skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would make you think that a non Muslim person would be interested in 'redemption' and 'have the thought of his Lord on him' whatever that might be when visiting or exploring Mecca?

Sorry to burst your bubble but non Muslims in general are only interested in visiting Mecca for the historical value and contents that it holds nothing more.

That's why I warned the OP that there is not much to see as the Saudi Wahabis destroyed virtually everything of historical value in the city and the surroundings in the same fashion ISIS has been doing in Syria or Iraq and even this is becoming a very sensitive topic for Hijazi people, the natives of the region since those Bedouins from the midlands and desert are destroying their heritage while they sitting idle and getting away with it.
What do you mean? I fully believe that a competent developer could sit down and make something like Twitter in a weekend. Especially since the concept and what to do with it is already on display for them to copy.

Now, to create a Twitter clone in a weekend when there's no Twitter to go by? Nope.
We don't want ads and we don't want to pay for anything. Unfortunately, I don't think we've worked out the economics for that model.
It might just be that they are positively biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
For Canada, it will depend on which way the election swings.
This is perhaps an application for blockchain technology, keeping track of "ride credits" that drivers earn and can only spend on rides from other drivers. It's not a Taxi model, it'd be a sharing model.

I'm surprised Uber is not running a tier like this, because they could advertise completely free rides (just give a few rides first) and charge a small admin fee
> For the first time in a trade agreement there are provisions to help small businesses without the resources of big corporations to deal with trade barriers and red tape. A committee would be created to assist smaller companies.

That's awesome. But, if you have that much of a problem, why form a committee to help smaller companies- why not just make it easier for everyone? And what good will a committee really do? Why not just say, "We promise to make trading with foreign entities just that- you won't have to deal with the U.S. government and foreign government at all."
1. Go-hate isn't hard to find, especially on HN.

2. Liking Go != liking the mascot

3. I think most would agree this is ridiculous: https://www.googlemerchandisestore.com/Google+Redesign/Brand...
I disagree. He's proven capable as a fundraiser at Square. Square is far from a success, thus far. That being said, I'm not sure anyone could have made Square a success from the P&L perspective--the payments space is just damn crowded.
All organic food grows in shit. It's called manure. You probably bought some.
This page renders horribly in chrome, to the point I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a parody..
If you're willing to wait for JSON to schlep to the server and query updates to schlep back, using the change feed feature on RethinkDB gives you this with essentially no boilerplate.

Your DB becomes the "dispatcher" and "store", write queries are "actions" and read queries (with change feeds) are the updates from the store to views. And your web page just displays the most recent state.
Islamic Perspective in Rough (need citation):

Prophet Adam (Peace be upon Him) created the first House of Worship at Kaaba.

During the time of Prophet Nuh (Noah) (Peace be Upon Him), it was in one sense, 'lost'.

Then Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) 'the true' and Prophet Ismail (?) (Peace be Upon them) rebuilt the Kabba again.

Again and Again, Kabba and Mecca with it, were lost (to what?)

Until At last, Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) cleaned it for the last time. Removing the 360+ idols placed within.

A interesting story, just Before the time of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is that a certain king vowed to destroy the Kaaba, and plunder the city of Mecca. To which he was roughly told 'The Owner of this House is well capable of protecting it'. The Army of that King was killed by a hailstorm of stones carried by countless birds, a sign for those who believe.
One thing I like to reflect on when seeing this pictures is the vast difference in the number of people present at the hajj. It's truly orders of magnitude more.

This huge increase in pilgrims over the last century is because of new technology like air travel, and the peace the world has experienced over the past few decades that allows people to move freely across the world. But it is due to the efforts of the Saudis to expand the masjid, build camps at Mina, allow hotels to be constructed, modernize the facilities, etc. that every person is able to actually perform the rites of hajj at the proper times. Hajj consists of a number of rites that have to be performed in certain places at certain times on certain days. Think about what it takes to organize millions of people trying to do this. It's very different than organizing thousands, or tens of thousands. You have to accommodate all their sleeping arrangements. You have to provide enough space for marketplaces so they can get something to eat. You have to widen the roads, air condition the facilities, make sure each group leaves at their own time, etc.

It's true that the Saudis aren't perfect, and they make mistakes, but my point is that it's easy to get the impression from the massive construction projects that they are just trying to make another Dubai or Olympics. But really, there is a spiritual purpose behind it, not connected to money, and there is also a lot going on behind the scenes that you can't see in the pictures. It would be easier for the Saudis to just restrict the visas to a tiny fraction and not go through with all of the construction and organizing, but they are making the effort as you can see. I know this is not going to be a popular comment here but I'm just trying to offset all the negative comments with some positive.
Blendle offers articles across various outlets. It's a dataminer's dream: they can monitor the interests of the readers of the articles like no online newspaper/article site can as they can track what readers read across various sites, how long the reader is paying attention, how it is shared, with whom, in what order they're reading the articles etc. etc.

This is also the downside of this system: Blendle can create a very detailed profile of your interests and thus you. This is very sad, as Blendle isn't free, so you pay for the articles you read not only with money but also with your privacy, and with no influence on what will happen with the profile data Blendle created.

I know the group of people who is concerned about their privacy is small (or not big enough, I'd say), and this might look like paranoid whining, but in case you didn't realize this: now you do :)
We need to also then figure out how to handle a situation where a purchaser is unsatisfied in some way with the paid-for content. How do you refund their money (regardless of the amount)?

It's all well and good to tell someone that their idea sucks in the comments, but they still have your money.
> People with more 'positive' variables, such as more education, better physical endurance and above-average performance on memory tests, shared the same patterns. Their brains seemed to be more strongly connected than those of people with 'negative' traits such as smoking, aggressive behaviour or a family history of alcohol abuse.

It could be as simple as a more developed brain, in the same sense a person's height can be limited by poor nutrition. "More connected" sounds like it could be the ordinary state of maturity of a brain, limited also by literal nutrition, and nutrition in the sense of engagement/stimulation. Unfortunately, such factors could also be the cause of the negative outcomes found especially the non-cognitive ones like physical endurance - or at least significantly confound the contribution of the "connectome" itself.
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OK, but you realize that so-called intellectual property, as opposed to real property, is created out of thin air by law. And consider that this state-sanctioned monopoly is not created out of some moral or ethical notions of propriety, but out of the understanding that such a monopoly can serve the public good. When it ceases to serve the public good, there is reason to reconsider it.
This is also interesting that a language would not be only jugged on it's pretty website shell. I mean, if you got a beautiful language, it is logical to create a beautiful packaging for it... But honestly, I am reluctant to these very shinny corporate websites. Languages developed by communities are not companies products, letting it stay out of the corporate philosophy and game with logos, impressive designs and business oriented wills is a good thing: you try the language, read the doc, write some stuff and if you are convinced, you will surely not take care of this kind of logo, it will even become friendly to you.
> Apple’s new content filtering and São Paulo’s Clean City Law both use code — one via the law, the other through software APIs — to enable the creation of ad-free public spaces.

Except that content filtering isn't about the creation of ad-free public spaces, but rather ad-free private spaces. There are (or should be) only two parties to a web request: the client and the server. Neither Apple, nor the State, nor Google, nor anyone else, is legitimately a party to my session.

The reason that I'm free to use an ad blocker is that it's my browser, and I am free to configure it however I want; the server, of course, is free to try to determine whether I'm actually viewing its ads or not, and may refuse to serve my requests if it chooses.

As for micropayments, I love the idea but people in general seem to be extremely resistant to them. For one thing, they definitely don't want unbounded monthly charges. That could be solved by having a set amount of money, divided up by the sites one visits—but the service that does that would be a privacy nightmare.
Fair argument that every unique id or name makes you trackable, but that is a much bigger (and IMHO long lost) battle on so many fronts, and it does not seem very fair to single out Microsoft here. And I don't think that is the motivation of the author either.
I think using twitter as a platform for ordering things etc. would be something he could do to make money. They should open it up to developers and charge them for cool apps.
You can still optimize better with immutable types, because if you are diffing you are most likely diffing objects that share a lot of data, and for those subsections of the tree you can still do an `===` equality check and skip it during the diffing process.
Choosing the right front end framework
Thousands of Apollo Mission Photos Posted Online
Disney researchers made an app that turn drawings into 3D characters
Definitely worth it. I had to drop out around week 5 due to a lack of time, but just started a new job that'll take me back to 40-hour weeks (down from 80-100), so I'll give it another shot next time they run the course.
Folio uses git internally and as such is based on binary diffs. To tackle the issue of an ever-growing repository, we're looking into integrating git-lfs which supports offloading blobs from the repository.
Imagine you have to write an algorithm to determine twitter spam. Would it include accountCreatedDate?
> That’s an average of $22.92/Gb or $0.0224 per megabyte

That is surprisingly expensive:

I live in Germany and pay monthly 10 Euro per 1.5GB - that's 6.7 Euro per GB or about 7.5 USD per GB ...

And that's not even a contract but prepaid on monthly basis.

Actually I could get 5 GB for 15 Euro thats 3 Euro or 3.4 USD per GB.

Is mobile traffic really about 5 to 6 times more expensive in the US?
I used a referral sample for one shipment of meals for two. There was a choice of 3 out of 6 options for your shipment. There were seafood, beef, chicken, and three vegetarian options on the menu. However, you were restricted in your choice of three, and couldn't do {Beef, Chicken, Seafood}, which basically meant you would be paying $20 for a pasta dish for two, because you also couldn't pick {Beef, chicken, heartier non-meat option}. The total cost of ingredients was probably less than $15, maybe less than $10, for the pasta dish. It's hard to justify that as a value proposition in my book. Overall, the quality of the ingredients wasn't anything more special than what a local, non-budget, supermarket would carry in my market (NYC). (In fact, some of the labels on the ingredients seemed familiar from local delivery trucks in the area.) I agree with the GP: $10 a portion for a home cooked meal is expensive, <$5 is ideal. At $10 a portion, why make your own food, when you can get a gourmet healthy meal when you eat out?

When all was said and done, I felt that the best value proposition would be to just go on the Blue Apron website, look at the recipes, buy dry good ingredients in bulk, and make the recipes myself as time went on, buying the fresh ingredients as needed. As always, YMMV.

Edit: as many others have also pointed out, the packaging is "neat", and probably necessary for their workflow, but it feels ever so wasteful. You could supply a kindergarten arts and craft class with leftover materials from each shipment.
I would really like to hear your reasoning why typing is such requests would make sense for an average user instead of using an dedicated app which automatically supplies the vital information (current price, gps coordinates, etc.)
Hi Callesgg, thanks for your comment.

i understand your point. A premium, paid solution is actually something we are going to be releasing before the end of the year so you can put your mind at ease on that one and feel free to test the product in the meantime.

Dan @ Someone.io
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Are there any primary sources about those claims? They sound great, along with the big pharma regulations. But still, I don't trust the NYT enough to fully buy it.
At the moment, Folio only works locally. Remotes are definitely on our radar though!
Post-publishing. I'd guess that part of the publishing part is to ensure everyone gets it at the same time.

The text might leak before then, but there will be a "formal" delivery of the finished doc, and that will be made public.
Exactly. Microtransactions don't have microdisputes. Not to mention that payment with user intervention is annoying if it's on every page and payment without user intervention is wide open to fraud.
Lunar Xprize hopeful pins plans on experimental rocket
i don't hate this.
Most geostationary orbit satellites are actually closer to 35,000 km above the surface of the planet. As stated by other commenters, LEO, where these microsats would be, is only about 2000 km above the surface. SpaceX wants to put their a mere 1200km[1] up. For most (read non-gamer) use cases, this should be extremely adequate, and it will be at a nice price point if they put up the 4000+ of these that Elon Musk wants to with SpaceX.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/photos-spacex-founder-elon-musk...
Hi pookeh, thanks for your comment :)

This feedback is invaluable to us. We've been receiving a lot since this post hit No.1 this morning and the development team will be hard at work for the coming weeks implementing the best of the suggestions we have got.

Thanks!
I know you are saying it in earnest, and good for you. But I dislike the preachy tone 'Hajj is a Farz for Muslims. Anyone who enter's Mecca ought to do so with the thought of his Lord on him'. When you do this, you ignore lots of non-practicing Muslims, who are cultural Muslims, and like to preserve the identity. So they may be interested to visit Mecca, not with your kind of zeal, but just out of exploratory interest. The narrow vision of what 'ought to' happen, is very exclusive and purging. A bit like the Wahabi kingdom of KSA.

I totally agree with GP, it should be open for all, including Non-Muslims, lapsed Muslims and everybody.
I just got around to reading "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. It's "hard" sci-fi and while it doesn't particularly dwell on this part too much, it imagines a future where most people at some point decide to have their bodies stored indefinitely while their consciousness is connected to a Matrix-like virtual realm called "Heaven". Basically, instead of aging and death, once you get tired of regular life, you choose to go to Heaven. Of course nobody can be sure they don't just lop off parts of your body for cost cutting measures at some point but it's irrelevant since the process is meant to be permanent. Loved ones can patch in and visit you in "Heaven" but people tend to stop caring much about the rest of the world once they're in a virtual world under their own control.
One of the problems with Perl6 is an excesive proliferation of cute pets and pet names to learn before to start. A second one is that those names are unrelated and random, without a clear relationship between them or with what they can really do.

Fit your tutorial to the desired age of your audience. If something is a virtual machine just start your tutorial calling it 'our virtual machine'. Explain briefly what is a virtual machine, instead to say that is a butterfly with violet wings or something (not everybody knows what to do with this stuff). If is a compiler, call it compiler and go as quick as possible to the next step of the tutorial before to lose the interest of your audience. Is not 'how is named' or 'how cute', is 'what can you do with it' and 'how to use it with the other pieces' what matters.

If you want to use names, at least try to be consistent with the names and designs. If you want to name something 'rakudo' and want to show your sensitive side, great, name the other thing 'sazanka' or so. Something nice, humble, but useful at the same time. Something that can helps you to make a mental image of the whole picture of this 'paradise' landscape in a couple of seconds.
Exploring the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
That is all well and good if you can use Paypal (As per screenshot in article)

Some of us can not use Paypal (and are not being told by paypal as to why after being banned) so have to use bitcoin, bank transfers, prepaid cards and cash for day to day transactions.
Since assignment of an object is by reference, if you say: var stateB = stateA, then both stateA and stateB now point to the same JS object. If you change stateB then stateA will be changed too since they both point to the same object

So you would have to do: var stateB = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(stateA))

to get a copy and then you can change stateB and it will not be equal to stateA.

The problem is without use of actual "persistent data structures" (not "immutables" based on Object.freeze etc) the copy/clone operation is expensive. With persistent data structures as in ImmutableJS you get faster (O(1)?) copy. Therefore, building your state store on ImmutableJS and doing an explicit comparison (if you're using React) with shouldComponentUpdate by comparing 'prevState != curState' is the only thing you need, and I had seen benchmarks that show 35% increase in performance over not using ImmutableJS.

Update:

in response to the question about having a list of items and React invoking shouldComponentUpdate, that should not be the case if React stops comparing when the parent aka the list itself says that update should not happen. Does React in that case descend down the tree to compare the state of the list items? I suppose it would but there must be a way adound it. I heard about batchUpdate add-on in this context. Researching now!
Discouraging misogyny doesn't mean feminine.
There is also the situation of security to consider. Although browsers have made great strides in improving security, if we start including our payment information directly in the browser it could lead to potentially interesting situations. If a malicious entity escapes the sandbox or some memory reading vulnerability, they could figure out the payment information.
Of course there's also XSS and CSRF which could potentially allow a malicious entity to silently authorize payment by the user for their own website, all of which would have to be considered not only by the websites implementing the 402 API but also the browser.
Sure we're already working to fix these problems for all other data and account purposes, but if history is any indicator then I don't think we're ready just yet.
> You of the masculine persuasion should consider it an opportunity to show off your sensitive side. :)

I might perceive this differently because of my cultural background, but isn't it a bit misandric to claim masculinity as unsensitive?

Tom Cooks
Woman sits dead for hours in Hong Kong McDonald's
> A proprietary app on a GNU/Linux system can use the C library function system() which might invoke /bin/sh that is GNU Bash, and even depend on that functionality.

And that according to FSF is legal because it do not create a derivative work. You said above that "GPL cannot reasonably rule out dynamic linking", but now you are picking and choosing which part of FSF interpretation of derivative is correct and which is wrong. I just wanted to point out that the law could have been easily interpreted in a different way if someone had challenged FSF interpretation 25 years ago.

> But what if that cut-up never leaves my house? Or what if I only distribute instructions

Again, the law is both clear and quite fuzzy at the same time. The author has the exclusive right to transform their work, and as such, you could get charged even if it never leaves your house. In EU its a bit different, since it talks about moral right which protect the integrity of the authors work, through the end result is likely to be the same in many cases.

As for just giving out instructions, the legal nature of those are extremely fuzzy. If I provide instructions that reproduce a copyrighted video (by compressing/encrypting the data that represent it), I will still run foul of copyright infringement. From what I have seen, courts tend to take a "common sense" approach to this problem and if the end result is an infringement, then the indirect steps that will cause an infringement becomes infringement too. Judges collectively seem to rule against people who they perceives as trying to bypass laws by technicalities.
"I would argue that your browser should be helping you safely, securely, and easily make purchases of content and services across the web."

It's tragic that the author's highest desire for what was envisioned as a global hyperlinked information system is to make it into a more efficient virtual-reality strip mall.

We already pay for every byte of data that moves across the wire. Infrastructure and upkeep costs are why ISPs are actual businesses. The right answer to the current problem of asymmetry in communication pairings is peer-to-peer content distribution, which spreads costs much more evenly while decreasing latency by bringing data closer to edges of the network. You support Wikipedia-over-IPFS by flipping a switch in your settings to help host it, rather than doling out a handful of USD to the incessant baleful banners of Jimmy Wales' face.

Meanwhile, the right answers to the costs of content creation are universal income and voluntary sponsorship, not DRM, paywalls, and moneyware.
This is also cute.
US is not really scared by BRICS at all. They're scared by China, and India maybe, but the other three economies have been pretty handily defused.
The US is still learning how to teach kids about science
Is KVO common in JavaScript? I've only ever used it in the Cocoa realm.