skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the Netherlands, only a few kilometers from Germany, but I've never seen any. Is it everywhere in Germany, or only certain regions?

The only similar thing I've ever seen is at things like amusement parks or where ferry tickets are sold: the cashier is behind glass and talks to you through a microphone (and you to them). Exchange of tickets and money goes through a rotating tray sort of thing that is below the glass and is moved by the person behind the glass. I find it very impersonal and not a nice way of doing business. Surely we can talk like normal human beings?

Of course that is different from change trays, there is no glass or microphones involved there, but it's the closest thing I can think of.

As an aside, I can see why it might be more common in Germany than in the Netherlands: you guys pay almost always by cash (taking forever when the cashier goes "do you perhaps have 23 cents with that?" to make the change round) whereas here bank card, and especially the quick wireless option is more and more prevalent.
Both of which are generally more "BBC newsworthy" for us UK residents.

With that said, I don't do Football and was part of the Runaway Mine Train crash.
> Judaism calls for a period of intense mourning known as shiva that lasts seven days after a loved one is buried.

It's strange to me to prescribe how long people should mourn. Some people are appalled when someone seems to get over someone quickly after they've died. But if they are truly not sad about it any more, I say good for them. What does it help the deceased for the living to be sad over them?
UX doesn't have to be terrible. It's just a long twisty maze of interlocking decisions. Depends on the U, too - I feel better with command line tool output and filters than with fancy GUI furniture.
Why doesn't everyone love Linux and open source?
I'm a little surprised that this needed to be said. I wasn't aware of the event or any of the people involved, but the first five sentences made it clear that this is a piece by a woman whose husband has just died. It didn't really make me dig for it.
They used to use SourceForge to distribute bottles (binaries), but have switched to Bintray a while ago.
I went on that in the early 1990s when it opened. Hope you didn't get injured!
When they're using taken advantage of, to facilitate corporations' taking advantage of American workers, yes, that is something I support fully.
Germany is also discussing how to better the situation here because many foreigners don't finish their degree here/don't stay here afterwards (which is quite hard, because of our tuff immigration laws to non-EU citizens)
A human being died and another human being went through grief and wrote a moving post about her journey. Do you really need to apply (what I'm sensing to be) pejorative labels to it?

Death may not be your typical HN fare, but it is a subject that touches all of us eventually, so far with no exception. I am glad that she was willing to write this and share it. My life is richer for having read it.
I find it particularly abhorrent that laws like Sarbanes-Oxley are being used to prosecute normal citizens, when they were clearly intended for corrupt corporations..funny how we have so many laws on the books intended to stop repeat criminal behavior, but they keep getting used on citizens for reasons unrelated to the original intent (sneak and peek being the other one on my mind)

Also, this story is another harrowing reminder of "don't talk to the police."
That's the "steady state" issue. You have to imagine a bank that has been open an infinite amount of time with people arriving at an average of 5.8 times an hour during that entire period. It will eventually reach an equilibrium with a very high wait time (most specifically, the expected value of the wait time approaches 5 hours as the queuing process continues). The key insight here is that clusters of people coming in within a short time (which will happen) propagate into future wait times, while clusters of nobody coming in do not -- if the line is empty, it doesn't matter for your wait how long it has been empty, but if the line is clogged, it matters for your wait time how long it has been clogged.

That's kind of a silly model for a bank, but it makes more sense for a server (which, given the time span of most network requests, might as well have been up for an infinitely long time).
When people think that any passage of any length that mentions religion, however briefly, is a "religious spiel," I find it just as baffling as folks who insist that anything anyone does must include a prayer.
"the capital of the country in which the Space Needle is located"
Thank you so much for your feedback! Could you please clarify which text on the landing page was while on the light grey background? It would help us a lot because we can't repeat this issue on our devices.

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I think part of the reason "investing money, creating new products", etc. are "games" is that they're often done only to earn money. It's like a clicker game where you click on a button and gain gold, and you don't give a damn whether the button says "save drowning children" or "OMG ROTFL WTF", as long as it pays out.

> Winning in my opinion then, is having an (hopefully positive) impact on those outside of your inner circle, not within it. And the larger the impact, the bigger the win.

I share that sentiment. And then I find most of startups to be stupid games - because only few of them are made to have that impact; majority is created to trick people into joining, which generates growth, which increases the chance you'll have a successful "exit" and boatloads of money. But if one genuinely goes for having a positive impact, fixing or enhancing something about our world, then I cheer the effort. And this is something I myself would want to do - so that on my deathbed I may find comfort in that I left the world a little bit better place than I found it.
Er, no, it means a thing is centralising (which is observably the case). The word doesn't just refer to the limit case of a single entity.

And we have in fact had the single entity case, when GHash went over 51% (and had successfully conducted a 49% attack already), as you already know.
If you are on a Mac, use homebrew-cask (http://caskroom.io). It's like Brew, but for binaries. Works like a charm and you don't get the malware-injecting wrapper.
True on line wrapping. You can copy-paste using right click, though.
Probably Slate Rock and Gravel Company from The Flintstones.
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Funky, English is a Germanic language. Half of the words in English sentences are rooted in German or are otherwise related...

I Ich

real real

is ist

that das

hard hart -> schwer

learned -> gelernt

in in

the den

and und

student Student

university Universität

has hat

had hatte

years jahre

lessions lektion
I'm British reading from the UK. He died weeks ago.

However, it wouldn't take much reading to realise that a) this wasn't just some dude who died and b) this isn't just some wifey who is talking about her grief.
> What are the things that—on your deathbed—you expect to regret?

What does it matter?

Let's say the deathbed will last seven days. That's nothing compared to the rest of your life (let's say ~70 years). Why would you guide your life according to a projection of what you will feel in a mere seven days of your whole life?

Why not ask more immediate questions: is anything I do right now, day to day, that I could do differently in order to live a more fulfilling life? A more fulfilling life day to day of course, not necessarily fulfilling memories for some distant deathbed future.
Appeal to their marketing side: excess peak demand represents angry clients who will take their business to the bank across the street, which does have two tellers and no wait time.
A little bit of research would uncover that, in the tech startup worldwide community, Dave Goldberg was one of the most loved entrepreneurs.

The fact that he was Sheryl Sandberg's husband (and the very fact the he was proud to be described as such) is what put him on the front of the BBC.

Hacker News is first-and-foremost a forum of that tech startup community. I'm not one, but many people who frequent here will have known and looked up to if not one then both of the people mentioned here.

It might have been nice to have considered them before reacting like this to the death of their friend.
You should start using Cyberduck, it has a Free Client which pops up a window once you installed the free version (but the popup appears only ONCE and does not contain any malware or advertisments), and a paid version without a popup.
I think the GP was trying to preemptively answer the question "why is this on HN?". Usually when there is a story about someone's recent death here, it's either someone relevant to the community (e.g. death in the family of one of fellow HNers) or relevant to the technological world (e.g. famous computer scientists, physicists, etc.).
It drives me crazy in India. People use landmarks; my favorite tea house lists its address as "Across from the HP petrol station, N M Joshi St, Mumbai...". JUST NUMBER YOUR ING BUILDINGS!!!
If someone else is coming in to do your same job, then "to do right" means that you get to keep your job. Disney was profitable when these 250 workers worked there. Firing them to save a few bucks by replacing them with low-paid foreign workers is wrong. There's no "do right" in that equation.
> We wouldn't be quoting Paul Buchheit or talking about Dave Sandberg if they hadn't sacrificed some of those relationships, or health for the products and platforms that we know them for. And that's the real point - legacy. Someone's legacy is not the relationships they had personally, just look at the miserable relationship failures of Steve Jobs, but their impact on bringing their vision and impact on groups outside of their circle.

It seems to me that you're measuring the quality of a person's "legacy" by how famous they managed to get. That seems like a really horrible rule to live your life by. I would much rather be a little person who brightened some other little people's lives than an asshole who cheated his best friend and abandoned his child but, gosh, sure did make some cool toys and a lot of money.
Why is auto-creating mappings flawed?
Even most masters programmes are still in German (I would say at least 90%). English programmes are getting more, but there you have the problem that still most people will be native German speakers. Even if most people there would speak excellent English it would still slow down the pace and lead to a reduced quality of teaching.
So what companies are at risk of changed user expectations right now?

I wonder what tech we have now that is sort of experimental, unproven but seriously at risk of being accepted: 3d printing, AR.

I'm not sure about these because while systems for these new tech exist, they don't appear quite wildly popular just yet.

What do you all think?
Interview with James Simons [video]
I'm sorry, it looks like they took down their tour page.
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just stop playing games and don't stream media from those services.
Definitely. I've been using voice commands in Android for about 5 years now (since ~2010) and I've consistently been shocked at how incredibly efficient an interface it is. The number of capabilities hooked up to voice control has only been increasing since then and it's been great.
You must be an unbelievably horrible person.

Please leave HN and never come back.
That's exactly why I feel having a family is nothing fundamental, it's just bunch of hard-wired hormonal failure modes. Not to say they aren't pleasant though.
Many people here will have know Goldberg personally, especially the people who setup, run and pay for Hacker News. Please consider their feelings, you are in their house.
They often sort the applicants by who needs it the most (=distance to where they're from)
Introduction to microservices
I understood it differently. It's Sheryl saying the prayer, not Dave. It's not "don't let me die at the prime of my life," it's "don't force me to live on after losing everything that makes life bearable, a living death." To me, also, that is powerful stuff.
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There's a really fascinating and relevant 99% Invisible [1] on a building with insufficient sway damping leading to potential for collapse. If I recall, a student discovers the issue while running calculations for a class and reached out to the architecture firm. Worth a listen if you haven't heard.

[1] - http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/
It's not full room and board.

My university (in Denmark) had a large number of eastern European students it created a very different environment, a better one in my opinion. Students are exposed to different ideas, different approaches to solving programs and learn to work together with people with a different background and culture. Of cause my university focused heavily on group assignment and working in groups in general.

I honestly don't mind that my tax money is spend on education people from around the world, although I think it's currently only free for EU citizens. And perhaps there's the added bonus of a few opting to stay and work in the country.
What is the New Testament if not a bunch of blog posts published together in a paper form? ;). Writing forms evolve and change names, but they're still fundamentally the same as ever, and as important as they always were.
>"They're persistent, dedicated, hardworking"
And intelligent. Those qualities are not independent of intelligence.

Gates = 1590 SAT (out of than 1600), Zuckerberg = 1590 SAT, Drew Houston = 1600 SAT, Travis Kalanick = 1580 SAT, Chris Sacca = Doing college grade math in 6th grade. Look into Steve Jurvetson, Patrick Collison, John Collison, Roelof Botha, and many more I am definitely forgetting of the top of my head.

>"Typically its B students that run the world."

I disagree. Any examples?
I haven't read the paper, but from the video this kind of feels like blend shapes to me which are definitely not a new thing.
Custom facial rigs often have blending between different expressions, controlled by 2d sliders.
Another issue is probably the fact that the meshes need to be composed of the exact same amount of vertices to blend correctly, so no scanned 3d models. Would be cool if they blended on an underlying voxel representation though.
Agreed. Expect perhaps in banks.
ah, oops.
A 32 year old lecturing a (supposed) 20-something about life experience. I guess cynicism is becoming younger and younger.
Or you can just take a free azure website hosting and take external domain + ssl with dns provider + namecheap.
I have another suggestion. How about giving some real feedback on how a candidate performed on an interview? I realize that its almost impossible for companies to reveal what they really think of an interviewee but it would be immensely helpful for everyone involved.

Was I really not qualified, or did you just not like my tie/cologne/hair? Did I know the material but am the wrong age? My whiteboard coding was great but I spilled my drink at lunch and ate with my mouth open?

I realize that most (all) of these things could get a company in truly hot water (ie. age discrimination) but without some additional information a candidate can be left feeling very confused and unsure how to improve. If I'm really too old then maybe I should get out of the business. If I flubbed the algorithm part of the interview then maybe I can study up and be ready for the next company.

I wish there was a way to give companies a one-time "Get out of jail Free" card and have them tell me exactly why they didn't want me to move on to the next step. :/
A great guide on this can be found: http://ss15-teropa.divshot.io/
Berlin is pretty much an exception. My wife has family all over Germany and outside of Berlin and possibly Hamburg I find that very few people speak decent over even any English. And it gets worse the further east you go.

That being said it also seems to be generational. People under 30 tend to know English at a much higher rate than those over 50.
It is not silly at all to condemn silly and harmful beliefs and children indoctrination.
The more I see the more convinced I am that Hitchens was right: religion poisons everything.
That's why more and more people are pushing towards things like basic income and achieving self-sustaining technology levels. Because when basic sustenance is free to everyone and required maintenance work is minimized, one is free to focus on "truly important things in life" and do meaningful work, instead of engaging in bullshit jobs and "games" to earn the bread for oneself and their family.
So everyone else who dies is just dude and wifey?

Way to devalue 99.999% of the population.

My wife was a palliative care nurse. She taught me that everyone is remarkable but when it comes to dying, for one person to be valued higher than another based on social standing, celebrity status or perceived societal worth.

This is merely voyeurism.
I also use the machines to convert coins into Amazon cards. When I get paid I pull out 600 so I have about 20 a day for food and entertainment money. My spare quarters go to laundry. And the rest of the coins are pretty much shoe/boxers/socks money. I only use my debit card to pay Comcast and PGE.
I don't think the parent was trying to apply pejorative labels or there was any malicious intent behind their post. It was more along the lines of being unable to parse the title, IMO.

It's also good practice to critically examine any written piece, regardless of whom it may come from. While you may derive aesthetic and ostensibly emotional value from it, not everybody may necessarily feel that way.

In fact, my life wasn't changed or impacted in any profound sense after reading this. You should keep in mind that not everyone may think the same way as you, or even share the same reality.
Yes. I don't know if I'd say it's a higher determinant (data to help convince me?), I'd say you need a healthy balance of both, and can't do it with one or the other.
Mailing lists on google groups, which is fine by me, but annoys a lot of people.
same in many Scandinavian countries, I believe. You can get in trouble for calling yourself an engineer without the proper education (CS degree does not count, unless its computer engineering)
> For the second case, you've made "good apple pie" and "bad apple pie" different elements of the choice set.

I don't think so. Arrow's theorem has a set of outcomes as a given. In this restaurant, one of the two, "good apple pie", "bad apple pie" is not actually an outcome, so it does not exist in the ranking.
People try to be happy because they intrinsically want to be happy. Not because being happy matters after you're dead -- obviously you're not in a state to be happy after you're dead. At least not in this world.

Why do people want to make a lasting change? Purely for intrinsic reasons? Or is there some hidden assumption like for example that it will make them happy in their later years?
naval is pretty quiet about his investments, but he's done very well (he blogs and tweets and such but doesn't really hype his investments)

ray tonsing of caffeinated capital, too
Often people who have lost close ones feel overwhelmed by all sorts of emotions, including guilt - whether over mourning too much or mourning too little. "Is it ok that I'm still grieving? Should I still be expressing this grief to people I meet? Do people expect that I should be moving on now? Am I moving on too soon?"

By declaring the length of the mourning period, religion does there one of the things it does best: give us a sense of ritual and assuage potential guilt at those very important moments in life: yes, it's ok to still be mourning. Yes, it's ok to move on now.

These are not mandates. They're not marching orders. They're a guideline so you don't have to add guilt about mourning too much or too little to what is already a crushing amount of sorrow.
Hm, could you provide more info on that type of a configuration? From what I can tell it doesn't exist.

That would be a great setup, unfortunately SSL is not available on the free-tier Azure hosting. Also custom domain is not available on the free-tier hosting either, so you have to use the "Basic plan", which is $56/mo for just the hosting.

Here is the detailed pricing link: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service...
Google is Everything
why is this thread on the top
fuck this shit
SourceForge was founded 1999. Now, 16 years later they start to abuse their power. GitHub was launched 2008. Does this mean we can expect GitHub to start abusing our data by 2024?
I think FUSE is still on SourceForge.
FileZilla opted in for this service, and gets a percentage of the revenue generated by installing these malware.
Whilst I also think the parent comment is callous and stupid, I don't think your comment is called for.
Why typography matters
Agreed. Where are all the Atheists now? Only billionaire people of faith deserve respect for their faith?
> access to finer coffee

Not sure about that. Great coffee isn't that expensive.

Speaking of celebrity endoresment and coffee - Al Pacino did an ad for Vittoria (Australian coffee brand) which is IMHO burned-tasting, low quality coffee. There was an interview with the marketing people who made the commercial, and the reason why they chose him was purely because he was a well known Italian... making him a perceived authority on good coffee. Spoiler alert - he isn't.
Don't think Google Code would have been much of an improvement. I'm pretty sure Google has abandoned further development on it and have so for a while now.
Guess it has better speech recognition than you do ;)
@wumbernang these are people who are a part of the larger community who built HN. When the US wakes up you will see that many of the people who come here know them personally (especially those who built and run HN).

You might want to consider their feelings.
many OpenBSD developers use comic sans intentionally in their presentations.
> "just look at the miserable relationship failures of Steve Jobs, but their impact on bringing their vision and impact on groups outside of their circle."

I'm sorry but am I the only one that doesn't buy the view that Steve Jobs was this irreplaceable visionary everyone eulogizes him for?

Wouldn't pocket size touch screen computers get invented anyway eventually?
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Roughly 80% of the lift is generated above the wing in typical aircraft. Angle of attack is part of it and not a counterargument.

As the angle of attack is increases, the point of minimum pressure moves forward and the size of the adverse pressure gradient increases.

btw. In most most airfoils zero angle of attack and zero lift axis differ. The wing generates lift even without the angle of attack. Chambered wings are exception to this.
There are similar clauses in the requirements that apply to single tweets, and which e.g. prohibit the display of any social media buttons like "Like", "Share" etc. along a tweet, and that are pretty strict on the formatting of the tweet content itself.