skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to use sarcasm to point out how absurd the original statement was. I thought putting the "/s" was making it too obvious. Sometimes it backfires though. Oh well, c'est la vie.
If I recall, Jesus was about 33... sorry, not that sort of evangelism?
This brings up more questions than answers in my mind. Do we care about mass killings, or whatever is qualified as a "rampage shooting"?

For example, Mexico has 1 "rampage shooting" in the data referenced in the article. Yet you have cartels killing dozens of people on a regular basis. The question in my mind is that if we don't have lots of "rampage shootings" in countries with lots of access to weapons, why does the US have so many? Why aren't developing countries with ubiquitous AK-47s experiencing this phenomenon?
I am using https://www.fastmail.com with great results.
They do have some features in there interface to ease the transition like being able to both send and receive mail from your old address directly from there interface.
I don't think a persons capabilities, ideas, loyalties or qualifications are innate to ones birth either. I don't understand how it serves to institutionalize racism, could you please explain?
Looks very nice!

Is there something similar for Windows?
Or for the linux shell?
> Not true if n == 2! For n = 2 they are exactly the same.

Not true in many other cases either; a trivial example is n=1, or x=1 and n can be represented exactly. In all of the cases the "!=" in the headings is meant to be read "is not necessarily equal" or "there exist expressions e, e' for which e != e'"
Text is a very dangerous format.
I am in a CIA prison.

Step one: Get God to kill CIA.

Step two: Profit.
It was his MD thesis, apparently. I think there is some validity in the fact that his university awarded him his medical doctorate based on the quality and content in the work.
Oh, I just reached the point where Ayaka talks about Carthage. That's a pretty straightforward solution, nice.
This looks really, really nice. But I think a problem for adoption is that on a Mac Spotlight can already do most of the calculations this does that I'd actually want to do on a regular basis (for me, that's currency conversion and some basic arithmetic). I can imagine downloading this, being impressed by its slickness, and then routinely forgetting to use it in favour of Spotlight.
I see the righteous trolls down voted my opinion :-)
He tweeted

> The torrent contains a virus, it's best to let the authorities examine the evidence and stop seeding and spreading false info.

Yes, the hackers fabricated 400GB of lies and please don't look at them.
The shareware concept is doing well, just the name has changed to "30-day trial" or "Lite" or "Free/Pro" or....

As an example, Andy Brice blogs about his shareware business at http://successfulsoftware.net/
Debt comes with risk and reward: you give some money, get some interest, and maybe the principal back. The amount of interest depends on the risk. Usually nothing happens, and you get everything back, but sometimes you don't. That's business.

If you want some "strict, enforceable and unavoidable means to collect it", you are not talking about debt as we know it.

There is no business with a profit margin and 0 risk. Well, there is actually: the ones the private lenders made with Greece, before unloading their financial instruments onto the European governments
Famous+Movie+Kitchens
Ryan's work at Reddit was reimplementing bitcoind in JavaScript on node.js: https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode/graphs/commit-activ...

Here's where he sets out what he was trying to do: https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uadvd/the_real_rea...

The takeaway is: if you start with "... but with Bitcoin!", then iteratively putting different words before "but" is unlikely ever to result in something that is actually useful, not just interesting.
Yes it is. Laws require debate and public voting in Parliament which exposes many/all members of the governing coalition to lots of bad press, which is /so/ unfair since all they really wanted was to get reelected and, honest, they didn't want to be a bother to anyone.
I don't know whether it's because of the type of questions I've ever asked on there, but I've found it to be excellent, and I always get my questions answered perfectly.

The attitude on there seems to be slightly terse, but, it is designed and really focussed on Q&A, not discussion. So I don't know that I really agree with the criticism of it.
See also "why I use integers whenever possible"
Wait a minute. Isn't Greece a democracy with government responsible to citizens?
Greece gov has been spending for decades on military and no one argued with that while credit cards worked.
It's semantics, at the end of the day Greece owes money, and you simply cherry-picked a term that doesn't contain that debt.

> The key insight from the "primary surplus" is that a haircut would work, because Greece could be self-sufficient once the debt burden is gone.

And so would my hypothetical business that can't even cover the monthly payments on the loan. If we magically erase the debt, just like that, I got a profitable business I can brag about.

> Greece does not get the loans now - that money is already gone

Wow, just wow.
It's very easy to spin up rTorrent on some machine not attached to you so this doesn't seem like a very good plan, especially considering the PR damage. Maybe if they managed to embed malware in some commonly trusted file format but that again doesn't seem likely since there are too many viewers, and security researchers will generally be careful.
Some very practical, down-to-earth, solid advice.

Lines I found insightful:
"... make it functionally complete in the first place.

... If it can't be made functionally complete it's too big. You've tried to bite off a piece that's bigger than you can swallow. Just get back to the drawing board and split off a piece that can be made functionally complete."

^_^

I really like the idea of splitting a project into phases. You might have Three phases, each one building on the last, but the very first complete phase should be a complete and usable thing in itself.

First the skateboard, then the scooter, then the bike, the motorcycle, and finally the car.
In many countries, UK included, you have already broken the law and could go to prison over that.
Not quite what they said/wrote, actually. It was more like "given the lack of implemented reforms and privatizations, the current debt has become close to unsustainable and definitely will be unsustainable if they continue to not implement long promised reforms and privatizations".
With your risk profile, the interest rate will be 99%, payable as soon as the credit is given, before you leave the room. You will come alone, unarmed, and barefooted.
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” - Doug Stanhope
The problem is the German and French public have never been told or refuse to understand that the original bailout of Greece was a bail out of German, French and other banks.

Greece was sacrificed to save the wider euro, and the German and French public should be grateful.
How can a group of the ECB, the IMF and the EU be "mostly German"? Seems pretty international to me. In fact Germany is under-represented in the ECB and the commission, because it has only one seat, as do countries that have a tenth of the German population.
Bad Voltage is fun. Linux Voice probably deserves mention as another great Linux podcast (linuxvoice.com)
Day 1 was always the easiest for me, but I had an eating disorder, I was not going about this in a healthy way.

After 3 days, I could easily do a week, and I managed to do a 30 day fast one year.

I don't recall feeling high, I just remember a lot of laying down, dreaming and thinking about food, baking, and not doing much of anything else.

I really rather prefer being able to eat everything I want, and spend 2-3 hours a week at the gym. But my weight has gone up by 10-15 lbs (and I have also aged from 17 years old to 29).

I can't say I'm the same size as when I was fasting, but I have a defined shape, whereas before I was bone and skinny fat.
> "A" and "the" are most certainly the same part of speech.

I disagree...

> There are many other words in the same category:

All these example words add semantic meaning to the noun phrase, and a primary sub-category for their use is whether the noun is countable (e.g. cat) or uncountable (e.g. salt):

cats VS salt
a cat/any cat, some cats, all cats/every cat VS some salt, all salt
no cats, one cat, two cats, ... VS no salt, some salt
few cats, many cats VS little salt, much salt
my cat/s, our cat/s, your cat/s VS my salt, our salt, your salt
his cat/s, her cat/s, its cat/s, their cat/s VS his salt, her salt, its salt, their salt
this cat, that cat, these cats, those cats VS this salt, that salt

The article "a" is only used with countable nouns (unless an uncountable is being used as a countable with meaning "a type of") and so fits into this sub-categorization.

> Note that "my", "his", and "this" also mark definiteness on the noun phrase.

In those cases the demonstrative is adding semantic information to the noun, whether possession ("my", "his") or location ("this").

If we split "A cat sitting on the rug meows." into the 2 sentences "A cat is sitting on the rug. The cat meows.", the only function of the "the" in the second sentence is to provide a cohesive link to something in the first sentence. Similarly, "Some salt stored in the shaker spills." can be split into "Some salt is stored in the shaker. The salt spills." This makes "the" solely a cohesive device, independent of the semantics and in the domain of thematics. So "a" and "the" are used orthogonally, each in different ways of analyzing an utterance.
I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whitney Cummings.

I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
If the banks were going to default without taxpayer help, why didn't we just nationalize them and let the share holders take the loss they themselves have set themselves up for? Then we could shoulder the cost of getting the banks afloat again, and then subsequently regain some of the cost at least by selling them (instead of just giving taxpayer money to the risk-taking share holders like we do now)
Are you sure about that?

Isn't a country better off after debt restructuring?
I'm getting very bored with the start-up cheerleading industry in Europe: a small but very vocal number of publications (Tech.eu, The Next Web, TechCrunch EU) and event organisers constantly championing random cities in Europe as up-and-coming technology epicentres to rival Silicon Valley. Even London, which is by any reasonable measure the largest hub of start-up activity in Europe and has seen the most significant exits, comes nowhere close to Silicon Valley in terms of deal volume, capital availability, density of senior talent, etc. Sure, tech start-ups exist in Amsterdam and in Berlin, and in Stockholm, and in Barcelona, but these cities aren't technology hubs, creating self-sustaining economies driven by meaningful exits and the development of world-leading domain expertise: many of the start-ups in these cities are only sustainable because VCs in Europe are primarily funded by European governments. That's what a "hub" is; take away the hype and the government money and it still exists.
I don't often hear war as described as "easy". I don't think any of Greece's creditor nations are willing to start a shooting war over a default.
Ask HN: How do you build your Docker containers?
Are you using a simple Dockerfile? Packer.io?

Are you using simple bash commands or a CM tool like Ansible/Chef/Puppet?
TeX (and LaTex) is pretty old, and designed to run on machines much less powerful than what we have today. Back then, I've used LaTeX on MSDOS PCs with 640 kB of memory. And the original TeX was written in 1978 for a PDP-10.

Many distributions are indeed big and clunky because you get lots of packages and fonts all in one, and there's no good way to selectively install.

Or do you mean verbosity when writing the markup? Actual text doesn't require a lot of markup, and you can make things even simpler by defining your own commands.
Austerity isn't about rising taxes, as much, as about lowering government costs.
> This article paints a picture of incredible industrial innovation, but if you look at dutchstartupjobs.com, the majority of the startups here seem to be social media or marketing related, just like the rest of the country.

Yep. If there is one thing a particular circle is very good at it is slapping themselves on the back and having dinners in expensive restaurants. Fortunately not everybody is like that and most people here have their feet firmly planted in the mud.

I dislike hype like this, it's like talking to companies that exist for three weeks and immediately start branding themselves as 'world leader' in their domain.
Interesting. Was wondering how hard it is to get a work visa?
It should be noted however (as I do) that the decimal number is still not equivalent to the actual floating point number, only that when converted back it is the same.

Since 2 divides evenly into 10, every binary number has an exact decimal representation, and you can produce a decimal string which is equivalent to any floating point number. You may need quite a few digits, though.
I agree that the term shareware is dead, but time limited or feature limited freeware with a paid full version is not dead.

I make a living from http://www.watermark-image.com and other sw for windows, I have et a lot of people at MicroConf who makes a living from sw.
> Were you given a benzo specifically to erase your memory of the events?

I don't remember! :P
Highly recommend Soulver in this category as well - I probably use Soulver 100+ times a day, it's particularly awesome around things like throughput - you can throw things like, "10 kbits/second at 30 days in megabytes" - the sort of stuff people screw up all the time with excel when they forget to multiple by 8 somewhere.

It can also do the Currency translation, "1 BTC in USD"

And string a bunch of them, to do things like, "$2/square foot in SGD/square meter"
This might be true for the mobile market, however the PC market is a different beast entirely.
> Unless you are working with small numbers? Suppose you are dividing 1e-30 by 1e-30 than the result should still be 1 so if you return 0 when the second argument is < 1e-6 then you're screwed.

A very good point which I didn't think of! Obviously the 1e-6 figure is specific to the application.

How should one avoid division by zero then? You can't figure out the relative error without a division, can you? For normal comparisons, using a relative error is the way to go but the zero case is different.

On the other hand, using quantities of magnitudes in 1e-30 is already using half the exponent, a change of units may be due here.
He used it in a post on a major tech forum, specifically asking for advice about becoming an evangelist. It's not like Obama merely saying the N-word, it's like Obama saying the N-word in a speech about the proliferation of hate speech against the black community in America.
I've been using Numi for a couple of weeks now. It's a really nice way of playing with an algorithm and breaking down each part with variables.
Haha, if it wasn't so heavy on mentioning Rockstart, I would have assumed it was paid for by SBC. They are much more about selling themselves outside of The Netherlands. I've heard some people saying that Rockstart is trying to open an SF office, but I'm not sure if I believe that.
Assumes the will of a single man would have been enough to rescue an entire economy based on what looks to outsiders like an ingrained culture of laziness
Show HN: IF.js – Rudyard Kipling's IF Reimagined as JavaScript ES6
Because if you're scripting something out, it's very possible that you'll need to run it outside of a Mac in no time.

Yes, it's still early, but with Swift becoming open source, the portability problem will probably become less of an issue.

Plus, there's no decent dependency management yet and you can't compare the amount of external libraries commonly used for scripting with languages like Python or Ruby.

Thinking about this, I wonder if it is actually as big of a problem as some may think. Swift has built-in automatic bridging capabilities to both C and Objective-C. Assuming this works the same in the REPL/command line (I haven't verified this), then you can directly call every system library on your platform that is written in C or Obj-C (which is all of them). The need to download external modules like in Python or Ruby seems greatly diminished.

And to the portability question, on a Unix platform in general, the majority of libraries available for the platform are C libraries with all the capabilities you normally would have to get as a separate module for Python or Ruby. Since this is all directly available without separate modules, when you do need a feature not installed on your system, you would simply install a C library with that capability through your system's normal packaging management system or build/compile it yourself.
Who's holding the USA to high standards?
Im sure we can assign it to the survivors of a pandemic, to dig two massgraves - to be blamed and not to be blamed.

Guess who gets the flowers.
If you are interested, and an American citizen, send me a DM and I'd be glad to answer any questions.
> The funny thing is, if you're interested in performance, you're probably going to be writing a JIT, so this optimization is really just a stop-gap measure.

Exactly. And stop-gap measures are fine if and when they're followed up by a proper solution. Unfortunately stop-gap measures tend to be a lot more permanent than originally intended in practice.
Shareware has been renamed to "Apps".
It is more the "extends" than "class" that is controversial because it eschews other pattern like mixins.
The word is pretty decisively dead [+]. Lots of companies make money by selling software over the Internet on a free trial model. As was routinely observed in the shareware community as we tired of the name, "How can we differentiate 'shareware' from the rest of the industry when Microsoft Freaking Office is sold on a free trial model these days?" After the widespread rise of the web "You can give the installer executable to other people. Please do!" was no longer a really compelling advantage, and it always confused a lot of civilians. ("You mean I don't have to pay for it, right?" "No, that is not what shareware means." "You greedy bastard!")

I just sold my business which did this back in April -- it supported me above my previous day job salary for a while back in the day, before the rest of my business eclipsed it. I was, ahem, very much not the most successful HNer with the model, but many of the others like to keep things under their hat.

At least one received a check written on purple paper with an exclamation point on it, as if the dollar amount wasn't an exclamation enough. (He's occasionally active on HN and can tell you the story if he wants to, but it isn't mine to tell.)

[+] I used to be a card-carrying member of the Association of Shareware Professionals, which is now the Association of Software Professionals, because the membership expressed its opinion that the shareware branding communicated "crappy software which will give your Googles a virus but is otherwise free."
Could you order those (talks, Stackoverflow, blog posts, etc) in order of importance? I'm in a similar spot as OP; looking to become an evangelist. I've actually taken my first job internationally, and wouldn't mind the travel at all.
The First Swimming App on the Apple Watch
Thrift has been essentially deprecated for quite a while now.

Either use CQL or the Binary Drivers.
There is a Knowledge Migrant Visa which means that anybody with decent IT skills should not have a problem. Though I think you need the job offer first. Hiring people from outside the Netherlands and getting them a visa is very normal so it shouldn't be a barrier for anybody who wants to move to Amsterdam. There is also a tax incentive where foreigners don't pay as much tax (30% ruling, the first 30% of your income doesn't get taxed) for the first ten years. Again, if you are sufficiently skilled you should qualify.
Meet the Vietnamese people
do you think there was some help from the inside? Or just overruled?
Good starting points:

http://www.expatica.com/nl/visas-and-permits/Moving-to-the-N...

http://www.newtoholland.nl/
The key paragraph is as follows:

"The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter “safe mode” on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter."

Also, try this link (content is same): http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20...
It's on top of a relatively large hill in the suburbs, so it gets a lot of breeze. Scan around behind you and you'll see the extent of it. The traffic lights are just about at the top of that hill, so that house has at least a 180 degree view of the east, which is where the bay/ocean is and thus where breezes often blow from.
I disagree with your statement of "No entrepreneurial mindset" Perhaps when it comes to VCs, they don't really get it, but I find that since capital is so hard to come by, the quality of startups here is much higher than in the US.
That one is for horses, and the other is from horses.
Full Stream Ahead (Everything you need to know about streaming)
Could "freemium software" be considered to be the new "shareware software"? With both types, you get some features without paying, and you must pay for the full experience.
Design patterns in JavaScript
It depends what you consider a startup. Off the top of my head I can name a few start-up companies that are operating in Wageningen, but in industries that don't receive as much attention as sexy computer start ups.
From what I read on reddit some time ago when this was posted.
With completely false number.

In our example city, you need to pump water on high ground, and then let it flow down. The high ground is at 30 unit. The water will be at the right pressure between 30 and 20.

But when it will reach 20 and below, there is too much pressure for the pipes! What is currently used is some kind of pressure relieving system that will release a bit of the pressure. The water can now come down between 20 and 10.

But then again, there's too much pressure for the water to go from 10 to 0 without damaging the pipes. Another valve is there to take care of this.

So, for now, energy is used to pump the water up, and then we have to waste that energy when the water goes down in order to maintain acceptable pressure. With the new system, a part of the energy that was used can be harvested again.

This is the same idea behind harvesting the braking energy on hybrid cars.
> nobody really knows what had happened if we've let the banks die.

I'm not even an economist, so obviously I have no idea what would have happened (even as is in "they don't really know" but I know even less).

My reasoning is this:
if I remember correctly Greek government bonds were already trading at ~70% of their nominal values two or even three years ago (cannot check, currently on a train along the Rhine with very limited internet access). To me this means, that the banks had already written off ~30 of the value of that bonds, and I bet if we look at their balance sheets we'll see that fact reflected.