skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can't put any effort into their brand, what makes you think they'll put any effort into their service?
Per capita statistics encourage a false assumption of sharing. It isn't measuring what most people think it is.
The problem with that reasoning is that there's no fundamental law of nature that dictactes what "normal" means; instead there is a complex network of interrelated forces that is itself kind of resilient but whose individual states are very fragile. Under those conditions, it is practically imposible to "go back" after having disrupted the status quo.

On the one hand, there is such thing as supply destruction, oil producers that are marginally profitable and that go out of business if price collapses, taking tons of hard capital (not financial, but equipment, personnel know how, etc). The Saudis are pressumably aware of this and very much doing it on purpose.

The problem is that there also exist demand destruction. Companies that consume energy in large quantities to produce economically useful but expensive goods and services. This guys conversely go out of business when oil price spikes (there was some statistic going around in 2008 about how 5 out of the last 6 recesions in the US where correlated with high energy prices), which is the intended effect of Saudi strategy.

So, eventually, when the noise signal introduced in oil prices gets absorbed by the market negative feedback loops, the economy we go back to will likely be smaller than the economy we started with. We could debate wether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but many actors are nervous because this is a game of musical chairs, and very few can say they will have a guarrantied place at the table by the time the rubble stops bouncing.
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Heck, we could use this: https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
When I was using HERE maps on windows phone previously, it would always display the current speed limit and make a noise when you exceeded the speed limit. It's a feature I miss now that I'm back in android with google maps
VMWare Workstation was already on its 4th major release by 2003.
No. To be clear: I used sarcasm[1] to highlight the in my opinion ridiculous preferences of HN readership.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Yes, but as I at least alluded to in my comment, I think it is reasonable to describe most of that as a transfer of wealth to their citizens, not to oil consumers (if you assume that they are still earning at least a small amount on the oil they sell, which is likely true for Saudi Arabia).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35363991
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> Writing code is hard and time consuming even if you're merely replicating functionality of an existing product.

Not all the time to be honest. Creating a finished, complete and useful product can involve a huge amount of prototyping and several redesigns. You have to try lots of ideas that don't work, throw code away, redesign the UI as it becomes more clear how the product is used, test on users etc. If you heavily base your product on an existing complex one you're likely taking a big shortcut.
I use Intel's free software drivers. I've got libreboot on one or two of my machines (the others are work machines, so I'm fairly sure my employer wouldn't let me flash libreboot onto the BIOS).

I wish RISC-V and free hardware design FPGAs would be a thing soon so I can get rid of the proprietary Intel microcode. Not sure what I'll do about video then though.
Definitely using this over Evernote. This will come in handy when writing notes for any programming courses as well.
You may be right. I may be just looking at a short-term market wiggle and listening to too much jibber-jabber.
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1. Calling a reduction in oil spending a "transfer of wealth" is confusing and clickbaity. In economic terms, a transfer is a redistribution of income that is made without the exchange of any goods or services. We do not call a drop in the price of computers a "transfer of wealth," we call it a price cut.

2. While oil has a EDIT:LOW elasticity of demand (people need to drive to work and heat their houses), I've never bought the argument that cheap oil has a significant effect on car sales, especially in saturated developed markets. Who decides to make a $20k, 5-10 year investment based on something as volatile as oil prices? Car sales are driven mainly by income growth, marketing, and social pressures.

3. Who is going to buy more oil because it has become cheaper? The plastics manufacturing industry might shift their recycled/new mix towards new as it is now relatively cheaper, but aggregate demand for oil would still be the same.

The article does a poor job of explaining oil market dynamics and is little more than unfounded speculation with a misleading graph and a few numbers thrown in.
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> Glibc is faster (and better)

Faster is objective, and in most cases correct. Glibc has a lot mor optimization over the years. Better is subjective and completely depends on your use case:

http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

Similar point to systemd, it is kind of misleading to say that it's faster, it is parallel and event driven, which definitely makes it's end to end time shorter on parallel hardware. And again better is subjective, it's so much more complex that it might not always be the right choice.

Also, why use systemd inside a container at all? There's just one process in there usually.
Yes, I have a general idea. I will be polishing and refining it in the 2nd quarter of this year. As of now, it will mostly be a website that provides info about how to inculcate a cruelty-free lifestyle (hopefully without being too preachy). I want it to gather a much larger scope (maybe games or mobile apps to help people understand) but as of now I want to start somewhere, and that will be a simple static website.
I don't see how capitalism or feminism is the cause of Japan's low birth rate. Could you explain?
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IIRC, even old(-ish) X200/X201 does not necessarily have accelerometer if it was factory configured with SSD.
Isn't this what Uber is currently doing?
Again, I agree. Picture this: mocha gives testing globals, browser offers the window and dom, node offers process arguments. Coming from a partial teachers perspective (well, I wasnt hired to teach but I did talk to the students alot) gulp seemed to offer comfort and order in a world where "you can do anything" seems to cause imobilization. That problem I believe can be solved through introducing students to a philosophy of "you are in control, machines are dumb, only google can save you" but I can see where seperation makes people much more comfortable
The safety here is not on or off. Each increment of speed causes a corresponding increase of risk. That increase might be small, but that misses the point.

The speed limits are a social contract. If someone feels they should increase the risk to others above and beyond that agreement then they can at least fund some civic infrastructure to balance things out.
I get the "leveraged up the wazoo" part, it's unpleasant when someone defaults on debt that you hold. To match 2008 however, the pile of debt ought to be large enough and the risk has to be mispriced. (Those who hold junk bonds expect defaults and so hold a large bunch of such bonds hoping that only some will be defaulted on, and they also hold other assets. That plus the high yield of the bond before it defaulted should make things smoother.)

The deflationary spiral bit I do not get. By itself, a cheaper resource should increase consumption because now everything is cheaper and you have as much money you can spend on stuff as you used to. Externalities aside, this kind of deflation is not what's called a "deflationary spiral", is it? A deflationary spiral is when consumption goes down because people don't have money to buy stuff, and then producers lower prices, profits fall, people are fired, consumption drops further, prices fall even lower, etc. But cheap resource availability is different, theoretically, because then consumption should rise instead of drop, not? (Also it'd be a bit strange if say finding large new deposits of some resource were a guaranteed economic disaster; one would think it should make things better.)
Without OPEC collusion (which has broken down) the oil producers are price takers, not price makers.

The Nash equilibrium is everybody low or everybody high.

It is a Stag Hunt, and everyone is taking home Hares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt
I know the author of the article says 'upside potential' but I'm not sure if Blanch is quite 'celebrating' the increase in SUV sales but rather just noting it.
Sure, most (if not all) software comes with a licence. Maybe I'm not using the best terminology. Maybe I mean "subscribing to", although that implies regular payment. Either way, what I'm referring to is the fact that Apple becomes a point in the critical path to just running your software. Whether intentional, or accidental, Apple can remotely prevent you from running the software you've paid for (e.g. [1]).

And I'm not even beginning to cover the terrible App Store app itself or the enormous cut Apple takes from independent developers.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/12/apple-user...
> I've discovered, through trial and error, that hitting SHIFT+ENTER creates a new cell, but this should maybe be more easily discoverable.

This is in the tutorial, Section 3 - Cell Operations.
The problem with this is no sane human would think they could guess the timing.

Being too early is the same as being wrong.
For me: If I have a copy of the software I have it forever. With the app store I only have it as long as Apple permits. Using an older version of OS X can create issues as well, if the developer decides not to support it. If for some reason they remove it from the store I have to hope the developers make it available outside that channel. It's certainly happened with iOS apps. I'm open to being proven wrong though.
This happens every few decades. The supermajors (ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Total, Shell) are all structured to survive events like this. Smaller upstream companies and suppliers are going to get wiped out, but the supermajors will persist.
Bill Gates used to memorize employee license plates to see who was working
There has also been a large 'forced' sell off of equities from sovereign wealth funds, due to the decrease in oil prices, so they can keep their country operations going. That impacted US company stock prices which might otherwise benefit from lower oil prices.
Wonder if he's using template matching or classification or background subtraction and moving blob detection or what. And I wonder how it deals with different lighting. I wonder also how out it'd be if the car was a foot or two closer to the camera.
I've asked this thought exercise before (here) and I'll ask it again: what happens when the world stops paying for oil?

A significant portion of the world in terms of area and population derive virtually all their earning power from oil. When oil ceases to be valuable one must consider the consequences. Look at Nigeria which recently requested $3.5 billion dollars in emergency aid from the World Bank[0], like yesterday, to fill their budget gap. This will get worse not only due to current market conditions but let's look past those to utopia: a world with no need for fossil fuels. These economies are completely dependent on fossil fuels - for everything - what would that utopia look like for them?

If you adhere to the school of jobs and economy equates to less terrorism then the environmental panacea that awaits us in a world of free renewable energy will be paradoxically diminished by terrorism and human tragedy.

Discuss.

[0] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3f2f140-c8f0-11e5-be0b-b7ece4e953...
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I generally make my choices based on a balance of time/monetary cost, feature set, user experience, service integrity (e.g., SLAs for proprietary software, or difficulty of maintenance for self-hosted/OSS), and ease of migration in the event of abandonment.

The choice I ultimately make is not always, or even often, open source. There is no blanket "always choose this" guiding rule for me.
Alpine is an option in some cases, but, like you said, it's not always straight forward. Native application modules, 3rd party OS packages and the overall package echosystem differences are important factors that need to be considered. This is why DockerSlim [1] was created. You use a regular distro like Ubuntu and you still get micro containers! Note that the sample node microcontainer with DockerSlim is 14MB and in this post it's 29MB :-) It uses hapi.js instead of express.js though, but it's probably not the main reason for the size difference.

[1] http://dockersl.im
I think that the parent specifically mentioned highly skilled young workers who would be attracted by the modern lifestyle in Tokyo.
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What's the best way to capitalize on this assumption? USO?
Then explain to me, what reasons the CDN has not to choose the best available compression (at least for small files that are downloaded rather often)?
Ask HN: Best iPad Pro keyboard?
Hey everyone!

I love my iPad Pro, but I wasn't going to pay Apple $180 for a keyboard...still, I might. Before I do though, I wanted to ask the community if anyone has found an iPad Pro keyboard that looks good and works well.
What happened to the ability to use … to refer to the grandparent directory?
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That's great, the tutorial notebook is a nice addition. To its credit, the app is usable without wading through a manual first, as all software should be. I still feel a toolbar icon or a more obvious way to create a new cell would be beneficial.
autoplay video? Remind me to never ever visit bloomberg.com again.
Yes, because supressing and self-censoring certain subjects works so well to solve them. /s
I'm not surprised because Germany seems to be known as a country with one of the highest privacy regulations, going above and beyond what the EU mandates[1]. The 2009 amendment to the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz[2] is quite comprehensive. Working with German companies on technology projects has made me acutely aware of this.

However, it seems many other countries do allow public photography and filming within reasonable limits. On a side tangent, I wonder if this means that German media uses many less public crowd shots than non-German media channels, if only because of the stricter privacy laws that would require individual consent for any person showing up in the image or frame.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20130625-your-private-data-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz
In that kind of situation you can basically do a contract to perm internship kind of thing, point them at resources, and see if he's fully competent to be junior at the end of the contract. Not everyone can afford this of course, but sometimes people don't even know what they should be learning, but will gobble up knowledge if pointed in the right direction. A weapon waiting to be aimed, if you will.
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I use Arch Linux, with the proprietary blobs shipped with Linux removed. As for a smartphone, yes I have a smartphone, and yes it does bother me that I cannot run one in freedom. This is a compromise that's necessary, and I am doing my best to find alternatives that are viable. Replicant is great, but it only supports 2G (which is known to be insecure at a protocol level). Ultimately, if someone was pitching a smartphone with free hardware designs and was running completely free (or free enough that it could be made completely free) software, I would totally pitch in >$1000 for such a project, even if the phone was only objectively worth $300. That's how important the future of software freedom is to me, personally.

But you might have different views, and that's fine. I just wanted to make clear that trusting a proprietary software vendor is something that I find to be extremely foolish (they will always screw you over eventually).
> Its relief is temporary. Clinical trials at NIMH have found that relapse usually occurs about a week after a single infusion." It then goes on to talk about possibly alleviating this with booster treatments.

I know some people will naturally object to this, but to be honest - assuming people don't build up a tolerance to the effects[0], what's wrong with that?

People are accustomed to taking all sorts of drugs on a daily basis, from antidepressants to sleeping aids to coffee (caffeine!). If someone invented from scratch an antidepressant that could only be taken once a week, we'd be heralding it as a miracle drug.

The main opposition to Ketamine is likely to be its history of recreational use ("Special K"). But that narrative - opposing medicine because of its potential psychoactive effects - is nothing new.

[0] I don't mean a tolerance to Ketamine in general, but a tolerance to this anti-depressive effect
Just needs to get the right angle for the camera. I don't know if he'd need any approval for capturing. Looking up license plates/acting on the data could get one into trouble I imagine though.
Why thank you! If you don't like what I discuss here, go to another discussion.
At least Jekyll 3 is much, much easier to install in Windows than 2 was.
His post cited well-known differences in achievement between genders. You, on the other hand, speculated on the OP's personal characteristics. Maybe you see your argument as more rational than the OP's because you profoundly disagree with him, but the fact remains that the OP is making statements about the real world (statements that happen to be true), while you are merely making statements about the OP.
This.

It is the massive liquidation of sovereign wealth funds that is causing markets to move lower. When someone is forced to sell, what happens to the price? It tanks. There is no floor. Technicals take over. This coupled with expected negative earnings outlook creates a vicious cycle of downward trajectory.
Hi! I'm a full stack software engineer, and I attend the #DevOps meetup group in minneapolis. I'm not actively looking for a job right now, but I would like to see what it is that you are all about.

are you downtown? lets get coffee later this week in the skyway. my email is in my profile.
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As someone who just tried to use OVH, I have to say, it was way easier to pay for RamGrid.

Just tried to rent a VPS from OVH. Payment failed three times. Three new $3.49 pending transactions on my bank card - No VPS...
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In that way its similar to how music used to be. Had tapes; they went away. Got the LP. Gone but not forgotten. Bought the CD. They went away. Bought the DVD. All those stores are closed. So MP3. Or streaming.
My guess is that 99.9% of the people on the road exceeding the speed limit this morning are not going to kill a child (or hurt anyone) with their car today just from speeding. It could be 99.99%. I don't have the statistics, but there are probably a lot of 9's there. No matter what that number is, there are already laws against hitting kids with your car. Enforce them. Why do we need to ruthlessly enforce something that the majority of drivers do and in most cases does not result in injury?

What I'm equating is the mental state of the busybody: The need to go out looking for rules being broken that otherwise would, in all likelihood, go unnoticed.
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> Then there's also the fact that city planners never manage to build sufficient roads until the current ones are overcrowded.

As a planner, I always find this sentiment amusing. The only thing less popular than being stuck in traffic, is the use of eminent domain that would be required to pave ever larger percentages of our urban land.

Planners can't expand roadways into the 5th dimension. Roads require land--a lot of it in fact. Also, it's not like planners don't anticipate that congestion will be increasing if demand for vehicle travel and population also increase.

Lastly, the prevailing wisdom in planning is that "widening roads to combat congestion is like loosening your belt to combat obesity." There's a popular press book that talks about how increasing roadway capacity can paradoxically worsen traffic: https://books.google.com/books?id=ckLcxEb5tM8C&hl=en
next steps: use an arduino nano with an HC-06 bluetooth dongle to remove that cable. Also, another step might be using an ESP8266 and make a webserver out of it (maybe some links to get you started here: http://embeddednodejs.com/chapters.html )
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I've moderated forums before. Small ones, nothing like the scale of Epic Mafia, but there was still drama, there were real friendships, and there were trolls.

Fuck this guy.

Even in "death", trying to do something he thought might be helpful, he ended up hurting a lot of people. I have no sympathy for him.

The article mentioned that he talked about getting into therapy, but I had a hard time understanding whether the depression was something he actually battled with, or if it was just part of his persona; regardless, I hope he gets into therapy and knocks this kind of shit the fuck off, lest he die friendless and alone. I don't hope for this so that he can live a full and happy life; I hope for this so nobody else gets harassed and doxxed.
And just to be even clearer, I'm not begging this developer to release their product cross-platform. I'm begging everyone in the developer community to communicate in ways that are less presumptuous. The way we choose to name things is an act of communication, and it seems to have failed in this case.
Definitely not; the schools just had very different student body profiles. And the big state school I went to for undergrad wasn't a bad school, it just wasn't very challenging because the student body was so diverse in terms of background / intelligence. IMO that caused a lot of the students to slack off, and the school had a "party" culture as a result. Half my high school classmates went there, so I had a built-in friend network already.

Contrast with the undergrads at my grad school (I did a bunch of hackathons and pitch competitions with the undergrads, so I worked with quite a few of them), nearly all of whom were the smartest kid in their high school. Some were pricks, some were more humble, but god damn, every single one of those kids was ambitious.
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The oil-producing countries still has to buy stuff, as they make little themselves, and they have to pay with the money they have hoarded. Hence a wealth transfer.
What on earth are you on about?

I opened a bug report, asked some people on Twitter to affirm it wasn't just me, and that's it.

Maybe, just maybe, you're a pulling conspiracy theories out of mid-air.
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Many laptops have these sensors, often as part of a hard drive protection system. If it detects 9.8g suddenly going to 0g then it parks the read head as it's probably just been dropped. I'm not sure if they're still present in this era of SSDs. Maybe if they weren't part of the disk itself.

They were used by the Quake-Catcher Network project from Stanford. Although from the OS.

...seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers.

https://github.com/carlgt1/qcn

Edit: Yes, I meant ms⁻² not g. Been a while since I've done any physics. 9.8g is probably more like what it would sense when hitting the floor, which is a bit too late to do anything useful. At least I didn't claim it to be 6.54×10⁻¹⁰ Nm²kg⁻² (bonus points if you get this).
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