skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting a price in the US will mean you also exclude people from poorer regions where cost of living and wages are lower. This is not exclusive in the eurozone.

I'm not an expert on the relevant policies in the US. Are there laws that prevent charging a different price to customers in one state compared to another, if spending power is much higher in one than the other?

Could that be considered a bad thing because it distorted the markets? I highly doubt many would agree?

I said there was always a risk, not that it was inevitable that any distortion in the markets would be a bad thing. All regulatory actions distort free markets as well, but that doesn't mean all regulation is bad.

In this case, however, we're talking about an EU that typically tries quite hard to prevent businesses from offering something at one price in say Germany and at another price in say Greece. It's quite possible that this prevents some products or services from being financially viable if they are offered at a price the Greeks could afford, while offering the same products or services at a financially viable price the Germans can afford excludes the Greeks entirely, meaning the supplier and/or the Greek consumers lose out either way.
What I find strange about it there was almost a universal consensus among economists that the Euro couldn't work.

Yes, exactly. It's strange because of the near "universal consensus" you cite on the effect of currency union without fiscal policy union. And it's possible to have a real economics debate about this topic now because this topic hasn't been politicized - it's almost purely an academic debate without the (primarily right-wing) agenda-driven media sources weighing in.

I also find it strange that what happened was what economists were predicting-- but I have a guess as to why currency union happened anyway. The architects of the euro thought a single currency would draw the EU together and would, a few years later, end up with coordinated fiscal policy. But that didn't happen, and a currency crisis hit, damaging the euro, before fiscal policies became coordinated. (Given political situations, it seems almost impossible that fiscal policy will be unified now.) The linked post (and book) are good because they use the Greece-Germany situation as an example to highlight the bigger issues of fiscal policy and it crashing into domestic policies and politics. Pretty fascinating, really.
Oh yea, definitely that too. Though it requires a bit more than subtracting two numbers to figure out you're being taken advantage of, so it's less obvious for folks who haven't done math in decades (more people than you think).
Part of the charm of gambling is interacting with the dealer.
The market for these products still isn't clear to me. The prototypes they produce are always super unrealistic. And to get anything remotely usable for e.g. user testing, you end up spending huge amounts of time and often writing code. So why not just write code?
Wonder why there's a marked socio-economic and racial disparity in those numbers. Weird.
Or the roosters crowing.
I think you mean drop out of the Eurozone. Leaving the EU would be completely nonsensical.
What do you mean by bias here? Some languages are practical, some more/less efficient. The BEAM was BAD in 2005. The language is ugly and this has hindered adoption in a myriad of applicable areas for decades. Elixir was a wrapper for people who already knew Erlang. Languages don't live in a vacuum, they are for people and organizations (where decisions are made about non-existent people) to use. Erlang could be done without being so horribly ugly and with more syntactic specificity (give atoms an identifying symbol). You have to consider the pareto distribution when thinking about design, not just how intelligent some programmers naturally are.
extension that allows you to quickly block sites when you’re trying to focus.

https://github.com/tmm/block-fox
The page shows little beyond a Play store link, a Youtube video, and some buzzwords that seem split between messaging and payment.

> Start uncensorable chatting! You can soon start sending and receiving money from friends.

From the video, the chats don't seem to be connected to any Coin - there's no mention of transaction fees to send or receive messages, and they seem to send and arrive nearly instantaneously - more like a Hangouts message than a Bitcoin payment. The app stores your private key too, so this chat service could be using standard public/private key encryption, and a chat server that uses public keys as usernames. Like a PGP chat server - that's in the same app as a Coin payment system, so you can have your private chats and your surreptitious payments in the same central location.
What is the "high cost" you refer to? There is incessant anti-2nd Amendment propagandizing by the leftist media who wish to extinguish the Bill of Rights as the continued assault on individual freedom in the US continues apace. You think mass shootings are because of arms available to civilians? That means that obesity would be caused by forks.

No, the problem in the US is cultural rot brought about by Fabian forces. They have done quite a number on this country since the end of WWII. Actually, it started even earlier than that when Marxism went into full swing in the late 1800s. We weren't immune from leftists, we just never had the full-on communist revolution that other nations suffered.

But to return to upbraiding you--no, I don't think that guns have any huge downside in that most of the people killed by guns either by suicides or accidents, probably would have died some other way. The so-called epidemic of gun violence in the US is a complete fabrication. Yes, there is "gun crime" in inner cities. A lot of it, in fact. But lacking guns, there would still be "knife crime" or "bat crime" or "bare handed crime." That kind of stuff never goes away.
I would say that there's no benefit to disclosing it to your employer based on your explanation. Patents are for protecting the inventor while time and money is invested in seeing an invention through to market. If your employer is the ideal producer for your concept and you want to limit their competition, then I suppose you could. But if you wanted to change jobs or were laid off, etc you would theoretically lose a bargaining chip and would have made any potential employer worse off by limiting their ability to also implement your idea.

If it's something that you want to protect for your own use, you could put basic substance of the patent application in a YouTube video or something and release it as public domain. (IANAL so YouTube may be ill-advised)

Also, life is unpredictable and you can sell/license a patented idea. Having more safety nets is better than less.
Sony DPT-RP1 is good for reading, but could be great
I've owned the Sony DPT-RP1 eReader for a year. If you read technical papers (8.5 x 11), and want eInk, it's a good product. In May Sony announced a welcome firmware update. This adds improvements to the reading experinece (Page Jump, Page Thumbnails Mode), but I don't believe Sony understands note taking.

1) Highlights. I forgive Sony for not converting my handwriting into machine-text, but what about highlighted text? It's the first step in a Copy-Paste. If Sony understood note-taking, DPT-RP1 would export your highlights into plain-text file.

For example, here is a note I hand-typed on my laptop 2014-01-06: 100.1 "It is misspent effort to try to enlighten humankind. One has to be content with being wise oneself, if one can, but leave the mob to error and strive only to keep it from crimes that disturb the social order." (Frederick II of Prussia in a letter ot d'Alembert, 1770)"

Highlight text and the DPT-RP1 should automatically add page.paragraph, and save to plain-text.

2) Search for Marks. The DPT-RP1 can search a document for hand written marks (star) & (asterix). Why only these two marks? In the book "How To Read A Book" by Adler & Van Doren (NY: Simon & Schuster 1940, 1972), the authors describe the purpose of marginalia: “...these notes primarily concern the structure of the book, and not its substance—at least not in detail.” (p52)

I regularly use a small set of marks to describe the structure of a book I'm reading (https://goo.gl/4zsVjJ).

3) Chrome Browser has extensions, why not DPT-RP1?. If Sony doesn't want to improve the DPT-RP1, why not allow third-parties? Here is a short list of useful Chrome extensions:'

- Multi-Highlight. Takes a list of strings, and highlights those strings on a webpage.

- Bookmark Tagging. Manage your bookmarks with tags and folders.

- Super Simple Highlighter. Persistent text highlights on a webpage. Highlights can be tagged, color coded and exported as Markdown.
minihack on iOS.
Motor skills and muscle memory vs brain thinkings stuff (logic, analysis, problem solving, etc). I don't know what the difference is between the two in terms of how much brain activity and ability they require, but it seems like there would be a difference.
Could dark matter atoms explain a recent observation?
Try this permalink instead: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3126905
There used to be, but now some EEU countries already surpassed some older members like Greece and Portugal, and soon catching up with Italy and Spain (Czechia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia). Non-EU/EEU members (Albania, Moldavia, FYROM, Montenegro, Ukraine etc.) are in a much worse shape, even at the level of the richest African countries.
> they couldn't give Greece any political wins

Varoufakis would write that. He failed to negotiate anything for Greece. My reading of the situation was European politicians wanted to help Greece, but had to accommodate their own citizens. Varoufakis’ hardball strategy assumed Europe would (a) see his threats as credible and (b) feel more pain from Grexit than capitulaing on all points. He was wrong on both counts, most significantly (b). His strategy thus failed before he took his first breath.

He should have taken a conciliatory approach. Let French and German politicians sell good-natured Greeks in need of help, not a people mindlessly throwing a tantrum. The former would have allowed for ridiculously extending maturities (such that inflation pays for much of it) and delaying interest payments for a few years, along with lenience on budget deficits.
Get ready for a huge upheaval, however. Urban areas in the US have typically been ok subsidizing rural areas (via healthcare and the social safety net more generally.) But since US Republicans, with their recent tax cut bill, have directly targeted urban areas with higher taxes, I'm detecting a rising current of dislike for the urban-to-rural subsidy.

We could easily end up, in the US, with the urban areas fed up with the rural areas, and once we move back to a Democratic government, the urban areas trying to punish the rural areas.

That would be really, really, really bad for the US. Really bad. (It could end up with a Greece-Germany situation happening with say Oklahoma and Kansas vs. New York and California, with crushing economic effects in red states while the blue states continue to prosper. I don't want to be alarmist but that could possibly even lead to a fracturing of the US or its currency. So yes. Really bad.)
I saw Cary Fowler speak last week. He's the guy that organized the Svalbard vault. He said the news reports on this were highly inaccurate and exaggerated. Their was a small amount of water in the opening area, but it got no where near the actual seeds. A fix is already in the works.
Facebook VP and Chief AI Scientist LeCun on Advancing AI
-As far as I can tell, most research indicates that dolphins and orcas are, as such things go, pretty bright, perhaps even sentient.

Sentience would make me wary about hunting them, but as far as I can tell, no such claim has been made about minkes, which are the whales hunted locally.

The problem, by the way, with such an argument as you're presenting is basically that it leaves us to choose an arbitrary cutoff point. Which species are intelligent enough to warrant not being hunted for food? Why at that precise point? How about an unusually bright specimen of the first species deemed dumb enough to hunt?

Basically, the only safe conclusion would be to go vegan. (Which I can see valid arguments for, though they haven't as of yet convinced me.)
This involves saving an encrypted copy of the message and unencrypted metadata about which identities are messaging each other when to the publicly-accessible Bitcoin Cash blockchain forever. Not only is this rather inefficient (every single full Bitcoin Cash node carries a copy of every user's messaging history forever), it's not good for privacy and definitely not "uncensorable". You're entirely reliant on miners including the messages in blocks and those full nodes giving you a copy of your messages on request.
Dancer in perl or Sinatra in Ruby. No DB, either a simple hash with proper locking or plain text files.
They do when driving.
"Havana" had 11 writers?! God help us all.
Reply to both Cogito and lmkg since they are similar counterpoints:

>Cogito: "maximum number of marshmallows"*

>lmkg: "the bigger number signals that one answer is correct,"

If the child doesn't trust or believe the researcher (a stranger), then in his mind, the 1 marshmallow is a bigger number than zero marshmallows promised later. Because "later" could translate to "never", and "2 marshmallows" could translate to "0 marshmallows".

Is it possible for a few, or some of the very young 4-year old children to meta-analyze the situation and conclude "you can't trick me, this is really a test!" ??

Sure, but Smaug123 contended that this reasoning process generalized to the test population.

If we want to entertain the fact that children want to "please" adults to "pass a test", we also have to accept that they can interpret the situation as "evaluating promises of future rewards being kept or broken" and rationally choose 1 marshmallow as the optimum decision. Choosing 1 now is also "passing a test" if we insist on framing it as a "test" in the vein of Hercules 12 labors. ("See mom, you told me to never trust strangers and so I got the 1 marshmallow right away.")

If we still want to hang on to the idea that 4-year olds keep reinterpreting life interactions as a "test to pass", a lot of frustrated parents are going to wonder... "why can't Johnny see that keeping to himself instead of pulling his sisters hair to get a piece of candy later is a TEST TO PASS?!? He just keeps misbehaving!" <-- If that situation is happening, it means overlaying observed behavior (both wanted & unwanted behaviors) with a framework of "desire to pass a test" is overestimating its explanatory power.
Mind Control: How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts
This is just putting messages directly on the blockchain
Show HN: PaperStream, create and encode paper diaries/surveys automatically
Well, there are always exceptions.
Leica still make film cameras:
https://us.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Leica-M-A
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082912-REG/leica_103...

No autofocus, no auto-exposure, and costs almost $4700 body only. Not something the typical film shooters will use, though :p
> media manipulation

This is intruiging to me. From where I am sitting in the beautiful English sunshine, the media seems very bullish and pro-brexit!

The Daily Mail, Express and Telegrapgh are openly pro-brexit, branding those trying to stop it as 'traitors'.

The Murdoch press (Times and Sun) is less overt, but Murdoch is well known to be pro-brexit.

This leaves The Guardian, which is well read on the internet because it is free but less so on paper. Also the Mirror is apparently more balanced, but lightweight. The BBC seem very sheepish after open threats from Ian Duncan Smith.

I think the domestic press have been very, very easy on the government and the official opposition who are not opposing Brexit. I wonder if the international press are behaving differently?
Disclosure: I do believe the Brexit team are clowns. I believe that most people in Britain had no interest in the EU either way until the popular press handed them an opinion. Remember the Google.co.uk trending searches for the day after the referendum included 'what is the EU'
Take note: "Who the hell do you think you are thinking you can write a C compiler?" If you take that challenge it will seriously elevate your computer programming skills. In some circles, this will get you immediately hired.

Try a simple language, maybe devise an emulator to go along with it.
“Fight Club” Author Chuck Palahniuk Apologizes for Piracy Rants
The Raft Consensus Algorithm Written in Rust
What you say is true, although it misses a larger point: that even though we CAN listen to unlimited variety, since the labels control the distribution systems (radio plays, featured music, music sold in big box stores, publicity etc etc) the music they produce becomes inevitably popular. Turn on the radio, walk into Walmart, turn on the tv, watch a movie and you’re not going to hear independent Tibetan chants. You’re going to hear what they want you to hear because they have the reach to make sure everyone listens to it. Combine that with their PR teams and you end up with a situation in which the labels have a strangle hold on what we collectively listen to. Sure it’s possible to branch out and “ignore” that stuff, but the vast majority of people don’t. They listen to and like what their friends like, which is in turn what they’ve been told is “good”.
The automation side of Apple has been moribund for many a year. It's almost like they can't bring themselves to make the hard decisions that they need to make: kill off AppleScript, burn out the dead wood, focus on standardizing on one system wide scripting language that is well documented supported by a first class toolchain.

Although in this case I think the rot started much earlier with the abandonment of HyperCard under Jobs 2.0. I remember in the 90s many small business built their own HyperCard stacks to run the business and it made a lot of people Mac owners even in the dark days of 92-97. Imaging having the same system today available across the platform, especially on the iPad. You can see the shoots of the idea there in the form of Playgrounds, Workflow etc but they need to think much bigger.
So many buzzwords but nothing interesting.
Ultimate Spider-Man EP 1 Season 1( English)
The US is a single country with a single language, a single culture and a single currency. It's not comparable to the many countries within Europe.
growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell
For interactive Clojure/Script prototyping with Datomic, check out http://www.hyperfiddle.net/
That makes sense even if you assume the NSA is adhering to its mission: if you don't publicly disclose the existence of differential cryptanalysis and the enemy hasn't figured it out the enemy may standardize on a weak cipher. The NSA wins in both of its missions: make the US more secure, make everyone else less secure.
There can be an HIV vaccine, but not an AIDS vaccine... Its like saying there can be a "runny nose and cough" vaccine or a "rash" vaccine.
This is exactly my read of the UK press. Without the BBC playing a strong independent role (after the tory campaign to affect it), there is very little independent press able to drive a fair discussion. The Guardian has only a small impact on the overall public debate.

(ps does the Economist have much influence in your view?)
In The Nichomachean Ethics Aristotle wrangles at long length hashing out the difference between pleasure and happiness ("the good"). It's an unfair assessment to lift a quote like that out of context.
A Web Application for BirdSong Recognition
What gave you the idea that I was making a scientific argument?
Hasselblad is nice, and fortunately not that expensive these days (probably Leica gears are still costlier :p )

If you are looking for the ultimate medium format system camera, the obvious answer is Fuji GX680. It's waay bigger than the Hassy, and you can also put digital backs on it. The only downside is it's electronic camera, not mechanical.
Yup. It's a pain. A first compromise is to have the language runtime installed, and create a single file for your code and assets, such as a heavy JAR for JVM based languages or an egg in Python.
You're never allowed to mention anything bad that's ever happened in the West, that's whataboutism. Randomly bringing up extremist scenarios like Mao's genocide of landlords or Stalin's gulags to prematurely shut down moderate pro-left discussions like "let's make healthcare a little more socialized in the US"? That's not whataboutism™.
You could try writing a shell script using inotifywait to look for changes and then notify the program that it needs to reload the code.
I still live in a World where mass-media is a thing because I watch recently made TV shows, occasionally recent films (aka movies), and listen to mainstream music on the radio.

I wonder how it's going to play out because generations up to now have shared a relatively small cadre of media offerings in semi-rigid genres; that shared experience has in some ways - at least in the 20th Century - underpinned societal culture.

Shared interest in YouTube stars, amongst many other things, still keeps the thread of share cultural experience in society; but what direction are we going?

If I have a billion different media offerings I can consume the chances of meeting people and having a shared cultural experience we can link over get smaller. Whither nostalgia?

TL;DR, Nostalgia won't be what it used to be.
> "democratic deficit".

Sorry could you elaborate? I voted for an MEP. I voted for my national government, whose leader sits on the Council. Commissioners are appointed by the same people, much like the UK civil service
Ha! yeah that's done in hardware. They are talking about the controller that sets the route tabels for the asics.
Many of the same arguments apply to patented algorithms in image processing and computer vision as well. SIFT and SURF are probably the two most famous examples, e.g. [0] and [1].

Two quick anecdotes about this. The result of the message board thread of [0] once led to a compliance team in my former company to ban all use of OpenCV for computer vision applications (which, obviously, is insane). They took an exceedingly risk averse stance that if any of our software imported a third party OpenCV library that contained SIFT, this potentially opened us up to a lawsuit, even if we did not actually use SIFT (and might incur costs for us to prove we didn't use SIFT). Needless to say, this created an unbelievable amount of pain for being on computer vision and image processing teams there. Lots of re-implementing of basic algorithms, but without the benefit of years of community development, testing, etc.

And [1] below indicates the sort of patent-avoiding contortions people will go through in research. If your algorithm is patented, typically it means people won't use it and will do whatever is needed to avoid it, even just abandoning a certain line of research all together and choosing something else without the possible patent hurdle.

In the most innocuous cases, it just means the patented algorithm receives far less research attention and becomes irrelevant faster (giving the interpretation that the patent acts as a very short term royalty grab by the patent author, which seems antithetical to the stated public innovation goals of a patent system in the first place).

In worse cases, the patent acts like a research roadblock that can thwart useful lines of research from others. When patents allow for uncompensated academic work to use the algorithm royalty-free, that can sometimes be an OK middle ground, but still doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the whole idea to spark and catalyze innovation in the first place.

[0]: < http://opencv-users.1802565.n2.nabble.com/SURF-protected-by-... >

[1]: < https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/what-are-some-f... >.
I remember that Soviet-era math books were really good.

At least the ones you could get in Spain (translated of course).

Probable not the reason, but a factor.