skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, despite the reservations expressed by others so far, I think it's a good thing that something like this exists; it's a big shame that Google abandoned their own equivalent.

Having said that, I would be surprised if there weren't good open-source alternatives (anyone?); maybe the problem is that server-side requirements might get a bit awkward, even if you can find a good solution in the language of your choice.

> All chartd charts look great on retina displays. The SVG charts are vectors and render perfectly. chartd generates all the PNGs @2x the resolution so they scale appropriately.

Is this why when I view an image directly [1] it's twice the size of the requested dimensions? I'm viewing this on a 'retina' screen, in case that affects things. Is this the best way of handling retina displays, to make everyone else's image 4 times bigger than it needs to be, and scaling it in-browser?

[1] e.g. http://chartd.co/a.svg?w=580&h=180&d0=SRWfaZHLHEDABKKTUYgpqq...
They kept introducing stupid crap regression "features" that made the app less and less anonymous, defeating the whole purpose. If I wanted to talk semi-anonymously I would be using my college subreddit. Glad it's dying; it's a shame of a social app.
Am I glad I didn't miss this post! I've been looking for a usable emacs setup on Android for a long time. Termux just worked out of the box.
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That's a small step for man, giant step for emacs kind!!!
Never really like any other editor and was waiting for that day to come since years!!!
That's an egocentric view. The winds of the world are shifting and it isn't all about the US. It has played its part in the drama, but it isn't even remotely the only player or even necessarily the prime mover anymore.
21% feels precipitous. The question is if that is just going to different platforms or if people are just more aware of privacy implications and thus sharing less on the internet as a whole.

Or is the novelty factor of sharing itself dying down and people discover they mostly have nothing original to say.
I wouldn't. But. I've seen plenty of stories from friends who had received a written offer and then had it rescinded before/on the start date. There's no legal recourse.

Still, it's shitty, and I don't engage in shitty behaviour just because someone else does it.
This was omitted from the piece, but we count words and then convert to lines at ~10 words/line. When pop culture talks about dialogue in film, we use lines. So that felt more natural than "# of words spoken."
I recall a blackhat video on YouTube where they could access webcams and disable the LED, having a LED isn't a certain indication unless you know that it's not software activated. I have a Logitech and was able to control the LED using information given at the time ... can't recall the details now sorry.

A quick search on security.stackexchange reveals similar info.
Basically OYO Rooms (http://startupbeat.com/2015/05/27/oyo-rooms-is-now-indias-la...) for Kenya?

Great idea! No shame in mentioning the original. On the contrary, embrace the reference and use it as indication that the business model is solid.

Goo luck!!
Is the world's oldest profession prostitution or cheating? Cheating in sport started as soon as people cared about the outcome, only now with ubiquitous data sources has it become increasing hard to succeed at. Cheaters hope they fly just between the fine line of amazement in their outcome and interest that would invoke investigation and lead to their downfall. The bank robber whose holdup note is written on the back of their deposit slip never thinks they'll be caught, so is the athlete who fails to consider the power of the data and dedication of slighted peers to unearth it.
I'm not in disbelief that she was caught, only that so many others weren't... Yet.
Serious question, do you feel like Facebook provides much value to its users?
I'm not sure why the Romanian & Bulgarian issue is being mentioned.

Another part of it is Canadians and Americans have access to the EU where you can just get there without forms or paying anything whereas you have to fill in a silly form and pay a bit of cash to go the other way.

Semantically it's not termed a visa but it's just like one so this is the EU trying to put in a silly form and small payment as a reciprocal measure.
You train for one (1) year to merely finish a triathlon and then rag on people that are looking for something greater than ticking a box?

If this was a computer game, people would deem you a "casual".
If the information is legitimate, who cares who was behind it?

If it was the Russians, why would we look at the leak as "evil" rather than praising them for doing so? Maybe more Americans should be leaking this sort of information.
I really love that you're bringing some of the process to the HN community. I remember the first YCF batch had huge numbers of applications and I think it's likely that many great ideas were lost in that volume. Will be interesting to see what surfaces :)

P.S have submitted my idea here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461008
I assemble PCs for my friends, family and I since 20 years, we have something like 10 servers and 30 desktops (some are more than 8 years old) at work and I never had a CPU die on me.

You are really unlucky imho.
Amoungst the first big articles published were revelations about putin's freinds 2 billion in offshore money and China's PM's Suster abd Freind having offshore accounts.

But we recieved nothing about america. We have recieved some stuff about the UK but 30k of taxed money is not illegal at all.
If there were a catalog, they'd be on facing pages.

edit: Why am I trying to be pithy here? If you need to think a wall is so different from a fence is so different from an electric fence, you're rationalizing something.
It would be an entirely spiteful act, however -- the only consequence would be a reduction in tourist dollars to Europe. Which is why it seems incredibly unlikely this would pass a EU general vote.

Canada and the United States have a refugee pact. Certain, specific countries in the EU have been a source of large numbers of bogus refugee claimants that cost considerable time and money (Canada received 23 times more "Hungarian refugees" than the rest of the world combined in 2010). Hence, a visa requirement. Spitefully saying "we'll do it too" is nonsensical -- Canada and the United States are sovereign countries, so it's not going to be received well.

EDIT: It seems that my account is dead. Yet another victim who dared to disagree with the great tptacek.
Here's one thing I don't understand... The rocket lands upon a floating platform in the ocean. Presumably the platform rocks along with the waves. How do they keep the rocket from tipping over after the landing? If it were as huge as an aircraft carrier I can imagine that it might be possible but the platform is relatively small.
I watched this earlier today - really insightful. I also love that his intention was to never make something great for the industry, just something great for him. That's where the best projects come from.
I don't understand why the entire operation has to be undefined behaviour. Why not just say that the bitwidth may be truncated to an undefined number of bits?
Yes, and Turkey (80 million middle eastern people) will get EU membership.

Merkel cut a deal w/ Turkey to take back immigrants in return for EU membership.

link: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-tu...
Pretty cool though I still prefer the Corpus clock a few yards down the road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock
Nope. I don't want to diminish this great technological achievement in any way but this is not even close to setting foot on the the Moon. Actually I am not even sure that setting foot on Mars will top the Moon, in some sense it's the same thing. And yes, I am aware of the huge difference between Moon and Mars. The first permanent human outpost, whether on the Moon, on Mars or elsewhere, may be the next step after going to the Moon and living in space stations that doesn't have the feel of an incremental step.
> up-front and clear

I don't think you can argue the terms of ads on the web are upfront and clear. It takes serious reading to learn about all the different methods they use to track you now. They often give people malware. Is that part of this inherent "contract"?

> I'm not trying to make a case about having to display content, I'm trying to make a case about obligation to display content when you want to display other content. The medium is irrelevant. I would make the same case with paper. Having an assistant cut out the ads from a magazine (or removing and reprinting without them) before presenting it to you is equivalent in my eyes, and the same problem.

So you're saying that even though I paid for the magazine, I own the magazine and can do what I want with it, I don't have a right to use the paper it's made of as I please? Sorry, but that's utterly ridiculous. And I think most people would find it so too.

It'd be different if I borrowed the magazine, but since I own it I'd say it's fully within my right to cut out ads, chop it in half, fold it into planes, use it as toilet paper, what have you. That's my right as an owner of the magazine.
I think it's better for speakers to pay, because then it creates an atmosphere of everyone coming together to share their work, speakers and attendees together on the same level, and everyone sharing the costs of the conference.

If you think about conferences as a product sold to attendees, it makes sense for speakers not to pay. If you think about conferences as a community platform which everyone pays to run and is to everyone's benefit, which I think is a better way to do things, it does make sense for them to pay.

At some conferences almost everyone is attending is also speaking, so obviously you need to charge speakers in that case.
I like Go. I've little project https://github.com/beyondns/gotips
The essence of Go in some little piece of code:

select {
case <-time.After(queryTimeLimit):
cancel()
<-done // wait
fmt.Printf("time out")
case err :=<- done:
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}

}

// https://github.com/beyondns/gotips/blob/master/tips32.md#17-...
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I only compared the ability of those truck platoons to re-group dynamically to those of trains.
It doesn't sound relevant, the current status quo is there isn't a visa required (this is between US/Canada and the EU)
"Failing"? Can you name a company with profit margins better than Google? Here's one: Union Pacific.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/04/union-pacific-railroad/

The problem with trains is the last mile: you obviously can't drive them to every store etc that needs a delivery. But the process of loading and unloading containers from ships to trains (and trucks) at ports is getting more and more automated as well.
The weight of the engines puts the center of gravity in a mostly empty rocket fairly low.
Even if Merkel had made such a promise (which she didn't), she does not get to decide who becomes a member of the EU. The human rights situation in Turkey makes it impossible for them to join the EU.
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Note that for most EU countries US offers visa waiver, which still requires filling out some forms online before the trip and a payment. US citizens can just come to EU whenever they want to.
Cool. Now do a port of the latest OpenSSL to A500, and find a way to get good randomness. That would be something :P
Twitter and Telegram were all I needed for keeping up with people during a convention last weekend. I can't imagine any of Facebook's services working as well.
And given the Martian atmosphere, if you want to drive a car on Mars it has to be electric. It's all starting to make sense...
Only in Erdogan's dreams. There are many many factors which prevent Turkey from joining the EU, and they have only become worse since the subject was initially raised years ago.
This is unlikely, many countries have already pledged to veto it.
Now that's funny, this morning radio headlines about the Panama papers were relaying rumors about how it's America behind the divulgation to embarrass Russia and others.
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Romania and Bulgaria both control their own borders, they are not members of the Schengen Zone. Therefore this has absolutely nothing to do with an exchange of visa free travel. A fair exchange would be that Romania and Bulgaria both revoke visa free travel... although they don't offer it in the first place.

It sounds like the EU is trying to throw its weight around in order to gain political favour with neighbour states. I hope everyone says no. The EU would see its tourism from more affluent countries plummet, cutting off the nose to spite the face.

It's political posturing and probably nothing would come out of it if everyone did say no.
For a website called Overcoming Bias, the bias in the article is fairly transparent.
Or DASH, rather. Bitcoin is not private.
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You should try twitter. Lots of like minded people.
In a sense that addictions provide value while simultaneously extracting event more, all with the willful participation of the user (consent seemed like the wrong word).
That's not how EU extension works.

Even if Turkey solves it's human rights issues, which are a big blocker right now, it still takes a single EU country to veto Turkey accession.
If you generally enjoy Android, I wish you luck with this, I really do. Hopefully this will not be your straw, your thousandth cut. I hit mine a few months ago.

I used to enjoy my Android phone (well, phones, Captivate, S3, S4, Moto G 4G, one or two others?) but the nits and burrs and expectancy violations and overall UX inconsistencies and flaws just grew to be too much for me.

This past December, I switched to an iPhone. I have never been this happy with a device, ever (I vaguely remember really liking my 19" monochrome X terminal - NCD? - back in the day, and one or two others, but nothing compares to my iPhone in terms of elegance, simplicity, ease of use, and integration).

Some backstory may be important: When I started on Android, I had Ubuntu on an HP laptop. Used to love it. One day, after 7 or 8 years of Ubuntu \([A-Z]\)\1 releases, the nits, etc., and especially Canonical dumbing things down and making it harder and harder for me to have the UX I enjoyed... all these things overcame my love of the platform and I switched to a Macbook Air (I had bought Airs for my wife and daughter in the two precious years and had become envious of their UX - when I would assist them, I would miss the trackpad, among other things, back at my HP).

Within an hour of purchase, I was back to being highly productive, being assisted by my computer, instead of fighting it to get things done.

I maintained a mixed Android phone and Mac computer environment for another few years, until I finally had enough. The myriad minor flaws of the Google UX did me in.

Google does OK. But that's it. They do OK. Only just OK. They simply don't get "complete UX", they leave too many shouldacouldawhydincha's.

I'm this close to abandoning gmail on my iPhone and moving to Outlook (!?!?!? yes, this statement continues to boggle my mind - years ago it was poor Outlook experience that motivated my move to Linux!!!) because I am tired of having to go get my computer to do something that is super easy with gmail in my browser but completely impossible with the gmail app....

I went so far as to go "all in" with iCloud and I could not be happier with the UX. Seamless integration between the computer and the phone, tremendous ease of use, a much better UX.

I don't miss Android, not at all. I miss one game that was Android-only and super clean, that's it. I don't miss the platform.

If I do go Outlook, I bet I won't miss gmail at all either. Pains me to say it, but there it is....
For compiled languages like Rust, you might be correct, though even there I use trailing commas, specifically for the reason mentioned. It reduces bugs when you add or swap around array elements.

In a compiled language you catch this because it's a syntax error. In JavaScript, it might be missed through every code review (because it's subtle) and and then break on release to you production system.

So it's not just style, it can help reduce bugs.
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The center of gravity for the rocket is actually very low. The engines are on the bottom, and the rest is just a light aluminum tube (with other smaller tubing and tanks inside but still.)

Also, after the landing they vent the remaining oxygen, and afterwards people come aboard to weld the rocket legs to the surface so it wouldn't slide off.

Maybe very strong winds would be an issue, or very rough seas immediately after landing but they wouldn't launch in rough weather anyway.
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I mean the market forces are failing us, not that train companies are.

Then of course a transportation company with 20% profit margin is very likely the result of market failure...
Wish I could upvote you a million times. Many supposedly capitalistic organizations are in fact like miniature Soviet Unions.
Throw the fraction of the money used for promoting and developing self-driving and platooning, coupled with the cost of building roads to public transport, trains, tracks and ships and you will have a much more efficient albeit less cool system.

Tangential, but letting (semi) self-driven convoys on the road is quite irresponsible, imagine the headlines if they were to get in an accident.
A rocket is basically a giant fuel tank with some very heavy engines at the bottom. By the time it lands, the tanks are almost empty, so the center of mass is _extremely_ low.

There are two main tanks in the stage, the top ~half is liquid oxygen, and the bottom ~half is kerosene. The liquid oxygen is lighter, and boils off pretty quickly once they open up the vents. So what little fuel is left (the kerosene in the bottom tank) also settles to the bottom, which helps push the CoM even lower.
> and pay a bit of cash to go the other way.

Citation, please? Travel/tourist visas for visitors staying less than 90 days may use the Visa Waiver Program [0] to enter the USA free of charge.

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-...
The commas do something in backquote syntax! They are operators, effectively.

In the Scheme backquote (dubbed quasiquote), the spec says that the read syntax ,X produces (unquote X). You can omit the comma, and then you just have X.

This is totally different from a comma which just punctuates syntax.
Yeah, the article makes it sound like a sapient fence or something.
Or between two businesses, or between two individuals, or by selling capital, or interest on loans, etc.
> The police in London regularly picks up the hung or poisoned bodies of those who dared to attack or expose Putin...

Presumably you are talking about Roberto Calvi and Alexander Litvinenko.

While two murders that could be linked to the Russian state are two too many, describing this as 'regularly' seems a bit of a stretch.

That being said, I agree that Putin is near the top of my "people who should not be messed with" list.
What do you mean for Romania and Bulgaria to revoke visa free travel?

Romanian and Bulgarian citizens can travel all over EU, including into the Schengen Zone, without a visa. They are only subject to a Passport/ID check.

And EU citizens can travel to Romania/Bulgaria without visas. So what do you mean?
This assumes today actually is fairer and more just. It isn't necessarily so in all ways, and change is not necessarily permanent, as history will show you.
Sure you could! If Land Value Tax was the only tax levied (i.e. no income or consumption taxes), it would unaffected by the anonymity of money.
It costs $14 to apply for an ESTA online which is a pre-requisite to use the VWP, and you have to renew it for another $14 every 2 years or when your passport is renewed, whichever comes first. https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1072/kw/esta/
There's a $14 fee to the US, $7 to Canada alongside the form.

[0] http://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/frequently-...

[1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=1056...
The main benchmarks that these compilers compete on are those from http://www.tpc.org/. They are synthetic datasets which are fairly naively generated. http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p204-leis.pdf is a really interesting paper that looks at how some of the heuristics used in those compilers work well on TPC but break down on real datasets. It can give you a good intuition of when you have to be wary of bad plans.
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According to Google there are French podcasts, and they are very popular ! I found an article from 2012 that said there was 20 millions podcasts downloads in France every month (we're a bit less than 70 millions French).

I had no idea since nobody I know ever mentioned podcasts to me. Maybe they're all Luddites or they hide their podcast addiction well ;-)
Me I exclusively listen to audio books (and I can recommend wholeheartedly the ones from Graphic Audio).
Electric light and toasters run on electricity "generated" by the generator.

A lot of ships have electric engines. On cruise ships, diesel electric propulsion offers quieter and smoother rides. Some air-craft carriers and submarines have nuclear-electric propulsion systems.

The article made me cringe, too, but mainly because it created a false impression on how big magnets are really energized. I've done it a few times (always with the same magnet, which keeps quenching...), and described the process here:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/69222/
Elon mentioned at the news conference that the pitch/roll of the ship was 2-3 degrees for this landing, and that it should be easy to handle twice that, with a maximum of about 8-9 degrees.

https://youtu.be/VNygOavo2mY?t=934
When you see how crowded European truck stops are you realize that parking a truck there is probably the ultimate challenge for an autonomous driving system.

This system might allow two drivers to drive a convoy of maybe six trucks across a long distance of highway, but it doesn't provide much benefit over the existing road-trains that they use in Australia - and they've never been used in Europe.

It's still exciting and amazing though.