skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sponsor ideas:
co-working spaces

start up attorneys

office supply stores

local printer

local accelerators/incubators

large companies with big technology areas
Instantly recognisable as the inimitable Slavoj Žižek.
Origami and 177 FT sites
...waiting for their girlfriend, and they just bought the screwdriver to fix her hair dryer. When 'rights' are relative that way, its just a blank check to hassle people based on profiling?
Hardly an expert myself but as I understand it the Speaker (the leader of the majority party) schedules what comes up for a vote. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule.
Dropbox improving productivity
They should all be standardized under separate standards. You can call them "extended text", if you like. Mathematical notation isn't really supported by Unicode, either (just mathematical symbols), and that's fine. Math should have its own standard, and so should hieroglyphs, emojis, and musical notation.
Dividing by zero to invert matrices
Wet N Wild Lash Out Loud Waterproof Mascara
Spending all of your time with people in the top few percent, intellectually, tends to skew your perceptions of what's normal. Most humans struggle with concepts like compound interest. There's a reason hating highschool maths is a trope, despite how trivial most of it is.
Here's a direct link extracted with youtube-dl.

http://cp401491-vh.akamaihd.net/i/,mps_h264_med/public/news/...
I just downloaded the video on Windows 10, in Edge no less. Click on the resources tab like he said.

Not sure who's trolling here...

edit: Oh wow, I didn't even notice but the video can stream in Edge! Doesn't do it in Chrome on OS X though XD
Your Net Promoter Score Is Irrelevant
Mental health legislation is a mess. Decades of Freudians spreading misinformation doesn't help, but we also do a horrible job of educating children. We're worse at that than we are at educating children about sex, which if you think about it is no wonder why we have these bizarre nonsense national discussions about how we need to treat all mentally ill people as potential criminals.
Nobody who owns a rear engine car wonders why. XD
I use nightly for osdev. No other option.
Recreating the Sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Using the Web Audio API
> GNU requires contributors (and maintainers) to assign copyright for non-trivial contributions.

It's up to the individual projects whether they want to assign copyright to the FSF.
What they have in common is one is BBC's candidate for "Worst collision in the history of space flight" and the other one is mine.

Agree with your comment on opposite endings for small changes in inputs.
I Sea, App That Claims It Can Find Migrants Adrift in Ocean, Is Misleading
Here's the whole speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVvxGa0zhWo&feature=youtu.be

He said the nomination process should be put off until after the election. Listen to the speech, and you I have not forgotten as I can. The Senate GOP has been very loud in saying that its a no go.
Communication is a two-way street. A polite speaker has to take into consideration how their audience wants to be addressed, but polite listeners need to take into consideration that the speaker's words are the speaker's. My autistic brother will get very anxious when he anticipates a specific phrase in response to something but the person words it differently from how he expects, and he then insists that the person repeat the phrase with the "correct" version. The motivation is different from blind political-correctness, but the crime is the same. Words are symbolic of experience, and even though we all generally agree on what words mean, different people associate them with different experiences, so they essentially have reimplementation of the same word. Why should one person have to fully accomodate one person's implementation of "guy" while the other person just ignores what they know the first person means by that word?
The missing piece of the VC gender inclusion puzzle
I know there's a lot of nostalgia involved, but in my mind this was a pivotal moment in gaming. The step up from Doom (and alikes) to Quake was huge. Not to mention how well designed and balanced the game was. I wasted so many hours playing it originally and even now it still thrills, in a way I just haven't had for a long time.
First Electric Road in Sweden Inaugurated
"Starfruit" is purely an American name, dating from the 1970's (its known as Carambola elsewhere). So it could be Caplan's doing?

This article credits her with the name "Champagne Grapes" for fresh Zante currant grapes: http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-kiwi-queen-fried...
> Unicode enabled all sorts of cool things in computing that simply were not possible before or only with awful hacks and workarounds.

Could you give an example? I don't know anything about this stuff.
> If people can't understand compound interest

I didn't write that they couldn't understand it. I wrote that it isn't being taught, so they don't understand it.

You could probably learn many things you don't already know easily, however I don't think "there are many things you shouldn't be doing" because you haven't thought to learn them. For example: empathy.
TreeLib: Balanced Binary Trees – Rank Augmented, for .NET
Messenger Platform Wars
They didn't ignore it, they withheld their consent by deciding not to vote on the candidate. I would rather they not waste money on a charade and reject the candidate on the Senate floor. Less cost, same result.
Great work. I was a customer at 673 W Brannan in SF back in '07. Best residential internet ever.
The H1 was worthless because of the very small intersection between what the people who sped'd the H1 wanted it to do and what most people driving on the road in the snow want it to do. Once you're off the road the H1 should be pretty awesome in the snow since you won't even be snow-plowing with the A-arms until there's more than 18" of snow. I'm not trying to be a H1/m998 fanboy but it does what it was meant to do very well (and that's about all it does very well)
> It would be interesting to see a list of features from major database management systems that have been removed over the years.

The only other thing I can think of right now are in-memory optimized indexes (e.g., T-Trees) from the 1980s. These were later removed and replaced with B+trees (or skip lists if you're MemSQL) because CPU caches (SRAM) got much faster than memory (DRAM).
> 2 code commits

* Squashing commits works like that.

* Only having to change a few things to achieve a performance gain is a signature of well-designed software.

* The second commit touches nearly 1Kloc.

> any tests

Performance improvements aren't supposed to result in a change of behavior (although tests can be reused for benchmarking/profiling). A large test suite[1] that covers behavior already exists.

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/tree/master/test
For additional context, a recent interview with Joey Hess: https://lwn.net/Articles/672352/
I'm always wierded out by that, because it implies we should support the full gamut of math - superscripted/subscripted text, large fractions, the text above and below the epsilon in discrete sums, etc.
It is (without any time restriction re: GC etc.) The exact term would be 'accumulate-only' (technically, 'append-only' is more of a storage implementation detail). Interestingly, you can also make 'WHAT IF' queries i.e obtained a view as if some writes were made (but without transacting them).
How to avoid software project management issues
It's dangerous when it leads a person to choose "I'm going to figure this out on my own" over "I'm going to find someone who can solve this" in cases where they really should have known to pick the latter.
I'd be interested in seeing some sources on this. My guess is that it's not criticising government policy that's a problem but abusive behaviour towards immigrants or criticism backed up with hatred.
Complicated things are not inherently terrible ideas: your CPU is complex, but you have compilers to abstract you from it. Likewise the ways your multi-core machine shares memory is complicated, and the JMM partly abstracts it, but really you're meant to use much higher level constructs. The JMM matters to people writing lock libraries and compilers, not ordinary users.

It's a common logical fallacy that you can simplify a complex solution by simply redefining the problem it solves as not a problem. The "Erlang model" you discuss is in fact the model the entire computing world used before threads were invented and there were only processes. But threads weren't invented for shits and giggles, they were invented for good reasons!
The Science of Word Recognition (2004)
Congratulations! What a nice bunch of new features. Thinking all three models from the ground up has really payed off! Will check out the docker image soon...
Are Rust and Go in the same niche?
Dopefish lives....
NoScript does not prevent pages from "rendering Unicode", whatever that's supposed to mean. I use it myself, and the only thing it does is selectively block Javascript.
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Yes! I have the theory that everybody likes the kind of games they grew up with. I started playing video games around ~2000 and I can't really enjoy these 2D platformers or simple 3D games like Doom. They just look too … ridiculous and unrealistic to me. Current games on the other hand are just needlessly shiny and … realistic to me.
I didn't actually state it was a rant, only that the quoted statement was about as close to a rant as I could find. Personally I didn't find it to be a rant either.
Show HN: Power of no-code visual programming on one page
I'm a bit confused about Unicode. It was a repository of linguistic symbols, not raw symbols. More and more it looks like wingdings. Isn't this putting burden on font support and Text processing (what's the lexicographic order of such symbols, using the abstract name ?) ?
It's time to add [FLASH] tag to HN.
Was really expecting a longer post. Still pretty interesting though.

PS Really happy Romero set his URL like that.
I should clarify. I meant they were getting milked in that if the game cost $1-5 dollars (a one time fee) they would be against paying it but they are oblivious to paying $15-20 over a year through in-app payments. I did not mean that the developer was extracting more money from them that the product is worth.
The link is now locked. Can we replace it with something interesting? Or a cached copy?
Two Spreadsheets, Microsoft Access, and a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
This is the role of digits I believe.
> It's perfect for making tools.

What does "tools" mean here and what is it about the language that makes it suitable for writing such things?

Edit: I fear I might have sounded snarky here, but it's just my "I want to learn" voice.
I remember when QTest hit the internet, it was beta of sorts to help test network play (and the whole engine, I guess). Even though it was only 3 levels, I was blown away by the lighting of the players weapon when you rotated, the SVGA modes...

Did they release screenshots in 320x200 because that was the lowest common denominator resolution? Windows 95 was out at the time so I know people would have been able to view 640x480x256 screenshots.
Formal proof of equivalence of Fibonacci functions
You know how GOTO is real bad? Well, using exceptions for flow control* is basically a thinly disguised GOTO.

Also, constructing an exception object, with the full stacktrace etc., is a pretty heavy operation and can cause big performance issues. But it's mostly the first thing.

* Which is an important distinction. Flow control exception are recognisable because you intentionally throw an exception and expect it to be caught by a particular catcher to process it in a particular way - much like a GOTO, and with all its fragility. In the proper usage of exceptions, when you throw an exception you don't care which line of code catches it and when you catch an exception you don't care which line of code threw it.
From 0 to 100 in 1.513 seconds – new record for electric cars
To LionessLover (who's comment is now flagged): I agree that you calling us both stupid didn't make you wrong - it was the evidence from the experiment, and the way the scientific method works that did that.
Municipal fiber wouldn't be "competition" in any meaningful sense of the term. The Chatanooga rollout cost about $5,000 per subscriber and was heavily supported by cross-subsidies from electricity ratepayers. I'd support municipal fiber as a complete government monopoly in places that have shown themselves capable of operating public infrastructure (e.g. NYC). But billing it as "competition" is disingenuous. You can't meaningfully "compete" with an entity that gets non-market revenue.
That's nice, except the BMP doesn't encode all of Chinese, and it includes a number of weird control characters for compatibility with ASCII. Like Vertical Tab. Who uses Vertical Tab anymore?

The dream of a 16-bit Unicode washed up on the rocks of CJK scripts. It's dead and it isn't going to be revived. You can argue for a simpler standard, with fewer assigned codepoints, but the original BMP isn't it and was never going to be it.
Conversion between different character codes became much easier. (Å (U+00C5) is canonically the same as Å (U+212B) but the latter exist only for round-trip compatibility.)

Unicode defines normalization algorithms (is é its own character, or e with a modifier character?).

I can have a document which combines English, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese, and expect it to be readable and editable by many different tools.
Brexit: Where UK tech companies stand on the EU referendum
Sorry about that! What browser/operating system? I suspect this is a missing font issue.
I'm super interested in how you do that! Can you share at all?
HTTP is the new Lisp
It's time for BBC and other major news providers to stop serving Flash content.
Quote from the founder of Entrepreneur First, where Magic Pony Technology was created:

"Leaving the European Union will have sweeping negative effects on British startups' ability to hire, fundraise and access international markets."

I know some folk on HN are tired of Brexit discussion but this affects us a lot. Go vote.
How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. For 7 Years
Yes, minority is geographical, yet somehow it's come to mean not white male, a western view point. Not sure how female keeps getting classified as minority.
No.

I merely meant to make the more general point that death tolls often don't provoke much of a policy response.
That was a beautiful moment in time when the technology was starting to reach high levels of realism but the aesthetic of realism still hadn't become the oppressive norm of mainstream gaming.
I believe it's more around 8? Not my usual source for gun information but - http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/background-che...

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On a side note, rather than editting my post I'll say here -- I realized what I said at the end was a little disengenuous to make it seem more righteous.

Buying a gun from a private person is more like buying a lawn mower from either your neighbor, girlfriend, or some random guy you meet on craigslist.
I remember being on the main irc channel when both qtest and the quake 1 official shareware was released.

It was absolute insanity and great fun.

Such an exciting time.
A framework for audio software development
March of the machines
I find this article alarming.

Jeff Dean said, "The more people who think about solving problems in this way, the better we'll be". I sincerely hope that Sundar emphasizes the thoughtful application of ML and not allow black box algorithms take too central a role.

This kind of hubris swept through wall street banks during the structured products boom, ultimately leading to products such as synthetic collateralized debt obligations. Taking Jeff Dean's opinion about whether machine learning would be a good thing is like taking the opinion of the creator of synthetic CDOs whether they were a good thing. The authors and evangelists are blinded by optimism and opportunity.

Is Sundar Pichai swept away by the opportunities of machine learning and too biased to be aware of risks ? Is Sundar acting like Stan O'Neil did as he pulled all the stops at Merrill Lynch and went all-in with CDOs? I hope he isn't. It does not seem to be the case as he mentions thoughtful use of ML.

Nonethless, caution should be taken.
http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8579
Plenty of plumbers and electricians get 300k+ out of 80s and 90s E-series vans driving exactly how you described. Cops and taxis get 300k+ out of the frequently driving like you described.

You can also have a pretty crapped up engine well before 100k if you only ever drive to bingo, church and the grocery store.

Once you start looking at the details rules of thumb like $roadmiles = $trackmiles * $x usually can't be applied to complex systems with lots of variables with reasonable precision no matter how much time you spend arguing about x
Make sure that you are sipping from the side opposite the seam that runs up the side of the cup. If you have a lid, put the hole on that opposite side as well. I believe this reduces the dripping.
I don't have a problem with it myself, but I suspect using Location Services to allow for background processing is against Apple's App Store guidelines.
Why Shakespeare was fascinated by time
toucharcade.com is a good source for iOS game reviews.
This was around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS and better stuff is around today.

Nothing like a big bang to scare the population into projectfear.
I like this:

- Make "add to home screen - whenever workout works offline!" more prominent

- Spent a little time on a minimal design / typography. Just to indicate you care about the details (your app is rad, your styling should reflect that)

- Keyboard support could be cool
There will be some kind of actual communication of this data at some point, quite possibly on the official Rust blog. This was a rough draft of the post that was leaked.
Couldn't you do it with transaction isolation levels? for example in Postgres "BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ;"

Inside the transaction you will see only changes made within the transaction.
It might not be obvious but a lot of the 98/XP shell was html/js in disguise. And even before that, 95a had active desktop IIRC. Progress.
There are so many innovations that can be done in the world (and to Android itself as well), but another new OS is not one that would make sense (maybe a HTML5+JS based, but there are already open source OSs based on that). Even Microsoft has a hard time getting into the Mobile OS market. Anyways, good luck to Huawei (and I wish they would try to beat Samsung in the high-end the mobile market).
State Burial for Couch Stephen Keshi Fixed on 27th July
Do the blog posts eventually get deleted at some point? It sounds like they will only be made "private" in a certain sense after the time has lapsed, but not completely removed.
If you're alright with destroying the notebooks, you could try removing the spines and running them through a tray-fed scanner. That would be much faster than taking individual pictures/scans of each page.
In the Wine project, we use donations to fund our yearly get-together and sponsor travel costs for volunteers.
3) and 4) are essentially subclasses of 1) and to solve 1) one needs a typesystem like in Koka or PureScript where code is polymorphic regarding effects so introducing new one without breaking existing code is possible. PureScript uses that to precisely model JS exceptions.

As for 2) the exceptions are not zero-costs even with modern implementations and profile-driven optimizing compiler makes the runtime cost of wrapping/unwrapping low.
Electric car sets acceleration record
Democracy is specifically a method for placing people into positions of power.
No, not really. But nim in my opinion is something in between.
Awesome, I JUST started using ArangoDB for my latest project. So far so good, and these changes look solid. Only thing I wish they had(unless I'm missing something), is a GridFS type storage.
The source article: https://www.theinformation.com/how-a-former-apple-designer-i...
operating hours below normal operating temp. That's why cop cars, taxis, industrial engines and other stuff that doesn't get turned off very often frequently lasts well beyond 200k (or the equivalent number of operating hours) wheras something used for a 5min drive to work and back every day will be worn out in much less time.

This is assuming all other variables are consistent. Changing your oil every 10k vs 5k certainly won't help things.
Who are responsible alcohol drinkers? In my country the minimum age for consummation of alcoholic products is 18. What would you think of a 10 or 15 years old kid that's a responsible drinker?

What I'm arguing is against an analogue of this in tech. There is a certain period during which the exposure of a minor to technological devices should be governed by parents.

What do you think of adolescents which get recorded nude on chatrooms? Some of them commit suicide. What do you think of children victim to bullying online? What do you think of paedophiles tricking kids online? Isn't a parent responsible of protecting a minor from such abuses?

My general argument on this thread is that we should raise out children as good as we can. Protect them from danger that they cannot be conscious of. We can't certainly place burdens on adults, but we can try to raise adults that are not inept addicts with social deficiencies. And because most of the worlds population is tech-illiterate, it falls on governments to provide education and assistance to parents, just like they do so with health and education.

Most of the counter-arguments here has been strawmans, because while I'm mostly targeting children, I've been countered with arguments about adults.
While most of this can be found in the MAN pages, this is a nice synopsis to have on hand. Definitely going to bookmark this.
Building a better mosquito trap
It's not a big advantage. EBCDIC, for example, didn't do that, and programmers managed just fine without it.

Also, why are you doing that check? Is it to see if something is lowercase? If so, your check will get the wrong answer for lowercase letters like å.

Unicode does have a way to check if something is uppercase/lowercase, when that distinction exists. This is in UnicodeData.txt.
SMCQL allows queries in a zero trust environment
This is the same IIUC. They are talking about the disk gc.
These are often important, useful, and needed.

I would take a different perspective that puts as "higher forces" things like:

-- what helps thinking about things in general, about problems, and resolving them (epistemological concerns, which include the whole environment as intrinsic to "langauge")

-- representational matchups to what we are trying to model and create dynamic inference processes for (mathematical concerns -- this is why "mathematics" is a plural, in real math you invent maths when needed ...)

-- orthogonal axes for many areas, including meaning and optimizations, including definitions and meta definitions, debugging, reformulation, etc. (pragmatic concerns for eventually winding up with workable artifacts)

-- and so forth ...
Max from ArangoDB here. Just to avoid disappointment: The official Docker image arangodb will need a few days to be updated and be validated by Docker. Use arangodb/arangodb:3.0.0 in the meantime.
Great news! We decided a couple of months ago to go with arangoDB, we have built already a 32Gb Graph Database and so far it has performed really well. It's easy to install and great as a first contact on the GraphDB world aside from Neo4J.
Your source for this allegation?
Mad respect for these guys/gals, they managed to squeeze two game changing features in a single release: VPack and Clustering 2.0.
I was more referring to "Time to doubling" as a metric for investment analysis, IRR/NPV I am comfortable with academically.