she was willing to seek help.

In these situations they wrongdoer doesn't face attorney fees. They pay instantly, but they win in the long run because so many wronged actresses just disappear from the industry rather than put up a fight.
It depends, there are also many power plants that use diesel engines.

Knowing about ship propulsion, compared to turbines, diesels have higher efficiency and longer times between overhaul. Turbines are lighter.
Both mean that if you use turbines, you pay more for fuel and your ship must be docked more often which are a big nono in commercial shipping.

Generally only the military uses turbines in ships.

Sometimes they are installed in for example cruise ships if they need a lot of power and there's no space, / there are balance issues with diesels.

Probably on the land side if you only run it rarely, or your natural gas is extremely cheap, then a less efficient turbine is fine. Generally power plant frame turbines are more old fashioned and less efficient than aircraft turbines.
It pays to switch outlooks depending on your goals: mindset modality
God knows what kind of deal. But software sales will continue to be the biggest pie in their earning chart (if you remember they have a hard time selling MS products to Chinese government).

[http://www.pcworld.com/article/2985902/windows/microsoft-cut...]
Really like that quote. I was thinking, G. K. Chesterton, or maybe C. S. Lewis on a good day, but it actually seems to be from Pope John Paul II!

“There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.” --Pope John Paul II
Hopefully, their tablets will have good responsiveness. Last time I've been to a restaurant with rail system + tablets for orders they were painfully slow and unresponsive. Simple action like checking previous orders took unreasonable amount of time which is not very comfortable when you have to keep your hand up in the air in order to touch a display (similar to the airplanes).

Nevertheless, that's a good decision and as stated in the article it should have general positive effect on resource use and waste.
I've never used Azure, but I've been considering it -- can you give some examples/links of half-baked-broken-ness?
I suspect that the word "masturbati_n" triggers an auto-kill filter on Hacker News. There are 3 comments on this article that are all dead, all 3 include that word. Probably too many threads that got derailed by complaints of "intellectual masturbati_n".
It's funny. On my development team we have four younger guys (mid-late twenties) and three older guys (35+).

By far the most distracted people on the team are the older ones. In meetings they tend to lose focus, look at their computers, misremembered what's said, or just seem to tune it out. I've made a habit of specifically managing how they are perceiving what I'm saying -- looking at their eyes, seeing if they're distracted, asking lots of confirming questions.

And outside of meetings, they don't pay attention to our online communication channels enough.

If anything, my experience has been that it's the older generation that sucks at paying attention to the right things in the new super connected world.