skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? My devkit just shows the memory card as another storage device when I plug it in, I can freely copy files to/from it. But granted, I only had to use it a few times, mostly work with PS4/X1 nowadays, so maybe I have missed something.
He probably would have had some fascinating, if very uncomfortable, stories, if he was willing to tell them... which he probably wasn't.

Somehow that makes me very sad.
How would you return to breathing normal air after having your lungs flooded with this liquid?
Forgive me for being a bit too simple on this subject - wouldn't having a liquid in your lungs, throat and mouth really make it difficult or impossible to talk?

Not sure using it for diving or space travel is a great plan if that's the case. Sure you could have a text or flashing lights method of talking but there's no communication method faster than yelling "HELP!" into your radio that I can think of
I (and many others) keep up with Gitter rooms and IRC channels (Freenode, mostly) by bridging them to Slack or Kato with sameroom.io.

It's also a good way of merging interesting channels from the 15 Slack teams I am member of into one.
We might have had different experiences travelling by train in England.
Whatever your views on it, the fact is another big part of their success is providing a novel method of regulation avoidance.
> Germany -> Car loving country with a highly efficient railway system, and a well serviced road system as well. So it should be achievable.

Germany has a highly efficient railway system and the country is so small that I can cross the entire country in a day, and still, I take the car everywhere I go.

I think what some people miss is this: Trains are just worse.

They're slow, not because they don't have a high top speed, but they have to stop so much that their average speed is just worse than a car's. I think there's a couple city pairs (Berlin <-> Frankfurt) where if I was racing a train I would lose by some small margin to one of the non-stop trains, but not by much, and this would only be a true win if on my trip I was going from one city center to another city center, which I'm never doing.

They're still really expensive. Air travel around Germany is always cheaper, and so is the cost of fuel for most cars. You can sometimes find a discount on the train, but those travel at pretty inconvenient times and are quite rare anymore.

They leave only so often. So unlike a car, I can't just set off whenever is convenient for me. I have to find a train that leaves when I want and make sure I get to it on time. So if you live in Frankfurt and want to go visit family outside of Munich for the weekend, leaving after work at 18:00 on a Friday you're going to end up sleeping in a train station in Bavaria overnight as opposed to a car which can continue driving after 12:00 unlike a rural train.

And they never get where I want. For half of the places I regularly travel, when I get there, I need to have someone pick me up with a car or I need to rent a car. There just are no other choices. As densely populated as this country is, it's just still really difficult to get to a huge portion of the country with public transit.

I really find it no wonder the US does not have a decent passenger train system. Every single one of these problems is hugely exacerbated by its sparse population to the point where passenger trains just aren't feasible.
As I said, if someone can crack it they will. If the US wants to sit on the technology they can do so at a great cost to themselves and the world. We need cheap, safe energy for the world. It has the ability to literally save the world.
Fans don't want it. Drivers don't want it. Doubt it'll happen.

If you like cool cars with cockpits, watch Le Mans. F1 is supposed to be a bit dangerous.
The big elephant in the room that it is politically incorrect to discuss: human trafficking happens because of Muslims and because of Islam. Recognizing this fact will help fight it, for example by closing Europe to Muslims.
I was lucky enough to get a tour of their facility last June. One half was assembling and testing the most colossal plasma injection guns, driven by the biggest capacitor bank I have ever seen in my life.

The other half of the facility contained the anemone-shaped plasma compression chamber from all their promotional images. (And far more impressive than the dinky prototype from the article above.) They had a shelf full of cracked steel pistons, and I'm still not sure how they plan to solve that problem when the full-scale machine uses 200 of them instead of just a dozen or so.

(An aside, if anyone from General Fusion is reading this: my inventor friend suggested shooting slugs of molten lead into the molten lead core, instead of using the current steel-piston approach.)

I guess I'm just saying that between the facilities, and what our host (one of the project managers) was talking about, I'm satisfied that they're not dawdling. These are just some inherently hard problems they're working on.
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>> Having this physical reference would really cut the learning curve in computer architecture.

I don't know, i think having a language that supports mixing high and low levels of description to describe a processor and the tools to simulate and play with it could offer much faster learning, since you could focus on learning.
http://www.immihelp.com/visas/usvisit.html

If your canadian, probably not.
There's no way to implement that on iOS, afaik. While the app is running, it can scan for nearby beacons and send that info to Facebook to pull down notifications. Push notifications would have to originate on Facebook's end, though.
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Sign language is the answer.
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That's just condescending exceptionalism.

The vast majority of trains in Europe cover short distances in densely populated urban areas of which the US has plenty.

Also, I don't buy the "Americans love cars" argument. Americans have an oddly obsessive relationship with owning cars, but it's definitely not "love". Wester Europeans are in general far more passionate and discerning about cars.
Oh, come on! Wage workers share rooms since times of Egiptian Pyramids or Great Wall.
Yes, The SSL certificate of https://truecrypt.ch/ is expired...

They are using StartCom SSL certificate.
I'll second this.

We've had similar problems with Task<> based code in C# (futures/async) when it comes to performance analysis.

I will say this only becomes apparent when you really push it hard, but we do that. Determinism is really important for predictable performance.
And F1 wheels are tethered. So this isn't a true test of what would happen during a race. A more likely scenario is a car flipping, or one car going over another.
It's pretty clear that F1 is trying to satisfy cross-purposes. On one hand, it's meant to subsidize experimental vehicle technologies. On the other, fans want exciting races with lots of passing. Then you have issues such as driver safety and team budgets. Add to that a few decades of regulation cruft, and you have a recipe for dissatisfaction.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I've always favored erring on the side of advancing vehicle technology. Just imagine what racing would look like if an eccentric billionaire created a league with only the following three rules:

1. If a human controls the vehicle, it must be by remote control. (This eliminates driver casualties while encouraging exciting maneuvers.)

2. There is a 10cm speed bump at both the entrance and exit of pit lane. (This discourages technologies that are unworkable on normal roads.)

3. At the end of every race, any team can purchase the winning vehicle for $500,000. (This rule keeps costs low.)

I think you'd quickly get some very interesting vehicle designs. For starters, F1-banned technologies such as 6 wheels[1] and suction devices[2] would get a fair shot. New drivetrains would be tried, including electric motors powered by gas turbine-cranked generators. The whole enterprise would be quite different, but it would definitely be safer and cheaper. And to me, such free-form innovation seems a lot more interesting.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46
Read all the books that are popular / recommended, so that you can see all the contradictions between them. Even the most sane-seeming books have plenty of superstition and unfounded advice. Even the most fad-ish books have some good stuff. For example, you may or may not decide you'd like to go full 'baby led weaning', but the cookbooks available which espouse the philosophy still have plenty of great recipes and food ideas.
If people have to write Chrome-only code, could they at least put a disclaimer somewhere?
Ha, I made something very similar 9 years ago as a POC, but the tech and battery life didn't really work back then, J2ME was a bitch.

Give a shop a "beacon".
Track customers in a mall.
Find general walking patterns.
Give time limited offers.
Give awards if you stay in a shop for x minutes.
Main one I liked Find a friend feature.

Also looked at installing them in Theme Parks and at Concerts mainly for the Find a friend.

Probably a privacy nightmare, bluetooth battery nightmare.
And yet, no matter how much you have to complain about, your trains are 10X better than what we have in the US.

In Silicon Valley, the high-tech capital of the world, a pedestrian suicide (which happens depressingly often, and therefore cannot be considered an unusual event by the transit planners) brings the entire Caltrain network to a halt for two hours. And by "network," I mean the only line the network has.
What country are you in?

Do you have names? Screenshots? Proof? Post it here.
One thing that has changed between earlier umbrella designs and now is that high-precision manufacturing is now cheaper.

My main problem with this umbrella design is just that it's longer than I like. I prefer compact umbrellas.
i thought the same.
Am I the only one puzzled by this comment?
For comparison, are you able to tell us how much Switzerland spends on roads.
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Would it help if Amtrak didn't have to service anything else than the west and east coast? Wouldn't service get better if you cut out the areas that are uneconomical to service?
Relative to USA it may be great, but i wonder about relative to Japan.
Slack comes with more features than IRC though, but you raise a good point. Maybe this customer should use IRC.
Hi iDemonix,

Sorry for the late reply, I just came back from vacation.

I currently apply any updates manually, yes, I don't have an auto-update solution in place. Furthermore, sometimes a customer will ask for some custom feature that I can only implement by editing the actual framework, so at any point in time each customer may be running a custom version that cannot be auto-updated anyway.

> Or once you've started to build on the core framework do you simply accept that it's now an individual product and the core never changes?

Something like that, yes. I currently treat each implementation as a separate project, so I don't worry about backwards compatibility too much when I implement a new features. However, I am looking into changing this workflow, since I'm not really satisfied with how updates are currently rolled out.
Schedule a personal meeting at your closest USCIS (or whatever the immigration office is called these days) and explain it to the officer. They can give you a temporary "paper pass" you can use to travel until paperwork completes if they find your reason sufficient.

Best friend's wedding might not qualify as a good enough reason, but combined with the long delay it might - definitely worth your time talking to them.

I know someone who got this kind of pass to visit her sick father.
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It's kind of a pity Notch abandoned 0x10c.
Tethered wheels pop off all the time.
The page has enough details to deduce it, I think. My understanding is that the Facebook app will download all of the local ads in the area your phone reports you as being in tied to the beacon ids. Your phone will then display the ads of the beacons it sees nearby.

It's actually a bit laudable that they didn't seem to go the route of "report to Facebook all the nearby beacons", although perhaps that's simply not necessary since wifi networks are everywhere and mobile OS'es already do the "heavy lifting" w.r.t. using those for device localization.

1. "The beacons don't [...] change the kind of location information Facebook receives."
> I've thought about setting up a small site for it. Tracking promising sci/tech stories with unknown likelihood to ever actually come about.

In case anyone is interested I recently came across zeef.com.

It is (in my view) a place to make more ot less authorative pages on subjects; you can collect links, make automatic collections from RSS feeds etc.
> to paraphrase Douglas Adams, America is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

No, Australia is mind bogglingly big. America is big-ish.
I don't really get why you need to have a beacon for this though? The Facebook app is already installed and knows your location anyway. Provide businesses with a page to enter the details to be pushed to the phone and then just let the app pop up a notification once the user enters the associated geofence.

If the location is not accurate enough, you can tie it to a Wifi point of the business (the Wifi doesn't even need to be open). And it doesn't need to use Bluetooth at all (which I always leave off on all my phones until I really need it as it consumes a lot of battery).

Given the fact that the Facebook app is already installed anyway on literally any phone, they could pull this off right away. This is what Foursquare should have done years ago to survive.
Theoretically you may be right, but in practice not so much.

source: I've been writing production Haskell code for a little while now and haven't had any weird performance issues yet.
This seems to be a "standard" iBeacon with Facebook branding? Or is there anything different here?
With the German Railways (which are, despite their shocking incompetence – 5 minute delays, really? Are you even trying? – apparently still better than average), down times for these events depends on the line in question – usually it's shut down for an hour (depending on how messy the suicide was). But that down time cascades – one line shut down affects a dozen trains directly, and many more indirectly (if they wait for the passengers of the delayed trains, or if there's a single-rail bottleneck somewhere that's blocked by the sudden rush, etc. …).
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Divers don't talk that much, actually.

See, there is an air intake in your mouth - and trying to talk under water does not exactly result in the noises you expect when you're talking into air.

The sign used by divers to alert others is banging your knife against the air tank. There are actual hand signs for 'I'm in trouble' or 'I'm out of air'.
I'm not sure I really follow the line of reasoning in this article. It starts with the word "communism" in the title, probably because it's a tried and true way of getting people riled up with minor effort.

Then it seems to make the argument that these business models don't create new markets, but optimize existing ones.

But then the argument that would justify the title, as I understand it, is "if communists took over things, we would be living in a communist society". Indeed! And if martians took over, we would live in a martian society.
"Human trafficking" is a deceiving word. It is all too often used by people on the payroll of these organizations.

It invokes imagery that doesn't anywhere near equate reality. I advise you to avoid puff pieces, find the truth in actual journals and save your compassion for things on a case-by-case basis.

For those who aren't aware, there is another side to the story. There are many people who inflate these statistics for their own benefit.

I could elaborate.
Oh noes it's all teh muslamics fault!

I don't know how much of an idiot you have to be to fall for this right wing fear mongering bullshit. It's not politically incorrect - it's just incorrect!
> Jesus. That's borderline child abuse. These people understand their children can only go to one of those eight schools at a time, right?

It's precisely the opposite. It's an acknowledgement that the Ivy League admissions process is completely broken, and it is a proper, rational response.

If I assume that my probability of admission is randomly 25% (probably not unreasonable), then I have a 10% probability of not being admitted to any of the 8 schools even if I am qualified.

As an admission process requires money and time, it's yet one more way that the poor are disadvantaged.
Just jobs being legal doesn't reduce human trafficking of immigrants, people who pay good money upfront to some trafficker and end up working like slaves in their destination countries to repay him.
Indeed, building a VHDL/Verilog CPU is a staple of top-tier EE/CE programs. The rest is just wiring.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not borderline. All five members of my immediate family attended various so-called tier 1 schools. Never once was I made to feel that an Ivy League admission was a required or expected achievement.

As for my time at such a school, I will say this. There are certainly more opportunities, but the average university is so brimming with amazing opportunities that the limiting factor is motivation, not quality of the institution. I suppose the old maxim, "You get out what you put in," applies here.
I'm an American. I love trains. I have my entire life.

Trains don't make economic sense in a country so widely spread apart with an 150-year-old rail system almost completely dedicated to freight. Especially where right-of-way and planning issues can cause simple interstate highway extensions to take decades and billions of dollars to build out.

I'm not saying we couldn't have high-speed trains if we wanted them. If we wanted, we could probably have all sorts of things. I'm saying that building such things only makes sense if we have some sort of nationwide insecurity complex that we would need to address by riding around in cool-looking trains. We do not.

Creating another construction boondoggle for relatives of connected politicians shouldn't be high on our list of things to do. We have a much better shot at creating entirely new infrastructure grids, like the hyperloop. We should look into creating a few experimental long-distance hyperloops instead of trying to take existing infrastructure (physical, social, and technology infrastructure) and beat on it with a hammer until it looks like we want. This would be even more successful if a company clearly outlined the conditions it would take to succeed and various government bodies could then determine whether they could meet these conditions -- which is pretty much the way Google fiber is rolling out.
Actually most of the human trafficing in Europe and Asia has nothing at all to do with Muslims. Not to mention human trafficing in the US and Latin America...
Same. NGE is actually referenced in the "Fiction" section of the wiki entry, along with others.
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And yet I bet people wouldn't consider Ian Mackaye to be "whining."
Someone slaps your butt and you start breathing and crying.
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I found the original post entirely depressing and sad. I could never imagine putting my own children through the level of stress that would cause them to do this. I am glad to read the fathers reaction in that last link

"In a press release later on Friday morning, Sara's father, an executive at global online gaming company Nexon, apologized for causing a stir with the fabrication. "I'm responsible for all the mistakes and sorry not to have taken better care of this poor kid," he said. He promised to look after her better since she apparently suffered from extreme stress due to academic pressures. He allegedly had no idea that the story was false."
First, you completely misunderstood my comment. American exceptionalism is the suggestion that the USA is better than other developed countries because it is intrinsically unique. But that's not what I said at all; in fact, I said the opposite: our transportation system is not only retrograde, but worse than in other countries.

I'm also going to have to say "nope" to your auto comment as well. Western Europeans may have more cars per person, but that's not the same thing as love. We're the country of Tesla Motors and Google self-driving cars. That was what my "not a little, a lot" jibe was about—we are all about ratings, blue books, discernment, reviews, specs, mechanics, all of that. There's a reason the song "Fun, Fun, Fun" by the Beach Boys ("And she'll have fun, fun, fun / Till her daddy takes the T-bird away") is such a cultural touchstone in the States.
Sweden isn't very densely populated.
> Mind talking more about what the challenges in running a 50TB relational database?

I wish I could but it wasn't my direct project so I wasn't part of the team implementing it. I'm not even sure it was successfully delivered.
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Is there anywhere in the world where the train system is 'really good' for a majority of people? Trains need tracks and if you don't live near the tracks and need to go where the tracks go the train isn't much use to you.

So it follows that the US doesn't have a 'good' passenger train system because there is not such thing.
that's just poor execution and as you point out, can suck the value out of anything
Reminded me of the Hartwell Dekatron at the National Museum of Computing http://www.tnmoc.org/explore/large-systems
Of course I am a hypocrite. My partner wants to visit the US; I would prefer to live elsewhere. But, sometimes compromise is needed in relationships.

'failed state' is certainly hyperbole here -- there are large elements of society which continue to function, despite the problems at the national government level. It would truly be a failed state if, for example, the national government's performance level were propagated to the whole society.
I sought of agree with you. Car is definitely more convenient than train. I just returned for a weekend trip to Saarbrücken and I live in Köln. It is about a 3hour trip. Train would be have been great if I was staying in the centre of town, but car is much better as my accommodation is about 20mins out of Saarbrücken.

Having said that, I love the train because I can much less stressful, I can read, have an engaged conversation etc. Things I can't do while driving the car.

edit: clarity
Might not be Netflix, because Netflix does not carry adult content.

However, could be a copy of Netflix and your router deliberately set to access this clone whenever you visit netflix.com

You might want to check if the IP address of netflix.com changed within your home environment. If it has, go to a neighbour, and either change your password if still possible or call Netflix Support because they could have hijacked your session cookie already -- which basically means "free Netflix account" (for them). Also don't visit other sites (until you get a new router) because they might be rerouted aswell.