skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't traveled abroad in a couple years, so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I would be unable to contain my laughter if some CBP cop asked me to unlock my phone or laptop. Is this something that actually happens nowadays? Why on earth would anyone ever consent to this nonsense?
It's a great game :)

Just to clarify (being one of the Godot devs), Deponia was not originally developed in Godot, but in the Visionaire engine.

It's only the iOS and PS4 ports of Deponia which were made using Godot.
Slightly related, when doing the first coursera proglang mooc, I remember newbies crying on IRC because meta evaluation made no sense to their mind. Some of the dudes that had gone through this before and could discuss it without trouble. I remember the odd feeling of being completely incapable of explaining that "simple" thing to the newcomers. Some actual mathematicians say that math makes no sense, you just get used to that, so maybe don't run from one book to another and try osmotic learning. Read some, think about it. At times I just note what eludes me without overthinking it and I come back to it later. Maybe my lower brain made sense of that overnight. One thing is that newbies were very impatient that's another thing to avoid. It's just odd to balance between patience and boredom vs impatient excitment and pain.
They paid for a brand identity not a logo. They are very different things.
> Biggest game in DSLR world right now is low light

As an a7Sii owner I couldn't agree more (the D850 looks great too). Phone cameras are going to have a hard time catching up there. There's only so much light and at some point, sensor size matters.

In my GP comment I mentioned being amazed by my friend's iphone 7+ pics, and it's true, I was. But when the sun went down, the a7Sii ruled over everything and captured every good picture from then on. There's a long way to go for the mobiles to be able to compete at night. Nice to know our investments aren't totally useless :P
Companies are paying less and less for big expensive corporate moves. Many household good drivers don't actually make that much money when it's all said and done (and it's very hard work).

I do like his descriptions of the art of packing a trailer. It really is a thing of beauty [0].

[0]https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/moving-cross-country-cost/
On skim-reading the article it seems they were banned from submitting entries to a competition server for 12 months because they made a significant number of submissions.

It's arguable that they were gaming the system somewhat, but unless a limit was explicitly defined then this just seems like they were doing a lot of exploration in the area.

Imagine if you published some research showing you'd made something that did something cool, but then people lost respect for you because you'd made a lot of previous attempts.
The Dutch VOC is right up there.
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Also keep in mind that in addition to limited language feature support, many of those older devices have limited performance capabilities as well.

So, while you may be able to get your code to run on them, it might not be a great experience and of limited value to your customers to even try offering support.
He describes himself as an expert two or three times in the short article. When I see that it makes me wonder if it's really true. It's like when people repeatedly describe themselves as strong or independent - who are they trying to convince?

Based on his cv he probably really is an expert, but still, it's bad writing.
I think this hits the nail right on the head. Agreed 100%.
This. It was worth it, but it still took us the better part of a year.
What is "visitor management"? Reading the landing page didn't help me answering that question.

Also,

Visitor management
Guarantee the safety and security of your business with our simple booking system.

Badge printing
Badges makes it easy to know who’s welcome in your office, and more importantly, who’s not.

Host notifications
Notify your team when a guest arrives, so they'll never be stood around waiting.

Legal document signing
Protect your company with legal document signing on arrival.

What does this mean? You have a company office and a receptionist that register people coming in and out?
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the big problem is the lax use of the word 'productive'

creativity requires headspace. this article has some ideas that help. but fundamentally productive .neq. hours. Yes to achieve things you need to work hard, but its got to be smart.

headspaces, streams, blocks, downtime, outcomes. time-away-from-keyboard, physical movement, purpose. these turn your 20 hours into 2000 hours of impact.

measure outcome metrics not input metrics like hours
I think this is a really clean product but I have a couple of questions.

1. I'm dealing with a dataset with >10M rows. Is there any way to kill a query that is currently running? I noticed at least with postgres that a long running query would stop me from performing any other queries.

2. The hashtag notation is very nice but would it be possible to cache the results of the hashtag without having to run the same query over again. This would more closely resemble the behavior of jupyter notebook, where results in previous cells can be recalculated by running those cells, but can be quickly accessed without recalculation.
Since you are still in beta, I figure you could use some feedback, so here are a couple of things I noticed that were unexpected. (I'm using Firefox 55 on Linux so some problems may be related to that.)

* https://www.construct.net/make-games/free-trial says "Make games on your Mac". I don't have a Mac. If you hadn't mentioned that it's browser based, I would've left immediately.

* After loading the editor, I got a dialog that says "A new version of Construct 3 is available! You are using r58, and r58 is ready to use." which is quite confusing. Also, the text in the dialog can't be selected, so I had to use the dev tools to copy the text. At least clicking "Update" didn't send me into an infinite loop.

* When opening one of the featured projects (I tried Glokar), there is no way to cancel the download. (I was getting very low download speeds, maybe because I'm in China. The GFW throttles a lot of random traffic.)

* In a box that says "Add action... Add..." I would expect the whole box to be clickable, not just the text.

* When clicking on an action like "Go to Mission Objective" I would expect a link that lets you look at "Mission Objective". Yes, it's in the project panel, but maybe I didn't see it and I don't know where it is because I'm looking at someone else's project. Same for all other kinds of cross-referenced objects.

* I found the Beginner's Guide much too late, because it was below the fold for me and the list of demos captured my scrolling.

* Double-clicking empty space to add an object is absolutely undiscoverable. I guess it's fine if you are reading a guide anyway, but I just wanted to jump in and try out things.

* The tiled background editor should show the tile as it actually tiles, otherwise you won't know how it will look. Also, there is no obvious "I'm done" button.

* When you have multiple identical sprites but decide that one of them should be different, there is no obvious way to turn it into its own type so that it can be modified independently. (Short of deleting and recreating it from a clone of the original sprite.)

* None of the preview options seemed to do anything.

That's about when I lost interest.

The concept of your visual editor seems overall quite good, although I'd want keybindings for everything.
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Nowadays, people post almost everything happening in and around their life on various social-media platforms.
So, I am working on an AI assistant which will return more personalized results by searching for user queries in user's, user's friends', local and global social-media posts.

For example if you want to know whether your friend would be going to that party or not, you can ask this assistant and it will search for his/her social-media posts and will return with relevant results (after taking user's permission) or if you just felt an earthquake you can ask this assistant and it will search for relevant posts in your friends' as well as local social-media posts.

Please let me know your feedback and further suggestions like should I develop a standalone app or should I integrate this with services like Alexa and Google home?
In NL plenty of people feel roughly the same about Surinam.
Something happened to me recently when I was attempting to browse a Gopher site via Firefox...I opened the site, and that site opened another tab to the same site, and so on recursively every ~200mS or so until my computer's RAM was saturated. I had to force terminate Firefox. It was funny because it reminded me of the type of malicious WaReZ that you would see in the 90s.
I meant that in a lighthearted way. I know you aren't actually punishing it. At the same time, I fully understand the intimidation of a giant doc.

I'm just not sure how to actually address that. The big doc is good to have. It is a shame folks land immediately on it.
I'm not sure why you are bringing this point. OP is not saying British are worse than Ottoman or other empires.(Two Wrongs Make A Right Fallacy)
First off, it is completely normal to feel this way. I think you're at the point where you're truly discovering who you are as a person. Do you feel a great sense of unhappiness when you say you only do things if there's an audience?

The aha moment for me was when I started diving into philosophy and in particular, Buddhist philosophy, in search of learning more about life and about myself. I've been practicing Nichiren Buddhism, where the belief is that our lives represent a tarnished mirror and it is only through life experiences where we polish ourselves to reveal who we truly are.

Perhaps this is the beginning of your very own journey towards discovering yourself that would lead to doing things that you do find personally pleasurable.
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I always have an automatic reaction of postfixing lines like those by "of course, you wouldn't, that's because you are stupid". And then, I get instantly biased against the author just because of a stupid title.

It's not a rational thought, but the saddest part is that the real world fits that bias way too well.
Thanks for the reply! You're totally right re: regional airports being better for charters. Hubs are more expensive and really, really busy; plus, there isn't as much traffic to a smaller airport, so the ride in and out is nicer. When I fly out of regionals with Southwest or regional airlines (Mesa, PSA, Republic, etc.), ExecJet and tail numbers are all I hear on the ATC (alongside some bigger airline callsigns, like Southwest or regionals).

I did two discovery flights and got to partially operate the plane both times. I absolutely can't wait to take lessons; I loved it.
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I'm using it every day at work.

I come from phaser and am currently working as a game designer. Godot was just what I needed since I wanted a visual editor(it makes lots things quicker) but still be able to code(unlike construct, for example). I also needed to test my stuff on mobile and Godot can export to android in seconds.

The scripting language took me a week to learn and two to feel confortable with, though I think people coming from c#/java have a harder time getting used to its simplicity. 3.0 will support c# and potentially anything that compiles to a dynamic library thanks to GDNative.

I contrast, Unity to me always felt like this huge Rube Goldberg machine I have to set in motion to do anything so if you want something that starts up in seconds and has fewer dependencies I really recommend it.
Open up your books. The problem is that once you have a history of unethical behaviour, nobody believes you when you say 'don't worry, trust me'.
Ok, so instead of money coming from the retirement system it comes from NI (social security taxes).

How does it result in a drop in healthcare costs while the general population is aging? If a person has health issues at 68, and the retirement age has been just moved to 70, that person won't magically get a clean bill of health.
Not really. We're talking about a government using its violent abilities to censor dissent.
Cool project. I think what they were talking about is demonstrated here. For example, in Construct when you want to add an action to an event you click the add button then a wizard pops up to help you assign it. If you know how to program that is annoying because you know how to express yourself faster with text. If you don't know how to express yourself it provides the scaffolding to help you succeed. I think they are lamenting that for experts they haven't seen a visual language that is faster / more expressive. I don't think they would argue that this isn't easier for beginners.
Bokeh effect of the pixel looks terrible and artificial to me. It stands out like a sore thumb and I can always tell that it taken by a pixel before checking.

Wide angle is not something that is better or worse.
Cause then you don't get your severance. And few people are prepared to lose their job out of the blue like that.
No. Switching to a different provider is an excellent response to poor service. And one that definitely incentivizes improvement.
I have the suspicion that one possible future of HTML is to be a legacy delivery wrapper for WASM code and a <canvas> element.
The only think https://news.ycombinator.com is missing to be perfect is the search functionality, I don't like to rely on hn.algolia.com.
It would take a lot more than a single blog post. It would probably take dozens of blog posts (or a book). It took us the better part of a year. There are just so many things that have to be taken into consideration and learned.
"Robbed" is not the same as "mugged." You are correct that "robbed" does have a colloquial definition.

>informal overcharge (someone) for something.
> I've put all those Emacs functions I keep forgetting exist in to it and now they're all at my fingertips.

Can you share some of that? I've been meaning to get into Hydra, and would gladly look at some configs.
I'll admit I've never been to Colorado, but I understand there's no way to avoid steep grades in the mountains.

Thanks for the downvotes.
I'm not sure, but wouldn't saying no also mean forfeiting any unemployment you might otherwise be entitled to?
They had an interesting flag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_East_India_Company
The claim seemed to be that historical British crimes were disproportionately ignored, compared to historical crimes committed by other countries. I am arguing against this by pointing to other crimes that (I'm guessing) most Westerners don't even know about.
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That'd be true if all hedge funds were actually trying to just beat the S&P. The vast majority, however, aren't trying to do that all; they're trying to create different risk/return profiles than you get by just indexing large-cap US companies.
Monarchies are not democratic. Unless I can vote the King, that is.
outofatacos wrote:

> I haven't traveled abroad in a couple years, so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I would be unable to contain my laughter if some CBP cop asked me to unlock my phone or laptop. Is this something that actually happens nowadays? Why on earth would anyone ever consent to this nonsense?

For some reason this comment is dead and it is a valid question IMO.

For people who don't know, if you don't have a citizenship they actually might deny your entry if you won't cooperate.

If you do, they can't refuse you entering the US, but they can confiscate your electronics.

Doesn't seem right, that's why EFF and ACLU is suing.
> Even though they mention it, I came across this chart a while back that shows just by how much bigger it was than the recent largest corporation

FYI, that's the Dutch East India Company, which was separate from the British East India Company, which this article is about.

The British East India Company was actually much larger.
I switched to bitwarden. I'm more worried about Tab Groups than LastPass.
Wait, are you actually claiming Monsanto is not paying for that research, or that they do not have a conflict of interest?
It is interesting to note that Assange and Snowden seem very interested in the catalan issue these last days.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/911226994846...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/910888878948700160
Most likely, yes - depends on the state, of course, but generally you don't collect unemployment for a voluntary resignation.
Who the hell would "irrigate" their fields to a depth of 1 foot? That's not irrigation, it's a literal flood!

Unless you're growing rice in a paddy I guess?
Airport searches should be limited to what might cause a transportation security issue. Nothing on a mobile device qualifies, especially since in-flight wifi provides a way to download anything to the device in flight that is not present when checked at Security.

Regular border searches should have no right to look at devices at all, since there is no plane or train to endanger and there are even more ways to beam over data after you cross the physical border.

The entire thing just stinks of intimidation tactics, subjecting people to personal invasions with, yet again, no measurable improvement to actual security.
LN works; integration into mainstream wallets is months away.
I've backed the Kickstarter too. I use Magit a lot while making money programming (and even more for hobby projects), so it's only fair to donate. Thank you 'tarsius for all the good work!
PA still randomly dies on my Thinkpad T420 running Ubuntu 17.04. I have to manually restart it several times in a day, and now I am really thinking of switching to a systemd/pulseaudio/RedHat influence free distro.
This is one of the few sites I frequent where I don't wish they would improve the interface. I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare.

Seriously, for the main interface it is pretty much perfect. Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
The specified limit was 2 submissions per week, according to the people organizing the competition:

http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-...
So, it's illegal in US because a court said so, but it's opression in Spain because a court said so?.
I was a bit skeptical of WebAssembly when it started popping up, but reading through this and the MDN docs has made me get a bit more excited.

In a few years WebAssembly might make for a great environment to learn about lower level programming. I've always loved assembly, since it gives you the bare minimum of concepts and tooling from which you can build everything.

What's the reasonable thing to do when a grow-memory instruction returns -1?

How are people using WebAssembly? Are there high-quality polyfills available for older browsers?

How is forward-compatibility expected to be handled? Right now there's only WebAssembly with the core feature-set. What happens as some vendors start to add support for varying features such as GC, SIMD, threads, etc.?
Maybe so, but I didn't even bother using Uber in a country where all the guides recommended another app because it's more popular. Consumers aren't enterprise, they'll switch faster if they think they'll get a better deal.
Try https://youtu.be/izX5dIzI2RE
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After reading the article, I still don't know what's new in WebRender
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I've them end to end to Amazon(Germany)FBA from China purposes...are we talking about two different things maybe?

https://www.reddit.com/r/FulfillmentByAmazon/comments/6ao7ec...

https://www.flexport.com/help/109-shipping-to-amazon
The availability of tooling is just fine. You may need to compile from source, but that shouldn't be a big deal. Otherwise there's also MacPorts, Homebrew, and fink for pre-built packages.

The UI thing is entirely subjective.
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While it is never mentioned explicitly, this article is about the British East India Company. While that appears to be the most generally accepted interpretation of the name without further specification, making it explicit would've been great. There were a few different East India Companies.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_(disambigua...
But only for people who are US citizens, or at least permanent residents. It’s not making visiting the US any more appealing to the rest of the world.
Right now we don't have any remote opportunities but perhaps in the future.
And politically oppose the arms deals that western politicians routinely lend their time and personal capital to supporting.
Can someone offer a simple explanation of why the EFF and ACLU might succeed?

I remember seeing big signs at US border crossings that said YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS in big allcaps, and I think the law is mostly on their side. Those signs are probably still there.
They may now, but they didn't always. I grew up military, moving every 3-4 years, and it was always a fear filled game of anticipation when we finally got our stuff - sometimes weeks later. We had movers completely destroy some of our stuff, "lose" expensive electronics, the exact opposite of what this guy is talking about re: professionalism and claims.
Some quick video material about the belief that ADHD doesn't exist, and is not a treatable condition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5tLi1bYilA - informative and entertaining.

But don't just take their word for it, have a look at the reference material in the video description.

Another interesting, and emotional, view of the effect of not being on meds from the same artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9qK8-sMGQ