skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The are the PROC's pet; put the screws to them to sort out Kim.
Except this specific thread is all about how the municipal system is failing because either the populace won't vote for investment or higher political bodies block it.

In that case privatisation can work because it removes short term political incentives from the equation. Corporate structures enable investment and charging what is needed - plus things like water conservation ironically are often pursued more by those with financial stake in the game.

A private water utility can be sued into oblivion or killed by regulators over lead issues - yet a public system gets some soul searching articles that still mostly manage to blame capitalists while ignoring the failures of regulators. "Better regulation" is hard to achieve, but America in many ways seems to be truly shocking in how poorly regulated many areas are.
The Tech Behind the Catch
The Nazi party was certainly the winner or the election in July 1932, where it became the largest party in the parliament. In March 1933 elections it became even larger, with 44% more than twice the size of the second largest party, the SPD. It just never had an absolute majority - the parliamentary act which effectively gave the party dictatorial powers was supported by the conservative and center parties.
OT: waves - hi there fellow Seattleite!
You can try crates.fyi for hosted docs, e.g.

https://crates.fyi/crates/itertools/0.4.7/
Not American (aus), and not op, but I grew up and moved between semi-rural, suburban, and now am in a city.

Now, the human being is a pretty adaptable creature that normalises what they experience every day, so a lot of these are things I only noticed after moving from environment to environment.

I think I got just as much additional activity time in the rural setting as I did growing up in suburbia, because trips to playground or ovals or swimming pools or tennis courts all involved car trips.
Ditto shopping, movies, etc. Of course, now I'm an adult, I know commute times need to be added as a downside.

Where the suburbs turned into "hell on earth" was during the teen years, when you're struggling for independence/stimulation, but you're stuck in the teenage equivalent of solitary confinement. The internet came just in time for me. As I've said before, it all just seemed normal then, but as I moved around, I learnt that there were places in the world you could walk to the supermarket/movies/library. Where buses came more than once every 2 hours and didn't involve a half hour wait to get what was notionally a few km's down the road. Where your friends actually lived close enough for you to visit. And those facilities where you had to get into the car? Well now they are just down the road too and you can walk, or catch the sub-15 minute public transport straight there.

We're definitely going to give the urban child thing a go if we have children. Though part of that will necessarily mean a change of attitude. We no longer want a 4 bedroom house with a backyard for kids, primarily because large parts of what we would of tried to have gained by having such space can instead be outsourced to community facilities instead.
Why is it widely condemned when North Korea launches a satellite?

Why does the article quote North Korea's "right" to explore space in a peaceful manner?

Just wondering.

It's not like plenty of other states are putting military satellites in orbit without asking anyone for permission.
The wood technology mentioned in the article isn't particularly new, but has certainly been getting more attention recently in the push towards more sustainable construction practices. In the bay area, most new mid-rise (3-8 story) residential construction goes up as a concrete pedestal parking garage with a wood structure on top - wood has a great strength/weight ratio and so reduces the earthquake forces you have to design for.

The biggest issue in going taller and to other occupancy types is fire. Buildings over a certain height (related to the height of fire truck ladders) are designed to burn out entire floors completely[1] without collapsing[2]. This is easier with steel and concrete, which lose strength at temperature but don't actually add fuel to the fire. What's been found more recently is that if you put the right additives in engineered wood products and make it a stocky enough shape then the wood will burn itself out even in a very large fire. But that information is new, and building codes are necessarily conservative. These things can also get awfully political, considering that there are separate trade organizations for the wood, concrete, and steel industry who all have a vote and want the code to say that their material is the safest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Meridian_Plaza

[2] http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/11/san-francisco-mission-ba...
Is there a way to access it from javaScript?
Can JS code set CSS --color and make it change.
> The next 20 years will be quite interesting to say the least. Electric cars + autonomous Cars + Uber = no need for people to own cars but pay a small fee.

Yes, and Apple, with its Apple car, will have totally mis-predicted the market.
Unless you run windows on virtualbox and it says "unsupported cpu"
Again, no one ever said white people are not suitable for this role or can't be involved in any way. This is the third time I've pointed this out. No one is saying white people can't be empathetic, or thoughtful, or innovative when it comes to topics of race. It's just that people of color are even more qualified to lead these programs as they have first hand experience existing in an exceptionally racist system.

White people are already in charge of everything, they don't also need to be in charge of diversity. That's exactly why these positions are being created in the first place.
I remember riding a bike pretty much everywhere within about a 20 mile radius of home (including a couple nearby small cities). (To be honest though I don't think any of our parents realized just how far we travelled or they might have objected -- on the other hand, I don't think they were that likely to start driving us everywhere back then either.)
That's assuming it's not encrypted. A lot of the data coming in is transmitted in plain right now, (comms, images, telemetry, ...) because it's just not worth encrypting, or simply could be of interest to other parties. But if anyone wants to put encryption on the data, you're not going to find out much.

That said... it's passing right over me in a few minutes, so I'll be out monitoring the 4xx freqs :)

Edit: in case anyone was wondering - nothing exciting happened. No sign of new signals during a perfect pass: https://i.imgur.com/rMC6gIE.png (at least not at those freqs they used previously)
Property is an investment. Can you get deductions for other types of investments?
In my first startup it was just too much, it took me over one year. Nowadays, I'd say that a couple of months is more than enough!
Living with and building for the Amazon Echo
If driving is losing its allure, then how are people getting around? The reason I wonder is that in some places like LA, public transit ridership is down, not up as you would expect. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ridership-slum...
"Strange countries" fight their war, allegedly for their interests, but in reality not leaving much for them to do or diminishing the impact of their actions. For those who wish to live under more secular regimes, Europe is a better bet to take. Even if European forces prevail, the best they can expect is a bad imitation of ideals with lots of colonial "lifestyle". Furthermore, quite a few are healthy young men with healthy little children and wives.
Y Combinator is accepting applications for the Summer 2016 funding cycle
Nvidia is a public company. What the CEO has said is enough for shareholders and other investors to sue the company.
I don't believe that NK has demonstrated that they can build nuclear bombs... If I recall correctly, their claimed nuclear detonation was not in fact a fully-fledged nuclear explosion.

Also, they are weak as heck, and can't realistically attack anyone without being annihilated.

The continuous rhetoric viz-a-viz NK, both from their side and the West is quite ridiculous to behold.
My understanding is that there is a persistent gender imbalance in physics generally. Is seems obvious that the IOP would want to fund research into why this is happening and ways in which it can be solved. Is the Nazi comparison really necessary?
I'm just asking what one of these companies would get out of buying Twitter?

Having one fewer competitor. Not sure what users would get out of it, though.
1. Elections.

2. Monopoly. There is no "but they are doing it so we have to, too" race to the bottom.
Virtual Reality Framework for 3D Visualization of Meteorological Data
That was acutely tied up in consequences for politicians and regulators - and as Flint is showing the one thing political turkeys don't vote for is Christmas jailtime for themselves.
The Federal Government actively encouraged the mortgage crash through encouraging uneconomical home ownership and destroying banking regulation.

"Big water" is not the banking industry, the disparity between regulator and regulated is much less likely to occur and the opportunities for mega profits with which to bribe politicians, and allow them to bribe us with the resultant tax take, simply aren't there.
Maybe not in this particular case, but you could definitely make a case that photographing political candidates as that pass within range of a day-trip (or maybe a two-day-trip) of where you live is just the cost of time, gas, (food,) and lodging.

Someone could do something similar using such a model.
> Can you get deductions for other types of investments?

Yes, especially capital expenditures
Because it's widely assumed that this satellite launch is a test-bed for a nuclear-warhead ICBM.
IMO Terra (http://terralang.org/) is a more interesting approach to this problem, since it not only enables macros but also staged compilation, polymorphism-as-a-library, runtime specialization etc.

> You can use Terra and Lua as…

> A scripting-language with high-performance extensions. While the performance of Lua and other dynamic languages is always getting better, a low-level of abstraction gives you predictable control of performance when you need it. Terra programs use the same LLVM backend that Apple uses for its C compilers. This means that Terra code performs similarly to equivalent C code. For instance, our translations of the nbody and fannhakunen programs from the programming language shootout1 perform within 5% of the speed of their C equivalents when compiled with Clang, LLVM’s C frontend. Terra also includes built-in support for SIMD operations, and other low-level features like non-temporal writes and prefetches. You can use Lua to organize and configure your application, and then call into Terra code when you need controllable performance.

> An embedded JIT-compiler for building languages. We use techniques from multi-stage programming to make it possible to meta-program Terra using Lua. Terra expressions, types, and functions are all first-class Lua values, making it possible to generate arbitrary programs at runtime. This allows you to compile domain-specific languages (DSLs) written in Lua into high-performance Terra code. Furthermore, since Terra is built on the Lua ecosystem, it is easy to embed Terra-Lua programs in other software as a library. This design allows you to add a JIT-compiler into your existing software. You can use it to add a JIT-compiled DSL to your application, or to auto-tune high-performance code dynamically.

> A stand-alone low-level language. Terra was designed so that it can run independently from Lua. In fact, if your final program doesn’t need Lua, you can save Terra code into a .o file or executable. In addition to ensuring a clean separation between high- and low-level code, this design lets you use Terra as a stand-alone low-level language. In this use-case, Lua serves as a powerful meta-programming language. You can think of it as a replacement for C++ template metaprogramming or C preprocessor X-Macros4 with better syntax and nicer properties such as hygiene. Since Terra exists only as code embedded in a Lua meta-program, features that are normally built into low-level languages can be implemented as Lua libraries. This design keeps the core of Terra simple, while enabling powerful behavior such as conditional compilation, namespaces, templating, and even class systems implemented as libraries.
These aren't webcams (as some of the comments mention that)

My best guess would be using a geoIP to detect the user's city and then using Google Map's street view from that city and showcase it for a couple of seconds. The webmaster would have more accurate data if he had asked for HTML5 geo location permission.
How does the "Fidelis SSL Inspector" work from page 10 of Professor Ligon's slides? [1]

The man-in-the-middle server 'identifies and decrypts all SSL/TLS encrypted traffic'? So long as an 'endpoint-trusted CA certificate' has been installed?

Does this really break SSL on all traffic that is diverted to the device, or does one of the endpoints need to have some 'registration' on it to permit this?

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2703887-Ucop-Monitor...
I don't see driving going away for me any time soon, for the following reasons:

1. I live 50 miles from work and 10 miles from my nearest close friend.

2. House is within bicycling distance to a single train station, but the train doesn't go anywhere useful. You basically need auto transportation once you get off it, which makes it pointless.

3. Kid who will be in school soon, and is too far from the nearest elementary school to walk.

4. Hobbies (e.g. wood working) that often require me to haul large heavy items from stores miles away.

5. Generally we like to go out and do stuff. Whether it's across town or across the state, there's really only one option: You have to drive.

People don't realize how big the USA is, and how far things are apart. Unless you're in a dense urban environment ($$$) you're kind of stuck needing to drive.
Nvidia earns a lot of flak, and SemiA might be a great site overall. But, the only times I see SemiA linked is when Charlie has written an article that gives the distinct impression that at some point Nvidia ran over his dog. That is my entire experience with the site over many years.
That Time the Super Bowl Secretly Used Facial Recognition Software on Fans
Took 4 years for a Google Engineer to realize consequences of his actions
Can you explain more?? Why did you spend a whole year at first? How did you go about vetting them?
Swiss city bans 'noisy' silent discos
Romans, and Greeks especially under Alexander, changed their lifestyles significantly to accommodate influence from subjects of their conquests. It comes with the imperium package.
Off by "an (one) order of magnitude", i.e. off by 2 orders of magnitude.
Another good option is to use Joe Armstrong's approach: look at the LLVM IR generated by clang for example and then emit those.

My first attempt at using LLVM was using the C++ API. It was...a struggle. Using this approach (IR snippets), I made more progress in a day than I had in months using the API.
I realize N Korea is pretty isolated, but China shares technology with the country right? Do engineers in N Korea go to school in China?
> With personally rented cars, who is in charge of cleaning it up, or determining if the vehicle is sufficiently clean, or figuring out who did any damage?

With Zipcar, they clean it about once a week, the user is responsible for reporting any damage, dirt, low fuel, etc when they pick up the car (not dissimilar from renting a car).
Another problem with the over regulation of professions is that in many states those convicted of a crime cannot obtain a license. They can have totally served their time, both in jail and/or probation but still be prevented from holding a "professional license".

Worse many of the jobs that require these licensees don't pay that much which brought up a whole industry of schools which pass off the costs through student loans and such to get a career which long term isn't going earn a lot of money or even come with benefits
Agreed...

Three years ago they put a satellite in orbit...orbit is decaying for that one...

Of course, there's quite a bit of speculation that they're more interested in testing rockets than orbiting a functioning satellite...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missile-idUSKCN...
So the string literal is a str, but it gets turned into a String with the .into(), and then back into a str (well, &str) on the same line. That seems like a lot of travelling to go a short distance.

Is this because args() ultimately gives you a String, and you need to get that and the string literal out of a single expression?

Why does args() give you String rather than str? Couldn't command-line arguments be static more-or-less constants?

Would there be any way to turn the output of args straight into a &str, so you didn't need to .into() the literal?

Why are String and str separate types, rather than different uses of a single type? Are there any other examples of pairs of types with the same relationship? Arrays and slices? Any others? Is there something like this for maps/dictionaries/hashes?

I realise i've asked a lot of basic questions about strings here, and that you (and any other knowledgeable people reading this) are probably pretty tired of explaining this over and over again. I would be equally grateful for a link to some relevant documentation or whatever as for a detailed answer!
It could help for example in the case of a DCMA takedown, thanks to the backup, you won't lose all the issues this way.
> Why does the article quote North Korea's "right" to explore space in a peaceful manner?

Because if you run through the street, it's normal. If you run through the street shouting that you're exercising your right to run through the street in a peaceful manner, it's being super suspicious. (like naming state-controlled newspaper "The Truth") Also because everyone is aware they're experimenting with serious weapons and act as if they are disconnected from consequences, so it's worth paying attention.
The problem is that sometimes it is vital for cities to be able to control which (and how many) businesses open up in an area.

Just look at what has hit HN today - an article about Walmart closing down and leaving entire regions without a less-than-3-hours drive to the next grocery store.

It is vital for a city to be able to prevent big chains from entering a market, destroying the competition by price dumping (made possible by sheer scale) and then packing up - leaving a stripped down town in the process.

Oh the other side, it's unfortunate that these laws and regulations more often than not get abused for clientel politics.
They can make fission nuclear bombs, but probably not the more powerful fusion nuclear bombs.
Anton Sequel Makes Stronger Case for Custom Supercomputing
The UK also has a partially privatised water system. When it first happened it was highly controversial, especially regional price disparities.

Now years later there's an interesting political storm in Scotland which has retained a public water utility. The public sector has to contract out for water supplies and a private bidder came in with a much lower bid. The Scottish Government, for various reasons not least that the private bidder was English, gave Scottish Water three opportunities to try and make a more competitive offer - they couldn't.
the vast difference between the chinese system of writing and alphabets i'm used to brings to mind a question: is there a notion of linear ordering of chinese characters? are all chinese characters enumerated (to the layperson, i understand that they'd have to be numbered to be encoded)?
IBM Traverses Deeper into Graph Territory
I'll add armchair coaching from someone in a small EU country which still has its language because his both grandfathers didn't bail and ran away, for which I'm forever grateful of the responsibility they took.
Aiming Object Storage at Hadoop, Hitting Core Enterprise Instead
> because it's just not worth encrypting

That seems unlikely to be the reason but I don't know much about how satellites are programmed. On the terrestrial plane a $5 raspberry pi with free software can encrypt and decrypt secure communication. It's trivial and cheap to encrypt.
That's super cool, thanks for the info. I might hit you up at a (much) later date for a chat about it!
The Long Cycles of Enterprise Networks
What does that have to do with requiring two years of training to get a barber's license?
Writing Software That Can Kill
Operating Systems, Virtualization, and the Machine
Full disclosure: I am the author of this post.
I can't try because Apple Pay isn't available here yet. According to this support document it works without Touch ID (emphasis mine):

> To help ensure the security of Apple Pay, you must have a passcode set on your device and, optionally, Touch ID. [...] To send your payment information, you must authenticate using Touch ID or your passcode.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027
Looks interesting. Python...

Does it take into trading fees? I pay $9 per trade. Can you have fixed income instruments in your portfolio? Foreign stocks? Does it handle exchange rates? Does it account for dividends?
> I get the feeling that Rust design is concerned more about write-ability
> of the code than readability.

We're usually accused of the opposite: being explicit about things really helps in the long run. We've made several choices that we think, at least, helps "in the large" but hurts "in the small". We can always be wrong, of course :)

> code comprehension (debugging, integration efforts, etc) by third parties will be hampered.

In what way? I still don't understand what you're getting at here.

> Not importing the entire library will result in faster compilation.

Rust's unit of compilation is a "crate", which gets compiled at once. Metadata is then stored in the artifact (.rlib) so that you can know the interface, etc, and you don't need to recompile the rlib when you change what aspects of the library you use. So I'm a _little_ bit unsure of the _exact_ details, but I think it's the same as precompiled headers, to my knowledge.

> where codebase took 12 hours to compile on a powerful cluster.

Well, I'm sure we'll get to really huge projects someday, but we tend to do the "small packages" philosophy, so an initial compile might take a while, but subsequent ones aren't as bad. I just did a clean build of Servo, which is roughly 6MM LOC (575k Rust, 500k C, 1MM C++ (Spidermonkey, I'm guessing)), and it took 16 minutes on the first (debug) build, and 3 minutes on the second, after touch-ing the main file. Lots of the initial time is building the 170 (!) dependencies, which then don't need to be compiled again. (And your second build-times will be different based on which sub-package you're building. Some are faster, some are slower.)

We also have a lot of compiler performance improvements coming down the pipeline, including incremental recompilation within a single crate.

> Since both are supported, maybe the parser can be made smarter?

It's been debated, but it's another edge case to remember. It's not clear that adding another special rule to the language is worth saving four characters.

> Is not easily read or debugged ( on which line do you set the breakpoint, etc).

I think it depends. I come from a functional background, so reading it feels fairly straightforward to me (though that for in a fold is a bit odd), and debugging should work as usual, though I don't feel the need to use a debugger a whole lot in Rust.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Skepticism is good! Constructive criticism is the only way things move forward.
If your gateway servers are compromised to this degree you have a much larger problem than your ssh agent being compromised.