skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should also be mentioned that The Guardian is one of those newspapers that is willing to experiment with different models. E.g., they have a premium tier on iOS and Android for 3 Euro per month without ads:

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/aug/12/1
I hope it someday gets to the point where I can use it as a daily driver. I think it's really cool, and as long as it runs a web browser and allows me to SSH into another machine for anything that requires another OS I'd be happy. It would be a lot of fun to play around with.
Geeze, there's no mystery here. Point a realistic fake gun (1911 airsoft replica with the orange band in front removed) at an armed person and, surprise, in return they'll shoot you with their real gun. And no sane prosecutor or grand jury will try to prosecute them for clear, white line self-defense. What's so difficult to understand about this??

There are so many bad cases of police shooting or otherwise killing people when they had no cause or worse, why focus on ones where they were justified?
It works like that here in Sweden as well.

Fun story: in my teenage years, when dating my high school sweetheart, I went to visit her grandparents house for the first time.

Arriving at their house, the grandmother quickly pulls out her Taxeringskalender (taxation calendar - a paperback where a company has collected all this public information, and they sell it as a handy book). She begins to look up my surname and tells me how much my parents earn.

After having lived abroad (Japan, Germany and the UK) I've realized the Scandinavian system is weird at times, but they (or we) do their thing and everyone is kind of aiming at the same goal in society. Extreme transparency, and many striving for equality above all.
Problem is the EEA option depends on 31 veto possibilities !!! what will the UK have to give up to avoid those vetos? Not every country in the EU does a lot of trade with the UK and those will want their pound of flesh, now that the UK has foolishly put it on the table.
Ask HN: Are you happier with your day to day life after starting to freelance?
Recently I have been reading[1][2][3][4] about more and more people freelancing and I'm wondering if that has been a conscious decision towards personal liberation from 9 to 5, or rather a side effect of the 2008 crisis and the shortage of jobs thereafter.
In short for those who made the switch either voluntarily or involuntarily do you feel that you are getting more personal fulfillment from your work and would you go back to a 9 to 5 job if you had the opportunity?

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3049532/the-future-of-work/heres-why-the-freelancer-economy-is-on-the-rise
[2] https://www.upwork.com/press/2015/10/01/freelancers-union-and-upwork-release-new-study-revealing-insights-into-the-almost-54-million-people-freelancing-in-america/
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-want-to-work-for-themselves-intuit-2013-3
[4] http://time.com/3268440/americans-freelance/
This is becoming less and less true every day since last Christmas.
> One team documents the protocol as a spec. A second team takes the spec and writes implementations.

How is the first team compensated? or am I missing something?

>This is legal and safe. It is how the first clone PCs survived even IBM's lawyers.

Very interesting. Does anyone have a link to a write up on this? or at least have a place to start looking for info on it?
A technical review of code isn't a personal attack. Please learn to tell the difference.
In Europe, reverse engineering a protocol + building a commercial product on it, is legal. You cannot copyright a protocol or an API, if you built something merely by studying how it works.
Disclaimer: Linode employee, not in networking

My understanding is that Atlanta in particular has some poor upstreams and is making our job pretty difficult there. Notice that it's almost always Atlanta that's getting hit. I would suggest just using other datacenters or making sure your high availability model includes several DCs (which I would suggest at any hosting provider, really).
I'd love a recommendation for a good KiCad intro tutorial. I tried to just hack through learning it once and I couldn't pick it up. Any suggestions?
We Haven’t Seen Many Storms Like Hermine
could you clarify what you mean about the swiss?
I think one big problem about privatization of such complex projects is that if they go down the acquired knowledge and research results might end up nowhere instead of being reused by a following generation of companies and researchers.
I think it's common in Scandinavia, and when moving out of the peninsula for the first time I was chocked that it wasn't like that for everyone. Now I feel queasy about having that data public.
That's just weird. Social rule number one: don't look up somebody in the Taxeringskalender when they are in the same room.
Whoops, I meant to imply that Orcad is better than Eagle.

I really just find it hard to do hobby projects in Eagle because I'm so used to Orcad's workflow by now. All the shortcuts are different. :(
It's not just to 'limit immigration'. It was also to no remove the decidedly unneeded layer of unchecked lawmakers who at any time can run wild and criminalize UK citizens, who then have no recourse.

Given that the UK economy is doing well, what is there to talk about? Most people are relieved to have that monkey off their back.
Not at all. The UK is a 65 million population stagnant economy that derived most of its strength from the globalization it now wants to part from. It is likely to go to a 60 or 55 million population depressed economy in a few decades if Brexit really happens and foreigners and maybe Scotland leave. There are 450 million in the remaining Union and plenty of countries wanting to join.

EU's growth will come from enlargement and from increasing demand in Central and Eastern European member states.

EU will have to set an example and in the eyes of many Europeans the Brits must suffer from their foolish choice.
I haven't downloaded the app but, by far, this is the best concept on this thread!
There has been a flurry of activity behind the scenes.

Philip Hammond was recently in China [1] and discussed the possibility of trade agreements with them and other representatives of other countries who were also there.

Australia has already mentioned opening up trade agreements [2] with the UK as well.

There is even talk of trading with the common-wealth [3].

The point is this, things are moving forward. Just because it's not in the news. Which the majority it won't be until it's ready to be announced. Doesn't mean that nothing is happening.

Also I don't know how old you are. But before the UK entered the EC which it was known back then. The UK was trading with the entire world. Now, it has the possibility of accessing the EU market AND trading with the world. Which I think is a great prospect for the UK.

Edit: To address the downvotes. When the UK was trading within the EU. These trading agreements were done by the EU for all the member-states. They were negotiating as one trading block.

Now that the UK is out of the EU. She can trade speaking for herself, not having veto's by France or another country. Go look it up.

Also [4]: EU-US trade agreement fails. Now the UK is free to open up trade talks with the US.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36877573

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/03/g20-theresa-may-i...

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/29/a-bright-future-a...

[4] http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/704752/EU-USA-trade-deal...
Actually, this is called into question in the fine article:

> (Incidentally, Gallup's mirror test — removing a paint splotch from your face while looking at a mirror — is not an adequate test of self awareness, even though it is touted as such. We have seen patients who vehemently claim that their reflection in the mirror is "someone else" yet they pass the Gallup test!)
Fentanyl is amazingly potent. Similar to LSD. And the therapeutic index is very low.
Ask HN: What is the most disappointing technical skill you possess?
I'm hoping to get responses from a programmer's perspective.

The emphasis here is on practical usage/benefit (productivity, efficiency, simplicity, etc.).

By disappointing, I mean what has shown you the least returns, even though it has tremendous emphasis in a curriculum or hiring.

It could be a language or a tool, just something technical that you thought was really important, but you find that you don't use much, or not at all.
> Correctly used, lossy compression can have zero audible consequence no matter how good the equipment or how "golden" the ears.

That's why the compression should be done by me or by the original producer to have it done correctly case by case. Lossless is a good compromise it being easier to apply automatically for any kind of music.
I wouldn't say that this was a move to make them look strong. Its a plain reminder to British decision makers as well as people that there will be economic consequences if they decide to leave the single market. This is not a threat - pure and simple, companies that operate from the UK now will have a harder time post-exit.
I have exploited several products that align closely with protocols and/or brand names used by large companies. For every single product, I have received a request to take down my product. And in every single case, after my (kickass, I must add) IP lawyer wrote them a reply, they went away.
I think a real problem is that meetings bloat in attendance, and that the amount of useful stuff you can get done is inversely proportional of the number of attendees. I think this is doubly true when you don't have good, clear leadership and agendas. This doesn't happen that often in my experience.

I feel like I go to a lot of meetings with a lot of people who are just there to be "in the loop" rather than actually contributing to the topic at hand.
I'm a recent newcomer to Finland, and I've never been tempted.

But I've loved looking things up in the naming-registry; seeing how many people in the country share my forename/surname has been fascinating.
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Wow, that is really good.
It wasn't about 'racism' at all. That is just what remainers wanted to get out as their media message because it's a typical leftist strategy.
I'm really starting to think sites with paywalls should be banned from HN. ATM, this is #11 and I can't read it.

I know you can do that google redirect thing that removes the paywall, but I'm really not that interested in reading the NYT anyways, even without having to jump through hoops.
Vetoes are pretty much guaranteed, and not because of little trade with the UK, but as a warning to other EU members considering the UK route. You can't have the cake and eat it.
Was the UK not trading with the entire world when it was in the EU?
As long as you didn't use any of the original Skype code, you have nothing to fear (if you're based in Europe)
We come to understand the meaning of tools only by the use other people make of them. Of course tools come with a priori, socially charged meanings, yet they are the results of the way we have historically used or interacted with them. There's no such a thing as intrinsic meaning, in this world.
I work for a >10,000 employee health care system as a physician. What I have seen is that the front line workers are considered disposable, and should be grateful for a job. The superstars ( always nice, compassionate, and excellent at their jobs) are not recognized by management and so when raises are given, everyone gets them, including the lazy ones. This disappoints the worker bees, and leads to incredible turnover and more frustration for us physicians. Unfortunately, a lot of the attributes of a great employee cannot be quantified on a spreadsheet so the MBAs running my organization have no clue how to compensate people. Instead, they just lump everyone in the same pile so the workers get frustrated bc they work twice as hard as the lazies, but make the same amount.

I've tried to talk to executives about this, but I think it's essentially to deaf ears - bottom line is the most important, so they can get their bonuses.

It leads to disenchantment and then, over many years, inability to get hardworking / intelligent people to enter front line professions.

Smart people will recognize that their hard work will never be acknowledged, so they switch careers. Others, who cannot get jobs elsewhere, or pivot, are stuck working there.

Not sure what the solution is, but it's just an observation.
Sometimes it's not possible to inline functions, for example recursive calls
The issue here is this appears likely to have been created by disassembly rather than pure study of behavior.

Is that legal in Europe?
Similar story. I worked really hard on my English accent, something I regret now.

If you have a German accent you can speak more directly. Because many know about this cultural difference, people are expecting you to be more direct, and can cope with it. If you have a British accent and you're direct, this doesn't work. Brits think you're rude, but here's the kicker, won't tell you this - they'll just ignore you.

For me, luckily I met some Canadians (in the UK) that were nice enough to point this out so I could mitigate it a bit. Still wish I had a strong accent again.
I voted remain, but completely agree. The Brexit politicians and the nasty Brexit-supporting right wing press in the UK will completely spin the situation as proof of how vindictive and mean everyone is for not giving into the UK's demands. It's embarrassing.

By the way, Sunderland (in the North East of England), home to Nissan who employ over 6000 people, voted 61% in favour of Brexit. A key reason Nissan expanded operations in the UK was for access to the European market. One has to wonder what people in Sunderland were thinking when they voted.

"UK officials reacted with astonishment that Japan had chosen to publish this list of concerns and demands."

The fact that UK officials reacted with astonishment shows how so many Brexiters live in a fantasy land where they think Brexit is simply a matter of picking-and-choosing all the rules and regulations that suit them.
The chaotic race to build Elon Musk's hyperloop
The Swiss have a more direct democracy than most, and recently voted to limit free travel - trouble is, free travel is a condition of free market access, and with this vote, they're going to lose that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/eu-swiss-singl...
Yesterday I was wondering if is there anything left of communism in China or it's only a word in the name of their only party, left there for historical reasons. State subsidies don't matter because every capitalistic country has them.

China seems to execute their growth strategy pretty well, with some occasional slowdowns. This is another instance of that strategy, but any other country could do the same. Maybe having only one party helps, but in many other cases those parties seem to care only about keeping their power. China's party has that too, still they are forward looking.
I don't think May and the Cabinet do. All the noises seem to suggest the real priority is xenophobia - i.e. immigration.

...Which is a purely political strategy to capture the continued support of leave voters - exactly the people whose lives will be destroyed when trade dries up.

The problem is that the typical leave voter understands immigration because they have direct personal experience of immigrants.

But leave voters don't understand the intricacies of trade deals, or the incredible damage poor trading conditions can do to an economy.

May does, which is why she has been warning of "tough times ahead."

If she was interested in continuing trade on realistic terms she wouldn't be saying that.

My suspicion at this point is that the Tory party is willing to sacrifice the economic future of the UK in order to remain in power.
That's more like UK's own decision. Both EU and UK benefit from UK in the single market, and I am sure if UK so desires they can leave the EU but stay part of the single market (Norwegian model). That just makes the whole point of the referendum completely moot, since almost all the rules that were so berated by the Leave Campaign will continue to apply - greatest difference being that UK loses its say to affect the future direction of the single market regulation.
Didn't say it was a threat. The headline said it was a warning.
True. Ad blocking is also a stance against advertising per se. Reasons to block ads that may come before the tracking issue for a lot of people. In no particular order:

- Plain dislike of ads

- Miss targeted ads are (even more) annoying

- Malware

- Getting rid of visual clutter (from an aesthete's perspective)

- Irrelevance

- Browser speed

- Attempt to remove distraction

- Boycott / meaning harming a particular organisation’s finances

- A combination of those

- …

But tracking awareness is growing and resistance understandable. As users profiling grow, their liberty decrease.
Makes you wonder how many cool things people would have written for the native Intel GPU instruction set if there existed supported interfaces for it. All the programming information has been out there in Intel-provided open source drivers for many many years.
Probably. No DMCA here.
The most exciting parts of WebP, for me, are alpha transparency in lossy images, and animation support. This means transparent photos won't need to be in PNG, and perhaps animated GIFs could be replaced with a more efficient format (while still working in <img> tags and retaining their infinite loop when downloaded).
> (or at least all law that carries the death penalty)

So, nearly no law - and in fact no law in countries without the death penalty?
> Now, it has the possibility of accessing the EU market AND trading with the world.

Wonderful. Something which clearly is not possible while in the EU. I never understood why the EU did not allow that. The UK never had a chance to successfully trade within the EU and trade with other countries was strictly forbidden.

Brexit will change all that. Congratulations!
Hey,

I dont have time to continue with this:

https://texttexto.com

Cool thing is that I've made an API to take on orders.

If anyone's interested (even in the domain name) I can sell it to you at a minimal cost.
I'm not entirely sure of that. If you would have two teams though, it would. Team A creates a spec of the protocol, and Team B implements a connection lib based on the spec created by Team A.

Europe tends to be pretty good through, copyright wise.
UK Will never be allowed to have 'The Norwegian Model' set up by EU. That would have lot's of other countries asking for the same.
UK is in for a long winter on GoT type scale.
The problem is that it is not in the EU's best interest to give the UK the best possible deal, especially with many populist parties ready to request an exit if the UK deal works out well.

The whole process will be immensely complicated: the deal should be bad enough for the UK to instil fear for an exit, but good enough to avoid an economic collapse.
Agreed. But I think it's safe to say that by using social media we implicitly accept the constant tension between using the tools and becoming a tool ourselves.
This is even more interesting when companies do it. There are many startups these days that are pushing radical transparency and you actually know what everyone makes in the company.

I think this builds trust and frees people up from the anxiety of not knowing if they are getting screwed. The other thing is all high performing individuals in society, athletes, actors what have you, their salaries are know.

This isn't as radical as you might think and I think it has benefits for society.
GBP stopped falling though. Dunno if it's because brexit stalled or because the market thinks brexit will be fine.
> ... unchecked lawmakers who at any time can run wild and criminalize UK citizens ...

Assuming you're referring to the EU Parliament, the EU has little say in UK criminal law -- as opposed to various cooperation agreements and bits of harmonizing how criminal justice is carried out.

https://fullfact.org/europe/what-would-brexit-mean-criminal-...
I see that you failed to read the article.

Literally the second paragraph:

> Because the boy never pointed a gun at a cop. He wasn’t given the chance to even put his hands up.
الدفاع الجزائرية .. نتائج الصراع المستمر بينها وبين الإرهابين
The EU is a bit more than the 'single market'.
Norway however does not enjoy EU customs and VAT space. So such an arrangement wouldn't help the UK with the flight of corporate HQs to the continent.
Same thing in Iceland. There's a magazine published every year with salaries of notable persons divided by sector.
When I said "a lot more standardization", I had things like DRAM or PCIe in mind, which are spec'd by their relevant consortiums (JEDEC and PCI-SIG, respectively). As in, there's clear limits on the way to make it work, and if you meet those limits, it's fine.

I do a lot of POL planning for purposes of thermal management, so yeah. I'm definitely not that specialized.
It's not politically possible to retain single market access in any deal with the UK. The UK government can't sell the required package that retains access to the single market, and the EU can't reduce the price of the package without disintegrating - every other country would love single market access without harmonizing rules that prevent beggar-thy-neighbour policies etc.

The biggest irony in all of this is that many working class brexiters were voting against globalization, yet more globalization is exactly where the Tory brexiters are going to sail.
Don't think this was some kind of extortion. More a previous warning, like "don't think that japan is in some retaliation by moving our companies, we just asked about taxes earlier and you didn't care"
Attacks are rarely targeted to the hosting providers. They usually target a specific customer.

Google/AWS probably have 100 times the capacity (and redundancy and architecture reliability and failover and awesomeness) of linode. That means that, first, they can't be put down easily, second, a DDoS is limited to a small subset of the infrastructure and doesn't bleed to every customers and services.

As for traditional hosting companies (OVH and the likes) When you're being DDoSed, they'll null-route your IP space. (i.e. they advertise your IPs as dont-exist-on-the-internet-anymore). The traffic is dropped while in transit on the internet because it can't go anywhere. It doesn't reach the hosting company anymore.

Note: being null-routed means your site and all your services are off the internet and thus effectively dead.

As for CloudFlare. They have many locations all around the world and they can absorb a lot of traffic, to the point they themselves cannot be DDoS. They have active monitoring and mitigation against common attacks and known malicious sources, which may prevent the attack without even you knowing about it.

When you're under attack, you can block subnet/AS/countries in cloudflare settings, or request a challenge/capcha from every visitors. Cloudflare will reject visitors (with or without challenging them) at their edge location before any traffic can get to you. It is very effective from my experience.

Generally speaking. The only way to stop a DDoS is to do it before it reaches your datacenters so you need help from your ISP/provider/CDN.

Edit: The attack that put down linode last christmas was against linode itself and not a specific customer. Part of the mitigation included linode moving its critical services behind cloudflare :D