skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess, the types of conditions that collect and preserve fossils well enough for us to discover them are transient in nature (as in, it became suddenly covered by something like a landslide/water) or very geographically specific. This means there would be a bias towards whole-skeleton fossils during very specific time periods or very specific locations, rather than bits and pieces from thousands of different types all over the place.

Could be totally wrong though.
I'm not sure if that accurately reflect why this is relevant either. I think it is fairly significant that PLR is very much connected to TC (and it is suspected that he is involved with TC financially).

I do not have a better title suggestion at this point, however.
Seriously, I just want directions, getting static pages from gmaps would make it 1000x more usable on my (blackberry) phone.
Man, this site skews young! I just saw a smartwatch-related thread a couple of days ago, with half the comments indicating that no one wears a wristwatch. Today, no one has a home phone.

Forward-looking trends are what they are... but the overwhelming majority of the population is over 30. And that's the demographic with the overwhelming majority of income. Telephony is a pretty easy bolt-on for Google Fiber, especially since they already have the Google Voice infrastructure in place. So why wouldn't they?
It's exactly the cloud part that costs money to run. That'd be like saying "this streaming services where you never receive a hard copy of your content should be free".
Concourse CI Hits 1.0.0
Sleep. Make sure to get at least 8-8.5 hours, every night. You'll start seeing the benefits very quickly.

You may feel more rested and be tempted to stay up later. Don't do that. Get your 8 hours, every night.
No, not quite. Their main argument was that it was newsworthy and "it", in particular, was the video and not the article. The article itself could exist, but without the video. The video couldn't as there was a reasonable expectation of privacy.

They were sued because they refused to take down the video and their defense was absolutely terrible in every regard including joking in legally binding statements without going through and marking them as jokes/sarcasm: so they are taken at face value in the court of law.

Making jokes about child porn ("newsworthy if the actor is over the age of four") isn't how you win over jurors.
If that's the case, I really feel bad for the person with the last name: ServeAsATerribleExampleForOthers. Talk about being born into the wrong family.
Funny bit of satire!
"linked" can mean causation in either direction.
I had the same experience. It was really hard to get a react/redux project started without a swathe of modules and build systems. It became a mission just trying to set it all up and Babel was a part of that. There appears to be no way around it to get that stack up and running. I discovered riot.js and moved to that as there was zero barrier to entry.
Or the hacker's solution to maintaining a landline: get yourself a cheap SIP-capable handset and an account with a wholesale SIP-trunking provider like Flowroute ($1.25/mo for the number, $.0098/min outbound to CONUS, $.012/min inbound).

Proxy through OpenVBX or Asterisk (can be hosted in the cloud or in your home) if you want to get fancy with voicemail, IVR menus, forwarding, extensions for different rooms in the house, etc.

ISP bundled phone services are essentially just packaging this for you with 10x markup. (I worked on VoIP installs for a summer when I was 14; it's not that hard).

Only downside is most of these phones anticipate PoE, so you need to buy the power supply (or a PoE injector) separately. You also have to trust yourself to set up E911 correctly, or keep your cell phone around for that.
Yes it's correct for first route you visit, it's rendered on server and sent already rendered to your browser, then the rest of the framework is downloaded and another request is rendered in your browser.
You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
As I understand it, Fiber is run as if it were an independent company, trying to make a great product, and run at a profit.
Good advice, but it still seems like just cosmetics compared to the real brainkiller: (incidental) complexity.

It's kind of how legible handwriting is desirable, but not really the most important factor, when it comes to the amount of brain required to solve a math problem.
Reinforcement learning (ie: bigger score/reward) the more objects are correctly grasped.
Clive is the best. Sometimes the cheap eBay gadgets get a little repetitive, but he does mix in a lot of different stuff. I really enjoy his videos on printing circuit boards and making his little 'nixie' lamps. He's just fun to listen to.
Great to see the unminified source for Superwidget online.
Aren't there a lot fewer oil workers in North Dakota?
Fair enough - just wishful thinking, and as my friends in OpenBSD-land say "If you want it so bad, submit a patch."
this service is complete shit. my trip to SFO from Golden Gate Park was 2.5x the amount of time it could have been, and I saved 7% on my final bill.

lyft is bleeding is dry with this new service, i highly recommend against it.
I think you almost hit the nail on the head, but I believe it is more specific to say that we're more towards the "simple components" end at least for this one problem space ... For instance, a combo of DNN for a generally visual overview strategy, and then tree search, at least for the 2D game of Go.... which is flipping astounding, sure, but I keep seeing daily where people are continuing to play with DNN with varying levels of success, and it is by no means general intelligence.

So, we do have this nice tool that sort of lets us "look" in "general" way, but it is not entirely understandable, or traceable, which is the nature of NN... It would be nice to be able to prove exactly why something happened, and to be able to have reproducible, exact training.

Anyway... I guess I don't have much of a point beyond these two vague minor thoughts, but I did want to add them in here...
really well written. i have to read the other two yet
I found this on the much maligned Slashdot website.

There's a market for launch control software?
I owe it to myself; someone who learnt to count down from ten before I could count up to it to find out more. "Ignition sequence start" is apparently not a number.

So is this a specialised SCADA system?
But won't that fail at the same time your home internet access fails - when the ISP link goes down? I have a land line as a redundant link, for security.
I always call the low level functions with some clear name related to the high level one by convention:

- sort_displayed_items_guts

- sort_displayed_items_impl

- ll_sort_displayed_items (ll == low level)

- do_sort_displayed_items
You're able to add +1 through their recent GitHub Reactions update now:

https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-...
Why not regenerative braking?

Also generating eddy currents against the rails would be a cool way to slow down without wearing down brake pads.
Another aspect of ego management is constantly keeping in mind that you could be wrong, while trying to track down some tricky problem.

I remember quite a few times sitting next to someone trying to debug something, asking something like: "So are we sure that parameter there is correct?" ... they'll say "Oh yeah, that's definitely not the problem" ... fifteen minutes later, after bashing our heads on the desk a bit, we actually check that value: "Whoa, what?! That's impossible!"
The US has meddled in the affairs of lots of countries. Countries with oil and countries without. How much oil do Japan and Korea have? Chile?
Oscilloscope, multimeter, GPIO toggles, logic analyzer, JTAG/SWD-enabled debug hardware. (Hey, I'm an embedded software engineer).

Sometimes debug printfs out a UART or USB if my system lets me, sometimes I'll create a log in memory if I can't printf or if the issue is timing sensitive (which a lot of my work is).

Pen & paper end up being very useful too - often writing out what I'm thinking helps me figure out what's going wrong faster than poking around the code or circuit board.
Why is this getting downvoted? As I read it as well, NPM went against their own code of conduct.
To give a growth hacking analogy, becoming KGB head is the final step in the funnel. To be a KGB head you should probably have qualities that 99.99% of the people do not posses. But it is wrong to say he does not represent the majority of soviets because the entry to the system and almost every other step in the funnel is highly biased towards those who conform to majority opinion.

For example when I say Donald Trump is representative of majority of conservative base I do not mean majority of conservative base is narcissist and billionaire. I basically mean Trump is pro-Gun, pro-Life, pro-Christian, anti-Gay. Because without those criteria he would not have entered the funnel in first place.

Conservatives or Liberals the current trend among American politicians is "trust us", "bend before authority", I am 100% sure no person can rise to top in American government if he does not conform to these ideas.
I'm not even sure if this is worth replying, but I for one use debugger way more than console.log. I also use debugger to try out multiple functions rather than saving code and waiting for a refresh each function I want to test.
Hiring at First Round Capital
I still have a home phone, but it's an ObiTalk box that logs into my Google Voice account, so I don't pay anything for it. I actually prefer it over my cell phone because the call quality is much better.
Oh you're right, I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing that out.
A crazy bio-weapon? It's quite believable some mad-men would deploy it at some point.
I have observed crystals and oscillation circuits syncing up on PC boards because of tiny noise on the power supply. This is a direct analogy of the Huygens observation.
I don't know if I understand it correctly but I'm specifically looking to avoid every template looking like this: (old school php like)

<?php include (header.php)?>

... business logic goes here...

<?php include (footer.php)?>
Our actions have consequences. I like to ask people what they think about people blocking highways to protest against Donald Trump. People doing dumb things like blocking highways in protest of Trump or pulling his leg in a really makes it easy for his campaign to lump everyone who says he is not fit for office into one group.

Similarly, people who are sensitive about stupid stuff makes it easy for people to lump everyone who has a grievance together into "them" and dismiss their grievances at once. Think the boy who cried wolf but rather than just that one boy getting mauled, it is every single shepherd boy who gets mauled.
Automating quality checks and Docker containers in a Git workflow
I was serious. But I guess responding the the legitimacy of the article - certainly to bring reproduction up to replacement/sustainable rates we'll need to supplement biological reproduction. Because that may become negligible. Thus the resistance to technological methods will have to be overcome.
I wonder how much of the later trend is due to the combination of early autocompletion and a codebase the size of windows or office, in a language where types can't be determined for sure without running each source file through the preprocessor. And most source files include the massive windows.h or some equally large hairball.

I assume that global variables would be horrible in such an environment, but typing out the prefix and maybe one letter of the actual name would cut the completion list down to a manageable size.

Perhaps apps hungarian started because it helped avoid common errors in complex GUI logic, then similar practices were carried over to the systems side where they were useful for mostly unrelated reasons, eventually reaching the world in general through the header files produced by the systems folks but lacking any of the context or history needed to go beyond "microsoft does it that way, there must be a good reason". Hopefully I'm just being overly pessimistic and extrapolating from massively insufficient information, though...
The point of the article is that there is not enough competition. If there were more competition some of the profits would go to consumers instead of being hoarded by the companies.
My new username: andrewstuart'); DROP TABLE repositories;--

:-P

(https://xkcd.com/327/)
is the ember inspector working 100% with fastboot? (having some error while inspecting the index controller).

Btw great job!
VeraCrypt is being very actively developed, including fixing a number of bugs that were found in TrueCrypt. Watch my interview with the main developer here, including some analysis of the code showing that perhaps different people worked on it over different time periods:

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/340
Talking about criteria with voting methods is like comparing weight and horsepower of race cars. That's the wrong approach. You want to put them on the track and get average race times. You can do this with voting methods too.

http://ScoreVoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
http://ScoreVoting.net/PropDiatribe.html
I'm taking several classes via Coursera to brush up on algorithms/data structures for fun and personal interest, but find it really hard to stay focused on the video lectures. I much prefer to read textbooks when learning any new information. But that's beside the point. I've conducted an interview and the candidate had taken multiple MOOC's on Coursera and Udacity and that really impressed me. Showed that the candidate actually cared about learning and deepening their knowledge in some areas.
My tongue-in-cheek programming language selection rule: avoid languages that require punctuation to call a function -- like f(x,y), x.f(y), (f x y), or x f: y.
Yes, the surname "Baker" would've originally been a baker. There are a variety of occupational surnames that you can quickly recognise: Potter, Cooper, Cook, Miller, Fisher, Carter, Tailor, Smith. As well as a few -smith specific ones: Green, Silver, Gold, White, Black, Brown - all having origins in things like working with tin (whitesmith), copper (greensmith) or silver, etc.

I doubt that genetic disposition would be a strong factor given that the skills for these various physical lines of work would be fairly similar.
I've heard about the power of Lisp more than once from more than one old-guard hacker, but (4) blows my mind.
What about a more ambitious example like this: https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example
Please see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
You can vote strategically in any deterministic voting method. There's nothing special about Approval Voting. People can vote honestly based on whether they approve (have a favorable opinion of) a candidate. Or they can be tactical and base the decision on probability of winning.
Knox-Box Rapid Entry System
Or perhaps more simply, eradicate humanity to ensure the survival of the planet. Crude but effective. And final.
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But the result is an erasure of the first world. Leaving the huddled masses in Africa as inheiritors of an exhausted earth?
The problem is that the validateSortDisplayItems is some sort of public function. The caller doesn't care about the validation, only that the items are sorted.

All kinds of functions everywhere validate their arguments; that doesn't deserve to be in their name.
That's the joke :)
We'll improve the warning with this updated information https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14732
Precisely my thoughts. I dont even see the purpose to the who article. It neither gets art not the science part right here.
Data point: The amount of time I've spent doing "debugging work" has gone down VASTLY since I've adopted TDD. Literally, every line of debug code you will ever write (whether it's a println buried in the code or something done in a REPL) is a potential unit test assertion.

What is a debug statement, anyway? You're checking the state at a point in the code. That's exactly what a unit test assertion does... except that a unit test calls a single method/function... meaning the code you're trying to debug needs to be split up and written in a way that is easily unit-testable, with few, if any, dependencies that aren't explicitly given to it... which makes it better code that is easier to reason about (and thus results in fewer bugs).

See where I'm going with this? TDD = say (mostly) goodbye to "debugging"
I work at Pivotal, which sponsors Concourse development, so I got one of the fancy t-shirts we made for this occasion.

I wore it to the office today. Other people in the office were coming up to me and raving about Concourse. I've been proselytising it, but I feel like pretty soon I just won't have to. One of my colleagues was telling me that in two days he got an iOS CI pipeline that he never managed to achieve with weeks of tinkering with TeamCity.

I suspect that pretty soon the default choice for CI/CD in Pivotal Labs projects will be Concourse, and that will seed it pretty widely.

If you want to get in on the ground floor of something great, here's a good opportunity.

If you're wondering about what the heck it is, go to the homepage for the 40,000 view: http://concourse.ci/

If you're wondering why the heck another CI system, look at "Concourse Vs.": http://concourse.ci/concourse-vs.html

After that my advice is to look at public Concourse pipelines and pop the hood. And drop into the Slack channel, the team are in there now posting funny gifs. I'm in there too, under jchester_robojar, if you want to ask me anything.
Log the hell out of the code.
That can be taken more than one way
"Please ask support questions on Stack Overflow or the users group. I am closing this."
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Microsoft Releases Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) 14.0.3
Dude, please. Laws are abstractions and relative and whatnot, but Really Bad People do exist and the public has a right to know. Otherwise, why have journalists or even laws at all?
> why is it that the schools have to learn and not the parents?

Because the schools set the schedule for their classes, not the parents.
The Animatrix basically did what you suggested and said the first robots lived in a plot of middle eastern desert set aside for them. After a hundred years their overwhelming superiority made them the dominant economy and global superpower, and as people's living standards began to decline, they fought back.
Nafta May Have Saved Many Autoworkers’ Jobs
Google Fiber is adding landline-like phone option to home Internet bundle
Yes, for some things. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.01312.pdf
I'm the CPO and Co-Founder of Scoop automated carpooling - www.takescoop.com. I wanted to jump in with a few thoughts.

It's exciting to see one of the ridesharing/ride-hailing companies focus their attention on where the pain is still high - the commute. 100M Americans still wake up everyday, grab their keys, and get in their car to drive to work. On average, that drive lasts at least 25 minutes.

The negative impact of driving alone is enormous - congestion in our communities, $250B out of our pockets every year, and a huge toll on the environment. Autonomous vehicles, hyperloops, or whatever the future has in store might change this - but not for a while.

So, carpooling is obviously something I've spent a lot of time thinking about - and I think Lyft is doing some smart things here. I like the Rider scheduling buckets. We do something similar with Scoop - every trip is scheduled with "time slots" that help align Rider and Drivers' schedules.

And of course, Lyft's availability around the Bay Area is nice. For Scoop, we really focus on partnering with employers and 511 (https://carpool.511.org/) to strategically open "routes" into different Bay Area cities. We do this carefully, to ensure that commuters can really rely on their local Scoop community for a carpool every single day.

There are also some important ways that carpooling is really different from ride-hailing, and it'll be interesting to see how Lyft, Uber, etc. address that. For example, who you go with really matters. 45 minutes in a car isn't the same as 10. How you get home really matters too. In the case of no carpool, a regular Lyft or Uber with surge-pricing will make for an unhappy commuter.

Our team of 13 works really hard every day to try to take cars off the road, and are excited by anyone who wants to try to do that too. To that end, we just opened up our newest route today to tackle congestion in a new community. Starting today, you can schedule commute trips with Scoop into Palo Alto. All trips to Palo Alto are just $1 - sponsored by the Palo Alto TMA and Stanford Research Park. And we're excited to have great partners like the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and companies like Tesla, Palantir and HP.

PS: If you do want to try to help, we're hiring! Email us at jobs@takescoop.com or visit https://angel.co/takescoop/jobs.
Also anyone over 60 or so (super generalization) wants a landline. For evidence I give you my mother, my in-laws, and several parents of friends. Said friends, like me, would switch their parents to Google Fiber in a hot minute with or without their consent. So a landline offering makes sense, as without it, there's a sticking point. This helps make it more frictionless.
I agree when discussing from the "RC is GC" CS point of view.

From what I can remember pauses were never an issue.

There used to exist a quite long page on the Apple Developer's web site listening all the caveats and corner cases to watch out when enabling new GC algorithm, if you will.

It is called "Garbage Collection Programming Guide", but all links to it have been disabled. But you can see get it with a bit of Google-Fu.

Also I remember to occasionally go through the forums and they had quite a few developers having integration issues with the new algorithm.
Yup, we use Checkr for our motor vehicle history checks
I like this idea, but I no longer trust Google to shepherd their side projects in the long term. Google voice had amazing promise (and I still use it) but it has also been a completely stagnant, without significant updates for a few years now. It conflicts with Hangouts, Google Fi, and the Android SMS app. Contacts are a mess. Ditto Google Groups.
A tech startup for cops predicts future crimes
It's taking quite a license to assert the rationality of a worst-case prediction for something that is currently only possible in dreams.