skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your position is that we should just keep piling hacks upon hacks even though there is viable alternative that will drastically simplify a great many things for the foreseeable future?
Sure, that makes sense, but it ignores the historical reality of the situation. The only reason this city exists in the first place is because there was a huge deposit of silver there that the Incas or the Spaniards stumbled upon. The town grew up around the mines. The easy-to-get-at silver petered out, and they switched to mining copper, then zinc and lead. Eventually, old-style shaft mining was no longer profitable, and open-pit mining replaced it.

If you wanted to live a 15th century lifestyle growing potatoes and quinoa and herding llamas and alpacas, you can still do that - people up and down the Andes still are.
Your point may not be a contradiction i.e. there are not many cases where a rule based expert system is actually useful.

The typical problems are incompleteness, inability to handle ill-structured reality and that you can't add rules without rewriting existing rules making them scale poorly.
Could nuclear advocates please include cost of insurance in their calculations? Because insurers seem to know a bit more about extreme value statistics and long-tail risk, unlike governments or nuclear power advocates. And then please include the cost of storing nuclear waste...
> However, your question is a bit off-target. Most shooters, particularly early in the previous century, would learn with a rifle first, and their rifle preferences would transfer to their pistol use.

Oh, I was curious in general, not as pertaining to this particular historical question. Thanks for the answer!
In theory, yes. In practice, we haven't invested in testing Linux because designers prefer other platforms.
I made something similar a while back: http://jathu.me/pixels/

Check the source: https://github.com/jathu/pixels. You can also undo/redo by pressing z and y on the keyboard.
Not sure what value there is to gain from this article.

Income distribution is only one aspect of globalization and is probably the worst measure for where the wins and losses fall. And, as I see it, when you look at income distribution, alone, the results are quite obvious are they not?
I watched the video and was so physically repulsed by the actress at the beginning of the video I couldn't even pay attention the rest of the video. A woman dressed as a man and people act that is normal and professional. It's not. It's so disgusting. I won't be using this product.
should implement a proper line drawing algorithm
> So your position is that we should just keep piling hacks upon hacks even though there is viable alternative that will drastically simplify a great many things for the foreseeable future?

My position is irrelevant in this discussion. I answered the following question based on my own experience in the field:

> why pretty much anyone except google and facebook isn't?
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Actually, war does increase income for suppliers not in the war zone. As an extreme example, World War 2 ended the Great Depression in the U.S.

The mechanism is that there's work to be done and someone is willing to pay for it. As you say, this doesn't happen automatically, but there a lot of people trying to build businesses that increase consumer spending. Sometimes they succeed.

Expanding a business often does require more energy use, but this isn't linear. Today's businesses are much less energy-intensive than they used to be. The bad news (sort of) is that they tend to be less labor-intensive as well.
How a 5-Ounce Bird Stores 10,000 Maps in Its Head
I didn't RTFA but would point out that the performance problems I've run into with IPv6 aren't related to the specification itself but buggy implementation code from vendors, which I expect to improve with time.
I think Muad'dib's Mentat training was one reason he didn't turn out to be the Kwisatz Haderach that the Bene Gesserit were counting on. Besides the whole part where Jessica jumped the gun and jiggled her ovaries to produce Duke Atreides a son, instead of the daughter who was supposed to grow up to marry Feyd-Rautha.
This release is particularly notable because it has full Wayland support.
The problem there is probably the DNS resolution. I like the way apple does it: they resolve AAAA and A in parallel. Whatever comes back first is being used for the connection attempt. Much better than waiting for a ~5 second timeout on AAAA before calling back to A.
because some customers of "internet" like me in northern america have an IPv4 only access to the internet.

Thanks to teksavvy that blames videotron. Customer services says: not a problem.

There is a growing balkanisation between highly dense zone with the critical mass for getting a ROI in IPv6 transition and less dense zone that where equiped with a correct IPv4 backbone.

Non mobile land connection is getting less and less connected to the internet, because "mobile" is the future. But mobile data plan and hardware are freakingly expensive as if there was a money divide on the internet between riches and poors. I don't want no smartphone, no mobile connection, no netflix: I just want a 1Megabyte/s clean internet with 100% internet connection.

It is really the IPv6pocalypse here. Half baked technologies put on the front, while the basics (100% access, UDP not dropping too much, not too much lags) are decaying (as if equipments where not upgraded).

I used to be a QIII player. Nowadays it is excessive lags, spikes everywhere on every continent. My internet sux balls big, QIII was a good reason to have internet. Now, everyone is happy with buggy crashy games that are sloooooowwww in gameplay but with a 4KHD 120fps.

Why must I have internet? Because administrative tasks requires me to have it to gather and send forms. Else, I would drop it.

2.8% of mondial energy burnt...for this
France has been trying for nearly a decade to build a search engine that matters:

http://www.dw.com/en/eu-allows-france-to-bankroll-google-riv...
I wanted to see Star Wars Kid too.
I think in this case it's definitely the last one. The C code is difficult to follow and harder to modify (see example link below). The new code may be easier to follow. Although I'm also aware that there's a fixed amount of complexity in the problem, and there may not be any silver bullet.

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/src/ins...
DSL is available without telephone service, at least with Verizon in Pennsylvania. It is called "dry loop DSL." 3 Mbps / 768 kbps is costing me more than the price they are advertising for 50 Mbps / 50 Mbps FiOS (which I can't get) without contract. So it exists but it sucks, and I'm not sure you actually save much (or anything) by getting DSL without telephone service.
George R R Martin: Genius or Hack?
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It raises similar thoughts with me... mostly I guess because I don't think I've read such a positive AirBnB write-up before, especially around them responsibly handling landlord screw ups
What Happens When Airlines Lose Your Luggage
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Frankly I'm not sure how to feel about this line of thought.

I safely avoid experiences like this and I don't see the appeal of Instagram.
I imagine the feeling is much like eating snack food: you know you're eating too much, you have plenty, and nothing in the moment except shame will stop you from eating it.

The answer is: don't buy snack food ever. Eat hearty meals and leave it at that.

I take that approach to web/app content: read hearty texts, view great images. Switch it off when the quality dips below ambient levels.
So if they really did pick an "impressive" list, I'm curious what their incentive was for doing so? What is that selection process and who does it? Anyone know?
I am also skeptical because the people answering polls are people who answer robocalls/spam/surveys.
This reminds me of another Atlantic article, In Defense of Gentrification. Essentially, Syracuse has segregated itself by income level. Areas with a high density of poverty continue to suffer. The gentrification of neighborhoods generally elevates the quality of life of for its lower income residents. Those that are displaced are more likely to move to a neighborhood with a higher median income than their own.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/in-defen...
> I say we take it one step further and just pay our citizens for simply existing.

No, just no. I find that line of thinking ridiculous.
The earliest reference of a number system I could find goes back 1,300 years, but I'd be completely surprised if the basic concepts weren't much older.

http://mt.artofmemory.com/wiki/Major_System#History

Example: in Greek and Hebrew, numbers were already mapped to letters, so it would be very small step to create mnemonics from the numbers based on the letters.

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_numbers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals#Main_table
A couple of years after everyone's dropped Photoshop for Sketch. It could be the case that designers, like front-end developers, will have to get used to the idea that all of their tooling will change every ~3 years.

Personally very excited about this and want to start using it immediately.
Disclaimer: I am a Spaniard

This is going to be a long fight because traditionally those ships and its content belong to the owner. There are some international rules that some countries have agreed on (UNESCO): http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13520&URL_DO=DO_TO.... Colombia hasn't signed that, but it doesn't mean they shouldn't obbey.

I don't know about this topic, so I won't add much more. However I wouldn't be so ingenous to think that the full treasure belongs to Colombia or to Spain. I suppose they will end up in international legal figths and they will end up agreeing on sharing the treasure. In any case, they CAN'T sell it (I believe) so it'd be as worthy as the tickets of the museum. It's more of a patriotic fight than a practical fight.
No doubt a lot of other CAs are going to be pretty perturbed once LE really gets widespread. What reason for existence will they have then? EV certs?
I'm not suggesting that HN should get sued over this, so the safe harbor seems irrelevant. I'm saying that we shouldn't post things like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=117&v=_r7OeMGx7D...

Cool demo of one of the EuroRack variations
Open Automatic License Plate Reader
That's a little convenient.
yes, i'm working on it but have been v busy with work lately. gave a talk about bresenham's line algorithm at genius back in march (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytBpLlSHms) embarrassed it's been so long without a product. #opensourceisaprison
What alternatives are there? SSH-style "you have not visited this site before, do you want to trust it?"? Distributed trust is a hard problem.
Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015) [pdf]
If only it were that easy to revive Syracuse.
oh noooo pls let me know what environment you're running it on!
No! It offers much more, but some users are just not interested.
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One of the amusing parallels regarding Facebook (and similar products) is the way your likes, messages, and notifications, are basically like a little scoreboard, even in about the same location as old arcade games, and emphasized as strongly as anything else on the site - bright red against a similar shade of blue. It definitely contributes to that impulsive feeling I remember (prior to closing my account) to just keep checking. Similar to the worst psychological tactics and "reward-for-suffering" schemes employed by some game developers, e.g. Farmville, Curiosity, World of Warcraft, etc.

It'd be nice to see gamification used for good rather than kinda-evil, but the potential users they alienate with these tactics are clearly a minority compared to the ones they manage to attract and keep hooked - or else they wouldn't have managed to stay successful products for as long as they have.
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"But there was never an attempt or policy to kill Native Americans off."

I see stuff like this and I cannot believe the total ignorance. I guess I'm going spend part of my night grabbing every damn reference to every government and private company policy that was specifically designed to kill Native Americans including some laws still on the books that included clause that you could kill any Native American if you were in a covered wagon or any group of 5 Native Americans that were gathered. Some, including MN's ban on all Dakota Indians, are still on the books.

We'll ignore the whole, give Native Americans disease laden blankets and killing as many buffalo as possible so the plains tribes would starve.

Its as bad as people quoting the US government general on how many Native Americans died during the Trail of Tears. I guess people like that believe other governments when they say how many people they killed.

As to your last line.... that does not account for the loss.
It's funny, because all of the countries which have done extremely well (China, Brazil) have protectionist economies while the countries that have stagnated or suffered (US, EU) have fervently implemented free trade policies. Hell, the US even had a protectionist economy from the founding revolution to the mid 20th century as part of the American School of economics.

It's time to critically reevaluate these free trade policies and what they're really doing, not what we're told they're supposed to do.
What happened to allbuy.com?
For peope who dont know what allbuy.com is it's another shop to buy stuff from China like aliexpress or banggood, but what did happen? Cannot find anything about a bankrupcy or something else.

When I try to access the site I get "502 Bad Gateway"

Thanks.
Bonus point: Peru could get into the fight too because some of the gold, silver and emeralds could have come from there. Back to the old books!
Doxxing is expressly not allowed here (and should not be allowed anywhere).
Most definitely the case with at least Windows 8. Since I upgraded to Windows 10 I haven't experienced the problem. With Windows 8, after an uncertain period of time every app (browsers, torrents, games) would stall. It would drive me nuts until I found a post that recommended disabling the IPv6 networking protocol. It seemed to work fine until Windows 10 came along and all is good. Other devices on the network using Windows 7, android OS, didn't have any connectivity issues when the Windows 8 device did, so I'm sure it had to be Windows 8.
Is the description just a rather roundabout way of saying it can be used as an anonymous messageboard? The name certainly evokes that.
There's only so many ways you can slice a kilobyte. Measuring bits is just the way to do it for data transmissions.

Support for compact representation of more languages would have been nice. Something like an 8 bit mode with 2 byte escapes for setting code page and 3 byte escapes for arbitrary unicode characters. As a bonus you'd actually be able to fit more emoji in that mode, 46 vs. 35.
Ours is all environment, but for mobile AR and not autonomous driving. So our draw distances don't need to be as fast and we have more persistence and more frames per meter than a driving system would have at 60km/h. That said, if we weren't restricted to mobile hardware we could probably get close to matching LIDAR speed and resolution.

The snow thing is interesting actually, but in a different way than you might think. Because we do loop closure it makes matching scenes that are temporally separated (eg. no snow vs snowy or occluded by leaves etc...) very hard.
At my workplace, we are currently looking for a distributed locking mechanism. Since we are already heavily using Redis in our system, it seems to be convenient to rely on it, too, but we heart a lot of criticism against it.

Does anyone have experience with distributed locks and would be kind enough to share?
Between this and google's "Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt", I think they're trying to send us messages from the future about what happens when you build a company out of ML and don't fully account for the repercussions of creating systems sensitive to hard-to-measure software, systems, data generating process changes. It's a message I plan on heeding :)
About 2 years ago.
>For many of us, a NAT is considered a feature not a bug in fact.

What? Nat is always a bug with a hack piled upon hack upon hack. The amount of crap that needs done to get ip2ip communications working and other multiport protocols is stupid and introduces piles of security risks. Protocols like uPNP have produced a plethora of critical exploits allowing an attacker full access to the NAT'ed network. Firewall controlled IPv4 with a 1:1 ratio of ip to host is always much easier to control the security risks with.

Everyone else simply uses NAT because they have no other choice, there simply isn't IPs in the 4 address space to do whats needed.

So yet again we have a implementation tragedy where everyone would be better off with it working, but no one will do it, leaving us with a hulking crapsack we are used to in every aspect of our life.

Further reading: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
The technology behind Figma is quite fascinating. From Twitter (https://twitter.com/skuwamoto/status/672486788192055296):

> We’re using C++ → asm.js for most of our app, so it would be tough. React-canvas, seems incredible, tho.

> The C++ → asm.js is via Emscripten. Everything else is done by our mad genius @evanwallace

Graphics engine is based on WebGL. Evan Wallace has done some incredible work. Using C++ is a smart move, an emergency exit to a native app. Yet I think a standalone app should be the priority.
Oh my god, it's so nice to live on a network of routable addresses. It felt weird for the first year at college but once you have it for a while the reduced overhead is so nice.

When I started managing a /24, the network administration was so amazing. Like relaxing on a big squishy couch. The internal nameserver and the external nameserver... were the same nameserver with one set of records. The firewall was actually a firewall, not set of limitations that could be imposed by a firewall but were in fact a technical limitation of the network gateway.

I miss it so much. Now I'm sitting on a network that uses a private block, VPN-ed into a network that uses ALL 3 1918 blocks (don't ask). From the computer I'm sitting at various subnets will be routed to the local network, and others to the remote network. There are systems that I can not communicate with on both networks. I will stand up SSH tunnels to whenever I need to talk to them.
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amazing!!!! thanks @jennmoneydollars $$$$
Implementing an Open Source Private Docker-Based PaaS: A Q&A with Rancher Labs
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Stating that there is no solution without any knowledge of the existing solutions is itself part of the problem.

Let's start with this:

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
And we learned to deal with it for many, many years. For many of us, a NAT is considered a feature not a bug in fact.

Sounds like Stockholm syndrome. Are there any desirable properties of NAT that can't be duplicated with a firewall?
The Soviet Union had more of the opposite idea: you must work to earn a living. From the 1936 Soviet constitution,

> In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."

If you want to analogize it to a left-wing movement, an unconditional UBI is closer to a the Scandinavian social democrats' ideas of a universalist welfare system.
Well before cell phones I had assumed 911 was nearly perfectly reliable and could only get better with new technology. Random news stories about dispatchers screwing up didn't do much to shake me of that belief.

I think it goes without saying that cell phones were a very real regression for 911.
I think so, if vast wealth passes down through generations and occupies such a large portion of the ultra rich. Stagnant in this regard refers to wealth that is inherited.

How about if Europe's entrenched old money prevents new money from arising, and is part of the problem? Money comes with obvious vast influence on politics. What if that old money acts to protect itself at the expense of economic dynamism and new wealth creation? I think it's a reasonable conclusion that that does in fact occur. Is bunched up old money inherently more conservative? I'd argue yes.

The parent comment implies that wealth is more redistributed in Europe. That is plainly not true, given the extreme inheritance levels of their billionaires and lower rates of philanthropy.

The wealth is also not inherently bound to the operations. You can give away your billions without sinking a business. Berkshire Hathaway isn't going to collapse when Buffett dies or gives his remaining wealth away (Burlington Northern railroad isn't going to tip over when he gives away his last shares, just as BMW wouldn't if the Quandt family ended their dynasty, ditto Walmart with the second generation of Walton heirs). Just as Microsoft isn't collapsing as Gates exits his formerly huge percentage share of ownership (he has gone from ~60% ownership to now ~3% since the IPO, obviously it has not seriously harmed Microsoft). There is a large, important question at the center of this that can be best illustrated by a rhetorical: is Howard Buffett (Warren's oldest son) the best qualified to run Berkshire Hathaway? What are the odds the Quandt family is best suited to steer BMW for the next hundred years? Or that Inditex should be run by the Ortega family forever, or that the Slim family should control such a large swath of telecom in Mexico for the next century? I think that kind of economic dominance by families is more often detrimental (loss of dynamism, too much wealth acquired without earning it) than beneficial, much as a cartel or monopoly ends up being.
I miss you images
A Mathematical View of Computer Systems
aseprite [0] a great open source (desktop) pixel art editor

[0] - http://www.aseprite.org/
Well I see one simple explanation for this. By simple, I mean short, rather than uncomplicated.

It's easy to move capital, but it's hard to move labour. That's the world we've built.

So what are the main conclusions?

1) The very wealthy are much wealthier
2) The somewhat wealthy are no better off
3) The formerly very poor are now much less poor.

Why would that be?

If you're a business, you can move your production to China (of course that gap has moved in a lot over the years). So as the owner you reap the profits of mobile capital.

The poor folks in China benefit as well, as they now have better paying jobs utilising the moved capital. They benefit a lot, but actually they would be better off if they could participate in the Western labour market. They can't just come here, so they make do with what opportunities they have. By experience a fair few of these people are just as useful as anyone in the West, but that's how the world is built.

The "somewhat wealthy" are the Western middle class. They don't own the capital, the best they can do is hold on to some of the managerial roles if they're upper middle, or lose their jobs if they're outsourced. Since the firms are more profitable having moved production, the managers can do allright, but they're not all buying yachts. The factory workers in the West are a bit buggered. They whole point of moving is to avoid their expense. A lot of people have had to find new things to do.
I thought developers were supposed to use the tool, too :)
Ok, thank you. "10K+ users" is great and promising fact. After 5+ years of active python developing, I have decided to move to Tcl (you are right, "TCL" looks really wrong). I feel this language is fit to my tasks much better then python
Looks like it doesnt work on Android.