skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't either. I thought we got something at least? Yeah who do we contact?
Also it is too risky - for example if they won't make it in time
I guess its possible to ask all of these people, apart from Dennis Ritchie :(
> allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child

> To ensure coordinated economic and social development, the population size for China should be kept at about 1.5 billion, said Guo, citing the results of a study sponsored by the State Council, China's cabinet.

> China should keep its total fertility rate at around 1.8, and the current rate is between 1.5 to 1.6, allowing the country to maneuver its population policy, according to Guo.

It seems like the aim is for a long-term stable demography. Ensuring the working population doesn't fall too much, for example.
Middle-class in China is going to be fascinating to watch as it consumes all resources.

(four times the entire population of the USA for perspective)

I guess the logic is it will help their economy?
Hypothetically if YC decides to invest in you, what is the average time to receive funds?
This has been expected for a while.

Hopefully it can help address the increasing gender imbalance. It has reached 6:5 male to female births, resulting in huge numbers of Chinese men who cannot find marriage partners.
Yeah me either. I have no idea, I thought we would get something.
Is there a range of frequencies that does better? Don't frequencies that go through walls easily also go through bodies easily, or are there frequencies where the body is particularly reflective w.r.t. concrete walls?
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And Windows is written in C

Your point is?
Need more of them to make iPhones.
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Overpopulation is an interesting problem, it exponentially affects every other problem we have -- some balance will have to be found between ultimately telling people they can't kids or maintaining that those people have autonomy over their own lives and can make such a decision. I don't know what the solution is - perhaps making the developing world developed as fast as possible.
Altwork Station: automated desk-and-chair rig that feels like working on a cloud
Agile at Microsoft
what blogs does one follow to stay up to date on this topic
Sounds like a great opportunity to create service like Uber, but with wives
How long does it take for YC to decide on who to fund?
Hypothetical: Say you get interviewed by YC. How long does it take to make their decision + how long does it take to receive the funds after the decision?
Altwork Station
It probably doesn't fit exactly what you want, but I found Lout (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout) to be a suitable enough replacement for a lot of LaTeX-y tasks. I'm not a heavy LaTeX user so it's likely there's a whole lot missing, but I found the document structure and syntax to be a good deal simpler. In addition the installer is (iirc) only a few MB - I'm sure you can get tiny LaTeX\TeX installers or packages but the ones I've seen tend to be very "batteries included, plus a whole lot more" which is maybe a bit excessive.
Show HN: Gophr – London's smarter, fairer, faster courier service
It doesn't seem slow to me.

I have a 450 page book that as part of the compile generates a 200 page answer answer manual. They are full of math, hyperlinked cross references, figures, etc. They use tons of packages including amsmath, hyperref, and many more. Compiling takes perhaps 15 seconds. This means compiling twice, to resolve references.
Sorry, I assumed from the sentence preceding it that you meant that no sane person would be against employers providing health insurance.
You say it in a crass way but actually, the point of the growing middle class and shifting of China's economic base means there are going to be fewer people making iphones.

Next it will move to Vietnam
Show HN: [New App: kietsy] Interact with your surroundings
Hi community,
I am Gabriele Negro, the founder of kietsy, a Berlin based local based information startup. My team and I are pleased to present you the first version of our freshly baked app.

We build the app with the focus to empower users to share information instantly with their surroundings.

This might be something trivial: take a picture of your lunch, select the restaurant and tag the post suitably (e.g. "lunch"). Users within your proximity will get your post in their feed. But users can as well subscribe to an area notification and define a specific tag they are interested in, like "lunch". Now they will get an email, whenever someone posts an entry (within the defined area) using this hashtag, which might be helpful to decide where to go for lunch.

We have already implemented Twitter, Wikipedia and Instagram, so, no matter where you are in the world, you might get (real-time) content from these services. Have yourself a look, discover the implemented functionalities and tell us please if you find the app useful (or don't).

Thank you guys.

Greetings from Berlin, Gabriele

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kietsy.app

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kietsycom

PS: We started with Android. We are working on iOS.
I quite miss the brushed metal look. It is interesting that you could take OSX from back then and put it in front of someone today and it'll behave mostly the same.

Sadly the same could not be sad about mainstream Linux environments (GNOME3, Unity etc.) or Windows 8/10. Windows 10 you can to some extent.

Thought provoking.
I remember Mike Pall talking about the use of this technique in LuaJIT. Interesting topic.
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Reflowing math, in a sensible way, is an unsolved problem.
Now pull https://github.com/JuanPotato/Legofy/pull/19 and write code to automatically put an order in for the needed bricks on lego.com to recreate the digital images as real life lego pictures :-)
Hey guys, thought Gophr might be relevant to some of the London-based HN users. The industry has had a massive issue with fair wages, including protests inside the Google campus in London - We jut became the first courier company in the UK to pay a London Living Wage, guaranteed and accredited by the living wage foundation. We wrote a bit more about this here:

https://medium.com/@SebRobert/trying-to-fix-a-broken-industr...

Happy to give out free credit to anyone who wants to take us for a whirl, let me know!
You mean, tinder?
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Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones
>> none of the standard Java generic classes are first-class citizens in Ceylon world, because they don't have the reified runtime type information <<

This is just not true. In Ceylon when you import a Java generic class, you can do everything with it that you can do with the same class in Java.

Please stop posting incorrect things about Ceylon. You're coming off as a walking, ranting, personification of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Another aspect that I haven't seen much discussion of, is: punishment is there partly to stop other people from exacting it.

Situation one: A kills B, B's brother kills A, A's brother kills B's brother... and eventually A's family and friends and B's family and friends are just killing other all the time.

Situation two: A kills B, the state kills A. Done. B's family has nobody left to kill, and A's family isn't likely to try to fight the state.

This suggests that the state can't make punishments too lenient, or people will take matters into their own hands again. It's not stable.
How is Svven different from services like Flipboard?
It's absolutely baffling how such a trivial little program is able to attract so much stars and attention. Seems like GitHub is turning into a kindergarten these days.
This $5,900 desk lets you lay down while working
Because Microsoft's efforts were on the stupid new modern UI and Windows 8 under Sinofsky. Seriously that guy did so much damage to Microsoft. There is no reason Microsoft should have been in 3rd place in the mobile market (4th really behind BB but BB fucked up too).

Windows Phone was late and crappy. It still is crappy. Devs don't want to develop for the platform no matter what MS does now. How can they get the devs back? Universal Apps is Microsoft's way but I am not too sure if that is what devs want. Microsoft are still desperately trying to push one app for mobiles, tablets and traditional computers. I like the idea in theory but then again communism sounds good in theory. Really though we don't have the hardware to fully realise that yet and I don't think we will for the next few years. Personally I prefer how Apple are doing things with keeping computers and mobile/tablet (touch devices basically) separate. Having said that I don't really like how Apple does things a lot of the time. I am a Windows computer and iOS phone user. My phone is a device to get work done so the closed environment isn't a big deal whereas on my computer I want more control. Android is good but until recently it wasn't what I really wanted and now I am too deep in the iOS world to switch my phone to an Android. I think the problem MS has is people don't want to move to Windows Phone. There is nothing WP does that I can't do on iOS or Android.
Too inefficient. Opening up the books and slicing off the pages cleanly would be more effective, and we already have age-old matching techology from bill counters and card sorters.
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Centralisation of process isn't just about dollars for data. Yes, for the business model to work, the company has to gather a lot of data that it can look at all at once. But that's perfectly possible to do through a network of services, even services you don't own. See ad-servers.

Centralisation on the product level – that is, all activity happens on this particular piece of user facing software – is also a function of ease of use. If a thing is being accomplished by a distributed set of different interfaces, each with their own rules of the road, then there's significant pain for the end user in navigating all of that. In this way, good UX is naturally monopolistic.

Disclaimer: I briefly worked for Academia.edu a few years back.
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> This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware.

Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why we were advised that we should save our work often because the whole thing was so damn unreliable.
I'm not talking about bandwidth, I'm talking about coverage alone. Berlin for example are many people that are into Freifunk and such networks. There are many more people into technology and the culture and politics associated with it. Nevertheless they can't even get decent coverage.

The network is worthless not because it works badly, they fail to create an accessible one to begin with.
Honestly, for Tinder-like service you just need to turn on WeChat in the evening and run "people nearby" search so that you pop up on a list with updated location. The offers stream themselves.
Gender bias for one child must be one big influence.

> there will be 30 million more men than women in 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Sex-based_bir...

It was against the law to find the gender of your child in China because if given the option many people wanted boys and would abort.
I assure you we already have all the Epsilons we need.
If you operate an independent Office of a foreign company in Germany (what your suggestion boils down to) you have to abide by almost the same laws that would apply if you had been incorporated in Germany. I assume it's the same in most other countries. Only huge companies can get around this by operating in many different countries and actually having employees in each of those.
that only moves the problem further along the road - much further, but still:

world won't be able to feed infinite humans so a restriction policy will eventually be needed (or systematic culling, depending on whichever comes first between enlightenment and desperation)

an interesting resulting problem of which is that population will keep aging. solutions will need to take into account non productive member in their older age, either balancing with equal amount of younger or culling from the top instead of the bottom of the age bracket

we won't likely see that in our lifespan, with some luck.
I don't believe this will the result. The results of this snap election will be exactly like the last in which AKP won't be able to form government by themselves and a coalition will be required.
That's why any startup that wants business will make an Inc in the US.

It's legally much simpler to do so, and leave your offices in the cheap
EU. US Inc can employ your offices and at the same time have no people
working in the US.

US is saved by ruthless capitalism. When I see what politicians from my
country voted on I'm realizing that journalists, political science
majors, historians, spanish/english/lang language teachers,
philosophers, artists and bunch of other social scientists know much
about nothing - maybe it says something about our national universities,
maybe about these science areas as a whole, who knows. But for some
reason they think they are capable of having a career in politics, and
it works.

Eh? Did you read the article?

It states that the US has more stringent and complete controls on net neutrality than the EU. The EU has loopholes, therefore less controlling and protectionist (consumer) than the US.

If you want to take corporate advantage of lax net neutrality protection laws, then you are better off utilising "ruthless capitalism" in the EU (for this particular instance), and not in the US.

You argument is backwards.
K&R wrote the book. R(&T) created the language.
seems,that other forms of distractions and knowledge are the best presarvatives. But what about cultures that are resistant to education and therefore change?

Exit programs for the kids of the local religious nuts starting from pre-school?
Neither of these facts refute any of the points I have made in this thread. Perhaps it would help if you were to state clearly what point you think you are making here, and why that point belongs in this thread.
Maybe we can abuse the fine folks in Shenzhen one last time and automate the entire manufacturing industry away?
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The high bar of "beyond a reasonable doubt" is incre4dibly important, and a lot of people end up being distracted by concepts like efficiency, when the very basis of our legal system is that it isn't supposed to be efficient or "unbiased". It is intended to be explicitly biased against the state, so any of these probabilistic "gray" are a burden the state must overcome.

Yes, this means we sometimes let some truly despicable people walk away without being punished. That's the point.

While the devil is in the details, "reasonable" is a decent bar. We don't have to entertain every possibility. If your defense is that space-aliens made you do it, nobody is going to find that "reasonable". On the other hand, if you defense is at least a plausible alternative interpretation of the facts, I would consider that a "reasonable doubt".

As we will always have a margin of error in complex human interactions, we have to decide if we want to err on the side of vengeance even when it affects innocent people, or if we want to protect the innocent even when it also involves giving protection to the guilty. It is at these boundary cases where concepts like "freedom" is tested. If we only give the protections of a "free" society to the people that don't need it while ignoring rights and due process when it is convenient (trials are expensive), then any claim about being a civilized are merely dishonest marketing.
Once-child policy was brutally enforced and cruel. It was also highly effective way to reduce poverty.

China vs. India: GDP per capita versus fertility rate

http://www.google.se/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ct...
Why You Might Want to Choose Ceylon
Isn't this an old news?
What I think you're missing here is the role of ambition. Full time on coding might make some people happy. That can happen if you only care about coding as an activity, and not about reaching specific goals. It can also happen if your goals fit within the amount of coding you can do individually in whatever milieu you're doing it. What if the thing you want to do, the software you want to create, requires more than that? Then you have to pull together a team, which brings in a whole bunch of complexity and loss of control. It can be awesome, or it can be draining and frustrating. Sometimes it's both.

On the flip side, "full time at home" isn't an option for many (probably most) people who'd be reading your comment or mine. Somebody has to make some money, not for its own sake but to reach family goals - housing of a certain quality, schools, sports or hobbies, whatever. Then there's a time commitment on top of that. It's a lot with one kid, it's more with two or three, it's far more if any of them or ill or troubled or disabled.

For many people, just having to choose is frustrating. People want to have a successful career and a good family life and time for themselves, and they just can't have all of them. Giving up on "having it all" is really really hard, and it's not immature. In fact it's the characteristic struggle of mature people, leading to burnout and mid-life crises. It's the immature, with fewer commitments and simpler goals, who seem least affected.

That's (part of) why I think your "that's immature" is itself the most immature thing I've ever seen on HN. It shows a startling lack of empathy for people going through something you apparently never have. I hope you are young, because if you can still say such a thing from the vantage of experience that's even more pathetic. The struggle is real, and being laughed at or condescended to as you go through it doesn't exactly help. It's part of what Jesse was warning about.
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>> Then consider changing the Ceylon website because it's just full of FUD about replacing the ecosystem

It is not. You're a fabulist. Your behavior on this thread is worse than obnoxious.

>> I can speak from experience. I'm the author of several Java libraries. Some of them have hundreds of API classes and thousands of methods.

You can use them in Ceylon with no problems at all.

Please stop lying about Ceylon and please stop putting words in our mouths. Thanks.
You mean, grindr?
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Interesting article... I see this also. Especially where the app is in open use.. by that I mean on general release on appstores, We are however seeing the reverse with apps focused on enterprise mobility apps.. where the business can control what devices the app will run on... the total cost (app and hardware) is actually less where the app is running on hundreds of company android devices.
http://www.kumulos.com/2015/10/28/is-apple-losing-its-shine-...
We are seeing a swing away from iOS in favor of Android (and even Windows), largely driven by the total cost argument.
Thanks for your comments! :)

You are describing the projects that are on our roadmap. :) We felt that the initial conceptual map would be an essential backbone for data-driven guidance services that we could then build upon it. So, we invested a serious amount of effort into creating this first pass. The math and science maps were created through a collaboration led by our Education Director, who has taught in middle-school and high-school classrooms, and now teaches at the University of Pittsburgh down the street. The other partners in the collaboration were alumni of International Math Olympiad teams and scientists from the Hertz Foundation Fellowship program. :)

We're continuing to iterate on our concept maps, but in the meantime, our Engineering team is moving forward on more projects which successively build on our growing structure.

Your encouragement means a lot to us, and we'll keep on trucking!
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> I don't think we can fix this wholesale at this point

Fix: Put me on the jury. E.g., the OP
mentions that at the start of a trial,
the judge can issue an "ethical rule order"
which says that the prosecutor and police
must provide to the defense all
evidence that might help the accused.

No ethical rule order? With me on the
jury, tough to get a conviction.

Prosecutor offered the accused a
plea bargain but now wants to
convict of a much more serious
crime? Nope: On the jury, I won't
convict of anything more serious
than the plea bargain offer.

Prosecutor presents evidence from the
police lab? I will have to work really
hard not to LOL.

Prosecutor presents DNA evidence? Just
shake my head and know that the chances
of that evidence being correct are
zip, zilch, and zero.

Prosecutor talks about probabilities?
Accused goes free. Even if 20 million
people have jaywalked, even if
from a simple random sample 99 44/100% of
people have jaywalked, that still is
zip, zilch, and zero evidence that the
accused jaywalked.

Police give testimony? Ha! In practice
the police are perfectly free to lie
under oath without any risk of being accused
of perjury. Ignore all testimony of police.
E.g., police found drugs in the accused
car? Might have been planted by the
police. Maybe the situation is just that
the accused had some cash and the
police just wanted to steal it. Can't
trust the police.

Accused is poor? Police love to go
after poor people, guilty or not.
Yeah, there's lots of active servers - but it's dying. I think many servers are filled more by bots than people. That said, it's great fun if you know where to play.

RTCW is also fun on singleplayer mode.. and it runs natively on GNU/Linux.
It's the same pattern as always: If the EU does something positive, then "your countries government worked really hard for that". If it's something people think critical of, blame the evil EU and deny your involvment.

An often cited example in Germany is Regulation (EC) 244/2009 which bans classical light bulbs. Always blamed on the EU. What nobody tells you, is that it was proposed by then-minister for environment Gabriel and heavily lobbied for by chancellor Merkel. Doesn't stop one of them to use it as an example of over-regulation.
Being able to afford a lawyer is synonymous with being rich. If you can spend 100K on lawyer fees without going bankrupt, you were rich.
What is the best cloud based web scraping tool?
The formalism behind it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_algorithm
Maybe that was on purpose. You know, someone pissed off someone, so no deliveries for ya...
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>2013-11-15 18:55:05

Look at the timestamp. The article you linked was from two years ago.

The "parents can have two kids if at least one parent is an only child" policy described in that article was overturned today. Now everyone can have two kids.
Eh, its an overly sentimental way to look at things. Yeah on the surface it sounds like these books are being damaged, but in reality they're being given new life. Before you'd have to be physically present at Harvard to access these tomes, but after digitation they'll be available and searchable by anyone over the world. People might actually stumble upon the information via a related search instead of having to know of the existence of the specific document. This also increases their shelf life dramatically because they'll be spread digitally instead of being at the mercy of one fire or flood.
"Richard Stallman, july 2002:

I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode."

Classic RMS