skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made perhaps a rough comment earlier so I looked for somewhere to agree with you. Not only is Go quite an aesthetically pleasing language, but the description of the draw of Leica cameras could probably be swapped word-for-word with Macbook laptops.
I believe using those together counts as two user-defined conversions and is rejected. But one or both of those might as well be declared explicit.
I actually know the engineer who used to be responsible for porting some of the technologies you're talking about to non-Apple platforms.

According to this person, the barrier is not some strategic lock-in plan at Apple. The barrier is more about business incompatibilities.

For example. It's fully possible for Apple to ship an iCloud SDK for Windows. But the way iCloud works is, it's integrated deeply with each application. It is believable that your average iOS app, or your average Mac app, would be willing to integrate with iCloud's SDK. But is it believable that your average Windows app will? Will Microsoft do the work to integrate the iCloud SDK with Office on Windows? Of course not! The idea is preposterous.

Far more likely is that Microsoft's own SkyDrive or will become standard on Windows, or maybe Dropbox will, which is designed in such a way that it doesn't have to integrate with anybody's product. Apple could have designed iCloud in a way that didn't require third-party support, and maybe they should've, but they didn't. And anyway that would be a completely different thing than the way iCloud is used right now.

Apple has the willingness, particularly post-Jobs, to license some things to other platforms. Especially if it grows their own ecosystem, and a lot of Apple's stack falls into that category. But getting the deal done has more ingredients than just Apple being willing and some end-user who wants it. You can't say, merely because there is no technical barrier, that clearly every time an Android user buys a book from Kindle instead of the iBookstore that Tim Cook cackles with glee. I pretty much guarantee he'd be interested in getting a deal done on that.
I think when you get down to it isn't quite as much about race as the news would have us believe. It is more about the plight of the poor vs. authority trying to keep them in their place but by highlighting incidences with racial components like this they can polarize the various groups that would otherwise have common interests.

The Tea Party and the Occupy Wall St. movement is another example of two groups that basically want the same thing (hold big banks accountable no more corporate bailouts etc...) but they are often portrayed as polar opposites and played against each other in the news and politics.
One of the houses on Osage Avenue that was burned down was my dad's childhood home.
that's an interesting perspective, even if it turns out to be un-true. That's probably a good strategy.
FYI depreciated is a typo, it should be deprecated
this is a blank page. nothing is there. tested with chrome and safari.
It's possible to make the case that there's a difference between crazy ideas and terrible ideas.
Is it only me, or why the FAQ on backpackbang's site is just talking only about Bangladesh?
It's called saints row. (Although more of a comical than a dystopian twist, but the latter is certainly hinted at.) One of their primary plotlines is taking down an overmilitarized police force with their own gear.
Comparing the Tamil Tigers and a popular uprising of 200 million armed Americans is laughable.

Your mistaken notion that a rebellion can't fight a sophisticated military has been decisively disproved over the last decade in the middle east. Plausibly debated 15 years ago but now we know you're wrong.

ISIS took control of a large part of Iraq and Syria and they started with small arms. They took over army bases and stole gear (didn't think of that?). IDF has been throwing the best technology in the world at Hamas for decades. They're stronger than ever because they have popular support.

Suggesting that the U.S. military would fight against a popular uprising is beyond crazy and entirely ignorant. You can't know how our military works, or who it's made up of, and think that. This is crazier than any common conspiracy theory you can think of.
What about something that goes the other way?
Red lining.
You say the heat was the only problem, yet the article says inspectors revealed additional problems during further inspections. Could be leaky pipes, could be issues with the structural integrity. The article is hardly fair and balanced, and it does sound like something fishy is going on, but I have a hard time believing he had some 12 or so houses demolished without having something fishy going on himself.
I don't get it. What's the rush with situations like this? They're not going anywhere. Surround the area, stay well protected, and think, negotiate, anything seems better than this.
Well, my website is in English and I am asking a question in a English Forum so apparently I am targeting US.
I understand your point. Yes, I should do my own research before I started to make an app. Tell me this is the story of facebook, dropbox, box, airbnb, etc.
Not related but I am pretty new to HN. I thought the answer to a question should be related. Personally I don't get how your answer is USEFUL. From my understanding, the vendors I interviewed were happy with this solution. And You were telling me it's a wrong product. It's contradictory, isn't it?
Excellent and neatly packaged source of information.
It would be great to have it translated into other languages.. I know so many people who would love to access this content but do not speak english..
How should I proceed to offer myself for voluntary translation?
You would be incorrect.
I had a buddy who worked at Pizza Hut in a rural town most of his life. Did a great job and when he went to college in Minneapolis, Pizza Hut offered him his own shop, in the middle of what would be considered "the ghetto".

First night he's managing, a group of kids come in and rob the store of a large bank of small vending machines. You know the kind. They have stickers and gumballs and such. It was like six of them, all bolted together. He freaks out, calls the cops and you know what their response was?

"Uh yeah, our officers have far more important things to do then petty theft. We'll send an officer out when he has a chance." It took two weeks before he saw a cop who took the report and he never heard back after that.

Sure he was pissed, but I had to explain that in bigger cities, there's always something more important than what happened to you. Got mugged? Yeah, well someone just got murdered. Your car got stolen? Yeah, well a gang member just shot up a McDonald's because his fires were cold and shot three people.

So for all the people who complain that "Isn't there something more important you could be doing?" Well, yeah, but don't get pissed then if they blow off whatever petty incident you were involved in to go catch a real criminal.
It's a Verilog implementation of a GPU with late 90's architecture.
Xiaomi is the best at that.
A few tips every developer should learn.

1) Solve the problem before you write the code.

2) Figure out what data structures to use and the code will follow.

3) Debugging is your fault, you screwed up. The language or the compiler didn't (true 99.999% of the time).

4) The difference between genius and insanity is if the algorithm runs faster.

The biggest general tip is learn data structures. They are the fundamentals, you will always use them, get used to them.
Brazilian judge orders Apple to remove Secret from the Store, remotely delete it
For anyone that is interested in picking up a language really quickly, I can highly recommend Fluenz http://fluenz.com/
I tried the Pimsleur audio lessons, but I am a visual learner. Fluenz structured things very easily. After 2 hours I could point and say I wanted items. 6 hours I could say I want to look at things and talk about other people. I'm at the 12 goes out lessons point and I can now go into shops and ask basic questions and know how to ask about prices.
I'm doing this with just 1 hour every few days with the lessons.
The map cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/4822180/roman_civil_war.jpg seems to have mixed up labels for Roman Provinces and Client Kingdoms.
I feel that about half instances of the word barbaric shouldn't have been used in the article.
Also I don't see why unverifiable claims like 'Charlemagne persuaded the Pope to crown him' had to be used.
Nice, informative work besides that.
Show HN: Surprisingly neat things you can do with StratifiedJS [video]
The sarcasm is annoying and obscures and cheapens the point you're trying to make.

If the point is good, it will stand on its own. Excess sarcasm just comes off as a crutch.
From your article: "The supply of extra MRAPs is likely to only increase — the government spent $50 billion to produce 27,000 of them in 2007."

Can someone explain the math to me? It sounds like each vehicle costs $2 million.
I think what might make more sense is to account for the location of large military bases.
I really wonder about the utility of something like this tool. I enjoy and encourage building new things "just because" but I can help but think the point to PDFs is to have complete visual control of layout and formatting while providing the textual and tagging information layers is critical to transform and adapt the information for artificial intelligent agents and people with disabilities that rely upon assistive technologies such as screen readers.
Ask HN: How do you schedule inspiration?
So I'm a 'big ideas' guy that seems to have 3 kinds of work.

i) Paid work for other people. Task-based.

ii) Interesting projects for other people. Task-based, requiring some inspiration.

iii) Perosnal projects. Inspiration based.

Now this isn't a question of motivation. Motivation is something else entirley to inspiration. My question, as you might have guessed, is more about balance.

Obvioulsy the first category very easy to complete. But it's the other two sections I find hard to work into my schedule. My main problem is that inspiration cannot be scheduled. That's really a killer, as inspiration is crucial for making personal projects genuinely disruptive and cool. The same sometimes applies to category 2, and I find myself needing to schedule inspiration for clients projects that require creativity.

So if anyone has hacks on this I'd love to hear how you balance it all.
So... we can use it to determine the age of the universe, if we know at which point in time 6 * 9 = 42 held, by extrapolating back to at what point 6 * 9 = 0? ;-)

[ed: looks like my multiplication signs got eaten by hn]
You really believe this? I think the reddit / HN echo chamber combined with the current media cycle blowing the situation in Ferguson out of proportion in their 24 hour coverage is working.

There are thousands of good things being done every single day by cops all over the country. You don't hear about it because it isn't exciting.

If you think overall there are more corrupt / racist / evil cops than good, you most likely need to stop only getting your news from such biased sources.
Great. There goes my month.
They were demolished for building code violations according to the article. A process that took many months and many meetings with a tribunal.

The question is whether you believe this guy was a victim of political corruption, where city officials targeted a competitor. Or believe the government side that he was a slumlord. Both seem equally likely given the evidence in the article.
You're telling me that the day Ballmer left is no way related to the huge uptick in the stock when the tech industry on average was negative that day?
No we can't be better than that. Let us post our comments and if you disagree with them you can down vote them.
There are more than enough examples around the world if you are actually interested in learning that you're wrong.
I don't know why Mr King decided to defend himself - this is usually a terrible idea, and it also tends to irritate judges. But he'll almost certainly get a retrial, although on the facts of the case he'll probably be convicted anyway. Although it's hard to evaluate the judge's action without knowing all of what went on beforehand, I've only ever heard of physical shocks being used to restrain unruly or violent defendants, not ones who just try to talk over the judge.
That's it? So sex is a waste of time? And what is the point of philosophizing?
Thanks for the tip, adopted. The kind of tip that might have saved me a lot of time in the future.
Not with popular support it's not. For proof that the opposite is actually true see Vietnam/Iraq/Syria/Gaza/Egypt, etc.
I have time or expertise in that field either but your comment resonated and I'd be happy to see someone sort it out.
> When we find a leftist government/organization enacting extreme racist policies such as mass imprisonment, deportation or execution, we know there's something deeply wrong with it, and we usually denounce it ("how can they call themselves leftists if they do this!").

Strange. I must have missed that when it came to

1) First and foremost, Che Guevara. Allow me to quote him

"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese. And the two ancient races have now begun a hard life together, fraught with bickering and squabbles. Discrimination and poverty unite them in the daily fight for survival but their different ways of approaching life separate them completely: The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations."

Clearly being a racist murderous bastard does not preclude any leftist credentials. I would argue that if you checked the newspapers in the 1930's and 1950's-60's-70's you will find that similar reverence existed in the left for Hitler (up till July 1941, guess what happened at that moment), and Stalin, even when it was known that Soviets did the extermination camp thing.

Other examples that come to mind

2) the Soviets (against Jews, homosexuals, tatars, ...)

3) The open racism of Egypts various socialist government parties (religious, sexist and ethnic). Most glaringly, the left's support for the arab spring even when it got taken over by the muslim brotherhood, who is not merely racist, but genocidally so.

More generally, you'll see a lot of examples of this in the middle east.

4) The open racism in China, before (and even during) the latest pro-pseudo-capitalism era. And yes, this was while China was doing the Nepal thing.

Again, not just China, but a lot of Asian countries enjoyed this leftist support.

So forgive me for stating the obvious here : the left has a specific agenda, and is certainly willing to accept open racism in people it reveres, racist policies and even racist genocides to some extent, as long as they advance the cause.

I am more of a European-style leftist (meaning I find the democrats nowhere near the centre of the political spectrum), but I have very few illusions on this. I have been a party member at one time (student days ...) and after a while I was forced to conclude that while, yes, it was far-fetched that these people would ever be given the chance for genocide, but

1) there was a (granted, small) group always talking about it. Mostly about Jews and/or Israel

2) after a while I started to believe them.

3) these people were not just tolerated, but actually had high status. Some were part of the "core" of the party.

4) obviously, most people in the party were very much opposed to actually implementing this. Unlike this loud group however, they were not willing to sacrifice anything for that.
It is inadvisable to start with Tetris. The Tetris Company LLC owns the copyright to the game concept; any falling n-omino game is potentially infringing, especially for n=4. Yes, I know that copyright law theoretically doesn't apply to game concepts; that won't stop TTC from suing you and winning by attrition (TTC has enough money to litigate well after virtually indie developer has gone broke).
Tbh to my ears that sounds like a bit of an overestimate.

Serenity, a 119 minute feature film, had a production budget of $39M.

Of course, there are probably higher costs for a "documentary" like this Maersk one, primarily because of fixed-costs and international travel, but I couldn't imagine that it would be more expensive per-minute by a factor of 7.
For #9, if you'd like to see the tactical differences between Phalanx vs Maniple battle formations, someone made a game simulation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPq9sIOsuE
"Like this guy below who has travelled here to buy two hundred 32” lcd tv’s his boss needs for the hotel bed rooms in his latest development because there is no place where they come from to buy such things. Many times I have shown them the price in the UK on my ipad and they have been close to jumping on a plane to make a call into an Argos store."

This seems like a problem that will be solved by Bitcoin. The reason people like this can't just buy 32" LCD TV's from Amazon or Overstock right now is becausue of the payment fraud risk. Bitcoin removes that.
Limit Theory's scripting language: LTSL
Google said to launch ad-free subscription service 'YouTube Music Key'
A Goophone? I have one and it is rather convincing looking, although the single home button makes Android a bit more awkward to use. If http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/projects/cycada/ was actually available, the experience could be even more authentic feeling.
What about the tenants? Why are people so focused on increasing house prices? No one wants food prices to be high or internet prices to be high.

In a small town that's shrinking rapidly, the people who live on the margins in maybe-condemned houses probably can't afford anything better. If you demolish houses that people are living in and raise housing costs, where are those people going to live?

I can see the justification for demolishing abandoned houses, but demolishing houses that people are living in seems evil.
Original story is here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/08/18/exclusive-this-is-yo... ...but HN auto-kills submissions linking to that site.
Well you wouldn't call it product_id in that case.
This is actually quite astute. The problems with ideas like Backpack are obvious, but there is probably a safe way to address all the concerns with the right approach.

Personally I would never use Backpack after reading about people who unknowingly took a package to another country that had drugs and spent years in jail despite their ignorance.

However, if somehow there is a way to do this legally and still capitalize off arbitrage. For example, maybe brands have different MAP pricing in different countries, and even with paying taxes and securing the items, there is a gray market opportunity to exploit.

The simple reality is that this is done on a daily basis already, so finding a way to do it at scale in a legal way has massive potential.

If I was YC, I would consider investing a few bucks to try to tackle this problem knowing that there are hurdles to overcome and some creativity required to make it work.
If you need 200 TVs you don't usually just do it with a credit card, you set up an account with a reseller. There are already mechanisms for doing this sort of thing, eg escrow accounts.
Tinder for geofenced photos – early access for HN
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/diy-diagnosis-how-an-..., which points (at the very end) to this.
Do you mind if I ask how? I ask as one who is still quite bewildered by the whole Bitcoin thing, but would love to better understand how it works.
I really hope you don't actually believe this is the case with most laws.

Some laws need to catch up to the modern world, but thinking that they are all in place to enrich certain people is really far fetched. (I do think that all laws that were passed were voted in place by legislators who are self-serving...but that doesn't meant they dont have a good reason to exist.)

Not to say there aren't incumbents who feel threatened by the new world and will latch onto archaic laws to protect their empires...any good idea will have this hurdle, but the laws themselves almost always do serve a function that is in society's best interest.
This has been on the front page all day, with a different url [1]. We changed the url of that post to this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8197767
>So generate immutable ProductState objects that contain all parts of the domain model that can change over time, and maintain a mapping from SKU to the correct object.

But that just recreates the very problem the author set out to solve, which is that you have to send increasingly huge sub graphs of the database with each order.

I assumed the direction he was going to go was to let the client send the at-the-time data back with each subsequent request for time consistency, but require them to pass a server-provided signature to keep them from making up prices, and saving the server from having to keep a time history of every case.
The Datomic docs at http://docs.datomic.com/acid.html describe it's ACID properties quite well.

> Another way to understand this is to consider the failure mode introduced by an eventually consistent node that is not up-to-date yet. Datomic will always see a correct log pointer, which was placed via conditional put. If some of the tree nodes are not yet visible underneath that pointer, Datomic is consistent but partially unavailable, and will become fully available when eventually happens.
There is actually a forum my wife participates in for Married Orthodox Jewish Women that has done an excellent job qualifying users before letting them in.

They ask questions that even their husbands wouldn't know.

All women.com needs to do is ask questions about feminine products and they'll keep out most men.

Edit: For the record, my wife participates in the forum dozens of times a day. The ability to discuss sensitive issues with other like minded women in a verified exclusive forum is an incredibly good idea - one that is proven to work.
He taught our Calculus II course a few years ago, which had rather famous exams.

A couple years later I was poking around the library and found a book he'd just published entitled something like "50 challenging undergraduate mathematics problems", of which I was annoyed to recognize several :-)