skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice job. I started a similar for-fun project a few weeks ago, but progress has been slow and I am using a small board. Really nice!
ownCloud designer here – thanks a lot for the kind words! We’re also about to improve the web interfaces for Calendar and Contacts in coming ownCloud versions.

Also, I’m glad you like the Mail app although it’s in a very early stage! If you experience any issues or have feature requests, please let us know at https://github.com/owncloud/mail/issues :)
Which is another can of worms. Because the case against discrimination based on one's culture is much harder than race. And I am not even sure if culture should have blanket protection - there is stuff out there that we don't want taking hold in the west.
Without income you can get rent support up to 80%, but there is also an absolute upper limit which is much lower than the rent in large towns like Helsinki. So you can't just rent a 1000 € apartment and expect to get 800 € from social security -- the reality is around half of that.

Any homeless problems are usually due to larger underlying personal issues.

Is that claim supported by any facts?
try " fmt.Printf("%.50f\n", .1+.2)"
40% of women leave tech mid-career. Let's change that
You are mistaken. You are referring to the common welfare system that western countries tend to have which could be thought of as a minimum income but which leads to lots of bureaucracy due to the requirement for means testing. Basic income is different because it is unconditionally paid to everyone without any means testing.
Words in English are frequently polysemic. There are well established philosophical, "left" and "right" meanings to "libertarian" which seem to have evolved in that order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology

Friedman is clearly closest to the last camp and even self-identified with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman#Libertarianism...

Obviously for an article pitched at a general audience, rather than an academic one, some people won't know Friedman so it's not unreasonable to expect them to clarify. I presume that's why they added the following lines immediately after calling him a "libertarian economist".

"Friedman believed that it should be accompanied by an end to any minimal wage system and any other system of social protection. Friedman also believed it should be as low as possible and financed by a flat income tax (which means that the tax would be universal and at the same rate for all).
So in reality, what Friedman was pushing for was a system which would provide employers with people ready to work for lower salaries at no additional cost to employers."

I can't see how any reasonable person could read that and then claim the article was putting Friedman in the wrong camp or being misleading or inaccurate regarding that point.
I think it's still news (at least to me) if 20+ aircraft are getting laser-struck nightly!
LINK+EXCHANGE+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
A tsunami is harmless on the ocean. It is only manifesting itself when coming into shallow waters.
I agree that MongoDB has a great replication story.

But I don't understand that part:

> The accessible oplog was another gem that fit my project really well. Gone was the need to poll the database, I could just "watch" the oplog.

Coming from PostgreSQL, you could do the same using LISTEN/NOTIFY?
Bad Blood Oriental Cover
So, are there more exploits for iOS out there? I had the impression that Android has more. Also, this particular one is a browser JavaScript problem that affects multiple android versions, is it not?
Always wonder what kind of simple apps most people must write, if they not need joins?

I will be happy if i got such simple tasks :)
Sometimes licenses (contracts) over reach or contain elements that should be removed or ignored. See contract of adhesion and unconscionability.
Yes, they are both wired
I'm hoping to try Fallout 4 this weekend, if it's raining out.
I too would like to know where this data is coming from.

Peoples wall posts, messenger, other things?
> That's a lot of assumptions and scaremongering that have nothing to do with the article.

I beg to differ. In Norway we are getting lots of "refugees" which has been safely in non-warring European countries[1], seeking asylum here, simply because its a known thing we have higher "wages" for asylum-seekers than other European countries.

It may be cold hearted, and it may not be a popular opinion, but my take on it is that these people stopped being genuine refugees 4000kilometers ago. They are now welfare-shoppers. I honestly don't see how anyone can argue anything else.

We're getting a flood of people right now, and the result is that our asylum institution can't scale to handle them all.

All historical data suggests that they will all be non-working, non-integrated people, living on government benefits for years to come, and for those who manage to become a productive part of society, they will still be less productive than regular citizens, for a multitude of reasons. Historical data also says most of them wont return, but still will have the same rights to government provided benefits, pensions, etc. Nothing personal, nothing racist, but they will be a net loss for the national economy.

All these things accounts to a massive increase in government welfare-related obligations, costs and spending. Now and in the future. Our "future budget" is already too big to handle, accounting just our regular citizens. With this flood we're facing future bankruptcy.

To avoid that means taking away future pensions. It means we stop maintaining infrastructure like roads now. It means cutting costs all over. The costs are very real.

And now Finnish people may fear that such an offer like this will land them in the same situation: That they too will become a "too sexy" target for welfare-shopping ex-refugees. It's not fearmongering. It's a very realistic scenario. I can't say I would blame them for thinking that way.

[1] http://imgur.com/YDegTCn
AT&T Messages App – Messaging App for Your Phone, Tablet, and Computer
Yes (3 months ago). Setting up opencl on AMD card on Ubuntu is a nightmare for me (I have done it 3 times over the past 2 years, and failed 1 time).
Recently I setup CUDA on Ubuntu (with an Nvidia card), and everything just worked.
(I'm using the manufacturers' drivers).
The difference was amazing.

I get the distinct impression that Nvidia try hard to make things work easily for you, whilst AMD just do not care (at least for Linux).

Relatedly, AMD's website has an 'OpenCL Optimization Guide' [0] (which you really need in order to use your GPU effectively) - for 2 years now, it has been out of date by 1 year or more, not updated to discuss the latest hardware.

[0] http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-acce...
I agree with this. But why use a gun-analogy when you can use a car-analogy?
Your argument only makes sense if you assume that:

government == society
Is it? As far as I've understood, rent control is quite rare in Western Europe nowadays, and at least Finland doesn't have any.
Show HN: Pygraph_redis, directed graph python library for redis
Tech Conferences are good for something
Yeah, we should really do something about this ban on internal migration. It's quite unfair that a person born in a rural area requires a difficult to acquire internal visa to shift to a location with better work opportunities.

Meanwhile, outside of China...
I notice that Sarsons's paper says on the very first page:

"NOTE: Very preliminary – please do not cite without permission. Comments welcome."

I wonder if Cowen sought permission or just ignored that sentence? I am aware that linking to something from a blog isn't exactly the same as citing it (presumably Sarsons is trying to discourage citations in other papers), but Cowen could have mentioned, but didn't mention, the preliminary nature of the paper when quoting the abstract.
You've just redefined your problem to using floats as the underlying representation. In that case you don't even need floats...

In most other cases the correct way is to check if the absolute value of the difference between one value and another is smaller than some arbitrary cut-off, a small number typically denoted with 'epsilon'.
As is the expected answer to your softball there, no, I don't keep a list of apps I had issues with in my back pocket. You can choose to disregard my previous post if you'd like given this shocking revelation, that's kind of the point right?

I suspect there's a solution for every trouble I had, but the point is that after 4 years I don't want managing a phone to require that much of my life.

> I understand that, but this is were we disagree the most.

Apple isn't the USSR, nor a post-USSR bloc state. It's in a sense an agreed-upon model for the social structures you're discussing here.

Many, many consumers have chosen the ethos of Apple-as-institution.

Not sure what your point is with the right to privacy stuff. I'm not sure I've seen compelling evidence that Google of all companies protects your privacy any better than Apple.

Edit: Here's one[1] comment at least on the different approaches the two companies have taken, and the advantage Google may have with it's softer stance on protecting your privacy. (Though, I'm sure the source is biased in some way, it's just one article.)

But back to the point -

It's good that your personal definitions disagree with the line Apple draws between "useful" and "potentially dangerous to the experience or stability of the phone." You should absolutely have your own opinion and make choices based on it, I've nothing to say in the contrary.

1: http://www.cio.com/article/2938766/privacy/how-apples-privac...
Is that you, Nikolai? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov)

;-)
How Volkswagen Mocked CSR: “DieselGate” Outs Sustainable Business Sham
The density map is also fascinating. You can make out the offshore wind fields in the north sea.
The HDR effect on those images is gross. Also, the white balance looks way off (blueish) to my eyes.
I'd say that the overall image quality is not very good with reflections and poor resolution that severely limit the view of details.
Such a pity given the value of the assets on display and the incredible opportunity of accessing them with this tool.
Hall of Fame of Email Marketing Quotes
By inductive reasoning, the proper speed of traffic is equal to the maximum speed of the car, and anything less is causing economic harm. (#cc: That was sarcasm)

In other words, that would only work for a traffic system which only moves one way, linearly, and has zero branches. Out there in meatspace, things are...a little bit more complex. Intersections and buses and trucks and pedestrians, oh my.
Nicely done. I would love to see such a schematic for fish too.
> Making the developer interface to the database a structured format instead of a textual query language was a clear win.

No, it was not. It is an abomiation, just like SharePoint CAML Query or any other "express-your-query-as-an-AST" approach. Sure, it's a paradise for Buzzword-Compliant Fluent Interface Enterprise Query Builder-type libraries.

> Querying SQL data involves constructing strings...

No. Case in point: LINQ. How it is implemented is irrelevant to the statement above.

> ...and counting arguments very carefully

No. Named parameters to the rescue.
Without audits you also get corruption. Some parents are quite willing to pick their children's pockets.

It's far from clear why you want to give our most vulnerable people absolutely no protection from the corrupt. We could also save money by abolishing the SEC, FINRA, and the EPA - do you also favor this?
Special PROMOTION  Formsfield.com // First product sale GUARANTEED up to 10€
> self-righteous inconveniencing of everyone else

> between Facebook and your smoke signals

Whoa there. I'd say that was both a bit over the top, no?

I'll end my participation in this thread with this: Obviously anyone/everyone can choose to use FB - I never tried to talk a single person out of using it. I consider it utterly useless for me, personally, and am so far unconvinced by any 'you have to use it or miss out' arguments and certainly don't buy the 'you are inconveniencing your peers' line of thought.
Don't jump to conclusions; my comment says nothing about sudo. There's a time to use the root shell, and a time to sudo; the key is knowing the difference. Dismissing advice because "it's never caused me a problem before" or "you don't know what you're talking about" will cause problems at some point.

If you can elucidate the reasons (plural), you need to be in a root shell, by all means use a root shell. If you're doing because "it's easier" and no other reasons, then you probably need a bit more experience. In any case, always using a root shell is the Wrong Thing To Do.
If i understand it right, the developer has to know exactly which actor (types) has the needed data?
Google helps moms and dad startup founders
I don't need floats, but they're useful. E.g. for comparison, as I wrote above.
But you can exploit even if you don't know the source right? Harder i suppose.
Worrying about the risk does not correlate with the actual risk. Funny how you picked the poster example of this.
The only problem I see is that often the floating point format is not specified properly. When one writes "0.3", what does it actually mean?

It's perfectly well-specified. If you are using double-precision floating point, "0.3" means 0x3fd3333333333333 (as bits), or 0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875 (as an exact number: the closest representable number to 0.3).
Such a systems might (your geography dependent) make you a suspect immediately
>And yes, virtually all the states on that list are significantly poorer and have drastically worse social services than Western Europe.

There's a big gap between "significantly poorer" and subsistence farmers. As in, an order of magnitude of GDP in many cases from that list (e.g. Russia).

>Contrary to propertarian mythology, both the institutions of property and government are imposed by a mixture of force and the likelihood of society being substantially worse off if they didn't exist.

The difference is that government necessarily involves force, due to requiring involuntary taxation (an entity funded by voluntary donations isn't generally considered a government, it's considered a charity), while it's possible for a group of people to agree to trade together and respect some notion of property (be it the strong capitalist notion of property or the weak anarchist notion of "possessions") without requiring force.
Just say (0.1+0.2)*10-3. That works everywhere no matter the amount of rounding.
Less than 1% of people in the US earn minimum wage.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/characteristics-of-minim...

I'm going to ignore your blatant misuse of the term "slave".
It's also interesting to see how busy the waterways in / around the North Sea / European west coast are compared to the US. But then, the US is a large landmass and probably has a lot more ground transport (e.g. trains)
Internet+Business+Kits
> Coming from PostgreSQL, you could do the same using LISTEN/NOTIFY?

I have to admit I was not aware of this feature.

However, from the docs[1]:

> Commonly, the channel name is the same as the name of some table in the database, and the notify event essentially means, "I changed this table, take a look at it to see what's new".

From what I understand, you just know that something has changed, the actual change is not included in the event, so you need at least another query to see what changed.

Did I understand correctly?

In MongoDB you get the operation (insert, update, delete), the document and another few details right in the event.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-notify.html
> It's not even one-in-a-million chance of dying. It's one-in-90-million chance.

How many trips are only 1 mile in length?
How I Work with Color
>Like I said. People don't want to work.

Of course. That's why we have machines.
Until your code gets ported to a platform where float == double and it turns out the algo feeding your clever efficient comparison delivers slightly different values that previously collapsed into the same bucket. Relying on the particulars of an underlying representation requires deep knowledge of how those particulars are implemented (and I would happily agree with you that such knowledge is a requirement but more often than not when you come across a float comparison with equality you're looking at a bug. That you're the exception to the rule is fine with me, you seem to know what you're doing so don't take it personal).

The real problem is: most people don't have deep knowledge of how those details are implemented and take 'equality' for granted, especially if the visual representation of the numbers they are comparing tells them they should be equal which is not always the case.

The old adage goes: if you need floating point you don't understand your problem :)

The comment that sparked this sub-thread is a nice illustration of what can and does go wrong.
I should clarify, I'm a big fan of SQL and relational DBs, but it's hard to deny that some/many devs find the abstraction boundary a bit weird.

And really, when you think about it, it is a bit weird, (we send sentences of almost-english toward the DB, then get structured data back) and there's nothing wrong with that.

But many devs do value the ability to stay in hash-map land all day without needing to think about how to cross an abstraction boundary into the DB, and MongoDB actually has a pretty cool solution there.
I thought finance worked using integers internally for this exact reason.
Real question for self hosters: what kinds of applications are you running where you feel you need this?
Have you actually been to any of these "poor" countries and spent any time with the "poor" people who live in them?

Maybe you should try exploring some of the rest of the world before assuming you know what's best for it.
Cancer Genome Atlas – Interactive Exploration of Patient Gender, Race and Age
i don't think you fully appreciate how cheap (relatively) boats are, it's why trade between the US and China works even for the cheapest of goods.
FitBit, GoPro Hammered by Short Sellers
Anyone care to explain the details on a Texas Instruments NSpire calculator (or CAS)?

a:=0.1+0.2
b:=0.3
a-b |> 0.

Using the non-exact mode.
I would be very careful with such SQL statements. I am guessing it relies on some intrinsic fields' order? That could change anytime. Order of fields shouldn't have any impact on you app, but I think in your case it does.
> a structured query language (instead of a textual query language)

Oh crowning irony of ironies, SQL literally means "Structured Query Language". :)
Streamline Sales with Qualified Leads
Naturally it's the langs you don't care about that have nailed it. Import decimal to not fail. Thanks Py. Won't forget your shortcomings ever
Someone pointed out that this isn't correct, and then deleted their comment. (?)

I now think the behiviour I ascribed to print, is actually what repr does. I'm not sure about print, but I guess it is just rounding to a certain number of places.

>>> from decimal import Decimal

>>> Decimal(0.1+0.2)
Decimal('0.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125')

>>> Decimal(0.3)
Decimal('0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875')

>>> Decimal(0.300000000000000000000000000001)
Decimal('0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875')

>>> print 0.300000000000000000000000000001
0.3

>>> repr(0.300000000000000000000000000001)
'0.3'

>>> D(0.30000000000000004)
Decimal('0.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125')

>>> repr(0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875)
'0.3'

>>> repr(0.30000000000000004)
'0.30000000000000004'

>>> print 0.30000000000000004
0.3
> " that's why virtually no jobs actually pay the minimum wage."

This may be true in some parts of the world but here in the UK the minimum wage has become a standard wage for all kinds of jobs.

This is because we have a tax credit system designed to make up the difference. What's happened over time is employers are gaming the system by offering jobs on minimum wage and the minimum number of hours required for the tax credits to kick in.

Often the hours offered result in someone working part time but on hours, such as 10 - 3, that make it impossible to get another part time job.

Employers that used to pay overtime now employ extra workers instead. So we have a country where unemployment is relatively low but where a lot of people don't have any disposable income.

Efforts by the current Government to address this problem are , predictably, meeting a lot of resistance.
Rust:
https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=c02ab67dab3e180b5cf9&versio...
Why mesh networking in iOS 7 could change the world
> what is usually called a "highway" in Europe is usually a "freeway" in the USA.

I think that usage is mostly West Coast. :)

Everywhere else, I've only heard "highway" or "interstate."
Well that's sort of the point. Tor is special in that it helps avoid this problem, i.e.: given and endpoint, it's (for all intents and purposes) impossible to determine whence the traffic comes. At the same time, Tor can be used in such a way that nobody will know it's being used.
Why we need one API for the Internet of Everything
Show HN: ModelMod – modify art in games
Wow, China's coast is impressive!
I don't know that the Five Eyes have the kind of temporal resolution in their measures that would be needed to conduct these kinds of attacks. In fact, it's very likely that they don't.
Not really, we just happen to be in a specific region of "everything that can be" that exhibits these particular properties.
Microbot Push: a wireless robotic finger for automating things
Project lead time
I'm also using Firefox on Android (because it is the only mobile browser that supports extensions).

However, the desktop Firefox regularly tops my 'Apps using significant energy' list, even when idling.
The DOJ's press release isn't a binding legal document, and there is no calculation under the CFAA sentencing guidelines that gets you anywhere near 35 years. The 35 year number is simply a lie.
https://github.com/toxicFork/react-three-renderer/#usage

The library includes a lot of custom React components to represent the scene.
Might be more at risk from a freak wave than a tsunami - but still v.unlikely - bet they are insured
I run ownCloud, despite some reservations about its security. I'm not too concerned about the data in ownCloud itself (if it's private, then I encrypt it client-side, but most things I put in ownCloud are not very private). I'm more concerned about it being used as a launching point for an attack on my home server. As a kind of compromise, I'm running it in a VM.
The First C# Project Analyzed (PVS-Studio)
I don't think I understand what you meant by "expectations," and I don't know if you meant this comment to be anything but an ideological thought, but this is what I know:

Capitalism runs off of inequality of all sorts. Capitalism's entire history is filled with instances of the ruling class systematically serving up xenophobic and racially divisive propaganda (in order to justify expanding imperially, in order to justify inexpensive labor, etc.), with no sign of slowing down. As such, I can find no evidence that cultural tranquility is possible under the global capitalism. The inequality that capitalism continues to deliver breeds dangerous ideological heterogeneity between the people of the working class.
I use Seafile to synchronize my personal files with those of my wife on several machines. I need it because i don't want to depend on 3rd parties such as Dropbox. Also, I don't know how many Gbs I'd get for free with Dropbox. Probably less that I have with my current setup (1Tb). Not sure if this answers your question, though.
> ...instance in AWS, and it's a pain to use Mongo there

Why is that?

Quick google search doesn't hint at problems, but rather at pretty slick marketing pages: (which doesn't mean much, I know)
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mongodb-on-the-aws-cloud-ne...