skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cuba's isolation is only from the United States. The rest of the world comes and goes as they please. It's a favourite tourist destination of many Canadians and Europeans. I've seen Chinese construction and petroleum interests there as well.

As for Internet, they had it, but prices are far beyond what an individual can afford. It was also so slow it wasn't worth bothering. I gave up after 30 minutes having only downloaded a few emails.

I recently met a Web developer visiting Toronto from Cuba. I was impressed that he could get any work done with such slow downloads.
Childish, french, PHP... what else?
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Light L16 Camera, the world's first multi-aperture camera
interesting how much we need to pay for the GB
Not just adding and commenting - the users also moderate. IMO reddit users, particularly people who post topics and/or moderate, have every reason to feel some ownership.

Not that they own it technically. But like you say, reddit dies if they leave.
If you're on the CMU campus tomorrow you can learn all about it. http://db.cs.cmu.edu/events/databaseology-2015-howard-chu-lm...
That they're testing a place designed for human interaction and living without people is retarded. They should instead consider allowing people to live there that would cause minimal disruption and accept tradeoffs. Whole area doesn't need to have people but activity going on would be good for research. Might even pay for some of it in form of taxes or bills for infrastructure. Later they can test the stuff in areas with more diverse crowds.

Seems having people there would be minimally disruptive while giving more real-world information about the stuff. I'll also throw in that they might have those people there in one spot and people in other spots picked for controlled studies. You can do both.
Not a big fan of the logo, looks unbalanced.
Oh please, somethings gone wrong? Maybe the 56.53% of Windows 7 users are like me and are perfectly happy with the way things are.
See my comment below, GC isn't the problem. It's being able to layout your memory appropriately so you don't cache miss which when everything is a single heap allocation becomes almost impossible.
Not, that weird:

> Host names that contain only one label in
> addition to local, for example
> "My-Computer.local", are resolved using
> Multicast DNS (Bonjour) by default. Host names
> that contain two or more labels in addition to
> local, for example "server.domain.local", are
> resolved using a DNS server by default.

Apparently there's nothing wrong with adapting, say, .dev.local (or
.ifft.local) with a coresponding hack, ahem, file, under
/etc/resolver/dev.local:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/01/04/mac-os-x-and-local-doma...
Jaws: The Serverless Framework
My brief experience while on vacation in 2010 is that Internet access is far too expensive for an individual.

I suspect there's little or no censorship. Cuba has no money for such luxuries. With a busy tourist industry it would be difficult to keep out news of the outside world as is possible in China.
There is a house built out of stars
'Extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time
Fallibilism
Actually, proof is in time, consistency and consensus.
I think the big issue with "bi" is that the term is just too broadly applied to be meaningful anymore. Every piece of software with a chart in it somewhere is billed as BI these days and moreover if you ask 10 business users what they want out of their BI system you'll get descriptions of several very different tools which all happen to produce charts. I'm sorry to say I've seen countless businesses deeply disappointed in their BI tools simply because they assumed since "it's a BI tool" it will do X,Y,Z when in reality there are a bunch of different classes of tools to choose from with very different features. The few options that really cover the spectrum are extremely complex and costly to really get value from over the long term. There's a reason why the analyst industry exists - it's just too much damn work to suss out what all these tools actually do on your own.

I make BI tools for a living and I am still struggling to really do a great job classifying all these types of functionality and communicating it well enough to lead customers to the tools they really need.
UberPlane... I cannot wait.
1. I don't think you actually know what a sociopath is. Slapping labels you don't understand on people you don't like is never going to solve your problems.

2. And are you seriously pulling the "cyber bullying" card here?

3. Since when is this a discussion about swatting?

The case seems pretty clear to me. You are free to create any subreddit you see fit, and moderate it however you wish. Why should every existing subreddit be forced to conform to your personal sensitivities? Just go make your own subreddit.
>Because it's not that big of a deal and you already know it has health benefits?

Feeling hungry usually kills my concentration especially in early stages (I remember first day being the worst and later you sort of get used to it). And in general I feel weaker and drained.

Although sometimes when I "get in the zone" I actually forget about food for the entire day - usually when I need to do work and I'm not particularly motivated being hungry would make me irritable - I would probably do 1/3 of the work I would normally do.
I agree. Last month I went 11 days while only drinking water. No food. And the first 7 days I barely noticed. I had no hunger at all. On the 7th day I went for a 12 kilometer walk. I had plenty of strength.

After the 7th day I did start to suffer weakness, and I had a busy schedule at work, which put a limit on how long I could fast. The night of the 10th night I slept for 16 hours. The 11th day (a Saturday) I walked 10 kilometers, but it was much more difficult than walking 12 kilometers 4 days earlier.

I doubt I'll ever again do 11 days when I'm working. Maybe on vacation, but not when I have work to do. However, doing 7 days is something I plan to do this month. Because 7 days without food imposed no limits on me, at all.

It has health benefits, it imposes no burden, and it's easy to do. I don't think we need to wait for a drug to be invented, when the solution is so easy and available.
Depends on your definition of trust.

But yes, if you assume this device is treated as malicious at both ends - just like an unfiltered internet connection, but 10x worse - and that the client software that is doing the load/verification, or unload/verification is doing decent input validation, and your assumption that the user is doing their own encryption prior to transfering it to the device, I agree.
Second that. I discovered this company less than a week ago when I needed a new bike tire. They were 35% cheaper than every other retailer. I know for a fact that the amount I paid is well below the wholesale price for that item. Shipping was free. It's like 1999 all over again. If bubble-crazed VCs want to flush their money down the toilet, who am I to stop them?
"she feared... she felt..."

What actually happened to her?
Ubuntu Trusty ships with 3.81
Graduate school was one of my best experiences, and I wouldn't trade my years here for anything. My co-workers were fantastic, and my advisor is golden.

My complaint is with those inefficient bureaucratic systems that you mention in passing. Life's much easier without them. :)
Light’s Slim Camera Takes Aim at DSLRs by Snapping Many Pics at Once
I'm hoping Nylas N1 will help with this.
I used to have similar thoughts. That said having used Rust for ~1 month now I'm much father along the line towards drinking the kool-aid.

I've yet to see any deal breakers(custom allocators are coming) and I've not yet crashed once(!) in my entire time using it. Try that with C/C++/ObjC/etc. With functional approaches to polymorphism combined with an ownership model that I really like and I think we could see Rust make some serious in-roads in the next few years.
Just that you know, the term for "verbal abuse" is "verbal violence" in more than one language.
Yes it will, it just takes longer to timeout. And you cannot just play a normal Pandora subscription in a commercial setting.
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Thanks for the clarification. Sorry if my comment came off rude.
Congratulations to the whole team, Joyce! I'm happy for you guys. :)
What bugs me about this is that the people who would have benefit from these policies, such as my ancestors, are long dead and gone. The people who oppressed them are also dead.

At least in the US, Brown v. Board of Education was 1954, and the Little Rock high school integration was 1957. As far as I know, all nine of the students are still alive. People who are now 75 were born at the same time as the black students who had to be escorted by US Marshalls to attend a previously all-white high school, so it's not really ancient history yet.
I erased my disk before installing El Capitan. I wanted to force myself into good habits. I'm currently learning how to manage all my dotfiles, vim plugins etc with git. I'm not quite there yet however.

I read his article before erasing my disk, but found it way overkill for my needs. Depends on the user.
NSA Releases 21 Oral History Interviews
Light: 16-lens pocket camera takes DSLR quality photos
Mea culpa—I thought it might be real, but didn't have time to look at it.

Are .horse jokes a thing now?
China Rolls Out the 'World's First Driverless Bus'
Wow. Microcaching reduced response time from 25 ms to 3 ms. Thanks!
Two effects I've noticed:

1. It's broken my 'boredom' eating habit.

2. I wanted to comfort myself with food when stressed. It's broken that habit too.
Thank you so much for this! http://react.parts/web is very useful (particularly that it shows stars and download counts next to each component entry).
No, C/C++ is still very commonly used in many real time systems, embedded systems etc. But, since most of the topics in HN are in the web/android/ios areas, you might not see many devs talking about it here. C/C++ (esp on linux/RTOS) still has a very active user base and market demand !
What type of filters do you use for this photographs, it seems some of the photographs in long shot mode
> people they see as ultimate sinners who could soil them and send them to hell for eternity is completely disregarded and not tolerated at all.

And if that were true, this could be an actual problem (don't think "soiling" is a thing in Christianity). In any case, no one who wants to tolerate anything means that it takes precedence over everything else. Some cultures allow murdering unfaithful women. Even the most tolerant of free societies would not tolerate that, yet that doesn't make it intolerant. Society doesn't operate according to boolean logic and values have relative importance.

> The issue stems from you not being tolerant or understanding of their religious beliefs.

But I am tolerant of their expressing their beliefs. I'm all for Reddit allowing intolerance. I'm against it allowing mobs of intimidation.

> It's that arguing between right or wrong will depend entirely on beliefs.

Except I'm not arguing about right or wrong. I'm arguing about building an effective community (or a society) that can function well, given the composition of its members.

If someone feels uncomfortable in a community where threats of rape are not acceptable and would rather spend time in a community that enjoys bullying and threats, it stands to reason that they should form a separate community and not spend time with the 99.9% of people who feel different.
> the people who would have benefit from these policies ... are long dead and gone

I don't think the facts support that. Look at political leaders, business leaders in SV and elsewhere, the film industry, and, I expect, the voices on HN, both in the articles and discussions; they are overwhelmingly white males. Those are the stories we hear and the perspectives we unconciously accept.

If we don't make an effort at diversity, then history shows that this non-meritocratic, race and gender-based system will persist.
But it's 100ms each way for every database request while rendering the page! There's not a lot of apps out there that can do with 1 request to their database during an average page load.
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> Back to the original point of the article it is important that international standards limiting such devastating weapons be enacted and enforced.

One of the reasons I'm skeptical about the importance of this is, I guess I still don't understand what the nightmare scenario is. You call these weapons "devastating" and say that they will lead to even more death and suffering than currently existing weapons. How? An autonomous robot with a gun can't kill you any more dead than a human with a gun, and as Assad and Putin have demonstrated the lack of robots didn't keep them from just sending humans instead.
Since this is getting some attention, I want to point out that I had a great experience at MIT, and physics research hasn't stopped working.

YCR is a great idea because there are issues in academia that need resolving. It's certainly not completely broken.
If I understand it correctly, you're saying that The Economist based an article on your research, and you're spurned, because they didn't give you a byline or even a hat-tip. That's not plagiarism. Plagiarism would be if they copied and perhaps edited paragraphs of your writing; they didn't do that, they used the data, and seriously reworked the presentation. If you had an agreement, perhaps in e-mail, that you'd receive credit, that's breach of contract.

Their articles are usually well researched, and it is likely that you were not the only source. I'm sorry that you feel like you've been tricked, but you shouldn't do hours and hours of volunteer work for a newspaper (or any company) without first establishing what you'll be getting out of it, preferably in writing. The journalist therefore probably didn't realize you felt strongly about it, and when you asked them subsequently, maybe took an offence?
With Power Pivot it's quite a bit better, this guy did 122 million rows:

http://www.microsofttrends.com/2014/02/09/how-much-data-can-...

If that's not enough you can do SSAS Tabular + DirectQuery (although to be fair, that's no longer "pure Excel", but an end user likely doesn't care):

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230898.aspx
>In short, your example is incredibly ridiculous and has no theological basis.

That's really beside the point, isn't it? If they believe something, however wrong it is in your eyes, it's still what they believe. Of course there's no reason to accommodate people whose beliefs actively affect someone else, but people have a right to refuse associations for any reason.
"buffalo" can mean something like "bother" as an English verb (at least in American informal use), so the whole sentence as parsed in English does have a concrete mental image associated with it, in case that makes any difference.
Or on Linux or Windows: gcc is now written in C++, and I'm pretty sure MSVC itself is in C++.
There are a few similar technologies out there some of which are open source. Prestodb comes to mind but there's also some other closed systems like powerbi (with some underlying azure distributed data warehouse bits), etc out there.

What's happening in the industry I think is that there was a first wave of data discovery products (tableau being the prime example) that seek to get you right to reporting and data exploration side without necessarily having to slog through all the data warehouse design, and now a second wave like powerbi, etc that are pure saas plays that do something very similar are starting to come out.
Yeah, climate change gets such a bad rap. It's so unfair. Nobody takes the time to get to know the real climate change - the poor thing is so misunderstood. Deep down it only wants to help. /s

Why is this a pleasantly balanced article relating to climate change? Just because it points out that rising temps was a possible factor (amongst others) for a lobster population boom? Don't worry at least we've got lots of lobster.

Did you keep reading until the bit where that temperature sweet spot for lobsters might have already been exceeded, and it could be one of the factors that might now be adversely affecting lobster breeding?
in Japanese

> 可謬主義 - Wikipedia
> https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/可謬主義
Good to know.

The terms may prohibit, but in my observations, I know of many restaurants and small businesses that do it anyway. I'm sure most ignorant of the policy, but how many would stop anyway if still known of it.
Knot DNS Recursive goes beta
Well at least this looks like something new!
But notify me again when I can read the review on dpreview.com, the site was kind of light (pun!) on the details.
Also on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10350809
>As is the custom in mathematics and theoretical computer science, the result gains credibility not by having been sent to a journal and reviewed by other scientists but by having been vouched for by leaders in the field

WTF?
I'm curious to know what you mean by bAIb?
I don't know if it was intentional, or necessitated by the internal mechanics, but I find the layout of lenses to be visually unpleasant. It looks like someone took a camera and gave it chicken pox...

Aside from that, this is a really cool idea! But I don't know how it's being positioned. Is it a point and shoot replacement? Or a mirrorless camera replacement?

Or maybe it's just a technology demonstrator - this sort of system, suitably minimized, would make an excellent smartphone camera.
Some raw (is there an equivalent here?) or high res samples would be greatly appreciated in exchange for my deposit.

I had an interesting reaction reading this: I'm totally sold on the idea and science behind this. We have large scale radio telescopes, why not cameras?

But, I'm super turned off by the proposed plan: modified android OS combined with the promo photos makes me think viewfinder lag is going to be a bitch. v1 seems likely to feel like a janky short-run phone from a new manufacturer. Which is too bad, because the concept and possibilities are amazing.

Light; the articles mentioned a partnership with FoxConn; why not work with them or Samsung to put one out that you just license tech for?

And, it would be cool to see some high res samples.
This is a huge problem and has actually destroyed something very near to me, video games. The oversensitive attitude you mentioned has poisoned online gaming. Personally, I love to talk shit. A well spoken insult is a thing of beauty to me. It is an art, a craft, a science. Talking shit in video games used to be half the fun of playing, now it's unacceptable. What was once a staple of the culture is now it's greatest crime. Gamers today have this word "toxic". We used to have an antonym for that word, it was called "being a pussy". It's like one day everyone just decided to start taking the internet way too seriously. I can't talk shit in my favorite video game, some college student is facing charges because of a joke he made on twitter, and the presidential candidates are getting asked questions from facebook. What the fuck is going on.
The problem is there are some religious leaders telling everyone westerners are trying to sterilize them under the pretext of administering a vaccine.

It will be many years before polio is gone from Pakistan and Afghanistan. If ever.
There is another angle. Some fraction of the cost of a Tesla is for the electric drive, not weight or luxury or whatever. So by buying a Tesla instead of a Lexus, I am paying an extra penalty for contributing to electric car R&D.
Recovering Live Data with GDB
why do they arrange the lens irregularly, what's the reason behind this arrangement?
You seem to be making a category error. The overall logical structure of the Constitution is something categorically different than the nature of the enumerated powers or of the prohibitions listed in the bill of rights.

My use of "without dispute" is in regard to that overall logical structure and I do believe that the structure is quite clear and does not lend itself to 'quite different interpretations'.

Of course the appropriate interpretation of particular enumerated powers is often debated as well as what the "federal government should do", but that is not what I was referring to with "without dispute".
I agree, save for some breakthrough technologies that will be completely different, like truly immersive VR, robot helpers, good AI, space travel (where the average person is currently experiencing roughly 0%) I think most of the fundamentals are very well covered in the year 2015 - over 90% of where we'd want these things to be, definitely.

I'm inclined to think that now we need to focus more on time, and our enjoyment of it. At the risk of sounding like an incorrect and broken John Maynard Keynes record, the next golden age of humanity, and our goal, frankly, should be a future of plenty where we drive down the cost of these fundamentals to the point where we have to work a lot less, or even not at all, to enjoy them as a practically free baseline.

There will always be new toys to 'work' for and the economy (a version of it) will always keep spinning for those interested in such things, but a future where good food, shelter, travel, entertainment are free as a base to the average person is an utter paradise by today's standards - we're not even remotely close to that - it's attainable only some of the time, and then only in theory, only by significantly-above-average earners in the richest countries (by which I mean taking significant periods of time out from work, and having enough saved that these things are all still attainable).

I'm very jealous of a future where we all achieve that, to be honest. I hope we do.
You got down voted for the sarcasm I presume. But in truth it would make your character stronger. However, it might have some downsides.
I'd be surprised. It's used in motorcycle helmets as well and there's definitely a market for pretty pricey motorcycle helmets if you could claim they were better in any marginal way.
> Or perhaps all we need is a GC race (à la JS engine race we've seen in the major browser) which Google might very well be starting with the recent efforts on the Go garbage collector.

This has been happening for a long time with Java HotSpot and Azul C4, which still represent the state of the art. Go isn't really doing anything new—it's still not generational, for example.
Recently I decided to go as long without food as I can (just mineral water). The first 3 days were fine, but the following night I was feeling nauseous, and ended up vomiting something bile-like at 3am. Tried eating a small piece of an apple, vomited again. After that, I felt slightly better, but my desire to continue with the fast disappeared, so I started eating again in the morning.