skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you mean building bigger barriers to international trade can cause your economy to slow down? Who could have predicted this??"

The UK has never created barriers and does not want barriers.

The EU is creating barriers to entry into it's economy for purposes of punishment (their words) - like the gym that makes you pay extra when you leave?

The UK is now free to negotiate deals with any nation in the world - and not restricted to taking what the EU provides it - this is not restrictive.

UK can now chose exactly whom it wants to migrate - this is not restrictive.

If it were up to the UK, the EU nations would be considerably less economically restrictive than they are today.

Finally - wages are up in the UK considerably, and property prices are down a little - which is exactly what we all want to hear when thinking about 'affordability'.

'Open trade' of real estate creates crazy bubbles and holds regular citizens under the tyranny of the massive cash-flows of foreigners who are able to hold their own citizens in indentured servitude. There are more empty flats in London than there are homeless people.

And the weak pound + slow down in migration from the EU has caused wages to rise - which is awesome.

Mass migration is 100% a downward driver on wages, only in very specific cases is it not - it's an issue some have a hard time grappling with. In the Alberta Oil Fields they want to increase migration for what they call 'labour input costs' - which is literally a different way of saying 'high wages'. In other words: 'wages are too high, we need more immigrants' - it's all rather obvious.

There are issues that should have been addressed by the EU, but they won't - so we have full revolt.

There's no reason for UKIP, True Finns, AFD, Sweden Democrats to exist - they exist because EU leadership won't listen to reason. In many ways America is the same - Trump is the ugly response to a system that wouldn't bend for some reasonable causes.

Brexit was an ugly choice, hopefully a real wake up call for EU leaders, sadly, they seem to be doubling down and it won't end well.
Agreed - and it's been proven (citation needed) that a low calorie diet prolonges life.

But here we are, needing to consume more energy because we do things (good, bad, useless or wasteful) with our time (and these things aren't directly looking for food.)
I'm definitely going to be doing this. Your other sites and courses look badass too.

If I could afford your algorithms course I'd buy it immediately. I'll have to save up.
Well, debt free at 40 leaves still 25-30 years of a pretty good career, no?

The downside of govt just paying for it is you'll get a lot more people who really aren't committed to the profession and it taxes everyone else - it's not free, it's done through higher taxes on everyone else.
Not where I live. Public utilities like water and electricity are run by private companies and no subsidies are offered.
Everything is such a hidden gem. Simple and lightning fast, I can't imagine using a computer without it now. Compared to it, Windows's search is worse than garbage. There have been more than one occasions where Windows can't even find a file in a folder even when I have typed in the exact file name.

I wonder why windows can't have something like Everything integrated in explorer? It surely can't be that hard to index file names when you're the OS yourself...
Do you meant Tallulah from 2016 starring Ellen Page [1]?

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1639084/
The next great thing tech can do is to automate and streamline as many procedures that currently require a physical doctor. We will need to lobby Congress to change regulations and possibly even torte reform for automated, computer based health care.

I believe it's the best way we can scale health care. We need machines that can do the majority or tests and diagnosis to at least flag things as suspicious and then send the person onto a human doctor for further analysis.
It's on my backlog of experiments that I'll probably never get to, but has anyone had success running QEMU on, say, AWS (virtualized) Windows servers to run Linux VMs? I presume HAXM isn't relevant for attempting this?
No. „underground“ is the antithesis to „mainstream“. Both are words and part of english language. It is not all down to individual opinion.
Not with wifi. Fios offers different speeds but it does not charge by consumption.
There are a community of people that run it on WINE pretty well, but there isn't an official Linux port or anything. Looking at the various updates to the game, the source code seems quite old and has a lot of technical debt. It seems like expansions are conservative in the stuff they add.
We are scrypt mining in Saigon at a fairly large scale. This is definitely something we've been thinking a lot about. As we grow, we will likely move to Iceland, where the power is mostly based on renewable sources.
With my user hat on, I agree. My main workstation is still going strong with 10.11 (the latest it officially supports), and there's no end-user features of >10.11 that I want (maybe APFS). Or even of newer hardware.

With my developer hat on, I completely understand where they're coming from. Sierra adds a ton of useful new functionality, and fixes a ton of bugs. (There's several new features in 10.11 which just seem completely broken for any non-trivial use, and which were fixed in 10.12.) Not needing to support 10.11 makes life a lot easier.

If I weren't using 10.11 myself, I'd make my application 10.12-only in a heartbeat.
Ha, thanks! I was just curious so took a wild guess.
Since installing airbags the problem has been lessened, but a reality catcher sounds like a great augmentation to my vehicle.
Really Nice step, I created a small course to create a flappy bird game step-by-step for my co-workers which I presented at Golab conference in Italy. This was also made into "Just for Func" series by Francesc. It was intended to be really simple for beginners, and I could help it make it better if you decide to use it :)

https://github.com/shabinesh/flappy
People (and by people I mean mostly economists :-)) talk about that all the time. There is an interesting discussion about comparing two economies that are not based on the same fundamental principle (like comparing electric cars to gas cars based on their "miles per gallon" and using an arbitrary metric to transmute kWh into gallons of gasoline).

The Chinese government works much more directly in twisting the knobs of the economy, and the government regularly misleads with their economic numbers (sort of like companies that change the accounting rules on the numbers they report). As a result other methods get devised to try to estimate the Chinese GDP and its relative independence from other economies.

That said, they are expected to surpass the US on a comparative GDP model, what is less well understood is how durable their form of market management can be.
I also hated emacs because I hated the keybindings, but then I found spacemacs.
I fail to see any reason why, or any reason that a municipal ISP would somehow be easier for the NSA to operate. However, they are far more responsive to customers, and provide better service than the incumbent private ISPs.
When Premature Optimization Makes Sense
+1 to Fed Up.
Note: Isn't mixing bleach and ammonia a bad idea? Probably bad to be pissing in a bleach bottle then.
If everything you are eating has sugar added, the item you eat without it will taste bitter and/or bland. Or the sugar made the bland (picked early etc) tomatoes used in the sauce more palateable.
The only time I enabled Siri was to play that Queen Easter Egg..
> On the contrary, the opportunity to access the UK market has much enthusiasm.

You're implying that's some kind of great news. I'd say, real estate investors have lots of enthusiasm for sellers threatened with foreclosure. You can frame it as positively as you want but at the end of the day the UK's position at the negotiation table is simply weaker, and it's no surprise everyone suddenly wants to talk.
So would this encourage Amazon or Apple or whoever to do more research and development in the UK?
I think we are about to go through a change in how flame retardants are classified and handled. The chemicals in use today (in clothing, mattresses, lounges and other fabrics) are known toxic and carcinogenic.
I don't think any of the public cloud providers support nested virtualization.
Bitcoin, a product of the energy concerns in an effort to sell more energy?
Trying to validate stolen or generated credit card numbers.
How about if the fork happens from a signal handler?
Huh? About the only major change is the CPU is no longer socketed, besides that I can swap every other component willy nilly ala a T420. Soldered CPUs are quite a bit more durable, and replacement mobos are sub-$100, not the worst tradeoff to save a few mm.
That comparison is a great one. Sugar is addictive as well.

Processed food isn't engineered and manufacturered to benefit the consumer. It's designed to increase consumption.

What's most troubling is, it seems, plenty of people can't connect the dots between what they consume and their health. It's disheartening that we need a law that says, "You can't look down and see your penis when you pee...watch what you eat." Where do ppl think all that extra weight comes from, sunshine?
Interesting! Those things are exactly what the book tells you not to do.
They said the same about Japan. Meet the new contender, same as the old contender.
"Technically your email client will automatically prepare for this by creating a crypto key for you and uploading it to your provider (or second best to public keyservers)."

This seems like a good way to flood key servers with multiple keys for the same address, making an attempt to find the right one very difficult. Average users are going to end up having one key per device, or more depending on how many times they end up wiping the device and reinstalling.
Years ago I created a solar system simulation for education called the Astronomicon. It was a fascinating education for me, not only about Astronomy and our solar system, but about floating point precision and general numerical stability issues. The problem really showed up with Pluto (back then a planet ;) ). Using 32 bits, a floating point seemed fine, except when you started up the simulation and saw pluto jumping in discrete steps in it's orbit - you could actually see the bits, basically!

Graphics cards (they weren't called GPUs yet!) were just transitioning to 64 bit, so our high end cards could handle 64 bit precision, and everything was fine. But we were stuck with having to support some 32 bit cards. Then I figured if I scaled everything by ... 10,000 ... I think ... it would work out ok. The exact details escape me - maybe the mantissa wasn't enough for the needed precision, so multiplying by 10,000 before sending it to the GPU was enough. Or maybe the opposite. Regardless, it meant there was an annoying constant we had to deal with :)

Nothing like diving in and dealing with an issue like that to do some learnin'!
+1 Image Processing + Video stream frame processing
I quit my “traditional engineering“ job after reading this book.
Did you watch the video that the parent shared? From the sounds of it, targeting didn't seem to help at all. The video stated that they seem to think that clickfarmers will like -anything- so that a sudden surge of likes from a specific region on a specific page seems less fishy.
Indeed, I've read that many if not most doctors are self employed. They also own the clinics and have access to "insider" investments such as purchasing and operating diagnostic equipment. In addition, I've also read that doctors make up a large proportion of the investors in medical provider businesses, and even the malpractice insurance industry.

I'd expect salaries to be an incomplete measure of where the money is going, and to whom.

I think the only way to get a true cost accounting of the health care system is to operate the whole thing. This may be why other countries have lower costs.
You all need to convince Trump supporters to call too.

They hate 330 page document.

Ive gotten alot of feedback saying they'd support a 2 page version that promised dumb pipes and not the other 328 pages of nonsense.
Show HN: Add S3 Capabilities to Sia Using Minio
Google is locking people out of their documents
dmenu is so refreshingly simple. There's no attempt at being clever, no attempt at using “AI” to figure out what you mean; it just does a stupid deterministic search and lists the results alphabetically. There’s exactly zero chance for it to suddenly incorrectly second guess your command.

My only gripe about it was that it would’ve been useful to be able to write math expressions in it like you can in Spotlight... so I made a wrapper script which adds that :) https://github.com/mortie/mmenu
So maybe they might actually fix it.
Yes, I was being careless and only read the question I was interested in.
I just finished reading "Grain Brain" (as a follow up to "Wheat Belly" a couple yrs ago. GF aside, both books are - or should be - a wake up call. We're eating ourselves ill. So much so we don't even realize it.
Yeah, hooked a friend up with an x230 iirc for cheap, and she really likes it. 12" form factor just isn't for me though, I had a x100e for a month as a loaner, and man was its screen small (nevermind the spaceheater OG APU it had). Made me thankful for 14" screens and newer process technology allowing AMD and Intel to make chips that don't melt my legs!
If you look at filmmaking, a remaster and remake are two clearly distinct things. A remaster is just a high quality rerelease, while a remake is a completely new production and interpretation of the same basic story or script.

The kinds of game remakes this article talks about are somewhere in between, which can be awkward. The redrawn graphics frequently interfere with gameplay in subtle ways, as Brian Moriarty’s example from Loom. And while they can make a classic more approachable to a contemporary audience, they are usually limited to new graphics, which can make the untouched aspects of the design seem even more quaint.

I think it could be interesting to see more actual remakes in games; take the most memorable aspects of an existing game (story, characters, core gameplay ideas, etc) and see where modern game technology and design ideas can take them. At least for story driven games, this seems to be pretty uncommon.
Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
What's not working for you? Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can help troubleshoot?
You basically made his point for him.
Could just end the war on drugs and stop this environmental disaster
> that's not the outlook of van dwellers.

> You have not explored a viewpoint other than your own on this topic.

What is the outlook of van dwellers?
Sodium gets paired with sugar to manipulate the tastebuds. Taste has become a hyper-surreal experience.
I use it for daily journaling, writing articles, etc. As well as for writing terrible short stories :)

It is quite a versatile bit of writing software. Stable and I've never lost any data. Lots of features (perhaps too many sometimes) and it is well designed imho. I've only used the Windows version though and from what I've seen the macOS version is a slightly different product (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Most programmers wouldn't know an abstraction if it hit them in the face. In fact, I highly doubt that most existing technology stacks allow you to build any abstractions at all, in the original sense of functionality so self-contained that a user can't distinguish it from a programming language primitive, not just syntactically, but also semantically. In particular:

(0) If you need to know or care about its implementation details when you use it, it's not an abstraction.

(1) If unrelated ad hoc cases are hardcoded together into a single procedure, it's not an abstraction.

(2) If it needs fifteen tunable parameters, some combinations of which don't even make sense, it's not an abstraction.

At some point in time, programmers discovered that selection (if, switch, pattern mathcing, whatever) could be replaced with dynamically dispatched first-class procedure calls. Since then, they haven't stopped making their code more “abstract” by making their control flow impossible to follow. Alas, this isn't real abstraction, because it doesn't achieve the intended purpose of reducing the number of things you have to keep in your head simultaneously.

So, rather than blaming “wrong abstractions”, I'd blame “not real abstractions”.
This Nordic Tech Company's Onboarding Secret? Cinnamon Buns
“Excel just wasn’t designed to do some of the heavy lifting that companies need to do in finance,” said Paul Hammerman, a business applications analyst at Forrester Research Inc.

Instead, companies are turning to new, cloud-based technologies from Anaplan Inc., Workiva Inc., Adaptive Insights and their competitors.

The newer software connects with existing accounting and enterprise resource management systems, including those made by Oracle Corp. or SAP SE . This lets accountants aggregate, analyze and report data on one unified platform, often without additional training.

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reads like a "submarine

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Thanks! Can you possibly email me a screenshot so I can fix it? jon [at] calhoun.io
Run two sync'd NAS' in separate locations and run your own cloud.
Oh, it makes perfect business sense for Google to ask to be on the hook: less hassle for the customers means a bigger market for the product.
See my reply here ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15761490
I recently bought Facebook shares at $1.79 each, so my view is the polar opposite of Peter Thiel. Here's my estimate of what will happen to the components of Facebook revenue over next 10 years:

1. Number of Facebook users * average user income grows 50%
(keep in mind that new Facebook users are mostly in developing countries)

2. Amount of time on internet spent by average user grows 100%

3. Number of ads served to an average user per hour of internet time grows 30%

4. Effectiveness of an average Facebook ad grows 160% (ie. 10% per year)

Now 1.5 * 2 * 1.3 * 2.6 = 10.14, so I'm guessing Facebook's revenue will grow tenfold in a decade. Their profit will likely grow even faster because expenses will grow more slowly than revenue.
They do welcome vans and campers if the local laws allow them to do so.
>Phone calls are predominantly direct, 1:1 exchanges

>Since the internet is instead a broadcast medium, it is much easier for big players to saturate the lines

The Internet is _not_ a broadcast medium. Data transfer over the Internet is by nature peer-to-peer.

>ISPs naturally believe that _someone_ should be paying for what they interpret as the "extra load" from these big players

Someone _is_ paying for the load for big players: the consumers who are accessing their sites.

>some households will use 30Mbit/s streaming content to 4 devices for 10 hours per day, and the next household, which pays the same monthly internet bill, uses 5Mbit/s or less to read predominantly-text based sites for 2 hours per day

30 Mb/s residential service already costs more than 5 Mb/s residential service.

>Net neutrality is fundamentally large internet companies looking to keep their costs down by using government force to prevent ISPs from charging them usage-based "carriage fees" or similar.

Net neutrality is fundamentally a consumer protection preventing ISPs from leveraging their natural monopolies on last-mile service to enact rent-seeking policies. Whether ISPs charge consumers directly for access to, say, competing content providers ("Watch Turner Classic Movies for free with Spectrum Basic 10 Mb/s, or upgrade to Spectrum Premium 10 Mb/s for only $19.99 per month to access Netflix, Hulu, and HBO!"), or they charge those content providers extra to peer their traffic and those content providers fold that into subscription fees, we're the ones getting bent over the barrel.
Their argument is that the base internet access package will be cheaper than now... Neglecting to mention everyone will pay more for the "deluxe" package that gives them access to what they have today.
i don't know if this is the best resource for modding a van, but on the other hand it is the best implementation of a resource for modding a van, by far.
Someone could go and fix up the Wikipedia article..
I'm mostly only interested when they pass us on per capita income. It is notable though that some of their megacorps are achieving valuations akin to our largest. Maybe some day they will have a global brand.
The "algorithms course" isn't really a course at this point but is just a series of blog posts and youtube videos. I want to do more with it eventually, but there are only so many hours in a day :(

Anyway I hope you enjoy it!
The AWS Cloud Goes Underground at Re:Invent
No. Train yourself to avoid sweeteners all together :)
New Varnish HTTP VMOD: Execute HTTP Requests Directly from VCL
I had a question about this passage:

>" Firstly, as mentioned, s2n uses the so-called “Prediction resistant” mode, which means that s2n feeds the random number generator with more entropy (from hardware) on every call, as long as the right hardware is available"

Would this be the RDRAND instruction or something else?
Joint Regen – HEALTH&FITNESS
Pinned tabs actually have their own icon: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ap...
Ask HN: Where can I find a complete home security guide for hackers?
This is a very difficult subject to Google as the level of paid content is extremely high.

I would love to find something in the vein of this guide to preparing for disasters that I saw posted on HN a while back: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
I'm not opposed to doing something in this space, but it is an area I have pretty much zero experience in.

Can you recommend any language agnostic resources or really anything else that would help me get started in exploring this as a potential exercise idea?
Will Innovation Kill Us?
> Every spreadsheet shared in a business is an angel announcing another SaaS app still needs to be built.

With new (or prospective) clients that are SMBs, one of the first things I ask is, "so, what are you still using spreadsheets for?"
This actually exists inside excel since 2010, it is called get & transform (known before as power query) and lives in the data tab. It allows the user to mash data from different sources (databases, csv, excel files, current workbook) and perform sql-like opérations : filter, join, etc. In a wisiwyg-record-macro fashion.
I find it very intuitive and the steps are easily reproducible as each transformation step is translated into a language derived from F#. It is a game-changer for business users that dare using it, as it is rigorous and precise like a classical SQL flavor, but also usable with zero training.

Since it was a very powerful tool but struggled getting traction, they are using it as the core query tool for power BI (alongside DAX for great dashboarding).

Well done Microsoft.
I've always suspected such a tool must exist in a typical *nix environment but never bothered to search for it. This is very helpful. Thanks for the simple example!
Thanks. I'll have to go create an icon for this. So many custom icon formats :\

Edit: I believe I have an icon set here now. I might need to tweak it but it should work in the meantime.
That and the incentives you receive differs to the incentives the business has. Align those two together and you will find you will work your ass off because you not only get a income but a passive income from your work.
Okay - let's play. How many people need to hear a song or artist for them to be designated "mainstream"?
This is not that good...
Years back there was an NYT Sunday Mag (op ed) piece that blamed increae in waistlines - via the increase usage of HFCS - on farm subsidies from corn.

My editorial: Thanks Uncle Sam.