skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm starting to think that the reason we keep building tree-like data structures is because that's how our minds work. We can intuitively grasp hierarchies of categories (a tree structure), with the occasional exception (a symlink to another location).

Because we intuitively see the world in this way, we are good at building and maintaining systems that work in this way.

Anything more sophisticated than that (algebra, relational databases) requires a lot of study and practice to get good at.
This argument is deeply flawed. What if they were unemployed? Taxpayers would be subsidizing a lot more.
Unless you have Prime, which in the UK gets you next day delivery on almost everything at no extra charge. I frequently find myself ordering stuff at 6-7pm rather than going to a store after work because I know it'll arrive at the office the next day.
Although optional, the S-class features tablet-like computers (with a browser and internet connection) for the rear-seated passengers. They also feature google maps navigation in the front and back.

The 2014 model has even more of these options, see: http://www.slashgear.com/2014-mercedes-s-class-revealed-and-...
I see that sort of thing in myself.

I find myself to be a fundamentally 'enthusiastic' person -- I love to act, and hate to refrain. Which shows up in things like health; I'll exercise like a dog and eat like a pig, because run is an action, but moderation is a lack of action (don't eat)
http://php.mirrors.pair.com/
libpcap can sniff Bluetooth and the S-class has Bluetooth?

Otherwise I'm guessing it's probably all just part of their standard tool chain and someone said "give me a list of all open source software you used while developing the software for the S-class".
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There is not about PHP. Is about blocking an innocent website :)
> Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars.

I highly doubt that. Self-driving cars are a revolutionary product. The first manufacturers to enter the market will definitely make a lot of money, as well as a technological advance on what is the future of cars.

They might be slow to invest in these technologies, because at this point it's still high risk and traditional car manufacturers are notorious for being very conservative, but there are definitely very high rewards for those who can make it.
Isn't it circular: workers are able to take jobs that pay less than [imaginary] minimum wage because government will subsidize their survival --> government subsidizes low-paying workers --> businesses can hire for less then minimum wage --> etc?

What's the cause and what's the effect?
Someone else suggested that they're probably used by diagnostic tools.
Wrong.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/Screen%...
Gladwell said it takes 10,000 to mastery, not "learning" the basics of a skill. You don't need 10,000 hours to learn how to drive a car, obviously. You may need 10,000 hours to become a racing master.
Embedded/RTOS
Yeah -- if willpower is a muscle, then you've got to keep running to exhaustion. People used to call that 'character building.'
These two things don't seem to be that contradictory. You need to have some kind of success and resources to help more people in a meaningful way. It's not impossible for example the likes of Bill Gates etc who give away massive wealth towards causes they deem good.
10,000 Hours to master any skill. You can only 'know' about a particular skill in 20 hour, not master it.
Regarding foreign buyers, I am not sure if this is a bad way to invest. According to this this recent piece from the New York Times a similar phenomenon could be occurring in London with pretty good returns

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/londons-gre...
Because even that is not exactly trivial, particularly for noon-Latin languages.
There is other side of this: McDonald care about its employees. I wish someone would give me advice like this, when I used to work at similar place. Articles like this will only cause stricter rules and food stamps will go away.

Sure minimum wage should be better, but ask yourself: how often do you leave a tip at a fast food?
Totally agree with the article, but not the title: one does not need to "be a thinker" to think; anyone can think if they try (in silence and isolation).

The best ideas very rarely come from professional "thinkers".
So, do they also provide downloads of source code and the modifications?
I'd say the tool is broken:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://go...

It reports google.com for 142 exploit(s), 131 trojan(s), 98 scripting exploit(s)
> You can't usefully index a unicode stream in constant time and do correct and useful textual stuff anyway

To find an index of a substring you need to scan the string, right. But once you have the byte index you can quickly jump to its position in the string, e.g. when you do a slice operation based on that index: s[i:].
If strings.Index() returned a code point index and not a byte index you would have to scan the string again.
The iPhone Mail app allows embedded CSS right? I mean, why not solve this for all mobile devices by adding the top bar to all emails, marking it display: none; and using media queries to show it if it's a mobile resolution?

Also, pretty sure the :hover state touch interaction is something anyone who's done any kind of mobile web development knows about.
Nitpicking: I should point out that far fewer than 1.2 million -- more like 35,000 these days [1] -- die in traffic accidents, although there are many injuries.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
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> Evolution assembled the most complex system known to exist, starting from a handful of molecules, without any "thought" or "reasoning."

There may have been a lot more complexity early on than that statement assumes. Static systems, after all, pretty much by definition can't evolve (and this is why a reductionistic assessment of evolution as biochemistry doesn't work).

The beauty behind evolution is the same beauty behind Feynman integrals in quantum physics. You take the integral over all possible paths and something is likely to work. Many paths will end or cancel eachother out.

It's like open source software.
A cursory search of the net returns the license pdf, but no source code, list of source code used or offer of source. Is this the sort of thing that comes with the actual car?

Edit: My bad. The offer is in the pdf. Anyone actually looked at the provided disk? What's on it?
This might have been my downfall too, personally it was more of a scan over the entire image and type letters as I see satellite images, didn't even notice I was doing it like that until I saw your comment. I read something a while back how "left brain hemisphere" people scan sequentially and "right hemisphere" people jump in to find things at random. I can't speak for its accuracy or its place in reality but the end result is that this thing could do with accepting values in any order.

Not sure if that'd make the whole thing less useful however..
This is a nice hack! It's unfortunate that medical CT scanning remains expensive due to reasons other than the cost of designing and manufacturing one of these devices. It's about image acquisition speed, safety, quality assurance, safety, rigorous testing, and of course safety.

While all those things (+ personnel costs) are of course worth paying for, I find it unbelievable that a simple scan could cost $5000 in the US! When I had to get a CT scan, it cost $2000, of which 90% was covered by the mandatory minimum health insurance. Nobody gets left out in the cold.
How do you interpret this chart?
A site I visit frequently was once identified as containing malware. I overrode it and went there anyway. (In firefox.)

And now forevermore the icon for that site in the url-bar dropdown is the warning icon, and I have not been able to find out how to change it back to the normal one.
You don't see a problem when a very profitable franchise tells its employees to ask the government for support because it doesn't want to pay them enough to live off? This is disgusting.
Totalitarian governing bodies in the making always justify their actions in regard of the coming end. But this coming end never actually comes because a totalitarian body can never truly exists because there'll always be a part of society that can't be controlled, no matter how small it is. Thus the governing body will seek more and more control but it is without end. Totalitarianism can't sustain itself without the belief (or the propagandist fake belief) that the end justify the means. Both notions are so intertwined that claiming the end justify the means is de facto a totalitarian way of thinking. Hence my "pretty much the definition" (which is different from "the end justify the means is the definition of totalitarianism).

I hope you now better understand my reasoning.
I think the number of displayed characters is even font-dependent.
Hm, so is my Firefox getting this list directly from Google or how does it work?
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An impressive project, truly some Hacker News!
it isn't just about capitalism, it is generic principle of living systems evolution - it isn't possible to stay in static balance with environment forever as environment will change [will be "disrupted" or "paradigm shifted" in local parlance] sooner or later.
You are correct. Like I said, I doubt that is the case. Php can be very secure if configured correctly.
The poor in America spend a small percentage of their income on food.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/cheap-ea...
Main php.net site doesn't have binaries, only sources. windows.php.net has Windows binaries, other sites - like Linux distros - have others.

All php releases are signed and checksummed on the d/l page.
I think the McDonald's story is used in the article for illustration purposes for the main subject of article, which is "Taxpayers [...] are subsidizing the industry's profits."
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Have you tried Seashore?

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/About.h...

Based on GIMP it adds a proper Mac UI. Not all GIMP functionality is there but for the basic stuff it's not bad.
I'm honestly a bit scared if you view this as normal. I would really consider seeing a professional, if I were you, just to get those assumptions of yours checked.

They might agree with you, in which case I'm wrong
They were not faliures of business per se.

Friendster failed because users migrated, ditto Myspace, Bebo and whatever else. Even Diggs downfall could be partially attributed to the ready made life boat of Reddit.
Thanks! I haven't yet read the article you linked to, so maybe the answer is already there, but does this chart include food stamps for poor? I mean, is it (stamps + 16.1% of income)?
Excellent to quickly read some articles online, copy paste, set speed to what u like, n go!
The problem isn't the help they're offering. I actually think it is nice someone is helping the employees. TBH, telling them to check into it isn't that helpful. Anyway, it's more the fact that this giant company is relying on the welfare state to support their employees.
Off topic but what would you recommend for brain imaging, a CT scan or MRI?
Yes, Firefox downloads a list of suspicious sites from Google every 30 minutes. It uses the Google Safe Browsing Protocol --

https://code.google.com/p/google-safe-browsing/wiki/Protocol...
Working poor. It's a real problem.
It is more like the manufacturer is suddenly in the role of a public transport company. Self driving cars are more like small buses than personal cars.
Working on JSON with lenses and prisms
Currently using Django. Once I started playing around with it I haven't looked back. Although I am told cake php and a few other frameworks really do improve php.
All != each
How is this different from any other small business that employs entry level workers? Cashiers at Apple retail stores make small wages too. Should we go after them too?
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That's a pretty outdated mirror :)
Awesome article. I was curious why is it possible to iframe the button but not the whole contact info? Thanks
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Are you referring to the people who implemented PHP? Because I would be.
It's "tagged" by Google. When I search php from the iPhone I get:

"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

php.net/

This site may harm your computer.

Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers with a full suite of tools for ..."

Google inserts the "harm" note.
I can't speak for all.. But I don't think they lose their empathy. They learn how to shut it down in certain situation to protect themselves.
So, because of this article you conclude that the OP is wrong to say poor people are "unable to make enough money to feed themselves and their families working multiple part-time/full-time jobs paying these sorts of wages."? Maybe they spend less because they simply can't afford to spend more? I spend less on private-jets & high-end cars than rich people do, is it because I simply don't want those items or because I can't afford it?

Actually, this article appears to be saying the opposite of what you think it's saying:

FTA:

The short answer is that relative food costs are low and falling fast for everybody -- but they're not falling for the poor. In 1984, the poorest Americans spent 16 percent of their income to eat. The median-income family also spent 16 percent of its (slightly higher) income on food. And the rich spent the least. In the last three decades, food's share of the family budget has fallen for all but the poorest families, where it's stayed the same.

So... poor people are spending _more_ on food than the rich? Whatever way one interprets this article, I don't think it can be used to to prove anything in regards to affordability of food for the poor and what else they may have sacrificed to pay for food.
PHP.net
Oops, someone has made a giant booboo!!
Is McDonald's really very profitable? I ask innocently, I don't live in America, I never eat in McDonald's, and I think you are probably right, but I'm seeking data to back up the assertion.

If McDonald's arbitrarily raised wages, could they do that without increasing the costs of their products? Would that then make them less competitive against the horde of other fast food shops, and therefore reduce their sales dramatically in what may (or may not, I really don't know) be a hyper-competitive industry.

These are the types of considerations I'm sure are important.
For php.net, it reports only mere 4 trojans. So php.net is almost 100 times safer that google.com, according to this tool. That sounds pretty good :)
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People spend money on mining - power, equipment, time. This amounts to them buying bitcoins (from the set that haven't been mined).

This gives bitcoins a value in terms of existing currency (dollars etc.).

They might accrue value in other ways (how?), but does this process not bootstrap the bitcoins into having some initial value?
Nobody is criticizing him and the article most definitely doesn't read "like a hit piece". At least that's not what I got from it, I thought it was very compassionate actually.

Sorry about your problems... I can't say I know what you're talking about because I only had a glimpse of depression, but I understand the feeling of knowing your life isn't going to get better EVER and should preferably end right now.

Thankfully this turned out to be not true, I changed countries and now I'm happier than ever, but this wasn't some revelation that just dawned on me - it was just pure luck and I'm not sure if I could have escaped myself.

Have you already tried moving to a different country? I think there is something wrong with Western Europe, I've always been a happy person before I went there and my happiness returned when I got back home... It's possible that the problem is with the entire western society, so you should probably keep that in mind before you do something stupid. Although correlation doesn't imply causation, of course.
Probably ?
Entertainment and navigation systems in cars use Android lately. They normally use the base operating system and APIs while the UI is always heavily customized, so you might not recognize it, but it's of course very convenient instead of developing a full OS for your cars.
That's not right. Taxpayers are subsidizing every industry that employs low wage workers, which is basically every industry. That includes janitors at Google and Apple.
Honestly, I feel like there is nerd rage here; php.net should in no way ever be flagged as malware. Clearly a failure in Google here.
It would be interesting if Windows RT was split out from Windows 8 (and predecessors).

We don't currently support Windows but we want to keep an eye on it.
Yes, but really, 3.8Bi is too much

1Bi for Instagram seems excessive as well, but well, looks saner now.
Maybe you're right, we'll see in a few years. Currently, there's literally more than 10 times the number of new housing starts in San Francisco than there was 3 years ago, so there must be some profitable opportunities out there.
Is it disgusting that in Canada, very profitable companies tell their employees to go to a (publicly funded) doctor when they get sick?

If not, what's the difference between a publicly funded healthcare system and a publicly funded food stamp system?
There is always space for competition. You think with just apps how many note taking apps are there? And more and more get added each day. I am sure all of these apps are making money in some way. I know from family and friends that people swap switch and change fairly regularly because an app does not have all the futures they want.

If you take your time, figure out what the current apps are missing then target that as a feature you should be able to make a go of it.

Simply put you will never know until you try.
Everybody seems to laugh and rage about this, but could somebody tell me if this is correctly detected or not? I would not be surprised at all if somebody had breached php.net. Did they properly check against intrusions?
Yes, I get the theory, but I think it's probably false.
No clinical evidence is offered.
7 months in "web years" is pretty old, but as you know PHP has been around a long time, so there's still alot of relevant information for those who depend on the site.
From Wikipedia article:

Revenue US$27.56 billion (2012)
Operating income US$8.60 billion (2012)
Net income US$5.46 billion (2012)
Total assets US$35.39 billion (2012)
Total equity US$15.29 billion (2012)
Employees 1,800,000 (2013)
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According to Twitter post by Rasmus (https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/393258264034422785) this has been like this for at least 1 day and still has not been fixed. Something tells me that Google has way too much power and the fact that they don't sort out false positives in a timely fashion is really bad.
This comment by a Google employee seems to suggest that it wasn't incorrectly flagged:

http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/webmasters/puLmvjtK0m8...
It's weird. The file linked to in the google product forums (http://static.php.net/www.php.net/userprefs.js) definitely has a piece of obfuscated js to insert an iframe pointing to http://lnkhere.reviewhdtv.co.uk/stat.htm. The actual http://www.php.net/userprefs.js does not though.
McDonalds made $1.52 billion in profit last quarter. [1] I do think that it's irresponsible for the company to rely on the government to subsidize their employees, especially considering their profits.

[1] http://stream.wsj.com/story/markets/SS-2-5/SS-2-359306/
You've got to keep doing things until exhaustion(which it self is a moving target, and you won't reach exhaustion easily or quickly if you practice it enough number of times).

Will power is basically getting yourself to do something which you can't because of reasons outside your interest, passion etc. Stuff like working under pressure, duress, extreme tiredness and in faces of adversity.

If you are lazy, dispassionate or just bored about something. Will power won't help your there.
Yes, he is wrong. The poor in America are far likelier to be overweight than starving.
Yes, but there are quite a few ways to get flagged by Google.
The app encourages me to buy the device this app is intended for. So it was useful for me that he didn't mention the platform in the subject and scare me away.
It is a false positive as can be seen here: https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/393258147025932288/photo/1 Bascially it is complaining about a JS file that is actually meant to be there.
Healthcare strikes unevenly and can cost for more than most people could ever earn - so an insurance scheme of some kind seems sensible. In practice the state can often provide this more efficiently than the private sector.

Food on the other hand, costs a non-variable amount and is relatively inexpensive.

The two examples you give are not at all similar.
Ask HN: What will the future look like?
I think the HN crowd is among the smartest on this planet. So, I am very interested
how you see the future. Maybe collectively we can make fairly accurate predictions. At least it should be interesting.

I don't really want to make this a "What will the world be like in X years?" type of question, because experience teaches those predictions are never really accurate. Instead I'd like to leave the time frame open ended and just ask you what developments you see now and how think they will impact our world in the future.

I will give one prediction as an example:

There will be a big breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Computers will be able to take over most jobs, starting with truck drivers and taxi driver (thanks to Google), then call center agents and finally everything. People will only work when they need to.
If that's what's necessary for the company to develop such an antibiotic, why not? State-of-the-art cancer drugs can cost that ore more.
I'd rather pay $5k and live, to not being able to do anything.
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Will power is what you will need when things like eating healthy, exercise isn't helping.

Will power is what counts when your absolute physical limits are challenged.
> To find an index of a substring you need to scan the string, right. But once you have the byte index you can quickly jump to its position in the string

Stop doing that and just get the bit of string you want in the first place?
I went to university in Australia; there McDonald's et al employed primarily high-school and university students. The feeling was that a fast food job was something you did part-time while studying. The employees are generally people on the way up to a degree and a career. Some of these people were also on welfare; specifically a government program that augments the income of students from not-too-wealthy households.

I then visited the US, and was surprised to find a completely different group of employees at fast food chains. The staff seemed to be older, more permanently in the fast food industry, and often seemed like they had been beaten down by the daily drudge of many years.