skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, but if another deep recession occurs it could happen. Faced with large unemployment and stagnant economy politicians would do anything. And solving 1) China 2)laundering corporations and 3) black economy in one go would seem like an attractive option, especially if it results in a huge surplus which could be used towards "job-creation" and "stimulus".

Hell a few years ago "magicking trillions of dollars" in the form of QE was unthinkable, yet it happened
http://i.imgur.com/1NnUxNU.png

What is more remarkable is that it didn't lead to rampant inflation (yet?)

As for "taking money away" point, governments regularly do this thru' money printing.
You don't know if people will divorce or not until 1) they get a divorce or 2) one of them dies instead. As a result, we can only reliably calculate this percentage for the cohort of couples who married 50+ years ago. We have many reasons to assume that couples marrying now, or who married ten years ago, will not divorce at the same rate as those who married 50 years ago. As another poster says, we can estimate based on historical comparisons and other data. The NY Times article referenced in the link shows some of that: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/upshot/how-we-know-the-div.... But we can't measure it directly. And we may get surprised - the number of people currently divorcing in their 50s and older is at a historic high, which wouldn't have been predicted by comparisons to previous cohorts.
The article never actually provided fact or studies showing it is NOT 50%, they just ridiculed the national marriage project. All they showed was that less people per population were getting divorced. This does not answer the question about the divorce rate or where more or less people were getting married.
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I haven't run the numbers, but I get maybe $20 a month in "buy me a coffee" donations on http://statetable.com. It's enough to cover the domain & hosting, and the rest goes to fueling my caffeine habit.

It's not shocking money at all, but it's honestly more than I expected from a donation link.
If you are comparing apples with bananas you should also compare the Linode prices with Hetzner, there you get 4c/8t,32GB,30TB for under 80$.
The audio from all the different camera views was the same, I noticed. Notably, the sound obviously came from a microphone on the ground, fairly close to the rocket. This can be deduced by the fact that there is very little delay between the light up and the start of the noise, and the fact that the character of the sound changes when the rocket is a couple of rocket-lengths above the launch platform.

While I personally would prefer to have the authentic sound, I can understand why they did it this way.
Maybe the "messenger" app should be somehow like that Blackberry 10 OS "hub" for multiple messaging apps. I don't know. But other than that, I don't think SMS should be deeply integrated into any data-based chat application.

SMS is a legacy system that has no encryption (or very weak one if you count A5/1) and we should let it die. If people focus on data-based chat apps only such as Whatsapp, at least we have a chance to kill SMS and use better encryption for our chats. SMS is also very expensive for what it really costs.
>> Err, the other guy got sick and died.

So what? Should one's opinion towards another person change when he/she dies?

>> Woz is not the type to be "politically correct".

Everyone is, to an extent. That's why I used 'may be', because a lot of people who weren't, learn it. I'm not saying it's bad.
I'm pretty sure that if you send a take-down notice alleging copyright infringement from another country, material in question is blocked for everyone, too.
Probably because they are incorporated in the US and could be drug into court here more easily than Russia. I also heard the EU calling for Google to break up but I doubt that will happen.

Did this have to do with some kind of censorship or was it copyright related?
Good article about how to handle social anxiety with women
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Perl allows this kind of code, similarly to Python and probably Ruby.

my @start_ids = (1, 2, 3);
for my $id (@start_ids) {
last if $id > 1000;

print $id;
push @start_ids, map { $id . $_ } 1, 2, 3;
}

But this is bad, really bad idea. This is bad code, it doesn't describe what
you want to achieve, it's difficult to track and analyze, it's hard to tell
when it stops. You really should want recursion here.

And it's not "pass by reference" here. References have nothing to do.
Sorry, I was a bit imprecise. I was thinking only about basic stuff like list operations being supported in the basic syntax, algebraic datatypes, pattern matching and optional mutability.
How can I get the moving gear to be on the outside of the fixed rings (the two that have inside and outside teeth)?
This is the second time I've seen you complain about this trip. I lived near the Watergate hotel for several years and can tell you there is no automatic guaranteed efficient route to union station. The entirety of downtown dc and all of the monuments lie directly between those two endpoints. DC traffic can snarl up pretty quickly between the tourists and random motorcades and regular old downtown traffic. I'd cut them some slack.
The supersonic framework is for building mobile apps in javascript and html. It's a fork of Ionic with additional native navigation bar, tab bar and drawer menus. It comes with a small firebase like backend and a library for communicating with it using web sockets.
>> Can't you just expose the data you are reading as an external typed data array to the Dart code? That would remove any need for those methods.

I work on integrating into Dart ecosysem "foreign functions interface" (ffi).

External typed data is not suitable in many cases:

- Does not provide physical storage address to use code (binary interop requires that)

- I don't need it because it heavyweight if use it with C pointers and references

- It has limit in size (specified in Dart VM on max array length)

- I need malloc and typed data does not help here in any way

- I access data (by physical address) allocated externally

>> Did you file a bug for the slowness of your native extension?

This is useless. A long time ago we already did not come to a consensus.
Apple CoreGraphics framework logging input data to /tmp
How does wrecking the Chinese economy solve any problems? (Not to mention also completely destroying international trust in the US dollar)
According to every TV show in the country, the divorce rate must be at least 100%. If anyone still wants to get married, they have to get un-divorced first and nobody seems to think it's worth the trouble.
My View after working with AngularJS for 1 week
Hey everyone,

I just started programming in Angular JS and my conclusion is that it is just too hard for nothing, making it a horrible framework for app developers who are constrained on time.Does Any one here share my views on this?
Having worked with an online newspaper before I'm missing an important component: ads. The design looks beautiful, it's best for users, but the business deciders really care about space for banner ads, promotions, sponsor links and cross links to other products. Worse if you have less ads than before because that means less revenue short term.

Google might think differently. They might run the product at loss. I just want to point out the realities when dealing with redesigns sometimes.
I consider myself average but have met my share of the 1/10 ones ;)
Clean air and safe food are luxury aspirationsl products here and just expected in western countries. What is cheap: maybe prepared food if you don't mind gutter oil, taxis since you can't buy your own car without winning the plate lottery, maids who don't really clean, fake alchohol that might kill you. It seems to me that the assumptions are all bunk; rich people take vacations to the states because things are so cheap there.
Likely it will be just a battery company. The supercharger network is still proprietary i.e. it isn't a standard and there is no evidence that car companies are planning to adopt the Tesla connector. Especially with governments rallying around standards and directly competing with Tesla.

And for me personally I am dubious about electric being the future solution. The world can live without Tesla and even BMW. Far harder without Toyota.
Actually I'd put them on around the same level of complexity from an engineering perspective.

Have you thought, recently, how difficult it really is to broadcast video to millions of viewers and all of the individual moving parts that make that happen? It's mind boggling.
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If you place all leaf nodes at the "bottom", then yes. But in many companies you will find some engineers reporting in to very high ranking people - including the CEO some places - and still be "leaf nodes".

Those guys can be paid as normal, or they can be paid according to execs at similar slots in the chart, depending on why they are there. The latter will often be accompanied with a suitably important sounding title to justify it, but still be effectively engineering positions with some advisory capacity tacked on, often with wide latitude in picking and choosing what projects they want to work on.

A reasonable number of organizations also explicitly have "grades" associated with people and have parallel non-managerial grades for engineering that goes fairly high. E.g. when I was at Yahoo a decade ago, there were engineering grades that went up equivalent to 3-4 managerial levels - near director or VP level if I remember correctly. They'd still be leaf nodes, but in the more critical teams.
Since nobody can have a negative number of divorces, a small percentage of data points with many divorces can "skew" the statistics.
China goes up and down throughout history. Many Chinese seem to believe that China can only go up now, just like Chinese real estate prices.....
High-speed camera tracks light at 100B fps
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Some people have suggested that this integration have been limited by the necessity to appease the carriers.
I don't think that iMessage is perfect in any way (if anything the fact that it keeps hogging your messages when you switch from iOS to Android is a big issue) but yeah I also think that it is the way to go.
Ideally, nobody should care about the specific protocol used to transport the message, you should just have a contact list and be able to let the app figure it out for you.
There are still some contracts where SMS messages are not unlimited though and it sounds like a nightmare to make this kind of automatic fallback without taking the risk to drain your user account.
Honestly, the SMS protocol should just die in a corner though. We just need to figure out how (maybe with something similar to WhatsApp ?)
"Дерьмо" is not the right word for the context. It's used to refer to a poor quality of something or someone, but not to express a feeling of disappointment.

You want "ой", "блин", "бляха-муха" or "блять".
Yes, you can select the "chipped / smart card" option when customizing them with the DIY tool.
zelda & metroid series are fairly well regarded.
Surely if you're on Hacker News you have some idea of how software development works, and that Google doesn't have a single team working on all their Android apps. Releasing something like this is unlikely to have diverted people away from GMail.

Instaedit: Sorry, that had a really harsh tone to it. I was just surprised to see that sort of post here, as opposed to Facebook where I can almost get that people believe there's a few people doing absolutely everything, and any thread is a valid dumping ground for the grievances.
Below sites have really good info on DIY drones --

http://wiki.paparazziuav.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Open source -- Hardware n software for DRONES

http://1bitsquared.com/ -- really tiny miny hardware for drones

http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/arduino/ --- Useful libraries for RF on Arduino

http://story.glass/uav -- Good explanation of buiding your own drones -- more material on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566641

http://www.exmaps.com/ -- Share your drone data

http://ardupilot.com/ -- Auto pilot stuff

http://diydrones.com/ -- good drones material for starters
0.02 cents and $0.02 are two different things. I was confused by your reply. See [1] for a very frustrating example where Verizon reps made the same mistake.

[1] http://verizonmath.blogspot.nl/2007/08/original-recording-of...
For one it would bring jobs and manufacturing back to the US.

It would also prevent the rise of a military adversary which could threaten the stability of the region and allies such as Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan and Australia.

Don't forget this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
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Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more
Mortal Kombat? Uwe Boll's Postal is also surprisingly good.
Your comment was funny, duly upvoted, but you seem to be making somewhat of a category error, as we're not talking about divorce rate prediction but divoce rate measurement, while global warming controversy is about prediction, not much about measuring current temperature. (Measurement, I seem to remember, didn't even corrobate older global warming predictions, or some such thing, which is beside the point, because at no point global warning was about high temperatures to be measured "now".)
According to the GitHub language stats it's only 17% Swift. Nearly 70% C and 6% Objective-C.
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I think you just explained why the simple ratio: (# of divorces / # of marriages) is prone to difficulty. The ratio is artificially skewed by people who marry/divorce frequently. So the simple ratio may not actually tell you much about how stable marriages are.
We have used sharding for managing time series data e.g. 1 shard per day. Is there a way this could work i.e. where the number of shards continually grows?
So how long until it's blocked again because of one of the 100 or so forks?
Whenever i see someone online going "wow, Google Now did XYZ!" i cringe and wonder how much data Google must have on us to be able to pull such things off.
It seems like a bad strategic decision to try to build a CDN on top of a platform that already offers a CDN while expecting to be cheaper than their economy-of-scale-driven CDN.

Not to say that you couldn't build a CDN on AWS, but if you're going to do it, wanting to do it for cheaper than someone who doesn't pay markup on the same instances (Amazon) isn't realistic.
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Ha, this is exactly the issue we ran into at my start-up when trying to determine KPI's.

My start-up is a marketplace that connects coaches and athletes, so we wanted KPI's like "What % of clients rebook their coach?".

But the issue there is the same as marriage stats: You can't just do a simple (# of rebookings / # of bookings), because that will get skewed if, say, are marketing push generates a ton of new bookings.

So then you think, "okay, the denominator should be first-time bookings and the numerator should be how many of those have a later re-booking?" But then you need to give that a chance to happen, because what if someone comes back a year or two later to re-book? Conversely, recent bookings won't have had a chance for the rebooking to happen, so again a wave of brand new bookings will skew the number unfairly.

Ultimately, I think we settled on the "right" decision: cap the time frame, and frame it not as a "rebooking rate" but a "1 month rebooking rate": i.e., "what percentage of new bookings have a re-booking within 1 month?" That one will always generate a correct number, but the disadvantage is your cohort is at least one month old.

So, the same issue applies here with divorce. The only accurate number you can calculate is something like "What is the 20-year divorce rate?" But then you're looking at marriages that occurred a generation ago, so it's not very predictive of marriages that just happened today.
This is an unfair comparison. Like others have mentioned in this thread they have subtle items in their terms and conditions that prevent you from actually using all that bandwidth 100% month by month. They can offer these prices by overselling their bandwidth.

You can move a lot of bandwidth for sure but as soon as you start using droplets or linodes for the sole intent of using its' included bandwidth (to self-build a CDN on it for example) you'll be shut down in no time.
nice work!

I'd like to make a directory on 175g.com that lists all the jobs for Ultimate Frisbee related companies -- either owned by people who play Ultimate or that service the actual industry.

Would forking this be a useful tactic?
Std::string half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process
I will cheer every launch but I must admit, after watching so many SpaceX launches, I twiched when I heard "feet per second" and all the other imperial units :p
I think they just mean that most people simply don't care about the decentralized and interoperable check boxes. They use the apps their friends use.
> I believe that most readers of that site will be non-native speakers, who may or may not get such in-language jokes.

Doesn't look like a big problem to me. I'm non-native speaker myself and I got the joke just fine, even though I didn't find it very amusing. And even if I wouldn't, I'd just skip that sentence without worrying too much about it (probably thinking it means "place for writing" or something like that).
Honestly I think there's a bit more to it than that, but you're right that there's still an element of luck!
no. The classic example is missionaries trying to teach malnourished landless peasants how to farm.

The real issue is water rights, land rights, and a traditional seed exchange program.

We have this notion that political self-determination is the end goal - a population having zero economic control we see as irrelevant. That's the issue in these places - they don't have a sovereignty over their own economy.

The only thing facebook could lead to for them is a popular uprising - but that will only be successful if there's a large enough middle class.

What may be more likely is that facebook will act as a further usurpation of the independent critical thought necessary for self-determination because people will have an effective propaganda tool with them at all times.

Imagine if a country wanted to filter out anti-government posts in a users news feed - giving disproportionate voice to a vocal pro-establishment minority; making them look like the silent majority; manufacturing consent as literally as possible. This will happen in your lifetime.

What a lovely future.
This is true, but not all content is fit for CloudFront or other CDNs.
Sorry, but this is bollocks. We don't know what the number is because we don't have the data or an agreed upon methodology to calculate the stat. But I have seen stats that do indeed put the rate in the 40% range; whether you agree with the methodology or not, does not mean that the number is a myth. And any pedant saying that 46% isn't 50% is correct, but clearly missing the forrest for the trees.
Rovio still plans to release an animated Angry Birds film in 2016.

We might be over-milking this one as a society at that point. I would put my money on... something else, specifically just not more Angry Birds.
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The ustream feed has been the most reliable for me; NASA TV site stream always seems to stutter or go offline at all the most exciting parts of any event.
I was under impression you don't work from Russia most of the time these days. Pardon me if I'm wrong.

I'd rather have no problems accessing Github without VPN than worry about Github saving its face in this situation.
FLASH better than DISK for archiving, say academics. Are they stark, raving mad?
Arguing that it's the majority that is 1/10 as effective as the best is like
saying somebody that he's ten times stupider than Einstein. It might be
technically correct, but it misses the point: most of the people employed as
programmers are bad at writing code.
Odd? Image you're a Github. There are thousands of paying accounts in Russia and also a zillion Russians contributing to open-source projects.

Now imagine all these people now have no access and start sending emails asking why their paid accounts now aren't working? Russian devs working on tight schedule, forereigners working in Russia, subs doing contracts for american companies - now all of them are DENIED.

Would it really be better for github to continue blocking all those innocent people because of a clearly a set-up type suicide-notes post?
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Gyah, my android messaging experience is so confused! Has anyone else managed to get a nice experience with Google Voice? What's your set up? Last I checked, hangouts still sends SMS under your real phone number, not the GV one. Is that still the case?

I also tried tossing in TextSecure at one point, and now sometimes I get texts there, sometimes Hangouts, sometimes neither.... Sigh.
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Why keep moving the goal posts as others have said? They have more people and more land. Why is this surprising?
I predict this story is going to become another "voyager leaving the solar system" type of thing. By one measure or another this is going happen once or twice a year for the foreseeable future.
Kiwi is slang for New Zealanders[1]. It is also a bird native to New Zealand[2].

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kiwi&defid=20...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi
But the USA economy ATM is doing very well. Employment is still an issue, but that has more to do with more efficiency than morbid supply and demand. We buy as much from China as China from us, we are so intertwined that the USA or china pissing in either pot would just hurt each as much, if not more, than the other.

>What is more remarkable is that it didn't lead to rampant inflation (yet?)

Nobody but the libertarians (who don't really get economics) expected it to. A low amount of inflation is healthy given that it pushes people to spend or invest, not just sit on it.
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Makes it easier for every country in the entire world, barring the US. Liberia and Myanmar switched over.
What? what about those stats? http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tables.htm

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I don't think you understand the importance of being a reserve currency is.
There are different "UK porn filters". That alone suggests that the IWF list has not been expanded into general purpose censorship, and that other methods are used for different illegal content.
Will patches be installed on servers that have never run the application but have it deployed, such as DR servers?

The mechanism describes seems to imply they won't as Microsoft Update won't know the vulnerable assembly is sitting on the machine waiting for a failover.
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U havin' a giggle m8?
40% of what?
The ride ahead (uber raises additional $1.2b at $41b valuation)
I work for DigitalOcean.

We would not shut you down.

Only gray situation is if you are flooding; amazon will send you a [bandwidth] bill, we send you a ticket