skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read up on this chap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lindemann,_1st_Visco...

A lot of WW2 happened before Americans joined the party. At the start and up until the Blitz, both sides wished to avoid civilian casualties (incredible idea). Even the Nazis wanted to just take out the RAF, docks and munitions factories. But then some bombs landing in Berlin gave Hitler the idea to start terrorising British cities, so London's docks became a target in expectation that a lot of ordnance would miss and terrorise Londoners. Whitehall was also targeted - a 'decapitation strike' in modern parlance.

Coventry was removed from the map in summer 1940, to a certain extent Churchill had been waiting for this to happen (Bletchley Park had thee intercepts) so that reprisals could begin. And so it began. Bomber command kind of gave up on 'precision' and it then became eugenics - kill off the working class people! Bomb their houses! Factories, docks, railways were no longer the targets, it really was working class housing to be terrorised.

I have not heard about Churchill's advisor - Lindemann - on any History Channel documentaries, but not everything is as it gets told. I am not seeking a contrary view, just, the more you study a subject doing one's own research the more it differs from our own rosy propaganda. I also think that what the germans did in Namibia before the war is also quite fascinating, the depths of inhumanity that we learned of after the concentration camps were discovered were plain to see a generation earlier. It is as if the germans missed out on colonies and sought to make colonies in eastern Europe to make up for missing out on the land grab that the British (Portuguese, French and Spanish) empires had managed.

As for the Buckingham Palace incident, that was a stray bomb, not one of many aimed at the palace that happened to get through.
I see your point. Above the fold I get two banner ads and a pile of poop in Opera.
Those numbers are horrific. My entire UK degree debt will be about $60k at 3% and I won't have to make any repayments until I earn about $30k pa.

For my degree it should be a net profit for me. For less well paid occupations one is insulated against low wages. I am happy that I contribute to the advancements in non vocational learning.

My fellow students and I are said to contribute $40m pa to the local economy which is much needed in this deindustrialised part of the country - all accommodation is provided by third parties.

But $45k per year is an outrage. It surely can't be based upon the cost of provision.
> Nobody in their right mind wants to live in Russia.

Xenophobic insults are not allowed on HN. You know this, since I've had to tell you before. If you do it again we will ban your account.
> If I write one more line of code I think I'm going to puke.

This sounds like the result of tech-nausea training, similar to A Clockwork Orange but for code offenders. I feel sorry for you, but I guess this was meant to be. On a serious note, I could see nausea becoming associated with programming from prolonged use of a computer in an uncomfortable/awkward environment, or even from needing better eyeglasses. Nevertheless, wherever happiness beckons, ye shall be driven.
Can you please let me know which these two competitors are?
That shows how much design went into this project.
Well, it's deterministic, because the program is deterministic, but it certainly does look random.
I'm not normally one to complain about this, but the page is 8.9mb fully loaded, most of that is images. I'm on ~10 megabit broadband (shouldn't really be called broadband) but it was still noticeable.
If that's the case they should also factor the worse case scenarios such as nuclear apocalypse reducing everyone's life expectancy. And the possibility of that happening is still far from zero, even in 2015.
It may not be in the spirit of the web, but the current state of things is a failure. Less of a failure than 10 years ago, but still a failure.

Packaging the most popular / representative, say, 256 free & open fonts together and distributing them with Firefox and Chrome would be a useful thing for designers of everything on the web other than fonts.
Remember when the way that you styled body text was by putting it inside the <body> tag? It just baffles me that writers and creators took one look at the no-nonsense information delivery systems of the early Web and promptly spent 20 years working their hearts out making it slower, heavier, and harder to read.
For me, the license choice makes this project "interesting, but no way this is gonna fly!!", and I immediately think that this is a "try-before-you-buy"-usage of the GPL, to which there are many.
> And what's the point of sticking a handful of icons into a downloadable font rather than just downloading a few images?

Some reasons:

* They are scalable vector images without the download bloat and processing load of rendering them with SVG.

* Raster icons need to closely match the screen DPI or they look awful - eg Retina displays made raster icons look like blocky pixellated afterthoughts.

* They inherit colors, sizes etc from CSS the same way as their surrounding elements.
e.g., here's a neat one:
http://jcorbin.github.io/hexant/#colors=light%28360%2C%20100...
Hey! Glad to see this on HN. I'm a volunteer developer for this group, and we are looking for more hands. If you're interested in helping us out, feel free to reach out to me on GitHub (karissa) or Twitter (captainkmac).

Here's the list of issues (signup/login related) that I'm working on now: https://github.com/debtcollective/debtcollective-web/issues/...

Here's a taste of the future:
"Harnessing user data (and combining it with data gathered automatically from creditor websites and public data sets)"
- https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/debt-co...
I've found the performance of web fonts to become more of a problem over the past year or so, I guess this is as their popularity has increased.

1. Privacy

It's well known that companies such as Google and Adobe use web fonts to track users that may not even (knowingly) be their customers.

2. Performance

Just last week I logged a bug with our developers when our monitoring started picking up that one of their staging / demo sites was taking a long time to render, turns out they were using a web font provided by Hoefler & Co's 'typography.com' which is incredibly slow to load, here's the waterfall of the page load: http://i.imgur.com/riNT3hH.png
If you're in Amsterdam, and have a little free time, I highly recommend the Normaal Amsterdams Peil visitor center in the City Hall.[0] There are large sight gauges, showing the water level at various points in the canal system. It gives a great sense of how far below the North Sea surface you may be.

[0] http://www.normaalamsterdamspeil.nl/en/
Don't call them the standards, if almost nobody is using them.
This is merely an observation. English is not my first language, but I assure you wasn't specifically aiming at insulting anybody.

Unless observations hurt the observer, of course.

P. S. I think I am a bit wrong: people who clearly are not in their right mind don't want to live in Russia either.

There are of course people who are content to live in Russia right now or don't have much choice, but pretty much everybody eyes the possibility of escaping, if not for themself then maybe for their children or relatives. Russia is a nation of emigrants run by emigrants, using emigration as a reward for best achivers.

P. P. S. This compares to prevailing number of people in e.g. Japan or USA, for whom emigration has literally never in their lives crossed their mind. I hope I got myself clear this time.
For someone who's sighted.
It's funny how most of this ideas are in reality very old concepts of Greek/Roman philosophy. Seneca was a big proponent of "quite ego", for instance (his critic to a strong ego/desire: Tamquam mortales timetis, omnia tamquam immortales concupiscitis). Socrates could be too. I think the common denominator was the understanding that we have no access to the Truth and that we might as well spend the time trying to know ourselves.
I'm with you buddy. I have buttons for turning off allnthat stuff. Let me choose the font I find best, at the size my old eyes like for the device I'm using.

The arguments I've had when higher ups want the Web page to render pixel perfect to the "design". "But all renderers are different"
This is a "spiky version of the present" future - all the prominent things seen by one individual, extrapolated linearly. As such it has a discontinuous shape.

The main element I would critique is in the culture. Culture in 2015 will feel old and dated by 2030 - our memes, our artisan craft breweries and hip indie games. Something else will overtake them. Culture has the soft power to change people's perception of reality even as the substance of that reality remains more stagnant. And culture isn't directly associated to a new tech so much as it is the proliferation of that tech.

For example: "Drone" today equates to big war machines dropping bombs. "Drone" tomorrow could mean the kid across the street with a new toy and the ensuing shenanigans inflicted on stodgy 50-year-olds who think you're going to blow everything up.
All Photos from Apollo Missions to Flickr
You're right, it isn't. It's largely a for-profit industry, even the 'non profit' colleges. Most teachers, especially adjuncts, make very little in comparison to what the students are paying -- look at NYU, 50k/year per student in a class of 20 where the teacher is paid 5k/class. The math doesn't add up.
sure but my use case is to make my throat feel better so the fruit isn't as good.
Why exactly is it so hard to mention which operating systems are supported? Had to look on the steam page to see it was windows-only.
Google Self-Driving Car Project September Report [pdf]
You said it!

Actually, Facebook's TAO was an early inspiration for me as well, but it is really customized and complex too, so probably not something for a tiny team. But the concepts from TAO are applicable to many similar scenarios.
datanyze, not sure the funding

similarweb, $40m funding
There's a lot of awesome work being done on T1 diabetes, particularly in the open source community. I highly recommend checking out the Tidepool Project (http://tidepool.org/) and The Nightscout Project (http://www.nightscout.info/).
>> More and more infrastructure follows a pay-per-use model.
>People don't like making a stack of small losses. We prefer to pay big then use the products at our leisure. I can't see this changing.
You're assuming that it will be humans who will be making the switching decisions for themselves. If humans employ agents that algorithmically negotiate with different infrastructure providers, then I think it's possible.
Would love some feedback on Google Maps for Air-Space
We're a hacking team at an entrepreneur academy and we're trying to get an idea about honest interest in a "3D Google Maps" or a navigation system that can automatically route UAVs through space, effortlessly. Please post some feedback to this form bit.ly/debussyfeedback

Thanks so much!
http://debussy.launchrock.com
Alternatively, tax sugar and hfcs at to be 125% the price of erythritol/xylitol/etc. Will cause manufacturers to generally shift to polyols while still allowing consumers to have a choice and bringing tax revenue in the process.
Out of curiosity, how is that better than using Rust? My personal intuition is that by using a compile-to-JS + Node, you lose performance (Node.js is good for I/O, but not great for anything CPU-bound), plus combining Node.js and compile-to-JS is not too easy, if the compiler is not designed specifically for it (typically if it's not CPS-based).

In addition, if you intend to use static typing on generated JS, I suspect that you are going to lose plenty of information.
I'd also be interested in contact details, thanks!
really smart unmanned weaponized enforcement droids ... sounds a lot like the standard sci-fi drone.
> Xenophobic insults are not allowed on HN

This sentence was neither xenophobic nor an insult.

> If you do it again we will ban your account.

Stop threatening people for innocuous statements.
I think people seriously overestimate how useful CDNs are for static assets. Even if the page you visit happens to call for the same version of a resource you might have cached, there is no guarantee it is requested from the same CDN. And all these hostname lookups slow things down too. I frequently see a site request assets from multiple different CDNs when those assets are all available from a single CDN. The designer clearly copied a snippet of HTML without regard for the extra lookups when they could have found all the necessary assets on a single CDN.

I tried finding reliable data for cache hit/miss rates for popular CDNs but was unsuccessful. Is there a site out there tracking this that designers could refer to? It would be good to know if simply concatenating all your CSS (for example, or JS) into one file and serving it from Cloudfront would beat scattering it across several providers and hoping the majority of visitors had cached copies. I suspect the single file would perform better but I have no reliable data to support this.
I have every respect for the learners of any language, but this response is evasive. That was obviously not an observation. It was a slur, and you can't do that here.
Also in 1900s people had less stuff in their houses, even the middle/upper class ones. I think a big change in 'industrial' countries since then has been mass production and the proliferation of things, so most people now are surrounded by new stuff. I think this must have altered our sense of ourselves in some way.

Social change has occured as well of course, hugely, the availability of information about other countries and other ways of living have contributed to that.
There is probably also a huge ROI in killing homeless and severely mentally ill and disabled people, but we don't because we recognize them as people, who have rights.

We don't have to agree with our opponents to be able to see the arguments from their side.
Symfony and Asset Management
Because people don't enslave other people because they "need to" in the first place.
Incident of drunk man kicking humanoid robot raises legal questions
I'm oldschool, thinking Fidonet + bbPress = huge message network. Each node would need a list of usernames to prevent overlap.
It was xenophobic because it said something nasty (edit: and completely non-factual) about an entire country. HN has plenty of readers in Russia and they have the same right to civil discourse here that everyone else does.
Data likely stolen from Experian/T-Mobile spotted for sale on dark web
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Funny you should mention a subject which is close to my heart :-). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6023179/anti-aliasing-in-...
https://www.google.ru/search?ie=UTF-8&hl=ru&q=%22nobody%20in...
Are all these slurs?

If we read "nobody in their right mind" as "they're all batshit insane", we'll suddently see slurs against: prison guards, option holders excercising shares in certain fashion, developers preferring js to typescript, just from one page of search results.

But I'm just trying to convey the prevailing line of thought in the society.
Spend time with people much smarter than you.
"And you're right: we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers;
we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them
about halfway to Lisp. Aren't you happy?"

-- Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs (about Java)

source: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg040...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger...

> Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. For the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased faster than the rate of global population growth. The world already produces more than 1 ½ times enough food to feed everyone on the planet. That's enough to feed 10 billion people, the population peak we expect by 2050. But the people making less than $2 a day -- most of whom are resource-poor farmers cultivating unviably small plots of land -- can't afford to buy this food.
The writing style of this article was horrible, something about it made it very difficult for me to pay attention.
Uhm, there is also some studies on high-protein, low-carbohydrates diets, that is also giving good results for glycaemic control for type-1 diabetics.

And a lot of angry arguments and shouting too from people with various levels of expertise.

I know almost nothing on the topic, but my guess is that the key is to have a stable and low intake of slow carbohydrates, avoid fast carbohydrates, but most importantly - you should actually like the food so that you can stick to the diet.
There is even an actual Unicode symbol for the left-pointing magnifying glass ([1]) that they are using, yet they use the PUA anyways.

I use the [1] Unicode symbol semantically on my blog with a custom font at http://eligrey.com/blog/

1. Edit: Hacker News seems to have stripped the character from my message. I am referring to U+1F50D left-pointing magnifying glass.
> But yes, a real Java 2 or Java++ or next generation Java would indeed be a good thing.

I though C# was considered pretty much Java with less warts.
What if there are things you may consider nasty that might also be true?

I've read pg's "what you can't say", I know you're supposed to entertain this idea to yourself and shut up about it so you don't get caught in wars you don't want to wage all your life. But this time I think it's important for readers to know that war is actually going on.
There is no good alternative for this software on Linux or Mac. Anyone who wants to try their hand at it has a sizable audience sort of guaranteed (provided they match features, most important one is being able to define your workflows to work in whatever way you want).
If you're designing a new airliner then yeah, you can't screw up, and you end up taking years to deploy.

In the HFT world, you may have only days, or sometimes hours, to deploy. Yes you still write tests, and a bazillion safety checks when you deploy, but if you manage your risk down to zero then this is definitely not the most profitable way to go.
The better solution is HSTS, which would tell the browser to use HTTPS for the site for the next year.

The main browsers come with a list of known HSTS sites, so you'll never use HTTP to access google.com (etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
> Yes, that freedom comes with a price,

What price, and who pays it?
Never knew of XM weather. But the reception is only in US & Canada so I guess only interesting for coastal areas ? Nevertheless, I wonder where they get their lightning data. Which is US-only according to the website.
Oh yes, this can certainly be effectively outlawed. Create a barebones agency that manages a eBay like site for wholesalers. If Coca cola ever declines to sell to someone or offers preferential prices, then that's price collusion.
Actually this was one of the goals of XHTML, but then the HTML 5 movement killed it.

Had it worked out we could have gotten something like XAML, instead of the current Frankenstein model filled with workarounds and still failing short of a native experience.
Please dont say anything about the people who live in North Korea as well.
The four facets described in the article are qualities that can be practiced, especially mindfulness and perspective taking. So long as the practice is done deliberately and evaluated honestly, I think a quiet ego is an unavoidable result. (A hint: look out for spasms of defensiveness or other hypocrisy in yourself, since these are exactly the parts which deserve more attention.[1] Don't miss your responses to noticing these things, either. Also look for exactly what in the world you identify with, and what process is involved in this identification, when you refer to 'I'.)

For something more from a particular tradition, "Mindfulness in Plain English" is a reasonably good start.

One confusing thing is the use of the word "ego," by the way. A good working definition is "a belief that the self is more than a mental construct," and so "loud ego" refers to putting this belief at the forefront of one's life. Note that this has nothing to do with believing in a self, the construct of self most certainly exists[2] and is useful (though likely not in the way you think it does or is). This is in contrast to Freudian 'ego' which is, as I understand it, the mediator between superego and subconscious. Like, as an analogy, your stomach is an important organ, but it has its rightful place. There's no need for structuring your life around, elevating, and identifying with the stomach as the seat of conscious experience. (Though we do structure our lives around eating. The stomach, digestive system, and body still need food to exist after all...)

[1] A related feeling which I'm sure people in the knowledge business would recognize is that unpleasant sensation of coming into contact with something confusing. If the goal is understanding a subject, then this is a good indicator for the things which could use more work, but it is surprising how resistant we can be to realizing it: it's as if confusing things sometimes become invisible!

[2] I'm ontologically uncomfortable to be categorically claiming this, but it seems true enough to me.
The page was last modified on 27th June 2011, as displayed by Firefox page info dialog.

There might be more recent approaches like the one mentioned by aaronmck which is from 2012.
Everything in life worth having requires some effort.
No mention of pollution or climate change? The trend for climate change been observed since the 1950's. 99% of Scientists agree that it's really happening, and it will have a major impact on how livable our planet is.
Carjacking is regular in some countries. Riots also in France (peaceful demonstrations are logged every two weeks in my city), including turning cars upside down. It also happens to destroy a McDonalds because it represents evil American capitalism (see how far people go). It's not a remote idea that Google cars become the new symbol of American hegemony, so yes it is a good idea for the cars to have a "dodge a riot by making an emergency, full-brakes U-turn" feature. Adapting products to countries is fun.
Problem with the U2415 is it doesn't have the amazingly low total latency that the U2414H has. Including the latency from the panel itself, it is about 4ms from pixels flowing into the monitor to them flowing out to your eyeballs: this is better than every single gamer-oriented monitor on the market (which virtually all of them buffer 1 frame, which at 60hz, is 16.6ms, plus another 2-4ms from the panel itself).
Heavy shit: serious faces, quiet but stern money making, regular momentous meetings in small rooms with closed doors.

Weird guys: hairy, randomly communicative, oddly passionate.
Exactly. It is very hard to make credible predictions for longer period of time, but linear extrapolation normally works for 2 to 5 year scope http://liuliu.me/eye/predicting-future-2016/
How would you prove an opt-in, even if you had more info than just the email address? I mean, would a timestamp column suffice? What did they expect to see exactly?
An editorial in Nature recently described CRISPR as "the biggest game changer to hit biology since PCR." [polymerase chain reaction]. PCR is used everywhere: from forensics DNA analysis to pathology tests. CRISPR in the near future might be used to "fix" genes in a variety of conditions: from Duchenne muscular dystrophy to cancer.
Really, it's that big!

http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-the-disruptor-1.17673
I agree. But, until recently, it had the huge disadvantage of being a Windows-only product.