skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is not new, but the gif renderers in browsers have a minimum frame rate, they turn 0-delay frames something larger.[0]

So that doesn't really work for looped animations.

But for single pass you can incrementally build a higher-color image, similar to interlaced loading.[1]

[0] http://nullsleep.tumblr.com/post/16524517190/animated-gif-mi...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#True_color
A CIA asset is telling us which programs to use an what crypto to trust. Is trusting a known spy the wisest decision?
The machine you are installing from may not have access to internet. Then you'll need a setup to supply pip the packages. If virtualenv was truly relocatable, you can install once, push all to git and just fetch wherever you need.
Testing Movie (2012 Short Film)
Sockpuppets on HN in Support of Hack Reactor?
So recently Hack Reactor got some negative press on HN, and a number of accounts with one, maybe two comments and only a day or two old popped up in support of HR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11873537
"But the cell has an enzyme called telomerase, which carries out the task of adding repetitive nucleotide sequences to the ends of the DNA. Telomerase, thus, 'replenishes' the telomere 'cap' of the DNA. In most multicellular eukaryotic organisms, telomerase is active only in germ cells, some types of stem cells such as embryonic stem cells, and certain white blood cells."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere#Structure.2C_function...
You might want to google "perpetual tourism" or "digital nomad". It'll explain it better than i ever could.
I've always actively avoided moving into management. I refuse to become a victim of The Peter Principle:

"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Yea, it's just not affordable to me.

I'd love to use it as I'm tired of using 7+ IDEs and I'd like to migrate to a "One True IDE"

Being a college student that's unemployed 70$ is a bit steep.
>Just because there's thousands of folks suffering identical symptoms doesn't mean it's not psychosis.

Just because we like to push things under the rug, doesn't mean there aren't social (and environmental) factors to it either...

I trust modern medical science on this area as much as I would trust string theory if on top of a verification-free playground for their thoughts they also had huge normative and financial motivation to make up shit -- that is, not so much at all.
Interesting. I looks like there are Peripheral Blood Stem cells, as opposed to those in your bone marrow.

http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/bloodjournal/98/10/2900....
> Banks that don't charge those fees directly bake them into other fees.

What other fees? I've literally never paid a fee to my bank for anything. And it's a major bank (Chase).
How do we know they haven't been doing it for hundred of years as a rich people blood ritual? :)
The internet also forms a sort of release valve.

People being bigots with words over the internet is better than lynching or public beatings imo.
I think the whole "Block Party" thing works better in smaller places. e.g. In NY, unless you had a BBQ on the roof, it probably wouldn't be possible (and where would you put everyone who turned up?). Similar in London - yes, I could have a block party, technically, but it's all terraced housing, so (a) there would be a lot of people - probably too many, and (b) given property prices, most are probably renters, meaning they probably don't feel a sense of permanence or belonging in quite the same way a homeowner would.

Maybe that's a big part of it? Not just that you have so many neighbours it breaks Dunbar's Number, but that in cities with high property prices, odds are good most of your neighbours will be renting, and perhaps only for a limited time, whereas in smaller cities, you can buy a place, and it's quite possible that your neighbours are going to be your neighbours for 10, 20, 30+ years, versus maybe 1 - 2 years when talking about renting. It's a much bigger return on investment.
Imagine the poor in possession of a self-replenishing resource that the rich might be interested in buying! But comfortable middle-class people might have reservations about the ethics of selling it!
Hey and sorry for replying with so much delay. I keep forgetting HN won't send me mobile notifications for replies.

Truth be told, I am not sure how well will I cope. I am good, I have experience, I have been doing lots of quality repairs in my life before. But you know what? At certain point you don't think it's worth your time and energy. That's the real enemy here -- demotivation.

I spent humongous amounts of time in the object-oriented land. I think I'll just hop to the functional programming world -- isolated functions, functions as first-class citizens, immutability (hell yes!), no shared shate (oh God please, I want that!), and goodbye side effects. At least I hope so. It might just be another shiny thing I'll be pursuing and won't be much better. We'll see.

But you know what? I prefer working hard to build things from the ground up in a new and much better language and ecosystem than to spend my life trying to demystify somebody's strongly opinionated framework which doesn't cover even 40% of what I need in my project.
It's been updated to fifty making it the worst mass shooting in US history [1].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36512308
> I don't see how that is any fairer than forcing cash customers to pay the full price as well. Somebody is losing either way, and I see absolutely no reason that cash should be privileged.

The problem, as criddell points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11888198), is that it's not a matter of whether or not to charge cash customers full price, but of whether or not to force cash customers to subsidise the fees the merchant must pay for credit customers.

Undoing this is still forcing cash customers to pay full price, but credit customers to pay full price + the associated extra fees. Pretending that the difference is a "cash discount" rather than a "credit fee" is, I think, just terminological skulduggery (much like stores where every item is always on sale).
I'm certain some extremely rich and powerful already do. Maybe that is how e.g. Robert Mugabe stays fit.
Reminds me of Coldfusion (XML as programming language)
Widow of Taunton victim is petitioning Facebook to unlock husband’s account
Oh don't get me wrong I use noscript etc. I just recognise that they don't give me privacy - they give me better security though.
This is a horrible news but there is no way this kind of thread won't derail. No matter what people think of the situation, this is a huge tragedy, which reminds me what my country lived the 13 of November 2015. I just want to send my thoughts to my fellows Americans friends and the gay community in Orlando. I'll leave it there.
> No major retailer can afford to stop taking Visa.

I disagree. Walmart is a huge, major retailer. A lot of people who shop there do the majority of their shopping there. As an example, I have an American Express card. Why? Because I was doing most of my shopping at Costco. It's really not that much of a hassle to get a new credit card. Way more of a hassle to not be able to use a credit card (and get sweet, sweet cashback) for the majority of my shopping.

Walmart customers will do the same. I bet a lot of them will already have non-Visa credit cards, which they can simply start using. The rest will either switch to cash or get a non-Visa card. The power is in Walmart's court here. They offer a lot more value to customers than Visa does. I don't care at all what company's name is written on my card, but I do care that it lets me buy things where I want to.
My name is NO
Is there evidence for this?
And people ask why we still need Pride events. THIS is precisely why we still need pride.
30% on 100k is 30k. You'd be better off getting a regular job unless you can sustain that for more than 10 years. Which you can't predict.
Ah. That explains why when my Maestro card expired, it was replaced with a Visa Debit card.

The latter is more widely accepted for online shopping (only some merchants accept Maestro, whereas everyone accepts Visa and Visa Debit usually works there), so I was happy.
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50 Shooting Dead in Orlando Gay Nightclub
Has there been any indication that this was a homophobic related crime? I haven't seen any yet.
I believe newyorkers are friendly everywhere. Sometimes overwhelmingly so. Its their thing
Maker of First Bitcoin Mining ASIC Acquired for $466M
Unique fingerprint due to 3-year-old bug in Firefox
I still can't figure out why they create more and more apps. What's wrong with a single FB app that supports messaging and photos?
Until we get more on the shooters motives it's hard to tell. However, a mass shooting specifically targeting an LGBT club seems unlikely to be coincidental.
I'm a psychiatrist. When I went to med school I thought I would go the radiology route, because that's where all the cool tech is, but one of the things that drew me in was the unexpected consistency in the themes of severe mental illness. Paranoia is, on an academic level, a fascinating phenomenon. It also causes a lot of suffering.

Please remember that these kinds of communities have sprung up in the context of the ongoing stigma of mental illness, and the limitations of present medications for psychosis (most have unpleasant side-effects). Other contributors are a mistrust of authority, and the always-complicated balance between individual liberties and involuntary treatment.

Finally, a plea for some compassion. Many of these people live a deeply tormented life, and feel like they can't trust anyone. It's a hard existence for both them and their families. It might seem like a humorous phenomenon, but there's a lot of suffering here.
More updates:

It was a gay/LGBT nightclub

53 Dead, 40 or so wounded.

Perpetrator is "Omar Mir Seddique Mateen" [1], born in US to Afghan immigrant parents. He was killed by the police. Apparently he was a security officer and had a firearms license because of that [5].

"We do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings towards that, that particular ideology [Islamic extremism]. But right now we can’t say definitively, so we’re still running everything around," (quote from article). [2]

If you're in Orlando and wonder how you can help: give blood, especiall O+, O- and AB, at "Oneblood" (2 locations currently open) [3]

Situation ended because police went in. One officer was apparently shot in the head. [4]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36512308
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/US/omar-mateen-suspected-orlando-night... [3] https://twitter.com/AltPress/status/742004240176975873 [4] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/... [5] https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/741997301657440256
Good job muslims, ya fucked up again. Now we're going to have another 10 years of racism. Fuck me.
Extension which attempts to fix the problem

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-resource-u...

Bugzilla report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=863246
I'm talking about Interac cards, which is what we usually mean when talking about debit cards in Canada:

http://interac.ca
You can get data from Interactive Brokers; I assume most of the other brokers that provide an API will give you data too.
Interfaces don't help in this case. Say you have a package called net:

var Error = ...

func Get(url string) (result, error) {
if ... {
return Error
}
}

Users of your package would do something like this

r, err := net.Get("http://example.com")
if err == net.Error {
//handle this particular error
}

What if you decide that there are in fact different types errors or you want to return an error code with each error? How would you do that?
It's probably the best to tell the mods directly by sending them an e-mail: hn@ycombinator.com
> This is particularly amusing for anyone who was around in the 90s

But that's just it: I was around in the 1990s and I owned Macs and PCs throughout that period.

ADB had a 13-year run, sure, but it wasn't a "standard" for any device except a Mac. PCs used PS/2 connectors.

Firewire is a standard, but Apple was the only company really pushing it.

You're right - and I'm dead wrong - about Apple pushing USB.

> it wasn't until the second generation iMac before they even added a Firewire port

I thought Firewire was a common option on G3s in the late 1990s? May be misremembering.

> was intended as a replacement for high-performance SCSI interfaces

Thanks for bringing that up. Yes at the time SCSI interfaces were more high-performance than IDE (and allowed more devices) but only at the expense of the more common emergent standard of IDE / EIDE.

You do raise some good points however, and you're also right that of course Firewire wasn't a replacement for ADB, I'm not really sure why I said that :(
> the card company keeps the entire fee

Not exactly--there are companies taking a bite out of the fees all the way down.

I run two retail stores, and after initially using Square (which charges a 2.75% flat fee), we switched to a merchant processor that uses what's called "interchange plus"--where they just charge us the interchange rate plus a small additional fee.

Chase Visa debit cards are the #1 card we process, and our fee went from 2.75% with Square to 0.05%. Yes, you read that right! That is on a signature process, not a PIN.

We do have to pay a monthly fee now, but the savings is ridiculous--some $500+/month over Square's rates.

That $500/mo was Square's profit margin, basically. Our numbers showed that at about $5K-$8K/month in transactions, interchange plus processors will start to beat Square, and by the time you're doing $10K-$15K/mo in sales, it really starts to add up.
No one said that this was your full-time job. No one said that it has to be HFT either. Algorithms identify good trades at 4:01pm and you buy the next day. And no one is saying that you have to trade everyday.
https://www.hostmonster.com/
Furthermore, once you redefine the concrete type, if your callers are expecting some set of well-known error values and checking values, say with equality, then just redefine those variables as instances of the new type. API compatibility maintained.
Former professional investment manager here...

The biggest problem with things like this, which almost nobody talks about in the context of investing, is publication bias.

100 people try to develop a profitable trading algorithm. 1 comes up with one that looks great on back-tests at a 1% confidence (in other words, exactly what you'd expect from random chance alone over 100 trials).

That person writes an article/pitch/business plan based on their algorithm. You never see results from the 99 who failed.

Going forward, the successful algorithm is no more likely to work than the failed 99, but from the perspective of the general public it sure looks like a winner!
In a way some already are, considering whats involved.

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/david-rockefellers-sixth-hea...
I just want to point out the lack of paywall on this article. Either it's not a big money-maker, or they're going to make up for the paywall profits with the volume of other ads they're showing today.
Why not? It's cool to point things out.
Are there any court documents here showing what happened before the video?

Last time I was at a traffic stop, the cop didn't tase me. How did it come to that in this situation?

Edit: I just got to that point in the video. While I don't support tasing people for things as light as this, I do have to say that I personally don't think it's a good idea to this adversarial to anyone.
Is Tokyo a dystopian nightmare? The density offers a high quality of living while controlling expenses for all but housing (which is understandably expensive). The mass transit there is world class, and so you don't need to own a car with all of its attendant costs. You can buy cheap groceries to cook at home. The standard of living and options for things to do is better than living in the country once you account for the higher average salaries in Tokyo.

I live in Manhattan and it's the same here. Rent is expensive (but not horribly so if you have roommates or an SO). Everything else is reasonable.
Show HN: React image slider
Have you see this video of this Daoist priest?
What happened to Austin, Texas when Uber and Lyft left town
Because you have to dig a bit. I have spent quite some time in the area and all main officials are in close relations with Chinese. Take the PM, Hun Sen, who is publicly linked to the Chinese (by family)+ gave all the key oil exploration contracts to Chinese corporations. Have a look into the latest International Transparency report, you'll see that there are increasing doubts about his "transparency"
"It's hundreds of miles from China" => since when that proves anything?
> Should we try to prevent companies from legally hiring local workers with non-compete clauses in their contracts?

Of course we should!
Low-level vs. high-level languages
> I don't mind working alone or not talking to anyone else in person for days (except my wife)

IMO, there's a huge difference about loneliness between not talking to zero people or only talking to one, in particular if that one person is important in your life such as your wife, as opposed to having had a short chat with the cleaning lady in the hall a week ago.

I appreciate that kstenerud was talking about the zero people scenario, and that it's possible to prefer it that way. I think it depends on how well you have the other parts of your life in order?
10 feels like enough but not tooo much.
A New Empirical Constraint on the Prevalence of Technological Species
In computing, "batch" connotes long running processes in addition to "script"'s connotation of collapsing multiple commands into a single one. The seemingly redundant parsing by the Batch interpreter is a feature, not a bug.

1. The parser allows modifying a .bat file during its execution and having those changes execute without restarting the Batch interperter. [1] This is in keeping with the rationale for batch processing -- facilitating serial execution of computationally expensive operations.

2. The Batch interpreter allows self modifying code.[2] In the early 1980's when Batch was designed, sophisticated COBOL programmers might have felt right at home. Lisper's were probably more hit and miss.

This is a case where historical context is useful. Today, it might perhaps be worth mentioning Powershell in a discussion of the Windows command line. Batch was the DOS command line and exists in Windows for evolutionary reasons.

In the days when abundant RAM and fast CPU speeds were prefixed with "mega" and distributed computing often happened at BAUD rates, not restarting a process was a big deal. More importantly, then as today, the execution speed of the batch interpreter was not a critical section of a batch process.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/906586/changing-a-batch-...

[2]: http://swag.outpostbbs.net/DOS/0019.PAS.html
Just a side note, somewhat related. I'm very interested to see where this argument (webview vs native) ends up. Say in 10 years. It seems to me that every time there's a "proprietary" vs "open" argument, for a short while the proprietary side wins the battles, but long term it seems the "open" side of the argument always wins the war.
Manifesta 11 radically reimagines modern labor
Decent article, though I guess from the title I was expecting a deeper tech dive - maybe a tech comparison - as to when using webviews is sufficient vs going native. (I say this as my not being an android/mobile dev. so it could merely be my naivete.)
> - You must not use android and have Google know your location for traffic purposes (and other ad-related data-mining)

I use Android without a Google account (although I'm unclear on whether or not there is also a device ID that Google sees from some interactions).
Does innovation come from the private sector? [video]
>Would the image look a lot different if you dithered it backwards from the bottom right pixel?

Isn't this equivalent to just rotating the image 180 degrees, dithering it, and rotating it back?
If that someone were intellectually, sexually or some-other-way attractive, would you have done the opposite and tried to meet up with them? There are a lot of people in the world, some more interesting than others.
You're usually creating typed errors so that you can attach more structured information, so equality won't work anymore.
Noticeably faster than average on desktop. There's no silver bullet.
Oil is needed for a lot of things other than burning it for energy.
Theories serve multiple purposes. A theory can be useful to make calculations about things you already know. Or to make predictions about things you don't yet know. String theory has been adapted over time to be able to calculate things we already know. But we already had that without string theory. But the predictive part is where string theory really falls down. It's track record there is abysmal.

On the other end of the predictive spectrum there's Einstein. Somebody fiddles with the equations and says, "if this is right then there could be black holes!" And then... they find black holes. It seems that every few years there's some confirmation of an odd corner case that shows the predictive power of Einstein's theories.

That string theory can calculate the known might still be useful, if it's a more convenient way to get the results than other theories. Plain old Newtonian physics is still hella useful today, for instance, even for space missions. AFAIK, string theory is not more convenient.

Take this with a grain of salt, because I haven't kept up on what string theory has been doing lately. As a matter of personal triage I stopped following it until such time as I heard that someone predicted something interesting with it, and it was confirmed in observation or experiment. If that happened then I missed it, and would love to hear about it.
Comments of the form "My country doesn't have this problem that yours does" or variants are generally annoying and useless when they do not name the country.
Ever seen instagram fail? You'll see the app without CSS. One of the best known UXs and its mostly webview.
I remember trying it out and saw how fast it loaded. Never looked back.

I never thought it needed support, it just does what it is supposed to.
What's the interest rate on your savings account?

Because the bank is buying Treasuries at ~1% or so and making money off of your deposits, and is likely only giving you 0% or maybe 0.05% interest.

If you've got $10,000 in the bank, that's basically a profit of $100 / year that the bank is getting from your account.
Clearing Cookies is definitely a good start. Cookies take essentially no effort on the trackers' part, so they are deployed a lot.

I personally usually just recommend installing the EFF's Privacy Badger [0], which eats Cookies and blocks tracking scripts all in one, while almost never breaking webpages, so while it's not perfect protection, it's a good compromise for most people.

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
In Finland Lidl didn't earlier accept credit cards at all. Now they do. Everyone's been wondering when they start surcharging the credit card fees. Personally I think it's the right way to do it.
I'm not aware about any store doing it right now. Only some on-line stores charge extra for different payment methods and 'handling fees', which naturally vary based on selected payment method.
No doubt targeted operations exist, but unless you have good reason to believe you should be targeted (such as you having left the church of Scientology or a similar organization) then you aren't targeted.

Believing that you were randomly selected for a form of psychological terror that would take enormous resources from the attacker is a pretty clear sign you are delusional.

This is a group of people with mental health issues that unfortunately also self sustain by suggesting relatives are "in on it" and that seeking help is bad.