skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pax Americana means that when US mess-up Middle East then EU will pick up refuges?

Pax Americana mean than US organise coups in democratically elected governments Iran 53, Chile 73, Paname support dictatorships: Hussein, Mubarak, Pinochet sponsor terrorists: Contras and start wars: Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Your military spending for 1.5 trillion dollars on F35 is truly admirable, but this fighter is still not ready. In many cases NATO countries are forced to buy US produced weapons because of "compatibility".
Thanks for the feedback!

With Bitesnap, you can enter exact cups, ounces, etc. if you want to refine your calorie estimate. One of our goals was to build a flexible tool where it would be quick to get a ballpark number, but also possible to get a very precise number if you put in just a bit more effort.

We think that the visual side of things will be useful to many people, even with ballpark calorie estimates. It's a great way of developing mindfulness of what you’re eating and improving and maintaining your diet.

Also, as we have been working on this it’s been a really fun game to see what we can recognize!
Since ignorance of the law is no excuse, you still need to read and understand those "long, complicated regulations that are relatively meaningless" to determine if they apply to you, and if so how to comply with them. Removing those regulations would make doing business easier with minimal downside, especially for smaller companies that can't easily afford large armies of lawyers to understand the law.
This is something I made to learn Ruby on Rails, Spotify's Web API, and solve a problem I personally, had over winter break. It's really small and simple, but you gotta start somewhere
The Top 4 Project Management Challenges and How to Solve Them
By default. You can have a process per tab if you want.
I think "data science" has really let science down. 99% win predictions for Clinton, media darling Nate Silver getting the primaries completely wrong and saving face a little bit in the election, etc.

As a scientist, I instinctively trusted other data scientists to be as rigorous as I was when I did research. It turned out they were using extremely wonky simplistic models for complex human behavior, and it left me cold and clueless.

If poll-based divination is a better descriptor than political data science, then scientists should decry their stealing of the term.
An Agenda Is the Ultimate Bookmark Manager
>Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world.

I mean, look at the Great Wall of China.
It's a wonder what you can get done when you start to treat your people as tools and nothing more.
The hive can be thought of as one superorganism, but I think it's more than a superficial difference.

Eusocial species behavior evolved from fully-functioning individual insects (solitary bees and wasps that still exist, for example) as a behavioral adaptation. A human organ is not a self-surviving entity with social behavior.

In a honeybee hive, queens typically mate with many male partners (10+). While all hive individuals are related, the majority female workers are each the product of diploid sex determination with multiple possible fathers.
> The worst schools will never get better if all the talent is sucked out of them.

You're already lost if you're relying on the worst schools to get better. We only need a tiny fraction of the population (1% or less) to be the leaders of the next generation. Focusing on improvements within that group is likely to have far greater impact on society than trying to move the "bottom" group to the "next group up from the bottom".
> Islamic creationism exploded in Turkey, often using arguments borrowed from Christian creationists in the United States.

On that subject, the later are the leading force of misinformation in the whole world.
Pretty good idea from the MeFi discussion:

'It's cute to see the whole "I'm going to buy a home in New Zealand! Full of canned goods! And a helicopter pad!" Realistically, though, for the money they could do a lot better. Go buy an entire block in Detroit, rehab all the houses, rent them at below-market rates to folks who need help. There's your "militia."'
The common use case for doing that in other FFIs is not to use it in your own language, but to pass the pointer to another function. That is, you can translate

int *buffer = malloc(10);
SSL_read(ssl, buffer, 10);

into

let buffer = ffi('void *malloc(int)');
let SSL_read = ffi('int SSL_read(void *ssl, void *buf, int num)');
let buffer = malloc(10);
SSL_read(ssl, buffer, 10);

Your own language generally has ways to allocate memory—but does not necessarily have a way to generate a pointer, or to manually manage the lifetime of that memory.
Black money is clearly a problem in India, and figuring out how to address it is almost certainly critical to the well-being of the nation. That said, simply cancelling 86% of the currency seems like an absolutely terrible solution, and possibly one of the most regressive monetary policies I've ever seen. Does anyone have more insight into what the government thought would happen? Did they expect the cash crunch? Did they simply not care that it would be those who are most likely to depend on regular work for basic necessities (the poor) would be hit hardest? Or was there some kind of plan here that wasn't rolled out well?
He had a big meeting with manufacturers two days ago and is incentivising US manufacturing through the threat of tariffs.
Python is an interpretted and very dynamic language. It's tough to speed up.

It was designed in a way that makes it particularly hard to speed up. It shares some of these flaws with Ruby.
How is the dynamic adding / removing of nodes story? I am really waiting for something like kubeadm to become stable, and be able to just run "kubeadm join X.X.X.X --token XYZ" and be good!
Ask HN: What's been your experience with performance reviews?
Wondering if anyone has had good experiences with performance reviews? What's the biggest pain about them?
As far as I can see, the religious and other "post-thruth" people live in a portion of the economy where
i. The standard of living is low,
ii. The feedback loop of improving one's skills to attain a better income level is broken.
So they have little self-worth and almost no hope for a better future. Coupled by low-quality education, this drives them to seek solace in easy and comforting answers given by religion about the universe, and by demagogues about their social/economic situation.

There is no easy fix.
Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason
Then the solution is not to abolish social science degrees, but to subsidize them.
Nothing prevents you to pour yourself into something in Switzerland.
Reverse Engineer Your Way Up the Tech Ladder
This is all well and good but doesn't help when I'm working with multiple clients. For example, I'm an AWS DevOps guy and am generally logged into AWS under 3 different accounts at any one time. Can you do something like that with Safari? Chrome has "Accounts" and Firefox is experimenting with "Collections" but I don't know how to do it with Safari.
> what did average American citizen got from those companies succeeding? Probably nothing.

How did you calculate that? I wouldn't even know where to start measuring the total effects of Twitter on average Americans. I imagine they are wide reaching.
As a business owner, of a large multi-national company heavily invested in various non-physical IP-heavy "product", say, Disney, wouldn't Trump's move to pull the US out of the TPP not make me shit my pants with fear for the future?

One of the key provisions of the TPP was to force Asian countries to adhere to strict US copyright laws. And that makes sense, since IP companies' products are what the US really exports on makes money on - nobody is buying US fridges and ovens in large quantities. And if you can't get China to respect IP laws, then you have no future there.

Maybe I'm completely confused about the TPP, but I'm frankly pretty surprised the market's reaction so far has been one giant "meh".
First step towards photonic quantum network
This is why we need a platform for these models asap. I would totally download this app today and use it regardless of what the FDA thinks.
It's important to separate 21700s as a whole from Tesla's 21700s. 21700s today don't look too great, and even the best have worse energy density, worse power density, and worse cycle lifetimes than the best 18650s [0]. Tesla's 21700s, on the other hand, are scientifically proven to cure cancer, protect your vehicle from nuclear weapons, and can charge from zero to full in 0.3 seconds using only a potato battery and a paperclip.

I kid, of course, but this is why I believe that 21700s will probably be lower energy density: a) current 21700s have a low energy density, b) heat is tricky, and c) Musk wants to make cheap cells, and optimizing the last few Wh/kg to push him over the edge is expensive.

I do concede it's certainly possible they'll be over 310 Wh/kg, but I find it unlikely.

I think that a very likely outcome is that when the cells are released, we find out that we're both right. For example, if they have a density of over 310 Wh/kg... at 0.1C discharge or something similarly low. But at 1C or 5C or 10C, the energy density falls to around 200 Wh/kg.

[0] Sanyo's cells are the current leaders, about 230 Wh/kg. With 18650s the leaders are between 280 and 310 Wh/kg depending on how you measure capacity (cutoff voltage, discharge rate, cooling, etc.)
Ask HN: Best Domain Name Registrar?
I have a few domains with Namecheap, but lately their lack of 2FA authenticator support (ie. they only support SMS) has caused me some trouble. What would be a good and similarly priced replacement that supports it?

I ran into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10181931, but I didn't really see anything that stood out.
1) Pointless if you want to go to a top school. I don't go to one, so

2) Most dual enrollment programs restrict what coursework you can take. Near zero intersection with my CS coursework, though I did get my general ed requirements done.

3) It's community college, it's not something you can put on a resume.

With the credits I got I'd need to do a heavy schedule to graduate even in 3.
[arch-announce] Phasing out i686 support
Marketing: how to pick a funnel stage to target with marketing tests
But e10s launched in Firefox 48 https://asadotzler.com/2016/06/06/firefox-48-beta-release-an... and hit 35% of all Firefox users by November. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule
I'm the exact opposite. I hate writing Python. The language is far too loosey goosey to be productive in beyond small little tools. I feel like I am constantly fighting the packaging system, tool chain, ecosystem and documentation.

Java and more recently Kotlin keep me sane and make developing a pleasure. The ecosystem is remarkably consistent. I'm working on a Python code base right now and everyday feels like being punched in the kidney repeatedly on the hour.
You say that as if the US is a poor country. It's not. There's no reason whatsoever that we couldn't have what Switzerland has, other than some assholes at the top see it as an impediment to their having all of the money.
Right now we're about 3-5 days behind an upstream release, so right now we're at 1.5.2.
> $3,000 for giving birth in a Swiss hospital plus much better care, or $30,000 for bare minimum care in the US.

A normal birth in the US without complications is not going to cost $30k to the family. (It might cost $30k in nameplate price, but we know that insurance companies don't actually pay that.) We had a home birth in California for $4k total, and the standard charge for Global Maternity Fee (including the birth, and all visits to the doctor throughout the pregnancy) is under $5k. Even if you add a night or two in the hospital to that, it's not going to be $30k. It can get higher with a C-Section, which are too common. All that said, the average cost to a family of a pregnancy is $3,400. That's not that different from Switzerland.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2352687/How-cost-g...
The "but then I wouldn't have been born" argument misses that you have billions of potential first-cousins who never were born.

Your grandmother would have had a less assuredly bad life (no idea if it would have been better, but we can only hope...) and someone else would be having this anthropic discussion.

> But it really bothers me when people like you who've likely never had any personal connection to the issue

Cough.

> imply that only one side of the debate is rational.

Well, look around at those who believe what you do. Most of them do so because of religion, which by definition is irrational.

As an opinion, you're welcome to yours. As policy, it comes with all the rest of the baggage of the religious.

> But, like drugs, that doesn't mean that it's a fundamentally good thing.

But, like TV, that doesn't mean we should ban it. Control, control, control. Why the need to control?
I generally agree, although the term has started to become somewhat politically overloaded these days - white privilege, check your privilege, etc. Using it in the way you suggest should be rather uncontroversial but I would make sure to consider your audience.
That is what I'm saying. The South runs the country, and the rest of us are forced along for the ride, whether we want it or not.
This is the problem that remains unsolved for many businesses.

Good engineers don't necessarily make good managers. So they hire MBA's to be managers, but a MBA doesn't correlate to being a good manager either, in fact there is a chance that they may be a worse manager - because they don't do anything in particular (related to products that is).

So really when it comes down to it, hire managers who are good at managing people/processes and have some kind of real experience in your product or service. And in lieu of that hire a good manager who is smart and can pick it up, way down the line is hire a manager by their degree - if thats all they have going for them you are probably in for a painful ride.

Also a MBA is great if you pair it with a engineering background, but also be concerned about executives (CEO,etc) that can't sniff out people in their organization who would be a good manager regardless of background - some people have knack for management, like any other natural talent.
Multi-process Firefox. One process for browser chrome and one or more for content. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Overview
Build a two-handed bow and arrow with physics in webVR using A-Frame
The low-level hardware access is handled using C, but presumably people want to write higher-level code on top of that. It doesn't seem that unusual.
We're still "beta" so we have been able to release within 10 after upstream.

With recent updates to our build/ci process, we're able to constantly test master. This means we can bless releases days after being cut. Expect GA for CDK around 1.6.0 release time, which we will be driving for release blessed within five business days of upstream.
Firefox is my main development browser on personal laptop (Ubuntu) and Chrome on the PC (Win10) at work.

When I develop (HTML, CSS, ES6+babel) on Chrome, then test in Firefox there are some inconsistencies that require minor fixing. The same is true the other way around: develop with Firefox, then some fixes are needed for Chrome. These fixes are usually quite easy, make sense in retrospect and make thigs work in the second browser without breaking the first one. What I find strange, after years of hacking around IE bugs, is that everything usually just works in MS Edge.
> What surprises me the most is that about half of the population is either supportive or indifferent.

It's the same apathy that afflicts the EU and the US when it comes to surveillance, privacy, the rule of law, human rights and basic freedoms. Those are all seen as abstract pursuits of a disconnected elite class. When you got the majority of people thinking this way, it automatically becomes the actual truth.

> But history shows dictatorships end up in wars and other troubles, which cause harm to people’s bodies or property too.

Well, if you're at the stage where people stopped caring about ethics and you have to resort to discussing deep ethical problems in terms of property damage and economic interest, the battle is over, I'm sad to say.
It seems like the issue is more about workers who depended on payments in cash (thus untaxed and the source of the black money in the first place) no longer being able to find enough work to pay for basic necessities. The implication is that their employers are simply not hiring as many people to make up for the additional taxes they are paying (this is my interpretation, this is really the first I've read about this, so if I am wrong or misunderstanding, very interested in learning more)
To be fair, historically at all presidents changing, markets get volatile and usually dip a bit mainly based on the uncertainty. Change typically leads to volatility in the markets so it wasn't a bad move to bet on it.

The market has been in a steady climb for 8ish years and had been sideways for nearly a decade before due to the internet bubble and mortgage/housing/banking based Great Recession from 2008, so it was more robust on a bounce off that massive dip. Trump inherited a very low volatile market.

Flipside is Trump is coming in on record highs, other presidents come in on lower than highs usually due to the change/uncertainty, may lead to a lower total increase over 4/8 years. The last two presidents came in on huge dips/volatile markets, internet bubble busting and housing bubble/fraud in 2006-8 leading to Great Recession while wages stagnated the whole time. This market still has fuel in it as it is still bouncing from those.

I am sure we will see some dips coming from the interest rates going up. No policies or interest rate changes have happened just yet to stop the bull.

Side note, typically Republican presidents have a lower overall performance on the markets[1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlazaroff/2016/07/26/democra...
Going by other comments, it seems "equality of life" and fears for the future are more important than bright kids' wellbeing.
Somewhat related is Kerf, also by Kevin Lawler.

http://www.kerfsoftware.com/

It seems more like a kdb+ competitor than open-source alternative, and isn't using q.
I used to use Firefox, but now I use Chrome.

This means I can't use DownThemAll.

I can't use Tab Wheel Scroll. On Windows I use an AutoHotkey script to simulate Tab Wheel Scroll. On Linux, it seems to work somehow. On Mac I have learned to live without it.

On my phone, I get bombarded with useless ads all the time on Chrome since it has no uBlock. I have learned to live without it.

Firefox seems to be better than Chrome at recognizing password fields for 'Save Password' feature. I have learned to live without it in Chrome.

Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow".

Firefox mobile is a disaster. It sometimes loads desktop versions on some sites. Once it failed to load a favorite site of mine completely, due to uBlock ( that has never happened on the desktop, on any browser )

I want to use Firefox, I do. But, I spend an extra-ordinary amount of my time on my browser. Only the best browser is 'good enough' for me
Are you saying that a non-mutating variant of the above works? For instance:

foo.on_click(lambda:x func(x, whatever))
Would society really collapse overnight though? Other than a few scenarios, such as a sudden, all-out nuclear war, it seems like you'd have some build-up in advance. There'd be a period when things were getting progressively worse, but there was enough social inertia to keep things going.

You don't have to look far in history to see examples of this. 3rd Reich Germany kept functioning well past the point where it should seemingly have collapsed. Even as the Red Army were shelling Berlin, there were low-level people continuing their work when the sensible thing to do would surely have been to get their family and flee.

More recently, the Greek financial crisis put a major strain on institutions that were weak to begin with, but there was no rioting or major breakdown of order.

I think modern, Western societies are surprisingly resistant to a breakdown in order, simply because most people have never experienced anything other than order. As a result, acting in an anarchic, non-system way simply isn't something that would occur to them. Even in the face of an existential crisis, they would "keep calm and carry on", because they can't imagine doing anything else.
Eric Topol puts this up there as the most impressive AI/medicine publication to date. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/824318469873111040

The paper ends with "deep learning is agnostic to the type of image data used and could be adapted to other specialties, including ophthalmology, otolaryngology, radiology and pathology."
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> And sending a smart kid in the worst school would not affect his smartness. Especially now with Internet, if he is that smart and gets bored, then he can learn what he wants on Internet

Have you been around children? While there are few exceptions that shine no matter the environment, there are far more who excel with a better peer group. This idea that "smart kids are always going to be intrinsically motivated" is just as bogus as "smart people do well and have smart children". What happens in those situations is that the smarter children usually wind up coasting through, simply because they find it so easy to stay ahead of the mean.

> Being a free country does not mean necessarily you can act freely against the collective good.

And yet people do every minute, "smart" or not. Being a free country does allow people the freedom to search for the best possible opportunity given their resources, and not be forced into regressing into the mean.
I've been using Firefox for years without any problems and find it much better (just as fast, more privacy-minded) than chrome.

I honestly don't understand (from a consumer standpoint) why people complain about Firefox. I can understand devs having browser preferences, but to say that "time forgot" firefox is ridiculous as a general user.
I don't believe that I have that option at all here (Firefox 51.0 on Fedora 25).
Switzerland actually has a smaller government than the U.S. as a share of GDP.
Always looking for user-submitted themes :) Feel free to submit a pull-request with anything cool you come up with.
Designing a clickstream
The Quasar Framework, though that uses Vue, not Angular.
Because the market new it was coming? I don't think it was expected to boost trade that much anyway.
It's even more complicated than this with some species.

Those numbers are true if a female mates once. Honeybee (Apis spp.) queens that lead successful colonies, for example, typically mate with a dozen or more male partners. This has beneficial genetic effects but is probably done just to satisfy sperm storage requirements since they only perform one mating flight. The result of this is that the thousands of sisters in the hive have many different fathers, reducing the worker-to-worker relatedness.
The problem is that extreme inequality under a property system is functionally equivalent to slavery. If one person owns all of a society's resources, then everyone else must work for them if they want to survive. To claim that the enforcement of property rights is still just in such a scenario, is to argue that autocracy is just.
This is still the most likely way World War III could break out in the next two years. Economic shock leads to food shortages. Food shortages lead to food riots. Riots lead to unrest. Unrest leads to war.