skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to "staying competitive".

Here at Spain (and generally Southern Europe) we've been told over and over again that we have to stay competitive, which is just an euphemism for working more and earning less (i.e. becoming Europe's China).

In a globalized market with a (still) steadily growing population, competition is growing and therefore salaries are shrinking.

It's happening in all industries (e.g. tech firms offshoring) but also at homes. I don't know about the USA but here in Spain housewives love hunting for sales, buying as cheap as they can, and proud about it. Why are they surprised later when their children can't find a decent salary? Buying Perú's asparagus cheaper than in our home country (including transportation across the Atlantic!) is only driving prices lower and lower, which hinders the whole economy in the long term.

And now the USA is going to sign a trade agreement with Europe which will further increase competition and will drive wages even lower than they're now for both parties.

On the other hand, isn't this just leveling the playing field for developing countries? After all, for them to grow, we have to shrink.
I'm curious about the rationale for declaring this process unconstitutional. "Unfair" doesn't automatically mean "unconstitutional".
True. But another significant portion is considered "unemployable" or "disheartened" which makes unemployment numbers misleading as well.
Screening on convictions alone may be more profitable in the short term but in the long run, as the article here shows, it may end up costing you much more.
Ah, you're correct. (It's too late for me to fix my comment).

I went over the issues with this version of quicksort in the original comment, but I still think it was a good example because most people are familiar with quicksort, and I was trying to address the original posters claim that algorithms in Haskell could only be used in Monads.

Also, quicksort is one of the few I can do from memory.
Preventing Java Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Very reminiscent of merb (a wycats led divergence from Rails from about 5 years ago). I expect a similar arc for io.js: a couple of distinct technical fetures that lead to a brief period of rising developer mindshare, then in a upcoming version node.js will promise to embrace/extend whatever makes io.js "better" and the project will peter out.
TomTom is one of Apple's primary data sources.

Source: http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html
> It has been a hell of a long time since antivirus applications affected the performance of a machine that way

Do you have the benchmarks to support this claim? Unless things have improved considerably in the last year, simply doing a "git clone" took measurably longer even on a machine with an SSD. Microsoft Security Essentials had by far the lowest impact but it was still easily visible.
Anyone have resources for mitigating the web map zoom level inaccuracy bug? I guess I know this only as the OSM bug, but it is the reason web mapping like OSM and Google Maps isn't used much by true GIS analysis. You can see this most easily by having your GPS on with your phone and using Google Maps on the web. When you zoom out your location accuracy decreases the more zoomed out you are. This doesn't seem to happen on the Maps app on my phone.
There's a plethora of quotes and cliches about surrounding yourself with only like-minded individuals and being in an echo chamber.

I do believe CoreOS is likely one of the largest (the largets?) adopter of Docker, and their entire platform is built around Docker. Even with Rocket, they've stated they have no immediate plans to make CoreOS incompatible with Docker.
It doesn't say what she's done for the college, other than she's been "fantastic". I suppose she's brought in a lot of money from fund raising and contacts she has.

I wonder if she's liked by the faculty and students? Boards will often overlook a lot if the president brings home the bacon.
Wikipedia actually supports his usage on a more definitive page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_all. Speaking as an ex-mathematician, I started laughing as soon as I read the title, because it pretty much tells you how to demonstrate it.
> "All I can do is let him know that the second design/attempt would have been easier in just about any language."

And then shrug and say it's okay, because this is how it works with everyone!

Personally I find the second attempt more fun too, since I've already learned the painful lessons...
I've only used Peapod during a period when I was on crutches and couldn't easily do a full grocery shopping. My impression though is that they're a relatively low profile service that works in partnership with grocery chains. They charge for delivery.

They were OK for my needs when I was using them. Invariably they didn't have everything in stock and didn't have the breadth of selection you have in the store. (And, of course, you can't examine the produce, etc. before buying.) For my needs at the time, they were worth it but under normal circumstances it's easier and cheaper just to swing by the store a few miles down the road.
It's clear that the same principle applies for every digit. But is the converse true? ie: Almost all numbers DON'T contain the digit "3"
Thanks. Only now did I read
via the FAQ that URLs are links
except in fields of submissions.
Apple doesn't allow me to stop using my GMail account
Thank you for proving my point. Apparently pointing out that this century is going way better than the 1900s is a sin.

You should post this as an individual submission. That's a really nice graph.
And the Irish were losing friends, family, and people they knew from the neighbourhood growing up. Whereas in the military it was guys you went to basic with. Which is similar to family but not as deep rooted.
The lesson here is that it's not about the idea it's about execution.
Show HN: Hacking Sleep
I know how to love, although I am awaiting recognition by the appropriate professional trade association.
> BASIC (if remember correctly, has no pointers) so it is far from assembly.

BASIC, like Assembly, has no special "pointers" -- just values (numbers) that can be treated as addresses and used to read (in via PEEK statement) or write (via POKE statements) the corresponding memory locations.

C, by having distinct pointers but supporting arithmetic on them is somewhere between languages like BASIC or Assembly (where there are just numbers, which can be used as addresses, but not special "pointers") and something like Python (where there are object references, but you can't do arithmetic on them like C pointers.)
We wrote a static optimizer for spreadsheets - this looks at the entire sheet and reduces computational complexity where it can.

Excel's built-in functions are optimized to run fast individually, not to work in concert. (Also, some of them are just slow for no good reason.)
Looks appealing, right near Anchor Point, a world class surf spot. Was about to pull the trigger on a 3-4 month rental...until the price. 1,200 Euros/month in Morocco, really? During the fall and spring I pay 500 Euros per month for a 2 bedroom, 5 minute walk from the beach in Capbreton, France, an area with surf as good or better than anything in Morocco.

I can appreciate, number 1, the safety (as I had all my gear stolen in Morocco a few years ago, passport included), and living with other tech heads, but in the end I just need a decent internet connection, a kitchen, and location in some interesting part of the world; the rest are nice-to-haves.

Airbnb et al have totally destroyed the bargain rental market. From India, to Morocco, to Argentina, etc. formerly dirt cheap destinations now fetch luxury prices with often very modest accomodations in return.

Best bet for the travelling coder is probably to just do a week rental via hose-you-inc and then search locally for rentals closer to market value (i.e. not 2-5X what the locals are paying).

Now, it's a fantastic market for sellers, more power to them, if I had a place to sublet I'd be more than happy to fetch top dollar for some vanilla 1 bedroom apartment with a blender, hot plate, and clean sheets ;-)

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First to file is just a conflict resolution rule for patent applications that hit the PTO at the same time. Under first to file, you just look at the dates on the applications to see who gets priority. Under first to invent, you get into this fact-intensive analysis of who really invented first.

First to file is not implicated unless dueling patent applications are involved. It doesn't affect how prior art is treated.
Ask them to donate something (up to them) from their first salary if the manage to find a job through your platform.
Show HN: TapeRecorder – Videos that help you understand how people use your app
Yep, that one worked just fine.
Docker in Action – Development to Delivery, Part 2
Integration Tests in JavaScript That Don’t Suck
Offline maps never really went away, but they did get harder to manage. Type "OK maps" in the search bar to cache the visible area (it saves several zoom levels). Apparently with the newest version there's another method: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-google-maps-offline-on...

Agreed on the apparent deprecation of social/offline features, but the navigation does seem to be getting better.
I don't think we should forget about the positive impact he made on the world through the creation of all that wealth. He has helped transform personal computers (Apple, Next), the music industry (iTunes, iPod), mobile phone market (iPhone) and animated movies (Pixar).

His fascination with alternative medicine is unfortunate but he paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.
I don't really see one implementation being a superset of another as fragmentation - IO will just be better, and Node will slowly die.
That is the goal of Haxe[1] I've always thought it is a good idea. That may be under appreciated.

[1]: http://haxe.org/
Chef's Application Cookbooks: A Tale
If you really want to blow your mind, almost all numbers contain all the digits 0-9. That's a lot more interesting and surprising to me than that they contain any one digit.

But the reality underlying this is actually really boring; when you start talking in terms of n -> infinity any fraction will become insignificant as it self multiplies.
Not unless we equivocate and redefine "almost all" to be something other than what he used in this video, right?

He showed that the ratio of "whole numbers containing 3" to "whole numbers" is close to 1. So the ratio of "whole numbers not containing three" to "whole numbers" is close to 0.
Ralph Baer, inventor of the gaming console, dead at 92
Since so many people have complained just for complaining sake that they are pissed their cab ride was expensive (that they already acknowledged they understood), Uber added another option to keep the minority of people who would complain anyway from using it as another reason to gripe?

If a huge screen telling you your cab is going to be 6.25x more expensive than normal and you don't understand how that works, there is no other excuse other than your own stupidity.
I also came here to share Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.

I can't recommend it enough.
Mark Zuckerberg to Apple's Tim Cook: Screw You
I'm not sure it's accurate to say that this instance (or the choice to screen based on proven actions rather than accusations) is what led to the ban.
Why do you assume an advertising company is better equipped/able than a technology company to run a maps/routing service?
You can read some samples from Irvine's book "A Guide to the Good Life" on Boing Boing.

(http://boingboing.net/author/william_b_irvine).
What can you recently not work without?
Another post today asked a question similar to above, but in reference to a specific app.

It made me wonder, what have you recently (or not so recently) started using that makes you feel like you can't live/work without it?

For me, that would be:

- I3 tiling window manager (seen here on HN).

- OneTab firefox tab consolidator (seen here on HN).

- Vagrant.

- And from the past, Vim.
Beyond the standard "Campaign" modes, every level has two more modes with restrictions on which towers (and maximum upgrade levels) that you can use.

All three of these games are great fun and a great way to kill an hour while, e.g. waiting for a plane.
DNS is inherently fault tolerant. That's why you can specify more than one NS record (if server A is down, go to server B!) on a domain.

Unfortunately if you use Namecheap's DNS service, you CAN'T specify failover / secondary DNS servers. This has been a known issue for a year & a half that they've failed to address: https://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5...
Making Unreliable APIs Reliable with Python
> High quality PNG's are best (150dpi or more). [..]
All fonts should be converted to outlines to ensure fonts are displayed correctly.

Above is from the guidelines for posters. PNGs are bitmaps and hence there are no fonts to outline. Outlines could be part of PDFs but those don't have an associated DPI. This needs clarification.
Congrats Paul and Todd!
Serious mathematicians will feel his title was misleading or dishonest. Considering the proportion of mathematicians to the general public, the teacher is probably not targeting mathematicians - he's a mathematician targeting the mathematically curious. With that in mind, the title is perfect.
Blockchain.info Security Disclosure
Doesn't Blue Stacks work fine for Android emulation on PC?

BTW IGN is giving away Kingdom Rush Frontiers promo codes for iOS, limited availability.
If on a sliding scale "conviction" is a 100 and "accusation" is a 20, "arrested" falls somewhere between 18 and 22.

Unfortunately there really is no middle ground. You can't point to an event and say that you're __% certain that the accusation is true. So again it boils down to whether you base the decision off of accusations or convictions alone.

As someone stated elsewhere it's not just an ethical decision, either. Economics should play at least a minor role in the decision-making process.
Not since a brief period in the 90s. You're much better spending your time staying on top of updates and not having plugins disabled in your default browser. As long as you don't run an email client which executes code[1] trying to enumerate badness is a losing game - it's too easy to try to bypass signatures, particularly since a malware author can simply test against the various AV clients before releasing something.

1. i.e. not Outlook managed by an enterprise IT department
No, I can't assume that — and I didn't. I didn't say anything remotely like that.

I was responding to a comment which said, essentially, that you will end up with lots of forks that are each strong in some particular way. This is not generally how it works in my experience. In general, the fork with (for example) better ease of use will also be the one with better speed because it will get much more time and attention than other forks.
> Because once you get the incentives correctly aligned it's a massive boost in global wealth?

The way you get the incentives correctly aligned is to make sure that the people making the decision (i.e., the company building the service) gets reward commensurate with the social utility, such that it is in their rational self-interest to do the socially-useful thing.

At which point, they are no longer doing it without compensation.
I was just thinking the same thing ...how are block and object storage supported under HDFS etc.
I admire much more than someone who has a lot of pomp and circumstance around their philanthropic activities

Why? People who make a big deal about their philanthropy often do so in order to encourage others to join the cause. How is that in any way a bad thing?
Facebook AI Research uses Torch heavily, and contributes improvements back to the open-source version.
I worked in the gaming industry for a couple of years and after I worked in the RTB industry and lately in the forex industry. I am not alone, and I have a lot of friends coming out of gaming that work very well in other industries.

The problem is not whether or not game developers know how to reuse code but whether or not it makes sense or are allowed to reuse it. One big challenge when you are going to reuse code is not having a stable set of requirements (which in gaming is almost non existing even in the late stage of a project) and when you take that and join it with tight and unreasonable schedules you would have a huge mess as result.

The state of the industry is very unhealthy in my opinion and I wouldn't be surprise if there is another dark age for videogames coming up.
I wonder about the median income. Another statistic says that more people have at least a Bachelor degree. Consequently, more people start working at a later age, reducing the median income. On the other hand, new employees with a degree should earn more. It would be interesting to know the interaction between the two.
How does this compare in quality to canvas prints from a photo lab such as Millers/MPix or WHCC? Cost looks to be about equal to a 1.5" canvas gallery wrap from either those shops.
I'm an alum and no longer have any association myself (I've even managed to lose myself so they can't call asking for donations). But I have friends still around, including at least one still on the staff.

My impression is that the school, including staff and student body, has a pretty positive view of her.
The 3.18 kernel has been released
"Starting at $55."

I see $60 and up...
You know, there's still no reason that it can't get to page 1. That would certainly give it the traction it needs.
Ask HN: Two letter .al domains
Two letter .al domains became available a few hours ago. Anyone able to snatch any up?
I'm not sure big cities are prohibitive here.

Sure the subway can suck but in New York City I have access to surfing, beaches, more yoga studios (and dance, and martial arts, among a million other classes in languages, the culinary arts, and virtually any other topic you could choose) than anyone could possibly count, restaurants, museums, concerts, sporting events, scuba diving, sky diving, and anything else you could ever ask for. (And even the things you'd never think to ask for). I mean the list just goes on and on and on. Of course this is predicated on the assumption that you will take advantage of it (and have the money, interest, time, and energy to do so).

However, that being said, the idea of waking up in my hut, and walking outside, doing a little yoga on the beach, and then setting up for a cup of coffee with some locals and hacking away in the sun does sound undeniably attractive.

I'd kill for some more sun in my workplace. And just whose idea were these damned open offices anyways? I do enjoy the social interactions and yet there is always that nipping feeling that I'm interrupting someone else's zone while I do so, much as, often, people interrupt mine when they do.
>A major problem for the military is the availability of guns

Sorry, but it clear that don't know anything about "the availability of guns" in the US military.
Not really. Going from Mobile back to PC is very very easy (PC to Mobile is another story). If your game already works on mobile, it will 99.9% work on PC. The amount of platform specific Unity bugs is actually quite small, in my experience. Especially with 2D games that aren't using crazy shaders (in my experience, most of the platform specific bugs are GPU shader crashes, especially on Android. And again, that's only on Android. PC has far less buggy GPU drivers than Android).

You might need to adjust some screens so they work better with a mouse instead of with taps, but this game doesn't use multi-touch or anything that can't be done with a mouse so I don't see an issue with that.

You also need to write platform specific IAP and notification code, but again, going to desktop you won't have notifications, and writing platform specific IAP code is not that big of a deal, especially compared to porting your entire game.

Short story is, these guys chose their engine very poorly. They had already experienced cross platform issues in the past, and seems like they just decided to ignore them until it was too late.

I have no sympathy.
Seems to me it's the government which needs to stay competitive, not the workers, ie regulation and bureaucracy.
3 ↑↑ 4

Where ↑ is the knuth uparrow notation, beats your example in only 4 symbols with about three thousand times as many digits
Crowdflower CEO: My Board Fired Me. Here's What I Learned
It's little wonder that Google Maps is such an amazing application given all the time, intelligence, resources and just the sheer commitment Google's shown to it.

I know business considerations are what they are and often independent from others, but nothing shook my belief in Apple's commitment to quality as a defining principle more than the decision to replace Google Maps with Apple's own half-baked beta offering. Does anyone think they'll ever give maps & cartography the kind of attention to detail that Google's given it?
People have claimed (on HK) that their free tier slows down your site, any truth to those claims in your experience?
You're optimizing for growth, the article optimizes for happiness. Depends what you're looking for in life.
I definitely started the Project Gutenberg version, I think this is the link that was posted most on HN. Will try to get the other translation.
In short no. In long, there have been attempts mostly failed ones. The current industry standard is making a big NAS and putting paths to log files in an SQL database, and make a nice java front end to chop up logs by time stamp.

The idea is from a testing perspective (I do data acquisition and analysis for test systems), is when a part breaks, or something critical in your test happens.

You want to find the source of failure. Often times analyzing every single data point is pointless, especially after a 10 hour test with 100 points per second per channel. And you only want to see ~2 minutes of data.

How most systems work is you need to open up a measurement file, and either use a stand alone tool to chop this (and pray it doesn't corrupt your measurement file). Or from what I understand Influx simply lets you query time code to time code and return channels via pattern matching within that time span.

Very simple.

Data management is another big issue. A single day's worth of road test can be ~5-10TB per vehicle (2 months of testing + 20 vehicle fleet). Also this total is project to like all things double every year -_-'

Also as far as I understand Influx doesn't support sound or video. Which is really what aerospace and automotive are looking for.
While I agree that certain patents should be scrutinized at a higher level, this must be done 100% transparently. Every time. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
Open-Sourcing CheckChat
I already know about that. I think you misunderstood my point. If the poster was satisfied with the current solution then he wouldn't be pining for his wish. I was addressing the generalization. People often wish that company X would donate their efforts
On one of my systems I do, but that is required by my client when I attach my device to their network. And my wife's desktop has MS security essentials.

Keep in mind that when New York Times was hacked a while back that 50 kinds of malware was found, and only one of them was detected by multiple AV products.

So depending upon AV to protect you is fraught with peril.

Consider the possibility that adding AV to your system increases the attack surface. Does anyone remember the Michelangelo Virus from a while back? A well-known firm' AV software caused more damage than the virus itself. (It wiped out the boot sector.)

Don't count on AV to protect you.
Nice, clean website. Are you fulfilling the products yourself, or using a vendor?

What are you using for the cropping tool?

Well done! Congrats on shipping!