skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because 'Paris' is something special on the world stage, Istanbul (for no good reasons, it's a beautiful city) less so.

I think a good comparison is with Mexico, drug cartels murdering people hardly makes the news, even if the numbers are comparable or exceed the attacks in Paris. People more or less expect that sort of thing from that particular region so it is not considered newsworthy to the same degree.
> It seems that so-called "universal" values of "humanity" is biased towards Western societies.

No. It's just that western societies have more money and more media running on it so western events get amplified. That and...

> Is that because such bombings and authoritarian regimes are somehow perceived as "normal" in the "Eastern European" or "Middle Eastern" countries? I am confused.

Yes. For as long as I remember the middle-east, part of north Africa, has always been in the news mainly for some bombings against civilians or something like that. Iraq, Lebanon, the whole Iran-Iraq war, the Egyptian bombings from the 90's, the Gaza strip, etc. As a child, in western Europe, I grew up with always the same pictures on TV about the middle east.

That's just my anecdotal opinion though.
We are living in a such period of time that we see lots of great inventions from great people, how they push technology forward, how they change our daily lives and see how they are leaving us :(
I've been working on an ESP-based product recently (http://magicshifter.net/) and I have to say that the ESP really is a lot more powerful than people give it credit, at first glance .. we're able to do quite some processing for various things (POV, MIDI, etc.) ..
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how does the siege tanks vs zerglings work? how do AI know which zergling is targetted? Also was there a delay for siege tanks after it selects a target but before shooting it down? Wasn't it instant like marine, can't remember it.

Or maybe it is because opponent is also AI and automaton simply knows which target it will auto pick.
To prepare your speech, follow the advice given in "Death by PowerPoint":

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/thecroaker/death-by-powerp...

In the longer run, join a Toastmasters club - this is a nonprofit organisation aimed at improving its members' public speaking skills: http://www.toastmasters.org
UPDATE2: According to MIVB (responsable for the metro), not confirmed: 15 dead, 10 heavy wounded, 45 wounded.

UPDATE: Fire department is now reporting 10 dead in the metro. No additional details for the airport.

The Dutch (Flemish) news just confirmed. Currently 13 dead in Airport, 35 heavy wounded.
In the metro, 0 dead. There are wounded but unclear how many.

Belgium is shutting down: No trains or metro in Brussels. Government asking people to stay where they are in the whole country.

Police is looking for suspicious packets.
The prime minister is scheduled to give an update in 20 minutes (around 11:30 AM Brussels time)
This extrapolates from current popular meat production practices which are themselves quite new. In order to make general conclusions like this it is necessary to account for the variety of production alternatives available and in development. Vat grown biomeats are very new but appear to have quite different consequences from possible mass production. The problem isn't the meat, but how the meat is produced.
According to http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

from 2006-2015 the SP500 had a geometric yearly mean return of 7.25%.

according to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infla...

The average inflation for that period is 1.9% so you get roughly 5%.

Still pretty decent.
- http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/32616/Terreurdreiging-in-Belgie/art...

- http://www.brusselnieuws.be/nl/nieuws/jongeren-gooiden-stene...

- http://www.demorgen.be/opinie/de-marokkaanse-gemeenschap-moe...
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There's some people saying there was an explosion at Schuman station, but actually the only confirmed thing I could find about it was a picture of people evacuating via Schuman, because they were already underground. (https://twitter.com/evanlamos/status/712194836649082880)
Updated the title. Thanks!
So far I have yet to discover an application that has a 3D touch function which is inaccessible otherwise. For me, the good use of the tech is shortcuts: It is great to force touch fantastical icon and directly create a new event rather than opening the app, going to the correct screen and then tapping the new event option. A lot of features on PCs have discoverability problems, I have, for example, encountered a few people that did not know the Ctrl/Cmd+A shortcut. But such features reward power users. I do not think that we can, at the same time, complain that the applications are getting dumbed down and oppose the additions of advanced, albeit hidden features.
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(Had he said that, it would have been a remarkably ironic comment, as he spent years fighting his oft-survivable pancreatic cancer not with the best current science, but with the healing power of a high fruit diet. A terrible diet for anyone, but also a particularly terrible diet for managing cancer, being very high in fructose. By the time he finally started taking the advice of cancer experts, it was too late.)
Thanks! Good to hear you're excited about the near future!

New release is going up in a few hours with the first bits of GitLab Deploy and some other cool stuff!
I was just trying to allay your fears of invading hordes seeking the heavy train of benefit heavy states. Such migrations happen today, legal and not. A lot of business owners profit off of the illegals, whose presence is subsidized by government. Very wicked little underclass we maintain, not quite slavery in modern times, but still...

Perhaps when the States have to administer their own welfare programs, it will no longer be profitable for the individual states to shoulder the burdens of hosting the underclasses when neighboring states will not. Sanity might return to the immigration debate, it could be a really good thing.
Breivik's motivation were not sourced from Christian literature, whereas suicide bomber's are (from Koran and Hadith). Young Christians are not leaving home to join the Christian State of Iraq and Syria.

You can see the distinction, surely? Islam creates space and justification for these actions in a way that Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity does not. It's a difficult to swallow pill yet it's true.

Source: Am an ex-muslim and generally interested in this phenomenon.
> One source says 11 dead, 25 wounded. Another source at the same time, the federal police nota bene, says 1 dead.

Maybe for media to report somebody as dead it is sufficient that this person is indeed dead, while for the police it takes some procedures as they are held to a higher standard?
Lets hope a caught a cold and will die.
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They did, not Christians specifically, but I remember crowds with signs and candles.
Are CO2 emissions really a concern? If 5000 of these planes were flying, as a proportion of global CO2, it would be undetectable if they reduced the plane's emissions by 50%. Then you'd have the argument of how much of that CO2 had any measurable effect on climate -- and that would assume that effect was deleterious. A lot of assumptions to bet a revolutionary aircraft design upon.

Adding CO2 reduction engineering to an already difficult project means less resources available to actually get the thing to work.

Imagine if The Apollo program had to worry about CO2 emissions on top of just trying to get a rocket to launch.

You also could argue some economy of scale efficiencies. If one flight on this plane caused just 3 passengers to forego a private jet trip for the same distance, you'd save 3 private jet's worth of flights. Given the time savings, this project would certainly disrupt a segment of the private jet market.

A 777 burns 1680 gallons per hour with 365 maximum passengers. A Gulfstream G650 burns about 865 gallons per hour.. holding a max of 18 passengers. So the G650 is burning 48 gallons per hour, per passenger while the 777 is doing 4.6 gallons per hour per passenger. We're assuming fully loaded for comparison but we all know that a G650 is rarely flying a 18 pax capacity, generally it's in an 11 seat configuration.

So as you can see, even if the fuel efficiency were half of a 777, it would still be a massive efficiency compared to a G650 and thus a net gain for those concerned about CO2.
I said nothing about mutual respect: I was merely comparing the pro-ISIS propaganda effects of "they won't let Muslims into country X", and "the Muslims in country X are under continuous police surveillance".
Nice post. Quiet true about everything in china. If the labor price is higer in china, these young man probably will visit laos or vietnam
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IMO.

1. NSA and any other govt. organization do not need a help from Apple to gain necessary information

2. Most probably Apple and govt. are working together for the face of good PR

3. Now after Apple keynote, seems like sales are ok, now they can publish actual story step by step

In summary: digital is not secure enough to rely on, all other things are PR
Thanks for the follow up, cheers!
That may be true but doesn't really factor in to the discussion of coverage and competition: even if essentially empty, Finland is still covered. Coverage maps for the two biggest operators:

* Sonera: http://www.sonera.fi/asiakastuki/verkkokartat/kuuluvuuskartt...

* Elisa: http://elisa.fi/kuuluvuus

Notice how 4G already covers almost half of Finland, and 3G basically everything excluding larger swaths of forest.
If you want to install the latest version visit https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/capodicis-notes/bp...
Mos of these financial institutions actually have high fees that are only charged if your parents are rich. I've been surprised to see how high your income may be at some of them, and still receive near-free education.

Thus the fees aren't really fees, they're fees for rich people who can afford them. And then you may wonder why you'd give a rich person free education by paying it from an endowment that, among other things, pays for the poor people's education, when the rich person can afford it.

As for your note on donations, I fully agree. You really, really, don't need to donate to Harvard. But that's mostly a function of alumni networks/events of the university itself, not necessarily people going 'hey I want to donate to a university... ah well, guess I'll choose Harvard then'. So it's not a decision you'll change easily.
A Tribute to Andy Grove (2015) [video]
I couldn't resist to take a fast look online... and yes, it's very pragmatic. Even I would say funny/elegant, just expensive.

HOWEVER simple and easy solutions often are better, so based on the same simple idea the same experiment could be reimplemented with green threads and separate/cloned python environments in order to ensure that there is no shared memory.

In my opinion it is still a genius work, just missing compiler support for such construct.
It works every time.
Just wait for the cursor to start blinking and then deep press.
It takes a while to get used to but then it just works.
US can go to war in many places for many reasons. Not always good or fully justified ones too. Some leaders are more likely to jump to such scenarios than others.

So while it's comparison between one specific act and years of political decisions, I don't think there's got to be anything wrong with OP for such comparison. Electing a terrible leader of a powerful country can cause many more people getting blown up than we've heard of today.
In case you are asking genuinely, the "API economy" buzzword was coined a few years ago to describe business models based or largely reliant on web APIs.
Analysis of VM escape by using LUA script
Thanks for the notice. I just trying python 3.5 goodies. I updated the code now and I added a queue.
> why try when you are not rewarded

When all are treated the same, regardless of performance, there are two possible situations - either all are rewarded as though underperforming (i.e. raise below inflation), or all are rewarded as though performing well (i.e. raise at or above inflation).

In the former case, my intuition is that your point is probably correct. If I know I'm going to be treated as though I'm the worst employee in the building, I might stop trying after a while.

In the latter case, my intuition is that you are probably wrong. Just because the worst employee is being rewarded as well as I am, it doesn't mean I'll sink to that level.

The intrinsic motivation to do well, improve, and learn all outweigh anything to with competition, and it's a pretty unhealthy culture that relies on the employees competing with their team mates to get them to do their jobs. However, that intrinsic motivation can only go so far when faced with an ever falling budget to maintain your lifestyle.
I remember reading about rich US units back in 2011: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/08/us-universities...

No surprise here. They've been built to do this for years, apparently.
This will be my first iPhone. Love the size, love the price.
BBC hands out tiny Micro Bit computer to thousands of children in the UK today
What's up with the /s.gif though? It's just an empty 1x1 pixel, perhaps used to track (e.g. browsers vs scrapers)?

Edit: Actually it's scaled to 5px height, so the black background is applied? Perhaps just a result of YCs CSS skills. It's Hacker News after all.
I use cmd a lot more than PS because:

1. Win+R -> cmd enter is a lot faster than Win+R -> powershell enter

2. cmd starts faster than powershell

3. I seldom require all the power from powershell
You missed out the part "why would they do any of this". You can't just list the things Linux manages to do regardless of their unified tree, you got to explain the benefits.

I think it's a perfectly fine distinction to make, and having devices always mount at the root seems a very reasonable restriction that actually helps novice users.

One could of course also argue that the unified tree is merely an artifact of having to store all kinds of OS information as files in that same tree, when they are not really actual files...
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Google started with practical attempts to improve searches and had a hard time at first because they were a search engine when people thought search engines were over. Facebook started as a way of connecting people at school and didn't get big funding until much later when the leader took a major risk by leaving school which seems to emphasize what Taleb is saying about risk being central. Relying on funding too soon may indicate that investors are the only real customers.
Yeah, somewhat related to that; it's not currently possible to have typealias for a type with generic parameters, one has to wrap it in a struct or an enum, however Swift is very much not done and they're catching up quickly, so I'm optimistic, especially now that we can see and affect what's coming next.
iOS 9.3 Night Shift Is a Bust: Here’s What You Can Do
The point is that interest does not always cover inflation. The fact that money was gold or paper back then makes no difference. Invested money can be lost.
In the UK, it's always gross, pre-(employee-paid)-tax yearly salary.

In Slovenia, on the other hand, it's usually net, post-tax, monthly salary.
It is also why charity shops annoy people so much, they can afford to run rather easier whilst skipping out on chunks of business rates etc
> I remember Jobs talking about never making a larger phone.

It's consistent with the Jobs style to completely dismiss the idea of a product that they are not currently announcing or selling, even when history proved he knew it was a good idea.

I've no doubt Steve was mentally locked into small form factor because it was the ideal for the product they were trying to build. The original iPhone sized to fit the market that existed at the time. It was a smarter mobile phone. The current iPhone is a pocket computer with cellular networking and a phone app. This transition was so subtle that most people didn't even notice it at the time.
Are you sure?

In the UK, it's always gross, pre-(employee-paid)-tax yearly salary.

In Slovenia, on the other hand, it's usually net, post-tax, monthly salary.
We have a limited amount of subsidy to allocate where it will do the most good. Most of the time the children of rich parents - even those who had little interest in college - have more advantages overall than even a fully subsidized poor student would have. So it makes sense to focus our subsidy on those poor students.
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What would HTTPS gain you or the blogger?

I have literally no idea who oalmanna is, so a third-party saying oalmanna is oalmanna would be completely useless for me.

I suppose it would keep a third party from knowing I read this blog, but I can't find a reason to care about that.
For an earlier perspective, Here's a 1983 Tom Wolfe essay about Noyce and the founding of Intel, briefly mentioning Andy Grove at the end.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyc...
Is this the same human society that's perfectly OK with Valium and Adderall and Oxycontin?

Democracy fails when irrational prejudice trumps common sense and tolerance. Prohibition was a mass democratic movement that pulled together Christian teetotalers, American nativists, socialists and sufferagettes; it was a complete disaster on all fronts.
I think people just don't consider it "Hacker News".
GC 'Nepotism' and Linked Queues
I'm pretty sure you are wrong.
Properly armed forces patrolling might have stopped the attack from being another machinegun bloodbath like in Paris.
Sure,military can hardly help with bombs, but so far the attack had an order of magnitude smaller death count
Also, an immigrant from a country that was communist and behind the Iron Curtain, from a time when communism and its lands were held in fear and loathing similar to how terrorism and the Middle East are viewed today.

Worth thinking about next time Syrian refugees come up, but I know I'm preaching to the choir here.
What is the average of [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 10]? How many entries are below the average?
Small SSD for OS, large, separate SSD for games and game delivery platforms.
Very cool! I would definitely use you guys once my aws credits run out. Quick suggestion - please make your pricing front and center. If you didn't tell me on HN, I would have dropped off on your home page. Check cloudways pricing page for a very similar business model pricing page.
I don't blame you a bit.
H. G. Wells's interview with Stalin (1934)
This is very sad.
Not in UK.
ChuckMcM, with apologies for veering off-topic, you've got so many interesting stories re Intel, Sun, etc. Have you considered writing a book about your experiences? I'd buy it.
> Q Do you support encryption?
A Simply encrypt it before streaming into s3git add, eg pipe it through openssl enc or similar.
Q Do you support zipping?
A Simply zip it before streaming into s3git add, eg pipe it through zip -r - . or similar.

A "no" would have sufficed.

This is relevant to my interests, so I was going to try to read the source to see how it works: it seems that the internals are in https://github.com/s3git/s3git-go which is a dead url?
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Fascinating. Sounds like a 2/3 vacation, 1/3 work, but I guess the time was well spent, as they caught production problems earlier on.
I agree that Powershell for a large part doesn't feel like a shell. Yes, it has a CLI, and it has short commands (actually aliases for longer names), but using it feels more like programming, at least to me.

Having said that, I can't vouch for your scripts, but my 10 line shell scripts are unlikely to handle 'edge' cases such as spaces, quotes and backticks in file names.

Also, "incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't know .net" may be true, but your average shell script that builds on tools such as sort, grep, ls, cut, cat, sed, awk, etc. isn't that particularly comprehensible to people who don't know UNIX, either.

Finally, I think it is likely that people who grow up on Powershell feel differently about this.
Thanks. I would put it then on the poor wording and lack of explanation of the feature.
As usual the problem is with badly behaving software. E.g. I have a bunch of software storing its crap in C:\Users\JohnDoe\Documents\ while I've changed the location of that folder to D:\JohnDoe\Documents.
This is very sad, which means Apple has failed in terms of its security protocol. Will Apple continue to win the customer's trust?
It should be possible to write the majority of the code for an FPGA in a generic fashion and get the tools to infer things like RAM's by the way the Verilog or VHDL is written. Ideally, I think you should only have FPGA specific blocks in the very toplevel of a design and the majority of the design should be agnostic to the FPGA architecture. For example if you write your code like this:

reg [31:0] mem[0:1023];

always @(posedge clk) begin
rd_data <= mem[rd_addr];
if (wr_en)
mem[wr_addr] <= wr_data;
end

Then tools like vivado, quartus, synplify will infer a 1k x 32bits ram.
If you look at the history of Europe the bible was a center piece in many wars. You can use any of the religious books to rally people up to fight against the non-believer.

But my point is the current terrorist attacks in Paris are committed by people who got discarded by society with no purpose in life
and they found a group who gave them a place where they felt needed and respected.

Brevik is a Nazi and he is not Christian
This is interesting, and I wonder how they would react in cases when it happens. In principle the revalidation of the original payment information should in fact clear this issue.
Agreed, but the option is always nice. :)
His article on taking on cancer is impressive and an example for all of us:
http://www.phoenix5.org/articles/Fortune96Grove.html
It is truly worth the read
You can easily run a small personal site on the free tier of GoogleAppEngine.
Just google for "app engine static site"

There are a ton of options on what you can achieve inside the free tier. But the simplest one for the use case you seem to require is to author a static html site in a good WYSIWYG html editor and then deploying it as a static site in GAE.
Explosions at Airport and Subway Station Bring Brussels to a Halt
This is not the kind of API the article is about. These are paid services that happen to be accessible through APIs, not API ecosystems.
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Why aren't US christians taking to the streets to protest against the bombings of abortion clinics or murders of doctors?
Here is a great video talking about the decisions made when designing DalmatinerDB - https://vimeo.com/148514080
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Different agencies, different sources police doesn't release information which was unchecked while the media can get info from some paramedic during the chaos.

Mass casualty events can't be accurately covered initially because well literally something exploded, body counts tend to go up, with these kinds of events if they go down towards the end it's usually because of the nature of the incident where body parts were assigned to more bodies than they actually came from.

This isn't some investigative reporting there isn't an easy way to confirm it with multiple sources and technically the official death count will only be released after a doctor signed off the death certificates which in this case might take some time because bodies have to be pieced together and identified.
This post needs to be higher up in the thread, and not people overreacting and demanding having them removed from browser's CA-stores etc.
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That's why perl never took off, right?
Bad code isn't Technical Debt, it's an unhedged Call Option (2010)