skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Islamic extremism is deeply connected to separatism. That's what the "Islamic State" is all about.

You can surely be critical of others, your own government does comparably worse to the same minority without even letting ordinary people know. That is hypocrisy.
Woah that is true, it's amazing. I made the same back when I was learning Hiragana as a native Spanish (pronunciation is the same in both Spanish and Japanese!) so I could easily read them, but it didn't work nearly as well.

The way I ended up doing is by learning whole words and then a lot of practice. It is similar to what the author is doing here, just they do it with the most frequent words first such as "the", "it", "a". Really clever indeed. Now if this was applied to Korean it'd be awesome (:
It is a term used by media and seen by general public when talking about many unethical or illegal things like child pornography and drug marketplaces, so perhaps not the best thing to associate with in your marketing material.
I haven't upgraded anything to an iOS 11 beta so I haven't been able to try this myself - but how effective is ARKit if the camera loses a view for a little bit?
The parent's point is that making a larger screen with _the same pixel count_ should be much cheaper, not one with 75x the resolution.
That's the reason the audit was made before the public release of the beta. The bug is fixed in the public beta ;)
No - science and engineering use mathematics to model the real world and generally do a mighty fine job of it.

Arguing that your subject, which most definitely is attempting to model part of the real world is actually a part of the a mathematical world and therefore not subject to the same rules as sciences seems a bit dubious to me.
My favorite line: Occasional governmental efforts to scientifically micromanage farm life in different climes using li ended in famine and mass migration.
Sadly, I never even knew about What.cd when it was alive, not that I'd have had the time and wherewithal to join. But this is the article that made me lament its passing: https://qz.com/840661/what-cd-is-gone-a-eulogy-for-the-great...
Beware if you're somewhat of a messy, like me, you're going to have hundreds of (terminal) windows and another hundreds of browser tabs open simultaneously on these, until you can't find your current stuff on your desktop anymore at which point you have to spend half an hour to sort out what you want to close. I actually sold my fat 27" and went back to 24" (and to 13" notebooks).

A special window manager is a requisite on the big screen, but which one? I like the original Expose feature on Mac OS <= 10.6 while the remade 10.7 version just doesn't blend from/into full desktop view as spatially recognizable as the original for me. Ubuntu's Unity does an ok job, too, but it's going away ([1]).

[1]: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631>
5min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxvu7qf6rDw

Mainly it is that for more than 60fps you need dual-link DVI, display port or HDMI 2.0 and you won't find many TVs with either of those. So even though the screen can do more than 60fps the input and processor can't take it.
John Siracusa would be proud :)
There will be an Briar F-Droid repo for the beta soon. Releasing it in F-Droids official rep will most likely not happen before a stable release.
In my opinion, in typical Beijing fashion the "competence" part of the equation is irrelevant. it's all about sending a message, loud and clear: "today we discriminate against YOU, by law, and there's nothing you can do about it". That the method used is laughably inefficient is not the point, it's all about keeping that boot in place on that throat, in a very visible manner.
The perils of async void
At least the citizens know they are being surveiled.
> "can fix some problems"

Ethnic separatism may be a problem to the Chinese state. But it is not a problem for the people or something that needs to be solved.
>The country which has done most to raise its citizens out of poverty (China) did the exact opposite of articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Washington Consensus.

It's interesting to compare China, GDP per capita of around $8000, with neighbours like Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea, all of which are now developed countries (GDPs per capita of $20000-$50000), and all of which opened up more and sooner than the Chinese mainland.
It looks like in this case it's not so much a blog post as "I had this thread of discoveries on Twitter, how about I try out Storify to just bung it on my blog"[0], which means using Twitter's JavaScript embedding. Obviously even from a narrative perspective a properly-written blog post would be to prefer but this STILL manages to be way better than linking to the twitter.com feed because Twitter's JS UI is completely unusable to read threads...

[0] https://twitter.com/fogus/status/888076512443998209
If you think there's a right and wrong, a hypocrite is usually right in either deed or stated intent...
In theory yes, but in practice I find that Windows 10 just renders fonts nicer when not in a scaling mode. Your tastes may vary, of course.

The other thing is that for games, 3440 x 1440 is much easier on the GPU than 4k+ resolutions.
I cannot speak for 4K TVs, but as I was making a research for my own purchase I found the following differences between monitors and TVs.

TVs are said to be configured to display the best-looking colors, monitors try to stay true to the real color.

TVs have an immensely higher refresh rate, 50hz/60hz usually suffice for a TV. But on monitors we speak of milliseconds. The refresh rate makes a lot of difference, if you intend to game on your computer/monitor. An e-sport professional Redittor claims he had improved his playing performance multiple-folds after switching to a monitor instead of TV. (https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/5whb9v/did_the_change...)

Other than these differences and the occasional overscan/underscan problems on older televisions, I personally see no reason to prefer a Monitor over a TV, if there is huge price difference. If the price difference is minor, I'd opt for a monitor.
One of the most fun theories I've heard came from a friend of mine. He believes Satoshi hasn't been found because there isn't a Satoshi, but rather that it was a code name for a major research project.

Creating, designing and building the first version of Bitcoin is complicated and spans a number of fields of expertise.

Most of these fields of expertise only have a few truly exceptional practitioners who would be capable of the original thought.

You then have to factor in the peculiar nature of:

1) Not touching his new wealth of initial Bitcoins.

2) Disappearing into obscurity.

3) Being able to avoid being discovered (or nobody actually trying that hard to find him).

Occam's Razor principle would suggest all of that is less likely to have some altruistic single brilliant individual create Bitcoin and then leave. It's more likely a team of individuals would create it under a pseudonym, dissolve after completion of the project and then no longer have access to the accounts/keys.

Large government agencies would have the ability to bring top minds together, and less interest in liquidating the initial Satoshi Bitcoins.

Why would they want it? There are plenty of reasons governments would want a public ledger system. Unlike some of Bitcoin's spin-offs, Bitcoin isn't actually really private at all. It would be great for tracking and stopping crime.

Of course this is all a theory that sounds like it's out of a spy novel, but I think it's good fun.

The other likely possibilities is that Satoshi could have been older and passed away, or he truly is some brilliant mind who is well hidden.
extremism != separatism.
Because he disappeared before people looking for his identity. It is hard to keep your identity when people are looking for you.
NASSCOM: Indian IT sector to see up to 38% fewer jobs this fiscal
In what comes as a harbinger of turbulent times setting in for the IT sector, NASSCOM has said the industry would create 20-38% fewer jobs in FY18 compared to fiscal 2017. The industry would create 1.3-1.5 lakh new jobs (lateral plus campus) in FY18 while it had added 1.8 lakh jobs in FY17. At its peak, the sector added nearly 2.40 lakh jobs a year.

http://www.beyondlayoff.com/2017/07/indian-it-sector-to-see-up-to-38-fewer.html
previous discussions about the vulnerability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807779

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817557

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825437
That's awesome. Would love to try one of these one day, alas I haven't seen them in the flesh yet. I sit pretty close the screens so have been wondering how a large 4k at 100% would work for myself.
Considering that you have similar behaviors in open source communities even if only technical details are discussed, it's not surprising it gets even worse if you add money to the mix.

Many people seem to get irrational if they fear to lose their virtual money.

For that matter, I always look closely how people act when the price dips due to some insignificant drama. You can assess beforehand if you want to throw money towards a project depending on those people.

Because when the next real crisis hits, and believe me, in cryptocurrencies there's always a next one, those people won't act better in a real crisis.
I am a founder who does a bit of everything but mainly focuses on business strategy and growth and product development. I work to create new viable products utilizing lots of analytics, user feedback and testing and then direct product improvements based on user feedback. Rinse and repeat. I am not incredibly technical(am learning day by day) yet can do the basics and have a very solid understanding of the data flow and can utilize technical services to drive development and product offerings. Have great technical people who can develop programs to give our team the data in a myriad of forms that allow us to make good decisions.

Over the next few months a great deal of my role will be in working with the technical team to implement the user friendly app and locking down our contractual agreements with the back end payment processors as well as locking down our hundreds of partner businesses. The majority of these have already committed it will just be a matter of getting the contracts together and inputting payment info for the back and forth payment streams.

Then it will be all about team growth and management and rapid user growth.

I also do the finance and marketing as a small startup. So far we have bootstrapped it all and we have talked about potentially applying to YC or looking at VC for funding to really bust it on growth, just uncertain if this is a viable path to growth given we are beyond the typical demographic (not in our 20s and low 30s). We do not want to put energies somewhere that would take away from the progress we have been making. Our founding team will make a decision on this in the next 30-45 days
That won't happen you can't fly drones in London outside of a few designated areas which are registered flying fields.

It might work in less dense populated areas but I don't see drone delivery as a thing in any U.K. city ever happening.
You can share salary data with your peers if you wish to do so and you think its in your best interest. Norway is largely a socialist society and they accept being heavily taxed and publicly sharing salary data. Taxes are on par with Denmark, Sweeden and maybe Finland. English/US culture is different and more capitalist. It encourages individuals to do better for themselves, it encourages competition, just like in nature.

They have the highest millionaire rate per inhabitant mainly because it doesn't have many inhabitants and it's an oil rich country.
Robots from Gurgaon-based GreyOrange
I keep track about my learnings by blogging about them. Especially in web development (React) I try to keep up with them. In addition, I write down summaries of books that I have read. [0] Unfortunately I am reading more books than I am able to summarize ...

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/categories/growth/
How has it been settled?
Exploratory coding that doesn't require tree-shaking refactors when a type needs to change.

"The spec changed, and I now have to be able to handle geese, where I originally typed for ducks."

There are ways and tools to minimize the impact, but it's still a lot extra overhead to think about and deal with.
Devil's advocate: Forced installation of highly visible spyware can be better in the sense that it makes people acutely aware of the fact that they're being spied on. From now on, separatists in Xinjiang will be reluctant to exchange their ideas on their phones and try to find other ways to communicate or circumvent the spyware. For example, someone might come up with a cracked version of the spyware that doesn't actually work although it looks okay upon casual inspection, and spread it like a virus in order to provide plausible deniability to people who are caught using it. On the other hand, if the surveillance apparatus were completely hidden, people will unknowingly expose sensitive communications to the authorities.

Of course, if I were the Chinese official responsible for this policy, I would use highly visible and easily circumvented spyware in addition to backdoors and other more covert forms of surveillance. The spyware would just be a diversion.
That hardly changes how terrible these measures are.

What's more, they seem technologically ineffective. As if the government were just trying to make a show of its power rather than provide real solutions.

It's absolutely indefensible and you must know it, considering you opened a new account to comment this.
Descrying the World of Physics – 3:AM Magazine
Robots seem to be everywhere. Even as Traffic cops!
I suspect he is either long dead or in prison.

Another thing is, unlike people like Snowden he does not have much heat after him. He is a mystery, but that's it - looking for him is pointless, since it's not like he can do something governments want him to stop doing or have something governments want to seize from him.

It would be like going after the parents of Osama Bin Laden - it's not like they could have told him to stop terrorizing.
As long as textbooks in North America keep being so ridiculously expensive[0] I wont take "pirate" as a valid moral argument.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-...
Same here. I bought a Philips BDM4065UC monitor in 2015 (40 inch, 3840x2160 resolution) for 740 € (in Germany) and I'm loving it. The only cave-at with that model is that reaction time is a bit slow (I would guess 5 ms between full black and full white).

When I replace it, the replacement will be the same size and resolution, but I'll probably go for OLED and HDR-10 or better.
The problem with that line of economic thinking is that it all hangs on the efficient market hypothesis, which has proved to be nowhere near as robust as most libertarians claim.

You are also assuming that taxes actually pay for things, which isn't really how modern monetary systems work (Governments who have their own central banks actually spend money into existence and taxes destroy money). So Governments do have an important issue to play being the monopoly issuer of money.
I remember many years ago my father, who is very technical but not a programmer, writing a Lunar Lander-type game. He started off writing every message that the program should print. It was along these lines:

10 LET m1$ = "The space craft has landed"
20 LET m2$ = "Descent rate is too high!"

(It was in some BASIC, probably ZX BASIC or GW-BASIC).

After writing a lot of these lines, he got stuck on how to make the computer print the messages at the right time. He had no idea how to continue. He'd mocked the game out on paper so knew what it should look like, but had no idea there is an internal world of state in a real program.

Thinking back to it now, it's rather like how people who aren't programmers mistake the user interface for the whole program. If you show them the mocked-up GUI, they'll think the program must be finished.

The follow up to this story is that with a bit of my help and many, many weeks of work he actually finished the game, although it retained this odd "message database" at the beginning of the code.
Seeing "Free market solves all" believers (which libertarians are a subset) on hacker news still to me is amazing. It seems like it requires such double think.

The free-market concentrates wealth/power to those that have wealth/power. It always has, and always will. There is no "fair competition". If anywhere hacker news is blatant about sharing this truth.

Every business plan lools for its "moat". It's way to ensure it doesn't have to compete. Half the startup exit strategies aren't to make a long term business, but to get bought out by a huge company and let them own the product. Ie concentrate more power in one of the aleeady most powerful companies.

Amazon, Google, Facebook... on a daily basis we sit and watch these companies expand at will taking over markets and now industries and forcing out and effectively preventing any legit competition.

Fundamentally how can people believe that the "free-market" is actually a balancing fair effect while watching this data day in and day out.

The positive impact free-market is an idealism that doesn't exist. It's the exact same thing with communism, but a different group who is mixing up their ideologically perfect idea with reality.

Yes communism probably would be great if the world worked that way, but it doesn't. And yes libertarianism would be great if the world worked that way, but it doesn't. Communist refuse to believe their ideology is flawed regardless of how much evidence there is to the contrary, libertarians do the exact same but with a different religion.
Used appropriately, a formal process provides structure to the workflows within an organisation. Everyone knows the process, and it provides a framework and expectations for everyone to work within. In organisations without any process, it can lead to difficulty in getting stuff done because there's no responsibility or accountability for who is doing what, and when. Who is reviewing my PR, which CI systems tested and deployed the prospective change, why was the work done, when does it get merged, and by whom? Etc. Basic daily routine.

You also have the situation that people invent rules and requirements in the absence of a documented process, which can change arbitrarily and are impossible to work with because it depends upon the changing whims of whoever feels they are in charge. Clairvoyancy and divination should not be a job requirement!

Process becomes problematic when the process grows and ossifies and becomes the end itself, rather than the means to an end. You end up with it being impossible to get work done because the process is so burdensome. When your bosses care more about the process being followed to the letter rather than the actual completion of the work which the process should be enabling, that's IMO the point where it needs a rethink. Unfortunately, organisations have a tendency to accrete the stuff; I've in the past argued for less to the amazement and incredulity of my bosses. It's also a factor that process is used as a blunt instrument to wield power over others, and I think that's certainly a driver as well. But often organisations favour accountability and rules over creativity and efficiency, even if you spend 95% of your time with process, and 5% actually doing productive stuff...
Absolutely agree that it's a horrible IDE. Java 9 has better HiDPI support in Linux though, so it may get a little better in the future
> it encourages competition, just like in nature.

you know that cooperation occurs in nature too?
Of course, now and then, military officers DO go to work for the competition, but in that field, that's kind of frowned upon.
I played around with a solar savings calculator a while back out of curiosity, there is an excel spreadsheet on an Australian website I believe that's pretty thorough, but it's not the only one.

In short, I don't think it pays to sell electricity back to any utility (they pay back 1/2 of what they charge you) and a battery system probably won't be worth it unless you truly want to stay off the grid. Get a system that's enough for your maximum daytime usage, that's the fastest way to break even, and spend the least amount of money. For such a system, given my local electricity rates, the break even point was ~15 yrs. a decade ago, and it's 7-8 years now. If you can find cheaper panels/inverter the break even can be ~6 years, after which you'll only be left with a much smaller electricity bill. It even makes sense to add panels later if your usage increases.

The way the break even time has been shortening is very exciting, more people will be able to afford it; and if you can, it's a no-brainer to do it sooner rather than wait.
Twistlock 2.1 Container Security Suite Released
I don't see any similarity.
Flipkart App Offer July 2017 – 90% Off and 10% Cashback (Old/ New Users)
It's about time. Slowness is why I quit all of Mozilla. Also dumping Thunderbird is irresponsible. We need one client that doesn't give annoying pop-ups when using IMAP and that use to be it. Guess we have to go back to using CLI to avoid pop-ups.
I don't understand how facebook picture posting is worst then physical if this is your attitude towards them.

If they would set up projector, you would have to either watch it or say openly you dont want to watch them. Meanwhile, on facebook you just scroll past all that. Eventually you can click on something other people post and facebook will show you more of that in the future. Moreover people typically post them in albums. If you dont click album. You dont spend time watching pictures.

Unless of course, mere remainder of existence of such thing annoys you.
Given how so many programs operate (little global state, minimal information passed between blocks of execution), there are definitely some parallels.
All part and parcel of the same thing. Literally. Container shipping comes as a result of technological development that comes as a result of increasing point to point communication speed and information transfer. It's an underlying and fundamental change across the globe.

cf. printing presses did the same thing and ushered in 100 years+ of economic and social disruption.
Fortunately during the past 40 years different countries engaged in different degrees of liberalization, so it is in fact possible to compare them to some degree. Some of these countries even had very similar cultures and economic starting points.

For example, Hong Kong and Singapore were extremely economically liberal. They still are, to some extent (some of the lowest tax rates in the world; Singapore even has no capital gains tax, and its top tax rate is 20%). According to Google, Singapore has a per capita GDP of $52,960.71 (the US is $57,466.79), a rich country by international standards. Hong Kong has a GDP per capita of $43,681.14.

Taiwan and Korea were/are less economically liberal than Hong Kong and Singapore, but still have relatively low tax rates by international standards. Korea has a GDP per capita of $27,538.81, and Taiwan of $31,900.00.

China was slow to open up economically, waiting until the 1970s, and even since then its policies are less liberal than the aforementioned countries (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index). China now has a GDP per capita of $8,123.18.

North Korea is even less liberal than China, almost completely rejecting international trade. It has a GDP per capita of $583.00.

While this is not a large sample size, it's better than nothing, and does seem to indicate a correlation between economic liberalisation and economic growth.