skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>who shot down a civilian airliner using weapons borrowed from Russia

the Buk used by rebels was an Ukranian Buk captured by rebels on June 29 near Donetsk. It is well known, and the capture was in the news at least 2 weeks before the MH-17. The rest of the world is just too lazy to even check the Internet archive. Rebels were pounded from the air and they used whatever anti-aircraft weapons they could get. They used this Buk to shoot down 2 Ukranian fighters on July 16 (the shotdowns at 6 and 8 km altitude - well above MANPAD reachability - are clearly mentioned in the MH17 Dutch commission report). They shot down MH17 taking it for a military cargo plane - the two unfortunate factors played a role here 1. the MH17 was flying significantly north of the civilian corridor and thus it got into the Buk launcher's radar observation sector which was set up as to look toward typical route of Ukraine military planes approaching the rebel held territories 2. the rebels had only Buk launcher, not the complete full-functional Buk system, specifically they didn't have Buk's big radar vehicle, and the radar on the Buk launcher is limited - has shorter distance, handles only a sector of about 120 degrees, its main purpose is to track the assigned target and guide the missile to it, it isn't that suitable for identification, lacks transponder identification hardware, etc.

Ukraine didn't close the airspace for commercial airlines in the war zone even though Ukraine was using military airplanes in that war and those planes were receiving fire back from the ground. Ukraine didn't close the airspace even after loosing Buk batteries to rebels at 2 different military anti-aircraft bases. They didn't close airspace even after loosing 2 fighters on July 16 at the altitudes well above MANPAD ceiling. Why loose all these money the airlines pay for use of the corridor! The MH17 victims relatives has recently filed a case against Ukraine for that in the high court of the EU.
Can you elaborate on why malloc() was prohibited?
"These kinds of users should not be accommodated or even responded to"

Please let me know the software you have developed so I can develop something better and make those users you refuse to respond to happy. Especially if they are paying customers.

This mentality is what results in failure and leaves paths WIDE open for your competitors.
Leaving aside the general point that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to compare "not having a car in a (somewhat) car-oriented city" to "changing car policy in general, with the attendant changes to the city structure down the line":

> I assuaged my claustrophobia by burning either money (Uber) or time to go downtown every few weekends

I don't actually take a lot of Ubers because my area is so well-connected by transit (and dense with commerce), but at least in my case, the idea that Uber is "expensive" as a transport option pales in comparison to the massive cost of owning a car (and paying for parking, maintenance, insurance, etc). Is this not the case for you?

Even with how walkable and transit-friendly my situation is, Uber and car rentals are still a necessary (though occasional) component of my overall transportation budget. Relative to living in a car-oriented area and owning a car, I still end up paying volumes less (as well as having a far, far better transport experience overall in terms of time, convenience, and health).
> open source projects can disappear without notice

1. They can't. Someone can decide to stop working on a project, but it can not disappear.

2. You know what can disappear? commercial products.
Trust me, I'm probably Exhibit A why getting drunk with nerds isn't fun.
Yep, the Yarchive is awesome. Some of the older discussions on computer architecture and programming languages have real historical value and are hard to find anywhere else on the net. Great work Norman did there.

Does anyone know why the references to the original threads (through Google Groups) don't work anymore? Did Google Groups stop carrying the content or can't they search by Message-ID anymore?
Comparing with Lisbon, it has a small walkable center, no high-rises (except for a few semi high rises in surrounding areas), pretty great weather year-round (over 300 days of sun, I believe), lots of medium-sized plazas/parks and lots of lookout points over the city (both usually with one or more kiosk cafes). All in all, lots of compact green spaces, in addition to a few larger ones (parks and gardens).

On the down side, the slippery cobblestone sidewalks are only big enough for one person, there's a lot of dog "doodoo" on them, and parking is hell (so they tell me). In fact most people in residential neighborhoods just park on the sidewalks (partially if not fully), as well as double-park. People pay parking meters and often even a homeless parking attendent as well.

Luckily, the public transport (metro, bus, train, ferry) is quite good and reliable. I believe the govt was considering adding a downtown tax for cars entering the city center but I forget if that's been enacted. There was also something similar regarding older cars due to being less environmentally friendly.
Its mostly anecdotal, but in a lot of ways that's part of the problem. Most of the selected books with stats are by people who haven't lived in rural areas for a while. Its basically archeology by number more than direct study. Plus, we're talking about culture, hard numbers are not the whole story or even the majority of the story. This quantify and categorize everything culture is part of the problems with understanding.

Now for my pet peeve from writing grants in the 90's: The federal government is pretty damn lax about getting rural numbers from studies. Its either a nationwide study or urban areas only. The stuff they get from rural areas is the stuff that doesn't require someone in DC to actual do anything beyond taking basic numbers and putting into a spreadsheet.
Yes, it seems it is (can't update the title, though)
The second link is the American housing survey, and it describes in detail a huge number of qualities of housing.

For example (table 2-2, page 48), 2.75% of poor households have a sagging roof. 66% of poor households (table 2-3, page 50) have at least 2 rooms/person and 94% have at least 1 room/person. 3.5% (table 2-4, page 52) lack a complete kitchen.

I don't know of any single characteristic to cite to prove that the conditions of poor people's housing are good; but whatever specific characteristic you want info on, you can probably find it in that document.
Much of Cyclone was an inspiration for Rust. Digging through the Hansen papers. Thank you.
> WoW of the future

Have you read Mogworld? That's basically the premise.
The key with the V1's is to remap keys you use frequently from the f-keys to something else, but if you use them a lot V2 will be a big upgrade for you.
I miss the old PowerPC/POWER OpenFirmware days and hacking about in it with Forth.
It takes a LONG time to build out serious transit infrastructure. Like 30 years (see Seattle's recent ballot initiative). You're asking basically an entire generation to have shitty mobility for most of their working lives, so that they will vote to build trains for their children.

More likely they will just leave the cities.

Cities do adapt to poor mobility: local businesses get to charge huge markup because they don't have to compete with the rest of the city. I don't think that's particularly good for consumers.
I absolutely loved the RollerMouse before I got my Kinesis Advantage. It might work for the Freestyle though so you could consider giving it a try. Still the most ergonomic mouse I've used to date.
One of the videos I watched on their blog they mentioned this ability has been here since NT. They said something like "we just brushed the dust off of it and it worked".

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/
Does Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft care? I know Microsoft targeted specific schools for specific areas. Google is biased towards PhDs from certain schools according to many articles. All that may have changed, but the big corps have their influence on the majority of hires.
As opposed to Mashable which went right to "Why is Snowden tweeting gibberish? Did he sit on his phone?"

http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/edward-snowden-tweet-code/
Moving tends to be very expensive, and even harder if you're poor. The rich can afford to get a hotel for a few days and look at housing in a new city, interview for jobs, etc. The poor can't afford to take any time off work, can't afford to travel to and from the new location, etc.
"competing with the illegal immigrants doing jobs that "Americans just won't do"."

So your answer is to work on farms for $5 an hour with no benefits, no worker protections?

Is that satire?

You do realize that Americans will 'do those jobs' once wages and working conditions rise to the acceptable, but they will never be so long as mass illegal immigration is kept in place?

Illegal immigration is a very corrosive trap: once one farmer, in economic trouble hires illegals and cuts his costs, all of the others have to follow suite - it's a thin margin game. And then it's a trap the industry cannot get out of.

Most farmers would happily employ Americans for higher wages and better conditions if economics allowed for it. But so long as there are tons of illegals, and 5% of farmers who will take advantage of it - the rest have to follow suit.

Open border / illegal immigration is a very corrosive thing.

Also - the Asians that come to America are not 'mobile'. They don't go to Alabama and Georgia, generally. They go to areas where there are many other Asian people, which is rational on their part. I don't think it's fair to compare people who have lived in some area for 5 generations to newcomers.

Jobs for the less skilled are not plentiful in America. There is a lot of opportunity for the upper 50%, but it's not the same for others.
If that is the case, the vehicles might have a better chance at operating under winter conditions, but it likely still won't help them in the streets of Mumbai, Amsterdam, or Rome.
Most of the most vocal believers of the bible in America are ironically also the same folks pushing for privatization of prisons, harsh sentences for minorities (obviously not for the likes of Rush Limbaugh though), punishment-instead-of-reintegration, etc.
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Would it be "accidental" if they were traveling in a direct vector approaching us?

Incredibly implausible idea for the sheer improbability, but fun to imagine nevertheless.
Lots of sexual play with these stickers.
There is a major difference between poor white people and poor non-white people in America.

The poor non-whites have been discriminated against. That discrimination hurt them, and it helped the whites who did not have to compete against them for jobs and government resources.
> Every time I see a car, one or more people are in it.

You've never seen a parking lot?
On OS X Karabiner probably lets you. Maybe their firmware could also if you contact them. I once got sent a debut version of their software for the foot pedals and it had tons of cool hidden functionality.
Isn't is a volunteer effort?
Thank you for posting. Those are lovely and worth of being displayed on the walls of my lab. :)
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The mass of the star before it went and formed a black hole. The bigger a star, the hotter it is, and the more evaporates from the surface, and the shorter it lives. Large blackholes grow through things falling into them.
I said nothing about manual labor. I have done a lot of it myself, and find it to be far more rewarding than the so-called "knowledge work" that I have also done.

The work ethic in what is called "white trash" societies is very strong. Most are unafraid of manual labor. But moving everyone to cities is not the answer, since it ignores a lot of things that rural people find valuable.
I would argue we could solve this if we had a better education system. It seems that they go through the schooling system for 8 years and learn nothing that helps them get an upwardly mobile job.

Maybe part of the problem is that our schooling system is designed for salary class professionals looking to go to college – because those are the people who design curriculum.
It's both. 18F hosts the code and led the development, but there were major contributions from USDS (such as the visual design). And the program itself is owned and directed by the Digital Analytics Program, another team in the GSA. It was a team effort.
Safe to say that a civilization that can build a Dyson structure isn't using any 20th-century coherent modulation types that SETI could detect.

SETI is only useful for catching civilizations in the ~100 Earth year-equivalent span between their development of wireless tech and information theory. There's nothing to listen to but white noise after that.
Breeding smarter dogs is not interesting because after a certain point, the intelligence becomes a problem. Not just things like octopuses eating all the fish in your aquarium but escaping, or going insane from boredom and inactivity and becoming destructive. This is already an issue with border collies, among the most intelligent of dog breeds. Why would you want to make the problem worse? If you want to breed any species for intelligence, breed humans - at least there it's useful.
It has been said many times: Not your keys, not your bitcoins.

You don't own bitcoin if you put them on an exchange. Period.
proximity to good food is necessary, but not sufficient, for healthy meals. People's consumption choices are also informed by (for example) whether they have the skills to cook the food that's available to them
Most of the exploitation is aimed at the families of the incarcerated - you already control the prisoners wages and pay them slave wages so you can extract but so much. But the families? If you move the prisoner far enough away you can bet they won't have the means to make visits, and you can charge families exorbitant rates for your captive market.
If you're poor in an area with a low cost of living, you'll just be poor in a different area, only now you have a new set of concerns. I also think you discount social networks (the real kind) among migrant workers that facilitate those jobs.
For a great deal of people, a concept of "tradition" and close, emotional ties to family and heritage far outweighs any economic opportunities. Furthermore, I think a lot of these people secretly know that they just may not be that competitive in an urban job market and prefer to live a rural life. Many Americans view this as a fundamental part of their freedoms (of which I say the Constitution and government have never even tried to interfere... but that's another discussion) - freedom from others' will, freedom to do what you wish on your property whether it be to shoot intruders or to hunt on it, and to privacy.

My in-laws live in rural Appalachia in northeast Tennessee near still-operating snake handling churches and restaurants that probably wouldn't pass a health inspection in a city, and while none of this appeals to me, it's clear to me that nobody living there wants anything to do with city living in terms of personalities and life experiences. This kind of mentality towards life tends to lean conservative politically as well. Sure, people watch TV and see some of the things happening in cities, but if you watch the news you'd think that there's nothing good happening there.

For an idea of how some folks like this might live (most aren't like this honestly, manual labor and blue collar jobs with 2+ hour long commute jobs are common), check out the movie the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Some are on disability, some have inheritances that were squandered, some may etc. and the poor in rural areas may actually be better off than urban poor in many factors for quality of life. Subsistence farming is an option in rural areas, after all.
He's tweeted since then. He's probably fine.
"The leadership of left-wing parties around the world is utterly disconnected from their voters,"

I should say 'some of their voters'.

There are large swaths of younger, urban voters who are supportive of 'new left'.

As we learned with Brexit, it's not as big as one would think.

'New Left' has more in common with the Green Party than it does regular, lower middle class voters, which is he ideological shift I'm trying to articulate.
Lets brainstorm.

Perhaps one mathematical solution to the problem is to score pages based on the average time spent for each article. My hypothesis is that clickbait articles will score very low because the article will attract a lot of clicks from people who are not interested in the actual content but only the headline.

In theory, you could do this by deploying a tracker across the web similar to a Google analytics that performs the measurement. But in practice, of course, this isn't possible.

You might be able to approximate the score by building a browser extension that makes the measurement. A browser extension might also a good way to output results. It could, for instance, colour-code links (on mouseover) to help you spot click-bait before you click it!
Haven't followed CPU arch in a very long time so my memory may fail, but the B7700 (1977) based on B5000 (1961) architecture demonstrated what you say on an industrial scale. The machine read in a long 48 bit string of opcodes, mapping them directly to hardware (adders, barrel shifters, inc/dec logic, branch prediction), maximizing throughput by anticipating needs for the next few clocks like setting up and (where possible) execute in different parts of the CPU. Since many operations were already present in pipeline and a cache miss or instruction branch could maybe predicted sooner you could see a long way into the future in some cases. This would leave the memory bus more free for data. And if I remember correctly, it would issue multiple (abstract?) cached stack operations to memory if possible, as the interface was quite sophisticated. And other CPUs could service the stack, SMP, if necessary. I had to troubleshoot these opcodes to the bit level back then, in 1981.
And two days ago...

"Facebook bows to anti-science activists, shuts down ‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’"[1].

It seems like Facebook is playing both sides in this matter.

[1]: https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/08/04/facebook-b...
The problem is that the previous version did not have firmware that could be flashed and I'm guessing that they had other micro controller issues. In all honesty if you run into this issue once a day you are probably running into it a lot. I currently have a classic and a advantage and it's not a huge deal. The difference between having a advantage 1 vs advantage 2 is much smaller than the difference between having a non advantage (well style keyboard) versus something else.
So... just pretending not to be insolvent and hope nobody goes to court to force them into insolvency?
> good luck getting an ambulance into the middle of one of those on a crowded Saturday night.

Crowded?
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It could be a way to announce their arrival passively.
> Simply disparaging Trump and his voters does not offer an alternative explanation for his success, or for comparable populist success in other countries.

I cannot speak for other countries. I think trying to link trends across countries always generalizes over local cultural differences.

I think that you are missing the history and treating Trump as just another pick. This is an accumulation with some very specific disappointments from the elation of the 2010 (primarily) and 2014 elections with the national party putting the hammer to many of the elected representatives.

This is a personality vote, not a policy vote. He is actually more liberal than many of his supporters and the whole eminent domain thing is problematic. The wall offends the media, but its not the sum of it all.
> log in to the server passing the path to the library in the LD_PRELOAD variable

Doesn't that require AcceptEnv LD_PRELOAD? Are there people who run with AcceptEnv *?
That's awesome. I hope that I will get to do something similar as part of my university degree.
I'm not sure really, the government is not going to leave peacefully, and while they are in power they are not going to do anything to improve the situation.

One important thing to understand is that the government is in the hands of an incredibly corrupt military that are involved in drug trafficking and all sorts of crimes. They know that if they ever leave power, they risk having to face justice sometime.

Right now things are not looking good for the country. My situation is not even that bad compared to most of the country. I mostly worry about my parents who are older and have to survive on their meager pension and whatever my sister and I can help them with.

It looks like the only way out unfortunately is through the airport.
Real Time with Bill Maher: Julian Assange Interview [video]
You're bringing up Ukrainian atrocities against Poles 70 years ago in a thread about crowns made of flowers and trying to somehow draw a line to current Ukrainian politics and conflict. It's basically straight from the Russian state media propaganda handbook.
There's a plugin for Wikipedia where if you hover over a linked term, it will show the first paragraph from that article, usually all you need.

We just need something like that for the web.
I dont see why the Bible needs to be taken into consideration here. I understand wanting historical perspectives for policy, but religion shouldn't be needlessly shoved down people's throats.
Mike Rowe (of "Dirty Jobs" fame) has set up the Mike Rowe Works Foundation. He is doing great work encouraging and helping working class and impoverished people. He teaches "holding a job 101" lessons that people higher in the socioeconomic scale learn with their mothers' milk. Show up on time in the morning. Be the kind of employee and colleague that others can come to trust and rely on. It doesn't have to be fun or Meaningful: They call it "WORK" and they pay you to do it!

This guy is a hero in my book: He is not just talking about this problem. He is actually doing something about it. I wish it had been Mike Rowe instead of Donald Trump that had caught the zeitgeist and ridden it to national prominence.
I lived in Hyde Park, Chicago.

I now live in Brooklyn, NY.

Hyde Park is an extremely poor example of a walkable neighborhood. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, however, is substantially more walkable.

I would argue orders of magnitude, but walkscore.com says it's 76 vs 99. Perhaps the scale is logrithmic?
When you factor in how long these things last it ends up being a wash... a Kinesis will last 8-10 years vs most which start to have issues after 2.
Several of the most successful theories of the last century were the result of serendipity (in addition to a lot of hard work): The two examples that spring to mind are Michelson and Morley sharing their negative results with the community; Penzias and Wilson not taking noise for an answer. Is it possible that there are fundamental discoveries hidden in decades of high-energy physics data records, simply waiting for the right interpretation, or are the statistic properties of this data sets so well understood that their analysis is "done"?
As mentioned before, there is AppScale which will let you avoid the lock-in if you so desire. AppScale has been around for quite a while, and it has been sponsored by Google, but it is an independent company and an open source project. AppScale has been running customers application reliably for few years, with Datastore load of up to a quarter million of transactions (and this is an old white paper).

AppScale will allow you to move your application (unchanged) and still reap the benefits of the App Engine model, autoscaling and all. I still believe App Engine benefits trumps any other PaaS out there.
Older workers handle and adapt to new systems better than younger people