skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the US would not share a culture, intra-US migration would be a big issue, as it is in the EU.

Migration (and simply interaction) across some of the internal cultural divides (especially the ones closely tied to race/ethnicity) is a big deal (you know those big problems with race/ethnicity the US has -- that's a big part of them). The regional variations are less of a big deal not because the regional cultures aren't distinct, but because the regional cultural areas are far bigger than in Europe, and the US has better inter-region support structures, which -- outside of rare major crises -- reduce mass internal migrations across those regional cultural divides.

(When there have been mass internal migrations, culture clashes and problems with migrants similar to those seen in Europe have occurred in the US, but I don't think there's been a big internal dislocation of that type since the 1930s Dust Bowl.)
Shortening Random Access Machine to RAM is standard in TCS.
> You could imagine what could happen if a fueling truck went into a parking garage under a commercial or residential building, it would not be a good outcome.[0]

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-02/gas-delive...
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Hi udkl! Thanks for your comment.

I am thinking about publishing something on themeforest BUT:
1. I don't think there is a section with UI Kits. I think that there is a section with HTML themes and I might (but just might) test that eventually;
2. it is very hard to differentiate yourself in a place where you have a lot of people doing something similar;
3. there isn't a lot of places on Internet where you could sell a UI Kit so I might try to create one by myself;

What is the thing (or things) that you think should be changed?
It's true that I've left some links unset (I've fixed that, like an hour ago, to a certain level - but it will be much better soon). The thing I noticed is that people didn't get that the image (on the card with premium Kit) is a part of a carousel, so I set that to autoplay, for now.
The part where you have a card with a premium UI Kit and the card with the free UI Kit should be straightforward, and all buttons work as they are supposed to. Is there something you think should be changed, or if something is unclear...and if there is - what exactly?

Once again, thanks for the feedback. It means a world to me, especially now when I'm still at the beginning of this business!

Mladen

p.s. Sorry if there is a lot of grammatical errors. I'm too tired currently and English is not my first language.
Consider https://getsandbox.com it provides great support for viewing state and route logs. Various hosting options.
That actually sounds like a good overall security policy as well.
They've been around for a few months, but like all new AWS things, they're being slowly rolled out across regions, so may not be available everywhere. Flick through the 'region' dropdown in that pricing link to see if they're available where you want them.

The micro went from 0.6G to 1G ram in the 't2' generation, and the nano fills the need people have for the old micro size. I use them for bastion/nat boxes :)
I can't tell whether this game is the most heavily marketed social-media blitz of all time or truly viral. A virtual treasure hunt game finally gets people outside? Come on.
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If "Yo" can raise $1.5m of funding at a $10m valuation...

https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-...
This isn't just a problem for drones. It is an ongoing problem for gliding (hang and not), ultralight aviation, not as light private aviation and so on.

The aviation powers that be are simply not interested in a standards based, low cost, uncertified location beaconing system with low power consumption even through the world desperately needs such a thing.
I'd imagine this would work if this is a daily scene. You wake up every single day and learn you are out of gas. I don't think it happens to anybody everyday.

Either way the service requires you let them know a few days in advance and keep your vehicle unused for a good few hours. If you need to plan out things like filling gas a few days in advance, I'm very sure you wouldn't end up surprised not having gas in the car in the first place.
I don't know the android ecosystem well. Can any random app ask for and be granted full access without informing the user of that elevated access request?
The answer is simple but establishing a relationship and trying to determine trust is way out of reach for most people.
Correct. That being said, there's nothing stopping you from emitting, say, HTML from such a function. But there's nothing really helping you either.

It's basically function calls in the cloud; a remote procedure call where the remote procedure is executing on their infrastructure.
I am currently using it for what you could probably call a user interface. My use case is forms stored in S3 served as an iframe which POST via JS to AWS API Gateway that calls lambda to process the form and return the result to the user.
Well, sounds a lot like Twitter in the early days.
Ask HN: Post Employment Copyright and Patent Assignment
I've been looking for employment of late, and I've started to see the standard copyright and patent assignment clauses gaining new teeth: they want to claim your work for an additional year after employment - no matter whether you're fired, quit, or laid off.

"Employee will also promptly disclose in writing to Company all [discoveries, work, etc. applicable to our business, made] by Employee within 12 months after termination of Employee’s employment for any reason."

This seems excessive to me; it seems like an attempt to work around the failing "no working for our competitors" agreements. I also don't recall seeing it in previous agreements. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone else have major concerns about the effect this will have on employment?
Takes quite a while to recharge a battery, compared to pumping fuel - the trucks would be much more limited in the number of customers they could serve per day. Also, as electricity is much cheaper domestically, price-sensitive customers would have a much higher incentive to just plug in themselves.
Maybe you could complete your data with what would have been scrapped / archived at the time. Though I don't know if there's such a dataset for this timeframe (pre Nov. 2014)
Profiting from legal loopholes[1], esp where two things accomplish the same goal, but one of them is more vigorously enforced/regulated than the other.

In this case, both taxis and limo/livery services[2] provide the same good -- "rides to somewhere" -- but taxis are more regulated in terms of rate, driver training, equipment, and how many can be active (medallion limits). Limo/livery services (or something passed off as one), by contrast, are less regulated, and what regulations they have aren't as closely monitored because (until recently) no one cared.

The analogy to arbitrage is that it's a case of same good, but different prices on different "markets". (Whether you market it as a "livery" or "taxi" service.)

Side note: IMHO, such arbitrage can't fully account for the success of Uber/Lyft, which have actually obeyed the major "no street hails" rule. They provided a better service (reliability and seeing when your ride is coming), squeezed out enormous efficiencies from harnessing IT, and solved major public goods/incentive problems that the regs were failing at -- how to fairly allocate the undesirable fares and get people to provide feedback on bad drivers.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-arbitrage.asp

[2] The legal difference between the two is that a taxi can do street hails -- on-the-spot arrangements found by line of sight -- while limo/livery services must be pre-arranged through some booking service that logs the specific driver/vehicle assigned to chauffeur a specific person + guests to another place.
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The idea that men and women organize information differently in their brains seems like an enormous assumption to me. I've seen far more variance between individuals within a gender - and similarities between individuals across gender - in terms of how they process information than any pattern of difference between genders.
> But why would they use Elm instead of Elixir as the language?

The same reason Rails would use CS instead of Ruby -- its a lot less work to leverage an existing front-end language than to build a rock solid compile-to-JS option for your existing backend language.
"Standardized"...and without the legibility of symbolic notation and the option to use intermediate named relvars?
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You know, one could argue I should read the article before opining!

That makes much sense for the 1.0 version, but I have to think my GPS vision is on the 2.0 roadmap.
The future of our finance (as predicted by Charlie Stross): by robots, of robots, for robots.

If it reads like the "America InAction" definition of Corporate Robotocracy, feel good that it's least a more likely dystopian future than nuclear holocaust.
I added some graphistry and clustering analysis to the link.
Yes, perhaps to clarify: I mean why not have Elixir be the language that compiles to JS, rather than Elm. Then you only need one language for frontend and backend (in the context of a Phoenix app).
Most Americans are not paying out of pocket for their health insurance through the ACA. That's one of the biggest myths about the American health care market. The majority of Americans are either being covered by medicaid / medicare, or are mostly covered by health insurance at their job.

Americans receive compensation to the tune of over a trillion dollars per year via health insurance coverage at their place of work. None of that gets counted in the US income figures.
I was shaking my head in disbelief till I came to the $4M funding line.

Then I was totally amused. That is one elaborate hoax. Wonder what email they send when we sign up.
Personally I can deal with the other stuff but I can't stand looking at that silly looking character walking over a featureless flat blue map of every parkbench around my building.

As far as I can tell there are no "friends", "clans", or even any way to battle your pokemon. I think I've clicked through everything and after restarting the game 50 some times looking for the core features associated with pokemon and now I've given up.

In what way does this constitute a game? The technical issues can be fixed but I feel like there are some more fundamental features. What was the company even doing this entire time? Those spinners in the pokecenters couldn't have taken years to build, and it also couldn't have taken years to populate the map with zubats and wevils.
It's not code that she wrote (up to ~350 people worked on the code at one time) but it's not "computer manuals" either.
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Cool. Two more silly questions. (1) How fast is mu these days? Is it roughly competitive with CPython? (2) You mentioned it would be nice to have a compiler someday. It occurred that maybe something like the JVM would be closed to the existing semantics than x86. It's also strongly typed and has bounds-checked arrays and stuff. Hm. I guess that's not a question. Never mind.
> A Google spokesperson says that the company decided to use that name instead of something like John Smith or Jane in the spirit of creativity, but the decision ultimately caused the real Casey Baumer to receive dozens of angry or confused messages.

> She wondered whether Google had actually Googled the name before they used it - and wished it had.

Kind of a baffling choice by Google, who of all companies should know how much easier it is to target specific people with an uncommon name and how even uncommon combinations will have actual results (due to the vast amount of names and databases traversed by its crawlers)...and of course, how you'll have at least thousands of dumb/unhinged users when you have hundreds of millions of them.
Early? It was used on one section of Australia's main train line until a decade ago.
I practiced this trick with my original playstation years ago.

Then I killed it trying to mod it. Got a PS1 instead, couldn't figure out the trick anymore.

It was funny that they kept on changing the points where the disc would read info, you had to swap multiple times at different points. They wouldn't stop either, just slow down.
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Upvoted to join the upvote train.
I think "beautiful" is subjective. I personally like Elixir's syntax a lot. It is concise, easy to read, and familiar. It also doesn't have all those unnecessary curly braces and parenthesis, which is nice. That's what makes it beautiful to me.

I also like Elm's syntax, which I use for doing front end work on my Elixir projects. Both make me happy, and that's important when I have to stare at both of them all day, every day. If something else makes you happy, then that's what you should do all day, I suppose.
Well apart from all this it sounds like a well designed app.

More seriously I think as tech people we overvalue product quality and undervalue market demand. If you create something people really want then they will tolerate very poor quality.
I'm also guessing there's no session state or cookies?
$3k per month should get you a studio apartment in the Mission, SOMA, downtown etc.

If you're willing to share you can get for cheaper. If you want 1 bedroom you're going to struggle to find something for $3k.
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Why is it so bad? I assume its the same team that built and runs Ingress. It's been around for years. Not as popular so I can excuse the server load issues, but shouldn't the app/gameplay be more solid?
> How are you supposed to know that it is actually a UI controlled by google and not a simulation of a UI controlled by google?

I have a certificate signed by Symantec guaranteeing that it's authentic!
Do you mean something like Python's PEP8 plugin, or JSHint?
What about starting by implementing these measures in public universities? That seems very feasible, and could have a snowball effect on how studies are broadly analyzed and perceived.
Does anyone still use Greasemonkey? I created a small little script[1] a while back. It's not nearly as sophisticated as the HN Enhancement Suite plugin, but it adds some nice features. It previously added comment collapsing, but I disabled it since it's now a permanent feature.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/robmass94/hacker-news-enhancements/src
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If you search google for their Skies of Arcadia nfo file, you will see this is clearly what they claim. I won't link to it here due to other material hosted on those sites. The trainer injected into the executable also makes this claim (you can view this on pouet.net).

I have little reason to doubt their claims given their clear technical skill spanning multiple console generations (Echelon might have only been associated with the Dreamcast/PS2, but it's obvious that their 'group' were behind multiple other, very highly technically accomplished scene groups).

Access to the source code is even a possibility - at one point they routinely released games weeks or even months before street dates.

http://dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=97250 is worth a read for an indication of some of the shenanigans that were afoot back in those days.
Yes we do. Our median member is on a weekly frequency, but we have people getting filled-up more and less frequently than that depending on their need.
That's not how karma trains work!!
That's why I put all that other stuff in there. The problem is that in more industrialized economies novices quickly figure out that their skills aren't really worth much and that they'll have to get much, much better in order make more money. They might just do that, especially if they also like programming, or they'll just give up and do something else.

In less industrialized economies, or at the very least economies where the US dollar has a lot of purchasing power, the "novice rate" is actually quite a lot, so much that unless you really like programming you might not have any desire to get better, you just settle for a novice skill set, continue working for overseas contracts for $8 an hour, and produce low-quality Android apps that become the ire of people like me.

Also, people generally take Coursera and MIT Open Courseware for intrinsic reasons. I took a course on Coursera a while back about logic because I found it interesting. Very few people would take a course on logic to make money off of it. By contrast, more people taking a short Android development training take it for extrinsic reasons. They want to make money. Again, in countries where the the US Dollar has a lot of purchasing power compared to the local currency and $8 an hour to make an Android app is worthwhile, there's little incentive to improve and get better if you're primarily motivated by the money factor, unless you're especially interested in making even more money, otherwise you'll likely just settle.
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Catch-eye claims to be able to do this [1]. Never tried their software myself.

[1] http://catch-eye.com/
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> I'm adding gasoline delivery to the list of startups which should absolutely not "move fast and break things" or "beg for forgiveness rather than ask for permission"

The status quo is that every half-drunk, chain smoking, Joe Regular is allowed to fuel up his tank unsupervised. This is unlikely to be any more dangerous.

> "You can never ask for permission because no one will give it"

This is the unfortunate truth.
This is a reskinned Ingress, with simpler game mechanics.

Log the damn errors and make sure it doesn't happen again?
Have you written software? That is the most simplistic advice in the world. By your thoughts, all software should have been updated in a few days to be bug free.

Had an update from the App Store? You realize that is gated by Apple and that you have to submit the update and wait an indeterminate amount of time for the update to be approved before appearing on the App Store?

No caching? How would you cache game state when at any time the board state can change without warning, due to the actions of another player? And cached game state would invalidate your game actions, which would cause inconsistencies.

With draining battery, it needs location services as well as constant internet connectivity. If you're looking for directions, you can make educated guesses when you're going to have to pull location again. Whereas now, you have to constantly be polling, because you yourself don't know where you're headed.

And re: Nianitic's "ineptitude", you don't have any ideas what problems they're trying to solve.
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Yea but it had to work on iOS..
Can Pokémon Go Really Read All Your Emails?
It would be kinda interesting if someone conducted a study to see how many jobs were created by outsourcing gone wrong.
I think this is through an initiative by the Indian government. I don't think the US government has anything similar.
Pretty much. Google was trying to cram the entire Chrome OS platform in their browser a while back (remember Chrome's Windows 8 mode?), although they've kind of taken a step back from it lately.
GO has teams (Red, Blue, Yellow). You need to get to level 5 to join a team. Once you join a team you can battle at and take over gyms.
Voted up. Saw the "unvote", didn't click it. I believe Hacker News has tested the functionality. I'll leave the upvote. Here's to you splawn.
Once collapsed, the summary gives a count of the child comments. However, the gut reaction is that this correlates to upvotes/karma. I'm wondering if [-] & [+] can be fixed to their appropriate size while the number of children is supplemental to this. Not sure what the best way to format it would be but worth exploring.
Well that answers it. If I can get the app to work long enough to reach level 5 I'll try that.

It's a good thing they decided not to include that information from the start. They wouldn't want people to think there might actually be something fun to do.
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Looks sweet. Small spelling mistake

'available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store'

Should be

'available to you as an Android app on Google Play Store'
Why not just cut the wobble edge of a real CD off and attach it to a burned CD?

Maybe you can shave the back of the shimmed wobble edge down, so that it won't stick out as much on the burned CD. This shimmed wobble can be your key for all the burned CDs you have.

Maybe double sided tape can keep the wobble shim attached to your burned CD while still allowing it to be removable for other CDs.

I've never had a Saturn, so I don't know what this wobble edge looks like in person. Am I missing something?
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This. It took me a minute to find the collapse link, but once I found it... What a time to be alive.
You likely don't need to. Almost all the community plugins work with the free version of IntelliJ.
Should I feel bad if I initially believed it?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. In my head I was thinking in terms of games that weren't ripped/downsampled to 'fit' on an 80min CD-R. I think the largest release was probably D2, which from memory needed 5x99min CDR's and even then numerous elements were downsampled/ripped/etc.
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Since 2013.
The intellij plugin doesn't use racer, it's custom.
If I'm running OS X pre-El Capitan, will `-apple-system` and `BlinkMacSystemFont` resolve to Helvetica, or will I end up seeing Roboto and Segoe UI if I have either installed?
Great to see new features like this that are simple and a good fit with the current site.

@dang - Any chance you will be working on the API more soon? Would love an easier way to build out http://hackernewsletter.com each week. Thanks again!
Again, the racism card is getting really old.

We were able make are own overpriced, shoddy quality GAP and Nike apparel long before sweat shops in Asia were popular with our wealthy capital owners. The only difference is the execs of these companies only earned 50x the rest of us instead of the 300x now common. It's amazing what child labor, wage arbitrage, and lack of unions can do for profits.

I feel bad about the shitty conditions for these workers, but I am tired of being told to feel guilty and indebted to everyone on the Earth.
Thanks for linking this video. I had no idea Coleman was in this shape. He's just 51.
All that effort from Sega but I remember modchips being available to run pirated Saturn games when I had it.
Yes the problem is Moore's law is not keeping up with sequencing data deluge. The cost limitations of genomics are now being cause by the data analysis and not the data generation.

Personally I think the unusual genetic history of humans is going to make it really difficult to reach the full potential of what genomics. The recent population explosion and changes in selective pressures will make it impossible to really tease out the true linkages between human genes and phenotypes like disease risk.
I'm glad someone else out there digs the Sega Saturn because I always felt left out being into Sega games while the rest of my friends were Nintendo kids all the way.
HTTPS Everywhere? Disable the Wix static.com ruleset.
The reason this seems crazy to me is that a fixed appointment time is way harder for me to meet (even though I keep a calendar). I'd rather just schedule my own time.

If I could give the service a key to the car (and trust them to figure out when I needed service), it might be worth doing, but I am not a dedicated car commuter.