skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm not citing it for whole-and-nothing-but-the-truth purposes :)
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Frankly it is Russia's only hope. More likely he will live out his life in luxury while his citizens suffer and Europe grovels for his oil.
Obviously defeating a naive online poll is trivial, but it is also trivial to detect.

Presumably this software does it in untraceable ways - with a botnet of IPs from the country in question, with delays and stutter etc so that it is indistinguishable from real traffic.

You should not underestimate the power of online actions in shaping opinion - for example if stories on a particular tech consistently made the top of HN, a significant no. of people would start thinking it was popular amongst this demographic.

If a BBC or Daily Mail story which was a puff piece for GCHQ was consistently on the top of their 'most read' section, people would be far more exposed to that story over a given period. etc.
It's not even an endorsement, this whole thing seems to be organised by them. This was linked at the bottom: http://press.hotels.com/en-us/vacation-equality-project/
" A short address for any location on Earth"

It doesn't check out:

Surface Area of Earth: 510.1 * 10^6 km^2

Distinct map codes: 36^5 = 60.466176 * 10 ^6

Area of 1 map code = 8.4 km^2

Oh! It's narrowed by country... so it doesn't address any location on Earth. Only populated areas.

If you want to actually refer to ANY location on Earth, there's another system, Ham Radio grids. It uses four to six digits and refers to either 70x100 or 3x4 miles squared. Probably useless for the business purposes, but at least it truthfully refers to any location on Earth.
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> I'm French and I do realize it's a pretty complicated language to learn.

According to this classification, French is actually in the easiest category of foreign languages to learn, for an English speaker:

http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang...
Pretty sure it's just a way for them to get a link.
Ah. That makes the title+link less obnoxiously self-Betteridged, but still obnoxiously Betteridged.
Nice one! Our team had a great time building the experience at JadoPado.

A couple of weeks to change out search completely, get full faceting as well as additional indexes to support everything in Arabic.

I continue to be blown away by Algolia and it's potential.
"GET OFF MY LAWN!"

> "Becoming a boring human being is the fate of most people who keep the tech economy’s lights burning deep into the night."

Anyone who thinks that the president of the united states is going to say anything controversial or interesting worth taking time away from going to the bathroom letalone building potentially world changing software is already in no position to imply that anyone else is a bore in any way, shape or form.

Get off that lawn, you old crank.
This of course all depends on which country you live in. Where I am from libraries already offer ebook and audiobooks and university libraries have bought licenses from most academic publishers, so that students can download most of their course material and almost all journal articles free of charge. Also all libraries are a 15 minute bike ride away. All of them combined carry a higher quality selection of books than Amazon with their 600.000 could possibly have. Of course they probably won't have some obscure medieval vampire romance novel.

The only books I ever ordered from Amazon were books in foreign languages and academic books that Amazon apparently prints on demand on behalf of publishers. Books in my mother tongue can only be sold at a fixed price set by the publisher, so there is little incentive of buying from a company that mistreats their warehouse workers.
Is it only me or does that remind anyone else about basic MVC frameworks, like Backbone used properly?

Oh and don't get me wrong that this pattern gets used again. I can see it being extended here and it looks really nice and promising. I just don't understand the sudden hype.
I use Safari heavily and I've been hoping some sort of competitor would come along.

It's not that that I dislike Safari, merely that I expect competition would push for a better product. The interface has barely changed in as long as I can remember with the same old clunky flash and limited search. It took years for the mobile app to go from horrendous to tolerable and it remains quite bad.

Giving 'Online' the same visual style as 'Flow' would be a start, but they seem to be keeping them separate and beyond the visuals I found Flow to underwhelming and frustrating even. I cancelled my Flow subscription despite being offered a deep discount as some sort of early adopter.

Meanwhile, Inkling is great is several ways, but lacks the critical 'all you can read' subscription option.
Conventional economics would say that paid vacation will be factored into salary anyway so arguably not having mandatory paid vacation allows an employee flexibility to trade a week off for more money and doesn't provide any negative effect.

But as I understand it US companies don't have to offer any vacation time at all to employees, how common is this?

I suppose it's also possible that employees underestimate the importance of taking vacation on their sanity so forcing them to make the trade is a good thing.
I completely agree with you. Right now, I mostly rely on audiobooks from my public library system (the price point -- free -- is hard to beat). Audible (also owned by Amazon) is really the only other decent option for professionally narrated stuff (I've tried non-professionally-narrated stuff, and it's generally really bad). And since people don't generally listen to the same audiobook over and over again, the way they do with music, I don't think many people will mind that they don't get to "own" a copy of the book, like with Audible. If it weren't for the fact that Audible has a far better selection, I'd say it would be ridiculous for anyone to continue with Audible over Kindle Unlimited. I mean, one audiobook a month vs. unlimited? No hard decision there.
Yes, there are prebuilt templates to start with, you can also customize from there. It's like online Photoshop just that it's easier to use without learning curve involved. I'm not sure about you, but I took years to learn Photoshop to create the effects the way I want. It just takes took long, and many of my friends gave up too. So this is something you use on your own without having to get people to work on it for you, like a DIY thing. Are you into design? Is software a problem for you?
Any such claim implies a much lower level of proficiency for "learnt a language" than most of us are referring to when we say that someone has learned a language fluently.
I think it was RAND Corp that has financial penalties if you don't use a minimum number of vacation days a year.
Have you heard of https://projectmeshnet.org/ ?
How do authors get paid with this? I don't imagine a pay per play scheme work like it does with the music industry
This is quite possibly one of the worst articles I've ever read. Long and seemingly purposeful but really meandering and shallow, with the crux of the matter being "What if there was a supercomputer that was always right! And we used that to engineer a game with two really awful choices! And we cheated, and made sure you always got the awful choice based on the computer's prediction".

Huh. How about that. To quote from "WarGames", "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

As long as we are making preposterous what-ifs, I'm going to go with "What if we developed a low-cost, easily producible, lightweight, low-power device that drew its power from the atmosphere and provided us with all required energy and nutrition, while augmenting our immune system?"

I like that what-if much more. Just as silly, but might as well have some fun.
Good points. This is sort of a corollary that "everyone is different". You wouldn't buy your shoes based on the average male/female shoe size so why would you structure something as personal as vacation based on someone else's experiences?

Best way to discover what's optimal for you in such personal matters is trial-and-error. It's your life - experiment and find what makes you feel good. :)
You are overly complicating the issue.

I think you should read over this site which has tons of info:

http://drpeering.net/
Get through book 3 before you give up. The dip in 6-9 isnt great but its not awful. The series builds slowly, if you really arent into it by book 3, when most of the story lines have really accelerated, then you can decide
"IE 8 and up."
Those Microsoft layoffs are Nadella rejecting the Nokia merger
There are times in a startup, where you simply have to do the work without thinking too much. This is for instance when you have finished all your wireframes and then you simply have to code it down for two months. This is simply grunt work, where you don't need to think much, you only need to get it done.

Then there are phases in a startup, where you need insane creativity. These phases are for instance after you've found product/market fit, say you got to 10,000 users with your product, however, now you need to figure out how to get to 100,000.

In these times it's not worth at all pushing 18h days, it's much better being a balanced human being who goes out with friends, does their exercise and eats well, because all you need at that point is ideas and creativity.
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Thanks, I'll definitely be sharing results. Probably put out another blog post and/or discuss it here: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/i-ll-give-you-a-job-and-hel...
I just changed my address to a US one and I was allowed to sign up straight away.
Not at all. I always use a password cracker that starts with a dictionary attack based on every word posted on HN. 1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa will now be one of the fist passwords to go.
Humanity at its best!

<3
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Banks will usually force their employees to take full weeks of vacation. That way, if an employee is skimming off the books a regular amount each week, they will notice that on the week the employee isn't present.
Hey HN,

I made DashNotes in the last couple of evenings. DashNotes allows users to save notes (text, images, pages) while they are browsing the internet. It requires no signups, and the data isn't transferred to any server. So its super quick to use.

Any feedback would be appreciated.
This is neat, but I am confused why you wouldn't want to just tie location to geography and not country (aka nationality, a squishy and shifting idea). Why not just use UTM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_...
I often shoot little snippets (cheeky bit of stock footage for behind credits etc) and usually have to use stabilization in post to make it usable

$1.99? The mere possibility of it working at a later date is worth more than $1.99. I'll give it a test run later on for sure but you guys should re-evaluate that price, if it works well you've way under-priced yourselves
Because we're crazy, driven, hard-workin' believers. That's Why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJSI48gkFc

But seriously, vacation is really important for your mental and physical health. Time off is how you recharge and reboot your thinking process.
Based on what XorNot stated, maybe they just keep pressing the "generate new project" button until they find one they like.
Less than a dollar a day for unlimited media consumption doesn't sound like a lot to me. It's still significantly less than 1 cable subscription.
Also, there's the 10:10 Code FAQ: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/1010-code-faq.html

And the original idea from 2006: http://blog.jgc.org/2006/07/simple-code-for-entering-latitud...
Well, I mean, Dublin's very expensive, but it's not as expensive as San Francisco, say.
The startup I'm at has "unlimited vacation". Basically there is no set limit on vacation days and we can pretty much take vacation whenever we want if we just give the other people some advance notice say a week or so ahead of time.

That said I have only taken a few weeks of vacation in the last few years for some reason. I should take advantage of it more.
You criticized about the random code generation function. Could you explain why it is bad? Though I code, I am no expert and would really like to know.
At least for some people it's easy to pick up accents (even for languages she doesn't actually speak, she just speaks gibberish):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcvlxivscw
Anatomy of a system call, part 2
There exists a hash of lat, long globally unique for each level of precision, a geohash [1]. One common application utilizes a space filling Hilbert curve to define an arbitrary precision bounding box around a set of coordinates. You can see an example hash [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
[2] http://geohash.org/9q8yyvfekk8h
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> latitudes/longitudes, unless we're talking about shortening their representation.

That's a much smarter idea than this mapcode system. It would make sense to replace the base-10 representation with base 36.... at least in the Roman alphabet. It would probably be smarter to pick a base that works with the world's alphabets. Oh yeah, not all the world uses alphabets!

But even then, it's not that huge of an improvement, really! Every two digits of base 36 replace three digits of base 10. (36^2 = 1296). The b36 digits replace only 4 (or 4.5) base 10 digits. 4x b36 digits replace 6 base 10 digits.

I think this may actually just be the Ham radio grid system I mentioned elsewhere.

> For things like a loose description that might not be associated with a single point (e.g. "Central Park"). Here, I could see mapcodes being useful -- you can provide the precise boundaries of the park, where it's located, associate metadata with the mapcode like what hours the park is open, etc.

Heh, at this point, I'm just thinking "URL". After all, it's a Universal resource locator. How about mapcode://CentralPark/my_favorite_bench.
It's not like they aren't trying to improve the model as well, all the time. It's just saying that right now the benefit of getting more data for existing (already very sophisticated) models is greater than the incremental benefits of model improvements given existing data.
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Well, personally, I think it's cool because it's python, open source, easily extensible and supports 64 bit and 32 bit ELFs and PEs. I looked for such a tool before and they are not that abundant afaik (especially for ELF).
As I understand it (I am in the outer gotenna circle) it will do some sort of store and forward mesh network-y thing.
It is actually every area, and the length of the codes varies. I'm guessing that the most popular/populated places get the shortest codes and those further away get the longer codes.

For example a location somewhere in the Atlantic off the coast of Gran Canaria is International QFLQV.29KM while some place in the el Poble Sec district in Barcelona is Spain SG.YB.
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If the creator is distributing the collection, it's legally her/his responsibility, as well as of everyone who uses it.

That said, fair use applies.
4 weeks of annual leave, plus a ridiculous amount of public holidays in Australia. We'd be pretty close in standard.
I'm going to have a last go because to work at google, I believe you have a moral imperative to understand why the analogy is apt.

Selling consequences of information in some very real sense includes the information. In your terms, the "benefit from some service", is a targeted ad which is a causal consequence of user information. A derived work if you like. Information isn't just one specific pattern of bits.

The drone analogy vividly demonstrates how selling a consequence, killing someone in a secret location, really does include their location as an intrinsic part of the service sold even if no-one actually hands out the lat/long.
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Actually, with the constant of approximation being two, its almost exactly half good.
They forgot rockstars.
Ask HN: Good countries for American expats
Looking to move a family to a different country for a few years, that may lead to permanent residence in that country.

What has your experience been?

What is your particular career?

What were your moving expenses?

How much is your rent or did you buy?

Where did you move to/from?

How are the schools?

Have you become fluent in the native language and was the language barrier difficult to overcome?

How long have you lived in this country? Are you a permanent resident or do you plan on moving back to the US?

What was the process like to become a permanent resident?

Did you have to already have a job when you moved to that country?

What's the cost of living compared to where you moved from?
Has your quality of life improved or not? How and why?
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I signed up for the 30-day free trial, and immediately found books that I'd like to read that are on long request waiting lists at my friendly county public library. Now I can look up those books any time I like during the next thirty days. I'll see whether or not I think there is enough value here to pay ten dollars a month indefinitely to keep this service, but I think I will.
Still behind PS4 sales, though, which means not only were the sales very low lately, and this doubling up starts from a low base, but also on the decline, if they made the decision to give up Kinect, something they've been promoting for years as a "special differentiation feature" of their console.

For the dollar/unit per performance metric, you also still pay about 50 percent more for an Xbox than for a PS4. To match the PS4 there, the Xbox One would need to cost like $250.
It's 2 meter VHF, very low bandwidth. Useful for GPS and text messages only. An Email bridge might be pretty cool, but I'm not sure of the exact speed.
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Why do you think the real wage of low-end workers would decrease by 10% if paid vacation were mandatory?

If I try to reconstruct your reasoning, I guess it goes like this - correct me if I'm wrong:

1) Employers of these workers are paying the workers according to their marginal product, and will continue to do so.

2) The worker's marginal productivity is exactly proportional to days worked.

3) Therefore, if they work 90% as many days, they will be paid 90% as much as before.

The first problem here is premise 2 - better-rested, happier workers tend to be more productive, so increased vacation partly pays for itself.

But the more serious problem with this logic is that, even if premise 2 were true, most of these workers are probably in wage-goods industries. A reduction in productivity within the wage-goods industries as a whole will be offset in two ways - less production of wage goods, and increased real price of wage goods, i.e. decreased real wage in non-wage industries. So even in the idealized classical world you seem to be living in, most of the effect will be on the wages of people who already enjoy vacation time.

You also have to consider the macroeconomic demand effect. The economy is still running below capacity, so employing more people will have a multiplier effect.
> Maybe it's one click instant access. Maybe it's the larger selection, or that lack of having to wait.

Yes. Yes. Yes. As well as book condition/cleanliness, and being able to keep books forever.

My local library is also only open from 10am-6pm, and closed sundays, so unless I want to take time off of work, my only time to go to the library is on a Saturday afternoon. Usually when I buy a book via Amazon, it's spontaneous because of a recommendation. I'll have a friend recommend me a book. Click, it's ordered and shipping. I'll see a book recommended several times in the same HN thread, check reviews for it, click, ordered and shipping. I don't really remember the book's info in order to look up later while at a library.

Currently I have no idea how to check if a book is available at my branch or a nearby branch. I tried going to the library website and clicked their "check availability" link, and I was brought to a calendar for conference room reservations. Amazon is just a much more polished experience than my library. So yeah, I'll buy a book instead of getting it free from the library.

It reminds me of when people say that services like Netflix, Spotify, Steam, etc are cutting down on piracy because in many cases, they provide a simpler experience than the piracy does. Amazon and books (hell, Amazon and most products) provides that same simplification over a cheaper/free distributor.
The author hits an important point. I'm a native French speaker and speak to anglophones trying to improve their french everyday and the overwhelming majority gets distracted if they don't get the noun genders right, pick the right verb tenses and all sorts of things like that. They hesitate mid-sentence trying to remember the rules and get it perfectly instead of just saying "Tommy hitted me" like in the article. As soon as they start hesitating, they freeze and switch back to English.

I can't emphasize how important it is to just keep going. The point of language is to get the message across. The details like verbs and genders will come with practice and to practice, you need to use the positive feedback loop that getting the message across generates.
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I'm reminded of http://xkcd.com/927/.
A lot to do about their map design. But it is quite quick in finding locations.
Abortion itself isn't a particularly good direct way to control population, and there are others which are just as effective which have been used traditionally in many cultures: infanticide.

That said, a number of people with a strong expressed interest in population control, for example, the Ehrlichs, include family planning, but not forced methods of population control (e.g., forced abortions or sterilization) among the methods they advocate. See for example One With Nineveh.

Ehrlich does note on page 189:

"By the mid-twentieth century, abortions were being performed legally in some other [non-US] parts of the world. In the SovietUnion and eastern Europe, contraceptives were often unreliable and usually unavailable, so abortion was the primary means of birth control."

A few paragraphs later:

"Abortion is a difficult issue for most peopple, and most people would prefer to see safe and effective contraception widely available to, and used by, all sexually active individuals. If this were to happen, the abortion controversy, perhaps the* biggest source of ethical dispute in our society today, could go away."

His primary focus though is addressed in the following section: "Influencing Reproduction Decisions", largely via education, incentive policies, and family planning services, principally other than abortion.
I use a little bit my phone while ordering at a restaurant, sometimes taking pictures. But my average eat time is less than an hour, even if I'm at a date with my wife.
startup based on similar idea ( Based in Hyderabad / India )
http://zip.pr/
I guess the main difference is that walkie-talkies don't connect to your phone, or share text or GPS data. They also don't mesh network (automatically).