skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't complain that Chinese is ugly and unreadable just because you speak English as your native tongue.

This is argument from analogy, and with a certainty nearing 100% it doesn't apply to programming languages.

If you want to take this argument all the way though... Why not use Japanese instead?

It's ugly, it's unreadable, it takes countless hours to master the language, the grammar, the writing system. In the end you arrive... at yet another language[1]. Which may or may not express some things that English can't. By the time you've mastered Japanese, you'll have achieved near perfection and all your goals in English :)

[1] I speak four and currently am in the process of learning a fifth language (Russian, Romanian, Turkish, English, Swedish). I can say with some "expertise" that you can't make direct comparisons between natural and computer languages.
Note that sharp uses libvips which happens to be LGPL. I was wondering if this is an issue for commercial products (IANAL).
FOSDEM 2017 video recordings
Sure, I wasn't suggesting that a special tax break created for elderly who wish to avoid moving out of a house they were fortunate enough to buy for far less than its current market value should continue to apply when they no longer need the house.

Why wouldn't you organise things so that property-owning dynasties aren't able to freeload off the appreciation in their property values accruing from the work and taxes paid by others?
PIs are expensive. My dad's a PI, and mostly works for insurance companies on worker's comp fraud cases. Even the insurance companies, for all their money, don't hire a PI until they are 99.9% positive a given claimant is defrauding them, and at that point the PI is more of a formality to gather evidence for court than a tool for finding out if the claimant is a fraud or not.
One thing is packaging: there's a desire to have a single file to ship to users to put on their devices instead of a whole folder (and changing that at this point is probably too painful to be worth it), and then you need to address how to deal with addressing (in URLs) other things within the package.

Of course, being packaged also make it much easier to apply DRM (and, perhaps thankfully, means we don't actually need to address DRMing of HTML content directly which helps fight against it being in browsers).
She didn't know what to study, and one of her friends was studying computer science.
This web page shows the real-time location of the trains in Washington DC's Red Line. It can be helpful to know when/where a delay is occurring and if the trains are single-tracking.

This is my first foray into web programming, so I'm interested in any feedback you might have.
100% Uptime Guarantee? I'd like to see a status page with some stats and maybe simple graphs akin to https://status.github.com/.
Very cool! How is this different from some of the alternatives like Filestack https://www.filestack.com/. I'm not trolling, genuinely curious.
It depends where you are from, where you are going and how much time you intend on spending there. Anyone giving you answers without knowing the answers to those questions should not be listened to. You probably want to speak to somebody who is actually qualified to give you proper answers.

I'd say generally you are tax resident in your own country until you spend enough time in another country for THAT country to consider you tax resident. At that point a double tax agreement kicks in and therefore you only need to pay tax in your new country of residence. If you move around all the time then you generally have to pay in your own country. This all assumes you are working freelance.

I believe a lot digital nomads actually declare no income anywhere and don't pay any tax. This is obviously risky and illegal and not a great idea.
"I'm not sure what equivalent you could have for computer service to provide the same baseline of consumer trust"

Have you heard of IT certifications?, each vendor provides certifications based of their technologies, Microsoft has a lot of different certification programs.

If the client only wants to know the basic usage of a program, the service could pair it with another person not certified. If it's a company requiring for help or a developer in their home, he could request for "advanced service" and then a certified person could help in the specific field of the problem.

You can have a reputation system, with badges that determine how the person has being helpful, reviews from the clients etc.
Video recordings are from FOSDEM 2017 which took place in Brussels, Belgium on 5-6 Feb 2017. High quality talks, at least on data engineering field.
That it's financial burdens died with it but it's worthy parts were reborn in a new form.
> A real failure of the standardization committee, and it will likely only get worse with a group that cares even less about books specifically.

W3C WGs have hugely varied membership, and I wouldn't expect the composition of the WG to change much just because of a change of SDO.
Fun feature you should add: the ability to crop around faces. I.e say you have a long and tall image and you need it to be square, you could pick the center, top, or bottom to zoom in on, which do you choose? It would be nice to set a flag and say "find the subject(s) of this photo and crop around the subject(s)".
You seem very confused.

the regulators here made the legal requirement

It's not like an independent set of experts in charge made it.
California made it, and in fact, most experts (in the very same article) seem to think it's "pretty rich".

The regulators made the legal requirement, so saying "it's good the regulators are doing this because it's a legal requirement" is super-circular logic when the very same regulators made the legal requirement.
Yeah, I've been meaning to try that for a while now. Unfortunately I can't use it at work because Kraken still don't support connecting to the internet through a proxy, and they won't let you use it offline.
An argument for Emacs
I'd like to see the likes of Airport lounges that are not in the airport. Especially if it could use my priority pass to access them too.
If we're going to sink our time into the old copyleft vs permissive licenses debate, I wish we would be more precise with our words.

AGPL is an open source license, according to OSI, the only authority on what constitutes open source. https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0

You say "open for everybody to use". Both open source licenses and free/libre licences guarantee that the software is open for use. You're actually talking about freedom to combine with closed source/proprietary software, not about end-users freedom to use the software.
(2011) ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
It totally depends on the locale. I'm buying in Madison, WI right now and the pricing is so weird. I currently rent an older, not-so-nice, flat for $1605/month. Oddly enough you can get a nice 3-4 bedroom in the Madison urban area for >$350k. Assuming a 10% down payment a house for $385k (including taxes and insurance) costs the exact same amount as my flat after the mortgage interest deduction kicks in. Add to the fact that I have a fairly decent chance of recouping at least my equity and I'm paying around ~$1200/month for a much nicer place. Madison is likely an outlier as the University creates huge competition for renting, but not an inordinate amount of competition for owning. It's also not subject to arbitrage between the two markets all that much as Madison has some pretty draconian zoning policies around historic preservation that most landlords want to avoid like the plague.
I admit I'm not terribly familiar with it, so I might be misunderstanding, but isn't this more or less what AppEngine is?
I am self employed. My country allows me to declare flat expenses on up to 60% of my income. No accounting or proof needed. Real taxation is around 20% on $100K income (including social and health insurance).

So every year I spend about 2 hours with:

- sum all money that arrived to my account in last year

- fill form on IRS website

- update standing orders for health/social contributions for the next year

- one month latter, ring IRS and other offices, just to check all went through

If you move every two months, I would not worry about it too much. Important is:

- you pay taxes somewhere (preferably in your home country)

- you do not work for locals
Facebook Launches Fake News Filter in France Ahead of 2017 Election
Dropbox (YC S07) is the fastest SaaS company to hit 1B in annual revenue
If trade stops (read, if the US trade policy starts giving a shit about its working class, trade is never going to 'stop'), it's certainly bad for Jack Ma.

So I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
"The they readily admit that a 15% surplus in generation capability is a good thing! In fact it's a requirement by law"

????
they quote experts saying it's very rich and unnecessary, and that they'll be exceeding this by over 40%.

As for "requirement by law", the same regulators are the ones who made the law.

So that's a super-circular argument.
True P2P social networking. No ads since there will be little infra to support. Solves major privacy concerns when data is decentralized and not monetized.
Cloudflare does not permit storing just images in any of their plans. Their terms state that serving disproportionate amount of image or video via their service will be violation of their terms. You should check it before using it for longh term or providing cheaper cache options to users.
I have, therefore, chosen this time and place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth too rarely perceived. And that is the most important topic on earth: peace. What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, and the kind that enables men and nations to grow, and to hope, and build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace in all time. - JFK
It says on the website that Visa Sponsorship is not available, but you say here visa considered?
These companies do know how to retain talent
Codebase and it's terseness rarely matters. Understanding business processes that govern why the code exists is usually much more important than the code itself.

After that familiarity of code comes first. And by familiarity I mean: common patterns, common solutions, ability to bring new people into the fray.

Small terse languages tend to breed long-running small teams with an insanely high bus factor.
If this law was really about fighting state-sponsored terrorism why aren't saudi arabia, uae, and egypt, all countries who have carried out terrorist attacks on the united states, on the travel ban list?
WHATWG didn't bully cURL into URL, people complaining that cURL didn't match browsers did that.

The WHATWG made a decision long ago that its standards would be descriptive (describe how people parse it), not prescriptive (describe how people should write it). Anyone who attempted to write a web browser would have had to reverse-engineer how other browsers treated crap, because it was the only way to get websites to work. If you think the definition of URL was stupid, you should see what they had to do to support document.all: define a new concept in JS to represent the notion of "this looks and acts like undefined but you can actually use it as an object."
Persistently Curious
Yes it did... MG being our fearless leader has been everything :) Working with the interim leadership team was a dream...

Thank you for being one of the most amazing communities around :)

(I'm the former community manager btw).
Micosoft holds funeral for iPhone and Blackberry (2010)
It's the same with dried fruit. You can't find any that isn't soaked in sugar.
> Under the system, if an article is reported as false by users, it will be sent to a portal that all eight media companies have access to, according to Le Monde. If at least two of the companies confirm the article as false, the content will be flagged as disputed and users will see a warning before they share it.

Why should a handful of big media companies have editorial discretion over whether Facebook users can see other sites' content?
What would your solution be?
There is a huge gap between "not frictionless" and "impossible". Sometimes, people have to make hard choices. The reality is that if you want to live in a trendy/convenient/nice part of a major city, then you will have to pay for it, because EVERYONE wants to live there.

Sometimes, you just can't have everything you want.
Facebook should stay out of international concerns, meddling in anything election taints it's color and makes facebook useless to any serious minded citizen, I will never use it.
This solution is the opposite of "slowing down and learning how to write better web software".
So, what does that mean in the context of this article?
Since then mobile carriers have started doing IPv6 in a big way.
Well, iPhone is the viewing mechanism for engineers on the other side of the world to do the real work.
Winamp is still happily running on my Win7 laptop. I've always resisted iTunes-like software that tries to organize my music collection for me, primarily because I've already organized it myself and most apps fail to do it properly due to misread or incomplete tags. Winamp lets me do the following, which is all that I really want:

-1) Pull up the folder with the album I want to listen to.

-2) Right-click "Play in Winamp"

-3) Winamp starts, minimized, in my system tray so that it's out of my way

-4) I can control playback via media keys and get notifications with the Artist and Title whenever tracks switch, pause, end, etc.

That's really all I want, and Winamp still does it properly.

I painstakingly tried to keep Winamp when I moved to Linux, but my laptop's QHD+ screen was just too much for the non-DPI app in Wine. I eventually found Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/), which lets me do everything I used to do in Winamp, and even has a Winamp 2.X skin.
Reasoning by analogy – Brad Osgood [video]
While it's still complicated, many countries use the notion of "tax resident", usually defined as "somebody who spend more than 180 days / year physically at our territory".

While it doesn't help US residents, as they have to pay Uncle Sam wherever they live, many non-US people are using this loophole to avoid being taxed anywhere. Just find 3 countries with residence-based taxation, avoid staying more than 180 days in a year in any of them moving back and forth, and boom! Zero taxes.

(YMMV, IANAL)
How would alien life look like?
KC's not much better for a family if you want to actually live in the city. The schools there suck so you'll be paying for private school, housing of more than two bedrooms is rare and (by local standards and considering local wages) very expensive outside of dangerous run-down neighborhoods.

Granted the 'burbs aren't that far away compared to other cities—but our public transit's also terrible (likely too spread out to every have great public transit, no matter what) so you'll always be driving.
There are practical issues with #7, to standardize on a set of building codes across the entire US would make all construction needlessly more expensive for anything but offshore pre-fab modules. If you have to do California earthquake slab treatment in Missouri, that's not economical. If you need to support all the drainage, roof, and siding rules of the Northwest in Arizona, you're probably unable to efficiently handle all the plaster and cooling efficiency rules in place down there.

I'm sure there's a large core subset of rules that would allow prefabicratiom of framing, for instance, but as a guy who JUST finished building a house, I can tell you that it isn't the framing that gets you. Permits and land are by far the single biggest line item expenses.
Pretty slick.

Have any signups yet?
> we are getting paid a lot less than the value we add

Keep in mind that hiring developers is a lemon market. Imagine if any other industry worked like tech. E.g. if when you took your car in for an oil change, there was a 50/50 chance of the mechanics taking it for a joy ride, totaling it, and then charging you tens of thousands of dollars. Or if you went to the doctor the only treatment they were familiar with was sawing off your leg, so that's what you're getting regardless of what the problem is.

If this sounds absurd, it's probably because you're in the tech industry. The average small business owner's experience working with developers is handing over a good portion of their life savings and then either having the dev team just take the money and run, getting back something completely broken and unusable, getting back something half done and a year late, etc.

I literally became a developer myself because it was the only way to reliably avoid these sorts of issues. The only other industry this broken is maybe the medical system, but at least they're taking (small) steps in the right direction.
If the real estate market is so out of whack that you can rent a $1MM property for $3500/month of course I would rent. You aren't going to find that in a healthy market, though.
The syrian civil war started 2.5 years before US involvement.

And just so I understand you correctly.. you're saying the green card holders and other visa holders who had their lives disrupted by this order, the judges who ruled that the order is likely illegal, the 97 tech companies in this article whos lawyers think this is illegal, Sally Yates, ACLU, Cato institute, state AGs in CA, WA, CT, HI, IL, IA, ME, MD, NM, NY, OR, PA, VT, VA, and DC...

are all acting entirely politically.

You're even accusing the judicial branch, including judge(s?) appointed by republicans, of ruling against this order because the dems lost an election?
I believe it's underpaid. I earn my company at least 20x my salary every year.

Salaries are not based on the value the employee brings. If that were the case, then Ferrari assembly workers would be getting a huge salary.

It's based off of supply and demand.
The main thing I've tried to focus on is simplicity - you can just use it by changing some URLs.

There are definitely other services out there which address the same thing, the closest one is probably https://rsz.io/ which even includes some more processing features, but it doesn't have the CDN and I couldn't find any info about uptime.
The author does mention such networks (AKA "graphs"), and there's a lot of discussion in the article's comments.

Whilst networks/graphs in general are very expressive, they can also be tricky to manage in some situations; e.g. think of a graph containing a cycle:

A -> B
^ |
| V
D <- C

How do we handle the order of these nodes and edges, e.g. for display or for serialising/deserialising? If we parse the graph from the text above, would we get an identical value to a parse of the following?

B -> C
^ |
| V
A <- D

If yes, would the user be upset that we've discarded the order? If no, then what is the form/structure of this extra information? Can it be represented as a specialisation/generalisation of a graph, or do we need something fundamentally different (a string, a parse tree, a partial-ordering, etc.)?

If we forbid cycles, we get a "directed acyclic graph" (DAG); it's like a tree, but multiple parents are allowed. DAGs are nice since we can do things like topologically sort them.

If we only allow nodes to have a single incoming edge, we get trees. The nice thing about trees is that they can be represented without any notion of "references" or "arrows". For example, we can write trees by nesting parentheses: (A (B C) D) is the tree:

C <-- B <-- A --> D

We can't write the following DAG just by using parentheses: should we put "C" inside the parentheses for "B", or for "A", or for both?

C <-- B <-- A --> D
^ |
| |
\-----------/
They uses Cloudflare for image caching so it's the Cloudflare uptime. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Where can you get satellite derived building footprints for free?
Early in my startup career an investor told me, "There's money everywhere. Where you go, how you get there, and how fast, is dependent on your skills, drive, network, and luck. But there's money everywhere. Never forget that."

For me, the biggest untapped market potential is educational video games (which is why I work on supermathworld.com). The market literally doesn't exist. There are but a handful of educational products that could rightfully be called "games".
Mechanically, it could have been done a bit simpler. This is an old project that has been around a long time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku9PKRoH1CE
"Our works are free. But you have to contact an unlisted phone number, at a specified time we don't state, to a man who is only authorized to grant access when funds are available. And the times of access are limited to 100 hours per month, or less when restricted. And the location in which to meet is in the capitol at a building with no parking, and the hardest to get to.

Or you can buy the code for the low price of $4999 . Printing fees, and all that."
Winamp is still my goto player since version 1. I could never find an alternative. During my days of ripping I used:

Audiograbber,
Xing MP3 encoder,
Winamp

When Winamp announced they were wrapping up I downloaded multiple copies and stashed all over the place, yard, garage and all.
E-Invoicing Trends in 2017 Revealed
Yeah, the article uses terms like cheat, scam, malfeasance, swindle and bilk, like the casino deserves that money. It's not some poor little old lady, it's an organized-crime-ridden bribe factory getting beaten at its own shifty dishonest game.
They are not equivalent. For one, the Rust compiler checks that the references are properly initialized, passed around and dropped. C++ makes no such guarantees.
I have a Natural Ergonomic attached to the desktop. But I am addicted to pointing sticks over mice...For me, the distance to the mouse is less an impediment than the fact it is a mouse.
China stands absolutely no chance in a direct war with US and her allies.

Not only do we absolutely decimate them in nuclear and naval capabilities, our combined allied forces would decimate them technologically, on the ground, and through strategic embargoing, attrition, psychological warfare, etc.

We and our allies literally surround them. Not only that, look into geopolitics, Trump getting a call from Taiwan pisses China off more than giving them weapons. Why? Acknowledging and reaffirming our commitment to protect them, angers them more than physical capability of defense for Taiwan.

China enslaves a portion of its citizens, jails activists, kidnaps Taiwanese, support DPRK, among other things.

Trump is remapping Asian relations, because China isn't strong, nor are they suicidal. Rewriting our trade relations will help us, and if they continue being friends with us, good for them as well.

A restructuring is likely, and a war will only happen if our Asian allies or China forces our hand. If so, we win, based on any strategic viewpoint of might.
No, you're right. When I first read it I completely misunderstood.