skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk go through a roller coaster ride of emotions as watches rocket land
Maybe you won't learn a lot from MythBusters, but it went a long way to imbibe a maker spirit in you. That I think is crucial to becoming a better engineer.
I'm not saying that they shouldn't have to pay taxes. I'm saying they should have to pay what is required by law in the jurisdiction that they are in. The EU going after them as a special case because they have a lot of money doesn't help anything. The EU should focus on fixing the source of the issue, which is the concept of a tax haven within the EU. Going after Apple doesn't fix the root cause.
I'm sorry but I cannot find any reference in the provided links that substantiate that claim.

Furthermore, the comment is indeed on-topic.

Could you please provide more specific information on how this breaks the HN guidelines linked to?
Uber losses expected to hit $3B in 2016 despite revenue growth
As this was sent to experimental nuclear physicists in the 30's, it may well have been a reasonably accurate description.
To be fair, issues like this are really only UI issues with some git commands, not necessarily git as a whole. The GP post was probably lamenting a much deeper issue with the design of git.
Unit Testing Chef Guard Clauses: Command Strings vs. Ruby Blocks
Also, there are power users, 'influencers', who are trying to cultivate an audience, often across multiple social networks, and they are looking for the ability to schedule posts ahead of time, and receive metrics and basic analytics on what sorts of impressions they reach. Products like this exist: search 'social media scheduling' or 'social media management'.

I'm not convinced that your solution as your describe would be an effective competition to more full-featured tools, but at the right price point you may be able to attract customers who don't need all the features that those solutions provide.
I am curious if anyone has done an analysis to see how much of the capital expenditures going to automation goes to labor vs profits/return on capital.

I could definitely see the case that almost none of it is going to labor in the end, but it would be interesting to see a real study.
Yeah, that's all clear. But notice this sequence:

Retric > Ireland also has a law on the books saying it must comply with the EU.

akvadrako > Ireland has to follow EU laws because the EU says so

Retric > No, Ireland ... has to follow EU laws because Ireland law says so

My (modest) understanding of treaty law is that Retric is right, that the laws that require Ireland to obey EU rulings are Irish laws. In particular, presumably some members of various executive branches negotiated some treaties, and then asked their respective legislative branches to "ratify" those treaties, i.e. pass laws binding the signatories to obey the treaties, by their own respective legal systems.

My non-lawyer understanding is that EU legal theory recognizes the sovereignty of nations, and the EU's authority is derived from the sovereign authority of nations.

Do you actually disagree with any of this? If you do disagree, how do you understand international law to work? i.e. why would Ireland ever care what EU law says, other than via the legal chain I just outlined?
Its the names of files, I believe.

so git checkout --ours {name_of_file1,name_of_file2,and_so_on}

The {} is standard bash expansion, you can try it like mkdir hello{one,two,three}, so parent poster went with articles use of new-file as the name of the files that were affected.
Ah ha, thanks both! Rust web frameworks can absolutely do server-side rendering, there's multiple template engines, even.
That paper discusses a reference counting GC which also has a trace phase in order to reclaim cycles.

"Reference counting must perform extra graph iterations in
order to complete collection of cyclic data. This is
typically viewed as a major drawback of reference counting"

What that paper really shows is the equivalence of any kind of tracing collector.

In practice when people refer to reference counting it's usually implied that there's no trace phase, and that the GC cannot reclaim cycles. Perl, Swift, etc, are the typical examples. Python is the counter example because it does reference counting and tracing.
Not sure about a technological solution, but the technological cause of the 16th religious wars was arguably the printing press.
Getting 500 on and off. Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20161221164424/http://austinlchu...
Why I Only Work Remotely
> These are salaries that will never ever need to be paid that goes directly to the bottomline.

This is only true for the first innovators. Competition means that these 'saleries' will just disappear rather than going directly to the bottomline. Exchange value (~ the price) shrinks as you replace human labour, as Karl Marx would already have told you. ;)

And that's not even a bad thing. It's good that people don't have to waste their lives in mines etc. The crucial question is how we as a society deal with this.
I love solving problems like this at work.

I hate solving problems like this at home. Part of the challenge is that I don't have the same resources, though.

> Perhaps you live somewhere with a lot of RF noise?

I hate this X-factor of WiFi with a passion. It's something that legitimately can vary in the time domain, either periodic or aperiodic. I have no good way to rule it out.

I have started using home powerline adapters and found them to be effective and reliable high throughput, low-latency connections to the smart TV/set top devices in my home.
The answer doesn't have to be that everyone has a job. It could be universal basic income. It could be any array of things.

But the question is, does Patreon, OSS grants and the like scale to the entire population of a country? My instinct is "no". Yet it's likely that a lot of people will be looking for alternative means by which to live life within our lifetimes, and no-one is really looking for broadly applicable answers.
I believe the contracts (preconditions, postconditions, assertions) proposal may address this issue.

The latest proposal is P0380, "A Contract Design": https://wg21.link/P0380.

An earlier work, "Simple Contracts for C++" (https://wg21.link/P0287), gives some further background and motivation.

Notably, contracts are currently solely in the proposal stage (and not in the upcoming standard).
> so how else would that work for the gambling industry?

It would work by denying Ivey his requests and policing your games properly, as many casinos did do. Ivey isn't exactly an unknown in gambling circles - the Bogota went in eyes open, accepted the conditions and lost.
Yes, an autonomous truck company could temporarily lower their prices, thereby killing all their competitors, and then increase their prices to an unreasonable point.
I also dont see why he didnt just git revert to the parent commit, the commit before the other guy changed 18 files seemingly randomly.

Then rebased featurebranch on that, and thats it. So sure the history would contain the mistake, so what.
It would be pretty trivial to detect the network transit of the thing sending audio 24/7.
This is the idea behind 100x or 1000x odds in craps. People either won't play that high, or the other -EV play decisions outweigh even massive true odds action
Consider a deck of cards that has a triangle printed on the back. This triangle is printed exactly the same on every card, such that they are all indistinguishable from each other.

Now rotate some of the cards 180°. Those rotated cards are now distinguishable from the other cards, because the card print is not rotational-symmetric. This rotation is what caused the cards to be marked, even though the printed pattern was exactly the same.

Typically card backs are rotational-symmetric in order to avoid this. However, it seems like this particular pattern had imperfections -- within 1/32 of an inch -- which a trained eye could recognize. (The judge even admitted this as quite a feat.)
> What remains is mostly regulatory hurdles, psychological hurdles, and fine tuning.

I think this is too optimistic. Self-driving cars only work because they are in the minority. Can you imagine a city full of current state-of-the-art self driving cars and it not turning into a traffic chaos?

In particular, I think that self-driving cars cannot work fully autonomously without communicating with other cars or the road infrastructure. And I am not aware of any effort to create a cross-vendor car-to-car communication protocol.

There are trivial cases where pure autonomous following of traffic rules will lead to deadlock (or other issues). Take these two simple examples: 1) 4 cars arrive at the same time in a four-way intersection without signals or yields 2) on a three lane road, two cars from the outer lanes try to switch to the middle lane at the same time.

These are by no means difficult problems (I'm sure there are more difficult cases too), but they must be solved and so far they're not being worked on.
Well i just got an iOS notification a few minutes ago saying "Super mario run - new feature - friendly run is available". But I assume (given that the game was only released a few days ago) that it was intended to slowly roll out whatever this 'friendly run' mode is...
If I miss taking citalopram 2 days in a row I start getting these "electric shocks" and dizzyness. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
Announcing LoopBack 3.0 GA
Why Mars though? Why not build a lunar base on the moon? Maybe even a hotel on the moon, I'm sure people will enjoy watching earth from the moon.

I just fail to see this obsession with Mars. We don't even have manned landing on Mars and we are already having questionable stuff like "Mars One"

And finally (one for the conspiracists): nearly 50 years ago we landed on the moon without any of the technology we have today. Why hasn't there been any strides? Shouldn't it be cheaper to go to the Moon vs Mars? Shouldn't it be possible to colonize Moon more easily and faster than Mars?
I had a similar impression until I got the Echo Dot. The Dot has way better audio recognition than the original Echo. Which makes sense since its the next generation of it. I’m loving it so far :)
I don't use Ubuntu, so I'm curious; is there a reason someone wouldn't upgrade from 16.04 if 16.10 is out and has drivers they need?
It has to be better than existing logistics in some way or it won't get used. That could mean it's more reliable, but it probably also means it's at least a bit cheaper.

You're right that the majority of the savings probably wouldn't be realised by consumers until there is more than one player, though. On the other hand, given how many companies are attempting this, that seems like it will happen quite quickly.
I wouldn't say it's a "whole other discussion" when the changes are causing the unemployment.

When globalization was pushed, the government passed laws to help retrain workers. Maybe it was just a band-aid, but, it was something.

Perhaps the government should intervene to direct some of the automation toward producing free housing.
I don't think this is done personally by dang, I believe it's a number of "anti-SJW" HN users using the flag button.

mjg59 has observed this happening a lot before on e.g. http://hnrankings.info/13204464/
made worse by caching

Caching may relieve some stress (on say a dashboard), but if an application is doing calculations around account balances, and uses event sourcing-like structures in the database, then caching isn't going to help as those calculations are going to still need to be done for each new balance changing event.

So caching is never worse (unless you accidentally used the cached value where you needed the live value), but isn't necessarily going to relieve a lot of DB stress.
Scientizen, the Robin Hood of Personal Health Data
PhD or Professional Programmer?
I have a Time Capsule / Express config also. I'm gonna wait a bit more (3-6 months) to see if Apple really is exiting or they just pulled the product because a new one is coming out.

If they did exit and theres nothing to replace it, I'm interested in Plume right now. http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/12/5/13837804/pl... I like the size of the pods, it got good reviews and the price isn't horrible. Put the router in the basement; a pod on the patio, family room and 2nd floor hallway and that'll blanket the house. We've always struggled to get a strong wifi signal on the patio while streaming via Airplay and in the summer, we try to spend a lot of time outside. I may do it anyways...
I literally did the same when I read the title. I guess Skype has done a lot to earn the snark.
Interesting, thanks for the update.

I always figured that for Secret level, at least, it seemed like a not-too-detailed investigation. No interviews, anyways.
Please post the data if you have any.
To be fair, I haven't run my comparison since 2014.
AMD's CPU offerings have been lackluster in recent years, Intel has taken the cake in that department. I'm not surprised people are building Intel more and more. Ryzen is going to change all that, though. AMD is squaring that up to be the next big competitor. On the GPU front, the 8GB RX480 is making quite a dent in the market. It's beating out NVidia's 6GB GTX1060 in DX12 games, creeping towards the 1070's benchmarks, while costing less than $250. They aren't catering to the high-end market that the GTX1080 latches onto, but the price for performance is hard to beat. I surmise Ryzen to play out the same way.
Very similar experience here with that same album except I was in high school and it was 1999. That album, from "Too High" all the way though "He's Misstra Know-It-All", is a piece of perfection.
There is a killer quote within: incorrigible intellectuals, constitutionally incapable of a simple anything, much less a straightforward answer to a straightforward question.

It's not that I am a total utilitarian, but I have long been suspicious of intellectuals who value intellectualism for its own sake. Just what are you planning to do with all that intellect and critical faculty you have spent so long refining, pray?

Absolutely nothing to do with marriage, of course, but otherwise the article would have had precisely zero value for me.
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality. Passable enough that I don't immediately Chromecast to another set of $$$ speakers.
Please read and understand the entire comment chain you're replying to. I'm well aware that you can use Firefox Developer Edition to develop add-ons. (I'm the one who first mentioned it!)
I'm not saying that all retail jobs will go... yet. But the number of employees per store will go down, and since there is a large absolute number of retail workers, it will still be bad.

Secondly, once people get used to shopping at stores where they don't have to line up to pay, the new experience will become expected by consumers.

So there is a double effect whereby stores who adopt the new tech will save money on payroll, and stores that don't will lose some business.
OTR trucking is about speed and flexibility, not cost. I would love to see more freight shipped via train, but at the same time I'm very much liking 2 day Prime delivery.
Yeah, I immediately passed when I heard the game required an Internet connection. Their stated reasons are ridiculous [0], or at least questionable given the many number of high quality games that manage to have an offline mode.

[0] http://www.polygon.com/mobile/2016/12/9/13897536/super-mario...
> Apparently, the tech giant has a “Stop Leaks” program in place that is managed through an internal website. Employees have the option of reporting a colleague to superiors, which then look into the matter and fire the whistleblower if the report is true.

Not all leaks are made in the sprit of "whistleblowing". This article seems pretty misleading… many of these measures are designed to protect the company's intellectual property and secrecy, though I see how they can be abused. I would hardly call it a 'spying program' though.
AMD was trying to push code into the linux kernel to speed up performance. However, it was recently rejected, publicly, and rather harshly.

With the push to the linux kernel AMD GPU's would be better than Nvidia... that being said, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Never had any loyalty to any manufacturer.

When I need a new CPU or a new GPU, I just open the latest benchmark and go for the best price/performance ratio for gaming.
This is actually really nice. Do you guys plan on adding sending to an email?
>Google’s policies don’t allow employees to discuss work-related topics including salaries

isn't this illegal?
Four years with Rust
Could be a sign for the current economic environment. Ecommerce took really off in the last decade or so. The recovery after the crisis in '08 took long and while consumption was ok, it was never extremely good.

Current numbers, especially in the US, look very promising. Growth isn't where it has been in the past, but employment is very strong and so is spending. Wage growth will have a large effect on spending for gifts, especially for earners with low wages.

Maybe that's why Amazon was so surprised this year. They anticipated their growth number to what they sold last year and didn't account for the extra boost.

Of course that's just speculation, but it would fit well. And would explain why I don't see this effect on Amazon UK at all.
For me the electric shocks are a sensation of jolting back to reality, something like how I imagine coming out of the matrix would feel like - only on a much smaller scale. Curious to see if anyone else has the same type of sensation.
latin heretics were doing genocide for 10 centuries
it is same to them as telling kind words
once they rounded up free masons across europe
they just did like they always did
now there is more mass media so it is different
why do people don't resist Obama or Merkel or British now
Nothing. The author stated though that the merge had to be done:

> without losing the commit history and messages

Otherwise a "partial checkin" (which was exactly what "co-worker X" did) would have worked fine.
Kafka Summit San Francisco 2017: Streaming platforms at massive scale
Just a nit, President Obama heads the Executive branch of the US Federal government, with the other two branches being the Judicial branch (Supreme Court of the USA), and the Legislative branch (Congress).
The lack of a competitive consumer CPUs from AMD gave the year to Intel when it came to new gaming systems. With RYZEN and Vega GPUs coming Q1 2017, AMD’s 80%+ rally in the market, and Intel’s lack of innovation, I expect a comeback for AMD in the gaming PC market. Their move back into the Professional and HPC GPU market will also be a huge financial push for AMD to get back where they want to be.
Everyday many stories get flagged on Hacker News. Some do well in other channels.

My advice is to take that as evidence that writing for the audience on Hacker News may require a different approach than what might work on social media.

Good luck.
and seemingly not true?

http://qz.com/458615/theres-reportedly-a-big-secret-spreadsh...
That's been my experience with other IAP games, such as Phoenix Wright which is free but costs $15 for the full purchase. The full content is attached to my account no matter what device I use.
It's not pressure but heat from mostly radioactive decay and also tidal stresses from the Moon that allow the Earth's core to be liquid. More mass allows for more insulation and more decaying Uranium, Thorium, etc so tends to lead to higher internal temperatures.
There is, but my phone is either in my pocket or not right next to me. Google Home works fine across the room, and ties directly into Google Music. I can also tell it to cast to my better speakers if that's what I want it to do. Siri also has a weird way of doing multiple timers: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2014/01/timers-and-reminder...
Well, if you want to go there, it's also sexism. He said "dude". Does that mean he thinks women are also incapable of attaining that level of wealth?

I think he simply wanted to rely on a common stereotype to refer to ultra-wealthy people who live completely different lives and are generally out of touch with reality.
Crypto Experts Team Up to Give Impulse to Blockchain Revolution in Nigeria
> I still don't think driverless tech is even there yet. What Uber is doing in San Francisco is a little scary. I'm waiting for the first fatality.

But we're well past the first fatality in a human-driven Uber.
You can send with an email now within the app. In fact, the genius of the idea is you only need either an email or phone number
> they're either marked or not

They were marked when Ivy's assistant asked to turn the 9s around 180 degrees.

The design on all the cards was identical; it's not as though face cards had a different pattern on the back. The design just happened to be very slightly asymmetric so that turning the 9 cards served to mark them.

If you were not able to turn the cards, the asymmetric back would provide no information.
I think bathing yourself in a tub full of nanowires is a bad idea.

I think experimenting to determine why and how cells do this, and if it is potentially useful is fun/interesting science.
I'd recommend checking out their newest chips (I don't know if they hit market), they seem pretty good, and cheaper than Intel.
The hilariously ugly sketches of the NSA’s Hobo guide
Mdiep/Logician: Logic programming in Swift
I have Google Music so it finds music by matching on playlists/genre.
I'm starting to get tired of this. I really don't understand this sentiment on a forum called "hacker news" of all places. You don't have to trust anyones word about it not listening 24/7. It is t r i v i a l to look at the data from the echo transiting across the network. You can see that the traffic spikes after you say alexia as it sends the audio data out.
I have to say I am fan of both Mercurial and Git particularly because I'm a crusty old developer who came from some god awful VCS/SCM like PVCS, CVS, RCS, Source safe. I remember first using Perforce for the first time and thinking dear god it is expensive but totally worth it (this was before git).

Really what I think needs improvement is better diff/merging interfaces. There really isn't platform independent one that is opensource and free.

Right now I use p4merge because it works fairly well on macOS but I still think it sucks (it doesn't have keybindings and yeah I have tried vim and emacs diff ... they are ok but not as easy to visualize diffing).
Ask HN: Hardware specs for development (minimum, normal, ideal)?
Ask HN: What hardware specs for a development machine are minimum, normal, and best?
That, and that the amount of energy you put in to produce a unit of impulse with a theoretical EM drive is 10 times larger than the amount of energy required to produce that same impulse with a Hall effect thruster. For the journey to Mars that means the EM drive would tend to be much slower in practice even if it worked.
Pensions have an unlimited time horizon, while personal 401ks don't.

Yeah, you could put the money in more conservative investments, but you still as an indivisible bare the brunt of the risk.
In SVN, this case would completely explode into manually applying a big patch.
I'm guessing with the rise of automated jobs there will be a huge rise in electrical and mechanical engineers.

After all, someone has to take care of those machines, no?
Honestly, unclear. For one thing school boards are motivated to constrain headcount, since that accounts for a massive proportion of their budget spend. On the other hand, demand - especially in the early years - is incredibly high, though it wanes later. Perhaps someone who works in TDSB or the like will respond with some insight.

https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2015/11/22/fre...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/ontario-schools-...