skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not ask for 50 cents or a new stamp in the envelope? Including a stamp is easier in an envelope, and it should make prepping a return envelope simpler. Require "forever" stamps to protect yourself from a postal price hike.
AFAIK, the Star Trek is using matter-antimatter reaction in the warp core [0]. We are however really far for this technology. Fusion on the other side is reachable.

[0] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Warp_core
I love how the article lumps techies in with lawyers and bankers.
Help us care for the poor you bastards
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Ah, we should update the website! If you send us a forever stamp instead of 50 cents, we'll honor it.
Would you trust a robot with your pregnancy?
The main problem is not diff but merge. You currently can't merge changes to images, textures etc.
The whole advantage of DVCS like git is that it allows to work in parallel and merge effortlessly. The day we can merge photoshop, maya and 3D studio files central repository for art files will not make sense any more. But that day has not come, yet AFAIK.
I started to care about the stuff we read in school in my early thirties (Shakespeare would be an exception, for ... reasons).

There's a special exception for Max Frisch which I discovered mid-twenties and was very thankful I did not have to read it in school.

So, well, the "why" is: maybe later in your life.

(There's another "why" in "you an your friends aren't necessarily representative for Germany as a whole, bit that would have been a rather cheap comment)
Frontier settles for $150 M for slow W. Virginia DSL
I would imagine that a company's national/continental headquarters is also responsible for making sure each car is compliant with their respective localities as part of the process of readying it for sale (especially in the US, where individual states can have their own emissions standards that exceed that of the federal government).

Even if VW of America didn't design, build, or request the cheat devices, they're still partially culpable by either unknowingly offering the cars for sale (and not doing their own independent tests in advance of the third-party testing that detected the cheat devices) or knowingly offering cars for sale that didn't meet local emissions standards.
"I get a mail envelope": I mean I search and found an envelope, and I'm ready to put the address on it, to later send it to the postal office.

I was stating my enthusiasm with the idea.
Definitely - I travel in to London from the east, and I love seeing the cluster at Canary Wharf, and then the cluster that this article focuses on, with my train travelling underneath it.

If anything, I wish the regulations were a bit more relaxed so we could have some more clusters to the west, to balance out the heavy weighting of the skyline to the east.
If you send us an international stamp instead of a 50¢ piece, we'll honor it ;-).
I've been considerably dissatisfied with AWS lately, namely their lack of real customer support for billing issues and was shopping around for a Postgres provider. http://databaselabs.io seems to be a good choice if you're looking for AWS alternative.
Surprisingly interesting and really well presented --- the animations are inspired.

Personally, I love big, ugly skyscrapers (I've been trying to get myself onto a tour of the Gherkin for Open Doors Day for years). I do agree with the decision to limit them to one particular district, though. London's got a lot of fantastic buildings which don't want to be overwhelmed, and besides, skyscrapers look best from a distance.

(I didn't know that views of St. Pauls are protected by law! And I'm embarrassed to say that I never even knew about the Great Fire of London memorial...)
“Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.” - Seymour Cray
I've been enjoying this as just a fun thing to do sitting on the couch in the evening. Sit back and learn a bit of swift. Mainly just getting info on syntax. It's surprisingly relaxing.
Waze's growth chief: Even driverless cars need a better route
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The Guardians of London's Black Cab 'Knowledge'
Is it just me or does Google Cloud SQL seem extremely expensive compared to the alternatives (RDS, etc)?
I was a "transient" in Allentown for 2 years because of work. Allentown has a profound sadness about it that I've seen in other rust-belt cities. Gentrification is very much a positive reaction to the vacuum that was created after years of dis-investment. The city has good bones, housing stock that can be restored to stunning with a little love, and a location and infrastructure that is excellent for business. People are only starting realize this now after moving to the exburbs and finding that they don't like driving 10 - 50 miles for virtually all excursions. Hope that Allentown makes it, it never deserved to be abandoned.
Also, I thought the map which overlaid more content as you scrolled the text over it was a good design. Very simple but effective.
Of course it's possible, just not as easy. The binaries are available, you decompile them, and you step through the resulting low level code. I bet many people had done that already.
I can't think of any gun control that would help this situation, plus it's not happening in the forseable future.

But thinking about your comment just now, less gun control would help in the 8 states that don't have "shall issue" or better concealed carry regimes, which include the high population states of California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maryland.

Knowing that outright murder and the like might be opposed by a legally carrying concealed citizen has got to have a chilling effect on the worst of the police. Knowing that 5% of the citizens 19 or older in my county have concealed carry licenses should also have some good effects of various sorts, and temper some of the sorts of things we've been told about in this HN topic.

Won't help when they're dealing with "known criminals" or the young (the threshold age is generally 21), unless of course a parent is there or the like.

To the extend citizen concealed carry decreases crime (a hotly debated topic that's very hard to prove when things like demographics are also steadily decreasing it), that would also help.
Hypothesis Testing and ANOVA
- I don't think you can use notionals to say that HFT is allocated a lot of capital. In general, if you're hedged, you don't have to put up all the capital. A typical figure is if you're long 1M and short 1M you have to post ~200K capital.

- Having said that the financial people I speak to seem to be swimming in capital. They all seem to want someone to trade it for them, or find deals to put the money in. On the other side, it's probably never been easier to get capital for certain kinds of project, but not every project qualifies as investible due to a certain kind of bureaucratic conservatism (old fashioned CYA requirements, lack of imagination, and so on). In particular stuff that banks are retreating from is leaving a big gap in the market.

- He makes a good point that when you get smarter about using capital, you need less of it. Perhaps that's where the missing productivity went?
The environmental impact of chicken is less than beef.
The problem with most Saas problems is capital. If most investors suggest a LTV of 3x CAC and if your average customer is $30 per month and your LTV is $360(3 yrs) then you need $120 per customer or $12,000 to invest in advertising to match what other Saas companies are doing to reach your goal.
... and I don't really see it getting worse

I think Internet 'journalism' is at an all time low.

I'm going to be more careful to click on things

So you are adapting to this state of horribleness by determining for every link if it's clickbait or not. I wish that wouldn't be necessary.
Royalty ruling for Pandora and others is imminent
I want PONIES!
If he doesn't know what is happening should he be making assertions to Congress (or anyone) like that?
Current gen SmartTVs use Tizen (Samsung) and WebOS (LG), Chromecast (ChromeOS), Panasonic (FirefoxOS), Sony (Android), etc.
We have a negative impact on nature, we should all kill ourselves now ;)
I'm on my third pair of Bose QC now. Somehow I keep breaking them (noise cancelling stopped working, twice). Maybe it's because I sleep with them on and contort the cords? I also wish the design was a bit easier on the hands. Despite that they've been worth it.
http://qz.com/566702/finland-plans-to-give-every-citizen-a-b... FTW
In an ideal world maybe, but in reality if the fraction of

(hours invested in actual project)/(hours invested in fixing tooling, write high quality easy to use libraries for data visualisation, data import / export, linear algebra, optimisation, statistics etc.)

approaches zero, then a language probably won't be used.

Also in this case the syntax of Matlab and the convenience with which you can manipulate indexed expressions with it, would probably not easily trumped even by a dsl embedded in Lisp, not without significant investment in developing such a domain specific language.
If this could help people like Justine Sacco, Lidsey Stone and Pax Dickinson get back on their feet it would be great.
But I seriously doubt any of them could predict such a thing could happen to them.

I think a "internet shaming/harrasment recovery program" would be a better solution.

But, considering it's the internet, I'd really like to know what Chubb will consider "trolling" and how much of it will make the holder able to claim the money.
And still no private IPs?
I wonder if this is how that same trend started on slashdot too (or meme, even: "You read TFA, are you new here?")? Then again, slashdot has always (as far as I know/remember) provided a summary in addition to the link, similar to how the page looks today.
Sorry, I was doing multiple edits on my comment in the last few minutes without noticing the replies. I did mention that reverse engineering is possible, but it's really tedious and not as easy to interpret all the code flows compared to having the source code.
It's hard to explain their observed eagerness to shoot harmless dogs in any other way than the power trip thesis.
> The return on investment for a cancer cure is probably small.

This must be a joke. Lipitor generated $125 billion revenue for Pfizer while in patent. A cancer cure will be worth more.
> These rigid rules first appeared in the 1930s, when the surveyor of St Paul’s came up with a precise grid of heights around the cathedral to safeguard the panorama from the South Bank. “We’ve been able to calculate where he took his views from, and most of them end up outside pubs,” says Rees.

The more times change. But it is interesting how some minor vices can have more than their fair share of consequences.
Perhaps it's just that great an idea :) Quick, grow and monetize it!
And so, all news sites approach the design of slashdot - from non-moderated comments to (user)moderated comments (we're still waiting (on the need) for meta-moderation here on hn), to presentation of stories? :-)
Cars taking up physically less space could be taxed less

Isn't his accomplished more easily and enforceably by taxing energy? Presumably using less energy correlates with smaller vehicles. You also get the benefit of reducing energy use.
As someone who has done a little bit of recent research in AI, pretty much everything high-level (new experiments, new models) is in MATLAB or Python (the exception is C/C++/Cuda if an algorithm or system must be implemented from scratch performantly).

All the libraries are in those ecosystems. It really has nothing to do with syntax, performance, ease-of-learning, quality of IDE, concurrency support, online tutorials, quality of documentation, etc.

Computer vision in particular is dominated by MATLAB because of its superior image/signal processing libraries. This may change as deep learning takes over computer vision (deep learning is dominated by (Python or Lua) + C++/Cuda).
Unfortunately they're not just as powerful. Things couldn't possibly be that simple. An imperial horsepower is about 746W, whereas a "metric" horsepower is about 735W. This will make the "metric" figure look slightly overstated if you're assuming the imperial one.
PDF?! Blasphemy, where's my AmigaGuide format?
Id0-rsa.pub: exercises related to computer security
The US also has additional "baggage" that comes from it's past racial problems.

I live near DC. Gentrification in the city is almost always wealthy whites displacing poor blacks. There is very much an us-vs-them feeling among those that are being displaced.

One ridiculous effect of the gentrification... Historically black churches in the downtown areas now have congregations that have been displaced and commute from the suburbs to attend services. This causes all sorts of problems with parking that didn't exist when the congregation lived in the neighborhood.

This in turn causes conflict with new residents, who want to add bike lanes. The congregation doesn't like that because it would reduce on-street parking.
Because people hate change. Do the change, leave it a few years then everyone thinks those buildings have now become part of the character of a city and don't want to change it...
What if I'm pretty skilled but don't have a LinkedIn?
I think it will be a long time (100 years) until ICE's get replaced in semi trucks and container ships. The energy storage requirements are massive, and batteries for such applications have a much harder time justifying themselves.
That's an extraordinary phenomenon I haven't come across before(Hoax calls to police giving a streamer's address). People will do really stupid things for kicks.
As I said, I think it will only discourage the most obvious forms of clickbait. There's still an incentive to make your headlines a bit louder, try to appeal to more people by making false suggestions, etc.

If you're reading 'De Correspondent' you will see a lot of examples of this: the headlines are not necessary clickbait in the same way as BuzzFeed is, but they still over-promise and are often slightly misleading. Especially the ones they share via social media.
When Value is defined as "more money", then this will happen.

Money often functions as a lack of efficiency and is prone to re-produce itself.
For example: if cancer was cured with a pill, forever, the total revenue from curing cancer is pill sales price * people born, which would be less than current treatment costs.

Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness isn't such a bad idea.
From Wikipedia:

Ponzi's original scheme was based on the arbitrage of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors' money to make payments to earlier investors and himself.
...

The profit that could be made by taking advantage of the differing postal rates in different countries to buy IRCs cheaply in one country and exchange them for stamps of a higher value in another country was the intended profit generator for a scheme operated by Charles Ponzi, which became the fraudulent Ponzi scheme.
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I'm saddened by this. I'm a heavy user of Telegram, and i think it's in many respects superior to WhatsApp and iMessage. The weird stance on cryptography is such a shame.
Wouldn't that mean that on any road which carries large trucks, the damage done by cars is completely irrelevant no matter what their size?
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You can save a lot of space by using a "reader-view" version of the webpage.
Keep your code sane with clang-tidy – Daniel Jasper
> Wasn't it Bosch that recommended to VW that this is a bad idea. So Bosch is not all together innocent.

Emissions are a function of the software configuration of the engine, and engines can be tuned based on the needs of the vehicle they're put in. Bosch having built in that flexibility is what'd be expected from them, I don't see why they'd be at fault for a manufacturer misusing it and misrepresenting the profile they've set up.
5 Minutes Early Is on Time; on Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable
Given how many useless stickers I've been given at conferences this might go on for quite a while.
Lately every Mac user in my office has had massive issues with Skype. It has become a horribly unstable application in the last few months. We absolutely cannot rely on it for communications anymore.
A few annoyances though, if you click play on the audio clip and scroll down, the audio clip stops.

Because obviously you can't read and listen at the same time, as any wife knows.

But these interactive stories are definitely getting better.
Anonymous Just Declared War Against Donald Trump #OpTrump
That's pretty cool. Of course I know that it's just standard NFC, but still neat to hear about it working that way.

Meanwhile in the states, some idiot retailers actually shut off their NFC readers because they didn't want to support Apple Pay.
Eight reasons CSS transitions are the absolute worst
One Dimensional Clustering in Postgres
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Typical complaint about tall buildings

The other option is to follow Dublin's model where height is severely limited and companies can't find office space?
The regulations have increased heavily in recent years. E.g. near the U.S. and Europe. It's not just close to port anymore. See e.g. http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/shippers-brace-low-sulfur-f... for details.

Small quote from the article:

Maersk Line CEO Soren Skou said in a Copenhagen
presentation yesterday that lower sulphur fuel was more
expensive and would increase the carrier’s bunker cost by
estimated $200 million a year.

That additional 200 MUSD/year is just for the stricter rules in Europe.

You can save a massive amount of money by "ignoring" these rules. Meaning: unless it is checked, there is a huge risk of unfair competition between companies which abide by the rules and companies which do not. Especially if a company is in difficult times it needs to be checked carefully.

You'll notice that the bigger companies are ok with such rules, as long as it applies to everyone and is checked thoroughly.
Ships' engines are amazing, but heavy fuel oil is really really gross stuff. It's basically all the bits of the barrel that are left after distillation. Ie what they've dug out of the ground but can't sell off for more money as aviation fuel, gasoline, diesel etc. Therefore it has really high sulphur content and very long/complex hydrocarbon chains that burn much less efficiently than gasoline or diesel.
Traits of a good trader part 1
A "certain famous bank" got away with no criminal indictments, after having committed all sort of crimes, including recycling money for drug cartels.

It's been publicly stated that (cough cough) if such bank would have lost the license, it would have been too much of a big hit for the economy (cough cough).

So, to say that regulators "can" shut a bank down in a minute is true, but disingenuous to say the least.
NOx is produced by dissociating N2 (primary component of air) which then recombines with O2 (secondary component of air). The engine does do more with a smaller amount of fuel, but a side-effect is to crack N2 and have it recombined with the leftover O2. Furthermore, dissociating N2 occurs at high temperature and pressure (which is why that happens significantly more in diesel engines than in gasoline engines), and the higher a diesel engine's efficiency... the hotter it runs, increasing the dissociation rate of N2 and thus the production of NOx.
Yellow journalism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism ) has been around for a long time. Its rise on the internet should probably have been expected. I don't know how it will be resolved, but until the money doesn't flow to the "first and most" eyeballs I suspect we'll have to put up with it.
So pill will disrupt treatment market, like Red Hat disrupted Unix market. Free market encourages such efficiency.
Why would anyone consider step away from GA? Why did we?
> Nice nickname btw. Is it from Captain Grant's Children

Yeap :)
> It's just that you have defined the word "utility" to exclude some of the things it means to certain philosophers.

On the contrary. I pointed out the previous commenter's hidden assumption that "it works" equals "it is valuable". If you believe they are equal, you need to justify your belief. I also pointed out that "it works" most certainly is not equal to "we know", unless you have a good justification to believe that this is the case. The goal of philosophy is to uncover hidden assumptions and question them.
I suspect you're right, sadly. The reason it is especially likely is because of the same laws that allow you have your gun.

The chances of someone being armed and dangerous in general goes way up.
Wow, are you using the over-ear (QC25) or in-ears (QC20)? While most of my colleagues are using the over-ears, I'm using the in-ears and I am really curious about the durability of the whole thing. The cable going from the 'noise cancelling unit' to your pc/phone feels a bit thin, and you'll have to bend it to put it in it's pouch. Doesn't feel right.

Overall both versions feels pretty durable, but with you already on your 3rd pair, I'm curious how this will work out for us!
You did manage to calculate your age though. You either knew your birth date and substracted it from the current date, or you remembered your age and added 1 every time your birthday came up. Either of these methods requires knowing some math.
HGVs already pay annual vehicle tax based on their mass, whether it has "road-friendly suspension" and the number of axles. See page 3 of this document:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

(Edit: I should say ... in the UK. No idea about other EU countries)
Don’t buy a new gadget before reading this
The Automotive engineering culture is very much an optimising one - constantly squeezing to reduce R&D lead times and engineering costs to somewhere just below the bare minimum. This works fine when it is balanced by objective measures of quality, so you know when the job is done and when you are being lied to, but as complexity increases, so the risk of operational ignorance and plain-old self-deception proliferate.

The more complex the system, the greater the reliance upon the integrity and professional ethics of the engineers working on it, and on the correct functioning and sophistication of the checks-and-balances within the organisation.
"The only alternative explanation (and one that is even more worrisome) is that the entire compliance department and the entire management of VW were so dangerously incompetent that they allowed a situation like this to come into being, exist for several years and required an outside party to bring to light."

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

That being said, it really doesn't matter if it was on purpose or on accident, both indicate a company which should not be able to sell cars in the U.S. There are plenty of other cars to choose from.
That moment you see this and then wonder where your pile of stickers went.
Quite we are the ones with our noses pressed against the window pane :-)

In London take a walk in the inns of fields (compare it to old street) and you will see the massive gap between lawyers and techies.
> compliance department...

Right. You know who else has compliance departments? Financial institutions. Did any of those prevent or foresee or had any clue at all about the financial crisis? Nope.

You know why? Because compliance departments don't have teeth.

In an ideal world, compliance departments should be staffed with asshole anal geniuses.

In reality, they are staffed with dopes and yes-men.

They shuffle papers and cover themselves, asking questions such as "are you following rule A and B as stated above"? and all you need to do to get them of your back is answer "yes".

They never have any further question because they're not sure about what the regulation actually says and they fear you'll find out if they start to dig deeper.