skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know how Europe keeps its small businesses? Mixed-use development with large population densities in larger cities and strong centre-villes in smaller towns (some that aren't drivable).

What the US calls "city planning" is a complete oxymoron.
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No we not speaking English. /s
Yeah, but is that "on purpose" altruism, or an accident of expansive geography?

Regardless, it sounds like a more affordable place (if car-bound).
Generally, electric propulsion is used for two purposes in Earth-orbiting spacecraft: for correcting the orbit (station-keeping) and for raising the orbit from an intermediate to the target one (in relatively recent all-electric GEO sats)

Station-keeping requires relatively short burns (sub-hour to several hours) in all directions. When raising the orbit, the spacecraft usually keeps itself in fixed position relative to the Sun to maximize the solar panel output. The propulsion unit keeps working at all times, both in prograde and retrograde, because efficient Hall thrusters are tricky to work with in impulse mode, and are heavily optimized for continuous operation.

So in most cases, xenon is ejected in arbitrary directions, retrograde being only one of them. Besides, some ion/plasma thrusters are so efficient that they eject the propellant at more than double escape velocity. I would guess most of the propellant actually leaves the gravity well; also, at higher altitudes where electric propulsion is mostly used there's no atmosphere to collide with.
The original image found by Best Buy techs was in unallocated space which did not hold up in court as justification for a warrant. Unfortunately, the charges against him have been dropped. The accused had child pornography on 5 devices when the FBI searched his home.
> This matters in Brainfuck; choosing the "wrong" one of the idioms [-] and [+] for zeroing a cell gets worse as cells get bigger.

Translating these idioms to "*data = 0" was one of the first peephole optimizations I implemented when writing my own optimizing brainfuck interpreter.
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What about rendering speed?

Is this not an issue when you have many dynamic elements on a page?
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I couldn't read the article on a mobile screen. The text rendered at about 3px high. Please consider using a mobile-friendly CSS design.
Prop 13 is rent control for land owners, and the same issues apply. One crazy thing is that you can get reassessed for improving a place.
Anyone can say they refused a job offer from Google. It's puffery unless you can substantiate it, and substantiating it is awkward and smells of praise-seeking.
Or. You know. Stop killing people for oil?
I've always been a fan of the Edmonds Cookbook coconut chocolate brownie recipe, if you ever want to try out a non-boxed recipe. I see it can be found online here: http://edmondscooking.co.nz/recipes/slices-squares/coconut-c...

One bonus of the Edmonds recipe is it also uses only ingredients you probably already have (except maybe the desiccated coconut).
Presumably when the landlord rented the place out they did so at a price that would cover their mortgage and other expenses including maintainance. That landlord's problem isn't covering expenses, it's that they're envious of the increasing profits of other landlords.
Around $3000/month for a 1-bedroom.
because you're already tired and taxed from dealing with a senior with dementia or a child with severe mental retardation, and there aren't enough hours in the day as it is.
Yeah, we've got some work to do to fill out our set of examples. (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.)

- There's a catalog of simple but official examples in the Flutter repo, under the examples directory: https://github.com/flutter/flutter

- One Flutter user has contributed a pretty impressive list of examples and learning resources here: https://github.com/Solido/awesome-flutter

- One of my personal favorite examples is this restaurant app prototype, which is inspired by an Uplabs design: https://github.com/braulio94/menu_flutter
I initially thought PM stood for Prime Minister, in which case, the answer should be yes [1]. :-)

[1] "Prime Minister of Singapore shares his C++ code for Sudoku solver" [ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime... ]
manually installing unpacked extensions is the only way that currently works, update_url doesnt work for more than a year, Chrome just calls home on hardcoded IPs.
How to start selling without setting up a company?
If Snowden told us anything, it's that Google was accommodating direct feeds from their users private data to the NSA. Didn't hear of employees outraged at google's military involvement then.
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It’s not but it’s true that there are some restrictions in many cities on building higher than 1-story or 2-story houses.
36K euros a year "Brut" (before social security) was my starting salary in the Paris area. I know that Berlin is a little bit cheaper (in term of rent) than Paris but I would expect it to be about the same as Paris in term of salary.

For information in Paris, currently I'm at ~50K a year "Brut", which means ~35K a year "Net" ("go home" salary).

I'm costing ~75K per year to my employer in term of salary (there are taxes on his side to).

My rent, for a small flat (22 square meters) in Paris is around 10K per year.

My taxes are around 6K per year.

I'm an SRE/software engineer with ~8 years experience.
Don't give them money, give them houses. Homeless person + stable place to live = ~0 homeless. Your retort might be, well if we did that, then people would become homeless intentionally and we'd have to give them a house.

Well... yea, that's the idea. Without rent, the average family's budget would increase by probably > 25-30%. We could set up schemes to rotate good residences to people that need them (e.g. families with kids get 8 yr tenures near schools). For houses without long waitlists, people can trade at will. Decommodifying that sector of the market would do a world of good.
Or under/over-tighten, forget the oil, strip the mount. But you need a garage and jack (curb?), oil disposal, etc.

(It's nice not having a car anymore.)
It boils down to how much you trust the US government to use this technology ethically. Also "they'd do that anyway" is not a very good argument wrt ethics.
Or quite the reverse, such as the last set of "Panasonic" batteries I bought off Amazon. After about 3 months all 12 had leaked and were dead. I'm damn sure they were not Panasonic. The reputation damage was to amazon, not Panasonic, and I resolved not to buy batteries from Amazon ever again.

No doubt a fake Lacoste would disintegrate in a fraction of the time of a genuine shirt.

Know what's ridiculous? I trust Poundland more than I trust Amazon to supply genuine goods.
I'm indeed exaggerating to make a point, and I agree with you that most of the employees jut want to live their lives.

The homeless example was probably ill-chosen as well.

That being said, where as you said most of the companies have those type of feel-good values, it is well known that it is only corporate-level marketing talk, and I would challenge you to find employees of let's say GE or Walmart really believing any of those.

But from the big tech companies (and yes mostly google), I'm still amazed to meet employees that genuinely believe those feel-good values are actually REAL.
It shocks me even more that those employees are usually ultra-educated engineers.
There is something deeply sad and hypocrite to claim living by those values ("make the world a better place"), but then having a lifestyle that puts them in the top 1% and look up at the rest of the country for not doing the right thing.

Now as you said, it is not all of them (not even the majority), but there is definitely a trend that cannot be ignored.
It's both. The correlation is too positive in dollar terms, and too negative once you back out the BTC correlation by repricing things in terms of BTC (which is usually the base currency in crypto-only trading pairs).
I think a big takeaway from this is that just writing stuff down is important. Even if you don't die it could be useful; maybe you are involved in a car accident and forget the last 3 years of your life.

Where do you store all of this?
When you say Tengwar, do you mean English transliterated into Tengwar, or Sindarin/Quenya?
Sounds awesome. Can't wait for weeks, have signed up.

One request: Could you lower the monthly fee for people like me who are from India like in the range of $1 to $5 per month. $15 is a large figure for Indian common citizens.
> When news of the pilot project, which is the company’s first with the Defense Department’s Project Maven, was circulated on an internal mailing list, some Google employees were reportedly “outraged” and “concerned” that the company would offer its services for drone-related surveillance technology.

I worked for multiple government contractors in the DoD space up until a few years ago and Google worked with us on MULTIPLE contracts. They're outraged and concerned now? What were they 5 years ago?

Most of the large tech companies do government contract work for the DoD but it seems like Silicon Valley just forgets this over and over and over again.
>> Many of us just want to live our lives,

So how come Google (and others) market his new shiny tools as "revolutionary", "game changing", etc. ? There must be at least a part of the shop that believes the message.
Brokers are often limited in which countries they'll accept clients from, but that's to avoid all the overhead of filling the appropriate tax forms to each government (and maintaining the knowledge of what the rules in each country are).
The sentiment in this thread is so odd to me. Whether you believe Google is a force for good or evil in the world, the fact that many of its employees demand that it be a good one should be positive, yeah?

(As a disclaimer, I worked for Google several years ago and generally feel that it walked the walk ethically. Of course, maybe that just means my moral compass is skewed...)
Snowden didn’t say that. It’s your invention. Snowden said the NSA had tapped into certain google backbone connections, without google’s knowledge.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16532112
This may be unpopular opinion, but nations are all researching, developing and even deploying automated 'killing machines' anyways. Turkey is already deploying kill drones against the Kurds in Afrin. There are automated, self-guided artillery weapons being developed. There is an arms race on and it doesn't make any sense to hold back unless there is world-wide treaty and embargo at the global level.
Would you prefer your dolce grande latte with brown sugar or aspartame, Sir? Look, some eastern Europeans are stealing your fixed-gear bicycle!
I’ve read sentencing remarks on other cases where, although the initial evidence would have been struck for whatever reason, the weight of evidence found upon subsequent searches during the investigation resulted in the case still going to trial and a guilty verdict being handed down.

Some of those cases have gone to appeal and been reversed by higher courts.

Such is the nature of an adversarial court system predicated upon the rule of law.

We, as a society, have, and continue to, make these trade offs.

Having been ground through the court system for drug trafficking, and been lucky enough to have the evidence struck at pre-trial conference due to a very similar case where the defendant was found guilty but the decision later reversed on appeal due to illegal police search...

I, personally, reserve my judgement on all cases that make it to trial, and prefer to read about them as a curiosity.

Edited to add: I strongly support the idea that law enforcement shouldn’t be searching people’s homes illegally, and that anything found as a result of such a search should be in admissible.

We need strong privacy protections, and if that means some crime goes under reported... well, so be it.
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Maybe "feels like" is too subjective but it absolutely feels like Java to me:

* Object-oriented with inheritance (sharing the same keywords such as 'class' and 'extends'

* Non-optional semicolons

* Constructors, method overriding, calling `super.whatever` in your overriden methods

* Presence of null

* A base Object class for all objects in Dart, with hashCode() toString() methods

These are mostly superficial observations, and it's not a criticism of the language, but it certainly feels like Java to me, more than Scala or Go does.
Show HN: Non-invasive, type-safe C data structures with GCC builtins
It's actually more complicated than that. Here's the Serious Eats analysis about different types of canned tomatoes: https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/10/canned-tomato-types-and-...

TL;DR: Pre-diced canned tomatoes are bad because calcium chloride (a firming agent), combined with a larger surface area, makes it not break down properly when cooking.
I don't want my email provider to also become a defense contract (with all the corruption that entails).

Also, I seem to recall Google promising not to become a defense contractor when they purchased Boston Dynamics, exactly because there was a backlash against them over that possibility. I also remember they went back on that promise literally months later when they started testing AR stuff with the military.

Anyway, saying "Google is only helping the US government kill fewer innocents" is like saying "IBM was only helping the Nazi classify the people who really deserved to die in the gas chambers."

So yeah, if Google can help it (and it certainly can), it should stay the f-out of military contracts. It doesn't want to go that road. I for one would certainly make an effort to use Google's servers less and less if it does.

I mean, how long will it be until it starts offering a firehose to our data to the U.S. government, especially in "times of need" or because it wants to win some other big contracts with the government? Google has certainly been guilty of doing that (look how much more aggressive it has become against alleged copyright infringements with no proof ever since it started selling music and movies).
Here are some non-invasive, type-safe data structures in C that are based on macros and GCC builtins (Should also build with recent Clang). When writing prioq_pop(), I figured it would be simpler to generate code by replacing text with sed/perl/python.
The amount of optimization that is performed by compilers with known arguments is impressive.
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> they are outraged because they all initially signed up to "make the world a better place" and obviously you do that by working for a megacorp which parks their 30 billion $ offshore cash on Bermuda

And they are more in bed with Uncle Sam than pretty much any traditional "evil" company. They spent $18M in lobbying just last year. More than Northrop, Lockheed, Verizon or Comcast. If that's not enough the same Schmidt that wants to kill people "correctly" was prancing around Hillary's campaign events wearing a "staff" badge https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-6a12-d435-a9ff-7f5ae.... He picked the wrong door of course, but had she won, they'd be no doubt Google would have gotten a decent chunk of the hundreds of billions spent on defense every year. I can just imagine a nice friendly voice interface: "Ok Google. Let's fly to such and such village in Afghanistan"
I don't think they have much to gain by advocating for this kind of stuff so publicly. They're already incredibly well known for Basecamp, Ruby on Rails, and various other things. That's why I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt that they've demonstrated they deserve (in my view).

But who knows, maybe they are indeed psychopathic attention seekers like you suggest. It's impossible for us to prove it one way or another, so I largely find that an irrelevant detail. I generally agree with the general spirit of what they're advocating for even if sometimes they don't quite hit the mark.
> normal healthcare avenues

It's worth noting that's not a selling point for many Americans.

From incomprehensible billing and having to fight for coverage with health insurance, to dealing with antiquated offices (fax? really?), never mind the hassle of scheduling an appointment over the phone, going in to an office, and seeing a doctor who's rushing you out the door, "normal healthcare avenues" is cumbersome, and persists only due to lack of real competition in the marketplace. (The doctor, of which there are really truly awesome ones, is a cog in a far larger machine.)

Still, the technology that allows us to screen a fetus at 12-weeks of pregnancy is quite impressive.
> (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.)

Please, that's a disclosure, not a disclaimer.

Keep up the great work, I'm really excited by Flutter!
would better image classification not reduce the
potential for civilian casualties and other
unnecessary collateral damage?

Richard Gatling, inventor of the first successful machine gun, wrote he hoped his invention would make war more humane, by reducing the need for large armies with the resultant exposure to battle and disease [1].

Fritz Haber, "father of chemical warfare", believed that deploying poison gas in WW1 would shorten the war, and thereby save lives [2].

It would seem people who work on military tech in the hopes of saving lives are often disappointed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jordan_Gatling#Gatling...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/sep/16/chlorin...
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I'll jump to flutter once they have a convincing media player / recorder native component as well as a google map equivalent. If this has good performance on both iOS and android, with features comparable to native ones, then i don't see what can stop them.

Unless Apple starts implementing its own cross-platform sdk in swift... But judging by the slow pace at which swift is moving (compared to its "worl domination" ambitions, that is), i don't think it'll happen anytime soon.
Better image classification might also cause them to make more attacks, overall raising civilian casualties.

As someone largely opposed to war, I would be upset to discover my work was being used for those purposes. It's bad enough that I'm forced to pay for it. I don't think that's what happened here though, and "the megacorp I work for also works with the military" would not surprise me.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16532788. Sorry we missed this for longer than usual.
My family’s “famous” chocolate cake recipe is from the side of the Hershey’s Cocoa container. It is way better than any other chocolate cake, even from baking cookbooks. I should write it down in case they ever change it...
If you say you have a beautiful, powerful, fast, full featured application development system then you need to be able to SHOW me, and its gotta knock me out in every possible way.

Nothing here at all for Flutter, just words.
Did you read your own article? It says: "Voter fraud, by any method, is still rare. A study by News21 — a consortium of journalism schools — found 867 cases since 2000 in which someone had admitted guilt or been convicted of a voter-fraud offense. That was out of about 146 million registered voters."

The headline is super misleading, the point of the article is that selling votes is more common than outright impersonation or other forms of voting fraud.
Print everything out and seal it in an envelope with instructions for them to "open this when I die". If you don't trust them enough, give the same thing to a lawyer.
Outraged they lost the Faustian Bargain?
I hadn't considered this, why do you ever need to rebalance then?
I don't recall that particular revelation (a slide with an arrow from 'Google' to 'NSA' is not proof of collusion). Inded, wasn't there some kerfuffle about the NSA inserting taps into Google internal fibre lines? Why would they need to do that if they had access through the front door?
Yes it does. The info can then be linked to in the Bitcoin page. Thanks
> At a fraction of the cost

That’s exactly the problem. Brands can be held accountable. Unbranded goods can’t. Me personally, I don’t want to live in a world, where all standards are given up just to have the lowest price.
I run a fulfillment center and we recently acquired a client’s business: DonaldTrumpDogPoopBags.com

For now I’m running support for that myself. My most common email is explaining early delivery notifications to confused customers. I’ve taken to just emailing this link w a quick one-line explanation:
https://lifehacker.com/why-you-have-a-delivery-confirmation-...

The amount of time wasted by this one specific ‘cheat’ is astronomical.
From my personal experience, you're wrong at least about Berlin, Prague, Rome, Vienna, Hamburg, Warsaw, Munich, Milan, Brussels, Cologne (man, 100+ thousands of people in the Rhine-Ruhr area don't speak German at conversation level at all) and so on. I don't know about the really eastern ones, but we're talking about the EU, so non-EU Balkan states, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine is excluded. You're probably right about the eastern and eastern-southern border of the EU; it's also true in Poland outside of Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw and several more bigger cities.

Luckily, there is an index we can look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index , of course this one received a lot of criticism, so we can look at this one instead: http://www.surveylang.org/media/ExecutivesummaryoftheESLC_21...
Git the tool does packfiles but that's an implementation detail. Git the VCS can work with any object storage backend.
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> Clear ethical barriers preclude structured research into the physiology of such stimuli.

I wonder why that is. The key point is "voluntary" starvation, read fasting. Why not make a study with consenting participants to fast for a specific time? Which "clear ethical barrier" is broken here?
The FDA is pretty excellent. You’ll find all sorts of criticism online, but they are doing a remarkable job. Just remember they routinely have to stand in the way between seriously ill patients and the supposed “miracle cure” when you read anything online.
If Prop 13 was the problem, it would have affected all of California vs. only SF. Why is LA, San Diego and Sacramento relatively so affordable vs. SF?

The issue with SF is amazingly complicated zoning laws which prevents building up and the NIMBYism which continue to support it.
I have seen in this on other countries. They have corruption, it is widespread. So what do the do? Well, of course have a new corruption fighting entity that combines elements from judiciary, executive (including police) and legislative branches. Soon enough, this becomes the new most corrupt entity. Because they monitor and catch lower level corrupt officials, who once caught, now have to pay much higher price to get off the hook.
And is that an argument not to plan at all? Of course you can't pinpoint an exact figure, but it still pays off to plan even on a ballpark figure.
Non-technical testing
Trump doesn’t have a science adviser. This slime mold is available
I don't know if it's a factor, but it might be worth noting that Survivor originated from Sweden. (Where it was called Expedition Robinson, after Robinson Crusoe.)
Do you have any open APIs? I’m working on a portfolio application and would love to offer an integration like this.