skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a practical matter, the Turkey/EU border is not a frictionless one, because it's only free movement of goods, not (for instance) the actual trucks hauling the goods:

https://www.ft.com/content/b4458652-f42d-11e6-8758-687615182...

> The EU has agreed open-access road transport deals only with a handful of neighbouring countries. This includes members of the European Economic Area, which Britain has said it will not join, and Switzerland, which has a special bilateral agreement.

> Crucially, all the transport deals are premised on participation in the EU’s free movement of people area, which Britain also hopes to leave. In other words, even if Britain mirrors the EU rules on haulage, it may not be enough to secure free access for trucks to the EU market...

> The goal, said a Turkish official, was to complete as much paperwork as possible before actually reaching the border. On the other end, Bulgarian border officers examine each truck, going over the paperwork and doing random drug and migrant checks. Refrigerated trucks are x-rayed as are 5 per cent of other trucks, at random, according to Mr Ereke. “For the UK, I wish them good luck,” he said, pointing to the lines behind him. “It is not going to be easy.”
Kind of defeats the purpose of a public ballot.
A Colombian I.T. Guy Helped U.S. Authorities Take Down El Chapo
Because in 1920 one ad reached less people and required more effort to produce and competition now is fierce so prices had to drop?

The stats you show does not have all that much to do with ease of convincing someone and could be explained by millions other ways.
> consumed 500 ml of freshly brewed dark roast coffee blend per day,

half a liter per day of coffee is a lot! I wonder if they controlled for caffeine

some highlights from my reading:

- 372mg caffeine per day

- water-only group specifically avoided caffeine

- coffee/caffeine group had to abstain from all caffeine for 4 weeks before study (baseline to 300+mg a day is a LOT for someone with no tolerance)

- they base their claim of the 'darkness' of the roast mattering on other similar studies, with less pronounced results, that used lighter roasts.

"Among several previous studies of the effects of coffee
consumption on DNA damage, only two were randomised
controlled trials, with DNA breakage rather than oxidative
modification of DNA bases analysed [23]. Bakuradze et al.
[14] also studied the effects of coffee C21 consumption, after
4 weeks of intervention, and found a decrease of DNA strand
breaks by 27% in comparison to the control group with water
consumption (p<0.001). Misik et al. [22] studied a much
shorter intervention period (5 days) and a different coffee
type and used isolated lymphocytes. In comparison to C21,
the coffee had an approximately twofold content of caffeoyl
quinic acids and trigonelline and about half of N-methylpyridinium. Therefore, the coffee used by Misik et al. is a light/
medium roast type while we used here a dark roast blend.
We assume that the different degree of roasting accounts
for the different outcome observed. "
Or the concept of corporate free speech, person-hood and "too big to let fail."
It wasn't redrafted until it was acceptable. It was passed as is, but as a massive series of "amendments" that effectively rewrote the entire previous document into the new one.
When you were a kid, you had more time to kill. Sure, I’ll recompile this kernel a couple of times to try out some tweaks! It’ll be a nice break from marathoning this fifteen-volume fantasy series.

As an adult, you’ve got a job and maybe a family and a commute and you’re the one who has to deal with bureaucracy and... who has time for needless complexity any more?
jpg to png is a minor factor. The main one is "if your image is astoundingly blurry, make it much much smaller".

Which is great if you have an astoundingly blurry image, and useless if you don't.
> At the individual level, it seems a lot like gambling but insurance is not about individuals, it's about the pool.

How do you think casinos and bookies work? They spread their risk by setting lines and odds and taking a vig.
If he had ended up dying without getting caught, we may have never seen that van Gogh again either.
It's the same with studies about alcohol. They seem to always fish for some positive effect and ignore all negative effects.
so you think the market is wrong about the value of advertising? if you have tried online advertising perhaps you know how terribly inefficient it can be.
I'm a counterexample to your statement about Hacker News capitalists. I certainly don't consider Facebook's behavior ethical, even if it is legal. But I also think democratic societies with capitalist economies have been the best of a lot of bad options. The human race has not yet designed any better system as far as I can tell. You seem to be picturing mostly the libertarian types, but there are lots of other shades of capitalism. I would consider myself a moderate capitalist: someone who sees the value in capitalism but feels it needs to be regulated.
Why not fill up with loose cells? They are small, they roll. Couldn't they roll into a ribbed tray and then a rail on both sides clamps them in place and connects them? Or pulled in on a chain like a machine gun loading mechanism?
> Once it got to the hard work of making it happen they realized

They aren't stupid. They knew all along it would be impossible. They didn't think the vote would go for brexit. They wanted to use it as political leverage and they underestimated the stupidity and malleability of the public and the powerful amplifying influence of social media.
> I bet however that if this deal was put to a single ranked vote against all other options, everybody would put it as nr 2 and it would comfortably win.

I don't think there is consensus on what all other options are. It's clear that options Constitutionally available to Parliament and within it's power (i.e., no external approval needed) include no Brexit, the deal they just rejected for a near-immediate Brexit, and no-deal near-immediate Brexit, as well as a snap second referendum (which isn't an outcome option, but it is a political option which differs from unilaterally choosing an outcome option.) But it's clear that there are parties that thing that a a better-deal Brexit and/or a delayed Brexit (or delayed decision on whether to have a Brexit) are acheivable options.

OTOH, I think there are probably plenty of people who rank no deal and no Brexit both ahead of the deal on offer.
Hi! I'm one of the founders at GBatteries - I’ve partially answered this in another comment, so will copy paste portions.

We've demonstrated 5 min to 50% charge, 10 min to 100% charge - below is a demo that we’ve done at CES 2019, and that we’re now exhibiting at the Detroit Auto show demonstrating this.

[Video here: https://youtu.be/kSLrqR4TfnU Note: Charging times can vary by ~1 minute here and there, because the algorithm is adaptive and characteristics of batteries change from moment to moment.]

The problem with batteries today is not charging speed; it’s possible to charge any battery quickly, but the faster you charge a battery the faster it will degrade. Our technology is able to decrease the irreversible chemical reactions that happen during charging, so that the same batteries can be charged fast without compromising cycle life.

We’re working on enabling existing packs to charge as fast as possible. We’re not able to fast charge at these levels without approval from the OEM as they have limits built-in. We need to either be integrated inside of the vehicle, or on the charger but have the vehicles "approval" for charging at these higher rates, as at Level 3 and up it's DC to the pack.
Ireland is part of the EU.
In general, Urbit is the neoreactionary's Unison.
Correct, in fact the only force that the referendum has at all is that David Cameron promised to enact the result. But even this is old news, a past Prime Minister can hardly bind the hands of a future one! In fact the idea that a government can't bind a future government is an important part of Britain's ("unwritten") constitution.
I hope people realize this "article" is nothing more than a PR puff piece.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but this seems like a B2B/acquisition play masquerading as a B2C play; your value (if proven) is a superior battery management system (versus the OEM's or a supplier's) and charge controller for non-Tesla EVs (hinging on the battery pack instrumentation architecture).
Linux Desktop Setup
with the right tools most of it could be very automatic and eventually it will be a non concern. it is getting up to speed that is painful and getting everyone on board
It always boils down to rebranding, doesn't it.
>Auto insurance doesn't expire.

Every single auto insurance in US I had is a 6 or 12 month contract which expires at the end. The expiration time/date is very specific to the minute.
You usually get a new contract after that which you can choose to pay premium for or loose coverage otherwise.
No, the "technique" is to

1. use only smooth gradients for your background (LOL)

2. remove most of your pixels

3. assume that the browser will interpolate for you (Also LOL)

If this had been called "pictures of smooth gradients don't need to be high res if your viewer interpolates them sufficiently well" then it would be accurate and sound a lot less noobish.
Ageism: one of the few remaining socially acceptable types of hate!
Well, they certainly can't compete on search quality.
I get the point, yet..

> Why would you want to miss this step?

Because I don't really have much time for every step. I don't need it to be fun, I need it to be efficient (requiring as little time and effort as possible). In fact I had always wanted an app of a sort that would feed me math in concise pre-digested twitterish pieces.

Of course I can't expect somebody to do this for me but if somebody has done and shared I'd like to make use of that. I am certainly going to share if I find time to make the cards.
“We noticed that others were using our platform for psychological manipulation, we can no longer continue to allow this unless it’s Facebook approved messaging”

-Mark Zuckerfuck
I feel like I'm on Mushrooms here whilst everyone is drinking cool-aid. Phil will tell you what the best software is if you pay him. Sorry mate.
Show HN: Pgbackup: add an encrypted/off-site/zero-lag backup to your postgres db
Thanks for chiming in! Batteries and charging are complicated as is, when translated into Journalist they get even more so :)

There was a lot of concern with the first generation EV's about battery life, a lot of which the data has shown to be misguided now that the first gen's are coming off-lease. How long is the process to convince the OEMs this won't degrade their battery packs?
Forced into remaining by a second democratic referendum, held due to the uncovering of lies and nebulous accounting of the leave campaign that the full extent of hasn’t been fully uncovered?
There is a reporting tool on both iOS/macOS Maps and you can input suggested edit such as displacing POI to its correct position.

Used that in the past and got a notification when suggestion was accepted & pushed to the map.

I’d guess it’s curated somehow.
> No Deal isn't acceptable

to whom?
Can we abstract control flow? Exploring Racket’s shift and reset
I'd say mainly for those reasons:

1) It was quite an embarrassment for all those young people who did not vote and will suffer now

2) the actual results of a Brexit are known now while the bus-advertisement that was supposed to be the benefits of a Brexit are gone and have not been replaced by anything

Also all those news about businesses reorienting towards Europe and away from UK, Ireland, people applying for EU countries citizenship and so on.

The real results became real while the people who are still for a Brexit have shown their ugly faces.

I'm pretty optimistic about the results of a second referendum. That's why the Brexiteers will never allow it.
I am reminded of the "API" decision made by Jeff Bezos at Amazon, as famously described by Steve Yegge:

So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.

His Big Mandate went something along these lines:

1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.

5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
It's 2-3 typical cups of coffee... 2 in the morning and one later in the day. Now, if it's laced with a ton of sugar or "sugar free" sweetener that metabolizes like sugar, that's different.
Surveillance exists with or without capitalism too, nevertheless we do analogical complain about capitalism being corrupted by it. Why the difference?

Having slaves was profitable. A lot profitable. The only capitalist incentive for freedom was that north laborers did not wanted to compete with slaves. Competing with slaveholders sux, because slaves are cheaper and free men social status goes down if he do slaves like work. The rest of anti-slavery arguments had zero to do with "slaves will consume" nonsense that is absurd contemporary construction.

Once the other guy own slaves, his competitors have to buy slaves on their own, because free people require more salaries. So if you don't use them, your company won't be able to compete on price. That is how market makes slavery more and more common, assuming there is enough slaves available (either by transport or breeding) and no laws to prevent it.

Slavery existed for long. However, there were not that many societies where slave ownership was that large part of wealth and livestyle.
A tip related to the throw inlining tip:
One way to get more consistent/effective inlining is to split the complex 'slow paths' out of your functions into helper functions. For example, let's say you have a cached operation with cache hit and cache miss paths:

void GetValue (string key, out SomeBigType result) {
if (_cache.TryGetValue(key, out result))
return;

result = new SomeBigType(key, ...);
_cache[key] = result;
}

In most scenarios this function might not get inlined, because the cache miss path makes the function bigger. If you use the aggressive inlining attribute you might be able to convince the JIT to inline it, but once the function gets bigger it doesn't inline anymore.

However, if you pull the cache miss out:

void GetValue (string key, out SomeBigType result) {
if (_cache.TryGetValue(key, out result))
return;

GetValue_Slow(key, out result);
}

void GetValue_Slow (string key, out SomeBigType result) {
result = new SomeBigType(key, ...);
_cache[key] = result;
}

You will find that in most cases, GetValue is inlined and only GetValue_Slow produces a function call. This is especially true in release builds and you can observe it in the built-in Visual Studio profiler or by looking at method disassembly.

(Keep in mind that many debuggers - including VS's - will disable JIT optimization if you start an application under the debugger or attach to it. You can disable this.)

This tip applies to both desktop .NET Framework and .NET Core, in my testing (netcore is generally better at inlining, though!) If you're writing any performance-sensitive paths in a library I highly recommend doing this. It can make the code easier to read in some cases anyway.
Another method that I've personally used I explained over a year ago; you can see my explanation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704879
> it seems fairly fair and sensible

You must be new here :-)
>ive been using it for a few months now. its not as good as google maps but definitely doesn't suck. and certainly is better than apple maps.

I've also found the mapping aspects to be ok, but the search results are truly abysmal in comparison to Apple Maps. Point-to-point direction finding is of course a solved, commoditized technical problem this point. But the real special sauce is in combining that with real time traffic info and highly relevant local search results, which Apple does far better than any open source offering I've seen.
"It will leave 17m people in an absolute rage, and they have already murdered one MP."

This is not appropriate.
>High beam lights and aftermarket lights are not aimed like this and thus shine into your passenger compartment. Properly aimed lights never point in.

By that definition, properly aimed lights haven't been invented yet. I have headlights like that, where you see brightness end at a horizontal line. Going over the crest of a hill angles the beams in a way that goes into cars.

Actually my family has two cars. I get a lot more people blinking their brights at me in the one with that kind of headlight, presumably because they think my brights are on when they aren't.

The article describes automated systems to turn the laser version away from detected cars ahead, so it will just blind cyclists and pedestrians.
> Additionally, the only moment in time when D was a reasonable concept was before C++11, when the development of C++ was stalled and there were a few pain points with C++98 that justified picking up other tools.

I don't know enough about D to dispute this, but in a backhanded way, this is a pretty damning appraisal of D. It's not just the "industry shift to the web" that has led to the decline of C++. Why do people write server-side applications in Java or Go instead of C++? Why do people write mobile apps in Objective-C, Java, or Swift instead of C++? Even in the remaining domain of desktop applications and systems code, C++ isn't necessarily the go-to choice anymore.

And so, if D doesn't offer anything over C++ that couldn't be addressed by bolting even more features onto C++, why the heck does it exist?
That's not a second referendum, it's a fundamentally different one because the EEC is not the EU. If there had been a vote to join the EU (and on the other changes since) then it would have a lot more legitimacy and this mess probably would not exist, one way or the other.
Red meat and the risk of bowel cancer
> What, is the EU going to station troops there, because of trade deals?

Hopefully yes. I don't want to eat some toxic food that nobody checked when it entered the EU.
Yes, that's much better.
I'm not arguing your point, but I think Craigslist's UI is very focused in scope and meets the expectations of its audience.
Looking for them.

I got this from following reports and dialogues from American Think Tanks (primarily the Center for Strategic and International Studies). Essentially over the past decade there's been fairly regular dialogue between the British government and China regarding online, radio and publication public engagement.

There's been some British universities, thinktanks and others "accused" of helping China (e.g. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/westminster-and-kings-acc...) but from strategy side of the house (at least at CSIS, which is American) there hasn't been a lot of angst or fretting over it. I'll look for some specific CSIS reports.
I'm not the person you are asking but I'll lay out how I understand this argument from what I've read about the housing market in Portland, OR, which has a big housing crisis right now.

Available housing, apartments, condos, etc, is being eaten up by short-term renters. The price of short-term rentals are more expensive than long-term rentals, but due to so much inventory not being free for long-term rentals, the price for long-term rentals has gone up a lot. This is the same inflation that we see in the expected vacation destinations but in non-traditional locations, like Portland and it's suburbs.

AirBnB is supposedly built to empower individuals to post a rental here or there. What has been found is that it has enabled and encouraged individuals and companies with large inventories to convert long-term rentals into short-term ones. And that 15% that AirBnB takes is simply passed onto the consumer - which then affects the price of long-term rentals.
I'm no web design expert, but I'm surprised gradients such as that aren't defined via CSS or some other programmatic means.
Buzz words do not make magic happen. I can describe the transistors that make up a state machine in very fancy language, even invoking quantum, to try to capture the full functioning of the atomic and quantum level of what's going on is enormously complex. It's even 3-dimensional.

However, if the part I care about is only the implementation of the state machine, I can transfer that to any other substrate or just pure logic.

If I'm looking at the "cognition" necessary to swap out the current algae for a new one, I don't need to care about what makes the state machine in the cell function, whether it's the relative concentration of two different proteins, the pH of the cell, or whatever. If the intelligence part of it can be reduced to a simple state machine, the other stuff doesn't factor into it.
Who want to stay in this EU is beyond me.
Png's works best for logo's and other computer drawn "images". JPG is the "best" format for photos. if i need to pick between png or jpg, that's what i do.
Originals can be shown worldwide. They'll have to get a worldwide license for other content.

A huge chunk of international content are original stand ups because they're easy to make. The amount of licensed content available in my country is pretty negligible.
Disaster Response Projects Could Lose Funding to Border Wall
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat on Fedora

True but we're already in that boat with the way that we gather statistics from mirror hits. I have a hard time seeing how a method like the one proposed would be any more vulnerable to tampering.

EDIT: spelling
Or, the EU starts thinking pragmatically and offers a proper deal.
If this works as advertised, it’s super cool. However, my anecdotal experience suggests that things that charge faster heat up, and I know that my phone warms up significantly on with the “fast charger” it came with. Knowing that batteries are potentially very volatile and prone to exploding and leaking, how safe is this technology?
Yes, my bad, you are correct on that. I meant more that options don't renew. I came to edit it after I thought that through but too late I suppose.
Not ageism - the facts are older people were more likely to have voted for Brexit.

As for how effective a 18 year old Vs a 65 year old would be (all other things being equal) in a fight I guess could be considered ageist, and for that I apologise.
For the importance to hold true, the profession as a whole must solve the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Personally I think Facebook is beyond saving. They are toxic for democracy, their core business is invading people's privacy and I wish they go bust as soon as possible.

Google on the other hand ain't that bad. They do deliver a lot of value, they have some extraordinary products. They are also pretty unlucky in business (most of their products are failures plain and simple).

I think that for Google it is just a phase and they will soon wake up and realize that being part of surveillance capitalism is harming the company and diminishing its value.
Physicists Lay Out Plans for a New Super-Collider