skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Sur is terrific, with lots of beautiful rugged and ritzy places that a google search will quickly turn up. Might I suggest Cone Peak. It's 5000 feet above sea level and just 3 miles from the beach, with a road almost all the way to the top. (you can camp on the side of Nacimiento-Fergusson road overlooking the coast, too). Great entry point to the Ventana Wilderness if you find time for backpacking, even in December.

Inland from Big Sur and equally south of SF, Pinnacles was recently made a national park. It can be fully explored in a couple days and, aside from the stunning volcanic scenery, is the first place the Califirnia Condor was reintroduced after very nearly going extinct. These days you can spot quite a few of them if you're willing to wake up early and watch the sunrise from the summit. The park attracts a crowd, and it's worth reserving a camp site early, but it's far less hectic than some of the better known parks.

Going east from SF, the Sierras has a number of wilderness areas that attract a fraction of the people you'd find in Yosemite (the valley is an absolute must-see, but it's a zoo outside of winter. The outdoors will require more gear in December, but the snow capped valley rim is one of the most beautiful places I've seen). If the snow is late in falling, I'm partial to Emigrant Wilderness - the same granite as Yosemite, none of the crowds. South of Yosemite, look into King's Canyon. Both should have snow in December, which is a good reminder to check seasonal road closures if you intend a scenic route across the Sierras. North of Yosemite, highways 120, 4, 88, and others typically close.

North of SF, Mendocino National Forest has an abundance of dirt roads accessing enormously underutilised public spaces. There's a drive-in campground just south of Snow Mountain (in the Snow Mtn wilderness) that's stunning and empty. Despite the name, it doesn't get much snow. Closer to the city, Sugarloaf above the Sonoma valley makes for a great low-key 1 or 2 day trip that can be worked into visiting a winery or two.

The Sonoma coast north of SF also has a lot of beautiful places. Check out Salt Point. A bit out of the way for Vegas, though.

Death Valley is mostly on the way to LV and in December will be cool enough to stand.

These are a few of my favorites that are varying degrees off the beaten path but all incredible natural places.
Eat less, move more. Count calories and stay below your daily limit. Find the highest satiety per "calorie ingested" foods for you and stick to them.
What if I want to pay for something that is legal, but I don't want a record to exist for? Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, no?
i think the major difference is the ruins we have in the US are basically just .. really old housing.

and to be fair all the interesting stuff is in the natural history museums, which people visit _a lot_ in the US.
Just FYI the periodic table also doesn't tell the full story. Take a look at the isotope table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_nuclides_(complete)
Chaco is definitely on the remote side. I think you are right about the reasons for it being not as popular.

I'll also throw out that Chaco can be incredibly gorgeous right after a snowfall. I was lucky enough to see it right after a few inches fell: https://roundme.com/tour/23482/view/57102/
The problem is not to add some checks (asserts? No, just kidding), the problem is that you're quickly writing a little thing for a demo out an experiment, and faster than you'd expect these ten lines of innocuous code have grown in a gigantic ball of mud upon which many businesses are built.

To me the less worse way to handle this is a softened TDD, where a consequent part of the code is covered (described, checked, structured) by a suite of reasonably atomic automated tests.
I don't think any state's tried to do that. What they're trying to ban are Tesla-owned showrooms and repair centers. And that's even though Tesla actually sells over the Internet - if you buy in a showroom, it's because you borrowed their iMac to order from the website.
That's what happens when you focus too much on STEMS education and forget about Humanities ;)
Not a Clojure developer but, IIRC, Clojure doesn't have conses, but rather the function cons creates a seq. A Seq in Clojure is immutable and (usually) lazy, which is nothing like what CONS makes in lisp (a mutable pair that is the basis for building singly-linked lists).

Note that linked-lists are only a good data structure in fairly narrow contexts (e.g. shared structure, certain types of mutation you can do). Since Clojure is focused on limiting mutation, it makes sense for them to use Seqs instead of linked-lists.
You're right, no one should worry at all about the simple matter of private land ownership in New York as the sea comes in.

It's a simple matter of private property ownership, right? No complicated information economies need be considered, right? No state programs might seek to intervene and disrupt the predictable linear progression of climate change, right?

Anyone that's worried surely feels silly after reading your comment sir. Thank you for your godly libertarian insights.
In the conclusion of the talk I say that the only way forward towards anything resembling a sufficiently general approach to verification. Any form of statistical analysis (which is what many current learning algorithms are) is simply an algorithmic view of that very statement. One of the attendees even asked if machine learning could assist in that empirical study, to which the answer is, of course! But it is important to understand that this is what the learning algorithms would do: empirically study human-written programs. I don't think there's currently a whole lot of research in that direction, though.
PostScript.
According to an article version of this that looks like it was syndicated to local media outlets, 64% self-identify as coming from a middle-class family. That says almost nothing about where their household actually was in the income or wealth distribution.
> Even if it were "open source", you would have no proof that the actual production code was the open source version.

There are ways to prove that. You can provide reproducible builds, where someone who builds the software will end up with bit-for-bit identical binaries to the production version. Then, anyone can verify that the available binary matches the available source.
I can, and do, talk for hours about RVs. I love them. I love cranky old RVs, in particular (I live in a 1984 Avion...which is one of the all-aluminum models, of which Airstream is the best-known manufacturer and the only current manufacturer). There are forums for every major manufacturer of RVs, most of them are super helpful; a bunch of retired old-timers who love talking about their RVs.

I'd recommend you spend some time learning about them. There are definitely quality differences; usually you get what you pay for, though buying older can get you a great deal, comparatively speaking. I would much prefer a high quality old rig to a cheap newer rig. But, older rigs can have a lot of hidden problems; my Avion has had a much rougher life and needs a lot more work than previous owner disclosed (for a variety of reasons I bought it knowing it needed work but some of the work it needed/needs is beyond what I expected or could reasonably find in the brief inspection I gave it).

One probably can't easily summarize everything one should know before buying an RV, but I'd recommend you start reading up on them now, and don't plan to buy for at least a month or more. Go visit RV dealers (with no intention to buy new, or even to buy from a dealer at all, as they will overcharge by a huge amount in the majority of cases...it's normal to pay half what a dealer would charge for a used RV).

Do you already have a tow vehicle? That's probably where you need to start, if you plan to go the travel trailer route. If you plan to live in the trailer full-time, you probably need a big truck to haul it; I've got a diesel F250, and it works great. With a weight distribution hitch it'll comfortably haul more than my house (which is probably about 9000 pounds loaded with tanks full).

As the other commenter recommended, road side service from Good Sam is a great idea; I've used both Good Sam and AAA, and Good Sam does a slightly better job getting the right sized tow truck out to you when you need it.
Htty: HTTP TTY, a console application for interacting with web servers
This was in Austin but I always got such a kick out of it :)

The intersection of Barton Hills Drive and Barton Hills Drive:

https://goo.gl/maps/HaA3iSvxZm22
It's not that the file format was any better, it was just much simpler because in the DOS days you couldn't arbitrarily embed content from one application into another. Lotus' file format was just as proprietary as Microsoft's was. However, Excel had very good file importers, but also things like keystroke migration wizards etc. Microsoft invested a lot of time and money into doing everything they could to lower the transition barriers into Excel specifically for Lotus users. (and Office apps in general. They had similar efforts for WordPerfect->MS Word migration and others)

It was a fairly one-way trip in that even in the first versions of Excel, getting data back out was never as easy as getting it in was (i.e. the exporters weren't as complete as the importers... probably by design) and throughout the 90's Microsoft definitely built on and expanded the one-way nature of migration to their proprietary file formats as a key to lock-in. It wasn't so much that it was all that difficult as it was undocumented and always changing (there were multiple backwards incompatible file formats in each of the main MS Office apps in the 1990's). So if you were a customer or competitor, it wasn't so much that you couldn't reverse engineer the file format, it's that they were relatively undocumented and constantly changing so by the time you had done it, they were on to the next revision. I think it was a couple of years after the DoJ case, and a result of the settlement terms, that things really started improving on this front... but by then Microsoft had long since won. By that time most of their competitors had already figured out that the only way they could hope to compete with Microsoft was to bypass them entirely... hence the focus on web apps.

You mention web apps so I'll close with this: unless you're taking great pains to only use the open and cross-platform standards for them, in the not too distant future you're likely to find yourself in the exact same spot with your web apps that people were with desktop apps not too long ago. Different platform, same game...
1. not everything is done for money, I see no ads on this website for example

2. If your question is to know wether a journalist would be concerned by the decision, it's easy to see he would not.

3. If the linker is linking to illegal content knowingly, and because he hopes a gain from it, I don't see how he would not be guilty. In your example, you would be guilty as hell.

4. Google don't know what is legal and what is illegal as long as nobody told them. They're protected in Europe as intermediaries by the Directive at least.
> engravers are the next to be flown in and put to work.

To elaborate on your point -- stabilizing the currency is pretty much job #2, and one that is worked on in parallel with job #1, by different groups of people. The bills are often printed back home in the occupying country, and the occupiers often have time to prepare.

We see businesses start up, shutdown, or get acquired all the time, the processes are familiar. Countries going through similar cycles are fascinating because we don't really know the playbook. But it exists. :)
I would really love to agree because I hate ms so much, but sadly it's false: every time I use libreoffice, it's because I need to open a doc or ppt sent to me, and the layout is messed it's barely readable
Maybe tourists are investors of a kind, and investors famously dislike uncertainty...
I don't think everyone can be a mathematician, but I see the value in putting Calculus in the core curriculum.
Not really, when you start to implement it, the more and more functionality required as you get more samples.
And government can always tax automation to provide an income to those who are redundant if other jobs are not available.
I think that is right, dwellings just don't compare to a temple or a colosseum.
The post you're thinking of:

Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html
Endianness applies to both! Or, it should, if you're being consistent. It makes no sense to say that the first byte is the most-significant byte, but that bit zero is the least significant bit of the byte.

Because all modern computer architectures assign addresses to bytes, not bits, it's up to us to decide which way to number the bits. But we should always number the bits the same way we number the bytes.
If what is and what isn't law was that clear cut, the case wouldn't escalate to the European Court of Justice. Add to that that laws are arbitrarily incoherent and therefore the decision is just one possible interpretation of the law, albeit one that will be upheld.
Interesting; I've always written &ct, which wikipedia informs me is considered "archaic" Thanks for that note, it will save me one character of typing 3 years from now when I've finally broken the muscle memory of the old way :)
Thanks for noticing, I mixed up Disover and Diners. The former is not issued in Europe, the latter has under 1% market share (according to the Nielson Report).
It could be counted as advertising illegal activities, which is often illegal, too.
Indeed Libreoffice cannot handle large CSVs which is a shame, because otherwise it's an excellent tool.
Time-Lapse Footage of Glowworm Caves in New Zealand [video]
> Can't people then just register the car quickly out of state and then re-register it locally so it looks like "a move" legally and not a sale?

Paying twice the taxes on a new car is not a cheap thing.

The states cannot prevent you from importing a car, but they can make it a huge pain in the butt. Multiple days of having to take off work, getting the run around and misinformation from bureaucrats, spending hundreds of dollars on fees and inspections to get to what is free if bought in-state. They can be very nasty about it.

(don't ask me how I know. This is based on personal experience)

How unpleasant it gets depends heavily on the state and how much of a vendetta key politicians will be willing to go on when they have a corporation thumbing their nose at their laws.

It's not just registration. Most people buy new cars on credit. Which means they don't have the title. You'll have to provide a out of state title, which you don't actually own, to the state. You'll need insurance that is accepted by the state and your creditor. You'll have to make sure that the insurance agency can communicate this correctly to the state and provide them the right information, or it may be multiple trips to government buildings until it gets sorted out.

And it's not like the state you are buying from is going to be all that happy about losing out of probably will amount to several hundred dollars in sales taxes.

Each of these things is just another thing to go wrong. Another day waiting in lines and getting bad information from people who would rather spit in your face then talk to you.

All of this stuff is very doable, of course. Probably take just a week or two of screwing around at the most, etc. And I am sure that Telsa would help streamline the process as much as possible, but they would still lose customers because of it. Getting dragged through the mud for what really is just a luxury car is nobody's idea of a good time.
I hope they add some visual element to distinguish the old and the new version. Otherwise they'll annoy both organisations that banned the phones (mostly airlines) because they won't be sure which one's safe, and the customers because they will be constantly asked which one is it (or just asked not to use it regardless).
Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Lassen Volcanic National Park were two notable finds that I thought to be under-appreciated, every bit as amazing as those places people can be expected to know.

I went from place to place by bicycle when I was a tourist in the U.S. and, because I was not able to travel as speedily as everyone else, able to evaluate the scenery for what it was. Most of my up-close-with-nature experiences happened in the forest or BLM areas surrounding big parks such as Yellowstone, not in those parks.

People that visit the U.S. are not like me, they have a very short amount of time and they book lots of hotels in must see places. One day they are at the airport in L.A. picking up the car, three days later they are in Vegas, then they have the helicopter flight booked for the Grand Canyon the day after that.

In their itinerary they also have some irrational must-do thing where no amount of education can talk them out of this pilgrimage. This could be to the birthplace of a particular singer, a desire to drive some silly old car on Route 66 or a 'need' to go to '4 corners'.

It is therefore most fortunate for the bears and other unusual flora 'n' fauna that there is this tourist free area just outside the tourist hotspots. These areas are totally inaccessible to people on two-week fly-drive holidays with both Vegas and the Grand Canyon to cram in.
Basically thats a lie.
Yes Office is good in many ways and especially ease of use.
But opening a CSV file in Office > 2013 vs LibreOffice that contains more than 100k is ways more smooth in the newer LibreOffice version than in newer Office versions.
If you would've written anything about UX or usages or Format interoperbility, rendering their own format etc than yes Office is a clear winner, but when it comes to big files and their resource usage the newer office versions are just bad.
My first reaction to it was "Oh, it's an infomercial."

Do you think we get Sun'n'Run if we order now?
C's normal integer types work the closer to the way you want. When you say you're returning an int, you're not really specifying the exact size at all.

For those who don't know, C's char, short, int and long data types aren't really "fixed size". The standard defines their order: sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long), but the actual size of these integer types depends on the platform and compiler. If you want to use fixed size ints, you'd need to use the uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t types from stdint.h. Although interestingly enough C99 doesn't require the platform to provide these types, it only mandates the uint_least_n_t and uint_fast_n_t types (n=8,16,32..) which are guaranteed to be at least, but not necessarily exactly the requested width.

Now you may be thinking "sure the standard says they could be different, but they aren't really, a char is 8bit, a short is 16-bit an int is 32-bit a long is 64-bit". So here's a couple examples for you: many DSP platforms have a C compiler where char is 16-bit. Also Microsoft Visual c++ on windows on x86_64 compiles longs as 32-bit while GCC on Linux on x86_64 compiles longs as 64-bits.

>Notice how smooth the 32-bit to 64-bit transition went? (and yes, it was smooth.)

I know you said it was smooth, and maybe it was for some applications. But for many others, the 32-bit to 64-bit transition actually caused a lot of problems! Andrey Karpov has already done a great job of categorizing many of them, so I won't waste my time repeating him, but you can read his list here: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0065/
Now we're discussing toxicity. I 100% agree that health standards need to be maintained.
This could have been great but to be useful to me it would need to have a way to use parameters in DB functions.

I know this is specific so here I go to find the source code and see if it's possible to add this... After 5 pages... No clear way to source code... Meh...

>For works that we would incorporate into our repository, we do require intellectual property assignment. In exchange, we give our word as a open source covenant that we will maintain this work and not take it soley proprietary with your contributions; else, we will release this entire work under the Apache license if future support is not forthcoming. We do not have a contribution agreement yet prepared, but when needed, we intend to model it after the Contributor Agreement, described by Bruce Perens’ The Covenant - A New Approach to Open Source Cooperation.

I guess it's time to go Apache don't you think? You gave you word ;)
Clearly there is a difference if the other fish has negative effects.
If libre office/google docs fits your needs, you are artificially limiting your needs*. Probably not even realizing it.

Unless what you do can be done with a calculator (barebones basic stuff).
We were talking fish. Now you are talking about noxious adulterants to milk.
Pales in comparison to Thoughtbot's https://thoughtbot.com/playbook
Right. Even 15 years ago, it wasn't at all surprising.
No, more like 2 days, 11 days was 1000x.
I've run into excel problems at 64k rows. It was a while ago, but this century at least.
Because there were fire stairs.

The WTC (like all modern high-rises in the developed world) had a pretty impressive set of firefighting and evacuation infrastructure, procedures, and personnel. This training video goes through it pretty well [0].

- Smoke detectors and pull stations everywhere to ensure any fire is detected and responded to quickly (i.e. before it gets out of hand). There was a fire station across the street.

- A huge console for responding firefighters to see the location of alarm conditions, make building or floor-wide announcements, and even have two-way conversations with intercom stations on particular floors.

- Sprinklers and redundant power for the pumps that run them.

- Fans to push smoke out of the building and supply clean air to evacuation routes.

- Fire stairs, kept closed under positive pressure to keep smoke out, kept unobstructed by regular patrols, encased in material that wouldn't burn through for hours.

- A network of piping and wall-mounted hoses easily fed from the dedicated fire-truck parking.

- Fire drills, designated authorities for the evacuation of each floor, security personnel trained to watch over the fire alarm equipment.

It's not like the WTC wasn't prepared to evacuate in a fire. It's just that nobody anticipated all that infrastructure (pipes, stairwells, etc) getting sheared through by an airplane.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28laYNm5YNw
Unlike in the US, in many countries notes are not valid for all time. After an expiry date they must be exchanged at a bank for a new note.
Since that time, Microsoft had opened the documentation on all office file formats, and it's really good - very detailed. The documentation support team is very responsive when something isn't clear. Plus they provide quite many additional tools for work with binary files, and to validate them if you're implementing generation of these files.

But the formats themselves sometimes quite unlogical, especially when you embed one into another. And binary formats are very different for every office components. For example, PowerPoint - contains most of information in one big blob inside OLE, while Excel and Word tend to store smaller objects separately.

P.S. I've implemented data extraction for all MS office files for commercial products, and also participated in development of catdoc program about 10 years ago
They never talk about very important factors: relationship and sex. No one can expect that these people will just stop doing it, but it could cause serious issues as there's nowhere to go after a break up.
So they will take drugs to suppress these emotions? What alternatives are there?