skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area. Six people died, including federal District Court Chief Judge John Roll; Gabe Zimmerman, one of Rep. Giffords' staffers; and a nine-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green.[1][2][3][4][5] Giffords was holding the meeting, called "Congress on Your Corner" in the parking lot of a Safeway store when Jared Lee Loughner drew a pistol and shot her in the head before proceeding to fire on other people.[2][3] One additional person was injured in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.[6] News reports identified the target of the attack as Giffords, a Democrat representing Arizona's 8th congressional district.[2] She was shot through the head at point-blank range, and her medical condition was initially described as "critical".[2][3]
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I'm glad we can find the humor in situations like these.
I feel like all this will remain hobbywork until X country decides to effectively shut down the internet. If there's a sufficiently polished "alternative internet" ready to step in using whatever resources are easy available, then it could suddenly become very serious business.
Modern consumer culture's real message. Spend time and money on entertainment, not on children.
What does sustainable development actually mean?
This is going to show my ignorance, but isn't India where monsoons are?
I did not miss the point. The article repeatedly noted that trials subject the evidence to more scrutiny than plea deals. A bench trial would have the same effect as a jury trial here. The article asserts that trials are valuable. OK. However, throughout it subtly shifts and says there are few trials by jury and asserts this is a big problem.
Can you recommend any reading on this? Sounds interesting.
My parents place (in New Zealand) is similar, the only lawn they have is the mandated patch between the road and the footpath, and a 5x5 m patch out front, which is more ornamental than functional. Most of the back yard is decked.

It's great when you don't have any kids that need space to run around, and it's very low maintenance, but I suspect that they're going to run into issues when selling the place, there's not a whole lot of demand for a 4 bedroom house with no lawn, and the place isn't really laid out such that you could just replace the deck with a lawn.
We need a speedtest website hosted on tor :D Then ISPs won't be able to know when you visit the site.
> At the other end of the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full text or keyword indexing.

Make that massive information providers may provide millions of powerful, dynamic HTTP servers with massive information storage, computational power, and links to millions of other powerful, dynamic servers, traversed by millions daily.
Kinda bad analogy, really. Even if what you meant was that you should disable adblock on smaller blogs that want to get some compensation. You can't compare it to the service like a gaming machine, in your example I would see beforehand if I might like the game or maybe try and pay only if it was any good.

When I visit a website I have no idea what value I might gain from it so having adblock always on is just internet safety and privacy conserving measure, nothing else. If the website has a donation button or sells some services that I might be interested it becomes a whole other issue.
I take issue with the model, not the math.
Measuring upload would require building out infrastructure to receive data streams with reasonable performance.

That's nontrivially hard compared to the download portion, where they can use their existing CDN.

Sure -- they didn't build out a fully featured internet connection monitor. But what they have built is a pretty good tool, especially for diagnosing Netflix or last-mile performance.
Many older CS academics have personal web pages that are in that style.
Is "Google employee leaves Google and gets job in Executive Branch" a "revolving door"? Even when the job is technical not policy?
> What is the one thing that, when removed from your product, makes it fall apart?

A big block comment in common.h containing the Hail Mary intercession prayer.
it would be even better if we also get an open-source software stack that can compete with Nvidia's proprietary CUDA stack

You've already got that. It's called OpenCL.
PapaParse: JS-based CSV parsing
Response from MIT to the NYTimes article about Suzanne Corkin
Growing up, at least for me, the woods were a much more entertaining place. I gotta think all of those lawns are replacing a lot of trees which could've been climbed.
Your whole argument revolved around large lawns being a waste of resources ("in California, of all places!"), not that "excess" water use is unlawful
The Epidemic of iPhone 6/6+ Touch IC Failure Explained
"If you want to get involved in business, you should get involved in politics."

- Senator Orin Hatch; Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee

https://books.google.com/books?id=WYIlAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=P...
As the nation’s capital booms, poor tenants face eviction over as little as $25
And the weight of the operator in the office next door, but we probably can't measure that yet.
The sillier and more wasteful thing in my view is the front yard. The back yard is a luxury and definitely an instance of conspicuous consumption in denser suburbs and cities, but it's easy to see why people like it -- it provides an open yet semi-private space where you, your kids, or your dog can play, and also a convenient place to host a gathering with your friends. When weather permits, you see people in their back yard all the time.

The front yard, however, sees much less use in most neighborhoods, at least until you're so far out in the country that you practically live on a farm -- it's rare that you'll see anybody on the front lawn unless they're mowing or landscaping it or on their way elsewhere, precisely due to its lack of privacy. The suburbs in general can, with some debate, be accused of being a result of the lack in imagination in adapting the estates of the British landed gentry to smaller lot sizes; the front yard is much less defensible against this accusation. The only practical functions of the front yard in relatively dense suburbs, such as those making up most of California, are these:

- Provide an appealing botanical decoration for the front of the house.

- Decrease noise from passing traffic.

- Prevent passersby from looking into your windows as easily.

But the puny size of front yards in these suburbs limits their effectiveness in satisfying these objectives, which would be much better served by a hedge or ivy-covered wall. These shouldn't be much more expensive than the front lawn, especially considering that you could either eliminate the front yard and expand the back yard or gain increased privacy in the front yard would make people more likely to use it.
Yeah, it looks like a pretty modern bathroom and tub. It certainly has an overflow drain.

Edit: Two other notes. 1) The age is irrelevant, even some Victorian-era claw foot tub would have an overflow. 2) I can imagine a scenario where the drain itself is hairclogged at the tailpiece such that it is draining slower than the tub is filling, thus potential overflow.

Edit: From Sharon's video, a trip-level stopper/overflow plate: https://youtu.be/CKuTdZ5T8Ao?t=138
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/wildlife/landscap...
Replace lawns with plants and trees found in your local ecosystem. Gives them a home.
In the central valley.of California, that means oak trees, and drought tolerant plants.
The whole project is. The ultimate goal of CJDNS is essentially to replace the current TCP/IP based internet, or at least to be an alternative global internetwork.

The existence of Hyperboria and the use of VPNs over the current internet is purely due to the fact that the current users are still too few and far between to establish direct links to each other.
$117 million over 5 years; $36.6 million for first six months.

But that was a 1 cent comment.
Is it so hard to believe that one of the biggest tech companies in the country and the government wouldn't both respect success in the other's organizations?
VHBL HENkaku and EML Compatible Update Released
> What about the plain language of the marketing materials soliciting investment that was completely inconsistent with the code of the DAO.

The plain language marketing was that "the code is law". This was repeated many times in many ways and with cute little gifs, but most explicitly

https://web.archive.org/web/20160704190119/https://daohub.or...

"Any and all explanatory terms or descriptions are merely offered for educational purposes and do not supercede or modify the express terms of The DAO’s code set forth on the blockchain; to the extent you believe there to be any conflict or discrepancy between the descriptions offered here and the functionality of The DAO’s code at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413, The DAO’s code controls and sets forth all terms of The DAO Creation. "

> What makes smart contracts so special that people can falsely market them to the public and not be liable?

This is a separate question that should be addressed.
What is the claim you're making? Assume 80% of Example Man's diet is his rest energy requirement. The other 20% goes toward discretionary things like moving. This means that if Example Man doubles his discretionary activity, his food consumption will increase by 20% rather than 100%.

It does not mean that if walking three miles takes one apple worth of energy, Example Man actually only needs to consume 0.2 apples in order to walk an extra three miles. He needs to eat the full one apple. This article doesn't consider food as a percentage of your diet at all; it considers food as the cost of moving. Your point isn't relevant.
So Keller's "enormous amounts of tactile information and the ability to physically interact with her environment" means that her achievements were not that remarkable? Speaking personally, if I were to lose my sight and hearing, I imagine I would find life extremely daunting, even though I have what seems to me the very considerable advantage of having learned language.

Anne Sullivan's equally remarkable (IMHO) role as a teacher is not really an issue here, as training is also an option for AI, though it might be evidence in a rather different discussion about whether unsupervised learning alone, particularly as practiced today, is likely to get us to AI (clearly, the evolution of intelligence can be cast as unsupervised learning, but that is a very long and uncertain process...)
I would love to see numbers for other companies. I would be surprised if large defense contractors like Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin didn't have way more than 250.

Also ... government has been notoriously bad about grokking software. They just couldn't manage large projects effectively at all, and they were completely getting fleeced by their usual contractors (witness the initial launch of healthcare.gov). So it's good that they're getting competent people to be in charge of things now, which I suppose naturally means they'd be getting people from the top tech companies in the world.
Ancaps really? I'm sure Google is co-opting with the government in some sense, but you obviously have to at that scale, but what kind of tin foil hat do you need to start believing ancaps are missing.
Every one of those devices that is done with ROMs closes another door to malware. It's certainly far more doable and reliable than ensuring the software doesn't have holes in it.

There's a huge market for secure items - routers, cars, thermostats, medical devices, avionics, ATMs, etc. I simply don't understand why ROMs aren't used.
Recommending an x220 with a new battery / ssd / ram. Probably still cheaper than an ipad.

Although the ipad / or I'd suggest android tablet may be the better way to go. Charging from battery packs is easier than a laptop.
>EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.

Apparently they have slow.com as well.
...just like thousands of people on every industry does: https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I

If you didn't want this to happen perhaps you should make it illegal?
Yup, that's the way to do it.
A lot of info at: https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I
The protocol is also key to Project Meshnet (a response to the many current concerns over censorship and net neutrality), which seeks to use it to essentially replace ISPs with local community mesh networks, ultimately seeking to interconnect those networks and, basically, replace the current internet from the ground up.
I'm replacing my front yard with stone this fall. Mowing sucks.
It's always funny to me when people airbnb out their places and then are shocked SHOCKED to find that people rent it out to party and fuck. Like... wtf do you think people do, exactly, on vacations? That is the whole point of going on vacation.

If you don't want people fucking in your bed, on your couch, on your floor, don't rent out your place on airbnb.
Jacobs was right and wrong, just as Moses was. The reality of the situation in NYC, like every other city, was that cheap capital was driving anyone in high density housing with means to the suburbs. Swaths of Brooklyn didn't turn into slum because of Moses -- it was because working class jobs went to Jersey, and ethnic communities of Irish, Italians, Germans and Norweigans went to Jersey and Long Island. The vibrant, connected communities were dead men walking.

The same force that made homes cheap: the Federal government, is what created the monster that Moses became in the latter half of his career. Because Moses knew how to get shit done, NYC got most New Deal money. Because Moses could get shit done, NYC got more housing money than anywhere else. Hell, something like 75% of total east coast concrete production went to the NY metro area due to Moses projects.

You really owe it to yourself to read "The Power Broker", because the transition of Robert Moses from a progressive reformer to an unstoppable weilder of power, guided by a modern, engineering driven agenda, bears a lot of resemblance to the Silicon Valley titans today.

The difference is, Moses was crushed by Nelson Rockefeller, who had a bigger ego, equal political instincts and unlimited money and influence. These guys made Larry Ellison look humble. Not sure what will be able to stop the next Robert Moses like figure.
Most of the examples in the article are non-technical. High level advisory roles for policy advise.
I met some of the former Googlers working for the USDS. They seemed to be many pre-IPO SREs who decided that improving government was more important than being an LP at a VC fund. They were motivated by getting tens of millions of people healthcare, and along the way they encountered huge challenges - like figuring out how to reconcile VA and Pentagon records. Their passion was inspiring, and the work they do affects millions without much glamor.

If you think healthcare.gov was a mess, in the USA there are more branches of federal government, 50 state governments, and countless local governments whose technology is inadequate for serving its constituents.

Things like healthcare, visas, and electricity all rely on aging software projects. Yet, some of these systems don't have strong backups, are not automated, and may run on infrastructure like Windows XP. Some parts are ticking timebombs in terms of security and upkeep costs.
Delhi people take it to the next level by having rooftop lawns. I stayed in a rooftop apartment there once and nothing beats rolling around on grass in the middle of a summer night.

As far as I can tell in India lawns are a sign of wealth and position. I once visited a dusty air force base in Bikaner and the commander's house had a beaut lawn with 2 airmen dedicated to maintaining it.
Ummm, what the heck are you talking about? I don't get any regressive tax breaks or oil subsidies for having a few hundred square feet of lawn...

Sheesh, some people just aren't happy unless they can control every aspect of everyone else's lives.
I believe cjrjfufjdvfhz is not saying that ancaps are involved in some sort of scheme but rather that anarcho-capitalist ideology is deficient in that it does not take this idea into account ("You don't get to be one of the largest corporations in the world without co-opting the government in your favor").
The Blob That Cooked the Pacific
I don't feel this gets enough focus. When you're working at a place of high prestige and global impact, you're going to want to keep that up where you skills can continue to benefit many (whether your original employer is one or ther other).
I fall in that camp too. I worked on a project where i really wanted to migrate to Python 3, mostly to have a saner Unicode story, but couldn't do it because it was deployed on Google App Engine :(
Selenium IDE Goodness
I thought this is what ancaps always say, that government allows companies an avenue to protect themselves from competition?
> reasonably be expected to cause identifiable or describable damage to national security.

So they're holding out for ... indescribable damage? ;)
It's not as simple as N+1. Who watches the watchers? With a lot of these "redundant" systems you eventually have some SPOF which "manages" the redundant components.

For example, many years ago I used a network service provided by a quite diligent company. They had installed a large Cisco switch with redundant "supervisors" which are...something important. So back then the way this worked was that the "active" supervisor would handle everything, and the "standby" one would ping the active one and if it decided the active one had died, it would make itself active.

This process takes about a minute. You can imagine what might happen if each supervisor starts to believe that the other is down.

About ten years ago, Cisco released some new fancier (supposedly better) way to handle this. It is not enabled by default [1, don't bother reading].

[1] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/ca...
Artificial Intelligence for Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Control in Simulator [pdf]
Your comment clearly shows that you didn't read the article, while makes a clear exemption for the few people who enjoy maintaining their lawns or are wealthy enough to pay laborers to maintain it for then.

The article is specifically motivated by one of many municipies that confiscated fines from people who chose to have a natural backyard.
Convert Notebook to PDF, Adding and Removing Child Node from Notebook in Java Apps
Aspose development team is very excited to announce the new release of Aspose.Note for Java 2.4.0. This month’s release of the API introduces new feature of read/write support for Microsoft OneNote Notebook file formats (.onetoc2). It also provides the enhancement of determining Microsoft OneNote document format for differentiating between OneNote and OneNote online file format. This month’s release now provides the capability to create OneNote notebook and save it to disc. The Notebook class provides the functionality of creating new Notebook and save it to disc or memory stream using the save method. Not only Users can create and save OneNote notebook files, users can also add and remove child nodes from a Notebook using the appendChild and removeChild methods. The API also introduces new feature of loading OneNote notebook files and export them to PDF format. In addition, a notebook can be exported to PDF with additional options as well for specifying page splitting algorithm. In addition to exporting document data to PDF, this month’s release also provides the capability of exporting document to image format. It also allows to set output image resolution and flattening parameters. The flattening option, if used, lets you export Notebook children to a single output directory. Aspose.Note supports Microsoft OneNote and OneNote online file formats; with the lateral having certain limitations such as lack of support for images and attachments in the document.
A few things.

i) its not a type checker. It cannot actually ensure type correctness. So may be a more appropriate description would be "a very smart linter".

ii) Its optional

iii) even when switched on it does nothing unless you are explicitly using its features

iv) The "there is only one way to do things in Python" is just vapid marketing. It is not true and has never been true.
There is some evidence that foliage on pedestrian streets does increase a sense of well being, lower blood pressure, and so forth. There was an article a while back that showed greater health benefits to walking around trees than walking along a concrete suburban sprawl.

Another thing that front yards help with is reducing the amount of rain runoff that makes its way into storm drains. This is actually becoming a big problem in SF, which has an antiquated combined storm and sewage system.

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/news-san-francisco-sewe...

That doesn't mean lawns are needed, of course, but unfortunately a lot of my neighbors (south of 280), as well as residents in the outer sunset and a few other neighborhoods, are paving over their front yards for extra parking. I find the whole thing pretty depressing, and it is causing infrastructure problems.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Paved-over-S-F-yards-r...

http://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/surfrider-un-pav...

It's actually illegal, but this is San Francisco, so you know.
> While the statistics are nice to look at, I have read the article you mentioned, too (was on HN a while ago) and instantly thought that metabolism unfortunately renders the whole calculation useless and wrong.

Why did you think this? Can you articulate a change that metabolism would make to the calculation?
I like the way that this page http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html has to specifically disclaim that its list of WWW servers is exhaustive.
Doesn't the Apple Watch require the paired iPhone to be nearby in order to function?
Lawns are soul-crushing to the suburban homeowners who are are coerced to slash their natural meadows to conform to demands for artificially maintained turf.
Some of that is due to changes in how people use space over time - linked pretty closely I suspect with shifts from front porches to back decks. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was measurable variation in front yard to back yard percentages depending on whether houses are on through streets or dead-end streets, though I'm not sure where you'd go to research that.
Here's a quick oneliner I threw together that does pretty much the same thing for those of us that dont have/want npm and node:

mkfifo /tmp/fast.com.test.fifo ;token=$(curl -s https://fast.com/app-ed402d.js|egrep -om1 'token:"[^"]+'|cut -f2 -d'"'); curl -s "https://api.fast.com/netflix/speedtest?https=true&token=$token" |egrep -o 'https[^"]+'|while read url; do first=${url/speedtest/speedtest\/range\/0-2048}; next=${url/speedtest/speedtest\/range\/0-26214400};(curl -s -H 'Referer: https://fast.com/' -H 'Origin: https://fast.com' "$first" > /tmp/fast.com.test.fifo; for i in {1..10}; do curl -s -H 'Referer: https://fast.com/' -H 'Origin: https://fast.com' "$next">>/tmp/fast.com.test.fifo; done)& done & pv /tmp/fast.com.test.fifo > /dev/null; rm /tmp/fast.com.test.fifo
Inside Alphabet’s money-spinning, terrorist-foiling, gigabit Wi-Fi kiosks
One of my favorite mathematical diagrams: http://www-math.mit.edu/~andyp/Figures/FIGURE2.pdf, from Matveev, Fomenko, Algorithmic and computer methods in three-dimensional topology.