jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't decent 5G coverage require a large amounts of masts? Starlink just seems more reasonable for areas with low populations and large distances.
It is not the case that Rust will tend to end up slower than javascript or python if you don’t know what you are doing. Yes that happened in this particular example but it isn’t a given or even normal
I do expect SpaceX to eventually start acting like a legacy communications provider. They don’t seem to be right now, which makes them the most compelling choice on the market for me.
To innovate you usually have to throw away something old that is still working well. That is not so easy to do. That is why innovation usually comes from those who don't have anything valuable they need to throw away.
Looks good. I'll keep it in mind. You can follow development updates over at codr.posterous.com
Government has never, ever been in the business of lowering the cost of anything (except corn and wheat). It's in the business of creating infrastructure, protecting its people, looking out for the "general welfare" (which should include health, but I digress...), and demonstrating the efficacy of things ("hey, now, would ya lookie there. We got a man on the moon. Huh, go figure" or "hey, you hear that University scientist and the NIH just cured Polio? No, really, they did!").

Now, the technology transfer of government output to the private market, that's where the lowered cost and great value will come to the fore. I'm sure I'll rile the free market feathers by saying this, but SpaceX and Virgin Galactic would not exist without NASA. No way, no how.

Just to get you geeked out about NASA, though, here's a fan-made video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkuo1yihjs

Jersey Shore-style Fist-pumping science.
I think the situation is a lot different than in the cold war. The economies of the U.S. and China are so deeply connected that neither can afford to get into a major conflict with the other.
someone wiped the stats -- the direct link with the original statistics is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Literacy_in_the_Un...
Yes, America has the worst economic system there is except for all the others that have been tried.

China? You GOT to be kidding! They are run by a one party dictatorship. They run essentially a centrally directed, command economy. They are still so poor that on average they have a tough time even getting enough rice for their people.

So, starting from where they are, they can get a fantastic rate of growth basically borrowing science, technology, and finance from America. BUT: Once they quit crawling, get up on all fours, and start walking, then they will face the fact that they have some serious problems: (1) Total suckage for a constitution. (2) Similarly for their political and legal systems and human rights, e.g., little things like freedom of the press. (3) Next to nothing in 'democratic traditions'. (4) A lot of filthy air and water. (5) A population with a quite old average age.

So, once they are standing, their people will want to do things about (1)-(5). As a country, they will struggle. The struggles may become violent. On "One fine day" (I know, Japan, not China), they will get (1)-(4) solved; solving (5) will be harder.

Then they will be about where America was in, say, 1950. As they move ahead, actually to do better than America they will have to do well with things that are new, with pushing the envelope, with making progress on new ground. Then they will begin to see the enormous advantages of political freedom, freedom to cut new ground in our research universities, free enterprise, freedom of the press, freedom in art, guarantees of freedom from an oppressive government, etc. They will still have the problem of a population with too old average age and a bad ratio of people to land and natural resources.

Net, bet on the economy in China continuing to grow rapidly for some years, but don't bet on China actually beating America in any significant sense this century.
The novel about this is Neal Stephenson's Anathem... where people strive to keep just the necessary information alive (like, "Where did we store the atomic waste a couple of 1000 years ago?").

No matter how your data is going to be stored, it will eventually have to be copied to another medium. And if you want to store it "forever", you will get data corruption, either because of transmission errors or because the storage medium fails. Keeping the data redundant is not enough for guaranteed data safety, as no matter how many copies you create, one day all of them can fail at the same time.

But you can take steps to ensure that your data is realistically safe for say a 1000 years (which is not by any means "forever", but then who but an archaeology AI will read your data at that time). The Long Now Foundation is thinking about stuff like this (http://www.longnow.org/).

An interesting question is, how do you ensure that your data will not be intentionally wiped out, because it is deemed (religiously, politically, legally) offensive? A metal band's CD cover is now considered dangerously close to child porn here abouts (Scorpions, Virgin Killer). That may be enough to make some people erase your data for decency's sake. A dead man can not fight a cease and desist order.

A different view on the matter would be: you are going to die, and your data is going to die eventually. And even if it is around, it's likely that no one will want to read it anyway. But your existence will have consequences for the rest of (human) history, as just by living you provide an input to the human race. This input may be in the form of biological data (children) or pure information (a blog article about "forever storage" which inspires the next great startup founder to do great things). Just go on, do something positive besides leaving a huge carbon footprint and atomic waste that lasts for a million years.
It's not the trains that are the problem, it's the tracks. There are enough high-quality, high-speed trainsets to choose from (TGV, Velaro, ETR 500+, AGV, etc), but they don't have enough track to run them on.

Spain gets it. There, the government has invested an insane amount in a dedicated HS infrastructure which is used by all types of (high-speed) trains. Madrid-Barcelona is 3 hours and has already halved the need for the air shuttle that runs between the cities.

What we need is for governments to stop trying to do everything and do what they do best: Build the rail infrastructure according to the relevant standards (ETMS, ERTMS) and cooperate to fill the gaps in the network (Perpignan-Figueras, Lyon-Turin, etc). Then let private companies do what they do best: Run the trains, compete and drive down prices.
yes, a former head of state police has been brought to book for molesting a girl who committed suicide when the incident took place. Problem is that it takes so much time for verdicts that its almost justice denied. But there is some effort being there. For instance the 'mission undertrial' that the law minister launched this Feb. Almost 1 lakh accused of petty crimes were just languishing in jails without a hearing, all of them have been released.

Problem here is that we tend to take two steps forward and one step back. I hope that changes.
To use a quote frequently attributed to the founder of the Democratic party, "One man with courage makes a majority." (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#Misattributed)

As [2] notes, waivers have been used as recently as Katrina for national emergencies, which this most certainly is. It's hard for me to imagine that any pressure group could politically get away with resisting a long term waiver if the spotlight was turned onto them, and it's hard to see why they'd do it in the first place, since this is a unique situation where there's more than enough work to go around for all.

But let's cut to the chase, has Team Obama even tried?
You expect website-creators to stop using ridiculously data-expensive techniques because a new tech comes out? Usually new tech implies the opposite.

The end of loaders (which HTML5 does not represent in the least. Just pre-load through JS with a % done) would be a bad thing, because you wouldn't know that the site would load within a reasonable amount of time. Coke's site could take 5 seconds or 5 minutes, and without a loader, what do you do? Stare at a blank page, wondering if it's working?
What if it wasn't a company? What if you created an "heirloom box" that stored all your important data.

Your children could each have their own box to store their important data. Their box will be synced with your data as well.

The grandchildren would have boxes that sync with their parents and the grandparents data.

I could see these advantages:

1) As time goes on, these boxes contain a greater number of people's important data and become more valuable.

2) It is also somewhat secure, since the data is only in the hands of your children and grandchildren while you are alive.

3) Each generation would have a newer version of the box. The hardware is never obsolete.
Do you use asterisk at Twilio or something else?
I can just imagine the 3D titles: Avatart, Up (Yours), Boy Toy Story ...
They needed to be able to do some queries on various indexes, so key/value stores wouldn't work. Also MongoDB tends to be only 10% slower then memcache, so not sure why you think its not fast...
Really, Apple just needs to release their plugin documentation - and some of these problems could actually be fixed by developers who have to fight them every day.
Yeah, we use Asterisk among other things.
I program and manage CNC machines. Not a common area. I suspect lots of people here fit into uncommon fields.
Hi Ian from FreePN here -

This is all very unexpected actually! (No one from FreePN made the post here!) We've been doing some early market testing in a few Linux communities on Reddit, but full disclosure, the product is currently in an early-alpha stage (it’s only available on Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux currently, and very much under construction). We have big ambitions for the project, but it is still very early days.

Love hearing the feedback from everyone here — some very valid criticisms from a lot of folks — and on a lot of points that have been brought up here, we actually have plans to address. A few bullet points on where we are as an organization / project:

— the marketing copy isn’t set in stone — I’ve been working on the site a bunch recently & it’s very much in flux (we’ve been posting in a few Linux communities to see what the response looks like)
— when we posted a few months ago about the project, in all honesty, it was a demand test to see if this would be something worth pursuing — but we’ve been trying to take the feedback from those posts to heart in our development process
— we market ourselves as a VPN, but to be clear we _are_ a dVPN (distributed VPN). The peer-to-peer VPN wording on our site is mostly for the sake of simplicity. I’d point most folks to our project README on GitHub for more in-depth technical details.
— right now FreePN is structured as a 1-to-1 peer connection, but we eventually plan to build in multi-tenant peer support as well as optional multi-hop routing (similar to Tor) and selective whitelisting of domains so that as a peer you can elect to categorically block certain types of sites — say torrenting. These blocklists would draw from open-source category site-lists like Fortiguard.
— we do currently only route web traffic (+ DNS) — so only traffic on ports 80 and 443 is being routed (optionally port 53)
— we don’t currently support IPv6 (though we have plans to add support in the future)
— we don’t log traffic (you can see in the repo), and while peers logging traffic is a potential concern, that’s only true if you’re using non-HTTPS connections (we have plans to bake in something similar to HTTPS Everywhere, automatically upgrading connections).

As far as our vision for the product — our goal for FreePN is to eventually become a ‘privacy all-in-one’. We started FreePN because we care deeply about internet privacy — but trying to protect yourself online practically is a very technical and time-consuming endeavor (basically — it’s really hard to protect your privacy online, and we’re trying to make it easy). In terms of features, we’re working on building in ad-blocking as our next major milestone.

I’ll do my best to respond to everyone’s questions and concerns here this evening / in the morning & tomorrow as I’m able!
There's another review of the same study/replication/rebuttal at http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2019/11/20/a-stud... which agrees that the rebuttal is unconvincing and the replication study rightly showed the original studies were seriously flawed.
> Stulta lex sed lex.

Latin for _stupid law but law_
Some discussion from when it was last posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21630333
Clear as daylight, journalism is in crisis. This article is primarily about how our climate change reporting is exaggerated to dangerous levels. I'd go further and say journalism's purpose to society is in danger of everyone loosing faith in our ability to honestly self report. If we don't believe the news, everyone is operating on an unknown assessment of any given situation. Given the necessity to "fill in the blanks" when you don't trust reporting, people quickly exaggerate themselves away from reality. As respect and accuracy of news reporting drops, we all become blind. Seems like a very difficult nose dive to pull out of: our news media is how society talks to itself, that is in crisis.
You have to lift the handset off the hook and hold it in one hand and use the other hand to dial, meaning dialing required using both hands.

This picture shows an example https://www.alamy.com/man-uses-old-rotary-phone-image2272405...
>People aren't smart about surveillance, they're not smart enough to realize that giving Instagram access to their phone is a bad idea

I've seen this argument a lot, the issue is not people are not smart enough but people have different value toward privacy. I understand tech and yet I'm fine and even supporting this kind of tech. I understand its really hard and sucks to be in the side where you think is nightmare but other people think is not an issue. But thats the reality, people can have different value.
> I don't see climate change halting when 3/4 of the world are still clawing out of developing status.

The article suggests that is a good thing and we should help this 3/4 of the world to acheive afluence

>> “If you want to minimize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2070 you might want to accelerate the burning of coal in India today,” MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel said.

>> “It doesn’t sound like it makes sense. Coal is terrible for carbon. But it’s by burning a lot of coal that they make themselves wealthier, and by making themselves wealthier they have fewer children, and you don’t have as many people burning carbon, you might be better off in 2070.”

>>“You’ve got to come up with some kind of middle ground where you do reasonable things to mitigate the risk and try at the same time to lift people out of poverty and make them more resilient,” said Emanuel. “We shouldn’t be forced to choose between lifting people out of poverty and doing something for the climate.”
For those unaware:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

Minorities and the Public Health edifice of the United States have more than enough reason to be distrustful of one another. It's not the same world now, given, but it's not exactly outside of living memory either. Trust in Public Health services is key, because without that, no one will come in and it becomes incredibly difficult to get ahead of Public Health issues..

To be honest, instead of the "Let's do people of color first" approach, I'd have looked into implementing vaccine sites closer to their communities and rolled it out at the same time. Doing that also cuts down on the reflexive perception of inequality in the eyes of the process. This is actually called out in the article, so U find it puzzling why that approach was shot down...

Equal really should mean equal; no exceptions.
As a general case, I think you make a good point. But in this particular case, WhatsApp really is pretty perfect as far as messaging goes - the only issue is the terms of service, so it makes sense for Signal to have the same features, but without horrible ToS.
>WhatsApp isn't just a messaging app

To many that is the sticky part though.

>Beyond the HackerNews crowd, most people don't care about privacy.

I thought so two...but there does seem to be some ground level chatter on this among young non-techies.
Banana Republic / puppet state of CCP
I can think of two:

* There would often be a need to separate human areas from more energy rich areas. A pointed solution often allows for this separation.

* Current engine design has a "rear end" of some sort, which then implies "pointing"
I start complete beginners to programming with Thonny.

Thonny has everything included to start quickly no external plugins, installs needed.

The debugger and the shell work quite nicely.

Key bindings are a bit different (instead of Ctrl+/ you have to use Ctrl+3)

After a few weeks I migrate them to VS Code or PyCharm and later Jupyter .

Every semester a few students stay with Thonny and it does not hold them back from making great projects.

You can install packages with Thonny but it tends to conflict with Anaconda installation leading to https://xkcd.com/1987/ situation.
Don't forget snabbdom & redom

https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom
https://redom.js.org
Slices start at 0, not 1. However they are inclusive of both boundary items. This matches how ranges are specified in Nim.
Didn't hear about this until now. Just donated because I want archive.org to life a long time. The do an important and unique service for the entire web.
That's awesome to hear, thanks!
Not the first time we've fallen for that American scam, you'd think we'd have learnt http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow#Cancellation

Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however, this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow

So much for the "special relationship" eh?
I think a slightly more practical approach would be to make an easily self-hosted web proxy with an accompanying Google Chrome (or other) extension that can rewrite all network requests.
Yes it looks like they are using the age adjusted rate. The problem is it looks like almost most causes of death have fallen in an age adjusted rate by about 20% also. This is great news, but I am not sure why cancer was singled out.
Their international versions outside China come with Play store. In fact, there is no way to get their own store outside China.
Probably a good deal for the phone manufacturer that purchased it; Palm is a well-known name among a previous generation of electronics consumers, and that name could help them sell to a different demographic than the typical smartphone.
>employers who pay just enough for you to jump ship and join their company and NOT pay you for the value of the work you're about to do or that they know you can contribute, are most likely employers who will bleed you to death in the work environment.

This is happening to me currently
> this is pretty damning for ie9 js performance isn't it?

I think the whole point of the post is to poke fun at how Microsoft is cheating the benchmark and how it was caught. The part on the definition of Angles and that the "optimizer" should throw an exception it doesn't (most probably because it's not optimizing anything) is hilarious.
Don't sign if you are uncomfortable with the risk. It's best to have an employment attorney look over the contract and follow their advice, but if in doubt... don't.

I once worked for a company that wanted me to sign over rights to use my name, voice, and likeness for their marketing purposes. I said no way. HR drew up a new contract with the offending clause removed.

Then there was the startup that wanted me to sign an NDA and a TEN YEAR noncompete, the penalty for violation of which was that I would be personally liable for twice my employer's market cap -- even if my employer were, say, PayPal -- just to hear what their product was.

I gave them a hard no.
There is probably some risk of incentivizing kids to mess with their weight.
As Rentec tidbits continue to leak over the years, you wonder how much of their gains are tax loophole engineering vs financial wizardry.
But if they didn't make any considerations before buying, we should still encourage them to return the app and reverse the transaction

There's no point punishing people for accidentally spending money on a digital product they don't want when the tech involved to reverse that decision is available, ready to use, and won't hurt any parties involved
> Perhaps they can offer you a year of severance in exchange for the non compete.

Negotiating a year of severance pay is extremely unlikely without additional conditions (such as requiring 6 years of service, equivalent to 2 months severance for every 1 year of employment).

> They will likely tell you “it’s standard” and “there’s nothing they can do” and they will hold that line until they know you are serious.

All very true. Keep in mind that their willingness and ability to be flexible varies greatly on the size of the company and how difficult it is to find other candidates with similar skill sets. If you're the only person in their hiring pipeline with a specific skillset, you might have more leverage. If they have 10 other candidates with similar talents in the hiring queue, they might simply choose to move on to the next candidate. It helps to have some leverage.
Does it need "multithreaded async IO" or just "async IO"? It's usually async _or_ multithreaded; the native multi-request I/O APIs are single threaded, but if you have multithreaded I/O using simpler APIs, the system is batching them into one request at the cost of a little latency.
Yeah, no. It'd be laughed out of the court because Nvidia's reputation and brand among gamers would get hurt because of the short supply to them and if Nvidia selling to PC OEMs who are selling the cards at a huge markup or to miners. Thus, Nvidia has both the breach of contract plus public interest on their side.
IANAL, but it depends partially on how you're taxed.

If you're going to stay small, look into an S-corp status. That way you're only taxed once (personally) rather than twice or three times (depending on whether your state has a corporate income tax).
You're wrong. I've actually had to maintain the big C++ projects. That have Zillion of classes, fully different, but each one has more Read(), Write() functions. Some are virtual, some are not. Some have two parameters, some have three, some four. And they even do fully different stuff! Which Read() will be called depends on anything and everything. I claim you just can't figure out what some piece of code does in any other way than by actually single-stepping through the debug build. Any time the debug build pieces of code don't reflect the source, you're fully lost.
Note that Linus usage scenario is "read the chunk of code outside of the whole source base" and you argumenting "if I use some hypotetical very clever tool the tool would maybe able to show me what some line in the chunk of code actually does." I've actually made some "very clever tools" since some twenty years ago. And I wouldn't want to have to use them on the really big projects.
Depending on how, if at all, you are getting around the region otherwise, eastern European railroad might not be something you want to add to your itinerary.
Goes to show that no hosting solution is immune to down time.
The features of LESS seem like much more obvious lacks in CSS than this to me. (http://lesscss.org/)
That would probably wind up with some pretty horrific situations. It's not always clear if a death was a suicide. Combine ambiguity with LARGE sums of money...
So she paid with her labour by getting the coupons first?