skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me all big software houses are affected of this in their long standing products. You start a new thing and come up with a good name. 15 years with 17 product cycles down the line and you have a whole forest of names that have some relation to this thing.

See also:

iTunes (OSX), iTunes (iOS), "Music" (iOS), Apple Music, iTunes Match, Genius and the iCloud Music tab. Podcasts and videos are also all in there somewhere, know what dear user, you figure it out k?
Absolutely.

Simply replacing "ifs" with anything else.

I think it's clear how this is simply juvenile hyperbolic invective.
Leaders democratically elected or otherwise are people seeking power, in general the democratic leaders do not cross a line, but Erdogan has proven he is not your "normal" elected leader.

Nobody benefits from a failed coup like Erdogan, he now has the license to make Military in his image and the last pillar of secularism in Turkey is Kaput!
Yeah, but it seemed that they were low because both Google and Microsoft value the security of customer data over their own finances, and thus don't care as much about exploits that drain their wallets. Resulting in a lower bounty.
French Artist Creates Trompe-L’oeil Illusions
Who would think that politics and international relations might be ... complicated.

Saudi Arabia, along with much the rest of the Middle East, owes itself to a chain of events which I'll arbitrarily start with the Roman empire, its split into east and west, the fall of first the West (410 AD), the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, a/k/a Byzantine Empire (~330 BC - 1453 BC), when it was taken by the Ottoman Empire (1299 - 1923), whose region of control since 1683 included most of what little of the Arabian Peninsula supported what little population it had.

The US helped Saudi Arabia emerge in the first place (though some guy named Lawrence had more to do with that), the Saudis not particularly caring for the British and finding them too near (an old and perhaps wise Arab doctrine encourages making distant allies -- they're less likely to cause trouble).

Oil was found and developed beginning in the 1930s, largely with American assistance.

1945 saw the Quincy Agreement, between the US and KSA, establishing a long-term strategic alliance. The US needed oil, the house of Saud needed help developing that, money, and protection from other unhappy families (each unhappy in its own Tolstoian way). A fact which didn't preclude multiple attempts at oil embargoes against the US and Europe, including particularly over the Suez Crisis (1956) and Six Day War (1967), but coming to a head after the Yom Kippur War (1973), by which point the US had experienced peak oil extraction and various Arab states had more fully realised their pricing power.

KSA tone changed quite markedly after a visit from US finance officials in 1974, and generally tightened with disruptions in Iran, Iraq, and internally with various sects of islam.

The relationship, in a word, is distinctly complex. A mutual dependency, with fairly strong mutual levels of unhappiness at the dependency.

By the 1950s, the US was beginning to import Saudi Oil, and
> I think there's a strong recognition that self-driving vehicles, when they can be made to happen generally, will be a significant social good. And that it's tricky to get there unless society is willing to put something out onto the streets.

I agree autonomous cars hold great potential. But that is precisely why Tesla should not ship a "beta" feature with lives at stake, as that risks squandering that potential. If this is the response to a single Autopilot user killing himself in an accident, imagine the potential backlash if more accidents crop up. Or worse, an Autopilot user kills someone else in an accident.

Critics of Tesla's Autopilot are not only concerned about the danger to Tesla drivers, but to the industry as a whole ("Jaguar engineer: A mishap with Tesla's Autopilot could set back self-driving cars by a decade"): http://mashable.com/2015/12/12/jaguar-semi-autonomy/#QMl5uUB...

Tesla argues that the data it collects from Autopilot users is worth the risk because it can help Tesla develop true self-driving cars faster, but other companies pursuing self-driving cars (including Google) have opted for more controlled testing instead of conducting a grand experiment with customers and the general public.
Associativity says that the order of __evaluation__ of operations doesn't matter. You are talking about commutativity.
I don't think the Isle of Man has any dual carriageways, it certainly doesn't have any motorways.
#carefulwiththoseifseugene
uBlock origin and often opening straight to Reader Mode / saving straight to Pocket.

Thanks for the heads-up though.
Last discussion about tus:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591348

Great to see progress. Even though I would prefer if resumable uploads were part of the browser.
Dances of the Planets
Some TIFF-derived container is the most common representation. But note even these could use JPEG/J2K if desired.

Most microscopy images are stored uncompressed or with lossless compression. But unfortunately this doesn't scale with newer imaging modalities. Here's two examples:

Digital histopathology. Whole-slide scanners can create huge images e.g. 200000x200000 and larger. These are stored using e.g. JPEG or J2K in a tiled BigTIFF container, with multiple resolution levels. Or JPEG-XR. When each image is multiple gigabytes, lossless compression doesn't scale.

SPIM involves imaging a 3D volume by rotating the sample and imaging it from multiple angles and directions. The raw data can be multiple terabytes per image and is both sparse and full of redundant information. The viewable post-processed 3D image volume is vastly smaller, but also still sparse.

For more standard images such as confocal or brightfield or epifluorescence CCD, lossless storage is certainly the norm. You don't really want to perform precise quantitative measurements with poor quality data.
Since July 1st, France has banned them too. They were already forbidden is supermarkets anyways. Note that the biodegradable corn-based plastic bags are still allowed.
The article suggests Friedman was right - this cartel was very short lived.

"Powerful and influential though it was, the Phoebus cartel was short-lived. Within six years of its formation, the cartel was already starting to struggle."

Friedman was also right that the cartel existed primarily due to government assistance:

"GE’s licensing of its basic lightbulb patents gave rise to yet more alliances, most notably the powerful Patentgemeinschaft (“patent pool”)..."
We already have a Hack: http://hacklang.org/
Won't it amount to the same thing as a heat source anywhere else in a room, with convection and radiation?
While I agree that Tesla's article is not perfectly logical and its marketing campaign is not impeccable, I would like to demonstrate that people at Tesla Motors have a point.

1. "STATISTICALLY SAFER" CUSTOMERS. Yes, this statement makes no sense. One fatal crash is not a large enough sample size to make such conclusion. However, this article was aimed not at Hacker News readers, but at average buyers. Most of them do not have a firm grasp of high school math, so for them "statistically safer" means just "don't worry." And indeed there are reasons for them to worry, given that independent news agencies continually publish hysterical things (It is a “a wake-up call!” “Reassess” self-driving cars! The crash “is raising safety concerns for everyone in Florida!” [1]). Tesla's response was nothing but a necessary defence. Or did you expect them to say, "You know, there are not enough data yet, so let's wait until 10 or so more people die, and then we will draw conclusions." This is much more logical, but I feel that customers wouldn't like it.

2. WHY IT IS CALLED "AUTOPILOT." This is just marketing. They couldn't sell it under the name "The Beta Version Of The System That Keeps Your Vehicle In Lane As Long As You Keep Your Hands On The Steering Wheel And Are Ready To Regain Control At Any Moment™." And honestly, I do not think that even relatively stupid customers will just press the button and hope for the best without reading what the Autopilot is all about in advance.

In my opinion, it is now a difficult time for Tesla, and we should not criticise it for trying to stay afloat.

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/how-the-media-screwed...

EDIT: You might think that the phrase "trying to stay afloat" is unnecessary pathos, since a single crash, even coupled with a bunch of nonsense news articles, cannot lead to anything serious. However, the history shows it can. In 2000, Concorde crashed during takeoff, killing all people on board [2]. The event was caused by metal debris on the runway, not by some problem with the plane itself. Nevertheless, Concorde lost it reputation of one of the safest planes in the world. The passenger numbers plummeted, and Concorde retired three years later. That crash is the number one reason why it now takes 12 hours to get from Europe to America.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
I'm probably lacking in imagination, but I don't understand why it has to be complicated. Under the right circumstances, it would just entail to NOT act upon intelligence about an impending coup attempt? Just check that you have support from other key parts of the military, then wait.

To engineer something like that, yes, that sounds very complicated. But to see an opportunity rise and grab it, does not sound impossible. It's plausible, I'd say. I look forward to watch the documentary in 30 years... ?
>Shen on the other hand seems quite interesting (and seems to come with its own prolog engine!)

Shen implemented Prolog to build it's type checker with.
> wrong tool for the job

> "...Phoenix with Rails"

Isn't Phoenix designed to be like Rails and do things Rails does? That'd make them pretty similar (though not the same, of course) tools.
Thought it was intriguing that a schizophrenic uber-hacker's poison of choice was morphine; it seems more in line with methamphetamine use, imo! Hacking on morphine... would.. be... something..... like...... this........
Move fast, kill people. Oh wait can't we rebase th ... Damned !
When using electricity for heating, a heat pump is more than 100% efficient.

I live in Denmark, where regulations mean new buildings can't have simple electric heaters installed.
Streembit in commercial IoT use cases
Not mentioned in article:

- President has successfully used a referendum to grant himself third term powers, if next year's election goes his way (likely)

- Lots of surveillance (skype/whatsapp eavesdropping) by govt via telecom compliance

- President has lots of stock in telecoms
While PNG (and libpng) are reasonable for their intended purpose as a GIF replacement for simple RGB and greyscale graphics, it doesn't compare when it comes to the power and flexibility of TIFF, from sample format and depth, to sample count, image orientation, tiling and many additional features.

TIFF is showing its age at this point, with a some high-end scientific applications switching to HDF5. But PNG simply isn't featureful enough for this type of data.
WhatsApp is not the only one
First, I don't really know if the article's argument is correct, but the vehemence in the "1%" discussion is bad. If nothing else, this movement should concentrate more on rent seeking and regulatory capture.

Living in a part of the world with a bigger (non military) state, the state as entrepreneurial is a cruel joke. E.g., the last few Swedish governments have been systematically under investing in railway upkeep -- an improvement won't be noticed until after the next election, so the governments do the "bread and circuses" thing with the available resources instead, to win the next election. (This works because they also use the resources to integrate with the media and avoid too harsh criticism.)

But sure, the previous is arguably "entrepreneurial"... :-(

The examples of this abound for the whole of EU.

As another point:
The world has seen a fast global increase in the work force. That quite naturally stress the salaries and job markets in the "old world". (This rise of poor countries is IMHO a good thing, even if it hits me and other people like me.)

What I expected more of in the article: What works, considering international benchmarking of different tax/education/etc systems?
> After=network.target

That only guarantees that your network devices have been enumerated, not that they are available with assigned addresses.

I encountered this problem with SSH failing to start on Ubuntu 16.04 server. systemd was launching SSH before the binding address had been assigned, causing SSH to abort and fail and the server to continue to boot without any way of accessing it remotely.

Workaround ( at the physical console ) was to add a Retry to the SSH unit and time it to coincide with the address having been assigned[0]. hacky, but no other unit imperatives worked.

[0] Default behaviour in the SSH unit, at least on Ubuntu, is that it tries once and never again.
Scala allows underscores, and sequential underscores refer to the next element, so you can do e.g.

list(1, 2, 3, 4).reduce(_ + _) == 10
Borland's no-nonsense software license (2002)
Swift supports overloading functions by return type.
As a side note, I was pretty surprised that the name isn't as in "I have a great mind" but rather "I have a table oriented programming mind". At first, I had a knee jerk "wow arrogant" reaction and then felt guilty when I realised!
I don't see why the Koch's campaign against electric cars and renewables is particularly relevant. Driverless cars can be powered by fossil fuels too.

The problem here is Tesla's Autodrive implementation. I think it is fair that questions are asked.
> The company might want to take some steps to detect specific examples of search result censoship, such as when items that appear when searching yahoo for A B C D do not appear at all in a search for A B C without D, and fix them.

To me this does not sound like censorship, but SEO on behalf of D. My guess would be that D paid some web presence management company to cultivate a strong presence of pages containing A B C but not D (since they want to hide their name after all), and that's what the engine is picking up.

There could even be an innocent explanation for this - lots of UK discussion about A B C that does not mention D since they're not allowed to, and very few outside the UK who care. So the {A,B,C}\{D} pages would naturally rise to the top of search results.

This particular case aside, Stallman's test looks like misuse of statistics to me - searching for "washington" gets me lots of pages that don't mention the town in England, whereas "washington england" finds it. Conspiracy? Censorship? No.
If people done know about it or use it in reputation checks then how is it so important?
Monica: Avoid repeating commands by defining a structured config file (GoLang)
I really wish there was someone like bigclive that just tore down LED lamps sold in the US and posted reviews

There is such a guy "electronupdate", but I think he's from north of the border. Close enough. His older teardowns were better, because the bulbs themselves were better. Now there's a race to the bottom (of course).

If you watch his teardowns you will see that the older Philips bulbs are superior to all others.

E.g. here's a very good review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU

He's also done teardowns of some real crap bulbs.

There are also some "bigclive" LED bulb reviews on Youtube but I haven't watched them.
In the age of the internet, you can't simply act when the leaders are outside the country. It's far too easy to rouse the populace from wherever you are. You have to have physical possession of the political leadership -- ideally the top 3-5 people (as many top folks as the average person could easily identify with)

For a NATO-trained military, this was a horrible coup. It was so bad that I seriously wonder if it's not a false flag operation. I doubt it, but I wonder.

The NATO allies have a real mess on their hands. If the people of Turkey truly support an endless reign of a single party that's slowly causing more and more destabilization in the region, and is purging the courts and military of educated, secular actors? This is about as bad as it gets long-term. Turkey is slowly ditching Attaturk.

Oddly, because of the coup failure, assuming we have a Chavez-style "democracy" now, the only recourse for social change is assassination. So there'll be a bloody purge, and then social change, when it does happen (from either outside or inside factors), will be much more bloody than this simple coup this time around would have been.

This is all kinds of bad. Very sad for the people of Turkey.
A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
That's just not correct, I run MTA's for many of my clients on their static IP's with no outbound issues. It sometimes takes a few days to settle into a new IP but that doesn't happen that often.
That's not really true. Using a beta distribution model (i.e. treating each mile driven as a single event), we can say that with 99% probability the true accident rate is at least 1/1B miles and no more than 7/100M miles.

Before the accident occurs, these numbers were 1/100B miles and 5.3/100M miles.

If a second fatality occurred, those numbers would increase to 3.4/1B miles and 9.3/100M miles.

However, I'm pretty sure that their claims of safety are based on more than just this calculation: "...a wealth of internal data demonstrating safer, more predictable vehicle control performance..."

100M miles of driving is easily enough time to observe things like fewer near misses, greater distance between the Tesla and other cars, etc. In math terms, what Tesla is most likely doing is working off some model relating driving behavior with accident rates and observing that 1 single accident does not invalidate this model.
Couchdrop – Secure cloud upload server
Apple has proven very capable in executing multi year strategic plans leveraging in one area to establish a new product or service in another. Apple has also proven adept to managing Eco systems along a vertical value chain - making sure a lot of the spoils go to them but also making sure their suppliers can manage.

Apple is at the moment lagging in music streaming despite huge investments in iCloud, Music Match and an entrenched iTunes (getting pushed in my face every time I plug my phone in). UX matters and iTunes is not convincing. But this can change. Developing a streaming client is not rocket science if a team would freed from backwards compatibility concerns.

Apple has a lot it can leverage in the music industry and not by accident:

- Headphones, Beats Playlists

- Audio supplier relationships

- Music, Movie and Book publisher contracts and relationships

- iTunes client

- App/iTunes customer billing relationships

- iPhone platform - leading in higher income customer households

- App store - monopoly on iOS and growing on OSX

- Brand

- War-chest

Apple is in a tricky position here politically. They got their hands slapped when trying to establish a pricing regime in the book business while being far from dominant Apple was working with dominant players (who each controlled a large set of IPR artwork monopolies). The big hurdle is regulatory. Anti trust law allows building monopolies organically but frowns on using power like acquisitions by industry leaders or leveraging one strength into another industry with aggressive loss-leading pricing etc..

Why are we talking these days about setting prices here in a free market in the first place? Considering the power on the distribution side almost all artists have not enough power to make level deals. That was always the case but for a long time artists were free to take their business elsewhere. Then publishers concentrated. Now streaming channels take in part their place. Their number is not large either.

Apples proposal for higher payment for artists may make sense for artists and the whole value chain up to our ears. It is very problematic for newcomers like Spotify who rely on low costs to acquire new customers. Their lure is the free tier. Apple does not need this as much as it has already a billing relationship and less "free" drives demand. Also let's be clear there is no real "free". Spotify is loss leading by VCs, advertisers in case of radio or fees in case e.g. Germany.

Apple can't be happy. Unlike a minor new player like Spotify they would get into regulatory hot water with aggressive loss leading streaming. Changing the rules to higher streaming fees would shift everything towards paying platforms. Apple demands a 30% cut and so far has held the line and has forced Amazon and Spotify to sell their media content outside their App. That again is something regulators will look closely at. It will be interesting to see whether Apple can square the wheel.
There are non-US crawlers. Of course they have their own governments to direct censorship. But they censor differently, so you get a better chance. Surprisingly, Baidu does index the relevant stuff in this case. For Yandex it is not even surprising (they have aimed to have some English-language presence since long ago).
CrossOver for Android Runs on ChromeBooks
And yet the article concludes :

"The form of parallelism induced by the associativity of the semigroup operation is heavily relied upon in the Map-Reduce programming model. We’ll expound on this in more detail in a later article, as this is more easily developed algebraically after defining the concept of a Monoid."
Melatonin is about as dangerous as it is effective, imo - lightweight. Cannabis is not without risks either, but they're nearly negligible. Outright recommendation is not really what I was talking about, either - I was talking about situations where I would go multiple days without being able to sleep, and not for a lack of trying..

David Nutt et al. are better qualified to talk about it than I am I guess.

Over the last decade there have been further developments in our knowledge of the risks and benefits of benzodiazepines, and of the risks and benefits
of alternatives to benzodiazepines. Representatives drawn from the Psychopharmacology Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and
the British Association for Psychopharmacology together examined these developments, and have provided this joint statement with recommendations
for clinical practice. The working group was mindful of widespread concerns about benzodiazepines and related anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs. The
group believes that whenever benzodiazepines are prescribed, the potential for dependence or other harmful effects must be considered. However, the
group also believes that the risks of dependence associated with long-term use should be balanced against the benefits that in many cases follow from
the short or intermittent use of benzodiazepines and the risk of the underlying conditions for which treatment is being provided.

https://www.bap.org.uk/pdfs/BAP_Guidelines-Benzodiazepines.p...
Please don't call your project "hack".
From the Wikipedia article

> The Centennial Light was originally a 30-watt or 60-watt bulb

Why? Everyone, where I'm from anyway, now has CFLs and LEDs, mostly, and the environmental disaster rolls on.
Related: I have noted over the years that incandescents with dimmer switches basically never burn out, and those with normal switches tend to break during the first second of being switched on. That's led me to the following thought: would it be possible to build a bulb with a built-in fade-in, either via bandpass/lowpass filtering or some sort of fading mechanism?