skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be worth it to pay a someone to appear to donate every time a crowd walks by?

I love seeing live performers although it depends on the situation. In Paris the hallways are too small and the buskers are basically blocking the already crowded hallways. In NYC the ones that actually come on the trains and then go around with a hat make me feel uncomfortable although any performer who's really good I appreciate.

I'd also be curious how those numbers change in countries with larger coins. I assume it's easier to give coins? No worries about bills being blown away. Coins "feel" more disposable? There are €2 coins in Europe. There are 500yen coins in Japan (about $5) where as there are only basically 25 cent coins in the USA (yea 50 cent and $1 coins exist but are not common)
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If there are 1000 simultaneous requests (from many users), 1-200 images become 1,000-200,000 images. I hope you see now why your argument is flawed.
And sometimes doesn't stop on debugger statements.
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I also enjoyed this gem:

iFixit even found what appear to be silicone seals around the logic gates of the iPhone's logic board.

That really helps build my trust for Popular Mechanics.
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All countries should create their own facebooks and invite Americans to join theirs. It's sort of stupid to allow Facebook into any country unless all of its business operations and servers are based in the said country with proper controls. Even then that does not preclude the US government forcing Facebook to turn over data on Non-US citizens to itself.

Facebook is the #1 vector of US government's indiscriminate spying on everybody's else's citizens. Google comes a close second, but you don't generally give Google as many personal details as you give to Facebook. At least not by your own free will.

And that's really the problem that France has, everyone uses American services so America can basically create a dossier on everyone. No one uses French services other than French citizens, and perhaps a few other souls.
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A while back a fake DB data generator was posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8761953

Further back, there's also this one for Python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102268

And this one for PHP: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker (there were no HN comments on that thread)

And this one for Ruby: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86018 (also no comments)

These seem like a good starting point.

Also, mining bug reports for data that causes problems in your application is a lot of fun. You can turn your development database into a collection of pathological edge cases.
What unix convention are you referring to?
Don't underestimate the psychologic effects. A few years back I lost about 20kg in six to nine months --- by eating less and better, mostly --- and plotting my weight on the graph and watching the slow but steady downward trend was always a big mood-lifter.

And feeling better leads to a positive reinforcement loop; feeling good about yourself leads you (well, it works on me, at least) to do more things that make you feel better about yourself.
I wans't talking about just PIL - I was talking about Python 2 vs Python 3 in general.

EDIT: And I'm not talking about development only. I'm talking about download small scripts and being able to run them seamlessly as well.
Next week's EU data protection "safe harbour" decision may require exactly that: Facebook may no longer be allowed to export personal data from the EU.

Edit: data protection would also have a huge effect on the "peeple" app, discussion of which seems to be banned on HN.
Those fixes applicable to Yosemite will be available as a separate Security Update. Apple usually supports the current OS and the OS X version behind (for example, this for Mavericks was released in August: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1834?viewlocale=en_US&locale=...). So security is probably not a reason to upgrade.
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I wrote a small Go tool[1] that extracts a color palette from an image using either median or mean quantizer.

The quantizer code[2] is well documented and worth reading if you're looking at doing this in Go.

[1] https://github.com/andrewgleave/color-extract
[2] https://github.com/soniakeys/quant
If you push them out during the day when everyone is working, sure. At 2:00 a.m.? Not so much.
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"Consequences" seems like the very definition of retaliation.

And yeah, the App being deleted was a mistake. Gotcha.
why 10h? go ahead with 4 days but keep 8h.
For those who don't know 33/33/33 rule is it rent/expenses/savings?
Google services reported as down from multiple locations across the world
I am seeing tons of timeouts while calling different Google services (including google.com and analytics), from different networks.
We're located in Italy, Europe.
Anyone experiencing the same?

Edit: Seems it's down according to https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoogleDown?src=hash&lang=en
Generally you don't encrypt actual data with rsa, you encrypt a symmetric key with rsa, then encrypt the actual data with the symmetric key with symmetric encryption. An obvious question is what granularity is the symmetric key for their data. A different one for each piece of data?

Usually rsa is used when the source of the data never needs to read the data again. Usually for example like sending an email. The sender encrypts it and sends it, but the sender cannot decrypt it. Why were they using rsa for the tax information? Were there multiple servers and the server that creates the information is not trusted with being able to ever read the information later?
I personally always negotiate for 4days a week. Works wonderfully for me.
Hmm, interesting. Perhaps it is not worth it to "hire" a spectator to donate, but I think simply a spectator to stand around like an audience member can be more effective. That's another thing that often clusters; people who stop and listen. At really odd times, I'll look around and all of a sudden notice five people who stopped to listen.

Yeah, positioning is key. I do not disrupt traffic flow at all; for those who know Powell, I stand at the end of the long hallway on the 4th street side. That gets me a captive audience for about 30 yards. They have no choice but to listen to me on their way to the BART/Muni gates. Acoustics are good too.

Indoors, there is little chance of bills being blown away, but otherwise, I agree with you about coins. $1 coins are actually not that uncommon.
Why does running this loop 9 times take 100x longer than running it 8 times?
What would you suggest Apple should do? They can't let this blatant stomping over a perfectly reasonable NDA agreement pass. The other option they had would be to sue iFixit to oblivion which would have way bigger impact on the users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
You can work on classified project and still mention them in your resume. I have plenty of resumes like that in the team. As long as I have a way to verify skills (by calling someone), it's perfectly fine. I don't need to know the details. No one should leave a blank line in a resume.
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Yes and moreover we have statements such as " it’s harder for adults today to maintain the same weight as those 20 to 30 years ago did, even at the same levels of food intake and exercise." and "In other words, people today are about 10 percent heavier than people were in the 1980s, even if they follow the exact same diet and exercise plans."

These conclusions from a study with 36,000 people out of some 300 million Americans?
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I would compare the apple hardware agreement they violated to software agreements which forbid analysis, reverse engineering, or even benchmarking (there's some notable enterprisey software which forbids conducting benchmarks and sharing the results).

I would not condone redistributing copies of software or significant portions thereof in a way which violates the license, whether it be a copyleft license or a commercial license. If apple distributed gerber files for the PCB of the new hardware device, or original CAD schematics it uses to manufacture parts, under some license, I'd also want the terms of the distribution of that to be respected.

But this is something of a different nature. It's taking hardware apart and seeing what's inside and sharing that researched information rather freely on the internet. This is not a copy of source code or hardware schematic. This is learned information. It's not vandalism - there is no expectation that any dev kits be returned, each recipient can use theirs exclusively. This is something everyone everywhere should always have the right to do. And iFixit does, more or less.

What sucks is that Apple can retaliate by exerting their complete and arbitrary control over what software millions of people are permitted to run on their own devices. That's really messed up. This is just one more great example, in case you don't understand yet.
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It's not going to look like a good idea even if they need the same version. You're not supposed to run homebrew as root; it runs as your own user instead. If two users try to install things with homebrew in the same directory, you're going to end up with some things owned by one user and some things owned by the other, and things will start failing pretty soon.

A while ago I floated the idea of having a separate, low-privilege "brew" user that installs things, with the brew command automatically switching to that user, but there was no interest.
The article cites "white label" companies that aren't allowed to mention what they've worked on, though. I'm not sure how that would work other than you saying that you worked at X company, but not being able to cite a single product you worked on.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
It's a tricky subject. The argument from the patent side is that if these companies could not patent their technologies / products, they would not be willing to invest nearly as much in development and this would generally hurt human progress.

On the other-hand if you look at big companies like Apple, Facebook the amounts the are investing in genuine human progress is truly paltry compared to their net-worth, and what they are patenting is often ridiculous, generic and clearly not in any way conducive to human progress.
No need to wait for it to happen nation wide. You can already start applying it for yourself. Try to negotiate a 4days week next time. If you can't find any employer who would agree to that, accept standard 5days contract, but then take a day off every other week or something. I'm sure there is a lot people can do to reduce their work time (stress) without waiting for it to "happen" country wide.
I seem to gain weight when I eat wheat. When I eliminate wheat, my weight is stable.

I found a study about how wheat interferes with leptin (the hormone that makes us feel full):
http://www.biochemj.org/content/410/3/595

I think I've read several places that the wheat we eat today is significantly different from the wheat people ate in the old days. If I remember correctly, our wheat contains much more gluten, since high-gluten wheat makes bread fluffier etc.
We delete anything in our hdfs /tmp after two weeks. It's very convenient for oneoff job output which you know doesn't have to be around long. /user is for important longer lived stuff.
They never came close to getting air superiority, or pushing the RAF away from the South England Airfields.

This is a persistent claim that has no support with experts of WW2, but somehow the story is just to good not to be retold by every tv movie and school book. Its a popularised myth with no truth.

Neither is it true that Churchill deliberately attacked German cities to stop the Luftwaffe from attacking the RAF Airfields.

Churchill speeches and dramatisation is not the same as actual history, no matter how often people repeat the same tale.
All personal experiences aside, the conclusion is that cyst squeezed hypothalamus which resulted in malfunctioning. Or in short, "Malfunction of compressed brain tissue". What is the reason for that? Are neurons somehow discharged when they are pressed closer to each other? What's the physics/chemistry/biology behind this?
Okay, so can you explain to me how putting .git/, README.md and Cellar/ in /usr/local/ doesn't break that convention but putting them in /usr/local/homebrew/ does?
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Because the default is in `/usr/local` and because the installation warns against changing prefix for possible software breakage.

Now since many people say they never run into problems with nonstandard homebrew path, I'd like to give it a try too.
BTW, there is a paragraph in this Chrome extension description:

We are always trying to find a way to continuously improve JavaScript Errors Notifier, thus we've chosen Fairshare and Intenta as our trusted partner, which will collect the usage statistics from your browser. It's anonymous and will not include any of your privacy data. We concern about your data security as you always do. Please learn more about Fairshare privacy policy at https://fairsharelabs.com/analytics. Anyway, there is also alternative extension version, that does not collect any statistics: https://goo.gl/IRbqnY
Disclosure: I'm French.

The EFF is complaining that we are lowering what amounts to be the Human Rights, and they are right. However the EFF hasn't succeeded in taming the US standard.

What may be happening here is pressure for an international agreement. We'll only have leverage to make a deal with the US if we (the rest of the world) practice the same disrespectful spy acts against innocent American citizen. Then we can agree on stopping our activities in a bilateral or UN agreement.

Of course what is funny about threats from my country is that we are quite powerless. We don't have the world's Facebook records, neither do we manage the world's largest email. With this kind of law, chances are we won't. I, for one, host my email neither in France nor in US.

For this threat to be leveraged against US, a lot of other countries have to do the same, until there's a major uprising against surveillance methods.

The world has changed. 20 years ago, the right to not be searched when traveling within a country was enough to protect most citizen. Now all citizen cross boarders once a year or use remote Internet websites, which in both cases dismisses their rights as citizen. We need a global protection against unwarranted searches.
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I think the bigger headache will be the next time you buy a new Macbook with El Capitan or later installed on it, because you'll need to do a song and dance to create the /usr/local directory in the first place.
> But this is something of a different nature. It's taking hardware apart and seeing what's inside and sharing that researched information rather freely on the internet.

> This is something everyone everywhere should always have the right to do. And iFixit does, more or less.

Most people get their devices by purchasing them when they are released. iFixit have been given the enormous privilege of being sent a developer unit.

> What sucks is that Apple can retaliate by exerting their complete and arbitrary control over what software millions of people are permitted to run on their own devices.

Apple aren't "retaliating". iFixit broke the developer terms. Their developer account was thus suspended. That developer account happened to contain their app.
Here's a related post, I found interesting: http://developers.lyst.com/data/images/2014/02/22/color-dete...
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It was bizarre that the article did not mention trends in other behaviours that effect weight, like sleep and stress level. Millenials are arguably more stressed out than people the same age a generation ago, due to increased student loan debt, unstable job market and poor job security. This constant stress of course contributes to how well your body can maintain a healthy weight. There should be a rigorous study comparing relative stress levels over generations, but it is not hard to imagine that this is broadly true.
I don't think GP's argument hinges on art enjoyment being 100% relative. Whatever kind of art you happen to enjoy, be it Mozart's string quartets or Cage's 4'33'', someone out there is making exactly that kind of art for free. The difference in quality is tiny compared to the difference in popularity.

Yes, making good art requires training, but so what? These people are willing to get training, create art, and give it to you for free. You might say that it's immoral to take stuff from them for free, but that's what already happens. The overwhelming majority of artists lose money, rather than make money. If you removed artist compensation completely, fewer people would go into art hoping for the pie-in-the-sky chance of success. The overall societal loss in terms of smashed hopes etc. would become smaller. And the quality of art you consume might become higher, because you'd lose the cookie cutter commercial crap. That's how the argument goes.
But I've found that many GUI applications do not take /usr/local/bin into account. It's like only terminal applications, which are rightly affected by terminal environments, care about it.
The common (aka YC promoted) scenario would probably be 25%/yr with monthly vesting after a one year cliff.
It's the "Convince-your-competitors-to-use-it" methodology.
This is another issue that irks me to no end. Companies like Microsoft and Apple reaped the benefits, early on, of little to no software patent protection laws. They copied and outright pilfered everything out there - and it was ok... Those early years saw tremendous competition.

It's hard to explain how exciting technology was back then - so many options. I remember learning about and trying to decide between DOS, Amiga, Commodore, Apple IIs/Mac, Atari. These were the OSes/PCs I focused on (not including Unix). Yet, this was nothing compared to the (healthy) competition among app developers. Very innovative times.

Nowadays, if you have even a smidgeon of success - you're either bought out by those who successfully gamed the system or sued into submission.
Apple has indicated that even with SIP, they're leaving /usr/local available for developers.

ref: Apple keynote slide #35 on http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/706nu20qkag/7...
I would also assume that there's less structured eating schedules in homes now than there used to be, which would make it more difficult to catalog exactly what was ingested.
I've tried every other Wednesday off. People ask me why I wouldn't just do a longer weekend, but I found the mid-week break to be great. What used to feel like a long five-day slog is much more manageable in two-day chunks.
Don't worry, here in the UK we just went ahead and spied on everyone and ignored the legal ruling.

Everything is secret, using laws lets the terrorist and paedophiles win. (to summarise what the home secretary says on the matter.)
The startups I have talked to in SF don't take you seriously unless you live there. They are real jerks about it. Tell them you live in San Jose and can take Caltrain and they never call you back.
Looks amazing, not sure about the lack of bower/npm though
Compare sugar intake now and 20 years ago, sugar metabolizes to fat in the body. So that food is fat free, but high in sugar leads to the same thing in the body anyway.

Also look at the sizes of portions, soda and food packages they have all increased too.

Fast food consumption which is high in sugar and fat has also increased.

Lab rats has shown to be as addicted as cocaine on sugar
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/10/16/research-...
Holy Cow!

Life Stinks Trailer! I thought I was the only who remembered that movie!
That type of experience is what made me never really get into the industry, although I used to attend GDCE on my own, be an IGDA member, had interviews at known UK and DE studios, and still do know some devs in the field.

I was never a type of person to put work before family and friends.

And even though general IT also has its crunch time, it doesn't come even close to those hours.

Additionally, in many countries, unions are also present in IT companies.

So, I just kept it as yet another hobby.

Apparently the industry prefers to destroy people life's than make it more pleasant to newcomers, thanks to the dream everyone has to work in the field.
"Google and Microsoft agreed to work together against patent trolls in the European Union." I hope the irony of this isn't lost on anyone - especially as it relates to Microsoft.
It's not about them reviewing the device. It's about them reviewing the device and publish it before the product actually hits the market.

Apple didn't have problem with them tearing down other Apple devices.

And iFixit got the device because the sign the agreement not to publish the information before it hit the market.

It's not about reverse engineering knowledge.
It's about breaking the agreement, which is what iFixit is asking others not to do when using their API.
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I wasn't being complete, only saying that it's not a simple calculation.
iPlayer is IP-location restricted. You can get around it with a VPN that allows you to pick exit IP location.
It has to be a method that can not be accessed by malware - the very thing SIP is meant to protect from. I believe that is the reason the option ended up on the recovery partition.
With the exception that in some countries, we do have unions that work, even in tech.

Sorry, but it is in German

www.igmetall-itk.de/index.php
There is an improvement that can be made here. There is no attempt to find the brightest colour. If you look at the dark image, the brightest colours (red) stand out over and above the dark colours. Using this knowledge is an illustration technique. Notice how the red stands out on one image, a small blue line on the other?

This particular algorythm and others that I've seen don't take this into account. Depending on the image, you could also take into account the lightness and darkness to find the dominant colour however small amounts in the image.
Theresa May (PBUH) is the best thing to happen to the UK.

(Just covering my back, who knows what lists I'm on).
FHS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard)
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Wow, very well argued!
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Lucid was called a dataflow language at one point, but is more accurately an 'eduction' language. The key difference is that Lucid relies on demand-driven evaluation, wheras dataflow semantics entirely relies on the more push-based semantics of data becoming available to fire an operation. I suppose you could call it 'tagged-token demand-driven dataflow', but its semantics are much different from other dataflow languages such as SISAL, VAL or Id.

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/lucid-eduction/
Users should have full control over their own machines. System Integrity Protection is obnoxious paternalism at best, and at worst, it's just another step toward iOS-ification. If Apple keeps this up, I expect a revival of Linux desktop distributions.
Hmm. I wonder if converting to HSV first would change the results.
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