skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The total value of all items I've earned on Steam probably doesn't even sum to 1 Euro...

You aren't idling Bad Rats then, if you just idle the game you'll earn $0.20 cards every so often. There's a really weird underground economy in steam around cards. I don't really understand the market, it seems akin to smokes in the joint. There are farmers (people idling games), scammers (people taking more value than they're getting), there are arbitration scripts always running for the various steam and third party market places.

A lot of the value I think comes from people who want to have a really nice Steam profile. With enough cards and xp you can get a nice background and a high level. I haven't really looked into it but some people take it really serious and are willing to pay for it.
This is similar to the idea behind git-annex.
The price for a Tesla including all options is easily available on the website. You don't have to contact a sales person to find out the price. I have no idea about Solar City.
Computers have taken over tons of ridiculous and complicated tasks already, it's silly to think your specific niche is the special case.

Liability and government regulation are some of the biggest concerns of the trucking industry, and could prevent automated driving from taking hold for decades. Anecdotally, I've spent a lot of time talking to technology directors in trucking companies, and this sort of automation is hardly on the radar.
So this is similar to Cern VMFS presented a few days ago here with the FS being mutable? Neat!
Because we don't completely know whether preferences differ, or whether cultural biases cause those preferences to differ.

I have a young boy and a girl. They are pushed into so many gendered roles from such a young age I have a really hard time trying to figure out what they actually like, versus what society tells them they should like.

My son recently picked up a pink toy in a store and said "I can't have this one because it's for girls, daddy." He used to love the colour pink. I wanted to scream in frustration because society has pushed him to rate a wavelength of light as "for girls" or "for boys." I told him that anyone can like whatever colour they want. But he now refuses to play with pink toys, because society has made it very clear that he's not supposed to touch them.

So yeah, maybe women would make fine plumbers and miners. We have typically pushed men into those roles. So we'll never know.
The sad state of things is that, although the technology evolved to our current 21st century level, the legislation didn't follow suit.

Here is the 11 titles available for international markets (like Brazil, for instance):

Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland
Deck the Halls
Leprechaun
Leprechaun 2
Leprechaun 3
Leprechaun 4 movie collection
Leprechaun 4: Lost in Space
Natural Born Pranksters
Return of the Living Dead 3
Russkies
Two Family House

Excellent selection if you are the #1 fan of the Leprechaun series, not so much otherwise.
How do you get better UX than clicking an RSS link and it adding itself to your feed reader?

It isn't the protocol, it is that there is no profit in an open standard like that. Google killed their Reader because they wanted everyone forced into G+, rather than consuming content from around the Internet.

It is the same thing with messaging and VOIP. Nobody wants to use an open standard like XMPP or more recently Matrix because there is no money in using standards when you can lock users in to a walled garden.
Well it depends. My general interest usually starts to fade when i implemented a solution for my problem. The "solutions" i find are not shipable and wont help others in the way they are. The though time after that is polishing it and build a product around it.

Sure i could just not do that ever, but that would lead to nothing as well.
That's completely untrue. The 10 commandments only tell you to respect your parents, not "your elders". And they don't condemn lying, merely perjury.

Not that they are a great source for morality anyway, but if you're going to use them, at least use them properly, mom.
How is it bad? I've never had a problem with it.
I think the opposite effect would happen and it would be safer for cyclists. There are already cars being equipped with pedestrian and cyclist detection. Sensors can see all around the truck vs the driver view having many deadspots. The computer could be forced to slow down or use safe passing distance while drivers have the free will to break those laws.

Also the computer probably doesn't have a bias against cyclist in the first place.
Actually we didn't go through the same things. I grew up in poor rural America. There were no computer science programs. I didn't go to university and most of my peers went to the army or jail.

Would you have felt "at ease" walking into a design course at the fashion institute? How about a freestyle rap battle or a pick-up basketball game? A rodeo?

Different cultures expose their members to different activities. Outsiders may have a tougher time breaking in but it can be done. Finding the strength to do it is admirable. Homogenizing everyone is not.
Although that guy has a massive incentive to not tell you anything. They just have to hold out for a few hours.
> For all the talk about white privilege, I never hear the solutions to it. What is OP supposed to do: not get the job? Not feed his family? How is he supposed to prove that he is aware of his "white privilege"?

The world is divided among two groups of people: people who live for themselves, and people who live for the validation of others.

The latter group believes that changing 'language' results in changing reality. If you want to lose weight, then get a funny mirror which shows you that you're skinny and that would result in you somehow working towards it and becoming skinny. That reality is merely a 'social construct' so modification of the social construct is all what you need to permeate those changes into other parts of the 'reality'.

It's this group of people who believe that minorities aren't succeeding because they don't get enough validation from others. This confuses most of the other people who never cared for this validation.

So people like you or OP says, "But I never needed other people's validation", and these people respond "Oh because you always got the validation, that's why you don't think anyone needs validation".

To answer your question, these people want you to 'validate' minorities. Make it look like that they're successful and apparently that will make them successful.

If you ask me, that just results in creation of pathetic individuals who will never achieve anything real in life.
Looks like on-the-job deaths for coal miners in the US are around 30 per year. I imagine the backlash for even one death would be relatively minor. Anyways, eliminating the biggest employer isn't necessarily a net negative. Unless (until) these trucks can load/unload themselves, repair themselves, schedule themselves, etc., there's a lot of work still to be done by people.

Hell, I can see ways that automated driving can result in a net increase in jobs. Example: if a truck can drive more hours in a day, it'll do more miles per year, requiring more frequent maintenance, requiring more repair mechanics than we currently have. Another: if you're not limited by drivers needing to sleep, you might be able to do a better job of scheduling deliveries to arrive around the clock, requiring more people to be around around the clock.

I'm not saying either of these WILL happen, I'm just saying that automated trucking doesn't HAVE to be a net-negative thing in terms of jobs.
Or worse, "Follow us on Facebook"
Sounds like a similar goal to https://upthere.com. If Dropbox can make this real, and with the reliability I've experienced on Dropbox over the past few years, I'm sold.
Oh, I'm not processing email constantly, and definitely not while I'm in the flow. When I am processing email I've already set aside some time for it, and finish off the simple tasks immediately.
20 years ago, it would have been far bigger news. There's been a gradual slide in the conditions in Turkey that make what's happening there now not very surprising.
I assume you're referring to Roy. Well Roy posted a few articles trying to say Singapore is expensive in comparison to England. It was so factually incorrect that I have no doubt that the stuff he wrote about PM Lee was also incorrect.
Boredom? I dunno. Didn't feel like watching TV I guess.

Since he/she cited a specific case however, doesn't seem like "strawman" qualifies.

A company representative is notified of cancellation. A company offering a month to month pre-pay service isn't entitled to anything else. End of story. IMO. Anything else is unethical.

That seems perfectly reasonable. No you're not within your rights to dick with people in bad faith, no matter what a ToS says. You can put whatever you'd like in there. Doesn't mean it'll pass muster when you're in front of a judge.

Beyond that she (the customer) is perfectly within her rights to cancel at any time. So the "but but but, I spent money!" is the real straw-man here. Silhoutte would have considered it his/her obligation to spend that money either way, the customer could have cancelled at the literal last second, through her/his preferred online method even, and that doesn't change a thing. There's a strawman.

Mostly it's probably because I had AT&T try something similar on me in the past year, trying to hold me liable for $1,300 for UVerse service at an address I've never lived at, going as far as to pursue collections against me.

They and the collections dropped their claim pretty quickly when I made it clear I'd be taking them to small claims over this.

Those are different circumstances. I suppose it just irks me that some people think they have a "right" to your property because you were rude?

It's nobody's "right" to dip into your wallet for a prepaid service. It's not moral. It's not ethical. Can you think of another service where that'd fly? I can't. The utility companies only seek to recover services rendered. Prepaid phone services will simply suspend service until you pay up. It's your right to suspend payments on your credit card to your MVNO whenever you like. It's their right to suspend service if you do. It's not their right to do much else.

That seems totally fair.
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Not sure how I feel about this. I guess that's cool and all, but I'd rather have Steam be focused on just games. Can't see myself ever really wanting to do this. I was never really a huge fan the (non-game) software section on Steam either though, so I dunno.
U.S. Wants Its Own Secure and Self-Destructing Messaging App
Major differences are:

- In uBlock Origin you can allow/block on a per-site basis with one click -- you do not need to allow one specific domain everywhere. (I am aware NoScript's ABE can get the same result, but that requires more than a single click.)

- You can block on a 1st-/3rd-party basis. I consider the default blocking of 3rd-party scripts while allowing 1st-party scripts to be the optimal solution for cutting bloat with less web page breakage. Now keeping 1st point in mind, this means one could allow all 3rd-party scripts on one specific site, while keeping them blocked everywhere else by default.

- Whatever is not taken care by dynamic filtering will fall onto static filtering, i.e. even if one end up allowing 3rd-party scripts, the static filters will pick up the task of blocking nuisance scripts.
I ended up having the conversation with a co-worker...I live in Canada, and anyone who lives up here can back me up on the fact that this country is just awful with regards to its copyright litigation with regards to television, especially.

It's far, far easier for me to pirate content than it is to legally buy it.

Until that's the case, I'm not interested in forking over my money to be inconvenienced (and this is coming from a dude who buys his music mainly on vinyl).
Using HTTP for 'apt update' is common practice. Neither Debian or Ubuntu use https for their repositories. Instead the metadata for each repository is signed with a gpg key. The associated public key is distributed with the installation media and used to verify the metadata. The metadata includes checksums for the other files in the repository. Debian and Ubuntu include MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums. Termux includes just the SHA-256 checksums. These checksums are used to verify the integrity of the other files in the repository.
Yes, it's called "team driving".
There are still substitutes, and I will gladly admit that it's rare for me to say "I only want to watch movieName, no other movie will satisfy me". It's much more likely that I'll want to watch something in a certain category. However, my experience that last few times I've looked through a Netflix category was that the overwhelming majority of the results simply looked like bad movies to me (and I've already watched the handful that actually looked appealing). When I play a music station, it's usually "good enough".

What I was trying to communicate that I am much more choosey about the movies that I watch than the music I listen to. I think this is because the enjoyment I get out of an activity that involves music isn't completely defined by the music. If the music isn't good, the activity can still be very fun. If the movie isn't good, it's very unlikely that I will get any enjoyment out of watching it.
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I was also surprised they were citing those numbers as fact, as my understanding was that disagreed with the UN investigations. A recent story on HN from the Guardian contradicts the claims in the BBC article, and cites the UN investigations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479097

In particular:

The word Chernobyl became synonymous with death on a massive scale. But perception and reality do not always neatly align; in the wake of the disaster, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and others undertook a co-ordinated effort to follow up on health effects. In 2006, after two decades of monitoring they outlined the health effects; of the firefighters exposed to the huge core doses and incredibly toxic smoke, 28 died from acute radiation sickness. A further 15 perished from thyroid cancer. Despite aggressive monitoring for three decades, there has been no significant increase in solid tumours or delayed health effects, even in the hundreds of thousands of minimally protected cleanup workers who helped purge the site after the accident. In the words of the 2008 UNSCEAR report: “There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure.

It added: “The incidence of leukaemia in the general population, one of the main concerns owing to the shorter time expected between exposure and its occurrence compared with solid cancers, does not appear to be elevated. Although most highly exposed individuals are at an increased risk of radiation-associated effects, the great majority of the population is not likely to experience serious health consequences as a result of radiation from the Chernobyl accident. Many other health problems have been noted in the populations that are not related to radiation exposure.”
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I think they need to monitor vehicles to charge for road usage. There's already an ERP system but these sensors will probably allow finer granularity. So, it's a valid use case.

However, I'm not saying it's all good or all bad. It's what it is and people who manage to compromise the system may put the data treasure trove to some creative use and cause serious harm. This is the big elephant in the room.
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In the spirit of the post...instead of:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(Some_Column))
FROM Some_Table

try:

SELECT COUNT(X.Some_Column)
FROM (
SELECT Some_Column
, MAX(Some_Other_Column_Which_Can_Be_Maxed) [MaxValue]
FROM Some_Table
GROUP BY Some_Column
) AS X
He was responding to someone who was offering a disagreeing POV, on a public web forum that anyone can read or participate in.

In that context, typing "we need better language" implies identification with the whole audience, i.e. all readers. 'We' does not mean 'my group of political activists' when used in that way.

Hence why the correction is important. Especially given that he was advocating for the redefinition of language in service of a political ideology. If you are going to suggest that 'we need' to clarify and standardize the words we use to refer to things, then you should probably be extremely precise with your own language, no? Otherwise you are just being a patronizing e-tyrant.
Because lawyers.
Yes. I'm using the paid version and would absolutely love this feature.
Amazon is burning much more money than flipkart right now. They have invested more than flipkart's total funding and still doing quarter of Flipkart business. Flipkart on the other side is trying to reduce its loss and trying to do breakeven in few categories.
It makes a lot of sense for the world we live in now. Most revenue from TV is still captured by regular broadcast or cable viewership. Those means of distribution are typically geofenced.

If you have an American show, Sky or BBC will pay more than Netflix will.

Plus, people in developing countries can't and won't pay western prices for content. It makes sense to geofence and then sell it to them much cheaper.
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As ridiculous as death sentences for drug trafficking are, they're in place and [far more] frequently carried out in all the surrounding South East Asian states too. I'm not sure where you've got the idea Singapore habitually lets murderers free either; judges only got the discretion to impose life imprisonment instead of the death penalty for murder in 2012/
Well multi core is not one CORE but rather an integrated distributed system of cores linked with buses that are probably built with chips very similar to switch/commuters without all the KPEX poured in optimizing network equipments. So calling a multi core archi one computer is a little lie.

Making an efficient multi core async system is as tough as making an efficient networked distributed system, except is has less heterogeneous components but probably also less devoted R&D.

So at one point I wonder why we just don't simply build extra cores as additional SOCs/ASIC, CPU or GPU you can plug on dedicated buses chosen according to the required latency in memory sharing, exchanging with central CPU/memory.

It is almost what actual buses are, just a tinge twisted with different rings, speed, latency because I don't think one bus can rule them all.

But, well who am I to have an opinion when google, apple, motorola, intel, Dec, IBM knows better than I how to design computers?

Just a no one.
An example of when the information is fabricated:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
There is no doubt that India will be profitable for Amazon. They're frozen out of China because of protectionist policies, they already own the US and Europe, so if they want to grow, India has to be part of that strategy. Given that their biggest competitor in India is on its heels, I would expect them to throw more money into the country, not less.

It's not that there's absolute certainty that investing in India will be profitable -- it's just that Amazon doesn't really have any better options if they want to continue to grow.
Journalists .. corresponding potential to make much more of a difference in the world

There very definitely is a market in this - the market for newspapers. Buying a newspaper as a proprietor is a fairly cost-effective way of getting a society to replicate your prejudices; you can get a huge amount of influence for a mere few tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
Research identifies compound that reverses symptoms of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
(Wonders if you can get on the frontpage through Fiverr.)
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This looks awesome, but I'd like to see a demo that makes a good 'bang for buck/reliability' case. eg make a simple web service with distributed database and really abuse it - kill nodes and DDOS it and see if it bounces back.
Yes, in theory. In practice, you'd not only remove this function but all of its calls. When somebody down the road realizes that they want this function back, they have to (A) realize it's in the VC history and (B) not only get back the function but all the calling points. That is so much of a pain and potentially error-prone that leaving this function in for a while with a comment might be the more practical approach.
This was really exciting to read. The ability to seamlessly integrate with the OS. We already do it with SSHFS and NFS; but bringing Dropbox's sync, versioning, and offline caching would be great.

Then I saw that it's not available on Linux. Which is really surprising, since supporting arbitrary filesystems is IMO dead-easy on Linux, and the easiest of the three desktop OSes. And since our company uses only Linux workstations (except for the designers), this is immediately unavailable to us. This is disheartening.
Good idea, except most consumer internet connections don't have sufficiently fast upstream performance.
You'd probably have to look into whether TLDs count toward copyright, e.g. if company ABCXYZ (TM) could claim against abc.xyz.

The reallllly important thing is that you're not calling your chat app TinyChat, but Tiny. If you are calling it TinyChat and started after they opened, you'love need to reassess. If you're calling it Tiny, then you're better off.

Not a lawyer, just what I've experienced the laws around this to be.
Going through this right now. Just got quoted $1400 higher for the same unit I bought last year from the same people. Nevermind that it is for the 2nd floor and wouldn't get used as much and should presumably be a much smaller unit.
They don't use anything sophisticated, it's just IP range blacklist. Hint: try different VPS provider, there's plenty out there...
TheOldReader.com is a great free replacement - I found it after the shut down and it's been good so far.
Yes but those 30 deaths are people knowingly working a job that society understands is dangerous, not a family in a minivan driving to grandma's house that was unlucky enough to be in the wrong part of the highway at the wrong time.

That is a huge difference to most people.
... and I spent more than an hour reading his blog from the last few years. Man, what an interesting set of projects. I'm seriously jealous of his ability to restore and emulate hardware!
Zero Zero's Camera Drone Could Be a Robot Command Center in the Future
So...write a spec document?