skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, basically COBOL, which supposedly was a pogramming language so easy to use that managers could code the problems themselves without those pesky programmers that slow everything down all the time.
No touchbar integration? I can think of some very useful shortcuts around full screening
Insult is a common theme amongst closed minded people. Just because this particular theory is terrible doesn't mean you can bucket all theories you don't like in a "conspiracy theory" bucket. Judge a hypothesis on its merits, not its label.

What do you think about the recent news that South Korea is run by a psychic cult that groomed the president since youth? This is front page news. Are mainstream media outlets conspiracy theory idiots?
It looks like this is just another "equal area" projection. Many of these exist. Map projections are design to minimize certain distortions but at the expense of additional other distortions. Obviously since the world is round, you cannot minimize all of them. Other examples of distortions that a projection can aim to minimize are: distance, direction, scale, angle.

An example of another existing equal area projection is the Mollweide projection: [1] which you may have seen before.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide_projection
Why isn't the middle finger an option?
Go has excellent auto-completion support, even for vim. It's debugger (delve) is also decent, though not graphical. There are not many languages with better tooling than Go, in my experience.
Yes, we have done two offices with paneled glass as whiteboards.

We have a fabrication studio run by the owner's brother, who made the wood paneling, and attached runners for holding dry erase markers, and erases.

http://i.imgur.com/sJkFhXp.jpg
Thinner is one aspect of better and obviously not the only one. These machines are also faster, lighter (kinda important in a laptop), have better graphics, larger trackpad, a new screen that is much better, etc, etc, etc...

Like all products, they can be improved and compromising decisions had to be made during the design phase, but I find this Medium think piece really lacking in perspective and context.
Universal adversarial perturbations
Depends on how you define things. The fact that a gas car will have issues with very cold fuel or fuel outside an octane rating range is not a design flaw. But it is a thing you need to know.

You could say they learned something new about the rocket's exact "needs" and performance envelope, but you could also say that this sensitivity is something that should call for a design rev. Answer is likely yes and yes.
The categories that discrimination laws protect do include all people. The race category includes anyone with a race, the gender category includes everyone with a gender, etc. The protected categories are not the minorities. A guest can claim "the host seems to not like men" when both the host and the guest are men, and discrimination laws are invoked. It sounds silly in this context, but in a hiring context where a male manager prefers a female for an open position, a male applicant is being discriminated against.
In my experience, selling internationally means higher prices, which makes up for the occasional loss. It's like taking credit cards: You lose some revenue in fraud, and commissions, but make it back in additional sales.

I do choose which countries I sell to carefully, however.

My biggest "I didn't receive it" claim was from an American buyer, 3-4 days after the purchase.
> If it's a system-enforced GC, you are limited in what you can do.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but do many C programmers understand not only the current state of malloc at any given moment in their code but exactly how it works?

I think not.

A lot of the things you do in C++ to reduce memory management overhead are the same things you can do in Java, C#, and Go to reduce memory management overhead. That effort is neither special nor universal.

HLLs often have to be careful about using language features that unexpectedly create garbage, but in terms of actual management and collection it's not like ANY competent modern language is slow at it.

People often seem to neglect the fact that Java is still surprisingly fast despite spending lots of time on memory management just because many developers are so insensitive to how things alloc. Modern GC systems can manage allocs as well as deallocs, so with care from the programmer and the runtime authors you can reach the kind of performance people talk about as critical for "embedded systems" (even though in practice SO many things do not deliver on this promise in shipped products!).
Save the Pies for Dessert [pdf]
ΧΕΙΡΟΠΟΙΗΤΑ ΚΟΣΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΕ ΗΜΙΠΟΛΥΤΙΜΟΥΣ ΛΙΘΟΥΣ
> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.js. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).

> None of the “sha256” hashes in the integrity attribute match the content of the subresource.
emacs:-)

Honestly I'd rather write Common Lisp in emacs talking to PostgreSQL and fronted by NGINX than C++ in Visual Studio talking to SQLServer and fronted by IIS.
Virtualbox? Or something else?
Ive looks more like an implementer than a visionary to me.
For a 2008 Macbook, $100-$200 on fleabay.

I have been looking at 2008-2009 27" iMacs, and they still go for US$700-800. Since OS X has to be built for underpowered laptops, it should still perform well on desktops for a while longer.
FYI: if somebody doesn't want to wire everything, there's a pretty good solution: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

EDIT: just to be clear, I think that the tutorial itself is valuable and I appreciate it. I just wanted to post the link to CRA before somebody will come here complaining about "JS fatigue". I use most of the tools that tutorial describes and will use it to learn more about wiring testing-related tools. So yeah - thanks for posting the link and for the author(s) for taking the time to create such resource.
The Irrational Downfall of Park Geun-Hye
Does anybody have a link to a high-quality image?
5 Steps to Trading Success
Whether it was malice or not, you should always think about how something like this could have been prevented instead of blaming people. And I believe even the simplest framework with proper isolation and explicit crossing of trust boundaries could eliminate these kinds of security problems.
I've seen a number of neural network approaches for super-resolution like waifu, but I haven't seen something general purpose thats better than bicubic/fourier/nearest neighbor.

Would be nice if the author did a comparison.
Quite a rambler( falls into a few annoying cliches), but does show some of the interaction between physical/digital and in areas this site almost acts like it doesn't exist.

Could have quite the drinking game with Jefferson/Hamilton as your trigger(though you'll end up under the table).
That answer is fair, and it sounds like btmorex is completely wrong. Thank you.
Don't you want to know if your recipe takes 10 minutes or 10 hours to cook?
So does this reflect a waning interest in sports, or are these subscribers going elsewhere?
Influence-peddling in South Korea
> Basically you feast all day and eat big at night and in the morning.

I guess you meant that you fast during the day and feast at night.
Gaaa! I can't find the reference to a short story I've read about an over-developed future where the entertainment of the time is "athlete performers wearing body/environment capture suits" who are trained for "any scenario" and then randomly dropped into alien primitive populations where they have to survive, live without detection, and their "reality show goal" is to become a leader or otherwise pivotal to that primitive race, all the while not being discovered by "the Federation" type of modern police because such intervention with a primitive race is highly illegal. The public watches it all in a "body sim" like VR player. Is this triggering anybody's memory? Can't believe I'm blanking on the author...
Numba: a Python JIT
This is good news

Entrenched business need to suffer pain to move.

In this case, not ESPN necessarily, but NFL and other content providers
Cord-cutting?
article replaced?
It's people moving away from paying for cable, probably people that don't have much interest in sports but were paying for ESPN as part of the default bundle of channels. I suspect a large portion of them never watched ESPN to begin with.
CGAL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793220 (from a few days ago).

Options!
Pretty sure it's both. I think that esports are kind of displacing traditional sports for 'millennials'.
VirtualBox is in maintenance mode. Nothing cool has happened in the past few years. This release is not noteworthy.
I appreciate the effort, certainly do. But, and this a big but: the amount of tooling, libraries, complexity and systems needed for a "modern" web app is almost comical at this point.
Wow. Is this really as bad as it sounds? I'm no security researcher but this sounds quite bad:

"AtomBombing is performed just by using the underlying Windows mechanisms. There is no need to exploit operating system bugs or vulnerabilities.

Since the issue cannot be fixed, there is no notion of a patch for this"

I'm guessing that if this starts to be a popular attack vector, security firms would try to come up with some sort of atom integrity checker or something, but still, this doesn't look good.

Or am I missing something and maybe it's really not that bad? any one has any resources to read up more on atoms (besides the research paper)?
Hispanics, it says so in the article.

>According to a Pew Research Center survey last year, almost a quarter of teens used Vine; and of those surveyed, 31 percent identified as black (non-Hispanic) and 24 percent as Hispanic.
Did the Architect from the Matrix write that?
>do people really mind the look of typical roof-mount solar

It depends on the person and it depends on the house design. IMO, some roof-top solar installations look pretty ugly.

To your cost point, yeah, it's still hard to look at a lot of solar as something that works financially today for most people even with the price drops--if having an off-the-grid backup doesn't have a lot of value.

As various people here are quoting, $1K/year covers electricity use for a lot of people. Even if you double that to account for higher usage or price increases, it's hard to square that with a $20K or solar/battery installation even if you ignore maintenance and depreciation.
The lack of NFL on Netflix and Amazon Prime is the only thing that makes me reconsider cable. I haven't but it hurts. Sports bars just don't cut it.
Academia, Love Me Back
Fundamentals of capacitive touch technology
QGIS version 2.18.0
It's likely a combination of a few things including people going directly to NFL (Gamepass), NBA, NHL and MLB for the content as well as people simply dropping cable altogether. Those cable subscribers might not have cared/watched sports anyway, though they /paid/ for it and were counted as "subscribers" on ESPN numbers.

Another way to think about it. ESPN, outside commentary and opinion, is really nothing more than a middleman. The leagues can go direct to the consumer and they likely will do this much more in the future.

ESPN cannot go direct to consumer per the contracts. It is required that to consume much of the ESPN content, you need a cable subscription (even to stream on the internet). That is a broken model and is slowly (or quickly?) dying. That's not great for NFL etc but horrible for ESPN. The sports leagues could recover, ESPN likely couldn't.
Finland has 2.1 people per household so ~2.75 million households. Suggesting they are even more popular.
So is not possible to self-install them?
Just a Google search of places dirtier than the toilet
If fewer and fewer people are watching football each year, I'm unclear what NFL's argument will be for charging more for the rights, or even the same amount.
The Online Public Database on Land Deals
that could just be from a survey?
It just impacts ESPN the most because ESPN costs every cable and satellite subscriber roughly $7 a month, over triple the next most expensive cable channel.

Yep, if you have a cable or satellite subscription, whether you watch ESPN or not, you're paying ESPN over $80 a year.

At some point, the decline will be enough to kill these deals.
This left me curious and just checked that in EU, 50% of emissions are due heating and cooling [1] whereas in the US 20% of residential electricity [2] is used for air conditioning. I'd like to have better stats, but assuming numbers are correct this indicates that the difference of CO2 emissions between US and EU per capita are due other reasons than a/c use in US.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/roadmaps/docs/2015_ener...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/oct/08/air-cond...
NFL gamepass does the trick most of the time. Includes RedZone as well.

Sometimes a game is blacked out which requires a VPN to see any specific game, but RedZone and NFL Live are always good, as far as I've seen.

https://gamepass.nfl.com/nflgp/secure/schedule
Your scenario would save lives, but we have no way of knowing if we are in that scenario.

If you know that after ten thousand deaths, the technology will be good enough to start saving more lives every year, then your utilitarian argument works. The problem is that you can't possibly ever know that in advance. It's equally plausible that the last 0.001% will take decades to solve, or even remain out of reach indefinitely. Then you just threw away ten thousand lives for nothing.

This is why the burden of proof needs to be on the new system, and why the precautionary principle applies.
The Global Human Settlement Layer: an amazing new global population dataset
While its true that you probably do not need to be very good at math to do basic graphics, you do need 'some' math. You need to be able to understand the basic algorithms of the graphics pipeline to use them correctly and experiment. The best source for a detailed and 'gentile' intro is still one of the introduction to computer graphic books. You can sit with a pad of paper and work through some of the formulas on paper until you understand what they do.

One of my favorites, because it does not use any particular language and the math derivations are detailed and easy to fallow.

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics - Shirley
https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Computer-Graphics-Peter-...
You may be right. The wording is ambiguous on whether declining requires cancelation or not. Anyone seen the UI of the agreement dialog yet?
Ask HN: What do you do when a competitor offers their service for free?
This competitor is planning to monetize their user base indirectly, probably valuing them as an email list.

However, I think this service provides enough value alone that people would pay for it. I don't think they realize it, because they are not their own end users (whereas I am building the service based on my own needs).

I'd really prefer not to build my own freemium version to compete with them. I think my service can be slightly better, but a free version would take away most people who would have chosen the cheapest plan.

Anyone have a story that is related?
Well sending a message that a remote province is being invaded, is useful. Especially if you can send that message days faster than runners can send messages. Its also very useful to coordinate ships.

The difference between steam engines is that steam engines were very difficult to build. Semaphore is very simple and a trial system wouldn't be expensive to set up.

The Romans did use crude fire signals, so I think that proves that they would find it useful.
It also lets me test/try out different releases, distributions of Linux/BSD/Android.
It's gonna hit player salaries pretty hard. ~1/2 of revenue goes to players.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/11200179/nfl-teams-divide...

$171 million of player costs against $324 million in revenues.
Sounds like you did the exact wrong thing at your last job. "Going with the flow" is usually the best practice.

At least Windows can be run in a VM unlike Hitler's OS (for the dim-witted: that's OS X).
In the interest of giving the fuller discussion:

Picketty's book has been out for a while now. It is good economics. It deserves rightful praise, and scrutiny.

Acemoglu and Robinson's answer[1] is also good economics. Digestible podcast form here [2]. It purports that Picketty's "r>g" model is flawed. It also deserves a reading.

All of this is part of a larger discussion, which C21 started. r > g doesn't seem to explain nearly as much as Picketty presents in the book, but that doesn't mean his larger idea is fundamentally invalid, or that he didn't introduce something valuable.

[1] http://economics.mit.edu/files/10422
[2] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/11/daron_acemoglu.html
"By the mid-1st century AD this meant that glass vessels had moved from a valuable, high-status commodity, to a material commonly available: “a [glass] drinking cup could be bought for a copper coin” (Strabo, Geographica XVI.2)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_glass

As for manufacturing lenses, you can get by without many tools with cunning techniques. Molten glass naturally forms curved shapes and can be polished by fire. Leeuwenhoek made tiny lenses in the 1600s, although no one knows for sure exactly how (he made a point of not sharing) - one technique that's known to work is drawing the glass into a fine thread, snapping the thread, and heating the end so it forms a tiny ball.
And then there's this: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/28/macbook-pro-tb3-reduced-...

"MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) The two right-hand ports deliver Thunderbolt 3 functionality, but have reduced PCI Express bandwidth."
How can one run Microsoft IE VMs in Docker? Genuine question, since I have to do Internet Explorer debugging.
I think you're right about house sizes, but there are a lot of the US that needs both summer AC and winter heating - like the midwest, the north east, and probably the west coast east of the mountains (inland Washington, Oregon).
do you have proof of this? microsoft is the second largest company in the world behind apple so it's hard to believe
There's also sites like http://hehestreams.xyz that offer this — at an even higher quality — so you don't have to use a VPN. Reborn4HDLife is also in the category.
(Author here.) My biggest insight from this project is that super-resolution with neural networks benefits significantly from being domain specific. If you train on broader datasets, it does pretty well but has to make compromises. Many recent papers do a comparison in terms of pixel similarity (PSNR/SSIM), and using those metrics the quality drops because high-frequency detail is punished under those criteria (even though it may look better perceptually). Reference: http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04802

On GitHub, below each GIF there's a demo comparison, but on the site you can also submit your own to try it out (click on title or restart button). Takes about 60s currently; running on CPU as GPUs are busy training ;-)
No-one expects this policy to be enforced completely successfully, but no law or rule against discrimination ever is. I see no reason why it could not make a positive difference.

As to your final question, why so cynical? I imagine Airbnb came up with this when they recognized that discriminatory behavior by hosts was a serious problem. I doubt that Airbnb are secretly in favor of racism and doing this for some other reason.
Sorry I'm a bit cable-consumer illiterate, can someone explain is ESPN a separate premium channel these days on cable? It used to be I believe included in the offering just above "basic cable." Is this no longer the case? I am guessing you subscribe to just ESPN now? Otherwise there would be no way to get exact subscriber loss numbers correct?
City of drones
google has one http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8O__73q...
I liked when we just had USB2 and all you had to do was try to plug it in once, flip it over, try to plug it in again, flip it over once more, now it plugs in, and now you're reasonably sure it'll work.

And now the near-future seems to be full of dongles, shame.
I haven't calculated the distortions yet, nor found anyone who has, but I'm guessing it's inferior to dymaxion or waterman, plus it cuts out a little bit of the map to make it fold right.

However, it's a RECTANGLE, that's huge. that means we can use it on screens and that non-map geeks would be OK with it.
Buttery Smooth Emacs
It's not just a battery box. There's some pretty advanced liquid cooling and an inverter in there.
Wtf is hitler os? It probably does run in vbox whatever it is. Don't forget to compile with --disable-godwin
> Just disagree with the parent who implied that Airbnb's new rules are sufficient for classifying landlords as employees. ("If AirBnB is able to dictate what it's landlords can and can't do that makes them disguised employees")

"The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done." IRS[1]

To your point, it is somewhat more complicated than that, and the IRS used to have a 20 factor test (now an 11 factor test) but it can basically be boiled down to: if AirBNB can specify HOW the services shall be rendered in detail, instead of simply the results or when they will be delivered, then the IRS can re-classify those contractors as employees.

In practice, and even though I think AirBNB is not in the moral right place here, I can't imagine IRS rules being applied in circumstances like this (i.e., where a contractor is actually the one doing the selling in someone else's marketplace.) In other words, AirBNB, Amazon, or Ebay vendors can sell things according to the marketplace's strict rules (which specify HOW) without being re-classified. If I was AirBNB, I'd argue that I was the marketplace and not the merchant of record for the items (e.g. insert the seller name into the credit card receipt). This is a tricky thing, though.. who is liable for a harmful item sold at Walmart -- Walmart, the manufacturer, or both? We all know the answer to that.

IANAL and I'd appreciate correction or expansion from tax/employment law lawyers.

1. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
As someone who's only used high-level UI stacks (DOM, WPF, Android view system, etc.), I would love to read a great article that's a "Casual Introduction to Low-Level Graphics Programming", these are basics that I've been meaning to add to my quiver for a long time. Unfortunately, this less-than-coherent article is not it.
Absolutely love this site; learnt so much going through this in, gosh, 2005-odd.
Cord cutting is a big part of this, but there is a cultural aspect in play as well:

ESPN has been increasingly pushing a progressive narrative on its viewers, many, perhaps most, of whom are conservatives. The NFL is seeing the same thing, with big declines in viewership since the national anthem protests began.

I see a lot of newly developed/developing antipathy towards professional sports among my right-wing acquaintances. What's funny is that the reasoning is often very similar to what my left-wing acquaintances had to say back when I was at Berkeley.

As with the libertarian -> alt-right shift of the last five years, I think it is one of the more interesting sociological developments I am aware of, and largely unremarked upon by the press.
An HD antenna will get you a couple games each week. If you live near your team, you'll likely get that game on the local channel unless it's MNF/SNF/TNF.
Wasn't USB supposed to be the connector to rule them all? Now it seems we're going backwards where just because you have a connector doesn't mean it supports what you want.
Can you get NFL Gamepass directly without a Cable/Satellite service provider? I thought that was a Direct TV exclusive. But maybe that expired?