skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These problems are easily solved.

1) The right type of USB is the old, standard USB type A connector. Whatever kind of device you have, you should have a cable which plugs into this connector. The other USB connectors are on the device side; every charger these days has a USB-A connector on the charger side.

2) It should be pretty easy to design such a thing to be robust: all you have to do is make the USB connectors on the train easily replaceable. This can be done by putting the USB-A connectors on their own PCB, with all the charging electronics on a separate board below it. Then the supplier just needs to sell these replacement boards really cheap (because they're just a few type-A connectors plus a pin header strip) in bulk to the MTA. Even better, the MTA should get the design files, so they can farm out production of replacement boards if the supplier goes bust or they want to get a better price. Keep the charging circuitry on the lower board, and make the upper board easily replaceable with a screwdriver (with a security key) so maintenance workers can swap them out as necessary.
Every little despot's 'court orders' exept for court orders from the most despotic court in the world: The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
I sometimes joke that I'm a member of the "Wikipedia Film Club" because I read about more movies than I actually end up watching.

That's so funny. I definitely do that too. However, a lot of the times I don't end up watching the movie unless it's really good. That's probably my favorite use of Wikipedia.
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I agree with Chris2048, in time before the actual vote in UK polish media tried to present both options and their arguments, one of the interviews was really memorable for me, the conclusion was that "no fisherman in UK will vote for stay". Of course I know, that the interviewee did not represent all of their trade and some probably voted stay. But the sentiment of it was very familiar to me, it was just like some polish farmers, mostly living off (very) small farms (<10ha). Before Poland joined EU it was feared that those people will have troubles, and let's be honest: with or without EU being a small farmer really sucks. The way that fisherman spoke about more than a decade of hardship and bureaucracy EU created for them was just what I'm hearing here. About new (higher) norms, about artificial production limits, even the part about how other EU countries are taking advantage of it to kill our industry was easy to relate to... And the emotions, last year in my region woman broke down in cries at paper-filling training, because she just couldn't stand it any more. If this was UK she would vote leave. Sure you may say that in a way she failed to make use of great opportunity EU provides, possibly because of lacking education, and there is some truth in that. But blaming people for being uneducated, stupid and cynically manipulated solves non of the problems, this is just an excuse to deny that EU has any problems at all.
I've mostly heard it in echoes referring to later events, and am not clear on the origins, but intuitively it makes the most sense as a statement by the opponents of decolonialization commenting on the likely results of democratic elections after the departure of the colonial authorities, so it makes sense for it to be the colonialists rather than the anti-colonialists.
what exactly is the argument here ? That it is OK for a government to be revengeful on a non-cooperative opponent ?
1. "Aren't you fault tolerant against AZ failures?"

2. "Aren't you fault tolerant against region failures?"

throws up hands, moves back to bare metal
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What's wrong with New Zealand?
The problem is that the people you want to communicate with often don't even know what a VPN is.
WikiLeaks releases AKP email database
Erm, what?
Some of my most outstanding writing and editing experiences in college were in several courses (History, Philosophy) that the the students would make five copies of their draft papers, and professors organized us to regularly comment on five of our peer classmate's draft papers, prior to our final version, and for each of us to accordingly revise our work, before handing the papers in in.

Likewise for a several courses, in which short papers were handed in for professor comments, and the opportunity for revision the following week.
During the outage, my Echo just sang "Daisy" verrryyy sloowwwwly. Weird.
A great deal of evil has been done in the name of saving lives and souls. Your good intentions do not excuse the long history of thought policing leading to injustice and misery.
What's wrong with New Zealand? Looks even tinier than usual in Safari on iOS.
Unless the Strategic Rocket Forces were in much worse condition in 2003 than everyone thought, the idea that a few interceptors in Poland threatened Russian strategic deterrence in any way was laughable. In all likelihood the object was a screen for other concerns such as NATO expansion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%27s_Hiccup
Normally nurses draw more than necessary so that the lab can do retests, or do additional tests. Once you're sticking a needle in someones vein the marginal aggravation of taking extra blood is pretty small.

So they could probably get away with taking less blood.
> Catholic schools tend to be decent.

Catholic schools are (by definition) not "fundamentalist" by the narrow original definition, and usually not "fundamentalist" by the broader, common modern definition.
And with c++11 you can use a lambda capture to make it even cleaner (I'm not sure if this is the right syntax)

[&fancyNumber]
{
// [Mathy stuff redacted]
fancyNumber = someIntermediateVariable / anotherIntermediateVariable;
}();
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Yes, by the square, this is HN I cannot speak so loosely:)
For Multiple access RF systems yes, but got point to point systems, that is line of sight, noise is not an issue, free space loss, also impairments from fog, trees and other things are dominant.
Well, for regular macros, only if your C syntax was in a string. Otherwise, lisp would try to tokenize it, and choke. Heck, if your lisp of choice offers an eqivalent of TCL's uplevel, you wouldn't even need a macro, just a function.
Efficiently directing light into a fiber optic cable is a difficult problem, in general. The luminescence is their proposed solution to this problem and one of the key results in their journal article.

You have to shine light end-on into a fiber--you can't couple light into the fiber by shining on it at the side. Even for large, visible-light scintillating fiber used in this paper, you only have a few degrees of possible incidence angles that direct the light into the fiber. See for example, (one of the first results from Google), the figure on page 4 of this datasheet [0].

[0] https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/phys/p...
I found a copy of the full order at http://www.conjur.com.br/dl/decisao-whatsapp-vara-criminal-d... (source: http://www.conjur.com.br/2016-jul-19/juiza-manda-suspender-w...).

To me, the most eyebrow-raising part is "[...] além do encaminhamento das mensagens já recebidas pelo usuário e ainda não criptografadas [...]" (page 4, rough translation: "and also the forwarding of messages already received by the user but not yet encrypted"). Do they believe that the messages are encrypted only after being received either by the user or by a central server? I get the feeling that they think that the encryption is done by a central server, and that the messages can be intercepted there before the encryption (while in reality, they're probably encrypted by the sender's phone, so intercepting would mean pushing a software update).
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is it fair to assume that all other messaging apps operating in Brazil that have not been blocked have cooperated with the government and installed backdoors ? does anyone have more information on this ?
A major iOS/OS X vulnerability comparable to Android Stagefright
> after Russia had made it very clear that it was uninterested in participating in any international institutions that would restrict its autonomy in any way

Exactly! The USA was leading by example (Kyoto, International Court of Justice, ...) and Russia said “me too“.

And the USA, feeling unchallenged, dared put offensive/defensive military infraestructure on the door to Russia.

Well played!
I'd even buy some extra levels with just the original Braid's gameplay.

I think, though, that he could come up with some new creative power-ups and such to add to the gameplay.

I keep thinking like a Mario vs Mario 3 idea. Sure it still had firepower and such, but adding the flying added a lot to the game.
Who thought this was orchestrated by another other islamist faction in the military? I never heard during any of the coverage that anyone thought the folks behind the coup weren't secular.
Am I the only one having daily issues with SQS?
I have 150+ servers writing to a queue and they timeout at random a few times per day.
Sadly, no. He's spoken about this in length on Twitter. He's working on a new game written in Jai. He's going back and retouching the Braid code because it crashes frequently on Windows 10. He wants to keep selling it, so he has to fix it.
Ask HN: Nowhere to go from here?
I'm feeling a bit discouraged and hopeless in regards to "where to go/what to do next".

I'm 23 with no degree, and I work in web development as a senior team lead for $130k/yr salary in Utah (silicon slopes area).

I've been at this job for over a year and the "hard" programming problems feel already solved. I spent the first little while creating a solid framework for creating new web solutions, and at this point, my job is starting to just feel like data entry. It's a lot of "make a page that does this", or "create a system that allows us to do X", and I'm just filling in the pieces and naming the fields, etc.

There are interesting problems that I want to solve regarding AI, writing compilers, creating programming languages, etc, but it seems like no one wants to pay me to work on those problems. I end up just spend most of my free time doing that and dreading returning to work.

I also feel like I can't advance or change positions because according to everywhere that I interview, I'm already at a real high point in salary and I constantly get low balled for offers.

I just feel a bit stuck and would appreciate any advice.

Thanks
Polandball comics have been on the Portugal-is-a-rectangle trail for a while now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/300b86/portugal...
> Put in some women only cars on the crowded lines to prevent groping

That's straight up segregation. Not only is this illegal, it's unfair to basically the other half of the population for an additional "safe space".
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It would not surprise me that any large office or such is using the B or C ranges on top of the A range being national.
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But fundamentalism was a declining ideology. The EU gave it renewed strength.
The effect detailed in this comment and its parent is the Fresnel Zone [1], which isn't quite direct, human intuition 'line-of-sight', but that concept applied to RF waves.

Essentially, any object intruding into a blimp-shaped region between the receiver and the transmitter has the potential to mess things up, and is corrected by having a payload in the signal that's tolerant or self-correcting of errors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone
I agree the land issue (rent seeking really) is an important factor in explaining stagnation (because of the opportunity cost of tying up dead capital into illiquid assets) but I suspect it too is a side affect.

The majority of constraints on land use appear to be artificial such as corruption/NIMBYism/regulatory.

Why though, have those constraints come into existence? They didn't always exist. In my country getting official approval from the government in order to construct a house only came in the 80s, long after one might make complaint about factories belching smoke in the wrong area and other such externalities.
I believe what he's saying is that it'll pad to fit those cells. If you're sending 500b of data in 16b chunks, you'll need some padding (12b) in there to fit into 32x16 = 512b.
Tor is already slow - people use it because they want security. The addition of another VPN increases security greatly and only adds a minimal amount of more latency.
Yeah, I'm interested in how just the Continental US would rank.
What evidence do you have for the "[no] moral objection" statement?
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> The problem with sequels in games this good is that the game is so much better than anything else when it is released, that a sequel can't be anything other than an incremental update, and thus feels lackluster.

Depends on the sequel. If the sequel is just an additional collection of levels, then just provide a fun "additional levels pack" as an add-on, and/or provide a way to share community-produced levels. That doesn't have the same expectations as a sequel.

If you're going to actually make a sequel, put enough effort, new mechanics, and story into it to make it a new game in its own right. For examples of sequels that put enough effort in to be a new game while still feeling like a sequel to the original, look at Portal 2, or Super Mario Bros 3 (by contrast to Lost Levels, which was fundamentally just a level pack). Numerous sequels pull this off, even of innovative indie games.

But it's also possible that the new game will end up with entirely new mechanics and story to the point that it isn't a sequel, and instead becomes "a new game from the makers of ...". And that's awesome too.
Or maybe just a man who felt a stronger loyalty to his country than to his ethnic group.
Exactly. Assuming that countries are united on the basis of some common characteristic (language/culture), the likelihood of this unity following a particular longitude or latitude (both European creations) with such mathematical precision is quite small. Straight borders are not exactly prevalent in Central Africa but the existing borders do not make sense in the slightest, and the dysfunction you see is largely a legacy of European meddling in the region.

Speaking of West Africa, you don't really have to think hard to figure out why Gambia's borders were drawn the way they were.
Is that accurate?

My understanding was that the invasion of poland coincided with readiness to respond to a countermeasure by England. And that England called it war pretty much immediately and started mobilizing right then.

Seeing all the treaties that don't get enforced, I'm led to believe that England didn't have to attack.
It is important to understand that this is an attack on car culture. Car culture can not exist in the present form if sober drivers are made strictly responsible for the results of their poor driving. A requirement for good attentive driving reduces the value of the car. Our society depends on that value ... a lot.

Now that cars are generally considered a bad idea (at least in the cities) we are probably going to have to go a lot further than just changing a term (but we should still do that). We are going to have to change our entire culture. It will be very difficult. Eventually the law will catch up with culture and driving will be harder than it used to be. Then there will likely be a lot less of it done and traffic will no longer be the most dangerous thing in our lives.
> they gave him a pass on Poland

They declared war 2 days after Germany attacked Poland. "Peace in our time" was a year earlier.
For a bomb threat? Or more benignly, uploading a few documents to a whiteblowers platform (some news organizations have one)? No problem I'd say.
Do you know in what way they are different?
Can confirm: I didn't publish for the money, I published for the prestige. Still waiting for all the prestige to roll in...
My complaint about mathematics (and similar) articles is that they seem to be written for technical correctness, but not for instructional purposes.

So people who already understand the concepts can nod and agree "I find nothing (further) wrong with that," while learners definitely fall down a rabbit hole of successive links. At times it seems more like lawyering than teaching.

I've considered the argument that Wikipedia isn't meant for that purpose, that it's simply a repository for formulas and such, but I don't believe that agrees with any idea of human advancement and learning, and the site's own mission statement reads "to collect and develop educational content."
> Well, for regular macros, only if your C syntax was in a string. Otherwise, lisp would try to tokenize it, and choke.

Which is why I said normal (rather than reader) macros could do a "basically C-like syntax" but with Lisp tokenization rules.
Wikileaks released 294,548 emails from Turkey's ruling political party
Do we know that the Kemalist sections of the military participated in the coup? I have not read anything about it. These would be the only ones who would care enough to follow the "protect secularism against islamists" protocol. If the initiators were, as being reported, related to the Gülen movement, then they are religious nuts as well, and what they cared about was simply to bring Gülen in power.

Related: These tweets by Turkish journalist https://twitter.com/ikoker/status/755104366235901952
Yes, the higher you go in the frequency the more it is like light. But even at mm-wave such as say for example 28Ghz you still have penetration through walls, but the loss is very high, for 28Ghz it is about 19db for a according to IWPC for a typical house wood wall. For light, the loss is basically infinity. Building a user device, like a phone or tablet with stepper motors or servo mechanisms is probably not very realistic I don't think.
the winners write blurbs in their history books about how they squashed the rebellion of unsophisticated farmers
M-ediocre+alicious
> Tor is already slow

Relatively, sure. But I've found it very usable in recent times actually. Used it almost full-time (besides a normal Firefox instance for the company's intranet) to get around some silly firewall that wouldn't let me download "hack tools" (I was an intern in the cyber security department, security tools were part of my job). There were times where I didn't notice at all that I was using Tor, and most of the time it was comparable to mediocre wifi.
I am in a similar position (22 years old). I have been "coping" by working on machine learning projects on the side in the area that I have determined gives me a lot of meaning (teaching AIs to learn correlations between diet and autoimmune diseases). I do this and trial it with my friends who have AI issues, and work normally during the day putting all the discipline I can into just focusing and doing good work for the 9-5 I am expected to. Hopefully, eventually, I can spin off my work project and/or one of my side projects will get traction. I should have enough capital to live off my investments/retire and work on harder, more interesting/long term problems for the rest of my life in about five years. Put in those terms, it is not as hard to keep grinding.
Have you tried TCP with 5sec latency? It can barely window. Shit, dialup was better, and that would still cost you half a second or so for a full-MTU packet.

I see your point, don't worry, it would just be a lot more rough than you're implying, particularly to upload many heavy PDFs. (I kind of want to lab it now that we've discussed it.)
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As I said "use the right algorithms and data structures in first place".
The premise was that the tab key was broken.
Why compile to lisp in the first place? Build a nanopass framework (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...) that acts on sexprs, and then emit the thing to a target of your choice. The advantage is that Lisp is really good at transforming sexprs, and macros make writing the infrastructure for that sort of compiler just that much easier.
Is that a failure of the people or failure of the spec?
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Have they release highlights of anything interesting?

Edit: Not able to search, I'm getting timeouts. Clearly a heavy load at launch time.

Edit 2: Wikileaks mentioned they were hit by 'cyberattacks' before the release but were still able to get it out. Maybe it's getting DDOS by some Turkish supporters. They were also apparently phished well enough to cause them to tweet this: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755140834836832256/phot...
I I were going to hack on an C based editor, I think I'd use vis as a starting point:

https://github.com/martanne/vis

It already has Lua extensions.

Or I might play with a pure python editor

https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pyvim

which is based largely on prompt_toolkit that iPython just adopted

Both editors are "vim like".
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The allies weren't "fine with it". Homosexuals made up a small percentage of the total people in death camps, and the vast majority of the allies weren't even aware of them until the liberation.

Homosexual survivors were treated horribly because homosexuality was still a crime in Germany and most of the Allied countries after WWII. But the western allies weren't "fine" with systematically exterminating homosexuals or any other group--as evidenced by the fact that they ended the practice.
>I imagine the situation with Turkey will be much the same.

Highly doubtful. Turkey is a NATO member who's entire defense strategy hinges on that alliance. We don't live in the 20th century anymore. Countries are far too interdependent for a war of territorial aggression to be effective.
> They use the same tracking system Google uses to create unique keys, except they built their own. That means the microtime of installation is sent to the mothership every single time

Did everyone else know about this? I didn't. Interesting. I stopped using Chrome and switched back to Firefox 3-4 years ago because Firefox got a better, and was slightly worried Google would eventually do stuff like that.
Good question, you can see a light flash on and off but to encode large amounts of information onto a channel is determined by the signal to noise ratio per Shannon's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
the information rate is proportional to the SNR. So you may be able to see a light flash on and one once per second but to put 1Gbps on it you need a pretty high SINR. Things like dispersion come into play.
I'm willing to exclude the new trains entirely from the criticism, except for funds which go towards new features other than more space. 1 or 2 million per car @ about 1000 cars is "only" 1 or 2 billion out of the 27 billion though.

Most of this money is going towards making the system shinier and prettier, instead of actually improving commute times for anyone
>Even Windows Phone has better support for it, and they do have WinRT and .NET on them.

No they don't. Point me to one windows phone audio app that has low latency audio.
Ad absurdum.

They may very well ignore brazilian justice. It is their choice.
What they can't do is to ignore brazilian justice and continue to operate in the country.
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> But then, toward the end of the project, it became clear that the game would not fit in memory on the Xbox 360 (which had 512MB of physical RAM, but of course a game could not use all of that)

Wow. Less than 512MB. I can't imagine how they fit stuff like Destiny and Halo: Reach into that.
Alternatively, an era of peace and cultural exchange as countries agree to swap territories to become more rectangular, leading to an influx of new immigrants to both countries and greater understanding that this cultural mixing brings.

But yeah, probably bloodshed and war.