skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also some common social interactions will probably become collateral damage of those regulations. So in the end, not only "everyone that matters" wins, but they do so at the cost of society. Which is tragic, because society has limited endurance and given that "damaging social trust to earn quick buck" seems to be a very popular business model today, it may turn out bad for all of us quite soon.
ChronicleMap looks really cool, i didn't know about it, but it seems like exactly what i've been looking for.

I've been keeping an eye on apache directmemory, but that project seems to have little activity.

does anyone here have real world experience with ChronicleMap in production systems?
a middleman that becomes the gatekeeper in ubers case
I use BT only at home for streaming music to the stereo, and I guess I'm not the only one.
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Am I the only one that finds this umbrella unrealistic from practicality's point of view? What happens if 10 persons wait on a traffic light, some will definitely get spilled by the ones surrounding them, this umbrellas can't form a entire plane...
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I am not saying they do. I was just providing an example to the question that was asked.

I am not as pessimistic as anon3_ but it seems good practice to examine the claims of companies and organization no matter if they are bad (Big Tobacco) or good (charities).
> Grass-fed Kerry Gold butter, pastured eggs (not just free range or cage free), and maybe the pre-natal vitamins.

You put a "maybe" in front of the only thing that has a strong evidential base a d which is recommended by WHO and a bunch of national health advice bodies?
Ask HN: What can we do with our messaging platform startup?
Small background: We are the team that founded by ex-Telegram developer and we try to create something like "Slack". When we started, Slack wasn't so cool and only last 2-3 months people started to ask us "how you differ from Slack?".

We created the high-performance platform that could deliver messages at worst networks fast. We can handle the good amount of simultaneous connections at once (sorry no numbers) and deliver messages at very high rate. We don't solve any specific problem; this is just good messaging platform that works on Android, iOS, and Web. Platform means that we can easily integrate, customize systems.

For now we burn all our money (~100k$), and we are even not started to sell something. We are tech guys, and we can't do sales for now and we don't have money for this. This strategy is my (as CEO) huge mistake, of course.

We think that we can:
1) Raise more money. But without any traction? We have just good dev team in Russia (and we want to leave this country).
2) Fire all team and start selling by founders and make some basic traction.
3) Wait for luck.

All this cases seems to be unreal; no one gives us money for now, and I can't give something to investors. It is hard to sale in our domestic market because of business culture and current economic situation (during winter we lose 50% of our money just because of currency exchange rate changing).

What can we do in this situation?

P.S.: Right now we are preparing our sources to release, and they will be available in a week or two.

P.S.S.: Anyone can join experimental chat by opening URL: https://quit.email/join/a8086c23dbaf9f0f7c5003844774e61dfef6d571dd37baa0c28d48fe5012171a
You shouldn't be. I'm a Muslim and I've dealt with numerous such individuals painting Muslims as backward and illiterate. Muslims are the scapegoat of this generation, as the Jews, Blacks were before them.

Their entire worldview is constructed of an us vs. them ideology rather than understanding that we're fundamentally the same regardless of our ethnicity/faiths/inclinations/etc.
That diagram brought "Von Neumann" to my mind and then in the footer, I saw this dude is called Newman :)

Awesome project! I felt nostalgic when I saw the adder -- it's right out of a textbook.
That is in CIF not the main paper I would agree that some of the Guardians hacks output is "variable" to be generous
Mistakes that will kill your business
The app uploads your contacts, and probably monitors many other things that you don't want. Firefox won't let Facebook do this. And I prefer Firefox as Chrome will do similar things for Google - not the contacts, but keeping history of websites you visit etc.
> what we like to see is driver skill and not how fast a computer can hurl 600+ kilograms of mass around a track.

Speak for yourself, I'd love to see that. In fact, I'd love if they made all the cars either remote controlled or self driving, and removed most of the safety rules and the restrictions to keep things "competitive". I mean, it could be another sport, with another name. But I'd love to watch that.
> 3. At the end of every race, any team can purchase the winning vehicle for $500,000. (This rule keeps costs low.)

It would keep people from storing value in cars. Eg the teams would make sure that the cars don't have more than $500k left in them _after_ the race.

I like your thinking, but it doesn't mean that you can create a pre-race car for $500k.

You could stipulate that cars be used for more than one race?
"Designed for privacy" part made me laugh. A lot.
This was fantastic. I never knew how combination locks worked before, and there couldn't be a better explanation than your model and video. Really well done!
How did Apple assume they could get away with not paying royalties the artists were legally entitled to? Have I missed something in the story?
I bet you can buy ads to promote your events. FB will know the location of the beacons, and can serve your ads to people walking there.
Slowly removing microsofts AAA game monopoly!

this is a great thing, as a person who only runs linux, I'm super excited at the idea of getting the older games updated to this version and potentially running on Linux. :)
I certainly dont have the facebook app on my phone.
Mostly because it hoovers up the phones contact list, and some of that information isn't mine to share with them, and I wouldn't share it even if it was.
Grades don't tell the entire picture as well. I've seen enough people with perfect grades working far less than perfect.
> That's the difference in your man vs. woman scenario - someone working in a coal mine may not feel like they have much choice but as you say they are agreeing to the work. Of course this is not to say that some men aren't likewise tricked or forced into such jobs but they too are victims.

They pull the same tricks on men too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6yoBcEXwmQ#t=3m58s
Maybe.

I was goig off things like:

> don't control it.

> Let her eat what she wants.

> Cravings are there for a reason.

> If you control it too much, a shrivelled rag will pop out without any extra body fat.

> Children get sick and need some extra incase they lose it.

All of those comments err on the "extra weight is preferrable", but that's just not true. It's hard to have an underweight baby, it's very easy to have an overweight baby, and the risks of harm from overweight mother or baby need to be taken into account.
Quite right but it is still a choice, they at least have some agency. I'm not in any way attempting to downplay the awful situations we're discussing, but there is still a significant psychological difference between "I'm doing this to make my life and my families lives better" and "This is being done to me against my will for other peoples' benefit", is there not?
that's incorrect
Indeed; another example would be construction workers in Dubai - I seem to remember an article linked on here a few years ago about that.
If only. Take e.g. Blizzard's Hearthstone for example, which is made in Unity, so they would literally only have to push a button to support linux, and yet, no linux support.
This system was created to exclude Jews who were getting high test scores. The bigoted notion was that Jews could grind the books, but could not compete as well-rounded gentlemen. By making the process more subjective, elite universities could exclude Jews while denying that the process was anti-Semitic.

Do elite universities still feel threatened by hard-working up-and-coming minorities who might endanger their relaxed white-shoe, gentleman's-A lifestyle? (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/the-trut...) I'll leave that to you to figure out.
These look really great, thanks for the recommendation!
> at the moment most of the overtakes are done under DRS

and if we take away the overtakes under DRS, we will get still more overtakes per race than in the golden era:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/11467...
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palantir.com

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theverge.com

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I completely agree with this. First, we need to make the lawmakers that such a system is necessary which is understandably, a bigger challenge.
I think a lot of the compromises are due to being pulled in different directions by market analysis. Some people want looser rules/more innovation but this drives up costs and the advantages of the big teams. Other people want everyone in the same car. Some people want no refuelling or team tactics because it's confusing/not about the driver.

My feeling is that F1 has always been about the driver, the engineering and the tactics (including team tactics) and all three should be present. People who want it to be simpler/only about the driver will never be long-term fans anyway.
Well, not that it helps too much. The worst case I had – last-minute overnight ride to attend a funeral – my first train was late, the connecting train left before it finally arrived, the alternate train was also late, so I couldn't catch the third anyway, the second alternate was also late…

The original plan was to switch trains once and sleep during the rest of the ride. In the end I was re-routed four times, awake the whole night coordinating said re-routes with the train operators (and getting all the paperwork necessary to get free tickets for the alternate trains). Could've just used the bloody car instead.
No it isn't.

First of all, it is weaselly. It is saying that "there is a counterargument" without actually making it.

Then, it sort of vaguely draws the conclusion that because there are instances of lying related to human trafficking in the world, the whole concept of human trafficking is a lie. That's like taking the case of a false rape claim and encouraging everyone to understand that women lie about rape.
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> Also not helping trains is the fact that more than any other country on Earth, Americans love cars. Not a little. A lot.

Americans don't love cars.

SOME Americans are forced to buy cars because of the infrastructure they live under, but they don't love them.

Most people prefer to go by rail if they can. Millennials especially.
We Germans are, for some reason, kinda nervous when someone mentions "trains" and "round up everybody" in the same sentence. So we just divert and delay trains.
I've looked up more information about this project. It's interesting for its novelty and for its ambition to bring the tech closer to mundane life, but currently "the minds behind the project say there will be three different options for the air umbrella [...] the difference between them is the length and battery life which at maximum is thirty minutes"¹ - that's not much to make it practical for everyone, not to mention its (battery) weight.

¹ https://youtu.be/K6eyND08tu0?t=48
> But I can be a producer in this business as well as a consumer. I can rent my own flat or register my own car to provide cab rides.

Yes, and Airbnb and Uber, being the gatekeepers of the network, can extort you.
One absolute way to defend against a compiler-based backdoor is to not use a compiler at all...

I've thought about how one could create a computer system that one could absolutely trust to be free of any outside interference - one that would have to be built "from scratch" by its owner - and if you assume that the hardware is OK (presumably because you built it yourself from equally simple components), it inevitably begins with manually entering individual bits into memory.

Looking at the complexity of modern software stacks, and all the chances for bugs they introduce, perhaps we should not be stacking abstractions higher but wider, and making systems simpler overall.
> Reading this has only further convinced me that Haskell is unsuitable for production due to the difficulties laziness posses to correctly reasoning about the performance characteristics of code.

What are those difficulties? Here are a couple of sentences from the start of the article:

> I knew just based on common sense that m only gets evaluated once (when it is first needed, no sooner, no later) but I realised I didn't know the exact mechanics behind that.

> What I'm about to describe is completely useless to learn how to write Haskell, but if you're like me and like poking at things under the hood, by all means join in.

That sounds just like any other language to me:

- We know what the behaviour will be "based on common sense" (ie. the high-level spec and our experience)

- We don't really care about the exact implementation

- Some novices don't understand the language yet

- Trying to follow a real implementation is complicated by the masses of optimisation it's had, and the heavy dose of hooks it's gained for debugging, instrumentation, portability, etc.

> Idris is not only strict by default, but has an even more advanced type system, and because of that it will probably overtake Haskell eventually.

Whilst Idris is pretty cool, I think it's a long way from production use. The language itself is still evolving (eg. type-based laziness annotations, affine types, etc.) and many of those changes lead to large upheavals in the standard library. I've written some Idris, but I wouldn't count on it still working after a version bump.

Haskell seems to be a/the de facto functional language at the moment. Whilst Idris usage may increase, I doubt it will make up for Haskell's head start. More likely, something better will emerge and eclipse both, although that may take decades.
As a fan I want cars that are fast in corners, with high lateral accelerations, and can overtake easily. That has been difficult to achieve because the former usually hinders the latter (KERS and DRS were introduced for that and have been reasonably successful).

Finally, remember that (almost) by definition Formula 1 cars must be the quickest racing cars on the planet measured by lap time. The latest rules reduced the aero package and made Formula 1 closer to GP2 and Champ Car.

Montreal circuit, from the Wikipedia page:

Formula 1 2004 1:12.275
Formula 1 2014 1:14.393
Champ Car 2002 1:18.959
Microsoft made a better YouTube search engine than Google
But its neither a Java nor JVM problem.
He keeps the narrower and simple front wing stating it make the cars less sensitive to airfow being spoiled by the car ahead but adds the low and wide rear wing which is what actually spoils all the air in the first place.

Designers design nice things but then ruin it by overstepping what they know. Here is some info from the FIA working group about how airflow and overtaking actually works http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/overtaking.html
I don't think it's that easy. The amount of effort that goes into testing, supporting and getting a game running for another operating system is not offset by the amount of consumers you have in the linux demographic.
That's a technologist's falacy.

Sure, they could enable a linux build with a "push of a button", but to have linux support they require a support department to support that build.

Actually supporting something is a lot more than just the technology required.
Did you keep in mind that for most people's code laziness is actually a performance improving feature? Most production code doesn't need that kind of reliability and isn't maintained by that kind of skilled developers. E.g., if MS Word needs 35 or 33 seconds to load is uncritical.

In most software having no laziness means that a lot of objects are created and a lot of calculations made that will never be used.

So, I bet that laziness is a feature to gain masses not to lose them.

But then again I don't live in circles where Haskell is considered mainstream. ;)
About time. I am so sick of rebooting into Windows just to play the odd game. I find myself spending a lot of the time rebooting for windows updates, removing spyware or finding myself rebooting into OS X / Linux when needing to do work (ssh, git etc...)
Nagios core.
Thirty minutes would be perfect for my daily 20 min walk to work. Also, it would be nice if it could double as a USB battery pack to charge a phone, for instance.
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Maybe they have learned other developers' lesson that a it takes much more than a push of a button to get a Unity game on Linux.

QA takes time. Middleware may or may not be available. Launchers may not be there (especially in the case of Hearthstone). A lost of indie/kickstarted projects are still considered "Linux Scams" because they assumed that it'd be that easy.
Is it 'OK' to use the root user as a normal user?
Yes, please. I'd love to watch that as well. And no tech difference limits for "competitiveness" - let the best engineering team win, however unfair their idea is; the next year, someone will figure out how to beat them anyway.
Yeah, that's the most offensive comment I've seen on HN in a while that hasn't been rapidly flagged off the page.
Cars are slower because they have to deal with so many stoplights and traffic jams.

Also, cars are FAR more expensive than trains. How much do you pay a month for your car? $800/month? People in spend $116 for unlimited train/bus rides.

The biggest problem with cars, though, is that it requires manual labor to operate. You can't take a nap, or work on the computer, like you can on a train. You basically lose 2 hours a day because you need to drive.

Multiply this by hundred million people, and it becomes an drain on the US economy. That's 200 million man-hours wasted per day.
Cleverly played by Apple and Swift to force Spotify into the bad guy spot.
How hard is to cheat or bribe to get the other requirements, too (recommendation letter, charity, etc.)?

I come from a country where grades are the main variable, so I'd like to have a view on how these additional requirements make the whole process more robust. Is it just for a quantitative reason (cheating on N > 1 requirements is more difficult than cheating on 1) or are they necessary to correctly identify good candidates?
Seems to me that the real issue is pimping and how difficult it is to control.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-traffickin...

The women go there knowing that they will trade sex for money. What they do not know is how difficult and exploitative the work is.
I second that! Perhaps it should be another sport indeed. It would also promote self driving cars, and make people feel a little safer about the concept.
Saying dumb things like that (now flagged) post is yes dumb.

That being said religion is not the same as race. Clearly people do believe different things. Most of the time with a little understanding conflict can be avoided. But some difference are real and then yes it is a us vs them.
You're overthinking this. They're simply not that Machivellian.
Yeah, a ridiculous observation by Wired. I note they removed the Gurney flaps on the McLaren rear wing. If there is one thing that reduces cost and complication in aero, it's a Gurney flap.
What happens is that development happens around train/subway stops.

You can see this right now around the Washington DC area, where cities and sky rises have been popping up over the last 30 years, centered around individual metro stops.

You build the rail first, and the city builds around that.
> F1's biggest problems right now are A) costs, and B) the number of people pissing on F1 without the slightest knowledge of or affinity with the sport.

A) Disagree, F1 was always expensive. F1 is about money. A bigger problem is the distribution of the money. The bigger teams have to realize, that there will be no show without the smaller teams.

B) Agree. The bigger problem is, that even the insiders are pissing on F1. (e.g. at the moment, Mateschitz crying because of the Renault engine and complaining about the rules. But he is not the only one.)
Their success lies in undercutting existing market prices by circumventing regulation.

Circumventing regulation not just by using soon-to-be-closed loopholes, but by encouraging people to break the law.

Airbnb and Uber have more to do with organized crime and right wing activism than with sharing.
The U.S. is only dysfunctional if you compare it to a small minority of handpicked countries, mostly Western/Northern European ones.

So this amounts to saying that the U.S. is dysfunctional compared to the most developed part of the world, which is almost a tautology.
So rather than remake a legacy business, you could start a new racing league. Give it a new name: "Z1" racing or something. I'm pretty sure the venue owners always appreciate new draws for crowds. You'd need to recruit a few teams (start with engineering departments at universities?), and then do marketing to bring the crowds in.

Does YCombinator take pitches like this?
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Quick a dirty beacon:
set the SSID of your wifi network to a URL.
You know I was thinking "why aren't there free services like this?", now I see this, and I'm REALLY wondering "why the hell did AirBnB catch on and this didn't?!".

I had to rent a place for a month via AirBnB, for myself and my partner. My AirBnB fees came out to like $200, and when I told the owner they were like "wow, I didn't know that! I would have rather just paid via cash and save you guys from paying the extra!".

Seriously fuck AirBnB. We need to push these free alternatives. We need services that truly just connect people, instead of ripping them off.

I understand a system like AirBnB has to pay for maintenance and developers, but holy shit the fees are insane because there are investors too.
Playonlinux makes it easy to launch Hearthstone and play it on any Linux distro. I have a hard time to believe that Blizzard does not have enough resources to do QA.
The fact they don't give any hard numbers is a pretty big sign that this is nothing more than a neat toy. Powering LEDs takes very little energy - 1 mA at 2V (2 mW) is enough to make it visible. Making it flash reduces that power again.

The concept of using bacterial spores as a means of producing motion is pretty neat, though it's obviously a long way from being practical. The suggested use case (low power remote floating sensors) seems pretty suitable for solar power, which has the advantage of maturity and no moving parts.
You are right. There is a very tight set of rules and they specify exactly the min and max dimensions of every part of the car.
For those who want to learn how CPUs and computers work, Nand2Tetris is a great book that takes you from logic gates (NAND) to making a CPU that plays tetis

http://www.nand2tetris.org/
It is. You can run a "legal" business, but still have to deal with the mob on your back door. I know someone who quit running a coffeeshop for only this reason.
I think you're both making good points here :) As with most things, extremes in either direction are harmful. As always it's a case of finding a healthy balance.
Are We Seeing the End of Homeopathy?
Of great value, if we were in the 70s.
Whenever I see news about opengl these days I only think about how great vulkan is going to be. I know the spec won't be out until late this year, and drivers will probably need a good 6 months, but still everything opengl already feels outdated.