skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I am stuck with "2 million blog posts daily" stuff. There were no references so I searched over the internet and found that "2 million" belongs to wordpress.com network (including subdomains and jetpack blogs) [1]. It seems that every other article/infographic also uses this number but it is obviously inaccurate. There are many other blogging media (medium, blogspot, other self-hosted software). And also there is tumblr (it is up to to accept it as a blog service).

[1] https://wordpress.com/activity/posting/
No, I'm not that Panic (lots of respect for them though).
I only like Iranians that call themselves Persian. The rest of you can sod right off.
there will be (many) times when, for your own emotional/mental sanity, you have to let go of attempting to comprehend someone else's behavior, and just get on with your life.
Console games works just fine with the Steam Controller, this article is about adapting PC games for controller+touchpad+gyro action. But it's true that Xinput just works, for one set of hardware, that if something is a walled garden.

(I use the Steam controller with out Steam)
Uber.com Backup Bug Nets Researcher $9K
Wow, I'd never considered using a servo, but I might try it for automating the heating in my rented house where I can't change the thermostat itself, but could mount something above it to spin the dial.
I'm pretty sure we're not going to send any capsule to repair the JWSP. It's going to be at L2 which is 1 million miles away from Earth, or about 3x furthest than mankind has ever traveled. It would take weeks to get there.
Very interesting article, thanks. I'm somewhat familiar with Elixir (learning it/have written some small things in it) and only know roughly what Go is, why it was created and I had watched a talk on it a while back. This is a great starting point for actually jumping into some Go code (at least it made me want to try it).

Small typo I found: """Go channels implement buffers which can either receive a a certain number of messages"""

(2x a)
I removed access to my email-account from my iPhone. Never regretted it.
If I were putting together a new awesome Thing(TM), I think I would probably use elixir on the front end and internal messaging to handle and distribute jobs, and let go do the crunching and hard lifting.
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They're known to have captured many of them from the Iraqis. Here's one such report: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/20/isis-captures-...
I just write together what I need to know and combine into a single email or phone call.
You mean because you think that a service with 3 million paying organizations and the core part of Google's strategy to get greater adoption in enterprise and schools is going to disappear?
Please consider adding support for international shipping.
I get that.

But facts ("Here's the catalog number in the New York Public Library, and how to request it via interlibrary loan.") shouldn't require consensus.
From the publication:

> We conducted a phase IV, single-center, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled 4 x 4 crossover trial.

I assume it means that the control group gets placebo, so it's controlled for confidence boost.
This is just one drone, imagine they release a swarm of 50 drones at the same time. Hope you have a fast trigger finger, or a robot who does...
Not high enough on the totempole most likely. Thus he was thrown under the bus to deflect attention.
I know people will say "apples to oranges" but this is still exactly what I wanted to read. Thanks.
After having read the API I decided to use a hand-written navigator instead of ReactNative's.

Key was to explicitly expose the z-index/component-ordering, so what it does is accepting a "render-list" of compnentName/props/animation triples which it then displays in absolutely positioned AnimatedViews on top of each other.

This way I have good flexibility without introducing metaphors that keep breaking.
The U.S. is no longer a ‘full democracy,’ a new study warns
Yeah, like always playing in gold is...
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It didn't help that the US did everything it could to drop the price of oil specifically to destroy the income source of the USSR. USSR is too dependent on that single income source and left itself open to attack.
The highlight for me:

I’d waited 30 years to experience the wonder, and finally I was there, standing what seemed like mere yards away from one of the falls, vainly wearing a yellow poncho that was somehow supposed to keep me dry from the spray of water. The roar of the thing causing my insides to pound, the smell of wet rock, the mist almost too thick to see through — the moment was overwhelming.

Suddenly, a hand tapped me on the shoulder, and a young man about my age asked me in broken English if I would move away from where I was standing. He and his family wanted to take a picture in front of the falls, and I, rudely enough, was in their frame.

I wanted to deny his request, to tell their family, in my own broken French, that they would have to wait until I was finished experiencing the falls, or, better yet, that they should turn away from their cameras and have real-life experiences of their own. But I considered that noncompliance would seem rude, and so, taking one final look at the waterfall, nodded and left to find my partner. A few seconds later, I looked back at the family to see how their picture was turning out. They were gone. They didn’t want to see Niagara Falls. They wanted a picture so that they could be seen forever standing in front of Niagara Falls.
Article sounds and reads very much like Neal Stephensons novel Interface.
Honest question - has Elon written any of the code for Tesla or SpaceX? Or has he designed any of the electrical or mechanical systems? I know he used to code at past companies, but a quick google search doesn't tell me he still does this.
I question the author of this article. The propaganda video is honest in using obvious computer effects and perfectly framed shots. I believe that they produced these films, but this article is garbage.
Why MUKESH AMBANI Invests Rs.1.5 LAKH CRORE in JIO SIM – JIO SECRET REVEALED
My Asus UX303 looks almost identical to this (the only difference I could find is small bevel underneath touchpad). Is UX303 then also a rebrand of some generic model?

My current experience is that it's great linux laptop even though it's not supported (comes with Windows). It's fast and snappy, very light, robust and nice to use. Keyboard is bad, touchpad is meh. Screen is very sharp and comfortable. Speakers are surprisingly useful.
A specific sentence excerpted from a book by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I cannot retrace the title of the book (I think it was from The Dance of Reality but I am not 100% sure).

Basically he said that people who have suffered for a long time (in the psychological department, more than the physical) are extremely reluctant to get "cured", and even if they go see a therapist, they have great problems in overcoming their problems and tend to lock themselves in a situation where they seem unable to change.

And yet they drone on, incessantly, about how much they are suffering and how they are desperate to become healthy, happy, normal, serene.

The reason, according to Jodorowsky, is that they have been accustomed for so long to their problems that they come to believe that their pain is a key element of their identity, and they have a subconscious fear that getting "better" would make themselves a different person. I.e. destroy or irrevocably alter what they consider "a key element of being myself".

It is a bit like if we had Star Trek teleportation, and you would be reluctant to use it (instead of traditional travel) because you feel like the person coming up on the other side would not be "you" anymore. This would force you to go to extreme, irrational lengths because you are ultimately scared of death, and at the same time frustrated at having to spend so much time in a shuttle or whatever.

This had a transforming effect on me because I suddenly realized why so many people (including myself) seem unable to actually change their habits/thoughts/feelings, even if they keep claiming they do not like their situation and would do anything to change it.

It made me a bit less judgemental about others, if nothing else.
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> In 2014 "a private corporation called ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) took over the daily production and administration of [LIBOR] subject to the regulation and supervision of" the UK's Financial Conduct Authority [1]. ICE is an American company that trades on the NYSE.

In 2014, a full 6 years after a crash, that doesn't negate the issue of allowing a non-American set interest rate to be the basis for American financial institutions in the first place. Literally billions of dollars in city, firefighter, and police pensions, not to mention other investments, in the US were negatively affected by the manipulation of LIBOR. Even though they sacrificed a scapegoat, and LIBOR was indeed being abused, the structure of LIBOR itself is part of the problem here.

> Of the 18 LIBOR member banks, 3 are American...

Not really reassuring me with those kinds of numbers.

> all have a presence in New York City [2]. That's how the Fed is able to regulate them.

They can regulate their American side, but not their London side, correct? Still doesn't change the original issue. Also, the Fed regulating the banks is sorta the fox guarding the hen house isn't it? I mean, as far as I know, the true ownership (who owns stocks in the Fed) is private still is it not? Isn't it a sort of inherent conflict of interest? Don't get me started on how the SEC has their balls cut off on this subject.

> Other way around. If Washington cut London's dollar clearing privileges the City would implode.

I understand the power of the defense/petro-dollar, but I'm talking about culture wise, where I have repeatedly seen the Fed and major heads of banks bend over for bankers in the City. It's much more ancedotal and on this point I haven't read any good academic papers or books, so if you have some reading on the relationship between the City and Wallstreet I would love to hear about it.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a “boss as a service”?
I had the idea of providing the service of filling the role as a boss of someone else. This would help the person using the service to achieve his/her goals, set deadlines and remind them of things to do, ask non-abvious questions and overall make sure, they get things done. Of course the service would not actually/legally be the boss, just fill the role.

Do you think there is a need for such a service?

Would you pay for it? If so, how much per month?
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You really think politics/central banks will sit back and shrug "oh we can't regulate money supply any more, a small number of anonymous people who invested in Bitcoin early are in charge of the world economy? Bummer."
I don't remember where I read that but it was a simple idea that I use almost every time I have to make an important decision

"What is the worst possible outcome? Would I be able to overcome this scenario?"

We often struggle to do things because we are scared to make the leap but once you put words on your fears you realise that it's not that big of a deal and that you can do it.
There is no online activation, so customers can reuse license files as often as they want. That's why most customers don't bother buying additional licenses beyond the initial order, since it is a hassle to figure out how many licenses they are using.

Most of my customers are individuals, so the problem isn't as bad as it sounds. I'm not sure building a complicated licensing system would be worthwhile; the potential additional sales are probably not enough to justify the effort.

In case someone suggests a service that handles licensing for me: I won't buy it. If I wanted lock-in, I'd stick to the Mac App Store.
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Ask HN: NDA for data?
I have some proprietary data that is interesting to people running ML and I believe that I am one of the only 2-3 holders of this kind of data. I intend to start selling on data marketplaces when they become available (you know of any other than datapie?).

Question is: how can I protect my data so the first buyer doesn't redistribute it? Can we sign an NDA? The problem is that the data is a collection of publicly available data, just that no-one collects it and formats it like I have been doing for years.
To be clear I didn't mean to say that captialists caused the velvet revolution, I said that they benefited from it. While the post-revolution years were mostly peaceful, I don't think anyone could honestly say that they were stable.

> There was great sociopolitcal upheaval - and I might add most citizens where 'on the whole' good with it.

This is an extremely wrong interpretation of the revolution, which I myself was also a victim of for a long time. Czech people were very much for change, afterall, they were literally occupied by an army that used tanks to keep control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3LCclYoz4 (I'm sorry, I cannot find this video with English subtitles, it is the "last radio anouncement" from an independent Czechoslovakia on the day when Russian forces invaded.) The Russians didn't invade a captialist state, they invaded a totalitarian communist one.

The vast majority of Czechs are "good with" the idea of no longer being occupied by the Soviet Union. The majority of them are "good with" the idea of the Czech Republic being a capitalist state. The VAST majority are very much against the current political structure which is mostly manned by people who were in power before the revolution. To say that they are "on the whole good with it" is just wrong. Indeed, there is, on occasion, signs that there might be a second revolution, only, no one is sure which direction that would go (probably not towards communism... ), sadly, if it happens, it will probably in a nationalistic one. The "lets take care of our old people, break away from the EU, and impose strict laws and draconian punishments for anyone who is the slightest bit lazy or corrupt" is popular among a very vocal minority, which might just have the energy to gain power.

EDIT: Just to back myself up a bit with facts, only 2/5ths of the population or 38% thinks that things are better now than they were before the revolution. 17% thinks that things were better then, and the rest aren't so sure either way. That's pretty pathetic, really, when so few people are sure that they are better off now than they were under a totally insane totalitarian state. It's like asking "is it better to have corrupt capitalism or a pile of shit thrown in your face" and most respondents aren't clear on the answer to that question.

At the same time, %66 say that the revolution was a good thing. Afterall, who wants to be ruled by an occupying force?

https://globe24.cz/domov/19542-mame-se-lepe-nez-pred-rokem-1...
I use SMS Backup + [1] which saves all my text messages to my Google account allowing me to easily search and archive. It's followed me through android phones for many years, automagically installing as I sign-in for the first time on each 'new' device.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles....
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Looking at the questions you've asked, it's clear why you're having such a bad time there. You're posting homework questions that you've clearly not put even a little bit of effort in to solving yourself. To take an example at random:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39001373/extracting-middl...

Imagine you walked in to my office and said "Hey, mentor, I wrote str.length() and the browser told me that "str.length is not a function". Help!"

I'd say "OK, so what did you try?"

And you'd say "I came here and asked you."

Can you see why that might not get you anywhere? Asking people is not the first thing you do. It's the thing you do after you've exhausted every other option.

You're not doing any research, not trying anything, not even googling the error messages you're seeing. You're just giving up and asking Stack Overflow to do your homework for you. In half your cases, you're just asking the homework question directly before even opening the editor.

So the thing to change is not the site you ask your questions. It's your approach to learning. Try things, experiment, look things up. It's OK to fail and ask for help. It's not OK to ask for help before you've even made an effort.
> They're giving food.

That's where I disagree. They're marketing. They're giving away samples. McDonald's is not in the business of free food, they're in the business of getting people to pay for food.

If they're trying to test the waters for vending-machine produced food, put a nominal price tag on it. A $2 price-tag signals that they're exploring this as a retail option and giving a friendly discount to early adopters. A "free but let us tweet for you" price-tag signals this was designed by the marketing department as some stunt.

If you like paying for marketing with your own reputation, knock yourself out.
It's both as they're going to adopt the same stock based compensation as other companies going forward.
This guy's a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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I have thought for a good while now that DNS is the primary weakness of the current incantation of the internet as the public knows it. I think perhaps we should ponder the benifits of replacing it, and using raw IP's more often.

In the meantime, DNSCurve would be a great start, vs the major issues I have found with DNSSec.
It's not so much they delete entire articles, it's more that certain people camp on articles and remove all your material.
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When he was born in 1981 he had a life expectancy of 71 years. By surviving until now he has increased that value.
I lived in Soviet Union as well during the collapse. I think there is a lot of propaganda from the west that makes you think it wasn't Gorbachev's fault.

People were happy, had children and believed in their country and made progress in art and science. Then one person who possibly had good intentions "gave everyone freedom". You can't just do that without consequences. It should have been a very gradual transition similar to how it is in China. Instead the country got completely destroyed. Every single thriving industry collapsed and people's savings were worth nothing basically overnight. Police stopped enforcing laws, gangs appeared all over the place, everyone started doing drugs. It was a disaster.

Gorbachev was almost immediately hated throughout the country.

If USSR economy was in free fall, how come GDP per capita was about 2x smaller in Soviet Union compared to USA in 1989 while income distribution was much more even?

Edit: If you believe propaganda in US doesn't exist, look at this law
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
Show HN: Finding profitable bets on over 40 different bookmakers
You cannot prevent a former anyone except in many states of US via non-compete agreements. (not in california)

Non-soliciting agreement is a separate matter untested in court.

However, he was an employee at the time of soliciting, making it a very different matter. Directly prohibited by california work code.
I don't think it's so much about obscurity as it is about an arms race. Hashing algorithms are constantly being measured up against new exploit methods, faster cracking speeds, etc. It's a feature that we found collisions and other problems, not a bug.

A bug would be us continuing to use those algorithms without being able to mitigate their flaws.

The fact that we can find out that these functions are not as good as we hope and improve upon them is argument against obscurity. You can't do those things unless knowledge of these functions is common knowledge.
You might want to review the debacle that was the Salim Mehajer article then.
A series of video blogs about the Husqvarna lawn mower by all around nice bloke and home automation guy, Jon Oxer.

http://www.superhouse.tv/19-husqvarna-automower-basics/

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http://www.superhouse.tv/superhouse-vlog-48-pausing-the-husq...

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This is awesome, I haven't seen all the perf tools so clearly laid out in usecase ever.
> Your junior year high school dance? Don't see pictures and video of it, live it again.

The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough.
Trump is the U.S.’s first Latin American president
Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens
Not when he left. You can sue an ex employee for breach of contract when he was working there. For quite a few years.
Based on those rankings, I think I must have a different definition of corrupt.
They're working on a new renderer (quantum) to replace gecko and it is said to address this performance issue that has been plaguing Firefox for too long. ETA is late 2017.
Former is easy due to california employees loyalty paragraph and it's a civil suit. Latter is a criminal suit.
I'm not really a GitHub user anyway, but that to me is a complete red flag.

Even if you completely trust the company is doing the right thing with regards to being a man-in-the-middle by design, you're also dependent on them being financially successful and interested in this platform for the app to be useful long term.

Honestly the 'server' part sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
It's not just toxic, it's deadly. It certainly brought me to the very edge. There are a number of people who have committed suicide after being harassed on Wikipedia.
Among other folks as well [0]. Of note, the US was not the only country to turn away refugees during WWII. Also of note, from what I've read, refugee immigration has been temporarily halted from certain countries with the exemption being refugees from minority religions in those countries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
>Every computer science problem that involves one set of syntax to write another syntax (meta template programming) is complicated.

I'm not sure about 'meta' part you mentioning, but it seems that all the complexity of c++ templates comes from declarativity of these. If they were imperative — e.g. 'hey, compiler, put an additional if into specialization for that particular type', or produce specializations in a loop, or create template generators, etc — that would feel less bizarre. Deep inspection of seemingly simple terralang.org turned that upside down to me. These two languages (luajit/terra) are both not very popular, but the idea of simple imperative codegen is right there. I wish I were able to replace terra part with just C...
How much money does Saudi Arabia spend on SUPPORTING these groups again?
Build iOS apps with Elm
Feel free to define it.
First one - IntelliJ (which Android IDE is based off) supports scaling nowadays.

Try running

xrandr --dpi 200

(try it with lower values like 144 if that's too large)

and restart Android IDE.

Second monitor: you need to render the second screen at High DPI and then downscale. Example script (with two monitors):

xrandr --output eDP-1 --off
xrandr --output DP-2-1 --left-of eDP-1
xrandr --output DP-2-1 --right-of DP-2-2
xrandr --output DP-2-2 --scale 1.5x1.5 --pos 0x0
xrandr --output DP-2-1 --scale 1.5x1.5 --pos 2880x0
Can it be due to some browser privacy setting/extension interfering with (hidding) the referrer?
Wasn't that much earlier?