skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's absurd that a lot of Americans have to rely on their cars, but I sympathize with the commenters here who don't have cars in places where they would be really convenient.

It would be good if the author of the article went more in-depth about the causes of car culture and potential policy solutions. The car is a status symbol of independence in American culture, but I don't think the prevalence of that culture can be separated from how our infrastructure is heavily biased towards utilizing public space for parking spaces, roads, etc. I personally dislike driving and would much rather walk or take a train to where I'm going, even if it took a bit longer.

In my city, there is no public transit at all that would allow me to get to where my doctor is, and it would take almost 2 hours for me to bike there across very dangerous roads not designed for bikers. My city also banned ride sharing services for a time, so the only options would have been "bumming" a ride from someone or taking an expensive cab - both car-based modes of transit. Taking public transit to another place I could have biked from more easily would have taken just as long as biking the whole route. Towards the end of the route, I would have had to somehow bike on a highway with cards speeding along at 60+mph, too.

Even in another city designed with bike lanes when I had very obvious flashing lights attached to my bike, I got hit by a driver who wasn't paying attention when he turned right onto the road in front of me. Drivers in my current city are much less aware of bikers than there, and I've seen Uber drivers in another city with a similar lack of public transit yelling and harassing bikers sharing the road quite unobtrusively.

Another factor here is that the elderly get heat strokes during the summer when temperatures exceed 100 degrees. I'm not sure how well walking to their bus stop would work.

There need to be better solutions here than the gas guzzling monstrosities that people drive everyday. I try to reduce my carbon footprint and gas bill by driving an efficient car. The infrastructure for electric cars, which would help the dependence on fossil fuels but not entirely solve deaths from vehicle accidents (though it might prevent some, because of large crumple zones), simply isn't there yet. Until better public transit gets more funding, the increasing availability of affordable electric cars may be a good stopgap solution, at least.
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I don't think the naive approach is too far off in this case. Arya's importance is reflected in the sheer amount of exposition devoted to her. She's pretty clearly being set up to make a major return at some point, just as it is with Daenerys. The characters with a lot of network connections, on the other hand, are easy to kill off because they're ultimately redundant.
I would say there is no single main character to the story.
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Atom has a much better extension API, which can do a lot more. Here's a quick list of cool uses of the API:

https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen
https://atom.io/packages/merge-conflicts
https://atom.io/packages/minimap
https://atom.io/packages/color-picker
https://atom.io/packages/markdown-preview-plus
https://atom.io/packages/preview-inline
https://atom.io/packages/pdf-view

If you don't utilize the API, IMO Atom is just a noticeably slower, slightly prettier version of Sublime Text.
We love to think these people are much like our clients who don't know the difference between a popup window and a Python program. These people are informed by groups like the DIA, CIA, NSA, and every other TLA, with a wealth of information on these issues.
Here's one sensible approach: http://www.terrain.org/articles/28/tachieva.htm
String reversal at least involves a backwards loop, which isn't that hard, but you don't use often in practice. I'd guess there are 10x as many for-of loops as for i = 0...loops in our codebase, and 10x as many for i = 0...loops as backwards loops in our code base. I think Swift may be removing C-style for loops, even (https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...). Of course you can still express it using a while-loop, but this reflects the frequency of certain types of code.

On the one hand, I'm tempted to say everyone should be able to do that, on the other hand, they do feel like a type of programming that isn't super common in a lot of applications. FizzBuzz is probably a bit better in that regard.
I love Fabio. The Consul stack in general is fantastic.

Been watching #consul IRC for a while now though, and the vast majority of the setup problems are due to Docker's weird networking and security. Fabio/Consul run like a charm but Docker throws a wrench in the machine.
In line with this submission, two posts linking to an article on The Guardin about sugar hit the front page of HN lately:

The Sugar Conspiracy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941

The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11471806

It revolves around a lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig (UCSF) that was also posted on HN six years ago. I found it amazing:

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006980
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Anyone who does fine work does this, I think. I went through a phase of restoring antique watches, first pocket then wrist - and you get used to balancing holding your breath and making adjustments between pulses. I think I first got into the habit painting tiny details on Warhammer figurines as a kid. Never played, I just painted for other people for the joy of it.

If you work against a plain grey or white background, and you pay attention (turn off some automatic filtering I'm your brain) you can see your pulse - dark in between pulses, light during a pulse, which makes timing easier.
This graph only covers the third book, A Storm of Swords.

I'm surprised that they haven't gone back and generated a graph for all of the released books yet.
... which he keeps artificially low by taking beta blockers. He is also a lifelong swimmer which is how he kept his heart rate low before the beta blockers. Additional performance enhancing drug : botox to prevent blinking too much.

Even with that, the stuff he creates is pretty amazing. It is done under a microscope and I bet it rivals physical micro-machining techniques by CNC (light exposure is obviously on a different level).
There is a hack to make PowerShell print vt100 colours http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28...

Doesn’t work for me, but works for others it seems.
I didn't do any of these.

Take also into account, I am the author of the original article too. So, would it be better to copy the old article to a new one with the new title?

You are avoiding the question though: Since a title triggers involvement, is experimentation on the titles something good or bad?
Readers of the books know that is definitely not the case.

For instance Areo Hotah is a repeated point of view character who is merely there to provide prospective on the court of Dorne as a silent body guard. Fans of the series call him "the camera who rides."

On the other hand GRRM has said characters like Littlefinger and Varys will never have chapters because their plans are too revealing of the end of the book. They are too central to be PoV characters.
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Insulting an individual is legal in most developed nations.
You are right, that's an oversight of mine. Didn't keep the 48 hour thing in mind when writing that comment. My bad
One option which allows you to keep Turing completeness is just asking the user to write more annotations, such as loop invariants and termination conditions. For example the Dafny [1] language+verifier does this: it automates the tedious parts of the proofs but requires the user to give the hard parts (loop invariants) as annotations.

[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dafny/
Discussion of part one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11260156
What this does and doesn't do:

This bill effectively makes it illegal for US companies and persons to build or use secure enclaves / TPMs and to publish cryptosystems without either including backdoors or retaining and storing keys. It also implies that companies would need to store keys indefinitely, otherwise they would not be able to decrypt data, as no time limitations are set on the capability of accessing data.

This would not make SSH or TLS illegal or require users to hand over keys. It could mean that if a US person or corporation contributed to an SSH or TLS library, they could be expected to provide a backdoor mechanism to the government. (EDIT: would not require to hand over keys enmass, or in any way above and beyond current statutes)

Interestingly, this bill covers vendors and presumably US persons that "provide a product or method". You'll still be able to legally use foreign-developed tools. The US would have grounds to ask those foreign agents to decrypt data, but would have limited means of enforcement.
There's no way that is indicative of anything other than issues with measurement
TSA paid $47,000 for the app, not millions. $47,000 may still be too much, but it's not millions. http://www.zdnet.com/article/tsa-contracted-ibm-47k-for-ipad...
Well put. Though I would add that though generics are convenient, they are not as needed nearly often enough to be a crucial missing feature in a language. Yes, it's uncanny to copy here and there, and certainly, the Go team should try and resolve this. But from where I'm standing this (i.e. generics) is one of the very few fair criticisms of Go which can be leveled from the Java, C++ or C# communities.
This is an analysis of the books, who have just one author.
I wonder what effect the 60 cycle radiation from the power mains has on people? Presumably not much, or there would be some evidence with such a large number of people being constantly exposed. And yet TMS at 30 hz apparently has a huge effect. I feel like I am missing some piece of the picture here. Perhaps it's the intensity that makes the difference.
China's about to witness the 'largest evaporation of household wealth'
Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key
You're right, we don't know which side is true. If Sam is lying, his behaviour is shameful. But we don't know that either.
Well, sure, but how is that different from writing workarounds for all these Docker quirks? At least you end up with self-baked solution based on stable technology, instead of self-baked solution for unstable technology.
And when it comes to software, its hard to find one that doesnt work on FreeBSD (there's over 24k of precompiled packages available!), not to mention FreeBSD's Linuxulator, that is Linux kernel emulation, built in, so that sentence may be considered spreading a FUD.
> If the launch lineup of 30 games[7] doesn't convince you, and you're not interested in Minecraft[9] or the full back catalogue of PSP[10] or Wii[8] games

At the very least, DolphinVR (Wii emulation) does not yet work on the consumer version of the Rift due to a lack of 1.3 SDK support. The dev has said he'll get around to it, but a lot of the early experiences for the dev kits are no longer compatible with consumer hardware.
Is there any way to link any of that top stuff back to the company's main site? They start linking at the end of the article ... I wonder how many page visitor decided TL;DR!
> If you live in the affluent suburbs, you're definitely going to encounter that mentality.

Counterpoint: many affluent suburbs are adding multiuse paths all over the place.
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This misses some crucial observations.

One, good UI takes time, even for experts. UI redesigns that are easily described can be hard to reprogram (e.g. “replace those dialog elements with a table!” may mean switching to entirely different programming interfaces, there may be no sane data model that matches both without rework, and the new method may have new bugs). If your manager is asking you to finish something and move on, you need to make trade-offs.

Two, historically there had been no serious shell in Windows environments for a very long time. When you have no other way to easily set a bunch of options, a crappy dialog that maps GUI elements directly to all possible options would have been a quick and practical way to expose all functions. I am not saying that these GUIs are good in any way but it makes perfect sense why they were created this way.

Third, low-level interfaces such as the command line are an EQUALLY important part of all UI. A “design” should not just focus on how to rearrange some buttons. Low-level options for tweaking a program can help immensely to edit down what belongs in the GUI. On Mac OS X for example, it is really cool that one can use "defaults write" for a bunch of stuff because you can implement a lot of options without cramming them into your GUI. On a web site, a thoughtful layout for service URLs and JSON data formatting is far better than something that seems hastily-constructed and full of structural problems and other inconveniences.

And also, this post is not showing convincing counter-examples.

That “SiteNabber” redesign from part 3 is not really fixing the real issue. If you’re going to create a graphical replacement for a tool that deals with web sites, exposing “site url” to users is still broken. Why not make it a browser plug-in where you can simply view the web site you want, and click a toolbar button to save what you are looking at (or long-press that button for a menu that exposes a dialog version of the save with a few common options)?
100GB heap size in Go? How about 15ms pauses with zero tuning?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWoAGeUW4AAy0-9.png:large
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Is it so hard to imagine that a popular series could represent a non-traditional narrative structure in which there is no, one, main character?
The supply/demand curve works in favor of home ownership, especially in land locked areas, since there's only so much area to build on. In an area like Kansas City or Des Moines, it's not as good since the city can annex the cornfields that surround it.

Yes taking on debt is risk, but so is everything else in life. Driving, charging a credit card, eating at chipotle, etc.
Court rules warrantless collection of cellphone location data constitutional
> The deductibility of state taxes (still kinda weird to me how this works)

Well, the idea is that the federal government is only taxing your income, and money that your state has taken away doesn't is your income. It's not a bad idea, but the problem is that it means that no-or-low-income-tax states end up subsidising high-income-tax states. Moreover, there's no easy way to itemise other forms of state taxes, e.g. sales or property taxes.

It really should be done away with.
Here are the world leaders and global organizations who are embracing Snapchat
It doesn't on its own, but the secure enclave (that was created, in part, to keep biometrics data secured) sure does.
This story doesn't make any sense at all. Surely Blackberry isn't stupid enough to use a "single encryption/decryption key" for all their messages.
What's wrong with nil? Just legitimately curious, and I've never used Go at all.
Sure, sorry, "anyone" isn't quite right - but this does seem to hold true for a significant majority. If I had a penny for every time I get a "when I was your age" I'd be able to live in a house made of them!
Yes, but the "recently used" emojis constantly move around based on their usage. I'd rather have them in a fixed place for muscle memory.
As technologists, we think this issue is so straightforward that you must either be evil or a complete idiot if you support this law

I don't think it is either. More likely it is the "something must be done, this is something" kind of thinking. You don't need to be absolutely evil or absolutely idiotic to subscribe to this philosophy.

The problem is that we end debating the right side of that claim (because that's what the uniformed masses and legislators focus on), what the something should be, rather than trying to convince people that the left side, the premise, is unfounded.
> Well pids should be pid_t not int.

pid_t isn't a newtype, it's just a typedef, so that doesn't really make a difference.

> System calls should really return two values, return value and errno, but C doesn't handle that very well either.

Most system calls want to return either, not both. And C doesn't handle that at all.
I may be in the minority, but I bought three years ago, and have never regretted it. Not only did I get way more value and luxury for my money than I would have by renting, but I'm on track nearly double my investment in a few more years. My only regret is that I ever rented in the first place. My point is that, like any investment, it can be profitable if done patiently and properly.

EDIT: I just wanted to add that I have since looked into renting out my house, and downsizing by renting an apartment, but I couldn't even get a two bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood for the cost of my mortgage.
Theoretically It should be possible to have a union based on the value of the ints {-1, 0, positive}, which should use only one 32bit integer.
I do about 2000 miles a year and I can tell you, you have to be very careful about not correspondingly bumping your diet if you want to achieve weight loss.

I might lose 5 pounds a season in a typical year, despite burning close to a thousand calories a day. But my bet is much of the reason for that is offset eating.
>Who is this experimenter?

The Creator.

>Where is this experimenter?

Right here. Right now. Everywhere. All time. No time. Outside this Universe. Inside this Universe. We are inside of him. The universe is just a small part of him. He has no definable form. This Universe, and all these things that exist in the present moment, are part of his form. All things that have existed, and all things that will exist, that's just a small part of his form. Even things that don't exist are another small part of his form. Time is a restriction that he puts on this universe. Time is just another part of him, a part of him where he chose to limit and restrict himself to the rules of time that he himself made up. He has no restrictions, no limits.

>What if he (and his world) is also simulated?

He is already everything and nothing. Nothingness is already part of him. There's no world where he lives in, because that already is a part him. There is nothing beyond him. Because that nothingness beyond him, is also part of him. The things that exist are part of him. The things that don't exist are also part of him. He encomapss everything and nothing, all of infintity and all of the void, all of extistance and all of non-existance. All time and all space. No time and no space. All those things are just parts of him. He is sum the whole of all those finite, infinite, time, timeless, outside, inside, everywhere, nowhere. He is not limited in anyway. He is unlimited every everyway.

He is the most foundemental of all. Everything existed because he pretend that it does. Earth exist because he pretended that billions of years ago, star dust gather to form a planet called Earth. Earth goes around the sun because he pretend that Earth follows a rule he made up called Gravity.

When an object push another object, he:

1. Pretend that there are two objects there.
2. Pretend that one object is pushing on another object.
3. Pretend that the other object have moved according to a made up rule that he made up: Newtown Force.
4. Pretend that there's a scintist and pretend that the scientist "did" see and measured those object moved.

Most of all, he:

5. Pretend that there's a guy here typing this out.
6. Pretend that this guy typing this out have conscious and free will. In other word, I am just something he made up and pretend to exist. My free will is just him pretending I have free will. I am only typing this because he is pretending that I am. It is him who actually have free will. Free will and conciousness are fundenmental.

It's just like when you're a little kid, and you have a toy soldier, and you pretend that he's a Knight. You pretend that he as a sword and a shield. You pretend that there's a dragon and you pretend that the dragon is attacking a pretend village. Then you pretend that he fight and slayed the dragon with his pretend sword. And the pretend village made him into a pretend king.

Everything is just him pretending. Nothing really exist. He just acts like it exist. And everything have to act like everything exist. Just like the toy solder have to act like a dragon exist, because you act pretend that the dragon exist.
That sounds like a good idea. For each category/page you can move your 20-30 most favorite emojis to the top.
Mikrotik has been rock solid for me. It's my lack of knowledge really. I adapted someone's QoS configuration and it's been working really well. Much better than anything I've tried before.

My only complaint is the fact is the proprietary nature of Mikrotik. When I was running a small linux box as a router, or when I was running DD-WRT I could always extend the functionality in the ways that's not possible with Mikrotik. The configuration, QoS, everything is Mikrotik specific. I understand that it's reminiscent of enterprise grade hardware though.
Technically literate folks need to treat encryption regulation the way gun enthusiasts treat gun control. This must become utterly politically toxic to get involved with.
the CLI application[1] that this is based on has an "emoji" frontend[2] that does just that

1: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

2: http://cl.ly/1w3b45242k3R
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I particularly like that in addition to refactoring the architecture, they worked on stabilization.

> With the containerd integration comes an impressive cleanup of the Docker codebase and a number of historical bugs being fixed. In general, splitting Docker up into focused independent tools mean more focused maintainers, and ultimately better quality software.
Of the 30,699 shots, he missed 16,966 and made 13,731.

At the smallest level of performance it is nice to see that you can fail more often than you succeed and still be very successful over all.
But charging them with hacking? And putting them in prison for 2 years?
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What if the follow-on bill will require Microsoft and the rest NOT to provide/allow you with programmable computers?

Or maybe MS decides it is untenable for them to reverse engineer whatever the end user is doing, so it makes business sense to them to simply build tablets good only for consuming content and not producing stuff?!
There's no such charge as "hacking".
It is, effectively, what Touch ID does. (It's an over simplification but as an analogy it works)
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While the new features look great, I still can't help but feel like there's a lot of redundancy compared to things that are already commonplace in Scala. Fast forwarding 2 years, I think Kotlin will still be catching up with where Scala is today, and Scala may have migrated to Dotty / 3.0 by then.

Of course, there's still plenty of room for both languages, and I'm sure Kotlin will introduce interesting innovations of its own.
Yeah I guess people will be upset about what they want. My opinion is the actual votes would be worse. Such data could be used to force someone to vote a certain way, which usurps individuals' freedom of speech.

Any leaked biometric data becomes unusable as an authenticator in the future.