skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest cause, historically, is the fact the railways were privatised when much of the rest of Europe was electrifying in the inter-war period and receiving little state money, and at the same time were struggling to make any money (a large part of that was the fact they had an obligation as a common carrier to accept any and all freight for a fixed price, from when they were the only way to quickly transport goods long-distances over land).

By the time they were nationalised in the 1950s the railways were still in heavy decline and more or less up until the early 2000s all the planning was about a managed decline of the railways, hence the lack of investment, justified by the falling passenger and freight numbers year-on-year.
sigh. i did not take any favors - i want my career to be built on merit and not favoritism - that is why i left the company. but do people realize that's not actually fair ? and this happens to a lot of women, not just me.
The uptake of those technologies never depended on pornography. VCRs had movies, internet video streaming had services such as YouTube, VR will have gaming. Pornography just happens to be yet another use case, not exactly one that these technologies would otherwise have had lesser uptake because of.
Ex-British ambassador claims Russia did Not provide Clinton emails
True. Maybe the ones complaining are the companies that aren't as attractive to GenX as much as they were to baby boomers.
Dude what are you on, I want some. Obama, CNN, Fox and the whole US are on topic as much as the Lochness monster.
There are times i wonder if everything that Gnome and Freedesktop has developed in recent years is a response to issues with Fedora, but presented as issues with the larger Linux ecosystem.
Unindexed: website that irrevocably deletes itself once indexed
But where do we stop? In the end it's also based on K&R, and on BCPL, and...
"reasonably secure" isn't good enough. Chrome puts additional sandboxing around V8
His famous TED talk against doing anything about climate change (a position which I think he later rescinded?) and instead focusing those funds on health and poverty reduction instead is littered with it, and based on a false assumption to begin with; that there is a pile of money that is already set aside and we're all in charge of directing it.

The reality is far more complicated. We aren't taking money away from fighting Malaria when we raise taxes on gas guzzling cars, to give just one example.
Nice to see its development is continuing.
I would suspect that most instances of SQL Server support off-the-shelf applications that require SQL Server rather than custom built applications.

Of course, a lot of these come from Microsoft - but there are a lot of 3rd party applications that support SQL Server. There are also a lot of advantages of standardizing on a single database platform within an organization.
Are ideas getting harder to find?
IMO, it's matured very well. I'm always surprised by how good performance is in a virtualized environment compared with Oracle using the same front-end enterprise applications.

The biggest advantage IMO is that you can get strong performance out of SQL Server with relatively little DBA knowledge compared with Oracle. Installation is easy, integrated authentication is easy, and backups are easy. Running a cluster and doing replication is an area that all RDBMS systems need serious improvement on, but initial setup and working with a relatively stagnant schema is straightforward.

The one area that SQL Server has been lacking is having a native linux client (which is hopefully alleviated now). Not having one is the only real drawback that I run into.
So I'd be interested to know your thoughts on bug bounties as against "traditional" security reviews.

Have these areas of your application been through external reviews before being opened up to bug bounty or did you decide to start there?

I was thinking that for the amount you've paid out in bounties you could've engaged a reasonable team for several man-months, so was interested in what led you more down the bug bounty line for this.
Paranoid much?
what about the livelihood of the victim ? is that not at stake because of someone else's misbehavior ?
From the website:-

"Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful."
Nothing you've typed leads to the conclusion 'The Copyright Act is unconstitutional because its criteria for what is and isn't a copyrightable work do not provide an ironclad guarantee that every copyrightable work itself promotes the advancement of arts and science'. It isn't what the clause asks.
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Or run out of room in the paging file. Your addressable memory cannot be larger than physical memory without a backing store.
Field theories like QED have the concept of a field, which is something that permeates all of space, which makes it non-local. Electrons all have the same electric charge because they are all different excitations of the same electric field. Does that in some way mean they are all the same particle? They are all connected by the same electric field and have the same charge.
I find that people tend to look for a singular cause; a trail of evidence that leads to only one correct conclusion. It's an attitude exploited by crime dramas, TV shows, literature, etc.

Reality, of course, is far more complex, and I think Rosling is trying to play to those biases in human nature in order to influence people. Pointing to one inherent "truth" in the data is far more effective in convincing people than "it's complicated".
Fine, let's say he resigns. What actions should the leader who takes over do to turn the economy around?
Fine, let's say he flees the country. What actions should the leader who takes over do to turn the economy around?
Could have sworn that webassembly is just a subset of JS.
thanks for the defense. a woman would have to be foolish to create such a ruckus about "just sexism". we just suck that part up as part of our jobs.
Oh. That's embarrassing, I think I mixed it up with the situation in Argentina. Venezuela did have problems to access the financial market and it does explain some recent anti-capitalist measures, but that was not directly related to an earlier hedge fond ruling as I was convinced, it was a more simple case of not paying because of having too much debt. It it related to the argentinian situation, but not the same. Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/restructuring-venezue...

I wonder whether there was an earlier situation like that for Venezuela that got resolved beforehand, which would explain why I remember differently, but I found no source for that. Maybe the ISDS rulings against it. I'd delete the comment above if I could.
template<class T> using unq = std::unique_ptr<T>;

This is a start, then I usually define specific types from there.
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That's absurdly wrong.

I think you may be thinking of Argentina? (Not that you're describing events in Argentina correctly either, but at least some of the bits are right.)
What a low quality post from what I would have considered a reputable publisher. It reads more like a buzzfeed article than a business magazine.
How to Use Psychology to build a memorable and influential brand
So my boyfriend studied for months to get a perfect score, then he helped focus my studies based on his experience.

Use the Magoosh app to learn all the vocab. It's not that hard, just drill vocab for a few minutes each day (I did this for longer than the weekend). Open the app while you're walking to class or waiting around for something.

Because I was pressed for time, I took a math GRE book and ONLY did the first ten questions in each subject section. This helped me triage what I was weak on so I could do more questions for those sections. Most of the math is stuff you already know. I would say that 1/10 math problems on the GRE requires some trick that you'll learn specifically for the GRE.

Other than drilling vocab, I didn't practice the verbal section at all. My reading comp is excellent, it's just a speed thing. Ideally I would have simply spent months ahead of time reading more literature, but that did not happen. Learning to read well is a very abstract skill, whereas you vocab is straightforward and you can get some guaranteed gains just by spending time with the Magoosh app. It is also easier to get a good verbal score because you're competing percentile-wise against a lot of foreign students. You can miss a ton of questions and still end up with a great score on verbal. In contrast, the quantitative section is unforgiving. Miss a couple problems and your score will tank.

The GRE website provides two practice tests. Take one before you start studying to get a baseline. Then take one after. It would be best to buy more of them, if possible (I didn't have time though). It's really important to get used to the pacing and to have the stamina to get through the test. Now, I take 8-hour exams for med school on the regular, so the GRE was a walk in the park in comparison. However, I have a smart friend that really struggled once she was a couple hours into it. My absolute weakness is reading speed and I had to force myself to read faster or skim in order to keep up.
> Noawadays developing software also involves using IDEs

Assuming your definition of IDE is limited to GUI applications, and assuming you speak for everyone. Since neither is true, developing code on the terminal on a remote server is very possible and even practical.
This is cool to see. I'm a bit sad that the ARM port hasn't made any visible progress - I remember back when the Raspberry Pi came out that there were a few discussions about other hardware being more adequate/future proof, and now that there's a quad core model it would be a great OS to run...
So worth the time investment. I read it in college and it was mind blowing. Now... I have a kid to feed! But I yearn for books like that one.
> Hyperinflation only ends when you restore trust in the currency.

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It's not caused by a lack of trust.

> If you can cut down the influence of the black market you can restore goods being bought and sold using the local currency, which will slow down inflation.

That's not how inflation works.
Up-to-date browser in Virtualbox with uMatrix for manual whitelisting?

To go more tinfoil, a "trash" laptop on its own subnet.
That still doesn't say much. Why would I be interested in this over linux?

The FAQ doesn't even say whats good about it, just that it targets personal computing, which windows and OSX would also say. Ubuntu too, probably.
The hearing protection is about exposure over time, just as with using power tools etc.

As for point, its that Hollywood have given a ever flashier and exaggerated presentation of the effects of guns.
> Pointing to one inherent "truth" in the data is far more effective in convincing people than "it's complicated".

Yep and this is my biggest problem with populist "thinkers" like Gladwell and Rosling. They actually encourage the opposite of thinking; providing ready made simplistic conclusions for their audience.
More competition might help DB to address some of its problems, but as a commuter one of the most frustrating problems with public transport is the chaotic pricing.

Others have explained why DB's own pricing is a mess, but on a communal level public transport is even more of a mess[0]. You might think getting a "BahnCard 100" (a 100% discount card that costs ~€400/month) might be worth it if you travel a lot but if you routinely travel by train you'll also likely have to rely on public transport at your destination but bus and tram are often not part of the deal (i.e. no discount is applied whatsoever).

I live in Cologne in NRW. If I only moved around within Cologne, I could get a monthly ticket for all tram and bus transport (for ~€100/month) in Cologne from the KVB (the city's privatised transport agency). If I want to go beyond that, I could instead get a monthly ticket for the regional railway from the VRS (the regional privatised transport alliance that includes the KVB).

But although I generally stay within NRW I regularly commute to a city that's not within the boundaries of the VRS (or its parent alliance, the NVR). It's actually part of another alliance, the NWL. So I would need a ticket to move within the VRS region and then another to move within the NWL region.

But there are actually three such alliances in NRW and I need to cross the region of the third alliance to get from one to the other, which is the VRR. So I would need a ticket for the VRS, another for the VRR and then another for NWL.

But that's obviously silly, so there's also the NRW-ticket which covers the regions of all three alliances as a yearly subscription (which works out to ~€300/month).

But of course that's only for NRW (one of the sixteen states/counties in Germany) and only for busses, trams and regional rail. If you want to use the intercity or ICE trains, even within NRW, you still need an extra ticket at the full price. Likewise if you ever need to cross the borders of NRW.

As for the joys of actually using and validating the various tickets you might have to buy in addition to whichever subscription you end up with, that's what the article I linked to is about.

[0]: http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/werner-knallhar... (German)
Yes SQL 2016 has native support for JSON, CTEs (this one has been in since 2005), and windowed functions I believe were also in 2005.

Some other massive improvements are Columnstore indexes for absolutely ridiculous OLAP data reads and compression (we are seeing 90% compression and < 1 sec instant lookup times on multi-billion-row fact tables).
Ask HN: I get React but not Redux
Just playing around with React only took me a day or so to get a good grip on the concepts. But then I started looking into the whole flux architecture and I am confused. Reducers ? WTF is that.

I understand that you can build stuff in React only without redux but is it viable for larger apps ? Has anyone built an app in production that runs without Redux etc and is of decent size ?
Work is usually consistent. If you're working in Xcode or Mail or Excel for long periods, the number will be accurate.

I guess Apple thinks nobody uses their computers for work anymore? And you think that's reasonable?
It depends where you are. My company switched to Java from C# because the right executives heard about open source. If you ask most managers around here C# might as well be COBOL and Java is a brand new language( certainly not something from the 90's originally intended for cable box menus).

So there are certainly bubbles where C# is dying if only for stupid reasons.
You're thinking of ASM.js.
> I have never understood what the classic Many World Interpretation actually is.

There's little to understand: at its core, Many Worlds is real close to "shut up and calculate". The only significant assumption is that the wave function as described by the math is real. And when the math says there are 2 non-interacting blobs, well, this translates to 2 universes.

That's about it.

As for why people seems to reject it instinctively, it's probably because our subjective experience is linear —or mono-threaded. However, linear histories aren't contradictory with trees. Imagine a Git History that never merges: each leaf is the product of a linear set of modifications, a perfectly clean history. From that final commit's perspective, other branches might as well not exist. You'd need merges to break that illusion, and our universe doesn't have macro-merges —we only observe them at a very small scale, for instance with photon interference.
People associate cost with value.
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The only word of these that I would assume any given english speaker knows is monogamy, and maybe monologue. I myself know those, epithet and monogram. Perhaps I could guess on the others, but I certainly wouldn't know what epi- meant.
"Runs entirely on green electricity" - so is Deutsche Bahn at times, as Germany has been reported to produce more renewable electricity than they can consume.
Just a minor correction, "Eskéndereyya" is Alexandria in Egyptian Arabic not MSA. In MSA, it's "al Iskándareyya" using this writing system rules.
I don't think it is scammed in a way you suggest in (2). However, there is indeed the issue that buying green energy doesn't necessarily change anything. Existing green energy will simply be sold as green rather than normal energy. That's why you have several utilities (e.g., Greenpeace's own) that guarantee to build new green plants in line with their own demand
Samsung Note 7 investigation complete
> If I accumulate Bolivars I can have greater control over the local market, slowing down the velocity of trade, creating artificial scarcity.

Except the government is creating more and more. You couldn't possibly create a scarcity of bolivars. Also, of all the things you could possibly say about Venezuela over the last few years, you've identified the issue as a shortage of currency?

> The losses incurred by hoarding increasingly worthless currency can be offset by the profits made elsewhere.

That's mathematically impossible.

> possible to encourage more people to trade in Bolivars.

Increasing the velocity of money is actually inflationary. Your proposal to solve inflation is...to have more inflation? That's like saying the cure for hunger is to not eat.
Here is my theory. Someone smarter than me please prove me wrong.

A particle's 'Zitterbewegung' motion generates wake fields in the vacuum energy, causing the particle to generate its own pilot wave as energy fluctuations in the vacuum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitterbewegung

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-strange-behavior-pilot-wave-dyn...
Samsung reportedly knows why the Galaxy Note 7 exploded – BGR
Chinese smiths forge a large flange on the street [video]
Operations Manager of a cluster of 10 stations in US. How does one get added to your amazing platform? All stations stream. You have one of our stations (KSCJ/Sioux City) already on. Love to add our others!
Direct link to the downloads: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads
Vine, the Six-Second Video App, Is Not Quite Shutting Down
Yes.

In MSA, it's "Iskandar" and in Egyptian Arabic it's "Eskandar".
I unsuccessfully tried using the iPad as a full-fledged computer for two months. It did not work out. Much of the web still assumes that you're using a mouse. You don't realize this until you try browsing the web with the iPad. Also, using SSH,even with Panic, was not as seamless as it seemed. There was much screen refreshing. I really missed having a mouse.
Samsung's Note 7 investigation complete, findings report sent out to labs
Wait a minute, since when is there any difference between Many Worlds and Decoherence? I always assumed they referred to the same interpretation, do they not?
They have put quite a bit of work into scaling, but that doesn't mean it's perfect yet.
I recall a ruling in Germany that pornography isn't inherently protected by copyright but porn that has some narrative structure around the actual sex scenes being granted protection because of that.

So if it's just literally pointing a camera at people having sex, copyright wouldn't apply (though presumably the right to one's own image would still apply?) but if it's previously established that they're a plumber and a housewife overcome by their passions, it's part of a copyrighted work.
Daily Mail on HN? Revolted.

The "Ex-British" ambassador maintains a blog. Post that:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence...
Haiku is a good

system for computing things

but details are slim
The 16.10 packages seem to be missing and I can't find where to report it.
No, actually he is exactly right. 10% better would made no difference to the typical buyer, and to complicate any TCO guesstimate would need to take into account managing a new arch in a deployment, which comes with its own hard to measure overheads.
Will there be datasheets and other programming documentation available? ARM core documentation is, but everything else on the SoC is also important. Just because there is open-source code for it doesn't mean it's been documented, because the code only shows "how" and not "why".

Qualcomm is notoriously closed with docs, about the same as Broadcom. Intel is starting to close up, but is still more open because of the x86/PC legacy.
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My plan for addressing the "Must keep up with latest tech" problem is to CREATE the latest technology

This kind of thinking is why there are a hundred Javascript frameworks and more being made all the time, thus creating the problem you're trying to solve by joining in...
Show HN: See what Elon, Steve, and Mark where up to when they were your age
So the other day I was wondering what Elon Musk was up to when he was my age and had to dig through his biography and an online timeline to find out. I thought it would be cool to have an easy way to benchmark my life against the lives of the greatest in Tech, so I built it. Enjoy!
It's less than half the speed in Germany. The extra stops do not account for the difference.

At any rate, yes I can compare the absolute times because that's what passengers will do when making choices on how to get from A to B. If the trip in Germany was an hour faster, more people would choose the train.

In the US, it's usually always faster to drive. Traffic congestion can make the train attractive in the northeast.
When you say alientube for all websites I think this replaces comment threads from websites (eg Disqus on blogs) with Reddit comments from where that site was submitted to Reddit. That would be something I install.

This looks nice but like the others I've seen doing the same thing I'm not interested until it's big.
Umm... I think the number of things not leaked by Snowden far surpasses the number of things leaked by him, and the things he didn't leak weren't not leaked because they weren't on a computer... they just weren't in the files he accessed.
Officially, 25: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

But I don't expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and learn Lisp
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> Apart from for experiments.

Who cares? Experiments are a tie: those different interpretations all make the same observable claims.

From there, which is best depends on what you care about most: is the first interpretation we came up with best, because "science"? Is the simplest interpretation best, because "Bayes"? Do stuff like locality, determinism etc. matter?

Me I side with Bayes, and that means Many Worlds/decoherence, which is simplest. Others would make another choice.
Printing no money is the default option. Dysfunction and corruption certainly make fixing everything extremely difficult, but you don't have to fix the government to stop the hyperinflation. If you cut off access to whatever printing press or computer is making the money, then there would not be hyperinflation.

It being an insufficient fix does not stop it from being trivial and performing its stated goal.
Actually the notes stopped being legal tender within a 3 hour notice. But the government has given a time period of 50 days for someone with the old notes to go to a bank and either deposit them or exchange them for new notes.
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You're disagreeing with his policy position. But where did he misrepresent data?
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"More than £18m": http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/mercia-exits-wa...
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OP said sleepfast increases his battery life. It sounds like you lose whatever is in memory though