skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is really engaging. I love scrolling through photos and seeing them on a map, and I could imagine using this to plan my next travel destination.

I think this is very browsable if there is a lot of content, so I suspect your next step would be to somehow get the content from everywhere worth visiting as soon as you can, so that you can become a default destination for anybody planning a trip. How can you get the content?
I have neither enabled and Firefox+X11 is the smoothest Firefox on the same machine. May depend on drivers, versions, and config, obviously.
Wouldn't such an insanely big call stack be a performance issue in itself?
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I usually say "TOR" because "Tor" means "track" my language so people can get confused and writing it in all capitals makes it clearer.
Slightly improved analogy: They found drugs in his car, but didn't tell the judge that he left his keys in the car so that anybody could use it.
Association of Proton Pump Inhibitors with Risk of Dementia
By this logic, all economic exchanges are terrifying exploitative coercion, differing only in degree.
Packing Hacks Every Traveler Needs to Know
We allready sold out to the advertisement industry, the military sector and everyone with a double trigit bankaccount.
So feed and caress us mighty invisible hand, or we shall bite you, for we know all your secrets?
Journalism ala Mafia?
That is the future?
Can i have Wikileaks back please? I rather prefer people not in it for the gains.
Let me start by saying, our network infrastructure is located in Canada, this is because, to be honest Africa is still lacking behind in terms of world class network infrastructure for tech startups. So our servers is in Canada and every tech related issue is run from there. Our other office in Nigeria deals with the administrative works of the platform. However, I believe hubrif can scale through in the long run. We might not achieve a YouTube-style growth now but we believe its gonna be huge in the long run. If you want to watch any other video contents, then YouTube is the place for you but if you want to watch African short films, then hubrif is the first place your mind shoould go to. This is the vision of hubrif!

Like i said, the ultimate advantage the technology have in the African market is the seamless and easy accessibility to high quality African short films like never before. Just visit the site and select films from our various categories and start watching. I should also add that hubrif does not embed videos from other sites, we host the videos on our own servers and stream them to you without advertisement. We are also looking at helping the filmmakers monetize their films through a unique model (which will be unveiled soon)while still making sure that visitors are not irritated by constantly skipping ads before they can enjoy a film. But for now, we are focus on just making sure we build that 'hub' or home for African short films.
Context will do that for you in 99% of the cases, the other 1% is people who are confused for about 15 seconds.
Falsebook.

On one day one of my relatives shared a completely false meme about Obama. And a day later a different relative shared a completely false one about Palin. What kind of discourse can we have where all these lies just get propagated 24/7? I'm tired of having to look up everything on snopes.com or politifact.
I like the ownership idea that is pretty cool.

I already pick Lyft whenever I can just because I noticed in the past drivers with Lyft were happier and some mentioned they were treated better by Lyft than when they were with Uber.
Our target users are the ones who like to listen to radio and even like to call in. We are looking for content creators. As the content gets better we believe people will be more attracted to the product and the network effect takes place. That said we really believe that the platform allows for meaningful organized conversations. So once those start to happen en masse we think people will find it interesting and useful. As for your second q: People are not posting enough so we are working on that now!
From ~1932 to 1987, the top tax rate wasn't less than 50%. For more than 10 years it was above 90%. Basically it was a way to keep a handful of people from getting all of the marbles. If you don't like how the government spends money, grow a business or start a business, those expenses are all tax deductible. The idea is to keep money moving.
I'm not sure it's really changing, emoji gives us a tool for something many of us did in grade school when writing notes. We drew faces and other things on the messages. That experience has largely not carried over to computer/phone messaging apps.

Besides, we've had smileys for ages as well. ^_^, :), :-P, D:, :-E (bucktoothed vampire), etc. have all been around for a while and predate emoji, which just give us a single character representation (and a variety, several types of smiles and frowns and sweating and crying that can be used for different things).
>Technology isn't slowing down, so how can we make sure the law keeps up?

That depends on what you me by "the law". Paper based systems simply can't keep pace with the speed of information flow in electro-magnetic systems.
That photo was taken with the brightness at a medium setting (6 / 11). The screen looks great, it gets bright and more importantly the blacks are true black, because it's AMOLED.
> Exposure to infections does not make you stronger.

* As an adult

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
That's really interesting to see how table lookup using bamboo strips!
> It seems to me that a lot of people is angry precisely because it wasn't illegal.

Sure. And that's totally reasonable(I would personally not support that, but I can understand that).

But, that isn't generally how things are framed, though - "throw the banking crisis bankers in jail" is one of the popular memes.
Amazon.com Email Scam – Phishing for Your Identity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446047
Yup. Unfortunately, the only reason S&P, Moodies and Fitch matter is because ... wait for it ... they were named in the Securities and Exchange act of 1934 as the only agencies that banks were allowed to use. It's one of those huge unintended consequences that the scheme to make sure that commercial banks were invested in high quality securities is at the heart of a financial meltdown 74 years later.
'Gig/sharing jobs' are a way to circumvent the economic inefficiencies of minimum wages and regulation. If these gig jobs are so awful, workers can always look elsewhere, although good luck: on a 2011 national hiring day, McDonald's got 1 million applicants for only 50,000 job openings.

Some gig workers make a lot of money - more than they would with a regular job. The competitive and meritocratic nature of gig jobs reward efficiency and productivity, and this benefits customers and the economy.

Uber, Air BNB, Task Rabbit allow people to earn money when they may not have otherwise been able to .
Lots of comments here regarding 'blame'. On that subject, I found this interview with Michael Burry (featured in the book and movie "The Big Short") to be worth reading:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/12/big-short-geniu...
I've never heard of Juno before and it took some serious A-level googling to find their website. Only PR articles (like this one) show up when you search for them and none of them actually link to their site. That's some seriously odd SEO.
http://requiemfortheamericandream.com/the-film/

It's in select screenings and available on-demand via the popular pay-to-stream video services.

Bluray + DVD coming this August according to Amazon.
Things They Don't Teach You in School
Slack has an IRC gateway - https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connectin...
I find that relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xe6nLVXEC0
> If you're otherwise fine with or at least accept war and its inevitable civilian casualties and the damage it does to people I don't see how you can be so against torture.

Ah yes, the good old slippery slope argument...

Yes, why stop. We already have wars, as long as we have them, let's start drilling holes in people spines, sticking needles under their nails and so on. Qualitatively we already there so no need for outrage.
He wasn't exactly the only teenager that were swept away by the rather popular national socialistic party at the time before the war. Germany was an important cultural influence and they sort of bootstrapped the economy, etc. There are publicly available lists for anyone that is interested. The researcher Tobias Hübinette seems to be focusing on issues related to Sweden, "whiteness" and race. http://www.tobiashubinette.se/

Regarding the trusts... I think that at the time (1970) and heavily socialist influenced era, it was more or less the only option to secure a privately owned and growing company from the tax man. The taxes were absurd at the time and small privately owned companies were very vulnerably to death-by-tax, especially if the owner died unexpectedly.

When the trusts are set up and the ownership is moved, there is not that much you can do about that actually, and the trusts can control to some degree how much tax the corporations pay as the trusts can charge royalties and set rates to minimize the earnings in the corporations that are "IKEA". Kamprad is probably a board member of all the important trusts, but the trusts are limited by their charter though, so there are limits to the control. It's true that they can't just give money away, at least without a courts ruling.

But still. IKEA have done a lot for the Swedish economy, there is still plenty of production in Sweden (as in Poland, or any cheap place in the world), and a lot of designers and engineers are employed in Sweden.
This is great. There is a slowly growing emphasis on accessibility in the web, and tools like this make it just a little bit easier!

Tangentially, anyone with good resources for WCAG (and probably ADA, in the near future) compliance, I would love any help.
I'm not blaming the victims. The victims are people who are relying on the pension funds for their retirements.

I'm pointing out that the managers who were entrusted to invest the assets of those funds deserve a huge helping of blame. These managers were supposed to be experts and were literally paid millions of dollars a year to manage the assets. They failed even the most basic test of competency and they should be held accountable for it. Why aren't we talking about clawing back their fees?
In Phoenix, I pick Lyft because it's significantly cheaper than Uber. Lyft drivers also seem happier but that might just be in my head. I did notice more Uber drivers are doing it full time.
On the iPhone the difference between the "grimacing" emoji and the one discussed here is extremely slight (the grimacing one has circles for eyes instead of arches). The grimacing one is supposed to be the actual negative one.
Victorian-Era Magical Societies, Telepathy, and Interplanetary Space Travel
I'm not sure I follow, what are the reserves? If we are talking about the entire economy as an actor, a number in some magnetic tape can't be. Neither can be food or infrastructure unless it is properly preserved. So my guess is that the right reserve would be a people. People that aren't adding value today, are excess capacity that can be used during bad times. Guaranteed income is one way of maintaining that extra capacity.

Also, I'm not sure that anthropomorphizing the economy, while interesting, is the right level to think about this.
I have been on a date with a conspiracy nut, and can confirm that this is something I'd want to filter out if I was still dating and not in a long-term relationship.
Packaging dependencies and build dependencies are tracked separately. For example, if I don't have a C compiler installed, installing a development package like "libxml2-devel" will probably cause the compiler to be installed.

In the opposite case, say that I have the compiler installed, but not the dev package for the library. Compiling an object will fail, if it #includes a required header, but that will be in the form of a "file not found" error emitted by the compiler. Similarly, if I tried to link a program and include the "-lxml2" flag, the linker will reply "cannot find -lxml2", meaning that libxml2 isn't installed, so it can't be linked against.

Generally, we'd say that it's not the compiler or linker's job to talk to the package manager. The build configuration system included with the project (autoconf scripts, cmake or ant profiles, etc) ought to check for prerequisites.
Another jdownloader user here. I have similar misgivings about its trustworthiness, but so far I haven't found any concrete reasons to distrust it other than that vague sense of unease. It's just so damn useful though!
India's audacious plan to bring digital banking to 1.2B people
in reality, at some point it's just not cost effective anymore (for the attacker) and other targets become more promising.
This is the 3rd "low cost" Linux board to "come out" in the last year or two (Chip and RPI Zero) but none of them are available on the market.

All of these projects have endless streams of explanations why the product isn't available yet: "it's a Kickstarter", "supply chain", blah blah blah.

I don't think it's a coincidence that there are 5 or 6 Linux boards in the $40 range and zero available for purchase in the $10 range.
Check how gems stack up in the best Ruby projects with these brand new showcases
The article is a good read. I like the triple word play in the last sentence, "For them, he held a key to the present: the past."
Good MVP, just scrape your inbox and curate the best.

I'd love to see more examples.
May depend on CPU performance :) On my 3.4GHz 4-core desktop, it is pretty much always smooth. But on my 1.7GHz 2-core laptop, async pan&zoom makes a noticeable difference.
> the _only_ one

The folks at Basecamp (formerly 37signals) have been pretty consistent too at criticizing the Silicon Valley rhetoric, and their company is undeniably profitable. They write at https://signalvnoise.com and I also recommend their books.
Just a simple hash table, or if you prefer, a red-black tree. The index where the string was found would be the same between the native list and locale string file.

I like this style because a) if the locale file is deleted you don't end up with no text in your app, b) you don't need a gigantic pool of cryptic IDs, c) it's more intuitive what you're trying to print in the source code.

print(tr("Warning: changing the video driver requires a restart to take effect"));
//vs
print(tr(TR_WARN_VIDEO_DRIVER_CHANGE_RESTART));

You'll create the English locale file anyway for others to translate for you, and you can even use that. The two major downsides are a) sometimes the same sentence is used in two areas and has the same translation in one language, but different translations in another (very rare), and b) if you change the text wording later, you have to edit it in the source code instead of in a separate English locale file.

> Since we're talking about performance, I wonder why people write it this way.

You're doing something horrendously wrong if your application spends even 0.1% of its time looking up strings to put into GUI windows.
Yeah, the biggest issue with this, is that if I wanted a domain, I wouldn't risk losing it by telling someone else what domain I wanted. Kinda sad GoDaddy doesn't offer gift cards. I guess they used to.
And LISP =]
I was one of the Kickstarter backers for the Parallella a few years back. The 64 cores are in the Epiphany IV coprocessor, while the board itself has two ARM cores and would behave a lot like the RPi and similar if the Epiphany wasn't taken advantage of, assuming you were able to get your hands on one of the early 64-core boards.

The 16-core Epiphany III-based Parallella is available at Amazon.
The judge didn't get a chance to ask in this case.
No mention of the battery pack or charger, the most troublesome components.

The in-wheel motors are kind of neat. Those could be useful for motion control projects, especially since they're three-phase synchronous and can be run all the way down to zero speed with high torque. More info about the power drive system for the motors would be useful. What are they using to switch all that current? No heat sinks are visible, so either the switching is really efficient or the drive electronics will overheat.

It's good to see precision motor control at this price point. These devices are rather impressive technically. Once somebody starts shipping them with safe batteries and full battery protection circuitry, they could be popular again. Boosted brand electric skateboards got it right; they used a safer battery chemistry, figuring the boards would be abused. Good call.

Most recent major hoverboard fire: Orlando, FL, 3 days ago. 3 apartments destroyed.
Hormesis
This is hardly unique to New York. Many European cities have this feature (it was deliberately designed into London, for example).

It may be unique to New York within the US.
For good or bad, the American legal system (and the English one on which it's largely based) is about who makes the better argument. It's a debate contest among expert jurists. The judge is supposed to be knowledgeable about the law, and particularly good at recognizing logical fallacies.

A good judge who is not an subject matter expert should be good at asking the salient questions and stopping a rambling jurist in their tracks. The whole idea isn't to become an expert, it's to find the right questions, and provide the opportunity to expediently arrive at conclusions and solution to them. And it often is just one question.
This used to be a fairly universally held opinion, but recently I've begun to see fairly optimistic results reported in the literature (see [1] for an example study, unfortunately not open source). As someone who writes numerical simulation code for a living, I've started to get curious about OpenCL for the use case of rapidly developing code that's reasonably performance portable between Xeon-based and GPU workstations.

Since you seem like you have some experience with testing performance portability with OpenCL and other solutions, I'd be curious to hear if you have any comments about the reference I linked or more general suggestions for alternative means to achieving the same end (performance portability between CPU/GPU architectures at the workstation level).

[1] http://iwocl.org/wp-content/uploads/iwocl-2014-tech-presenta...
ChakraCore building with clang and running on OS X
... which is absurd and why the US Constitution provides for a better system, which sadly does not extend to protection for invasions short of prosecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistance_of_Counsel_Clause
To generalize: it's similarity/ingroup bias - as a human you are biased to be more sympathetic to people like yourself.

It takes a lot of empathy (something that is actively selected against in our corporation dominated workforce) to bypass that.

Add into that the gravity of money (ie, rich get richer) and political corruption (money buys power) and you have a basic framework for classism.
Theoretically, some kind of centrally-managed state that did regular performance reviews and allotted you responsibility could work to settle this particular point. I don't necessarily agree with that, but it's a separate discussion and would work purely considering this point.

The United States isn't the right country for such a system, though. You might look at Japan: their corporations motivate people with social status more than money. The CEOs there don't directly make a large salary, and neither do the employees. Really, nobody makes a lot of money in Japan.
Ask HN: What are you using to keep your technical notes?
I have several different pieces of software I use for note taking, but each one has its upsides and downsides, none seem to be perfect.

The kind of notes I'm mainly after storing are learning notes. For example when I did my Red Hat course, I used Evernote. Evernote is really good, styling is easy, it looks great, I can share it, putting pictures in (big points) is easy - but one of the major drawbacks is it's a pain to insert code blocks. I use Markdown for more code-oriented notes, but putting images in to Markdown is a pain and it's just a format, not a service (whereas Evernote syncs to all my devices etc).

Just thought I would see what the HN community uses. I'm currently learning Puppet and taking lots of notes, I started with Evernote but then realised I wanted to insert lots of code blocks, so I swapped to Markdown and now realise I want easy inline images and the ability to share to all of my devices without having to do something bespoke or use Dropbox/G drive etc.
That brings up a pretty good point. Are there any schools currently teaching these types of curriculum?
"Why do my eyes hurt?"

"Because you've never used them before..."
relatively low-priced

My wallet laughs at this assertion! Chrysler plays the upgrades game very well in the Jeep line (and I fell for it, hook, line, and sinker).

Sure, you can buy a base Wrangler X for around $20k. But, it's really easy to option them up to BMW territory. My only defense is at least spending the money on factory upgrades gets me a factory warranty, unlike similar upgrades sourced from Quadratec.
So you think wrapping every single access to that shared memory structure in barriers would do the trick? I should dig out that code and try, I am curious now. But that would be kind of an large change. Now the volatile modifier is in one place only -- where data is defined not when it is accessed.
> The fee for not paying a fine on time can be a weekend stint in jail, whereby you will get charged for room and board.

looks at this in complete puzzlement

I'm constantly amazed at just how broken the US system is in almost every possible way.

And just for the record, there is no such thing as payday loans in Europe. At the very least not in Germany. The first time I heard of these was when John Oliver did a segment on them.
Well, you do have more influence on your credit score then your IQ -- it is more reflective of your behavior and level of responsibility. Obviously some end up with bad credit through little fault of their own, but employers (mostly) aren't SJWs so they don't mind false negatives as long as there are more candidates.

Personally I don't think anyone who isn't extending you credit should have access to your report, but that will probably require a legislative change.
As emoji have become more popular in the corporate messages, this could be a really big problem. I usually contact my credit card operator in chat, and they always include an emoji. Sometimes I really don't understand why they send that smile that is looking as someone anxious. But know I understand better.
> When this happens as the result of malicious actions (unlike the case FB shows here), what actions can the legitimate site operator do to protect their users from this eavesdropping?

There's pretty much nothing you can do except create a new domain and try to tell users to go directly to that one.
The use of the term Engineer is very unfortunate. In many places (Texas and Florida come to mind) one cannot claim to be or perform the functions of Engineering without being properly licensed and member of a board of professional engineers.
Since a lot of potential amazing startups here, and an applicant myself, do checkout www.sofia.ai guys! We have worked super hard, just like all of you, and it can hopefully be very helpful to you guys during the growth phase (its free!).

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That way lies "bone law" and things like http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=156144623

(Link goes to a thread titled "You need a teardrop-shaped inner canthus to be facially aesthetic. No excuses!" and apparently written in all seriousness).
And removing the bottom 60% will most likely remove the median.
The Panama Papers did not have any information with regards to anyone in the US (leaders, celebrities, or otherwise).