skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does anybody want to get a coffee/lunch near Penn station on Wednesday?
Apropos of the thread about making friends:
I'm taking Amtrak from Florida to Montreal, and stopping over in New York on Wednesday. I think I'm getting in around 11:00a.m., and departing about 9:00a.m. the next morning.

I'm a dev of about 4 years and I'd love to hear about what you're doing in NY/what the NY hacker scene is like/what the NY startup scene is like/how you like living in NY. I've worked doing development with a geographic bent for FSU, for the Florida Senate, as well as for two private companies. Right now I'm working in agriculture, and in my free time building a tool to help organizers and activists make better decisions.

my email is danielbporter (at) gmail dot com
I don't see any reason why canvases should use more memory than content in general. Content uses content layers to store pixel data; canvases use canvas layers. Either way, the image data is only stored once.

It comes down to tuning more than anything fundamental.
I'm not entirely sure that the use of the '-' char is a good idea .. isn't this, or rather the '--' variation of it, something from SMTP, for use in separating mail content from the signature? I guess I should test it and find out .. hope it doesn't try to get my signature done! :)
IE10 introduced auto-update. Once 11 came out, computers silently updated to it. No big windows update prompt asking them if they're sure they want it.

IE9 to IE10 was aggressively launched as well. I believe users got a basic prompt and IE turned on auto-updating by default. According to some of my users, IE10 just appeared, so my guess is that MS may have the prompt time-out to 'yes' instead of infinitely holding the computer.

Here in corporitstan, I had to put in extra blocks to keep 10 and 11 away, due to our CRM being suck on IE9 for the time being. Trust me, MS is trying real hard to get everyone to the newest version of IE.
>> One of the mechanisms "society" uses to accomplish things is voluntary exchange in a free market environment.

You're right, Phil. That's ONE of the mechanisms society uses to accomplish things. That's not the only mechanism, and it's certainly not the appropriate mechanism for many things.

I'll give you a concrete example.

In my state, the Department of Transportation only plows snow from arterial roads, not from neighborhood roads. In order to get snow plowed on a neighborhood street, residents have to organize a civic association that collects dues, and those dues are used to pay for plowing; the state then reimburses the civic association for a portion of its expenses. But because membership in the civic associations is entirely voluntary, we end up with a 30 percent participation rate. My share of the dues, in effect, pays for not only myself but two of my neighbors who aren't willing to pay their fare share.

That is ridiculous. It is a perfect example of a case in which it is simpler and fairer for a couple of bucks to be added to each household's property taxes and have the plowing be publicly funded (although it could still be privately plowed).

Furthermore, the idea that the only role of the government is in situations where force is necessary is pretty darn limited. You might have a case if you're talking about national government, but I imagine that the bulk of the tasks your municipal government takes care of, outside of police work proper, don't require acts of aggression.
tax law does not say that you only have to pay taxes if you don't contribute to the GDP or employee people, which zero businesses qualify for.

contributing to the GDP is synonymous with the basic function of any business. employing people is synonymous with the basic function of any business.

large corporations shouldn't be allowed to flaut their tax bill, while paying people minimum-wage-or-close-to-it, simply because they are a large part of the economy.

starbucks is not a non-profit. all of those activities are great, but this is kind of like saying that your heart does so much work in moving blood around that it does not need to oxygenate your blood.
How is this different from etherium?
How do you compile clojurescript without the JVM?
I think you would just about have to start from square one if you want an open source FPGA toolchain. I don't believe such a toolchain exists at all right now.

So what I'm saying is, forget about developing a PCI-e FPGA board. If you want an open source toolchain for it, you better start there, because that's going to be 99.9% of the effort.
Our solar team sets a hot and steamy world record
I'm interested. Open up an issue here https://github.com/STRd6/pixel-editor/issues?state=open and we can start the discussion.
I just watched a webinar about freelancing. Although it's not specifically about getting off the ground, it is touched on a bit.

http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/w/clientsfromhell.html

You should get a link to the recorded webinar when you sign up.
It'll be using a veritable pile of standard Windows libraries no doubt, so you'll not be able to just run it on Linux or OSX if that is what you are asking.

By "able to run independently" I assume they are meaning that it won't have to become the one and only version of IE on your machine as other versions do meaning you can run it along side other IE versions (unlike with 11 and prior which essentially require you to have a separate Windows setup, usually in a VM, for each version you want to test against).
Thanks to drones and satellites, privacy no longer exists in private yards, even those with high fences lined with trees.

Thanks to infrared photography, structure-penetrating radar, cell phones, etc., privacy no longer exists indoors either.

This is not right.
Zipfian Academy Launches New Fellowship and Data Engineering Programs
My reason is simple. I use Instacart frequently. When I first evaluated Google Shopping Express, it didn't seem possible to buy basic perishables such as milk and orange juice (and I don't mean the canned kind that sits on shelves at room temperature). That's pretty much a killer if I can't buy fresh milk and orange juice.
Show HN: The Evolution of Color: Using Colors to Teach Genetic Algorithms
None of which detracts from his point: we (Americans) are nuts about mind altering drugs, and most of the debate on both sides is laughably sophomoric. Europeans have a lot to feel superior about when it comes to these regulations. That there is a complex political history here doesn't alter that.
The #nosyntax movement
To be fair, Poland is at a pretty low base - it's at less than half of Germany GDP per person. I would not be surprised if some companies moved work to Poland to save on labour instead of moving to China/Asia as most cost-cutting companies did in US.
Oh well 0 confirmation has a lot of issues. But thanks for the info.

What I'm saying with the double-win is that it blatantly exposes GHash's ignoring of blocks they don't like, not that they would actually lose over time.
Yes, double dash '--' is the signature character which is different enough from '-' to detect. But even if you use '-' as the signature separator, we have a pretty good signature detection algorithm that would remove it.
And then when they offer those products at lower prices?...lol
The Archimedes Palimpsest, a Real Document Challenge
That only answers why they are valuable, not why they are property. It is the issuing authority that intentional makes licenses into property by honoring them after they have been transferred.

The quesion is, why are these licenses honored after a transfer?
LLVM commit adding partial Swift support back in 2012.
It was more the military side than the civilian, so digital cameras and the like weren't even a consideration[1]. The military was afraid of others having access to the images or knowing how good the images were they were getting. It seems like those concerns have lessened and thus the new rules.

1) digital is just catching up with film for resolution these days.
...the drone becomes a high velocity flying circular saw...

How would efficiency be affected if the propellers were surrounded with wire shields, like a household fan might be?
Smartphones didn't exist back then and there isn't the dot com bubble going on right now.
Not sure what the paranoia about home distilling stems from. Actually, I read most of article wondering when he would get to discussing the absurd home-distilling laws.

Making beer, wine, etc is legal in most jurisdictions (with some out-there upper limit like 200 gallons per person per year max). Nothing wrong with drinking [most of] that stuff; with a little practice you can make it better than the cheap store-bought forms (or maybe even get actually good at it).

Distilling is simply removing some of the content of the aforementioned beverage. Usually it involves extracting the [harmless] ethanol from the fermented must/wort via evaporation & condensation, which can be done as simply as a "disappearing still" (arrangements of common kitchen pots, ice, and stove). Legally, "distilling" also includes other forms of concentrating the alcohol by removing something, such as by freezing the liquid and draining the still-fluid components from the ice. Either way, it's pretty stupid that people can make vast amounts of inebriants at home for personal use, but are severely punished for concentrating it (again, for personal use).

Yes, some people do get stupid and make harmful solutions. A main factor therein is the fact that it's illegal to make distilled spirits without expensive licenses, which in turns make it hard for people to make it properly & safely (both in manufacturing and product). Sure you could argue that they shouldn't be doing illegal things, but that ignores the easy LEGAL availability (liquor stores flourish), and the fact that it's so easy to make at home it's almost hard not to.
>Also: if someone puts a contract in front of you that requires you to discriminate against African Americans: no, I don't think you can ethically sign it.

Again, you make a simplistic statement that ignores the real world. When social systems are realigning, there is a period when you ignore the plain terms of the contract because you know people aren't enforcing it anymore. Whether that is happening with AirBnB or not is not my point. My point is that it is really easy to make a blanket statement about being ethical in contract law. The chance of that statement actually being the "ethical" choice in all cases is, effectively, zero. The real world is much too complicated to reduce it to the logical exactitude you are claiming.
Normally, the root of this type of problem, is in the judgemental thinking.

I know how this is because I also judge a lot. I judge to the point of creating stories in my head that, in the end, I think I should not act, because of this, this, and that...

The solution to this issue is to lower your judgemental thinking. Relax. Don't worry about your english, don't worry about what people might think if you say what's in your mind, and stop creating stories in your head. Just be yourself.

If you're awkward, that's nice. If you have accent, that's nice too. If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything. You know... these days people urge to find good listeners. Everybody just want to talk, talk, talk, but few really want to listen. Listen to what people around you are saying and I'm sure you'll find good friends.
It doesn't serve a public good. It raises prices by limiting supply. It is almost pure protectionism, to eliminate competition.

Impose an artificial barrier to entry, and everyone already past the barrier can work a little less, and reap higher profits.

Ensuring safety and quality of service is merely a pretext, and mostly everyone knows that is just political flimflam. It is a corrupt practice that is tolerated because it seems to benefit businesses somewhat more than it hurts customers.

In some cases, they are NOT property. They are treated as such to move the cash around, but the person exercising the privilege sets up a sham business arrangement with the licensee. For instance, the licensee of the cab medallion "hires" a manager with his own metered vehicle, garage, and roster of drivers, has no involvement in the day-to-day operations, and just cashes the checks.
Thanks! I hope our pixel editors can influence one another in positive ways.
I'm interested in what 5 categories people would use in their own 5iler?
I know of quite a few places in Chicago with a mid-20's minimum age. To my knowledge it has nothing to do with any legal requirements but is based on the idea that slightly older people are less rowdy/better able to handle their drinks.

When I was 21/22 I rarely had a problem getting passed the bouncers in places with the higher age limits because "you don't look like you're going to do anything stupid"
Burned Pizza: Domino's Customer Database Breached
https://github.com/Bronsa/CinC

when this is done. Some people are working hard on it.
I don't think they are talking about holding it over their head. You can render people favors & establish that kind of relationship, without browbeating them about it.
Cool idea, not sure I like how the web app hijacks Command+N keys though (I use these often to switch between browser tabs). Lately I've been using a similar ~5 categories, and just emailing things to myself. I put the "tag" in the subject line have gmail filter them into labels.
Facebook's plan to own your phone
This is not the language Swift. This is Apple's ARM core they developed in 2012. It is the core in their A6 processor.
> sheer volume of quotes overwhelms most systems.

I'm curious about what volumes we're talking about here. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I don't understand when FPGAs are needed (or justify the development cost) over distributed software systems.
Ontario takes it one step further, even. We have a government run monopoly on liquor and wine sales (the LCBO) and a non-government-run government-protected monopoly on beer sales (the Beer Store).

To make that clear: the only company that is allowed to run a beer store in Ontario is The Beer Store. The Beer Store is owned by an association of InBev (Belgian company) and Molson/Coors (headquarters in Denver).

So Ontario has a government-protected beer retail monopoly that isn't even run by Canadians.

We just had an election. The Beer Store issue was completely ignored by all major parties.
Thanks! I actually came up with the idea for this post so I would have something to respond with in recruiter emails.
There is no caste system in the UK. There was a class system that is largley defunced, despite pretestations to the contrary. You aren't even British, so why do you care?
I think the parent was asking why the licenses were transferable. I can't sell my driver's license to an aspiring driver, why should I be able to sell a taxi license or a liquor license?
How's compatibility?
We are building off of Ethereum and tying in Bittorrent to produce a platform which allows us to build these applications. So what we are doing is taking the tools we are being given and putting them to use. :)
I used Jekyll for years.

My favorite Jekyll trick was ditching it for middleman.
Among other reasons, it's relatively easily to have a catastrophic fire. Unlike winemaking and brewing, where your end product will be in the range of 4% to 13% ABV, which generally won't burn, you can easily distill to 150 proof (75% ABV) with a simple pot still (or 190 proof with a column still).

150 proof is a highly flammable liquid. The vapor is flammable. If you have a vapor leak it can ignite. The flame is invisible. In other words, it's not something to take lightly.

In the micro distilling industry, I personally know of a half dozen fires over the past couple years. It's easy for something to go wrong very, very quickly.

Here is an article on the most recent fire: http://newsok.com/blast-rocks-moore-distillery/article/49079...
I think they could - in fact I'm starting a PhD in a similar area soon! It's a matter of providing a high level enough programming language (e.g. Haskell) and a smart enough compiler that can automatically parallelise sections, and with the right middleware/compiler back end it should be possible!
i think the author of this post should watch 'House of Cards' on netflix. Human interactions (politics) are always based on being able to say things to others in private.
Domino's ransom: Attackers demand £24,000 to return stolen data
I'm from the bay area too. Got some advice that I don't want to share in a public forum, shoot me an email if you're interested!
Mine would be: todo, random, scratch, thoughts/ideas, notes.
Excuse me, but where's my drm-free ebook? Have to hate all those publishers selling drm-crippled books which i'd really love to read. I just don't get it.