skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't really get to the big issue. Which is that Berlin being a startup hub is all marketing in the first place, it's probably not very popular to say but somebody has to say it.

Berlin has no money, investors don't come here. More than a couple of investors I jumped through hoops for eventually I made it all the way to the top decision maker who was forced to reveal "oh we don't have any money but in exchange for some equity we can hook you up with business connections." No small amount of equity. Double digits every time. And the same is true if you find an incubator willing to take you, expect very little money, a short tenure, and a double digit equity stake. This all is in line with the level of talent which exists here. If you take a look at the Berlin job market it's all about legacy systems, some PHP, maybe Java if you're lucky.

There's no help available from the government. In fact if you own a startup your taxes skyrocket. Your health insurance doubles. If you're trying to sort out a visa at the same time as all that, good luck! The government will subsidise a loan for you, but it has to be a personal loan. Which means banks are willing to give out risky loans. It's the same thing that happened in the housing crash. Which is why it needs to be a personal loan, your company failing means nothing you have to pay it back.

Letters arrive in your mailbox claiming you owe them money, which apparently isn't illegal. All scams. People you meet at networking events promise to hook you up with business connections for equity or money.

This is a market that sells shovels.

You want to buy a shovel and start digging there's a hundred people around selling them. But you better hope that shovel doesn't require Wifi because bars and cafes are held responsible for torrent traffic, which means none of them offer it. Therefore rent a co-working space [shovel] or an office [shovel].
I know a guy, who might be up to a job: https://github.com/wizzard0/js2lua

I'll pass him your offer.
Snapchat launches sunglasses with camera
In good bike packaging, there is a plastic clip or cardboard cutout that. Like the black circular thing just coming out of the box here, http://blockbikespdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FullSize...
But I have seen a couple bent dropouts in bikes received from manufacturer. Dunno if shipping handling was the reason, I'd just fix it and move on.
Probably our shipping-related failures were way below industry normal though, as our shop was <100 km from port (where things still travel in container units), and the distributor/importer handled the shipping to us themselves.
Why Are People Losing the Blissful Tingles of ASMR?
Could you cite some lines in this article that you consider racist?

Clearly, the women in this article experienced prejudice. Maybe that's the norm in India, maybe it isn't, but describing their own oppressive experiences is not even remotely racist against Indians. The article doesn't attempt to make any general claims about India.

But as far as I know, a large part of India does still have very sexist cultural standards when it comes to girls and women. And even if they didn't, such claims (which, again, this article didn't even make) would just be a misinterpretation of the country's culture, not necessarily racism by any means.
Newer operations approaches may have helped make the state of affairs tractable, but it does not at all argue for that microservice architecture. There was literally no value gained from running a dozen web servers instead of two. And that being the case, the straightforward but "outdated" way of managing one or two servers manually would almost definitely be cheaper than learning and implementing the more modern approach.
As much as I agree with the importance of mentoring, listening to, and investing in your employees, I don't think it's fair to expect all this from a startup. Maybe from an established company, yes.
Because it doesn't respect the silent setting on my cell phone. Its unlikely the missing child is in the vicinity of the meeting I just interrupted.
Labs64 NetLicensing – Try&Buy Licensing Model
By that logic, Germany in the same year was a more dangerous place than either, at 700+ murders.

Lies, damned lies and Kanye West statistics?
Thanks. I just wanted to highlight the absurdity, as it’s an issue I care about; if I’m ever a parent, I don’t want self-proclaimed do-gooders meddling in my family’s affairs.
Wrong URL. It has an unnecessary "A" at the end.

[It's very suspicious that a 404 submission get 7 points. Remember that using sockpupet/meatpupets are not allowed in HN.]
They can't, because IoT.

IoT devices like surveillance cams, VoIP babyphones etc. have two options:

1) depend on third-party servers for operation, so no outside-to-device-initiated communication is needed. Downside: costs money to run the servers, and just imagine the sausagefest when a camera cloud server gets hacked. Upside: you can firewall off your private network as you like, and the device will still work.

2) allow the owner of the device to directly connect to the IoT device via IPv6. Downside: everyone and their dog can access (and exploit) your devices, provided that they know the IP address. IPv6 addresses are long and pretty random, but e.g. if the MAC address is used for assigning the IPv6 address, not so random any more. Upside: no SPOF/centralized node that turns your device into a brick if the operator shuts down.

Basically, the only way to "securely" operate IoT devices is inside a separate VLAN. FritzBox routers can do this, but not many others, e.g. because the router can't independently manage the Ethernet ports, because it's cheaper to put in a GBit switch than to choose a SoC that's beefy enough to drive four GBit ports individually. I put "securely" into quotation marks, as a hacked surveillance cam or babyphone is an open invitation to any hacker.
I'm waiting for a LOLCODE [0] version.

[0] http://lolcode.org/
Project Shield is part of Jigsaw (formerly "Google Ideas"): see https://jigsaw.google.com/ and https://medium.com/jigsaw for more related projects and context.

Google Ideas is 5 years old now. I'm not aware of it having started as a 20% project. [disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on Jigsaw.]
I greatly respect Christopher Hitchens but this statement is provably wrong.

There was no control over reproduction by women before the birth control pill reached the market in 1960. Therefore it would follow that every society before 1960 was poor, which isn't true.

Also why do we experience today rising poverty while further expanding womens rights at the same time? Shouldn't we all get richer?

My conclusion is that these two issues are unrelated. Societies get rich by either creating value (that's the one that I like) or capturing value by the use of force, period.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572465
Expert here! We need to wait and see if the angular velocity accelerates exponentially. Until then, we can't be certain that there is any hazard. You may all go back to work now.

We'll measure its angle regularly and bill your insurance monthly until something or nothing happens.
Working with Fetch api
This responds pretty well to other commentary of mine. Thanks.
I expected a single page that just says "Don't" in big letters :)
You cut the quote right before the best bit: "DiIorio prided himself on being a savvy trader," for some reason that passes human understanding, (...)
Edit: @Ecology and the politics of scarcity revisited, just read the foreword of that book, almost each and every sentence of that foreword is a (known) misdirection; I don't think I'll have the nerves to read it, will scroll through it once I'm less tired
What should I do when 95% or more of the conversations I have are me faking interest?

I actively try to avoid acting rude whenever I can, but in the area I live, I am generally not interested in what people have to say.
Usually I'm on the 'giving' side of that dynamic (unintentionally), but I was watching the final episode of The Blacklist the other day and in it some American bad guy is thrown out of a plan over The Netherlands. The house they show him landing in is a throwback to 200 years ago, complete with a woman with covered head and wooden beams in the walls. It's around 3:14 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ISzOGRgIWI . It's hilarious that someone on the production team would actually think this is anywhere near realistic; or maybe it's just hilarious that they thought most American viewers would think a Dutch house would look like that.

(maybe the guy just accidentally landed in an outdoor museum...)
Fine for washing the feet (I mean, the Pope does that); it's the drinking of the water that's troublesome.
What on earth is that graph showing? 2% of households make $150k, and another 2% make $151k, and another 2% make $150.01k, etc. It makes no sense at all. I think they meant to use a bar graph or histogram, and perhaps those circles are the boundaries between the bins. But then why are some much wider than others? Do 7% of households make between $30k and $90k? Normally with a bad graph, you can work out what they meant and it's just misleading, but this is too wrong to mean anything.

On a second look, the sharp edges of the curve appear to be $10k boundaries which with the text about $20k-$30k would mean they're the bin boundaries. But that assumes the text was written by someone who knew that and wasn't just reading off the line.
It sounds to me like the author would rather work for a big multinational instead of a startup. By definition, a startup is an organization that doesn't even have a clear business model, let alone prospects for its employees' career development 10 years down the line. While it is reasonable to expect civility and common sense from startup managers, their pressing concern is getting the ship afloat before the money runs out, not giving new hires back rubs.

There is a choice to make between experience and hipster points (because that's all you'll get as a junior employee in a Berlin startup) and a solid, stable (at least as much as the economy) job.
I wonder if it would be different if Germany didn't have such a hostile environment for startups?

Behind closed doors, people say "on the one hand, this is the hardest place in the developed world to start a business. On the other hand, if you manage to get something running in Germany, it will run everywhere."
"For serious disagreements, meeting face to face for a beer works best."

I like your style, Walter.
Protean: The World's First Reactive Gaming Keyboard
Protean has a screen embedded in every key you can create your own unique interface, modifying key layout and function for any game or app.

This is pretty cool.
I have very little anxiety about doing or wearing something embarrassing in public. The vast majority are strangers I'll never see again. I won't remember them and they won't remember me. And even if they do remember me, I don't care at all, because I can't be confronted with that in the future.

But I have a ton of anxiety about doing or wearing something embarrassing in front of people I have to work with or talk to on a daily basis.

So, for the most part I keep my mouth shut unless spoken to, and just try to copy what other people wear. That way I'm mostly known as the quiet or shy person rather than the bizarre, awkward fellow. Inevitably I'll eventually acquire all of those labels if someone is around me enough, but at least I can make "quiet" outweigh "bizarre" nine times out of ten.
I was physically most at risk after I had put on 50lbs of muscle and was routinely breaking lifting goals:

Too heavy benchpress / lifting under fatigue to promote growth --> high risk of accidents.

Too little stretching and lots of heavy squats /deadlifts made my back very tight and prone to injury.

A workout biased towards a high back:chest ratio didn't offset all the time I spent at a computer, so my shoulders would round forward but now my muscles/tendons are even bulkier and have more friction with my joints

I realized if I'm not strict with correct form, range of motion, rest between sets, proper progressions, stretching, etc, hypertropic workouts are more dangerous than beneficial. And if I am strict with everything, I can recover and get stronger at a much healthier pace even if I never lift more than half the weight I used to (just slow the tempo down). I might not get as muscular as before, but I got no benefits from being bulky.
I can.

> Wearing a helmet reduced the risk of head injury by 63% (95% confidence interval 34% to 80%) and of loss of consciousness by 86% (62% to 95%).

http://www.bmj.com/content/308/6922/173?linkType=FULL&ck=nck...

> Bike helmet use increased significantly during the first 4 years of the campaign and again after the helmet law was implemented. The total number of bike-related head injury admissions declined by more than 50%.

http://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(00)15165-6/abstra...

And a paper that speaks directly on your topic, the effects of legislation mandating helmet use:

> The rate of helmet use rose dramatically after legislation was enacted, from 36% in 1995 and 38% in 1996, to 75% in 1997, 86% in 1998 and 84% in 1999. The proportion of injured cyclists with head injuries in 1998/99 was half that in 1995/96 (7/443 [1.6%] v. 15/416 [3.6%]) (p = 0.06).

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/166/5/592.short
> By that logic, Germany in the same year was a more dangerous place than either, at 700+ murders.

And Germany has a population of 80 million people. More than 10x the population of either NYC or Chicago, so it's actually over 10x safer
Yeah yeah yeah. Everyone is talking big here about how "obviously" these inflated concerns about child safety are absurd and ridiculous.

But how many of you would step up to slap down those morons who berate parents for leaving their kids in the car for 30 seconds?

THAT is what is needed. It is no good to simply THINK that these people are going overboard. We have to actively STOP the stupid busy-bodies from assaulting those poor parents.
Probably just because its faster than PUC Lua, enables FFI calls w/ less overhead, easy to interface with the existing C code? They are aiming at reimplementing the current C VimScript runtime (suffering from code rot and filled with preprocessor declarations for dead platforms) in Lua w/o degrading performance too much.
Yeah yeah yeah. Everyone is talking big here about how "obviously" these inflated concerns about child safety are absurd and ridiculous.

But how many of you would step up to slap down those morons who berate parents for leaving their kids in the car for 30 seconds?

THAT is what is needed. It is no good to simply THINK that these people are going overboard. We have to actively STOP the stupid busy-bodies from assaulting those poor parents.

Step up. Step in. And slap down.
So what about your own seemingly mostly emotion-based blanket one-sentence statement that omits even the attempt of citing prove, or even to actually examine the issue you present?

Relevant ancient educational tiny story: https://riddlesbrainteasers.com/three-philosophers-tree/

I got an epiphany moment about that story when I read a story about a medical doctor visiting a "quack" conference. There was one "esoteric" who complained about the others being "esoteric" (he practiced something else than the others, but still something weird), and the doctor looking down on them all. But the crowning part of that story was that the doctor herself held a believe by now proven to be wrong by studies. So they were all laughing about each other, in addition to the original three-philosopher problem this anecdote included a hierarchy (I am better than you), going over several levels, and it turned out the person who thought was at the top looking down on everybody else actually wasn't and should have had a good look in the mirror herself.

The hint should have been seeing that one guy lamenting that all the others were esoteric, but introspection based up on what we see in others isn't many people's string suit. No, (only) they are "stupid".

The philosophers in the little ancient Greek story/riddle managed to get to the truth by including themselves into their logical reasoning and not just think about the others. When you come to a conclusion about other people, always consider if/how it applies to yourself.

The more modern saying is that about throwing stones in a glass house... but it lacks the educational value of the three philosopher problem because it's only the "TL;DT" (too long, didn't think).
Isn't this the case for startups worldwide? Ok if you are lucky (which is as much being in the right place, as knowing the right people) you can get a good salary, but finding a startup that actually cares about its employees (other than the 'perks' - which is just marketing to be attractive to potential employees) is like finding a needle in a haystack.

I've been contracting for the last few years, the pay is better and I know up front if things go downhill I'm going to be the first to go (1 week termination period). I would like to find something more stable as my wife and I are looking to start a family, but it seems I'm going to have to give up my free time and take a big pay cut, if I want a permenant job in the startup scene.
Pipes have special joints for thermal expansion compensation.
> and so gain useful intelligence on their rivals.

The principal rival in the short term for any department whether of government or inside a company is other departments not the corresponding department in another company. In fact it is plausible to think that at least some of the people within agencies like the NSA have more in common and a substantial degree of fellow feeling with their nominal rivals in, for instance, Russia than they have with other US agencies.
America wasn't like this when I left in the late 80's. I'm not saying that America had no problems -- clearly it did, but there wasn't so much fear, and things felt more free (at least if you were white) and different parts of the country still were different -- the chain stores hadn't yet homoginized the country -- and turn coffee into a fetish.

It was a shock to see it happen in slow motion from the opposite side of the world over the next three decades, the country just seemed like a frog being slowly boiled without it being aware.

From time to time people ask me why I don't move back and I just smile and say that this is my home now. Few people would understand the sadness I feel for those left behind.
Do you have any evidence to support that or are you just going along with OP's thought loop?

As far as I can tell, incompetence by far seems to be most likely here. I don't think NSA would wittingly give up so many nice zero-days to their first or second most powerful rival agency.
See http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html

Though luajit has gotten even more optimisations since that was done.

That said, I rarely find my code's performance is the bottleneck, and don't benefit from luajit. The guys that do are doing scientific computing (e.g. torch) or high performance networking (e.g. snabb)
I've probably dropped some tens of manufacturer-packaged bicycles 3-6 foot, they were practically all OK. Not that I would advocate such practice, it would be very risky.
Each spring 3 of us would haul ~500 bikes into our shop storage over couple of days. The bikes are usually stored stacked up, 3 ontop vertically if you got the ceiling height[1]. Sometimes 3 vertical + 1/2/3 horizontal uptop, then you have to toss the last ones up there. End of a long day you get tired&sloppy, so sometimes one topple over or don't get all the way there...

1. http://www.camdencycles.co.uk/images/uploads/website%20Doc/b...
I'm from the urban middle class but my parents grew up as miserable rural lower class. They still go out and poop in the fields at his native village. My grandfather died before my father had turned 20 and he had 3 younger siblings to take care of.

Until a couple of years ago, I used to believe the liberal claptrap about the 'vast and miserable' lower classes despite the counter example of my father's life or for that matter the other urban middle class folks around me who came from similar backgrounds.

But then I thought about them some more and came to the conclusion that their criminality and lack of effort to better their lot in life is written in their genes. The quotas will only do so much to improve their lives.
Neovim will support PUC Lua 5.1 for both user scripts as well as internal lua logic. The external lua-client[1] supports luajit and PUC lua and the CI[2] runs PUC lua on every PR and commit.

The Neovim patch[3] to add built-in lua scripting will support both luajit and PUC lua.

I also updated the FAQ[4] to avoid confusion.

1: https://github.com/neovim/lua-client

2: https://travis-ci.org/neovim/neovim/jobs/162545247

3: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4411

4: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ
There are studies and talks that would suggest the opposite is true. For example:-

For example: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/05/095679761562...

TED talk discussing the issues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY

Common sense would dictate that the helmet is safer, but we could argue the science leaves a lot to be desired.
> Amiga architecture was apparently the one of the future rather than past. Too ahead.

I wouldn't call an architecture this way if it proves very difficult to extend without strongly breaking compatibility.
A 50% reduction in head injuries is very little?
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request
>sausagefest

Not sure that word means what you think it means.
Didn't this happen for spellings in various ortography reforms? I think german had the largest one in recent years and iirc there was a deprecation period for old spellings.

An English spelling reform would be a blessing but almost certainly isn't going to happen. And even if something would work it probably would lead to more fun akin to color-colour.
I came here to say this. The more ticks there are on the x axis, the lower the y values will be. The graph hurts my head.

It should be an S-curve cumulative graph, I think.
Try building (the `v2.1` branch of) LuaJIT with `CFLAGS=-DLUAJIT_ENABLE_GC64`. This flag is a relatively recent addition [1], and didn't have JIT support on x64 until really very recently [2], but it should free you from the 4gb limitation.

[1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/a92e73023353e59405eb...
[2] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/2868715d80b6ac497a7f...
How is this surprising, given that Amazon is a privately owned, profit driven company?
It's not so simple.

The problem: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/CIE1931x...

Colors in one colorspace may not have a representation in another. If you do all your editing in RGB and then try and convert at the end, you restrict yourself to the set of colors available in both. To get print colors that are accurate to a provided spec, you need to work in the target colorspace directly, with an editor that will approximate the colors on your sRGB monitor as best it can so you can see what you're doing.
Oh you're an economist, huh? And Greg Kaplan isn't smart? Doubt it.

No matter if the "void" is filled with other people, there will always be a big chunk of labour that could be used for something NOT being utilised.
> reimplementing the current C VimScript runtime

See the updated FAQ[1]. We are punting on the VimL-to-Lua translator. We think it will be more valuable to instead ship Lua as a first-class alternative to VimL.

> (suffering from code rot and filled with preprocessor declarations for dead platforms) in Lua w/o degrading performance too much

eval.c is being refactored in PR 5119[2].

1: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ

2: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/5119
They were not really Muslims. But they were
As an example, now Jeep Cherokees don't let you use/reprogram the navigation while driving.

(This is the same car that can be hacked into and driven remotely through the entertainment system. Awesome that they are minding owners' safety)