skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

-- President Eisenhower, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech

(Adjust for inflation; insert your own cost substitute for the $800,000 artillery shells. Eight Teslas? Solar panels for 160 homes?)

One of the paradoxes of the Cold War was that it led to talk of disarmament, multilateral or otherwise. It seems that will to talk has been lost.

One of the paradoxes of the Iraq War was not only the spending of multi-million-dollar munitions to destroy civilian buildings occupied by enemy infantry, but the need to spend the same money again to rebuild the buildings in an attempt to rebuild the peace.

(I don't know whether there's any building which was rebuilt by the coalition only to be blown up by the coalition again, but perhaps there's such an example in Mosul.)
Though I believe it's practiced in Estonia.
I think Westworld is perfect example of a powerful new show with a large canvas that could struggle. The writing is delicate and nuanced, the cast a tour de force and the acting sublime.

However the plot development of the AI by Nolan is a bit complex and layered which in many way makes it intriguing but also I think leaves casual viewers struggling to engage. A core fan base is already engaged but the numbers show that inspite of being clearly imho some of the best television in a long time it might not be renewed because its too expensive to develop.

I personally think the weekly format is not friendly to this kind of complex show, viewers are not able to hold the strings together in their head or have no desire to keep track. At least 2 episodes a week or more can help alleviate this but that changes the economics and dynamics of how these shows are written and shot and in the interim there is room for HNs favourite word 'disruption'.
“Which country do you want to live in, a great country or a normal country?”

The problem is, neither one is offered anywhere to anybody. You end up living in a depressed shard of Russian State with fake history, be it Russia, Belarus or Ukraine.

Russia a bit richer, Belarus a little bit more "normal", Ukraine the third one.

The concept of "normal country" is very Soviet and peculiar on its own. Every country out there stems from its history. You can't really have a blank slate "normal country" where you want it much like you could not have "a democracy" in place of Iraq or Libya. It has to be about something.
> It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.

Your point was good, it didn't need this poor stereotyping.
It's not stealing if you explicitly allow them to take it, as is the case with BSD and MIT licenses.
Consistency is already eventually consistent.
I'm not the big privacy advocate, but have this turned off because I can't see any convincing (to/for me) use case for storing all that crap :)
How does it compare to boost.fiber (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/libs/fiber/doc/html/ind...)?
Hey jbryum, thanks for clarifying.
Oh absolutely. My point was mainly that just having a CS degree isn't a guarantee of, well, anything really.
In my opinion it's Javascript. Everything is javascript now and I see it as step backwards.
'working full time' != 'good'. Some of us choose not to work all year round.
Nice although I am sceptical.

I kind of enjoyed the current userbase.

Not sure I'd like anything that pushes HN far and wide.
>No problem, if i would be in a situation where it's constantly in my peripheral view, i would talk to you.

That sounds like a pretty heavy safe space invasion. I don't think I'd appreciate you talking to me about my hardware preferences.
And all of the USA's OSM data in just 5 GB on your SD card if you want.
Blue Apron food is not really cheap and you can't really "binge" on it given the portion sizes.
Oh please.
Having signed up for a trial the major downfall from your on-boarding process is that there is no test data for me to have a play with.

I want to give you guys a chance but my initial evaluation needs to be with some dummy data tailored to your features so you can showcase these.
Thanks, we have improved it, you can find the menu by clicking your avatar on console.
Why Deep Learning Is Radically Different from Machine Learning
Exactly - given the prevalence of "psychopath" in common conversation as violent, unreasonable etc., perhaps I should have specified further or instead used "sociopath".
Am I the only one who can't even stand Big Bang Theory?
Somewhat mixed, financially.

The Guardian have a massive endowment (£842 million), but have also
been failing to meet costs based on advertising and subscriptions
revenues.

FT have an article (search headline via Google in Incognito mode to
read):

Guardian launches paid membership scheme
https://www.ft.com/content/39ad0574-390d-11e4-9526-00144feab...

The Guardian has launched a paid membership scheme, as it seeks to narrow operating losses that reached £33.8m last year.

Given the size of the endowment, that's a 24 year burn-rate.
Semiconductor-free microelectronics are now possible, thanks to metamaterials
I played split-screen Serious Sam coop with my brother using one keyboard and one mouse...
I was waiting for somebody to mention Dark Souls! It has by far and away one of the best combat systems I've ever played. Amazing game.
How does that list prove your point?

>> flowed to the armies of decorators

Replaceable by better CG.

>> drivers

Replaceable by autonomous vehicles.

>> caterers

Do they even get paid much?

>> painters and other workers who are

... mostly replaceable by better CG.

If big studio will end up having to really cut down costs, they surely will.
Do you like numbers? You'll love the Order of Magnitudes Guessr
Awesome. So now basically any stereo where the phone can take over the screen is good, or any given phone mount and bluetooth stereo.

Thus ends my year-long search for a single-DIN android auto head unit!
The problem is that the number of jobs created might be lower than the number of jobs that got automated.
AI assistant to Schedule
With poor adoption rate of IPv6 persists in China, half of those listed (taobao, tmall, baidu, hao123, qq, youku, sina, weibo, etc.) just won't change in near future.
Decrufting of URLs generally would be a Good Thing.
With bad ballot design/wording, voting on a weekday, reportedly long lines (read something about a 4 hour wait in places yesterday!), the lack of valid ID among potential voters, first past the post and out-of-control gerrymandering, why does the US have such trouble carrying out elections?
Well this sounds like MirrorLink will be good enough as AA can now run on the phone rather than needing to be on the head unit too.
I sure hope not!
How swarm roboticists can contribute to and benefit from other disciplines
I don't think there is anything wrong with justifying a lower pay rate that way. I have definitely taken lower paying jobs for those very reasons. When you are making that value proposition you accept that some potential employees you'll miss out on because the money is not there.

The problematic behavior is when the people setting the pay bands get the value proposition wrong or they think they are paying market when they are not.
There are these awesome SF writers, Maria and Sergey Dyachenko, and some of their books' plots are placed in an unspecified "normal" eastern european country. This is when you want to write a book with SF plot but do not want it to be about poverty, banditism and misery, which are the only plot devices offered by real, non-normal ex-USSR republics.

Same way, a lot of Soviet writers wrote e.g. detective stories placed somewhere unspecified in the West, because for proper detective you want bars, whiskey, coated detectives, not Komsomol activists offered by USSR peoplescape.
Common misconceptions about NP-completeness
As a counter-point, there are so many genres of VG that at this point there really is a game for everyone. Sure, we all grow up and our tastes change, like in music and movies - you just rent this one movie you enjoyed so much when you were 18, and now it's just a cringefest. Doesn't mean, tho, that you dislike movies or that movies are not for everyone.

I can and do relate with the sentiment that Diablo is an endless grind - but that's because it always was. Just like duke nukem always was a parody of action heroes and doom never really had a story; our younger selves simply chose to ignore that for some reason. Now we're a bit older and really spoiled - we want triple A graphics together with a solid story that, if it were a movie, would get an oscar, minimal grind and repetitiveness (looking at you, borderlands, you're just teeedious). And you know what, there are games that provide. The "walking sims" for your storyline needs, say, Firewatch; Frictional studios games to make you miserable; Stanley Parable and The Beginners' guide for your mindfuck needs; Sunless Sea if you don't mind an occasional grind and presentation from 1999 - but you're rewarded with lush writing that alone makes the game worth playing... Hell, even if the good writing's not your cup of tea, you still can enjoy such beauties as Braid, or great weirdnesses such as Antichamber.

We have this whole area polished to a place we don't even have to play - there are countless "let's play" videos, forum threads and i bet there even is a "let's play" podcast somewhere out there.

I feel the point of the article is that people who enjoy this art (notice the lack of quotes) are looked down by the people who "don't like video games" and think that candy crush or call of duty are the pinnacle of modern gaming. There's no way they'd leave that zone of comfort and give a good game a shot instead of insisting people do "something that is obviously more meaningful". The author claims that the "industry" produces "boring games", and she is partially right - games that are interesting for working adults that do not want to spend time in trivial pursuits do not get enough exposure. Should they? Probably not. Should the notion that games are a waste of time, a grind, a simulacrum of work and totally useless, change? Probably yes.
If you would like a little jade in your viewing experience, read Save The Cat by Blake Snyder. Then go ahead and watch any blockbuster movie with the page open to his beat sheet. Allow around one minute per page, and tick off each step as the movie does.
Thank you for the comment! A lot of people love the functionality but hate how it looks so my priority right now is to make a more modern design for next week, stay tuned!
Normal for recruiters to ask for your current rate on first call? (Uk)
Every time I receive a call from a recruiter, the first thing they ask is my current rate.

Is it normal, what should be my answer to this question?
When any theory has to add more and more complexity to explain the data it tends to be an indication that there is something wrong with the theory and that another theory may be more supported.

Occam's razor.
Every problem i can break into a sub problem is solveable.
Thus proofen by induction that i can break recursively down every problem, i deduce- that i crashed with a NN-Stackoverflow.
And it works with url instead of story id by searching on HN or Reddit. Does it overwhelm browser by searching url like that?

- comments.network seems to use internal api[1]

- embedd.io directly request HN and Reddit

1: https://comments.network/api/
I work for one of the companies on that wall of shame. I wonder to what extent it has the reverse of the intended effect. "Oh so not even Amazon, Twitter or GitHub gives a crap about IPv6? Why should we?".
And not being forced to appeal to everyone means that they can create better and more immersive content for the smaller target audience the shows are meant for - making them so much better for the subset of people.
I would argue the Clinton campaign isnt slimey because of this -- it's smart media relations. What does call credibility into question is The NY Times was "talked out of" reporting on something. An objective reporter would tell them to pound sand at a request to not report something.
Well, I have an opposite problem. I work in VFX (visual effects) industry, have dozens of credits on IMDB, but completely adore programming and solving variety of problems that involve data processing and connecting various systems together. Unfortunately, it's too late.
> It's not even possible to get two ZigBee products from
> different manufacturers to operate (like a switch and a
> lamp).

It may require a distinct payload for each type of device/software, but it should be possible. You start by infecting a group of devices of one type with a specific payload, and from there see which other types of devices are in range, and either carry the required payloads with you or fetch one over a nearby wifi.

And indeed, if someone were to implement this, they would basically have built a standard ZigBee inter-device communication protocol, by using existing software features (bugs), in otherwise incompatible devices.

This is not too far off from something like Stuxnet, so -- given enough available capital -- it should be possible.
Appears you can actually search your youtube watch history here, I've always been annoyed that you can't inside the actual youtube website when I'm trying to find things I watched a few months earlier.
Do you really expect that everyone will pay to see this article?
This only works for arrays allocated on the stack, not for heap-allocated arrays via malloc or similar.
Nice job guys!
If you'd like to take a look at another example of how email has been re-thought, you might want to take a look at TMail21.

Since we spend so much time in our inboxes, our goal is to dramatically improve productivity in asynchronous collaboration scenarios.

This article describes how TMail21 drives significant gains in productivity.
https://tmail21.com/productivity/
Exit Poll – Live
This is a concern several people has voiced, and it's not yet decided if it will become a native-app or a web-based client that was my first thought. There are two camps basically: people who would hesitate to give their credentials to an unknown server and would want a native-app and people who don't care about that and would prefer a webmail client.
What is zot: https://ucirvinegradinterconnect.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/zo...
> I personally think the weekly format is not friendly to this kind of complex show, viewers are not able to hold the strings together in their head or have no desire to keep track. At least 2 episodes a week or more can help alleviate this but that changes the economics and dynamics of how these shows are written and shot and in the interim there is room for HNs favourite word 'disruption'.

Eh, people aren't as stupid as you make them to be. Remember, even an average housewife could follow the utterly complex web of a 1000+ parts of Santa Barbara soap opera. Asking people to follow a < 20 part show isn't anything special.
It could be as simple as them testing the waters or as complex as data storage and analysis having different requirements per country. It is annoying but may be the best they can do.
Surely it is more normal to fantasize about a Tom Sawyer funeral than actual suicide?

How it would be/how to do it - completely different thought processes.
No worries, I think it's a matter of taste and I will try to find a good design that will look more modern either going in the mochila or premier pro direction.
Not the only one; in my case the nginx "rewrite rules" aren't as powerful as Apache's, and it'd be a huge PITA to migrate them over… :|
I totally didn't get this, but inferred from a comment: "dob" in this context means "date of birth".
I had a lot of fun being a mover: just be at embauche at 7:00am, no BS required, no love of the job, being outside, seeing awesome landscapes ... being tired at the end of the day, with your job let behind and able to enjoy a simple life.

It was a simple life, but fun. And now season is over. So I look for a job in the IT.

It really changed my life.

I also learned doing bread, alcohol (wines and ciders), playing more music, and did some gardening, illegal picking of (common) plants in the wild ... brawling (movers are no angels) and winning. I grew a spine and a pair of balls.

Don't be scared, life out of programming is quite awesome.

In fact, life is amazing as long you don't feel like in a jail that sometimes is only in your head. I now live with my true colours ; I love to be dirty, mean and sweaty.

Raaah. It feels good to finally be yourself.
But at least those jobs don't have the stigma of being (in the words above) Asperger professions. This makes it difficult to share your problems with other people, and of course, also because people in general would, I suppose, find the problems that musicians or theatre writers have more interesting, and more approachable than the problems of a software developer.

Also, this makes that a musician can be a "musician" in normal life. He or she doesn't need to change their identity. Developer culture does not blend with the normal world, and as a developer I believe you really have to switch between two worlds. That can be tiring.
For those who don't know, Alexievich won last year's Pulitzer Prize for books such as "Voices from Chernobyl" and "Zinky Boys", an account of Russia's war in Afghanistan. She writes something close to non-fiction -- heavily edited oral histories of people who have survived disaster and war. The books are incredibly moving, and as well written as any work by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. You won't waste your time reading her.
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We're a group of ~15 software developers working in an engineering centric culture. We use contemporary tools and methodologies and are driven by the end user product.

We're looking to take on senior Python developers.

If you're looking for an engaging new opportunity or would just like to know more, please follow the link and apply and we look forward to discussing this in more details with you!
Are you a public official? Want cash? Embezzle public funds with those recipes
SoftBank writes down $550m in its biggest India investments – Ola and Snapdeal
Interesting to remember that much the same thing happened in London not so long ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog

So maybe there's hope Delhi will clean itself up in the near future.
Man Helps Dead Shark Give Birth to 3 Babies on Beach (Improved Video)
Quote from https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-...

John Bell himself, the original author of one of the impossibility theorems, recognized its irrelevance, but he was systematically misquoted, misunderstood, or ignored as he tried to call attention to it. Ironically, he was then portrayed as being against Bohmian mechanics, despite the fact that he was its prime supporter during his lifetime.He said:

“But in 1952 I saw the impossible done. It was in papers by David Bohm. Bohm showed explicitly how parameters could indeed be introduced, into nonrelativistic wave mechanics, with the help of which the indeterministic description could be transformed into a deterministic one. More importantly, in my opinion, the subjectivity of the orthodox version, the necessary reference to the ‘observer,’ could be eliminated…

But why then had Bohm not told me of this ‘pilot wave’?... Why did von Neumann not consider it? More extraordinarily, why did people go on producing “impossibility” proofs, after 1952, and as recently as 1978?... Why is the pilot wave picture ignored in textbooks? Should it not be taught, not as the only way, but as an antidote to the prevailing complacency? To show us that vagueness, subjectivity, and indeterminism, are not forced on us by experimental facts, but by deliberate theoretical choice?”

John S. Bell, "On the impossible pilot wave". Foundations of Physics 12 (1982)
Thank you for your feedback. The target market is not really developers but people who use email more than 3 hours per date. It has a lot of similar functionality to for example Outlook - but there are small things - for example adding an email to your calendar by clicking on a date that Outlook doesn't have but makes a big difference in how you use it I think. Glad to receive your feedback I will try to clarify my positioning also!
No offense, I find this question akin to "will the world end in xxxx?" [1]. There is clear widespread use, and early miners with big fortunes. There is also uncertainty and risk. What do you mean by revolution? How do you determine when the world ends? If you had a testable metric, you would have an answer (and if you could forego speculation, you'd be playing the market).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
The Newcomers Guide to Data Warehouse Software
I tend to agree and I say that with the full recognition of the hypocrisy of being a relatively new account. Cool idea though. I've thought about doing it with Reddit comments a few times over the years but I could only assume it's some kind of ToS violation.
Toblerone gets more gappy, but its fans are not happy
That's what the 'web' link is for. It takes you to a Google search for the article. Click the top hit to bypass the paywall.
Good TV shows don't need big budgets. A show like House of Cards does without special effects or CGI, whilst still being a highly popular show.

Another factor is that Netflix is a multinational; if a (cheap?) show doesn't work in one country, it might work very well in another one. (see the Warcraft movie as a movie example; did okayish in the west, was a huge hit in China).
No. Root is the specific user which should do installations. Thus, the "solution" is for Homebrew to stop pretending that password-less binary installs is a "feature" instead of a massive security hole.

Honestly, Homebrew doesn't seem like a reason to either use or not use a Mac. For me personally, (as I mentioned elsewhere), the small amount of unix-y host (i.e. macOS) software I install is available in native Installer packages. The rest I install in Debian VMs.

For those that need/want more unix-y tools at the host level, there are a lot of positive comments about MacPorts in this thread, and it specifically doesn't have the permissions issue that Homebrew has (it requires being run as sudo, as it drops to a special account for compiling, and then later installs as root)

Reply-to-Edits:

> Edit: It seems to be fixed anyway? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892929

No. You still need to change ownership of /usr/local/bin. The problem isn't fixed, at all.

> Edit: Let user "homebrew" have id 0.

No. That would essentially be the same as running `sudo homebrew`, which they don't support.

It would also mean that packages that need to be compiled will do so as root, not a limited user account as they should be.
scroll to the sixth paragraph to get to the point. modern journalism...
Goes to show, horses for courses.. I loved Horace and Pete dearly, mostly for what they were trying to do, and I watched it as if it were live theater or an old 60s british sitcom, where budgetary concerns meant they had to focus on intent.

But back to your point: YMMV. A strong part of me thinks a realistic recommendation engine will never work: the human brain doesn't know if it likes something until it encounters it, given environmental, emotional and cultural cues at the time.