skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My willingness to deal with physical media, let alone the postal service (any more then I am forced to, anyway) disappeared a few years ago.

How is Netflix able to get rights to send physical media, but not stream? It seems to me that literally the only real difference is physical media means there is a limit on number of concurrent viewers.
A web filter / proxy does not have any way to tell whether any individual HTTP request was requested as a result of HTML embedding, bookmarking, user entry or clicking on a link.
This writing is sort of a strange metaphor, but I guess the point the author makes is that kanji can be transliterated as hiragana but not katakana. The writer goes on to talk about traumatic brain injuries so I guess he's aiming at the cultural value of each syllabary.

I'm not a native speaker, but if I were to make an equally strange metaphor as the author, katakana feels like writing in all capital letters.
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Can someone explain to my dumbass how they helped calibrate the photos or satellites?
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Not a native speaker, but this is still wrong, Hiragana is just like Katakana, each character is a syllable (more or less, n is a bit special in both sets). There's a 1:1 mapping between Hiragana, Katakana and syllables that exist in Japanese.

Kanji (Chinese-style characters) aren't phonetic on the other hand, they map to several different sounds, and several Kanjis may map to the same sound (not necessarily a single syllable).
It's very much relevant. I've just built and released an app using Ionic 2. Nearing 25k users.

Check out Ionic 2. Build something quick. Test on your phone.
...or you could just plug it in a public PC (eg library ones) and that's it.
I've been hoping for a C/C++ compiler with no/limited undefined behavior for years. Sadly, the people writing compilers have lost touch with the people using them, so this is very unlikely to happen.

But I have to say, if one is going to do this, then C isn't a good target. Especially for crypto, C lacks extremely useful semantics such as rotate-left, rotate-right, add-with-carry, subtract-with-borrow, etc. Things that would greatly accelerate libraries that work with 512-bit multiplies like DJB's Curve25519. And then there's useful math operators like power-of that could be added.

You could also put requirements in there like "warn/error on variable-length divide" to catch surprise gotchas like x86 CPUs taking an indeterminate length of time to divide. In fact, constant-time execution could be a compile-time check.

The key would be to keep it "as much C" as possible. Rust and co are going to face barriers by being so incredibly different from C.
Anyone interested in this sort of thing should definitely check out blessed-contrib[0] which this is based on.

[0] https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
Serverless is really just an a community term for 'function as a service'. There are servers... you just upload discrete bits of code to the platform which executes them on demand.
Checking the box to block 3rd party cookies is great advice, but I would not tell my Mom or any other casual user to do it. Why? You wind up with a lot of very weird, hard-to-track down bugs in web pages. I've seen failures in OAUTH and SSO pages, buttons that don't click, etc. Things you might not expect to break, break. And it's hard to track it back to that checkbox.
You're assuming that this results in upscale cities and towns having better outcomes by spending more per pupil. In fact, yes, the outcomes tend to be better; the schools are often better by both objective and subjective measures. But the correlation with spending is very murky.

"Bad" urban schools with often poor student outcomes often have significantly higher spending per pupil than the tony suburban schools. There are lots of reasons why this would be the case of course. But it's not exclusively, or even primarily, a matter of relative spending levels.
Doctors in the US Make 2x What They Make in Asia: Why Healthcare Is Expensive
There's also PageNodes, Node-Red for the browser.
I IPFS-ified this one.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbLPfyehFnViKZpU237P6a6DpjCfWFSoDBMQFG...
New Udacity dataset – 3 hours of driving data
That link says that the problem is that they got priced out and that's why they're homeless (and you imply that's the cause too). I don't buy it. I have tons of friends who have gotten priced out of SF, or even the whole bay area. They moved to other parts of the state or country. It sucks, but it didn't make them homeless.
Maybe it's a regional thing?

I'm in the UK and my maps get updated frequently (it often has a % downloading bar for the update) and when I compare with my phone the route and traffic is very similar to Google Maps.
Has Netflix considered providing video hosting services for content owners? It could even be with no Netflix branding.

Customers would still have to sign up for multiple services but at least all the content would be available.
ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a symmetric cipher, used for encrypting your traffic. X25519 is an key exchange protocol using asymmetric cryptography, and is used in during connection setup to establish keys for the symmetric cipher.

X25519 would appear under "Key exchange" and ChaCha20-poly1305 under "Cipher Suite"

With Chromium I just get ECDHE_RSA and AES_128_GCM, anyway.
Nice idea. Seems quite employee friendly and expensive for employers. I don't see it catching on beyond those "best place to work" type companies but will be happy if it does become an option.

Frankly I'm surprised laws requiring pay for unused vacation days included with a final paycheck haven't been lobbied away already.
What is a small percentage to you? Its extremely frustrating that there is basically no way to access large swaths of Japanese media because the companies don't think there is much market outside the country. They even go so far as to block their biggest stars on youtube. I thought it was extremely ironic that AKB's Fortune Cookie video was not watchable in the US on youtube, when the entire premise of the video was that people all around the world were posting videos on youtube doing the dance featured in the video because they had such a global reach.

Good luck finding anything but the most popular animes legally in the US. I don't think I've ever even seen a Japanese drama through a legal means.
Not native here, but studied a bit. Hiragana is used for writing down native words, Katakana - of foreign origin. So it doesn't really sound right.
Ain't that th' thing about life? So many opportunities to learn new things!
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I think the HDF support is good enough to count as larger-than-memory.
Our representative democracy is failing because the people in charge aren't the ones most qualified to answer all these questions - because jack of all trade politicians are tasked with deciding on all matters instead of experts in their respective fields.

I'm simply arguing that we need to break out of the status quo, and throwing out suggestions on how to fix this. Direct democracy is one way to bring the power back to the people. A competency test to accompany it is a stricter one to alleviate the pitfalls of direct democracy.

Even if we never adopt a competency test, I'd still argue that direct democracy would be a massive improvement to what we have now - if only because it'd bring the focus of the debate on the policy issues rather than on the scandals of politicians. It would totally obsolete are ridiculous two-party system.

Like I said, the test would seek to be as objective as possible. Questions would not be of the subjective format: "Does increasing the minimum wage improve the economy?" Actually I don't even think there would be any questions specific to minimum wage. Better questions would pertain to indisputable fact-based questions (eg. what's going on in the middle east in regards to foreign policy questions about that topic). Or again we could just default to basic logic tests.

These are all just implementation details though and secondary to the main point - which is to improve our policy-making.
Yes, but it's not agreed upon why that's the case, and that's Rayiner's point. If the problem is that students are forced to compete academically while being raised in broken neighborhoods, moving them out of those neighborhoods might be a better solution than pouring more money into the schools.

I don't know that I agree with the intervention he's recommending, but the underlying point he's making makes sense.
How could it be less than zero?
What is a country to do? Deportation seems a reasonable approach when faced with people who refuse to assimilate and who are bringing the failures of their nominally former civilizations along.
The thing to keep in mind is that Chromebooks haven't even reached their final form. Android apps are being added actively to the top end models with touch screens and will be coming to others. Sure, some touch-based apps won't work but most apps will. Eventually, we'll have Chromebooks that are either convertible or detachable and they'll be both tablet and laptop for each use case.
For most people, driving themselves is faster and more convenient. The rest is just gravy.
Wikipedia has a summary of comparisons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Compared_to_UTF-16

Advantages

* Byte encodings and UTF-8 are represented by byte arrays in programs, and often nothing needs to be done to a function when converting from a byte encoding to UTF-8. UTF-16 is represented by 16-bit word arrays, and converting to UTF-16 while maintaining compatibility with existing ASCII-based programs (such as was done with Windows) requires every API and data structure that takes a string to be duplicated, one version accepting byte strings and another version accepting UTF-16.

Text encoded in UTF-8 will be smaller than the same text encoded in UTF-16 if there are more code points below U+0080 than in the range U+0800..U+FFFF. This is true for all modern European languages.

Most communication and storage was designed for a stream of bytes. A UTF-16 string must use a pair of bytes for each code unit:

* * The order of those two bytes becomes an issue and must be specified in the UTF-16 protocol, such as with a byte order mark.

* * If an odd number of bytes is missing from UTF-16, the whole rest of the string will be meaningless text. Any bytes missing from UTF-8 will still allow the text to be recovered accurately starting with the next character after the missing bytes.

Disadvantages

* Characters U+0800 through U+FFFF use three bytes in UTF-8, but only two in UTF-16. As a result, text in (for example) Chinese, Japanese or Hindi will take more space in UTF-8 if there are more of these characters than there are ASCII characters. This happens for pure text[nb 2] but actual documents often contain enough spaces and line terminators, numbers (digits 0–9), and HTML or XML or wiki markup characters, that they are shorter in UTF-8. For example, both the Japanese UTF-8 and the Hindi Unicode articles on Wikipedia take more space in UTF-16 than in UTF-8.[nb 3]
It says I'm not logged into any of its sites. Chrome on Android 6. No special privacy measures. I am logged into a few sites in the browser, including this one.
I think the parent might have been suggesting to develop your own board. Using something like a USB enabled Atmel chip (ATMega32u2) should be relatively simple, and there are plenty of HID libraries out there for it. If you were trying for a bulk attack, or had the funds, this would be by far the best solution.
I mean, isn't that a bit pedantic? If you go down that route, MAD didn't keep us safe either, it's our enemies belief/knowledge that we had weapons of mass destruction, that kept us safe. etcetcetc

It's all part of it. Without intelligence (from dozens of source) to act upon, and Americas enemies believing we could find meaningful targets and/or hit them, MAD wouldn't really exist. Same goes for not having the tech to launch the nukes. Or a hundred other things.

It all helped, to one degree or another, and that is all they said. "This [X] we're standing on right now helped protect us from nuclear war".

Am i missing your point?
Kanji can be transliterated either way, and both forms are lossy since there are so many homonyms and kana only encodes sounds. It's traditional to annotate difficult Kanji pronunciation with small Hiragana called Furigana, for example in children's books. But it could be done all the same in Katakana. Modern Chinese words that Japanese borrows are usually translated in Katakana for example.
I'm 100% sure that they designed it that way to please Google.

And why would that be, if their deal with Google ended in 2014?
From a historical perspective, it's not true. Both types of kana were derived from Han characters, often the same characters, in different ways. Their usage has varied over time.

As for the neurological claim, I did a quick search and found an article which cited:

> Uno (as cited in Itani 2001) and Saito (as cited in Kosaka & Tsuzuki) say that kana is primarily processed phonologically in the reading process, whereas kanji is processed semantically.

http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~inveling/pdf/Dyszy-18.pdf

This is a few steps removed from the actual citation, but it seems to support your disagreement with the article.
It's hard to see a bright line where competition becomes unfair, but straightforwardly buying your own children into a better life than will be made available to children without means is problematic.

This is a mountain range of slippery slopes, of course, but the fundamental moral point here seems pretty obvious.
Bitbucket is Nice, but why the 1GB/2GB repository limit, especially for paid users (entreprise version) ? Never understood this limit...
Physical media is subject to the Doctrine of First Sale, which means Netflix doesn't have to get a special license for DVD rentals.

From a copyright perspective, that's a fundamental difference from streaming.
I know my Audi has Google Maps, and real time traffic.

I think one of the other issues is how many GPS systems refuse to let you enter addresses en route and make you stop and / or pull the handbrake. This increases frustration hugely.

The Audi system says "please don't do this while driving" - you say "Okay" and are able to do so.
My point wasn't that meat production doesn't stand in competition with plant based food production, but that it doesn't need to (especially with a lower meat consumption, which the website actually advertises)
> surely whatever you're suggesting will become the one service everyone uses, problem solved.

That shows even more how much you misunderstand the entire market even worse than Google does.

An app can’t win because it is the best, but only through network lock-in effects (which Moxie tries to use for Signal, too) and marketing combined.
Kana mostly contain just sounds, but do contain some morphological information—there are homonyms in kana as well, after all. This is a bit rare, however.
> F_{A->B} = G * M_A * M_B/d(A,B)^3

Your formula is wrong. It's either:

F_{a} = F_{b} = G * m_a * m_b/r^2

or

\vec{F} = G * m_a * m_b/|r|^3 * {\vec{r}}

> but where does that come from?

You find that by studying physics, not history of physics.

> it would have been intellectually pleasing(at least for me) to know how Physicists came with it, what's the motivation behind 1/d(A,B)^3, how did people come up with G, how it was measured, etc.

Yes, understanding a specific change in the state of physics at time T is most certainly helped by understanding it at time T-1. But make no mistake here, this is still physics and not history of physics (whatever that means).
I'm nostalgic for Blockbuster's disk-by-mail service, which had a much better selection than Netflix's ever did. (Ironically; considering how poor the selection in actual Blockbuster retail stores was.)

Whenever I wanted some mega-obscure Japanese or Thai movie, Netflix never had it and Blockbuster always did.

Oh well.
Ha, wow. OK I guess I need to give Amazon another look then. I think I maybe looked for these or similar ~ 1 year ago and went away disappointed. This is great. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure that's streaming on Netflix. (Australian catalogue)
My perspective: I moved to the States from an Eastern European country in the early 90's. We lived in a public housing project for about two years, before my parents saved enough money to move to the suburbs. What I remember: there was constant fighting, drug dealing, and public alcohol consumption; our apartment was broken into twice, my father was mugged once; there was trash and filth everywhere and people blasted music well into the night; very few people, sans my parents and other immigrants like them, had actual wage-paying jobs. There was just a general and very palpable feeling of social and moral decay.

The behaviors that I witnessed, that my parents witnessed, cannot be explained economically, because the immigrant families that lived there (Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, and some Russians) simply didn't exhibit these same "defective characteristics" or behaviors, even though we were just as poor (and learning a new language) - it was almost exclusively from the native population that had lived there before we arrived.

This indicates that the problem is either cultural, or something else. How do you fix the culture? That I don't know.
Very exciting extension of Neural Turing Machines. As a side note: Gated Graph Sequence Neural Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05493) perform similarly or better on the bAbI tasks mentioned in the paper. The comparison to existing graph neural network models apparently didn't make it into the paper (sadly).
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12695808
Recorded the network requests (from incognito) for fun with BugReplay, (the webapp I've been building for a bit over a year) here: https://app.bugreplay.com/shared/report/acf38fbd-f2e1-41c7-9...
I'm sure the emulator side could be done "unofficially" (like a separate third-party download) so the guys making the hardware don't catch any heat.
Ask HN: Finding a sublease or temporary office space in the Bay Area
We're a team of 3, working full time on our bootstrapped startup, and need to find some office space either close to Caltrain in San Francisco, or along the peninsula (also near Caltrain).

What are some of the strategies folks use for finding subleases or temporary spaces? Since it's just 3 of us, we only need 150-250 sq ft, which is proving difficult to find.
Interesting story and cool photos. Couldn't get to the end due to website design issues. Were these for horseback delivery or for airplanes?

Terrible, terrible UX in the form of a jittery delayed popover that fills the entire phone screen. If you are going to do this (and I can't stand the fact that it actually works on many people), make it so easy to dismiss and fast to load that I close it instead of instictively hitting back.
If you had an image taken by the satellite and the time the image was taken, then yes. Google maps doesn't make it obvious but not all satellite images are taken from directly overhead. Most are off angle, so by calculating the distance on the film between known points on the earth, you could have a pretty good idea of the location of the satellite.when the picture was taken.
Yeah, I'm not sure why car companies invested at all in attempting to build their own mapping software. It's a hard thing to do well, and I had been using GPS in the car since Windows 98 + Microsoft Streets + Garmin eMap + serial adapter running NEMA days. PC or smartphone navigation software has always been better than what is available in cars. Additionally, while the upgrade cycle for phones is yearly for some people, the upgrade cycle for cars can be 10 years or more, and good luck ever getting a software upgrade after buying a car.

Whatever car I buy next, I wouldn't buy without CarPlay. There are also replacement stereos which support this (e.g. Pioneer appradio) but given how most cars don't still use a 2 DIN slot for the radio and have much more integrated systems (drive modes, HVAC controls, etc on the "radio"), it's not even possible to upgrade many without losing significant factory functionality.

My hope is that auto mfgs wise up and realize that they've been wasting billions developing these in-house systems, and instead switch to just having the car be a dumb monitor + speakers with a connection to your phone which runs all of the non-critical systems.
I don't think so, since they'll cover all (or nearly all) of the earth the information that a satellite at an unknown time could see this spot doesn't tell you much.
And the mcguffin for the film Ice Station Zebra. Great film.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra
Open Data – Open for who?
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/our-dumb-world/

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
Might want to check and see how far behind you are in upgrades. Even though the on-prem version will never have feature parity (new features hit cloud first) it could be that whoever runs your instance hasn't upgraded in a little while.
Yeah, in my case I have a mix of open and minimized windows in a given app (Preview, iTerm, Emacs...), hence the issue.

MacOS is not keyboard-only-friendly. It took me a year before someone pointed out the option to let "Tab" cycle through ALL controls in a dialog >_< (FYI: System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, then at the bottom, the "Full Keyboard Access" radio buttons)
If you're willing to stream then buying from Amazon is an okay option.
UTF-16, and non-BMP planes, were devised in 1996. The author seems to have been 5 years late to the party.

UTF-16 was only made into a standard in 2000[0]

The first non-BMP characters weren't introduced until 2001[1]

From a historical perspective, less than a month after Unicode 3.1 was released officially, it was not clear that Unicode (the standard, not the technical implementation of the encoding) would actually work.

[0] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2781
[1] - http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr27/tr27-4.html
"Ok google turn on/off the flash light" works on my motorola nexus 6
How many hours per week do you work in the current job? How many will you work in your new job? What are you doing in the your free hours?
c) Watch another movie, paying its creator
(possibly the same as in option a)

If the minority's of people do that, the shared culture is going to stay, but it will ignore the movie of options a) and b), and include that of option c).
I agree that there is no bright line here. Nor are there bright lines in many other areas of life where inequality rears its head.

Is it fair that I can straightforwardly buy myself a better life than is available to others without means?

Is this more or less unfair than than what I can buy for my child? If anything I would say that the personal luxuries I buy for myself are more unfair than the educational opportunities I can buy for my kid. At least the latter is in pursuit of human capital formation and not just luxury spending.
It makes sense now, yes, but I don't think most people find living in California to be a huge drawback. And almost all jobs ask you to live somewhere.
While possible phonetically, it would be strange to see kanji transliterated as katakana.

But I guess there are some Japanese sources that are written all in katakana.
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Does anyone else find the period in "V.1" odd? It seems like it should be V0.1, not V1.0.
Good news! It's blocked by uBlock Origin and noscript.
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Assume an infinite number of brains.

Is it still possible to figure out a way to break the Laws of Nature? Yes or no, please.
I think they just announced that AWS is a first class supported platform (I'm here at their conference) so it might be worth looking again. Of course that might be Data Center products only so don't quote me on it. I'm sure someone from Atlassian is around here and can confirm.