skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Bulgarian living in Germany, I would say that this vote is a complicated thing.

On one side politicians were not able to explain the benefits of the EU to the UK people and on the other hand the ratio remain / leave is so close that there is no right answer if the majority wants it.

As far as I remember David Cameron was arguing that if the EU-parliament didn't vote some points that he suggested, he would vote "Leave" and now he wants to convince people to vote "Remain". Such a sad story.

Definitely for people like me ( IT ) no doors will be closed, but I doubt that a closed door for all the others will benefit the ordinary UK-person's life.
...and then it goes and uses JSON, which is definitely not the most compact of serialisation formats. The whole thing is base64'd anyway, so something like ASN.1 PER which is a "true" binary format would be far better than base64'ing what is essentially text. But then, in my experience, Web standards tend to be weird like that.
Re arch community, It really depends on which platform you communicate on. Those on the Arch IRC channels are massively elitist, but I've found that to be equally true for most other distros as well. The arch message board can be extremely terse at times, but that's intentional to improve the signal to noise ratio, much like how SlackOverflow operates. However if you chat to arch users on other forums like here, people are massively more friendly.

My point being you get good and bad sub-communities within any distro / OS.
A pattern I'm recently noticing for myself is that even if a task doesn't feel "overwhelming" or "nebulous" per se, it seems to be easier to motivate myself to knock out a small task than a large one.

Rinse a dish. Open a letter. Rename a variable. Root cause a bug. Rough out the skeleton for a feature. Write a unit test. Download an installer. Make a commit. Email someone.

I'm noting there's a difference between small tasks and a small task. Big TODO lists may not be nebulous - I find them quite handy for ensuring a complete and thorough job is done, and for project progress tracking - but they're still big, potentially overwhelming huge things. And if not overwhelming, something that I'm not going to finish today anyways - it won't hurt to wait until tomorrow...

Instead of more TODO lists, I should invest in having a TODO item.
To be fair, that's not working for the war machine, it's working with the war machine.

But that is a good point - we have the militaries of the US and Britain to thank not only for the internet but the computers accessing it.

And the military industrial complex has Silicon Valley to thank for its ability to conduct mass targeted surveillance through social media and browser exploits, and to kill people with metadata.
Harold Bloom (spoilers?):

"As the hideousness of his creature was no part of Victor Frankenstein's intention, it is worth noticing how this disastrous matter came to be. It would not be unjust to characterize Victor Frankenstein, in his act of creation, as being momentarily a moral idiot, like so many who have done his work after him... As he works on, he allows himself to dream that "a new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me."

Yet he knows his is a "workshop of filthy creation," and he fails the fundamental test of his own creativity. When the "dull yellow eye" of his creature opens, this creator falls from the autonomy of a supreme artificer to the terror of a child of earth: "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." He flees his responsibility and sets in motion the events that will lead to his own Arctic immolation, a fit end for a being whom has never achieved a full sense of another's existence."
Well, Xerox got pre-IPO Apple stock, so I would hope Apple got something for the money.
No, there are millions of people who are trying to cure cancer or solve poverty.
The React and Redux community is heavily influenced by Functional Programming. Because of that, I've collected a number of friendlier / easier-to-read articles on understanding FP as part of my React/Redux links list: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... . Some pretty good articles in there.
Some people say, 'this subway is so noisy it's a problem; I know, I'll drown it out with death metal bands!' Now they have two problems.
I agree 100% with you w/ regards to the Nordic countries vs the US.

In that same vein, I really believe that there is a huge cognitive dissonance with many in the US, e.g. the majority of Bernie supporters, when it comes to the desire for a Nordic like social system and at the same time continued massive immigration of non-western cultures and ethnicities.

>Before the United States can implement serious welfare reform, including U.B.I., we must solve this nation's racial integration problem.

Of course, that is almost certainly not going to happen anytime soon. Tribalism in humans is not something that can easily be removed.

Just like our industry has that saying, "pick two of three when buying software: done cheaply, done quickly, and done well", we are going to need to accept that nations, at least in the near-term, can pick one of two: "socialism/UBI or massive integration of cultures".

It is common sense that a country cannot afford both. Even tiny Norway, with its vast Oil reserves, will soon have to make the choice.

Events like Brexit, Trump's rise, etc. are different manifestations of this choice being made.
I'm not seeing the aesthetic similarity between the Mac and the Alto, except that they're both beige, have a mouse, and are taller than wide. What specifically do you see in common?
Along the line, what will a professional say?
so what you are saying is that you should have borrowed for college because then you would have had no money to help them with and would at worst case ended up in the exact same situation?
To Secure Loans, Chinese Women Supply Perilous Collateral: Nude Photos
Whoops, you're right, it is an XL1201 (without the dash, so I made two mistakes :-). The legend on the case is "XL1201 Compact".
It's similar to Agar.io, except with snakes instead of circles.
libertarians! -_-
I see your point, For me, it's more in the spirit : "Hey look C# used as a systems language really pinpoints performance problems X, Y, Z."

Improving the compiler to better handle X, Y, Z will yield to improvements all over the spectrum, not only in systems programming. C# used as a systems language only helped us find those issues faster.

Short-lived stack allocated arrays, zero copy, etc. isn't something only systems programmers need. if your average ASP.Net webserver can benefit from it, it's a good thing.
So it's still a major accomplishment? And he's even more cunning by doing it purposefully?
I played it for a little while, but it's too easy to die, I'd prefer it if you rapidly shrank while touching another snake, giving you a few seconds to turn out of they way.

Was popular with my students for a few days, but they're back to agar.io now
How would you decide that two buyers are the same entity? Unless you are going to force people to upload photo IDs or something, I don't see how this could work reliably.
As a Slackware user, and also having used LFS for a while, I thought that it was Slackware that was closest to LFS, without all the trouble of having to build the base system by hand. Once installed, the system could be extended, if needed, by using software packages from different sources, just like LFS. I did try Arch a while ago and found that Slackware was easier to install than Arch. Here's an analogy: being more of a kit, Arch is an AR-15 of Linux, whereas Slackware is an AK-47: it just works (it never failed me, anyway).
pg has been consistent with this viewpoint, expressing the same sentiment when Austin voters rejected a proposition that would have done away with driver fingerprinting requirements for Uber and Lyft: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/731871426056065028

If nothing else, the Austin case in particular is very interesting to me in that, with Uber and Lyft gone, there have been a flurry of startups and a non-profit in the rideshare space: Fare, Fasten, GetMe, Wingz, and the non-profit RideAustin. While none of them (yet) provide the hail times and low prices of Uber or Lyft, at the very least it is an interesting experiment in some different business models.
If you could capture the entire logic in code, it wouldn't be arbitration, it'd just be a feature of the smart contract.

The way you'd encode an arbitration clause into a smart contract is making the arbitrator an oracle. That makes it a part of the smart contract, but it's still resolved by an external arbitrator.
Indeed, I installed arch for first time in a Raspberry and the wiki was the perfect guide for setting everything up and installing just the packages I needed, no more. A much more lightweight and neat option than the typical Raspbian distro.
You can stretch any analogy past its breaking point. The discussion was about household fires.

Random applications of overwhelming force too have situations in which they're appropriate. Fighting terrorism is not one of them.
Fair enough. The question was whether to approve "Measures_to_stay_in_Euro_final_final2_no_really_final_after_7_months.docx"

I suppose there have been referenda on dumber things. The point is it was disrespected by the government, it made things worse, but at least it let people blow some steam .

I believe the britons similary want to let some steam out, but it's a very passive aggressive way to do it.
At least, just like cyclists, they can rotate through who gets the front to equalize energy usage.
True, but the context was about household fires :).
If you're winning at the casino, the right response isn't to create a safety net and play riskier games. It's to leave the casino.
Url changed from http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/earth-has-cap..., which points to this.
Sadly it doesn't seem to generate UVs for the models. But using the cube projection in Blender seems to do an OK job.

Add a skybox and a couple of simple particle effects in PlayCanvas.

And we have some WebGL spaceships :-)

https://playcanv.as/p/kZtPZpnH/
Increased tourism might be "on balance a good thing" for NYC economically, but NYC also has an obligation to the welfare of its citizens. Does this new law bill strike the right balance between welfare and economics? I don't know, but the situation before was out of control.
Homelessness has been increasing nationwide for about 3 decades or so:

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/why.html

This is because the supply of affordable housing has been dwindling while demand grows:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1292331...

This is not specific to New York per se. I guess you have every right to argue that this is just a New York issue because this this a New York law under discussion, but lack of affordable housing is hardly specific to New York and AirBnB is also hardly specific to New York.

So, while you no doubt have some valid points, the fact is that affordable housing is simply not happening nationwide. And when people do what you are currently doing -- and most people do -- of saying "yes, BUT..." and acting like somehow this specific instance is not relevant or doesn't count, well, again, affordable housing is simply not happening and there is always an excuse and it is always not the thing we are talking about THIS time.

So, do you have any pointers as to how and when it would be okay to make any points about it without them being dismissed out of hand as irrelevant, not on topic and so on?

Thanks.
If you set out looking for this, you will surely find it! Use the search filters on Airbnb - the Superhost filter and searching for Private Room instead of Whole Unit are two good tactics to get started. Then read the listings reviews. Do guests mention the host? You can also message your host to make sure.

I usually travel with big groups so I don't go looking for this experience, but my parents are into it :)

(Disclosure: I'm an engineer @ Airbnb )
On the general issue of if something like AirBnB should be allowed I'm mixed but on the specific of AirBnB they're an evil company in my experience.

They aren't even trying not to be evil. They are trying to take ZERO responsibility for anything. They don't care how much their hosts lie and take zero efforts to hold hosts accountable for their lies.

I've rented places that claimed to be 1 bed room but were actually a studio. I've rented places that claimed to have "parking on premises" but didn't. I've rented places that claimed to include internet but didn't. The latest is I rented a place the claimed to be at a certain location but was actually several blocks away. When I complained the AirBnB rep told me it was company policy to allowed hosts to lie about their locations because putting actual locations on the internet would be dangerous. When I pointed out Redfin, Craigslist, VRBO, etc don't have such a BS policy he claimed it was one reason AirBnB is more successful. In other words, because they allow lying they are more successful.

If they ever start taking some responsibility, say fining lying hosts or banning them from the site or marking their ratings down maybe I'll start rooting for them but until then I hope they get banned.
Will the next Siri be empathetic?
We're not talking about mutualized apartments or condominiums, we're talking apartment buildings, the residents don't have much of a say.

Beyond that, the rules even from a condo complex can be lacking teeth, the law is not.
> You do NOT have to pay a "minimum service fee". This is the third time I've read, recently, someone from Europe say that and it's totally false.

I did not make that up: I visited New York a month ago, and experienced first-hand what happens if you pay less than 15%. I was at a restaurant where the noise was so loud I could not talk normally with my family. The place was very loud by itself, but at a neighboring table three guys were having an aggressive argument, they were screaming, standing upright at their table, acted completely obnoxious and extremely loud. The personnel let this go on for more than 20 minutes until one guy left, angrily. The whole experience was very unpleasant for us, so I gave only $5 tip, instead of the $15 that was the "minimum". I even explained the reason. I still was told that I had miscalculated, that they could not help the behavior of other customers, and I had to get into an argument and get help from another waiter before making my way out.

Probably this was just a poorly-run restaurant, but in my experience almost all restaurants there make it quite clear on the bill that the 15% service fee is really not optional. Only the part above that is.
> Yes, written English isn't a phonetic language like, say, Hindi.

It is still somewhat phonetic. If you ignore the vowels that have changed sound over time and the silent letters, you can still sound out a fair chunk of English words.
You realize that Go also is GCed right?
Debian Sid is very up to date and rolling.
Ariane 5 delivers its heaviest commercial payload
Thanks, both of you.
Edited it. Basically, for me at least, meditation creates a bias towards action. I feel procrastination relates to biochemistry (serotonin, dopamine etc) and somehow meditation kind of "fixes" the issue temporarily. If I stop meditating, I quickly revert back to the old me.
I definitely see the similarity. That said, I never liked agar.io. Slither.io's ability for the smallest snake to kill the one at the top of the leaderboard makes for a more rewarding experience IMHO.
>and its escaping and context rules stem from a time when all we had was ASCII.

My keyboard still only has ~ASCII on it, so having to input anything else is a huge barrier to entry.

Regex syntax sucks, I'll be the first to agree with that, but it's more of an annoyance. If I write some regex to match ips(obviously not properly, but quick rough match):

([0-9]\.){1,3}[0-9]{1,3}

My thought process isn't "open paren, open bracket, zero" etc, it's more of "Ok, I have a 4 groups of 1 to 3 numbers separated by dots, which can be written as 3 groups followed by a dot followed by a fourth group" and my hands translate it the rest of the way into text.

Knowing exactly which character to use may have been a hindrance the first few times I ran into regex, but the real difficulty is in knowing what to match and how to match it. Providing that info to your computer once you know it is the easy part, even if the interface is horrible.

It's like driving a car or a bike. You don't think "Ok, time to move my hand to move the steering wheel to the right and that will turn the wheels which will then the car to the right", you just need to turn right and your subconscious takes care of the rest.

Improving the syntax would be like trying to improve how well/safely you drive by changing the steering wheel. Sure, it might help a little bit, but that's not really the difficult part of driving well, just an interface to it.
Now if only I could get a hotel of the same quality at the same price. Wish hotel rooms came with a kitchen.
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you know, if the congress critters put more effort into pushing the fair-tax, this would stop. maybe.
Then it wouldn't be equivalent. SV has economies of scale working for it in many ways.
Smile, you’re in the FBI face-recognition database
Hmm, I didn't break down the numbers in my first post indeed. Asia (with Middle-East included) is 15%, Turkey is just 3.8%, and no other Middle-East country seems to reach 1%.

So France has quite few immigrants from the Middle-East.
I'm not sure they have an incentive. They can't do like Facebook did with Instagram, because there are already multiple competitors anyway. Merging it with their existing service would be way too unpopular and lose them a ton of Spotify's customers.
agreed. Deep and introspective analysis aside, it's agar.io with snakes.
Israel is the closest. You have massive R&D centers for Intel (4 R&D sites, two fabs), Microsoft (2x R&D), Apple (2x R&D), Google (2x R&D), Facebook, Amazon (and even American startups like Magic Leap) all closer to each other than the distance between SF and Palo Alto.

VC presence in Israel is probably second only to SV and the rate of startups per capita by far exceeds any other country.

What Israel loses to SV is primarily cultural; no one gets the US consumer better than SV, that's why Israel is more focused on enterprise, security, semiconductor etc.
France attempted to do it, even putting it in an area with nice weather ;) After 40 years it's only about 20k-30k jobs there and nobody from outside ever heard about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Antipolis

Btw, the reason why they failed is a banking system that hates bankruptcies. If your startup fails, you won't get any credit (yup, better get a mortgage before starting a company) for at least 10 years (I think it was 20, but am too tired to search for references now).
The only difference between Steam and GoG is that your browser is already providing the VM to sandbox (albeit without hardware enforcement) GoG's code running on your machine, while for Steam you have to supply your own VM if you want that degree of isolation. (If you happened to be running Qubes OS then this matter of degrees of convenience would be trivial.) In either case, running some of the store's code on your machine in order to obtain the product is unavoidable. In neither case is it DRM.
Go is also a GC language.
Why the ‘lone-wolf’ terrorist is a myth
Camera settings don't matter -- and they would vary from picture to picture and on different camera and lens models anyway. Plus, they won't apply as is to any other lighting condition.

It's all about the subject being inherently nice, and getting the framing as the photographer intended and the exposure right.
Maybe we'd call it a hotel or something like that.
Excellent point, and something that is unarguably (at least, unarguable by me) a good thing.
Thought this was a commentary on the poor API contracts exposed by data access objects
Spain will probably have internet eventually though, right?

/s
'seed' is explicitly imported on line 18, then overwritten on line 736, and yet it's used as a function on line 526. As far as I can tell, that is an error.

>>> from random import seed
>>> def f(): return seed(10)
>>> seed = 50
>>> f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module>
f()
File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in f
def f(): return seed(10)
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>>>

I haven't run the script, so take this with a grain of salt.

EDIT: Since generate_spaceship is always called with an empty random_seed parameter, this error won't happen when the script is run.
Awesome stuff. Would love to see concept artists incorporating procedural generated assets in their workflow. Produce 100 samples like this, teach the computer which ones they prefer, produce 100 more, take a few and refine them by hand.
>I'm sure much of the $100k/day is recent

This is probably the reason and the unexpected scale. Initially as a broke(referring to part where struggled to pay rent) 32 year old developer, you don't want to share spend a lot on AWS/GCP. If the revenue stream is consistent, I'm sure, he is going to move to either of the platforms. So much less headache that way.
Even with Confession of Cheating, World’s Doping Watchdog Did Nothing
ISIS's hacking army allegedly part of Russian espionage efforts against the West
Being a non native in English I'm really grateful for this comment. I've never really understood this BTQ expression.
Tim Peake
"Transients" is definitely a term well chosen to frame the debate in your favor.

"Tourists", "visitors", or even "people" would all be much more welcoming terms.

You mention Uber in a positive light as providing "taxi-like vehicles", a nice neutral term. How does it sound when you call them "private black cars", or alternatively, "illegal taxicabs" or "gypsy cabs" (no slur intended against people of that ethnicity!).

Calling users of Airbnb "transients" is, in my opinion, unnecessarily harsh. They're human beings, for goodness sake!
That is not what I mean.
There's already plenty of smart decent people in the military and even more at defense companies. It's a structural, not a people, problem. What the US military does (both offline and online) mostly has widespread support among politicians and the US population. These policies are not a mistake to be corrected or something that will go away, it's a difference in opinion. If you don't support them you probably shouldn't be involved. There are many other ways to help your country with e.g. digital security. The "anti-military types" is just a cheap shot. Pretty much everyone I know who has been or are involved in a military (or government) has reservations about it (including myself).
I've tried several, as my ex-wife was into that kind of thing. They all taste terrible to me. Some other things that taste terrible to me that other people claim are sweet: aspartame and saccharin. They don't taste sweet to me at all, just nasty. Sucralose tastes bad too, though it at least tastes sweet, just in a really nasty way. Stevia tastes sweet too, just in a nasty way.

I wonder how much of this is how much people are used to: if you keep drinking diet soda for years and years and "acquire" a taste for it, maybe then real sugar will taste weird to you.
What are you talking about? iCloud Core Data has been deprecated. CloudKit, good as it is, is not a replacement for iCloud core data, and is not relevant to the article.
In this JavaScript world nothing is too mad.
New paper claims that the EM Drive doesn't defy Newton's third law
update to avoid confusion: when I wrote the previous post and relinked it this morning, the accepted answer was the "government history" by ShitalShah.

After I wrote today's post, the accepted answer was changed to the "costs dissection" by Stephen Ostermiller. That answer addresses the question better.

I assume either the original poster (Indra) or an admin changed the accepted answer.
Thanks! I'll add this to the README now.