skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and Russia are not willing to supply US Companies with near indentured servants to make our stuff,then use the worthless paper they get for the stuff, to buy a different type of worthless paper that allows the US Government to build more war machines, and other things.
I'm posting this because some UK politicians have started adopting bizarre power poses.

http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/03/david-cameron-did-a-george-osb...

https://twitter.com/themarklittle/status/681093939236073472

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/400/cpsprodpb/vi...

https://grousebeater.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/unelected-rule...
How much of the Vive is Valve and how much is HTC? Valve was very lucky to find a hardware partner content with not trying to establish their own content delivery platform.
> It's different on consoles.

I'm exclusively a PC gamer and I'd even argue that this is false. Exclusives are bad for the industry and bad for gamers in general. It doesn't matter which platform you can afford/desire.

Even PSVR might be coming to PC. Many Xbox games are coming to PC. The industry seems to be turning its back on exclusivity. What does Facebook do? "Naaaa, we can make exclusivity work."

When industry leaders are aborting a strategy, it isn't a good strategy. What Facebook is doing makes sense only 5 years ago.
In the risk of dragging this too far, tar is just a command line front end to gzip. It just forks gzip in a child process to pipe data to it. No zlib is involved.

The archive.tar.gz means tar the files into archive.tar, then gzip it into archive.tar.gz. You can run gzip -d to get back archive.tar. Tar -czf is just a shortcut command.

Tar cannot change the file format of .tar.gz. Otherwise, gzip -d won't work.
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The UN isn't useless when dealing with countries that do not have many friends, like Iran or Somalia, etc. But yeah, the UN is useless when it comes to major powers and those protected by the major powers.
> Not sure if that is relevant. Source should not be important if the facts match reality.

People in the US are familiar with "fact checkers", and may not be familiar with just how blatantly UK newspapers will lie.

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/yesterday-the-daily...
Facebook pixel is becoming more and more common, so they will shortly have the same data plus verified and not inferred data from their social channels.

edit: now that I think of it facebook will be shortly in a position of being able to de-anonimize the internet. imagine selling that ad-space.
You're right, I guess it isn't clear when the cap was set. I assumed it was defined more than a few years ago.
Obama just this week met with the Dalai Lama in direct contravention of China's wishes.
>There is no way that $195k ($180k + $15k) is the top 1bps of wage earners at 26. That's pretty comparable to, if not less than, what you could expect in tech at that age.

First you can not say a person works "in tech" any more like you can with Legal. The Information Technology industry has sooo many different Job Classification today that you can not longer loop everyone that "works in tech" together. Not even all programmers or administrators can be looped together anymore IMO. However there is 3 Basic area's of information technology that you might be able to Group together. Support, Administration, Development...

That said like the legal Field, Technology has also be decimated, H1B, "The Cloud", the rise of MSP model @ the expense of Internal IT and other issues are massively lowering the wages

So while a person @26 working for a Top Silicon Valley Company (apple, Amazon, Google, etc) as a High level Programmer, might get 195K, I do not believe you can say a person at 26 should "expect" to get 195K far far far far far from it.

If they are in Operations/Administration, you are looking at 40-70K nation wide, if you are in programming a little more, if you are In Repair or "HelpDesk" a little to much less..

Specialty Area's like DBA or Senior Linux Admin can command those high pay levels in select regions as well.
Facebook bought Whatsapp two years ago.
I can really identify with this:

"Once you know about all the ways that skimmer thieves are coming up with to fleece the banks and consumers, it’s difficult not to go through life seeing every ATM as a potential zombie threat — banging and pulling on the poor machines and half expecting half hoping parts to come unglued. I’m always disappointed, but it hasn’t stopped me all the same."

And I currently practice this:

"Lastly but most importantly, covering the PIN pad with your hand defeats the hidden camera from capturing your PIN — and hidden cameras are used on the vast majority of the more than three dozen ATM skimming incidents that I’ve covered here."
Making a website shouldn't be that difficult
UN is a joke because the major countries (US among them) want it to be.
Facebook owns WhatsApp. The question is what they are going to do with it. WhatsApp with end to end encryption seems to not allow for the type of monetization people are talking about here.
> using a good few each day.

Just the thought of all the plastic and other waste that'll probably float around for another few hundred years makes me sad. Humans really aren't such good stewards of the planet :(.
Shortly? You're joking right. They've been able to do that for years.
What is a distribution? An object-oriented approach
but the pixel isn't that much widespread, many are still on google analytics for tracking
TUOT is great.

The one that has stuck with me is "The Immortal"
Completely off topic sidenote: even when completely muted, my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) makes a sound when hovering over the names in the first chart, and a different (deeper and quieter) sound when hovering over the second one. The sound appears to come from below the F2/F3/2/3 keys. I tried to record it, but its too quiet and there's too much background noise here to hear it on the video.

Anyone have an idea what this would be? I presume it's the CPU/GPU underneath, but I've never heard this before. Does this happen to anyone else?
Non-US encryption is 'theoretical', claims CIA chief in backdoor debate
Say it's not true?! Search ad decline?! How will we survive?!
It's sad but predictable to see your comment downvoted for offering an interesting perspective. Especially considering most responses are sarcastic "yeah Facebook is small", ignoring your explanation. I'd have thought most here acknowledge your point that you can't arbitrarily add people/cash to a team.

In general I don't like exclusivity, but I don't downvote for a well-intended, thoughtful contribution. I do think you ignore the more obvious motivation of them wanting a larger cut of the price.
The Deprecation of iCloud Core Data
Facebook (the website/app) isn't that popular anymore. What's still going strong are FB chat, WhatsApp and Instagram.
Also, Christo was born in Bulgaria and "Христо" is a pretty popular name there (and is a reference to Jesus, of course).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
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Having grown up in a restaurant to become a developer, I would say it's a lot harder to sell to a restaurant.

My parents would never spend any budget on anything tech at all. They would still have a hard time seeing the benefits of something like JustEat or Deliveroo, where an outsider might think it was obvious. I suspect there's a lot of restaurant businesses with very conservative owners.

A dev can easily go and pay a few hundred buck for some IDE that they turn out not to use after a few weeks.
Yes, this is correct. I haven't had more time to build up ruby-sys; and also, wanted to try to integrate it into helix rather than their libcruby-sys.
How is spending 100k/m, while only bringing in 9k/m is a "moderate success"? Their lessons learned is basically "tech startups in the restaurant space is a stupid idea"!
It would be interesting to know how Google cloud services and other income sources do contribute to company's profits.
I would say that that has less to do with DRM and more to do with banning you from their multiplayer servers.
Isn't that the nature of almost every conflict with an ethnic context? If there's no clear weaker and stronger you usually end up with two independent states.

The way Tibet was Incorporated into China, the nature of the Tibetan resistance, the way China governs Tibet, the reason China wants Tibet, the reason China represses Tibetans are all very very different from what's happening in Judea and Samaria. The Israeli Arab conflict is perhaps the most unique of all time.

The better analogies perhaps are some of the separatist leaning Russian Republics or India's Jammu and Kashmir
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It's China, so it falls under the authority of the CPC first, then any legal considerations second.

We marvel at how quickly they built up high speed rail, but when you can just seize land without regard to imminent domain, associated lawsuits and the like, things tend to get expedited.
Not necessarily

H1-B is a dual intent visa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#H-1B_and_path_to_per...
Sometimes it's painful to realize how not economically rational people are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526272
Extremely unlikely, seeing that 3d projection doesn't help with Amazon Prime Now, which is partly a big reason for me personally living in city ...
This motion-controlled surgical endoscopy tool is DIY genius
Yes, that wasn't my intention so thanks for the clarification.
I was there literally three days ago. The place is nothing short of breathtaking.
Nestled at 4200km, it was a three day motorbike ride from Chengdu. Even at its foothills, you have no concept of the scale of the town hiding in the hills.

This will truly be a tragic loss - the town is much more than the 'slum' it is represented as - it's arguably the most important Buddhist learning institution in the world..

Photos for the interested from my visit: http://travel.ninjito.com/dump/2016-06-15-Larung-Gar/index.h...

Edit: Got a good internet connection, uploaded decent photos.
> Let us separate the smart from the fashionable.

Borders between people don't help anyone.
If you want to develop an app that depends on low latency such as an interactive audio app or DAW, then on iOS that is entirely doable.

If you want to do the same on Android, or port that same app from iOS to Android, than that is virtually impossible.

From:
http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency

"Many mobile apps that are critically dependent on low latency audio functionality such as some games, synthesizers, DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), interactive audio apps and virtual instrument apps, and the coming wave of virtual reality apps, all of which thrive on Apple's platform (App Store + iOS devices) --- and generate big revenues for App Store and iOS developers are largely non-existent on Android.
Android Audio's 10 Millisecond Problem, a little understood yet extremely difficult technical challenge with enormous ramifications, prevents these sorts of revenue producing apps from performing in an acceptable manner and even being published (!) on Android at this point in time.
Startups and developers are unwilling to port and publish otherwise successful iOS apps (with ~10 ms audio latency needs) on Android for fear of degraded audio performance resulting in negative word-of-mouth and a hit to their professional reputation and brand.
Consumers lose because have a strong desire to buy such apps on Android, as shown by revenue data on iOS, and currently, are unable to do so. One can appreciate the scale of this problem/opportunity when one takes into account the so-called 'next billion' consumers who will be 'mobile-only'."

No app developer will, as you describe:

"take on the task of creating hardware, customizing Android, using your media server and SDK, in order to avoid those latencies on Android."

But OEMs seeking to differentiate their Android builds will integrate Superpowered Media Server, allowing for low latency functionality.
In the Google vs. Facebook discussion, I think people seem to forget a tiny detail:

Google has some products that are market leaders with heavy usage, eg:

* Search

* GMail

* Youtube

* Android

* Chrome

* Maps

* Docs

Its just that Google is unable to monetize many of them.

However, Facebook has only Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.

1) Instagram _is_ what Facebook was 10 years ago. Its not a new product.
They just bought it because Instagram was becoming _The Social Network_.

2) Instagram and Whatsapp were bought acquired.

What I'm trying to say is that Google is unable to monetize many of its products.
And if online advertisement gets doomed, it would have to look for other business models.

But it _does_ have a very diverse set of products that people love.

What does Facebook have? and when was the last time they created something people loved?
> At Marin, a large bacon and egg breakfast sandwich was $22, and refillable coffee was $7. On Friday it will go down to $18 and $5, respectively.

It was not exactly an inexpensive restaurant to begin with.
Yes, for at least New York. No correspondence degrees though. It's harder to get a job though with an unusual résumé.
The practical use case is that you will see commercial Android builds that will have integrated the Superpowered Media Server, allowing Android to become the great music and entertainment platform it should be.
And frankly you just don't understand.

Well, it would be helpful if you could explain rather than just complain.

The Trump phenomenon is baffling to many of us outside of the US. I can obviously grasp some of the key reasons – anti-establishment feeling, for example – but equally I'm confused by other aspects.
I'm with you, so let me expand on what I meant: On consoles it's different because some studious exclusively develop for Playstation or Xbox, meaning they don't even have the tech to just compile a PC or Xbox version if they wanted to. Now, this is a the result of being Playstation exclusive for years, but I'm sure they get paid enough to not worry about losing out on the other markets.

I totally agree that for gamers it's a loss. Most skip games on that other platform, but some grudgingly buy an Xbox or Playstation just for one game.

Another very stupid tactic is making PC gamers wait like Rockstar does with GTA. This is especially bad given the history of the GTA games and them being PC first back in the day.
I'm pretty sure on 5.5M you can go to Spain, buy a very decent house in 1st line of sea and continue to live a good life till the rest of your days. :)
It does get in the way if you eant to run two instances of a game (one controlled by keyboard the second controlled by gamepad so that you can play with a friend) I've used sandboxie to get around this.
Are you implying that 3D would be in a different position now if Sony owners had the opportunity to sit through Avatar a bit earlier? 3D certainly did not fail due to lack of hardware adoption. In that metric, 3D has won. It just turned out to be one of the many, many features that are only important to check boxes in a product comparison matrix.
The "asset" part is a DeBeers created fiction.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/82feb/8202diamond1.ht...
To devils advocate, though, what if automatic transcripting of text from video actually worked reliably? You might then get many of the advantages of text in video form: ability to search, copy-paste, fast forward and backward while still seeing what is going on. You would still see the presenters ugly mouth flapping up and down, however, which might be thought a negative.
> My recent forays into Kanji suggest there's more to visual processing of text than what we permit ourselvesto learn due to phonic constraints associatedwith language acquisition

The phonic connection to reading is overrated IMHO and this is why I wrote of a hack of the visual system. Kanji/Hanzi are so easy to read because over the millennia the ones that are hard to recognize at speed have bene dropped or tuned -- and they have no connection to sound, as you say (well, in the Japanese case in particular there are some phonological puns, but I doubt you notice them at speed, even if you have the historical connection). In the latin alphabet I almost never recognize puns when reading (though I get them immediately if someone is reading aloud). And when I was learning German I struggled at first to read the compound words but now the morphological decomposition is automatic.

In fact I think the trend to teach kids English via "phonics" makes spelling harder; comment back if you want to discuss further
You cab launch the client and immediately go into offline mode if you are concerned about your privacy
auganov wrote:

> Isn't that the nature of almost every conflict with an ethnic context? If there's no clear weaker and stronger you usually end up with two independent states.

Your statement is sort of weird in the above. It presupposes that subjugation of a weaker ethnic group by a more powerful ethnic group is acceptable -- that is how these conflicts are resolved. It is counter to the idea of universal human rights that arose because of the the atrocities that arose because of the ethnic issues in WW2. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_rights#After_...

Your point of view, the powerful ethnic groups win and the weak lose and that is how the world works, justifies slavery, South African apartheid, and many other situations where one ethnic group is more powerful and wishes to impose its wishes on the less powerful. That is an allowable perspective, but that is antithesis to universal human rights.
The amazing artificial intelligence we were promised is coming, finally
No need for the pixel. Facebook like buttons already proliferate the web. Add to that instant articles, and all links from Facebook itself, and you already have a pretty good model for identifying users even when logged out.
Google opens a Machine Learning research group in Europe
I was just countering the parents argument that we are heading in the right direction - sure there is still some individuals that will benefit from whatever drives the Flynn effect but overall it is now insignificant.
Google working on 'common-sense' AI engine at new Zurich base
Who would have listen to her?
'anarchist, lesbian unicorn from Azkaban' or other gender bender fuckwits - wtf.
The lefties have truly spread their social disease across the developer community.
All those sobby stories from women in tech?
We need charismatic leaders, despite the domain in which we work for to get a direction.
No, it's perfectly meaningful to talk about Israel/Palestine - and by extension the US - when criticizing actions by China. Otherwise you end up with the same narrative you get in pretty much every media outlet in the world; whatever the US does is good, no terrorism or support for murderous dictators there (cough south america..cuba...saudi arabia..iran...iraq...indonesia etc etc etc ), and whatever China does is bad.
This will bring the Free Tibet movement to the front again for the next POTUS.

I am sure China will put the 'safety' issue forward, and deflect the independence movement. Remember the earthquake of May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province, China, where over 68,000 people died, and more went missing. The focus in the media was on the houses not being up to standard building codes.

The earthquake in Nepal in 2015 surely affected Tibet too, but information was controlled by China, so the numbers are questionable. Larung Gar is a sprawl of houses for monks, worshipers, students and visitors that could be seen as a potential earthquake hazard area as spun by Chinese media.
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The ABA has stringent standards for accreditation that include levels of tenured faculty and quality of library. This places an artificial floor on faculty wages and conditions that mean the adjunctification of university isn't going to happen to law schools.

And most newly minted law professors have real research doctorates in addition to J.D.s or top tire law degrees or both. They have much better outside academia options than social science or arts academics and their salaries reflect that.
Dad sues Google, Twitter, Facebook for their 'material support' of ISIS
>> Are you genuinely delighted by any Google product these days

I like Google Search, it is good, plain and simple. Regarding any of their other products: for sure no. Gmail works but creeps me out and as an admin, relying on GApps is becoming an increasingly not-fun experience since they rewrite the UI on a biweekly basis while leaving their documentation outdated. Boring and agonizing to have to spent time on something that is essentially easy except for the fact that the settings are hidden in an ever shifting castle of (pixel)sand.

Android for me suffers from the same product instability issues, I much much prefer the potential openness of Android to IOS but I certainly do NOT prefer the overt way Google monetizes their users and after fighting with mediocre Android hardware I've ended up with iphone. Low and behold it works, like, plain and simple style.

Google has the resources, but the focus?!
Give them a break they only have a 300billion market cap.
And Obama criticizes Israel sometimes by stating that the murder of thousands of civilians or the expansion of illegal settlements are "unneccesary" or "not helpful to peace" too, but it's just window dressing and not to be taken seriously. Certainly it makes no difference to the outcome whatsoever, and never will.
Eh, he has acted like a moderate on a few key issues; like not denying federal funds to expand medicaid as his peers in most red states did. He's also expected to sign the medical marijuana bill making its way through Ohio's congress. His behavior is most definitely not typical of your standard GOP congressman/governor.
Bank of England and PwC partner to explore putting fiat currency on a blockchain
This is a sad and impossible to justify action, but I think we haven't improved yet. Outside of preserving species, animal zoos we have now are, in my view, equally wrong and unjustifiable. The recent death of a kid in a zoo showed how irresponsible humans are with their dominion over most things on this earth. In the opposite scenario we wouldn't shoot a human baby that's trying to, say, eat a bird, would we? I've heard most arguments for zoos and the only one that makes sense is to help the population of species. Anything else like "but this reduces safaris" are bogus.

To give the simplest possible example: what gives us the right to cage a bird and disallow it from flying, which arguably is its primary purpose in life?

To be clear, I'm not following any pro animal rights, or against meat or whatever ideology. I just cannot logically make sense of holding animals in captivity with the sole purpose of having humans visit them. There are good ways to do this as well, like reservations in the open nature, where it's not a zoo, but still it's a compromise and ideally we wouldn't have to fence lions, etc. in because human settlements have expanded into their space.
Am I the only one who is slightly disappointed that none of the books appear to be tomes of arcane and forbidden knowledge?

Seriously, the idea of using human skin to bind a book seem very morbid, and using it for something as mundane as a medical textbook seems ... really strange.
A software licence is a legal contract.

There are many things you can not indemnify yourself against - so indemnification against 'any consequences' is not possible.

Apple can not update their EULA for Apple pay, and avoid being held negligent if they messed up and all their customers money was stolen from their accounts. Otherwise every single EULA would make all software companies legally untouchable - which they aren't.
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I'd go so far as to consider Gabe Newell a "founder-VC" all by himself. Their interests might therefore be a bit better aligned than in many other cases. A closed-source implementation of BDFL, maybe?