skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I lack the outdoorsy know-how and wisdom to feel at ease on the backroads of the desert southwest

Please don't let this stop you. It's like people saying they can't go hiking because they can't afford "hiking boots". Whatever shoes you already wear every day are fine enough to get out there to start!

Throw a tent, a little stove and a box of food in your car and get out there. Maybe stick closer to bigger roads to start so you can always walk back if you car breaks down, but please get out there!

You'll figure out how to put your tent up after a few tries, and as long as you've got some food and water, you'll be fine.
> If we're talking something like Hurricane Sandy causing $33 billion in property damage in New York, that's maybe one year of the property market's value. That's a quite small "weather tax" in the grand scheme of things,

That's fine in theory. And if the US could get rid of federal flood insurance and not spend any government money fixing up New York when the next storm does damage, then it might be a fine state of affairs. But I don't know anyone who seriously thinks those are politically achievable, much less desirable goals.
Please stop using the term serverless, it may be decentralised but it is not serverless, so if you mean decentralised please use that term instead.
I am curious, what is your take on Thrift? Is it really an improvement on protocol buffers?
Isn't that already possible? If a device has a local IP that exposes an API, then your web browser can talk to it via JavaScript.
Look for places at least an hour away from Seattle and Rainier. Also, go to wta.org, and check how many reviews and trip reports any particular place or trail get.

For a specific recommendation, there's a lot of beautiful scenery and generally pretty few people along Hwy 20. Once you get off the road, there are many beautiful creeks and lakes surrounded by miles of trails, and not that many people, especially early and late in the season (the highway is closed for winter, and reopens once the snow melts and avalanche danger is back to normal). Check out the area around Stehekin in particular.
Fire stairs, like, a single column of stairs, or, multiple columns? If they were placed near each corner, some of them should have survived until collapse.

Impact by planes had been imagined prior to the crashes, but I don't know if it had been by the designers. Considering these were very tall structures, it seems likely someone would have at least briefly imagined it.
It's been ages and someone told me that they are allowing Word's pagination now as long as you explicitly say that's what you are doing (or something like that). But basically, pagination is incredibly important in legal documents. References are to specific pages and because footnotes can often span multiple pages, it is important that you render it correctly (or else the reference will point to the wrong page).

There is a specification for how to paginate legal documents in the US, but I don't remember where to get it. IIRC it is based on the Chicago Handbook of Style. The other place you can find the correct explanation of pagination is in the TeX source code, because it does it correctly.

My memory of what Word does wrong is really fuzzy, but I think it has to do with footnotes that are longer than one page.

Every version, the DOJ would order thousands of upgrades of Word Perfect at full price. In exchange for that, we would pretty much fix any bug they wanted. We even wrote a printer driver for them once. If you look at the year end reports for Corel around the 2000 year mark, you will see the office suite numbers broken out. These are mostly to legal document users.
I've heard Microsoft had a great story there, but I was drawing from experiences with the open source Unix-likes. Seems like it was across the board until you get too far into the weeds.
Fortunately the only people who can read 1000-page documents are those who already have working PDF renderers, so the problem is self-limiting.
The Limits of Formal Learning
Google's new card style UI
Scientists typically talk about measurements, observations, estimates, etc. Also, spectra of stars are in constant change, so it's not just experimental error.
> "While it would never work the way he suggested, it should more often. Instead, we privatize profits and socialize losses. I think a lot of people are or should be very sick of that trend by now. That was his point."

Perhaps the rebuttal was as strong as it was because flooding of land does not only affect landowners, it affects everyone who relies on that land (in one way or another).

To give some examples:

* People could live on the land and not own it.

* People could work on the land and not own it.

* People could rely on the land as part of a major transportation route and not own it.

* People could rely on the land as part of the infrastructure that provides their food (e.g. a local supermarket, a farmer's market, a shipping dock, etc...) and not own it.

Therefore, to restrict the concern to landowners only is shortsighted. The impacts are potentially far greater than just those felt by landowners.
ECMA 376 is explicitly intended as documentation of what Office 2007 does. Michael Meeks of LO (then at Novell) worked on it and says it did this job: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-02-26-cabinet-of...

But in practice there's no such thing as "OOXML" - there's only what Office 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2016 happen to do. So if you want to work with the stuff, you verify everything. The standard is, like so much Microsoft documentation, best treated as based-on-a-true-story fiction with an unreliable narrator.
Australia has had polymer banknotes for 25 years now. Canada just went polymer, using the same printing presses as Australia (the first Canadian 20s were actually printed in Australia until Canada could get their own printing presses)

As a world traveler, I'm always excited when I see countries that have gone to polymer notes - even poor ones - Guatemala years ago, Guinea now has a polymer note.

I'm still utterly shocked the US does not have polymer banknotes. Sometimes I think "because that's the way it's always been done" will be the end of moving forward in the US.
A cinematic approach to drug resistance
You would only have needed to outfit the tallest buildings being built.

Do you know how many individual paratroopers have jumped out of planes? There is no way the cost is prohibitive.

Parachuting is one of the last ways I'd want to go down, but, why wouldn't I want one if my only choice were to splat or char?
> No. Lack of macros makes code bigger, more error prone and harder to understand.

I mean, that's provably not true. Or at least not provably true. Let's me throw out at alternative statement: Macros make code harder to understand.

> When I use something like cl-ppcre:do-register-groups, this one word hides all the loop orginization

You don't need a lisp to hide things.

> Or cl-sql:select, which allows programmer to use SQL syntax as part of lisp

Eugh, why would I want SQL interspersed with my lisp.

> [...] gl:with-primitives, which hides glBegin(...); [...] Note, it not just hides, it makes impossible to forget glEnd.

Python has 'with' statements and 'context managers' that do this (make sure some cleanup happens). [1]

> Macros makes life easier [...] such a convinient way to make an abstractions

They might make life easier for the person writing them in the short term. And I can see how when you find a really solid case for a macro and document it well, open source it etc, it can be broadly useful, but then why not add that case to the damn language. Instead you open the floodgates to everyone in your team writing macros that aren't widely understood.

> Otherwise no one would use it.

A lot of people avoid them like the plague in all other languages.

> but nevertheless lisp nostalgia will last forever.

Maybe that's all it is though.

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-...
Protect their trade, from what threats?

Maybe US and Phil can build some islands and locate nuclear warheads and missile defence systems there. After all USA have to protect their global trade.
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Each party can now begin arguing about which has more supporters unemployed.
In practice there are assorted binary or encoded lumps.

More fun: you know what happens if you save a .DOC in Office 2007/2010/2013? Any features past 2003 are saved as a lump of OOXML! http://vmiklos.hu/blog/doctok.html#comment-header
> In my experience, the worst problems with Word come out of company templates.

Oh, yes, brother. Especially as they tend to be created by the people with the least experience in using (even modestly) advanced features.
Basic PR rule: Do not associate your stuff with negative words.
How could an average person without a CS background be able to ensure that all traces of a vote were destroyed to preserve anonymity?
Ok, yes, this one seems pretty bad: https://bitbucket.org/prometheus/htsql/issues/43/csv-export-...
Wow I feel terrible for the author. She got dealt such a bad hand. I hope, outside of her relationship with her father, there was love from the rest of her family.
Wikipedia lists Morocco as a belligerent in the first Barbary War; as I point out in my sibling comment, for Morocco to war against the United States does not violate the treaty.
Security Vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler Platform IPMI (LOM) Firmware
Perhaps for documents which are intended to be manually edited in a text editor, which is hardly the use-case here. Otherwise it's just extremely inefficient because of all the parsing involved. You can't know when one element ends or another begins, or skip through the parts you're not interested in, without reading every single byte and parsing it. Your XML parser has to handle extra whitespace (which will almost never be present), various quoting options, and arbitrary attributes/tags; all "decision points" within the code that add complexity. With a TLV format like the Excel binary one, you can seek through the records without knowing what they contain just by reading the header and adding its length field to the current offset. Then when you get to the record you want (identified by a simple integer comparison), just do a length check and read into the appropriate structure. There's far less to do, far less decision points, and far less to go wrong.
Glances 2.7 – Cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python
> It's immaterial if the issue is in the school itself or in the students.

Um, that is, in fact, kind of a VERY big deal. If the problem is the students, your solutions are mostly about fixing things outside the school.

> The material fact is that the tool you're using (the current educational system) isn't having the effect that you want (imparting useful information and useful ways to think about it).

I somewhat disagree with this. The system appears to be generating a certain average level of education. We would like the system to be generating a higher average level of education. No one has yet shown that there is a better way of doing this than the current system, sadly, without expending a lot more focused resource than people are politically willing to exert.

> I think it's more useful to assume that they aren't inherently slackers and diagnose and fix the problems in the system to improve the experience for the students and the outcome for society, overall.

The problem isn't that students don't want an education--the problem is that there is almost always something right now (sports, guys/girls, video games, Facebook/Snapchat/Line) that they want more.

This is what a school is fighting against. Good luck.
You can see my reply to the author's response, I think my reasoning is mostly explained there, but you have a good point about the follow up questions, except I would say that's exactly where one could stop answering questions and say it might affect litigation.

In my response I talk to the varying extent one can cooperate, ranging from doing the bare minimum required by law, to doing the bare minimum required when dealing with human beings less infallible than the written law. If there had indeed been a follow up question which could affect litigation, saying so would be a great way to end the line of questioning (and I actually do have a hard time seeing why the average TSA employee would say much more as soon as you said it was a redacted version). I imagine an exchange like:

Why do you have this document we're not supposed to share

Mine are a redacted version

Then what more? Maybe "Why do you have that"? (it's redacted so I don't think they'd even bother to ask), and you could answer "They're related to some litigation I'm involved in but I can't elaborate". It only gets harder to imagine the exchange going after that. But skipping that first explanation that it's redacted is legal, but also opens a rabbit hole of explanations for the agent who thinks someone has accidentally released confidential material to this person.

And as to why he was ordered of the plane, I imagine it's a lag in communication. Someone (or a chain of people) on and off-site made the decision to delve further after a note was made by the TSA agents, which had already let him go. And they wouldn't speak about a possible leak of classified documents on a plane. It's not hard to imagine if the flight had taken off this would have played out at his destination.
From the article:

>The rotation around an optical vortex does not concern the direction of the oscillating electric field (polarization), but rather its phase [1]. For example, the maximum of the field might initially be located just above the central axis of a light beam, and then a short time later it’s to the right of the axis, then below. This rotating phase gives the light an orbital angular momentum that can cause a charged particle within the beam to rotate.

So no matter or energy is traveling or transmitting faster than light; a property of the system can be observed to change location faster than the speed of light half of the time. Properties of an object can _change_ at a rate faster than light could propagate in a vacuum, as long as they don't carry information.

Imagine you are shining an incredibly powerful flashlight at the dark surface of the moon. You cover the light with your hand, and then uncover it again. An observer could record the edge of the shadow moving faster than light, but this doesn't mean any physical laws have been broken. No information, energy, or mass has moved faster than light.
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Voting is a state issue, not a federal one. So, some states support and encourage voting by mail, some don't.
Is there any advantage in practice to using these loosely defined types (char, short, int, long) vs their precise counterparts?
Sweden here:

We always have the election on a Sunday to maximize number of voters.

Also, voting can of course be posted ahead, and voting can be delegated to an ombudsman if you are unable to attend physically at a voting station.

We don't allow voting through any electronic devices, nor voting over the internet.

All votes are placed using anonymous envelopes. This way no one can trace who you vote for, while still securing that only one vote are placed per person (by authentication at entry at voting station, and manually checked of in a list). All vote counting is manual.

And we don't have a requirement for registration for voters. Voters are registered automatically, based on if you are allowed to vote (citizenship etc) or not.

I would not call a country a democracy if they don't make it easy for everyone to participate in the election.
Having the voting take place when most people are working, or require them to register ahead for voting is not how a democracy works.
Part of the reason your country (and my country) has such strong political division comes from the stereotyping of voters. When you have these stereotypes in play not only do you limit your own understanding of different groups, you also encourage them to vote based on what the prevailing attitudes of their social circles happen to be. I see this all of the time, people voting based on making a statement of solidarity with the people they consider their peers (and this applies across the whole political spectrum).

If you want a more productive political debate in your country, it doesn't help to pigeonhole people before you've got the chance to know them.
Yes, this was a FTL proof of concept that was meant to show how worthless screenshots are as evidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12466122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459335
Here is a directory of National Conservation Lands maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/nlcs.html (I didn't find a way to search by features, like presence of ruins).

Edit: I found another page with a helpful written overview of the National Conservation Lands http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/NLCS.html
Speed test of common serializers on python 2.7.2 (from pickle to msgpack)
Since there's no link at the of Part 5 to part 6:

Part 6 : https://bothsidesofthetable.com/sorry-guys-it-s-the-size-of-...

Part 6cont : https://bothsidesofthetable.com/pitfalls-in-market-sizing-pa...

Part 7? : https://bothsidesofthetable.com/pitching-a-vc-dealing-with-c...

... and then the numbering / search functionality seems to hit a dead-end. Pointers welcome...
One of our history systems did that, but it doesn't work with the Office 2012.

There is an XML format that worked with the pre-OOXML versions of Office and should continue to work with moderns versions as well. Plus it's a drastically simpler file format than the complex zipped XML-cluster of files that describe XLSX documents.
Don't respond purely with sarcasm. It adds little value to people that don't already agree with your position 100%.
Although you are obviously trolling, I do feel compelled to point out that the factory farming / importation / lack of freshness / horse-meat type scandals in the US or UK food industries are unimpressive, and that as China has a larger population a greater number of isolated incidents would be expected.
BLM website - http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html
Forgiveness also allows you to let go of the hurt. If you hold on to the anger it feels like you're still being wronged but if you can find a way to forgive ( easier said than done ) it ends the matter.

People don't often deserve to be forgiven but the victim deserves to move on and through some weird irony of human psychology that often requires forgiving someone who has no right to be forgiven.
All things aside who are the candidates? The joke that Hillary and Trump are seriously being candidates got old fast.
Runs like Puppy (copies image to ram so very fast UI and logs in as root user) which is why I imagine the author is explaining that although it shares the puppy linux approach to things, it uses Debian native package management.

Networking does not appear to use the network manager, wpasupplicant is installed. There is a tray icon for managing network configurations (right-click) but it did nothing at all until I dropped into terminal and ran 'ifconfig wwlan0 up'. Then it attempted to scan for network but found none. Running lsmod suggests that the iwlwifi modules are loaded. I will have to actually read the documentation/google to work out what to do to get wifi working. It might be a firmware thing, so I'll try it on an old Thinkpad that has an atheros wifi card.

Looks nice with good font rendition &c. No office suite at all. I suspect that this is aimed at older desktops for music/browsing &c.

Food for thought: if planning a small live image like this, spend a lot of time and testing making sure that wifi will work in a logical way with graphical UI straight out of the box. Even for broadcom/intel &c adaptors unless no-proprietary-wifi is part of the deal.

Edit: as I thought, wifi works with a wifi adaptor that does not require firmware blob. Posting from within DebianDog butt using elinks because dillo can't cope with hn log-in
Somehow related to this article, I recommend reading the interesting SF novel "Depth" by Lev Ac Rosen (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Depth-Lev-AC-Rosen-ebook/dp/B00XGXA...).

The novel takes place in a future where New York is underwater and life is now arranged on the skyscrapers that are high enough to step outside. The isolation of the city, culturally and physically from the mainland affected a lot the city and this aspect is highly detailed in the novel.
Let's not get too excited by comparisons to the non-inclusion of Flash on iOS.

Back then, a closed, proprietary and bloated system was phased out in favour of openness and interoperability -- because it worked well for Apple.

In this case it's the opposite; the open and interoperable standard is on its way out. Apple is really just doing what they think makes good business sense for them, there isn't some noble aim here.
You're right, they are, investing time - which you can't make back if things go wrong.

It's like going out for a meal: our family can afford to eat out maybe once in 2 months. That makes the possibility of getting rubbish food, and rubbish service more worrying than if you can just go somewhere else the next night.

With more time (and more opportunity) you can sample more widely with less risk of wasting a large proportion of that time.
Back in 2005 ish I used to have access to both but still import to Writer to clean up after three other editors who didn't get (or care maybe) about styles, the export to Word again because Writer was missing some page numbering feature or something.
I agree, you /should/ be required to vote. It is fulfillment of your civic duty.

Though you should be free to submit a ballot of as little as a single mark (the mark being that you abstain from all contests on the ballot). If you vote in any single one you'd need to complete the rest, to ensure you ballot cannot be tampered with later.
What is the significance of this? Tracking who has what money?
As someone with lots of experience reading Microsoft documents I disagree, in my opinion Microsoft was the worst company designing formats because:

1-Their programmers were terrible designers. Companies like Apple design first, program later. With Microsoft it was the opposite. I don't care how good a mechanic(programmer) you are if you are bad engineer(designer) and can't see the forest out of the tree.

2-They were experts breaking formats ON PURPOSE, it is proven that Microsoft actually introduced bugs to break compatibility on things like DOS(to combat competitors like DR DOS)or AVI format so people were forced to use their products.

3-There were too much programmers(most of them not so good). While Netscape put to work 20-40 people, Microsoft employed 1.000 to destroy competition with Explorer. When mission was accomplished and competition was destroyed(and nobody dare to enter the given marketplace anymore) all this people moved to other projects like Office.

4-Perversive incentives. The social promotion under Ballmer incentived people to create lots of bad code fast instead of little good code.
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> I doubt that they would have been able to survive when exposed from 0 to x1000

Did they control for this? I assume they did though :)
Given the circumstances, I think most adults could suck it up and be pleasant to each other after a relationship ended. The modern day table flip "I never want to see you again" is a luxury that comes with living in cities.

I think the bigger problem would be accidentally getting pregnant. That could be fatal for the mother, and caring for a baby on Mars, not to mention bringing it home, could prove impossible.
"No one can expect that these people will just stop doing it"

Why not? I'm pretty sure many people live ok without sex.