skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany's bureaucracy is more cumbersome than many in the EU I think. It's not the worst, and has the advantage that it does follow its own rules and is not corrupt. But they really like requiring many forms on paper, and in-person visits to a variety of offices. There are other EU countries with more streamlined processes.

In Denmark the situation is not that different from the US. You can legally operate as a sole proprietor simply by filling out an online form registering for a CVR number (a business tax ID). It's free and instant. Setting up an ApS or IVS (roughly equivalent to an LLC) is also pretty easy, and can be done online.
Making an iOS app like making a Java web app – Part 2: writing iOS apps
No, it's just that building a solar-panel factory is really expensive and has a longer lead time than customers will wait.
They are picky about winning. Money will make all the difference if they have no preference, but if they don't like something or are slower, there's no way someone who finishes in the top three would be willing to trade more money from one sponsor for moving down in the rankings.
Agreed. Did Holmes say that?
That's not Firefox proper, that's a webview. Nobody can build an alternative browser for iOS. As for an example of competing services that can't be installed on iOS, look to f.lux.
Have you heard of Group B?

That's the story of why racing today has heavy regulations.
So Microsoft Is Leading in Advancing JavaScript (see Edge 14)
I absolutely love StumpWM, and never want to go back to a non-tiling, non-Lisp window manager. I love that I can connect to it from emacs using SLIME and recompile pieces while it's running. I love that it uses my entire screen, cleanly. I love that it supports modern fonts. I love that it's fast & visually lightweight. I love that it gets out of my way and lets me work.

When I use StumpWM, I feel like I'm using the interface of 2084, not 1984.
Wouldn't it make sense for Amazon to hold payouts for 30-60 days on new accounts, and require books to be available for 30-60 days before a payout?

It seems a huge part of this scam is pulling your book from the store before you get caught - make that part impossible and he scammers will have to work a lot harder.

There are ways around anything for a determined scammer, but those all have an associated cost, and if you make the costs high enough many of the scammers will go away.
A clutched flywheel would probably be an advantage in many kinds of terrain. Imagine being able to spin up the flywheel from pedalling or gravity (geared) while going downhill, and then when you hit an uphill section you kick in the gear and pedal easy. It would essentially turn most tracks into "flat" tracks.
I've been keeping a close eye on who is implementing features in the "Next" tab and today I was surprised to see Microsoft's Edge 14 be the earliest to have their column start to turn green
Interestingly, they race electric motorcycles at the Isle of Mann TT, and the riders all talk about how it's a different game to racing fuel-powered bikes - the bikes are capable of using up all their energy much more quickly that a fuel powered bike, so it becomes as much an efficiency trial as a race, they need to manage their energy consumption to ensure they make it to the finish line (all while still averaging over 100mph around the 40-odd mile mountain racecourse...)
Old Babylonian Math Tablet
DNSSec is useless if TLS was implemented in the ideal way. But, unfortunately, TLS is far from ideal.

The author states "For something as harebrained as the CA system, remarkably few criminal breaches trace back to it -- There have been many false CAs, and certificates issues. We have no idea what they've been used for (http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/google-warns-of-unau...). In addition to this, there exist many CAs whose primary purpose is to perform MITM-style attacks

The author's points about DNSSec being expensive - somewhat, but more an more providers are offering DNSSec at the same price as normal DNS. Fedora is even enabling it on all their end hosts.

As far as the "Government controlled PKI":
1. What's better? Some security, or no security?
2. If the government wanted to crack DNSSec, there still exists the fact that we can share KSKs out of band for verification.

DNSSec is capable of providing better security than the current system. It does have some implementation gaps, but what do you propose alternatively?
> In fact, you cannot have a success with socialism without a large number of wealthy (or well-off) people to tax, and a society cannot tax itself to prosperity.

And you can't have success with capitalism without a healthy and prosperous working/poor middle class to be your consumers.

I'm thinking of democratic socialism. It's capitalism with a heavy emphasis on welfare and super strong social safety nets.

If you look at the quality of life index (the "where-to-be-born" index), you'll see that the top 10 countries all employ a form of democratic socialism. That's saying something right there.
Plenty. Once you're well-spoiled and have a few months of practice, it's certainly doable. I've ascended with every class (though only two with the most recent release, which is definitely harder).
But why? I'm not trolling, I mean this as sincere non hostile criticism... Static types alone improve code quality and execution speed, and it's been shown hardly anyone actually exploits dynamic types anyway.
No, you can't get Firefox on iOS. You can sync bookmarks with Firefox and get a Firefox-style border around Webkit though. :(
The investigation's video is also available (in French):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4543y2_video-un-moteur-dan...
Pathfinder: Visual Analysis of Paths in Graphs
I guess you missed the bit where I mentioned that I considered study as important as practice, and that I've already got a lot of professional experience in other branches of the arts, so the notion of deliberate practice is fine with me. What I'm doing differently this time is giving my own taste equal priority with received knowledge instead of beating myself up for failing to meet some external standard. Accepting that many paintings will vary from their original goals as the price of enjoyable experimentation has proved to be a good bargain. I just got tired of being my own worst critic in hopes of pre-emptively avoiding possible disapproval.
Top 16 Java Inheritance Interview questions for freshers and experienced
Is it actually corrupt? I hear a lot of hot air about the USG being corrupt, but I almost never hear about quid pro quo scandals... just politicians asking for money because their constituents demand expensive campaigns. We don't like what the government does sometimes, e.g. NSA etc, but I think we have an honest disagreement with them on the best way to protect the country (though they use shady tactics to get their way).

Essentially, it looks to me like government is incentivized to do their job, and most of the problems are due to the way people vote (though gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement schemes like voter ID are a big problem). The soon as voters change their tune, politicians flip on a dime. I've seen it time and again.

So that said, I'm tired of this corruption meme. Can we talk about implementing good systems instead of assuming other people are out to get us?
Arsene Wenger harus memperbaiki kerusakan mental
Love the idea, but double ended markets are also tricky to match. What are incentives for Lackiis to join that they can't get from other semi-skilled jobs that perhaps offer? Who else are you competing with for this labor?
There's also a pure X11 version, which only pulls in what X requires:

$ make
gcc main.c -std=c89 -pedantic -O2 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -o bin/zahnrad -lX11 -lm
$ ldd bin/zahnrad
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe32df9000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f8468746000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8468441000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f84680a0000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f8467e7d000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8467c79000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8468a88000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f8467a75000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f846786f000)
Cooper being rare makes it more likely that they upgrade the end points to get 3mbps or more. I'd guess that hold true for down under as it does for the other places i know.
Oh, I miss ion3 on osx.
The Network Behind the Cosmic Web
The problem, I believe, is the market share. If your OS is only on 3 or even 4 out of 10 phones, then you're not in a dominant position, and whatever you do, you're not abusing your market power, which is what antitrust is all about.

So Apple and their OSs will always be safe from this kind of thing because they're simply not the biggest player when it comes to market share.
Google CDN looks very similar to what Cloudflare Free Plan offers. A no-Frills, fully automated setup with little or no control on how your content is being delivered. Main difference with Cloudflare being that Google forces you to use GCP as Origin and you have to pay for the CDN service (Bandwidth, purge, requests...) which Cloudflare offers for free and you can use any Origin server.

Not sure why someone would use Google CDN when you can get the same for free with Cloudflare. Moreover, Cloudflare provides Security up to L7 with WAF whereas Google Cloud has no Security features. Anybody know how DDoS (L3/4) mitigation works on Google CDN?

Now if you want control and the ability to set up your own policies (Cache Control Headers, redirect, complex cache key manipulation, etc...), Google Cloud is not going to be what you need, at least for the time being and you would be better of with EdgeCast or Akamai. Faslty is an interesting option too but their network is very small compare to EdgeCast or Akamai. Fastly is about 1Tbps of capacity whereas Akamai or EdgeCast are > 20Tbps.

PS: Akamai is not IP Anycast based
It was concept we would have loved to have worked out- super efficient blood testing. Alas, it was too good to be true, or ahead of its time.
Now the serious question is why the founder or board abandon the approach when it did not succeed. That whey the company became shady.
Why ‘crunch time’ is still a problem in the video game industry
Emilia Wang Applauds Court Decision
Because antitrust is about leverage. Using your position in one market to get an advantage in another. Apple is the only provider of hardware running iOS, so leverage do not play a part there.
low cost is never the same as low TDP. never.
Who's going to be the first to prove how idiotic this system is by DDOSing OFAC with (im)properly labeled micropayments?
Too bad Edge is the slowest web browser you can possibly use for any meaningful web app.
10-20%. There are those that get the promotion without the pay, they are in orgs than need warm bodies to stay to keep the lights on. Get out of them.
Php script to download YouTube videos
Neural networks class – University of Toronto
>electric vehicle sales were 0.66% of unit auto sales in 2015, and actually represented a sharp numeric decrease from 2014

Can you site this source please? I am very curious to see the data! thanks
Good point. Isn't the Fastly VCL configuration proprietary? What if you need to move to another CDN?
Un-effing believable. Someone get this guy onto AI see if he can create a general purpose one in 5 months.
> I'm not sure why you wouldn't seriously consider replacing any of the following with Go

just curious about this: are there folks trying out dpdk with go ? implementing these control-plane applications in vanilla sockets (or close-to-zero-wrappers on those), doesn't seem fruitful anymore.

fwiw, i have been doing dpdk stuff, but have been mostly using C...
Marx v2 – The classless CSS reset (perfect for Communists)
3 things founders must do to build a $10B company
CSS3 Box Model behavior
Easier to use? If you understand "cloud computing" as "VMs in the cloud" than Digital Ocean is much cheaper and easiest to use. To me, "a cloud" is a few steps beyond just the rudimentary VM hosting - I get a lot of services from AWS that I need to implement and maintain myself with GCE or other cloud vendors. Okay, I agree, Google is catching up, but AWS is still years ahead with things like CloudFormation, OpsWorks, ElastiCache, RDS, Elastic Transcoder, WAS, SQS, and the likes.
Even though Notch was supposed to make it open source at some point. Another broken promise.
or drive the price down. imagine if company X wants to see them in a headline "beating YP, X acquire Yahoo".
Flower Shell lets you plant seeds using a 12-gauge shotgun
The Flying Spaghetti Monster
having a Python JITing VM written in python, compiled to javascript, can actually be faster than CPython (after warmup!)

https://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-faster-than-cpython...
Wait so the EU can have a $7B windfall from a guilty verdict yet they will remain impartial? Nice!
<sarcasm You are violating the fundamental commandment of tech optimism: throw enough money and naive young nerds at it, you can solve ANY problem. Google is even trying to defeat mortality. /sarcasm>
This is what Danielle Fong at Lightsail has been doing since 2009. They've had investment from Bill Gates and Peter Thiel.
They've developed a way to compress and decompress air efficiently by heating/cooling the air. by using a carbon fibre air canister they are able to store air at a much higher pressure than previously possible.

Her Ted Talk[1] and their website[2] explains it much better than I do.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZiaTV6uvFQ
[2] http://www.lightsail.com/
Linode Outages Newark, Atlanta, Tokyo
Federal Reserve Simulator
Awesome question. As I'm sure you're aware, one of the big problems that folks are dealing with in the gig economy is the status of contract workers. One big incentive for Lackiis to join us rather than another "gig site" is that Lackiis are employees that would receive benefits, so they're not left out in the wild like many 1099 workers. Another advantage of working with LACKII is flexibility and the ability to work with a multitude of different businesses. Since many of the folks that we are targeting to become LACKIIs are current or recent college grads and folks like new parents who may be looking for some kind of flexible employment, LACKII is an excellent place for those folks to work to develop new skills and learn about new and emerging trends in the business world. These are people who might otherwise be looking for inconsistent work on sites like TaskRabbit and FancyHands.
Or a motor + battery but the battery has to start discharged. Basically the same as the flywheel I guess, except you have a little more control over when the energy you store gets used.
>> 25 cents per watt by 2050 — down from around $3 per watt today

Can I trust a report that does not even have the units right?! Price should be proportional to energy (i.e., Joules or Watt-seconds) not power (Watts).
People complain because the way things work now you take less than market value and when the company has a successful exit years later you end up with... maybe enough to make up for the lesser salary you took. So why not just go work for an established company and make your money without any of the risk.
doxxed
Simplest way to add zoom/pan on D3.js
Crypto++ Library - C++ class library of cryptographic schemes
nothing like reaching the US
It's in a better place now. We can remember it as it was, back in the glory days, instead of the failed Harvey Norman wanna-be that it became.
Couldn't something like that be done in Minetest?
Dinosaurs weren’t driven to extinction by that meteorite after all
I agree. This is what happened to swimming with the super-suits. It became a matter of who can buy the best technology and a bunch of records came crashing down until they banned all the high-tech suits. Ian Thorpe's 400m freestyle record was thought to last for a least a decade or two and poof it was gone.
The judges shouldn't be seeing a penny more or less no matter the verdict. If they're bribed that is another matter.
Classic Journalism had people cite sources and show facts and credible evidence to support a story.

Internet Journalism is about making up stuff to get more hits on the article to sell more stuff via advertising on the page so they can collect more money.

It is sad to see sites like Vox doing the Supermarket Tabloid type of Journalism where they make stuff up for ratings and ad clicks.
Sorry, I had to clarify: VCL [0] stands for "Varnish Configuration Language", i.e. you can move to another CDN that supports VCL (although I'm not aware of any other) or move to your own Varnish servers.

[0]: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/reference/vcl.html
Narrative Charts
Draw.io: Flowchart Maker / Visio Online
Except that the team get sponsored by a manufacturer, and it's not picked by the riders.
Thanks for that recommendation; I just went to check out their desks and they look really good, especially at that price point. I might buy one of them soon.
There are other browsers than Chrome and Chromium, you know.
You are wrong, because this comes up ALL THE TIME, and the simple answer is that it's not off-topic if enough HN members find it interesting enough to upvote.
It's satisfying to see enforcement against frauds, especially when they are so close to your own industry.

I've seen people do sketchy stuff which seemed obviously wrong and publicly apparent for many, many years. Sometimes it finally catches up with them, but other times it does not, and they cash out, are rewarded, and praised by others who have great respect. That is deeply unnerving.
But don't the judges work for the EU?
I know this has been submitted previously, but they are constantly updating it and it is a really amazing piece of software.
How about something in between? A rider and a manufacturer can work together to design a new bike for that rider, but for actual races the manufacturer has to build an instance of that bike under supervision of race officials and turn it over to them, and it is that instance that the rider must use in the race. Once the bike is turned over to race officials, no one is allowed unsupervised access.

That allows innovation, while making it much harder for a rider and team to cheat.
Both are relevant. The government and companies probably build capacity in watts (power), but consumers purchase actual joules (energy).
What are you disclaiming? I have to admit, having been a bit baffled when people started disclaiming their credentials against all definitional expectation, just seeing a bare disclaimer with nothing obviously being disclaimed, I am completely confused.
I don't get it. Does a car (a tech) work in a human way? No it doesn't, instead we humans are good at learning and adapting new things. If you are going to develop tech in a human way then there is no way you could advance any technology. A tech is nothing but doing something in a new and different way to achieve efficiency.
My bad experience with Australia's education system was when my 5yo son got chastised for looking at the clouds...No matter the context, i.e. he was the last one back in class, I can't fathom a worse educational approach. He was asking me whether he was allowed to look at clouds for months afterwards.
If that was the only requirement the TSA agent could direct you however they pleased as long as you couldn't predict it. The reason to use a software solution, one imagines, is to protect from corrupt TSA agents. Corrupt TSA agents know when they turn their iPads on.

Additionally, by observing several passengers being directed this way or that, you could brute force the seed and the system becomes deterministic.
> The trick is not to do something stupid. If you can prevent yourself from doing that, all you need is a fair amount of luck and patience

This is why I never got that far in NH. It inevitably killed me, are there was just far too much tedium involved. I greatly prefer Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup[1] over it. DCSS felt like it didn't require you to have encyclopedia-level knowledge of the game, and most deaths, if they felt like stupid mistakes, were because I overestimated my character's abilities and did not retreat when I had the chance. But I had the chance.

(I've retrieved the Orb of Zot, but not ascended with the amulet, so there's that, too. Also DCSS has absolutely beautiful graphics.)

[1]: https://crawl.develz.org/
Bang on right. That's exactly how we're looking at it.

One thing we also consider as well is the overhead of adding another person to our team. We're learning a lot as we go (we've never built anything like this), so we have to be very careful that each teammate we bring on is aligned on vision, has the tools and resources they need to be successful and make smart autonomous decisions, and can fit into the current team without disrupting too much of the other teammates. That means that we can't just double our team size overnight and stick two new people on optimizations and cost reduction, even if it financially and procedurally made sense.
Along the same lines, I'm surprised there aren't well publicized amateur UAV combat competitions with directional GPS jammers and EMP weapons yet.
I still use the rule that my mum taught me: Take your best guess at how long you'll take to do the job, and double it. That's the number you tell your team. Double that, and that's the number you tell the client.
Downward nominal wage rigidity can be rephrased as: Nobody likes to get a pay cut. (Base) pay cuts piss employees off. When revenues fall, the stock price will fall, and automatically reduce employee salary as a result. But since the human perception of stock compensation is more like "gravy" than "essential to my way of life", I don't think that a stock price drop is as perceived to be as bad as a nominal pay cut, even though real employee pay is cut in either case.
Huh? What's wrong with measuring in price/watt? Price/watt is actually the standard for comparing electricity generation due to not having to create arbitrary units of time to compare with
Peaked is perfectly fine too. His interest was at peak. A local maxima.
The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you
> If not they are cutting your salary.

Maybe, maybe not. If the stock price is beating inflation, then you're still getting a raise here, too. Failing to renew your stock compensation at the end of the four-year period would be a pay cut.
I cringe when I see code like this:
if len(vals) in range(1, 5):

It seems like a harmless enough thing to do but that code is effectively creating a new array with values [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and testing if the result of len() is in that array by iterating over it. This check is happening multiple times for each draw call every frame.

Sadly I see this kind of stuff in Python all the time and it just adds weight to the argument that Python is not a performant language. 1 <= len(vals) <= 5 would have been more pythonic and certainly more efficient (and obvious) but I have to wonder if under the hood it's just doing the same inefficient operation.
I meant the limit as battery / bike -> infinity for a fixed race length, not the limit as distance goes to infinity. In the latter case, the human dies as surely as the car. The race stages are only about 200k, which is no problem for the car, especially at the relatively low speeds of the bikes.
It's both, and it's a fine balance. That's why high quality art is a comparative rarity.

If you practice too much, you will just be an automaton. Able to make but not to express. Your work will be derivative, uninteresting. There are literally millions of artists who have fallen into this trap.

If you practice too little then all your creativity will be for naught as you lack the skill and ability to translate it into an expression. Michelangelo, for example, was apprenticed when he was only 13, and by the time he made the Pieta he had been studying and working for 10 years.

The important thing is to find the balance. To practice as a means to hone a skill that is at your command, rather than your master.