skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! For those that don't know, Kim Schmitz / Kimble(now Dotcom), sold out his fellow warez peers to the copyright lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth. Like the wild West he was supposedly paid per head.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/where-k...

Not mentioned in the article is his involvement in the AT&T calling card fraud conspiracy (estimated losses $20 million) in the early '90's. It is that case that put him on the US Secret Service's radar and he's been on it ever since.
I did a quick Google search and found this article [1] ... I recall seeing a website that was listing Blu-ray titles with true-1080p but I can't find it right now. Cable does something similar by highly compressing HD content.

1. http://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/many-blu-rays-no-...
If he didn't really believe what he was saying, he wouldn't have bet such a large amount of money on it. There is no reason to believe he is lying. Whether he is correct is another matter, but he's not "working for/against" anything, he's just stating his actual opinion.
Have you got any sources on that? First of all I haven't met many people that favour leaving the EU. And what is the tory position on it? I thought they were in favour of a referendum but largely also in favour of voting to remain in the EU (at least Cameron supposedly is).
Why are European profits declared in Ireland untaxed? I don't understand that part
How do they show it? I live in Poland and I don't see it (though I am biased, I like the idea of unification and I wouldn't mind Europe's nation states turning into simple states).
Labour is slowly turning itself into that party.
> What makes you think he wants the EU to collapse?

Probably his shorts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
Not on iOS. It's not Signal's fault that Android permissions are a mess. Google has no interest in providing good privacy to their customers. They only want to appear to provide privacy. In reality, they want to know everything there is to know about everything and everyone. To improve their service, of course...
Oh man, I forgot about sprites and resources! Those were so nice to deal with.

I hear that the current dev builds of GWT support Java 8 syntax, and last I checked I saw quite a few Google developers still working on to to add some much improved JavaScript interop. So although it hasn't gained huge mindshare, it at least looks like it is far from dead.

Checking it out for a side project sounds like a really good idea.
EU is in a risky position, but the article seems to only tangentially mention the main problem: shared money without a proper merging of monetary policy. The 5 trillion euro bank bailout abused Greece with idiotic austerity policies a left quite a few countries (France in particular) with banks that are leveraged many times larger than their host country's GDP.

Mark Blyth[1] has a very good explanation[2] of this mess that covers a lot of the history. More recently, his analysis has unfortunately changed for the worse[3]. We find ourselves in a precarious situation on both sides of the Atlantic, and I hope we can find enough good men willing to actually do something about these problems; if instead we do nothing and let the profiteering and institutional corruption continue to grow, some sort of collapse seems inevitable.

[1] Econ professor at Brown University.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=674

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fP6YSCpm8g
For now maybe, but as we've seen with most LED lighting, the trend is to incorporate ASICs into the LED packages. So Lumiled's products would presumably be capable of all kinds of interesting things. If not immediately, than in a year or two.
Why I love hacking at LibreOffice
Well quite a few states are heavily indebted. While many if not the majority have balanced budget rules they and the cities circumvented fiscal responsibility by making out too many promises to government and union retirement programs. That is their real time bomb and quite a few states are/will be in the same boat as Greece when time comes to pay up
> central government is corrupt

Yeah, not like regional governments at all, specially Catalonia and Andalusia.

> and incompetent.

Can't argue with that. After 4 years of the worst of a cuckservative government we're ready to jump from the frying pan into the fire now.
You're forgetting about the competition. If AOL had had an even larger market share, they could potentially been more attractive than the internet.
Comparatively in terms of size of the commitment you example would be more like an accountant telling Google that they could make big savings if they moved 10k employees across to a tax haven.

A better comparison for what is happening would be your accountant telling you you could pay them 1% of your yearly earnings extra and they could set you up to save many times that in tax.
>> "We have worked very very hard to end poverty and everything else that leads to crime during decades"

Have you? What have YOU done besides be born in the right country? Put yourself on the other side of it. What if you'd be born in Syria and had a lovely life until all hell broke loose a few years ago? Would you be fighting ISIS? Fighting Assad? Or would you be begging EU states to let you in?
The situation in Europe now reminds me a lot of the situation of Italy and Germany before their own unifications: for external powers, it was easy enough to stoke up rivalries between the various statelets, and push even the most successful around. Without the EU, this is the future I see for us: as difficult as it can be to unite a continent which lacks a common language, the alternative is to become irrelevant on the world stage - and the world market.
Are their any good examples of large multinationals who have taken a stance similar to this?
Greece has consistently received at least 2% net of their GNI each year in subsidies from EU since 2000. This is investment in Greece with EU fees removed. (EL is Greece in the data below).

Germany consistently operated at a net deficit of 6-8 B euro/year in terms of EU fees vs EU investment in Germany.

That same wealth transfer is taking place in the EU as well. Not on the same scale possibly, but it certainly takes place.

Greece's 6B net gain in 2008 makes up 1/9th of their total welfare spend in 2009 for instance (56B).

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/financialreport/2014/annex/3/inde...

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SOCX_AGG

I agree that it was not a good move to join the currency union for Greece. That was a bad choice by Greece, and a greedy move to manage finances short term with artificially cheap borrowing.
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Add-On Signing which can be automated does provide very little added security for the user, and just serves as a big pain the butt for everyone else involved.

I'm routinely questioned to do support for users, and I find malware extensions regularly installed in Chrome which has even stricter requirements. The other day I found a laptop with one extension that redirected google.com to a scraper. Chrome did EVEN include a drop-down warning just below the URL bar that the homepage was being currently redirected by an add-on. Did the user notice? Not a bit.

In fact, Chrome adding a WARNING for it made me feel even more sad: they know this is going on. Is FF going to do the same? If I was an user with an extension that did that for whatever reason I wanted, I would be furious as hell to see an added warning which I need to disable (IF possible), and that will be ignored by most users anyway.

Malware developers will just get by faster, so Mozilla will not be able to keep up with the list of addons to blacklist. At the same time, initial approvals for legitimate addons will get slower. Reporting issues with Addons is clearly insufficient as Chrome Store demonstrates. In fact, I'm also NOT ok with the idea that extensions can be blacklisted at all, in spite of that "added security" aura around it. By the same logic, if extensions are required to be signed, then blacklisting (and blacklisting updates) shouldn't be allowed to be disabled.

And, let's remind ourselves, that most of the extensions I've seen installed were side-loaded with other software (with "extras") that was installed in the system with the same privileges of the browsers. So really, I do expect malware to simply patch the FF binary to either disable the check or change the public key, or change it entirely with a patched version.

I do not support walled gardens of any kind.
Use a fork.
I would love that the site / domain specific xpath recipes were available as a separate repository, with all the usual community / ugc shebang.

I have been using wallabag recipes for a while, saving an otherwise expensive diffbot subscription.
Include-what-you-use: Clang tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files
I think the fundamental problem with the European Union is the way it's organized and governed.

The reason we don't see a wholly European solution to many of these problems is due to the fact that the decision making progress is functionally biased towards each of the member's states unique interests.

The most important institution we have in Europe is, in my opinion, the European Parliament. It is designed in a way that ensures fair representation of all countries and at the same time enables us to pass legislation for which there is collective support. Its members are elected directly by the people in the European elections, which are separate from national elections, for obvious reasons.

All of this, however, is subverted by the existence of the European Council as well as the Council of the European Union (yes, the naming is a bit confusing). Their members are respectively the 28 heads of state of each EU country and members of their government.

This means that, while the European Parliament is elected with the express purpose of dealing with EU law, the European Council and the Council of the European Union are fruit of very different elections and because of that, they are bound to put their national interests first, since they might lose votes at the national level otherwise.

In my opinion, the European Council and the Council of the European Union should be replaced by a body elected directly by either the European Parliament, or in some way, the European population.
> Even if you encrypt your email, the subject line is not encrypted

Ouch, some people are going to get bitten by this...
There is still a lot of manual work in final car assembly.
Anonymous messaging app Blindspot
OK, I think it's a misunderstanding.
Self-explanatory refers to the use of object that is designed. It needs no explanation. How to ride a bicycle is pretty self-explanatory (even if it's not trivial to learn).

The design of a bicycle however is not obvious.
Not yet (well, the HN html code is really dirty, so that explains why it fails to grab content). We'll try fixing this.
I agree with you. What you call Voxels ARE indeed the voxels.
> I also appreciate her refugee policy. My grandparents (like many's) were refugees in WWII. I think it came from a genuine place of human solidarity.

You've made a very serious mistake, and that's to think that all peoples are the same.

It's beautiful think that religion, race and culture don't matter, but that's simply wrong as a matter of fact, and we're going to learn it the hard way.

> I hope it doesn't sting Germany too badly.

I think a few German women have been stung already. Not that the TPTB had any intention of letting us know.
[NSFW] PictureSwap: Exchange pictures with random strangers
Locking is cheap, switching a pointer around is cheap. The only expensive thing is waking up a thread that is waiting on a lock. Spinlocks avoid that problem, which is why they outperform other implementations in terms of throughput (of course inversely proportional to the amount of work you do during a lock).

Atomic operations have a fixed cost. Spinlocks only really have a cost when contention is high. When you're just moving a pointer to another place, you're not likely to have that much contention to make atomic operations worth it.
The requirement of a phone number is strange and disconcerting from a privacy standpoint. It is a red flag for me.

A well-designed encrypted chat-protocol should work on any modern networked computing device, not just smartphones or computing devices linked to a smartphone.
It's interesting that you say that the weaker states never should have agreed, while in the stronger states (I live in one), the opposite is the current opinion. Maybe everyone agrees on this point? I think that is the case: now (!) everybody agrees that this was a stupid scenario.

On the other hand, where would we have been without the euro? Would it have been any better? I am not so sure.

And in the EU the richer states do support the poorer ones, but since long especially the UK opposes this. They don't see the benefit. I think it's well worth the money, even with the Greek. We cannot abandon them, and it would be a major political stupidity to do so, with Turkey and Russia going the wrong way. I think - in the end - all political leaders of importance will agree with this.

In Greece, the problem is corruption. It will be an uggly fight to turn this around. I hope this is that fight, because otherwise it's all for nothing, or it's only for the EU. I sincerely hope they can get rid of corruption, because it will make their life in the end a lot better. For now it's lots of misery though.
They thought everyone would go nuts over the guy with the mask. They didn't understand that the mask was only a small part of what made Darth Vader such an amazing character.
Boy's rendition of Justin Bieber's Beauty and a Beat using only recycled cans
But... isn't _Generic part of C11, not C99? You actually require C11. Big difference.
TrumpScript – make Python great again
This is what happens with most Product Hunt launches
Blue Origin has absolutely no intention, zero, nada, nil, to scale this.
Stockholm first city to get mobile 5G network in 2018
> but whether it's a fair deal to put in risk our well-being and security in our own countries to keep them here.

Some days it looks like Western European people just have some suicidal genetic predisposition to pathologic altruism.

Or maybe it's just decades of indoctrination. Thankfully even if they control traditional media and official education we have the internet now to form our own opinions.
Clearly Pro EU work like handing out guides to immigration to people in the Middle East and inviting millions to come over here.

We are all very happy about that here in the EU! There have been more than 800 arson attacks on refugee homes in Germany alone in the last year.

One more summer like this and you're going to regularly see German mobs beating up random Arab looking persons on the street.
Yes a noble sentiment. Let's shove stuff down people's throats for greater good.

Let me ask you a simple question - who gets to decide what stuff should or should not be shoved down people's throats?

Because it may so transpire that you might find yourself quite soon in a position where you are going to say: "To save this village and its villagers we have to slay everybody and burn it to the ground."
https://startpage.com/do/search?query=ssh+two+factor+sms turns up Authy as the first hit.
I think jlgaddis assumed that you will get some sales-rep to speak to him.
Umm.. wouldn't it be better (for the environment) if you just donate the CPU time to folding@home or similar thing and they would certify that you donated?

I think someone suggested there already is a cryptocurrency like that.
Oops.

You're absolutely right it's C11.
Presenting the Challenge of Authenticity
I'm in the UK (hence the reference to National Insurance). The (roughly) equivalent legislation here is IR35 [1]. But it's not too onerous and there are plenty of people who successfully pay fairly minimal tax while complying with IR35.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ir35-find-out-if-it-applies
Adaptogen Science
A more fitting title for the article could be, "Building your MVP the right way."

The whole point of an MVP is to avoid spending time and other resources building stuff no one wants or the wrong solution to problems.

Therefore the article is a cheat sheet to lean thinking.

1. Draw a mockup, Table of content, vision statement

2. Talk to the target customer as often as possible to clarify every aspect of what you're building

3. If you want to sell your product, nothing says you're on the right path better than paying customers

4. You shouldn't stop validating decisions after you've hit some success eg. Facebook and Google conduct hundreds of thousands of micro experiments on live users to determine button placements, colour choice, increase sign up rate...

So in summary, don't drop the MVP mindset when you hit some level of success. Fail fast, and more importantly, fail often. Be a scientist.
How to use MVC with React
Show HN: Interactive geographic quiz
I'm dense. Why is it less effective to choose the midpoint fraction and more effective to choose with the Stern-Brocot tree? Is it just the growth/storage or are there other issues too?
I'm not terribly interested in the views of a billionaire investor on the EU.
I have to say though that I searched for the original interview in Wirtschaftswoche and Handelsblatt Online. And I did not find words as strong as "on the verge of a collapse". Those articles read "on the future of the EU [he] is pessimistic"

All the same the Schengen treaty is at risk with the current flood of immigrants. [1]

As far as the EU goes: I'm a Dutch citizen. And the NL have a long history of belonging to a coöperation of nations. Just after WWII it founed the BeNeLux. And it was a founding member of the EU later on.
So I lived in a supra-national organisation for as long as I live. And I have to say that when I work here in the NL with people from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, ... I truly feel that we're all Europeans. It's some feeling of shared fate, shared history, shared culture, speaking their languages, intuïtively knowing their characteristic strengths and foibles.
So as far as I'm concerned even if the current EU would fail we'll just start anew with an EU 2.0.
Less expansionist and less idealistic probably. Sadder and wiser surely.
But in my estimation the sense of a shared EU identity has become stronger than even the current vicissitudes or the meddling from billionaire investors.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/dutch-pm-says-r...
Larger market? I think not. The space launch biz is populated by hundreds of different companies, all wanting to spend millions or billions to get a useful sat into orbit. BO is looking to a small group of billionaires with the money to throw 30-50k to spend a few minutes vomiting. And of those, only the ones young enough to participate, a rare thing amongst billionaires.

(1) The launch is not gentle. Everyone will be strapped tightly into chairs, ready for launch escape rocket thrust if necessary.

(2) Time weightless will be measured in minutes, probably less than ten. So nobody is getting out of the chairs. At best they get a few minutes of watching pens hover, unless that is everything has to be secure. In such cases only the vomit will float.

(3) The landing options are not great. Soft if all goes to plan, but parachutes/hard if no. So everyone stays in chairs. No old people and/or heart conditions need apply.

How many people pay to ride the vomit comet every year? How many of them are billionaires? That's BO's market.
I wouldn't disagree on the specifics, but in the round I believe in a tax-funded government. Our county council is closing children's centres, removing rural bus subsidies, cutting back education support, and a thousand other cuts. The more people that avoid tax, the more cuts there'll be.
Man ordered to tell police if he plans to have sex
Yes by a long way. How Andrew didn't get life imprisonment without parole is an indictment on the UK legal system.

He was at least not a scientist [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238354
> In fact, Postgres often requires you to avoid doing OS-level maintenance, because Postgres needs to manage changes on the box itself to be sure its own ACID guarantees are maintained.

Huh? What are you talking about?
I thought that explaining the Born rule is a problem for every interpretation.
Why do so many people on HN think that nothing but logs can allow you to debug very complicated systems? The only type of "log" which might actually help you is a coredump, but what if the bug isn't fatal? What if your software just sucks (is slow or returns an incorrect result)? How are logs going to help you there, for those cases you just need dynamic instrumentation to coerce the system to find out what it's doing at every level of the stack.
They say they don't make connected lighting. Probably true for 99% of their output. But the 'special' LED banks with hostile / surveillance electronics in them, for 'special' customers? Bet they don't show up in the catalogue.
You might like the book "Zen in the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel, first published in 1948 / 1953 (German / English).
I switched to ESR channel (38.5.2) but I don't know how I'm going to use a newer ESR when it moves to a broken release. Too many extensions stop working and XUL extensions are the essence of Firefox. Tried using Chrome but so much of the ux is different or incomplete to a Firefox user that it's impossible to feel at home.
I don't think you've got this quite right. Spinlocks require memory barriers. C11 atomics are, among other things, a standardized way to implement cross platform memory barriers without dropping into platform specific assembly.
> If the US were organized like the EU, several of the states would be heavily indebted and bankrupt, with a third world quality of life, and the financial, industrial, and entertainment centers would be even richer.

Have you ever been to rural Mississippi or West Virginia?

I have, and I've also been to rural areas of the "second class" countries of EU, like Greece and Romania (not to mention pending member states like Bosnia). And it's actually striking how similar they are in terms of economic development. Granted, I still saw some livestock plowing in Romania-not a common sight in the US-but otherwise the poorer states of the US and the poorer nations of the EU are pretty on par. Particularly with respect to dwellings and the frequent lack of many of the accoutrements of what we consider "modern life" (Internet, computers, smart phones).

I'd say the urban areas of the poorer US states are slightly more developed than their counterparts in Romania and Greece, but the rural areas are pretty much on par.

And btw, the governments of those poorer US states are typically fairly cash poor and often indebted, because they have very poor tax bases.

And in terms of government corruption, the two are absolutely on par, I'd say.
They have the EME build for people who don't want the DRM stuff so why can't they just offer a build with unsigned extensions allowed in a similar way?

Yes it gets messy but they are making it so. I don't want to use a non-release (i.e. possibly buggy) version just so I can sideload an unsigned extension.

Just offer a non-front-page build in the same way they do for EME and let's move on to more important things.

Seriously Mozilla waste so much time and energy discussing all this stuff when it is patently obvious what the right thing to do is.
The idea is one-computer, one-vote. This is easy is if you don't also want it to be decentralized.
specific xpath are available here https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config
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