skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the carbon costs of this service? Is less carbon burned into the atmosphere because of this service? Or, more?

Is there a public analysis that we can view?

Edit: Really? Buried to the bottom for environmental concern questions? Is this another case of YCombinator being unable to adequately respond to critical questions?
favorites will save me a ton of karma, so I no longer have to post as breadcrumbs to a great idea. thanks for that.
Uber Pauses Service for Moment of Silence to “Reflect on Gun Violence”
As it stands, I have already accidentally clicked "ago" and gone to a comment permalink when I wanted to collapse a thread. Not much better.
Why validation libraries suck
Not to mention, if a loco had a failure the second loco would get the train off the main or to a convenient yard swapping out the failed locomotive.
In many such countries the police are not nearly as militarized.
That site is reddit, and they too introduced collapsing on the right side of the name. I have faith that HN will change it!
Please make the Up and Down arrows 3-4 times larger and put a square around them that changes colour when it's hovered.

Thanks a lot for these useful additions though!

EDIT: An image says 1000 words (slight exaggerated): http://imgur.com/LKyUaSl
He was making a joke.
Tough crowd. I think all of them have their uses. The good news is you don't have to use them and how others use them is not really your problem. You're speaking about 'people' as if you speak for others, when in reality you only speak for yourself.
ROI on training: How to measure your investment
There was a quote somewhere on HN (maybe from idlewords?) along the lines of:

"When's the last time you saw some new technology or program and were honestly excited, instead of worried about the privacy implications?"
"I do not expect to be compiling to JavaScript forever": in the 0.17 announcement

http://elm-lang.org/blog/farewell-to-frp
I've always wondered how the people that live there feel about the constant "I wish we were like them!".
Tested upvote, worked.

Tested undo upvote, worked.

Tested downvote, worked.

My testing is complete.
The FDA-approved a weight loss device that sucks food out of your stomach
I don't see how this follows. Not all laws permit use of deadly force. And it's not even the laws per se as much as the circumstances and criteria around authorization of deadly force. I've been trying to learn about this lately, and it seems as though the supreme court case Graham v. Connor [1] is heavily implicated in the fact that very few of these police are convicted despite how objectionable the circumstances have seemed.

As a side note, if you're interested in this type of thing, Radiolab has just started an excellent podcast on supreme court cases called More Perfect [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._Connor

[2] http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect
We must petition github to make their new font even wider!
Don't know for sure but empirically it's more than 450.
It's quite sad, it seems to be on the same level as wwe or boxing.

Mark Coleman seems to be deteriorating really fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFkw1YyipIM
Still some gems lingering around: https://www.google.com/search?aqs=chrome..69i57.1782j0j7&sou...

From what I briefly gathered, WickedFire is similar to today's WarriorForum.
Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
Nice humblebrag.
There is no annual inspection in my state (Michigan) and many cars here lack features like that.
I don't know the answer. That said, in other countries lots of the cars which are allowed on the road in the US are not allowed on the roads. Sometimes its vehicle age, sometimes it's not keeping up the vehicle, etc. So, we're not the most demanding --on the other hand, at least as it concerns cities, we don't offer great alternatives in the form of public transit. Rural transit is not typically that much better.
if you like the mental side of it but dislike the striking violence you should check out the brazilian jiu jitsu scene. there's a lot of overlap with none of the blood.
Because accidental votes are not a problem when you can undo a vote, which is now possible as well.
it's a several trillion market, loots of room for "me too plus some functionality extra" companies, or simply a better product than competition.
They have had this service in yachting for years.[0] The best is being close enough for a fuel truck to reach.[1]When I was in St. Thomas Carlos Slim's crew were fueling his yacht Helo[2] with the only line that would reach far enough down the dock which only pumps about 25 gallons a minute. The engineers had to hold watch day and night until it was filled.

[0] http://www.petersonfuel.com/

[1] http://www.lukfuel.com/

[2] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/61/f8/9a/61f89a5b5...
This is completely unrelated because it isn't exploiting anything (other than humanware)

Any modified APK for any App could be loaded in with a RAT asking for full permissions. It just happens PKMNGO is popular and people are trying to get their hands on it before it is officially released in their region.
"But it is also true that police abuses are far more likely to victimize poor African-Americans and other politically weak groups."
-Did the author provide any evidence for this statement?
I checked that page already. I can only speak for myself but for me it has no listing on the Google Permissions page so it looks like it does permissions correctly to me.
Locking gas doors are pretty pointless these days, unless you're worried about someone giving you the sugar-in-the-gas-tank treatment. All cars made for the last several years have anti-siphoning measures built into the line to the gas tank.
I've been playing around with the 'hide' feature on the new page for a bit and I've developed a simple workflow to help catch spam:

Look at a submission, decide whether to just ignore it, upvote it, flag it as spam or open a tab and leave a comment or to watch it for later.

Then 'hide' the submission. Like that you can easily keep track of what you've seen and what still needs to be looked at.

You could use the same method for the homepage.

It's a super useful feature.

Thanks Dan & Scott!
Now that we have thread collapsing there's no reason not to discuss finer lexicographical points right here!

Great changes btw.
Well, what do you think he found important?
Social mobility measures based on income (PPP) percentiles are misleading because they don't account for the hugely different income variances between countries. In countries with low income variances like Denmark, a small change in your absolute income will be deemed "socially mobile" whereas a much larger increase absolute income in countries with high income variances like the US will be deemed as not "socially mobile" even when it is vastly better for the average individual in absolute income terms.

Individuals don't care about their ability to change their percentile, they care about their ability to change their total income. I think most individuals would prefer a "non-mobile" $60k increase in income versus a "mobile" $40k increase in income. You can't spend percentiles.
It's also a different business model.

Also, Mayweather had to buy out his own contract at one point or something. Before that (as Money Mayweather), he was only known as Pretty Boy Floyd
Abstract vs. Opaque data types
Why do you think that the Nordic model can't scale?
Non-working lights makes a vehicle unsafe to drive in conditions that require it (night, rain, snow, fog, tunnel).

When I used to drive regularly I would often see cars with non-working lights. Most people probably aren't even aware that their light is not working. Anyone who can get the driver's attention and inform them of the problem is performing a service for everyone near roads.
http://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com/images/yoshi-go-kart.jpg
Spot on. I'm director-level on the east coast (not NY, DC or Boston, although I came from DC). While I could probably see a 50% raise going to Silicon Valley, that wouldn't even come close to keeping me whole unless I'm supposed to stuff my family into an apartment. That said, I'm not sure what more the tech firms can do - wages are already really high out there and they're pressing the cities to let them build more housing (as in, not permit more housing in general, but that they'd even foot the construction) and the cities aren't going for it. At some point if a geographic area says no more growth, its time for businesses to pack up and go elsewhere.
I think, most problems can be prevented with effort, and if they still happen, most of them can be fixed with some sort of intervention. Don't think you could say that about many other areas.
Mother and Father
The national tax percentage is 32 % (actually 31.75 %) only for the amount that exceeds the "high earner" threshold, i.e. you pay it for the part that you earn in excess of 72,300 € per year.

(That income puts you in top 4 % of earners in Finland.)

The municipal tax varies between 16.50 % (Kauniainen) and 22.50 % (Savonlinna).

The church tax varies between 1 and 2 %.
+1

Perhaps also adding the first line (truncated if need be) of the Parent's comment would be a nice addition also?

It would help when scanning all the collapsed comments and seeing some context other than the Parent's username?

Nevertheless these enhancements are much appreciated!
Is it me or is the bundle generated by Elm a bit too big? Maybe it's gotten better lately but I've always thought it overkill for simple apps.
For the platter, you'd need a substrate with the ferromagnetic material applied – I'm not sure what process is involved here, electroplating, coating? Some equipment might be borrowed from the tape manufacturing process if that is not considered cheating.
How about a feature "mark all read" (on the frontpage)?
Look, you're making utterly unsubstantiated claims based on your own conjecture and some supposed virologist friend. No matter how smart and educated you might believe yourself to be, you are just as ridiculously making stuff up as eg climate deniers.
Not all laws may permit the use of deadly force, but every encounter with the police implicitly does.

The line between being pulled over for a minor infraction, and making an officer fear for his life is a very blurry one.
The Karr Lab at the Institute for Genomics & Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking talented, ambitious researchers to develop cutting-edge whole-cell computational models of individual cells, as well as new technologies to enable larger and more accurate whole-cell models.

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> It is easy to see how that leads to the very bad Nash equilibrium of the tragedy of the commons.

Tragedy of the commons in the classical sense does not have a Nash equilibrium, because an actor can always chose to consume the extra unit of resources to benefit themselves more.

This lack of equilibrium is precisely why it's called a tragedy, because it inevitably leads to the over-exploitation (usually destruction) of the common good.
The MIT Lisp Machine has a fair bit of extra stuff in microcode other than the high level instruction set, it is at a slightly higher level than the Wildflower microcode though as more was done in hardware.

There are also some recent Freescale SoCs like the MPC5200 that use a programmable DMA engine to handle copying bytes between devices and memory.
Create an app specific password just for the game.
Some very early Ingress players had to do that. No rhyme or reason to why one account will work, others wont.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_coating, most likely.
If oil trucks are driving recklessly through your neighborhood, you should call the police, not your Congressman.
Are you referring to Philando Castillo? Allegedly he was pulled over because he looked like a suspect in a recent robbery in the area.
SEC Investigating Tesla for Possible Securities-Law Breach
Is it really accurate to take the very limited and incomplete data of this self-driving feature and compare that to all of the world's accident rates? Think about the long tail here...

Have they even released this data for examination? I am thinking that many people have approached this feature with caution, in that its a novelty but they aren't "trusting" it or relying on it like you would a human driver to safely get you somewhere. It would be also interesting to see the types of roads and conditions where the feature is enabled. In the rain? Snow? At night? Poor visibility? Traffic conditions.

Just a single number paints an incomplete picture of the data. Why has no one mentioned this? People are sheep that are quick to declare victory after seeing a single number without questioning where or how that number came to be.

My thoughts are this: give this feature to your average Joe driving a Honda without much guidance and we'd have a lot more mechanized death.

Youtube is full of Tesla autopilot fail videos where the driver had to take quick action to avert disaster. What if we let this into the hands of a lot more irresponsible people who think they can tool down the highway watching a Harry Potter movie, blind faith and trust in a "feature". How many Tesla owners here would honestly trust the feature that much with their life at this point?
Are people willing to kill to enforce laws against petty theft or should we only make theft illegal above a certain dollar amount?
The argument against that is that with the collapse button so close to the vote arrow, we would be guaranteed to get misvotes, especially on mobile. The undo vote feature would no doubt help with that some, but only so much.
> That doesn't rule out that there is some optimal compressed ISA that is a lot better than what RISC-V provides.

There's an entire PhD thesis on the RISC-V compressed ISA (RVC) and it shows that RVC's compression comes fairly close to just using bzip on the binary!

> instructions referencing registers inside such a subroutine could be shortened

They're already 3-bit register specifiers... there's not much more to do here. At this point, either your binary fits in the icache and you're happy or it doesn't and no amount of 1-5% ideas is going to help you.
US is more like Russia by the gini.

Multi-nationality is not unique to the US.
Maybe he's getting better, though! ;) Compared to his similar articles about Ramanujan and Minsky:

sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' ramanujan.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n
11 me
15 him
82 i
107 his
148 he

sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' minsky.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n
4 him
11 me
22 his
45 he
51 i

sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]/ /' feynman.txt| tr ' ' '\n' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | egrep "^(mine|his|me|i|him|he)$"| sort | uniq -c | sort -n
4 him
8 me
17 his
45 i
55 he
Fun fact: you know token ring networks? It's based on a system of reliable mutual exclusion used by early railways.

It worked like this: you have a long stretch of single-track line. Trains run in both directions on the line. Obviously you want to prevent collisions. But you don't have communications from one end to the other. How?

At each end of the line, by the signal which lets trains onto the line, there's a hook. There is exactly one token, which is a physical object which hangs on the hook. A train is only allowed onto the single-track line if the token is physically in the possession of the driver. On emerging from the other end of the line the driver hangs the token back on the hook.

Simple and foolproof (if not terribly efficient).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)
It is considerably smaller that React is... actually it is a lot smaller than jQuery, a library most webpages have in one way or another
Social issues are easy when you have a 99% ethnically homogeneous population without any serious religious divisions either.
This is silly. Breaking laws comes with penalties, which are determined by the courts. There is nothing that inherently states that lawbreakers must be forcibly moved to a government-controlled site; furthermore there's nothing that says people who try to resist arrest should be met with lethal force.
Cracking the Sega Saturn After 20 Years
> while also being understandable by humans.

A famously good aspect of Elm is it's error messages. Very learner-friendly.

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/735197548034412546

http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants

http://elm-lang.org/blog/compiler-errors-for-humans
How This Revolutionary Old Zoo Was Redesigned for the 21st Century
Is there a video production language/scripting tool for doing this sort of thing? Sort of like an ImageMagick for video. So you can put a certain graphic at a certain time, composite other source videos, do transitions, etc. All scripted in code, no hands on work required.
Union types without destructuring/pattern matching seems really strange, doesn't it? Special casing a certain property name and converting types based on a string comparison?
The Hide feature will help with tangent arguments that add little to discussion. The vote change will help with long-time problem of people clicking wrong button. Great improvements. :)
The whole thing boils down to companies wanting the people to be able to do these incredibly complex and creative things, when real world problems (by and large) are not these.

Sure, I'd like my car to be ABLE to do 205 MPH, even though I rarely get above 70. But it's not realistic.
The fact that you are putting Spain, Greece and Italy as example of poor EU countries already shows you have an alarming lack of knowledge about the EU at least. Spain and Italy are average countries in the EU, GDP per capita-wise. Greece is lower than average, but far away from the poorest ones (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/3/3...)

In Europe anyone can go to a top school. In my case, my mother is a cleaner and my family is low-middle class: I was able to go to the best university of my country anyway. Most of people in my university were like me. In most of countries of Europe the money just doesn't matter for education purposes: if you are good enough for that university, you go there.

And for a Spaniard is quite possible to rise higher than the European upper middle class. I know many, many cases.
Developfy (YC F16?) Democratize the World's Impact Knowledge
It's so they can find other infractions, like smoking marijuana
Point. If you use a lot of things that require access permissions, maybe it should be part of your spring cleaning or some such to look through what you've given permission for, and cancel anything you haven't used in the last six months or whatever.
I think a dozen people have made this comment so far, and I don't get it at all. Is there some reason why the refueling services can't drive around with a truck full of batteries, instead of a truck full of gas?
Option to hide viewed articles. I had a plugin that did it but as I view from different browsers would be good to not have to download that plugin every time.
Hmm. Good point.
Was Philip K. Dick a Madman or a Mystic?
Not having to think about gas ever is a game changer.

Then maybe the solution is not yet-another-subscription, but an electric car. I mean if it's that big a deal to you, such that you would describe it as "a game changer".

Personally, meh, it's an additional five minutes every couple of weeks. Since the only gas vehicle I regularly drive is a motorcycle, I don't even have to "exit" my vehicle, just zip the card through the reader, shove nozzle in tank.
Some UI issues and recommendations.

1. The up/down arrows after a vote leave behind a clickable void. That means you can still click that void after you have voted. If you changed the visibility on .votelinks instead of the buttons this would get fixed. Though even better UX would be to have togglable up/down buttons ala stackoverflow and others.

2. Why not provide the favourite link directly on the comment instead of forcing an extra click and page load. If it's a UI clutter issue maybe consider adding star and flag UNICODE characters. Again, having togglable icons for the same would be nice.

3. The collapse icon would be better off on the left for improved UI consistency.

EDIT: UNICODE characters don't show in comment. Is this a bug? They show in the textarea while composing the comment.

EDIT2: Add the following User CSS using your preferred browser addon for a bit of cleanup.

.togg {
float: left;
margin-right: 5px;
}

.votearrow {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
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I actually prefer it at the end, as HN uses the same (or very similar) theming for Desktop and Mobile. Before Reddit redid their mobile experience, having voting buttons next to collapse meant many inadvertent votes when trying to collapse on mobile.

Until HN has a good mobile theme by default, I'd prefer collapse and voting buttons to be well separated from one another.
Before you start blaming racism and all such manner of things consider some interesting statistics.

Other western countries have much lower police fatalities, being a police officer in the US is way more dangerous than other western countries.

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/year.htm...

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

http://www.npm.org.au/honour-roll

I could not find a source but it would be nice to see a break down of
- killed illegally
- killed by accident
- injuries
- gun
- knives
- etc

Broken down by country/per capita, I think we would find (my opinion as I couldn't find the stats) that the US is abnormally high to its peers.
I agree -- the Hacker News Collapse Chrome extension works this way, and I have become accustomed to it.
My friends are from all over Europe, and America, India and China.

> Obviously, that's not a pragmatic statement, as poor kids from the ghetto often have no appreciation of this and simply don't work towards great outcomes - but this is the reality.

Ah, it's their fault.

> impossible for poor Spaniards/Greeks/Sicilians to rise to higher than the European upper middle class.

I'm sure you'd argue they don't work towards 'great outcomes'.

But you know what. I really don't see anything super good (or super bad) about living in the US versus Europe. Governments are roughly equally ineffective at solving real problems, people are on average nice. All in all, it's a toss-up.
Stuff not working is a real world concern. I like to address such concerns. I just don't like building stuff that produces more of such concerns. There's plenty of those already for me to address for the rest of my life and lots of other peoples lives.

Nah, who am I kidding. I just don't like to build stuff for some internal emotional reason.