skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting detail I found, I think, on Wikipedia, is that if the meteor had hit about four hours later, due to Earth's rotation, it would have roughly hit Saint Petersburg.

If such events happen so frequently, we're pretty lucky so far. Given that much of Earth is covered in water, I could imagine a lot of these simply hit the ocean, but I don't know what would happen if it hit close to the coast.
A coworker once told me that when he visited he heard about an Iron Maiden cover band called Ron Maiden.
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Why? There is no exploit; to the device, this behaves as any other Android app, subject to its restrictions.

This is indeed very useful, as not all phones may be rooted (an issue of legal permission between owner and user, not of technical possibility), and this app enables a pseudo-root, sandboxed system that can be seamlessly uninstalled like any other Android app.

Also, the attack surface of a rooted phone is siginificantly larger (by necessity) than that of an unrooted one; plus you may want to give your users a portable desktop computer without necessarily giving them a rooted device.
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From personal experience I observe that metal has become more present in society than it was some years back.

One of the personal experiences is that only about 10 years ago, it was difficult to find metal music online, even on mainstream services. Today, I have an Apple Music subscription with tons and tons of metal music in it, with curated playlists and really good recommendations based on my listening habits. I wouldn't imagine this would ever happen.

Another anecdote is the ever increasing acceptance of headbangers as regular folks. Yes, with a peculiar musical taste and an unusual lifestyle, but nothing really suprising anymore.

And as for metal itself, I really love how people from all over the world have found in this music style something meaningful and special to them. You can go all around the world, meet fellow metalheads and see their eyes glow and their hearts accelerate as they talk about their favorite bands and the live shows they have seen. It's one of the truly friendliest "communities" I have ever found, way ahead and more welcoming than the tech community.
Low-tech solution: just tell them to stay on the line while you are getting your credit card. Then leave the phone off the hook.
Truly a transport system for the modern age! :)

(Joking aside, Bristol does seem to be doing OK for tech jobs)
When I was in highschool my family had 3 home phone numbers that were consecutive (8451, 8452, 8453) and once in a while they would all light up from the same telemarketing company. I would conference them all together and listen in as hilarity ensued.
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I think that they've called it both, and many other things too. But then, I don't speak the language.

My broader point is that there's a lot of metal parody in punk. And a lot of metal is arguably metal parody.
I should've worded it like "there shouldn't even be a right to posses cars anymore". My bad, sorry. But this is my stance, given the frequency of traffic fatalities and the damage that cars give to the ecosystem, car ownership should leave its place to use if public transport and other eco friendly media.
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Add support for touch events, please.
Is it just me, or did they pick pretty much the only telemarketer you wouldn't want to do this to (donations)?
I doubt that their operations costs are $1M per month. They should be 1/10th that amount. If you're spending that much, you are being robbed by employees or providers. This number is simply not believable by anyone who has experience running a large datacenter operations organization.
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> while many OOP patterns are hard to express in Rust, there are equivalent patterns that handle the use cases.

May be there are, but they far from trivial, and with the current level of documentation they are in the realm of some obscure hacks rather than straightforward part of the language. Which is a disadvantage. May be when The Book will cover OOP topics in depth and explain such patterns, or there will be some other dedicated documentation on this topic, things could become more clear.
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I saw a documentary a couple of years back which looked into a correlation of former (likely/suspected) meteor impact sites and natural resources. It looked like lots of areas rich in interesting metals/minerals turned out to probably have been hit by meteors in the past.

So in a way, we are doing that already (at least if that documentary was not totally bogus).
As of just now, we've had 1323 contributors to the main repository, not counting Cargo, some crates, or the website, for example.

Mozilla is paying virtually all of the people who are working on it full-time, but there are a lot of people doing a lot of work in their spare time too.

> with the way things have been going the past few years

If you're referring to the projects which have been dropped over the past few years, I can see that. At the same time, Firefox is the core product, and Rust is already in Firefox, so dropping it doesn't seem likely. The amount will only be increasing.
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You can use a custom allocator on nightly.
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They're not even 'facts', but 'strong opinions'. AT&T might have lucked out and hired some savants, for example. Or in another timeline, the company might have actually been able to handle both cloud and software vending had they tried.

But ultimately, what the author is talking about is really "let's start with the basic blocks and build up".
a simple hit of ocean might be more devastating than hitting uninhabited parts of taiga. think about massive tsunami (at least that's what I would expect, depending on the impact force of course)
>There are no subjunctive tenses (with one tiny exception).

I don't see the problem with making the verb express how probable or feasible the action is, aside from the fact that you have to remember how to conjugate the verb instead of adding an adverb to express the uncertainty (which certainly avoids memorizing, since you can reuse the same adverb with almost every verb).
I don't remember which conference exactly, but I do remember the gist of the complaints. In no particular order:

- tooling (such as sbt) is still poor, even after years of complaints and calls to fix it.

- no real roadmap for improvements to scala itself in the near future

- Dotty being a diversion for the core team, detracting from scala

Now, I only dabble in Scala, so I couldn't really comment on any of these, but I did get the impression that there's a lot of un-happiness amongst core users of Scala. (See also allengeorge's comments elsewhere in this thread)
The problem with the latter is that it will cause a nuclear winter. So that 75% will not die instantly but in 2-3 years after the impact. Add an order of magnitude or even half of that and then you have an extinction level event. It could kill organisms even at microbe level.
There are so many derivatives that are accepted. I don't see why not this one. I would understand if it were watered down or something. Could you elaborate?
Thanks!
It's more difficult than you can imagine to develop...
2016 - Editors of Wall Street Journal discover heavy metal
he forgot one: they don't watch cable news.
Well needed article. Trying to follow this more and more. Although it's getting harder.
> My irritation is with the owners of the telemarketing company.

Sadly, the best way to do this is to make it less profitable for them to employ these business practices. And there are only two ways for you to do that: don't buy their products and force them to spend more money per sale (i.e. waste their time).
I thought this was going to be about making your own electricity from some kind of rotary motion. I am so old.
Entertaining that Gates finds something so fundamental as the nature of something that wants to move does not like being contained a surprising idea.
> We can build tools to check C as well as any other.

This is simply not true; language semantics determine the kinds of tooling you can build. Ruby is so dynamic that it's notoriously hard to build tools for, for example.
same here. much much better at 2d than unity and holds its own in 3d as well, even if not really comparable to what unity 5 can do.

gscript is a little too slow, but layouts are great to make ux with and the event framework is sane enough to make user input not a chore as in other engines.

eventually moved to phaser.js because that's even more cross platform and I'm fitting more and more stuff in shaders anyway.
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>Personally I have a strong anxiety about being survived.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

You should, the elite are locking down the planet and most people are too stupid and uninformed. Most won't believe it because it goes against belief in corporate ideology.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137
I would consider Unicage for your demands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_C5GBblkH8
https://www.bsdcan.org/2013/schedule/attachments/244_Unicage...

In a shell (modified for speed and ease of use) get, insert, update data in a simple way, without all the fat from other mainstream (Java) solutions.
It warms my heart to see the N900 getting a revival. While not the sleekest phone out at the time, that device was tremendously underrated as a portable computer.
To be fair, so did Adobe in a lot of theirs. They did bet hard on Flash as a platform; it just wasn't a very good bet, and very little of it went into improving the actual runtime. Instead, they tried putting sugar on top (e.g. Flex) which obviously just added to the bloat. That said, some of that sugar had some interesting ideas going for them, lacking execution notwithstanding.

Obviously I agree with you, I would never build anything new with Flex, or target the Flash runtime; but that's not to say there aren't good lessons to be learned and concepts to be snatched. Hence, the "not sure if good or bad" comment – it depends on what you steal I guess.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with everybsingle thing you've just said. This is why I love Netfix - there are lots of awesome shows my kids love like Hulk and the Agents of Smash, Spiderman and others I've forgotten.

Otherwise, they watch Australua's State run kids channel, which sounds awful but actually tends to run somewhat subversive shows like Yoohoo and Friends (universally panned by those who watched the original Korean version, but not by me or my kids!) and Adventure Time. And not a single advertisement, except promos.

Still have to find something for my daughter, who also loves those shows and we encourage her to watch them, but she is still into Shopkins (despite my best efforts of discouraging her) and other shows designed to appeal to her and her friends.

But she said watches absolutely no commercial TV. This is more by happy accident than design, because commercial TV in Australia is so completely rubbish that there is literally no need to watch it - ever!
My argument is that that idiot can further reduce pollution by using a bus. We're doing irreversible damage to the ecosystem. We complain about petrol companies and factories etc., but we should start from our own life.
No seriously, how come this case is so much more important than all those other mass shootings (and I'm hearing a lot more about San Bernadino than I'm hearing about Dylan Roof)
Nah, fuck 'em. If you have no respect for me or my time, I have no respect for yours.
I was not aware this service even existed.
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> This definitely works - https://www.donotcall.gov/ not always though

... so... it doesn't work?

"They've done studies you know. 60% of the time, it works every time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvQFtlNQ-M
The current state of the art requires charging for 20-30 minutes for every 2-3 hours of driving. Not ideal, but pretty good. Already good enough to make for the best road trip experience out there as a whole. And that's today, not some hypothetical future. How good will it be by the time hydrogen fueling stations are more than a novelty?
+1: Baller move trying to visit every link in mobile Safari.
A more interesting question is : what kind of delay is worth worrying about?

I mean, for instance it is known that life will remain possible on Earth for about 500 million years, after which the Sun will be too bright. We don't seriously worry about it, since so many things can happen in half a billion years that it does not make much sense to try to plan or predict anything in such a timeframe.

Similarly, I personally don't worry about an impactor of 10 km diameter or so. Such an event is so rare that it's not likely to happen in several million years. To me that's still the kind of timeframe it does not make sense to worry about. I'm sure some people will disagree though.

What is the limit? 10,000 years? 1,000? 100?
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Not really. The server is not open source.
The "globalisation" of metal happened a long time ago, it's definitely not attributable to the world wide web or the Internet by any means, the explosive growth perhaps, but not the initial seed in a lot of countries.
So, soon it's time to elect another scapegoat, a social lightning rod.

U.S. presidents seem to get blamed (and sometimes praised) for things they can't really control.
Much of that is the projector. The experience within the headset itself is much tighter, less than 35 ms from end to end. (Our tech accounts for 12-13 milliseconds, while a 90 Hz VR display and the GPU add about another 22.)

While the experience of latency varies from person to person, we've found that this level generally doesn't register on human perception. Head tracking needs to be less than 20 ms because you're relying on both your vestibular system AND your eyes to be in sync. If they're not in sync, your brain will interpret this as you being ill, and you will feel sick. With your hands, you only really have your sense of proprioception, so the latency restriction is lighter.
Savatage turned into Trans Siberian Orchestra, which does very well in US. Big Savatage fan though, from the 80's.
Because when a fundamentalist Christian shoots up a Planned Parenthood clinic, it's a "lone gunman" and not a "terrorist". Welcome to America.
> I rarely see articles about the evils of internalization, something that I strongly believe brings great harm to the markets

How?
On the topic of sustainable tech coming out of Wales, check out the Centre for Alternative Technology. They've been going for a few decades and have some great projects. It's also a fun family day out.

http://www.cat.org.uk/index.html
Darkthrone's Soulside Journey is great Norwegian death metal, not that they obviously stuck to that for very long.
Yeah, I also noted this when I visited the page after posting the comment ;) Interesting that Google didn't use a 301 redirection to the new button graphics...
Rather than first principles, I've seen this work better when a company decides what their core principles are. These are not decided at a time of crisis or are a big decision, but early in the company's development. When you decide exactly what you are doing, why, and what your goals are. And you use those principles to drive your decisions, strategies, and plans from then on.

Of course, at first glance, startups would seem to be against this kind of definition of principles, because they "pivot" to find a market - but that in itself is a core principle. You are not defined by your product, but by your final goal - large revenue and growth matter more than details of the product.

The way to get to your core principles is to ask yourself what aspects of your company are so critical to its integrity that you would rather shut down the company than break those principles.

Answer that, let those answers guide you, let those answers be known when hiring your team, and you will build a company that makes decisions easier, and with less internal conflict.
That's a big improvement from what I usually see (just the X spots entering the garage and X spots per level). The per row information increases the usability a lot. I wonder if it would cost a lot to implement it from what most have right now.
As a Chilean, I can confirm. I played in 4 metal bands while being between 15 and 26. And enciclopedia metallum is crazy, even I am there! (And we were pretty underground)

Today I still play my instrument (piano) and enjoy metal, jazz (which is also big in chile) and classical music mostly :)
Are you just using Signal's protocol internally, or will I be able to communicate with Signal users?
Keep in mind that the Internet was primarily created to share pictures and videos of our feline overlords. Everything else is just a sideshow.
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A hydrogen fueling station costs millions of dollars. A Tesla supercharger costs maybe $200,000. A home charging station is typically less than $2,000. I can't understand why anyone thinks hydrogen is worthwhile.
The red green spot is really useful until a small car comes or the sensor is broken. But nonetheless it's really cool. I wonder what they use for the sensor. Light sensor? Magnetic?
The employees are there to make calls. I don't see having to deal with a robot as wasting their time, since they are hopefully being paid regardless. Now, if they are being paid on commission, then they are part of the problem, and removing the incentive will help correct the annoyance.
I also tend to bookmark a lot of articles, but very rarely go through my list. I tried Pocket after Firefox forced it upon me, but after throwing a couple articles in there I realised I might as well throw it in /dev/null - that's not Pockets fault though, it's mine for not having enough time or <insert a reason here>.

However, I've noticed a benefit of just throwing articles into my bookmarks. Whenever I search for a specific issue, Firefox[0] will show auto-complete suggestions from my bookmarks. I keep a list of useful posts from StackOverflow etc and it saves me a couple of clicks here and there.

It's like my own little search archive before I press Enter and let Google do its magic.

[0]: I guess other browsers do this as well, I just use Firefox as my primary browser. You can verify this in about:config (browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark)
Is there any documentation about what Actor is? Can't immediately find one. Some sort of non-marketing overview that gives rough ideas on how everything works, with pointers on where to read for the fine details.

I mean, are you interconnected with something (Signal interop a-la WhisperPush on CM? XMPP with OMEMO and GCM/APN via XEP-0357? Telegram network with Axolotl overlay? Something else?) or you're yet another proprietary standalone network?
We've seen violent Christian fundamentalists recently with the Colorado Planned Parenthood shootings.

While many around the world consider that a terrorist activity, it had not been labeled as such by US officials (the guy is only being charged with murder and not additional offenses).

I find the double standards to be what is truly offensive.
https://www.twilio.com/sms
I think that, when it comes to secure and private communications, you can't really make any sort of claim in that direction if you're not open source.
Wow, timely news. (Not). Article posted December 15th, 2015.
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That's where meteoric iron comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron

Two problems with this:

• There's not that many meteorites to go around.

• Elements more volatile than metals (say, water) boil off and/or ablate off during atmospheric entry. If we want to have those, we'll need to mine them in space and shield them during re-entry.

That is assuming we even want to bring those minerals back to Earth. Most proposals intend to use them in-situ to supply spaceborne operations – theoretically, launching the equipment necessary to strip-mine an asteroid is vastly cheaper than sending up the same amount of raw resources. If we can refine those resources efficiently enough in space, things like the ISS or Lunar bases become a lot cheaper.

(Practice is, as always, a lot more complicated.)
I didn't think it would be about that, but I hoped it would.
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I have a suspicion that this is more about avoiding a big anti-trust quagmire. When they starting dabbling around in the Travel sector, they did get push back...but that's an area where the power is spread across a large number of players, none of which is a powerhouse litigator or lobbyist.

For insurance, credit cards, mortgages, etc, they would be at odds with a relatively small number of deep pocketed, litigious players with experience in political lobbying.
One factor is that we can choose which of perhaps hundreds of thousands of asteroids are worth mining, while with past impacts we only get what we happen to have been given.
Keep in mind that when taking about the diameter of a three dimensional object, the amount of stuff scales with the cube. The second one is a million times more meteor.
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Eventually you'll have to start worrying about very small but existential risks if you want any chance of preventing them. If the potential costs are as huge as they are with meteor impacts, I think the expected value of preparation is big enough.
Yes the shutter of the entire rest of the service is interesting. Though I can see an angle on why ads are still more profitable.

In the case of their auto insurance quoting part of the business, they were doing something far more sophisticated than just generating leads for credit cards and mortgages. They were actually a licensed agent and generating commissions from quoting and issuing policies. Auto instance is highly regulated and they need to be licensed to do what they were doing.

Three things at play here I see:

1. You are creating new market pressure on the companies that pay you. If companies offering these products stop paying you, then no one pays you.

2. The level of sophistication needed to operate a full quoting service is higher than one would imagine in insurance and I wouldn't be surprised with other financial products.

3. Just sell ads. It's relatively simple, unregulated (relative to financial products) and works in cooperation with (not against) the hand that feeds you.
They are also missing the service I use most from Google (besides search): Maps.