skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in India for many years. India has idiotic laws but the government simply does not have enough money to enforce any laws. As a result we can simply ignore the laws and get about our business. (That also explains corruption and inability to scale a model).

For example my house was not connected by road. When we tried to build our own private road we realized we had to take clearance from 8 departments which would have taken us 2 years and several $$$ in bribes. We paid money to a contractor who build the road without any clearance and no government person ever showed up because they had more important job to do.

The problem is if you are going to have a higher number of cops per capita, they need to catch someone to justify their existence. The only reason we have "War against drugs" because there aren't any other wars that politicians are fighting with. Almost all problems are solved (compared to say India).

If gov. shuts down war against drugs they will start war against sex. American women enjoy freedom and safety that Indian women can only dream of and yet our government is busy passing all sort of laws to "protect woman". This is because these are empty minds working as devils workshop.
while the surrounding culture does matter a lot, it's more than that.

There are also more mundane things such as poor access to quality food, education and secure places to relax. Malnurishment, poor education and constant stress all have negative effects on people.
In the Depths of the Digital Age
> Would a person with Aspergers/autism/etc pass that test?

Sure, my first question is always simple direct semantics test. Perhaps something like, what's the third word of this sentence if you start counting from the second word? Mitsuku chatbot that won the 2013 chatbot competition got this one right, but if I just slightly rephrased it to, "If I were to ask you what the third word of this sentence is if you started counting from the second word, what would you say?", it got it flat wrong despite having just answered it.

Reflective questions like this are good tests of understanding that are trivial for a person to answer, not so trivial for a system that doesn't truly understand what it's reading.
One of the comments I get people who visit India (I'm Indian) is that how is there a slum next to a swanky high rise or classy residential/commercial areas (at least in most big cities). I don't really have an explanation for this (lack of space, cheap labor etc.), but the more I read about economic segregation in the US the more I'm convinced that the inadvertent mixed income neighborhoods in India could be a solution.

If you don't live around people who are less fortunate than you, how can you understand their plight and their point of view? Handing out a few bucks to a homeless guy or cutting a check to a non-profit doesn't create any substantial understanding of the issue.

Obviously there will be opposition to this in the US since people want to live with other people in the same socio-economic strata as themselves. Other reasons: 1) I don't want my property price to depreciate 2) I don't want to live next to "da hood" etc. Until people have a drastic change in attitude this will be ongoing. The article touches on this a bit (section 8 vouchers) but why can't we have neighborhoods with multiple levels of housing options encouraging people with mixed incomes to be around each other.
My biggest concern with security through obscurity is that it begins to be relied upon as a significant defensive mechanism.

the incredible rate at which I see "but we have X" as a reason not to do good security is depressing.
> And you are adding extra levels of meaning that are not in the UDHR to suit your argument. If as you say, there are extra levels of actors (religious groups, corporations, etc) besides government in Article 19, it would also means there are extra levels of actors for Article 9: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."

Look, it's really not that complicated. When an actor is unspecified, the obvious answer is "anyone". "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile (by anyone)." That makes perfect sense. There's no reason to restrict it to governments.

> Let me put it another way: The government can only realistically protect you from the government itself arresting you. The government can restrain itself from putting you in prison for dissent.

So what? I already said I don't care what the government "can protect me from". I'm talking about the definition and societal value of free speech. The fact that people willfully conflate this moral concept with government action that may be aimed at defending (some instantiations of) this concept is the problem.

> Yeah, UDHR means you can insult your mother-in-law without consequences. Sure.

That's what we in the business call a "straw man".

ETA: I now see from reading your other comments that you clearly have a violent case of the Just World Fallacy. My condolences. That makes it perfectly clear why you would think that the premise that the government can't perfectly defend free speech against non-state actors means we should just give up and pretend no such right exists, and (by contrapositive) that me claiming the existence of such a moral right somehow means I think the government can reliably enforce it. Of course, both of these implications are false.
If I had to design a campaign to ensure Uber loses the vote, that is how I would designed the PR.

Is it possible that's exactly what Uber's opposition did?
> Taxi drivers aren't from here. So I get this is racist, but at least with Uber / Lyft we knew it was our neighbors. They spoke like we did. There were no communication issues around where you wanted to go.

And yet, knowing that its racist, you barrel right on through that social more... Way to let that freak flag fly, man.

I've had quite a few immigrant taxi and lyft drivers. They almost all spoke english very well, they all got me where I was going by the correct route, and they all get a tip from me.
Here are details:

http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=S...

Note that the jurisdiction is limited to unincorporated land in the county -- the vast majority of the population lives in incorporated cities and towns.

Ordinance text is available as a PDF here.
Direct link to the signup page, if you don't care about the press release:
https://databricks.com/ce
But that’s not "fixing taxis". That’s just creating a new monopoly, and 10 years down the road the taxi situation in the US will look just like the ISP situation looks like now, with Uber and Lyft holding control over 90% of the market, and people will be like "deregulation made it even worse", or people will complain why no one competes with them.
Exactly. While the process of designing the structure of your data can make you feel like “you're not getting real work done”, in the long run, it actually prevents headaches caused by inconsistent data. Data always has a structure, it's just that some people are too lazy or mentally feeble to figure out what it is.
> At the worst, it doesn't hurt

I do agree with the article, but at its worst, obscurity can hurt. Obscurity can add complexity, and it's said that "complexity is the enemy of security".

For example, sysadmins and maintainers could lose track of which layers are security and which are obscurity. In turn, this leads to decisions that compromise security because the maintainers overvalued the obscurity layers.
ROT13 would stop and attacker peeking over everybody's documents, one doc per second, in search for something interesting to actually devote time and resources on.

You have to decide if the tradeoff between a thousand bot's scans and a sole eavesdropper noticing the knocking pattern and marking your host as "(incompetently) trying to hide" is really worth it.
There's a reason free software reminds you that it is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY in all caps.
The real time electricity price for several states is published.[1] Sounds like you need a smart device not a smart grid.

Lots of utilities have adopted smart meters, Ontario and British Columbia certainly have. I don't know as much about the states.

1: http://www.nyiso.com/public/markets_operations/market_data/p...
The ones relevant to the quote are here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_A_Cryptography

They along with the Type 1 development and certification process are used for stuff they trust the most. Suite B algorithms can be used with Type 1 implementation for very, critical stuff as well. The Type 1 is the key for assurance more than the algorithms themselves. It ensures the protocols and algorithms are rigorously implemented. Includes considerations on RNG's, common coding flaws, covert channel analysis, and TEMPEST shielding.

Only smartcard sector comes anywhere near assurance activities that go into Suite A or Type 1 products in terms of crypto.
I worked at a Data Analytics start up in Palo Alto back in 2011 and we had 8 or 9 databases in our arsenal for storing different types of data. MongoDB was by far the worst and most unstable database we had. It was so bad that for the presidential debate, I had to stay up and flip servers all night because even though the shards were perfectly distributed, the database would crash and fail over to two other machines which couldn't handle our entire social media stream. We ended up calling some guys from MongoDB in to help us troubleshoot the issue and the guy basically said "Yeah we know that's a limitation; you should probably buy more machines to distribute the load." I like the concept of Mongo, but there are other more robust NoSQL databases to choose from.
If you're currently using MongoDB in your stack and are finding yourselves outgrowing it or worried that an issue like this might pop up, you owe it to yourself to check out RethinkDB:

https://rethinkdb.com/

It's quite possibly the best document store out right now. Many others in this thread have said good things about it, but give it a try and you'll see.

Here's a technical comparison of RethinkDB and Mongo:
https://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/

Here's the aphyr review of RethinkDB (based on 2.2.3):
https://aphyr.com/posts/330-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfigu...
> The FBI’s Office of General Counsel, however, has argued that electronic communication transactional records are the functional equivalent of telephone billing records. To eliminate any uncertainty, the FBI wants the law to explicitly cover such data

As we spend more of our lives online, the old-world laws are going to be increasingly invasive. Especially with companies who are eager to store every tidbit of information into cold storage forever.
What confuses me the most is that, for these "change-hating" residents, this "undesirable neighborhood transition" comes right alongside a standing offer of millions of dollars to move a little further away, due to increased home value.

Maybe I haven't passed that critical milestone, but I can't think of a scenario where I'd complain if my neighborhood decay came with such a surge in net worth? (not trying to be sarcastic, could be an issue of be never having been that attached to a specific neighborhood)

(Naturally, this wouldn't apply to those who are without rent control, and suffer the double-whammy of more outsiders + higher rent.)
That's uplifting news.
I was actually led to this article after reading about the origin of Tetris and being first written on the Electronika 60 - a soviet era computer.

Video of Tetris running on an E60: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gAgQQHFcQ
> Call your shot. Before you run code, predict out loud exactly what will happen.

That's probably my favorite bit of advice. It really helps with understanding how much your assumptions diverge from reality.
Better still, ignore the regulation, keep operating, and force the courts to decide.
Is there any evidence of this aside from rumor?
Use the library that you prefer :)

I made it so working with html was more logic or semantic, being tired of having to do things like this for a simple button:

<button class="button">Click me</button>

For me it's just a no-brainer that a button should look like... a button. Also removing many of the accessory classes such as pull-right, text-center, etc. Finally it was a challenge to do some of the bits that are normally done with js in pure CSS, such as a modal, tabs, fancy checkboxes/select, etc.

Now it's much much simpler (from what I've tried at least) to write html in this way, without superfluous classes. If you are using the sass (you probably should with Picnic) you also get some nice touches to make it even simpler and to avoid one of the few problems my approach has, being overly specific in CSS:

button, .button, [type="submit"] { /* ... */ }

Instead you can extend the root element with sass:

%button { /* ... */ }

Since all of the others come from there. Quick recap: simpler css, super flexible sass.
Online Reviews? Researchers Give Them a Low Rating
Yes (actually they say it works as low as 6V). You could, however, power it off a solar panel + battery enclosure so it's mostly set and forget.
As long as your needs are sufficiently basic that you never need to create data structures then what's in Go can be ok. People who are fans of Go seem to be people who don't know what they're missing in more advanced languages. This seems to include C programmers and dynamic language programmers. Programmers used to better type systems are generally not happy with Go.
Prototyping on Mongo is bad. MySQL takes 10 seconds to install. I'm imagining with the public Docker registry, so does Postgres.

How many times have you promised to fix something later and then later comes and...

Prototyping is not an excuse for laziness. It does feel like some programmers don't care.
It's shit.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/conquer-fear-flying/201...
I have tried to use a dozen of 'digital' tools for tracking tasks and taking notes. Bullet journal is the first analog thing I tried and it remains in my daily routine for 3 months now.

I have problem understanding the efforts to reimplement the concept in various software systems (Evernote, org-mode, etc.). Why confine yourself in the limited computer system?
"sex van" is sort of mid-range sketchy, and a whole lot better than "sex tarp".

https://xkcd.com/1101/
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sounds like a perfect libertarian dystopia to me ... All this to avoid the pretend horror of taxis.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a reason why people were so eager to welcome an alternative to taxis? What do you suppose that reason (or reasons) might be?
Why does the US bury its nuclear waste, and not recycle and refine it again?

It seems incredibly stupid.
Frighteningly possible counter-alternative: continue to ship bad software on embedded devices and just toss network connectivity in there in the event the device becomes popular / customers demand an update.
Newspaper vs. Web publishing jobs in US, 1990-present
Quoting from the very first paragraph of the blog post:

> Specifically, if a document is updated while the query is running, MongoDB may not return it from the query — even if it matches both before and after the update!

How's that compatible with READ COMMITTED isolation level?
> If by symbol you mean something different than variable, then I might agree,

Well, the real question is what Curtis means by symbol, as the answer he gave is rather cryptic. But since he specifically raised the issue of "gensyms", that seems to be a reference to a standard Lisp function that generates symbols, a first-class Lisp data structure, at run-time or, more usually, at macro-expansion time. Since Curtis has complained about macros in the past, I assumed this was what he was referring to. "Symbols" that exist only in the textual representation of the language and not as first-class data types are usually called "identifiers" rather than symbols precisely to avoid this sort of confusion.

In any case, it is an elementary exercise to define a formal computational system equivalent to the lambda calculus that uses integers rather than identifiers. Instead of λx.x you write λn where n is an integer. 0 refers to the value bound by the innermost scope, 1 to the value bound by the next outer scope, and so on. So, for example, λx.λy.x becomes λλ1. But of course, no one does this because it's completely pointless.
According to the NOTAM [1], this extends to SF Bay area as well, even near ground level.

Tests may be repeated on June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30, between 9:30a-3:30p.

[1] https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2016/Jun/CHLK_16-08_...
Software Engineering Intern Lessons
Few journalist know that UBER & Lyft are operating under more restrictive regulations in NYC. These regulation include fingerprinting, drug test, medical test and a couple of classes. The cost to comply is at least $600 per driver to start. There are other cost like special license plates.

Essentially you have to be a professional to drive an Uber/Lyft in NYC, legally. They comply in NYC so I'm not sure what Uber & Lyft are complaining about. At least one of them should have stayed, especially Lyft this a missed opputunity for Lyft.
How does it compare to Couchbase? That seems to be lighting the world on fire in that space lately.
Is MongoDB really that bad?

I am someone just getting into Meteor Js and it seems like moving from MongoDB would make it Meteor trickier to learn.

Is it difficult to switch to an alternative? Thanks
It's been a while since I looked at it, but I think Computational REST (CREST) tried to do something like that: http://www.erenkrantz.com/CREST/
Controlling for state of charge, temperature and less deep cycles, it is likely that we can achieve your figures given current tech. The question is the price. If you are not fully using them, then you need more batteries. At which point it becomes economical requires some guesses and heavy number crunching.

I agree with you on hydro, gravitational storage is relatively simple to do. But it takes space. Batteries could make more sense for microgrids.
Been on for about a month. It's pretty bad ass.
Jacob Appelbaum allegedly intimidated victims into silence and anonymity
My suspicion is that the prominently paved structure you're referring to is related to the publicly known Junction Ranch radar range located a half-dozen miles to the south, and indeed the eastern of the two long paved roads (which you can tell are elevated somewhat from the ground, as they have culverts under) appears to have antennas at the north end. There also appear to be some kind of portable towers set up around the area.

However, the farther west of the two seems to have a small structure made up of shipping containers or similar portables. This looks more like a setup for explosives testing, which you can see more of to the NNW. I'm not sure what to make of it besides to speculate that it could be for RF shielding.

Like most military ranges of its size, though, China Lake's back lot is full of so much miscellany that it's hard to know what's even from this decade, much less what anything is for. The structure you point out is fairly new, built since 2007, so it's a good bet it's still for something current.

That said I find it very unlikely they would have provided particularly accurate coordinates for the NOTAM. They probably used the geographical center of the range's northern part or something similarly unhelpful but justifiable.
CouchDB is too reliable and actually fsyncs your documents to disk. That is plain boring. I like to live on the edge and have some documents go to /dev/null once in a while. Life is just more exciting that way ;-)

/s
It isn't clear from the article whether 'browser history' is being sought or only IP addresses (not that I think that's okay). The only link in the article working for me was to the dishonorable Sen. Cornyn's amendment which would allow warrantless collection of IP addresses in addition to other so-called metadata.
Takata’s Air Bag Crisis
OFX isn't great and a PITA to implelent but it's ubiquitous thanks to Quicken.

Banks move at speeds that make most glaciers jealous and Intuit has some financial incentives to keep the spec complicated so it's really no surprise we've been stuck with it so long.

A new open standard would have been nice, but I wouldn't hold my breath on other banks implementing it, so I can't really blame WF for going it alone here.
I grew up in the San Jose and live in Mountain View. I have never heard anyone in the Bay Area express this opinion, nor do I hold it myself. Moreover, I am a homeowner, and have voted pro-housing in every election where it was an issue, and expressed a strong pro-housing opinion in every survey the city has offered.
If you tax coal and make it expensive, people won't use it. They'll use X, whatever that is. Hence his comment "absent coal". Now that they're using X, which is more expensive than untaxed coal, some people won't be able to afford heating their hut/yurt/cave/whatever and will die.
A text/blob field with a normalized key column or two were always vastly superior. We're talking about data loss at an incredible level. I mean, a new Jepsen test comes out and this community goes bonkers over how database X might suffer a split-brain problem for a few milliseconds under an extreme condition but Mongo on a single instance has never been safe, and people are making excuses for it.
From line to gradient graph – CoreGraphics Tutorial in Swift
Penn Station Is Shabby, but at Least It Sounds Nice
That's the case of many UBI supporters including ones in the Hacker News community.
Agreed. Used it for many years, had servers crash, unplugged but never ended up with corrupt data.
Unfortunately 2 days now. I appreciate the time to settlement because I could buy my shares and pay 2 days later. Sometimes it takes time to get funds from other accounts, and I wanted to buy (or sell) today, for example, when the quarterly just came out.
I wish there was more details on the benchmark. For example, I am interested to know if schema inference was turned on for spark-csv?
Yeah, definitely. You're right, it's not nuts to entertain the thought experiment, "what would be too far for a government?" Genocide, sure, I like to think I'd stand up against that, and defend the people who were the target.

But yeah, either putting nutty things on that list (like firearms registration, as you said), or looking at the state of the country and thinking we're anywhere near the need to overthrow a government, that's what's concerning.

There's a therapy term, catastrophizing, which I think fits here. It's where you take some situation, imagine the worst thing that could happen from it, and assume that is already happening or is about to happen. Like firearms registration leading to, what? FEMA death camps? Enslavement by the Bilderberg group?

And that's the pattern you see in all these overthrow-the-gubmint kind of conversations: X (harmless) leads to Y (not likely) leads to Z (increasingly unlikely) leads to W (totally implausible) and that's why we need to start killing our fellow citizens at X.

It's scary, but at the same time not too scary, since a lot of this stuff just falls under the umbrella of internet-tough-guy talk.
I've heard horror stories where someone wrote an exam with one of those pens, it was stored in the professor's car where it got hot in the sun, and the ink disappeared since the ink 'erases' via heat from the rubber eraser.
Wow, someone messed up the button sizing there. Unless they both go to the same place and the tiny text below is the opt out
If you prefer a more down to earth approach, check out https://cloudfleet.io
I don't know about the rest of the (initial) team, but Joel was lead on Excel as I recall. If you have a group if devs that know the nt kernel, SQL server and iis very well - why would you not use the ms stack?

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Linux and Free software myself - but that doesn't mean the thousands of Man years sybase and ms have spent on their stack is wasted effort.