skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in the US for a while now, but I'm still also Eastern European (Bulgaria) and I completely disagree that it's "disappearing".

Romania, Serbia, "Macedonia" (yes, the quotes are intentional, and yes, I know it's not cool, and yes, this is pretty typical), Bulgaria - they're all on a completely different level of human development, corruption, values, etc.

Part of the reason is 500 years of Ottoman rule, another part is the close proximity and close relations with the Russian Empire/USSR/Russia, but someone who's Czech or Hungarian or a Croat is much closer culturally with someone from Germany/Austria than someone from Bulgaria is.

Being part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and part of the Ottoman Empire completely changed how those countries developed, and the situations they're in now, even though countries are sometimes only hundreds of
miles apart.

Hungary, Czechoslovakia had revolutions, in '56 in '68 respectively, to attempt to escape the iron grip of Mother Russia while a large portion of Bulgarians to this day are Russophiles and nostalgic about those days, not to mention EU- and NATO-sceptics.

Props to Western Europe for literally dragging countries like Bulgaria and Romania and Serbia away from the clutches of the Russian Bear and into Western Civilization, but I'm not convinced they'll be successful.
Eastern European here.

Yes, the heritage of the iron curtain is slowly disappearing, but I would not say that it is happening as fast as the author thinks it is.

As an example, there is still a serious division between the "nationals" and "occupants" (Russian speaking people) in Latvia. We have different politicians, celebrations, churches, companies and neighborhoods for people speaking in either the Latvian or Russian language.

Youth still tries to get away from the country since the working conditions are not the best. I'm lucky to be working in IT, where it's much better than the for the rest of the population (developers tend to make more than our politicians), but that's due to western countries looking for cheap IT labor (cheap for them; but good money for locals).
Just click the link above, the entire site is Fossils interface.
I'd buy one in a heartbeat. I'll buy even more if it ends up with a real antenna jack.
Rebasing gives you a linear history instead of the diamonds non-rebased branching and merging gives you. I mean, that's the technical reason, anyway.
Indeed, what are the consequences of that choice, vs. git and hg?
Trump's “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey”
I believe the site itself is running an instance of Fossil?
Back in the '80s my grandpa worked for Northrup flying target drones he designed the guidance system for back in the '70s. He hated digital computers -- thought there was no way digital with all ones and zeros could ever be as accurate as the continuous values in analog computers he built with OpAmps. (He also didn't like seat belts or the UN).
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/59na74/sqlite_as_the_o...
I used a gel similar to this[0]; cheap and effective. (Though the hue chosen is probably open for debate; I am somewhat chromatographically challenged.)

[0]http://www.stagelightingstore.com/15-Deep-Straw?sc=25&catego...
Looking at a physical map of Europe is an interesting way to visualise how arbitrary the split into Western and Eastern Europe used to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#/media/File:Europe_topo...

When I grew up in Western Germany, the world seemed to end at the Iron Curtain. Would be great if this is indeed changing now.
So your kids kindergarten forces parents and children to join an advertising data collection tool? Fuck them for doing that to the children.
1. Mel

2. A blackjack program

3. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
You can have a house in Annapolis that is a 3 mile round trip walk from the nearest grocery store. I invite you to do that walk with asthma in -5C weather with a strong wind while carrying a weeks worth of groceries.
Unless you have a partner or kids and have to share your home office with someone
I'm only half Polish, but I live in Poland and I drive a miniature Fiat.

So don't worry. Everything is still fine.
The article overlooks a very important factor, that only Europe had colonies in the Americas, and that brought massive wealth to the continent since the XVI century. Before that, the Middle-East, India and China were , in general, more technologically and scientifically advanced than Europe.
im actually building a fairly well massive app with documentdb and service bus. its not a user facing app, so i dont know if that counts for what you were talking about.
You can still have fatal paths that don't ever get solved, or some large % like that. Running the Go process under something like supervisord would give you the same effect.. it's not clear why this is so different, or why this needs to be at the language level.

In either case, you should be handling errors.
Inside the recount
I'm a "technical" reader, but I feel compelled to answer - I really wanted to get away from Reddit. Even on more serious sub-reddits, where you would expect some form of rational discussion, threads always devolved into puns or corny (and predictable and bad) jokes. That sort of stuff generally doesn't make it here, and it's all the better for it.
Honestly it is the technicality of the comment section that keeps me. If I go somewhere like Reddit there isn't enough coherence between the subreddits and you deal with a wide range of expertise and skill level. There is also a lot of trolling. HN can serve as an echo chamber a little because it is more tech based but the skill level is above average and being aware of the echo chamber seems to be enough. So I'm often surprised at how many things I learn from the comments and the accuracy.

As a counter example I've commented on other sites about basic topics that I work with and was significantly downvoted because someone that played KSP thought they knew more than someone who works in the industry that provided sources. That kind of thing doesn't seem to happen nearly as often here and I love how people frequently provide sources. As a scientist this makes HN a far superior community.
In the ideal world that might be true. In the world we live in, it's very easy to focus on working hours rather than what people actually achieve.
I'm a board-certified anesthesiologist/research scientist (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en), author (https://www.amazon.com/Quantations-Joseph-Stirt-ebook/dp/B00...), and blogger (www.bookofjoe.com). I don't know how I happened on Hacker News sometime last year, though it may have been after seeing Y Combinator or one of its principals mentioned somewhere. Sources — and the past — are more often than not misremembered, so I'm hesitant to go beyond that.

What keeps me coming back daily are the links to stories I would never see anywhere else. I'm a TechnoDolt®© (I coined the word) and haven't a clue about coding and software et al, but headlines like "Robots Rule at Swiss Factories as Strong Franc and Wages Bite (bloomberg.com)," "What makes the perfect office? (timharford.com)," "Your personal Facebook Live videos can legally end up on TV (thememo.com)," "The Beauty of Nature Seen Through Creepy Webcams (wired.com)," "German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears (bbc.com)," and "Map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad (kottke.org)" — 6 of the 30 links currently on the front page! — get me right where I live intellectually.
Might as well traffic signs were intentionally chosen as something human are good in classification of without any regard to machine learning algorithms (nonexistent at that time).
Yet there are definitely tasks where specially crafted noise can fool humans. Think optical illusions or this car prototype camouflage:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/02/the-new-mclaren-720s-wi...
> government takes over an industry

The coloured glasses that everyone wears these days is costing me karma... to hell with it.

Please re-read my post. Open sourcing robot schematics and software has nothing to do with government taking over.

It means that hackers everywhere will be able to study and improve said robots and maybe build a version of the factory in some poor place on the other side of the world or maybe on another planet.

As far as finding the capital, building the things and running them - that's the responsibility of whoever wants to assume that risk, as always.
The industry is pretty geographically fragmented. Beepi was apparently mainly in California, though they didn't seem to have much of a presence here in Socal. The competitors they mention in the article - Vroom and Shift - I've never heard of, so I assume they are centered elsewhere. I know someone who works for Carvana, so I know they are also regional and expanding (ATL and PHX mostly, I think).

The industry is used cars, so it's a product buyers generally want to see in person and it has to be delivered to them. So physical location is more important than many tech startups.
My German is really bad but there seems to be little of substance here. One of the first results cites "the internet rumor mill".

I'm not saying it's guaranteed untrue, but it seems without real evidence and therefore without merit.
I'm no photographer but it from reading the article it seems like most of the look of the images comes from how he photographs them?

From my interpretation of the headline I expected the webcams to be producing creepy images but it seems like it is meant to indicate that the fact that these webcams exist/are open to the public are creepy?
If you like a readable commit history, rebase is useful to reorder and squash unnecessary commits. Some repositories, like Rails have a lot of merge commits. Why should I have to read through them? Also, all kinds of failed tests may have been developed in a feature-branch during month-long development.

Interactive rebasing lets you avoid that mess, I don't think it is that complicated. Mercurial uses the same underlying data structures, so I don't understand how rebasing can be more complicated on Mercurial than Git.
> Switzerland has a much more direct democracy than most (all?) other democracies.

Just for the record, that's not as wonderful as it may seem at a first look. Direct democracy has shown its limits some times during the last year. The fundamental issues being that you can only vote yes or no for a fixed text, while a law is usually supposed to be discussed in a parliament in every detail until an agreement can be found.
Ubuntu Unity 8 evolution from 14.10 to 17.04
Fascinating what a culture that doesn't value personal prestige can produce.
I prefer natural light, when the time of year allows for it.

A decent chair, a high res monitor and quiet go a long way.
translation: People who work to future problems do not inhibit others from working on today's problems and those people are not blind or out of touch. Go browbeat someone else.
Yes, please post to github, gitlab, or bitbucket!
Truly cross distro is cat /etc/* release
If you're happy with the color, there are also neutral density filters in a variety of transmission levels: http://www.stagelightingstore.com/Rosco-Supergel-398-Neutral...
I don't think it does.

> Require users who choose to modify Citus to fit their needs, to release the patches to the software development community.

Do you consider a script that uses your API a patch? In my opinion there is no modification to Citus directly. It's used as intended and the only change is how is used instead of what it does. But it's not clear to me.
"Borg? Sounds Swedish"
Why did you choose to name the Basecamp founders, but not Slack founders? At least part of the Slack founders seem to be public figures who have had recognized financial success when Flickr was acquired many years ago. Also, it is probably that with Slack at its current levels of investment the founders have been able to take money off the table for themselves -- that is how these big rounds seem to be structured for unicorns to remove some "distraction" for the founders.
>Poverty in 2017 means (for the most part) you have a small or shared condo with running water, electricity, refrigerator, television, smartphone, access to lots of public services (libraries, parks, hospitals, etc) and more. The poor people of today have it better than kings of old, but very few people hold that perspective.

Anyone would agree that this is a desirable thing, right? I wouldn't mind if poverty meant not having a personal yacht and living in an apartment instead of a suburban house in 2040.

If you allowed people to choose, be poor in 2017 or be poor in 1400, most would still prefer 2017. Which means it's an improvement, regardless of how happy people say they are.

>How is the end game not communism?

The main issue with communism/socialism is that it doesn't work, that the working class is not better off than the working class in a capitalist society. It doesn't make sense to worry about something being technically communism or not, when the tangible result is that people are better off on average.

UBI doesn't seem very different from subsidies for failing industries, only it's broader so there isn't any incentive for one single group to push it through.

>Who gets to say: "stop complaining, UBI is enough for you."

You could make this argument about any wealth redistribution scheme ever.
I end up using it when fixing up local changes which had broken due to upstream modifications.

It's generally not seen as very good to send things upstream that conflict with existing changes, and including merges (from master, primarily) in upstream submissions is frowned upon.

When I was using mercurial, I ended up using the mq extension [1] to provide a similar work flow. I actually prefer mq's work flow to rebasing in git (simplifies some things when maintaining a set of changes), but the programs like that for git are lacking (I've tried guilt and quilt).
You are conflating the poverty of US country side, there are certainly pockets of third-world level poverty esp. rio grande valley, Appalachia, Mississippi delta, but those are not the standard, Yes, there are relatively less wealthy than cities, but to compare them with slums of manila or Bombay is being disingenuous.
Not really your friends then.... People you only see on facebook aren't friends.
> I would rather be a poor person in 2017 than a rich person in the 1400s.

For myself - that would a be a tough choice.

There were still things that wealthy people back then (especially the ruling class) could command that ordinary people - even wealthy ones - of today can't touch.

The amount of land and property owned, and in the case of the ruling class the ability to raise and have "armies", as well as how laws and such applied...all skew toward them.

Granted, there are many, many things of today that people of the 1400s could only dream about, if even that. Our technology, our medicine, our easy access to food...all of that and more would have been impossible for even the ruling class of the 1400s to access.

But again - there were things they could access that only governments of today, or the extremely wealthy (billionaires - but even there are limits) can access today. Not only what I've mentioned, but also political and other circles (people, money, laws, etc) - that the ordinary person of today have no access to - they didn't then, nor now.
Laptops across the border: Best practices /w Chromebooks
(author here) Would love to see the code for this!
I'm an ops/business guy trying to become a technical person, and this is a great place to learn and understand how technical people think.
Well they can't go back to highschool, and clearly even if they did they wouldn't get a better education. What do you recommend they do? They are willing to take out loans to learn, we should have classes which handle less educated students.
I don't consider myself a non technical reader, just under educated reader but I would like to respond anyways. I found this site the same way most of my friends have, one of my friends (real friends not Fb friends) sent me a link regarding some cutting edge technology (I believe it was about biohacking) that we previously had a conversation about.
There are a few reasons I keep coming back, I like the YC idea of supporting startups, the same reason I watch TV shows like the shark tank, dragons den etc., I like the fact I can sort the news by newest submissions and last and probably most importantly, with all the fake news and rumors, click bait and the like I value the moderated comments section just as you suggested in your question.
I'm also a physician (medicine). Technology and software are going to be everywhere and I'd like to know what's coming.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13664535
Also clang warns "using the result of an assignment as a condition without parentheses".
> Hence either foreign life form X were far more likely to develop and we would see it all over the place (actually, maybe not), or it were far less likely and hence we'd rather find one similar to ours.

Yea. The argument is actually independent of whether the probability of abiogenesis is large enough for life to independently arise multiple times in the solar system or (conversely) small enough that it's very unlikely for it to exist elsewhere in the observable universe. I think all it requires is that abiogenesis is a combination of several small probabilities distributed over several orders of magnitude. (If the probability is large enough that multiple forms routinely develop on the same planet, then we probably also have to assume something about, say, the first-mover dominating.)

> But how does one estimate probabilities of abiogenesis, or their relative magnitudes?

It's really hard.

> Are there e.g. scientific papers published on this subject?

Yes, but I don't know them off the top of my head, or whether any are any good.
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there is no more drive/docs suite.... it's all "Google Cloud" now.

you're all idiots.
Only in some form of measuring contest.
I had a lot of mileage avoiding row count actually in the sheet buy using an API to retrieve data directly when a user is interested in a particular record. Then the only think you need to keep in the sheet is an index which is lighter because (as far as I can tell) it's cell count that really affects performance.
Agreed on the natural light, but my office is at 62 degrees latitude with the window facing north... :-/
That's strange, you could almost just use XDelta...

Maybe they've never heard of it?
Veracity is the only other SCM I know of that takes the distribute everything approach of Fossil. Are there any others?
First, thats the way it is - so knowing that you need to keep the information up to date.

Regarding Why - ICANN runs on a multi stakeholder model, meaning governments and legal entities get a seat at the table too.

They have an interest in knowing who is behind a domain - its that simple.

Also whois privacy is not the protection everyone thinks it is. Its a lock on a door. It keeps casual looks out - spammers, scammers, etc.

If a government or police organization wants that information and they have legitimate need to do so, they will get it.
There is nothing wrong with using equals for assignment, the language designers just have to disallow assignments in if conditions.
It's worth mentioning this service that turns Google Sheets into a RESTful API for you: https://sheetsu.com/

Also sheetrock, which is JS-specific: http://chriszarate.github.io/sheetrock/

I'm not the creator and have only used these for trivial tinkering.
>This week’s ruling can therefore be taken to mean that if you use social media in a newsworthy way, it could be seized and shared, however personal the content.

Good. This isn't a terribly high bar to clear, and it's directly related to public sharing / public performance type issues. Not even close to violating privacy rights like with a mistaken email forward - this was done by the person, intentional or unintentional, they opened it up.

I'm glad to see Copyright still have merit in the court system when the case being brought - this one - clearly doesn't meet the standards for the purpose and intent of the law. Ex-post-facto-cash-grab still not strong legal strategy.
I wouldn't say globalism means uniformal activity and communication without competition as you would suggest, quite the contrary. Competition is far more bigger today but with much less violence.
Well, What if I for sure give you 1000 bucks today OR I may give you 2000 tomorrow. Which would you pick?

What if you had this choice for 30 days straight?
We'd be better off with robotic dismantling and recycling than a repair culture, IMO. Repaired items are never as good as new. I'd much rather a future where my car was dismantled and rebuilt overnight by robots than repaired overnight.

Things degrade and wear out at different rates. The clock starts at zero when something is new, but when something breaks, the "mean time to failure" is all over the place for the components. At a certain point, you don't really own something old; instead, you're paying rent in the form of repairs. The intermittent availability starts to become stressful; you're never sure when the next thing will break or need repair, you can no longer rely on the thing.

IMO the whole recycling religion is an historical blip. There's no long term need to focus on repairable, recyclable products; nor any need to separate out rubbish types etc. This is a resource allocation problem, and with legislation to embed the cost of dismantling and separation in the cost of something, I think it'll disappear.
Who's to say that they aren't purposefully using encryption that they've made breakable so they can read the messages while making it difficult for anyone else to do so (other than the intended recipient?)

Historically speaking, Zuckerberg isn't trustworthy. The "Stupid fucks" comment from long ago should've been the first indicator of his shady character.
There is a book writen by Paul Graham, creator of HN: Hackers and Painters[1]

And there is one tradition to call a hacker to someone who hacks(with software and hardware)[2], doing clever and/or ugly things, and that is not exactly to be a programmer (and also not exactly a security breaker, the other tradition for the hacker name[3])

I think that following the first tradition, the name of the site is well deserved.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hack

[3] http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/first-recorded-usage-of...
I would guess the issue is more about how much living space you want than the desire to rent or buy. Buying is almost never more expensive than renting the equivalent dwelling, so if I can find $1000/mo rentals in an area, I can almost certainly find condos that could be bought for an equivalent monthly cost. Unless you plan to move about frequently, but then that would also argue for renting.
The idea is that the parallax of two objects that are say 200 meters and 250 meters in the distance is negligible and can be ignored as long as you get the parallax correct for nearby objects.

You might have to set your nearfield scale based on the contents of the scene. It wouldn't work if there were say, some buildings at 200 meters and then mountains a kilometer away. But if you're in a cathedral with some chandeliers high up on the ceiling, cheating to remove the parallax of the chandeliers will not detract from the VR effect.
There are no other better engines and what's more, there only two serious competitors out there. CryEngine and Unity. CryEngine has nowhere near the amount of documentation UE has (both official and unofficial) and investing time into learning to work with CryEngine is questionable since the company behind it may go bakrupt at any time and the skills you'll learn are not really usable outside of your project(s) since pretty much no one in the industry (except CIG and Warhorse) uses it. Unity is great for what it is, but it's not exactly the best choice as far as ambitious projects go.