skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what's the point in keeping a parallel alignment free?

Freight, which has seen a huge growth over the past 10-15 years, especially inter-modal traffic.
> You're ignoring breaking. If you go significantly faster than the speed limit your far more likely to break at highway speeds.

I'm not ignoring braking. Aggressive driving wastes a lot of fuel, but aggressive driving happens regardless of the posted speed limit. In fact, that rapid acceleration-brake cycle is more likely to happen when the flow of traffic is below the speed limit.

> Further, IC cars often get better fuel efficiency by mixing slow acceleration periods at optimum RPM and coasting. (Car engines get ~10-30 efficiency based on usage.) You can do this manually, but it's hard.

I don't think it's hard. It just requires paying attention to the traffic around you.
Long time Mac user here, I use awk & sed on a regular basis. Been familiar with $PATH since the DOS days and am equally comfortable SSH'd into a CentOS box as I am on the Mac.

I don't think I'm special here, but I'm for sure a subset of Mac users. My point is, seeing a Mac at someone's desk shouldn't make you assume they're idiots, just like you don't assume someone's a l33t-ub3r-h4ck3r if they're walking around with a lenovo.
US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Google Books
But they do, just those APIs aren't exposed to other NDK applications.

For example, the 2D rendering engine is implemented in Skia.
Thanks to you (and others who've provided this information), so I guess my question now is what is the privacy leak described. I understand that the browser is confessing information about the machine to the web page but I don't understand why that represents a private piece of information.
I feel like the information about where the window is located on the screen is useful for implementation and I can't think what it says about me as a user.
They actually have - and make it a bit easier than G+ did - with Groups and Smart Lists.

They also added a separate tier called 'Acquaintances' that you could add people to a while back.

However most users don't make use of it and will either share with Public or Friends. The only exception is things like groups - which are popular with things like neonatal classes and sports teams.
It reminded me to up-vote. I see nothing wrong with it.

It would be distasteful if incentives were offered in exchange for up-votes...but as it is, everyone's free to do as they please.
Does this have any connection with Apache Spark, or the Spark Java micro-framework?

If not: WTF? seriously?
Grant giving institutions could adopt something like NIH's NIH Public Access Policy[1], which requires articles to be available to the public within 12 months of publication. It isn't perfect, but it is a step in the right direction. It essentially causes everyone in that field at once to switch over to the new system, so that research don't need to stick their career on the line to make a statement about publishing.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIH_Public_Access_Policy
> Someone paid by the publisher needs to look at every paper.

Is that true? If so, what is the use of that? I don't see any scientific added value. I never even noticed such an activity myself. We can get rid of it where it still exists.

> Some journals calculate internal costs of up to $40,000 per paper

$40k per paper ? Haha sorry but I just don't buy that.

I'm not asserting these expenses don't exist. However (see my other comments in this thread), I'm showing that you can avoid them, and how the same quality control of publication can be obtained without having publishers around. And in the example I took close to everything is done in the traditional way. Which in turns is a demonstration that publishers added-value is minimal.
Or the operators would just use it to record how many older/visually-challenged people are visiting their site and target ads towards them.
This is amazing.

Kind of like when I first dragged a window across multiple monitors in the 90s. We are so used to content being stuck in artificial containers that it's kind of crazy when it transcends them.
Mature adults stop flirting when it is clear the other party is not interested.
To be fair it was budgeted at £450m when it was approved and the work started. Current expectations are that because all the preparatory work was done, and the trams and track were already bought, the route can be completed to Leith for about £100m (in 2007 prices), so overall it's coming in at somewhat less than double the expected price. The reasons were a combination of poor project/contractor management and significant unexpected difficulties with utilities.
Think about it another way, if a girl asked you out and you didn't want to go out with her, what would you do? Sure, some of us, like some woman, don't really care and will just shut it down, but many of us would just make an excuse so we're not outright rude.

Either way, learn by being told, or learn by using empathy, if she doesn't counter offer it was a no. Once you've had your 3rd no, you're that creepy guy fyi.
This headline makes the rounds every year. Perfect example of how to 'lie' with statistics, but at least this one includes the qualifier 'Federal'.

I say it's a lie because the implication of the headline is that a bunch of moochers are getting over on us righteous tax-payin Americans. But with FICA, state taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, etc these same non-federal-tax-paying citizens have a higher tax rate than Warren Buffet.
As a card-carrying jazz nerd, I am impressed. If there were more dynamics, some of these soundcloud examples would sound significantly better.

ETA: The default midi sound font doesn't do it any favors, either. I have some software instruments I could throw at this that would make it sound a whole lot better.
Asking for upvotes is against the rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?

> No. Users should vote for a story because it's intellectually interesting, not because someone is promoting it.
This is blatant vote manipulation. In fact, can "vote manipulation" be defined any other way?

It sucks that someone created an awesome site and then decided to ask for upvotes, but it's not ok to do that.
You are wrong. Read Olle Larsson and Andreas Marklunds book Svensk Historia. http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789175452531/svensk-historia/
If you have a domain name using the term "small business" that you would like to donate, my inbox is open.
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Lovely story. Don't forgot that diodes also have a voltage drop across them which means that they can be used to change voltages from batteries or other sources if needed.
TfL doesn't actually run the TfL Rail services—the big difference is their operator receives a fixed sum for operating them, compared with the other operators where they pay a fixed amount to the DfT and pocket any profit they get beyond that. Arguably, the big difference is that it means TfL Rail will only get investment if TfL decides, because there's no motivation for the operator to do so. At the same time, TfL Rail isn't in competition with the Underground, etc. so better inter-modal connectivity becomes more worth investment.
Is there a segment of the "people who don't code" market this project is targeting? I'm curious because terms like "backend" are probably only meaningful to a small portion of the larger demographic.

Has it been put in front of people in the target demographic?
Sites down, Google Cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
We're in the middle of trying to establish a high speed corridor at the moment, I'm all for it personally but honestly it's been a ludicrously expensive project so far and the opposition to it is huge and mounting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2
Have you listened to any jazz from 1980 onward? Haha... it pretty much all sounds like this!

(and yet is still more human-sounding than the atonalism that dominates modern orchestra works)
I went through something really similar. I had joined Instagram as a way of meeting other photographers in the Bay Area, and had a great time shooting with lots of cool people, learning new tricks, and getting feedback. But the turning point for me was when I realized that the reaction (or lack thereof) to my photos could make me unhappy with a photo I had previously really liked. I decided I'd rather take photos to please myself than to please other people.

Now, I shoot, and maintain a photo blog, but it's more or less disconnected from social media. I'm happy to receive critiques on my work, but now when I post a photo it's for me to look at later, rather than to get likes, and it's made me a lot happier.
I guess that's better. You still can't kill the execute bit on the binary. But the way that Apple are doing things seems a bit of a ridiculous.
That's the difference between people designing a system against a malicious adversary and a user.

Nowadays, if it involves money, for godsakes please assume the former.
No, one of the motivations was thinking it could be easily marketed.
Supreme Court won’t hear case against Google Books
I love home automation but unfortunately can't think of any beneficial use-cases. This would require each person being tracked to have an android based device with wifi enabled and the app running.

I can't track my children, I can't track my wife's iPhone. I couldn't even track myself if I left my phone in the charger. It would be neat to track my positioning and run some statistics but I wouldn't say it's useful.
Exactly. I strongly believe that the majority of their expenses are related to lobbying and paying professional lawyers to scam public research librarians into signing awful contracts with them.

By the way, these contracts most often contains non-disclosure as legal requirements, which I find outrageous for public money, especially because it gives a strong advantages to publishers in negotiating these contracts.
What's does it mean for a business to fail/survive? That's not clearly defined.
Ask HN: Can math/CS people work in climate/environmental engineering?
Those fields fascinate me, but I cannot major in them at this point. Is this field worth pursuing and what are some interesting subfields and startups in it right now? I was reading about environmental waste from paper vs. eBook readers and was wondering if I could somehow make a difference.
Not hard, but usually not worth it as far as I remember: You have to pay the VAT of your home country when you import it, which is often one of the biggest difference between car prices within the EU.
Yellow Water, Dirty Air, Power Outages: Venezuela Hits a New Low
It's just so neat and considering I usually have too many browser tabs open and still want to have hn open without having more tabs. Loving it
Video: How Big Data Has Transformed Marketing into a Science
You can define anything to be anything when you're in the outrage porn business, but unrealistic descriptions meant to stoke emotion don't help to solve actual problems, they just make for more outrage porn.
I guess the per megabyte charge is how they recoup the cost of free 3G on Kindle devices.
Envious! I assume the local folks fund their maintenance. Our problem is, some counties have the money and some don't. So a 50-mile trail may be fine except for 10 miles in the center that are rotten.
Hackers wanted: Pentagon tests US cyber defences in first programme of its kind
> I never claimed that it would. I said "Driving at the speed limit will definitely save you more fuel than speeding.", which is definitely true. If you speed you are going faster and using more fuel.

That statement has nothing to do with the speed limit, though. It may be trivially true, but adding the speed limit ties an irrelevant variable to it. Speed limit is a semi-arbitrary number that has nothing to do with how much fuel a car uses and how efficiently it uses it.
Attempts were made to privatise TfL, and collapsed. While googling for the history of this I found these 3 articles to read in order:

(2000) http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/rail-privat...

(2003) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2841704/TfL-makes-deal-on...

(2010) http://www.standard.co.uk/news/tfl-takes-over-tube-lines-to-...

All within the lifetime of the Labour government. Meanwhile expensive disasters continue under a conservative government: http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/News-Robot/vulnerable-...
What is a developer’s job, actually?
I thought this might be about Flint, Michigan when I began reading the title.
Martin's videos on lock-free algorithms are very informative and gives great insight on how to push the JVM to the extreme.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Martin-Thompson#Presentations
The argument sounds like it's based on a geometric expansion of 80% failure rate for each year.

(1.0 - 0.8)^5 = (0.2)^5 = 0.00032

That would mean that in 5 years, 99.968% of business would fail.

Clearly that's a fallacy; an 80% failure rate in the first year does not imply an 80% failure rate in subsequent years.
The GPL does not require public distribution of derivative works; only that the original licensor could not prevent licensees (even indirect ones) from performing redistribution. This is used all the time: within corporations it's normal to patch/fix GPL'd software and not distribute the changes outside of the organization, with the caveat that distribution could not be stopped by GPL licensing terms; usually, instead, it will be stopped by employment contracts.

The GPL has gone through a lot of hoops to warp itself in such a way that it takes a normally restriction-based system (licensing) and turns it into a limited guarantee of freedom from restrictions. But, it can't really subvert something like a gag order.

Consider the case of a dual license, where one license is a GPL and another license is some permissive noncommercial license. The restrictions of both licenses apply, and thus, the result is a composite set of licensing terms that resemble a GPL with commercial use restrictions. The GPL's interaction with any other set of laws that restrict distribution will operate the same way.
Thanks for the quote, I was unaware from... well, everyone I've known who has had a story on YC News and has asked for upvotes.

It's removed.
People need to stop knee-jerkedly downvoting stuff. The above comment might not sound very civil or friendly in response to posting about an AI project -- but it's a perfectly reasonable gut-level reaction to have to an (alleged) piece of music. Particularly this "music".

And it happens to be mine, also, in regard to the SoundCloud samples. Sure, the project behind it might be mathematically interesting and all... but really now, this ain't music, let alone jazz. In fact, if I came across those samples whilst flipping between radio stations, I would probably hover for at most a second or two, before giving the dial another turn... or turning the damn thing off.

Absolutely unlistenable, in other words.
Incremental porting is possible in Rust. There are a few ways to go about it, and it is pretty easy to link Rust and C code together.
Former hostage negotiator explains words to use with someone in business
UWP has XAML which is native and declarative. It's what the Windows version of React Native targets.
Apply HN: Tailored events info for hotel guests
A value added service for hotels looking to provide an even greater customer experience.

The service classifies guests on booking into a hotel and provides them with a hotel-branded, customised pdf of events happening during their stay that may be of interest to them.

Using fairly simple classifiers ( work traveller, family, area of hotel ), the system grabs a selection of top 10 events, restaurants, activities from numerous, public APIs.

A pdf is produced that is branded and styled according to the hotels existing marketing and emailed in advance to the guests.

For example, a booking made for a hotel in Mayfair London suggests gallery viewings, auctions, Michelin starred restaurants. In trendy Shoreditch for a single traveller, the latest pop-ups, nightclubs and gigs.

Pricing is based per guest at a reasonable rate of around £0.50-1.00
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Although copyright technically is limited in term [1], it is practically forever, as in I will never see a work created today go into the public domain. Next time a bill is introduced to extend copyright term, I think the community should speak out against it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
This has been shown to be a nonsense myth too. Someone's put some hard figures here:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-of-10-s...

sama also posted some stats here a while ago about yc companies that were wildly different from the "8/10 startups fail" myth.
Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died
Why can't photos be interpreted differently over time, leading them to be related to at the time of viewing, years later?
Lines like the borders line from Carlisle to Edinburgh and Birmingham to Cheltenham via Stratford were closed as "parallel alignments", and I sure everybody in the borders, along with anybody from Stratford trying to get to the South-East was completely reassured to know that there was actually no problem with them losing their access to the railway because some longer-distance travellers were still able to complete their journeys on a parallel route 50 miles away
Fuck Off as a Service
Indeed, but that was never in dispute. FIND was never pitched to replace motion detection sensors to begin with. The argument was whether motion detectors are comparable to FIND for the specific specialised problem that FIND addresses to solve; not whether FIND can replace all the generalised purposes that motion detection is utilised.

My point was always that the two technologies aren't necessarily interchangeable and in an indirect way you're just saying the same thing with your counterargument.
> I suspect the community might become more Europe-oriented, because it’s more difficult to get funding here and there are more bootstrapped businesses as a result.

It's also a lot harder to set up any sort of business in most places in Europe, at least compared to doing it in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if this community will become centered on North/South America and Asia.

In the US, you could start selling widgets instantly (all legally, taxes taken care of). Getting an LLC (something like a GmbH/Ltd) set up takes around 1-2 weeks tops, securing a company credit card - a few days.

Source: Self-employed US expat in Germany.
As a person from a country with <20% of religious people, about half of them (lukewarm) Catholics, reading some of these comments, the only thing that comes to my mind is...W.T.F.?
> Amazon charges authors $0.15 per megabyte of book file size per download

But they don't charge you anything to store the book, right? Charging something for the download is presumably necessary to discourage gaming the system and the rate chosen is meant to encourage books they consider the right size which may penalize (intentionally or not) image-laden books.

I'm not arguing that that Amazon's policies are right or that "Unlimited" makes sense for authors (or readers), just that there are good reasons to charge something.

> On AWS, you're charged $0.15/TB of bandwidth out

Where did you get that? Data out starts at $0.09/GB, goes down to $0.05/GB for big customers and presumably can go down even further for even bigger customers but not 300x cheaper.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
On git-scm.com, it says the latest build for OS X is 2.8.1. However, if you actually go to https://git-scm.com/download/mac to try to download it, they give you the 2.6.4 installer.
Our site (fictivekin.com) made that list.

I think we'd describe it more as intentinonal retro-minimalism instead of brutalist, but that's just me.
Very late response, and only cursory, but:

Prolog and erlang are not the same, or even particularly similar. Some features (such as unification, which is what erlang uses, not assignment, with the = symbol) are present, and inspired by, prolog. But the underlying computational models aren't the same. Erlang is functional/concurrent/procedural (procedural meaning you write an explicit sequence of steps). Prolog is functional/declarative. You don't (normally) write explicit steps. Rather, you describe the solution you want to find, describe the configuration of a system (essentially propositions and axioms), and let prolog search for your solution. You can do a lot more than that with the operators (declaring order of execution, terminating early, etc.), but the underlying computational model is this search. You would not use them for the same domain.

You can because they're both turing complete and thus capable of expressing the same computations. You won't because erlang excels in its concurrency model (and performance with many concurrent processes), and prolog excels in its declarative/search model. I believe there are some other languages (Oz/Mozart?) that might be suitable if you want a hybrid of erlang's concurrency and prolog's declarative model.
No connection beyond sharing a name. Can you elaborate on why you're upset about that?
>Does this have any connection with Apache Spark, or the Spark Java micro-framework?

Nope. Appears to be a closed source, set of php "RAD" components (auth, billing, subscriptions, invoices) that extends their relatively popular, but lower-level php web framework (laravel).
I don't think this has anything to do with photography. As someone who's always out with my DSLRs and lenses on nature/wilderness hikes I can say that every picture I take is with the intent of freezing something that is beautiful to my eyes and being able to take it with me. The entire process is like painting on a canvas to me. It's peaceful, relaxing and beautiful.

Taking a picture of your feet dangling off a cliff screams "hey look at me I'm so cool because I travel and I want your likes to feel better about myself". It's not about photography. The only intent here is to share and not enjoy what's around you.
It may be true, but to me the parent comment came across as smug and condescending, and didn't really have anything to contribute to the conversation.

Your comment, on the other hand, provided some more insight into why this might not be notable or impressive.
or just

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/git /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
This kind of article stands in interesting contrast to the recent post on "non-programmers' solutions to programming problems."

On that post, jbclements commented [0] that we are reaching / have reached a point where "the conversation shifts from 'how can I meet the machine's needs?' to 'how can the machine meet my (programming) needs?'"

The idea of "the machine meeting my programming needs" still requires a programming platform that has been designed with a great deal of mechanical sympathy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509543
Oracle has acquired Israeli Big Data startup Crosswise for $50m
I respectfully disagree. Yes it's going to sound terrible being played by the default midi soundfont, but what it's playing is actually quite interesting.
Wow, Amazon is this cheap?
> With the ability to modify .bashrc, you have execution right to the machine.

You have the user's execution rights only; you don't have root access.

> Thr machine is already pwned, and one privilege escalation bug away from being completely lost.

This is true of any program the user runs. The fix is for the user to not run untrusted code. Trusted code should not be modifying .bashrc without the user's knowledge.

> With this level of privileges, you can, on any machine, mask existing binaries with whatever you want.

And the user can unmask them just as easily. It's not at all the same as having root access.
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