skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Pakistan is not part of problem then why is it so much agitated by internal affairs of India?
Let's be clear here the call for 'Gajawa E Hind' (which means complete destruction of Kafirs in India and establishment of a Islamic rule) runs in most of the Pakistanis, though they can't do anything for this, the emotions are clear. On the other hand Pakistan is a military autocracy. Without enemity with India and a cause for fighting, their existence and dominance is threatened. For them the conflict is their oxygen.
Ghislaine Maxwell found living with tech CEO at secluded $3M mansion near Boston
https://www.afp.com/en

Agence France Presse is a bit of an oddity in terms of structure. Legally a corporation, it has no shareholders and is forbidden by its bylaws to receive public subventions. It mostly sell news feeds to other medias.

You may be surprised by the clear design and the absence of ads.

It is managed by an assembly of 18 people, mostly representatives from local medias (who are all biased in different ways) and 3 members sent by the government. Its finances are managed by specialized magistrates.

In my opinion it is a great model organization of private-public collaboration and an example of correctly set incentives for a good neutral news agency.
Where are you located? We’re doing a 3 day in Miami next month.
> I don't care for democracy.

Nothing to say about this :-) Just FYI I care democracy & so do HK ppl.

> No one atm, I just think China should be wiped off the map and its leaders executed in public.

The last person I knew who tried to wipe several countries off the map and execute its ppl is a poor German. Though he did write a book to defend his idea which is "persuasive" somehow. I'd suggest you start from there.
They can have access to the records - they don't have the ability to decode them. Their powers are still intact but they are useless to them.
What happened to the company/app since?
Wow why isn't this gotten more attention. This is an amazing video. Everyone should see it.
Right, unless the CIA asks nicely
Is that the notorious and difficult-to-find Presto Hotdogger (snausage/tube-steak electrocutioner apparatus)?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=presto+hotdogger
AdTech bubble collapses, thousands of unviable businesses collapse, and the internet becomes a better place.

A man can dream.
Those limits are dynamic based on connections / how many white shoe lawyers you are willing to fund.

An established real estate family will have plenty of room to shuffle assets and credit lines around in a favorable way within those limits... for a generation or two.
I agree. Even if subscription services exist and quality does not implode, the free services may have hidden agenda. Let's see how it goes.
There are no fair elections in Kashmir. Only three families rule there, who receive money from both sides of the border.
They were, before their cars were filled with gadgetry. Can you find a 5+ year old Merc without something broken? The first buyer or lessee has moved on to something newer by then so nothing has to be designed to last long.
I think it was sullied by the poor reputation of the Flash Player browser plugin.

I agree that ActionScript was a pretty decent language to work in.

I investigated Haxe briefly but found the community wasn't very big and the community that did exist was really fragmented.
I think you're being pedantic. What I wrote is true for purified bottled water. The FDA link says "Municipal water is usually treated before it is bottled." and then "water that has been treated...may meet standards that allow it to be labeled as “purified water.”".

If you believe that bottled water is less clean than tap, then only one of the following must be true:

1. The sourced municipal tap water is already purified such that any additional treatment does nothing.

2. The bottled water in question is not labeled as purified (and is not from a spring, well, or other non-municipal source).

A quick internet search reveals that all the major bottled water brands are either explicitly labeled as purified municipal tap (Smart Water, Dasani), or excluded from the discussion because they are from a spring or well (Evian, Arrowhead). I have yet find a single brand of unpurified non-spring water. However, I did learn that all bottled water regardless of source must meet the U.S. Pharmacopeia 23rd Rev. standards (which are unfortunately paywalled).

It seems unlikely you'll encounter unpurified, straight-from-the-tap bottled water, striking conjecture #2 from the list. Therefore, if conjecture #1 is true, then the only thing that can be said is bottled water is at least as good as municipal tap, but never worse.
Um, that's not really accurate. There is a huuuuuge library of anime that was created by hand, recorded to film, and then edited. It wasn't until the mid '00s that digital was becoming a thing. It was cheaper to do it by hand than have to render out digitally.
This article shows that Internet has to be seen as a basic human right. It's so sad what India is doing to the Kashmiri people.
It is really easy to make a blunder in c++ that will require a lot of effort to find. Debugging that on mobile platforms is not fun. Like they mention a deadlocking issue that was difficult to solve.

Rust is built for memory and thread safety. Also the much better build system and open source ecosystem.
I think HN follows the aesthetic, to a good extent, of a sparse text based doc page. Those kinds of sites rank high in my personal trustworthiness rubric.

The more something has been “designed”, the more the sight falls into the untrustworthy category, barring substantial evidence to the contrary.
Glad to see this on HN. My now 85 year old linguistics professor once actually used this to document a language in India. Bone char was always a crazy one!
Deep fake demo: Face morphing video of Tom cruise
For those wondering, here's the first part of the series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5fh29rhLs
Seconded. I came here to say The Night Manager is my favorite of his and I also enjoyed the adaptation.
And while a lot of developer-y types complain, a bit of extra resource usage on a laptop/desktop isn't nearly as big of deal as it is on mobile.

Especially if your business (like so many nowadays) has way more users on mobile than it does on the desktop.
People say things like "Why do you want to build and maintain two codebases when you can maintain one?" but it's interesting that we're so bad at predicting or even understanding overhead. This applies to other domains — we don't know how much overhead our cars have.

From a project management point of view, native is the least risky. Yes, it takes more people, more salary cost but you know it will work. The last thing I want to find out after six months or an year that our strategy isn't working and we need to rewrite things. Risk is worse than financial cost or time. That is, I'd rather spend a quarter longer or X rupees more if I know I'll get something working at the end of it.
So Lambda isn't the Ultimate Law of Nature, but Lambda isn't the Ultimate Scam either.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1076...
The problem is that by doing that, you’re skimming the top percentile of your user base with the most purchasing power. You’re much less attractive to advertisers then.
From the policy:

Interactions with other parties are considered third-party, even if the user is transiently informed in context (for example, in the form of a redirect). Merely hovering over, muting, pausing, or closing a given piece of content does not constitute an intention to interact.

and

Navigational tracking is tracking through information controlled by the source of a top-level navigation or a subresource load, transferred to the destination.

It sure sounds to me like Apple intends to block YouTube’s trick. Transiently redirecting to a domain to install a first-party cookie seems like an unambiguous attempt to circumvent third-party cookie restrictions.
todo3d.app - a 3D ToDo 'list'.

Currently trying to get it working on touch screens.
The fact is general population never received the money sent from Central government. Many have vested interests in autonomy of Kashmir, one of which are the elite three political families. They are the ones who have sucked all of that money.
Another Alleged Tesla Autopilot Failure Raises Questions
Yes, and the companies who are making products which are actually good own the whole ecosystem, end to end, like google and Facebook, and will be almost totally unaffected by this change or future changes.

It’s everyone else who makes click bait ad spam that will suffer; and frankly, why should we care?

Gmail isn’t going to disappear.

Kotaku or TechCrunch might... or maybe some of those spam cooking sites. ...but, seriously? The whole internet exist because of personalised tracking > big marketing spend?

Come on.

You’re vastly overstating the case here: yes, there would be some impact, no it wouldn’t really make a big difference at this point.

Maybe if you go back in time, it would, but you can’t, so it’s a mute point.

What’s important is where we want to go from here, and personalised ad tracking driving content farms of fake cooking videos isn’t really the ideal “endstate” for the internet imo.

...even if some spammy companies I don’t like end up going out of business, along with some companies I do like.
For me, it was The Secret Pilgrim.

It catches Le Carre at the precise moment when the final scales fell away from his eyes, and he found himself unable to defend even partially the corporatist state that his characters had inhabited and defended at such personal moral cost for the better part of half a century.

Edit: Lol, apparently this precise article was posted in 2016...when I posted this precise comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862489
And lessening car crashes would help with injuries far more than pre-safe sound. Unfortunately both are innevitable.
Google makes $21 on average per US user per month [1], almost all of which comes from advertising. Would you pay $21/mo for your Google services?

[1] https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...
This xkcd provides a surprisingly effective metric:

https://xkcd.com/1301/
Plenty of people in the 70–90 years old range have been radicalized to a shocking degree in the past few decades after a steady media diet of right-wing radio and TV, which for many has crowded out more traditional news media.

I know folks who used to believe in helping refugees, standing up for human rights, guaranteeing every citizen the right to vote, crafting policy under guidance of experts, holding politicians and businesses accountable for corruption and fraud, supporting science, etc., but now spout unhinged conspiracy theories about e.g. civil servants and climate scientists, stand up for murderous autocrats, and echo very strange racist ideas about social relations.

It’s very difficult to listen to a steady drumbeat of fear and hate for years and years and not come out with a warped worldview. Especially when a broader community of these old people’s friends are all consuming the same propaganda.
Sure, but YouTube doesn't stop tracking you when you pay.
They can be useful though.

eg when I discovered from Wikipedia that the genre that Knife Party are in was called "Complextro", I was able to quickly discover other music that I enjoyed from the same genre.

Before I found that magic word, I had no way to find those other acts.

Of course, they're also listed as electro house, drumstep, and dubstep, so clearly they cross sub-genres. Anyway, I did manage to find some other music that I liked so the sub-genre'ing helped me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Party
Their hinted opinion on that:

> That being said, C/C++ are the only languages with a compiler supported by both Google and Apple, so using a different language would have created a whole host of other problems to deal with.
I didn't say they did. I was talking about users making in-app purchases vs no user purchase and Google/FB relying on advertising.
Sadly, coal power plants release more radiation directly into the atmosphere than nuclear, due to naturally occurring isotopes embedded in the coal ore.

So because they were so scared of potential radiation, they ended up ... getting definite radiation instead.

Winning!
That's surprising, not because of the amount that elderly watch TV (here my grandfather won't move from the living room when the cricket's on), but because I thought more people under the age 60 would be behind a computer 8 hours a day.
And more importantly Catalan is a economically output generating region and not a consumer.
It might be too high. It takes rather a lot of energy of change orbits and it might not be possible to get it close enough to earth for drag to take over.
Ask HN: Has it become impossible to generate profit from non game apps?
Cac is getting high, we can’t seem to get it below $1.2 for users that are targeted from ASA.

Our conversion to paid is about 1.5% and we charge $5/m or $50/yr. now let’s subtract 30% Apple tax on top of that.

Excluding all development and server costs and focusing just on a paid campaign. How can any small app maker survive with a ‘decent’ consumer facing utility app.

Ad revenue is peanuts.

ASO is done but we are relatively new and on page 2/3.

Do we keep trying to get conversion to hit 7%? Via more functionality enticing the user to upgrade?

Just wondering how others are able to hit profitability after the app is made excluding games if cac generally is high. What kind of pricing model are you using? What’s your conversion rate? Any advice for a first time mobile entrepreneur?

We aren’t funded so that makes customer acq even harder, I’m thinking our sole job now is to pitch people to talk about us and that’s hard when we are honestly speaking probably on 3x better than the current solution rather than the 10x people say. Sigh
Proud of my country for once (Nuclear France)

We decarbonated our electricity in a 20 years timeframe (while the consumption was rising) thanks to nuclear power. I always wondered why no other country went that road and why they are still hesitating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#/...
Don’t be insulted because I didn’t accuse you of not caring because you don’t hunt or fish.
By your given definition, Google isn't a monopoly either as there are clear alternatives to them in every sector that they are in.
I use AC foil tape for this sort of thing. It's expensive but there are so many project uses.
"To participate in the program, called Sold by Amazon, sellers have to already be enrolled in Fulfilled by Amazon..."

Not to be confused with Fulfilled by Amazon Donations, which will donate unsold merch to non-profits instead of trashing it.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20806167/amazon-marketpla...
I'm in Albany New York. Not sure if I can go the one next month.
Is that still true? If Rust is built on clang it should not be that hard to port. Go also runs on both AFAIK.
How many of those grey dots representing "closing" plants are actually just converting to another type of petroleum? Like natural gas?

Certainly an improvement but it's not like we're replacing them all with renewables or nuclear.
The deal of plebiscite cancelled itself when Pakistan invaded in 1965.
It’s like you’ve met my grandparents.
Whatever you first create has some kind of vision behind it. Even if that vision is a rough spec, it might be precisely the little bit of spec that’s necessary to get things started.

A good requirements spec doesn’t mean it has to be heavyweight with all the corners and edges figured out. Instead, it can be just lightweight enough to get things moving in the proper direction... but some little direction is certainly needed.
Beijing’s game plan for crushing the Hong Kong protests is now clear
The problem is like 'is Erlang an Actor language?'. The answer is yes.

Carl Hewitt developed the Actor model based on Smalltalk in the 1970s.

Joe Armstrong created Erlang in the 1980s, which he didn't know the Actor model at all at that time. Erlang doesn't even have the concept of Actor, it accidentally implemented Actor model by the elegant design of processes.

But when it comes to the Actor model nowadays, Erlang is basically a must-mention language, although the intention wasn't about Actor.
Excuse my ignorance, I would have thought Anime would be much easier to be produced in 4K or even 8K when compared to movies that requires 4K / 8K Camera.

Why have they stuck with 720P and 1080P?
It seems you have fullstory.com tracking all input & mouse events. Can you confirm?

Every few seconds, a large payload goes to fullstory with all details:

47: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day blank"]]}
63: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], "15", 96]]}
71: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], "23", 96]]}
72: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day weekend sat", [93, 2], "24", 96]]}
73: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day weekend sun", [93, 2], "25", 96]]}
74: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [8881, -1, [[4405, 2], "cell day", [93, 2], 5593, 96]]}
90: {When: 397746, Kind: 2, Args: [9087, -1, [94, "Last note6m ago on 8/14/2019"]]}
91: {Kind: 4, When: 397746, Args: [8984, "class", "cell month selected"]}
92: {Kind: 4, When: 397746, Args: [8986, "class", "cell month"]}
94: {Kind: 6, When: 397746, Args: [8294, " in 14d"]}
95: {Kind: 6, When: 397746, Args: [8876, "Aug 2019"]}
Good to know! We bought a few with integrated 10-year batteries from Home Depot a few years back, but I didn't realize you could get regular lithium 9Vs that last that long in a smoke detector now.
Part of the abstract at the bottom:

"The proposed algorithm can be quickly described as an iterative algorithm that treats color information as a heightmap and 'pushes' pixels towards probable edges using gradient-ascent. This is very likely what learning-based approaches are already doing under the hood (eg. VDSR[1], waifu2x[2])."

This is interesting to me because it hints at the direction I really want to see ML stuff go.

Some problems may not lend themselves to this concept, but hear me out: We train models, they start giving reliable output, then we put it in production really having no idea what the thing is doing inside. Here we have a traditional image processing algorithm that's doing something similar to what the author suspects the ML-based solution is doing... only the authors solution is much more performant. What I think we'd love to see is the ML approach yield a result that not only works, but is transparent in how it works. So plain old human engineers can internalize what the machine learned, and re-implement the solution as a run-of-the mill algorithm that does the job faster than pretending to be a brain.

Is this feasible?
This, 1e6 times. CS/EE here and my father had an electrical automotive shop, and my grandfather and did a HeathKit electronics-by-mail course... and I still didn't have a solid grasp of practical electronics until the lives of Dave of EEVblog, AvE, Bigclive, ElectroBOOM, Strange Parts and working an internship at a GPS manufacturer.

There ought to be some engineering/trades cross-training required even if not going into that trade if one produces things that that trade will encounter.

Also, there ought to be an electronics-by-mail course subscription of not just basic electronics but moving towards advanced knowledge, theory, techniques, and their applications. People would buy it if it were consistently good and had support behind it.
Why does it NEED to be public? So the bad actors can know how they are being caught and mitigated and can circumvent again and again?
Question: if lexical scopes are in the language's data structures, but can't be explicitly created or made visible in the language's syntax, is it still homoiconic?
Agreed that it is both fascinating, and from the experience I’ve had with the approach, it has turned out to be quite an effective way to build very maintainable software.
I'm impressed you can run all that especially multiple VMs on 8gb, I have to close Firefox when I need VMs.
I'm on windows 7, on a Dell Inspiron with a RAM and disk upgrade, no special configuration or software. I didn't think to look for an addon to do that, that's pretty cool, I downloaded the Firefox equivalent, might do the trick!
> I identify as hypersane (though I've been using the term hypernormal for a few years).

I'm sorry, but this is self indulgence on a new near psychopathic level.
Literally religion had nothing to do with abolishment of article 370.
India is secular and this government is much more secular than any Congress coalition in the past few decades. NDA government is not a appeasement government.
you can buy a g-suite user for 9$, then they don't track you
I'm using Flutter successfully. It has the potential to become a really great platform.

Java is a good language, as long as you rarely use implementation inheritance.

I would not recommend using React Native or C++ for any project.
The fact that the article states the cost of $1000 at the outset is a bit disturbing given that it goes on to describe the intense amount of time and effort taken in the search for hiring.

It indicates to me that the person writing this article doesn't consider their time to be valuable, and raises all sorts of red flags about how they would value the time and energy of their employees.

Throw in the combination of the shared jean jackets and incredibly forced (almost desperate) smiles in the Hero/Footer image and the cult vibe is overwhelming screaming RUN AWAY.

Is this a coded cry for help? Should we rescue these developers?
Why not? I've been using one for two years now. It works fine, and allows me to 'roam' a bit farther than a simple RF transmitter.
Can you be more specific about what sites you're referring to? As much as the dotcom bubble gets remembered by history, I personally wasn't frequenting any of the darlings of the VC world. My haunts were backwater forums hastily hand-coded in the 1999 dialect of PHP and other sites with totally ordinary text ads. These weren't billion-dollar overvalued companies, these were sites stood up in a server in someone's garage, and users made all the content. Even the biggest of the fish back then, Yahoo--fancying itself a media company--was relevant to me only because it hosted Geocities (again relying on user-generated content, and Yahoo was hardly one of the companies hemorrhaging money in this era).
Because it takes a lot of fuel to go from GEO to an orbit that would touch the atmosphere. It is not like a low orbit where a small perturbation will easily bring the satellite close enough to the atmosphere so that it brakes naturally.

According to this graph [1], you need about a third of the delta-v budget it took to get to GEO in order to get back into LEO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Delta-Vs_for_inner_Solar_...
Do rediculous “coding challenges” prove anything?
> Basically the print magazine model.

And also TV, as it is still today. Oh, and every other form of advertising basically. If advertising without invading user privacy is so bad (as the perpetrators are rationalizing it), how come all other forms of advertising are still a billion (trillion?) dollar business worldwide? Just makes one wonder.
But then it means that Americans are overpaying by buying capacity they don't really need. This is something I'm always wondered at, as in the 3rd world even well-off people try to minimize their expenses.
Uber May Swap Anniversary Balloons for Stickers to Save $200K per Year
All cable news is trash. The world would be better if the entire medium went away.
Japanology Plus: Tokyo Backstreets and Alleys [video]