skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say haggling is similar but fundamentally different, that's more between a customer and a salesperson and usually involves more or less them on equal footing (the example that comes to mind first is a car, and the old saying that no one but a sucker pays sticker price). That's a luxury good where the need isn't immediate and the customer can exert some influence, unlike the vast majority of sales situations where the need is apparent and they can't just go to the 'next lot' whatever that might be.
For £3.49 I'd expect to own a copy, like all the Steam games I've bought at about that price. Amazon.co.uk are offering me about 45,000 - not 11 - DVDs for less than that price.

One-shot viewing or 48h rental should probably be <£1.
Well, call it a "window manager" then, it still should handle this. But that's just my opinion of the responsibilities of WMs/DEs/whatever you call them, and I understand that some don't.
Did you actually mean 'redundant'? If so, you first said 'white male' has no meaning. For it to be redundant in the 'white male and privileged' then it must also mean 'privileged.'

I certainly agree on the racist point.
CERN has publicly released 300 TB of Large Hadron Collider data
Will the files disappear once you're disconnected? Or will the ones you were working with still accessible and sunc'ed like the other Dropbox files?
That's nothing. His buddies beheaded hundreds and exploded bombs in marketplaces in the same amount of time!
If I had to bet, that's the way I see it playing out.

In the states, many distribution centers are located next to major transportation arteries, whether rail or interstate highway. In addition, many of the places they ship to are also located on major arteries. It wouldn't be a huge stretch to have automated trucks you load on one end, they drive to the other (using 98% highway driving), then park in a waiting area until a human finishes the job by parking them.

The interesting edge cases here would be accidents, construction, and detours. Whatever you deploy should be able to handle those without human intervention. Otherwise we could end up with every accident site also having 100 automated trucks at a dead stop waiting on drivers to show up. That'd be ugly.
Not a lot for you. I probably only watch a movie every couple of months.
Then again, teachers are probably on their way to being (at least semi-)automated as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Raspberry Pi telehealth kit piloted in NHS
> ..or taking forever sync. This is really amazing.

I don't think this solves the problem of taking forever to sync. Nothing has changed there. You are still bound by the same data retrieval and network latencies to get the file stored in a datacenter somewhere to you. That one is a harder problem to crack because it needs a lot of infra investment in expanding your content delivery footprint and replace SSD's with something much faster, like flash.
I haven't tested but I think you can convert ndarray to Uint8ClampedArray by doing

new Uint8ClampedArray(ndarray.data);
I think a lot of people when they succeed in a field want to believe it's entirely because of who they are not what they are.

It's hard to admit that some of your success might be because of your gender/colour etc.
Getting expelled is less drastic than being put in prison.
Thank you for sharing that. The US innovates for itself. Gamma rays protected electronics is for more than a year subject to sanctions, so Russia cannot build new satellites for a while (about 30% of electronics used to be imported). I am not patriot of the modern Russia, I am necropatriot of the dead country - The USSR, that makes me sick freak, right ?:> I believe the UK has the best research culture, but the US has the best research funding, except in some areas, where the EU prevails. But we shall see, China will win the Moon and the martian race.
I am an English person living in Switzerland. Netflix Switzerland is useless to me (no House of Cards, not enough focus on UK and USA content, etc.).

Therefore I had a Netflix USA account, which I accessed via unblock-us. The clampdown by Netflix has been "successful" and I now can't access Netflix USA using unblock-us.

This happened halfway through watching House of Cards. So my choice was either stop watching or download the remaining episodes...

I am tired of companies talking about borderless trade, global economy, etc. when the distribution of movies and tv shows is stuck in the sad world of geo-restrictions. I also legally get access to UK TV channels through my cable subscription, but I don't get access to iPlayer as that's only for UK residents... so again the only option to catch-up on TV that I forgot to record, is to use an unblocker.
I don't know how dropbox has actually implemented this, and I'm not sure about OSX,
But on windows you might use a kernel file system filter driver or a shell namespace extension:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc1...

This looks like an open source project that provides something similar for google drive:
https://github.com/google/google-drive-shell-extension

On linux this could probably be even easier, just mounting a directory to a remote NFS server.
Yeah, with enough time and consistent playing you can make some money. I play CSGO pretty consistently and I've made enough to cover all the DLCs so far. Usually my strategy is: buy the DLC and play a lot right after it comes out. You're bound to get a few drops from the new set. Selling those immediately can easily make some money.
Nailed it! :)
Exactly. I was thinking about peers asking "how is your N coming". 99% of them wont care anyway, but there is a bit pressure and nobody would want to say "i stopped it because i am a lazy bastard".

For me, it helps. I see what the article is trying to tell us tho, i see that it may does not work for everything.
WW3 ALL GOING WRONG FOR ELITE,UK TO LEAVE EUROPE
Since this thread starts with a Bulgarian developer applying for remote work with a Swiss firm, I think it's fair to say we're not talking about moving or visas. We're talking about an international market for talent in remote development.
I agree that good software should do this but unfortunately multi-monitor configuration software isn't always very good. My Ubuntu 15.10 system with Unity desktop decides to move the taskbar/dock thing to the other monitor every time I turn the other monitor on in the morning. There is nothing in the Screen Display GUI that seems to allow me to stop this from happening. Out of frustration I've resorted to running the xrandr command a few times (once is sometimes not enough!) to fix it each time. This tool would at least automate the task for me and seems useful.
It doesn't even have to be all or nothing. Imagine a kind of road-train, where the leading truck is driven in a heavily assisted manner but still has human control in the mix. Another 5 - 10 fully automated "follow the leader" style trucks could simply imitate the leader truck. All the while gathering data..
> Race cars are designed to stop faster than passenger cars. Their brakes are huge, they're designed with exotic components to transfer heat to air faster, designed to take higher heat for longer, the cars are designed to flow air over the brakes, and they cost much more and don't last as long, and have advanced computerized systems to optimize brake utilization.

A lot of that isn't to brake faster but to keep the brakes from overheating from constant high use during a race that can last a couple hours or more. For normal emergency use you can drop a lot of that because they only need to be used extremely hard rarely and they'll have time to cool.
Since you're so opinionated, may I know for how long you worked with Ruby and could you tell a few projects you used it for? Also, what programming language is (or are) the one you feel is making you the most productive at the moment?
I'm from an Eastern Europe and my family never was
rich, I had to put in a tremendous effort to even get
into the industry. Assuming I got an easy ride simply
because I'm white is a pretty racist statement

I was about to patiently type out another "hey, you did work hard and you did earn your success - 'white privilege' doesn't mean things were handed to you easily; it means that even though your life has been hard you still got to avoid certain challenges that non-whites face" response.

But you know what? This just isn't working.

We need better language.

I'm a firm believer in the existence of this thing we currently call "white privilege." I understand the meaning and intent of this concept and it's 100% correct; it's absolutely vital that we understand that basic rights we take for granted (for example, walking into a store and not being treated as a potential thief, or having prospective interviewers assume we're professional/literate/presentable) are actually privileges that many people or color don't have.

But if the people we're trying to reach hear the term "white privilege" and immediately misunderstand the term in such spectacular ways... you know what? We're doing it wrong.
That's impressive. Twice on HN I've asked someone to back up the drunk sex = rape claim and in both occasions they've came back with the exact same incident.

It truly must be an epidemic.

As I pointed out the last time, and indeed in this very thread when I asked for some kind of proof this wasn't all just bunk, both these people were very, very drunk. Vomiting repeatedly drunk. No recollection of having sex drunk. If anyone sober had had sex with these people, they'd be considered by most people to have been taken advantage of. The only reason this is a gray area is that both people got themselves into such a state that they themselves have no idea whether they broke the law that night. Which isn't a great defence in any legal situation.
I've been paying for newsblur (http://www.newsblur.com/) ever since google reader bit the dust. It's pretty much a direct replacement. Interface has come a long way since day one and is sufficiently slick now (UI, keyboard shortcuts, etc) that I don't really notice it.

Highly recommended by a (former) hardcore google reader user. If I recall correctly, got quite a good bit of press here on HN at the time.
Lets see how it copes with a nice big Photos.app library
-Definitely. I had a tour there a couple of years ago, and the takeaway memory (in addition to the slightly eerie feeling of having been dropped into a massive Fallout game) was as we walked across a bridge over a small canal, I saw the biggest sturgeon-y fish I'd ever seen.

The guide shrugged and observed something along the lines of 'This is what happens when #2 in the food chain suddenly becomes #1.'

Considering the number of people who now go on Chernobyl tours, I am just waiting for the Lonely Planet crowd to label the place 'spoiled' ;)
Backups - yes I guess. It's cheap so why not.

Pedestrians and cyclists would surely protest.
So it's all fine when a lorry rear ends and pancakes a car because the driver fell asleep?
Likewise for Computer Science classes in Western Europe (and I imagine North America). This is the issue with arbitrary quotas/targets for hiring female engineers - there is a lack of those qualified. I acknowledge that there is a huge disparity between male/female workers in the field, but the issue is far earlier in an aspiring engineer's life than getting a job. STEM subjects have far fewer female students than male - this is the core of the issue. The lack of women in STEM careers is a symptom of this core problem.
> Trucking represents a considerable portion of the cost of all the goods we buy, so consumers everywhere will experience this change as lower prices and higher standards of living.

No, consumers won't. The savings will be funneled directly to shareholders.
Why they would not just provide it with no obfuscation though? The essence of their system is the server-side anyways, why bother?
Concept Data Tower Scrapes the Sky for Efficiency
Beagle probe 'seen in sharper view'
You could/can do all of the above with a phone.

In fact with Watch you are doing them with your phone, but using a wrist terminal as an accessory.

That's not a bad thing - harder to steal - etc, but it's not quite a must-have USP.
No, handling screen layout isn't the window manager's responsibility. That's what external tools like xrandr and its various GUIs are for.
I was thinking this as well. I have been really frustrated with selective sync because of how long the process takes to check the folders that make sense on each computer.
What responses would you like to see?
I'm not singaporean, but do live in Singapore. If I was in any other country I would probably be bothered, but in Singapore I just don't care. I feel safe here, love this country. But I have noticed over the last 4 years, a lot more tourists are littering, so if this helps prevent it, I'm all for it.
>The ruling party uses power to eliminate opposition

That article is from 1990. More than 20 years ago. If you had looked a little further you would have found that Singapore increased the number of people in parliament who represent the opposition.[1] It is slow progress, but it's still progress.

Please don't be too quick to judge other countries regarding the subjects of privacy, representation and human rights. The reason for that is that if Asian countries have specks in their eyes regarding those issues, Western countries have telephone poles stuck in theirs for their breaches of privacy, representation, racism and human rights.

[1] http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/more-ncmps-in-...
Robots amongst us
Are modern teambuildings really that lame as she described them? Glad I didn't choose big corporate as career.
non native so might be that, it just sounds weird comparing humans to atoms, like saying to your future employee we will treat you as a cog in the machine. OTOH, I think you are right, I was oversensitive.
Apple Learns a Bitter Lesson in China
20 years ago it wouldn't have been news at all. Now it's hard to make things completely vanish. Its just the balance between scandals and outrage has shifted; far more scandals are floating to the surface in the Information Age and outrage has yet to catch up. But it will
Show HN: Supergiant, a Data Center Management System Built on Kubernetes
Sadly, humans are buggy when it comes to assessing risks and their own competence, so autonomous vehicles need to be a huge amount better than human drivers in order to win out.
Trucks routinely carry cargo worth many thousand times the value of the average household's possessions.
OpenBSD: This change randomizes the order of symbols in libc.so at boot time
Dropbox storage is 5x as expensive as hard drive space, so what's the point?

Yes and no. I have about 80 GB in my dropbox. This is no problem on my two workstations or my big laptop. Unfortunately my Macbook Air has a 128 GB drive. That means I keep having to exclude and include folders to be synced to my laptop or it will run out of space. That is a pain in the ass I would love to avoid.
> the data will help you decide where to go, but you need the right story to get people to follow you there.

> And just because it's a "story" doesn't mean it's some BS you make up to get people to agree with you.

Maybe so. But on the other hand... http://dilbert.com/strip/2006-08-05
Not really, competition will eventually drive down the prices.
Meet the youngest Palestinian female prisoner
I thought it was for purchasing the movies and still thought "meh, overpriced".

If it's just renting for 48 hours, that's even worse.
> a lot more tourists are littering, so if this helps prevent it, I'm all for it.

This sounds like a great beginning to a dystopian novel. We who gave up our privacy and control over our life to the All Seeing All Knowing State to stop tourists from littering.
IANAFA (not a financial advisor :P), but it really depends on your goals and risk tolerance. Sure, interest rates are low but so are inflation rates. Sitting on cash isn't as bad as it used to be if you want instant-access to dollars. If you don't need that 5-month-emergency-fund to grow, you probably don't need to put it in riskier vehicles. I believe putting that fund in VWITX would still give you quick access (on the order of a day or two) to if you needed it. You should look at the size of the fund and weigh the risks: definite loss due to inflation over N years, or the small risk-reward spread of medium-term bonds (i.e. they will probably grow, and you'll be earning interest, but there is a chance you'll be forced to sell at a time when bond prices have dropped).
Alternate title/tl;dr: "Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a Whole New Orwellian Level"
Dropbox have a history of creating and then pulling the plug on ideas like this after a few years.
Alexa has a lot to do with it, my wife doesn't use the app for our home automation hub, and when I'm home I don't either.

Pulling my phone out, unlocking it, firing it up, getting to the right section. Even with everything optimally placed it takes just as much time as me walking into the other room and turning the light off. So all that home automation I installed was going mildly unused because your phone as a control when you're in the house is just kind of not worth it unless you're talking upstairs vs downstairs.

As soon as Alexa got integration with HA products our usage immediately changed- especially my wife. She went from just plain not using the home automation to using it for everything.

I installed all of our home automation gizmos, configured the hub, grouped all the rooms, etc. I know how much Alexa has to do with any of it working, but it has everything to do with them being used.
For an outsider, the current culture in Silicon Valley described in the piece reminds me of Wall Street in the 80s. I see a lot of parrelels with American Psycho.
Reading six books a year is really nothing, and I'm not even sure why the author makes a big deal about it. Especially those books he suggested, are very short, often lots of pictures and examples. Agreed on the new language though, your best course is to just start a fresh project with something new. That's how I learn new things. Just jump in head first.
Google search adds mandatory click-through EULA
What is wrong with Singapore? It's a start up heven.
With Facebook No Longer a Secret Weapon, Egypt’s Protesters Turn to Signal
It's a filesystem filter driver
Yesss. Does this happen nowadays: when technology makes some amazing leap, you decide this must be "the end" and "culmination point" and "things can only get worse from now on" and "I have better buy two units just in case".

Dolby Cassette player, Video8 camcorder, Osborne-1 luggable computer and Nokia E52 phone were some of those culmination points for me. But they seem to happen less often nowadays?
It only reminds me of Monaco, which does essentially the same thing while no Westerners are bothered by its level of surveillance. But when it's about Asians though, everybody goes bonkers.
Yes, but there are more problems to consider here. With some types of cargo, applying maximum brakes can actually damage it(think livestock for example). You also don't want the truck to be going into panic mode and applying maximum brakes for a plastic bag or a small animal. I'm afraid that our current technology can at best tell that there is something there, but it won't be able to tell what - humans at the moment are much better at visual recognition. It's just a concern at the moment, but I think it's an important one because it can lead to some serious accidents when the technology launches.
Automated Testing and Accessibility on iOS
Yes and no. In the case of somebody who has information waterboarding is generally an 'efficient' strategy. i.e. you have the guy you know hid the bomb somewhere in manhattan.

It's just very hard to tell when somebody doesn't know anything. And they will start making up information to make it stop. i.e. 10 guys and you have reason to believe one of them may have hidden a bomb somewhere.
We moved all our clients and our projects to sendgrid
Show HN: Android lib to simplify disable/enable views which require internet
Flu vaccine four times more effective if given in morning
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch – part 3
You should try making listening to music an activity.

It's good for code, but you don't notice a lot of the detail; it's a different experience.
Clinton camp now paying online trolls to attack anyone who disparages her online
From my traveling experience the cost of food in large cities in Bulgaria and Romania is about the same as the cost of food in Canada. Yes, they have (much) lower wages there and they will accept your low offer because they have no better choice to make more money. Please don't delude yourself in believing you pay them a fair/decent price. You just pay them better than what they could make locally.
> By catering to my every whim, in effect they make me a tyrant over them, which is not a role I like.

Exactly - so by this logical path, should we just ignore the rider, if he doesn't want us catering to him?
We have a parrot; they are really amazing animals and we've had people ask us about getting one after they've visited ours. People really underestimate how much work and knowledge is required to take care of one. The longer lived species can live 60+ years, and they require an enormous amount of attention and enrichment to help keep the mentally and emotionally healthy. He may just want to spare a bird from the harm of being bought by someone who is unprepared to properly care for it.
Newspeak version of racism.

- it is not racism as long as you are being racist to white people

- only white people can be racist

It is quite simple
Which would almost certainly impact the brilliant guy's work. People aren't robots - if you hire them as a team (presumably because they liked working together) and then fire half the team within a few months, the ones left will start looking for something else.
Your 20% is a relative difference, not an absolute difference.

The difference between hitting 0.5% of pitches and 0.6% of pitches isn't meaningful at all despite being the same relative difference.
Agree, Inoreader has a lot of power user features.

The iOS apps are good too.
Often it works out that there is a substitute though - and if there isn't, I'm not convinced most would seek out movies in the way you describe.

I wanted to watch a BBC drama the other night and was offered the choice between paying to 'rent' it from Xbox, or watch it on iPlayer for free.

Assuming I do want to watch the movie, by the time I've found it, found that it's available on x cloud platform and will cost me y to subscribe / buy / rent - odds are that foo discovery mechanism has surfaced something I'd be happy to watch on something that I already subscribe to.
Crews generally aren't armed to begin with and with no humans to capture and ransom or threaten to change the ships course the amount of booty they could make off with is really limited. Most pirate attacks target hostages anyways. For engineering you could have small crews fly out to any one ship that's experienced engine trouble.
This very much depends on the countries. For instance Swedish companies typically have very flat hierarchies, much more so than US companies. In fact when a US company buys a Swedish company often several layers of managerial hierarchy is added.
Was just curious as I wasn't getting the same vibe from it myself. Plus, these guys - http://www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/working_here - already have the whole "molecule" thing covered :)
Imagine if someone in infectious disease research said "I
t's not at all true that researchers on the whole do what they do to prevent disease. Many of the best researchers do the opposite!"

It would be interesting if monetizing the next flu bug worked the way that the market for vulns works.