skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well prolog is a kind of brute force too
For me Google is the best search on technical issues and research. When it comes down to touchy political and social issues, Bing and DuckDuckGo beat Google every time. In fact I don't even use Google to look up things I see in the news. It is always skewed. I completely avoid Google News.
I wasn't serious, of course. Well, I have edited binary executables in Emacs on very rare occasions, but I"ve never tried to edit a classfile. I think there are classfile-modifying libraries one can use if one has to get that down and dirty.
It doesn't get much more despicable than Yelp. They've been threatening and extorting small businesses for years. There's an upcoming documentary film that exposes them for who they truly are.

>Billion Dollar Bully is an investigative documentary that examines allegations against Yelp regarding extortion, review manipulation, and review fabrication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2dkJctUDIs
There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually.

Just kidding... at least I don't know anyone personally. But maybe the Head of R&D of the company I work for could be close to that mark, at least he's driving a Porsche.

Yeah.. not useful I know, sorry.
I guess it's not much of a thing in Europe, because here instances of places where real estate prices are as insane as in SV are pretty rare.
And before that, Nissan had the weight of Nissan, and expected that to be enough. But it wasn't quite enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Compu...
Hey, cclatency dev here.

When I wrote this tool my main purpose was to know where to create my VMs to have a reasonable latency to other services. In my case reasonable means < 100ms. This will definitly vary across products. As for the asymetric results you are absolutely right in fact if you look at the chart in the site the roundtrip fron A to B and B to A are different, which is typical in cloud environments.

I try very hard to emphasise on latency and not throughput, in fact I don't think I mention throughput at all since it adds another layer of complexity.

As for ICMP vs TCP/IP or any other layer 3/4 protocol it's just a matter of time. If this becomes a topic of conversation often I might end up extending the service to support "custom" packets.
Their complaint is still just.
Who owns them now?
Well, at least it's sort of not dead.
If the progenitor of an idea didn't believe that idea, does that change anything?

If we find that a piece of writing that means one thing to us meant a different thing at the time, does that change our understanding of that writing?
That's likely the crux of the complaint. It's not alongside, it's on top of...and "over" Yelp.

And the query specifically included the word Yelp.
Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
There was a project to do this back in the day.
Norway's currency, the krone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_krone (They are not on the Euro.)
If there was any sanity in the world, it should be death.
>"In London they have to pass a test called "the knowledge"[1]. It's the "hardest taxi test in the world" and quite impressive. It ensures taxi drivers actually know what they are doing and where they are going, not just blindly following their GPS."

I am familiar with "the knowledge" and while I think it's indeed impressive and I frankly I prefer taxis drivers that have local knowledge however is this still practical in 2017?

I am asking sincerely. Certainly "the knowledge" doesn't include local traffic conditions a la Waze.
Drawing Parametric Graphs with the HTML Canvas
The problem is that there's Google the search engine and Google the answer engine. They should split off the answer engine part into something completely new, based on Google search results but with the decoration they like to add and they think is the reason people love to use Google. Including integration into your mail, private thoughts, everything. Give that to the people who love it. Integrate it with Android and some kind of voice device in your living room. Experience this and that.

Google.com should go back to a search box, two buttons, three ads and ten results per page. No content mix, just pure results. Honest search, only external results. No abuse of monopoly.
The only thing you can really own online is your private key. Your id should be your public key.
That's interesting. I wonder how far back in evolution this goes and where is the common ancestor that first came with basic math abilities programmed in. And what sort of advantage it creates in the natural environment.
Don’t older cameras have a higher SNR? How would you simulate that? Lower the bit depth?
Two of those are licensees of the other one. The power move was: Baidu/Yandex.
What If the Data Science 'Skills Gap' Is Really a Management Hiring Mess?
Sure, the Kroner, I guess I was confused you are referring to Paris and Barcelona being a breeze in the sentence before.
A powerful Operating System just for creators
Any examples of languages like this? Are you speaking about the number base that the language works in? I have heard that a base-12 system would be much more useful than base 10 due to its greater factoring potential (2x6, 3x4). This is why there are 12 inches in a foot, and 12 hours in a day, it makes working with thirds and quarter units much easier. Wouldn't it be even greater if we worked in base 12 and 12 was represented as 1-0?

I've wondered if Chinese and other Asian languages make math a little bit more straightforward with their more consistent logic in the naming of numbers. 11 = 10+1, 21 = 2x10+1, etc. European languages are logical to a decent extent but we absolutely have more exceptions.

My favorite numbers language quirk has always been French with its preserving the 'four-score' in its numerology. i.e. 95 = 4x20+15
Depends on the TLD. Many (most?) TLDs that's the max duration and thus isn't likely Namecheap being the restrictor there.
To show you could use other separators defined by any regex you like.
It is. But it's not where the majority of the discussion happens these days.
I don't, but I probably could by doing x1,5 or x2 freelance work I do right now.

But I don't think it's worth my free time.
https://www.useronboard.com/ does a bunch of great walkthroughs of good and bad user onboarding experiences.
Well, with background in the darker parts of the internets, I'm still against all forms of domain squatting, typosquatting, etc. Others would also describe me as a heavy EU-skeptic.

But! If you are a company registered in whatever EU country, and, by law, you can do business in all remaining states and in some cases (taxes, consumer protection) you are even bound to adhere to their local laws - then, why you couldn't have a local TLD? And what if you even hold an EU-wide recognized trademark?

Say I am Spanish company AcmeRoadunnner, with EU-wide trademark on AcmeRoadrunner, I cannot get acmeroadrunner.sk, because I don't have a Slovak entity? What for? I am already bound by harmonized EU legislation and when I sell to Slovakia, I must behave in relation to my customers (when they are consumers and not business entities) and file VAT according to Slovakia laws.

Say I am Slovak self business AcmeCoyote. Should I really need to create 27 other business entities in 27 other states to register other domains and prevent domain squatting, when I'm already bound by the 27 states' laws when I sell there?

Ridiculous! And a nice job for proxy registrars...

PS: In an interesting turn of events, fairly recently, a proxy registrar was found guilty for breaking gambling laws, where the page hosted on domain registered by him for his client was showing gambling ads not conforming to Slovakia legislation... So it is about having a local scapegoat to punish.

PS2: Imagine you cannot send goods to any country, unless you create a business entity there. In SK-NIC's case, it's the vice versa case, you can sell here, you MUST charge our VAT here, you MUST obey our consumer laws here, but hey, sorry, you cannot get ours TLD, f* you...
Sure. Here's some relevant ones: "The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals" https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2016-simonti.pdf , Simonti et al 2016; "The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression" http://www.genetics.org/content/203/2/881 , Harris & Nielsen 2016; "The Strength of Selection against Neanderthal Introgression", Juric et al 2016 http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/science/neanderthal-dna-n... .

Not all of the work has been published yet; Razib Khan has been tweeting some recent posters/presentations on more work on Neanderthal purging and uneven inheritance suggesting that the Neanderthal variants were especially harmful for some things like the central nervous system ( https://twitter.com/jgschraiber/status/881995470515687425 https://twitter.com/StoneLab_ASU/status/881994861158813697 https://twitter.com/jgschraiber/status/881995155875692544 https://twitter.com/jgschraiber/status/881994429510365186 https://twitter.com/jgschraiber/status/881993396642091009 ).

Greater genetic diversity might seem like a good thing, but there's a lot of details. Neanderthals might have been too alien for their variants to be 'compatible' with humans (not as surprising as it might sound, an interesting paper from yesterday reports that this sort of incompatibility may be responsible for as many as 95% of one project's mouse strains dying out despite all of them being interbreedable: http://genestogenomes.org/behind-the-cover-male-infertility-... ), or they may have suffered from a higher mutation load due to their small population - small populations can't select as effectively against bad mutations, so will be genetically less healthy. (This also might be part of why human mutation load was shrinking over time up until a few thousand years ago, "The Genomic Health Of Ancient Hominins" http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/02/145193 Berens et al 2017, all the new variants being slowly sorted through.)

Thus, while some Neanderthal/Denisovan variants may have been helpful to humans (like the Tibetan altitude adaptations), overall they appear to have been harmful and are disappearing.
Agreed. Great to have a counterpoint in the subject of this article.
Belgium, self-employed. Full-stack engineer. Doing consulting work for various companies & other personal projects. Job's pretty good, paperwork is hell.
Christchurch has had them for over 20 years.
100K/year after or before income taxes ? I'm almost there, but BEFORE taxes. Data-mining & applied math researcher, working remotely from France for a US/Chinese biotech company. Job is nice, paperwork is ok, it's mostly automated.
Lesson to learn from the old well implemented projects:Prince of Persia && Doom3
If humans had parasites that would encourage them to be altruists against their interest and for the sole benefit of their parasites—which is of course implausible and hypothetical and absolutely not even possible—would they make us downvote and flag comments on HN discussing the possibility of parasites manipulating humans to be altruists against their interest?
It's just hyperbole.

The English use miles per hour there's literally no reason for it.

Also having driven the one road in Texas with speed limits that high, semi-trucks do not go 85mph. I was not passed once, nor had a semi-truck gain on me. It's simply not fuel efficient for trucks to go that fast (nor cars honestly). ~75mph maybe... to make up time but faster than that and fuel efficiency is surely so bad they lose time having to refuel.

Towns are also so sparse and far between the danger of running out of gas is real with moderately poor planning.
Depends on the body size. Unless you are doing heavy physical labor, most energy is spent on maintaining body temperature and running regular chemical reactions in the body. Both depend on the amount of the body to heat up and to react in.
I once learned a lot about m4; more than twenty years ago. I remember all the features it has, like redefining the delimiters for macros, diversions, for loops and all that jazz.

So it's not due to lack of familiarity that I won't use it; it is simply atrocious.

Recently I needed a preprocessor (featuring just simple if/ifdef/elif/endif) in a Linux distro build system (Yocto). I didn't want to add anything new.

To avoid inflicting m4 on myself and everyone who has to interact with this in the future, I wrote a simple awk script wrapped around cpp.

The tiny awk script implements this pipeline, which involves encoding and decoding the input so that cpp never sees the syntax of the file:

this is our 1 1 this is our
original 2 2 --> [dec] original
@ifdef FOO --[enc]--> #ifdef FOO --[cpp]--> 6 file
input 4
@endif #endif
file 6

this works with nearly any textual input. Your input can contain broken C tokens and comments and whatnot.

I switched the # to @ to remind people that this isn't the C preprocessor, and because # is a comment character in the preprocessed language, which could look confusing.
A quant in London probably makes at least that much.
I think that is a big factor. Our town population is only about 100,000 people. At these crossings, I am often waiting for only 4 or 5 people to amble across the intersection.

I can see that in a huge city, it is an efficient way to get people across city blocks, but here we are simply too small for it to make a difference.
In London €100K is roughly the ballpark I'd expect a salaried senior engineer or data scientist to earn or more generally any VP level role at a mid-tier startup.

If you're contracting a mid-level engineer can normally command ~500/day.
Belgium also, "bijberoep" though. What dev languages are you using?
Super-resolution [1] using the Game Boy Camera: any taker?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_imaging
No, there is absolute angular speed. Which is kind of an odd thing that rotation is like that but linear motion is not. Take the Earth for example - you can't say how fast it's moving unless it's relative to something but you can say it's doing one rotation a day.

Another odd possibly related thing is linear momentum can be any amount but angular momentum is quantized which may be why we have particles. In Maxwell's equations you can have any amount of light but in practice it arrives in chunks with one unit of angular momentum each.
For those reaching conclusions from the lack of replies: most Europeans are asleep at the time of posting.
Ask HN: Work in my invested startup or finish University?
I am 23 yo, live in Brazil, I'm the tech co-founder of a $5M valuation startup, and I do not know if I leave my CS Degree, girlfriend, and country to continue developing my business. Probably anyone in the world knowing just that would say to me to go on into this.

However, the story is not so simple. Resuming it, everything started with my partner. He is the CEO of the company and is working on that for 3 years now. I started to work with him as a freelancer, but at the same time, when he was applying for accelerators in SV I was the CTO. After a while, we were accepted by one of those and I went to California, owning 10% of the company.

There I developed the product during 6 months, finally releasing that 4 months ago. The release was great, despite that, coding was basically everything that I was doing at the time, and was pretty concerned about my education and missing my family and friends. So I decided to come back. Since then, the app is exactly the same, with the same bugs, but is the biggest app in the sector, with that my partner was able to raise $400k in a $5M valuation. And now he is asking me to go back resume my work.

If I go I will not finish my University possibly losing a Doctorate opportunity that I'm working on, my GF will hate me and I will be leaving everything I have, to pursue that dream. Everyone that I ask about it does not give any insightful feedback, so I humbly come here to know your opinions.

edit: Line breaks.
Any freelance technical expert That is not bullshitting.

Paris/Mostly Paris/Various positions doing mostly linux stuff/Usually relaxed.
At 100 users, I'm most concerned with how quickly/easily I can get them on the phone, then how much they talk when they're on the phone.

At that stage, I'm still proving out an idea so having focused users who not only like the app enough to talk to me but who have ideas on how the make the app better is a sign I'm on the right path.

If getting in touch with my first 100 wasn't an option, I'd look for signs they were actively using the app. I would want to find out if the app was indispensable for my users. Sadly, I can't think of a better way to collect that than by picking up the phone.

PS - If you find talking to users tough, reach out and I'd be glad to help you write a script. It sounds phoney, but a good script will help you get through your first three calls. You'll be rolling after that!!
Interesting cultural difference: in Germany, if a car turns and pedestrians walk straight ahead, crossing the street, the car has to stop, even if it has a green light. In the UK (and other countries, I suppose), the car has right of way, so there's a need for a separate phase at traffic lights when all the cars get a red light and all pedestrians get a green light.

Seems we could speed things up if all countries would give pedestrians the right of way in this case, as it would eliminate the need for a separate green phase for pedestrians.
> There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually.

Are we talking Eurozone or Europe? I know programmers in Zurich making >= 130K Francs a year (which comes in at over €100K).
For anyone looking for a good book on Jefferson, https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Power-Jon-Meacham/dp...

The competition between Jefferson and Hamilton is also detailed in https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Hamilton-Ron-Chernow/dp/159..., and it doesn't paint such a great picture of Jefferson. (Alexander Hamilton lived one of the most incredible lives ever. Anyone interested in history needs to read this book)
Looks like the maximum supported exposure time is ~1 second... That mixed with the fact that the fact that it has a fairly shallow well depth probably means that the CMOS would be best suited for LUCKY imaging. Also adding a cooler to the back of the Gameboy camera may help reduce amp glow. Anyone have the specs on the ADC chip?
Save functionality doesn't work on your site :(
MD at my last company earned 99,995 (although gbp), so I doubt many people who read HN in a salaried career are earning more than 100k EUR.

Generally, Europeans don't have such high salaries.
Do contractors count?

£400-£500 gross per day is not that big of "achievement" here in London.
That's my hypothesis about toenails as well. If your shoes toebox is smashing up your toes, well duh, your toenails are going to get fucked up.

My partner is a marathoner, she's close to finishing a marathon in all 50 states. I transitioned her to minimalist shoes, lems primal, at the beginning of this year. She went from killing her toenails about every 2 weeks to zero toenail problems. Also pretty cool, she's stopped feeling the need to take painkillers during her races.

It's really sad the amount of misinformation exists regarding the minimalist shoe and barefoot movement. They've helped me overcome foot, ankle, knee, hip, and back pain. Thyeve helped my mother overcome knee pain, she's got really stronger feet and ankles now. Xeroshoes are making great products right now and doubled their revenue from last year, so proud of them! Luna sandals are also doing quite well despite all the negative information. Here's to hoping that in 30 years were all wearing shoes actually designed for our feet!!
we're busy paying for welfare state
Define 100k+...

Is it what you get on your account in one year ? Is it what you keeps after paying your taxes and your insurances ? Or is it the global value your employer is paying for you ?

I assume you ask for the first one, yet the more representative one is probably the latter.
I must say I don't see the use case... What real world examples do you have?
https://github.com/ballerinalang/ballerina/tree/ballerina-by...
I'm going to write a chat app built on IRC that gradually uses more and more RAM, and adds new features while breaking old ones.

Just as it has everything MSN used to have ill have it shut down, rename itself and its website and start all over again.
Or >= 300k CHF, but it's 1am in Zurich. Or similarly large amounts in GBP if you don't limit yourself to the continent.

I know at least one American unicorn will pay far more than €100k in cash to new graduates in London.
> So I'd turn the question around on you and ask: what should Latinos say about their emerging demographic importance?

I can't speak for Latinos. But I'm raising a half Bangladeshi/half Irish American daughter and I can say that my hope for her is to adopt those European values as her own, and not have a view of her increasing demographic importance as a non-white person.
Python & JS :)
There are other ways of proving identity but generally any one way isn’t enough on its own but needs to be combined. For example you might combine documentary evidence (e.g. passport) with some knowledge evidence (e.g. which company you took a loan with in year x) and potentially some biometrics. If you don’t have identity documents then knowledge based verification combined might be enough in its own for some uses? There are other sources as well, for example access to multi-year usage ‘real name’ social media profiles could be a contributing factor towards identity.
Possibly to protect the "neutrality and freedom of speech" argument - it's 3rd party content, we only publish, it doesn't contain actual nudity so CP laws don't apply, go ask the poster to take it down, we can't help you.

And then in court: it's 3rd party content, we only publish, we only remove when required by law, posters are responsible for everything.

Of course this cover is busted if they really edited those ads.
More interesting is the HN (and elsewhere) crowd that never relents on Google apologetics, yet presumably would be (and among those older, were) among the Microsoft critics.
Good contract developers (freelancers) in London earn around £450/£500 a day which is clear of 100k euro by quite a margin. Job depends on the client. Job could last
3 months, could last 3 years.

Unusual for a salaried permanent developer to earn that amount in London unless they were head of or near the top of a good dev team in a good firm.

This is all excluding finance jobs. Finance jobs its pretty easy to get to that salary in London.
My take is that it's not the language that shapes thought, but something else that shapes both language and thought.

Case in point: There are a few particular feelings which I experience sometimes that I recognize every time - I just find it impossible to describe them using any language I know.

Example: A sudden feeling of not recognizing the people next to you. I mean, I am consciously aware that these are my e.g. relatives, but for a split second this feeling of familiarity fades. It is clearly different than the one I get when I look at people I don't know.

I can't even tell if I'm the only one I know who experiences this, because there are no words that could describe it accurately.
There's plenty in famous tech companies in northern Europe.
How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015)
I just reposted this article to comp.misc, where we've been keeping up a parallel discussion for years. Usenet doesn't have the sheer numbers it used to, but anyone still there is there because we love it. Usenet's flaws remain unmended, but its strengths remain unfettered. :)
I think the position the powers that take is that competition is intrinsically consumer beneficial, with the inverse assumption that anything that harms competition harms consumers.