skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is mostly invalid as H&M, for example, has tags in multiple currencies. And as a non-Euro Romanian I can tell you that the conversion rate is not favorable to the buyer.
mostly sourcetree, occasionally command line :)
For me it doesn't sound like hell reading the article. It sounds like an ambitious project that has problems to solve, like any other ambitious project. Considering that they already work on the international top (with New York and maybe other unnamed cities) in terms of scale, they are doing quite a good job. That's how I understood the article at least.
How to grow from a team leader to a project manager in IT?
In our leaders, cheating on one's spouse is problematic (and plays well in the media) because it is an extremely clear-cut example of being willing to violate one's most sacred vows for one's personal pleasure or convenience - not a quality that engenders much confidence in said leader's ability to honor the vows they made to serve the interests of their country and her citizens.

Many of the other things you listed - corruption, incompetence, invasion of privacy, aggression on other countries, torture, brutality, injustice - are all potentially explainable as at least well-intentioned or misunderstood or justified by the ends. Violation of marriage vows, on the other hand, doesn't have a lot of wiggle room.
There are no partial updates in 9.5. There likely never will be in Postgres, due to MVCC.
And how exactly do you think that will corrupt anything?
Not much left for low-level programmers to do then :)
Here in my FF, they are smooth, but they make it feel very slow (at least I think it's the animations that cause this impression). I hope they are configurable, saw nothing in the readme, but I probably just missed it.
> Countries can't devalue their currencies or cut interest rates or even spend more when they get into trouble, and so they stay in trouble.

Not only euro countries can't do that. Many countries with separate currencies have independent bodies dedicated to keeping currency stable. You can't order those bodies to devalue the currency because two main things your economy was doing that were worthwhile became obsolete. They ought to keep inflation target regardless of governments and economy. It's often written into the constitution.

The only country I know that can have their currency devalued according to what economy is perceived to need is USA.
Adultery is also criminal in many parts of the world, including the US.
Show HN: I wrote a little service to detect the musical key of a song
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People are globalized, and with the internet, routinely arbitrage price differences which is leading to a more global MSRP.

For example, a study of over 1 million bank accounts in Australia (i.e. 1 in 22 Australians) in 2011 by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia showed that over 75% of e-commerce by revenue was cross-border (i.e. Australians were importing).

Thanks to the rapid appreciation of the AUD until 2012, brands benefitted from as much as a 50% boost in MSRP locally, and Australians ended up importing not just clothes and cosmetics but things like lawn mowers.

This higher MSRP was so profitable to the brands that they were very strict on enforcing it. I won't mention any names but an online retail shop was opened by a large European investment group in the hope of using gray import from Hong Kong to cut MSRP; the brands tracked the news and informed the group that they would stop supplying the European investments of said group if the new Australian entity did not respect local sourcing rules. Another large retail group told me they were making 40% of their global EBT from Australia, where they only employed 4 staff to smooth arrivals at customs (they offered free 3-week shipping to Australia from their UK warehouse).

Anecdotal evidence (such as French acquaintances buying glasses from Australian online retailers) seem to point at a reversal in the situation.
Maybe Uber doesn't make the Taxi service better yet but it will. Having new competitors will force taxis to improve their quality. This is true for any industry: as soon as new competitors enter, quality increases and/or prices are getting lower.
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I've been working on a SPIR-V virtual machine to get familiar with the spec (and to satisfy my Vulkan related curiosity).

It's very much a work in progress, but it already runs most simple programs. I'm currently working on extended instruction set support (via dlls).

Something that might be useful for others is the SpecParser tool. It downloads the latest HTML version of the spec and generates a lot of definitions from it (more than what is defined in spirv.h)
How many states do you have where SS pays out pensions to people over 56 while people in the other states work until 65 or 67 and are supposed to fund it?
Ever seen software improve friendly and kindness of people?
Boston is almost 3 times as far from NY as Beijing is from Tianjin. Trenton, on the other hand, can be gotten to in under an hour and for $40. I just did a quick search and found that the Beijing-Tianjin fare is actually about $15, not $6.

So it does seem on paper that China has Amtrak beat by an economic factor of 2-3x, but this is also before you factor in local purchasing parity and so on.

Let's at least compare apples to apples, though.
I dislike max-widths. It wastes screen real-estate.
Relationships are complex things. I'd consider the nuances of someone cheating that had a a dead bedroom, terminally ill partner, green card marriage, bisexuality, open marriage, or violent partner before a soldier doing, say, these things: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-r...
Fitbit: shorts don't get any easier than this
Why I Am Not a Christian, by Bertrand Russel
Long term, I think the traveling part is pretty nonsense. The reason is simple - as more people start to pay with cards instead of cash the problem goes away by itself. Not having to carry cash at all is a better solution than only having to carry a single kind of cash.

As for worrying about banks and exchange rates - if that is a problem I suggest doing something similar to how roaming charges have been regulated. That will probably be necessary in the long term anyhow as a precondition for creating a single market for financial services.
Travel, absolutely, but it seems to me a bigger benefits are in import/export accountancy and greater (convenient) access to suppliers. An increase cross-border trade would make a flatter, more efficient, marketplace for the win.

Don't disagree with the points others have made on fiscal & monetary policy though.

As with most things in life, this seems like an area where if someone claims to have the single true answer then they're selling something.
This is very interesting. I don't have the pedigree mentioned in the article that, according to the article, leads one to Startup success. So, should I just give up or keep going?
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traditionally there have been exactly two options available: employment and unemployment, the former being considered preferable.
WebAssembly is the latest hope.
I would — that was my first thought.
Y combinator in small steps
Yes, we do - for hypertext documents - as per original design. Retrofitted JavaScript - we don't.
Taking Android as a example here. The way this works is by basically letting apps declare that they are interested in certain URLs, and then present the URL-clicking user a list of applications that are interested to choose from. This quickly becomes annoying and checking the "Remember" button is something you quickly regret when you change your preference. This simply will not be practical on a desktop where you might use a hundred different programs. There is also the inherent limitation that you only send the URL to one program.

A better approach is having good defaults, and letting the user add associations as he needs. That way the control is returned to the user, and he will feel confident updating the list of associations. Bonus points for multicast and not being restricted to one string format.
IMHO the best option for inputting a small integer value is the combination of a text field and a stepper, which has been around for a long time and has its own name (for touchscreen operation, the +/- buttons could be made larger and horizontally, like the steppers shown):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner_(computing)

For dates, a calendar control would probably be appropriate.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why dropdowns are a "4 tap operation" - once to dropdown and once to select, with possibly some intervening scrolling if it's a lengthy list. Where are the extra 2 taps coming from...?
Since it's no longer a Free Market, might as well go with a planned economy - now that supercomputers allow for actual real-time planning.
Yes. Next argument, please.
Looks quite similair to http://gridster.net/
As a share of GDP, USA as a federal entity have many (10+) multiples higher budget compared to the EU entities. All the pork and military and other federal spending in the states act as an equalizer.

It took you 100 years, 10 depressions and 1 civil war to figure out how that needed to work..
Overconfidence is confidence above your ability to actually deliver. You pretty much can't get overconfident in a magic wand, it's magic.
I did the same, but found I was alert as much as with caffine, just unable to control when.

For example I was far less productive in the mornings and after eating, and more alert in the evenings and when I wanted to sleep/relax.
As others have already said, the main difference is that the US has true political and social union to go with the financial union (if anyone is interested, this state of affairs came about during and in the aftermath of the American Civil War - indeed the war was only possible because until then the states really were independant entities capabable of defying the federal government - this is of course no longer the case).

To make it more concrete, when Louisiana has financial problems, the first remedy for Louisianans(???) is to move to another state. The next remedy is for the federal government to step in and inject funds into the economy, which is pretty much what they do, taking those funds from wealthy states such as New York and California. This works, because if the federal government hangs Louisiana out to dry, they will potentially lose seats, and potentially the presidency, come next election, so even though it annoys the rich states a little, the best political strategy is to provide as much financial support to Louisiana as possible without pissing off the rich states too much.

In Europe this is not the case. Indeed, this is precisely the problem that has been debated over recent weeks. The rich states (err, state, because Germany is about it at the moment, although I suppose you could count in the UK as well) refuses to pump more money into Greece's economy. They consider the situation to be Greece's problem, and they aren't going to do anything to help. Politically, there is no impact on German leaders to take this stance - or even worse, there is a political advantage to take this stance, as only Germans vote for German political leaders. Socially, with two very different cultures, and two different languages, there is not much by way of social cohesion. There are not huge numbers of mixed German / Greek families capable of looking across the border and seeing "us", not "them".

Imagine a European political structure that was truly integrated: There is a European president that commands the European military, and controls the European budget which comes directly from taxes that the European government levies on it's people, instead of the budget being made up from funds allocated to the European government by it's member state governments (which is the case today). In such a case, the European president would be much more willing to listen to Greece's case than the German Chancellor is today, and we wouldn't have this crisis.

That in a nutshell is the difference between the US and Europe. It has long been the UK's biggest criticism of the Euro, and is on record as being the reason they decided to not join the Eurozone (no financial union without political union).
That's unfortunately going to be a tough deal. If anything the whole Euro thing has made its partners Euro-skeptical.

I'm not sure you would convince Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece that more Europe is good for them considering how bad it has been so far. ( we have hurt you, sorry, just let me be in charge and everything will be good now )

For the rest of the countries, Germany has taken the image of dictator of Europe, meaning that more Europe means more Germany telling you how to live your life for Germany's pleasure. Of course that's BS, but Germany is the go-to scapegoat and as they don't campaign anywhere else than Germany, so no matter how true that is, that is going to stick in people memories for decades.
You beat me to the "But what about [an obvious exception to the general rule and a couple of anecdotal samples]?".
This is the case for mobile phones. On a desktop or laptop, the dropdowns are preferable because most browsers will let you select the day, month year using your keyboard.
You can get overconfident in your ability to use it - gotta save those charges for when they really count man.
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I would have written something similar, had I not been so lazy. Good Job, well put
The phone is about consuming/producing content and that's what many popular apps (like FB, Instagram, etc) are all about. No FB app on the watch indicates that the standard FB experience doesnt work on the platform, in the same way it wouldnt work on your kettle. That doesnt mean the kettle is a failure.

The watch is all about quick access to small, self-contained nuggets of information and simple actions. Previously, these have been limited to "what's the time?", "what's the date?", etc. With smart watches we can now have "what's next on my calendar?", "what's the weather like today?", "pay for this coffee", etc. They sound simple but they can quickly become habits. Developers will eventually work out which of these work, but this is a genuinely new platform - it will take time and iteration.

Additionally, any comparison to the iPad launch is unfair. The iPad, in terms of how it is used, really is just a big iPhone.
Forbes has found US billionaires are increasingly coming from middle to lower-upper classes, and are not inheriting their wealth. [1] [2]

It's trivially easy to come up with dozens of examples of people that came from average or poor backgrounds and became billionaires in the last 50 years. Soros, Oprah, Spielberg, Harold Simmons, Howard Schultz, George Lucas, Carl Icahn, Do Won Chang, Bob Parsons, Stephen Bisciotti, Henry Samueli, Jan Koum, J.R. Simplot, Kirk Kerkorian, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Paul Allen, Leon Charney, Mark Cuban, Carl Lindner, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Shahid Khan, George Joseph, Jack Dorsey, Michael Bloomberg, Sheldon Adelson, Phil Knight, Ken Langone, Jack Dangermond, Elon Musk, Ken Langone, Harold Hamm, David Murdock, John Malone, Gordon Moore, Thomas Peterffy, Marc Andreessen, Michael Jordan, Alec Gores, Ralph Lauren, John Paul DeJoria, Kenny Troutt, Alan Gerry, Evan Williams - this list keeps going.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-a...

"We crunched the data from our most recent Forbes 400 and discovered that more than 94% of the tech billionaires created their fortunes themselves."

40% of those tech billionaires came from a lower class background. In real estate it's nearly 50%.

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/06/self-ma...
The problem is that when economic issues are the cause of the failure, that doesn't make the countries involved want to integrate. It makes them hate each other instead.

Which the Greek situation have showed.
Take a look at some of the languages with quasiquotation-based metaprogramming: Template Haskell, Converge, Nemerle.

I did quite a bit of exploration in this area too, here is one of the examples: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/clike
Uber is a cancer on the taxi industry. It needs the regulators to act like chemo, and blast it good!
Isn't he building a game rather than an engine?
My CTO send me a link to a good article on HN
This is already the case for much of commodities trading which is a naturally international business dealing with "interesting" countries. Including in (now formerly) banned countries like Iran.

Even if you're not doing the trade in USD, your accounting currency is probably the USD (even if you're based in say, Geneva and have no business in the US) and every trade is immediately FX-hedged back to USD.

Fun things happen when you can't hedge the currency (because, say, it's extremely illiquid, like the CFA franc). This also applies to commodities like fertilizers in Argentina. The price of doing a trade usually increases for the local counterparty to match the risk taken by the foreign counterparty. And then, you try and hedge it anyway using a basket of things. You can hedge ferts to an extent with a basket of agricultural commodities that use them and hope the relationship holds. It's worth taking the risk because you can have such a deep discount and increase your normally razor thin margin (a hedged physical trade might not net you 1%, but you might get double digit percent shipping rice from Myanmar to Nigeria).
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I wouldn't. I like the page wide. I like that by not setting a max-width, I can have my browser at whatever width works for me. This is how the web was supposed to work.
My Goog code golf examples were marked down because I didn't insert the method call to sellAdsToSuckers() call everywhere!
Well, does it matter to the end user whether it is a flash or OpenSSL vulnerability, a sql injection vulnerability, a weak password or simply a careless employee who didn't check the URL before entering a password?

It is a long chain in which every single link has shown to be weak so far.
Your 21st century is completely ignorant of the human condition? I get the distinct impression the reason you are so coyly dancing around the subject of your geospatial location is because you know it would be a trivial matter to look up just as much juicy tabloid trash from your own homeland.
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I'm quite skeptical of a European political unification having a net benefit, considering precedents. To mention European cases, East Germany is still far from catching up with the western part (you might be aware of this as a Pole) and the South of Italy, which in the mid 1800s was quite advanced, has never really recovered after being "united" with the North. And we are speaking of regions with a common language.

To make things worse, the linguistic and cultural composition of Europe is much more diversified.
This means a much higher friction for internal migrations, which would help balance economic mismatches. Moving say from Italy to Poland or from Greece to Germany to work requires a huge investment in language acquisition.

Another effect of language barriers is the difficulty of a paneuropean political discourse. In this respect, I am quite grateful to Varoufakis for communicating extensively in English and allowing me to access his and Syriza's message (whether I agree with it or not) out of the simplifications and potential distortions of my country's media.
my immediate interpretation is a fairly literal one. e.g. it'd be an app to facilitate something like this: http://www.metafilter.com/151011/Duck-Club
> Compute pair-wise Jaccard similarity of all articles with each other and output the articles whose title similarity is greater than 0.5.

If I understand correctly, it checks the similarity between titles. How effective it will be if it also checks similarities between the article contents? Sometimes, the article may not have similar looking titles, but talking about same thing.

Example: [0], [1], [2]

OT: You can use Python haxor to get articles from the HN [3]. Disclaimer: I wrote it.

[0] - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/google-app...

[1] - http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/17/googles-one-day-rally-is-the-...

[2] - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33572959

[3] - http://github.com/avinassh/haxor
I see a few comments sympathizing with the vigilantes behind this, implying that the exposed users had it coming. I am a bit sickened by this attitude, for several reasons.
First of all, adultery is not illegal in the countries where most users of AshleyMadison are presumably residing, and even if it were, people could have used fake names which could implicate someone not actually associated with the site. This could destroy lives!

Second, performing your own vigilante punishment by outing people who you feel are not living up to your own personal moral standards has no place in a developed society. It is not your right to destroy a family, not to mention one where every member is a stranger to you, by outing one of its members as a cheater and at the same time putting all other members of the family on public display.
Outlawing competition worsens any service.
Counter-counterpoint: There is no "self-made millionaire" and those that believe they are, are deluded. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/24/mitt-ro...
That means 2/3 of HN.
Upcoming Android has deep links/defaults.
I had to take a taxi from San Francisco Airport recently. It was the first time I've been in a taxi in close to 4 years, and it was amazing. On the outside, it's the same looking taxi with the same Yellow Cab company.

On the inside, I've never seen anything like it. Interior was spotless and smelled nice. The driver was exceedingly polite, like a black car driver. They happily took credit cards using a NFC reader. Before that ride I was actively avoiding taxis, and now I'd take one in a heartbeat.

If you haven't taken a taxi in a few years, I think you'll find it really different from what you've remembered, at least in the Bay Area.
Typical partial-rationality. Humans are not robots. Having an accurate picture of your own flaws and the risks involved in most endeavors will not help you to perform better than having a slight overconfidence. We tends to overemphasize risks if we are made persistently aware of them. In every dynamic performance based activity, this tendency needs to be counterbalanced by a degree of irrational confidence. It's a feature, not a bug.

There are times when it is also harmful, but things like actually being able to talk to that girl, ask for that raise, close that sale, take down that oppressor...these things benefit tremendously from irrational confidence.

Removing all overconfidence would be the end of the human race.
Well, I go on and on about where I live on multiple Hacker News threads. My handle is my real name. If I were hiding, I think I would go to greater lengths.

Funny you talk about geospacial location, I'm interested in GIS and didn't find a lot of threads about it here.

PS: I upvoted your replies because I want you to share your thoughts. Keep 'em coming :)
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