skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The players may not communicate in any way" - It seems to me that all the answers are a form of communication. In fact the dictionary defines communicate as, "share or exchange information."
It seems like that would be an easy solution; but, for probably good reasons (though reasons I don't know), Windows and Linux don't do it that way.

Gnome applications of recent vintage behave correctly, pretty much across the board. Firefox has some of its own configuration (for content, but the Gnome settings get applied to the UI), but behaves OK once configured. It's all the non-Gnome stuff that gets weird. Mostly games and music and graphics apps that don't use the system toolkit. Unfortunately, those are just the apps I most want to be able to cram a gazillion pixels onto the screen.

I'm tinkering with audio again, on both Linux and Windows, and VSTs, in particular, are awful. Unusably small, in many cases (VSTs are, IMHO, already the ugliest UIs in the world). At least most of my actual software works OK; FL Studio go an update recently that make it's UI vector-based, I guess, as it is fully scalable across any size screen, and looks really good at any size.

For reference on the ugliness of VST plugins (many of these are laughably expensive, like in the multiple hundreds of dollars for usually very simple DSP algorithms wrapped up in a ridiculous GUI):

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=vst%20plugins

Now, just imagine them shrunk down to the size of a postage stamp...it's kinda like the thumbnails on image search, actually, on my 15" laptop display.
The other thing is that, as this article points out, this isn't just pure "supply and demand", because the government is pouring subsidies on property ownership, pushing interest rates to 50-year lows, and offering tax incentives for owning homes. None of which gets passed to the majority of renters who end up paying the higher rates. It's a very good point and it's worth talking about.
Texas department of insurance approved AAA low mileage discounts
The job of obtaining Texas department of insurance approved AAA low mileage discounts can be an arduous one. However, the problem of deciding which insurance carrier to approach and the way to make sure that you have discovered the best offer could easily be resolved by using a specialist car insurance broker when looking for quotes. You only need to give your details the once and also the broker, who's independent and it has access to the marketplace, may then supply you with the car insurance quotes as needed. After you have the car insurance quotes, it is prudent to read the contents of the cover provided carefully to ensure that it fulfills all your requirements. If you opt to have fully comprehensive car insurance, you might wish it to incorporate additional extras. A totally free courtesy car when your vehicles maintain the garage for repair after any sort of accident, or the inclusion of free windscreen repair.
The Texas department of insurance approved AAA low mileage discounts by having legal expenses, as an optional extra may also be desirable.
The Texas department of insurance approved AAA low mileage discounts can be greatly affected by the quantity of excess that you are prepared to pay in case of claims. The more the quantity of the excess is increased, the low the premium becomes. That number No Claim Discount (NCD) accrued also influences the price and also you have to judge whether you wish to protect it. A number of insurers will offer this protection even though you make claims or had any sort of accident within the past 5 years. However, this protection is usually included in the finish price and they may stipulate that you must remain using their company for a number of years. So when reviewing the car insurance quotes, it pays to help keep that in mind. http://www.carinsurancerates.com/discount-car-insurance.html
Cycle couriers/deliveroos are the cycle equivalent of the white van man and the black cabbie - they drive for a living and time is money, so they try to kill you if you so much stand in their way.

Luckily even if they crash into you, they are as likely to kill themselves a you - something that cannot be said of white van men...
Google's SDCH is kind of that, but each website can in advance decide what the contents of the shared dictionary are. So when you download a SDCH compressed page you may also download a dictionary. Information and experiences with usage are sparse, here's one article from LinkedIn: https://engineering.linkedin.com/shared-dictionary-compressi... -- "Average additional compression across our static content was about 24%"
4chan is two blocks down, friend
I just bought a Philips 40" 4k-computer monitor with a Chromecast. Mostly because there is a license cost to own a television in my country. This setup saves me $200-300 a year.
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Modern Money Club Is a SCAM Warning Review
The cost-benefit is just too low for this to be practical in most cases:

* The large data being transferred is almost never text; it's video, images, or audio which is already using advanced (sometimes lossy) compression
* Even if it is text, it's probably in some document format or HTML which greatly complicates the shared dictionary scenario (and would require a separate dictionary for each format)

In reality even deflate is already doing what you propose, but it builds the dictionary dynamically and includes it with each message. The up side is its dictionary can find common phrases and patterns that wouldn't be in your fixed dictionary. As the size of the text becomes larger the dictionary becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the total.
Are you taking into account that most condos are much smaller than most houses? You really should be comparing the median price of a condo where a family of 4 can comfortably live to the median price of a house where a family of 4 can comfortably live. I suspect that difference will, if not disappear, at least be much smaller.
https://criu.org/
>>"Hey, I should write my own DEFLATE library"

Did that in Java (2011) and the impl. was faster than the native one (party due to lack of proper customization of zlib from java code)
In Gentoo dbus is enabled by default only on desktop profiles, and even there it may be disabled completely by one USE-flag.
The Future of Computing (1993): http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc62
Yes, I am very familiar with that page, but thanks for posting it! I've used it for double checking many of the record type assignments and the current sets of crypto graphic assignments.
Breatharianism FTW
I found that after I had already written a lot of that code. I haven't had much reason to go back and change it, but any PR's if someone wants to do it, would be accepted.
No, because some languages make it easier to deal with developers as if they were cogs (even if I hate how things are nowadays).

For example, the use of automatic memory management or bounds checking, not only allows to remove an whole class of errors they remove the need to have a deep understanding of memory allocation patterns in the code.

Similarly the way one can make use of strong type definitions like in Ada, ML languages to only allow the code to compile if certain rules are followed.

We all hate to be dealt as cogs, but that is how the enterprise world works, the majority of the jobs are consulting gigs for specific features in short to mid term projects.
It would be nice indeed but the fact that you cannot zoom limits the number of requests to the map tiles provider.
What is the target audience for a travel club
The operating environment for travel clubs is constantly evolving. More frequent travel and more emerging markets present new opportunities for travel clubs.http://customtravelclubs.com/travel-club/
In the middle of nowhere (Stafford, England) we have a mix of the lot. Here we have standard crossings that will never be anything but green (for traffic) without a button press.

There's also T-junctions here that toggle between multiple roads that insert a pedestrian crossing into the cycle when the button is pressed, otherwise they'll just toggle between the roads as normal.

Then we also have Y-junctions where the pedestrian light is green when the opposite road light is green. The buttons might speed up the cycle there but I've never seen any evidence of it doing so.
Copyfish: Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF
As a ring [1] contributor, would be curious to hear if it could satisfy your crypto requirements. Using it could maybe help with your "(oh-my-dear-god I can not unsee what I saw in there, the C, not Rust)" experience.

[1] https://github.com/briansmith/ring
"The best camera is the one you have with you" is a good adage. For prototyping a language needs to feel effortless so you can deal with the essential complexity of the problem and not hesitate to jump in and experiment.

For implementation, it's whatever tool best fits the job.

C is a good compromise, but it requires real discipline. The CPython and Linux code bases are great examples of how C can be wielded well in practice. But of course C also famously offers unlimited opportunities to make a complete hash of things. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone as their first and only language.

An alternative approach is to be bilingual. For my current project the final code is in C++98 - sometimes there's no good alternative. But I do most of my experimentation, tooling and prototyping in Python. Python's excellent C/C++ interoperability is a huge benefit in this.

I definitely agree with the article that you shouldn't avoid hard things that improve you. But in choosing between ADA and C, the right answer is both and neither.
Efficiency gains are a big deal, too. Consider that even being able to get away with one fewer elevator saves space on every floor of the building. The taller the building, the more valuable it is.
I like how the radiofax is dumping the output straight into the trash can
Haven't read the book you're recommending, but I feel it's more or less close to Code[0] by Charles Petzold, which in itself is a fascinating read.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
Nope, you probably are more willing than 80% of the people.

The people who hang out here aren't representative for the population. It's all about the numbers :)
The more i learn about mainframes (and minicomputers) the more i feel that the PC world is basically rediscovering old ideas as ICs become ever more potent.
1. You got your signs messed up. They should subtract the observation from the total.

2. C correctly guesses 0 in your example.
The socket library (Flask SocketIO) works great and has a good documentation.

I used plane distance because it's faster to compute and the accuracy is good enough for this use case.

Regarding the UX I think it's a good idea to make the map take the entire screen.

Thanks for the feedback
That's why you have publicly owned railroads and operators.
I think this is a good idea and could reduce file sizes for compressing text. Moreover, people's active vocabulary is quite small, so even more might be possible. Just as an aside, a cliche was originally a single metal slug used to cast a repeatedly used phrase. So phrase-wise compression of English text might be useful.

However, I don't know the practical improvement obtained over the currently existing methods. This is a good project to investigate, I think. Even if text compression might not be important in the larger picture of data transmission on the web, this sounds interesting on its own merit.
> Condo? Won't do. Rent and invest in something more diversified? Crazy talk.

I see a lot of merit in the rent + diverse investment approach (and that's what I've chosen so far), but this is needlessly dismissive.

Condos won't do for some households. They might be a better option if there were a larger variety of floorplans/sizes beyond 1-2 bedroom. And if HOAs were sane, which most aren't. Though I do appreciate them as a glimpse of what the world would quite likely be more like if a lot of libertarian ideas were adopted.

Renting can be nice, but it leaves you quite vulnerable to changes in demand for housing and consequent price changes. Better not ever be on a fixed income. And there are other ways you can end up being forced out of where you're at than being priced out.

> Just because we had that luxury for the last 75 years doesn't mean we always will.

But it's certainly worth asking why an economy that recently was able to provide one standard of living to more of its participants seems to have trouble doing so now. And housing is not just any luxury, not just any commodity. It's the matrix of communities. It's the geographic and social context of people's lives. Bedrock stuff.
Unless you change a single config setting in systemd.

Which distributions already do for you.
If you need that feature, X11 is probably for you. Not supporting a feature is a difficult, albiet important, choice. If it's not remoting, it's 100 other features that would turn Wayland into X11. Omission differentiates as much as innovation.
That is... genius!

Now that I think about it, I could've made this connection sooner. There's an (awesome) set of Go packages at go4.org, and the description text says:

> ... go4, go four, gopher... get it?
I have large go programs in production for several years which have never panicked from the first line of code written. Go's error handling is perhaps simplistic but it doesn't encourage the use of panic, quite the reverse.

I'd be happier if panic didn't exist, but it is extremely rare in real world programs and the std lib.
In case you're interested, here are the scripts I use to run RethinkDB on Kubernetes for SageMathCloud: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/tree/master/src/k8s/rethi...
If one bidder spent more than $3500 in bids for that tablet, it's either a shill account or a credit card scammer. Neither one is particularly surprising with sites like this.
The Making of Warcraft (2012)
It's not that simple. Without PAM support, tmux is already broken, even on non-systemd distributions, in some corner cases. E.g., starting gpg-agent the "wrong" way breaks it inside tmux sessions, even on sysvinit, if tmux does not register PAM sessions.

But, of course, because the bug is only seeing wide-spread attention since systemd triggers it more often, it can't get fixed, because Lennart is the reason we cannot have nice things. Or something.
bingo! well said. part of why it's become, for me, that whenever I make a comment on HN, I almost always regret it. I'm so tired of having to think about filtering my comments to cater to every possible fine-grained exceptional case, or conforming to P.C.ness, or this site's particular participant hive-mind (which seems focused disproportionately around what it's like being a current semi-autistic teen/twenty-something white American male programmer of a relatively privileged background financially. Sorry if this hurts, but it's the best broadstrokes description I can think of for the median commenter personality I've seen here on HN.)
Great UI!

Thanks for the feedback
41 states have single-subject rules and in many of those states, it's slightly changed political tactics, but not strategies.

Voters shouldn't reelect politicians who play politics at the expense of the electorate, is the real issue. (But I wouldn't hold out much hope.)
Rider skill is a huge factor that receives almost no attention. I constantly see shockingly poor cycling skills, because most cyclists have received little or no training. Those riders are a hazard to themselves and to other road users. They don't know how to position themselves on the road, they make poor observations and signals, their basic bike handling skills are inadequate.

If you're going to ride on the roads, you need to know how to do it safely. I don't know what the situation is in the rest of the world, but here in the UK we have a national network of accredited trainers; courses are often free or very inexpensive, subsidised by employers or the local government. If cycle skills training isn't available in your area, write to your representative and ask why.

http://bikeability.org.uk/
What a joke: "find a strategy for the players to determine the colours of their hats based on the hats they see and what the other players do"

I interpreted it in the same way as you did - communication on any level is not allowed. If there is no sharing of information then I think it is impossible to solve the puzzle.
I didn't downvote, but I don't think Japan's immigration policy is backwards, research or not.
There's no chance these things aren't riddled with shell accounts bumping the price up and also winning.
True, however, it does give an indication of potential losses (even if it's an order of magnitude smaller), compared to just going out and buying the thing :-/
The hardest problem in computer science
Mosquitoes are the main food source of some animals, which leads them to die out. Then those animals are the food source of other animals, etc. etc..

Also, the male mosquitoes also pollenate some plants and flowers, which also negatively affects the ecosystem- only the females bite.
Maybe that business model is worth a look as a SaaS...
Funnily enough your second example of the switch that has no state would be perfect for my new LIFX lightbulbs (yes, I am aware of the irony of posting this in this thread)

The state of the lightbulb is decoupled from the state of the switch - the switch itself is always on [0].

[0]: Yeah, this isn't great because idle power is >0W. This is where a centralised lighting controller with mechanical switches would help, but that's more invasive than just putting in some new bulbs.
Note: the actual winner of the auction in question spent 80 cents.
I was a bit worried when I saw so many people playing simultaneously because the game is hosted on a 2€ VPS at OVH but it worked great!
You will like this website: http://cyclingfallacies.com/
What exactly is a "mainframe" in a modern sense? I thought it exclusively referred to old-fashioned big iron. Is it a cluster? Or are we actually talking about quarter-century-old monoliths running ancient, indispensable code?
This is like the old trick of auctioning off a $20 note with the twist that the two highest bidders must both pay even if they end up losing. I saw this play out in a Negotiation 101 tutorial once, for real money, and the bid got up to $40 or so before one person finally bailed (i.e. around $80 spent on a $20 note).

It's a game of chicken. The earlier bids are a sunk cost. You hope you can spend an extra $1 to win the $20.

Sounds insane to even start bidding, right? But then you see things like this play out all the time in the market. For example, the war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD had a very similar dynamic.

EDIT: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction
Funny you should ask, I was just looking at that last week to try and answer that question.

I was also thinking of getting my feet wet in ring with some of the easy issues on the github page.
Rather than physics, I think computational neurology and machine learning / deep learning / AI have a much better chance at elucidating what consciousness is.
Having seen all the gambling site scams for Valve games (see CS:GO streamers faking wins on their affiliated websites), it would come to me as no surprise that they are abusively pushing users to bidding wars by counterbidding 'fake money.' If they win the bet themselves, they can always reauction the item at a later date.
Journalists, bankers, whistle blowers, opposition politician dying in Putin's Russia. What a surprise. Russia is rotten shithole no surprise all the neighboring countries are very worried about a possible attack. Those in power in Russia are so ruthless and evil that it is probably better die fighting than letting them rule you.
Of course not everyone needs a house. The point is at least it used to be an option for a lot more people. We're talking about the change in affordability here, not asking if a house makes sense to buy or not.

Just because you don't want a house or it doesn't make sense for you doesn't mean thats the case for everyone.
Signal 2.0: Private messaging comes to the iPhone
Same as with "peak oil" then. Its not that we run out of physically extractable oil, but that the cost of doing so will curtail our current usage of the substance.

Its pretty much the inverse of the Jevon paradox (or maybe that everything has a bell curve, and we are so focused on the left half we forget its mirror on the right).
>"combine a GC with true composition of data types"

Could you elaborate on how combining a garbage collector with composition of data types works as an optimization?

Is this distinctly different than GC with an inheritance object model?
> And all for about $200k less than a free-standing house in the same area.

A total price far over $200k is considered cheap?
I found this last week on HN, but there was a great book that's short and hands-on called Learned Optimism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism which was written by one of the researchers on Learned Helplessness
Note that the book is from 2005.
I did not, and I admit that I should have (and only thought of it after clicking "reply").

On the other hand, I also thing we--as American society--need to have a discussion about what constitutes "comfortably." I have coworkers who are appalled at the idea that my three-person-with-pet family lives "comfortably" (kid has a separate bedroom, all of us have space for our hobbies, and there's storage) in a 900sqft house. We're moving to a 770sqft condo and the bulk of that "missing" space is reclaimed by going from a two-level house to a flat because the number of rooms is remaining the same.
> Can you crack puzzles devised by the brilliant cryptological minds at the NSA?

almost obligatory snark:

is this the same NSA which allowed/enabled one Edward Snowden to walk out with a gigantic treasure trove of super ultra mega top secret documents, vital to national security, on a USB thumb drive (or whatever it was)?

sincere question

because this point is among the many data points I now have in my mind, as a US citizen and adult voter, when I get to decide exactly how much power I'd like those "smart" folks to have, as they build/run a global 24x7 passive data snoop system on, effectively, all of humanity.

equations may be elegant, perfect, ideal

executable software: less so

human procedures & rules & everyday happenstance & one-off oopsies: far less
I could see cases where connected toasters could be useful. It'd be a marginal amount of added value, but it would be there.

The problem is that in the current context, almost any IOT device has an additional negative value attached to whatever positive value its features give, because basically every company doing it makes overcomplicated crap.

In a perfect world, you might be able to plug in an IOT toaster and have it automatically connect to your Amazon/Google/Apple/whatever hub (with a simple "I found <yourname>'s hub, is this correct?" interface). At that point the hub would track the toaster status and the household context, and then do stuff like say, via your phone or a set of discreet speakers throughout the house, "The toast was burning, so I stopped the heat" or "You left your toaster on when nobody was home, so I turned it off".

None of this would be impossible to implement today, but it would require thinking about long-term holistic benefits instead of being able to slap "IoT device" on something to try and sell more to nerds.
Poisoning Litvinenko with Polonium also was a symbolic act. Litvinenko = Litva = Lithuania in Russia and Polonium is Poland.
Show HN: Te – Show network information in colors from the command line
Consciousness is based on a fifth fundamental force in the universe, and certain structures, like DNA, are tuned into that force, like an antenna.