skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to come up every now and then, and I see the same arguments, and they're still not compelling.

WebRTC data channels in unreliable mode will work just fine. Is it as easy as opening up a WebSocket connection? No, it's not. Is it as easy on the server side as accepting a WebSocket connection? Also no.

But it really isn't that hard[0], and people have built libraries to help you out. So just use one, and move on with your life.

And you also benefit from a standard that has been fleshed out over multiple years by some very smart (if imperfect) people.

On the browser side, it's already supported by all major browsers, with the notable exception of iOS Safari (which should change this fall with the release of iOS 11)[1]. Even though it's not ideal, you can fall back to WebSocket for the few holdouts.

[0] Source: I've done it before, building it from scratch.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=rtcpeerconnection
Hi Naval.This is an extremely interesting question! Even when we were applying, we didn't think from this angle! :)

Why YC made sense to us was because of it's network of super smart people who have seen a lot, done a lot. We want to build a really good product that solves a big pain point in India. YC helps tremendously in building good products with it's people and resources at hand.
Also it is a great environment for founders to learn things in a concentrated way beyond tangible sources such as books, videos and blogs. It becomes like a bootcamp for us.
In the end founders are people who need to keep up to build a great company! :)
YC gives a jumpstart. All the trust building with customers will come by providing a great service first, then by all the traditional and non traditional media means.
Detect if your Native app is installed from your web site
Setting the specific numbers aside, I think providing subsidized jobs is generally a better idea than UBI.

American society places a lot of value on having a job, so it is important for people to have one to help maintain self worth.
> The problem is that a frightening number of people don't bother to write the half-dozen obvious wrappers around this

That's likely because having to pass it in and out of functions and libs that don't expect your special structure might cause it to have an invalid length, and then all your special wrappers can become a liability and not an advantage through either assuming your bufs are valid, or defensively checking more than is necessarily because they can't know whether it was altered or not.

> stdlib doesn't provide them either

Which is the real problem. That would make them a de facto standard, and a lot (but probably not all) of the problems would be mitigated by people accepting the performance trade offs needed to make them safe.
I come from a place (Jaipur, IN) where weed is legal since a very long time, there are people I've met who are 90 and still consuming marijuana on daily/weekly basis and don't regret about it, I hadn't listen any incident/accident that happened because of weed. neither to folks are underachievers, they are respected professors, artists or daily wage workers. meanwhile, drink and drive accidents are very common here, and consuming liquor is considered a malignant.
I am surprised that the Taboola style related articles ads that appear below pretty much anything news like online these days aren't a bigger growth area.
The standard edition which lists for $99/yr is ~$80/yr on Amazon and on sale elsewhere. That version is Office Home. Good for 5 people (like my family of 5) - Word / Excel / Powerpoint / Outlook / OneNote / Publisher / Access.

5 TB of OneDrive storage too.

Look. No referral or anything - https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-1-year-subscription-...

Great deal.
emu-coop
It's highly problematic due to privacy issues. It would be a nightmare to get a public release for the underlying unlabeled data, especially since we know how well deanonymization can work.
> Why on earth I would want my car to take over the full functionality of my phone is beyond me.

Because it's probably required by law and for good reason - just like the Bluetooth systems disallow visually reading texts.

> The only potential advantage

The other one is that you are not endangering children and other humans alike while fiddling on a tiny phone screen.

Stop it.
I both respectfully and vigorously disagree. It's time we break down this sham that you require a job to have self worth.

If you automate yourself of a job, are you worthless now? Of course not! But we're still stuck with these silly societal moores that work and a job equate to value. No longer!
Don't know if this is recently, but as a US citizen, I've wired funds from an American bank successfully to BTC-e back in 2013.
Hey is that truth affected by the talk surrounding enabling strictness with a flag in Haskell? I don't know much about the actual progress/implementation (mostly because I haven't had too many problems with laziness yet)

I've heard that Idris is basically Haskell but strict by default -- I've never tried it but maybe I should? I'm hesitant to go to a language with even less libraries/support/mindshare than Haskell though
YouTube and Google Play Music Will Be Combined Soon – DIGITALAMPLE.COM
Can you share any thoughts on which would be best for a computer vision newbie and programming novice to get started playing with? Or are none of them really great for that?
Countries charge foreign nationals of crimes all the time. The fact that this is surprising to many people in these comments is horrifying.
"Labor productivity has been in long-term decline"

If I read the graphs from the link correctly, they show that % productivity growth is declining. Still it is positive thus the productivity by itself continues to grow. Hard to say from the graphs, but it looks like absolute productivity growth per year is bigger (or at least the same) as in the 50's: avg 2.5% growth over 60-70 years means ~5x increase of absolute value, thus 4% / year growth in the 50's is the same absolute value as ~0.8% growth today.
Absolutely not. Waze is the pinnacle of GPS vehicle navigation apps. Google and Apple maps don't even come close.

Waze has probably saved me at least $1,000 in speeding fines, and has an almost uncanny ability to report upcoming hazards liked stopped cars or debris in the road. (Seriously, I can't believe how some car that just stopped is there)

Reading your comment is thoroughly confusing, since you really shouldn't be "looking" at waze while driving much since it talks to you the whole time. Adding an event is trivial, I mean I'm not sure how you could make it any more simple.

Unless you suffer from a specific condition preventing you from taking your eyes off a nearby screen I can't see how it would impact your driving any worse than any other GPS app
Probably nobody has asked for a "no action" letter yet.[1] You can ask the SEC "Is it OK if I do this?" All of those are public record.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersnoactionhtm.html
Colognes, shoes, and watches, in my experience. I don't care much if a charging cable is a knock off, I usually buy a reputable cheap brand...but if I'm buying a cologne, or shoes they sure as hell better be legit.
While this is certainly true it's also our responsibility to consider the long term well being of a client rather than just their temporary placation with a bit of sugar. Picking apart what people actually need from what they claim to need is an underrated skill.
Cinemetrics – Database
Two of Graham's Seven Primitive Operators are car and cdr. These names come from the IBM 704 implementation; they could not have existed in the theory which came before it. Since those names were used, this casts a suspicion that the theory didn't have these functions, and therefore wasn't about Lisp.

What Graham's Paper is describing is a back formation abstracted from what they got running on that IBM 704.

I doubt that the theory had quote, either, which is the gateway to "code is data". Since code-is-data is the core of Lisp, a theory without code-is-data (like the vapid nonsense that is Lambda Calculus) isn't about Lisp.
99.9% is an extremely high bar. People aren't machines, people make errors. If you asked them to tell whether a square is black or white, you would get less than 99.9%.
Why does Slack need the money?
He probably means most visited site in china.
Rule that patients must finish antibiotics course is wrong, study says
Oh no, options! How terrible! /s
I don’t think it’s terribly tricky, and as I said in another reply, it’s not about “nyah, I’m right and you’re wrong” but having a concrete example to branch out from. So I agree that giving the information up front would probably be better.

And there are definitely a lot of good examples to choose from—I’ve tended to go with vanilla because a lot of people are familiar with the fact that it comes in synthetic & extract forms, but aren’t clear on the difference, and may just as well prefer the synthetic because it’s cheaper or the extract because it tastes better to them.
$250m for about 5% of the company, reminds me of when microsoft got 5% of facebook in an investment. Somehow I don't think this will end as well for softbank as it did for microsoft.
police reported ahead is amazing.
Ask HN: Does CalDAV as a service exist?
I'm trying to build an app that exposes a calendar for each user that stays up to date on their devices. It should work similar to Facebook's per-user read-only calendar via CalDAV.

Are there any paid services for this?
Hello balladeer! We do understand your concerns. The industry infrastructure needs a lot of upgrade especially the funds industry. Also the payment gateways need to improve a lot.

Infact this has been our prime focus at Piggy. We have been optimising and automating our operations as much as possible to ensure that the users never face any trouble.
And we completely support our customers with any issues and sort them out as we work closely with the exchanges and other intermediaries.
I saw that; free transactions forever on 5 referrals till 20 aug - that is very clever. The app is also very well designed. Congrats!
I hear this sentiment a lot: that jquery projects inevitably become spaghetti, and I can relate, because I've seen it happen, but I also worked on projects with a great MVC pattern with jquery handling the view and it worked nicely. At a certain size you should look into frameworks, but it's not always necessary.
There are env variables as others have mentioned, and additionally in NetBSD it's configurable in mk.conf[0]. I know, Net is not Open, but they look remarkably similar in this toolchain regard for system/package builds. Can't speak to Free or Dragon Fly, though. I wouldn't be surprised if they've diverged.

[0] https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/pkgsrc/clang/
Was about to respond with the same, 2013. This could have been before the US gov ruled one way or another about some specific rules for bitcoin.
Here's a summary of what foreign powers got access to:

- identities of undercover operatives
- personal identity data of everyone with a driver's licence
- people with protected identities
- location of all army vehicles
- money transport vehicles
- classified infrastructure information

Even worse: when they realized they'd leaked photos, home addresses and SSNs of protected identities, they sent a clear text email asking the contractor to clear them from the database manually.

<emotional rant>
My country is a joke.

SÄPO knew about this in 2015, and recommended against it, but the Transport Agency still went through with the deal. How they could even be allowed to do that is beyond me.

The director general of the Transport Agency, and the person ultimately responsible for the leak, was fined a mere $8500 (which is half of what she allegedly would earn in a _month_) for leaking highly classified information to foreign powers - an act that would be punished as high treason in any sane country. Either she knew exactly what she was doing, meaning the Russians paid a meagre $8500 for full access to a database containing top secret information, or (more likely) she was just that stupid, meaning possibly hostile powers got this information for free.

But hey, that's Sweden, where incompetent people become director generals of big government agencies, and any screw up they get caught with is excused by saying that you didn't know better.

Here, Swedes believe that Trump is such a catastrophe, and wonder why Americans could vote for him. We should instead look at our own pathetic "feminist" government, and ask ourselves how and why we got here.

But hey, luckily for everyone we don't have nukes. We'd probably accidentally give the launch codes to Saudi Arabia/Palestine, and respond by giving the person responsible for the leak a small fine while the rest of the world burned in the war that erupted after Israel got nuked.
</rant>
I have met very very few people who actually like Facebook, and still it continues to make impressive strides, technologically and financially. May be I am living in a filter bubble where no one likes Facebook and there's a world somewhere where people are all the time hooked on FB, Instagram and WhatsApp.

P.S. I use WhatsApp and like it, so it makes me minor hypocrite.
Yeah, they said this and then made exceptions when users complained. If I recall correctly they started charging a slightly higher fee for US wires.
Amazon launches 1-hour delivery in Southeast Asia
Lost city found: Etzanoa of the great Wichita Nation
Only a guess, but to let early investors cash out and then use the rest to finance their operating losses?
Leonid Brezhnev Pledged Russia's Loyalty to Gerald Ford 42 Years Ago
Seems like you're only supporting his point, mate.
Damn, this article reminds me why I've loved working with Black people :)
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/security.asp

"It represents an ownership position in a publicly-traded corporation (via stock), a creditor relationship with a governmental body or a corporation (represented by owning that entity's bond), or rights to ownership as represented by an option."

Stop it!
I agree with that. I too was curious about why someone downvoted a comment I made the other day. I can honestly say I don't worry about losing a point over that since I've not looked into how points work much but I thought it was odd that someone would do that without explaining what motivated them.
Wasnt the article comparing pot users with non pot users? Presumably the control group included people who drink same play video games as well?
Healthy people don't run marathons
Not that it applies to Waze, but Apple's entire location permission stack is hot garbage.

Most notably: Literally everything about dealing with significant location changes when in the background/app is suspended. That entire dev team has some bad karma coming its way.
In my opinion they're important to pure functional languages (like Haskell) because they're the abstraction that IO is isolated into (IO doesn't require monads, and monads don't always mean that IO is happening, but that's the abstraction they chose).

The monadic pattern is just extremely common (and desirable), here's what the wiki (https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad) says:

> Monads in Haskell can be thought of as composable computation descriptions. The essence of monad is thus separation of composition timeline from the composed computation's execution timeline, as well as the ability of computation to implicitly carry extra data, as pertaining to the computation itself, in addition to its one (hence the name) output, that it will produce when run (or queried, or called upon). This lends monads to supplementing pure calculations with features like I/O, common environment or state, etc.

If I were to try and paraphrase that, it's because it is such a good abstraction for all the things you have to do that aren't as simple as pure functions. In other languages, just about any function can do anything, so they're understandably less important
As soon as I saw the headline, I thought to myself "well yeah, Americans have also never been fatter," so the conclusion wasn't much of a surprise. Interesting that it's affecting men so much more.

This isn't the only study that indicates fatness is impacting aggregate performance, either. The US DoD has actually identified American obesity as a potential threat to national security and readiness. [1][2]

[1] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/policy-dose/articles/20...
[2] (PDF) http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a547350.pdf
Is there some clever way of entering events better than touching the screen? I find that I often can't deal with the phone the second I see a hazard/construction/speed trap but would like to at least "register" it so I can send it off a few minutes later. Same for confirming alerts from others, I find that I can't verify an alert until I get to the location, and at that point I only have about 200 feet until the option goes away.
You don't just need to believe you are past the midpoint: you must believe that you have crossed a threshold where current events and circumstances are precipitating or portending the end. While logically, this could be the belief of anyone who expects any non-capitalist system to be around the corner, it is in fact used primarily by Marxists/socialists/communists. Do you have examples of other groups using the term late-stage capitalism?
Ah yes, no need for internet at all. We could already send messages via other means before it.
Waze has rerouted me around catestrophic traffic jams multiple times, both cases having a companion launch apple/google maps and they were more than happy to send me right through it.
Hehe, "favor"
Britain Pledges to Ban New Diesel and Gas Cars by 2040
This is what CyberWar looks like
Seriously, the "street vernacular" was intentional. And in my opinion, he pulled it off very well. Business English just wouldn't have worked.
My guess would be employee cash-out.
Personality Analysis based on Twitter
What does a line connection mean?
I'll just reiterate what a great deal of other sensible folks have already said: I think it's quite silly to try and use this study to draw or support any overarching conclusion about whether weed should be legal or not.

Of course your grades will be affected if you smoke when you ought to be studying.

Of course your grades will be affected if you drink when you ought to be studying.

Of course your grades will be affected if you study (the wrong course material) when you ought to be studying.

Basing decisions about legality and restraints on individual freedoms on things like average academic performance reduces individualism and pushes, by default, a sort of nationalistic view. "No you may not do X because it makes you a less valuable asset to the nation state, and you are meant for nothing more than service to the nation state."

Even innocent studies like this hide dangerous potential ideologies and subterranean reductions of individual freedom that politicians will try to push.
>> Slack will also let employees and other shareholders sell equity to investors as part of the deal

Translation: partial liquidity for founders and early employees.
Uber and Lyft like services will need to survive for the next 10 years then buy or lease Ai cars and bank in larger portion of the revenue. But for that they will need huge investment rounds and no competition from car manufacturers or large pocket companies like Google or Apple. That could buy and put in a few million ai cars on the road with the amount of cash they are holding.
The admin moved > 600K bitcoins from Mt Gox
In mainland Europe we only use the metric system, even when speaking or writing English.

Also it is common to stick to the comma as decimal separator and dot as thousands separator when writing English. This convention is independent of the language used.

Same goes for date notation, dd-mm-yyyy is used (almost) always.

In Windows or Linux for example you can select the English language with Dutch localisation. It's used by almost all software developers I know.
Can't stop won't stop :)

https://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sa33.pdf

"The term ‘‘security’’ means any note, stock, treasury
stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or
other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a ‘‘security’’, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing."
Same. I reported a light you couldn't turn left at and I was notified it was fixed ~6 hours later. Blew me away.
> But I often see highly-voted comment with an old greyed-out reply saying "why is this being downvoted".

Many times it's because the user was just asking a question, or made what they thought was a perfectly reasonable comment.

HN is pretty horrible with voting etiquette.
Mt. Lassen, ha. If the atmospheric conditions are good enough you can see Mt. Shasta from Mt.Diablo. I know, I have seen it. That has to be around 250 miles (I don't have the exact figure). That would be 402 kilometers and worth a mention on this list.
I mean seriously. These ponzi schemes all involve american buys propping up the money and it is an absolute miracle that the US government is willing to invest time and money in creating a system of justice that at the very minimum punishes clear breaches of trust in this system. The only alternative is that any money invested in this technology at all is wasted on Russian fraudsters. I mean honestly is everything just pure bullshit in this world or what?
If you participate in crimes with US persons or entities you should stay in a country that does not extradite to the US...
I don't mean to be argumentative but surely no [BTC-e] US customer was a "victim" of any money laundering that may have been going on?

Edit: Since my question wasn't clear, the emphasis was on customer, as in: "customers of a business that also engages in money laundering aren't usually considered victims of that money laundering."
Thanks to scare tactics and the never ending publicity that wants us to believe it's a miracle drug. We've lost sight that pot really has it's downside. We need fact based education, no bs scare tactics, to emphasise that to users. Pot has its strong benefits but we can't lose sight of its bad side and users need to understand that. Specially now that it's being legalized in so many states.
The results could simply reflect the increasing popularity of participating in running events. The influx from new people is going to drags the performance averages down.
Ask HN: What fingers do you use to type special characters?
Referring specifically to those in the upper right corner of the keyboard, like [], {}, =, +, -, _, (). Typing these characters really slow me down, was wondering if others are having the same issue and/or how do you overcome this?
International stateless crime needs to be prosecuted somewhere. He was indicted in the US because the US decided to go after him for crimes against US citizens, and other jurisdictions like Greece that have extradition warrants with the US decided to participate.