skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm... doesn't every CC transaction have a constant size transaction fee of 10 cents or so? Saving up donations until the end of the month/year using some method of persistence and an aws lambda scheduled task might add up.
I'd rather have sex in my commercials than virtue-signaling.
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How is it ridiculous when our actions then and since have consistently destabilized the region? Our actions then are still felt today.
It makes no sense to judge the quality of an API by the power of the available hardware it might be running on. The discussion is not about what platform will run VR the best.

In addition, Apple will be rightly considering iOS when evaluating options for web technologies, not the increasingly small section of the planet running Nvidia and AMD hardware on Windows.
No single GPU could run Crysis (2007) at 1080p / 60fps until last year!
They don't have "vibrant economies". They have strong economies, that long ago stopped being "vibrant" (by vibrant, I mean fast-developing).

Europe and Canada have seen stagnant wage and economic growth since adopting social democracy. What are you basing your claim that these policies are working on? I strongly advise you to stop assuming that what you're told by the media and echo chambers on the internet is correct, and actually do research on these issues, by looking at statistics.

Social democracy has not worked in Scandinavia. The author of Scandinavian Unexceptionalism explains how it has harmed Sweden:

"From 1870 until 1970, Sweden was a free market success story. Sweden had the highest growth rate in the industrialized world. .. [After taxes were raised in the late 60s and 70s] Sweden stagnated":

https://youtu.be/D0hnA341AWE?t=5m23s

Sweden was the 3rd wealthiest country in the world in 1968. After it created a massive welfare state in the 1970s and 80s, its growth stagnated, and by 1991, it was 17th highest income country in the world.

Other important facts:

http://iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/San...

• Scandinavia is often cited as having high life expectancy and good health outcomes in areas such as infant mortality. Again, this predates the expansion of the welfare state. In 1960, Norway had the highest life expectancy in the OECD, followed by Sweden, Iceland and Denmark in third, fourth and fifth positions. By 2005, the gap in life expectancy between Scandinavian countries and both the UK and the US had shrunk considerably. Iceland, with a moderately sized welfare sector, has over time outpaced the four major Scandinavian countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality.

• Scandinavia’s more equal societies also developed well before the welfare states expanded. Income inequality reduced dramatically during the last three decades of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. Indeed, most of the shift towards greater equality happened before the introduction of a large public sector and high taxes.

If you want a more equal society, you need a more free market. It is regulatory prohibitions (anti-free-market policy) on economic activity that are contributing to growing income disparity:

"Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it":

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2...

>The US with their pathological fear of their own government is not what I'd use as a particularly characteristic example of social democracy.

By every broad-based objective measure, the scale of forcible income redistribution has massively increased in relative and absolute terms in the US. The raw statistics show that the US has by every objective measure moved drastically in the direction of social democracy over the last 40 years. The same applies to every other major Western economy.
It is, given that Vulkan only has quality drivers on Android 7, currently 0.7%, and GNU/Linux, currently 2% of the desktop market, as per Steam dashboard.

Windows 10 is at around 25% currently.
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it's even worse - transistors require more voltage to reliably switch at higher frequencies, e.g. http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/intel/22nm/powersm.j...
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Not on UWP applications, which are the future.
In China, social media means shopping
Siri sends data to the cloud for processing what you're asking for, but the actual speech-to-text can work locally these days. Try it - out your iPhone in airplane mode and fire up dictation - works like a charm.
What? If 1953 looks ridiculous to you, the cruise missile on a passenger flight was in 1988!
They already stated 'unequivocally' there is no intent to deceive --its just a complete accident then that it takes a lone journalists inquiries to clarify that for over a decade the officially quoted figures of military strikes have been misunderstood. Its not really about damning the military, they do what they are ordered to do - its about realistic accounting of what they have been ordered to do.

*and of course, not being able to trust what we are told about what they are doing
Here's a followup blogpost I wrote a few months later where I did a little experimental Typescript WebGL-wrapper (it was just one weekend, so not complete):

http://floooh.github.io/2016/10/24/altai.html

I think something like this could be used as a minimal wrapper for WebGPU, with WebGL2 and WebGL as fallback paths (shaders will be a problem though).
We're using Rackspace Cloud Files. If they ever end up shutting down or something, what are our alternatives? We mainly use Rackspace Cloud Files CDN to deliver assets to our clients (JS, CSS, images).
Still higher than GNU/Linux will ever be.
Society is a sleeping giant. Aslong as food and shelter are there, people will stay dormant.

But eventually, one of these two things will be taken away. Maybe food. Maybe the security of shelter... Look at North Korea, defectors left and right, despite the horrors. Though ill admit to the difficulty of localities. Horrors can be committed, and sustained, upon a minority, while the majority sleeps, we enable north Korea, but only because it's a local, distant horror.

Bur when the majority is fucked.. The hackers, the rebels, the adamant few WILL fuel the fires of revolution.

But ill admit again to the sophistication of our current system and it's cruelty. It will delay improvement. It's a cat/mouse scenario. We're the cat, and we're sound asleep for now. Trump and the falling apart of the EU will shake the house though. Or maybe they wont, but stench of war is in the air.amd the higher ups, no matter how sophisticated, are only human.

It's important not to give in to desperation and paranoia. Education (math, science, history, art) will help keep the population capable and give them the tools to transform society when the day comes where we must act.
Yes, that is a large part of the problem. A single 'wrong' move can be career-ending.
Planning and actually releasing is not the same thing.
I think it's great, hopefully SPIR-V will be used for shaders. I guess the current use of MetalSL is a compromise to get the prototype up and running fast. I think that MetalSL is pretty much the perfect shader language, but its compiler shouldn't have to live in the browser.
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"oops, try again later" is not what is happening when your mail server reboots. Email uses asynchronous protocols.
Here' an example of landmine clearance in Cambodia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfNZoXr6rQ

(From CmdrFred's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12187512#12190918)
The US actions after WWII in the peace negotiations weren't as altruistic as you are trying to make out. In fact it was a reaction to the disastrous result of the peace negotiations after WWI, which greatly contributed to WWII, and with the USSR being what it was and everyone building nukes they probably thought WWIII was not in their interest. Building up western Europe was a strong force against the USSR and a convenient buffer zone.
Here's another interesting link for Chrome Extensions:
https://www.fundera.com/blog/chrome-extensions
Then why did people vote for Hillary Clinton and not Bernie Sanders in the primaries?

Honest question from a non-American (in the social democrat Europe, Sanders seemed like the no-brainer option to like 99% of the people I know...).
It's not really moving on, it's just showing how different things are being used to manipulate us. Like the one example they give about the same company running ads to "accept your body" at the same time running other ads "your body must be perfect."

Ads are ads.
Besides what corysama replied, there are a few game blogs that described how bad it was, but I cannot link to them as I am behind a proxy currently.
I make no argument against what you've said except you used Valve as an "appeal to authority", when they have a vested interest in promoting Vulkan (since SteamOS is based on Linux). So of course they will be persuading developers to use Vulkan over DX12, because it broadens the domain of users who can buy an individual title on Steam.
> I checked this by writing loccount as a parallelized tree traversal. Each file in the tree gets a goroutine spawned to count its lines; the threads run in parallel and as each finishes its work it stuffs a statistics block into a channel.

In the past, this approach would blow up because Go would spawn a kernel thread for each blocking system call that was performed. I had to use a rate limiting channel to constrain the number of kernel threads. Is that still the state of affairs?
Oh that's a wonderful idea. Someone should - continue to - study the differences between weekday and weekend hacking. Programming languages, but also methods, productivity, value for customers, etc.

The way I would like the world is that the weekend hacking has way better methods, languages, productivity and value for customers.
> In the cases when I've tried hacking something together, I've always ended up with something that seemed more brittle than if I'd just gone with a safe relational database. With that said, I'm also completely open to the possibility that I've just been trying to apply the pattern in cases where it's not a good fit.

There is a 95% chance that event sourcing and CQRS were entirely the wrong patterns for your use case. If you're not dealing with a very complex domain (like, say, automatically orchestrating a global logistics or drug discovery pipeline with audit logs for regulatory compliance), that chance becomes 99.9%. If you're working on something that only you or a few people will ever work on, it's 110%. Just the tooling for a reliable event sourcing system would be a herculean task for a single developer and that's without even writing a single line of business logic!

I don't know of any open source real world examples of CQRS off the top of my head and the only successful ES/CQRS systems I've seen in the wild were projects that involved hundreds of domain experts and programmers, dealing with extremely complicated fields like biotechnology and electrical engineering where nonprogrammers spent about as much time looking at code as the programmers. Any good ES/CQRS project will contain a lot of the business's secret sauce so it's not something Google or Facebook would open source.
nobody says you have to self-host on your personal pc using your home connection.
CC0 is a legally formalised version of public domain, and this can be useful.

The partnerships are to get the word out and make the images readily available for use, so they do the job of spreading the works and publicising the works and the museum. Wikimedia blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/07/the-met-public-art-cre... tl;dr this is actually pretty awesome, and we have a Wikimedian In Residence there to help.
Ask HN: How to help CS freshmen learn programming
My CS department is having some trouble with new applicants. Only a few can actually program, and the dropout rate is very high.

How would you suggest this be tackled?
Sony and Nintendo don't support it as well.

Sony doesn't has official plans to ever doing it, as the PS4 APIs are better anyway.

Nintendo is only supporting Vulkan for easing bringing in titles to the Switch, because they actually have a better API called NVN that exposes all the graphics hardware features.
The argument is that you would see a more specific tag like MIPS.
Right. I have so much ad-blocking that I never see this crap.
Standard ML is probably a safe bet.
it's hard to be consciously bothered by the lack of something that you've never experienced?
I am a very happy Bank of America customer. Their app is one of the best apps I've ever used, period.

But when I go to a branch, I want to see a person. This is my money were dealing with here. If I'm making a cash deposit, or exchanging currency or whatever, there needs to be a human there to make sure the count is right, and just smile and thank me for the business. Can BofA really not scrape together the $30/hr or whatever it pays the tellers? If my local branch got rid of tellers, I'd start looking for different banks.
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Kind of, they have their own API that has better capabilities to expose the graphics hardware called NVN.
On one hand, I think that's a great thought experiment. You're right, there are nuances here, and oversimplifying into good vs evil doesn't serve anyone well.

On the other hand, it's sort of a disingenuous thought experiment, because everyone is already in 100% agreement that Nazi Germany, ISIS, Saddam, etc are morally awful. However we've been brainwashed into thinking that we're saints. So which perception is it that needs correcting?
This is why British offered a separate country to UC/BC/SC/ST/Sikh/Christian/Parsi/Buddhist/Jain communities in 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award
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Would really love MongoDB support!
Well, but doesn't that mean that you already have a counter-example? In the US it IS the case that rich is getting richer and the rest aren't really benefiting too much from all this automation.

The world is certainly doing better, but I also have to wonder how much of this is thanks to automation, and how much thanks to the fall of colonialism over the past century.
Right.

The record of history is pretty clear that world powers can and have acted within a broad latitude of barbarity towards weaker nations, mostly on the 'barbaric' end of the spectrum.

The record of history is also pretty clear that the US is the most docile and harmless of world powers that has ever existed. There's a reason we call it the Pax Americana--the 'overwhelming power' of the US has contributed to the peace, freedom and wealth of billions of people around the globe who aren't American. Let's compare that record with a random 'world superpower' selection:

- Ancient Rome (constant war on the frontiers, relentless expansionism and imperialism)

- Umayyad Caliphate (forced conversion by the sword, constant aggression towards neighbors)

- Genghis Khan (mass murdering, raping, genocidal maniac)

- the British Empire (slave trade, colonial domination)

- The Soviet Union (worldwide support and funding of mass murderer by proxy)

There has to be some perspective when talking about the US's role as the world police. There will always be a world superpower, and that superpower has the power to exercise restraint and civility when dealing with other nations. On that front 20th to 21st century America has taken an active role in:

- Stabilizing world order through active involvement in mediating inter-national conflicts (League of Nations, then the United Nations)

- Promoting globalization, free trade and free flow of capital and people amongst the nations of the world, including rival powers like Russia and China

- Protecting NATO allies from the specter of the Soviet Union (for decades a very real threat to international peace, prosperity & stability)

- Preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons which have apocalyptic potential to end life as we know it

Now, it's hard to see how our (many admittedly unjustified) interventions in various regimes and countries throughout history outweighs the remarkable achievements of the Pax Americana. It would be hard to find another world superpower in history that comes anywhere close to the US in terms of stable, safe, prosperous and peaceful world governance.
I hate that being a developer requires me to be a FOSS UNIX guy from HN view on the world!

Not all developers care about it.
> The lack of easily installed and good quality self-hosting options is probably the single biggest barrier to more people doing this.

Ever heard of mail-in-a-box[1] ?

[1]: https://mailinabox.email/
A minimal "hello world" project for CQRS and event sourcing would be a simple e-commerce cart and all the software running the supply chain.

With a simple shopping cart, you'd write 10x more code just for the tooling to get ES/CQRS up and running reliably.
> And then you run across network failures. Missed events. Doubled events. Events that arrived while a database was down. Events that were missed due to a minor software bug. And so on. You layer on fixes, and the system develops more complex edge cases, and more subtle bugs.

Sure...if all the ilities weren't accounted for in the original design.

Async or out-of-process event systems have increased points of failure. If those aren't accounted for, then yes -- problems occur.

Doesn't make an anti-pattern, though.
I thought that was the point, since you didn't trust other people not to be mining your data? If it's another person's machine then they could just read your emails...
Except for game consoles that HN keeps forgetting.
> "oops, try again later" is not what is happening when your mail server reboots. Email uses asynchronous protocols.

Wha...? How do you think my server receives emails while it's rebooting?
I think that's more a sign that we want more from web apps than any increased complexity in the apps themselves. Building a web app now isn't any more technically difficult than building a Linux app was 20 years ago. The only difference is that the tools aren't as mature.
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self-hosting is generally done on cloud vps providers (like ec2, digital ocean). Also, email is asynchronous. Email has a lot of retry logic built into it. You seriously don't think it behaves you think it does, do you? Imagine the amount of emails dropped :-)
Different people.
And yet somehow web apps, each with their very own shirty UI and UX, that looks and works completely different than the platform you use them from, are doing just fine.
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Problem is "Humans" is not a singular.

"CEO of multibillion corporation" won't be made obsolete by technology because he/she comes to own the technology. Everyone else, could.
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Yes, I would prefer a US hegemony over an ISIS hegemony. The comparison itself is ridiculous.

But saying that the US has not used its military strength for its own benefit and at the expense of the people of other countries is ridiculous.

The US staged a coup in Guatemala at the behest of the United Fruit Company, when the democratically elected Prime Minister of Guatemala wanted to end UFCs exploitative labor practices. This ultimately led to the US backed genocide of the Mayas in Guatemala.

The US supported the Contras in Nicaragua and blatantly violated the sovereignty of the nation for its own interests, and was found to be violating international law.
The ICJ demanded reparations for the human rights violations Nicaragua, which the US refused.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'%C3%A9t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States#U.S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States#U.S...
You can do that with nixos.

Anyway when the said this about a File System based on SQL Server, i really liked the idea. I had something similiar in my head: Instead of installing software to folders, you add a node and all necessary files are referenced in this node.

That is basicly what apps are doing right now already. But imagine that your folders become tags and meaning and when you put images into a 'year' or in an 'event' node they are already sorted.
It was popular back then as well but anyone who spoke out in favour of restricting migration was labelled a 'racist'. This still happens but the term has been overused so much that it is losing its potency.

Swedish politics and Swedish media (press and 'entertainment') are ever so slowly waking up to the fact that the 'åsiktskorridor' - a system of political correctness and self-censorship, literally "opinion corridor" - they created is crumbling.
>One man's terrorist is another man's hero.

That "another man" is brainwashed too. Everyone's brainwashed by their local media and not just that, but we all are deeply biased because, at a personal level, we all look at our own interests first. Countries do the same. And since the planet is only this big, those interests quickly come in conflict with other side's plans and then countries do nasty things justifying them with "national interests". That's just how the world works...
It is racist because the institutional failing it is pointing out is born from the publications/authors prejudice rather than any objective assessment of reality.
Don't you agree that the main reason Vulkan is not the best way to achieve those goals is because Microsoft and Apple are refusing to support it? This is circular reasoning.
> I also don’t think email should be e2e by default. Next gen email will never get adopted if Gmail can’t index it.

Fallback is fine; in the age of "surveillance capitalism" security for the moderately interested is the best we can hope for.

> Governments are not just going to let you deploy fully encrypted email by default.

What do you base this on? What would they do?
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Far from surprising, this is the natural course - anyone with enough education to use PGP should know that perfect security is impossible.

That's why no reasonable privacy activists aim at it as if it was an attainable goal!
Anyway, WebVR support is shaky on most browsers, except Firefox / Nightly where it works properly. Get that working before WebGL 2 or whatever. And throw in some support for external GPUs. Moved away from Apple and got myself an Intel NUC i7 w/ Thunderbolt. Better everything in there. Can use external GPUs of all kinds for easy testing. Apple may have had its best quarter ever but is not sexy to me anymore.

Yeah, support Vulkan.
> It's sad some scientists go to far in manipulating data to fit their model, but that doesn't mean every scientist is crooked.

Then you'll be glad to know that that has not happened in this case
This reminds me of a similar project, Redash (https://github.com/getredash/redash), at least in functionality.

This seems like it would be useful for data exploration, and I think the gists are a great way of sharing queries.
Blockchain.info has excellent authentication. First a random identifier, then an email to confirm you're logging in, then the actual account password, then a 2fa code via Authy.