skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of our big coastal cities are like that. Boston is about twice as big as it was in colonial times; all of the Back Bay is landfill. A lot of Cambridge is landfill. And yes, most of the taller buildings cluster around the more solid bedrock areas closer to downtown.

But the engineering principles needed here aren't unknown--cities like Las Vegas and New Orleans have modern buildings that are much taller than were thought possible in earlier times. If the developers didn't do it right because it was expensive, then it is on them.
I tried blocking the only third party cookie on our admin portal and the rest of the site seemed to work fine. What are you using to block the third party cookie?

Also what part of the privacy policy gives you the impression of there being a proxy/something tracking the websites you visit?
Is it also surprising when Apple sources parts from Samsung?
"Killed by software" would've been a much more faithful title!
Yes, what they're looking for is a majority (or 2/3 or whatever threshold is called for in the bylaws) of the disinterested directors.

If there are no disinterested directors, or it's something like 5 out of 6 directors are conflicted and the 1 director isn't comfortable going it alone, then the company might ask for approval of a majority of the non-conflicted shareholders. This isn't strictly required I think, but it's considered the safe thing to do.
Makes me a little thankful (for once) that my Georgia home is built on a hill of dense, unyielding clay.
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I guess it's only been just under 10 years[1], rather than 10 plus.

[1] http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-announces-goo...
> Stupid analogy time: Building a shiny, new house; easy. Retrofitting a 300 year old house with 1000gb ethernet wiring everywhere, while keeping the original character of the house and with minimal disruption to its inhabitants; HARD.

Actually, I thought it was pretty apt.
>The biggest asshole I ever worked for had a "No Assholes Allowed" rule.

Well, he probably meant "there's only room for one in this company".
Ask HN: What product/service do you want to stay independent?
First off, to avoid semantic distinctions that would detract from the possible answers, I've tried to word this question to allow for a lot of subjectivity. I hope this "pseudo-coded" question works out. Without further ado:

Inspired by this comment [0], I'm interested in your answers to this question: Is there an [independently|privately] owned [product|service|app] that you [use|depend on|really love], and would [prefer|desire|demand] stay [independent|private]?

And the extra credit follow up: Is there some corporation you would trust to take it over? What's your "Plan B" if it gets snapped up?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206192
You're thinking there's databases out there that are flawless, that never corrupt data, but that's garbage. They all do to a degree. They're also subject to being corrupted by hardware failures that aren't related to software.

Anyone with a huge production database running under load is going to have ways of mitigating these problems. Tumblr manages with MySQL, they open-sourced some of their tools like JetPants (https://github.com/tumblr/jetpants) to help build huge datasets.

So maybe Uber made a call and said "we can deal with intermittent corruption problems, we can recover from those, so long as the performance is better because a reputation for being slow is something we can't recover from". Life is all about trade-offs.
Highly adaptable though, unlike the mechanical probes. This might be more important in the long run, and might be a good reason to hold the mechanical probes back for the sake of diversity.
When you login to the smart wifi, open your network panel, and it will phone home on a loop.

I don't recall specifics, It just made me very paranoid. Go ahead and read it for yourself. Who knows how often they phone home? I know I don't. And think about what kind of targeted advertising they could implement if they knew every website you've ever visited. Is it possible? I can't see how thinking about doing this wouldn't have been a thought in meetings with how to monetize.
Find ideas that are both good AND different
Linked version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206192
I've already read 2 very long about this issue, but this very succinct text is really way better than any of others. The best computer programming article I've read in months.
never underestimate the cult of elon :^)
In which case ISTM that they could have just enabled HTTPS on www.openssh.com and saved us a few steps.
Stairs and Shares
haha I didn't notice the ", I guess that means I failed the first interview challenge.
There's another building that was built on friction piles: http://www.aboutcivil.org/burj-khalifa-design-construction-s...
I also play music and understand what you mean by practicing the same things over and over again.

But when you are practicing, you rarely play it exactly the same each time. Otherwise, what's the point of practicing? Hopefully, it sounds a bit better every time you go through it.
I think today we are much more casual. In the past it was more common to be much more professional and civil, at least in certain white collar occupations.

Now a lot more "personal expression", including assholery, is allowed and tolerated even.

Consider propellerhead programmers in the 60s with pocket protectors and all, and modern brogrammers.
all of this shielding (including microwaves) is checked ... we all have to pass FCC emissions checks (very expensive) if we make consumer equipment, be it microwaves, cell phones or kid's toys
>Taxpayers may well be pulled into the fray and suffer as well in these situations.

How might this happen - do you mean via the Transbay Dev.?
"primarily", not "exclusively".
> Why is this getting downvoted? It's adding something to the discussion that's relevant.

Probably because "open core" is a worrying business model for a free software company. It's better than it being proprietary, but there's a legitimate concern that GitLab will stunt development in the community edition to upsell people to the proprietary version. Much of the engineering talent is at GitLab, unlike most free software projects.

I work at SUSE, and all of my contributions and patches are free software (in fact, I maintain runC as part of my job which is pretty awesome). This is a much less worrying model than open core IMO. Enterprise support doesn't have to be support of proprietary software.
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What here is misinformation?
McDonalds made me pass a low level one to work in the kitchen.
Exactly - if Salesforce wants to survive they need to offer a full suite of office productivity apps. Quip seems be a good fit to fill up that hole.

Honestly, I was thinking they will buy Evernote but I guess Evernote has crappier product and Salesforce does not need users: just something quality they can improve on it.

So the question now is: Who is going to buy Evernote?
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>Why mention respect and decorum if the essay is only about civility?

Because respect and decorum are part of the total package of civility, even if we can nominally separate them.

>I didn't realize I had something to gain from being rude.

Ethically maybe not, but being rude etc can (and has traditionally been) used to one's advantage. E.g. it can fence off people from one's territory, it can intimidate people into giving one what he/she wants, it can make you accepted into a higher echelon that pisses on subordinates, etc.
I'm an adult, white guy with lots of gray hair... but I live in Brazil.

BTW, other day I was talking to a black guy friend of mine. He was complaining that the taxis didn't even stopped for him. More than one he had to ask as policeman to stop a taxi for him. As a funny guy, he says that he asks the policeman: "Would you please stop a taxi for me. I'm not able to do it, maybe they are thinking I'm black!".
Yes, I meant coalesce.

It makes sense that output is distributed, but it caught me by surprise since I had not seen anything about that on the official site, nor in any literature. It is unusual since the other Spark libraries have smart defaults.

My CSV had a columns of DenseVectors containing floats and when exported, it used the internal representation of numbers (see second tweet in reply to first tweet)
Yeah I never resonated with this complaint. I guess if you are constantly opening different directories/files I could see it being annoying, but I end up opening it once in the morning when I get into the office and it is up all day.
How would that even work? Cats don't follow you around and obey your commands, they just kinda wander about. In my experience, they also hate being transported. Maybe you have an unusual cat, but my guess is that there are not many startups who have an explicit "cat" policy because it would be such an uncommon request.
> * ... for programs/scripts designed to expect specific interactive warning messages, this could break them.*

Possibly, and that is the reason why I a) read release notes before upgrading critical pieces of software and b) don't use production as my test network.

I learned the hard way many, many years ago.
I've seen fields of trees that have been clearly bent by the wind, they look different than ones from shifting ground. For one thing, there tend to be more branches on the downwind side.
Creating some random bit of open source may or not be something akin to 'research', though.

It might work out, in the end, but there are things that people may not like about it. Experimenting is good.
Well, that's different than what you said. I agree with that completely.
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I tend to agree. For example, I know some parents who could always tell when their son and daughter had watched The Disney Channel at a friend's house. For days afterward their kids would be sarcastic and obnoxious—imitating every tween show on that channel. They weren't allowed to watch the channel in their own house for that reason, because it had such a negative effect on their behavior.
You got a typo on Tokyo; people ctrl-fing might miss your posting.
There is now money that can be taken off the table. You don't think investors are going to get any of that?
I will answer in a similarly meta way.

If I really like a product, I want it to stay independent, or rather, I want it to stay available so I can keep using it, until a superior alternative emerges that piques my interest. While this does not necessarily preclude the product being acquired, in recent times most product teams have been acqui-hired by larger companies and used as a piece of their respective business strategies.

Those strategies don't always align with mine, as a user of the product. Often, the product is discontinued; sometimes it's turned into a piece of a larger SaaS offering of the parent; sometimes it's released as open source but effectively abandoned. Occasionally, the product improves in an objective way under the new parent. Therefore any potential acquisition is a risk until proven otherwise.
Interesting, I'll grab a few on my next trip, thanks for the tip!
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To add on, Chicago and New Orleans are both built on swamps, and the outer edges of New York are filled in -- making land for cities isn't the issue with the tower.
Just scan through the google docs blog. You'll see lots of steady iteration of new features. It gets better and better.

I use it daily and also find the speed and reliability excellent. It feels like they are making great strides behind the scenes in scalability.

I have written 4000 words fully references postgrad essays in google docs.

Google spreadsheets does all my organisations budgeting and planning systems.
Sounds fascinating but is there a tl;dr? I'm not doubting the CIA disappears people, I'm doubting that they would need to in the above scenario.
This is the only right answer to questions like this. Get a lawyer and get their advice. Not random people on the internet.
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I never know exactly what they're referring to when they talk about "accuracy" in these kinds of papers: what was the precision and recall across the various categories (sentiments?) into which we are classifying the data?
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem (2014)
OpenSSH 7.3 includes a ProxyJump feature
>founding spacex and tesla only make sense if there was some genuine desire to make the world a better place.

You're forgetting ego. Really, your last paragraph shows you're a true believer and it's not helping the discussion.
Write code in your head while riding a bicycle. It's fun.
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What’s the real reason Britons aren't offered the chickenpox vaccine? (2004)
I believe you, so please don't take this is a challenge. It's pure curiosity that prompts me to ask: Do you have a source for more info on this IP range ban?
What's wrong with being a rock star? Article wreaks a bit from being haughty.
For the same reason waiting 1-2 minutes for your laptop to boot is.

Also because people often open/close tons of small files during the day instead of opening a project and working on it for hours.

Plus, the slugginess extends beyond startup time, into working with large files (were large = puny for other editors' standard) and other activities.
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And added scanning rate limits.
I would also be interested in that.
What differnce would you expect from the catalog size?
I would guess that aside from maybe the handshake, decoupling storage and encryption would not be worth it in all cases where the storage medium is slower than AES-NI and this would apply even more to youtube than to netflix, exactly because of the bigger catalog.
If they have raised money, mail their investors. I would expect a prompt reply from the company after that.
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We make a DNA sequencing instrument (you put in a biological sample and get back strings of ACTGs). We're looking for help with our Angular 2/Typescript web interfaces. One interface is on the instrument itself (it has a touchscreen that runs full-screen chrome), and the other is a web page that customers use to run analyses on the data that comes off of the instrument. Both are single-page apps that talk to our backends over JSON APIs.

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IMO the biggest challenge of self-moderating communities is avoiding the echo chamber effect: ideas surviving and spreading due to their popularity, rather than their merit.

I'm curious if you agree that this is a problem, and what your plans are to address it, if you do.
So the bottom line of this settlement is:

1. You can still load openwrt etc to TP-Link routers.

2. TP-Link needs to do something(e.g. set hard-limit on TX power in some binary blob or something) to make sure nobody can increase Wifi output power above the "safe" threshold.

Now as someone said in the thread, UBNT might have the real high-power WIFI devices(e.g. point-to-point outdoor) that can cause real interference to airplanes etc, it seems UBNT is not impacted at all, which is odd.
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We're a small but profitable company which has never taken venture funding. We make a search platform product that simplifies adding powerful search functionality to existing structured data. We can handle large volumes of rapidly changing structured, semi-structured, and free text data. Our mission is to help data owners maximize the value of their data by improving the ease of information access and insight.

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Am I reading that map right? Looks like the Millenium Tower is not in the fill zone on the shipwreck map? Hard to tell the shipwreck map looks a bit notional.
This reminds me of China Miéville's novel The City & The City, ostensibly a police procedural where two cities overlay the same physical space:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City
Good point and observation. In this particular case, it is moot since Benioff is above doing any side-deals to put more money into his kitty. I would certainly suspect a VC on a public company board and the company buying the start-up VC invested in. Lots of examples like that.
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"Can" implies both ability (e.g. Javascript programming) and time to delve into the internals to find the issue, go through the procedure of submitting a patch etc, which is not a given the parent has, whether Atom is "collaborative" or not.
given that this needs access to the binary log, am I out of luck if I want to use this with amazon rds? (I don't see a way to see/access the binlog at rds)
Surely the first rule of building large buildings in earthquake zones has to be solid foundations. Isn't liquefaction a concern?
For years and years it took a very powerful computer to get decent performance out of Emacs.

Emacs only seems speedy now because computers have finally caught up.

Either Atom will get faster, or it will add so much value it's okay being slow.

And then computers will eventually catch up, just like they did with Emacs.
Allwinner is less good about GPL-compliance, but I'd definitely take about 20 of these for my company. EOMA68 is looking to be a wonderful thing.
A launcher like Wox can work around some of the Start menu issues you listed:

https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox

It also provides access to common actions such as shutdown and restart. I wouldn't be able to use Windows without :P
Pretty sure they need to safely dismantle this building and try again.

In non-earthquake prone areas, it might make sense to jack it up and what not, but not in SF.
I've personally been very impressed with Vulkan. I work with VR a lot and it's ability to streamline work over multiple cores has been great. I think Metal is a little easier to get started with but only because it uses the same binding model while Vulkan is very new. But overall it's been great.
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