skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Swede:

1) Cheating on taxes is quite literally stealing from every other person in the country. That being said I think there is a lot of small scale cheating going, especially for small cash-driven businesses.

2) There's no hostility towards entrepreneurs as far as I've seen it, quite the opposite. However people in general do seem to realize that there is a very real tradeoff between business interests and the interests of citizens. You can't have 0% corporate tax and free healthcare and education.

As for Uber Pop, the drivers are not volunteers and are simply either taxed for the profits they make through Uber Pop or they can do actual not-for-profit car pooling.
A logic-gate/register netlist, i.e. a digital schematic of your design. This is done by a synthesizer program. It is then mapped to the available resources of your chosen FPGA, by a mapping program. Now you have the logic equivalent schematic using the FPGAs resources. Then the netlist is place-and-routed to fit it into the FPGA. If the design is to large/complex or the timing requirements to strict (to high a clock frequency), this phase can fail. This phase can also take many hours to complete, even on fast computers.
Ask HN: Isn't the 2010s tech bubble worse because it's slower?
The 2010s seem different from the later 1990s in that the late 1990s bubble popped very fast whereas the 2010s version seems to be a slow trickle of bad news. I'd argue the 2010s tech bubble is significantly worse because people are spending many, many years now on their "startups" without tangible success. Look at Pebble or Dropbox. Is anyone other than the CEO going make any money off all these years of effort? It's kinda like Neil Young quote used by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note: "It's better to burn out than fade away".
I think ML is actually the strongest influence. Of course, Scala and Haskell both have ML influence, so there are things that look familiar from all three languages.
+1 for the minimal styling. Although I am starting to wonder if we could do a better job with the choice of colors and typography alone still living with the minimal CSS/JS trickery.

One website that caught my attention made me bookmark for inspiration was http://recipes.177milkstreet.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-puddi...

For their use of typography, usage of lines, hexagonal contrasting title bits. I am not a web designer. Just ranting about something I liked as a end-user.

I have no relationship whatsoever with the website I linked to.
Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a comment like this ;)

Op, if you'd like some help with that, shoot me a mail (in profile).
Advent of Code (2016)
Yeah, Scaleway has IPv6 on the VPSes and the AMD64 dedicated servers, but not on ARM servers.

2core/2GB/50GB is a better offering than DigitalOcean's. Sadly, it seems like they still don't have FreeBSD.
The problem is in doing concurrency for the sake of doing concurrency. There is no general purpose solution for concurrency, because concurrency is not a problem to solve. You either need to scale and way beyond a bunch of cores you have on a single machine, so you go into distributed systems, or you don't need to scale, then you are fine with the single core, possibly with some primitive but safe abstractions for parallelism (not threads).
Success is rarely about quality of product these days. What matters is marketing efforts and, with startups, playing the VC game well.
Its got to be flawlessly driverless and hike in rates otherwise people might just stay with normal "driver" based taxis.
Show HN: Space-Invaders with JavaScript
Well, they had a lot to do with it. They collapsed real incomes in population with their retarded economic policies then propped the economy with loans or riddiculous policies like Housing Act 1980, gutting of the social contract, reaganomics, fucking Greenspan and fucking Reagan raid on Social Security, fucking Greenspan in general, Reagan's mad ramblings how USA is sent from god to make world great again as he laid the foundation to make the Middle East what it is now
Would you be willing to elaborate on the reasons that make Haxe useable for games only?

I have been thinking about using it for some cross-platform UI components and would love to hear about the limitations that make it unsuitable for "normal" apps in your point of view.
The Forever Project preserves Holocaust survivors' testimonies in 3D with AI
Keep in mind that overall battery life will decline over time. I had a Moto 360 and after two years it could barely make it six hours on a charge. Even if my Pebble's battery life declines by 50% over the same two years, that's still 3.5 days on a charge!
> There has been quite a bit of criticism of this lack of regulation, since some private taxi drivers will prey on tourists by overpricing their services by 3x and waiting at airports. Since their rip-off prices are displayed right there in the window, it's fully legal. Tourists don't know the typical price of a taxi, and fresh off an airplane are not sure what the local currency rate is (Sweden isn't on the Euro), and hence get ripped off.

I was in Stockholm over the summer, and prior to going I read about this beforehand on almost every site I visited. Is it the most tourist friendly thing? No, but it is listed in big numbers on the taxi. It only takes seeing a few taxis to get an idea of what is a good price. Everything in Stockholm ended up being expensive, so the taxi was just a minor inconvenience.
Would love to see something like this for Photography/video equipment.
Your question is answered by another question. Why does more than one font exist?
That's a lot of imponderables based on unknown technologies, regulations, and economics, though. Right now Uber doesn't have to worry about fleet cap- and opex, so the assumption is that buying and maintaining an autonomous vehicle fleet will provide more relative income than their current business practices. It also assumes that Uber's current loss-leader practices will not put the company under before commercially-available autonomous vehicles are in the market, that debt service will not constitute a major issue for company profitability, and that Uber's IP portfolio and marketshare will represent a significant barrier to entry for competitors with fleet management experience (such as rental car companies and existing taxi/limo companies). That's a lot of unproven assertions to make a bet on. If driverless cars get here fast enough, the cost profiles work, and Uber has enough IP to use against challengers, then it can work. But, personally, I'd rather have a business model that actually works today than one that might potentially work in the future.
To be honest, I have no idea what you are talking about. Your card is being charged and that's all I said. Sure you have credits to spend, but the cash you have no immediate need for on your Vultr account sits now there because of their billing practices.
I see a parallel to our immune system. One of the most complex pieces of machinery in our bodies has the sole function to keep us from getting overrun and taken over by "hackers". When I look at nature as an example I see a way to more complexity in the things we create - because they are not actually completely "designed", instead we let laws of nature govern how they develop, so I think it's not too far-fetched to look at existing nature-designed systems for guidance on predictions about the future of man-made systems.

How we operate, a good example using a very simple product: https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/what-coke-contains-221d4499...
Even before Snowball was launched the import/export team was joking about UPS trucks full of snowballs, both within the team, and then with management. I guess management found out there was actual customer demand for it.
See Wings3D to find out.
Conversely, I prefer OP's styling over the one in the link you provided.
It's like in Germany where each household/flat has to pay an amount of money per month (~18€) for stuff like public television, radio and some internet presences of the state. The TV+Radio portion of this money-grabbing monstrosity is called "Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk" (roughly "Public broadcasting") which still is plastered with ads all over.
Also you get into this system when you move in to a apartement/flat/house because the institution that collects this fee somehow has the right to collect such information but is conveniently not a government body and not "rechtsfähig" (meaning they can't be sued). Also really convenient is the fact that courts in Germany have time and time again approved this institution's operations...
Well, the rest of an overview is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beitragsservice_von_ARD,_ZDF_u...
I just wanted to say "Thanks!" I'm a happy user of your extension for Kodi. I use it here in the US, and wait until after the 2nd games have ended (~20:00EST) to watch my out-of-market team.
Java and .NET are not only the Java and C# programming languages.

There are for example, distributed agent programming languages built on top of them, including network aware distributed GCs.
Wasting thousands in travel and interview costs?
I'm a a new college grad who just recently went through this exact same process, but was turned down after the first stage. The test required webcam, browsing monitoring and location access. It also said it would periodically capture my webcam and exit the test (with no way of finishing) if it detected any loss in webcam connectivity. I didn't have any webcam available for my use so I rigged up my DSLR to upload to an ip cam which I then streamed as my webcam capture. It all worked splendidly except for the fact that my DSLR shuts off automatically after an arbitrary amount of time (something to do with it's idle timer I couldn't fix). Since it was the only webcam I had on hand I went ahead and took my chances with the test.

30 minutes later I had finished the programming portion rather easily, although because it was timed I had to rush on the last problem (write an implementation of insertion sort), copy/pasting code I had written earlier in the test. My webcam was still capturing and I even reset it here in between portions. I then began on the logic portion of the test, basically a glorified IQ test. Now, I work methodically and consider questions from all perspectives - the questions posed were all relatively easy IMO however could sometimes be answered a couple different ways depending upon your logic. I'm not saying the questions were flawed, it just made for a white knuckle situation. I ended up rushing through most of the questions and left 6 or so unanswered. Oh, and my webcam went out halfway through so I spent a couple minutes resetting it (it didn't exit the test like it said it would).

A week later I got an email saying they would not be following up with me. No harm no foul, seems like what I'd been hearing was true; I didn't want to work with a company that interviewed like this anyways.

I just want to say that I was terribly disappointed in this particular interview process; I felt like it caricatured the state of the modern technical interview in all its glory. Not as a whole, but in general. It sifts for people, not necessarily coders, who work well under pressure of a timer. They miss out on candidates, like me, who think critically about each question and take a creative approach to problem solving. But then again, perhaps Amazon is simply being selective on this basis. This process completely cut out the middle man, in fact I never once emailed with a real person about this interview. I was never given an opportunity to demonstrate who I was and how I think. But like I said, perhaps Amazon wasn't interested in that.
I don't believe any 15 year old who feels they can choose from among several pro sporting careers is thinking rationally.
Show HN: The Wishler, a no nonsense online wishlist
Maybe - at least until the hardware inevitably fails. With FitBit buying the IP, I don't expect the community to get any help with keeping the devices alive.

Fuck it, we need an open source / open hardware Pebble clone.
Ruby on Rails Development: Benefits and Pitfalls
When I think that this month I'm going to hear "Last Christmas" by Wham! in every store I set foot into, this new masterpiece doesn't sound so bad.
Reverse Showrooming: retail must focus on immediate gratification to survive
Isn't that largely because people don't understand it?
FUCK, not this way..
Nonsense. The Nordic countries are the best to start a/do business in [1][2]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/best-countries-for-business/list/

[2] http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
That's so depressing.
I sort of see all this as a natural progression, maybe our purpose at this point is to eliminate ourselves, the earth will be just fine without us.
There are many interesting reaction results:

- Colors
- Lights
- Precipitates
- Temperatures
- Voltages and currents
- Crystal formation
- Smells
- Tastes (for certain safe reactions)
- Compounds with interesting applications
- And, of course, explosions

And some of these are certainly explored in many chemistry introductions.

But I have to disagree, of these many interesting reactions, none is more interesting or exciting than an explosion.
It’s Python, Not Python 2, Not Python 3
>Benedict Evans got the cost of driverless cars to something like 0.40 cents/mile if I'm not mistaken.

The article I mentioned was referring to roughly a "retail/end customer cost per mile", where Benedict Evans is probably referring to internal / wholesale costs.

Either way, it's probably the same conclusion, cutting costs by roughly 50%.
Security update for Raspbian Pixel
Not sure what you mean here - With Watson Visual Recognition, you can train a set of custom classifiers from your example images.

Then in a single API call, you can upload a batch or single image and get a score for each image for each class in all your classifiers.
There are limits to the size of the ZIP files you can upload, that's true.
Installing Java is a pretty big deal... multiple versions, bigger deal... Also, the runtime is relatively huge. I don't think you'd want to do CoreOS/etcd/Kubernetes tooling in Java.
Brendan, I appreciate all your contributions to the software tool landscape.

> It's another to write a post that's dangerous.

Huh? It's called "introduction to strace". I agree with everything you said, it's easy to bork things up with strace. But I'd hardly call this article "dangerous."

90% of the time I'm running some script or opaque binary which gives some bogus unclear error or just stops executing (or appears to halt). strace is the perfect tool for finding out which syscall is failing and why.

But, yes, your warnings are good reminders that attaching to a service that's already running can have bad consequences.
If you like Sleep as Android (which I do), the app supports using your Pebble instead of your phone to track your sleep. It can also export your sleep data to Samsung's health app, which Pebble doesn't do natively, so it's a nice workaround for that too.
Quantum particles seen distorting light from a neutron star
What is a data portrait? A case study using India's demonetization
Just be yourself in the interview.
Interesting. Any examples of what a married developer can build in Unity these days?
What does "able to afford it" mean?

If we assume a fixed, minimum cost of living, a richer person can always afford more since they have more money.

What can be afforded, and what is fair payment for public services used are different things. OP was talking about "paying fair share" of public services used.

Also, comparing the very bottom with the very top is extreme. There are plenty more in the middle.

> diminishing marginal utility

What relevance it this to fair tax on individuals?
Twitter says it will ban Trump if he breaks hate-speech rules
Local tv channels have the broadcast rights for the home team area - like SNY in New York has the rights for the Mets. Their contracts specify that they have exclusive rights to the broadcast for their coverage area, so internet coverage must be blacked out.
The problem with shared trips, I think, is that customers just don't want them in any great quantities. They don't want to be in very close quarters with randos. They don't want to wait while someone else gets picked up or dropped off.
JS Testing Performance Comparing Object, If-Else and Switch on Chrome
Contrary to the article, I thought that it was the $2.6T tax holiday (significant even to the currency market) which Trump promised that caused the currency speculation and rapid rise in the dollar. It may be true that most of the money is held by big corps offshore as $ denominated securities... but it still seems like a transfer out (and directly spending those untaxed $ in the US) would necessitate someone else (foreign?) buying those securities with other currency (and those offshore banks maintaining $ reserves). That should cause a medium term (years) rise in the $ relative to those currencies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/a-2-6-tri...
Erlang is elegant and noteworthy, but you'll get more computation done in a single-threaded C program.
Not all who deny climate change are christians and not all christians deny climate change, evolution or scientific advances . Parent said people may have good reasons to think the way they do and not do anything against climate change and i just pointed one of the reasons more openly used by the groups that deny climate change. The other reason is greed but it's not usually used in public
And yes if i have some people in front of me that deny climate change/evolution/LGBT rights (they usually go together) i'd say it because if they are so "impolite" as to deny other peoples rights publicly they don't deserve better, i don't have to respect the beliefs of people that don't respect other peoples rights. Here we are having a discussion, different points of view, but you are not attacking me or other peoples rights. I'm tired of hearing that christians/muslims/jews/any belief feel offended when you don't agree and submit to their beliefs, sorry,but i guess then i can feel offended when people don't agree with mine, but not, usually is not that way only they can feel offended and and you have be silent.
A first look at Nike's self-lacing HyperAdapt sneakers
I believe erlang-style language level lightweight isolated processes is the only future. It will help not only with concurrency and distributed system, but also with security and reliability. For example, wild regexp that takes forever on some inputs will not affect other processes and won't bring the whole system down and a broken input validation will not help any client to cross the trust boundary of its process.
I don't think that problem is unique to Stockholm, plenty of other cities have that issue.

Usually when I go to a new location, doing a Google search or two on these things proves helpful. The number plate stuff is on wikipedia and the VisitStockholm.com website for example: http://www.visitstockholm.com/en/Good-to-know/Getting-around... has all the information on taxi's, how to recognise them, what the regulations around them are and other methods of getting around.

A little bit of research upfront can spare you many unpleasant experiences no matter where you're going and regardless of if you know a local or not.
EU budget improves software security with extension of audit programme
Wow, just what I was looking for! Thanks, I just purchased the #1 recommended one since it's exactly the specs I needed and right within the budget. And yes, it included the referrer code :)
Super cool to see how the team isolated the cause. I travel along the same route as well and this train caused half the circle line to be shut down during one morning.

For the next few days after, they shut down the telco signals in the train tunnels to determine if it caused the signal interference.
> With the Dollar as strong as ever against every other currency in the world, and China taking action to prop up the Yuan, I'm guessing Trump will shelve efforts to get China labelled a currency manipulator for deliberately weakening their currency. Right? Or is that not how that works.

That is actually the opposite of how that works. China manipulates its currency to make the yuan weaker against the dollar because it makes Chinese products cheaper in the US and US products more expensive in China, causing manufacturers to move to China so they can pay wages in yuan and sell products for dollars instead of the other way around.
>>I think you're missing the negative externalities inherent in oil extraction

The same can be said for the production of lithium-ion batteries. The mining and production of these batteries is just as bad for the environment. This is mainly due to the high concentration of Copper and Aluminum needed to make them work properly - which both need to be mined.

Fuel cells are a much better alternative to both combustion engines or lithium-ion electric vehicles:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-08/phones-wi...
Two well-respected people who seem to take diametrically opposed views.

All I can do is get some popcorn and dream of knowing who's right.
Liftware Level
My thoughts exactly. This whole situation feels like a very bad joke.
If you don't have the ports for Snowballs, you won't have them for Snowmobiles. And instead of copying 1 week, shipping, copying another week back, you can have the first data over after 1 day. This can be crucial to already integrate data before everything's there.

I understand the size of a Snowmobile, but if you don't somehow utilize it exactly 100%, I don't think building your own solution is cheaper than renting logistics as a service from others. Basically AWS in the logistics world.
What runaway inflation? This is the US we're talking about, not Argentina.

More to the point, what's the actual evidence that the debt is a problem, and more of a disadvantage than the advantages of funding the various programmes and tax breaks that have arisen as a result?
It brings this recent story to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033299
"ride-sharing" is ride-sharing. That's the only meaning it has.

Ride-hailing is what Uber and Lyft and ArcadeCity and Fare and all the rest of the taxi-apps offer.
FWIW,after spending a couple of years with rust as my primary programming language, I'm convinced that they made the right decision wrt mutability (immutable by default, but mutability availale when needed), as rust's lifetime system eliminates nearly all the remaining pain points around mutability (data races).

On the other hand, I think it is very important that some notion of purity be incorporated, even if only as an opt-in.
Sure, but what about companies that have gone under as a result of artificially subsidized transportation for a number of years? These companies and those jobs will not necessarily be easy to rebuild.
350KW seems a bit high for something that should effectively be an append-only file system. I would have expected 95% of the trailer to be in standby at any point in time.
AV = anti-virus
Personally I think it'd be better if we all adjusted our lifestyles to reduce our affect on the planet, but I just don't expect that to happen. Geo-engineering seems like a worse solution which is far more feasible to actually get done.
"even with Trump in the white house(sic)" - can we put this to bed yet? Trump isn't an oilman, he's a business man.
I hear you, and that can be refreshing, if your only goal is learning.

If your goal is to create a small project / product, you'll have plenty to learn already about web applications without the burden of learning a new language and toolchain.