skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eating out in the UK is all about the location. if a restaurant is trendy people will go.

In Spain people go for the food. There are often queues outside restaurants in which the surrounding look terrible (chairs that look like they are taken from a school 40 years ago). Spanish people understand food in a way that most Brits don't.
That doesn't make it immune to memory unsafety, because the initial implementation had to be written in something other than Go, namely C. And the current compiler was compiled by an older compiler, which was itself compiled by an older one, ..., which was itself compiled by the initial Go compiler, written in C.
Well, doubt how many will remain after 1 month.
Betteridge's law of headlines:

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Has the Hacker News upvote system gotten something really important really wrong?
> I'd probably end up spending a bunch of money on it if I kept it around for a couple months, because I don't have the time I need to play it the free way.

Can someone explain this? Isn't the value of a game in the playing of it? If a millionaire could pay to have hundreds of Pokemons spawning in their living room so they can get more points than anyone without leaving the house, what would be the point? If you're having fun playing with your girlfriend, but don't have much free time, why would paying to catch up matter? Did they design it to be limited gameplay, where you only get a teaser if you don't play it all the time, requiring that you buy things in order to get any real gameplay time out of it?
Ask HN: Stripe or Braintree?
Any stance on choosing which in your SaaS / e-commerce?
Exposure to news from outlets I don't regularly read.
I think this number is considerably more impressive than beating the number of Tinder installs.
Blaming the euro masks the real reason that southern economies went south: The reasons are actually outside the EU. The un-competitiveness of the south was subsidized by the EU for decades, and has turned greece , spain and portugal to dependent nations with little innovation. People don't buy the idea that making their labor cheaper will bring prosperity. Instead, they opt to leave their countries in search of better pay, mainly because they can, and are educated enough.

Unfortunately , ECB policy keeps pacifying these problems instead of ringing the bell. Devaluation inside or outside the EU has the same effect, the difference is the existence of the ECB.
Pokémon Go: armed robbers use mobile game to lure players into trap
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Actually, there is: http://us.dmgmori.com/products/lasertec/lasertec-additiveman...

"By combining both, additive manufacturing via powder nozzle and the traditional cutting method in one machine, totally new applications and geometries are possible."
Show HN: A Complete Free Platform for a Natural Language to SQL Search-Box
Yes. Are you arguing that the world does not have causal relationships? Such a world doesn't even make sense to me.
3D printing, especially hobbyist machines, is still in its infancy and produces disappointing results. A large flat piece warps. The resolution is coarse. It takes too long to produce even a simple piece. The machine needs constant monitoring. It's at the equivalent of the DOS stage of personal computing.

I wrote code to produce STL files. These files are accepted by hobbyist printers. I sent it to a professional shop, they complained one of my triangles wasn't closed, couldn't fix it or tell me which it was. Wonderful.
I came across a great article from 1946 by George Orwell, where he both explains the problems of British food, and comes to its defence: http://theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/by-orwell/essays-a...

I think I blame the British connection for some of the issues with American food: overly sweet, fish without bones, little seafood, etc.
Computer developed by users. User perspective on the year long project
Indeed, although I'd bet a much larger percentage of the population knows about Pokemon than Tinder.
Just image if the game was actually good... It's kind of a shame :(
Parallel and concurrent programming is easy in Haskell (because of the amazing work on lower levels)
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929

Switch to haskell and you will no longer view "parallel/concurrent" as a hard problem that you need to solve
Hi Terry,

I'm afraid your abrasive manner of posting will result in a shadowban again soon. Hopefully we can have some good discussion of TempleOS before that happens. :)

I am very impressed by your technical achievements.

One thing regarding your "demands" page, a lot of them have to do with Intel and others optimising less-efficient means of access (such as IN/OUT for PIO instead of DMA). Do you have plans to implement DMA support? Would that not be a better goal than to get hardware vendors to optimise for less-efficient access methods?

Once again, impressive work on your programming language and OS.
The problem with GMO not being labelled is not the health issue it is that my freedom of choice is being eroded.
How America’s Sports Betting Expert Turned a Sucker’s Game into an Industry
Here in New Zealand, most of the time when I get scallops they have the orange egg-sac bit still attached.

Is that not the case in Aus?
You miss my point exactly. "Creativity" is a marketing myth because it divides the world into 'Creative' and 'not-Creative' disciplines.

Anecdata: Most of the artists I know hate the word.
This should be publicly recorded too and maybe eventually we'll have a list of funding bodies that like to minmax profits by damaging research.
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"meanwhile median income between poorest and richest EU members is close to 10x - in the US it's ~2-3 between states"

That's comparing apples to oranges. Country != state.
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I'm optimistic that the game will continue getting fleshed out; there's no way Niantic isn't going to capitalize on this.
Surely they can release and fix later because Nintendo (or whoever?) built up the Pokémon brand over time. They've built consumer trust but they can easily destroy that do the point that such moves will fail in the future.
A UBI doesn't take away the incentive to make money. Give everyone enough to _not starve_ and then they can work towards a better level than that, safe in the knowledge that they aren't going to suffer from losing the benefits the second they earn a tiny amount (and thus earn _less_ for having a job).
> But psi researchers these days jump through far more hoops, run far more replications, spend far more time looking for weaknesses and alternative explanations, garner far more scrutiny and second guessing. To call that a 'fake field of research' when it is more rigorous is disingenuous.

So what's a good study you can point me at? The nice thing about psi testing is that you can get a result sample every few seconds. It should be easy to turn even a moderately small effect into a five sigma result that's immune to publication bias.
Having lived in various EU countries, I'm still amazed by how unaware of taste people are in UK and Ireland.
The problem with being a “problem solver”
For regular, consistent productivity (not just the occasional project over a day or two) I have to change my physical environment. This means having an office I go to (or library when I was a student) that--and this is key--is far away enough from my home that it's not convenient to just leave and go home when I'm sick of working. It has to be more of a hassle to go home than to just do another half hour of work (and then another, and another, and so on).
The point of the linked article is exactly that psi researchers go through far more rigorous methods than most researchers. The fact that they still come up with wrong results tells us just how far the goal posts need to be moved - but not just for psi, for all of psychology and other fields too.
Going with that, I'd bet a much larger percentage of the population knows about Pokemon than Twitter.
Wow. Thank you for proving me wrong and finding that.

> totally new applications and geometries are possible

It'd be nice to have some concrete examples of those.
Cave lector: Twitter, in this case, seems to refer to the Android twitter app, compared against the Pokemon GO Android app. If that is the case, I expect the reported Twitter DAU to be much lower than the actual Twitter DAUs.
Are you saying the EU is basically a clever hack to get around constitutional restrictions?
Pico: a tiny but expressive language designed to teach CS concepts
I agree with your first point, that we don't need all individual people to be productive. I don't think you can say, though, that your "me-too" app builders and hipster baristas are all employed deliberately in useless jobs by philanthropists as a form of charity.
Reordering is still useful in Haskell. Just two examples for order dependent things in Haskell: top-level Template Haskell splicing; imports and GHC feature comments.

It can be nice to have a single document explaining the whole project, producing individual source files upon tangling. For this approach you need control over order and target files. "Literate Haskell" is hardly more than a reversal of the meaning of comments and code.
> if the European parliament was given the power to make laws

Yes - so you might like this petition I proposed: https://www.change.org/p/empower-european-parliament-with-le...
Cheese is actually a tricky example. Cheeses produced outside of their origin geo tend to have somewhat different microbiomes and, therefore, somewhat different tastes and other characteristics. See, for example, this episode of Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/say-cheese-2/

I'm by no means an extremist on the topic. I think it would be pretty silly at this point to say that only Cheddar from Cheddar, England could be labeled as such. But origin naming rules aren't silly either.
> I thought this is what we were trying to avoid in the first place.

Well, yes. Doing anything with USD (or most other currencies) is a complete nightmare, especially including converting them to other currencies.

The goal is that eventually you might want to accept some or all of your pay as bitcoin, which would've been paid to your employer as bitcoin, and thus the loop is closed and nobody has to implement any KYC procedures. Converting from <currency> to bitcoin to pay somebody for them to turn it back into <currency> suffers from all the legal issues that affect <currency> - which should be obvious.

Also obvious is that this will pretty much never happen on any large scale, rendering bitcoin near-worthless for most people.
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> But psi researchers these days jump through far more hoops, run far more replications, spend far more time looking for weaknesses and alternative explanations, garner far more scrutiny and second guessing. To call that a 'fake field of research' when it is more rigorous is disingenuous.

But that's the point of Scott's article. We have more than enough reasons to believe the whole field is bullshit (did you see a working practical application of that research?), but because it does all the moves and rituals of Real Science, it forms a perfect baseline for how many positive results we can expect with pure cargo-cult science.
Isn't Braintree owned by PayPal now?

I personally wouldn't trust PayPal for anything more than running a kids lemonade stand - there are far too many horror stories.
I will never buy any in App Coin, but I have a lot of consoles + games from nintendo.
Even the 'New 3DS'.
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Yeah, I feel like they set themselves up for a tough situation in a few weeks. Ingress was in beta and invite-only state for ages, which allowed the map to be built up and people to slowly join over time. People who joined later were still excited about low-level peers starting with them.

P-GO is likely to reach its peak in a few days... If some exciting content updates don't follow they may have a problem keeping people around. They'll definitely retain many fans (people still play the original handheld versions), but it will be interesting to see what happens in the future. Also, from own experience - it was easy to play Ingress and go on long walks initially. But after a while, you really want to spend time doing other things; past some point a 1h trip to do something specific for virtual points loses the appeal.
"You're forgetting the other point that the poster made, that your DNA is no more yours than your grandparents', or cousins, or any other ancestor or distant relative that shares bits of their genome with you."

No, my DNA is distinct from theirs, and it's 'mine'. :)

Those 50-100 points identify me, uniquely.
UBI will never be enough to fund a "comfortable middle class life".
And if you can hack your phone, you can disable pinning.
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Run an n=1 study on yourself. Even if it's full of placebo effects and doesn't generalize to anyone else, as long as you figured out what makes you feel/do better, you win.
Previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067526

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066749

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066134
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Well, it's either Paypal or it's Mt. Gox; you pays your money and you takes your chances. The Bitcoin market, libertarian-utopian rhetoric aside, seems increasingly to prefer the former to the latter.
tldr: it wasn't the oil: "without any doubt, the contaminated foodstuff was tomatoes, and it was the pesticides on them that were responsible for the epidemic"

(This relates to the separate NYP post about phony food, which says "Fake olive oil...has killed people...more than 20,000 people were poisoned in Spain...")
That's high order sophistry.
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“Pokemon Go” being used to stage robberies, police say
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Nintendo is not the creator of the Pokemon Go game. Niantic (spelling?) licenses the Pokemon brand from Nintendo.

So in this case the comparison is not between selling in-app coins vs games. It's between licensing IP to the company that sells coins, vs selling games.
I don't doubt it'll get better, but I also don't expect any major rewriting of the core loops / mechanics, which might invalidate user progress
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Not this again, I expect better from HN readers. Please do not treat the claims in this poorly researched article as correct information.

NO, Tor and Linux users are NOT classified as extremists by the Intelligence Community.

Yes, there are mentions of 'Linux Journal', 'TAILs' and 'Tor' in a file with filter definitions. But why? If we look at the actual rules in the file (http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/xkeyscorerules100.txt) we see it contains the following definition:

// START_DEFINITION
/*
These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic
Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by
extremists on extremist forums.
*/
$TAILS_terms=word('tails' or 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System') and word('linux'
or ' USB ' or ' CD ' or 'secure desktop' or ' IRC ' or 'truecrypt' or ' tor ');
$TAILS_websites=('tails.boum.org/') or ('linuxjournal.com/content/linux*');
// END_DEFINITION

This does NOT say that anyone using TAILs or reading the Linux Journal is classed as an extremist.

Notice that they describe TAILs is a 'comsec mechanism advocated by extremists' and then go on to define a filter that selects users searching for it. However it would be used in conjunction with filters that also select traffic from browsing those extremist forums. This usefully gives a list of addresses that frequent extremist forums and then seek out and implement the communications security advice given in those forums, thereby indicating they are more than just casual browsers, they have something they wish to hide or secure in their communications.

So, once again, the XKeyScore definitions do NOT automatically classify Linux, Tor and TAILs users as 'extremists', they merely give examples of filters that can be used to select traffic mentioning these keywords or connecting to related sites, in order to further filter traffic from known extremist or terrorist groups that also advocate using these tools for communications security. This allows analysts to determine whether an address belongs to a casual browser of these forums, or someone who wishes to keep their extremist or terrorist related browsing secret, and is therefore worthy of further surveillance of their internet traffic.
Previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12070093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067526

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066749

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066134
"And they may face discrimination based on race, class or other factors."

In urban areas, where access to transportation and availability of jobs is better, this is really the crux of the issue. Employers (often unfairly) view middle class kids as more reliable. So even if they think working class kids will work harder (another common view in my experience), they see the middle class teenagers as less of a risk.
Just finished with the first two volumes of Cixin Liu's trilogy. Really good stuff. :)
Switching orientation to landscape and back fits it properly to the viewport. That this should be necessary is vaguely silly, but at least it works.
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If you are looking for an AR mobile game with more depth maybe you should try Ingress.
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A summary of the problems of British food from 1986 would no longer be applicable. One from 1946, even less so.
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Should some of those not be dev-dependencies?
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To get an idea of how serious this scandal was, I have plenty of Spanish friends who won't use rapeseed oil today because they believe it's too risky.
I was thinking of smooth curves.

Judging from the photos, even the expensive print has a voxelized appearance. I've certainly seen that in the one 3D print I've handled too.

So my idea was to print slightly oversize, then mill and polish for perfect curves.
Technically Nintendo is not even the full owner of Pokemon, that would be The Pokemon Company [1], which is only partially owned by Nintendo

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pokémon_Company
Neat project comparing FDM.

Now, let's be a little more fair and start looking at what production companies will be buying:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/printers/3d-printers.html

http://www.stratasys.com/3d-printers/production-series

No contest. Having multiple hundreds of thousands of colors, properties (like heat-resistance, flexibility, different opacity), various different materials, automated easily removable supports, decent precision, and serious speed beats the shit out of your desktop model any day of the week. Sorry.
ahem...valuation / assets:

JP Morgan: 9%
Goldman Sachs: 7.1%
BoA: 6.5%
Santander: 3.5%
Societe Generale: 3%
BNP Paribas: 2.5%
Unicredit: 1.5%
Deutsche Bank: 1.0%

Two lessons: US banks are much better capitalised in the eyes of the market, and it is Deutsche Bank, not any Italian bank, which appears to be the biggest risk to European (and global) banking systems. It has a balance sheet of 1.6 trillion, supported by a market equity valuation of only 16 billion. Deutsche also has a reported 55 trillion notional of derivatives exposure.

Sources: Yahoo finance for assets as of 2015, Bloomberg terminal for latest valuation.
Indeed. For a different angle, see a recent publication by TNI: they argue that TTIP flies directly in the face of the Paris climate agreement.

This text looks like it has been drafted with the main purpose of safeguarding the interests of industry, and the producers and consumers of fossil fuels. Instead of including text that would help to ensure that climate targets can be met, as we had hoped, this text will only make it more difficult to reach the needed energy transition

https://www.tni.org/en/article/ttip-leaked-eu-trade-proposal...
You can learn to vote reasonably only if you do it.
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> Ansible apparently started as a script that automated somebody's workflow (which is a good thing) -- and stayed that way, but now is marketed as a general tool (which is not, but resembles it closely enough to trick many its users into thinking it is).

I think that's a key critique of many of these things. They start off solving one problem, then eventually become 'enterprise', and the design trade-offs get exposed. This is what I was alluding to above with my trade-offs comment.
Exactly, UBI will not encourage a lot of people to be productive.

There are more creative ways to combat this problem. For example, restructuring the recruitment process, offering jobs instead of UBI since all of a sudden there is an abundance of capital or introducing legislations
Why would he post the URL and invite a bunch of new competitors to clone his software?

I seriously don't understand this trend of people blabbing their revenue numbers and showing their exact website... there is no better way to create a competitor than that. And for what, an ego boost?
Some whales just have a lot of money and they like spending it and there's nothing immoral in allowing them to spend huge amount of their money.

Some even have more money than they should have and you can make the case that by taking the money from them you are actually helping them. Like the young men in Saudi Arabia, who, if they didn't spend huge amounts of money and time on your game would buy a fast car instead and with some good likelihood die in it (car accidents are leading cause of death of young people in Saudi Arabia, unlike anywhere else in the world).

But there's this other group of whales that makes it immoral. There are people who are susceptible to addiction. They will spend on the game way more money they can afford just because addictive loop of the game binds them bit too much.

This is as if the games were like kind of "alcohol", mildly pleasant to lot of people, very cheap, but cheap only because industry was selling it at such a low margin that they couldn't support themselves unless fraction of people got addicted to it and used it in amounts that's unhealthy for them spending all of their money in the process. If you add to this that the industry is giving away free samples on the off chance that some new people might get addicted, you can see how that can be immoral.
give loans to people who could not pay back

The people they lent to seemed like reasonable credit risks at the time - this isn't the same situation as US "subprime". Fundamentally there's no way to know whether a lender will be able to pay back, you can only make statistical guesses at the time based on limited information.

There's an additional problem in that NPL levels depend on the state of the economy as a whole, which can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

(See e.g. http://english.mps.it/media-and-news/press-releases/2016/Pag...

Edit: MPS isn't even loss-making, at the moment. The cliff is not so close. http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Financials...