skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the magnets too - the NIB rare earth magnets enable permanent magnet motors that are much more efficient than before.

I wish someone would make some linear ones...
Simplified substitutions alone are a much needed upgrade. Writing Fn::joins everywhere was not only error prone, but also time consuming and confusing.
IB is a mess:

- No way to define reusable styles.
- No way to compose layouts out of other layouts.
- Trait classes are way too coarse to be useful.
- Versioning of Storyboards is a nightmare.
- Anything beyond trivial auto layout editing is useless.
- Segues force you into stringly-typed APIs.
- @IBDesignable is still super buggy.

I've been much much happier since I dumped it and started doing everything with SnapKit.
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Well, except that the Roma Gypsies are a special case as their "integration" has been for too long unsuccessful or more directly said - self-boycotted. In fact, their integration was unsuccessful back in India, their homeland, where they recently were found via genetic studies to descend from the Untouchables caste. In their culture, unless you steal gold, it's not considered theft. Some of their tribes still cut the right thumb of their children as it's easier to pickpocket without it. They buy their women on auctions, and there's polygamy with some. There many details about the "culture" of Roma Gypsies that Westerners are unaware of. I highly recommend you the movie "Hotel Paradise" [0], which will greatly change your perspective! The entire movie is free to watch in its entirety, it seems surreal, but it's only real!

[0]: https://vimeo.com/13906172
It's important to keep in mind that power plants are expensive, fullstop. Even a new coal plant costs several billion dollars, and that's century-old technology. The fact that the first generation of a revolutionary new power plant costs ~10X more than that should not surprise anyone.
I just noticed a pattern in a few comments. Does it have a name? It would be useful as a shorthand to point out this behavior in "discussions". If not, maybe "reference flooding" is a good way to describe it?

These comments make a claim, then link to a paper that seems related to it. Sometimes the only thing in common is the title of the paper. Not sure if it's in good faith and these people have trouble understanding what they read, or a strategy intended to convince people who don't have the time to read the paper that they have science on their side. It also puts a heavy burden on an honest participant in the discussion, since their intellectual bandwidth will be flooded by semi-relevant papers.

This only works if the reference is vague enough. Like the title of a paper without a quote or even page number, or "just Google X".[1]

1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980010/pdf/nihm...
Social Security recipients feel that they have "earned" their retirement income, though, because they paid into the system during forty-seven-or-so years of their working life.
If you fail to pay your taxes to the government, and the government takes your land – you have to ask, where did you get your land from?

I own a house, if you trace back the chain of land ownership, the original title was issued by the government. (Where did the government get that land from? They stole it from the indigenous people.) When the government gave the first titleholder the land, they granted that title subject to the understanding that taxes would be paid and laws would be obeyed (including taxes and laws introduced after the original title was issued.) You can't give better title than what you have, so every subsequent owner, up to myself, has inherited the same obligation to pay taxes and obey laws. If the government's right to tax me is invalid, then my ownership of the land my house is built on is invalid too.
Footwear Exhibition, 2017, India, Delhi, Mumbai
For comparison, world electricity production averages about 2.6 TW.
Please apply your request to your own claim by being precise regarding what constitutes a right-wing extremist - an emotive phrase and clearly intended as such.
Add to the list: quantum computers, strong AI, virtual reality.
Because most of you don't have any idea about Roma Gypsies, please, watch this [0] hour-long documentary when you get a chance!

[0]: https://vimeo.com/13906172
Building a space fence to track debris
Well, it's not so much that as the fact that Linux requires a 32-bit architecture (and preferably an MMU).
Something about this just gives me joy. It's so ridiculous that it's beautiful.
Well, I'm sure a bank has enough cash on its own accounts to pay for a car instantly. My parents had a problem few years ago when they were buying a warehouse for big $$$, and the bank literally asked them to wait a couple days until they could gather that much money to actually pay out the loan. Now imagine that times hundred - I guess it's not a simple operation.
Google does this too. There is exceptions but they are rare.
Kaizen: 5 Pronciples to ensure the succes of the Japanese management model
So original.
Uh oh. Tried to do this myself - failed, but got the feeling ot wasnt actually that hard.

Still, we probably have a decade left before web devs start losing out.
How to build your own NoSQL database
I fail to see how three comments by two authors about rape rates going up are sign of discussion quickly being flooded by right-wing extremists.

If you really wish for intellectual health of community, please strive to cultivate it yourself by avoiding the attempts at pre-emptively silencing your opponents by labeling them.
>>think of it like financing a new car purchase, on a grand scale. how many people were involved in a $30k car transaction? you, your SO, maybe your kids, the sales guy, the sales manager, the finance manager, the underwriter at the bank, the underwriter's manager at the bank, etc. sure you wrote the dealership a check for the down payment, but did you "send" anyone $30k?

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I recently bought a car for much more than $30k, and I just paid using my chip-and-pin debit card at the dealership - so yeah, I guess the dealership got a transfer directly from Visa.
There are ways, e.g. by donating to your own accredited charitable foundation.
What aptitude are you trying to test for? Do you already have a code base in Java you might use for inspiration? You mention framework doesn't matter, but the difference in what you can accomplish in 15 minutes is significant if you're comparing, say, core Java EE and Grails.

Agree with brudgers that 15 minutes is short. You're going to need a fill in the blanks type of assignment, where they import a project into their favorite IDE and can just add methods to a skeleton class. This means you need to test importing/running in at least Eclipse and IntelliJ, and maybe a regular text editor (Emacs/VIM/Sublime) with a simple build/deploy/test script (Maven or Gradle).

In other words, you have to factor away all the time sucking annoyance associated with spinning up a project you haven't touched before.

This is a hard problem, would be interested in discussing it further with you.
I'm certain you are correct in that this is what he believes. I too believe that I can perhaps use my taxes more effectively for the causes that I care about rather than handing them over to the US Treasury. Of course, seeing as I don't have ownership over a slew of offshore shell corporations spanning multiple Caribbean nations and an army of legal experts at my disposal, I don't really get to make that choice.

On some level I agree with you though that there's nothing inconsistent about minimizing one's taxes and being charitable. At the same time, I'm having a hard time accepting this as an absolute truth. If the tax avoidance is a result of what some might see as a "corruption" of the democratic process, even if not necessarily illegal, I can understand why this might be considered ethically ambiguous.
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> I wanted a language that would be (a) faster to program in (than assembly) but be (b) fast when running. It needed to be pretty efficient.

Forth. Problem solved.
If your intention is to make money from selling apps, then don't let the market share fool you. It appears that it's rare for anyone to make more than 20% on Android compared to what they make on iOS.
Why not a 5 day week?

5/7 == 71.4% of days are work days

3/5 == 60% of days are work days

So we would lose 11% of working days, but you would get a weekend after every 3 work days.

I think the main objection would come from various religions which have hard-coded a 7 day week, but if they picked one holy day out of 5, that is even more visits to the designated building of that religion every year, so it seems like they could get on board with that.
One is better using a programming language with a rich runtime when targeting such processors, but newbies aren't going to search for programming languages with bare metal toolchains.
From what I understand, Chinese love the pay-to-win model of microtransactions. They don't mind at all if you can spend your way to the top, whereas western gamers tend to flee that type of game fast. I don't mean the usual "you get some advantage if you subscribe" types, like restricting inventory space, but pure power for money.

One thing I would add is that from the little of mass-market stuff that has reached the west, is that Chinese writers are really bad at story. The Detective Dee films are a great example. Nice aesthetic, fun action scenes, but the story is barely Michael Bay Transformers level at best. They you get into the horrid nationalism, like in Ip Man.
I recently got into the latest Metal Gear Solid game (Phantom Pain, fifth in the series) and in articles, reviews, various forums and reddit there does seem to be a lot of (negative) attention and discussion centered around an almost-naked female character in the game, who also happens to be (AFAIK) the only female character of note in the game.

I'm not saying this attention is unjustified, but it surprised me a bit in volume and frequency.
Oh, cool! So, how do I vote for a green-faction president?

How do I vote for a federal republican faction that won't bloc-vote to strangle legislation? You know, for those conservatives out there who want actual conservative governance, not fearmongering?
I am always espousing good pronciples.
Communist societies are more prone to "favors" because Price discrimination (and other market mechanisms) do not exist.

Actually, that happens in all sort of societies that are not Legal-Rational Liberal-Capitalist.
One of the "problems" of capitalism. Excessive capital accumulation past a certain point. What makes the system great, is also one of its fatal flaws.
Claim: There has been a recent upswing in Islamist terrorism in Europe that coincidences with the migrant situation.

Citations:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...

- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33288542

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Germany

Those sources provide timelines that show massive increases in 2015-2016. The details of some of those attacks would turn your stomach, too -- like the guy in Nice, France who drove a truck through a celebrating crowd while shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
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Gbuy is an ... awkward name for a Singaporean service.
Have no knowledge of Mr. Soros' policies or public stance on issues, but I ask: why is there even a need for a separate fund for migrants?

From what I know, investors are driven by profit, not be ethnicity. If a business has potential to turn a profit, I don't think any VC would want to turn away.

At least that's how things work for some of my Indian friends in the Valley. No one has ever denied them investment because they were immigrants.
Huh, I always thought it was North American Space Agency. Well fancy that.
Anecdotally, I know more than one straight woman who finds Buscemi really attractive. I'm not surprised. He's cool.
Microsoft will solve cancer within 10 years by reprogramming diseased cells
Interesting side note: The words "Awkward" and "Creepy" don't exist in German and there are no direct or inderect equivalents. It goes so far that it is culturally impossible to have creepy or awkward behaviour.
I don't understand why you would require UBI to provide people's self worth.

Some picture UBI to be this utopia that solves everything. Please evaluate it based on being an improvement (however small) to the current system.

Also, playing videogames all day is an often heard scenario with UBI. But as the article states, this seems to happen now too. The question is: if it would be implemented, and after the dust settles, will so many more people be unproductive (in the narrowest sense possible)?
If you read the article that chongli linked (and I second their recommendation) then it becomes self-evident that they mean the latter.
Sweden changed its statistical method quite a bit (eg counting each 'act' within a rape separately), that, together with much more awareness of sexual violence and a campaign and social changes encouraging victims and witnesses to report things had a huge effect on the statistics. Wikipedia has a decent-ish summary of the changes. Sweden doesn't collect data on perpetrator background or similar, so literally all of the articles in (primarily Anglophone) right wing media claiming statistics on that are simply made up. That being said, I'd not be surprised if numbers went up with an increase young single men, but the data simply does not exist to prove either way. The natural tendency is to guess the correct interpretation and read it onto the data, but it simply is not there.
Thanks for sharing this, and especially from the bespoke demoscene community! Sure, I now realize this concept in its most general form isn't that novel, and perhaps isn't as phenomenal, but, my motivations warranted it, and well, those fans of mine who've tried the new album packaging really seem to love it over the conventional package - audio/video.

I'll just keep it around, and perhaps tweak things as long as there's some passion for hacking on this some more or if it turns out to be that good for my fans...

Otherwise, thanks for that background you gave, and the interesting links! Discovering ideas you resonate with isn't easy either ;-)
> In addition, the content is usually limited to the Four Great Classical Novels because that's the only thing a Chinese layman is familiar with.

really? If true, that sounds bloody brilliant; how I wish to play some game based on "dream of the red chamber"!

What would it be; a huge, sprawling point&click intrigue adventure game with hundereds of deeply characterized NPCs maybe? Can you recommend a title? Any fangroup made english titles for it?
yeah, female skin ages faster, and skin is what we see on others. this ain't fair, but we can't fool genetics (for now).

unconscious behavior like this made me lose much of the respect I had for women (and I started with lots of it!). the better I knew them the worse it got. sheepish mentality, playing all kinds of weird mind games all the time, frequent need of assurance of attractiveness and constant looking in the mirrors, never fully saying what they think directly to the person/man, and the list goes on and on (really, damn too long).

once I stopped treating my partners as fully equals and started to be the dominant person in the relationship (this doesn't mean being an ahole, just a confident partner and a bit more), things started to be much better.

women need THE man, alpha male, to gently/firmly dominate them. truly dominant ones ie successful in manager positions have usually just a string of failed relationships, since their partners are either less dominant -> submissive, and that doesn't breed much respect in relationship long term, or they are even more dominant which means usually pretty horrible persons and constant fights over nothing. Infrequent exceptions that work are just that, exceptions.

Just to clarify - I don't have an experience with shallow and 'not-so-clever' ones where this behaviour is more pronounced, rather doctors, stock traders, cellular researchers, managers etc.

just my 2 cents, I hope YMMV significantly :)
It looks better on paper for an engineer, but not for someone who actually plays an instrument and reads the notation. With most western music, not all 12 pitches in an octave are used most of the time, but only a subset determined by the key and scale. Although the currently used notation may look weird for a newbie, it takes just a quick look at the key signature and you know which pitches will be used in a piece of music. When you know the scale (and practicing scales is just a standard part of learning), then "decoding" a note by counting tones is much easier than counting individual semitones (12 seems just too many). After a little practice you get it intuitively and you really don't count; you just know where each tone (or chord) is in a given scale and what function it has. And then when you suddenly see an additional flat or sharp symbol before a note, you know that this is an out-of-scale note, so it is also easier to play it. Disclaimer: I'm an engineer.
Who should we believe? A writer from Wired Magazine? Or the director of the FBI who is also a lawyer?

There are several distinctions between the Clinton case and the Petraeus case.

* The Clinton case revolved around an unclassified context while the Petraeus case revolved around information taken from a classified context.

* The Clinton case involved data not marked classified (keep in mind emailing New York Times links to someone about about Snowden would be highly classified information), while the Petraeus case involved books that were clearly classified.

* The Clinton case showed no intent while the Petraeus case involved clear intent.

* The Clinton case involved an internal server while the Petraeus case involved open books given to his mistress.

* Clinton cooperated with the FBI while Petraeus intentionally misled the FBI.

Also, reminder that Snowden is a wanted criminal asking for a pardon for leaking 200,000 classified documents to the press, while taking refuge in the state of a geopolitical enemy. He will make scripted media appearances on behalf of Putin [1]. He is not a reliable source.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLC2WbIaq_Y
A quick view into one of the darker corners of the web confirms that "horny teenager" is by far one of the less disturbing scenarios.

This is also why I do not like the culture around cuteness (e.g. from Japan). These thoughts just give me chills.
Can you please name some examples?

As I said I'm not much of a gamer, so I don't often play Chinese games. However, as early as 10 years ago I played an amazing Three Kingdoms style game where the feel was like being inside a moving version of a traditional Chinese watercolor painting ... clouds floating around, inkbrush style architecture and characters, etc. Unfortunately, I don't know what the name was. However, if that was 10 years ago I'm sure there's better out there now. I do remember that it was in traditional characters!

lack of awareness of the outside world and culture

This is pretty rude and baseless. There are interesting statistics about Americans placing major countries on maps, and I'd wager China has more foreign media consumption than the US.

This is whataboutism

No, I was pointing out the senselessness of your line of argument and mode of reasoning. If you can think of an -ism for that, go ahead. Perhaps logic-ism?

the link in my original post

The only thing the link says is that rules for approval of games to be published in the mainland include that they have to be in simplified characters (traditional character games, such as those from Taiwan or Hong Kong, have to be translated first). That's not very strange, it's like saying "games in Turkey have to be written in Turkish (not Arabic)" or "games in Croatia have to be written in Romanized form (not Cyrillic)". It's just the dominant method of writing, where others exist. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's censorship in any form, just a basic enforcement of the country's existing standardization, which brought 1 billion+ people to literacy in the last 100 years. That's a pretty good achievement in my book, which is good reasoning for a whole lot more than the government asking games publishers to spend $0-100 flipping strings local market.

Pro-tip: You can do this automatically, almost always well enough to perfect, using a lovely part of the Wikipedia codebase - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master... - instantly, automatically, for free.
On a slight tangent here...

I've always thought one of the biggest problems with globalisation as a concept is the absence of free movement of people.

What I mean by that is the ability of people anywhere to move anywhere else, to work, consume, pay tax, and otherwise take part in civic life, for as long as they wish.

We have free movement of capital and free movement of goods. However the limitation on movement of labour has turned some parts of the planet into labour ghettos, creating forced economic gradients that benefit a few. While this has been the case for some time, the free movement of information has informed even the most ignorant that this need not be the case.

The so-called "economic" migration sweeping the world is the inevitable result of this state of affairs. Its not just information that wants to be free.

I find it hard to see how one could be a true believer in the power for good of the free market, without including free movement of labour.

If you follow the thought experiment of what such free movement would look like, you could imagine the end state being an effective equalisation across most of the globe. The net effect would also be an acceleration of cultural equalisation (religious extremists notwithstanding).

Of course, the journey from here to there would be interesting!
More like Linux on 32-bit ARM, but running in an emulator on an 8-bit processor. I don't think this qualifies as “Running” Linux on an 8-bit processor.

I voiced the same complaint when somebody claimed to “run” Windows 3 on an Apple watch (IIRC), which also was achieved by running a standard PC-hardware emulator, and running Windows 3 on that.

These are somewhat interesting accomplishments, but the click-bait factor is high.