skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worthy personal cheat-sheet for own and others use. A good idea though.
I highly doubt there are many Indians in Yemen. It's a poor country and doesn't have many migrant labourers like the UAE or Bahrain do.

Also the Americans I knew seemed to expect helicopters to come pick them up and all that. Saying to your citizens they need to get out and we've got a navy ship in port that you can get on if you want isn't really evacuating your citizens.
Hm. The show is still running? Then the show can be considered a sample of what the characters (ok, the writers) will say/put in their mouths. The statistics then have predictive value.
This seems to have to do with federal law which underlies NHTSA's regulation on required safety equipment, not laws regarding licensing, etc. Without something like this, regardless of state laws on autonomous vehicles, all US street-legal vehicles, even if fully autonomous, and even if the state had no requirements for human control as an option or backup, would have to be equipped for human control.

Who state law governing things like driver responsibility would treat as the driver of a fully autonomous vehicle -- and whether they would allow such a thing at all -- is a separate issue.
Freebasics is a poorly disguised but bold move to colonize Internet in developing countries. A brief prequel: http://blog.savetheinternet.in/what-facebook-wont-tell-you-a...

Freebasics campaign was so flawed and the desperation in willfully misleading people was not even on an acceptable moral terms. Facebook spent a whooping 100 Crore INR for promotion and used the term "Free Internet". More about this here: http://blog.savetheinternet.in/what-facebook-wont-tell-you-a...

Andreessen/zuckerberg is setting a very bad example here. These tweets are a testimony to the desperation and an act of trying to flex muscle. Tech industry luminaries are least expected to be willfully trying to rob the basic rights of a common man. Sadly we would remain silent partners to the spoiling fabric - if we don't vehemently oppose.
"If they fire Mayer, yahoo will be dead"

I assure you grandma trying to look at pix of her grandkids on flickr could not possibly care less about the hiring and firing of the parent companies CEO. On the other hand nothing excites CNBC-watching investors than hiring and firing CEOs.

A long term guaranteed tank to oblivion is to amuse the investors without providing any value to back it up. They tried that, it hasn't worked. Time to switch and try to generate long term value by focusing on the users instead of the CNBC viewers. Its their only long term hope. Any other strategy is just trying to extract the most cash on the way down. Which may be their only possible choice if they have no way to generate long term value.

Something HN stereotypically has little experience with is mega-corporations. A UX designer's bosses bosses bosses bosses (repeat many times) bosses boss has no impact on their job performance. At a high level they have no control over low level operations in practice. If at low level yahoo is improving thats nice but has nothing to do with the CEO. At the high level they can buy, sell, start, shut down divisions or major projects.
> If I know ALL the words spoken by someone, then I know which words they say the most without resorting to any tests simply by counting.

From the text, the author is performing statistical testing (chi-sq) for which words are most unique to a character, not which words they say the most. (although the two metrics are somewhat correlated)
I agree. I, and I suspect quite a lot of their users, stopped using Twitter for quite a while because the velocity was just too high, the signal wasn't good enough. The stuff you might have missed feature has actually made me use it much more, now I can actually catch those quality tweets.

I'm sure someone is going to tell me that I should unfollow more people, but that seems like a pretty crude and destructive method to try to increase the quality of my feed. I still want to see good quality tweets from the people who tweet a bit too much. I appreciate that use case (follow just a few accounts and read every tweet) though and definitely think they should cater to it.
I hate "While you were away" with a passion, especially the part where (on mobile) after dismissing it, it asks you "Did you like this?", yet it can't take a hint after the 20th "No".
The infotainment UI in my car (a GENIVI product from JCI and now Visteon) uses Opera as the rendering engine. A lot of cars are (were?) starting to use this.
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Nobody wants to go first because they pay for everyone.

One solution is to have everyone agree to put limited resources on a shared project that they will all use, but this has problems. Many projects fail or don't go as well as hoped. The distributed nature of it may increase the possibility of failure and the politics as well.

Another option is to get everyone together and agree on specs. Then outsource it with the requirement to the provider that the result be open source. After that first development effort you can all collaborate. This should go over better in government than in industry because your different groups aren't competing with each other.
In other words, he was operating exactly how the cable companies did when they first started. And the west-coast movie companies. And American book publishers in the 1700s. And Irish book publishers before that.
Government will consider Google computer to be car's driver
> juvenile

Cringe at their FAQ. I don't want my OS supplier to pretend to be hip. Super weird especially because they aren't a for-profit so it's not even a scheme to get to your money, they are just clueless a bit. Casual approach has to be earned through human contact.

https://www.reactos.org/joining/faqs
To be honest, I'm not interested enough in this debate to argue over it.

But you can certainly find plenty of people who equated Free Basics with digital colonialism. [1] Whether it is I don't have an opinion on.

Of course, anti-colonialism is not the only reason to support net neutrality (nor do I think it's the best one).

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/fear-of-facebook-c...
Because we need to protect our puppies.
I'd just like to take this to task for how much supposition is floating around. Early on we are introduced to the idea of snapping via an anecdote. We are given a neuronal hook via something called a 'hypothalamic attack region', which produces rage in rats.

Is this region responsible for the opening episode of rage? We have no idea; it is pure speculation to assume it is. All of the subsequent examples (crime, heroism) are imputed to this circuit similarly without evidence.

Then we are given a model (LIFEMORTS), which is extended to cover race relations and much else. We are told our thinking is 'tribal'; we are expected to believe this is science, because recall the existence of the hypothalamus attack region! But there is no evidence chaining these three together (neurons, the model, the behavior) - we have zero reason to accept the model view of what happened in Baltimore. It is pure speculation.
The "free" part is also not "from" Facebook. The telco (Reliance in India's case) bear the bandwidth costs.
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I was making the point that they are exploiting the great big fusion reactor in the sky as well. More than other countries.
Yay. Looking forward to the new versions of the song. At least it's where it belongs now.
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This story hits close to home. My wife and I had wanted to buy a home in Central America (I really enjoy that area of the world) and live there about 2/3 of the time, but also maintaining a modest residence in Arizona.

We gave up that dream when FACTA became a law. The US government is basically making it as nasty as possible for citizens to live abroad.

Why is the government doing this? I think it is simple economics. Americans spending their social security checks, and savings, in other countries slightly weakens our economy.

We also love living in Arizona, so life is good, but the FACTA laws are nasty shit.
I'm British, and I left the UK last summer.

In January, I got a tax refund from the British government, since I'd been paying tax on my income at a rate that expected me to earn that amount for the whole year. Claiming that was the first tax return I'd ever completed, i.e. the first time my taxes weren't correct automatically.

My only remaining "asset" in the UK is my student loan, and some money in an account to make the payments. I do not expect to communicate with the British tax office ever again.

This situation is typical of most countries.
Submitting this because:

> Working 49–54 hours a week was associated with a 27% higher risk of stroke than working 35–40 hours a week, with the risk 33% higher in people who worked 55 hours or more a week.

54 hours would be seen incorrectly by many on HN as a normal, even short, week.

About 1 in 18 US deaths is from stroke.
Marc Andreessen in India Colonialism Row
At 300 million active users (exact numbers debated), if even 1% paid $10 a month for promoted Tweets, that's 30 million a month. That's not pennies. King Games and Supercell (Clash of Clans), have shown that microtransactions are a profitable enterprise when you abuse human reward systems. What better reward to abuse than attention?
Tying the username to the phone number was brilliant, and I don't know why others hadn't succeeded before with that approach, or why don't others copy it.

It is quite annoying when you want to switch phone numbers though (not a common use case, but at least in my country if you want to switch providers you have to switch phone numbers).
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I have a perfect bike commute from my house to the train station.

however I've found that the bike ride is 1hr longer than driving my car round trip, each day. That 1hr is time I don't want to loose being at home with family.

I can ride faster, but I'll by very sweaty when I get to the office.
Do you usually try to frame the main benefit of FOSS in the context of NASA projects as agility or cost-savings? I'd imagine the agility factor would be the more compelling of the two, but with budget cuts and all are your managers becoming more cost-sensitive (as mentioned by the author of the original article)?

Also, doesn't the quicker timeline of updates/patches/releases make FOSS harder to verify? Is the regulatory landscape changing at all to accommodate this?
Facebook wants to be a modern day AOL? Prodigy? Compuserve? There was another, think it began with a G.

I'll never forget how astounded people were when I showed them how to minimize the AOL window and get on the real internet.
The banner at the top say's "shitposter's and conservatives" might want to check out other services.

Nice start.

The entire TOS is a marvel of blackwhite-style thinking.

Because "users who harass others" and "racism, sexism, ableism, homo- and transphobia" are "in practice limitations of free speech," we get the following, quite remarkable policy:

"Moderators can exclude users from appearing in the public timeline it at any moment, without warning, permanently or temporarily. Consider it a privilege to be published in the public timeline, not a right."

Wow! Such free speech!
In addition to excessive paperwork, potentially higher taxes, loss of privacy, inability to obtain financial services (bank accounts, mortgages), Americans living abroad also deal with punitive treatment of pensions earned while abroad if they have also earned u.s. pensions and poor political representation...

I'd also suggest those of you living abroad to check out https://www.americansabroad.org/ a political advocacy group (i have no affiliation)
It's ironic, considering that Luke Wroblewski used to work for Yahoo! (Chief Design Architect (VP)) from 2007 to 2010.

Not a big fan of the products he's in charge of now (Blogger especially), but maybe they're pushing a redesign :)
"full of venom" This is almost like the argument about harassment being rampant on twitter. Whenever I search for answers to any problem on stack overflow, ask ubuntu or similar I find that most answers are very respectful and when they are critical it is often for a good reason. But even when the answers are terse, the person took time out of their day to help some stranger on the net. Developers love other developers, we help each other all the time, so how are these help forums "full of venom" ?
> Result: hard blocking notifications from the mobile OS level.

For me the result was uninstalling Facebook. The app was showing daily notifications for people it thinks I could follow, with no options to disable the feature.

This was fixed at some point, so I guess the user feedback got through.
Above is (somewhat) right. Meet the original BP [1]

The Shah was not a puppet. Puppets dance to the tune of puppet master & master would not replace said puppet with Ayatollahs.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was an Iranian Nationalist and the story of 20th century in Iran is far far more nuanced than the caricature painted by (very interested) partisans such as Kinzer.

Do the research. This [2] is the Iran that the "puppet's" father, Reza Pahlavi ("the Great") inherited. Exceptional moves by the "puppet's" father began with establishment of an independent National Bank (which did not please "master" in City of London). And continued until Iran was actually considered a geopolitical threat to the gang that started the Trilateral Commission [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company

[2]: http://www.chaonix.com/DL/National_Geography_April_1921.pdf

[3]:https://youtu.be/DqrHQpRHwws (Don't be confused. Jimmy here is saying Iran is /too/ stable and my friend Zibig & our friends like to see massive instability in this region until "the great game" is won.}

[minor typo edits; link fix; final edit note corrected NG pdf link.]
In the US context, Mexicans who come to the US for work, with plans to return to Mexico after 5-10 years, are called immigrants. Thus, "immigrant workers" not "expat worker" and "undocumented immigrants" not "undocumented expats".

The same is true in Europe. The places in town where North Africans, or Iraq, or Ethiopia live are often called "immigrant communities", not "expat communities." Even when the population has no plans to return, or are even native born.

While on the other hand there are many British people who retire and live the expat life overseas where it's warm and cheap, and don't plan to return to the UK. Or Arthur C. Clark, a British expat in Sri Lanka who had no plans to leave. The Sri Lankan government created the category of resident guest status in 1975 so he could stay.

This strongly suggests that 1) your understanding isn't correct, and 2) there is a social class distinction between "immigrant" and "expat".
TIL we pay more money to take care of prisoners than I get paid to take care of myself.
I argue that this would compete with the recent achievements of SpaceX. I hope this stretch goal is bundled with a live steam.
So what percentage of the math score do you think should depend on reading natural language sentences, and what percentage should depend on manipulating equations, numbers, and symbols?

I suppose if the test really wanted to be practical, there would be a few questions about student loans, tuition rate increases, and post-graduation employment rates.

My core argument is that making the questions wordier do not make them better questions for a math test. Most of the practical math I have ever done (anecdotal) has not started as a paragraph of prose. It most often begins as a chart, table, technical drawing, or list of numbers. If I ever need to translate between English and math, it has almost always been to document the mathematical model, rather than implement a model from a written description. I therefore cannot fathom why mathematical pegagogy has such an infatuation with story problems.

Real life just throws a pile of numbers at you, maybe gives you some column headings, and expects you to make sense of it yourself. You want practical? Put up an image of a medical bill next to the insurance statement and ask the student how much they owe. Good luck with parsing that "off vst l3, 2MT38K, diag" and the "negtd max" and the "less copay".
I would agree it's almost certainly true that colonialism and extracted wealth did a great deal to fuel the industrial revolution, but saying that the British pace of industrialization was dependent on India is a different thing from saying that India would have industrialized at the same pace as the West in the absence of colonialism. Leaders and elites frittering away wealth, rather than investing it in economic development, has been the rule rather than the exception for the majority of human civilization, in the West and the East. What makes you think that the Mughals would have suddenly shifted the basis of their social order, to start investing in steam engines rather than palaces, in the absence of the British? The Newcomen engine was invented in 1712, at a time when the East India Company were an irrelevance. Where is the parallel in India?

Just to be clear, I'm not saying pace of development wasn't seriously set back through colonialism, I'm questioning specifically this percentage of GDP argument.
And your are implying that decreased cost and ease of manufacturing aren't viable reasons??
Might explain why winners of free market capitalism want to institute measures (laws, regulations) to keep others from achieving the same level of winning.
What happens when this microcode patch is applied at runtime on an overclocked CPU?

Remember the Haswell mess when a microcode patch disabled TSX ? If you applied it after user code (glibc) detected TSX support, boom.
That isn't a debunking as much as a refinement of the claims. The USSR's early space program was really this dangerous. Soyuz 1 was a failure that lead to a death and Komarov knew he was going to die before he stepped into the craft. Komarov was the first in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight. Just four years later the Soyuz program killed three more cosmonauts as well.
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As a pedestrian, I've been hit and injured by more illegally-operated bikes than cars.

Now, obviously, in an accident, a car will, on average, do more bodily and property damage than a bike. So auto safety is a bigger concern.
I really hate your argument too. India actually had trade routes all the way upto Britain until and after it was colonized. In fact there is no doubt that India would have taken part in Western industrialization looking at the attitude India had in allowing foreigners to settle in its land. Don't forget that the British never waged a War against India unlike other countries which Britain colonized. They came into India as the "British East India Company" to do trade and business. Wouldn't this trade and business easily influence India to industrialize? So what changed? Why did this company, that had been setup to do trade and business, end up getting it's own private armies, exercise military power and assume administrative functions? Was it part of a bigger plan to actually colonize a country without waging War by infiltrating the country in the guise of a Company and ruling via the Divide and Rule policy? Ask yourself these questions and you'll get your answer. India was always open to new cultures, traditions and advancements before British colonization. You should read about Indian history to know that we even had metal working way before Britain even knew about metallurgy. Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_metallurgy_in_South...
That does not include your tax bill for expatriation either!
Are you asking for review/recommandation ? then mention what "cheap" means for you. ($40, $100, $200 ?)
Or just go to
http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=tablet ?
or
http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=tablet
and pick whatever you want.
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What is Channels: Channels is a simple way to create posts about any topic (something for sale, event, trip, something funny, rant, etc) which is then automatically geo-tagged with your location or any location you choose on the map. Once its created, users can scroll around the map and/or perform tag & category based search to find channels they're interested in like yours, subscribe to that channel, and immediately group chat with you and all other subscribed users. Channels are therefore just location based posts with an embedded anonymous group chat.
How is it different: - Most social apps require email, usernames, passwords and sometimes other information. This app is meant to be as anonymous as possible, so all we ask is for you to set a username, if and only if, you wish to chat with others or subscribe. - Channels was created to be simple and anonymous so we have no menus or ads or hidden ways to make money; just 3 screens that you can swipe between. - Rather than stick with the norm of comment based communication like other social platforms, we are chat based so each channel is actually a conversation. Just as if this was a messaging app, you can go between channels to chat with different people from all over the world anonymously about anything. - Channels is community driven. We made this app for the community so all posts are by real people, not bots or sponsored data. Upon request we can change this to add more features, but for now we want to make sure everything is community created.
you mean sex not gender right?
Amazon's terms even cover the zombie apocalypse
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10771060
Part of the same psychology. Like Lance Armstrong, they begin by rationalizing "I just want to level the playing field". Then they take acts to elevate themselves well above the field.
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Isn't that fully a political issue? Current administration want to be tuff on foreign accounts, but some GOP candidates seem to reverse the law.

Ref: http://www.repealfatca.com/index.asp?idmenu=4&idsubmenu=159&...
I'm pretty sure I remember reading an article about what happens when you renounce your US citizenship, something along the lines of you being taxed for any assets you have (in the US) as if you had sold all of it on the day you give up your citizeship, please someone correct me if I am wrong, I will try find a source.

"To recap, if upon giving up US citizenship you own assets with unrealized gains of less than $626,000, you will not owe exit tax, no matter how wealthy you are. If you are required to pay tax it's less tax than you would have paid if you'd stayed in the U.S. and sold the assets. Plus, if any asset you pay exit tax on continues to rise in value post-renunication, all those additional gains are yours." [1]

heres a source (number 2)

[1]: http://www.expatinfodesk.com/expat-guide/relinquishing-citiz...
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The revisionism in this thread is incredible. Britain enslaved an entire nation for centuries and you think that didn't cripple India? They will have to pay for their crimes one day.
Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_%28statistics%29
From what I recall, however Whatsapp won't let me dip my toe in the water on IOS without full access to all my Contacts. It got uninstalled pretty quick.
Am I the only one not seeing it in Settings on desktop?

> Under Content, look for Timeline and toggle the box next to Show me the best Tweets first to change the setting.

There are 4 subsections under Content for me: Country, Tweet media, Video Tweets, and Your Twitter archive.

Edit: (U.S.)