skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtual Bodyguard Hero Family Security Game
Get ready to be a virtual bodyguard hero of a virtual happy family and protect them from the criminals and gangster in Virtual Bodyguard Hero Family Security Game. Your favorite virtual bodyguard hero is an army retired soldier and trained to mess with any kind of problems.
Offtopic, but speaking of delayed trains, I remember Italia offering me a half refund on a train that broke down and delayed to arrive at destination. I didn't have to fill any form, and the email arrived 2-3 hours past the arrival.
911 operator who hung up on 1000s of callers sentenced to 18 months probation
My wife has been complaining about the keyboard on her new Macbook Pro, within months of getting it. It seems the keys are sticking, but we're not sure if its a defect or if crumbs got underneath. It has never happened on our previous-model MacBooks Pros/Airs. Either way, this design is unfortunate for the consumer.
Google Research Blog: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken
You claimed a contradiction but didn't present it. And you go on to assert exactly the things that I said. I am saying that the system failed the students by forcing them to prepare relentlessly for these exams, which the students come to realize is really the only path to success, robbing them of some of the aspects of a normal childhood.

If the system / economy were capable of providing a more varied set of jobs like acting opportunities, regular gigs for bands, apprenticeships in various blue collar jobs, etc. then people will be able to choose professions that better match their interests and skill sets. Why force someone who likes to work with wood into a degree in engineering or science. This is largely what is happening in India.

I am not saying that there are no actors or bands or bike mechanics in India. Rather, it is assumed that everyone needs a degree from college and even if this is an entirely ridiculous proposition for many people (based on their interests) and they endure four years in college doing something they don't enjoy in some of the formative years of their life.

So the people who might have benefited from an apprenticeship or taking a year or two off from this career sprint suffer the most, and the final allocation of people to jobs is dismal (the fact that hundreds of thousands of Indians work at call centers is a symptom). The system fails by not providing such kinds of alternate opportunities at the scale that is necessary for a country so huge.

Finally, all middle income Indian parents will continue to pick some career in a STEM discipline for their kids very early on, preventing any investment of time in discovering their interests, keeping this carousel spinning.
Ballmer's curve strikes again.
Thanks for the tips, I’ll pass them along.

She has gone through purchasing the counterfeits with varying levels of success. One time, she got one of the cockroaches kicked off her ASIN then the next day a brand new company appears on the same item. Other times she got them to stop.
Is it ideals or is it market placement? If they're staying separate then I imagine maximum market coverage means having a split where they maintain the family friendly visage of SmugMug and they keep the wide gamut of photography on Flickr.
There is way too much taxpayer’s money wasted on this dispute.
Wait, people emailed Moxie to ask for tips into breaking into WhatsApp?
This man assisted me in hacking my CHEATING HUSBAND Facebook account and he is a very good hacker for services like :WhatsApp, call logs, test messages etc. He delivers in 2hrs or less you can contact him via:
Email: E N R I Q U E H A C K D E M O N 11 ( a t ) G M A I L d o t C O M.
WhatsApp: + 1 ( 6 2 8 ) 2 0 3 - 7 0 0 5
Text/Call: + 1 ( 4 0 9 ) 9 9 9 - 3 4 7 7 .He might ask for who referred you to him say MONIQUE.
Some of the highest paid people ever, being handed incomes equivalent to a developing world country. I'd have trashed Yahoo for half of that!
This man assisted me in spying on my cheating husband remotely, you can also visit him for any kinda hacking help...via enriquehackdemon11 @ g m a I l . c o m or WhatsApp + 1 6 2 8 2 0 3 7 0 0 5
Not really. https://github.com/random-maven/scalor-maven-plugin
Southwest Airlines protested airworthiness directive
Mostly, I use Abe.
There is absolutely no taxpayer money wasted, because civil trials are paid for by the losing party.
> > without worrying about money fleeing the jurisdiction and we'd be able to fund things like ...

> North Korea is horrible to its people so it has to lock them in. You're effectively wanting the same thing but for everyone.

It would be nice if people paid taxes for the infrastructure that enables businesses worldwide,but that would turn us into north Korea? What? North Korea isn't horrible because of taxes friend (in fact, most of the most horrible places on earth have an official tax of zero, you just need to bribe everyone)
What flawed logic enables this?

>America has important things to attract value producers so that they'll tolerate paying the tax because they're still better off than trying to earn money in some worse country despite lower taxes. It's up to the government to squeeze as much out of them as it can without losing them.

Ah, randian ideas of value producers and moochers, instead of participants in a society and economy. I see
Is anyone follows https://libav.org development? I was under the impression they merged back with FFmpeg when
Michael Niedermayer resigned as leader. Now I see they still make their own releases. So merge ultimately did not happen?

EDIT: Just found that FFmpeg merges (almost) all libav.org changes: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/doc/libav-merge...
Now that was an excellent read, quite astounding.

Please post to HN front page and re-post as updates occur!
is there really a need to force everybody to the same level? I don’t think that it is a competition, people just share their moments. why equalize everybody’s photos to same crappy quality?
After working in a web agency for years I learned to be very wary if the client’s current website is terrible.

My first reaction was to think ‘what a terrible job the previous lot did, I’m sure we can do better than that’.

But it’s always the clients fault.

Either they slowly unpick all the design decisions so the new site is no better than the old one, or they balk at the cost, get it developed on the cheap overseas, then pay us more than the original quote to fix all the resulting problems.

Good clients already have good websites.
If the government where you are doesn't know you have kids, and the kids are working to help feed the family, then you almost certainly don't care if it is illegal. If you get money commensurate with what the kids could earn/provide then it makes a big difference.

FWIW it's not illegal in the UK to keep your kids at home, the Education Act simply requires you ensure they have provision of an education.
Corporations are people.
https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...
It was not easy to pursue MBBS course in India earlier and such difficulties are still there. If you dream to become doctor to serve your society then mbbs abroad is a good option today. You can study mbbs in ukraine whose cost is comparatively cheap and you also receive quality education. Although Ukraine had few issues in some of its areas but this country still offers medical education which is global standards. You receive best exposure through choosing to get yourself enrolled in mbbs ukraine which is easier to get enrolled. Besides earning a foreign degree, you enjoy new environment due to presence of students from different nationalities. You feel the difference in multicultural study life.

www.careerconvey.com
I very actively use Flickr since 2006 and here is my feedback:

- As a photographer, I enjoy photography on desktop computers rather than mobile screens. This is why I prefer Flickr over Instagram.

- Delete the Yahoo login please.

- Bring back the community feeling. I used to check Flickr blog every week to see what is going on in the Flickr community.

- Simplify the product please. I think Flickr is great at organizing photos but it's not ideal for following photographers.

- Usernames are a mess. Let's say your username was "bob" when you registered as a Flickr user. Later, Yahoo Flickr renamed usernames as "handle" and introduced another username. Please unify usernames and handles and make it simple again.

Best of luck. I hope Flickr's destiny won't be like Delicious.
UK teen gets 2 years for targeting CIA chief’s phone, email
In this particular case, Iceland is concerned about their domestic DC market supply flooding local demand if the BTC mining dries up.

There are still good reasons to host in Iceland — geothermal power, no or less need to run expensive AC units, maybe low enough latency to European sites — but 90% of their current consumption is BTC miners.
On an unrelated note, I think that's a really smart move on the part of the EU. Most of these companies do what they can not to pay taxes in Europe, and counteracting it is difficult without hurting other businesses or creating other kinds o bureaucracy. But with the GDPR, the EU can easily put million-dollar fees on these companies easily.
> We need better ways to pay for content. Preferably one which rewards good content. Today everything is clickbait and the idea to pay for clickbait is extremely off putting to me.

That's garbage. The NYT isn't clickbait. Neither is WaPo, BBC, NPR, Reuters, AFP and many others. If you want more tech focused content there is The Information, Stratechery, Pando Daily.

For nearly all of those there is an easy way to pay, or someone else is paying on your behalf.
Yeah, quite tricky
Assuming that the digitization is done diligently, committing to long-term maintenance of the originals would be borderline hoarding.
Surprised that he missed out 192.168.0.0/16
“Everything is clickbait” only proves that the concept has lost all meaning, not that journalism has somehow changed for the worse.

Look how much of the conversation is driven by traditional media outlets. If people really believe we can lose all that and still have a functioning civil society with an informed citizenry, I fear for the future.
I didn't even notice there was animation, I scrolled past too quickly. Visiting it again you have to wait a large number of seconds (for something to download presumably) before the animation starts.
It's a great pity ffserver has been removed.
Do you have an example of such an idea – maybe one that is no longer of use?
The +$10bn transferred daily through the Bitcoin network seems to contradict individuals who say Bitcoin is useless.
Get onboard with the BAT project[1]! I think it perfectly fills this role.

Also the average salary in [Western European country] is $6,600 a year? I'm not sure I believe you...

1: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Related: I was reading somewhere yesterday (reddit?) about hypnogogia and how creative types used the gap between sleep and wakefullness to tap the minds creative/artistic thought.

Basically a light version of using drugs for creative stimulation: instead of creating the altered state, tapping the altered states that are already present at certain times.
Since becoming open source and the system's architecture is in the open, I wonder how this criticism of FoundationDB from a VoltDB architect https://www.voltdb.com/blog/2015/04/01/foundationdbs-lesson-... fairs against the knowledge that has now become available. (To summarize, the author argues that building an SQL layer on top of an ordered key-value store is suboptimal)
> without having to wonder whether it's going to work when I hit 'send'. Hi Bob, did you get my photo? Sorry, it didn't go through, Bob's carrier in Bangladesh has set limits on photo size and mine was too big.

Pretty sure you'll know prior to sending whether Bob is able to receive the message by just seeing the message is being sent by RCS.
Some Tips for Reboosting Your PC
Derek Price's "law of exponential increase" from "Science Since Babylon" (1961) is an observation that there has been an exponential growth of science over a long period of time.

The Nobel Prize hasn't had a corresponding growth.

The population has also had an exponential growth, so there is a definite correlation. Should some day we reach zero population growth, we'll learn if Price's law breaks down.
Bartering on reward money before disclosure can easily look like -or be- blackmail.
Non-profit (but not actually decentralised)
https://lib.reviews/
The Hague Bans Public Consumption of Cannabis
> it’s useless today against heavily armed state and modern military equipment (drones, tanks).

Tell that to the Afghans.
The <div class="top-shadow"> covers the scroll bar at the top of the browser window (in Firefox) effectively rendering the scroll bar disabled for the top 1/3 of the window. Additionally, page down and space keys are disabled for navigation. I'm not sure its possible to scroll using any key on the keyboard.
In Allowing Telegram to Use Their Infrastructure to Circumvent a Ban Dictated by a Judge, Amazon and Google Break Their Own Connectivity Towards Russian Customers
PSA: The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Is Faster Than It Used to Be
>Will progress make the rich/poor people gap bigger? What is the _root_ of this problem? //

Absolutely. The root is capitalism puts much of the reward for workers labour in the hands of the already rich owners - with an excess of labour the value of a person in capitalist terms tends towards zero; pure capitalism has no notion of humanity or basic human worth, just of humans as resources.

The benefits of progress would need to be democratised, which is basically some form of communism - which countries like USA and UK have been ably brainwashed in to thinking is the devil and harmful to ordinary workers.
Best way to rephrase the post title...

Brutally honest people are better at creative problem solving.
I have always loved flickr, and always worrried investor or wall street pressure would ruin it by causing it to censor more.

Flickr has been able to keep naughty pics and groups and made mini social network groups that don't require real names. It's a little known bastion of the old net in some ways.

Now that oauth is pushing these logging / sharing terms updates, I am glad they are getting rid of flickr. I just hope they don't start censoring more and become ruined by investors who push mainstream ad revenue acceptance over having less censored sharing.

I understand they have ways to download your pics in batches to move elsewhere, however for me it's the groups of people who share similar things, comments using aliases, community from around the world, others sharing pics from events I'll likely never be able to visit, and easily creative commons narrow searches by type of license.

There is no way to download all of that... wonder how as much as possible could be ported from and to scuttlebutts groups, buddypress systems and the like.

It was sad watching tumblr and so many others get ruined by greedy overlords, I hope this great portal does not end the same way, and smugmug will let me continue as is.
It's a defect or multiple defects. I have 2016 MB and a mid-2017 touch bar MBP. So many keys have became unresponsive that I backspace most of the letters I type; A torture that you can't let your frustration out on by typing heavily, lest your fingers bear the brunt (Newton's third law + shallow keys). My shiny new MBP began having these issues after about 2 months.

2nd gripe:
I made the most unfortunate mistake of attempting to install Windows 10 through bootcamp. short story: windows f-d up during reboot, leaving me with a non-booting mac parition that I don't want to erase.

I thought I could repair it with Ubuntu, but...

Most aggrivatingly, there are no linux drivers for the keyboard on the MBP (due to the touch bar being a single unit with the keyboard) and you need more than one USB-C to USB converter if you want to both plug in a linux boot disk and a keyboard that actually works.

Far worse is the fact that there is no linux driver for the entire logic board (as it's a single unit with the keyboard and touch bar). No logic board means no access to the hard drive at all. So I can't fix the partition with a linux boot disk even if I do have multiple USB converters. Now both laptops are either used as bookends or to hold my coffee. So yeah, thanks Apple.
When I wrote that I mostly had in mind sites in my country (Sweden). Sure, a foreign subscription is a good idea for world news but you still need ones that specifically covers local issues.
So long as xz(1) gets insane amounts of compression and there is no compressor which compresses better, people are going to keep preferring it.
You can use JSdoc and get all the advantages from TypeScript/Flow and don't have to change your syntax or add complicated build steps and source maps.
Hi Don, I hope you are able to see my post, I think I became a bit invisible here, but I just want to take the opportunity to thank you for all those ZFS filer reviews, back in the day. This had a profound utility for us, which I will date to mention, now shuttered fifteen years ago due to the sudden death of my co-founder and best friend, we were so struck by what you guys were doing that we spent ten man years on a competitor... Ahm, no, no we didn't actually intend to compete, that would have been unable to pass my late co-founder's stringent "is it any good?" test, where I had to convince him as nauseam we had no negative motivation..but we thought we saw a higher end need for photo hosting, in the advertising world, where we saw that a readily available search and lightbox app, like you see at Corbis, or Getty, plus of course actually reliable storage, would be in immediate demand from photographers who liaise with ADs, everywhere. We had nifty features like rendering photos for the display capability, and were planning to hook up deals where the AD could subscribe to get so many 10 by 8 or larger proofs bikes to them, potentially from the nearest photographer who upheld a minimum process standard. This had ambition to take on digital advertising delivery. We thought smugmug was the game changer able to bring credibility to our dream of expanding access to lucrative agency work, to normal photographers. So we set about making the tools... even the dot com is long lost during my life's upheavals that followed from personal loss in large part, I grew up knowing my co-founder, but I think we've still got the unused Twitter handle. It was to be called PhotoAlta. Or PA (short for Photo Agency, which we thought was cute) . This is still a dream about opening the industry in ways that can make advertising affordable to small businesses, which is simply not at all the case now. In 03/04/05, we didn't see the hockey stick of the cloud, not at all clearly anyhow, but we knew that rather than bike proofs about, we'd rather provide on demand runtimes of proofing software, fronted by preconfiguration and parameter checks for avoiding waste. There's a realm of incredibly expensive software loosely categorised as pre press, that we desperately wanted to democratize. This expense was the hurdle to starting out business almost a decade earlier, and I've never been far from my work for opening the advertising industry economy, so random as this is, shame faced and also humbly if you are at all interested in what I'm on about here, I'd simply be delighted to pass on, unreservedly, to where it may do some good.
It most certainly has changed for the worse.

Because with everything clickbait there is no reason to focus on content since articles without it "sell" just as well. And since good content doesn't bring money anymore why bother?

As a user it becomes much harder to find good content, which reduces the usefulness and desire to read and continue the subscription.
In terms of vested interests your cynicism may be warranted, but that doesn't mean both claims can't be right.

There is no safe level of automobile use either. But using a car can be useful and worth the risk for many.
You are assuming people will stop mining if this is banned in Iceland. That's just not how it works.

Feel free to like or dislike cryptocurrency mining (I too believe it to be a waste of energy -- but that's not the point), but it's likely not going away. So you want the "green" efforts to be as cheap and efficient as possible, if you want to outcompete the less eco friendly alternatives.
I would call it the plugin pattern. Where plug-ins enhance the main program.
FWIW the short story that that part of the book is based on is available for under a dollar

Wang's Carpets, by Greg Egan
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009ZVKQVS/
>For use on the web the web server could grep require from the source and push modules to the browser

Nope. The server can’t figure out which modules are needed unless it runs the program:

if (isPrime(366226717)) {
require(“hugeModule”)
}
How does it work for other jobs?
How do you trust a painter or a plumber? How do you proove that his/her work was good and can do it?
Well, considering I’m the one with 74000 servers here for whom this automatic restart via package postinstall works and works wonderfully, we are going to disagree and I’m going to continue doing what I’m doing the way I’ve been doing it for the past 20 years across IRIX, HP-UX and Solaris since it provides total automation. You’re welcome to continue theorizing but I’m the one here with a real world use case, and this approach works great. Since this is my specialty, there is a miniscule chance that I might know what I’m doing and what I’m writing about, however small and unenviable that chance might be.
I agree. I think a good dose of humility is important. Induction doesn't always work. Simply because it happens over and over again doesn't mean it will happen this time. The turkey loves the farmer and thinks he would never harm him -- until Thanksgiving Day. Then inductive reasoning fails for the turkey :)

Having said that, for those of us in developed countries, it's worthy of note just how far away we've come from struggling to provide our basic needs. If you took a poor person today and described their life to somebody from 500 years ago, it would sound like they were kings. To the guy 500 years ago, our modern-day life would be a place where nobody would have to work. Yet we still work.

I guess humans are like that.
(2013)

The data surely must be better by now.
Yes, Steven King writes utter bullshit, but somehow he makes it scary like no one else
UK President Survival Missions: London Hijack
You don't have an untrained eye; you've looked at logos all day long for your entire life. Some of this guy's work was great, and some of it was crap. The same could be said of a collection of any person's work.
What? Those kinds of tasks on mechanical turk are precisely to gather data to train those kinds of neural networks
> There are real limits to how much money we have.

I think it's very important for us to be aware that while this is true for private individuals, companies, and local governments, it is totally false for monetarily sovereign governments like the US federal government.

There is no limit to how much money it can spend. Any discussion of budgets at that level in terms of deficits etc. is completely flawed, and not just because a lot of politicians are extremely hypocritical about it, but because it just makes no sense in terms of economics and finance.

When thinking about the spending and taxation of a monetarily sovereign governments, the only real constraint is inflation. This is because the only real constraint is the amount of real resources that are available.

For what it's worth, this approach is part of what's called "functional finance".
So Amtrack is downgrading their food to the same level as their far more successful European counterparts and everyone panics and sees it as a sign of their imminent demise.

I think people are overreacting a bit but then again i am used to the cramped overcrowded European railway network which likely have much different problems to what's seen in America.
For those wanting to go down this road, where do you even start?