skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you'll be actually writing for a pre-ANSI C compiler!

I would not say the compiler is pre-ANSI. For example it even has some C99 features. Rather, it chose to ignore ANSI, so yes, you need to really careful with what your doing. The integer promotion rules are different, for example

-1 < u16int(42)

is false, unlike in ANSI C.

> You must be super careful, and really know what you're doing, when trying to pass pointers through the C<->Go boundary

Yes, however that is true with cgo as well. Especially now with the new precise garbage collector.

> because of special "extern register" variables; although, I'm not sure if this requirement was not removed in Go 1.3.

Nothing changed in 1.3, however big changes are coming into Go 1.4 and Go 1.5. Eventually all the C code in the runtime will go away. Until then, the plan is to move all remaining C code onto the scheduler stack instead of having common Go and C stacks, as that interferes with the copying stacks and the new precise garbage collector.

In other words, using the Plan 9 C compiler in your project uses to work by accident. Not it appears as it would still work, but it actually has a subtle net negative effect that's not obvious to see at first glance. You should avoid it.
A cut bill is perfectly valid at least in Europe and I suspect in the US is the same as there are movies in which the Big gangster cuts a money bill and tells someone else if he wants the other part do something.
Another problem is that funding agencies have a very strong bias in favor of large projects. Most EU money gets poured into the big pools of money available only to research teams spanning three or more countries. It's incredibly difficult to propose a really novel, creative, innovative -- whatever adjective you like -- project that has 14 senior researchers and a small army of postdocs and grad students collaborating on it.

Those projects tend to come from individual researchers working on an idea, and there's basically no money available for that. For some fields, this isn't feasible, of course. You can't do high-energy experimental physics in your office with a laptop. But quite a lot of research can be at least partially done without massive amounts of support, and the system is set up in a way that more or less prevents that from happening.
Why skip a version? Wasn't clear from that thread.
Why these local banana-state measurements instead of international standards?
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If millions of individuals independently make the same decision about which media they trust, it may be a social signal.
There was a really nice documentary on similar subject:
Countdown to Zero
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572769/
http://www.reddit.com/r/TriboTac/comments/2c4mkk/
Some trivia: In acme or sam (the preferred editors of at least Rob Pike, Russ Cox and Ken Thompson) it is trivial to type a ·. Basically you type

ALT . .

In fact it's pretty easy to type a whole bunch of Unicode stuff, see keyboard(6): http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/6/keyboard
All about: Computed Properties in Swift
You mention both Bintray and Groovy. Look at the Bintray download stats for Groovy [1] and it reports 170,000 downloads in the past month. But 100,000 of them happen on just 6 days, 40,000 of those on just 1 day (18 July). Click on country and see that 120,000 of them came from China. Comparing the numbers suggests 100,000 downloads of Groovy from Bintray during July were faked. Another 900,000 downloads of Groovy were faked during April and May. I'm not sure I trust JCenter when the 2 technologies you recommend for it have together been used to fake one million downloads.

[1] https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics

[2] http://groovy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Blog07#2
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Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market
>> Whisper systems does not solve this. SecurePhoneBlahBlah does not solve this.

1. The SIM chip generally is not a full featured computer and I'm unsure that it would have DMA access. But yes the baseband processor is indeed an issue.

2. Products like this prevent the kind of passive data-slurping that has been popular so far - i.e. install a box at the telco and record everything. That's a good start.

So yes, it does matter and it's a good start, and it pushes up costs for pervasive surveillance.
Help a student find software for modelling (photo)bio-reactors
I think that it may have been sarcastic.
Marketing and propaganda are very similar, if people believe something to be true. It is.

A lot of these famous social accounts aren't even the people in the photos. It's kinda disturbing once you get deep, everything seems so fake.
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PHP 6 existed (check commits in the public repo) but was abandoned and never released to public.

The voting page lists more info https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6#vote
I also lived in Boston for 5 years without a car.
You know, that in the civilized world we use meters and kilograms? ;)
> Never before have the choices for consumers been so concentrated.

Choice is a flood they are trying to drown you with.

There are 40,000+ grocery products in your supermarket, 50 years ago there were 1000. 10 new SKU's for groceries are issued every day, with a peak in the 1970s of 17 per day.

70-80% of these products will fail.

The retail grocery industry spends nearly $1m per store on those failed products.

> consumers

Consumer + voter still equals twice nothing. - Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
There isn't a business model. Not everything has to have a business model.

The only business model I would even remotely associate with this is, on an individual developer level, the reputation and future work opportunities you would get from having your name associated with this stuff.
Why? There would still be "organic" discovery just like there is organic website discovery on search.

Also, an adwords-like model is relatively friendly to small budgets. A cost per install (or effectively cost per instal) model favors apps that have a high value per user, which aren't necessarily the bigger companies.
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It depends on what you call "realistic".

When I had seen 50 foot humanoid robots on film they were everything but realistic, also the fact that you don't know how a 50 foot robot really behaves helps a lot. Normally they hide the problems using light, making it dark, like a night scene.

Making video realistic with bright light is really really hard and really really expensive because in the real world there is dust and rust, and dirty mud and imperfections everywhere, but those are hard to model.

Even then most film professionals will know instantly is something is created digitally. It is exponentially more expensive to improve in this area, so they compromise on what most people would consider ok for the least price.

Even super expensive productions like Starwars look very artificial for the trained eye.
The story reminds me of REAMDE, by Neal Stephenson. In fiction, the protagonist Richard also creates his own MMO and uses immersion as a way to loose weight.
People say techies are invading SF. They said the same about my immigrant GF
I remember the figure of 400 as well - don't know if that included UK weapons as well (e.g. the Chevaline upgrade to Polaris was mainly about defeating the ABM defenses around Moscow).

NB An interesting article by Charlie Stross on the relationship between the US and the UK's "independent" deterrent:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/on-the-u...
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I was imagining something that would oxidize quickly. If you could make it cheaply and vacuum/nitrogen pack it, you could have as much as you wanted on hand. But, yeah, could easily be an added source of stress.

"That was perfect!"
"What about the money? It looks faded. Is that faded?"
Recharge mobiles with your paysafecard PIN through a phone call
Similar airdroid app to ipad
Free app to ipad like airdroid.
Airdroid give total access to android phone on computer.We can send sms, view gallery.
Not interested on softwares like TimeViewer.
I want something simple to use,not a virtual access.

Thanks
Great work. How can people act on the info on specific cities ? There should be a way to balance wrong/right/... for variables that are subjective (weather, friendliness to foreigners, ....)
I don't care who's "dumber". Samsung copying the idea doesn't change the legal system for everyone else. Apple patenting and suing everyone for ridiculously obvious "ideas" does.

Samsung's software designers may be cheap hacks, but they're (inadvertently) serving the same good that Newegg serves. Both are infringing patents that make the world a shittier place and refusing to settle. The only difference is that Newegg does it out of righteous indignation rather than rank incompetence. Either way, the correct party to root for should be obvious.
You set your wholesale price. You don't get to set retail prices. If I want to buy something from you at $1000 and resell it at $1, that's my business. eBook publishers have this delusion where they get to set retail prices, and it's backwards and wrong.
There is also the problem of cannibalization which is not mentioned in Amazon's post; it's obvious that some of the people who buy eBooks when they're <$10 would have bought the paper book instead if it were cheaper, or even the same price.

So the "total revenue" figure is pretty abstract; publishers (or authors, or distributors, or anyone, really) don't need to consider media as completely separate; what matter is total sales, including paper, on-demand, and ebooks.
I created a game to help people memorise timetables
Chiang Mai? You clearly haven't been there!
It's nice for a holiday but not for living.
I agree reddit needs to find a better monetization system, ideally one that positively impacts users.

I would point out that, at least for the sub I run, nobody is really considered the owner. The original registrant is inactive, and there's no head mod.
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You can downvote all you want, but you are missing the point.

Is Whisper Systems a charity, non-profit or a commercial entity? If it's either of first two, then it would've only make sense to say just that in the About section, because it would alleviate all questions of why their products are free. However if it's a commercial entity, the question remains - how do they plan on making money? And donations is a silly answer. They are a nice bonus, but as any goodwill gestures they are an unsustainable and unpredictable source of money unless there are dedicated people managing it, e.g. organizing fundraisers, campaigns and such. I don't think WS is doing any of this.
It's not for everyone, but there's hundreds of digital nomads living there now I think, and I've lived there myself
Right. The filter options they have are much better than other e-commerce sites.
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I've recently been playing around with Dart, and it's a one word answer by itself.

Also Dart has ruined JavaScript for me. I'm not sure if I can go back.
Nice! I have some reservations about some of the data though; f.ex. I have a hard time to believe that SF has only slightly higher costs of living than Berlin.
I had always stayed away from helm, as I didn't realise it could do all this. Started using this morning after seeing this guide. Nice work!
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Xiaomi secretly sending your info to Chinese servers
the part about Debian policy being the same is false. see msg 364 of the Debian bug.

im on mobile now ...
It really depends, the NomadCost is based on staying there for a month, and not being able to rent long-term. So you'll be staying in private rooms in hostels, low-end hotels and CL/AirBnB apts.

Finding a cheap place in East Berlin for a long-term is definitely a viable option. But not if you move around as fast as digital nomads do.
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I'm curious where the data comes from? I see that it's a spreadsheet but how is it verified?

For example, I don't know what the average price of a co-working space is in Tokyo but I do know that "The Terminal" in Harajuku is only $150 a month. It's open from 11am to 11pm and includes free drinks (soda, coffee, tea).

Co-ba, has more than one location, the one in Shibuya is $160 a month and is open 24 hours.

The Open Source Cafe in Shimokitazawa is tiny but also similarly priced as is one I visited in Koenji (sorry, I forgot the name).

So, I'm curious where that $444 a month estimate comes from.

Rent is also iffy. It currently says $70 a day but rent varies widely depending on your standards and how far out of the center you're willing to live. I know people that have had a large 3bd apt for $1200 a month only 2 stops out various main lines on the express. (which might be like 12 local stops). Whereas downtown it might be $1200 for a studio but then again it depends on the quality. I know guys living in Nishi-Azabu for $600 a month.
Right now it's crowdsourced from an open Google spreadsheet at http://nomadlist.io/edit/

Later I'd like to implement so that it uses baseline values from multiple inputs (e.g. like Numbeo does)
In which case can you define what an error interval on a probability estimate means? :)

I think probabilities can either be well calibrated or not. (Which then of course begs the question of how you define being well calibrated for probabilities of events that happen very rarely). An error interval does not seem to make too much sense.
Small bug:

I'm not able to switch the currency, it just shows pounds even though I selected Euro in the dropdown menu at the top (http://nomadlist.io/?l=eu)
It's based on short-term staying in the center. It's very subjective data by its nature. YMMV
The competitor of Amazon is Google.

If you're an author the absolute best you can hope to get is 35% of the sale price -- that is, the price your readers are willing to pay to read your work. Usually, it's even much less.

The publisher keeps at least 35%; the distributor, 30%. It's unclear to me what value these actors are offering, for this amount of money.

Disintermediation hasn't happened yet (what happened is, Amazon took the place of bookstores, and publishers are still around).

But disintermediation will happen eventually; when that day comes this discussion will sound silly and strange.
Does not work in Opera 12.17 - I click "Play" and nothing happens, although my nick appears as taken if I try to use it from another browser.
Hi guys, if we have at least one non-French speaker we'll do them in English obviously :)
All true, but 90 Euros for a private hostel room strikes me as way too much - a quick search on hostels.com (http://www.hostels.com/berlin/germany?dateFrom=2014-07-31&da...) indicates something like 55,- Euros as the median prize. Mind, that's absolute high season right now.

Have you thought about crowdsourcing the data entry?
It's certainly true that the UK has a sort of dead-man's-switch (depending on exactly what the letter of last resort says).

But I presume that there is also a more active communication method as well. If the Prime Minister wanted to launch the nukes then he would be able to send a message to the subs and launch immediately.
Should be fixed now! I tried to make it static but that failed :)
Why? (I've been there only for holiday so far, seemed nice)
I like the concept for getting some new ideas, but it needs significantly more information to be useful downstream. Having been nomading around for the past year, there are things that are important to me (accomodation, gym, coworking, good food) that are made easier/harder by various factors (proximity to each other, cost, contract length, quality, etc.). There's no tool for that yet (albeit excellent blog posts, not everything has to be made into an app I guess).
inmobi is an example of Indian tech company expanding globally. This is not an e-commerce but certainly comes under tech sector
Does this mean new packages/bridges that supports context.Context getting released for back-end datastores like elasticsearch, aws etc?
IANAG, but it probably doesn't need to get 100km under the ground. It only needs to go to the depth at which the nuclear waste stops being a problem.

With a good amount kilometers of rock between the surface and the waste, the danger is already gone. Furthermore, melting the waste and have it move thorugh the mantle will lower its concentration and will over time have the heavy materials fall into the core.

My guess is that the point at which the nuclear waste becomes less problematic than current methods will probably occur quite quickly, just a few kilometers if that. The point at which the tungsten corodes and the waste can be swept away doesn't seem to be that deep either.
Very nice :)
Hopefully packing up in a months time and starting to work remotely so a list like this will certainly come in handy when investigating the next stop!
Telegram should get their crypto straight, publish their server-side code and federate to OpenWhisperSystems federation.
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That was quick. It's working as expected now!
I have no doubt that corruption is universal. Dismiss me as a pessimist or a conspiracy theorist, but, for example, my working definition of (high level) "politician", is: "professional thief and lier".

(For example, defamation and libel laws are not "strange". They work as intended.)
A lot of these cities are only good if you are a local, for example in Hong Kong it is almost impossible to get a working visa that allows you to work for a remote company.
I image in Japan it would probably be even harder.
Thailand has been clamping down on tourist visa abuse recently and getting any kind of proper work permit there is not easy at all. I guess a lot of people just fly under the radar there but it's risky and getting to be increasingly difficult.
Agreed. I'm in Ho Chi Minh City now, plugged into an expansive network of location independent entrepreneurs.

Chiang Mai is absolutely one of the most popular destinations for entrepreneurs in our community.
To generalise more, unprocessed foods have more fibre. Increased fibre is proven to reduce cancer incidence; eg[1].

(Of course, one can eat processed food and add fibre from another source. Nevertheless, the advice to eat unprocessed food is reasonable as a generalisation).

[1] http://preventcancer.aicr.org/site/News2?id=20709
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Australia's head of state is the queen of England ruling them through her Governor General. What other things don't they don't know? Oh, and by the way same goes for Canada.
Not everybody is looking for an island in the middle of paradise. Chiang Mai is incredibly colourful in its own ways.
Many nomads are actually registered with a Ltd in HK for tax purposes.
Not really a confusion: if the letter of last resort (sealed orders to be opened in the event the Government is destroyed) says "launch the nukes", you do have a sort of dead man's switch, assuming the sub's captain follows the orders

I've always understood "dead man's switch" to literally mean something operating without human intervention. Probably explains the confusion!

That said, the options available to the commander do leave some room for interpretation:

- retaliate with nuclear weapons;

- not retaliate with nuclear weapons;

- use his own judgement; or

- place the submarine under allied country command - if possible
Actually, we prefer "metre" :-)

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/metre
At least the US is consistent. In the UK we use a weird mix of different things - short distances are metric (centimetres, metres), long distances are imperial (miles). Temperatures are in both depending largely on the age of the person talking. Vehicle speed is entirely in imperial (mph). Area is in metric for small things (wallpaper is meters^2), imperial for big things (fields are in acres). And so on.
www.pinboard.com redirects to a transition site.
Ho Chi Minh is almost twice as expensive as Hanoi? I didn't make it to Hanoi, but everyone told me it was the more expensive of the two. HCM is really cheap everywhere you go if you just stay out of the financial sector.

Keep in mind AirBNB doesn't seem to get sites below the $15 range, and a lot of hotels that are in this range don't list on internet exchanges either. For example in Ho Chi Minh there's a few decent airconditioned hotels next to Bui Vien for $10 a night but you wont find them online. Also in Southeast Asia I've found you can rent most everywhere for 30 days at a time, which in my mind is short term when I consider all the minimum 12 month leases I had to get in the US.

Good job though, I like that you're scraping other sites. This should be good to use in conjunction with Numbeo, which has its own biases.
Apparently I'm fighting windmills here, but encryption does not work on compromised devices. It will be sabotaged and rendered ineffective. Google for DROPOUTJEEP, what makes you think you can keep the encryption code safe from manipulation?
A proper English gentleman utters his weight in stone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_%28unit%29

(just kidding, I'm Belgian and only know SI)
I thought good progress was already being made with this, with devices like cochlear implants, retinal implants, and cyborg monkey arms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY
A lot of digital nomads just fly under the local radar by working online. This is more risky in some countries than others.
Completely agree. I learned a lot more working at a startup for the last few years after working at google for about 3 years.
To put it simply: I bought an electric bike 4 months ago. ..My wife is divorcing me. :-)
Good idea! But you have to add a visa information for each country.

For example, I like Hong Kong, but you can't stay there more than 2 weeks (if you want stay more, you have to get work permit/get married/have business there etc).

But Thailand afaik is easy country for living for a long time without work permit.
Almost certainly a Cold War maximum nuclear war would result in collapse of industrialized civilization as we know it, concomitant with an enormous reduction in worldwide population. Nevertheless, a lot of things would almost certainly remain: literacy, agriculture, metalworking, the ideas of science and industry, and so on. Human civilization would be in a very bad state for a good long time, but it would mostly be a setback to previous eras, not complete destruction of civilization.
Once I started to play around with the sliders, I completely lost the ability to use the browser's back button. I had to retype news.ycombinator.com to get back to post this comment.
I've never heard anyone use Fahrenheit in the UK.
That last photo deserve someone using their segway in an interesting way on that stupidly parked car.

Their justification seemed to be mostly about taxation and that it should pay VED. Those aren't atypical pavements else I'm not sure how the mobility scooters would fair if all pavements looked like that. I have to wonder why they're allowed either, surely similar specs?
Nothing in a entrepreneurs life is objective. Nor can any experience be generalized. We all have to make our of decisions and work with it.
For those who apparently never bothered learning any system but SI, here's some help:

2.2 pounds to the kilogram; 0.454 kilograms to the pound.

3.28 feet to the meter; 0.304 meters to the foot.

You are reading this on a machine powerful enough to handle unit conversions. Do them, and find something substantive to say.