skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Labour is expensive in American, but not 10x more than in Europe. You also got corruption, but you got that in Europe, too. Especially southern Europe---but Spain is still not a bad as the US at building public infrastructure.

There's some special American factors. One is that your population, and by extension the lawmakers they vote for, don't trust the bureaucrats at all, and thus make try to micromanage the public servants with laws that remove discretion. These laws are intended to remove opportunities for corruption, but they also remove opportunities for common sense.

For example, in most of the US they have to award public contracts to the lowest bidder---no matter how likely the awarders think the lowest bidder is going to overrun schedule and budget.

I've read a bit about these problems (and my summary above is from memory). Even lurking on HN, this topic comes up from time to time in the comments.
Is there anything unique about this site that should make me want to use it? Why should I use this over even /r/food?
Gamarue loves malicious JavaScript too – A deep look inside a recent campaign
> There is very little chance Yarvin would get past the HR department of any client I can think of

I really don't understand how personal opinions aren't protected in the same way as religion (i.e. that they can't be a reason not to hire someone). Religion is just as much a choice as any other personal belief/opinion, and it has caused at least as much, if not much more, harm as e.g. racism and sexism. In addition, it's a signal that the person is fundamentally irrational or immature (cf. an adult that believes Santa or unicorns exist).
> So this is a first challenge to AR being something we carry all the day like a mobile. The fact that it looks cool to a few techies doesn't warrant wide adoption.

This fits with the article hinting at smartphone capabilities being integrated in AR/VR headsets.

I would like a device that looks like normal glasses but can display images on the inside of the glasses to create an AR or VR experience when the user wishes to do so. Like Google Glass, but not as obnoxious. If that thing can replace my smartphone, sign me up.

(The most important feature would be an easily triggered silent mode where it does not pop notifications into my eyesight while I'm socializing or focussing.)
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The restaurant is located at the arabian park hotel which is a 10 minute drive from the airport. www.klobaa.com/blog
they don't have to be.. but most cap and trade proposals include carbon offsets... so a polluter can complete an offset project OR purchase credits to pollute more.
Why not post them now? I'd be very interested in reading them.
Insiders reveal the worst things about working for Google
I'm not aware of Sam's tweet. This being a tough space is an encouraging sign for a start-up. It was a founder of YC who encouraged start-ups to not avoid "schlep" business.

Edit: I realized that your reference to a tweet was in effect a questioning of the validity/purpose of Dais/Agora. I'd like to answer this. Unorganized debating and commenting is inefficient due to their delocalized nature. Dais allows the true values of debating to shine by creating appropriate space, and via structured guidance (see differentiated visuals compared to competitors).

By creating the first proper online space for debates, Dais gives birth to the possibility of entire cities, states, and nations being involved in issues (from temporary and local to far-reaching and international) at a level not observed since urbanization began, thus allowing unparalleled civic activism to flourish. This is the vision of Dais/Agora.
KLOBAA
KLOBAA Is An App That Connects People With Clubs, Night Life And Events. Klobaa Is Night Life In Your Palm https://www.facebook.com/klobaaonline
This is parody, right?
I hated code and decided to spend an hour writing it every day for a year
A Quick and Dirty Analysis of Apply HN
I was a youth volunteer at the NWS office in Spokane, WA circa ~1990+. I remember typing out the messages onto the terminals that were given to me by the team there. It was always caps.

But, in cool ways, the main terminals all had track balls, using a can opener to open up the cans before we put them onto balloons, and recording the actual NWS broadcasts myself are some of the great memories.

I became a pilot and use their forecast data all the time. I was given a WWII original E6B style device by one of the guys there which I hold onto with it's leather case.

Lots of respect for those people who day in and day out take measurements on the ground/air all around the country and world. The Internet provides it to us assuming it's just a given fact, but, it's taken huge number of individuals to produce weather data.
Inc reporting on this: http://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/indiegogo-campaign-funding-...

Also at http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/11/ot47-openai/ "And a very different kind of campaign – computer science conference LambdaConf uses a blind review process to select topics for presentation. This year one of their selections was a talk on weird-namespace-software Urbit by Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug). A group of Twitter activists demanded that he be excluded from the conference for his political views. When the conference refused to capitulate, the activists started pressuring sponsors to pull out of the conference in the hopes of making the conference financially unviable. After some preliminary success, anti-censorship blog Status 451 launched a counter-campaign to get people concerned about freedom of opinion in tech to donate to LambdaConf and help make up the difference. This is usually where I’d ask you to donate, except that they reached their $15,000 goal within the first day of their campaign, they’re now 146% funded, and the only reason to give any more at this point is to give an even louder FUCK YOU to the people involved. Since that actually sounds pretty good, you can take a look at the campaign here. See also ESR’s take."
The outage took my site down (on us-central1-c) at 19:13, according to my logs, so it was already impacting multiple regions by 19:13. (I have been using GCP since 2012 and love it.)
I'm pretty sure that Steve Jobs had a comparable talent. He used it to lead a great many people to create a great many products instead.
Google Glass is not AR, and Google Glass is despised in the industry for what it did to people's perception.
I make my own muesli. 75g Granola, 20g mixed nuts, 10g cranberries, 10g raisins, 20g seed mix, 100ml soy milk. I can't post a pic right now but it fills no more than a third of a regular bowl. It looks very unimpressive. But it adds up to 755kcal.

Before I started measuring quantities I ate this same mix in much larger quantities because I felt like I needed that amount to be satiated. So I was easily eating close to or more than 1000kcal for breakfast every day. And that's without OJ.

(Even now I feel like I could eat more. 60g of oatmeal fills me up much more and comes in at around 300kcal with sugar and soy milk. Muesli is not a very good breakfast.)
This just reminds me how much of a shame it is that the best option for a remote UI today is a localized browser, and the tools that go with it... Don't get me wrong, I think the browser/web is a great platform, and better than many other options that have come and gone, that said...

It sucks that VNC, X11, and RDP are the best we have... though, I will admit RDP is pretty serviceable, X11 just seems too janky to work over a really remote connection... and VNC, well it works, but, sigh...

I don't think that any remote application UI will really take over as everyone that might work on such a thing wants to gain a lock in with the goal of financial gain... so nothing really reaches a significant market share. This is the case were something that is great and libre/opensource would be better than a standard.
I think someone needs to tell New Scientist that many of us are part Neanderthal.
Does the Australian Standards body require that devices are sent to them for testing? Then there could be a database you could check as to whether a device has passed.
False equivalence. A trial isn't a conference.

That said, you should know as well as I do that judges will often restrict media coverage of hearings and trials in various ways because they know that the people involved (lawyers & otherwise) can and will attempt to grandstand and make a show of it, using the media as a platform for their message.
I wish their was a class action every time a developer leaves an unpatched bug in their software...
Show HN: The Organizer for Freelancers and Creatives
Can't help but wonder where this game denialism stems from.

I assume you were born with an ugly face and use that as an excuse to not work on yourself.
An Improved Monthly Active Users (MAUs) Metric
Work is no excuse to talk.

I understand that there are people who prefer to work in silence, concentrating on nothing but the task at hand, but the suggestion that everyone should be like that is idiotic. There is a wide variety of people in the workplace; we aren't all the same. The idea that office hours should be limited to work and nothing else betrays who we are: living, sociable human beings.
So easy a caveman can do it...
I guess the news here is that they now use Capstone. I haven't tried either, but I'm excited for a de-facto standard open-source disassembler. A lot of great tools could come out of it. Now if we had something of similar quality for decompilers...
Maybe a good time to point out we've been specializing more on the visual analytics side (mentioned companies are more like DBs or traditional Tableau) by connecting GPUs in the browser to GPUs in the datacenter: graphistry.com . And, we're hiring ;-)
Oracle already sells A LOT of Exadata; premium priced machines to run databases on overdrive. I think they would be fine competing against a GPU-optimized database.
Actually it will be possible once Web Assembly is out! I heard they have already tested the Lua interpreter on it! (I need some confirmation of this though! )

I'm reaaaaally excited for that!
But would a machine do better? Machines can miss too.
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I love the irony... another story on HN frontpage: "Google Compute Engine (GCE) down in all regions"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11476786
I am a late applicant. According to apps@ycombinator.com, late applications are still under process. All applicant will be eventually notified.
This is the project the demise of which lead to Java : http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html
I found out that, at least here in Europe, package delivery companies let their software be developed per country/department. There is no central IT department. Some departments are super high tech, while others are doing the exact same task.. but then with a twenty years old system.
Carmack's talks are mind-blowing, he just talks off the cuff fluently for two-three hours and it's consistently interesting, it's completely insane. Here's one he gave at SMU in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzkUKJCxTw
I'm pretty relaxed about that
Sun introduced the techcorp use of 'Hackathon' at about the same time as OpenBSD ran theirs (Java One and OpenBSD Hackathon both in June 1999).

It was probably a coincidence, no attempt at co-opting anything.
Why do you think it's sped up?

There's surprising amounts of skill in these unskilled / semi-skilled jobs.

If you're sitting at a machine winding transformers for 8 hours a day, and paid for each item you make (and fined for each item that fails test) you quickly get faster at winding transformers.
Literally the comment just above you had to specify they meant "Golang" in parentheses. It's a very poor choice of name. I remember when the AlphaGo thing came out on HN and there were some people who clicked because they thought it was about the language.
Or the legal department is afraid of trademark case for showing the mark... or an advertising arrangement couldn't be reached before shooting was done.
Question for the knowledgeable: why did one of the insulation layers have some metal foil in it? He commented on it as he was unwinding it, as if it was a little odd but not completely bizarre.
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Not only has it happened before, it's continuously happening all the time in an infinity of directions. Pop culture is "you're soaking in it."
Not meant as an ad since I am fighting alone for a non-profit but checkout something that is meant as a free no-bs replacement of Twitter (maybe Medium too) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456660
I don't know. I stopped wearing glasses a few years ago and I don't miss them. It's not just a technological decision.
I can see why people start to use OCaml more and more for things like CLI tools, metrics collection and other things like http proxying (most of the stuff came up HN in the last few weeks). I am hoping that OCaml finally gets its momentum and gets more widely accepted. It is a pretty sweet language with amazing features and type class.
Mozilla Project tofino, a browser interaction experiment
Judging by the responses to my "boilerplate," inluding yours which consisted of a run of the mill ad hominem attempt to shut down the conversation by white knighting, and others which were non-arguments and sarcastic these are not arguments that people have considered.
I think the PlayStation in House of Cards did serve a bit of a plot point... the shift when he was forced to switch to a secure network point and couldn't play anymore... That lack of a day to day stress relief can have a big impact. I don't play many games, but could see it as more than PP... I don't think most people who don't play would even recognize what game system it even was.
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For something like a decade (2004~2005 until 2013), Carmack gave a fluent hours-long speech/discussion/brain-dump at QuakeCon. I doubt a few minutes's speech is something he needs "plenty of time to prepare and rehearse" for at this point.

Recent examples:

2h50 2013 QuakeCon keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uooh0Y9fC_M

2h20 2014 SMU talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_oTvUl88hs

1h30 2014 Oculus Connect keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzpAbK9qFk
Of Asphalt it's only 0.4 - 0.12 though (from your link)
KDE for AR/VR anyone?

https://lwn.net/Articles/683379/
X10 is the brand I will forever associate with popover/under ads... The product itself and the company weren't necessarily bad. That said, I've always avoided them because they started it all in my mind.
I can't tell if you're joking or not. The answer is a f'n bird.
Usual users buy with their eyes. Yup, functionality may be missing but if it looks great people will still come back just because the thing looks nice.

Having said that - of course everything depends on your intended audience.
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Huh, kind of OT, but I had no idea that it's spelled Torschlusspanik. In Switzerland all I ever heard was Torschusspanik (as in "die Angst, den Ball rechtzeitig ins Netz zu bringen", which incidentally also makes the same kind of sense). Well, TIL.
A few months ago I tried to port the "supposedly portable" libunwind to OpenBSD, as a part of an effort to port Julia under OpenBSD. I failed miserably, as I found the task was too complex for my abilities (see this post of mine: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-dev/ndzuU9NixK...).

At that time, I blamed myself for not having been able to understand libunwind's code. I confess that this post has changed a bit my perspective.
This must hurt so much. I feel really sorry for the guy.
> Why would I want to use it over Gnome 2.x?

That's why Gnome 2 has been forked 4 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)) and is still actively maintained and used.
DoD: Some FOIA Requesters “Try to Monopolize the System”
How Blockchain Could Facilitate KYC Policies
> because it is an impossible one - i.e. don't lust for women in your heart.

Not impossible. Hard. Worth it IMO.

I'm now married after having lived that way for a number of years and it still has benefits. Not only for my SO.

As mentioned above, breaking into that state was hard, I worked for months without luck so I totally can relate to the "impossible" claim.

I relate the breakthrough to my being "born again" experience and I think I would rather die happily on the spot instead of going back.

Edit: posted from sockpuppet account because while I happily might share personal stuff I try to separate it from work stuff.
Sounds like a pretty normal art gallery experience then.
Have you looked at spreadsheetweb.com and calcfusion.com? The former seems mature, with plenty of real paying customers. The latter is new, and I guess they're still working on getting traction.
I have coded 6 months for some good cause without money and still get downvoted :) oh well
That's the sad consequence of supporting basic rights. The first customers of basic rights are bad people.

Imagine a hypothetical world where the government could search anyone's house at any time without a warrant. And some service came up that, through a strange legal technicality involving registering as a religious institution, could prevent your home from being searched. The first users of such a service, would of course be actual criminals. Most people wouldn't bother because they have nothing to hide.

Imagine you want to create a website that allows users to create forums with minimal moderation. Of course your first users will be interested in hate speech, because who else needs a forum that doesn't have moderation?

Or if you create a service that lets people distribute files peer to peer. Of course your first users will be copyright infringers, because they've been blocked from everywhere else. Or an anonymous currency will first be used for drugs and online gambling, etc.
There was considerable discussion last week:

The Voyeur's Motel (newyorker.com)
286 points by MrJagil 6 days ago | 100 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429006
> X11 just seems too janky to work over a really remote connection.

Surely It is.

But I cannot forget how magic it seemed in the 80s doing

titan$ export DISPLAY=zeus:0.0; xeyes &

over slow serial lines.
Funny you quote that.

There is a song by DJ Koze with that in the lyrics and I always wondered where it came from.

https://soundcloud.com/pamparecords/pampa024-dj-koze-xtc
From the linked notes: "Error budget. 100% is the wrong reliability target for basically everything."
In Germany we have mandatory media flatrate. A different business model. However, many people don't like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beitragsservice_von_ARD,_ZDF_u...
Ah, I missed those. Ok, we've put 'Show HN' back in the title.
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Show HN: Branch Logic and Short URLs
Let me tell you about my little hobby project idea that I plan to release open source (personal use) or SAAS(hosted version).

I want to combine traditional short url creation service with branch logic (conditional logic) and some ideas from smarturl.it

Create a short url that has the following logic: detect country + browsing device + screen resolution and other conditions.

Conditions can be added from user panel without needing to generate a different short url.

Eg. whenever someone clicks your shorten url it redirects to:

- URL 1 if country is France and iOS

- URL 2 if country is US and Android

- URL 3 if country is UK and Chrome and resolution greater than 1024x768

I am sure many other conditions will come into my mind.

I need a little feedback or critics from you. Thank you.
Apple removes Reddit app
When talking about Ingress, I suppose you primarily talk about USB power packs. These are not as dangerous as power supplies that are connected to 110V or 220V (although they can catch fire).

Instead of trusting a particular brand, I think it makes more sense to trust the various security certifications that were created for this purpose.

The ones I am aware of are:

* TÜV Nord, TÜV Süd, TÜV Rheinland (TUV, Germany)

* GS (Geprüfte Sicherheit, Germany)

* UL (Underwriter Laboratories, US)

* CCC (China Compulsory Certification, China)

There are probably more that are trustworthy and that actually check the safety of the devices.
"male fetuses conceived through sex with Neanderthal males would have miscarried"
How to restore files encrypted by the Petya ransomware in less than 7 seconds
The scientific way to train white people to stop being racist
Chinese team uses CRISPR to genetically modify human embryo
My personal burnout – Lessons learned
The title on NS is: "Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals" and that is importantly different from the title here on HN.

Only males have Y chromosomes so if only "Mutations in Y Chromosome made us separate species from Neanderthals" then female Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals would be genetically the same. I know I'm being a bit pedantic about the use of the word 'made' in the title but it seems important to me.
What's interesting is this comes weeks after Fujifilm announced that they would stop manufacturing their polaroid 100 film, which fit larger body polaroid cameras. Really smart move on the part of the impossible project.
Ask HN: Best sources/forums to learn about EV tech and renewable energy?
Pretty funny coming from a guy who flounced off twitter because he didn't like what people were saying to him.

I guess for Fry, who has devoted whole books worth of self-pitying screeds to how tough his life is due to his problems with mental illness, offense is something he should be allowed to give without limit, but something he should never be expected to accept.
I get that tingly feeling when I hold my ipod after plugging it into the wall through a usb adapter. It's given me a minor shock once I think. That's very interesting.
I had a thought the other day while driving through Seattle... seemed to get stuck in traffic flows more than I'm used to in other places.

The though occurred to me, that those highway signs with the mini ads for the gas stations and restaurants coming up could include products you'd be able to get at said gas stations and restaurants... Snickers could be on the sign, right next to Chevron or ARCO. That would be relatively cheap for some larger brands (Coca-Cola comes to mind), but potentially huge in terms of placement.

Gah, I hate that I come up with ways in the back of my mind on ideas like this... still it's better than the over-the-top ads in the clickbait sites.
I agree, for your personal development news is not important. However, this is how the big entities (countries, enterprises, etc) move. For example, watch the Panama Papers effect in Iceland and England.

Social networks are ok to move news around, but centralized media is more efficient to reach the masses.
Though notably, EC2Classic ELBs only
You might think advertising doesn't make people spend more, but there's a pretty big industry that disagrees with you.

So what would people do with the money if ads didn't exist? Make quilts out of bills? People are going to spend it all, that's the whole purpose of money, ads just redirect who gets it.
This is so obviously nutty that is simply a wealth transfer from those with too much to the audacious.

Call me in 100 years.
I'm immediately skeptical of people who claim to have felt "similar" effects to LSD without LSD, but that's a pretty interesting scenario involving weed (how much?!) and schizophrenia. No clue how close you could get to emulating it, but it sounds like at least a few of the common effects of an acid trip.
It is not that Africans females and Neanderthals are genetically the same, just that the genetic incompatibility between the two species appears to be sex specific. This is pretty common when different species hybridise.

Haldane's rule covers why this occurs [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%27s_rule
There's a distinct difference between receiving multiple hundreds of nasty comments each day vs being 'triggered' by something random you read on the internet, in my opinion.