skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the friction is even higher with air travel. The beauty of BC100 is the spontaneity of just getting on a train and not having to think about tickets (or queue for security).

There used to be a "Deutschlandpass", pretty much a one-month version of BC100 during summer, that cost some 300€ for young people. I did that with friends a few years back and it was great. We'd do tons of spontaneous things. You know that thing where most exchange students have been to more places in your own country than you've been? That ticket was the best (and cheapest) way to fix that :)
"How dare you show your project when it has flaws!"
Why these things always have to be so CPU intensive?
Business Idea for local website
I want to create a local business listing site where people can search the stores, shops, etc.

I want to develop the site using one of these two technologies.

1. Python - I have no experience. But I am ready to learn.

Please suggest me any good free resource to learn python for web.

Or

2. WordPress
In the US, no: Most folks simply own automatics, regardless of where they live.
I find it interesting that this article is published on a platform that makes uBlock block 27 requests and most certainly does contain non-free javascript. Richard Stallman talks a lot about how these thing inhibit freedom and that we should not support those companies. But when he publishes an article on ad blocking he does this on a platform that absolutely does not meet his standard on freedom.
Have you read Haskell Programming From First Principles? (http://haskellbook.com/). Do you know how the two compare?
So because someone else decides to withdraw, for whatever reason no matter how petty and irrational, that's now grounds for public character assassination of another professional and their being cast into exile? That's insane. The bar shouldn't just be automatically dropped down to whichever crybully can play the biggest victim.

You don't need a public tribunal to understand this failed the reasonable person test.
All's well so far! Happy to recommend them.

They seem to be the next biggest name in VPSes after Linode and DigitalOcean, with broadly similar price and quality.
Cancer rate in young people up 40% in 16 years
I've never encountered this format. It was never relevant for me. I know about it but that's all.

Meanwhile there are other formats that seem to be more important. What about WebP?

At work we are currently developing a kiosk system based on a big ass touch screen in UHD running in Google Chrome. I suggested switching to WebP for the pictures and it is saving a lot of bandwidth compared to JPEG.
Not to mention ed is the standard editor!
> As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination."

One of their experiments.
I mean he's right but as a business model it doesn't work. Also for people who haven't realised this is a plug for GNU Taler.

Anyway. I think the reason it doesn't work as a business model is that really, honestly, reading the paper provides very little in terms of value to the average person. It's a very mild source of entertainment and nothing more. It used to be that the newspapers where the only media to get important information (classifieds, job ads...etc). Not any more.
direct link to full article here (pdf) http://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/News%20stories/dnutt-lance...

Drug Total Harm (to individual + to others)

Alcohol 72
Heroin 55
Crack cocaine 54
...
Tobacco 26
...
Cannabis 20
...
Ecstasy 9
LSD 7
Buprenorphine 7
Mushrooms 6
The article mentions an anonymous letter sent to Mao's wife chastising her former love life. The letter was written on a typewriter.

I think the idea was that there should be no means of communication that cannot be traced. Whoever pens an idea should be aware that he/she can be traced back to.
Ugly words from a throwaway account. Do you really believe that women should be seen and not heard?
"Old man yells at clouds."
Every action has a re-action. Once a development has reached an extreme it reverses in the opposite direction.

Makes sense.
I've seen more animated PNG than FLAC files. Animated PNG got removed from Firefox.
Well, it isn't impossible, but automatics vary on ease of this. Most automatics will move forward without pressing on the gas if they are in driving gear. Some do this faster than 10mph. Going less than idling speed requires fancy brakework.

It is much easier with a manual transmission. It isn't going forward with some power from you. Ease up on the clutch a bit and give just a bit of gas and you have no problems.
Just checked out Tarsnap. Seems like a very good idea.

>Not really relevant to tarsnap (I've never found an efficient way to spend money to acquire customers in the short term; instead I focus on longer-term branding) but I can absolutely see that it fits some companies.

Isn't backup a kind of sticky service? I mean once I have purchased your service, as long as I am not facing any issues I am unlikely to change the provider. So LTV calculations should be relatively more predictable to your business.

For example, I use Dropbox for personal online storage and backup purpose. It has worked well so far and haven't considered switching in years.

Anyways, not trying to tell you how to run your business. Just curious. Yours is really an intersting product. Best of luck.
As someone who has used Linux since 1999 (starting with Slackware) and FreeBSD and OpenBSD since the early 2000s, I'd say I'm no longer a "newbie". Yet, I use nano daily because it's so simple and accessible. You only need to remember a few key combos, and for basic edits there is simply no need to break out vi or emacs or a GUI editor.

A simple, useful tool does not always equate to "newbies only". In fact, I'd say it's the UNIX way: A simple tool that does one job really well.

Or to put it another way: Why would I break out my 30 piece combination wrench set when I just need to turn a nut a little tighter with my adjustable wrench that's right there next to me?
The Chromecast can receive and play FLAC since 2015 (I can't find the exact dates on any release notes but [1][2]).

This is about adding audio/flac decoding into Chrome; meanwhile the Chrome -> Chromecast communication is entirely proprietary (notwithstanding the APIs), so Google controls both ends. Since so much of the Chromecast is about handing off content [3], there's little need to implement FLAC encoding in Chrome because the Chromecast can just be told to load the native (original) stream itself.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/3n1to8/chromeca...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/3n3epm/flac_is_...

[3] (Annoying ad warning but good content) http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chromecast-features/
That last video is supremely interesting. If only we could be shown how the printing head worked, mechanically. Does the head 'suck' up the character bits to strike the paper?
I'm always on the lookout for more roadcraft tips and techniques, as a vulnerable cyclist. An excellent read and I will be using the "lookout scan" methodology on future rides.
He's plugging GNU Taler which was specifically designed to be government friendly (allows collection of taxes and AML compliance and not easy to implement black markets). He's not talking about other kind cryptocurrencies. Stallman isn't a "down with the government" type of person despite being sceptical of surveillance.
I imagine this is how the "internet" looks in an alternate universe
I use Latin quite frequently to infer the meaning of words in a number of languages including but not limited to English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Quite oddly, I'm generally not even aware that I'm inferring meaning of a word by simply studying the roots. In that sense I'm quite grateful for being taught a limited portion of its fundamentals while in high-school. All I am saying is that we may use certain bits of knowledge or certain dormant skills without our awareness to their utilisation.

All of our former experiences help us shape intuition, the same intuition which we may use to make decisions in seemingly unrelated fields. I have therefore become somewhat careful in dismissing a skill, domain of knowledge or lesson for apparent lack of use. The human brain is a fascinating machine; even while we sleep ideas and solutions take shape and who's to say which information is used to form those mental artefacts?
"Better" and "best" imply a detectable difference, and the point of a transparent lossy codec is that no such difference should exist.
You sound like you expect something different from reversed Microsoft code.
Why not stream in ~256kbps AAC or Opus? The audible quality drop is objectively proven to be zero. Make peace with the placebo effect and enjoy your life.
Yes, navigable water has always been the crucible of trade. Hence the economy and culture of the Mediterranean even from the early bronze age. And coastal trade is compelling, you don't need sea-faring ships, just dinghies capable of sailing to the next beach. So we can, reasonably, argue that there was a global human economy and civilisation (albeit one that operated really slowly) as early as 5,000 BCE (date that Wikipedia quotes for earliest depiction of a sailboat).
Downloading before M$ lawyers get to it
OK understood, for the moment we get only the main content, we are working on a new "parser"that can fetch the main content and comment attached to it. For this you are right we don't extract content but we expect to have this released soon. For the book you are right, we will think about it and how to integrate it. Thanks for the feedback, this is greatly appreciated.
Isn't incoming data on AWS free? Or are you thinking of some kind of attack where they're using your infrastructure to amplify outgoing data?
I'm literally only 1 week into learning python. That python 2.7 is being implemented so much more often than the latest python version comes as a surprise to me. Should it?
I like how simple and lightweight this framework is. The idea of setting all top margins to 0 makes it easier to adjust things, too.

But I don't like the idea of having to install both Ruby and node just to work with a simple scss file. :-(
Ask HN: How do you run meetings at your startup?
More specifically, how do you apply various efficiency strategies like maker vs manager schedule[1] for example to different types of meetings such as daily standup, one on one's etc.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
FLAC is very important indeed if you care about lossless music at all.
Basically, when you buy a CD and want to preserve it digitally in its original quality, you go FLAC.
-- 'other awareness' applied to yourself --

I find the work and ideas especially the

"attention schema theory"

of sentience, consciousness, self-awareness proposed by Michael Graziano[1] most compelling in that area; they as well propose an evolutionary path towards the development of "consciousness"

And yeah sure, why should/could the mirror-neurons-"apparatus" _not_ be involved?

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/ : including some The Atlantic essays.
Isn't incoming data on AWS free? Or are you thinking of some kind of attack where they're using your infrastructure to amplify outgoing data?

Edit: I guess an attack that causes your infrastructure to auto-scale could get expensive REAL quick...
Am I the only person here who would be 100% A-OK to, hypothetically, even inviting Adolf Hitler as a JS conference, as long he/she would be great at what he/she does, had enlightening things to say about the topic, and at least 50% of attendants would learn a lot from what he says or at least be entertained?!

Heck, I wouldn't even care even if he/she wasted 5 mins or so blabbering about his political ideology, if his/hers advice on, let's say, JS programming, would be as valuable as Douglas Corckford's! Imho, it would be even acceptable if he/she would crack a few very politically incorrect jokes during the social event smalltalks if the jokes had good enough humor to compensate for their content.

Let's grow some thicker skin for fuck's sake! MDs, physicists, chemists etc. are all pretty comfortable with even cracking bad sex jokes at a party or conference from time to time and they get away with it pretty well.

Or maybe it's the fact that 90% of what most software developers is so meaningless and useless, especially those that have the time to speak at conferences and "evangelize", that they need to find meaning in some other shit and they gravitate to this uber-PC crap... Even a banning everyone which titles himself "developer evangelist" from speaking at a conference could probably raise the average talk quality for that event, event if that would a bit too un-PC even for my taste ...imagine the emotional damage inflicted by such a need for personal rebranding in order to still be able to attend.
It is typical -- now. (Wikipedia provides an estimate of "over 90% of all characters".) Chinese linguistics traditionally distinguishes six different classes of character[1], of which one is the semantophore-phonophore pair. That class is the most numerous now, because most new characters have always gone into it, because it's easy to devise new characters in that system. (It's even easier to "devise" characters in the fourth class, but those characters are by definition not new; see below.)

But when the writing system was new, other classes were a lot more common than they are now.

[1] The categories, and examples of each, as listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati... :

- Direct pictorial representation of a physical object, as 水 is just a picture of water, or 马 is just a picture of a horse. (Both are ridiculous now, but recognizable in their original forms.)

- "Pictorial" representation of an abstract idea, as 上 depicts "up", 下 depicts "down", and 三 depicts "three". (These still work!)

- Semantic compounds, formed from several more basic characters all of which are used for the meaning. Apparently the subject of much debate, but examples in the spirit of the category are 森 "forest" = 木 tree + tree + tree; 好 "good" = 女 woman + 子 child; 尖 "sharp" depicting something which is 小 (small) at one end and 大 (big) at the other; 歪 "crooked" = 不 not + 正 straight; etc.

- "Loans", characters which are used solely for their phonetic content. For example, the character 英 which means "Eng"land is identical with the character 英, pronounced ying but meaning "hero". A lot of characters which were originally loans like this have subsequently developed distinctions, as 来 and 麦 have.

- Phono-semantic compounds. The topic of discussion here. As 切 qie "cut" sounds similar to 七 qi "seven", but means similarly to 刀 dao "knife", or 到 dao "to" sounds similar to 刀 dao "knife", but means similarly to 至 zhi "to", or 打 da "strike" sounds similar to 丁 ding "fourth in a sequence", but means similarly to 手 shou "hand".

- A mystery category, involving pairs of related characters, that we no longer understand. Example: 考 / 老.

This pretty well covers all the logical possibilities: direct representations, compounds involving only meaning, characters used only for sound (a compound would be superfluous there), and compounds involving meaning and sound together.
That's a pretty bullshit generalisation about Russians. Or as it's. More colloquially known, racist.
For more context and commentary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611299
BDR isn't yet available in core Postgres. Postgres-BDR by a company called 2nd Quadrant seems to be the most widely used / best documented.

It can be installed as a plugin [1] and there are patched 9.4 packages available [2].

I set up a POC with databases in UK and US (east coast) last year. It was fairly straight forward and seemed to work well.

1: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/bdr/
2: http://bdr-project.org/docs/stable/index.html
Imagine you get to an emergency as a doctor and your patient has a blocked airway, so you perform an improvised tracheostomy, but because you're nervous you cut horizontally instead of vertically and kill the patient. I'm pretty sure as a doctor good intentions are not enough in cases like this.
> The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered.
—Umberto Eco, from This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation (2011)
Incidentally Firefox is also adding support for WebP. Posted on HN 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338170

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490

WebP is far from state-of-the-art but outperforms JPEG because JPEG is missing the filtering step (where adjacent pixels are being run through a delta-coder) entirely. An alternative is JPEG squishers like Dropbox's Lepton [1] that tries to retrofit this deficiency in a clever meet-in-the-middle way, serving as an additional lossless compression layer while decoding into a perfectly-normal JPEG.

[1] https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compress...
Is this really the reason people block ads?

I don't actually mind tracking as part of a useful service (like Google Maps). I block ads because they're 1) annoying 2) funding mass media.

Depriving Bezos' WaPo or Slim's NYT of revenue is definitely a feature. If billionaires want to push propaganda, the least they can do is foot the bill.

Tracking is a distant third. If an outlet I cared about ran ads, I'd white-list them. It just so happens that valuable sites like HN or developers' blogs either don't feature ads or do so in a way that adblockers don't interfere with (look at job posts here).
The alcohol used as torpedo propellant was that was often used by sailors to make "torpedo juice" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_juice) so that ended up being tainted as well to render it undrinkable.

That was also a severely misguided effort.
It's not related to liberal or left logically, but it is related to the liberal left socially, because these SJW movements mostly arose from the liberal left (specifically, IMHO, from the part that somehow lost track of the scope of real problems - kind of ironic, since it means they're generally a pretty "privileged" bunch themselves!).

As someone who considers himself to be liberal left, I'm annoyed by that but I do feel that it's fair to point it out. We shouldn't just bury our head in the sand in the face of an inconvenient reality.

But yes, let's please point out again and again that large parts of the SJW movements have lost track of what being liberal and left is all about, even if that's where they originally started out from.
Haxe is much older than TS/Flow: it was created in 2006. It's "unsurprising" by design, but there are advanced topics, like pattern matching or macros (AST metaprogramming), and the fact that you're not limited to targeting JS.

It's not as cool (and backed by big Californian co) as JS/TS, but Haxe really grows on you when you start mastering it.
A couple thoughts here:

I'm not familiar with this particular conference, but excluding someone from a conference for a history of making bigoted comments seems totally reasonable in principle.

The particular comments this post offers don't seem at all sexist to me though, so I don't think this situation makes a whole lot of sense. Granted, it would be better if the conference organizers cited the comments themselves; all we have here is what Morgan thinks are the offensive comments, so we're unfortunately not getting the whole picture.

I will say that, having read a lot of Crockford, the guy is a dick. And hey, if you rub a lot of people the wrong way by being a jerk, maybe a conference might think that outweighs the value you could add with your skill and knowledge. But if that's the real reason in this case, I wish they would say it.
> objectively proven

Links? "subjectively indistinguishable" would be a bit less argumentative
Flying Spaghetti Monster, this is Douglas Crockford. I dunno what it is about Javascript, but the community seems to have a habit of trying to grind up their founders and luminaries. Brendan Eich was crucified and driven out of a job by the mob for a small political contribution more than a half decade before that went against the grain of political correctness.

Meanwhile, Linus has been a dick from square one, and the Linux kernel keeps chugging along.
AAC is mostly Apple-stuff and I'm out of those pictures. Where do you have a music streaming platform that serves Opus? Flac is the best trade-off. I get the original quality, I can store my files to a cloud service and stream the music without using too much bandwidth (it's 2016 anyways). I have seriously good headphone system at work (for the price of a new iPhone) and at least with Style Jukebox I can switch between 320 kbps mp3 and the original flac where I definitely see a difference.

There is no price difference when buying mp3 or flac and storage + bandwidth is cheap nowadays. If I need a lossy compression, I want to have a control on the compression parameters.
Mythology (especially in Chinese culture) often uses directions as symbolic values, not real geographical directions or places.
It depends what the risk is. Chains followed by a beam are probably better, but the driver was already not paying attention when they passed warning signs.

If the bridge collapses, other vehicles can be damaged, or people killed. Especially if it's carrying a road or railway.

Example from last week: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-37207487
Firstly, on a personal note, I must say getting heavily downvoted on a factual statement and not an opinion is a new and confusing experience for me.

My comparisons were made several years ago using LAME 320 CBR, LAME VBR, OGG, lossless (WAV) 16bit 44.1kHz and lossless (WAV) 16bit 48kHz.
I believe at least most professional musicians and sound engineers would be able to identify the difference between all of these; while they might not always be "worse", their sonic character is certainly different.
That would appear to be overwhelmingly the consensus of people with castles, too. Do they have some moral imperative to pay maintenance forever on something that has no use value and no hope of paying for itself?
I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically.

The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal.

Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances.

I'm on snapchat. I follow Justin because its funny, but my primary usecase is showing my Mum random parts of my life and keeping in touch with my cousins. This is because my mother is seven hours drive away and my cousins are in the USA.

But in many ways I say 'no' to social media. My Facebook wall is empty, Twitter has no tweets, Instagram is foodless.

The great failing of social media is that it doesn't help you make friends. Its very much for Mrs Bucket
木does not mean tree. It means wood. Tree is 树.
I have one side project GTheme.io[1] selling Ghost.org premium themes. Some improvement (SSL, auto payment to sellers, content blogging, etc) can be done to make it as passive income. 11 of the themes are designed by myself.

As my focus shifted, I plan sell it.

[1]: http://www.gtheme.io/
But the way that sentence would normally be said where I'm from (Australia) would be "as long as they give a good talk" - no need to use specifics when you're talking about a specific person. I find it disjoining when I hear otherwise.

I also find it weird that German and Spanish inject gender into every noun, although I do get that there's little meaning behind it (from the little quizzing I've given speakers of each)
Show HN: Chain Reaction – A Redux/Flux alternative
It's a shame that Assembly.com had to close - you'd find tonnes of interesting side projects there.