skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of jury could come to an 12-0 vote that any case like this was beyond reasonable doubt?

If you have served on a few juries like I have your (anecdotal) evidence may indicate (as mine does) that most people are very stupid and unable to apply even the most basic logic. Then again, maybe it is only the stupid ones (myself included?) that can't figure out how to get out of jury duty so the jury pool self selects for stupidity.
Bring in wealthy people like the US experimented with by bringing in the Chinese.
after 23 years of development with C and gcc, and Linus' stance on stability over 'the new hotness' I don't see that happening anytime soon or at all for that matter.
I don't disagree that Germany needs skilled immigrants. But there is actually currently much less demand than some lobbyist claim and salaries are so low that mostly this is only attractive to 2nd class 3rd world immigrants. The very good ones go to the US, UK,CA or Australia immediately. Easier, much more pay.

Germany had immigrant waves from countries like Iran or Afghanistan some decades ago. But this were very highly educated people that fled due to the circumstances and were able AND WILLING to adapt.

The current African/Middle Eastern immigrants are not willing and probably not even able to adapt. "Harassment" was a polite correct way to speak of all the violence, rapes and sometimes murders that are committed.

Do you know the country with the highest cases of rapes? It is Sweden! Guess why? Yes, must be terrible people this tall blond Swedish Vikings raping their women....

Australia solved her immigration problem by just sending the people in the boats back home. Europe can not solve the problems of the world by accepting everyone that comes. In Germany, one of the most dense populated countries, alone 300.000-400.000 a year.

You can't have both. Free, unlimited immigration and social welfare. The people in Europe will have to make a decision about this.

Worse, this people are not solving their problems at home when they come but they import their problems into Europe.
A better analogy in Oracle vs. Google: API is jargon
Let the user choose the cost function.
I know some contemporary fancy places that have naughty art in the gents. I think it's mostly to be amusing. It's usually in contrast to the formality of the rest of the place.
You could have a desk with wheels.
Nations are not ethnicity. Did you mean culture?
> Music legend Louis Armstrong is recorded on secret tapes ... From December 1950, until his death in 1971, Louis documented his life ‘for posterity’ on to 750 tapes, totaling thousands of hours of recordings, now owned by Louis Armstrong House Museum.

This isn't just weird but mad.
On the aspect of religion, this varies strongly by region. In the "neue Bundesländer" (former GDR), people are generally a lot less religious due to the GDR actively discouraging religion. Meanwhile, Bavaria is very catholic (and quite conservative). It would be interesting to see if/how religion and birth rate correlate in Germany.
I think the original couchsurfing spirit is fundamentally incompatible with the startup "guzzle money and grow" mentality. For a successful community you need to keep things local to build trust networks - this is fundamentally a low profile operation, not something that's going to scale massively and make a big splash, because it involves tight groups on small scales. I think the SF startup scene just doesn't have the mentality to make that work - everyone is chasing the Next Big Thing (emphasis on Big), so a community website that, for example, makes it's mark in a handful of German cities isn't what founder CEOs and VCs are looking for.
Cool post. I have always disliked C++ MP because I couldn't see the forest for the trees. Judging by the first few examples (using, mp_rename) C++11 cleans it up and makes it understandable.
Taaalk: Exploring the concept of diversity
How is it different from HTTP/1 with keep-alive connection?
This is a great tool. I use it for adjusting brightness/volume via cmd.exe on laptops (because I hate using sliders); taking screenshots and enacting delays in batch files; and also for creating macros using batch files. It is an excellent easy-to-install augmentation to cmd.exe since all it requires is the nircmd.exe file in a known location.
Yea - unfortunately it seems like only the 'elite' members get a say (and the ability to promote their product continuously).

Unfortunately, I have no idea what criteria they use to determine whether someone is elite or not. I'm one of the first 200 users on the site [1], had my own product submitted to the site (with over 100 upvotes [2]) and I STILL can't comment or submit posts.

[1] http://www.producthunt.com/@taphangum
[2] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/myapptemplates
SPDY and HTTP/2 are pure wins without any real effort. Slap the spdy directive into nginx, a 5 character change, and presto, site goes faster. On sites I've worked on, getting a 10-30% advantage is common.

I'm happy for you that you got those kinds of results just from the switch to SPDY. None of the experiments I've seen did that well, but of course the benefits for these new protocols will depend on the specifics for each individual site.

Just to be clear, my main concern here isn't so much the protocol itself as the effect it has on all the infrastructure that is built around it and the implications for compatibility and long-term stability.

For example, there have been calls for various kinds of compression/encryption to be required. Then CRIME happened, and it turned out that using gzip compression within an encrypted stream wasn't such a good idea after all. What if the new standards had baked in that kind of security flaw?

There is also a whole industry of network monitoring tools used for intrusion protection, virus scanning, fault diagnostics, and many other useful applications. How many of those tools will work with these new protocols?

What about cache/proxy tools? Just as there are still few options for production-level servers that cope with HTTP/2, there is also a whole range of intermediary tools that serve useful purposes but don't currently have HTTP/2 counterparts.
Isn't this compatible with the Picasa and Google Drive API's?
>>Authorities in Rome now hope to reconstruct the imposing, 17-metre-wide, 15-metre-long marble arch, in a project that would cost at least €1 million (£718,000).

Given the size of this thing, this sounds wildly optimistic.
My favorite in this space is Applitools eyes (https://applitools.com/).

Eyes has really advances image processing capabilities, which meant two huge advantages over everything else I looked at:

1. It's not prone to rendering differences. I can set a baseline in one browser/OS combo, run it on other combinations and set it to only consider real regressions as a failure.

2. It can validate the layout of the page even with dynamic content.
This is definitely the important lesson.
According to Google, total fertility rate is at 2.50 as of 2012. This is good news.

Apparently,according to The Hindu at least two populous states - UP and Bihar - have tfr above 3. Is this a matter of concern in terms of politics and public policy?
VAT if you're paying it is a tax that adds to input costs.

Income tax is a tax calculated over profit.

You can't just sum the percentages together as a simplification.

It's (Sales Price - (Cost of Goods * VAT + Cost of Goods))*Income Tax Rate = Y
I've been using pass for a while now. It's quite mature and stable. I use it with git and put it through encfs and sync it with dropbox. Works quite well.

I hope this matures enough to compete with `pass`
ØMQ - The Guide
Bambi is 73 years old. If you haven't seen it yet, you aren't going to.
Ask HN: Do users really want augmented reality?
I have the feeling augmented reality is currently nothing more than a gimmick that you can sell to some company to make them look modern or even a bit futuristic but the end user doesn't really want to download and use augmented reality apps on his/her mobile device.

This may(!) change with augmented reality glasses if there's a standard or a clear winner (maybe Microsoft HoloLens).

Are there any studies about how many users really want to see AR content on a leaflet or product catalog? I guess less than people who scan QR codes.
I wonder if in the case of an international-by-default internet organisation, there might be some international workaround. Maybe they could have registered the business elsewhere or even physically moved to another jurisdiction. Maybe they could have formally merged with an existing cultural exchange non profit like the various 'year abroad' exchange organisations.

If a for-profit company, quasi-nonprofit or organisation without a well defined status wants to operate as a non profit and they seem to be getting results... It seems a terrible waste not to help that exist, as a society or a legal system or whatnot.

If you have a million to spend on converting from non-profit to something else (or was that contingent on converting into a US for profit?), perhaps there are other options out there. What's the distinction between for profit and non profit in a "favourable" jurisdiction like Isle of Mann or The US Virgin Isles?

It sounds so needlessly wasteful.
Plotting Christmas gift tags using a Raspberry Pi and resin.io
Show HN: Trigger sound effects from a web hook
In Norway, a Prison Built on Second Chances
Fox also blurred a Picasso painting.

http://jezebel.com/fox-news-blurs-the-boobs-on-a-picasso-pai...
I had a good experience with http://opentuner.org/. Try it.
In short, SPDY was an experiment designed to test some proposed strategies for future HTTP protocol development, which it did.

That may always have been the intent, but I'm not sure that was clear to those outside the Google bubble.

For example, there were numerous articles and blog posts and conference talks around the time that SPDY became a serious proposition with a similar tone to the HTTP/2 commentary we are seeing today. No doubt there were exceptions, but much of that advocacy didn't exactly come with "big red box on the first slide" warnings that SPDY was an experiment, and readers/viewers should only use it in production if they had the resources available to update things again in the relatively near future.

I do appreciate that the big news for HTTP/2 is that it has reached a more formal level of standardisation, but in the modern Web industry when browsers do whatever they want every six weeks anyway, that isn't worth as much as it used to be.

Even today, there are few production-grade tools around that actually support HTTP/2 in anything close to its final form, including a lot of the projects that do support SPDY. Phasing out browser-side support for the latter as soon as early 2016 seems like a typically aggressive Google drive to shift the web to a new technology it favours, at the expense of forcing everyone to adjust/upgrade their existing working deployments. I'm very uncomfortable about how readily they are willing to do that in their browser these days, but I don't think the permanent-beta mentality has any place in server/network infrastructure at all.
Thank god for x64 that got rid of this unnecessary cruft.
Thin coating on condensers could make power plants more efficient
17 Best Mobile Event Apps for Conferences and Corporate Events
Starship Congress 2015: Interstellar Hackathon, Philadelphia (Sept 4-5, 2015)
Many political parties can be credited with positive actions, but were those actions the "great message" that formed the basis they were elected on?

The nearest example I can see in recent history was the ANC in South Africa since 1994.
Ask HN: I am building a “Trello clone”, what front end/UI framework should I use?
I am building an app for my TimeBlock method that when it comes to drag/dropping and editing is similar to Trello.

We are building it in C# on the .NET platform using MVC, SignalR and jQuery for the front end stuff, but I am wondering if there is a front-end framework that would make it easier to build the UI since we are struggling at the moment with errors that to me feel like something that would be avoided if we used a framework instead of hand coding everything.

You can read more about TimeBlock here: http://timeblock.com/
Three Things Weekly: Square Face Dogs, Mapping NYPL Photos, Redneck Avengers
I have been hosting 30+ people in Montevideo, Uruguay since 2011 and while I find CouchSurfing not as beautiful/user-friendly as AirBnb I really don't care. And I am a designer. The community at least in my country is and still really strong. I haven't had a single problem whatsoever and It really changed me for the better in an immeasurable way. Maybe other startup can hit the nail on the usability, credibility, signal-to-noise ratio. As a host who receive +5req / weekly, the main filter is always yourself. You need to do your due-diligence (aka stalking) and set your own rules. There's way more good people than bad people. Fortunately I haven't find one of the latter.

TL;DR; Join. So far there's no other community like couchsurfing, take the best of it. It will impact you deeply.
Hard-Core Career Advice for a 13-Year-Old
It's probably good enough to just get meta-actionable.
"In fact, Mollie, I hope you drop out of school right now. Please?" do you think this is good idea for 13-years old?
What do you mean by 'crowdsourced data from the communities'?
Subcultures are dead. I plan to write a full obituary soon.
Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?

Dead? I think not. What about the whole NRX Silicon Valley techno-libertarian sub-culture, which came into preeminence in 2008? How about selfie culture? Or STEM culture, or how STEM seems to have become the new 'cool' or celebrity status, especially with the show The Big Bang Theory being so popular? There will always be fads, sub-cultures, movements.

Also add: the Red Pill movement , PUA, MGTOW, manosphere, men's rights as new movements/subcultures
The point of the idea is, if you combined meta-programming and DSLs with Java, you don't have Java anymore. MPS calls their Java dialect "baseLanguage" and it's actually Java + a lot of small DSLs with custom renderings and editors.

MPS is one of the most mind blowing developer projects I ever encountered. But I first played with it years ago and have tried most versions since, and unfortunately it never made it past the "cool, neat, but I don't have a use for it" stage. Somehow I always end up back with regular IntelliJ and Java or Kotlin.

One reason: MPS is one of those concepts that's just such a huge leap over what we do today, I worry about losing other possible contributors if I use it. Also, for example, the projects are stored as giant XML files on disk, so github diff viewers and other text based tools wouldn't work. Perhaps I should just take the leap for a small personal project.
Miles Davis' autobiography is also an amazing, vulgar, honest and incredible work as well. The audible audio book is especially good because the narrator nails his raspy but dogged voice. Highly NSFW and highly recommended.
What's a certified random number?
Don't you mean <esc> sumt <esc> ?
linux + bash + emacs for most things, Eclipse for Java projects.

Gitg and Bazaar Explorer are useful GUIs for their respective VCSs. (Not that I strictly need them, but I like seeing a graphic representation of the project history.)
On a typical app, the user will have to trade off: peak/average memory, peak/average cpu, file storage usage, network, latency, throughput, cache behaviour, tolerance to pauses, and somehow produce a viable weighting function out of all of this.

This function will need a tonne of refinement, because the initial weighting or three will lead to wastage, and it will end up being complex and nonlinear. The optimisation process will be expensive and time-consuming.

The tuning process will be basically voodoo, harder than easily documentable configurations. Right now, experience can lead to dramatic improvements with ease. At the moment, tuning GC will also give you pointers for how to improve your program; and tuning your program will also give you pointers for tuning GC. That'll go.

Then, we get the same problems as before wrt contention for system resources, so the system has to somehow be aware of all the other programs running on the computer.

This all ends up being very difficult; much harder than performance tuning.

Again, things that the system can work out on its own, the user shouldn't specify. Things that the system can't work out on its own, the user should specify, or the system should make a good guess.
Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]
Retrolambda – Backport of Java 8's lambda expressions to Java 7, 6 and 5
and before Microsoft it was IBM...
> in the case of libc, I genuinely cannot think of a reason to break binary compatibility, backwards or forward

Well, since you can't think of one, there must not be one.
Do not forget that China has already completed two massive pipelines(one gas and one oil) from western port of Myanmar to Kunming, Yunnan, China to bypass the Strait of Malacca and they are already fully operating.[1]

And for your conspiracy thirst, there has been massive shoutout internationally for people known as Rohingyas from Myanmar who face persecution, discrimination and pre-genocidal acts being committed by Myanmar government lately. And you know where Rohingyas people actually live in Myanmar? It is at the very start of the two Chinese pipelines and the province is called Rakhine State in Myanmar.[2] So the US is pressuring Myanmar very very hard on this case. [3]

Two things can happen from this.
1) If Myanmar resists US pressure and doing the same things just as they are treating these people now, US can just say, "hey buds, we've told you. Human rights to these people or they will human rights you". So any violence that might arise from this can be justified. Actually Myanmar government has been exceptionally stupid in handling Rohingya case. This mess has now become an international case. Thats their fault.

2) Myanmar succumbs to US pressure and grant some human rights to Rohingya(eg. giving them ethnic status, grant citizenship and that shit). Rohingya may rises and clashes with ethnic Rakhine group there to take the revenge. The region will be destabilised and this will give Chinese a huge headache for their hardcore investments.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrmeyer/2015/02/09/oil-and-ga...

[2] https://www.google.no/maps/place/Rakhine,+Burma/@19.4183961,...

[3] http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/state-department-rohingya-refugee...
Show HN: XPS to PDF Converter (weekend project)
This is the same as the example Asimov gave thou, plate tectonics being that the surface of the earth moves at imperceptible rate. That only over great time does this have any impact on the positioning of land masses.

Instead of it being moving at a rate of zero (or static), it is moving at some tiny amount above zero.
Twitter should allow article embedding like Facebook is about to.One can embed photos or video, so why not articles ? at least some part of it ?
OCaml Resources (2006)
I wish I had gotten an X240. The model of my X1C is 20A7/20A8 and all my complaints are legit, thank you.

I was also surprised about the HDMI audio issue. You're right about the reviews not mentioning it. I've read that the mini DisplayPort works properly. But the expected behavior of an HDMI port is to output audio and I'm just glad I wasn't entertaining guests or giving a presentation when I discovered the problem.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/No-so...

Read the whole thing, if that's what you're into. The Lenovo support specialist should have admitted that he only had general advice about computer troubleshooting and did not have a solution to the problem. Anyway, the only person claiming to have found a solution was the last post, who only offered an irreproducible solution. I actually tried everything everyone suggested in that thread and wasted far too much time for nothing. And even if any of those solutions worked, this is a thread about Linux laptops.

I don't like tapping, but sometimes I prefer it over clunking down the whole pad. The dedicated clicking buttons of older models worked perfectly well and Apple laptops have wonderful touchpads.

> This complaint is a strawman IMO

A strawman argument is actually when one side of a debate lies about what the other side's argument is so they'll have have an easier argument to refute. I don't think you were accusing me of that.

>wifi

Lots of issues since day one on this laptop with an Intel 7260 card.
> Whoever successfully writes such a piece of software will make billions.

And have fun at work!
It's vague to encourage discussion , contemplation
Blockland. It's still around. I remember playing that around 2004/2005. It was really fun back then but suffered from bad performance for sizable builds.

The developer looks like he has checked out on improving the game but he is still making games and if the forums are to believe had a booth at PAX East.
While it's true that couchsurfing.com isn't what it used to be, I don't think the same can be said about the individual couchsurfers.

It's a bit too easy to lament how the quality of surfers has gone down as the community size has grown. While couchsurfers today are a more diverse crowd I think exposing the idea of couchsurfing to people who aren't you stereotypical backpacker is not necessarily cause for lament. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge in the right direction for them to become involved too.

I was active myself on the old site and after a couple of years break I've decided to start again now that I have the space to easily host. During the few months I've had visitors stop by my flat here in Edinburgh I've had the pleasure of meeting a great amount of very different and almost always interesting people ranging from poor students on their first couch surfing trip to a guest hitch hiking overland from China to classical musicians from London to a travelling Blues Dance teacher.

Being in a cultural hotspot like Edinburgh I naturally receive a lot of requests, many of which looks blatantly copy/pasted. However since I decline most requests for lack of time anyway it's not much effort to filter through and find the people who seems like they are interested in meeting me and invite them in.

So at least speaking from my own experience I don't think there's any cause for alarm over the quality of the people on couchsurfing. But then again, I always found the meetups to be dreadful. As for the site itself I find the redesign annoying and wouldn't mind switching to a better site if any good contender came up, but so far the community on CS however much in decline is still much more active than any other site I know of.
Published in 1990. Quite a few things have changed in the past 25 years. But interesting nonetheless.
i feel like 4chan has a good immune response to this disease.
I disagree. I think the way the quiz is set up and the question being asked, "who is the most moral / honest," means that's exactly the sort of information this is teasing out.

The quiz sets up a highly emotionally charged situation that a lot of people are going to make snap judgments about. The first couple of ranking decisions made are going to reflect those snap judgments. The neat thing about the ranking process is that it forces you to think beyond the snap judgments and consider the relative morality of all the characters. It asks you to do this while your guard is down, i.e. if they just asked you the relevant questions about your moral leanings, you wouldn't necessarily give the ones you are really operating on subconsciously.

The other neat thing is the ambiguity of the situation given. You don't know the character's histories, you don't know why the sheriff locked them up, the whole thing is set up so you read those details into the situation. What you read into it will certainly affect your rankings. For example, an unassuming reader won't snap to the judgment that the sheriff forced Maid Marion to have sex with her.