skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punish Russia??

How is this achievable? Russia is not a tiny third world country. It's a huge nth world one. Its oligarchy/government couldn't care less about any additional inconvenience applied to the general population. People are cynical beyond the touch point of any such measures.

Also, how about attempt to identify and correct the results of the interference?

This punishment business sounds like wagging the dog -- not doing anything that matters, just populistic noise.

Apologies if this sounds harsh, had to get it off my chest.
I had to go into the warehouse of a local shipping company the other day to identify and pick up an oversized package, and I couldn't believe how brutal the conveyor systems were. In the few minutes i was there, i saw a couple of boxes fall of a belt, and one particular box caught in a junction of a couple of belts with every other box coming through bashing against it, and no one treating any of these occurrences as a problematic issue.

I can see now how a majority of the parcels may get through ok, but the few that end up caught or trapped will end up in very poor condition.
Ya this was disappointingly thin.
That doesn't sound very useful to me, and certainly is not benefit enough to use Fahrenheit.
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A market with standards isn't "censored". Your abuse of the term demeans it.

The trash flood has made Steam as nigh-unusable as any other app store. It used to not be the case.
I've been known to use it as well. To input in my calculator to convert it to celsius. :)
Steam prominently displayed reviews. And there are a lot of reviews being written.

There's a lot of crap on Amazon too, but reviews help to smooth things out. Not perfect, but definitely a strong signal
It's a weird thing in the US where you still can't just go online and send money to any recipient. When I rented a flat, I thought I'd just directly send money to my landlord. Nope, not possible. Not at all. Had to fill out checks. The only other option was to set up an automatic payment at my bank that would automatically send the landlord checks.

Another thing is that in order to get paid, I actually had to sign a permission to allow my employer to transfer money to my account with direct deposit. This means that there are means to transfer money without checks, but this option is somehow not readily available to anyone and the recipient has to sign a permission to allow it. Seriously, why do I have to sign a permission for someone to send me money?

I was absolutely baffled. In some ways, visiting the US felt like traveling back in time to 1980.
Valve doesn't get to decide how content creators set regional distribution policies anymore than Netflix, Youtube, or Hulu does. This problem exists across all similar platforms.
Are you really in America? Because I've actually never seen a cooking appliance that didn't use Fahrenheit, I just forgot that's another place where we use Fahrenheit.

>And why should we have different scales for weather versus other common things like cooking?

Because it's not (currently) useful to measure weather on the planet we call "Earth" relative to the boiling point of water.

If/when the ambient temperature starts to move in a direction where it does scale from the freezing point of water to the boiling point of water, we'll have much bigger issues than worrying about what units we're measuring weather in.
> It seems against common logic if they're within the bounds their own website offers here.

They violated Consumer Law.

They aren't bound by the website, but by that which they provide.

They:

* Use AUD prices.

* Accept AU billing addresses.

* Have hardware in Australia

Thus, they sell and operate within Australia, and are bound by the rules that every company in Australia are bound by.

Thinking they can get away with things that the likes of Microsoft and Apple can't, seems rather shortsighted.
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268653
Valve have become a behemoth despite being one of the most lethargic and inflexible companies around. They're by far the most profitable company to employee ratio and you'd think they would be more capable of taking control of these numerous situations and dealing with them, but they just leave all these problems to fester until it damages both them and their customers. I just don't get what their problem is.
Not sure if you've used this but it sounds like Angular CLI is very similar to Yeoman in terms of guided app generation.

That blog post is very good BTW. I like how it goes through all of the intermediate steps that any developer would do to make a PoC.
To Valve's credit, they generally have taken a pretty reasonable stance, both in cases where they defended the customer and cases where they defended the developer. I think Valve has taken a harsh stance on refunds because it is something that can be rather easy to abuse. That said, Valve has a lot of money to spare and I am sometimes surprised they don't cut their bottom line to increase loyalty among developers AND consumers (i.e. maybe cover refunds out of Valve's pocket rather than the developers, in cases where it makes sense). This is not entirely different from how many brick and mortar stores operate.
You: Hey NIMBYs, pay up.

NIMBYs: No.

You: There should be a law.

NIMBYs: Well, no elected official will pass such a law. If they do, we won't re-elect them.

You: I'll find enough YIMBYs to elect someone who will make you pay up.

NIMBYs: You'll find nasty greedy developers who want to bulldoze neighborhoods and kick Grandma out of her home? Go for it. We'll let the neighbors know all about it.

(edit: to be clear, I am a YIMBY and I agree with you in principle. But NIMBY rhetoric wins big in local politics, and I don't know enough effective YIMBY rhetoric to counter it.)
No one is forcing you to use Fahrenheit, but you're deriding a nation for using it. Maybe just reconsider your comment?
> some mucking around

... I can do it from my phone. Looks like America has some ways to go, yet.
Went to an Indian restaurant in NY, the waiter was awful not just bad but an asshole, we left without tipping and the manager ran after us telling us we had to tip or he would call the cops.

How about you pay your damn employee or fire him for being incompetent?
Right, but let's say a foreign court passes judgement on you, and you disappear. Stripe (or its partner bank in the region) is holding some of your cash. I could see a seizure happening.

I imagine financial institutions have insurance for this sort of thing though.

But let's replace Stripe with Shopify. Or some other service providers. I can see execution of court orders being tricky in practice
But the Olympics have doping tests. It's how the Russians were found out.
I want to develop good applications in Golang.
I would like to explore opencv in python in 2017
> if they're within the bounds their own website offers here

In Australia "within the bounds of your own website" doesn't hold water. Australian Consumer Law trumps a site's TOS.
Using unreliable or out-of-order data for game state sounds hard and difficult to test, no? Are there code level patterns that help reduce the complexity while keeping the possible performance benefits?

If your entity state changes ("move player 1 to 3,4", "open door 3") are dropped/switch order, the logic no worker works. This way the unreliability seems to leak directly to game logic/scripting layer.

On the face of it the complexity cost seems high for supporting bad network connections. A normal TCP connection rarely sees losses or reorderings. There are exceptions (twitch games) of course.
I married my wife within a month of her receiving her MD. I believe I was more stressed about wedding planning than she was about medicine at the time. That said, surgical residency is no picnic.
My oven, unfortunately, does use Fahrenheit, with no way to switch to Celcius. Since I'm in an apartment, that won't change. My food scale, however, does grams, and my electric kettle does Celcius.

And I would contend that it's much worse to have two separate temperature scales, one for weather and one for everything else (including cooking), than to just use one for everything. People who grow up with Celcius have no problem whatsoever using it for weather. It makes total sense. Once you've used it exclusively for a month, it'll make total sense to you too. I promise. I frequently run into people who forget that water freezes at 32 and boils at 212. It's much harder to forget the numbers 0 and 100.
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woah, amazing comment. I usually just a silent reader on hacker news, but this comment urge me to create an account. I think lossolo just want a flamewar. He already has opinion which you cannot easly change. So any futher discussion after this comment will be pointless.

EDIT: and how can you have time to write this? I just usually close the browser tab when this situation occurs...
That seems utterly insane.

I don't think I've had a rental where automatic debiting of my bank account didn't occur.

I've also only ever used checks for bond, sent to the Bond Board. Never for a damn thing else. They aren't even accepted in most places. My employer pays directly into my bank account, no permission required.
IANAL, but in my experience legal issues in business generally boil down to common sense in the end. It does not matter whether it's US law or the Code of Justinian.

In the case of software businesses you'll generally be OK if you ship quality software and offer decent customer service. You can even go with just one of these and have a successful business. The stuff that surprises you tends to be IP issues, not problems with otherwise happy customers.
The binary trees benchmark forks off a large number of threads. Those are OS threads in Rust, and that is probably an inefficient way to compute something if you have more threads than CPUs.
We are at least aware of how terrible our units are for mass, weight, and volume, fortunately, so grams and liters are in widespread usage and understood by most. Unfortunately the recipes haven't caught on to that yet. And people aren't used to using SI units for larger masses.

We're not so good about SI units for temperature, speed, and distance though, despite the particular failings of the latter two.
The interesting thing about Quora is that it has a lot of personal anecdotes directly from people involved. That's really unfortunate considering all the dark patterns and user hostile design the site utilizes. Along with their registration paywall, they also do other things to hoard all that user-contributed knowledge: https://konklone.com/post/quora-keeps-the-worlds-knowledge-f.... Really disappointing, imagine if Stack Overflow was run this way. I hope this rant is on-topic enough considering that the post is just quoting a Quora source and if Quora ever shuts down or fully hides itself, these kinds of posts will be all that we have of the knowledge shared by these experts.
I guess it may only be workable in Japan - the delivery companies here are exceptionally good. I've never received a package in anything other than 100% perfect condition. I used to subscribe to a monthly beer club that would send 5 glass bottles of beer though the post office's "5-7℃ chilled delivery" service and they were barely packed at all, no issues.

That said I used to often have CDs and DVDs delivered from Amazon.jp to Sweden when I lived there that were packed the same way and they arrived safely, but CDs and DVDs are probably the easiest thing to ship.
Sure, but you'd still need volunteers to run (and not cheat) their benchmarking service on the long tail of far too many hardware variants for them to purchase and keep in a dark room somewhere, as well as some way for vendors to set the minimum requirements in a useful manner (e.g. ideally a one-dimensional scale per type of requirement), or it's not going to get used.

I think it's certainly doable to some approximation of correct, and that Valve is probably in the best position of all the game distributors to do it with their existing HW survey infrastructure (and quantities of app on their platform) giving them a large background in what they're looking to quantify, and for whom. I just wanted to observe that it's far from trivial, and would still involve some level of crowdsourcing data (or paying someone like PassMark to use their single numbers for performance of given pieces of hardware as a scale for vendors to map things against, though the different workload numbers show that making this comparison isn't simple...)
Apartment.
If you'll see my other comments you'll notice I defend it as not being so ridiculous, and that celsius is also arbitrary. I didn't deride a nation for using Fahrenheit.
On my system (2015 MBP running Ubuntu 16.04) Rust's hello world compiles to a nearly 3.5 MB executable. Compiling the equivalent C program with clang results in an executable under 9 KB. Rust may not have a GC, but its executables are certainly fat.

Note: Rust executables can be trimmed down by stripping them (not done by default, even for release builds) and using libc malloc instead of jemalloc. But even then, C wins by a lot.

Relevant blog post: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...
Considering transport costs, I don't know how viable that would be.

Picking up boxes for recycling from houses alone would make for a pretty big carbon footprint. Not to mention costly. The current box strategy might be more carbon-friendly, oversll
Temperature is used for a lot more than ambient air temperature though. It doesn't make sense to have lots of different temperature scales for the different use cases. Best to choose a more generalizable scale that covers all of the common ones well enough. Celcius is the scale that fits that bill.
Given Amazon's growing problem with counterfeit products slipping into the system, that might not be the best example.
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I'm the other way around. I enjoy public transport and feel that cars are isolating and anti-social. I like seeing all kinds of people and having little connections with them.
Cars encourage egoism. They battle for space on the freeway.
In buses people share the space; they make space for each other or stand up to give a seat to elderly.
Cars are often used for status. Public transport is humble.

I don't own a car and never use Uber, but I live in a bike and public transport-friendly city in The Netherlands.
I just wish we had their internet infrastructure. It's far from the best in the world, but it's better than what we have by a long shot.
I'm a huge Tesla fan and am very glad they're pushing things forward... buuuuuut, Audi / VW / Mercedes / Volvo have had adaptive cruise control with auto-braking for over a decade now. The first Audis with Brake Guard were released in 2002. By 2009 you could get ACC on an Audi that cost less than $35k.

The major autos that "had the means to progress vehicles for quite some time and haven't" have literally sold millions of cars with this technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syst...
Perhaps as a proof of concept they can do a native implementation of GNU grep in Haskell and publish some timing stats.
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If you vanish, and have owing, then the civil forfeiture laws do come into play.

Visa and others do indeed have insurance policies in effect for such reasons, which is actually the area that gives me most of my experience in this area.

Seizure of goods does happen regularly, and if a provider refuses to play ball, then quite often their accounts are frozen, and processors who have a presence in Australia, like Mastercard and Visa, freeze the providers transactions as well.

Until such time as your funds are released to the relevant body, so they can arrange compensation and bankruptcy or receivership duties.
Ah, finally an art essay in the New Yorker on something that I'm knowledgeable about.
I have not yet read "Elements of Programming," but there is another book "From Mathematics to Generic Programming," also co-authored by Alexander Stepanov, which links Abstract Algebra to program design. I found the latter very approachable:

https://smile.amazon.com/Mathematics-Generic-Programming-Ale...
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This is my main problem as well, the featured front page content should be high quality but often is not.
In the Quora post [1] Terry says:

>I wrote about 6% of the Mac OS X kernel, by lines of code, over a period of 8 years. That’s about 100,000 lines of code a year.

Does that mean he wrote 800,000 LOC in 8 years, or am I reading that wrong?

If he did write 800k LOC, I'm curious why the Kernel is so many LOC? Given OSX is based on BSD, I always assumed Apple's kernel would be small in size (LOC) and mostly just glue between BSD code that has existed for decades.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-working-on-the-origin...
I completely agree with you. I think they should be lauded for allowing more on their platform! Some of the more experimental stuff turns out to be the best over time, and it's stuff that would've never been built had their store not been more open. e.g. SoundStage for the Vive.
Does Valve set the prices, release times, etc.. or is it the publisher using Steam to sell their products?
A modafinil coverup is highly unlikely, as it would require all governments to be corrupt in the same way. It's also an unstable equilibrium. In such a scenario, the first government that fails to suppress the truth gains credibility, and all other governments lose credibility. In other words: each government has an incentive to defect and reveal any health issues related to the drug.

Not to mention: studies of modafinil show it has a slight neuroprotective effect.[1]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16940766
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This blog entry doesn't add any value, can we change the link to the Quora response[0] instead?

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-working-on-the-origin...
There's a link on the sidebar of Gross's page [1] to an old version of the course site; this lets you download video, audio, notes, and homework. Even if you know everything in Artin's book the lectures are rarely boring.

[1] http://www.math.harvard.edu/~gross/
Yes, but there's a a clear legal basis for that. I'm not sure there's a legal basis for banning arbitrary demographics from patronizing a business.
Also see Dickerson's Hierarchy of Reliability.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1kshrK2RLkW-XV8enmWZxeRFR...
Interesting that the low end of this phase transition range coincides with the maximum safe temperature for mammals and birds. It could be that the delicate biological mechanisms we've developed over the years are highly sensitive to some of the bulk characteristics that change in this range.
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Yep. A lz4 is so fast on decompression that if you're reading from anything slower than RAM, you won't even notice the decompression.
> I don't program Rust

If you don't know anything about rust, you shouldn't respond to a question about rust.
Yeah I"m with you. I hate games that take forever to learn the rules, to get going, that cause mass confusion, that require extreme amounts of patience. I usually pass out from fatigue or the alcohol.

Not fun at all and things get too tense.
I've actually contacted the Studio first and they threw the ball back at Valve/Steam :)

Neither even acknowledge the region locking. ( to be fair, customer support doesn't know any of that )
I guess I'd have to disagree here. I think that there definitely should be some restrictions on who you can ban from patronizing your business (such as forbidding businesses from banning racial minorities or homosexuals); I'm just not sure whether I think something like limiting based on age (outside of enforcing the legal drinking age).

I'll try another thought experiment which is a bit more similar to the real-life situation: do you think that private entrepreneurs should be able to ban people over a certain age, e.g. everyone above 50?
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Just remember 0-40c is 32-104f. So a decimal point in Celsius gives a higher resolution.
The only retaliation I can think of that would be both proportionate and ethical would be to hack secret data of the Russian leadership and release at least part of it to the world public. The Russian government is accused of two things: hacking and creating fake news. Assuming that the allegations are correct, a perfectly mirrored response would include hacking and fake news. However, it would be unethical for America to create anti-Russian government fake news of its own. So the only part of a mirrored response that would be appropriate is hacking followed by an at least partial public release of the hacked data.
As I said I'm not from the US originally, I've lived in countries with Celsius for a lot longer than a year...

You're building the strawman argument that the only reason people use Fahrenheit is the cognitive load of switching then tearing it down.

Frankly it's a bit condescending.. (oh you don't really want to use Fahrenheit, you're just too lazy not to, don't worry it's easy to switch!)

And it's false, as evidenced by people in England and other countries I've visited who still refer to weather in Fahrenheit at times.

It really is the more expressive scale for weather, and even people who don't use it and despise Imperial units are usually up front in at least admitting it as such.

People don't usually need to remember when water boils or freezes when thinking about weather, or even cooking since cooking occurs at temperatures both well above and just below boiling. They know around 0 degrees it can snow and around 100 degrees they might get heat stroke if they're not careful.
Cool, there a bunch of clients available but not too many that let you login and comment/upvote/etc. Thanks for sharing!
I'm staring down the barrel of a startup that "deploys" using an Internet accessible, passwordless Samba share to drag and drop PHP files from desktops to production.

Nothing surprises me.
I recently ordered this decal[1]. It came in this box[2].

If you don’t want to visit the links below, the sticker is 4 inches square, and the box is 7” x 5” x 10”. Why a cardboard mailer wasn’t enough, I don’t know. At least the seven air pouches included with it protected it from high G forces...

1. http://a.co/ew4OGOB
2. http://imgur.com/qCsvJu7
No, just derided it for units it uses outside of science.
If plastic bags are not curbside recyclable then throwing them in the bin doesn't help. Consumers absolutely do bear responsibility for the environmental impact of their consumption choices.
GOG lists mostly indie artists, and allow developers to reach out to them without a community review process, but they require the goods to be of a certain standard.

This seems to be working well for them.
IDE for 8-bit retro game consoles
This looks good !

btw I am trying to learn service workers and wanted to check how you have implemented the offline support, but when I checked

https://github.com/hdjirdeh/angular2-hn/blob/master/src/serv... it's empty .. am I missing something ?
Nothing.

2016 was another miserable year filled with 24/7 intrusive/harassing/distressing thoughts and physical pain/discomfort that left me unable to do anything but sit around being harassed.

I'll be 31 soon, and thus far have spent the last 6+ years sitting around in this state unable to do anything, work, think, etc.

Others say it's some sort of mental illness, but I say I'm a Targeted Individual (ie, someone did/is-doing this to me).
Sounds like a great reset. Congrats (wo)man
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