skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic but recently given the option of vacationing in the USA or Japan, well easy choice.

Do I want to visit a frightening, privacy invading, oppressive airport, or Japan?

I went to Japan.

I'll do my very best to avoid travel to USA if possible. Strange that this is what USA wants.

Trump has put up a wall, even if it is not yet physical.
I am curious, what is the unique selling point of Unity which makes people stick to it? Is it a global menu[1]? Dock? Support of legacy indicators?

[1]: GNOME3 has command pallete (ctrl+p) known from Sublime Text - https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus

edit: Also https://github.com/lestcape/Gnome-Global-AppMenu
This could be incredibly useful for processing spectra produced off a mass spectrometer (which are notoriously noisy).
I've spent time on the opposite side of the fence as someone who buys and manages enterprise IT solutions.

Process maps even at a high level are a good start to decide where you can add value in the quickest way. But make sure you question the business process and whether it's effective before just implementing technology around it.

In terms of project management, something like the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) will work in an enterprise environment if you're from an agile background. Minimum Viable Products work well in enterprises but it's often a huge mindshift for enterprise customers who think they need every feature.

Charging by day rate is your best option. Enterprise IT projects will generally overrun and scopes will increase. If you're charging by day, you're protected from scope creep.

Make sure you've documented what you're doing clearly and you've got a strong contract. If I need to challenge an IT supplier over what's been implemented, and I often do, the contract is the first place I started. A good contract and clear expectations is a positive thing for both parties.
> they don't even know how to exit the program

Vim lists `:q' and `:help' prominently in the middle of the screen when you first start it. If you try to exit with C-c (in Normal mode), or C-c C-c (in Insert), you get this message:

"Type :quit<Enter> to exit Vim"
Erm, did you read the article?
Visiting the country != immigration.
Then moxie missed the point of how trust with websites works.

You have to trust the site owner, who has to trust his hoster, his DNS provider, his domain registry.

Transitively, you already trust all these people.

DANE with DNSSEC does not add any requirement for new trust and it does not require that you trust any involved party more than before.

It merely removes one entity from the equation.
The notion of a customizable table of packet matchers and actions is not new with P4. OpenFlow already enables this but the openflow API made it difficult to fully replicate common behaviors of legacy hardware (e.g. ARP).

>This is a threat to Cisco, Brocade, etc. in that it defines a generic architecture for commodity routing hardware.

I'm not so sure about this. OpenFlow and whitebox switches in general already cannibalized the market of customers that would have enough expertise to use P4. It will be interesting to see what customers P4 attracts that whitebox switching already hasn't.
Thanks, dad.
Virgin galactic seems to be a more reasonable solution which could probably use existing airport with slight modification.
I had a vision of it diving inside the water and becoming some superfast submarine, perhaps cutting through the earth's crust or something. Anything can happen right!
The rocket works by burning the methane, though, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. Burning it results in water and carbon dioxide.
He mentions the possibility of making the fuel from solar power, water and CO2 on Earth in the same way he plans to for Mars. It wouldn't make economic sense now though. If you care about the environment that much, use the same process to make the same methane and run your ICE car off it. That's old tech.
So you find it acceptable for the US government to demand access to everything I have on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram(?), etc just because I am going to live there? That is insane.
I hope this is meant to be a joke.
It's called a business cycle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle
SpongeBob is great, but you're absolutely right about Thomas.
> I wasn't able to find any evidence of 'lots of stores removing them' though...

IKEA is phasing them out in Germany, and all German store chains that had self-checkout have since removed them, or are in the process. There is not a single chain that is actively deploying new ones, or keeping them.
despite relationships being the single greatest predictor of health and life satisfaction.

That predictor isn't specifically referring to romantic relationships, but all social relationships.

That means family, friends, love, professional etc. It means that ideally, a person who has more of these things is more likely to be healthy and satisfied.

Having a wife but no friends for example, isn't ideal, and vice versa.
It's also implemented for visitors, in fact earlier than this.

http://fortune.com/2017/06/01/u-s-border-social-media/
It's really only a matter of time. It's already an 'optional extra' on the visa waiver.
Reeeeeeeer
This infographic is about as useful as that "legendary investor" who claims the world is going to end in chaos every year.

What indicators are predicting a "pop" or that this is a "bubble?" What exactly are they predicting will happen?

Just seems like a lot of numbers and infographic fear mongering otherwise.
>Maybe 50 should be the upper bound. I'm in my fifties and have never had any sort of social media account.

Are you not posting here?
> 5 Stocks accounting for most of growth is troublesome when corrected, but still not catastrophic.

Yes -- this is the whole point of owning a broad index.

You get exposure to the highest-performing stocks -- what those actual companies are changes over time.

And there's usually another company to step up and fill the gap when one of the leaders falls.
Your equation does not make sense to me. Is b really a slope (* instead of +?) or an intercept (seems simpler to have a "k*x" term than pretending that "k=1")?
Test drive of the first autonomous container ship [Yara Birkeland]
Right. We now have two world class compilers, gcc and clang, which both track the standard closely and this has forced Microsoft to improve their compliance as well. It is a golden age for C++ right now.
It's very easy to extra-judicially deny entry at the border, without much in the way of recourse. I imagine there would be backlash against it, but it's very likely that for some period of time, travel to, from, and between specific countries will be denied to people who "refuse" to produce a social media account.
Looks like the site is down, currently.
Reading Named Pipes with Elixir
"you can't ban people entry for that."

Who said so? Border controls have right to turn non-citizens away on border if they suspect you are lying or not disclosing all information to them.
Crises aren't necessarily destructive, or something that needs to be prevented. When railroads were first built across the USA there was a huge bubble in railroad stocks. Many investors lost everything, but the country ended up with some great transportation infrastructure.
Ooh, how far back can we go? Guardian, 2012: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/tyrann...

It has phrases like "crazed authoritarian fantasies" and "a taste for punishment that is both brutal and peremptory."
My tentative, loosely held decision to not enter the US for any reason has become surprisingly easier to justify as time goes on.
Scroll hijacking 2.0. We capture your scroll and make it impossible for you to go back to HN quickly because every scroll action was performed as a navigation action and pushed to your history...
That was the motivation as well when the 9€ minimum wage was passed here, too, but they've removed all of them since.

Cashiers are much faster than self checkout, and you still need to employ one person for every 4 self checkouts to prevent theft.
I'm sorry for being short on content, but I wish, more people would really go deeper into theory and open their eyes on the things around them and realize, that capitalism is an extremely aggressive beast that has sucked up everything, that is not itself.

Three days ago, I wondered (time and again) about all the fuzz about this site called facebook - within ten years it took something, that was not really exploited (social relations) and made it a first class business. Startup hubs are still dreaming of the next social startup - meaning exploiting special kind of relations (neighbours, potential partners, coworkers, what have you).

And we won't stop here. Think your dreams belong to you? Maybe today, but I can see large enterprises exploiting your very being for profit, soon. You find that disturbing? But why?
Many people find themselves in nano for a quick change. They aren't interested in learning keybindings for an editor, especially (in the case of vi/vim) when those keybindings can accidentally clobber a chunk of your configuration file, sometimes without the user noticing.

Nano, as other comments have stated, shows the essential keybindings at the bottom of the screen, always.

(I've been using vim for over a decade.)
Resume driven development is as much about developers chasing the new shiny as it is about dealing with the phenomenon you note. Perhaps more so, even.
Do we get an in-flight snack?
Customer research 101: how to uncover what people want
IIRC they had (non mandatory) questions about social media accounts already on the ESTA form last time I flew into NYC in January.
Not really informed on the Bible or theology, but I've had the following reading:

Life in the days of the Old Testament (and even afterward for a long time) was incredibly harsh. If your people collectively did the wrong things, you would weaken, and there was a very real chance that your neighbors would genocide or enslave you and take your land. Even today, engaging in many of what the Christians or even the Jews would consider sins can strongly increase the probability of really horrific things happening in your life. Generational childhood obesity from poor parental nutrition knowledge also provides an easy example of how the effects of sin can be felt across generations.

Gluttony - many people today are obese, diabetic, and so on. If you fail to avoid gluttony, you can irreparably destroy your body, cripple yourself, and die young.

Lust - You can waste hours and years of your life masturbating to internet pornography, and destroy your actual life through addiction. You can easily hook up with many girls from Tinder and contract some incurable STD or have an early pregnancy, or ruin your marriage and your life by cheating.

Greed - Do you really not know of any workaholic who is convinced he is "winning" while his net worth is increasing, but has wrecked health, barely knows his children, and has a bad relationship with his wife?
And so on

It's not obvious to me that the God of the Old Testament is less cruel than empirical reality. Given that this holds, my question is then the following:

-do you (not you individually, but the people in my argument) want this text to be compatible with reality? Or do you prefer a more simple and pious tale?

-to what extent do people have an issue with the way the world works rather than the Bible?
Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
While this might be true of the old series, the CGI series is almost anarchic by contrast. The Fat Controller is uniquely accident prone and regularly humiliated by his mother, his wife and his own mistakes. The Steam > Diesel caste system is less entrenched with very many sympathetic diesel engines (Mavis, Den & Dart, Salty) and the gender problems are also less evident with some good female engines (Caitlin, Emily, Mavis).

I don't think the author has seen much of the CGI series or the recent movies.
This is exciting! Coincidentally I have been messing with 17.10 the past few days, and I think it'll solve my display issues with a 3 monitor setup (with one 4k in the middle). That means I can finally be done with SSHing into a linux VM from windows when I want to do development on my gaming PC :)
From the link:

> After almost ten years of development, we have the regret to announce that we will put an end to our Theano development after the 1.0 release, which is due in the next few weeks. We will continue minimal maintenance to keep it working for one year, but we will stop actively implementing new features.

Summarizing this as "dead" is not hyperbolic IMO.
Doesn’t Japan fingerprint people at immigration ? (And maybe take their picture?)
>So you find it acceptable ... That is insane.

They were seeking (an important) clarification, not making a judgment whether it was acceptable.

You just assumed they found it acceptable and called that insane.
I was with FAST. Were you there, by any chance?
There's a huge difference between an employer doing it and the government doing it. You can hide your SM for a potential employer. Doing that will make the government suspicious. You may get a chance to explainer yourself to an employer. An immigration decision will be made in a black box. You can apply for another job at a company not run by idiots - choosing to immigrate somewhere else isn't as straightforward.
Question is what happens if one really does not use social media, at least mainstream playforms such as facebook. I'm guessing I'm not the only one around here with a small social media footprint...
Musk Wants to Build a Rocket That Will Get You Anywhere on Earth in an Hour
Very helpful, much appreciated. I was worried about scope creep. Day rate sounds helpful. MVPs make total sense too.
how do you defraud people by doing an ICO? if you raise the cash and don't attempt to build a business, you will be caught for fraud and go to jail. It doesn't seem like a great vehicle for fraud
If its not mandatory then whats the problem?
I'm sure there would be a gradual dropoff in suspicion from about 40 to about 60 - depending on how affluent you look, and on the personal opinions of the border agent.
What if I am only transiting the country ?
Twitter, et al, 'fixing' this issue would make it difficult for American companies and teams to fulfill their mission. It might be easier just to control the narrative and deflect.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
So if you decide to visit to do harm you're not subjected to the search, only if you plan to stay and contribute? That sounds silly, right? Thankfully it's an easy fix now the tech is in place -- you just flip the switch! Easier than boiling a frog!
Just because someone is paid a lot doesn't mean they're not under-compensated. Remember the sports team strikes? They were making lots of money before but they felt they weren't getting enough of the value they created so they did a strike and proved it.

Wages are (very purposely) not an efficient market so a group making more than most doing the same kind of work does not mean said group is overcompensated. It could be that the entire group is under-compensated, some of them just less so.
It's always interesting to see HN'ers publicly share here the degree to which they've personally invested in cryptocurrency (non-deletable, non-editable after 1 hour, plus whatever other restrictions). I wonder if HN is willing to delete accounts and/or some or all of their posts?

Edit: to be specific (for gtirloni's sake) - the unusual artificial limits of this site add additional exposure/risk to anyone painting a target on themself here, especially new users and/or years ago when Bitcoin was worth nearly nothing.
Well, that and the fact that the lower barrier to entry might incentivize trying-out of subjects. I know I have.
"a ... folklore collection"

Are you implying the Old Testament is not historical? Or not accurate with regards to history?

Or what do you mean by folklore?
Should one be able to upgrade to 17.10 stable when it's out (without too much trouble), or are you stuck in beta “ring” if you install this?
The US Dollar has the penny, nickle, dime, and quarter, and Bitcoin has the satoshi. It's not really that hard to understand.
I'm fairly sure that the requirement for moulded plugs is an EU directive.

The design of UK plugs means that user replaceable ones are the same size and shape as moulded ones. Doing the same for Schuko plugs is harder so it makes sense that they went all-moulded earlier.
Whatever keeps you up at night. I'm more worried about American's obsession with fascism, white supremacy, and tax cuts for the rich at the expense of health care for the poor, than Britain's obsession with class and royalty. At least the Brits have decent health care, and their leaders aren't being blackmailed and puppeted by Vladimir Putin.

>the kind that can cost anything from $200 to several thousand dollars depending on the marker.

The British typically pay for their clothing in pounds.

A freakishly dressed friend of mine (and gumby's) bought her best vintage outfits at a used clothing store in the Boston Garment District called "Dollar a Pound" during the 80's. Then she moved to London, so I suggested she search for a clothing store called "Pound a Kilogram".

https://garmentdistrict.com/departments/?target=by-the-pound

It all started in the 80’s.

By The Pound’s road to becoming a Boston institution began in 1981 when one Saturday morning a few bales were opened on the floor of an old Cambridge soap factory. Back then it was called Dollar-A-Pound, and there were only a few hours a week you could shop through the thousands of pounds of clothing. We opened at 7:45 because people just kept coming in earlier & earlier and closed at 2:00 so that we could go out to the racetrack. Many things have changed since those days. By the Pound has been given many coats of paint & is now open 7 days a week instead of one.
> for $20 million, the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared

That requires a special kind of attitude.
Actually, I think there is some regulation about devices coming with moulded plugs so I'm not sure that is a good example.

The same applies to electrical wiring, I'm not allowed to do many of the tasks I would want with my wiring because I'm not "qualified". Nor was I allowed to fit my hot water tank because it is connected directly to the cold water supply.

I'm loathe to complain about these rules because in many ways we have improved our lives with health and safety legislation. It's comparatively rare for people to die during the course of their work or due to a fire in their home.
"Persona management by the US military would face legal challenges if it were turned against citizens of the US, where a number of people engaged in sock puppetry have faced prosecution."
This site is unusable on mobile. As soon as the scroll effects kick in the whole browser locks up and scrolling has to be done with a four second delay; when the article is 40% advertisements on mobile, I'm only going to reload the article so many times before I just give up. I don't want to be a part of this new internet anymore, everything is going to shit.
In the first episode the Belter they arrested was supposedly 7ft tall, frail and thin. They tortured him by hanging him from his torso until his heart collapsed due to gravity. The belters have only been in space a few hundred(?) years so physiologically they wouldn't look that different from earthers.
There's already the WC test. Which as one gets older one is less likely to pass.
I wonder if we'll see a push to expand the definition of "social media" beyond Facebook and Twitter to include private group messaging platforms like SnapChat, Slack, and Hangouts, and forums like Reddit and HN.
That's what I'm getting at - I don't use public social media and would probably get denied.
“Don’t you really have no Facebook account, Sir?”
Add-on with coin miner live on Mozilla Add-on site
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-mode-free-2/ - "We may use a coin miner to pay our bills and bring these extensions" in description.
It is a fiat bubble.
Code Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
Maybe that's true at companies selling to consumers (everyone is a consumer, so everyone can conceviably have valid ideas for new features). However, at companies selling to businesses, the developer is usually more or less clueless about the product domain (even if it's something technical, like CAD or data science) and has no useful ideas. It's the product people who (ideally) have decades of domain experience and talk to users from various companies constantly about what they would like to see added.
> there not situations where they have to give up citizenship to their country of origin?

One such a case is China. If a Chinese citizen gets the passport of another country they lose their original Chinese citizenship (if China knows about the new passport.)

I wonder what happens if they are born in countries like the USA that give citizenship at birth. Do they have to forfeit one of the two citizenships? And when, at birth by decision of the parents or later on by their choice?
And the NSA finessed this to work with multiple servers being sent from a manufacturer.
Total Time is only one portion of the suckage of air travel though. It's that long window of time where you are cramped in a small seat, potentially with large strangers spilling into your space from either side that I dislike the most. If I only have to deal with that bit for 30 minutes, the rest of the trip can take as long as it reasonably wants.
"jacking up course rates and only taking on students"

That is totally fine. If student loans become hard to get, students and universities will take prudent decisions, which means, there wont be a bubble effect because of super easy / free availability of loans.

Basically, student loans in US is similar to mortgage crisis in 2008.

US will be better off with unemployable people with no degrees and no debt, than unemployable people with a useless degree and debt.

Without a feedback mechanism for universities to feel the effects of the job market on its graduates/alumni, there's no incentive for university to admit students into its "sub prime programs".

Let the government fund those esoteric programs that have no job prospects. That way the spending on those education programs is visible to the tax payer.

"not well off students" can always have the university take a bigger chunk of the responsibility. While ensuring that there is no bias in admissions, universities will have an even bigger incentive to ensure the success of this 'not well off' student. Such success rates can be tied to the Universities' credit rating. Higher the rating, lower %age risk the edu institution needs to take.
The problem is, as a traveler, I now have to choose between my privacy and reduced chance of getting entry into U.S.
I think this is amazing - but what are the military implications? I mean, the military-industrial complex is not likely to stand by and watch this capability become so commonplace that it invalidates the purpose of having fast-attack forces at the readiness.

I mean, I guess the answer is pretty clear: the US Military will be the first customer for the BFR, before any transportation companies get it .. they already hold technology in reserve for their war-fighting abilities, so .. its going to be interesting to see what the MIC version of this is going to be .. assuming they don't already have it. (Some people think they do ..)
> Meh to almost everything here except maybe housing.

Care to elaborate more on the housing.
This is very common in the US, although there is no regulation governing it. Most places will take your old appliances away when they deliver your new ones.

Heck, our power company will pay you $35 if you recycle a working fridge or freezer through them. With them coming out to pick it up for free. The idea being that a lot of people stick their old, inefficient fridge in the basement or garage when they get a new one and it sucks down a lot of power.
The "worth" of something is an irrelevant metric. What is the actual debt value?