skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... as compared to the known, ongoing and serious contamination of the environment due to coal plants, of course.

Do you have a citation for the CFL concern? I'm not expert in this area, but my quick checking only reveals this [1]:

> Even if the mercury contained in a CFL was directly
> released into the atmosphere, an incandescent would
> still contribute 4.65 more milligrams of mercury into
> the environment over its lifetime.

Basically the same info from the EPA as well, here [2].

[1]: http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/a1733/4217864/

[2]: https://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_lig...
Hahaha nope, the US is desperate to continue its dominance over the market to sustain their surveillance apparatus and will deal with anyone, company and org that attempts to prevent their surveillance capabilities in a highly aggressive manner.

They just sabotaged the phone manufacturing process to create room for Googles Pixel and Apple. Samsung is just incapable of handling the level of sabotage that was dealt against them.

This is just part for the course for the US, and I'm a bit surprised Samsung is this negligent in preparing for these types of actions that were highly suspected for a while.

Edit: for background for those other than the fanboys and tech bros, corporate sabotage is such a norm in American business the FBI has an entire division dedicated to investigating it, as do military intelligence for companies involved in military contracts. SpaceX and ULA is one such example where military intelligence is involved in investigating corporate sabotage.

Many major companies have teams and processes for this purpose.

As for Samsung, they seem to have picked up extremely bad business habits, and themselves are also known to participate in sabotaging their competitors as stated by other Koreans unfortunate enough to challenge them.
In case you want to try it and don't know any Kanji: https://app.kanjialive.com/search/%E3%81%A6

Each paragraphs ends with "Read more or watch a demo video." Perhaps you can add a "try it live"/"try it now" with the link to the exact kanji. Anyway, this looks more useful to people like me that don't know any kanji than to the students or the intended users.
Annual car taxes in germany have been based on emissions for around two decades already. This is the step after that.
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Wow, right. When I first saw the link I thought, "Excellent, MS are contributing some good to the world via accessibility tools". By the time I had scanned the page, I had come to the conclusion that it was just marketing blather for their equivalent of material design.

Maybe they're testing AI-generated content?
If you look at it, the main problem here seems to be that the way evaluation essentially works (even on the first level of the funnel) has not evolved over the years. People ask algorithm-based questions for assessing developers because there's simply no other tool that allows you to evaluate on these actionable skills. For example, how do you evaluate someone on their understanding of JavaScript's prototypical inheritance? Sure, a text I/O based problem (which HackerRank and others) use cannot help you do this. So you resort to MCQs. Asking a JavaScript guy to solve a problem using dynamic programming simply doesn't make sense.

Technical evaluation needs to evolve.
I didn't know I was making a disgusting comment by using a common English expression that applies to both men and women.
As I say, it's been years. I don't recall -> and ; at all. (Was there ever a time when they weren't in the language?) They look much nicer than cut and the implicit control flow.

I am, actually, right now struggling with priority-and-constraint-based register allocation and instruction selection for a compiler backend. It is so the right kind of problem for Prolog.
It's worth noting that one of the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was a longtime researcher in Traditional Chinese Medicine, who developed a malaria treatment based on a TCM practice[1], saving millions of lives.

But there's another kind of evidence that is at least somewhat suggestive of some degree of efficacy: the market.

In spite of all the studies claiming to disprove alternative medicine, and in spite of all the ridicule from skeptics, millions of people spend billions of dollars on natural/alternative treatments.

Some of them (including some I know personally), are more highly educated, and far more science-literate than the average person, and the average "skeptic". They certainly know how to tell the difference between a placebo and a genuine benefit.

Which is of course not to say that all CAM practices are always beneficial for all people/conditions.

But like everything in the natural world, human health is complex and multi-faceted, and such rigid, simplistic positions as "alternative medicine is never more effective than a placebo" rarely turn out to be completely true.

[1] http://theconversation.com/is-the-2015-nobel-prize-a-turning...
Thanks! I've sent you an email. :D
> However I think you're treading a thin line by focusing solely on the desired outcome of one individual

When you apply for a position, are you doing it for the "greater good" or will you have a desired outcome for one individual- that is yourself?

There are so many different ways to skip the hiring pipeline that are widely accepted: would you consider recommendations from current employees or acqhiring as unfair?
Thanks. This is useful.
Yeah it's more popular than I thought it would be. Currently seeding it with my 1Gbit which is maxed out at ~112MB/sec, and looking at the peers there are people from all over the world that are grabbing it. Either there are lots of VPN users in the swarm or people are very interested in reading what the dump contains.

Hopefully we'll see some more revalations in the upcoming days, I am worried about the path Turkey is going but in the end it is the Turkish citizens that decide.
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Yes, but they wouldn't be able to do that abruptly. That's why they are now forcing all American companies to create "joint ventures" with the local Chinese companies, which can steal the American technology, and then say 10 years later, the American part can be removed.

And American companies seem to go along with it, thinking they have no choice. They do, but they're too scared to lose the Chinese market to risk anything at all, and second, they're too shortsighted to create strong alliances with their competitors to speak out against Chinese policies.

Think about how Microsoft was ecstatic that Google was getting banned from China, believing this would be an "opportunity" for the company to gain market share - it wasn't. Baidu filled out all the vacuum left by Google. And now Microsoft has to accept whatever bullshit policies China throws at it, too.

Instead of allying with Google and others, it thought it can pull one over Google. That's the kind of shortsighted thinking I'm talking about. If American companies want to thrive in China, they need to create strong alliances and cooperate more against bad Chinese government policies, and not sell each other out for some promised short-term gains, that they'll lose in the end to local companies anyway.
We started seeing more sophisticated DPI capabilities after the Feb '14 internet regulations[0] that required ISPs to block by URL and content strings

IMO blocking so many sites so broadly is a sign that their DPI is failing, because their preference seems to be to block as narrowly as possible because of negative economic effects.

[0] http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-s-general-assembly-ratifie...
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This appears to be limited to explaining the server side, which is only a tiny fraction of actual web applications. In practice, the client side is often equally important, or even more so than the server side.
There are stages because there are multiple situations in which code has to run in: without RAM, with RAM, ...

I'm curious, what do you propose instead?
There are a quite a few Buddhist monks who perform acts that are clearly contrary to the Buddha's teachings. Self harm is a very obvious one. A monk commits suicide for whatever reason and that implicates Buddhism? I don't think so. I think it's a dramatic demonstration of failure to overcome attachment to an idea (although he certainly overcame attachment to his body).
> they’re usually cross-licensed, and just slightly rewritten

I'd expect that "slightly rewritten" articles aren't licensed or in syndication, they're plagiarized. (and not necessarily one from the other, but in some cases plagiarized from a common source) One common exception being if the articles have the same author.
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Whoever is deleting or editing to erase, can you please stop? It is disrespectful to people who have replied.
The official client is closed source and releases are obfuscated, but there have been mappings (MCP) for quite a few years now.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Programs_and_editors/Mod_Code...

The protocol is also well documented: http://wiki.vg/Protocol
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As far as I know, Git Flow does not make any assumptions or recommendations about testing. This is why this article seemed like it is arguing against a straw man.

For example:

> And then, git flow recommends that for going to production, you build packages from the master branch, and release them. The problem is that by building a new package or binary from the master branch, you invalidate all the testing you did in the develop branch.

It's not a problem unless you forgot to run your full test suite on the new master branch before building the release artifact, which I think is best-practice and not limited to any development methodology.
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> the former accountant ended up outdoors after a divorce and a brain tumor.

Sounds like our current resource allocation system here in the US is working great! Seems like a totally sensible reason for a human being to be forced to live without basic shelter. They obviously have no useful skills to provide society so let's just throw them away. What a time to be alive!
I saw the previous post as well. I know how it feels having a good idea is not easy. Even people say talk to people and find pain points in their work is easier said than done.

I guess it's partly because we are used to these pain points for a long period of time we don't feel it as a pain point anymore or even though we have a good idea it's not easy to build it as we need lot of capital to do so.

Also even if we have a good idea monetizing is a whole new ball game altogether. Like the chrome extension I'm hacking together on weekends which allows people to search for restaurants around them. I have no idea how I can monetize it and just build it for the challenge of making it.

I think one option is to keep on making cool things. Do something challenging and keep pushing out new things whenever you can. And finally one will stick. I don't think it's easy but if one keep persistent in shipping new things definitely one will become a success.

Like in a similar post I have made like this in the past I remember one commenting, we as HN users believe that everything that we make should be like Airbnb or Uber due to the illusion of success in many startups. But that is not the case and it all comes down to being persistent and enjoying the journey along the way.
95 pts 6 hours ago and we're on page 2 but should be in the top 3. Well Samsung's PR staff is doing something at least, lol...
Adding one aspect to this already comprehensive list of good advice: Read good code.

There is a lot to be learned from writing code as it forces you to make decisions. This can be done in part on paper and in batch programming mode. There is also a lot to be learned from reading not just snippets and algorithms but from studying complete works. Software is a lot about architecture and integration. A stack of printed code and a #2 pencil is all it takes.
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The official server isn't open source, but the Java bytecode can be decompiled into something approximating usable code. The protocol itself is also unencrypted and unobfuscated. All of this together makes it relatively simple to reverse engineer it.

Aside: Documentation obtained this way is available at http://wiki.vg/Protocol.

Some slides about the process: https://www.grahamedgecombe.com/talks/minecraft.pdf
OnePlus 3 doesn't require invites to buy outright though (unlike 1 and 2).
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This page gives a pretty good rundown on how to create a listing: http://www.systutorials.com/240/generate-a-mixed-source-and-....

Basically it's a listing that intermixes the original C code with the generated assembly.

It worked fine on my Ubuntu 16.04 system, running GCC 5.4.0 so I don't understand what was better before.
I don't think the calculation has been made public but obviously that number was derived through a political process in the government. It is rumored that it was meant to be 40k in the first place, excluding almost all models.

Note that the 60k also excludes some German models such as the BMW i8 which would otherwise be eligible.
Because there's a good chance that the economy couldn't handle it on their own, or that they would take very long.

There's the chicken-egg-problem of no one driving electric cars, therefore no one building charging stations, therefore no one buying electric cars.

This problem isn't going to solve itself without someone investing a lot of money into building charging stations. And so far, such an investment was an extreme risk. There was no guarantee that you'd make a dime off of your money.

With this ban upcoming, you're essentially guaranteed to make money in at most 15 years.
> gaming journalism

Fun fact: this is what Gamergate was (supposedly) originally about before it escalated into whatever it is now. This is why you still occasionally hear the phrase "ethics in game journalism" in discussions about GG.
If users can issue arbitrary commands on an instance then that instance should have zero Iam roles and should delegate actions to services running on separate instances.

The instances hosting our users go a step further and null route Metadata service requests via iptables.
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Those stages are not much different from the 'secret' firmware you're running now.
In turn, game companies hire good writers to not make their copy read like a press release so journos don't have to change as much.
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Ask HN: Turkey has GitHub, dropbox etc. blocked. What is a good VPN to be using?
obviously doing any kind of work in this country is pretty hard, so which VPN services are decent and secure? any personal experiences? please share, thanks. I haven't seen any recommendations in their respective threads.
thanks idiot now they will block ycombinator
Outside gaming journalism I believe the term is "native advertising".

Obligatory Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
I disagree... you just need to put in the proper time, and kind of activity.

What approach did you take? How many hours per day were you actively exposed and trying to understand?
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It is truly sad that in by far the richest country in the world, and ostensibly the best, millions of people are living this way.

Why on earth Americans are not fixing America, I have no idea.
It depends on the timescale you want to operate with.

Also, you'd need to reverse the topsoil destruction and the spread of agricultural exploitation, which is not going to be easy when the population keeps on growing.
>Forgive me, but why is the fact that a university is offering a class to its students (hacker)news-worthy? Isn't that what universities do?

Assuming your comment is non-troll.

A lot of the HN community happens to be involved in / has been involved in some form of higher education (especially in CS) at some point in their life, so it is always interesting to see what an institution like Stanford is teaching the next generation of potential leaders of the tech (and future HN users) especially in a field with infinite potential like AI.
It's a mistake to assume there's a direct relationship between fuel efficiency and environmental performance.

Diesel cars are more efficient than conventional petrol vehicles, but at the cost of significantly worse air pollution.
Charlie proxy has great support for viewing web sockets traffic live, which has been a great help for me. Not sure if it can inject traffic though.
> I suspect there is some neuroplasticity involved in language--certain sounds seem to be indistinguishable to non-native speakers after a certain age.

I suppose (just my personal not scientifically founded opinion) being able to distinguish foreign language phonemes is a skill akin to absolute pitch. If you acquire it early on you'll be able to apply it to whatever new language you encounter later in life. It'd be interesting to see if this also applies to phonemes that are formed in a manner entirely from the ones you're used to from your native language (like being able to grasp tonemes in Mandarin Chinese as a native English speaker).

Then again a lack in pronunciation skills in a particular foreign language also often is simply about utility: Using your own native set of phonemes to mimic foreign language phonemes most of the time will get you far enough to be reasonably understandable while adopting truly native-sounding phonetics means a lot of additional work with often little perceived benefit. I suppose the Pareto principle applies in that case.
What I've done for a previous company was to, as one of the very first things done within every EC2 instance, add an iptables owner match rule to only allow packets destined to 169.254.169.254 if they come from uid 0. Any information from that webservice that non-root users might need (for instance, the EC2 instance ID) is fetched on boot by a script running as root and left somewhere in the filesystem.
Yet another prior is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega
Well at least, is it from ad only? or subscription?
But it's just not true? "accepting a date" from how many people? 0-3? I guess for bar/club goers perhaps it's different. But the notion that you're going to have a substantial number of people "lined up" if you're just going about your life is simply false. Sure you can ask people out, but then it's as much of a choice as going online is. Not a default you're passively opted into.

Even OP has admitted that they were easily getting many dates online yet still they had to reject a lot of people (I assume?). And (again assumedly) that is not picky [cause they had "issues"], while somebody not picking whoever from a small pool is.

And that's all without going into how the cohort of people doing the approaching can be skewed in an unfavorable way, the scariness and increased risk of accepting a date in person etc.

I don't want into arguments about definitions. My point is, for the average computer literate person, going on the Internet is the expected rational choice. Or perhaps more widely, that the Internet meme of "women have it easier, there's something wrong with ones that can't find a suitable date" is based on rather troubling judgments.
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> 6th man to walk on the Moon

I like how bad-ass his signature is.
An admin user could fetch these subsets of the metadata and leave a copy of them in the local filesystem.
Thanks, good to know. This practice still leaves me a really sour taste though.
Maybe at www.rfidjournal.com
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I'm not following your question.
There's truth to this of course, but I do find that self-imposed checkpoints are a great source of motivation. Rather than 1 algorithm/day, a better plan (in my experience) would be to find a nice textbook, and schedule a chapter/month (depending on the density of the chosen text) with flexibility.
what is happening, i saw couple of minecraft posts?
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I downloaded and signed up for Git Kraken about a year ago. Good tool, that I use from time to time alongside the command line for Git. I especially like their branch visualisation.

I am a little concerned though, because I thought that I had a 'free for life' licence as per their original promotional campaign. Does this now mean that future upgrades will remove functionality or lock down the software if I don't upgrade to the Pro version? I am a one man software house (so I fit the first requirement for an 'always free version') but I have been in business for over 2 decades now, which negates the second part.

If this is the case, then I have other choice but to move back to SourceTree for a free GUI client for Git. I am not that tied to Git Kraken that it precludes me from moving back to pure command line or SourceTree. There is also no 'lock in' for software that is basically a wrapper around a command line system that doesn't really add anything extra to the functionality.
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We could administer it a test of some sort, and evaluate the ensuing conversation, whether it's convincingly human. I think it'd be fitting name this test in honor of some forefather of computer science.
I can suggest a simple approach that worked for me. I learned to code without a computer by reading interesting coding books and writing my programs on graph paper. I did not worry about my approach because I did this for fun. I made each decision about my learning based on whether it was interesting and that it expanded and exercised my knowledge. Save written programs. Carefully play the role of the computer and execute your own programs and use graph paper for pixels. Copy and modify code from books. Know that you're building a foundation and going to the great lengths that only a great coder would attempt.
In his specific examples, it's grid-scale and cars, and neither of those are really disposed of the same way lightbulbs are (especially for grid-scale you can really crank up the regulation)

Putting them in phones would be a problem though.
Wouldn't it be easier to add stronger version control (think track changes) to gui document editors?
I made a video of this when it was in its infancy, back in January 2011. At this point, it was known as MCServer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUjqsz3FJI
Not to mention peptic ulcers, which doctors said were stress related until someone [1] discovered a bacteria responsible for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
Digital magazine company. I have thousands of subscribers that pay me $2 / month. I pay royalties to content providers. I work about 10 hours a month on the project.
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By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate. So says the semiconductor industry's last ever communal roadmap

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/25/semiconductor_indust...
With "a while back" I meant from '98 until 2005 (after that it was Merkel only).

Yes, VW is atrocious, but trust me, it was worse in the 90s.
> Like the chrome extension I'm hacking together on weekends which allows people to search for restaurants around them. I have no idea how I can monetize it

Have you considered paid promotion by restaurants to be at the top of the list?
Wouldn't it be funny if you added an RSS entry that linked to an otherwise unpublished page with the url path /i-am-a-bot-that-posts-to-hackernews with a matching title to go?
My understanding is that the terms and conditions you agreed to initially still stand, but if you upgrade you'll have to agree to a new set.