skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is damaging the drum dangerous, or is it a profit scheme?
It's called snap to roads (interpolated mode): https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/roads/snap
Great initiative dude, keep up the good work, karma will award you for your good will. :))
The article also mentions that you should refill your tank before it hits a quarter tank, is there any truth to that? If so, why?
Whatever he is selling, we may never know.. or care.
It's questionable to say the i8 is better than the Tesla. The i8 is cooler looking than a tesla. But it's a hybrid, with about 15 miles electric only range. It's just a plug in hybrid. After having had a tesla, I'd never go back. I might consider a hybrid if it has large electric range 100+miles, and cool styling plus awd and cool interior like a tesla. But that doesn't exist. Maybe the all electric porsche will be a cool all electric, but it won't have a supercharging network. They claim 15 minute recharge time but there are 0 recharge sites in the world. They won't be able to invest too much in it, they will also be afraid of cannibalizing their existing gas sales.
Since it wasn't mentioned in this update, I assume the memory parity problem from last week remains?
I can't speak to the internals of this extension but a few things jump to mind: this works with chrome, fetching.io works with Safari, Firefox and Chrome. This works on any OS that has chrome, fetching.io is only self hosted on OSX (otherwise there's a cloud version). This appears to implement its own indexing scheme, fetching.io uses elastic search. Fetching.io has it's own search UI, tagging notes etc, this is integrated directly into chrome. Which is best for you probably depends on your needs. Oh and fetching.io isn't open source ;)
> but very possibly could decide to have sex.

This is the idiotic prudishness that people are talking about.

Teenagers aren't going to have sex because a movie has boobs in it. They are going to have sex because they want to have sex. It's basic biology. Educate them and encourage them to make good/mature choices.
Just to add to this, a couple years ago I was able to run a campaign to raise $5000 for Vim via Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) all thanks to 38k great subscribers and sponsors. So while not officially via HN, it was unofficially. :)

We currently hold the top spot, although I would be happy to see someone surpass that:
http://www.vim.org/sponsor/hall_of_honour.php
Windows only allows a limited number of Explorer icon overlays installed. If you install a lot of programs that install Windows icon overlays, some stop working.

There are ways, though, to make sure that your icons have priority over "Joe's poorly designed explorer plugin." :)
> no one’s going to stop you from spending time reading at work or spending time learning

What? You've lived a truly blessed life, Dan Luu. I've observed the opposite, pretty consistently. I've been working as a programmer for 25 years and I've found, across nine separate employers (and lost-track-of-how-many different supervisors) that spending any appreciable time reading (even a book about Angular when you're supposed to be learning Angular) will become a management issue. Everywhere I've ever worked has expected learning to be on your own time. Don't believe me? Put "read three chapters of a book" on a status report and see how many levels of management show up at your desk to micromanage your time.
But in order to actually accomplish that, it needs to have the buy in of the masses, who would otherwise revolt to take away those privileges.

The common person needs to believe that they too are protected through the legal system, and so it is worth following the rules and forcing others to follow the rules. This is what makes it a Schelling point.

As an aside, the "drug war" has helped destroy this belief, especially harshest for minority communities. This has resulted in social breakdown and creation of movements like "stop snitching" and Black Lives Matter.
Yep, this is in fact how the nobility did it back in the day!
That modularity is a pain in the ass that only photo snobs (like me) will put up with. For example: the RAW quality on my Sony a6000 was crap until I checked the firmware version, and it was several versions behind. Doing the update appeared to brick the camera, and the updating software is a nightmare. Solving the bricking problem took a non-trivial effort. Replace "camera" with "GPU card" and you get a typical story about modular PC problems.

One reason to put up with this crap is that you can save thousands of dollars buying nice old glass for your nice new camera. But even though the glass lasts forever, once you get 50MP sensors in cameras, old glass that was designed for the best resolution of 35mm film will limit the performance of a 50MP+ image sensor. Soon, photography will be mostly computational, and big old lenses will all be museum pieces.

I don't even want to think about whether I've kept the firmware on my Sony E-mount lenses up to date.
That's not quite correct. The CDC recommends a body fat percentage between 18% to 25%, and it's generally acknowledged that athletes can drop down to around 5%-6% without adverse effects. So, given those numbers, most healthy adults are carrying at least 20 pounds that they could safely lose.
C is a necessary evil (debatably necessary, but at the very least quite useful).

Apart from that, I agree with you. Static typing is a core tool for helping me manage complexity, and I wish I got to use it in my work.
It's very far from the only option server-side (node), but a lot of people are using it there... and on the desktop (various native tooling options, electron, etc), and in mobile apps (react native, nativescript, cordova).

I know someone who's wished for "one language to rule them all" for a long time and wants/wanted that to be Visual Basic... It's a matter of perspective as much as anything else.

JS can be a very beautiful/expressive language... and mocking some of the corner cases of coercion doesn't really help the argument. JS started as a language for input validation first... it works in a way that input validation passes/fails very cleanly. It makes it a great transport/middle-man language actually.
It took me a while to figure out the article wasn't about a REPL... I was really curious as to know the answer though ;)
I rented a 2016 Nissan Altima last weekend for a +1,000 mile trip. I was surprised the when the "low fuel" indicator came on while the diagnostics system reported over 100 miles until empty. I just assumed the diagnostics system was being wildly optimistic about fuel consumption. After reading this article, though, it looks as though I may have been able to drive on a little longer and do some more price-shopping for fuel.
Nah, just go ahead and criticize. You are going to be fighting an uphill battle, but as someone who spent over a decade criticizing the military while in the military, I can tell you that the bark has no bite, as is often the case with things like this. You'll actually find a lot of people that agree with you, even though they won't add their voice to yours.
Anyone who has been morbidly obese has permanent damage as a result. It is certainly better to right the ship, but some damage does not go away.
Firefox was a significant improvement over the status quo in browsers when it was released.
For one value of "secure": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evalua...
They already have one! It's called Activision.
Like I said in another comment, there is barely enough room on the sidewalk for signage on the street where I park my car, let alone chargers every 30 ft. The only place they can reasonably fit are on commercialized streets where residents don't park anyway because it's metered during the day.

Again, I don't see mass adoption of EVs in dense cities like Boston (Seattle is only 6.7k/mi²; Boston is 13k) happening until you have fast chargers at refueling stations. We don't have garages, we don't have sidewalk space on residential streets, and we don't drive to work (or if we do, it's not to a place with a commercial garage). The exceptions are (1) luxury high-rises, which generally have private garages, and (2) the very wealthy, who either own their own garage, or drive to work and park in a garage, or both.
Huge 808 drum robot can be played live by the public
Gosh, this takes me back. There was some special filename you could give a directory on Win98SE which would result in it being truly hidden, but the contents still accessible via some arcane workaround. I made such a directory on my first computer, then forgot about it, and--as in your story--eventually remembered it when trying to back up the filesystem.

Does anybody know the nature of the hidden directory hack I've referred to?
Maybe a dumb question, but why dead-bug the existing 7414 instead of dropping in a new one?
It's fine if core migration happens during the invalidation loop - the core migration itself surely must wipe the non-shared cache levels thoroughly, otherwise nothing would work.

EDIT: Actually if the big and little cores are used together, and not exclusively, then this might still be an issue, yeah.
Unless it's a bad regulation and you a left without a choice because everyone is regulated.
One particular charting library is built right in, <table>
Is what the article says not true that "Google makes more than 90 percent of its revenue from online advertising" and "Google alone makes about half of all global mobile advertising revenue"?

That sounds like a pretty major advertising company to me.

Can you name a bigger advertising company than Google?

If they're actually a technology company driven by the demands of their users and striving for technical excellence, then do you expect Google to support built-in ad-blocking in Chrome and Android like Apple already supports it in Safari and iOS any time soon?
If you want strong(er) typing, just create with TypeScript or flow... I don't see nearly the value in it that you seem to.
Love = Attention
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

This is how we were able to build bridges that didn't fall over before Newton, or even Galileo.
That's a respectable opinion.

From my perspective, I want to see Vim/NeoVim differentiating itself from the competition. It's extensible... but emacs does that better. It's simple and modal... but nvi does that better. It's stuck somewhere in the middle, and mediocrity is a terrible, terrible fate.

Ow! Stop that! Okay, this is the last time I sneak a Dresden Files quote into my HN comments. I swear. :-D.
I think the author's point is that if you have exposed USB ports then there is nothing one can do. i.e. no matter how hardened they are, you can just keep on increasing the voltage (relatively easily vs hardening) and you will kill the PC. so one can just as easily pentest by removing the power from the PC without any fatally destructive behavior.
Ninio's extinction illusion
I wonder if/how this is covered contractually. Seems like the kind of thing that should be required to be explicitly called out.
Walmart planning self-driving carts
I probably saw die hard and other movies like that in middle school.

I remember seeing saving private ryan around that time too.

The only movie that ever really bothered me for violence was the passion of the christ.
I would argue that what propaganda that is there is hardly nuanced or subtle, and certainly doesn't qualify as mind control.

I also think a component of it comes from how poorly vets have been treated in the past by the culture at large as well as the government they served. A lot of us have friends and family members that were hard used by their service and more or less cast aside or forgotten about.

For me, the propaganda, and double-think is more around the idea of drumming up support for our troops even though, frankly, we fall pretty short of that. Granted it also gets wrapped up in patriotism, etc., but I think it's a pretty blunt tool in that regard. If anything, you could call it a right-wing version of virtue signalling I guess.
> You were fooling yourself.

I think that's the entire point of his story.
Brings to mind this absolutely classic old story:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT

And pics of a build it inspired:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Son-of-ITAPPMONROBOT
What does it precisely mean for a food to be "processed"? "Processed" in general just means "went through some kind of process", which covers pretty much anything (if a local farmer collects their apples in a bin and moves them across the field that's a process) but in relation to food it has a negative connotation, so it must be specific processes the food was involved in that are unwanted? What about these processes inherently make the food more sugary or otherwise unhealthy?
There are quite a few replies to this talking about interesting directions for applications and platforms, all of which are great and very interesting, but none of which currently seem to offer much of a story for multimedia life logging.
VimScript is not deprecated in NeoVim, and maintaining backward compatibility is major focus. So must Vim plugins will work in Neovim. vim-airline is listed among the plugins that has some special neovim-specific features added:
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects
That is a myth. Every legitimate long term study of non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.
With the shift to utf8mb4, are indexes / keys still stored as the maximum possible length (ie length *4 bytes)? and is the maximum key length still ~750 bytes?

I asked some of my developers to look into converting to utf8mb4 from utf8 in one of our legacy codebases, but we hit a problem with indexed fields that were defined as varchar(255).
Web-based generator of positive feelings
Samsung shares plummet as Note 7 debacle deepens
Weird. I have found this to basically never be the case. Even some of the worst managers I've had have supported learning on the clock, through reading materials, tutorials, or otherwise. I've even had some jobs where learning time was a regularly slated part of my work week, and in some cases was allowed to take classes which cut into work a bit. My current employer has a library of technical books and educational material that any of us are free to rent and learn as we go.
I cannot wait until the post-Facebook era. Hopefully whatever comes along next will learn from this mistake.
Yes, where on Earth can we find examples of computing that rely only on organic inputs?
I think they also told him to make it forgiving, like html, so that beginners could use it. Thus the implicit conversion rules, optional semicolons, being able to leave new off a function constructor, not having to use var, and so forth.
Yes, it's you resisting change.
I'm a fan of "You can write COBOL code in just about every language." I saw a pretty large VB5/6 app that was entirely styled like a COBOL app.. it was hideous to debug/use/follow, but it can be done... After that, I decided a lot of the time, it isn't the language that's the problem most of the time.
Mostly ASMR sounds.
LD-R: Adaptive Linked Data-Driven Web Components
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
Mike Driscoll: Book Contest: Win a Copy of Python 201
Above the Arctic Circle, climate change closes in on the remote town of Barrow
Wow now I'm wondering about tea tree oil which I use myself. Have any links you can share?
http://thepaleodiet.com/fruits-and-sugars/

pretty far from little sugar.
Not sure, but I believe that part of XP is having devs do more/all of their own testing and getting rid of the developer vs. tester roles (note that this doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of QA), and this aspect of XP is increasingly common.

I probably would be disinclined to hire a developer who wanted a different person to write/run their tests, unless it was for a very specialized role and said developer had exceptional talents.
> It's sad that git (or equivalents) doesn't feature more prominently these day.

I think it does. I was taught version control in University (CVS era but we used SourceUnsafe) but only for one class. These days all new grads I've interviewed have Github profiles and are required to use Github for all projects (especially group projects).
That's a quality hack right there
> For teens, it sort of makes sense in a way to restrict portrayals of sex more than violence

Perhaps because I'm Spanish, but that doesn't make any sense for me.

I prefer that my son sees a tit in TV than a shooting or murder.
Oh come on, you can't be serious! That is completely inappropriate here.
> Learn something else.

uh? Most JS programmers have a background in computer science and software development like you.

I went at the university and learned C, C++, Java, Lisp, SQL. I worked 3 years with C# and 2 years with Symfony.

Well, JavaScript is still my favorite language/ecosystem, and I'm obviously not alone.
The only thing scientists widely agree upon about Suger is that it's unnecessary - very unusual for foodstuff. An RDA for sugar therefore doesn't make that much sense. The optimal sugar intake seems to be zero.
>Because America has always been a bit weird about sex, this reaction about sexualizing children is very new. Before the 80s or 90s nobody thought of child nudity as sexual.

Confusingly enough, child beauty pageants originates from the US, and are mostly still a US-only thing. This contradiction really boggles the mind.
To reassure: I do use this technique on a daily basis. And I have teached it to my team and we are happily applying it. It works well on big complex projects and makes sure you didn't miss any test case, so that Semantic Stability of the test suite is up high.
Yes and no.

Core migration don't need to reach a global synchronization point, just enough so that the 2 cores in question agree with each other. This can be done without requiring global visibility of all operations of the source core.
And going right back to the original topic here, those bits of food wouldn't be as big a deal without all of the added sugars that we have now, right? Isn't tooth decay caused by sugar-eating bacteria?
I have a 2014 Nissan Altima. It gets better gas mileage than any vehicle I've ever driven, other than motorcycles. On long highway/interstate trips, I get 550-600 miles on a tank of gas (the tank holds about 12 or 13 gallons, if memory serves).

My girlfriend has been driving it for the last year or so and the only times I drive it anymore is to take it in for an oil change or maintenance, but I often check the statistics and it averages 34 mpg overall (most of her driving is highway). The "low fuel" indicator in it also comes on with somewhere around 100 miles remaining.

I did drive it far enough once without stopping for gas that the "miles left" indicator read "---". I was about 10 minutes from home and figured I'd chance it (there's a gas station at the intersection where I turn off the highway to come home). My thought was that if I had designed the "countdown indicator", I would be in a bit of a buffer so that the car doesn't actually die going down the road when it hits zero, so I was certain I still had enough gas left to make it.

My truck (large 2013 Dodge Ram) averages right about half of that. Its "low fuel" indicator comes on with about 50 miles remaining. The Harley gets around 50 mpg (and offers to find the nearest gas stations when there is ~35 miles remaining).
Rosetta couldn't really affect the comet trajectory in a meaningful way, even if we wanted to. The comet has a mass of nearly 10 trillion kg, the orbiter is <3000 kg, and P = MV. It would need to have insane velocity to impart any meaningful momentum.
I just wanted to say thanks for the work that has gone into, not only the restoration process, but the videos and accompanying articles as well. Computer history has always been a favorite topic of mine. I was only 7 when my father gave me my first computer (an IBM 5150), so there is a lot that I simply wasn't around to experience. These videos and articles give me a taste of that. Thanks.
For a long time, there was no political will to kill Javascript; there was barely enough political will to reform it -- see the Eich vs. Wilson debate [1].

Now that JS has seen 2 new versions in 2 years, momentum has picked up and it's keeping up with the times much more so than in the late 2000s when its flaws were glaring and apparent. One of the interesting side-effects of the extra effort going into the web platform is the 'wasm' effort [2] which could replace Javascript at some point -- yes, the usual caveats about GC and DOM apply, but they're coming [3][4].

Though the political line is that wasm isn't intended to replace Javascript, once it attains feature parity (like it's headed towards), it'll be trivial to do so, regardless of what the designers intend. When that time comes, JS will probably still be used as a written language, but wasm will become the new compilation target.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#4th_Edition_.28aban...

[2] https://webassembly.github.io/

[3] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/219

[4] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
This whole thing just stinks of forcing the browser to be a (terrible, poorly functioning, and inconsistent) abstraction over the OS. The browser/webapp model of application development is just awful.
Don't know much about web development but in most cases isn't that exactly the scenario you usually aren't worried about being slow?

Not that someone couldn't make a slow static page but in general aren't static pages going to load pretty fast anyway?
> There are plenty of times where you want ==

FWIW, I've never used ==
Near the end I mention that the parity errors from last week have disappeared. There's no obvious reason for them to go away, but memory appears to be working okay now.
How have you found a sonicare toothbrush to help cavities?
> Fictional and real nudity are largely the same thing.

Yes - and they are the same as the fictional stuff in your first part. Meaning nobody gets hurt, it's just "there". Nothing breaks or is torn to pieces or shredded or crushed.

> Fictional and real violence have a huge difference in who gets hurt.

Same with fictional violence and nudity - and for the latter it does not matter, as you pointed out. Nobody is going to be hurt in either case.
Benchmarking Amazon Aurora
The firm doth protest too much, methinks.
And yet for all their pretty words, the Telegraph don't show the actual image at the centre of this furore? Too scared of upsetting their own advertisers perhaps?
A Made-For-TV Compression Algorithm [Silicon Valley]