skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait so you'd rather not add https://comments.network/ dependency but also not host it yourself; how would you set it up then?

Also, would it be nice if Comments network integrated comments on their own when the thread is closed? So you can just comment on the site itself (once the network comments are closed it'd basically be an alternative to Disqus).
Eh? What does this have to do with surveillance?
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> And what if the new Martians just declare independence?

We just cut their supplies for 3 months ;)
Gamers are the only ones we have pictures of. We don't know what happens to the rest of the population, especially politically-involved people, and especially people who investigate on Hillary Clinton.
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Luxury People needs only luxurious things.. why?
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I have found the most amazing articles,absolutely what I would bookmark if I trolled through the net. Thanks for selecting the most interesting and useful
It's only 10 meters long, it'd have a tough time going out of coastal waters no matter what. (Unless it's very resistant to being flipped or swamped, which I suppose is possible.)
That would make rational sense, but strangely no.

Unfortunately the US is setup in such a way so that individual states get to decide who is eligible to vote. This is a state right defined in the constitution[0].

In practice the vast majority of states have similar voting requirements. But because, in theory, they could all differ then no unified automated system is possible, it would have to be per-state.

Of course individual states could create an automatic voter registration system, and I believe some have/do. But a lot of other states are actively trying to disenfranchise the poor, young, or minorities who would benefit the most from automatic registration.

Ultimately voting and voter registration needs to be handled by a non-partisan organisation within states. But considering it would take partisan politicians to set up such a non-partisan organisation, it has little chance of happening.

[0] http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/08/constitution-chec...
A practical impact of this - tool users from metric countries don't think in fractions. The notion that the next larger wrench after 1/8 is 5/32 is alien to people brought up with the metric system. Metric bolt heads are integral numbers of millimeters.
Surprised to see this garbage rumour parroted in Hacker News of all places. Haven't people heard of Faraday cages?
Why is it necessarily a lie when there's a large amount of precedent saying that it's not? If it happened to Lavabit, why can't it happen to OWS?

Your tone is completely inappropriate and I suspect that you have a stake in this game.
which government? US? that was Iranian money frozen 39 years ago plus interest. India? that was owed oil money due to sanctions.

I don't understand how you are capitalist until the other side is Iran.
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It's also illegal to place an undue burden on somebody's constitutional right[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undue_burden_standard
They never chose to be part of the British empire... Which gave them back to China.
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My brain just ABENDed.
Do you have a link to the talk? It would not make business sense for Stefan to spend time replacing the small percentage, if it were indeed a small percentage. Actually, kdb+ is dominant everywhere on wall st, and the company mentioned in that article are retiring an old, discontinued version of k, not kdb+; perhaps that is the firm Stefan refers to? The debate about readability of k code has become boring - if you learn the language, you'll find it perfectly readable, elegant even.
Tesla buying Germanys Grohmann Engineering to automate and accelerate production
It looks like we have to overcome the technological hurdles of creating gravity and some kind of shielding (invisible) that can protect humans from radiation. Steady power would be required. Curious if wind power could be used. If Musk could send a rocket to Mars that was basically a huge wind turbine that would anchor itself and unfold its blades, couldn't it create enough power to provide for a small contingent of people? Add some solar and there could be an abundance of power. With a good source of plentiful and steady power it would certainly make this endeavor more possible.
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Also, a simple explanation for the layman:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=169788&Cult...
Genetically engineering someone to live on Mars could itself create enough of a difference that a new species could be created
http://www.chevrolet.com/bolt-ev-electric-vehicle.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/09/13/chevrole...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-bolt-idUSKBN1300PM

http://nseavoice.com/cars/can-tesla-model-3-keep-up-with-che...
The fun has began. Suddenly there are more vehicles roaming around late night than usual. Big Bazars are open even past 11:00 PM which used to close at 9:00 PM daily. Tried withdrawing Rs 100 Notes from all the ATMs in the neighborhood but other people got there first. Now ATMs are left with only Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denominations. :D
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Yeah but it's just not really relevant for the vast majority of finance businesses. None of the big banks do HFT for example.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20accusations%20sh...
You've missed the whole "first mass-market fully electric car that actually makes sense" thing and the whole "kicked the space industry in their lazy butts" thing, but the one thing that actually does the elevating is that he's not doing it for profit, but for forcing the electrification of transport and getting humans to Mars.
True, but they didn't choose to leave it either. Britain had agreed 100 years earlier to return HK to China and kept its promise.

Really HK should have become independent, but no doubt China would still claim it as theirs.
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Gravitons always struck me as a goofy half-baked concoction (even though we've supposedly observed them now), and so did dark matter. Emergent gravity theories are very interesting.
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Strange, in Pakistan it's the opposite Govt issued Rs. 5000 note which is equal to INR 3171 because otherwise people were using USD 100 bills .... and only making USD stronger locally.. I still don't get how they are going to keep big guys from keeping USD $100 ... I would keep an eye on USD vs INR in coming weeks
It's possible. But yeah, like you said, if your identity was linked to your address or hash you'd lose anonymity.

You'd have to really trust whoever was keeping the records to have a secure db which we know is basically impossible and could allow for coercion if a malicious actor got hold of it.

However if this problem was solved, it would allow for cryptographically provable elections.
Do reasonable people argue that Clinton is a satanist who enjoys spirit cooking?

But they should not censor posts under any circumstances, even that one. The problem is the way stories trend and the order in which the feed is presented. The current algorithms and 'like' counting maximize shocking statements that confirm world views exactly because that will maximize user retention. Accuracy is completely deprecated.

Facebook knows this and is well aware that nudity (let alone porn) would overwhelm their site because it would be overwhelmingly favored by their systemic selection process. So rather than fix the process they censor that. This leaves things like accusing people of satanism or other false inciting statements to bubble up instead.

Unfortunately, facebook has no fiscal incentive to fix this. And it may not be a coincidence that UKIP, Trump, AfD, Le Pen expanded greatly after the emergence of facebook.
This is cool, but seems to me to be very especially vulnerable to the Observer Effect. Any fluctuation in these search terms that shows up here will cause people to try and find out more by searching for those terms themselves. What may have started out as random noise gets fed through a feedback loop and amplified, while not necessarily being signal.

I saw an increase in searches for voter intimidation near where I live. I immediately went to DuckDuckGo, and "!n voter intimidation". Now I'm part of the problem, apparently :)
Largest banknote in UK is £50, largest in EU is €500. That does not imply a staggering difference in purchasing power between £ and €.
Wouldn't this be the opposite of mass data mining?
I think it's probably fine. It only pre-populates a form and doesn't automatically submit. It's also almost exactly the same as the official Bookmarklet that's linked to from the footer of most pages on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
> martian dating apps that requires putting their DNA sequences online

Hmm, as long as the separate species are still physically compatible *cough, I don't see why that would be necessary, at least in the context of dating/hookups.

For breeding? Sure.
Changelog to Facebook Messenger would serve as a great one.
I disagree.

Engineering is full of needlessly awkward tools that end up being misused because of their useless warts. Every time that happens, the engineer that uses it is kind of a victim. And of course, there are the end users, who end up irradiated, spied upon, or robbed because of a technical failure allowed by needlessly unsafe tools.

(Big emphasis on "needlessly". Sometimes, the requirements are so stringent that only the unsafe tools do the job. Embedded environments, AAA games, or video encoders come to mind. Most of the time though, safer, less efficient tools are more than enough.)
I think that's the rub, "newsworthy". He never really got in the news for the right things (if there were any I don't know).

After August, if he sat himself in a closet and never did or said anything (and that recording never was released) he would of won very easily.
Statistically, yes.
Unless I'm reading something on your graph incorrectly it's almost perfectly correlated with Martha Stewart Living subscribers. Looks like it applies almost exactly to me.
All the black money is in gold, dollars & euro ! or at the swiss banks. This is not going to smoke out the big players in this game.
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500 and 1000 Ruppee note cease to be legal tender as of today midnight. Everyone who has them can get it exchanged for 100 ruppee notes in banks,post offices etc until Dec 31. You need to provide a valid id to do an exchange, which means that the transaction will be traceable and Income Tax department (Indian version of IRS) will be matching them to declared income. ATM and banks are closed for the next couple of days.

Essentially people hoarding black money in 500 and 1000 ruppee denomination will be stuck with this money as they can't exchange them. (money obtained via undeclared/not-taxed transactions. One common method is show a lower amount in the legal documents. For example show that land/house is being purchased for 100K$ on documents while paying say 300K $ thereby evading tax on 200K $, but with the side effect making 200K$ black money). This is also slow down spread of fake currency in the country. (Only temporarily until fake of the new notes are created).

Having lived in India for most of my life makes me take a slightly pessimistic view of this measure

+ Small scale hoarders of black money will be affected by this move.
+ Once you cross a certain wealth, hoarding cash is impractical, so you start investing in land,gold etc. Those people will not be affected by this measure.

+ Average citizen will be inconvenienced. I can see the long lines forming at the banks for the new few days as people scramble to get the notes changed. Not to mention people who are travelling etc, who might be having no money except for the discontinued notes and no way to get more money for the next two days.

+ There will be attempts to circumvent this. I guess there will offers of "exchange x amount and get y % of it" given to middle to low income people in the coming days. But it is hard to scale this, so it wont affect the efficacy of the measure.
+ I have a hard time believing that the people close to the current Prime Minister / Government didn't know this was going to happen. (If this measure wasn't carefully planned not to affect "friends" of the current administration(look up Adani Group), I would be greatly surprised and will change my opinion about the current Prime Minister)

edit: added one bullet point
I love this, it feels cleaner and more elegant a solution than dark matter particles. However, nature doesn't care what we like, so that doesn't make it more likely to be true.
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Totally agree about your conclusion (:

I think that's the same as with the modern <picture> and <video>. I recently tried something similar but in "traditional" html structure, but also found it a bit too verbose for my taste:

https://medium.com/@fpresencia/leveraging-modern-apis-a13fa6...
All versions of Windows together are 22.5+20.8+8.4+0.4+0.1 = 52.2 %

OSX has 26.2, Linux 21.7.

They sum to 100.1. There should be some inconsistent rounding somewhere.

If the figures are representative of reality it's true that Windows is less popular among developers than it is among the general public.
I posted it, without my opinion. You responded without providing your opinion, also. :)
wouldn't an unmanned submersible make more sense?

why bother being above the water if there are no crew on board to breathe air, anyway?

it seems like a submersible would be ideal for certain military applications, patrolling, or whatever else you'd use a robot boat for.

also, I'd bet drug smugglers would really appreciate getting their hands on an unmanned submersible.
All those trees. Sniff.
Here's the Navy's railgun.[1] Each projectile costs $25,000. Not clear why it costs that much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXF0n6aojSc
>isn't HK part of China?

Well, both yes and no. That's kind of the problem. China and HK is kind of a bit like the US and Puerto Rico, except that all the details are different, obviously.
The exFAT patent is royalty-free now?
United States presidential election, 2016
Good Lord…
https://youtu.be/VKcAYMb5uk4

How about Brainfuck on Rails, then?
https://github.com/cookjj/Brainfuck-on-Rails
Walmart, Target, US Chamber Foundation to Launch Circular Economy Pilot
> He is saying as you become more competent using excel, the efficiency increases exponentially.

OK, does this mean anything? How have you quantified efficiency? How have you quantified "learning curve"? What data do you have supporting that the relationship is exponential?
I'm not.

Undefined behavior is 'anything goes'. An implementation can choose a particular behavior that you can rely on for a particular case of UB, because, if the only rule is that 'anything goes', it doesn't violate that rule.

I'll admit that compilers don't generally do that - because specifying it could lead to fewer optimizations. But I did say "if", and there's no reason they couldn't do so in principle.

One could imagine a compiler with an extremely strict debug mode that traps on a number of situations that the standard deems undefined behavior via a segfault, in order to help people avoid relying on UB. Again - saying something like "casting misaligned pointers causes a segfault on [system]" would in no way violate a standard that says "casting misaligned pointers can do anything", because segfaulting falls under the umbrella of anything.

I think you're misinterpreting the fact that the results of undefined behavior can be ignored by a compiler for a requirement that it must be ignored by a compiler.
what requirements are you talking about?

https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest
https://core.telegram.org/contest300K
Loved it when I had a sub, may have to pick it back up.
I am the nomad: what the life of traveling and working dad looks like
The poll mechanics aside (and the article mentions how democrats readers were outraged that it showed Trump farther ahead than other polls), something that really pissed me off was how the poll UI showed a "Donald Trump lewd remarks revealed" timestamp. That was the ONLY timestamp other than the debate timestamps until a few days ago when the Times retroactively added "Clinton pneumonia revealed". It's almost as if they added that as a bone to their democratic audience saying "see, even though our poll shows Trump ahead we're still against him". The outright bias by every mainstream media outlet this election cycle has been infuriating. I hope American's see this and start voting with their dollars and hit the media where it hurts the most.
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"Because only &)&@$ would vote for him."

People don't realize when they're asking trolling political questions that don't belong on HN?
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The worst people you meet doing IT security
Erdogan founded Akparty, the ruling party, 15 years ago (In 2001). He was prime minister for 11 years before becoming president. What has happened to Turkey happened quickly but took much longer than 2 years.

To add, I don't know much about Hong Kong, but it's pretty difficult to leave Turkey if you're a citizen, not many countries want to give you a Visa meaning only the educated, upper class, is able to leave. If you're proposing a solution you should propose one which doesn't leave behind all the poor.
Slight counterpoint:

I believe Republicans want to campaign on overturning Roe, and do want to chip away at it in ways which don't completely overturn, but that they want to be able to continue campaigning on overturning it, forever.

They're not idiots. They know they have a topic that gets a lot of single-issue voters to go out and cast ballots every election. And they know public opinion is overwhelmingly against fully overturning Roe, so if they ever succeeded they'd be in trouble: a lot of the country would be against them, and the single-issue hotheads would no longer have a righteous cause to motivate them to vote.

So what they want is the campaign issue, not the reality of actually overturning it.
A lot of states have "track my ballot" systems in place for voters to ensure their votes were counted. Maybe try looking it up in your state.
I would think that's extremely unreliable. If it was true, it would be really bad. I want to know what Trump and Clinton are saying regardless of who I vote for. I visit BreitBart but voted for relatively few Republicans. I think one of the main problems with our political process is that our news feeds are turning into echo chambers, polarizing everyone who doesn't go out of their way to really think critically and expand their horizons.
> It is easy claim that China is autocratic therefore it must do X bad things

If you read the book you wouldn't need the articles because then you'd understand how they work.

A good China-specific book to read is:

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Ambition-Chasing-Fortune-Truth/dp...

It doesn't deal with corruption per se, rather how China has been operating politically and economically for the last few decades. The gist of it is, so long as you play ball with the CCCP, then you can enrich yourself. But the second you step out of line, officials will happily confiscate your life's work and tell you you're lucky you're not in jail. And the only reason you're not in jail is because as long as you can make wealth that they can take, you're more useful to them free than imprisoned. If that changes, a life behind bars awaits you.

What you can do in China, any autocratic regime really, is precisely what the local thugs will allow you to do, or what you can get away with outside their attention. They may not be as smart as you, but they are more numerous and have the legal system on their side.

To complete your political education, this book will fill in the gaps between dictatorship and the kind of democracy that Anglosphere nations enjoy:

https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Pe...

This book will show you the conditions in which freedom develops and really makes you appreciate the United States, tempered of course by the lessons in the Dictator's Handbook that tell how democratic regimes are, in general, not the forces for good in other countries that you'd like to believe they are. Would-be freedom fighters are fighting forces so much larger than they are that success or failure is entirely out of their control. Either the conditions are ripe for revolution or they aren't.

Barring some massive worldwide event, Hong Kong's future is dimming by the day. The Internet was supposed to be that event, but autocrats are more than capable of suppressing freedom there too, up to and including just shutting the whole damn thing off.
According to Popehat, it's legal.

https://popehat.com/2016/11/05/randazza-vote-swapping-trump-...
Indian government makes 500 and 1000 notes illegal from midnight
I remember this from a few years ago. The only recent updates appear to be a change to the tutorial link.

If you haven't clicked through to the inspiration (http://www.coboloncogs.org/HOME.HTM) then it's well worth a look. Although the Rails page doesn't look like that any more, so it's not quite as funny.
If 32 bit address tables are reaching capacity, increasing the size of the address space is unlikely to resolve the problem.
http://archive.is/in4n1
No love for MyPaint? :( https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint
Is anyone on HN actually voting for Clinton?
The Alternative Vote – how the rules of the system have wide repercussions
Go ahead and laugh at Grandma. Sure she looks weird and smells a bit funny, but take the time to listen to her, you might just learn something.
Pro:

* Has cute mascot. I love Cuddles the Cuttlefish. :)
You are almost certainly right, but it is worth noting the considerable amount of FUD spread by interested parties that feeds into these sort of rumors.

OTOH, "The NSA has a backdoor into Google" used to be something only paranoids believed too...
You mean IPv6 != No Firewall. Firewall are going to cause pretty much the same problems as NAT.
I'll bet it turns out to be a maglev without the vacuum tube. Either that or plain old high-speed rail like TGV or Shinkansen. 50 miles is not nearly enough to make it worth accelerating past 200 MPH or so.
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Actually he founded Gnome, GTK already existed (the G coming from GIMP).

Frankly the guy seems very similar to Poettering. Stuff he creates, for the most part, only really becomes usable once the leaves the project.
So this is the person I was talking about. Hey, libv!

First, libv does not get what is being said, for example, in https://lwn.net/Articles/698452/
The situation with Allwinner fits quite well with what Greg and Linus talk about.

Second, libv as a business person sucks bigly. He was being a PITA to Allwinner and, from what I deduced, would then propose to them to make the problem go away (develop himself the software) for quite some money.
Company homepage: https://appbeat.io/

If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Maybe to _dismiss_ a language. But it is a reasonable _criticism_ of the language. I hate those kinds of edge cases between strong and weak typing where the compiler knows something, but you have to express it again.

Granted, though, there aren't many languages that can handle that. As far as I can see, it requires compile-time code execution.