skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A land value tax (famously advocated by early political economist Henry George of San Francisco) does exactly this: you tax the unimproved portion of the value of property, and don't tax improvements. Land that has high value unimproved therefore costs money to sit idle; this encourages landlords to make improvements, rent out their space, etc. It also means landlords don't benefit from the portion of value that does NOT stem from their improvements, i.e., it discourages speculation.
Not clear what you mean. Is there a bug report you can link to? (If not, one shouldn't be hard.)
I've used Tessarect with Tess4J Java wrappers, which has been pretty good.
How would running WebObjects be relevant here? Because it's an old platform?
> Linux officials

... wat.

Anyways, besides this bizarre bit of---I don't know what to call it, the childlike need to set apart some authority figure as greater-than-ourselves even when those people claim no such privilege; or the need to be subject to a paternalistic or authoritarian system---I was surprised to learn that the promised postmortem was never released. On the other hand, I'm also surprised that the feds care one jot about the breach.
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Show HN: C++ Indexer for Emacs, VIM, Sublime, Atom
You can use Stellar to build a gateway to another store of value, including bitcoin, dollar, mpesa, rai stone or, my favorite analogy, barn doors you have sitting in a shed somewhere.
which is often better than no moderation, as evidenced by this site.
HN welcomes talks about medicine, unless it's about Obesity. You can't criticize obese lifestyle choices here.
I'm the author of this tool. AMA?
>> On the one hand, it would really help if we all switched to Linux and paid for it.

It would also be nice if companies like Adobe ported their design apps to Linux. Currently this is one of a few reasons I continue to use MS. That and being able to test in IE helps some too.

Not sure what's keeping Adobe from doing this tbh. I would pay for a solid, secure Linux distro in a heartbeat as well as a port of Adobe creative suite.
Anyone know what the 100km/h ridge of high speed wind over Antarctica is from?
Yea, that sounds like a better idea.
and what is %ptr ? I'm having troubles googling it.
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Florida coast battered by Hurricane Hermine
I will reitatate that I was explaining why I have ill-will towards Oracles handling of the situation. I am not affiliated with LO beyond being a happy user, I have never been a maintainer or a regular contributor (to any project for that matter).

> "Used" how? Apache taking on AOO has been a win for Open Source in the general sense regardless of what happens to the project going forward.

A better win for Open Source in general (IMO) would have been Oracle handing over the IP to the Document Foundation- that's were the OO developers and community were. I have nothing againts the ASF, and nothing but contempt for Oracle's behavior.

From where I stand, Oracle 'used' the ASF donation to spite the DF - you may agree or disagree on that point.

> There's no "war

It was a figure of speech.

> What did happen?

Let's recap: the ASF accepted the donation of a project that had lost developers to a competing fork, and was showing glaring signs of having lost steam. More importantly, the volunteers/'community' had moved on to LO[1]. Now the ASF is finally contemplating the idea of putting down the project. I would be sad if the ASF concludes that there is nothing to be learnt from this episode.

1. A single datapoint: Virtually all Linux distros shipped LO
Never liked Samsung phones (Google Nexus 5 user still), but this is really annoying for their customers. I'm even sadder for those who buy these expensive phones unsubsidized.
i was wondering the same thing, how often do you bring up a hypervisor, and to what extent do they all have common structure that differs enough to write a new one.

but more importantly, whats with all the meat-based kernel infrastructure terms. first 'rump' and now 'flank'. i'm now thinking about staking out 'loin'
In the report, they call the ratio of "Requests For Which At Least Some User Data Was Disclosed" to the "Total Requests" the "Compliance Rate". In this report it's 43.6% which implies that Airbnb is "out of compliance" with 56.4% of requests.

I wouldn't call that ratio the compliance rate because it a rejected request may be very justified from the standpoint of the business / customers privacy. "Disclosure ratio" seems like a more apt term.
My area of Brussels has been slowly pulling itself out of dilapidation for decades. The signs are e. g. new bars and shops that don't close after six months, and of course the inevitable loftification of older buildings. There is no single event. It takes masses of people to move, invest, and thrive.
Right. My wife grew up in Houston.
Every new view should get a URL. That makes every view linkable. People who do not do this are actually violating the spirit of the HTML/URL specs. The fact that you see your browser history as polluted is an implementation detail that could be rectified by simply collapsing all consecutive URL's from the same domain over N url's into a hierarchical dropdown.
Wouldn't that be easy to circumvent?
TurboTax's online tax software has worked well for me for several years under Linux. (Just saying that Windows isn't required for taxes…)
There are "we can't please everyone" decisions, there are plain mistakes and there are UI decisions that benefit no one except possibly the company - i.e. dark patterns.

I personally don't see what benefit putting the subscription management behind an unrelated UI widget that doesn't even appear to be clickable could possibly bring to an end-user. Or how such a design got through usability testing in the first place. Hence the likelihood for a dark pattern seems pretty high to me here.
LibreOffice doesn't like Apache's licensing, but AOO is happy to share the code with them and they are happy to consume it.

Both sides have strong beliefs, but the licensing situation benefits the copyleft faction.
> childish name calling

Sometimes that's the best way to express the full weight of an opinion. Diluting the expression changes its meaning.

http://ogun.stanford.edu/~bnayfeh/plan.html
It doesn't reload data - it just stops the particle system advection and restarts it when you're done moving.

And yes, this is pretty necessary (at least it's quite hard to work around). To maintain the same view during viewport movement, it would have to keep track of all the particle trails in lat/long space and re-project them all to the new view. But this is implemented in canvas, so the trails (ie. particle histories) are likely not stored in their entirety - more likely, the system keeps track of only the particle's current position, and the trails are accomplished by drawing new line segments over the old on each frame. Yes, it would be technically possible to keep track of each particle's full history, and to re-project them all during interaction, but it would be pretty slow.

(I didn't make this, but I've written a very similar particle system in canvas and ran into similar issues)
An large amount of very sensitive information from a huge number of people is stored "in the cloud" making it a big target for hackers[1].

In addition, the attack surface of a company providing tax services on the internet is huge compared to a powered down VM on a machine that I know is physically secure and (IMHO) well secured against hackers.

[1] In a famous apocryphal story, Willie Sutton was asked by reporter Mitch Ohnstad why he robbed banks. According to Ohnstad, he replied, "Because that's where the money is."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton#Sutton.27s_law
It is the sort of book that is worth reading again if it's been 5 years.
relevant Dilbert http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-06-12
The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999)
Apple has forgotten the "... but no simpler" part of Einstein's dictum.
To service the subscription, you must be given some token? You should be able to hand that token to Apple and tell them to cancel the associated subscription.
If you're interested in playing with this visualization technique (particle advection in vector fields) outside the context of geospatial applications - I built this tool called "Vector Toy" which allows you to visualize any given (2D) vector field this way: http://dandelany.github.io/vector-toy/ - note that the functions on the right side are editable.
I can't tell from the write-up: did they find this in-use/in the wild somewhere, or does it come from a VirusTotal submission?
Have you used browsers since 1999 or so?

First, browsers added a padlock icon on the left for https:// sites. Then, phishing sites, and even banking websites, started using a padlock for their favicon, and users couldn't tell the difference. So it was abandoned.

Then, the whole background of the URL bar was turned a sort of gold-yellow color when the site was secure. It was like this:
http://www.facebookloginhut.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/s...

Then that effect was removed, I think it scared some users, or they didn't know to look for it, I don't know.

Now, favicons are never shown in the URL bar so a padlock favicon can no longer mislead. Some browser started hiding "http://", some started coloring "https://". (Now many do both.) The extended-validation green pill thing was added. It's harder than ever to allow a self-signed cert when you're using a service you set up yourself on your LAN.

Apparently there are more changes planned, every year or so. "users" have no chance of keeping this stuff straight, only "experts" like me and you do.
Isn't Microsoft backporting all the same crap -- forced updates, forced reboots, telemetry, and other assorted asshattery -- to Windows 7 and Windows 8?

It seems like the first thing you'd have to do with a new Windows 7 system is turn off Windows Update, to keep the camel's nose, head, humps, legs, tail, and extended family out of the proverbial tent.
I agree, but that is beside the point.
I don't know the details of the current API, but wouldn't you already need some basic information about your subscribers before that? To, you know, actually do the thing that the user subscribed to...
Gmail doesn't use a self-signed certificate. Small enough for you?
But, for fairness' sake, shouldn't he have made sure LLVM wasn't using SIMD instructions for the Rust version?
Let's compare with Google's:

1. Play Store

2. hamburger menu

3. Account

4. Subscriptions

Not a lot better, but at least makes more sense than "View Apple ID" I think.
U.S. State of Emergency extended 1 more year
How is this different from using an Array.filter method?!
What VM are you maintaining? Just curious...
I don't want some company or its employees (or possible people/companies they give/sell/leak information to) to have total knowledge of my finances.

Maybe I'm fighting a losing battle, but I still value my privacy.
Do they even own the real estate? I was under the impression that they rent.
Impro by Keith Johnstone

There's a reason why it's one of two books on Palantir's new employee reading list.
Plastic clothing material that cools the skin
Because people like you, and "UI/UX experts", have put so much effort into downplaying and hiding simple important pieces of information. This shit is as easy, and as useful, as traffic signs.
For some reason, I've seen this sentiment a lot on HN and elsewhere. Being in Java makes it less popular.

I don't really get it. Whether in C, JS, or Java, I don't care too much. I don't need `mv` to be written in JS.

Whatever. It's basically the only JS tooling to survive 7 years. I'm happy it may be getting the use it deserves.
I assume protocols like Paxos can work with any odd number of generals. Since the generals are anonymous, consider a Sybil attack. If there are N total generals, what's to prevent me from claiming that I am all N generals? If there are N total generals but M entities try to each spam the system with fake generals, how does the system decide?
My gut instinct says "never" because those aren't places to live, they're places to park your money. They are pricey because they're pricey, kind of like how a 10$ banknote represents 10$ of value because we say it does. London will remain an important and populous town even if some of its areas turn into money lots with no people living in them.
I also went through some of the source code. That "adds things to hosts file" code has some rather questionable entries in it.

m.hotmail.com

watson.microsoft.com

Assorted *.msn.com domains

apps.skype.com

msftncsi.com

"Add spying domains to hosts file" is dishonest, at best. This appears to be a determined effort to break random services for the user which happen to be run by Microsoft. Hotmail, Skype and the NCSI detection are particularly inexcusable things to block under the guise of "destroy spying".
The simplest argument is that if your job requires you to share documents with other people who are used to using Office document formats as their standard exchange medium, then unless you convince those people to move away from that format -- which may require either moving everyone else they exchange documents away from that format, or treating you as a special snowflake -- you're stuck.

If you're in a tech space full of plain text document formats, dealing with folks who love Markdown and use programmer-centric diff tools, all of this can certainly be irrelevant. (I'm in that space in my day job and with personal projects that don't involve other people.) But for a lot of, well, office jobs, that's a non-starter. And Google Docs, while it has some great things to recommend it, doesn't have the feature set Office does. (There's a long-standing observation that while most users only use 20% of Microsoft Word's features, for any two given users that 20% may not be identical.)

I work with fiction editors, and I need to be able round-trip manuscripts with embedded comments and revision tracking. Google Docs doesn't cut it for me. Actually, none of the OO-based suites (LO, AOO or NeoOffice) were able to round-trip transparently with Microsoft Word in my admittedly limited testing back in 2014, although that may no longer be the case. (They all have the required functionality, but bits and bobs of formatting and metadata would go away when the document moved from LO to Word back to LO.)

tl;dr: LibreOffice will matter as long as Microsoft Office matters, and whether we like it or not, in an awful lot of the business world, Microsoft Office still matters a whole lot.
A self-signed certificate can be trusted when my client recognizes it as one that I already trust. E.g., maybe it's for a server in my home, to which I have previously connected via my wired home network.
Yes, there's a list of KB updates which need to be uninstalled manually.
http://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Juno_DESCANSO_Post121...

> On the HGA we expect ≥18 kilobits per second (kbps) (≥12 kbps during Grav passes due to power required for carrier signal), and ≥10 bps on the MGA.

HGA = High Gain Antenna, MGA = Medium Gain Antenna. HGA activity is limited to when the spacecraft is precisely aligned towards Earth:

> Due to the nutation of the spinning spacecraft following any maneuvers, we will need to allow several hours for nutation damping following Earth-point maneuvers before using the HGA.

> Currently we allow 8 hours prior to most DSN tracks and 16 hours prior to the 6-hour MWR or Grav perijove science passes that start at PJ – 3 h.

So it's not necessarily any slower than your modem once it gets going, it just has terrible latency and dialing the connection can take the better part of a day.
Well, the way I see it, there are only 3 games in town: JSON-style variants (including YAML, arguably), XML, and S-expression variants.

XML is definitely not better than JSON IMO. Are you hinting at either S-expression, or something like YAML?

(For any other "custom syntax" we're better off sticking to make syntax itself)
Until people start breeding cats to get the reward.
One aspect we shouldn't overlook is stratification by intelligence. People of very different IQs have trouble communicating. So, "hateful repetition of populist punchlines" is a natural form of communication for average-intelligence people - to say nothing of below-average.

Now, the loudest, most visible fraction of any political group tends to be the stupid.

So your conversational Utopia needs some kind of poll-test at the entrance.

I think that an educated gentleman of 150 years ago wouldn't be annoyed at the ignorant opinions of a servant, because they were of two different worlds. Today with the spread of literacy and erosion of class distinction, these different levels of discourse are forced together.
Want there something about a previous NK leader kidnapping a South Korean actor and actress to satisfy his own whims about creating more movies with them in the lead roles?

This is almost as strange.
I agree with others on the "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius.

Off the top of my head, I would add:

* "The Way to Wealth," by Benjamin Franklin: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0918222885 (also available online for free; it's in the public domain) -- no-nonsense practical advice from a super-successful individual

* Warren Buffett's Letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html (also available organized by topic, in a bound book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1611637589 which some will find much easier to read)

* "The Intelligent Investor," by Benjamin Graham (specifically the chapters titled "The Investor and Market Fluctuations" and "Margin of Safety"): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060555661

* "Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion," by Robert Cialdini: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688128165

Also:

* "Devil Take the Hindmost," by Edward Chancellor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0452281806

* "A Short History of Financial Euphoria," by John Kenneth Galbraith: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140238565

* "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," by Charles Mackay: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586635581
> But without proof-of-work, the blockchain is just a database with atomic updates. I don't see why they would need a blockchain for that.

I have been asking this question for a long time and not yet seen a satisfactory answer. At this point I'm sure that either I or a bunch of blockchain advocates are missing something important. Glad to know somebody else sees the problem too.
Hence the huge warning page in Chrome warning about certificate errors. In the corporation I work for it has stopped a number of very nasty sites from compromising our security.

So hence, it's working.
Short answer: you can't. The Earth's rotation would make collecting that energy very unwieldy. Individual collectors could act like capacitors, but getting that power down to the planet continuously isn't really doable with any current technology.
Via a HELOC or a reverse mortgage, which becomes a thing for people 70 and older.

Alternatively, selling to cash out and move to some spot favored by American retirees, such as Costa Rica or Palma de Mallorca, where the dollar (as well as Social Security check) goes much further.
The house that got away
I'm surprised the government hasn't just sent a banal request to everyone along the lines of, "you are required to disclose every known space alien who uses your service and you are prohibited from disclosing this order."

Every service then has to kill its canary.
It's not clear how the natgas output is being measured. It's used to bring the working fluid up to temperature. Either the true solar output is lower than stated or the plant is using natgas extremely inefficiently (getting 0.9 instead of 9 MW of it). In the latter case, it's still a cost of obtaining the solar energy that should be accounted for.

Wikipedia has the total and solar-only figures switched, as can be seen by visiting the citations given. The solar-only figure is 644,506 MWh.
Way to go Cambec!
I wonder how much passwords like "lastfm", "music" and "abcdefg123" are an indication of people just being bad with security, as opposed to people just not giving a damn... Amid the overflow of trivial sites requiring more and more login details, is there really a value in having strong passwords? Personally, I mostly don't care; I have strong passwords for important sites (banks, online stores that have my credit card details), but for the rest of logins, I use pretty trivial passwords - if someone "steals" my account, I'll just create another one!
The wingtips don't 'lift up', the body drops relative to the wing. Essentially the wing goes from hanging from the body to the body hanging off the wing.
> you seem to be confusing Microsoft with "the government"

Actually, thanks to the third party doctrine and the regularity with which the government subpoenas tech companies, there is little functional difference - they are part of the spying apparatus.
It's a common use of the word "unique".

The usage has deviated from the original meaning. Making a big deal out of it doesn't make you look smart; it makes you look out of touch.
I think you're missing the part where a non-upgraded connection will be treated by the client as insecure and untrustable.
Does this support column-oriented database designs?
That's a maxim for computer data backups as well.
"Status changed to Unfortunate."