skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds heartwarmingly difficult to police...
Yet I can't even get 1080p in Chrome or Firefox.
I don't know how they designed it, but if they use anything like a phone-unlocked turnstile or revolving door to let people in, they might just count every person that comes in until the gate closes again as being attached to the account of the person that opened the gate. So when any of them leave with something, that's a charge to you.
I find the idea that more information can actually hinder you to be pretty fascinating. This is not something I consider everyday. I wonder what other situation/ scenario would this be applicable to?

I also notice people getting upset over down votes once in a while. High karma users definitely command a certain respect.

All in all, I like how HN down votes comments from even high karma users if it's out of touch with the topic or is a meaningless vent. Hope that continues.
Well the brothers are always the ones prosecuting.
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I'm curious, are you from the American northeast?

FWIW, I agree with the guy you're replying to. But that's being from Boston, and also hearing about NJ/NY projects in the news.
Is LaTeX support going to come to Messages?
The article goes into why. It doesn't matter if you actually infringe the patents, they will sue you for their entire patent portfolio and bankrupt you trying to dismiss all the frivolous charges.
100 years ago was still an extension of the industrial revolution, where solutions were designed for the masses: mass media, mass education, mass production... there were mass produced standardized solutions that you had to adapt to.

The information age or post-industrial society we live in today an inverse process: a process of decentralization and customization, where consumers want personalized solutions rather than adapt themselves to an average/massive solution.
Welcome to the startup world
I think so yes.
Part of "showing a sincere interest in the other person" can be interrupting their monologue to ask them a specific question that redirects the conversation to something of more mutual interest (or any interest.) You don't have to be a rug they wipe their feet on, you can stand up for yourself and what might be of interest to you, just keep it about them somehow. If they decide you're a horrible person 'cause they just wanna monologue about complaint X (not common, but it happens) or don't want any input from you of any kind including a question about them, it's time to move on. Most people just need a little bump to make them a better conversationalist.

Most people do understand at some level that a conversation is a mutual agreement to discuss the matter at hand, and the agreement part is necessary.
Don't sell it, give it to me!

If the space is really that crowded though, you shouldn't have issue finding someone to pick up your clients, don't you think?
Ask HN: How do you evaluate a job offer and the company offering it?
What do you personally look for in an offer and company to help you decide whether or not to take a job that you've been offered?
That's how he writes. He's a punk musician turned monologue writer. He went on to do spoken word tours.
Luckily this problem has been solved in high brow science fiction: http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Near_Death_Star

In all seriousness I find that to be an unconvincing argument; isn't it better to have that choice rather than let it be made for us? Where would we be if Newton and Einstein were still alive? The only argument for aging I've ever liked is that culture just can't really advance without it- old people (on the whole! many older people are fantastic and very progressive) eventually seem to stop catching up to the rest of society. But still, it seems like insufficient reason to let brilliant people die.
Without Paywall: http://www.freewsj.com/articles/elon-musk-launches-neuralink...
Does marijuana smells stronger and worse than tobacco and cinemas' popcorn?

By the way, this is part of why I don't understand why people still go to cinemas, crowded, noisy, smelly places to watch a movie that you could watch I the comfort of your home!
As a lurker, I tend to spend time on the few comments I write, rather than post my thoughts on every topic that needs further discussion.

Unfortunately, it's the latter behavior that nets more karma, more often than not. Those with high karma tend to be those who post or comment more, separating the frequent contributors from the lurkers.

If you intend to use this userscript, please do so knowing that the numbers you're looking at have little (if any) correlation with the quality of their corresponding comments. And reconsider. Thank you.
Without Paywall: https://www.freewsj.com/articles/facebook-wants-to-help-you-...
Kimchi and hypochondria keep South Koreans healthy
I've listened to the lecture a few times, too. Great stuff! Here's the link for anyone interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4tUVqsjQ2I
No shit. What is it you think I'm trying to say here?
Ah, OK, interesting. Thanks for the response.
We are in agreement that the only time a single zero byte can be found in well-formed utf-8 is for the NUL character.

By definition, with a null-terminated string, NUL is the terminator.

If you want to have strings that contain NUL, then by definition you can't use a null-terminated string.

This is true of utf-8 or regular C strings.
I really hope so. It was a stat strong department (but not statistics).
A huge chunk of BC's output is for export to the US. I'd love it if we found a way to tax/regulate it, but I'm guessing there will be plenty of jobs growing illicitly for years to come.
wtf are u talking about?

Over 16 mio of germans/people living in germany have a migrant background, its the second most popular immigration country after the USA according to the OECD.

Src: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-20/immigrati...
I meant the Virtuoso OpenLink database software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuoso_Universal_Server

RDF triple stores were the latest hype during Semantic Web era. Wouldn't a more general NoSQL/Graph or SQL database be suitable as well, if soneone wrote an import script. I read someone achieved in with MySQL and a star table schema.

What database software is WikiData using? WikiMedia properties usually use MySQL. From the dumps page they have SQL files as well, so probably MySQL. But they promote just the JSON, RDF and XML dumps.
For a week I worked in some random jobs on Amazon Mechanical Turk, this was one job. It was so awkward. It was some social site, I didn't know which, but it asked me "Which of these photos contains babies" and it's so weird to see random people's selfies/photos.

These are the types of jobs you get paid cents/task which can take 1/3 of an hour so definitely not something you can make a living doing, but if you were smart and wrote the software to eliminate those jobs then you'd make the money obviously. I'm not a CV god or anything so not gonna happen any time soon ha.
> for some reason

Hmm, maybe it's because he's your identical twin?
If the location is determined by the plaintiff, the only incentive is to be friendly to plaintiffs, not to produce accurate and reliable judgments.
What about using worthless phones and masks? For under $5 I can get an Android or a dozen of them, load them up with this app, and be good to go. Need a credit card? No trouble, get a prepaid card for $1.95 at the corner store, load 5 dollars on it, auth it with the Amazon account, and pull $4.99 off it. Then go get some steaks on the house!
Is it just me or is the official templeos site hacked / defaced right now.
If you enforce the use of clang-format then this is not an issue as it will indent the code correctly.
Node based approach to building prototype or connected experience
What's funny is Google's actually doing a fair bit of this already with the TensorFlow playground, flow-based programming, Distill, etc. DoD will shower money on researchers, but those same researchers will do the work for Google for stock, a decent salary, and access to interesting problems that don't involve killing people.
Just a random thought, you could ask the FBI to borrow the content they seize to train your computer vision systems hahaha. How can you train something to know what CP is without it. Look for this blob of skin, smaller than this blob of skin, where these smaller blobs touch.
I believe the GP was referring to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13969465
A favourite of mine as well. I read it when I was about 20 and it blew my mind. I later read other books by Joseph Heller but I really shouldn't have bothered. Catch 22 was really his main opus.
Intel crosses an unacceptable ethical line
Dammit, I'm 41. Oh well, death it is.
I never understand why this always gets brought up. Yes, let's worry about the universe dying after a few billion years when people are currently dying at ~100 if they're lucky. Talk about scale mismatch.
Theft rates can get pretty high, look at the Tide theft phenomenon.
Have you actually tested this recently? I used to be concerned about unconstrained leisure bottoming out, but I've recently had about 6 months of a break of sorts and I was never bored. As long as I kept physical, social, emotional needs met AND had some creative output (side projects), I was perfectly content. A real surprise actually.
D&B Nation Hacked?
Regular dosing levels.

A recreational pot user may smoke a couple joints a week vs a pack a day of cigarettes.

or see this http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/10/study-smoking-marijuan...

Many people vape, ie extract thc with heat, not fire. I would guess this also reduces carcinogens.
If you want something more like what you thought DARPA should be, check out DIUx: https://www.diux.mil/workwithus/
Shh! Quiet! Or I'll feed you to the Basilisk.
Ive actually heard a horror story with DO where someones deleted instance was recovered[0]

the link is dead though :/

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7498861

EDIT: Webarchive has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20140331054458/https://gist.gith...
It already has. The Acuvue dailies have gone down in price by half since last year, after J&J stopped enforcing the fixed price floor.
Not the parent, but in my case - mild astigmatism - dailies are too big and floppy and don't stay put on my eye. 14 or 30 day are thicker and easier to put in. I use them rarely - just for skiing, and I end up using the 14 day ones once or twice and then throwing them away. But the daily ones are just mechanically awkward and uncomfortable.
This is the big deal for users of the current pound coins. Somebody is going to get stuck with a lot of irredeemable £1 counterfeit coins.

Musical chairs, in coins.
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"What I gathered is that the written form is not encoding the sounds of the spoken form, right? And certain dialects of Chinese are like that. They have these characters and the characters stand for a word or a concept, but a Chinese character isn’t made up of individual symbols that stand for individuals sounds in the way that English does. In English, the word dog has a D and that corresponds to the sound duh. In Chinese, it’s not quite that way. Now I gather there is a phonetic aspect to Chinese, but largely Chinese uses logograms, where the symbol stands for the word. It doesn’t stand for a sound.

"You don’t really pronounce the logogram.

"Right, it’s not phonetic in the way that English is phonetic. So I took the alien language to be that kind of writing system. I still took the visual system to be encoding the same concepts of the oral system so that the aliens would have for any given concept a written version and a spoken version. Logographic systems on Earth are essentially similar. The Japanese have three different writing systems. One of them, Kanji, is shared with Chinese. The spoken languages are very different. The Japanese speaker and the Chinese speaker can’t talk to each other, but they share a writing system because the writing system doesn’t actually match phonetically onto the sounds of the language."

I began to doubt the linguist here. I understand that many people use 'logogram' as a shorthand to describe whatever Chinese is, but she seems to be taking it seriously.

Chinese isn't written with 1 symbol per word (or idea or whatever); it would be more true to say that it is syllabic, where most common Chinese words are one syllable.

Many (most?) Chinese glyphs are made up of a root and a radical, where one part indicates the "class" or "topic" of the symbol and the other indicates the pronunciation (at least at one time).

She seems to be dancing around the idea that a Chinese speaker and a Japanese speaker could communicate by writing, each in their respective languages, and be understood through the magic of Kanji/logograms. That is not the case, too my understanding.

I'm given to understand that one feature of all known natural writing systems is that they are based off of the languages' vocabulary, grammar, etc., however hidden by changes between when the writing system was formalized and now. The idea that a writing system would not record what someone would say is weird.
I don't have much experience with any kind of stock market analysis/ HFT programming.

I've seen people use python (or R) a lot in online tutorials and courses (there's one on coursera[1] check it out). It's understandable that python is preferred since it's an easy language to get started with, but I've never really seen C/C++ used by people online (Although I've heard about the use of FPGAs by the hardcore guys)

Is the only reason C++ isn't recommended because it is difficult? The performance difference seems rather large to me. And especially if you're doing lots of number crunching, it would really benefit using C/C++ wouldn't it?

Do people use them but I don't hear about them because anyone above 'tutorial level' doesn't share their code or talk about it?

Or are the R and Python Computational libraries close to the performance of C/C++ that it's a viable compromise?

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-investing
> If a company’s leadership feels too tightly knit – where all the managers and founders are friends that aren’t open to critical feedback from employees – I won’t even try to work out the issue before leaving

While not completely gender specific, I think that speaks to difficulty managing up.
My baseless assumption always has been that it is for two reasons:

* It's one of those situations where the free market fails. Because anyone with a car can give someone a ride, it creates a race to the bottom and nobody can make money. You'll note that one criticism of Uber is that they create exactly that situation.

* Safety and fraud prevention for customers

Note that the community has an interest in quality transportation, including for tourists.
Does Amazon already do this?
The particular brand I track has gone down 15% over the past 6 months (mostly since January). Some products are not decreasing as quickly as others.
In case you missed it, John Baez's collaborator in that post is Greg Egan, who is well known for his brilliant and visionary science fiction. http://www.gregegan.net/
Containerd in kubernetes [do not merge]
> You can also write while loops but I never do that

At least 90% of all shell scripts I've written included a "while read line" loop
Baidu's New Light App Is How Search Should Work on Mobile
That would have to be Grapes of Wrath.

Or maybe Animal Farm.

Both of those books gave me an insight to politics and human nature in a way that made it clearer to me.
He actually does have a point. It's pretty difficult to actually reverse aging once it has started, as everything kind of feeds back into itself. There are a few exceptions- Alzheimer's may be reversible, but things like heart damage, immune weakness or DNA degradation may not be. The way it looks right now it may be easier to stop aging from starting than to stop the damage from occuring. Once it starts happening, even if aging stops the damage will still accrue.
Page looks very messed up on mobile (iPhone 7 plus in portrait mode)
It's always happening.
​Australia now has its own 'Google Tax'
Classifying software systems
That is how freedom is inalienable. :)
It doesn't mean they are welcome.
RFID is expensive. Even buying the cheapest transponders in bulk, you're still looking at $0.01-$0.05 per label - that's enough to kill the concept entirely for high-volume, low-value goods such as supermarket/grocery store goods where the profit-margins are thin enough as it is, if not loss-making.
Fyi, that post was edited and originally contained two more paragraphs. There's an archive.is of it.
Just for some perspective here because I'm not ashamed of myself...

Two bowls per day I'd consider light usage (less than a bowl a day I'd say is very light, or occasional). Heavy users are smoking over an ounce a week, which is greater than an eighth a day. That's quite a few more than two bowls.

At my height I was smoking between 8-12 king size spliffs per day. Though a spliff is mixed with tobacco.

I was a very heavy user, but I was also not that exceptional for the area (PDX).

I still smoke, even though it's likely bad for me. Like drinking, you don't do it for the positive health effects, you do it because it's fun, social, or you simply want to...
More likely would be parrots, which can in some circumstances outlive humans, and are much more intelligent and social than tortoises. Unfortunately most birds are fundamentally fractured in their braincases and they are insane uncontrollable maniacs. They act like they are controlled by a twitch stream.

https://np.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/42vlvs/ne...

"A side note, I am fully convinced that ALL cockatoos are insane. They are fun to own, they are adorable to watch, but deep inside that tiny feathered skull is a scratched, perpetually skipping warped record playing the soundtrack to Silent Hill backwards. If you could experience the brain of a cockatoo first hand, you would probably feel like you had dropped 1,000 hits of premium acid and boarded the scariest roller coaster ever imagined. I love each and every one I have ever met, but they are ALL insane."
"it's important to note that the scene was very much about positive influence alongside self-empowerment and promotion. Bands in the scene were entrepreneurial both in their songs and their existence."

I grew up in the punk/hardcore scene in the D.C. area many years ago and this statement definitely held true. One thing I noticed was that most of the kids I used to hang out with ended up being fairly high-achieving adults. Most everyone has their undergrad degree and many of them actually work in software engineering. Now when we talk, we talk about Linux, Python and C++ in addition to recalling old shows at 9:30 Club, Wust, and the Safari Club.
Are we sure this wasn't some early April Fools' work?
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> If you are going to downvote a comment, why not explain why?

"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That is largely interpreted as 'mostly refrain from talking about voting'. Keep in mind, downvoting here happens for many different reasons, it's not always negative and it is best not to take it personally or make assumptions about why it's happening. You could think of it as symmetric to upvoting & ask yourself whether you want an explanation for every upvote... maybe not? The goal is to have a high signal to noise ratio, and discussion of votes is mostly noise and almost always tangential to the article/thread.

I also didn't see the parent comment, but Terry & TempleOS have a long and complicated history here, so it might be a good idea to reserve judgement.
I have seen supermarket chains do away with automated checkout (Jewel which parent company is Albertsons) systems because they increased loss factors.
There's nobody guarding the doors at the average grocery store. You can walk in and walk out with a steak without anyone stopping you, and without having to buy prepaid debit cards and make online accounts in advance. Far fewer tracks to cover. They also don't have every square inch of the store covered in face-detecting cameras, like Amazon's store, making pretty much anywhere else a better target once you're set on shoplifting. A grocery store probably won't even notice the missing steak, where the Amazon store will have timestamped logs of every unpaid product leaving the store and video of it happening to pass on to authorities.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942266
When I see things like this, I'm reminded of a story an old co-worker told me who was a war veteran years ago in his home country. He and many others were made to go to war for their country and risk their lives. However, those who were wealthy and/or well-connected could find ways out of being compelled to go into the military and risk their lives.

One of the wealthy, well connected young men he knew who got out of going into military was killed getting hit by a bus in an accident. The guy telling the story actually went into a bloody war seeing people get killed around him, yet he somehow was alive today to tell the tale.

What's my point? I don't think it's pointless to research life-extending technology. It seems like some forms of death couldn't be avoided 'post-hoc', if one had a particular accident or the like, no matter how many resources were at your disposal, however. I guess lowering the overall probability of dying of 'something' in general would be nice though.
She isn't wrong about it being a legitimate tactic. You might not like it, it might make you a piece of shit for doing it, but it is a completely legitimate tactic.
Japan tests self-driving buses
The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters
Grafana v4.2.0 Released
Well, I was not talking about basic syntactic structure. For eg: take a look at this https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/components/conste...

I am not against Rust. Rust has some great ideas and intent. I just feel they should have created simpler syntax. A more complex and unusual syntax doesn't have any real benefits IMO.
Out of my field, so can't offer an explanation, but it appears smoking MJ is not associated with lung cancer or reduced forced vital capacity (a measure of respiratory capability).

Here's a recent (2016) review: [1] Nature, apparently not paywalled. Lung cancer is the topic in the paragraph immediately before the "Discussion" section.

[1] http://www.nature.com/articles/npjpcrm201671
6 months isn't so long to wait for a hearing in the US justice system either, is it?
This comment is hilarious. I don't have any additional remarks, but I wanted to indicate that with more than an anonymous upvote.
I wouldn't be surprised that it's because the unions have been fighting for it.

Other places around the world can figure out to slow traffic down without having flaggers.
You are ignoring the fact that i said males like to hang around other males, and it makes it exponentially hard for a woman to enter the "club".

I assume you are a woman. Is your best friend a man or girl?
TempleOS is a very interesting OS with many original innovations, as mentioned in the "constructive review of TempleOS" (which you can look up).

However it is a ring 0 only OS, with all the consequences that implies. You can make irreversible mistakes in this way, especially outside a VM.

Other OSes worth looking into are:

- Redox OS (Rust)

- MenuetOS / KolibriOS (x86-64 Assembly)

- Haiku OS

- GNU Hurd