skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Take out the phrasing "compared to other currencies" and you're there

In that situation - the dollar has a stable price versus other currencies but goods are cheaper - I don't think it makes as much sense to say that the dollar is more valuable because all currencies are more valuable in the same degree. Rather it's the goods that have got objectively cheaper.
In all seriousness, I studied philosophy. pg studied philosophy. You don't read a few hundred philosophy books and essays and not get some understanding of the history of philosophy. My course was pretty much structured as a progression of ancient to modern over the 3 years.

First you accused me, with no proof, of not having read modern philosophy. I disabused you of that view.

Now you are calling us 'unaware' and ignorant because you don't agree with this viewpoint.

You've fallen to the level of name calling.
Computer scientists are hardly "outsiders" to math problems. The famous computer scientists (Turing, Knuth, Dijkstra etc) were all mathematicians by training.
In any microservices architecture of a decent size, you're often making changes that have been requested by other services and will request other services to make changes to accommodate your needs. That's coordination, and it requires overhead. But if you're going the microservices route, you probably already have the overhead and splitting your app into many small services makes the overhead easier to quantify.

And very rarely can you implement a feature without touching multiple microservices. Hell, that's why the concept of epics even exists: you have many smaller user stories inside the epic that need to be coordinated to deliver a single feature. Your UX needs the back-end service calls to exist before they can release their UX changes.
I actually saw the new title without SQLite, and I my first question was still how it compared to SQLite. :)
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> After all as a mouse says to another mouse - "no matter how hard you try you can never teach a human to understand mouse language".

But mice don't say that. They can't. jahnu's statement wasn't a parable.
It says he didn't want to do that. That "predatory lending" was all he felt the regulators would allow from him.
We also try to have good starter bugs on Servo (and its myriad dependencies):

http://servo.github.io/servo-starters/

One of the biggest challenges we have is keeping some around and available! The good ones almost always have an opened PR within 24 hours:

https://twitter.com/ServoDev/status/665930502503723008

There are a bunch of other benefits to these bugs, including:

- There's a lively stream of people setting up the dev environment for the first time, both keeping our instructions up to date and making sure we handle scenarios like slow internet connections, really old versions of Ubuntu or Linux graphics drivers, etc.

- Reviewing these bugs is also a good way to help grow contributors from committers into reviewers/maintainers.

Most of our challenges with these kinds of bugs are related to GitHub. e.g., you can't "assign" an issue to somebody outside of the project organization, so somebody has to manually label it "Assigned" for our filters to work. Also, you don't get notifications when somebody pushes a new commit to their work branch or rebases, so there's a lot of manual watching of these PRs during the review cycle that sometimes gets dropped (though our myriad GH bots could probably fix this!).

Even with the challenges, we love having this kind of bug as a way to bring in more contributors and keep development on the project accessible, and like the author, I'd highly recommend it to other projects.
'Mindless' ?!
any ISP should know what customer owned which IP at a given point in time

Should they? Because as far as I can tell, there is no legal requirement to store this data in the US unless specifically compelled to do so by the government.[0] Is there anything DMCA/safe harbor-related that goes beyond these requirements?

The parameters for mandatory data retention -- if, what, for how long -- are contested in the EU. ISPs should not store anything they aren't legally required to store; and arguably they must not store this kind of data where it is identifiable.

[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention/us
Why was this "a new kind" of credit union? It seems like it was an ordinary credit union that briefly toyed with the idea of BitCoin.
> Damaging the capacity of the planet to support life will ultimately cause us problems

At that point, we can always eat each other and keep our population in control.
Just because that is the case, doesn't mean it has to be this way, or that it's OK.

The sad thing is, we all have to accept that mobile App Stores are not a "real software market". Mobile Apps are more like Plugins to some platform controlled by someone else.

Still, i'm sad about this.
I don't think it's necessarily that specific? The ratchet gives the VCs an advantage if the IPO prices poorly, the liquidity preference gives the VCs an advantage if the company is sold, you're not wrong, but I don't think anyone's particularly worried about misaligned incentives from having one without the other, it's just a question of what terms the VCs and management negotiate in the funding round.
Just to add to your clarification: Publishers do have the choice already in the exact same way that visitors have the choice to block ads. They could/have Implement(Ed) some less than perfect software that uses a bunch of heuristics to determine if the visitor/element is blocking/displaying ads then block/block the element/visitor. This assign equals rights to visitors and elements, which seems a bit off balance to me, but still they could do it already they have the technology.
There are third-party Twitter clients (Tweetbot and Twitteriffic, to name two more popular clients) that use the Safari View Controller, and therefore have ad blocker support. Facebook is more locked down with it's API, so there's no good equivalent third-party app, and they've given no indication as to if or when they will be migrating their web views to SVC.
Today's productivity wasn't a priority for the author, but tomorrow's productivity is the goal.

edit: A proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
"This seems like a salient point that is worthy of proper discussion and analysis."

It may be salient but is also rather pedestrian. Yes, companies vie for attention and favourable habits. See also the whole non-online world: branding, advertisement, episodic entertainment, subscription services, etc. etc. etc.
Quite right -- in English law I guess it's all about the interpretation and determination of "consent" [0]:

> 'A person consents if they agree by choice, and have the freedom and capacity to make that choice'.

An unfortunately interesting example where a small difference can have a major effect.

I think I should have made it an opinion and said "should not" instead of "does not". Thought I can understand the argument that feeling deceived can also lead to anguish, so I understand where there was logic in the way it's been written in the UK (and perhaps also interpreted in the US).

0: http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Definitions/14000084505...
Where the laws are more relaxed, credit unions can be competitive. The Desjardins credit union (technically a federation of credit unions) based out in Quebec is a good example, they have 5.8m members and 254B$ of assets. They even have branches in the US, but those are chartered as banks and owned by the federation.

That said, it's hard for a cooperatively structured to be nimble and the bureaucracy and internal politics are legendary.
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What optimizations are you talking about? And how do those beat Hiawatha?
Then if you take into account that with large populations people seem to follow incentives quite strictly. Nobody can recall they didn't buy bottle of jack because of additional 5% tax. But that tax increase shows in alcohol consumption statistics.

But I'm not advocating overly harsh punishments either. At some point you hit diminishing returns.
> This dog knows 1000 words in human language. That's more than i know in Chinese, and the task of learning a 1000 Chinese hieroglyphs scares the hell out of me.

Okay; but that dog can't have a conversation. It doesn't know what they mean, it just knows that follows a certain stimulus. It's like saying I understand cloud language, because I can tell when it's going to rain after looking at the sky.

And even if that dog "understands" a thousand words, and you're scared of learning a thousand Chinese characters, you still have the capacity for learning Chinese. Or French. Or Spanish, or Esperanto, or Russian, or Thai. You could spend a year learning Russian, and we could have this conversation in that language; I will never be able to explain this conversation to a dog, in any language.
I know. I was just writing about the general impossibility of getting compensation for unseen internal damage to the vehicle. The renter can ride the clutch for two hours until it starts making a gravelly, clanging noise, hand the car back over and walk away, and there is zero chance that any insurer will pay for it.
This was down-voted somewhere but it's actually factual for at least the UK.
No, GP's point was that this is a reminder that your debug text may leak, so you don't want to put anything bad in there. Looks like the Vine devs didn't. Good job to them.
ARUZ: 27,000 FPGAs system ready. Worlds largest. [VIDEO]
I don't see their comment as shadowbanned, even when not logged in.
The moral worth of an animal is not just a question of whether its species is endangered though. Dolphins seem much more likely to be conscious than the other species you list.
I wonder how much of an impact this might have on the Vancouver housing market. Detached houses are fetching well north of 1M with no ceiling in sight. Perhaps a commute, with a NEXUS card could look attractive to some residents.
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> which incidentally is the reason why Android is unusable for any interactive audio applications.

Strange. The primary use of my (Android) phone is interactive audio. I do not recognize latency as an issue.
Do we still have blue pencil editors in daily publications? I've assumed not for years.
Yup. Same category of a misnomer as for example "n-fold times faster", n > 1, where they mean "n times as fast". 2^n vs n, for example, a 4 fold increase in something is the same as 16 times increase of that something.
Show HN: My friends made a Snake remake
"designed around getting you addicted"

This seems to want to incriminate someone's thoughts, based only on some other people's optional responses.

Can you imagine a whole legal framework for divining and arguing "design" intent? "No, your honour, it is designed for maximum entertainment and repeated play value, it says so right here in our design manuals."
Status Update of Pyston, an Alternative Python JIT [video]
Who is OK with frequently booting their phone? I know I wouldn't be.
Holy moly.
Archived copy of page:

https://archive.is/8z5yZ
I am a member of a credit union and support them whole-heartedly.

And I think it's great that we scrutinize new wanna-be banks and make sure they aren't a pump-and-dump fraud scheme. Because in the absence of such regulation, something like 100.0% of new banks would be pump-and-dump fraud schemes.

Which one is more likely, assuming you know nothing about Kahle: that Kahle is trying to make an honest buck serving an underserved market, or that he's trying to copy what this guy is doing:

http://business.financialpost.com/news/fp-street/the-russian...

"People are falling over themselves to sign up."

If you aren't prepared to get your ass ridden by regulators, you aren't prepared to be a bank. You aren't good enough to offer banking services to the public.
It was shadowbanned before, but apparently it isn't anymore.
This:

https://archive.is/8z5yZ
To be honest, tax liability is probably a poor place to focus much optimization effort. Saving money isn't a sound basis for a business and the best way to reduce tax liability is to reduce income to zero...or less.

What matters more are things like cash flow, liquidity, and diversity of customers. Most of what a small consultancy needs to know about taxes is to pay them on time and to separate business expenses from personal with separate accounts.

My last piece of advice is to not spend money on the business. A new $2000 computer isn't necessary to get the work done. Use what's already available and gets the job done.

Good luck.
Einstein presented his General Theory of Relativity 100 years ago today
'Anti-malarial mosquitoes' created using controversial genetic technology
As a bit of a nitpick, I find it slightly ironic that this article uses TDD and PR as unexplained abbreviations.
What about giving the ability to HAProxy to perform the SRV requests directly???
... and even that "muzzling" was limited to the capacity in which those scientists were to talk to mass media. They could and did publish any academic papers / attend conferences / etc. They just couldn't speak seemingly on behalf of the government.
"Possess strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. If you can't tell the difference between "you're" and "your", your never going to be able to get you're points across to me."

Whether or not that's a joke, as someone looking to hire people, I just can't be bothered to read on.
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Needs more...pop.

And maybe <blink>
That's the worst thing I've ever seen.
To think we used to hate on the <BLINK> tag...
You're not the first, second, or ten thousandth person to have this thought. But dark matter fits the phenomena better than any proposed modification of gravity. See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster for a textbook example.
Wow. Someone paid for and approved that website.
12 Obvious Reasons I Want Customer Service on Social Media
We have come the full circle.

This in essence is the same thing with http://mahir.faithweb.com/original.htm
Funding cuts are off topic to "muzzling".
Hi, Pat. Thank you for responding.

I just had my first 5-figure month. Early on, I'd set up a separate bank account its own card attached.

I've been using Freshbooks, so far. I'll check out bench.co
Jet.com Raises $350M, Expects $150M More
Beware! Music autoplay alert.
Problem, probably, arises in dual definition of philosophy. Google says (define: philosophy):

(this is the classic meaning) 1. the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

2. a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour.
That site rocks!
The problem with tax “inversion” deals
One thing I can't figure out from the arxiv preprint is the lifetime of these hairs, which I assume are a transient and dynamic phenomenon. Does anyone have an idea of how long a hair remains near the planet in question and retains its shape?
It loads pretty fast. No spinning "wait" icons.
It's to the point.

I dunno, I wish more sites did that.
I'm presuming it's because farmed tuna are fed a diet low in mercury vs. wild tuna eating things that have concentrated mercury over time?
I've wondered this exact same thing myself for other languages. I doubt its a lack of familiarity since I would bet most compiler/language authors are aware of most Haskell concepts/idioms. I think it probably has more to do with function definition semantics in non-functional languages but it seems that could be easily worked around...

Anyway the haskell way, especially with Typeclasses, has to be clearest way to express type constraints for functions I've encountered at least from a code readability standpoint.
Are they just going to do what they did with XP and extend support to those that have the cash?
What about shutdown time?

(the steady state is that computers are running, so if it takes 30sec to cleanly shutdown then your cycle time is 31secs... obviously, this doesn't apply to stateless servers or that use write-through caching...)
> But the NCUA wouldn't allow him to set interest rates lower

That indicates that those rates aren't actually predatory at all, but required in order to defend against default.

Which really isn't all that surprising: in the case of payday loans and such, there are many operators, and anyone who could lessen his profit-per-loan could very easily snap up a great number of customers, increasing his net profit. That no-one has done this indicates either collusion or that the rates are fair.
I actually kind of like this design.
We do that all the time in mathematics though; generate some random examples of the phenomena you're investigating to see if there are any "easy" counterexamples. If not, try to visualize them and see if patterns emerge. This is an easy way to build up intuition on a problem: seeing "how" something behaves gives you clues about where to look when you go to prove it.
It wasn't really possible for the creators to update it, unfortunately (for one thing, the company they originally built it for ditched it): https://twitter.com/emshort/status/653222041265537028
The markup is actually pretty neat.
The most interesting trends in web design I've seen lately aren't aesthetic - they're features engineered into sites that work and feel like native apps.
The Art of Coding: What Developers Can Learn from Disney
I liked that it was written by a scientist. But the text was bogged down by so much science exposition that the story - characters & drama - could barely breathe. There was a paragraph of [tech] on every page.
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For the less gifted, such as myself, at getting around paywalls:

https://archive.is/8NoAM
Wow that site actually broke my cursor, now i see 3 separate images. To line cursors and a hand. Kudos!
I read that date as April 1, 2016 at first.
From looking through the Planetfall document collection, it looked like G/R came up with that name too (the working title was Survivor).
I like the notion of organic web.

But the parallel between food and web in terms of consumption doesn't stand. The currency for food is money and organic food is more expensive, while the currency for web is generally time spent, and so the junk web is more expensive.

And no, we should not regulate either. Just promote the more valuable and healthier options. By the way, besides tools such as Freedom which only reduce the intake of junk web, what services do you think would fit in the category of organic web?
aka the raging cretinisation of the world
Even their CSS is atrocious. http://www.bloomberg.com/businessweek/design-conference/stat...

Why do they have this in the first block of text: /* 1 */

What's the point to commenting out the number 1?

I guess when they have a good lineup of speakers it doesn't matter? I don't know. I honestly don't know what to say.

So many questions, I don't know where to start.
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Clearly you have never been to http://www.theworldsworstwebsiteever.com/
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The kind of device this kind of optimization applies to typically runs with readonly flash, maybe only writing some config rarely... So, just pull the plug.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a powerpoint presentation in your web browser -- forever.
wow ... I actually thought the site was broken for a second there, or that I'd accidentally blocked something style-related.
I feel like this is a joke but if you're interested in the "Coming Soon" schedule, it's actually just commented out in the source. (edit: just noticed it's a design conference. Has to be a joke, edit2: Sessions 2,3,4 are all the same so obviously not finalized!)

Session One

9:00 - 10:45AM
Evan Sharp, Pinterest, in conversation with Brad Wieners, Bloomberg Businessweek
Alon Cohen & Adi Tatarko, Houzz, in conversation with Emma Rosenblum, Bloomberg Pursuits

Break

10:45 - 11:00AM

Session Two

11:00 - 1:00PM
Matias Duarte, Android, in conversation with Joshua Topolsky, Bloomberg Business
Michael Bierut, Pentagram
Tim Brown, IDEO, & Roger Martin, Martin Prosperity Institute, in conversation with Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg Businessweek
Susan Kare, Susan Kare Design
Marco Tempest, Technoillusionist

Lunch

1:00 - 2:00PM

Session Three

2:00 - 4:15PM
Matias Duarte, Android, in conversation with Joshua Topolsky, Bloomberg Business
Michael Bierut, Pentagram
Tim Brown, IDEO, & Roger Martin, Martin Prosperity Institute, in conversation with Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg Businessweek
Susan Kare, Susan Kare Design
Marco Tempest, Technoillusionist

Break

4:15 - 4:30PM

Session Four

4:30 - 6:00PM
Matias Duarte, Android, in conversation with Joshua Topolsky, Bloomberg Business
Michael Bierut, Pentagram
Tim Brown, IDEO, & Roger Martin, Martin Prosperity Institute, in conversation with Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg Businessweek
Susan Kare, Susan Kare Design
Marco Tempest, Technoillusionist
Ask HN: Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?
Hi HN!

I am an engineer experienced mostly with C++, Python and Node.js, total 6 years of experience.

During the last few years I have been having deal mostly with scripting languages, but now I realized that I want to switch back to C++ (or may be better to plain C) because I want to be more close to metal and write code that is really fast. I interested mostly in networking, DSP or implementing of some learning algorithms, and I would like to develop it for GNU/Linux.

The problem is that I am looking for this kind of job only remotely, and it looks for me like jobs of this type are usually on-site. There is a plenty of remote jobs for Node.js or Python, but it is nearly impossible to find a job that suppose working with C++ or C, is remote and not looking for a guru (I do not feel me a junior, but I am not a guru too).

What do you think about it, HN? Am I looking for not good enough, or it is really impossible to find one of such type?
It's fun. I like it.
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TDD is acceptable as it is the top search result for TDD. PR on the other hand ...

Acronyms and abbreviations with well defined / well known alternative meanings really bug me.

Actually Acronyms and abbreviations bug me full stop.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while, definitely tongue-in-cheek poking fun at design.
The joke inside Google is that there are always two systems for any given task: the one that's deprecated, and the one that isn't ready yet.
Yeah, that site is never going to get peoples attention... :)
Please define "moral worth"
I have included "feature phones" in my original comment. None boot close to 1 second, and these, too, include a lot of functionality that I would like stripped out.
Chrome support for XP ends at the end of the year.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/16/google-will-still-support-c...

Firefox (as far as I can tell) still supports XP SP2, but who knows for how long.
My eyes filter all that out already.
Reminds me of this picture

http://www.lucasthenomad.com/images/cache/img/5d/5d8664cf92e...