skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The structure of the US government has an unusually high number of veto points. Presidents have, as opposed to similar positions in other countries, much less power to push their agenda.

Actually the opposite is true. In many (Western) countries the head of state has zero actual power. The US president has some actual power, e.g. limited veto right on bills.
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My first association with South Africa gamedev is great tutorials for computer graphics by Denthor of ASPHYXIA [1]

It was one of the few free resources on this subject I could find at the time, and I am forever grateful.

[1] http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/articles/articl...
Great work.
I may be doing something wrong, but it says "message wasn't encrypted for any of your known keys".
"You need smart people for that, though."

Why do you think an entire state lacks intelligent people?
Click on the link on the top right of the page to see. C/P'd for convenience:

This graph shows the sentiment of tweets about Bernie, Hillary and Trump over time.
The location of the line along the y-axis shows the average positivity (or negativity) of tweets about each candidate.
The width of each line shows the volume of tweets (thicker line = more tweets).
Sentiment analysis is done via Indico’s API, which is awesome.
Tweets are streamed via Twitter’s Streaming API, because obviously.
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Added my mail just for this :) can you spare an invite? Thanks :)
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You Arbitrarily Detained yourself mate: The Guardian view on Assange's UN appeal
Can't really blame them for trying to diversify their suppliers.
http://github.com/weaveworks/weave enables multicast between containers (and many other things besides).
We have tried out plastic but lost our changes on a few occusions because the tool came to a state where you simply couldnt merge. Stashing in those cases also failed. It was terrible. Losing your changes should never ever happen especially for a quite pricy solution.

We are now using git lfs which so far works like a charm.
Somebody has to provide business for all those lawyers sending notices to small site owners. Soon Getty will be able to sue not only for having an Awkward Penguin meme on your site [1], but also for linking to any social media site that might have images of Awkward Penguin on it.

[1] https://www.getdigital.de/blog/getty-images-wants-license-fe...
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Thank you for this, I have a large client where we were considering DigitalOcean and the yearly spend could easily be in the thousands. Now I'll strike them off of the list. Automated deletion of VM's and backups, absolutely unacceptable.

The VM hosting market isn't looking good at the moment, seems like each provider has some dark history at this point, it's really frustrating.
Can you comment on the problems you ran into with LFS?
Pretty sorry execution of the usability tests I'd say. Isn't quality of the sign one of the most obvious factors to consider?
I wonder if they only tested in perfect weather conditions, too.

I guess I get a decent example for confounding variables for our intro material out of this so there's that.
I can't imagine having a different brand of computer, but there are lots of OSX bugs that cause my teeth to grind. The Finder doesn't remember that I only want one layout ever, and it resets to a random alternative setting regularly.
There are still progress bars that pop over, and can't be hidden.
The data display which shows used disk space and it is nearly all "other" is a bug as far as I'm concerned.
My AppleTV(8) has stopped incrementing itself, but its not ideal.
And as a genuine question, has anyone not had strange Xcode behaviour or crashes at least once per day? I currently have a slow motion simulator that changes views over 5-10ish seconds.
Very intriguing, but I think I want to see some replication. Some blind tests with amputees where the EM field is turned on and off at random should be fairly easy to set up. In the past tests with "allergic to EM" people have always been consistent with the null hypothesis, but I don't believe any of them were amputees.
This looks interesting.
It's "funny" yesterday RKT made the announcement of their version 1.0 (with emphasis on security) and today we have 2 news about Docker at the top of HN with your comment about security.
I would guess that Mastercard played a big part in this. They have been ahead of the API game compared to Visa for a few years now.
Wikileaks' Julian Assange is arbitrarily detained, UN panel finds
Yes, and Tor :)
I wish they would focus on releasing more documents instead of navel gazing...
Startups in Italy, an Analysis from Chamber of Commerce Data
Has anyone got any invitations please? My email is in my profile.
Weird that they would do that with this sort of site. Weirder still, there's a tiny link in the footer which takes you to the actual content (https://www.crayon.co/f/), which you can look at a for a second or two, or until you scroll or something, until an annoying signup modal appears. Said modal can of course be trivially banished by editing the DOM (or with a single line of JavaScript).
I assumed that the travel referred to dangerous parts of the web.
Is the older version of the site available anywhere? I actually prefer the larger text and greater use of screen width. The 2.0 version of the site is a bit hard on the eyes for me (feels cramped and small).
Yes, it's truly a polite understatement to call it a "horrific embarrassment". In a reasonable world, many of our software projects would center on the entire countries of people running away from the carnage our murderous rampage caused, what with the inevitable militias fighting over the remains.

But of course refugees are not known for having the social status points we call "money" and obsess over, so the vast majority of us instead work to improve some dude's social point score. Truly a silly system.
Spideroak can do it without private keys to back up.
> We've spent thousands of dollars with them.

That's a decent amount of money right? It sounds like they were not using the $5 plans.
Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes to Fight Disease Is Probably a Bad Idea
>>a book she’s publishing to accompany the exhibit includes her journal from the height of that surveillance, recording her first-person experience of becoming a spying subject, along with her inner monologue as she first corresponded with the secret NSA leaker she then knew only as “Citizenfour.”

> That line really highlighted the fallacy that "mass surveillance is effective" for me.

Ohh it is so much worse than that. For me eye opening moment was CCC 2015 talk "What does Big Brother see, while he is watching?".

The main takeaway. People engaged in surveillance are not "evil", "villainous", "dark", "shadowy" or "dangerous", or even "malicious". They are bunch of very sad, very pathetic wankers. Their job has less meaning than any other job I can think of. (Even TSA airport checks may be more meaningful)

This is a powerful talk. And it frames global surveillance just as it should be framed. As a waste of money, people going through soul killing, democracy killing, privacy killing motions. Without any chance of getting closer to declared goal, using methodology that if anything, hurts their declared goals.

Unless their real goal is control! But in such case they should be called out on that and de-funded.
My prediction: zero of these companies will be around in five years. Gelzen has the best product and is a nice idea, but the material it's replacing is literally waste material from industrial process. Koniku's claim to be the only chip with neurons is flat out false, I can order assays on a multiplexed chip directly reading out electrical impulses from cultured neurons, been on the market for nearly half a decade now.

Myi might have interesting tech, because I trust their cto... But I'm honestly not sure about the other folks involved, in any case diagnostics is going to be very very hard in the next few years.
That is pretty strange considering it would be trivial to set up an android emulator in the pc app and run everything the phone can.
Hard to see how this will have better luck than the last X iterations of this "Uber" for cleaners idea...
Technical means are not enough. We need political change.
Realised my email actually wasn't in my profile :O still hanging out for an invite though
Offsite backups? We use AWS and DO to host applications for our clients. We still take offsite backups. Isn't that what your clients paying you for?
There is a good series of stories by members of the Mac team tagged, "Reality Distortion" from "Revolution in the Valley" ~ http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&top...

Of the stories I like this one, "Reality Distortion Field" by Andy Hertzfeld ~ http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Disagree. Very embarrassing mistake. Also very embarrassing that this wasn't caught by whoever signed off on replacing signs (but not surprising, I doubt those studies are read in detail often and people probably only browse the intro and conclusions).

Basically a "you failed science 101" level of embarrassment mistake in my estimation.
Testing two brand new signs with the different fonts should be a fairly obvious first idea.
The hard/interesting part is taking into account learning effects for the previous font. There's a pretty interesting research question in how you'd age signs in there as well (as you want to know if the gains are positive over the entire lifetime of the sign) and some interesting ethics questions about field testing.
Sounds interesting. Alas, the last sentence has triggered a Cobra Effect alert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
The perfect game for perfectionists. I think you would have to be one to find this fun (as I did).
According to me DO is still a good hosting company. Works good for the price you pay. Taking offsite backups is always a good idea.
These are possibly real, though recycled from Homejoy (not that that would make it any better).
You can display hearts on the photos by going to the view menu! (As well as titles if they exist, the file format, …) That info is overlaid!

(I also think it’s entirely reasonable to only have the thumbnail bar for photo navigation. I think the one in iPhoto worked exactly the same? It just maybe wasn’t displayed by default? If you give it all the functionality of all the other views there are consequences to that, knock on effects. For example, which image should be displayed enlarged if you select more than one in the bar? Keeping it simple keeps it simple.)
It turns out that all that research suggesting the new font might be more legible was more due to the fact that older, worn signs were being replaced with nice, fresh, clean signs which were, naturally, more legible.

That's not super correct, I don't think. They researched this and documented it quite well[1], it also seems to be independently researched in this book I couldn't imagine anyone ever read[2] about traffic fonts. Also, that source[2] cites like 3 studies of independent people researching this topic over like a 6 year period.

It also seems that this report 'proving' errors in the testing methodology is not released yet. So, like what the fuck? These dudes(they were all men) spend some time researching various methodologies for developing roadway font, which is probably extremely dull, and then they incorporate their results into a font sepcifically for roadways and the government says it is not effective?

That's cool, the font is like 175 - 800 bucks per jurisdiction, just say you don't want to pay. I mean, this is a massive taxpayer expense probably on par with the rusting helicopters and power plant that can't function we built in Iraq(saw that shit on Vice). Also, publicly call these guys morons and don't release the results. Classy.

[1]http://clearviewhwy.com/ResearchAndDesign/_articles/TRB_Pape...
[2]https://books.google.com/books?id=iFCZ53i5XXgC&pg=PA126&hl=e...
If anyone else wants an invite, I have a few left: email in profile.
Is there supposed to be a free book here? The page doesn't work on mobile; I zoom in and a rectangle on the left pointlessly expands, covering the screen.
If you think that it was bad when they removed features from iPhoto, then I'd hate to think what you thought when they removed features from Numbers!
It depends greatly on the shape of your data, but with regularly spaced timestamps at second level precision and float64s, we’ve seen compression reduce each point down to around 2.2 bytes per point.

AFAIK you're using float64 compression scheme from "Gorilla" paper. 2.2 bytes per data point is possible with it but only on data that doesn't utilize full double precision (example: small integers converted to float64). You should compare compression algorithm used by TSM storage engine with zlib or any other general purpose compression algorithm, otherwise this number will be meaningless.
- Don't worry about extensibility and configurability.

- Use sane defaults.

- Treat bad documentation as a blocking bug.

- The tool you look for probably exists already and it's not going to get better just because you rewrite it Rust / Go / Node.

- Abstraction should make things easier. Abstraction for the sake of abstraction is obfuscation.
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The Art of ‘The Witness’ – Art of Luis
Tu Soch Na Sake Unplugged by Mosam
I've whitelisted all the JavaScript on the site and now an additional annoying box with "keep in touch" is floating over the centre of the page, and if I scroll the page underneath up and down so that the box doesn't cover it I can see "content not available". Is this your first site?
You're more than welcome, glad that you might find this useful. Hope this HELPS "stabilise" things ;)
gold, pure gold :D
Mozumder must get his info from reality TV shows. Pity there aren't any featuring petroleum engineers. I guess smart people doing technical work without causing problems isn't good TV.

His attitude is a pretty typical thing that comes from coastal urbanites who think they know what's best for rural America without ever setting foot here.
Intern in Africa with Zidisha (YC 14 Nonprofit)
Honest question -- Is anyone at YC still in regular contact with the Cheungs? They seem to be embarrassing themselves with these repeated attempts. When Homejoy shut down, I still had a lot of respect for what they built. Now, if I were a prospective investor in one of their future ventures, I would have serious doubts about their judgment.
Wow .. just wow.

I am actually interested in 3D. What does it take to get to this level of expertise to create something like this ? I have just heard of shaders and all but no idea how to approach it. Any recommendations ?
I'm also concerned about updates. For instance, I'm currrently having to route all my iPad web traffic via Charles proxy to remove any instances of style="overflow:hidden;" in a body tag are cleared out.

Why? Because in iOS 9.2 Apple released it with a bug that causes the viewport to zoom incorrectly on these web pages. This affects LibreOffice's OpenGrok, which I browsed regularly on my iPad.

They still haven't fixed this, and it's a major regression. iOS updates are few and infrequent. Consequently I'm seriously questioning what their updates actually do to my iPad and iPhone.
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The Malware Museum
You're getting downvoted because you're being snarky and condescending for no obvious reason. Outdoorsman's post was on-topic and I have no idea why you've taken offense to it.
I agree, the FHWA’s claims are highly suspect.

They should release their supposed evidence, or come clean about their real reasoning. I’m also guessing the price is the main issue. But that seems pretty ridiculous; it’s a relative pittance compared to the overall cost of signage. That or someone in charge really prefers the older typeface.
Yeah. The last sentence made me thing the whole bit was satire, and now I'm just confused.
That's interesting because 'back in the day' the IT department accidentally installed safari on my win XP box and as a long time mac user I thought 'finally some font rendering done right'. I guess it's down to taste or it perhaps it didn't work well for screens with low pixel density or people who like really small text and ui settings.
Which VR headset do you think you will buy in 2016?
how about including ben carson, ted cruz and few others?
> The main benefit of running is the fact that you reach your destination faster and have more time to dry

Bonus marks for considering ecological validity
We can't keep reasoning about digital age by way of pre-digital-age analogies. The first internet pioneers have died of old age now.

It's time to stop assuming courts and lawmakers are incapable of understanding technology without brick & mortar analogies. Hyperlinks are like hyperlinks, not like phone book entries, and courts will have to rule about lawsuits like these.
What was mostly on GWB's watch?

The parent doesn't imply that Obama was president when events in the article took place.

Also; Trump 2016. Make America Great Again.
Thanks, I've been on HN for a while (most of the time without having an account, due to a quirk of HN's signup process) but never figured out how to link to users. Glad to finally know.
Wouldn't that break the terms of the treaty? I presume that breaking the treaty either has a direct penalty or you're just kicked out entirely. If you're kicked out entirely, that changes the trade structure that your economy has adapted to over the time the treaty was in place. You'll face serious opposition from businesses that have grown to depend on those new trade arrangements.

Local laws can be adapted piecemeal, but my understanding is that a treaty like this is all or nothing.
In the context of football?
I wonder what sort of data you're storing with that reduction? I'm using it as a drop-in replacement for Graphite (with Grafana as a front-end, loving both BTW) and just had disk space reduced from 140GB to 250MB :D
She sleeps badly, plagued with nightmares about the American government. She reads Cory Doctorow’s Homeland and re-reads 1984, finding too many parallels with her own life., the psychological aspect is very troubling. A government state doesn't actually have to put you under constant surveillance, they just have to make you think you're under constant surveillance.

The unintended consequence of the surveillance may have hardened her resolve to be a privacy advocate, but it certainly didn't do her mental health much good.
If we can find "why" we go to all these apps/websites, then we can find a solution by ourselves by satisfying the "why" with some other one which can improve our skills (or any other desired quality)

For example, if we always check emails just to see how many new-emails we have got, so that we can act on them asap, Its a good case as its going to improve our productivity and time-to-respond lower.

Another example, if we always check fb to see what other people's activities are. Well, we can turn this around and make us the person who is doing lots of personal activities (outside of internet domain) and posting it to facebook (may be weekly), or restrict it to closer pals/family.

Personally, if we interact more with Nature around us, it feels great.

Restrict the use of these "virtual" worlds and try to participate more with the world around us. Instead of posting a message on facebook, may be call your best friends and say hi. Its million times better than seeing 1 like for the post in the virtual world.
The thickness of the line would be better used to show the standard deviation of the sentiment score?
Release notes are a waste of development time, so let’s ditch them
This is awesome!

Knowing nothing about this space, is there already a program that uses (wave based) sound simulation to allow music programming in an arbitrary 3d environment? This could go beyond mono and stereo :)
Visa developer – An API for every payment need
"Listen to the system". When I'm debugging, I always being all kinds of preconceptions about possible root causes to any issue. Those preconceptions often stop me reading and understanding error messages properly. So I take a deep breath, and try to really read the error messages, and listen to what the system is telling me.
Thanks for chiming in, I always value your input, and my disposition is usually in sync with your views. I suppose that I don't actually see you as a contrarian - your views just often run counter to the more popular opinions on HN.
Yep - premature abstraction is just as bad as premature optimisation.
Not storing files locally sounds like a good idea at first - you don't have any syncing issues. But nobody has a perfect always-on internet connection. Having files local is worth the occasional sync cockup.
Nonesense - The whole point of this tech is to eliminate air drag??
Initial idea is that some air is left in tubes, because it's easier than creating a complete vacuum and the small amount of air can help lift the pods or train.
Longer term less air more vacuum better maglev - allows UNLIMITED speed ie we're talking 20,000 kph + .
Energy efficiency vastly improvement since for high speed trains 95 % required to overcome drag.
This would of course revolutionise transport - will require a new paradigm of construction and manufacturing based on just using robots and software, I think we're close to a tipping point that will realise this sooner than most expect, probaly within 25 years.
2. Groovy's stack traces are the joke of the JVM community. It's not easy to debug at all.

5. Grails adoption is tumbling. Not many places are starting new projects in Grails, or even upgrading from 2.x to 3.
Heads Up Maths is so much fun now
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> Dual monitors in the mid-80's.

I had that on my II+. Motherboard would drive the modified 16" TV (40 column, graphics) and a Videx Videoterm-like card would drive the monochrome monitor with beautiful (for the time) text.

I remember that in the late 80's I started seeing MDA/CGA hybrids that would drive MDA monitors with CGA-compatible text modes with MDA-like fonts and PWM grays. By then I was getting used and their ugliness no longer offended me.
"Evenly distribute complexity". This is hard to do. As a new codebase takes shape it is hopefully well modularised. But inevitably there will be one or two modules that become knotty concentrations of complexity. The form of the code is telling you something about your analysis of the problem space.
> Why do so many C# coders use #region/#endregion?

I also don't like it.

It gets even worse when the solutions are configured to collapse regions by default.

Also Apple is doing the same with regions for Objective-C and Swift.
You don't need to browse the filesystem when you have an IDE.
To give you a counter-anecdote, I use macbooks in work. For the last five years, I've had two hardware failures and gray screens maybe once every four months.
In addition to that, I have issues maybe once a month where the machine more or less locks up (from the logs it looks like windowserver/loginwindow has crashed and OS X is trying to do spindump to them).

Compare that with the _desktop_ Windows 7 machine. It first crashed intermittently (memory failures), but after I changed the motherboard, it has not crashed at all. But then again, I am not using, for example, the most cutting-edge graphic drivers.

I remember quite some crashes during the Windows XP times, but I've since taken a more conservative approach to hardware and drivers.
Because making a new account is oh, so difficult... ffs
UN panel urges UK and Sweden to end Julian Assange's 'deprivation of liberty'
Honest question: What's wrong with how they do it? I'm coming from the "cloud / big data" side of things, I suppose.

Guess: Low utilization? I imagine they the demand to run jobs is very spiky (i.e. right before a paper deadline), but if you manually/statically allocate machines, then machines will sit idle and your utilization will be kinda low.

And perhaps poor reproducibility, although I don't think "big data" style pipelines are all that much better.