skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You won't get anywhere by pinning the blame on the medium. Freedom of association allows birds of a feather to flock together and make sport of the other side.

People seek social groups that make them feel good and avoid ones that make them feel insecure. They especially avoid places where they are made to feel stupid. So they tend to prefer places where their beliefs are confirmed and maybe they can get away with calling someone else stupid.

What you are fighting is as natural as water flowing downhill: animals seeking comfort. You have to overwhelm gravity itself to turn the flow uphill.

There is no lack of good discussion venues. There are only too few people who prefer them. How can any such venue attract the masses out of their comfortable, partisan clubhouses?
> All of the ISA's from the 70's and early 80's HAD an overflow feature.

Really? The first ISA I learned was the 6809 ISA, my memory is a bit fuzzy but I don't remember any 'trap on overflow' feature in the ISA.. Does the x86 has this?

Plus, if you believe that new language are always better than old language, it is you who need to better study history.

About GC at the hardware level: Lisp machine failed so what? There are different many ways to help supporting GCs..
Plus hardware GC wasn't the only feature of Lisp machines..

I don't get your point about "modern ISA" plus I'm not sure that you can lump x86-64 and ARMv8 ISAs in the same category even though both are 'modern ISAs'.
This article has reminded me of how astoundingly ahead of his time Andy Warhol was.
> How else would they be able to do that without camera access?

Open gallery, click share, select facebook from list.
It is and it isn't. It's such a horrible display of capitalism, advertising, and excess. But at the same time it's really neat technology and it makes for a pretty unique atmosphere. However, "Garish nightmare" is how I would describe the elmos and dora mascots running around.
This is going to be addictive. One, last, edit...
The gun allows you to 'tag' a target through the scope. Once you've designated a target, the system dynamically adjusts the view so the reticule points at where the bullet will impact based on several factors (range, wind speed, humidity, temperature, the Coriolis effect if the shot is far enough). You then apply pressure to the trigger, and when the reticule passes over the target the gun fires.

It's important to note that TrackingPoint isn't just the scope, it's the entire weapon system. Everything about the gun (right down to the ammunition used) needs to be 'known' to the system to make an accurate shot.
If a "depressed" person is posting things that flag a SUICIDE watch app, then I'd say they are obviously posting those things to draw attention to their issues. Therefore someone noticing would probably be just what they want.
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1983-85 at Hahn. We were the first base in USAFE to get the F-16 (A & B models).

Now it's a civilian airport where RyanAir tricks people into thinking they're flying into Frankfurt -- an additional 90-minute bus ride away (there's a reason why the airfare is so cheap!)
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anecdotally I would say Vancouver gets more sunshine as well.
The arguing is just 1 variable in the system. It was bound to happen because it was caused by other variables (i.e. us being online, someone posting the article, etc.) and it will interact with other variables to lead to some amount of change. It's not something that "we control". (Our brains do, but they are the result of other variables, such as our genome, environment, etc.)
I feel like the authors (or someone else) can do a lot more justice to their overall objective (i.e. tease out patterns) by applying some kind of a qualitative content analysis of case studies [0].

[0] http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/vi...
I think every Netflix Canada subscriber pays for Unblock US or other proxy services.
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Thanks for the detailed reply! I turned this into an issue on our GitHub repo here: https://github.com/18F/api-standards/issues/45.
I think your first point is the most important here. I worked at Apple in 2009, shortly after the creation of the Apple University program. I never worked with or in the Apple U initiative, but I have friends who did. Generally speaking, they explain the program as an attempt to codify and disseminate Apple's corporate culture -- with the eventual passing of Steve Jobs certainly in mind at the time. Apple U was an implicit acknowledgement that Apple would need to thrive after Steve's death or retirement, and that the Apple way of doing things was worth preserving.

It's not an entirely novel concept in the corporate world. After Apple I worked at another large corporation with a charismatic founder. In this case, the founder had passed away over a decade ago. There was a thriving "university" program within the company, dedicated to preserving his business practices and the culture he established. I didn't find much value in its specifics, but I respected its purpose in general.

Company culture is a rare and fragile thing. Especially these days, in our renewed era of "shareholder value" worship, with its twin gods of cost-cutting and homogenization. Apple's culture is a big part of why the company has been successful. To lose sight of that culture would be strategically devastating to the company's future.

Lest I sound like too much of a fawning fanboy, I'll reel it in. As I mentioned, I've never dealt with or attended any of these programs. I have no idea how good or worthwhile they really are. Nevertheless, I understand the impetus for having created them.
If you could choose one thing to share with the world, what would it be?
Exactly, which would make this app unnecessary.
Nice! You may want to add it to some of the React component list, like this one someone else mentioned: http://www.reactjsx.com/
Gotcha; that is what came to mind from playing FPS games, but figured it was probably something different in this context.

Thanks.
That's an interesting perspective. I disagree. I think if someone is tweeting about suicidal intentions then it follows that they are not concerned about the privacy of those intentions.
Do you think an external program can understand all of the complexities of the human drama within the context of a single person's life?
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That's what worries me about Facebook too, about being able to destroy someone else's experience in this way. Of course you can hide posts from users but Facebook's algorithm should be able to intervene when things get "out of control".

A few months ago Facebook shared it would rank news higher, maybe this is the result about why Huffington posts were ranked so high.

Interesting experiment. Tweaking Facebooks algorithm is an ongoing process.
First, some nit picky semantics that aren't very helpful towards solving your problem: The search box on openstreetmap.org is powered by Nominatim, which is one particular system for indexing the OSM data. There are design choices and trade offs present in it. A different system could make different choices and trade offs.

Nominatim prefers to associate streets with administrative boundaries that they are inside of. The data for counties is pretty solid, and in the U.S., pretty much every street is properly inside a county (or equivalent). The data for other administrative units is less solid (and often times less clear in the real world). If a street is not found inside of a city or town or the like, it is assigned to the nearest "place" node (I think with some accommodation for significance of the place). So, for instance, that's how Blackgum Drive ends up assigned to Marblehill.

I'm not sure how other people are thinking about it, but I think the long term solution to what you are seeing is to build up exact address information and then also index that data for street-city (or place) relationships in search results. Given the way zip codes work and the hand waviness of postal addressing (the post office does a good job correctly routing miserably addresses mail), this is probably more sensible that trying to create boundaries.

It would also be possible to index streets to several nearby places (but of course that's more work up front and more data to sift through on each search).
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Interesting stuff.

I wonder if some of this data - both on OSM and Google Maps - was from defectors and military sources.

I don't really know much about NK, but I can't help thinking their regime wouldn't be too happy if their citizens gallivanted around with GPS devices and uploaded POIs to western internet services.
As somebody who was affected by the suicide of a close friend, it would be wonderful if something existed that could help others with suicidal feelings.

But there is something sad about the idea that an algorithm would be better at detecting suicidal feelings than your closest friends.
Free ones probably suck, but even a very cheap (<$50/year) VPN will be much faster than TOR.
It's really cool to the additional value being added tot he platform outside of payments.
It stands for Capture The Flag, in these exercises it usually means completing a series of reverse engineering scenarios exploiting vulnerabilities in a simulated environment or possibly obtaining and holding root access to a host while others continue to search for and attack the host. The CTFTime FAQ has more information: https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
"So if you like everything on Facebook, the result is political extremism and the most insipid pop culture trash."

Bear in mind that "extremism" is the expected result of any reasonable algorithm that you abuse like this. If you like X, the algorithm will focus around X. If you like everything the algorithm suggests, you'll end up liking a "bigger target", and it will start suggesting stuff yet further away from your original starting point, until eventually you've "liked" everything. This is deliberately engineering a scenario in which Facebook will feed one a set of things that all seem "extreme" on some metric or other, be it "political", "pop culture insipid", or anything else, because they are all "extremely" far away from your starting point.

You are also engineering a scenario in which you are receiving "everything", so you will end up experiencing this proportional to raw volume within the segments of the interest graph that you've transitively explored. We can't eliminate the possibility that he's missing large chunks of the graph in his transitive exploration. A massive anime fan or somebody else big into niches and staying away from politics who starts doing this may end up with a very different experience. (In fact I'd suspect that it's decent odds that why the author ended up with "extreme politics" in the first place is that he probably had a pre-existing politics seed set of likes, which then "fuzzed" into the full set of political views while not getting into niches like anime or figurine collection.)

As a story it's interesting, but I'm not sure it reveals stuff about society so much as it reveals a very fuzzy picture of the author.
Only if immigrants are merely settling empty land. As long as they want to start out as part of society, they'll need jobs, housing and regular infrastructure. My own region is growing nearly as fast as housing can be built. More than 50% of everyone in some cities like Toronto have been in the country for less than 5 years, at any given moment. (Often starting out there, and moving to other parts of Canada later. Still limited by the population capacity of Toronto)
Awesome! I have been unable to watch it due to lack of TV signal.

Is the original available for viewing anywhere?
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Big Calendar is already on its way down. How many of us even have calendars?
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Developer here,

We have been releasing features on a weekly cadence and we have several major features in the works.

If the app is missing something today, please don't hesitate to leave us feedback and if it isn't already on our roadmap, we will definitely consider it.
If it makes you feel any better, the time you spend on HN is infinitely more productive. :)
That's completely wrong. Doing a start-up, or learning any new skill is like riding a bull. Its easy to get on, and when you do... you have this optimism that can only come from having no idea what you're doing.

The hardest part is staying on the ride while it tries to shake you off.
Seems like they are competing with MyTime - http://www.mytime.com. The only thing they lack is good search to find businesses
Would you mind clarifying your problems with the API? I've done a fair amount of work with OpenGL (mostly ES), and I've found it to be a sensible low-level target for my rendering engine. That's not to say I haven't run into problems, but I assume any high performance graphics API has a learning curve. I don't have experience with Direct3D or other APIs to compare with it though.

All of my complaints with OpenGL are related to, as jarrett mentioned, the lack of debugging tools and the fiddly cross-platform and cross-version issues.
How accurate do you think this can be? What happens if I write a facebook update that says, as an example:

I don't believe I have ever said "I feel depressed"

Would this be flagged? Does it only take one post to be flagged or is it looking for recurring behaviour?
Thanks for the explanation :-)

A stripped-down minimal example would be very helpful to show how to use the library, just a simple popover with a single control and the absolute minimum required render calls for example. I agree that the fact that this is render-agnostic by the way, and like you mentioned yourself: if you need this you probably have most of the initialisation and shader compilation stuff covered, I wrote some simple wrapper classes for ES2 myself. But a really thin OpenGL (ES) or DirectX specific layer on top of the core functionality would also be great to make the tool a little more accessible of course ;-)

Great work nonetheless, maybe I'll play around with it anyway to see how much work it actually is to embed this in my (at this stage extremely bare-bones) renderer.
Hulu (hulu plus only?) has the original. Of course, if you had used Hulu you could have watched this one as it was released as well.
Hey thanks for the feedback. I understand your point on the topic, but I would like to point out that CheckUp isn't trying to 'solve' suicide in this manner. The philosophy behind the project is that you, at some level, care about the people you are socially connected to, and you may care if they are contemplating something very bad.

The goal is to create a service that will prioritize self-threatening posts from people you care about above the usual noise of your social network. Publicly posted cries for help can indicate very serious intent and we just want to make sure they don't go unnoticed.
No all, but that's not a reason not to try.
The street I get is thise one:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/9428636

And it is not located in Jasper:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/119636

So is this the right street? Or should the street be where you linked the map? Because I can't find a street named Disharoon Dr. there.
It's a far more symbiotic relationship tho...
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Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?
I have been web scraping for several months and am starting to teach it at Meetups. I'm lucky enough to work for a company that has a few pre-crawled copies of the web that I can query against and a distributed processing platform to speed up any scraping I do.

I'm running out of ideas of what to build though. I build scrapers to produce content for the company based on the data and insights I find. They are usually marketing verticals though, such as finding all websites using feedback tools (I search based on their javascript widgets), and do analysis on that info.

So if you had these resources, what would you be looking for? I love building tools that help people so any feedback/ideas would be great!

I'm also open to hearing what you would scrape for on the live web. I find that if I'm doing broad analysis then the pre-crawled copies are best, and for specific sites/information I use the live web.
You think it would be wonderful because of the way that you felt, not the way your friend felt.

And there is no algorithm that can detect suicidal feelings. I can't help but think of Alan Turing in this scenario.
The concept of a/theism might be orthogonal or irrelevant, depending on the viewpoint, to Buddhism.

By the way "uncompromising atheist and sceptic" sounds like a contradiction, at least in the sense of scepticism as the discipline of always questioning things (in general, not specifically when it comes to things like Buddhism, which I won't give an opinion about whether it is worth to investigate or not). But I guess it isn't really a contradiction if it is scepticism as in close mindedness. But it's good that you've found some material that caters to your specific sensibilities and cultural background.
__attribute__((unused)) indeed would be the best option when using gcc. I believe when using C++11, this can be replaced by [[gnu::unused]].

Another one that I've seen quite often is casting to void.
How to monitor IoT device state
This opens the door for them to compete with a lot of these platforms. Since they already have the hardware on site (iPad) they start to become a competitor for StyleSeat, MyTime, Noshlist, NoWait, etc.
Note that these are just the first three videos. As I understand the rest of the videos are being edited and uploaded right now.
Could someone please put 'Liked' in the HN title in quotes so it makes grammatical sense.

As it stands, the title makes it sounds as if someone tried Facebook for two days and was happy with what they saw. (I know this is the original title, but that doesn't make it correct.)
Meanwhile there are two servers out there it seems:
https://github.com/search?q=stellar%20federation
My coworker just bought a Schenker s403 because he was looking for a replacement laptop to run Ubuntu on. European company, but they ship to the US, and they'll happily throw in a US power cable if you request one in comments when purchasing. I'm pretty sure you don't have to pay VAT either, so that gives you an extra discount there.
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http://maperitive.net/ takes things in a slightly different direction than the other replies. More work, but lots more control.

I haven't used it.
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The dowry system has already been illegal by law in India for 60 years but of course it is not well enforced. Secondly due to family dynamics, things are not equally divided as you might think. It maybe the oldest son that gets the property but another son who takes care of the parents. It maybe a daughter who is the caring one while the sons go of on their own.
Much like asbestos siding in that regard, where its not exactly being pumped into the air by most people, but people who work with it, for example sanding it, create a health hazard.
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It was glorious - those halcyon days of spotting a missing village or suburb and spending a day with GPS catching all the roads and footpaths.

"That bit doesn't connect up - Ah ha!"
> And there is no algorithm that can detect suicidal feelings.

I get what you're saying, but given the miracles that do exist in modern medicine, I'm not prepared to say it's impossible. I suspect better availability of mental healthcare, preferring counselling over drugs, and less stigmatising would all be better 'solutions' than an algorithm, but if an algorithm did exist that could genuinely help then it would be a good thing.
Right. I'm automatically sceptical of these practices when it comes from an employer/company. Maybe that's just due to the fundamental power dynamic (which I suspect the concept of co-creators won't mitigate, but I guess anything is possible).

On the other hand, maybe workplaces can't help but promote certain culturally motivated practices, whether they can help it or not? A company that endorses crunch time and regular over time, has already tacitly endorsed a certain philosophy and culture when it comes to how people should be managed and how productivity is leveraged.
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The Next Generation OpenGL Initiative isn't about an API cleanup, rewrite, tooling, benchmarking, or profiling. Those are all areas that could use improvement, but a standards body is not the place to do those things. Trying to do those things in a standards body is a recipe for logjams and delayed and bloated standards. "Longs Peak" is a prime example actually.

This initiative is about one major thing: reducing overhead. It's a response to Mantle/DX12 and their low CPU overhead rendering capabilities. OpenGL risks being left behind performance-wise because drivers are too complex. Because the API hasn't evolved as fast as the capabilities of modern hardware changed, drivers today do too much automatic work "behind the scenes". Things like memory allocation, texture swizzling, parameter validation, and shader recompilation often happen implicitly, outside of the control of the application. This adds unexpected CPU overhead which varies per driver.

Mantle/DX12 change the semantics of the API to match what modern hardware actually does. Applications have more control, drivers do much less implicit automatic work and CPU overhead is greatly reduced. That's what the "Next Generation OpenGL Initiative" is hopefully going to do for OpenGL.
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I'm interested in this new wrinkle, and always looking for something that will help out my day. But is $30 a month, for a single person, a competitive pricing plan?
You probably have it on your computer already, if someone publishes interesting enough instructions for "retrieving" it.
Why is it not free? These additional features are to lure you in to using the payment platform and lock businesses in. More so I need end-users to also install the square app to use this feature. So there is that additional friction as well. This is really not something they should be charging for.
That is coming too but on the industrial scale. You can print in metal at Shapeways now, but owning a laser metal sintering machine is not going to be practical unless you can grind up previous things to make new things. There are already at least two filament creator projects out there that make a credible replacement filament out of scrap plastic.
It still feels double to pay for an internet connection and then a second time for a VPN, but yeah it might come in handy. Still think I'd go for a VPS instead and, if I need a VPN, just tunnel it through, but that's just me.
Or it's not unsustainable?
Could anyone find a list of what markets this supports?
And to cap it all off:

- create a new email address with a long random password

- change your FB account to use this new email

- destroy your copy of the email password

- change your FB account to have a long random password and don't keep a copy of it
This was posted about five years ago, but it's a fantastic read full of great lessons and worth having here again. Many of the lessons in this book showed up as lean software development twenty years later, while the discussion on funding is interesting to compare to today's situation.
> purgatory in Canada

It's actually a nice place. Many friends of mine are doing the "holding pattern" thing and quite a few decided they'd just stay.

> If it were me I'd rather be king of the hill in my home country

It all depends on the size of your hill and the company you keep. Also, the hill gets lonely after a time. I like to surround myself with people smarter than myself and that becomes increasingly harder with a fixed size hill.