skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WWII was a tragedy. You're pissed and your country is going through hell. We get that. But repeatedly bringing this up is going to accomplish precisely nothing.

I beg to differ. I think that “repeatedly bringing this up” is going to accomplish something. Because for the last fifty years every time we brought this issue up everyone was telling us it’s not the right time. Well you know what, we’re sick of waiting. At the very least they should pay us the loan Hitler took by force from our central bank. That’s not war reparations, it’s a fucking state loan.
Was about to panic - what did sebmarkbage blow up this time?
> in non-polarized light, the "amplitude" of the light wave points in all directions

The average is all directions. Each individual photon has just one direction. But photons are not like regular objects, if you send polarized light through a polarizer that is tilted 45 degrees relative to them you don't block the light entirely like you would expect, instead half the light gets through. I guess you could interpret this as each photon having a 50/50 chance of making it though.

> The amplitude of a light wave doesn't literally mean something is oscillating up and down, right??

Yes, it does mean that. The "something" is an electric and magnetic field. Does that count as a something?

Remember that a moving electric field induces magnetism, and a moving magnet induces an electric field. So the two fields essentially induce each other, that's why light can never stop moving, or even change speed - the fields would no longer induce anything.

> The amplitude is just the light's intensity.

No. The amplitude never changes. Intensity is the number of photons. A single photon doesn't really have an amplitude that way you would think.
i thought that prior to syriza election there was a positive development in the greek economy?
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A "Late guy pays" rule seems to help habitually late people get to restaurants on time in my limited experience.
Thanks ill try this one out.
Amazon Mechanical Turk Doubles and Quadruples Fees – What Does It Mean?
You have 3 options if you want mixin behaviour:

- Use old syntax or explicitly add mixin to prototype
- Use composition. A bit annoying, because you have to make an extra class

class OuterComponent extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<MixinComponent>
<InnerComponent />
</MixinComponent>
);
}
}

class InnerComponent extends React.Component{}

- wait for decorators (?)
OT

This article prompts a thought:

I want to sell a price study we did as a startup (in Germany) to businesses. Study is in PDF and price is around $300. Primary targets would be businesses.

Any suggestions on where to sell?

Probably best if the website offers also invoice payment and knows how to sell to businesses?
Some kind of personalization of the PDF (Buyer name etc.) would be nice for 'copy protection'.
Not sure about mobile?
DIY?

Thanks :-)
Blender is fucking amazing. I recently rediscovered it.

You probably know it as a 3D editor / renderer. What it actually is is a fully programmable environment. You can program EVERYTHING in Blender. You can run it in a command-line mode, while still being able to program everything.

Give it a try. A new version just came out a couple of days ago.
To be fair, that was Product Hunt, where people are primed to buy. My conversion rate is normally ~1-3%, and right now is a fraction of that since most people are visiting for the article only.
what happens if you get a flat tire?
That is typically due to low fees though, and not something that is inherently due to it being an index.

Hint: The people constructing the index are doing as much of an active choice of stocks as the active traders are. Nothing stops a trader from selecting stocks following the same strategies as how an index is selected.
Most stuff I've seen is using decorators to enhance components (which seems like a better practice than mixins)
Im on melatonin at the moment. Its nice to hear about someone else, id nnever heard of it before the doctor recommended it before sleeping tablets.
Gumroad does PDF personalization. You'd still have to do your own marketing though!
How about you help us recover and we pay all of the debt? If we could sustain a 4% grow for a decade the debt could become sustainable. But with all this massacre of austerity measures it's impossible to repay while the economy tanks. How come every US economist can see that simple truth but Germans can not.
You wouldn't believe how many hours I spent on cover design. >_<
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You might like this http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/
from what I have read and seen lots of young Greeks are leaving the country.
German language education has soared during the beginning of the crisis- not sure if the anti-german press coverage of the Greek press has changed that...
Finance is not complex. It really isn't. if you know the right people you can find out all the information you need. However:

The very foundations of Finance are built on sand

What do I mean by that? Finance is built on the concept of value, or worth. "How much is this gold worth?", "how much is the client willing to pay for this service?"

The concept of value and worth are subjective. They are in the eye of the beholder:

If you ask a thirsty backpacker stranded in the middle of the Sahara:
How much are you willing to pay for a 2 litre bottle of water?
The answer, most likely is many monies & possible limbs.

Now trying flogging the same water to city trader in a champagne bar.

I can hear you scoffing, "Oh but that's a silly example, the backpacker was practically dead" Correct, worth is subjective. Its based on your circumstances. There are many other examples, the Turner painting in a jumble sale, the sale of a sports car when the wife becomes pregnant, etc, etc.

Complex derivatives are really not complex. They are normally a "RAID" of different types of contracts. What then happens is the end user is deliberately bamboozled into not asking questions.
Yeah, Kickstarter is a LOT of work but it's great at both building up an email list as well as getting an "advance" for your work before it's released (of course, only if the KS is successful.)
Thank you for the link, ill definatly read that when im home.

I also agree with its hard to do the recommended sometimes :-s. 8 hour work, 2 hour total travel, then i need to code my own project -.-
Well I know historically it was because there were potentially performance issues with using explicit sizes - int was basically the guarantee that you would be working in the CPU's native size, and hence at it's most efficient, no need to shift and mask bits to get the value that you wanted. Obviously this leads straight to a bunch of relatively subtle bugs, but I guess for some applications the tradeoff of speed vs safety was worth it.
As much as thank you comments are downvoted here I'll still say: Thank you! Same goes to everyone else who avoids hasseling developers everywhere with AGPL.
Couldn't it be the case that the human eye is just sensitive to the artifacts of a polarization filter?
Possibly decorators proposed for ES7 would be a solution here? Babel and TypeScript already support them.

By the way, TypeScript recently (in nightly) gained support for JSX, so we can now have all of this ES6 stuff + types on top of it.
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Imho Blender is one of the best examples of good software.
On almost all elements in the GUI you will see the API-path on mouseOver so it's very easy to discover the possibilities.

The separation between the view and logic is great. So you can also run Blender command line only and everything is still working. Trow a script at it and you can do whatever you like.

This video is another great example of it's power.
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It's more the 2 fields that are vibrating.

The "length" of the photon is very short. There is not a long wave like you are thinking, like a wave on a string.

Take a short string and pull it over a sine wave. At any instant in time, one part of the string will be high, another part low. As you pull it, the position changes, but the sun total of all the "heights" in the sine wave is always the same, no matter what part of the sine wave you start at.

So you can think of a photon like that: As it snakes it's way through space, it doesn't actually move up and down, but rather as it progresses the front of it will sometimes be "high" and sometimes "low".

Take a hose and wave it in the air, to make a sine wave of water. Now think of each molecule of water - every single molecule only moves forward in a perfectly straight line! None of them move side of side. Yet it looks that way, but it's really new molecules, some of them are moving here and some there.
Smart backpack with a battery, WI-FI, multiple USB ports, mobile app (iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, Android wear, bluetooth proximity locator.
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Photons don't really have a height, so they don't really have an amplitude.

What we call amplitude, and is also called intensity, is the number of photons.
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> OLED screen.

Right. I would not expect it with an OLED since that is not polarized.
Ask HN: How does China's stock market crash affect the US and it's companies?
I have an old analogue modem hooked to our phone line, so when we receive an incoming call the number pops up on my computer screen (and the lounge TV screen if XMBC is being used at the time.) It is also cross-referenced with my address book so if it is a known number, it also displays the name of the caller.

One problem though is here in Australia, a lot of telemarketers, etc., have the caller ID comes up as private. Also, my mum, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and one of my clients all have private numbers, so that’s five likely sources when I see a private number. The problem is there’s only one of those sources I actually want to talk to (not saying which one, but it aint the telemaketers.)

Would love a device similar to the one cmdkeen mentioned available in the UK that will screen unknown numbers and voice prompt them.

I’ve occasionally pondered using Asterisk or similar open-source PBX to create a system like that. However it is in the queue behind about four other pet projects…
> If you're watching game of thrones, you are watching people kill each other

No, you're watching fictional people pretend to kill each other.

You would have an argument if you used snuff films as an example. And yes, if watching a child being raped is illegal, than watching a real murder should be.
What happens to my data once it's stolen?
meta: This is one of those times when downvotes here on HN completely baffle (and I must admit, somewhat amuse) me. Who am I offending by sharing an opinion about integer types in C?
Android 5+ (or maybe 5.1) includes this - you can set it to priority notifications only, and then turn calls on but say to only include calls from your contacts.
Hmm, that seems a rather weak argument indeed? Purely anecdotical, but the number of bugs I'v seen which stem from using int and then failing to check if it is negative (followed by using it as index or converting to unsigned) by far outweigh the number of times I even saw the type of loop they mention as a con.
I believe trigger.io has done this for a couple of years now
There is also some evidence that yellow light causes nearsightedness, so be careful with that.
A signed type for a buffer size in Chrome. Sigh, C/C++ just wasn't made for humans.
I had an urge today morning to try my hands at 3D modeling and rediscovered Blender and began using it just today. Quite a coincidence that HN front page has a post on Blender.

I've got a huge learning curve ahead of me, though.
The UK and Australia had the opposite experiences. But they are islands and already had fairly strict gun control. May I suggest that perhaps Brazil's efforts to systematically eliminate guns may have been less successful than anticipated.
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Just saw the typo, sorry! I meant, "I have a graphic design degree and took editorial design..."
For phones there are apps like "Screen Filter".. that only reduces lighting exposure though..
There's also CF.lumen [0], which I have running. It works best if you are rooted and can install the display driver. However, on non-rooted devices it behaves in a similar fashion to the other night time colour shifting apps.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.l...
What percentage of those who rely on CPAP now breathe exclusively through their noses in the first place?
I like this. Familiarising newcomers to the community's ways as opposed to a blind downvote is a good way to welcome them.

We must remember that these sorts of posts are acceptable on other discussion forums, news aggregates and 99% of social media as a whole. Many newcomers will be used to this freedom and may feel intimidated because their first post received a -- in karma, without knowing it's won as easily as it's lost.

I, personally, comment very irregularly. I hold myself to a strict rule of only commenting when I feel I can add real value to the discussion - on a lot of subjects, experts way above my skill level do this so I do not comment.
I have long noticed this effect however I had no clue I was seeing polarization.

I'm into photography. I had a dead-simple Pentax K-1000 SLR. Its only automation is a very basic light meter; I adjust the aperture and exposure until the needle is where I want it to be (ie. sometimes purposely over- or under-exposed).

Three lenses, but with a polarizing filter for each. Mainly I use the polarizers to deepen the blue of the sky.
It is not mainly about pumping money now: it is about writing off (bad) debt, and punishing investors for doing bad investments, thereby making sure that investors understand that they need to be more alert, and not jump into high yielding investments assuming that governments will bail them out whenever things go south.

No yield without risk. It comes a bit late now, because most banks have already recovered their investments, and only the governments will be affected (and the IMF, ...)

Regarding pumping money: the now defenestrated Varoufakis has argued that Greece was not requesting money from the EU, but that the EU should have an investment program (much bigger than the ones currently in place), financed basically with Eurobonds, and implement by funneling those funds into both the private and public economy via banks. The program was intended to invest in poor European regions. The involvement of banks will use the profit motive to make sure that the investments are sound, and the fact that the funds will be nearly free (for the banks) will incentive the banks to really invest the money.

Not only Greece would benefit, but Lithuania too. And not all regions on those countries, only the ones in need.
It's similar. The difference is that Cython is a super set of Python, while RPerl is subset of Perl. With Cython you can take fully dynamic Python and slowly convert it into some static equivalent (cdef) that runs as fast as C / C++. It also has some additional helpers for interacting with existing C/C++ code in an almost transparent way.
True, you could have a bunch of SRVs in your DNS that redirects from _snow._tcp.my.best.friend.snow to aaa<..>.key or bbb<...>.key. You can even expire your keys after any amount of time for free thanks to DNS. Hey, that actually looks like a nice thing to add to snow !
I suggest to do it like Chrome does, show me the source. Maybe it caches the original source, I don't know, but I can't imagine that's expensive (given all that Firefox caches on each tabs ...).
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IHBT

Even so I'm going to post in on Facebook.
Only if you want to try and unfairly tip the balance towards yourselves by outmanouvering your opponents, in which case the unfairness of the resulting trade deals will be obvious to all who read them. Attempting to fuck with an economy the size of Europe's by spying in trade negotiations only leads to problems in the long run.
I learned a bunch of it last year and was continually amazed at how good it is and how many features it has.

Not just modelling, but compositing, animation, video editing...
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Most european countries can't keep up with the currency, that's the real issue. Of course the tax payers are highly entertained with the bigoted argument of which country deserves what. It's too easy to go that route and influence the public.
Finance is complex because it's basically math. And math can get very complex.
So with pedophilia being a deviant behavior, yet relatively common through the ages, it doesn't seem like it's going away any time soon. Wouldn't legal computer generated child pornography be a potential solution?

One could argue that this type of pornography would encourage pedophiles to seek out real girls, but then the same would apply for married men looking at porn. Do most of them seek out women in bars or escort services? I doubt that.
But it may be that the most important aspect of sleep hygiene has to do with light I'm not convinced.

The most important thing for sleep is your eating habits - if you want to wake up early eat very early dinners. If you want to wake up at 8 am, your last meal of the day should be at 6 pm (14 hours before that).

This works so well, that it overrides the effects of alcohol and caffeine and often even how tired you are. Even if you usually stay up until 3 am you'll get very sleepy at midnight and you'll wake up at 8. If fact even if you are prevented from sleeping until 3, you'll still wake up at 8 after just 5 hours of sleep. Have a full breakfast to avoid sleeping during the day - the next day you'll probably get sleepy at midnight again, even if you have dinner a bit later than 6.

Why does this work? Your 'food clock' will override all the other timers that govern your sleep habits. I cannot find the sources for this, but there are pretty good biological reasons this works. I know that I have used this rule many times for my benefit when working shift work or travelling or even getting back in rhythm after a vacation.

Edit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7414437.stm - I've added this report from the BBC as a source. I've used 14 hours instead of 16 but I find it works about the same for me.
It really is a very poor article.
There's a TRY..CATCH in probably every programming language, even in shell
The age issue isn't the only problem.

"Proportion of wages as pension; Greece: 80% Germany: 46%"

Almost everything you read has Greeks living in a welfare state that they couldn't afford. You just can't kick the can down the road forever:
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/07/420913926/despite-large-cuts-t...
Interesting point. Society can change though - and networks like Tor may be come increasingly important in the future.
> I don't think you understand banks' roles in philanthropy and education - successful nonprofit institutions like universities draw their operating budgets from interest on their endowments. Were it not possible to park $x billion in account and draw $y million a year in interest for literally forever, many such institutions could not exist.

They used to own land (and peasants!) themselves or they were funded by someone who did (Church/King/Prince). The former was preferred due to the larger independence and stability it gave them.

Copenhagen University used to own lots of land, for example. So did (do) Oxford and Cambridge.
If people still have '03 they aren't part of the windows server world anymore.
A word of advice: I found Blender really hard to understand (I think they based it on GIMP :).) Something that helped a lot was figuring out how 3D graphics work first. Specifically vertices, faces, and meshes, then coordinate systems, vectors, and transforms, then lighting and cameras, and lastly textures and UV coordinates. I did that using three.js to display things in a browser with a bit of javascript. Once I'd figured that out and had a much better understanding of what 3D engines actually do I found it a lot easier to work out how Blender lets you control those things in it's interface.
A payout of $229k is a terribly large payout for a minor irritation caused by sheer incompetence on the part of the defendant. Lives and limbs are frequently valued lower.

I mean, the average British mobile phone owner probably receives 100 or so irritating automated telemarketing calls a year, all of them worthless spam and many of them originating from the same party - can we all have $229k too?
"I can put my ‘d’ here, or here, and I can make it as big as I want, as hard as I want.” "
Com bubble popping, round 2?
Ask HN: What are the most prestigious jobs in software?
Thinking of prestige as something separate but often linked with income.
Convert spotify to apple music playlists
Different semantics: int overflow is undefined but can handle negative values, unsigned wraps around. So you would use int if your expression can yield a negative value.

(You can't thus check for int overflow by checking for wraparound, see http://c-faq.com/misc/intovf.html)
Interesting, even when including Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia, Greece and Spain are still outliers. This will be interesting.
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My bicycle have carbon tires. Tires are bullet proof.
Must be Rockstar Developer or Ninja.
Made me think about http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/

It's more a graph (ie relational) visualization tool.

JS port in progresse AFAIK.
Cigs bring lots of people in the door, like fuel at a gas station. Probably not a profitable decision. Will lose plenty of regular customers. Could be exec has personal reasons for it, like a family member death.
That's exchanging your value-time for remuneration, which the author denounces as work.
The Chinese military and the CCP are two aspects of the same thing. It may not be the CCP leadership driving the tank, but the tanks are commanded by a CCP party member; it's CCP leadership directing the tanks.

The Chinese military is not a separate military in the way we think of it in the West. They are the armed wing of the Chinese communist party. An enormous amount of time is spent on political indoctrination; not just when joining the PLA, but continuing throughout one's time in the PLA. Senior military commanders are senior party members. The PLA does not stand for the the Chinese constitution or the Chinese people, but for the CCP, of which they are an integral part.
It would be about time Greece pays back what Alexandre the Great robbed from all his neighbours! We waited long enough, I say.
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Simple week-calendar based time tracker and invoicer
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Nice and easy to use time tracker. What I like is that its main interface is based around a calendar-ish week view so that I can quickly see what I worked on and where I have forgotten to log time. This last bit is especially useful to our company because we get a few innovation subsidies from the government that requires us to track time on each innovation project within the normal project (for which we do not track time).

Another part I like is how Saus, while aimed at tracking time for multiple projects that you do for multiple clients, it is still very easy to use for single projects (like in my case).

Since we only use the time tracking part I have not given the invoicing a try.

Disclaimer: Saus was created by friends of mine, so my opinion could be biased. Though I wonder if it is more biased that opinions based on marketing and trends :). Either way, give it a try if you want, or not, I just wanted to share ;).
quoting..

>>Technology companies continually urge us to upgrade; to buy the newest tablet or phone. But I cannot forget that it all begins in a place like Bautou, and a terrible toxic lake that stretches to the horizon.