skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I am the only one, but I thought it was hilarious...especially considered from a satirical context.

We should definitely raise the discussion about government surveillance and how much (or in my opinion how little) should and should not be allowed. We should also discuss how much _private_ corporation spying should and should not be allowed (cough cough Google...partly why I find this is funny).

But this license plate reader car would exist with or without the crudely printed maps logo, let's not pretend it's supposed to be part of some "elaborate" disguise for some new form of government surveillance. This would also imply Google spying on you is ok...which I don't think it is.
No.

Gifts are taxed only if they are above $10,000. When you give money to your buddy to help pay for a meal, that isn't taxed (money changed hands, didn't it?).

Furthermore, there are lots of taxes out there that do not involve the movement of money. Property Taxes are when a municipality agent comes to your property, they make up a number that "sounds right", and then start charging you for it.

Furthermore, you aren't taxed when you buy or sell stocks or bonds. (Bernie Sanders wants to change that... cause he doesn't know how bad of an idea that is). You only are taxed on your GAINS: dividends and capital gains.

If you buy a stock at $100, then sell it for $110, you are taxed 15% on $10. Not on the $100 or $110 individual transactions. (In contrast, the Financial Trade tax Bernie proposes would be a tax on both the $100 AND $110 transactions)
i only know about him because of my attraction to unusual ideas brought me once to a page about rechnender raum when i was a teenager.
And/or one who is paid "by the line" or "by delivery speed" and sacrifices everything else to those metrics.
I miss working with Erlang. I still think Ruby is better for getting something out quickly for many businesses that charge for a product(†), but Erlang was very interesting, challenging and generally a good community.

† If you charge for a product, you don't generally have to worry quite so much about scaling because you make a lot more money per user than some site that's all about ads and trying to keep the cost per user really low because the ads don't actually pay all that much.
Quick tangent - the reason why we have so many news-from-the-weird stories involving a "Florida Man" is because Florida has an unparalleled history of open government. Every email, every meeting, and (most importantly for funny news) every police report can be known by anyone who asks for them. Along with the fact that Florida is the 3rd most populous state, the result is the excellent @_FloridaMan Twitter account.
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Tipping is not a good tool for a customer to exercise influence over a transaction. If the exchange is anonymous, then tip cannot influence future interactions with the customer. If the exchange is not anonymous, then any attempt to punish with tip basically means you shouldn't go back to that restaurant again, because people are going to interpret it in a very hostile way.
Those identifiers in the screenshot look lispy... wonder if their tooling is still in lisp even though they switched to C++ for the engines?
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To be fair, this area of Philadelphia has a number of pretty sensitive government buildings located nearby. City hall, Independence Hall, the US Mint and the Federal Reserve are all within a few blocks of where this car was found.

That said, Philadelphia's parking ticket authority uses these license plate readers to identify vehicles that have been parked in a spot for longer than the allowed time. I'm sure that data gets fed into other databases as well, however.
Are the stakes really that high?

Perhaps I'm naive - but other than bragging rights (and corruption potential for hosting nations) what is really at stake?
If you want a lower threshold for being hired, you have to accept a higher risk of being fired. If are established in your career then by all means don't take a contract job. But they can be gateways to a first job for many people.
Added it to the list!
Perhaps, but I bet other problems could be found. My general point is that while I'm sure a lot of the complexity is unnecessary, a decent amount of it is there for a good reason.
Here are two cool food cycle charts of Movile cave from other websites:
https://pullinghabitsoutofrats.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/m...

http://apassionforscience.pbworks.com/f/1364093168/foodv.jpg
I live in Michigan and i took home 66% of my gross income in 2015. I made under 60k.
Indeed, but if you are building in microservices, a new level is introduced.

If you can get your service boundaries and APIs fully defined and correct, then the relational database models (underpinning each of those services) just fall from the tree for you.

And then as you say the screens and elements are obvious.
Hah, Mnesia doesn't have a 2GB limit per shard now. But having access to a leveldb backing store means you can avoid keeping the dataset resident in memory. This gives you a nice memory/latency/disk tradeoff.
I'm 100% sure this is a complete scam. I'm also sure the person behind it is fairly young and inexperienced in the art of ripping people off.
You don't have to "allow full access" to use it as simply a swiping keyboard. It's a better keyboard than Swype, even with "full access" turned off.

I don't care about gifs or emojis. One of the only things I miss on iOS as an ~8-year user of Android is the swiping keyboard. This gets you that.

Additionally, I think the privacy of using this keyboard without "full access" is better than using the android builtin keyboard. Unless google is doing some side-channel attack (is this possible? seems harder than on android) to funnel your keystrokes out through some other google app on your phone which does have internet access, it's just a dumb keyboard.

Now, the sketchiness of guiding users to turn on "allow full access" by default... well. It would be paternalistic for me (as an armchair privacy enthusiast) to say "google shouldn't be encouraging the general population to divulge their keystrokes".
I made under 60k in 2015, from a single job.

I took home 66% of my gross income.
So then what is your solution? Per-repo pricing still?
I think people are downvoting you because they're assuming you're not serious. :(
Very sleek and fast -- loving it! Was on Android for a number of years then went back to an iPhone and this was the #1 thing I missed.

For anyone interested, you do NOT need to "Allow full access" to use the general swiping feature of the keyboard. I think that permission is to allow the keyboard to collect data, do searches with it etc...

Personally, I don't feel comfortable with that option enabled despite the convenience of virtual keyboard based search. Very smart move by Google, though. Another door opens to get your eyes on those ads.
According to the same source:

> In 2014, less than 5% of California's total energy demand was served by coal and petroleum coke-fired plants, nearly all of it from plants outside the state

Which is followed by what you quoted:

> At times...

So, according to that source, out of state coal consumption can range from 5% to 50%. It doesn't say exactly when the 50% figure was hit, or why.
This is really great initiative! Despite some fundamental critics and misconceptions, I'd like to say: Congrats, Vlad Alexandru!

In my humble opinion, this is not even close to "serverless", but rather "cross-platforms". The best description to current "serverless trend" that I've heard is that "infrastructure comes with no-ops and pre-scaled at massive scale, that only providers like Amazon's AWS, or Google's GCP, or Microsoft's Azure and alike can provide" ;)
Google still uses SHA-1 in its survey
Using HPM eliminates confounding factors. You won't get real world numbers because some of the benefit is provided by the OS/hardware, but you'll know if your changes are actually making a difference during the times that they are active.
In general, or the weird land of Silicon Valley?
ah, ok, we have the full-sized variety here.

I've only seen one moose on the road. We passed by each other on an icy morning on Hwy 2 west of Lakota, ND. He was just standing on the road on a foggy morning. It did scare the crud out of me.

We've had buffalo. One killed a motorcycle rider and annoyed the buffalo. The other I personally witnessed on a very foggy morning. Seems a very young buffalo escaped the local wildlife reserve. I was standing on the porch of the building where I worked trying to clear my head with a cup of coffee. Out of the fog and down the street ran a small buffalo pursued by a military vehicle. I think they figured they could get it into the back without it hurting them or it[1]. I walked back into the building not having cleared my head.

1) I did learn two things: 1) buffalo do not turn very well going down a hill 2) the door to a Pontiac Firebird does not hold up very well when a small buffalo hits it square after running downhill.
With all the shady companies with questionable tech going around, it's about time we agree on a simple test:

Show us the proof. Either a prototype or a model or something that physically works. Until then it's all dreams/vaporware/scam depending on how dubious it seems.
> Compare that to social networks where you can directly extract payments from other members by listing fake items for sale, laundering payments from fake credit cards (on other fake profiles) to yourself, or link-baiting other users. A single successful fake account on those networks can easily net you $100.

You're comparing apples to oranges: fake accounts used for "like spam", etc. are different with regard to their complexity and scalability than accounts used for phishing. There are phishing accounts on Facebook as well.

> Again, follow the money, FB has very little incentive to stop these fraudsters who are only inflating their own numbers.

Facebook has a massive incentive to stop fake accounts: fake accounts decrease meaningful conversions that lower the ROI for advertisers, which is tracked carefully both by Facebook and advertisers. This directly lowers the price for ad space on Facebook, and makes Facebook look noisier and less impactful than other channels.

Following the money leads a direct, unmistakeable path to a strong incentive to shut down fake accounts.

It's also very bad to accidentally shut down real accounts, especially in cases where users could be confused enough not to return.
My stupid question.

If i changed the language of my fake accounts in response to this, would they perform better because they now no longer work in your filter?
You are absolutely correct, it will be a tough challenge, but if anyone is ever going to it, it's now.
All depends on the workload, aggregates are more often CPU capped than IO cap in workloads we use in-house. We have a PostgreSQL server with 16GB of memory (the database total is over 80GB, but the table that is hit the most is under 3GB, the rest is just BLOB's) - more than enough to keep the relevant data in memory. Most of the time running some aggregate queries that hit the database server pretty hard are spent in USER, not IOWAIT. It's pretty annoying, because I frequently see my CPU usage at 50% (one of two cores maxed) when I know these queries could be parallelized and take advantage of the second core (or more).
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Per the article there is one coal power plant still active.

It's run by Argus (the sometimes good, sometimes bad company from Arrow) near San Bernadino.
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Possibly, though I bet the return from the cardboard/cardstock that most of those are made from are very different from the radar return from a metal missile.

I played with Estes rockets too. How many people are likely to in war zones like these APS devices will be deployed in are likely to though? The rocket motors aren't super cheap and aren't really reusable or easy to make your own.
Dryscrape is really cool! Thanks for sharing!
All of the fuels listed in the grandparent have extracting and refining costs which depend on the source.
Desalination infrastructure is expensive. If you get 54 million gallons from a $1 billion plant, you need to spend twice as much if it only runs 12 hours a day.

Storage costs are not free, but if you can save 1 billion then that buys a lot of battery's. It's ~15,000 kilowatt-hours of power for every million gallons of fresh water that’s produced. If you assume 1/2 of your production is at night that's 405Mega Watt Hours of storage which is less than 1 billion, though at 2,000$ / kWh battery's not by all that much.

A better option is to just pump water up a hill to a lake, which could then provide whatever pressure desalination needs at the bottom of a hill. But, again that requires a tall hill. (~65 ATM * 33 feet = ~2,145 feet above sea level.) Saudi Arabia actually does have a lot of land at that altitude or above.

PS: This is also why you run them at night in the first place. We really don't need a lot of water at night, but storing water is cheap.
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A very educational documentary with one of the top intellectuals.
adekok's description was very clear to me and I was thinking exactly this. What happens is that the entangled state shares a wave function. Collapse one = both.
Those aren't side-effects, they are the main effects.
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Tribalism.
What's the point of open data if there is no accountability?

So far a blogger received an email with an apology. That's not much to get excited about.

What's to stop them from carrying on as usual if there are no repercussions and only millions in revenue for them to collect?
The dropdown doesn't help you with "fourth Thursday in November" though, and the calendar button launches a popup window that doesn't work. On archive.org at least -- may have worked at the time, but I disable popups, so...

Pretty sure my thought process was: need a Thanksgiving flight -> when is Thanksgiving this year? -> run cal(1) -> let's book.
Have you evaluated Elixir yet? Targets Erlang BEAM + OTP backend + Ruby like syntax. Best of both worlds, maybe? The Phoenix framework sweetens the deal too. I would also add Ecto ORM for popular RDBMS backends.
> other than bragging rights

Nationalism makes people do some stupid things.
I agree. I wrote chat bots before that combined peer activity with their actual triggers to determine when it's appropriate to post, that went undetected for weeks at a time.

I imagine this to be even easier on Facebook, as it's not realtime.
Not tipping an uber driver. Nobody I know tips uber drivers.
I love nostalgia posts. I think all of us who were "webmasters" all have a differed "what we are now", but if everything didn't start this way for me, I don't think I'd be doing what I am doing today regardless.

I remember making a ball bounce in Flash with some elasticity and people wanted it on their website no matter what their website was about. The 90's were such strange times. "Can you put that bouncing ball on my site?" I guess, but I'm not sure what it has to do with carpet cleaning....

I still get asked to disable the right mouse button, add background music, a counter, or make something blink or scroll, and every now and then... an animated gif (usually of a U.S. flag).

Luckily I've been doing this long enough now to say, no, please don't do this to yourself or your business. You've spent too much money and too much time to throw it all away with a tiny design disaster. But they insist. Ohhhh they insist.
Disagree. For emphasis on the power of being a "webmaster" AND to capture what that meant in the cultural vernacular of various pipsqueaks who claimed that title when it was a thing, you could do little better than a qualifier like "fucking" or "motherfucking" or "goddamn". You could for instance, write this with a theme embodied like, "I am webmaster, hear me roar" or "webmaster of my domain or something", but I think you are simply sanitizing the ego-boosting high and kind of crass thinking that often came with discovering that particular power, at that particular time. For an ancient courtier who discovered how he can manipulate the realm, you could probably expect a much more refined if still ego-laden expression of that power.
Work in the industry at the moment. The US sells lots of coal to China, where it is burned with far less regulation than it would be in the US. The coal plants I work on are secretive to the point where they do not want their name even in technical publications. Instead we say e.g. "a large coal-fired plant in the Midwest..."
Or "games" such as Ingress.
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The author "makes it simple" by using a crappy get out for explaining the seeming faster than light influence in quantum entanglement:

>This “spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein called it, might seem to require transmission of information — in this case, information about what measurement was performed — at a rate faster than the speed of light.

>But does it? Until I know the result you obtained, I don’t know what to expect. I gain useful information when I learn the result you’ve measured, not at the moment you measure it. And any message revealing the result you measured must be transmitted in some concrete physical way, slower (presumably) than the speed of light.

The thing is when the results are obtained you can write them down or similar. Unless you are presuming the written results and other records change as you mail them to each other you are left with the faster than light type paradox. I'm with Einstein on that one in that something odd is happening.

My guess is that quantum mechanics is the fundamental nature of the universe and the appearance of space and time are a resulting epiphenomenon. As a result of that the particles appear far apart but are in some ways are still connected.
I think the difference is is the scope.

For example: http://gizmodo.com/feds-are-spying-on-millions-of-cars-with-...

The Feds are tracking millions of vehicles traveling interstate highways. I heard at a conference that LPR data can at a minimum provide vehicle location and in some cases historical imagery and video through the I-95/I-81/I-87 corridor from Florida to Canada.

That's different than taking security footage at a bank robbery and putting out a bolo for a White Ford Bronco, plate 12345.

There's a similar controversy about Facebook facial recognition. My face isn't a secret -- but at some point large entities (commercial or government) tracking my movements crosses a line that is something more than observation of publicly viewable data.
What's wrong with blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog? Why have a gazillion different domains - this is fragmenting identity especially if you can't secure the same name. The new extensions are a legalized extortion!
It's simply not an appropriate test. You don't use high performance mode when you care about battery life.
Ask HN: What are some cool cdn subdomain names?
It's pretty obvious I have too much time on my hands.

I'm wondering what subomain names others have used when naming a cdn for their websites.

The twist is that I'm reserving cdn.domain.com for other uses.

This is for serving assets for a tech related marketing site.

My initial thoughts:

cdnx.domain.com
web.cdn.domain.com
cdn.web.domain.com
cdn-web.domain.com

I should just get on with it, but, hey, why not give it a cool name.
>[Full disclaimer: I am an ex theoretical physicist. I don't claim I am sane, though.]

You sound sane :)
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Just as interesting are their success stories:

http://pharo.org/success
I was pretty apprehensive about the concept, but hopeful enough to get a new mobo/CPU just to give it a shot. It does definitely seem to good to be true.

I went for it, and it actually ended being significantly easier and better performing than I expected. I did have to take a few days and learn a bit about qemu, but I'd expect that much.

I will say that older motherboard (perhaps some new ones too) might not have firmware that fully support what's being done here. It's hard to say which, but you can see what people have had success with if you search around (Asus z170a works for me).

This is a little light on details but is a good resource for the steps involved:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
> wove non-European traditions into its historical tapestry

History is fixed, and if we're making new history, I'd sooner do away with this kind of philosophical thought altogether. Academia may well study theology, it needn't produce it.
This is like, textbook survivorship bias.
I thought that maybe the volume is too large, but 25 million gallons (half of that plant in California) is just a cube with about 50 meters side length, so that seems totally doable. You still need electricity to pump the stored water around, but that should be a lot easier than pumping it through the reverse osmosis membranes.
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What else would you validate? A number? Whatsapp can just show you the wrong number.
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Syntax and being relational are orthogonal.

You can set up non-relational data structures in SQL. You can set up a relational data structure in virtually any programming language.

However what the NoSQL people are learning is that smart developers really want relational models. So they are offering the features that can be used to achieve that.
Heh, Steve Jobs unknowingly solved this problem years ago. Apparently he didn't want a license plate in order to protect his privacy, before plate scanners were a thing. In California you have a certain amount of time after buying a car to get the plate. Steve leased a new car at that interval, and never had a plate.
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I think it's OK for people who aren't really committed to leave. I also wonder if it's worth encouraging folks who want to be in tech to head to other cities where there is slightly less competition but potential for higher impact.

PS This reminds me a bit of "Why I'm leaving China" articles that came out from a bunch of expats a few years ago :)
I'd hesitate to conclude that tripling the IRS budget would improve their level of enforcement.
Anyone know why they didn't use react or flux or any of the other facebook tool in this? I'm just curious about their decsion making process. I see jquery, d3, and HHVM.
Definitely my favourite bit. I had to view source and figure out how you did it. Just like I did the first time around mid-90s.

.. which ended up being the whole point.
I have said it before and I will say it again, the new gTLDs are just a money grab by ICANN.
Not only that, but they are basically SEO black holes, no thanks!
The harmful use cases are not only entirely forseen, but also realized at this point. Many times over. Government use of bulk data needs to be regulated. Unfortunately, our government has a bit of an accountability problem, so such regulation may not even be useful.
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It is very commonly used to express astonishment or surprise, the same way we say "Oh my god!" in English.
"The aim of this spec is not to exceed 2 pages"

Your absolutely right, and anyone who thinks they can do all that in two pages is very misinformed.
All of the elements you believe are hand-waving are addressed - this is just a wallet specification, not a (crypto)currency specification.

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