skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't quite tell if you're a troll or merely have a really hard time understanding that France is actually in a very complex position here.

This entire thread is so depressingly misinformed about the country that I don't have the heart to correct people.

Namely people are quick to forget that France is in fact in a state of emergency and that conditions do change when that's pulled. It doesn't mean we should lie down and accept anything and everything, but forgetting what's actually going on makes everything worse.

There are serious issues with the current french government but they have nothing to do with "the left" or "the right", as if those things ever mattered. They have to do with how NIH and technologically impaired France is and that hasn't changed since the minitel.
I've never seen a better post for the old quote about the future already being here, just unevenly distributed. Web frontend devs with ivy degrees living in SV don't have much permanent structural unemployment, well at least until they get older. Its a bit more of a current issue for the other 7.3 billion people in the world.
Inbox is a very close alternative, and that's even by Google. They didn't think that through at all.
I'm not so sure. At all the coffee shops around where I live, whenever you order a macchiato, they have to quiz you to make sure you want an actual macchiato, and not the sugar-filled concoction Starbucks labels a "macchiato." I could see the same thing happening with flat whites, which have certain dimensions as part of their definition. It's annoying when a large chain redefines an established, useful term.
To my knowledge, what you've said is just as incorrect as what the parties you oppose said. There haven't actually been that many studies, all considered, and the studies there have been weren't conclusive.

I think Finland would be better off testing the idea (e.g. in a single city, eligible population fixed at the start) before committing to it. There would doubtless be problems with the test, but it would give a better idea of what to expect.
A little confused about the authors decision to do operator overloading with the pipe operator rather than a function chaining interface for the functional bit. Wouldn't a function chaining interface be simpler and use less magic?
On heterogeneous objectives
Why do companies do this? I would love to see a breakdown of the bandwidth costs they pay for something that enrages most visitors and is tolerated by most of the remaining. I have never visited a website and said "man, I wish that video had just played itself"
I disagree a little; sometimes you just want a quick ball-park quote and having to upload a file (which you may not have drawn yet) is an instant turn-off.
Good luck on this. The design looks slick, though I wasn't able to get past the quoting page.

If you want other materials and thicknesses, try us out at http://www.bigbluesaw.com/ . For prices see http://www.bigbluesaw.com/examples .
It used to be when the company went out of business, their software still worked...
Don't use anything that's not open source. Period.
Year in Music
I thought that one cool trick stopped working for new accounts a long time ago?
Does Rust fit into those specifications? I understand library support is probably not quite there yet, but I was under the impression it could fill the role of C/C++.
It's only getting worse both Facebook (just where i work Euston Tower/Reagents Park Business Center) and Google (building a mega office near kings cross) are moving in with quite a few others following them just going to make things worse.
The City of London want's to bring even more big companies into the heart of London and they are throwing tax intensives left and right.
you answered your own question! it's to keep the bar high so only the Goliath can play
DevOps and continuous delivery: Joined at the hip
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688164

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690710
Snooze functionality became my most important feature after using Mailbox. I switched to Outlook several months ago because it supports snoozing and archiving with the same swipe gestures, and it allows me to add all of the mail accounts Mailbox didn't support. The UX isn't quite as polished as Mailbox's, but that's improving regularly.
They have opened a community thread in their forums. [0]

[0] https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/203840...
I started as simple as a pan on the stove and a spoon. It's better if you can do it outside or somewhere well ventilated, burning chaff isn't the most pleasant smell.

If you can make friends with a local small batch roaster you can pick up a lot of info quickly. The ones I've met love to talk shop about roasting. And they can sell you some of their stock directly, so you can try more things without waiting for it to get shipped to you.
Shocking coincidence: "Marissa Mayer's severance package could reach $110 million [upon sale of the company]."[1]

And right when the press is dragging her tenure through the mud.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/07/technology/marissa-mayer-sev...
Doesn’t competition for gasoline, cable tv and phone service keep prices down?
Why can't this work for transportation?
Imagine what an Elon Musk could do with Amtrak or the New York subway.
That is all fine if they detained a guy from another part of the city from where the robbery happened.
If a crime happened like 5 minutes ago and you are looking at someone who fits a description who is for example 200 meters away from the crime scene than it is unreasonable to not check him.
I am not from US, but I guess this can happen to everyone. There were no violence from either side and he was checked and released, which is unpleasant but it did not imply racism in any way in my opinion.
I'll be interested to see how this plays out because it sounds like the current "welfare" in Finland is similar to that in the states, where getting a job equates to taking a paycut (because you no longer qualify) so why work (which is a constant argument).

I like the idea of a system that still has incentives for people to work but doesn't leave them hanging if they can't find a job.
Eh, could you hold that thought for a moment? We're busy with our collective punishment programme of Christians, they should've stopped Breivik because hey, all Christians exchange terrorist plans and knew it was coming but they didn't warn the police! The only way we can convince them to warn the police next time is to punish them collectively this time, these Christians just don't care otherwise...

Can you see how silly your reasoning is or do you want more jokes?

Collective punishment is a stupid, barbaric, medieval idea we've fortunately gotten rid of. You're suggesting guilt by association, it's on the level of ridiculous ideas you'd expect from groups like IS.
I feel like Rust is getting there but AFAIK there isn't support for an untyped arena allocator(just homogeneous arena allocator) which you need if you don't want to be playing around with raw byte arrays to do Data Oriented Design.

I think that they'll get there but it's going to take a bit.

Also, I'm not aware of anything that has a wider set of compile targets(all the way to some larger uC up to web via emscripten).
This image from 2009 used to be a joke:

https://i.imgur.com/5RrWm.png

Now apparently it is a roadmap for corporate.

(source: https://www.reddit.com/9yj1f )
Shipping kills Ponoko for international audiences.
Sitting at about 0 worries. The second Verizon (or any other company's) new wireless tech started to mess with WiFi in practice (as in, at the consumer level), and was clearly attributable, they would instantly be hit with a giant tidal wave of bad PR.

Wifi works. People will not be very happy if you single-handedly break all their wifi-enabled things.
Protecting hundreds of millions more mobile users
That would be just as bad, considering no one's really touched HackPad in the intervening time.
You must not have seen the movie Home Alone.
SAD & USSOCOM, Mossad, CESG probably have a hand in it so why not? Lots of Chefs too few bakers? Confusion is as good sometimes as concerted efforts.
They get close but I think there's a few restrictions(rightly so from a safety perspective) that keep untyped arena allocators and in-place loading from working(see FlatBuffers for a fantastic library for in-place loading).

Edit(since I can't reply yet to child):

By in-place loading I don't mean placement new(which untyped arena covers). Usually in-place loading means constructing an object(usually just by reinterpret_cast<T*>(data)) over a block of memory read in from disk/network such that all data members "line up" with data as it was serialized.

This also includes the ability to mutate the in-place data but have initialized to some sane values. 99% of the time this is paired with either some sort of preprocessor(usually written in the same compiler as the reader to guarantee data matching).

Quite a few games use this technique to allocate levels/fixed entities such that once you've pulled them disk you just need to do some trivial pointer fixup and away you go. There's some pretty incredible speed increases(100-200x) but obviously it's incredibly fragile and complex to get right.

Flatbuffers does a good job of trading off fragility for usability by encoding offsets in the placement data. Reading data is slightly slower due to needing to calculate the offset into the data but on the plus side it doesn't depend on compiler specific layouts :).
"proof of waste" - I like the phrase, sums it up well.

If you drop the distributed requirement you can run an equivalent system on on a pentium 4 in someone's basement, without wasting GWs of power and spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Except I'm not advocating genocide. Just pointing out that, if more tolerable solutions don't work, and it does become a perceived choice of 'us' vs 'them', people will choose themselves 10/10 times.
What I want (and I suspect we'll have due to gaming) is super high resolution Oculus, imagine programming in an environment where your screens can be tiled onto a sphere and moved and re-ordered arbitrarily.

Could do something very interesting with that :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag

Imagine what we could do in 10 years with ^ if the technology takes off this time.
Or it could just be a kind of placebo effect that doesn't stand up to double blind testing, and the function of coffee pickiness has more to do with social signaling than flavor.
I'm going to leave this here: https://www.ethereum.org/

If you haven't heard of Ethereum, check it out. It seems to be one of the leaders in blockchain platforms. Even Microsoft is working with it, along with many others.

Bitcoin, although the largest chain right now, will be a small player in an enormous field. The idea of one cryptocurrency to lead them all is not going to work. In fact, the 'currency' part is somewhat insignificant relative to what the blockchain industry will be.
Every 'token' or 'currency' that represents an asset in a smart contract, or an asset such as cash, will be easily and instantly exchangeable for any other liquid asset. (i.e. U.S. Dollars). Having something like bitcoin is actually little use to us. That's not saying I think bitcoin was stupid or bad, it has done much to further the blockchain advancement.
Well, that's assuming that both a) the best idea is worth something on the free market, and b) the person submitting would possess the know how to take their PoC and capitalize on it themselves.

Hopefully, anyone that fits in A&B would agree with you and wouldn't submit. For everyone else, this seems like a fun way to add to their resume.
Significant amount of discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690716
Significant amount of discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690754
This is an old idea.
Nixon proposed this for America in 1969:
http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/guaranteed-income%E2%...
DConf 2016 20% sold off
Pricing page: https://gigster.com/pricing

It doesn't seem very AI really. I guess for something that doesn't fit their sliders a human has a look?
All of these things you are describing are a good way to waste large amounts of time without getting anything worthwhile done. The 5% where you are not interacting with others is the tiny sliver of time you are afforded to actually produce the product that the rest of the business is built on.

With the correct group of people, all of this feel-good communication can be replaced by a handful of people that know what they are doing, keeping an online task board updated and communicating primarily asynchronously by email, or if absolutely necessary, synchronously by IM.

Pair programming is a great way to make two people half as productive as either would have been working alone.
The Atlantic's Quartz website has open-sourced a simple D3-based charting program called Chartbuilder. It's not as full-featured as Highcharts, but it's free at any usage level and customizable.

Code: https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder

Try it: https://quartz.github.io/Chartbuilder/
They most likely already patched it.
Verizon hasn't really touched the day to day operations at AOL very much yet outside of the ads groups. They've been pretty hands-off so far.
Criticisms of Zuckerberg's donation debunked
Likewise, I've had Dropbox since around 2009 or 2010, never even heard of Mailbox until now. I actively avoided Carousel solely because of how much the mobile Dropbox app was trying to push it on me, my reaction was more-or-less "What? I'm not changing my workflow." and ignored it. Might have been a shame, but it didn't feel welcoming with how they tried to do that...
VCs themselves aren't the problem. Big bets are fine. The problem is acquihiring. It's:

- good for founders - they get a big fat paycheck and a chance for a job in a big company

- good for VCs - a payoff, even if small, is better than no payoff at all, so they want their 9 not-so-good startups to be bought

- good for the buying company - they can literally just kill the competition by throwing money at them, + they get some proven and experienced employees, which may be worth it given the unreliability of the standard hiring process

Care to guess who this deal is not good for?

Startups are (and are being heavily marketed as) a get-rich-quick scheme. Most of the people involved are self-selected to follow this process. And all this talk about providing value to the users? That's the part of the scheme where you get used.
Sonic hedgehog gene
Perl has had decent Unicode support longer than most similar languages (years before Ruby and Python, for instance), but Perl 6 is just ridiculously good at it, and I hope other languages follow suit. I'm unaware of any other language that handles Unicode this well...am I missing any languages that do? I guess JavaScript is coming along on this front and ES6 includes support for Unicode regexps, which is progress, so maybe that's the closest mainstream language.
Is the email stored on your servers ? Do we get contacts and calendars inside the app as well ? If yes, on which email providers/account types ? Why isn't this info on the website ? Thanks.
If we use global numbers, probably not.

>In 2014, 32,685 people were killed in terrorist attacks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/global-terrorism-index...

The WHO puts global road traffic deaths at around 1 million, so if autonomous cars reduces that by a factor of 50, which seems likely, they'd kill less than terrorism.
US wireless: After the spectrum rush
No - they aren't gimping specific competitors or doing anything to filter data over public internet - they are offering a new tier of service - just like you have IPTV as a separate service from public internet.

And why should the government care ? Who is getting hurt here ? Not to mention there are multiple competing entities in mobile space.

We have something similar arround here with 0.facebook.com where you get free access to mobile FB version over 3G even on prepaid cards - it's popular with younger people - why should this be illegal ?
And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690716
How to Be the Hardware Engineer at a Startup
FTC Challenges Proposed Merger of Staples and Office Depot
Given that an apartment in Helsinki costs 900 Euros a month, 800 Euros a month cannot be considered a living.
You didn't respond to the question.
On the gripping hand... what if ISIS is completely a western-security-state construction (yes, warning: CT ahead)?

The authorities control all the discussion, they sift through (or plant) the evidence, and it's possible that the ISIS was indirectly funded directly from large western governments.

ISIS is the perfect Emmanuel Goldstein.
I like it actually, it's like NPOV in Wikipedia, or those exercises for public speaking where you smile while talking to improve the lilt of your speech.

I could see why removing "god mode" for language would improve the clarity - both of the speech as well as the speaker's understanding.
This was experimented with in Canada for a period of time in the 70s in Dauphin, Manitoba.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/23/mincome-in-dauphin-m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCOME
I hope you're right. I fear you're wrong.

I used to work in a job that I don't think was very amenable to automation. It was a terrible job and I don't miss it one bit. I doubt anyone would want to work it if they didn't actually need money.

Sure, maybe we can live without windows or something, I just don't know how many such products there are. Money isn't everything, after all--there has to be something you can actually buy with that money. And if nobody or almost nobody is willing to make those things any more, what then?

That's the part that scares me. I'm sure we can print enough money for everyone. I'm not sure how much of anything there will be to buy with it. And all the arguments for this are "it's the right thing to do" rather than "we know we can make this work because..."
If you want a zero inbox client, then InBox on top of gmail is pretty good.

I use FastMail as my primary email, and I don't quite do zero inbox. I probably have on average 5 to 8 emails in my inbox, and a few stick around for days.

It takes some effort and overhead but I am trying to move away from email as being a "memory box" for organizing my life. Instead I am using subject organized markdown files stored in encrypted cloud storage where I maintain tasks, research notes, etc. since these are synced on my laptops, I can search them with spotlight, cortana, etc.

Combined with FastMail, this scheme keeps me organized. As easy as using InBox for email and TODOs? No, but so far it is working for me.
it's funny how just having played Kerbal Space Program let's me understand what you are talking about
Ask HN: Why don't we just block IS from internet
Wouldn't it be easier to just block IS from the internet instead of bombing everything, analysing meta data ( twitter, telegram, Facebook, ...) And stop them promoting themselves.

They will probably also loose some smart people because of this( it people, marketing,... ) and politicians can stop using it as an excuse for blocking encryption / spying on civilian.

They will probably have so much internal problems ( running a state without internet / communication should be very hard), that we won't hear much of them for a couple of months.

It could also become easier for their enemies for combatting IS if they have a 'supported' alternative
I haven't, actually, because I assumed it was just a gimmick. And honestly, it IS a gimmick, allowing Starbucks to offer fancy "boutique" coffee at multiple locations at the press of a button instead of emphasizing barista training and artistry.

I am completely happy to be a Luddite for this particular subject because to me part of what I want from boutique coffee is the expierence. I want some bearded hipster dude who has spent the last decade of his life perfecting his craft to work in conjunction with a tattooed college drop-out who has two decades of roasting experience to craft me a cup of coffee that has never been and will never be seen again on this earth because of infinite subtle variations in the exact beans that were used in making it. I consider making amazing coffee to be an art form, same as making amazing French Pâtisserie or Jamón Ibérico[1] or Colonnata lardo[2]. Starbucks offering boutique coffee to me is like Target saying they now are carrying Ibérico ham- it might be made out of pig and it might be cured in the same fashion but it is not, cannot, and will not ever be Jamón Ibérico and calling it such not only cheapens the entire concept of artistry in making Jamón Ibérico but also misleads the thousands of consumers who might buy it, decide it's not that good, and then completely write off Jamón Ibérico for the rest of their lives, thus missing out on something incredible that many generations have toiled away at perfecting.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n_ib%C3%A9rico
[2]http://www.emikodavies.com/blog/italian-table-talk-lardo-di-...
Take a look at the pricing page: https://gigster.com/pricing

Gigster is anything but cheap.
The (current) lack of 'swipe to snooze' is unfortunate with Nylas. Looks great otherwise though.
Ask HN: How do I prepare myself for a Blockchain job?
With so much interest surrounding bitcoin and more importantly the block chain, how should a college student prepare and be marketable for blockchain related job? Anticipating the trend in banking institutions and other organizations using the blockchain, now seems to be the beginning stages of a major opportunity to leverage this technology.

For example, what areas of computer science would be the most appropriate to study and what resources currently exist that would allow someone 18-25 to enhance their skills implementing and utilizing the block change in areas other than cryptocurrency?
I was about to post the same.

~/.ssh/config with identity files (certs) is the right way to ssh.

And ssh config entries can be used in other software, for example I use them in mc.
Well the press has been covering her disappointing tenure basically throughout 2015. Everything from a slew of VPs/C-levels leaving (including those she hand picked) to increased turmoil between managers and employees to product decisions that didn't result in noticeable ROI.
> the limit case of which would be an arcology of extremely dense, extremely expensive housing surrounded by cardboard slums.

If having people live close to each other is economically beneficial - and it seems to be - then social policy should encourage that. It's much easier to move the people to the jobs than the other way around (see e.g. the report discussed in http://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2008/aug/13/timetoaband... ). Even in the "crazy" limit, if we ended up abandoning the rest of the country and moving everyone to London because we were more productive when we were all closer together... well, why not?

(cardboard slums are unlikely; houses outside London are cheap and large precisely because they're less well connected. More likely outside the arcology would be retirement mansions or the like)

> A very big factor is that London gets to have a proper state-owned local-government-controlled integrated public transport service, TfL. Most other places have to put up with private local monopoly bus services run by Stagecoach.

Manchester has a very similar body, and the other PTEs are also fairly similar. Several cities had referenda on establishing elected mayors with similar authority to that of London. A lot of TfL's advantages are simply a reflection of London's willingness to spend money funding them (e.g. Crossrail is partly funded by an extra business levy).