skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but is it the EUs fault that UK businesses tend to hire cheaper European labor? Does the EU tell you that you have to hire the Romanian guy instead of the British? Is there a law enforced by the EU to do so?

And people forget that cheap labor creates lower prices on the market. Are you willing to pay more even double the price for a commodity just because it was made by non-immigrants?

Not to mention, that most immigrants aren't staying for long term. They go do the work, generate GDP and after a few years they go back to friends and family. Very few have the intentions to stay.

Is it the EUs fault that British stores and businesses buy the goods from low cost EU countries? If you would have a grocery store, would you buy and sell food that was produced in Britain, but comes with a much higher cost, or would you get it from somewhere else cheaper and get it without the costs of shipping from country to the other because of the free trade?

The EU helps everyone, but it's not their fault if businesses use these to their advantage.

Hate the player and not the game, as they say.
It's still the voter who puts Trump in the Whitehouse.
See, that's nice. In the US, the dates mean f*@k all.

http://lifehacker.com/why-expiration-dates-on-your-food-mean...
Wow, this looks like exactly what I've been looking for. What is the interop story as far as Java/existing Scala code?
Nano is no longer a GNU project
I don't really understand your point. Is that a truism? Is it related to the freaking article? Also, have you built a tool or was that sarcasm?
The Indian Goverment has a budget of Rs. 1541 Crores (£155,000,000~) for the Sports Department

http://www.hindustantimes.com/union-budget/sports-ministry-g...

And the space program has a budget of Rs. 7,927 crore
(£799,871,700) according to wikipedia.

So to address your point, yeah India spends quite a bit on Sports, but no way near as much as their Space Program.
As an Indian and personal supporter of the Indian space program, I don't see this as a feat in the international sense.

What was the technological leap? ISRO could have done this few years back as well. Its just that the payload combination clicked this time.

By bragging about things like these we merely betray our jingoism. And what's more when a real technological feat happens it would be drowned out because we gloated over things like this.

Also I hope many of the posters here are seriously thinking about giving to ISRO or working for them. ISRO could seriously use more tech talent.
How would we program a self driving car that is faced with something like a "Trolley problem" [1].
i.e. the car is faced with 2 possible probable collisions of which it can only avoid one. Or between running over a pedestrian and crashing into a tree.

I assume this probably already worked into the current prototypes. Does anyone have references to discussions about this in current gen self driving car prototypes?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
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The type of flower can have very, very different end results! [1]

"The red honey is prized for its purported medicinal value and intoxicating qualities which are attributed to the grayanotoxin present in the nectar collected from white rhododendrons (Rhododendron spp). The Gurung people in Nepal are renowned for their use of this mad honey, both for its medicinal and hallucinogenic properties."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_dorsata_laboriosa
Tell me the stories, and I'll comment on them.

If you are computing on a $1000 computer, you are computing in the past. Part of the idea here is that you want to do research and development on supercomputers of the present that will give you the resources that will be available at lower prices in the future.

With salaries as they are today -- and real estate much worse -- it is actually more expensive to fund the same kinds of research today.

The past was similar to today in that most people in computing back then were orbiting around some local vendor's and local fads notions of computing. And it was a lot harder to make computers and other tools back then. It wasn't a crazy professor having an impact back then, but a whole research community that was required to make an impact.
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The first post: No, Nay, Never replace with "some old caps".
At first, try to determine WHY the caps failed. E.G. Is there something exceedingly hot around, and can you fix it?
Second, the best thing to do is take caps with higher Voltage rating, because many manufacturers cut the margin exceedingly close, resulting in premature failiure.
Third, due to the heat in the Power supply, rather take Aluminum-Caps, not Tantalum caps. They have the tendency to start burning.
Fourth, look at how the caps are arranged. When there are some in Parallel, take normal ones. Else, you must take Low-ESR ones.
Wow! This saves a lot of time!

I've currently set up a custom search in Chrome to do only siteoverflow site search with the "I'm feeling lucky" in the parameter which helps me get to the first answer.

But being able to do this from the command line makes it so much easier.

I wonder whether socli is getting the answer via their analysis of Google redirects.
Worst distributed monitoring system ever.
Eating habits-awareness
You have it exactly backwards.

People willingly paying for a good means they are happy with the purchase, and just as many people will be happy at the higher price if he's still selling out every week. It's not "ruthless capitalism", it's protecting your supply and communicating the correct value. If prices get high enough, it will attract other people to become honey producers, increasing the supply and making more people happy. By keeping prices low, artificial scarcity is created, which is a harm to consumers.
Haha, hilarious, thanks for sharing.

I had to see this for myself.

Source:

Video, part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU

Video, part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXDxpBFFR0

The "revelation" occurs at 2m36s: https://youtu.be/ExXDxpBFFR0?t=156
Was thinking the same thing. That seems like a big omission from the article unless the chain was just some sort of incoherent meandering rant...
Mathematicians have a general aversion to anything using the digits (or bits) of a number because it's generally too provincial. Numbers that are 'interesting' in one base tend to be boring in other bases but catch peoples eyes. It's like a self-defense mechanism to ward against quacks that sometimes catches legitimate uses as well.

Cantor's diagonalization argument for example, when used to show that R and Z have different cardinalities. It's a legitimate use, but huge numbers of incorrect counter-examples (that are really just examples) surface around it using the decimal expansion incorrectly. And the decimal expansion used in the actual diagonalization requires some careful consideration, since you have to be careful to remember that 0.10000... = 0.09999... so decimal expansions aren't unique.

Your use seems fine (and dealing only with integers the expansion is unique), but most of the time when a mathematician sees someone using digits they get a sense of unease and wonder if there were a better way to do things.
Oh come off it. You're going to have to back that one with sources.
Same got weird outage and a minute after the home page worked. NY-US location
The highly trained monkey's bought it back up
US. I also have the difficulty of broad shoulders and something like a 50" chest, which makes airline seats even more fun - if I'm in an aisle seat, I constantly get one shoulder run over by the drink cart because it's sticking out beyond...

At least around here, anything household is designed for the height of a typical 5'5" woman. Counters and tables are low enough that I have to half bend over to use them.
And, early adopters will often adopt poor ideas -- they are mostly just early.
It's been 14 years since I last used a precompiler like moc (it wasn't moc), and it was a pain - all the nice IDE features (syntax highlighting, code completion, automatic indentation, source level debugging, etc.) were all broken in subtle or major ways.

moc (specifically) has a long track record that I would expect this to be solved -- no experience myself -- but regardless of how easy it is to add another build step, most precompilation stages are correlated with reduced tool functionality.
Some farmers set parts of the rain forest on fire to then grow plants exclusively intended to be used as animal food, until there are no more remaining nutrients usually causing permanent damage to the soil.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/AmazonFire/
> I'm curious how someone made this outlandish claim sound plausible.

From the article:

> Soviet television had, up to that point, been regarded by its audience as conservative in style and content. As a result, a large number of Soviet citizens (one estimate puts the number at 11,250,000 audience members) took the deadpan "interview" at face value, in spite of the absurd claims presented.

I guess this had something to do with it? If people were used to TV being a certain way, and this "interview" was presented in the same way, then it would seem reasonable that it would be taken up in the same was as every other. Nothing (aside from content) made it stand out from other shows.

Saying that, the claim is crazy, and it does seem strange that it was seemingly accepted as truth. I wonder how a similar stunt could be attempted today, and what the reaction would be...
Sure ...
They have asked the UK. But by being in the Embassy, Assange is on sovereign soil, and it would be (politically) akin to the UK invading Ecuador.

Now, grain-of-salt all that. I've read several things that a) say it's not exactly sovereign, but the political fallout of the U.K. entering the embassy could collapse the entire house of cards that is the Embassy system worldwide, b) states have been kidnapping and assassinating people on foreign soil for ages (see: United States, Russia, Israel, etc).

I'm sure being stuck in the Embassy is seen, at least a little, as being contained. But if he ever stepped foot outside, that'd be the end of that.
Why do you find it ominous?

Scala 2.12, the next version that's currently at milestone 4, is going to be a huge release, having a new backend, optimizations, Java 8 interop, improvements for the type system, refactorings, basically the real deal.

But Scala needs to be production quality and stable enough for real work TM. Like when they were pushing experiments in Scala, people were complaining that Scala breaks too often.

Apparently now people are afraid that the experiments have moved to Dotty. You can't please everybody.
Argument chain is mostly irrelevant here, people who fall for this simply believe anything who pretends to be an authority.

Heck, I know for one that I /could/ believe something like this. A friend of mine once convinced me that both wheels of a bicycle rotate into the opposite direction, just to test my gullibility. I totally fell for it, even though we were on the bike at that very moment. I could've easily checked or reasoned that it didn't make any sense whatsoever.
yeah, it was 500 for several minutes also from Italy
"one of the top regional functionaries stated that "Lenin could not have been a mushroom" because "a mammal can not be a plant.""

I love the the logic here. As though "Lenin was a bottle nose dolphin" would have been more plausible. Also did the Soviets have the same taxonomy as the west, meaning mushrooms would be fungi and not plants?
Most of what is between most people's ears
This was very very early post-Soviet TV. Soviet TV had around 6 channels and everything on them was always very very bland and was supposed to be accepted outright it not believed.

Kind of gets you after 30 years of watching.

And then boom, and you have "Lenin is a Mushroom". I believe some confusion was genuine.
The idea is that you download the script, read through the downloaded file, then run the downloaded file. Obviously if you download it two different times the server can serve you two different versions.
And to expound on that, the foreign minister is not allowed to influence the police in Sweden ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerstyre ). Although there have been cases where this has happened (IIRC the US cable leaks revealed there was ministerial interference in the Pirate Bay case)
moc isn't a precompiler - it will not change your code in any way! It merely generates additional code based on your classes containing meta information
Yes if you are very skilled you increase your chance to find a job, but this simplistic reasoning does not apply to every industry. In some cases you can be extremely skilled professionally and still be jobless if you have to compete with an equally competent (or less..) employee in a country where labor is way cheaper. The competition becomes especially unfair in this case.

About the example of universities, I dont advocate closing borders. I believe in self determination and industry/country to country bilateral agreements. It might be more difficult to put in place but it reflects people best interest and it is democratic. If UK universities believe its in their best interest to allow more foreign students, then they should lobby for this. There will be winnders and losers thats for sure. Not everyone would be better off. But I believe that the overall effect would be positive.

Lastly, please consider the many countries in the world who are succesful without relying on major trade agreements. Instead they have negotiated many bilateral trade agreements with other countries. These reflect their best interest, for each industry.
Even ignoring all the factually false statements, that was an unnecessarily condescending rant.
I find it rather odd to have a GLOBAL 500 even for a minute (it may be still lasting at least in some regions http://downdetector.com/status/youtube) when a web app is distributed among servers, services, dockers or whatever and has so many systems in place to roll back automatically.

The same thing happened about a week ago with Fb Messenger (http://downdetector.com/status/facebook/news/53463-problems-...).

I expect this level of outages in 2016 to be only caused by solar flares, am I missing something?
Ask HN: Why build a project to selfhost?
Every so often, articles about projects, which allow selfhosting, are posted here and it seems they are more frequent now, than some time back. Often these are clones of popular services like mattermost and rocket chat as clones of slack. I would like to know whom those projects target and what their business model is (in case there is a company behind it).

Are these project using the open version as marketing to gain some initial traction for their eventual SaaS offering?
"If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them)"
Love this!
I'm certain there are lots of defensive security positions available. The government has lots of departments that work to strengthen at least their own security, not just surveillance/attack organizations.
Sorry guys, it was my fault. Just as i logged in, it crashed. Apparently my password were too complex.
Pretty sure releasing these documents, if they exist, is the opposite of self-preservation. After that he holds no cards at all.
Microtransactions will be the killer app. There is massive demand for the web economy to run off real money instead of bloated clickbait ads.

There's money in it. So it will happen.

Sending card details for small transactions is both insecure and too much mental overhead. Broadcasting single a transaction from a virtual bit of pocket change is not.

Once every browser has a wallet and people keep a few satoshis in there the web will go through another revolution.

Bitcoin also acts a store of value in a world where people want to save for the future in a form that can't be taken and devalued easily.

Whether people want smart contracts without the common sense back up of humans and courts I'm not so sure. Ethereum is interesting and will have some use cases but it's not a certainty that the risks will be overcome.
You also misquoted "appropriately" as "approximately", making the meaning completely different.
Hedge funds use secret polls to cash in on market volatility on referendum night
Should Startups Marketers Learn How to Design or Code?
Does Sweden have a statue of limitations on rape?
Great app.Allows us to connect with not only IIT/IIM's student but also with founders/CEO and other elite people.
For a western analogue, try the BBC's spaghetti plantations.
Maybe they route all traffic through a VPN to Ecuador or something like that?

I doubt that GCHQ would be the reason for internet problems; even if they have "a van in the street", they'd have no incentive to impact the quality of the connection that they monitor.
But they could have extradited him before he ever went into the embassy. They didn't. Only Sweden is currently attempting to extradite him.
Generally speaking, it's better to be left with just a little stock than to sell out every week. You can't know if you've hit the price equilibrium unless you do.

Especially on a product like honey that doesn't spoil, a higher than average price during high seasons means you are protecting stock for future low seasons.

I don't know of anything that has an actually demand curve like that. In some cases, increasing price increases demand, as it opens you up to a new market of conspicuous spenders. It does no good to talk such hypotheticals. On the other hand, I have worked a lot in the food service and vending businesses. Missed revenue today is a war chest you won't have to ride out the seasonal fluctuations. How many customers are you going to make happy when you're out of business?
opensource != free software
Well, actually I disagree with this statement completely, I recommend you reading "In Praise of Idleness" from Bertrand Russell if you've never read it, it's a good point of view on how "leisure time" not necessarily needs to be productive to be enjoyable.
I'm not. Do tell!
[GatesNotes] How a billion+ people are living in the dark
The long standing refusal was probably mostly down to the preference of the prosecutor regarding the circumstances of the questioning. In any case, she caved last year and since then its been a diplomatic squabble about why there is no progress, with Sweden giving no official comments (as per usual policy) and Ecuador boasting about how kind and full of compromises they are[1].

I don't expect much will be different now, especially as there is no impending deadline like there was last year.

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/23/julian-assange-...
Generally people use a LTSM for time series if they want to use a NN approach.

See http://robromijnders.github.io/LSTM_tsc/
Sandvine global internet phenomena
Cloud Storage Surpasses Filesharing as Largest Source of Upstream Traffic

for more: https://www.sandvine.com/trends/global-internet-phenomena/
If you can self host you don't have to worry about the service dying and leaving you out to dry.
For men, the importance of safe sex depends on how hot their partner is
Data Analysis in C#: The Autocorrelation Function
Between leaving Sweden and entering the Ecuadorian embassy Assange spent several weeks in UK, while a British court decided on the validity of the European arrest warrent against him. Plenty of time for the US to demand his extradition.
It's great but it's not a proof, because a mushroom isn't a plant.
It affects everything. The flavors of (say) avocado-flower honey and citrus-flower honey are so different, that you might not recognize avocado honey as honey if you're not used to it.
Some might argue that, but it doesn't make imgur's business model any more sustainable unfortunately.
In Sweden we had the Colour TV Stocking http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/instant_color_tv
Oh! just found a few references in the exact wikipedia article I linked.

Patrick Lin (October 8, 2013). "The Ethics of Autonomous Cars". The Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-et...

Tim Worstall (2014-06-18). "When Should Your Driverless Car From Google Be Allowed To Kill You?". Forbes.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/06/18/when-shou...

Jean-François Bonnefon; Azim Shariff; Iyad Rahwan (2015-10-13). "Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?". arXiv.org.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03346

Emerging Technology From the arXiv (October 22, 2015). "Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill". MIT Technology review.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving...
I've eaten "imitation meat" at my friend's and sure it's not the same thing as the real deal but if real meat suddenly disappears I wouldn't be unhappy with the "fake" meat. (I'm not a vegan if that wasn't obvious and my friend isn't either but he eats very little real meat)
It sounds like Obama put some really competent people at the FCC. Just look at what happened with net neutrality, the head of the FCC is now one of its big champions.

Politics aside, it's not every day that you get to appreciate what a government agency is doing like this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU

Is in Russian but has English subtitles
Do you have to be born in India?
Best dating app the country has ever seen. Nice features and expert advice is a really cool idea.
"What I want to say here is that Lenin was not only a mushroom , but also a radio wave" (C)
Functionaries were as clueless about taxonomy as about anything else.
If you are using a proper CSV library you don't have any of the problems this format is trying to solve. The CSV format does not have any issues mentioned, it is either a buggy CSV library or some lazzy developer who thinks CSV is just fields separated with comma writing 2 line of code instead of using a proper CSV library.
Gullibility research is an established area, as these things are important for selling products and getting people voted to office.

For example, things people believe about the EU will affect their vote on Brexit tomorrow. Here's an egregious example of a widely circulated totally false myth:

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
That's funny, I've had youtube on for all the morning and didn't notice anything. Hooray for one hour long compilation videos (and caches).
On the topic of self-hosted solutions, "Awesome Self Hosted" was released today. https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ . You can find almost all self-hosted web apps and compare them by popularity and dev activity (maintenance).

The business model of most of those project is offering premium support, I think. Although, some of them will be using this strategy as a pure marketing channel.
USB raises 2016 fund, begins transition
To regulate or not to regulate P2P lending startups in India
I think I get asked once a week, "can't we just run it through a neural network and be done?"
How the U.S. Patent Office Got So Screwed Up
I like "computer science" when doing real "computer science". Science is making explanatory models from and about phenomena and looking for more phenomena.

Most of the time I think I'm "designing".

In English "sciencing" can be a verb. And there's the great line from "The Martian" -- "I'm going to have to science the shit out of this!"
Ask HN: Given the cost of living, why would a developer live in Silicon Valley?
Here we go again.

The statements are not false, burying your head in the sand is not going to make uncomfortable things untrue. Minus the menstrual-pad thing, I've seen the rest with my own eyes in India.