skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a 1hr difference between Prague and London.

Finland is E.U. and has a 2hr time difference. The EU doesn't mandate a time-zone.
Its a fair comparison. Where I live many roads have parallel parking available, were people leave their cars in public. Since a single car spot can house maybe 10 bikes, a 10% impact on available car parking could allow all drivers the option to bike.
> "Which Betamax case involved making permanent copies of material you had explicitly agreed to access on some temporary basis in return for payment?"

Copies on a hard drive are no more permanent than copies on a Betamax tape.

The browser has no idea if the content was intended to be temporary, or if there was payment. Plus something like cable TV fits that description too, and you're still allowed to record it.

And the potential for harm is pretty similar.
This could be why meditation is such a useful state for our brain to be in. A combination of wakeful, highly aware of surroundings, yet peace and calm enough for waste to be cleaned up.
10,000 people suffer for what net gain though? If we say the refund must be 20,000$ plus 5x the ticket price airlines will still optimize and be profitable, but they are going to hesitate to regularly break their contracts 30+ times a day.
I thought the rare occasions in monkey island games where you could 'die' it basically rewound to an acceptable state before that? (IIRC the second one even made a joke out of this with a falling off a cliff and bouncing back up thing)
Fintech Firm Unison Offers Unique Assistance to Purchase the Home of Your Dreams
Looks like the outsourcing companies have defied Trump administration's paper tigers. No positive changes for the American workers from the H1B side. Fake job descriptions and unskilled workers are going to rule the roost this FY too.

If you read the comments at the bottom of the page, it shows how this visa is being abused.
It would if Optane worked.
The right thing to do with tipping is to abandon the whole system, everywhere. It is obsolete and unfair.
In New York State we can choose our power supplier. The green providers are a bit more expensive. They remain niche players [1]. Consumers certainly express a preference for cheap energy.

[1] http://world.350.org/nyc/350-nyc-wind-power/
Love dart
Wouldn't those be deciseconds? Also wtf unit. Use Millis or seconds as a float. Yay Linus making sure that git only makes sense to wizards like him.
> similar to what you get if you play a 3D printed record

I guess I'm behind the times, not relating to that reference...
Can you give more information? The style doesn't seem even close to the style anyone would write in today - did you think they were like kind of pretending to write in this old-fashioned way, like making fun of old-fashioned writing? did you think it's humor/satire?
I'd speculate: Gathering the other passengers' luggage and belongings, identifying the other passengers on the plane, arranging for transportation, arranging for screening at the other location, in-depth searches of their luggage and other belongings at that location, getting them back to the airport, setting up another flight to their destination (the plane might have left to ensure that it reached later flight connections that it was scheduled for).

Separately, clearing the "danger zone", setting up security to keep people away, calling in the bomb unit, use of extraordinary care in testing the device, and so on.

But those things sound obvious to me, so maybe you were thinking of something else?
> That's nowhere near 90% of Python. [...] the interpreter has so much going on you can't learn everything in years. [...] the ecosystem, which is so large nobody can know about every package.

I'm pretty sure that this "90% of Python" is in the context of the stuff an already-experienced developer needs to absorb to honestly put "Python" under "Languages" in a resume...

... Not the amount of knowledge you need to say "I know everything there is to know about Python, it's implementation details, and its entire associated ecosystem of third-party applications."

> but that's not True at all

Can't tell if intentional, or habit :P
> Come to think, you could put one of these up on AWS, using EC2 autoscaling + K8s/Docker Swarm + Amazon EFS for storage, quite easily. Has anyone done this yet?

Cloud9 IDE works a bit like that. They provide free 'workspaces', and each workspace is hosted in a Docker container on their managed fleet. You have shell and file system access. They wrote a bit about how it works in this blog post: https://c9.io/blog/announcing-the-all-new-cloud9-development...

> Our new workspaces are powered by Docker Ubuntu containers. Every workspace is a fully self-contained VM, so you can run any development stack (e.g. a WordPress website and a Node.js web app) in parallel without running into configuration issues. Each workspace gives you full freedom over your environment, including sudo rights, so any development stack can be set up, built, and run without any hassle.
Ask HN: What are the best AI conferences in 2017 outside US?
I'm a SW Eng. from Argentina, working in a ML+NLP related product for a news organization. I've the possibility to attend an AI conference anywhere in the world outside US and I'm struggling to find something really interesting.

The focus is practical and non-academic. The most suitable that I've been able to find is this one in Dublin: http://datajconf.com/ but I'm not sure there are some gems I'm missing out.

Any ideas?
In England there are strict limitations on time-shifting. You're allowed to timeshift broadcast tv programmes, but only for a limited amount of time. (I think two weeks).

I don't think people time shifting at home was ever enforced in courts.

(I welcome any corrections. English copyright law isn't straight-forward).
>>> If there are lots of highly educated people, there will be new jobs created to take advantage of their skills.

No. Just no. That is utterly wrong.

The job market goes by itself. It has little correlation with education prospects (that takes 5 years for any change to make new student anyway).
Meanwhile, the internals inside that same casing have improved drastically, some might say stunningly, over the past few years.

Here's some of the things they've worked on in the timeline you mentioned:

- A10 Fusion high/low power cores with surprising levels of performance approaching desktop performance and even surpassing some low-end desktop processors.

- Solid state home button

- The Haptic Engine.

- Touch 3D
Self-taught artificial intelligence beats doctors at predicting heart attacks
Me neither. I am really hoping that Tab Center "graduates" from Test Pilot into core FF sometime soon.
Leroy Chiao: NASA discovery sparks my dream of intelligent life beyond Earth
Really another reason for Apple to "drop the ball" on design and just re-relase the old Mac Pro shell with upgraded internals.

Sometimes a half-assed effort is better than none.
This doesn't sound far fetched at all. Small injuries are a way to focus the body to enter a recovery phase where the end result is a bone/tissue configuration that is strong and less likely to be repeat injured. Martial Artists have been practicing this type of body modification for centuries to bones, ligaments, muscles, and minds. I've experienced it through my own personal knee surgeries. And I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we offer body enhancements to healthy indivuals through surgery that will improve performance or long term health.
In China, the Curious Case of the Gel-Injected Shrimps
I was thinking this as well. I suspect that it's impossible to predict, but I wouldn't think it unfathomable to imagine a world in which, with all the additional free time, society might evolve towards a more Italian ethos, in which we take longer lunches, and don't mind spending as much overall time 'at the office', though not necessarily working any more while there.
Back in the 80s, instruction decode was a large part of the logic in a CPU (thus the motivation for RISC). Currently, it's a tiny fraction. It's been many years since a simpler instruction set was useful for reducing the complexity of the CPU.
They also have a very clever greylisting approach -- it compares against senders in your address book as one point of data which I've never seen done before because usually the spam filters I've run don't have access to that data and no open source greylist daemons do it to my knowledge
None of this is accurate. Airlines reps have the same information as you get on the website, and airlines usually charge an extra fee for booking via phone.
'pavlov meant that the entire EU switches to daylight savings time on the same date.
GitHub Updates Its Developer Program – ProgrammableWeb
Depends where you are.

Europe and USA are large continents, comprised of many environments and sub cultures.
Time zones in Arizona get extra exciting twice a year when the rest of the country jumps an hour for DST while we stay the same. Unless, of course, you're on the Navajo reservation, which does observe DST. Make sure you're not actually on the Hopi reservation, which is entirely surrounded by the Navajo reservation, because they don't observe DST.
I think it goes a bit deeper than that. Intel is losing the power it had as a general-purpose CPU maker. Now that technology and brains are improving, others are figuring out more efficient ways of handling specific tasks that the x86/x64 CPU used to do in an efficient manner.

And intel doesn't have these people. They don't want the embarrassment and are too entrenched in their own processes. The technology as of this year can compete or stomp intel into the ground. We can program ASICs to handle any task, just about as fast as it can handle the electron flow. The only real setback is the fact the instructions are not hard-coded in the actual physical logic. That's literally the only slow-down. Were it not for that translation layer right there, ASICs would come out on top, no problem. Specialization is the future. General purpose was good enough for 30 years, it's time to move on.
Use some nuance and common-sense, rather than jump to an over-simplistic, extreme argument. If said military had an alternative leader better than Stalin or Hitler, that's an obvious improvement.
Announcing the New GitHub Developer Program – GitHub Developer Guide
It is separate? I haven't seen a separate search and address bar in about 5 years. Or at least, the address bar will always run a search if you don't enter a real URL.

How does one get back the separate functions?
>Fun fact: toxin meant arrow long ago, for taxus, (bark tree ?) which bow were made of

Actually from ancient Greek "toxicon" (related to archery) which stems from "toxon" (bow, not arrow), that got into latin. The association (toxicon -> toxic as in poisonous) came due to the practice of using poisons in archery (to make for lethal arrowheads).

Greeks took the word from Scythians. Taxus, for the yew family of trees (poisonous), is related to that, but the transfer to latin as currently used was through "toxic(os)".
So now the rider can give $0 as a tip (if the Uber allows that option) and the rider doesn't have to worry about retaliation of a bad rating from the driver. Game theory is fun.

To generalize, if people disagree with an app's user interface (e.g. tips), both sides perform little acts of rebellion against it.

If Uber app does not have tips, some Uber drivers rebel by hassling riders for not using Lyft which has a tipping option or asking for cash tips on the side. This annoys the passengers.

If the apps does have tips, some riders rebel by paying $0 because they think the whole idea is stupid. This annoys the drivers.
As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really.

On the contrary, countries like the US, Australia, etc. are far more tolerant of public remarks like this. Had Evan said that the French are too stupid to use Snapchat (for example), no one would have even batted an eye.
Windows 10 Creators Update can block Win32 apps if they’re not from the Store
Here someone thinks it is a translation of part of a play:

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,45539.0.html
I gave a talk last year about a timezone strategy for Rails apps (or any app really). Sadly it wasn't recorded, so I'm hoping I can give it again somewhere, but here are the slides and source:

https://github.com/pjungwir/timezones-talk

I suggest dealing internally with UTC as much as possible, and treating time zones as an "I/O formatting" concern. But ironically the big exception I know of is scheduling future events in calendars! The reason it's a problem there is that if you schedule a meeting, the app converts it to UTC, and then the timezone rules change, your meeting will be at the wrong instant. So it is important to keep the original input string (or at least the originally requested local time).

Another crazy timezone issue I encountered recently is that the Javascript standard originally told browsers to use Daylight Savings Time transition dates from the current year when deciding the timezone offset of days in past years. This has been changed, but in IE you still see the old behavior. [1] is a Stack Overflow answer+comments that mention this history. You can see the problem by loading [2] in multiple browsers. The fix is to use moment-timezone.js [3]---but make sure you download the file with historical data!

I guess the moral is that timezones are not easy. :-)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16946002/javascript-time-...
[2] http://jsbin.com/zicomitoka/edit?html,js,output
[3] http://momentjs.com/timezone/
Why not just set standard file permissions (owner and group)?

You could create a group for each repository, and add and remove members as necessary.
> My log had grown so quickly that the code was taking 15 seconds just to append to it.

How is that possible? Opening a file with the O_APPEND flag automatically seeks to the end of it.
>Let's assume that when a river gets redirected, a scientist goes and investigates it

This is a faulty assumption and is what leads to the wrong conclusion. The probability of 0.5% is for a randomly selected river. That is, if you went and examined 200 randomly selected rivers, 1 of them (on average) would be redirected due to natural variability.

That does not imply that the remaining 199 were redirected due to global warming. It does not even imply that the remaining 199 were redirected at all!

What is needed is the percentage of rivers that have undergone this redirection. Here's a simplified example: If it's ~0.5%, you conclude it's just natural variation. If it's >0.5%, you conclude that something (possibly global warming) is increasing the number of rivers that are being redirected. If it's <0.5%, you conclude that something is decreasing the number of rivers that are being redirected.
Thank you. The entire article is very interesting, but I'd like this part:

"Some lawyers and officials who worked on the American-US Airways case now say they were “appalled” by the decision to settle, as one put it.

“It was a gross miscarriage of justice that that case was dropped and an outrage and an example of how our system should not work,” said Tom Horne, the former state attorney general of Arizona, one of seven states that were co-plaintiffs with the federal government."
Tried RubyMotion early, it was okay but required knowing both Ruby and Objective-C. With Swift, there's a similar pathology but it's a typed language, it's basically well-integrated and official.
Think brain games make you smarter? Think again, researchers say
It'd be nice, but I don't think they will.

Cloud Foundry gets around this by using BOSH for deployment; it essentially creates the kind of layer you're describing.
This Phishing Attack Is Almost Impossible to Detect on Chrome, Firefox and Opera
Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?
I'm building a SaaS product targeting the telephony sector. Finished my prototype (Spring Boot backend, basic jQuery/Bootstrap front end) and raised a little scratch so I'm planning on building a company website, careers page, etc. before I start hiring.

Whilst I know PHP well enough (to really dislike it) temptation is to avoid Wordpress for the company site and go for something else (Jekyll, Ghost etc). Problem is a lot of the company web pages being churned out by design studios are Wordpress and I want to outsource at least the company web pages.

Has anyone here tried eschewing the typical Wordpress company website and rolled their own or alternatively gone for a completely different CMS?

Any pros or cons you've encountered?

To keep things simple I'm trying to limit my language focus to just Java8/ECMAScript for now so keen to avoid throwing Ruby or Python based stacks into the mix.
In case that wasn't a joke - no, `git pop`.
Yes but that was a cost and engineering issue. The size of atoms is a lot more fundamental. EUV buys you a little more but you still bump into the size of atoms and quantum effects pretty quickly.
I agree with you that TSA (since we quietly dropped CBP from the conversation) is pretty inefficient and on the border of useless. However, you haven't really answered WHY you think that local government would do a better job. You just stated it without evidence.

I'm also curious how it would work practically. If I fly around the country frequently, will I need to be aware of all the differences in screening processes at each local destination? Will airlines need to comply with security standards across all localities, instead of dealing with a single agency?
> even smart people on HN seems to be confused about his message

I see no evidence of that.
'Resistance' as Steven Pressfield would call it. Highly recommend 'The War of Art' to all.

Non-affiliate Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1...
You're right. I'm remembering a different codec — I think this is how H.264 orders DC coefficients for macroblocks. JPEG uses an actual 2D DCT, not a 1D DCT of a flattened block.
I wonder how easy or difficult it is for loan lending startups to get access to these APIs and if the developer experience for the api is good enough for them to keep using it.
Well no, it's a minor variation on the same thing. If they think wages are too low, regulate them higher.
Long-time SDF user here as well (MetaARPA). Agree that bboard has some of the most interesting discussion that I've seen on the Internet in a long time.
You would think there would be plenty of demand from job-seekers to get accurate salary info.

How much would you pay to get an HR professional to give you an accurate quote, backed by solid data, on what your compensation should be at your next job interview? $250? $400? And if they could advise you in salary negotiations? Would you pay a % of the increase they help you get?

I bet there's a real business opportunity here.
Partially, I agree. But the current way of selling airline tickets also push price as the variable to base your choice on. Travel time is maybe a distant second. (I often buy the not-cheapest ticket to get a better routing, a 10% premium often gets you a significantly shorter trip if we're talking e.g. Hawaii to Europe.)

These are all very easily quantifiable variables. Maybe you can find out how on-time that flight normally is. You have to do a lot of research to figure out how much legroom you'll have on a specific flight. And knowing what your risk of getting denied boarding is almost impossible, so I'd argue that is in fact not priced into the current model.

Right now it's also not possible to choose based on these variables since the choice of airline is so strongly correlated with travel time, unless you are travelling between one airline's hub and another's.
From The Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAcdV019oMQ :)
Scientists Aging Faster Than Other Workers
This is precisely what I do.

But, I'd prefer it if git-shell didn't let users probe and read git repositories at any absolute path on the remote end. That's not great behavior for a restricted shell.
It's called "floating" time. It means ignore the time zone completely and just display it as 4pm always. Alerts and whatnot would be based on your computer's current time zone, so if your computer is in PDT, it would display the alert at 4pm PDT, but if you set your computer to EST it would display it at 4pm EST instead.
For those wondering what exactly is SDF, a summary loading quickly:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160828065530/http://sdf.org/?f...
I'd be happy with Mario, Zelda, METROID (cough cough) and a few other Nintendo big-hitters, honestly. For me, the Switch is just the "Nintendo tax" in order to get to the games.

Sony has a lot of developers making exclusives, which is why I own a PS4. But virtually anything else is cross-platform already, except for the MS exclusives. And chances are, I'd get a 3rd-party cross-platform for the PS4 Pro before the Switch.

I don't know how Nintendo can dig themselves out of this predicament.
At native, 3840x2160 most of the time. If I have a little eye strain then I'll drop it down a notch (Mac) which scales to 3008x1692 I think.
Does your point 2 exist today with human doctors? Can you sue after getting a second opinion?
Finally, NASA has its universe of images in one happy, searchable place
Precedent? This isn't a court case. I begin to see the problem here: You're misapplying a historical template. This isn't 19th Century British Empire - the US had an iron-clad casus belli in Afghanistan, and to ignore that is to completely mischaracterize the situation.
I remember reading an article where file data (a ZIP file I believe) was converted into a bitmap image, and then it was compressed with PNG for another few % of compression.
For a second, I was thinking sand piracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-ill...
Oh, absolutely, I don't think the answer is black and white; neither "any exchange of housing for money must be fully ADA-compliant"-- nor "raising the question of ADA compliance is a burdensome regulation that should be ignored".

For me, the question that's worth asking is, how do we ensure, as new ways of doing old things develop, that the people who've been shut out in the past (i.e. the people that the ADA protects) aren't just getting shut out again?

People in wheelchairs, that's a thing. The ADA is the way that, up til now, we've set up to enforce that businesses must accommodate them. Stuff like AirBNB and Uber is bringing an absolute ton of new individuals, essentially doing business, who've simply never had to think about making business accessible to people with disabilities.

Maybe there's a new regulatory framework that needs to develop? Maybe there should be a burden on the companies like AirBNB and Uber to ensure that, wherever they operate, some percentage of their service offering is wheelchair-accessible? (Even if they're buying property or hiring drivers directly to satisfy that requirement?) I don't know, just brainstorming at this point, I guess.

It would cost those businesses more, of course, but I ask myself which world I'd rather live in--one in which my two wheelchair-bound friends could actually use AirBNB wherever they went, or one in which I said "hey, sucks you're locked out of that experience, but free market, yolo"?
There's several good examples early in the article. Mostly, they end up in comments, where they're used as templates (e.g. "a social security number is of the form XXX-XX-XXXX").
http://gitblit.com/ is also worth looking into. It is more sophisticated then gitolite (which I also use) and less hairy then gitlab. It is Java based, but doesn't require a database.

Also, for backup, rather then tar up the ".git" directory, I use "git bundle <backupfilename> --all" which creates a flat file with all branches included. This file can then be uploaded to GCS or S3.