skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the amount of regulation on the books. Europe has more. It's a cultural thing. Americans don't trust their governments in the same way Europeans do. Even the most liberal-minded democrats still want government to be constantly checked. That makes those laws that are there very difficult to work with. Everyone sees is as his or her duty to watch what the government is doing. I don't mean just citizens. The American system of divided government often sees state lawmakers at odds with their federal government, doubly so when the project cross state lines. Everyone on the project tiptoes around slowly thinking any misstep will result in legal troubles. Europeans are far more trusting of democracy, taking such matters to the ballot box rather than the lawyer's office.

An example: There is a regulation stating that federal projects must notify and consult affected native tribes. Fine. That's sounds reasonable. But in practice "affected tribes" has become all tribes. Rather than risk getting it wrong, some feel they must officially inform and consult every tribe in the nation. There is a few weeks delay.

Here is the handbook for that reg. Note that this is not the regulation but a guideline on how to obey it. The reg itself is very simple (It's actually a body of several regs, but they all do basically the same thing). What makes it complicated is all the stuff over and above the wording, the stuff you do more out of fear than legal requirement. That stuff gets published in a *.gov PDF and the next thing you know everyone thinks they have to obey every letter of the PDF. The PDF is now a defacto reg and the cycle begins again.

http://www.achp.gov/pdfs/consultation-with-indian-tribes-han...
I don't think its the best solution, but I do think it is better than the way certain minority groups are using PC culture as a means to harass anyone with the different opinion. At least with the current Asian culture of remaining silent, we encourage there to be honest dialogue. Yes we will be mocked sometimes, but at least Americans won't act all polite and PC in front of us, then let all the beans spill we aren't listening.
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This looks great! Link doesn't work though...
User agents aren't necessarily graphical web browsers. Marking up a document fragment as a <table> when it isn't tabular data makes it harder for screen readers, terminal web browsers, and crawlers to do their job well.
I can believe there are some open source advocates who claim your first bullet, and there are a few cherry examples (i.e. Linux), but I'm guessing a lot of us are better represented by, "I appreciate when other developers share their work with me, so I'll share my work with other developers." From this point of view, it's easy to see how the GPL is an impediment to professional (proprietary) developers, and why we'd choose a license better suited to sharing with ourselves.
Cool! It makes me sad that history like this will be lost when the first generation of coders turns to dust.

Before an hour ago you were one of the only people in the world to know this little bit of history, and the fact would have probably died with you.
The open source alternative to Unity is UnrealEngine4. Epic's licensing is royalty based, if you make more than a certain amount per quarter. Unreal has both a mature AAA-grade toolkit, and a convenient graphical language for quickly prototyping before optimizing into the C++.
I was explicitly referring to trying PhoneGap.
This summer I had a router running OpenBSD on the older apu1d and was seeing nearly 700mbps on iperf with a basic rule set. But I don't know how iperf relates to real world performance.
A proper honeypot takes a lot of time and effort. You actually have to inject that email into the right environments. For example nobody will steal your honeypot address from someone's mail history, some service's stolen user database, or others.

It helps, but it's not a solution.
Even though you are being sarcastic, certainly you realize things like defensive programming were much more heavily used in such environments.

So yeah, it was entirely possible they didn't introduce more bugs.

Now people just expect to crash often and make it up in volume.

They can of course, which is precisely the problem the original author has: in a ton of contexts, fast and able to hack up things is more sellable than understanding problems.

(and FWIW, i actually haven't thought hard enough about it to have an opinion whether the current status is better or worse, i'm just explaining why it's not necessarily about cost to develop).
That's all totally fair. But in my original comment, I tried to center my observation on how Facebook has threatened the openness of the web with a proprietary alternative. Is it even possible for Google to deliver the same features without drawing a line around something? If so, how does that hypothetical thing differ from AMP?
Chromebooks are using a Linux type OS with the Chrome web browser as the GUI. They are sold at $300 or $200 because there is no $100 to $200 Windows Tax by Microsoft on them. Google makes money with Adsense and collecting user data like any other Dotcom might do. Google also has Chromebooks that can run Android apps from the Google Play store as well as ebooks, music, videos, etc from it.

Google has a different way to make money off Chromebooks that Apple does with Macbooks. Apple claims not to collect data and sell it to make money, which is why Apple products cost more than normal PC or Chromebook products.
Google does if you're paying attention to the long game. Does anyone think that Chrome, and by extension ChromeOS, is pure altruism?
You can't walk a block in downtown LA without stumbling on a 20- to 50-story apartment building going up, and vacant/underused historic buildings are being converted into housing at a decent clip. New housing is going up in the Hollywood and Koreatown areas close to mass transit. It's true that Los Angeles has an extreme housing shortage (~3% vacancy rate), but the supply side of the housing market is catching up.
Thanks for sharing! Amazing work!
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Possibly. Still, when you think about the death of Windows RT, remember that there's still a version of Windows running on ARM, and the ecosystem of applications that run on it is now called "Windows Universal apps."

Windows Phone may be moribund in the market but that ARM capacity and the admittedly not ready for prime time Continuum (phone + monitor /keyboard /mouse) desktop could lead to a better supported and accepted descendant returning to the market currently dominated by Chromebooks.
"vi"[1] is a very influential text editor created in the 1970s (and still used today). This "family tree" show a bunch of other old text editors that directly or indirectly influenced or inspired vi. (For example, George Coulouris's "em" was based on Ken Thompson's "ed". Bill Joy and Chuck Haley's first version of "ex" -- an ancestor of vi -- was based on "em".)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
You could check yourself http://www.apple.com/us-hed/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch there is indeed a $200 discount for the high end 15" version. The low end 13" has a $0 discount. Remaining 13"/15" models all have $100 discount.
Actually, I think that part's on you. I attempted to do so, and got bored, realizing that it wasn't worth the effort for this particular thread. One thought I did have regarding the abstract was regarding the conclusion statement:

We conclude that the normal added sugars in the human diet (for example, sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup and isoglucose) when consumed within the normal range of normal human consumption or substituted isoenergetically for other carbohydrates, do not appear to cause a unique risk of obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular disease.

Which I believe can be interpreted as saying that looking at what's happening in the normal population doesn't show that added sugars cause unique risk. This, I think, says nothing about the level of sugars that are being consumed as contributing to the increased levels of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease we're seeing. I don't think it says anything about cutting back on sugar wrt reducing health risk. Subtle point, and perhaps one that's contradicted in the article text itself, but I didn't read the article.
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I was wondering for a while what if Intel bought say Compaq back in 1991 instead of Rod Canion and Jim Harris leaving.
The two reasons offered are the complexity of algorithms and the liability.

I don't think these reasons are valid. For the complexity, I would be really surprised if self-driving car programmers wouldn't consider dangers from objects falling from other cars. In fact, this is relatively easy to consider.

The other one is the liability. One explanation for ML software was that if "regular" software is about data and algorithm, the ML software is about data, model and algorithm. The idea is that algorithm in ML case is somewhat generic, and a lot of customization comes from learned model. In case of liability I think it's quite possible that a judge would make a decision basing on analysis of the model - if the model is "reasonable", then the decision based on that model could be too.
Interesting example, I came up with clang 3.9 producing an imul with 11 though.
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UE4 is free to use, with a 5% royalty on gross product revenue after the first $3,000 per game per calendar quarter from commercial products.

It's not exactly the usual definition of open source.
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Universal free healthcare exists in Europe and not in the US, and I don't see any riots caused by it. Riots were not the reason it was established in Europe either. Same with education.

You can argue that it's economically beneficial for the higher classes in Europe, or convenient for the politicians. But even if it's the case (which is anything but obvious), that doesn't change the historical origin of those policies.
Once again science fiction has explored why something like this might not be a great idea (minor spoilers ahead).

Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" explores some of the pitfalls of exploiting the mentally disabled in service of a ubiquitous surveillance state.
Some really beautiful components like the TreeSelect in there, not trivial to build at all.

That said, the first time I loaded the page sure took a long time. Kind of sad to need Webpack to create chunks just to recreate the old effect of not loading all the content for your website all at once.
The hot-swappable drone battery video is cool enough to be its own Shown HN submission.

Would it be hard for the drone to be able to seamlessly switch between indoor/lighthouse tracking and outside/GPS tracking? How about the ability for the drone to orchestrate the battery swap autonomously with the charging unit? If you could add those two features you could produce a proof of concept video that would probably blow a lot of minds.
Out of curiosity, have you measured the power draw from the wall socket with your configuration?

Kind of wondering what "real world" measurements indicate. :)
You mean I chose MIT. I didn't vote for Trump; I'm not even in the US. And even though I think Trump is a crackpot, I'd rather keep HN on tech, science, and programming. Same with MIT.

this isn't the sort of rhetoric I enjoy seeing on HN

Conversely, I don't enjoy seeing social justice rhetoric on HN. I come here for the tech, startup, and programming news and commentary. So I suppose we're even. The fact that you mistakenly read my view as pro-Trump only highlights the dangers of this kind of content on HN.
> The telltale sign that this is nation-state information warfare is that the content producers are all anonymous.

[citation needed]

> The timing of these restrictions now makes sense if viewed as a response toward Russians infiltration of open social media platforms

You can't filter youtube videos per-country - at least not in a non-obvious way. Unless you've got a good explanation how this would work?

I'm a fan of a good conspiracy theory, but you literally posted FUD about people posting FUD on youtube. So let's try this: you're a marketing front for a network of supposed anonymous individuals, now you're starting to post related search queries to social networks. Sure - the volume is low now, but you've got over a month to build it up. By pretending you're yourself part of the social network's target demographic, you want to make others interested in the content. So I guess you're the person that wants to get those returns on investment.

(also, same predictions were posted before for end of september, for the day results are announced, for the end of october, etc.)
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Do you think one mission statement on one website represents the position for all of us?
I am concerned with how they have "nudged" sites to use AMP with the consequence being worse mobile rankings combined with them essentially getting final say around who gets to be an ad partner that is white listed.

As an example of where this is concerning...look at the importance of the GDN and other exchange inventory to Google. Now look at FB trying to grow its offsite presence with Facebook Audience Network. Hmmm...doesn't seem to be supported by AMP tags. Interesting.

It also looks like it severely hinders analytics efforts for everyone but Google due to the JS limitations.

As a business move it is fascinating to wTch this play out. However I really do worry about how much control Google is trying to exert here...it is rather unprecedented.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Cloudflare?
I use the free plan of Cloudflare for a personal site and find it useful for the CDN, analytics, SSL and DNS.

One thing that bothers me is the cost of these benefits: all traffic is decrypted at their servers. Is it something to be worried about for the average user? (Data stolen while passing through their servers)

Maybe I am paranoid, but is it a good option for sites that deal with payment data?
It is the usual definition of open source: you can download, modify, and compile the source for the entire engine. It's not free software, which is different from being open source. A common misunderstanding does not a definition justify.
The author's dismissal of freedom 0 makes me a little uneasy. It is arguably the most important of the Four Essential Freedoms.
Agree that it's actively healthy. Speaking as a newcomer I still find myself enjoying the discovery of things that are prior knowledge to others here.
I recommend this reference quite highly: http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/NES_reference_guide
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Is it just me or is this show just a really bad explanation ? I'm not even talking about the subject per se. They constantly jump from one thing to anoter, interrupt, ... and the explanations of the concepts I know are just pretty bad. They make enormous leaps without so much as an attempt to justify them ...

Not worth listening to. They're repeating some of the soundbytes in newspapers, and that's all.
This is pretty cool. Had one minor script glitch (the scripts do not defend against having './' in $PATH, so picked up wrong cpio at one point) but built up pretty much straight-away.

I then spent a few minutes adding Micropython to the image, so now I have a 12MiB image that includes a pretty nice and very compact Python, although I haven't added my favorite uPython libraries yet.
I'm currently trying to transition to a Honda CT110 with a 140cc conversion as my commute vehicle, it was in sorry shape when I got it and I've been slowly getting it back together, so I guess that tells you how I feel about home repairs. The only reason I recommended the 50cc (49 technically?) is because under 50 here in AUS you don't need a motorbike licence to ride one.

Can't argue with the gear part though, probably going to cost me as much as the bike did pre-repairs.
All treasure remains property of the hole.

Upon death or filling, ownership is bequeathed to the plot of land that takes it's place.
The list of Kaby Lake laptops of all sizes is starting to get pretty long[1], with more and more of them having better performance, battery life, weight and screen resolution than the MacBook Air for less than $1000 if you're willing to deal with Windows[2].

I think Apple will have something new in the same space as the Air or non-Pro MacBook soon, but the options aren't great right now.

[1] http://www.ultrabookreview.com/11638-intel-kabylake/

[2] Driver support probably isn't great for Linux yet.
If you are looking to get this as a Christmas gift, note that there are actually two versions of the Voynich Manuscript being published this year.

The one mentioned here is a photographic reproduction done by the Yale Press, and is available from major sellers like Amazon for a reasonable price: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300217234

The other is a little more exotic. The Spanish publisher Siloé has been authorized to make a limited-edition 'look and feel' replica. They will handmake 898 full facsimiles, down to the wormholes in the pages. The expected price is €7,000-8,000.

So if you are asking for a copy for Christmas, make sure to be be specific to avoid a (possibly) disappointing surprise!

http://blog.siloe.es/siloe-editara-la-replica-del-manuscrito...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/21/voynich-manuscrip...
Just look at the Mac Pro, it used to be ATX based which means gamers would buy it to upgrade the video card to play more games.

Did any significant number of users actually do that though? I do remember in the Power Mac G5 era that NVIDIA would, occasionally, vaguely support Mac gaming by releasing high-end consumer-level graphics cards for the Mac, but I truthfully don't remember ever hearing a single user account of a user riding the expandable Mac Pro wave for high-end gaming.
Microsoft had to go back to x86 apps for two reasons.

1. WinRT devices couldn't run x86 (win32) apps. Thus customers who were frustrated and returned the products in droves.

2. Product name - if Microsoft had not named WinRT OS Windows, customer expectations would have been clear.

3. Lack of Emulator - Apple shipped an emulator whenever they changed processor platform but Microsoft did no such thing with WinRT, believing that security was more important than usability for their customer base - they were wrong and have still not learned the lesson. Apparently, the company's now working on an win32 Emulator for ARM

* One reason Microsoft didn't do well in countries with poor internet penetration is because all apps MUST to be downloaded from the store on the device in question. Heck, even IOS allows an alternate download means through iTunes.

Even after putting an option to sideload apps on both Windows 10 desktop and mobile, it's impossible for normal users to download and store the apps offline for later use.

Stability on windows 10 mobile is far worse than on WP8.1. E.g - I've reset my own windows 10 phone more times in three months than I ever did in WP8.1
It's a protozoan, antibiotics aren't going to do anything.
I have been thinking perhaps BGE is better marketed toward more of scientific simulation / interactive simulation rather than games.

Python would work well for this purpose, and I have been hearing about usage of Blender in with context of biology, and also things like GIS, and disaster recovery. (I've thrown in disaster recovery as I've at least seen once on TV that it was used modeling Fukushima power plant after the earthquake/tsunami.)
With optimization turned on?

GCC produces an lea that multiplies by 5 into %rax for the return value, then another lea that multiplies that by 2 and adds the original.
Mopeds generally don't do 50-60 mp/h. You would need a larger bike for that, hence the highway comment.

They make a lot more sense for suburban/city commutes where there is plenty of slow moving traffic to filter through at a comfortable 40-50 km/h.
Thanks, that's nice to hear!

Seamless switching is definitely doable and shouldn't be hard, just need some time to implement. I'm using PX4 autopilot and it's very friendly for adding new functionality.

Orchestration is also close - in current demo both station and drone use Wifi to coordinate, so it's a matter of adding new logic.

Currently the most limiting resource for that project is my time :) I'd be happy if other people would want to join!
Which link?
The civil war in Titor's time line started in 2004, well before the first iPhone. I'd imagine the war altered his timeline enough that modern smart phones with nice cameras were not invented.
I first learned programming on an HP 3000 time-sharing system. Back in the 70's, Basic only. I was quite surprised to see that the line had not stagnated at that point, since that was both my first and last exposure to it.
Hasn't stopped people in the past so I guess why stop now.
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Probably not. It's just the marketing that gets me. Google should say "use AMP, a Google alternative to fb instant articles!"
Not "use amp it will make your site faster!" Which isn't true.

Worse is that users will start associating the amp icon with fast sites, forcing everyone to start using amp or suffer lower conversions even if their normal site is just as fast or faster. This is because google forces amp sites to be fast, but doesn't punish slow sites in their other search results. Suddenly this amp thing starts to look less innocent.

There is absolutely nothing stopping google from putting an icon next to fast sites that don't use amp. They used slow sites as an artificial crisis to market a fence they're building around the open web.

Pretty dark for the "don't be evil" google. Facebook isn't doing anything better but at least their platform doesn't pollute search engine results
The first third of Harvard's Math 23a includes finite fields in Linear Algebra. It is available as an online class. https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/linear-a...

For example, see https://youtu.be/c194lY79jOM minute 16:30

The course makes no specifics for finite fields but does illustrate that linear algebra works for any field, finite or not.
Another good stuff by Chinese team. For Vue components, we have support from Ele.me
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I played around with this in my own NES emulator, which works roughly the way you describe. I found that, at least for major-brand titles (Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Kirby), cycle accuracy actually doesn't matter. Everything's based off PPU/APU/mapper interrupts.

In fact, doubling (or more) the CPU clock enhanced some of the games I tried. Animations in Kirby's Adventure became more smooth (e.g. the Spark ability). Screens full of enemies in Metroid ran with no slowdown. The glitchy first scanline of status overlays in various games cleared up. I haven't yet observed negative effects in major-party titles.

I had designed my emulator as an experiment: treat the NES as an abstract specification, rather than a concrete implementation. Turns out that a lot of games seem to have actually been designed following the same principle. It was a wonderful feeling to see these games as I imagine they were intended to be experienced, as if I opened a letter from the game designers left unopened for thirty years.
I can only imagine. Nothing shows but a blank page when clicking a site link in my iPad.
libGDX has some good Blender support for models and if you want to go Unity-like, there's also BDX (https://github.com/GoranM/bdx/wiki)
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