skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a member since 2006 as I was Oink. It’s sad, but fuck them. I had an archive of thousands of 12" singles, of which I uploaded hundreds of them at lossless quality. I spent thousands of hours restoring them, having the vinyl vacuum cleaned, removing the clicks and pops. Then they changed the file naming rules and anyone who downloaded my music could trump me and have my torrents deleted by renaming the files and uploading them as theirs. As if I didn’t spend enough time making this music available to the world. Long lost vinyl, such as Michael Jackson, Kelly Marie, Chaka Khan, etc. After they changed the rules, I never uploaded another song. When I told them of this, I was banned from commenting on anything.

Fuck you What.cd.
> but he's let the states experiment with legalization

Not really. Under Obama the federal government raided hundreds (if not thousands) of legal dispensaries and grow operations, and spent hundreds of millions in doing so.
Medical device programming may be different, but medical management systems like this are bog standard and don't have the same regulation. A lot of doctors offices and hospitals are running access and/or VB6 apps.
Ask HN: Any expertise on setting up multiple platform test envionments?
Hi,

I've built an app that connects into multiple ecommerce platforms like magento, woocommerce, shopify etc and need to set up a server that can host all these environments for testing within. I have little experience in this area and was wondering if anyone could give their expertise and advice towards this.

Ideally I will have a site that provides a list of all the test environments I have and their versions etc and have the ability to add and remove test environments. At the moment thinking this part will be a custom application.

Not really sure how to approach this, few misconceptions for me.

- Should each ecommerce platform be ran on it's own server, or is it possible to run them all on one.

- If they are all ran on one server, would they each just be ran under a different url route?

- Is it possible to run these ecommerce platforms through a virtual image, that would allow for a clean environment upon starting each one?

After writing this, I'm imagining I could have a simple nodeJs application that can store each test environments IP and path, and then just index them all. Is it the best way to do this?
No one's denying that orphaned projects are a problem, but if deactivating an e-mail has downstream effects like this, you'd expect a warning or something before permitting account deactivation.
Geodesic domes are still a great technology. What went wrong was that the "natural materials" people got into them. Fuller wanted to build dome components in factories, where you could make aluminum and Fiberglas parts to tight tolerances. The hippie types tried to use "natural materials", such as wood and shingles. Their domes leaked.
Abandoned steel, aluminum, and Fiberglas domes of the 1950s Distant Early Warning line are still in good shape.
What's worse, is with every discovery and every leak, if nothing is done, it just emboldens the perpetrators.

Binney came out and told everyone what's was happening. Nothing happened. Snowden appeared, there was a lot of talk but not much has been done. Did Obama put an end to it? No.

They just implemented a buddy-system (like "no-lone" zones in nuclear silos) to prevent rogue whistleblowers from doing what he did. But besides that that, they of course learned, people in large agree with it and tacitly approved, so might as well double down on surveillance.
I've used GCE for production servers in the past and was really pleased with almost every aspect. I have really little "serious" experience with AWS, and I'd say it's much more.. um, arcane?

I'm genuinly curious, what kind of project/situation would be to actually prefer AWS to GCE (aside from "we're already on AWS" or "I know AWS and don't know GCE")?
Surge of data from cars could be big moneymaker. Automakers poised to milk it?
What It's Really Like to Do Business in China
In that case, check this out - the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook. It's an impressive beast (only tangentially software-related though).

http://www.acq.osd.mil/se/docs/NASA-SP-2007-6105-Rev-1-Final...
The results would be a great deal clearer if they could test it in a high vacuum at 2 to 4 kW. Measuring 3-4 millinewtons reliably is a lot easier to believe than a newton force equivalent to a tiny fraction of 1 grain of rice.
They talked about moving to Kubernetes, so the AWS vs GCP part of this is much easier to deal with.
That was part of the premise of the Three Body Problem (slight spoilers ahead): technology advances so quickly on a universal timeline, that in the time span between detecting an alien civilization and being able to do anything about it (assuming no FTL communication/travel), the detected civilization will have advanced to the point of being an existential threat to your own civilization, so the only logical response to detecting another civilization is to immediately destroy it if possible, or remain hidden otherwise. This is his answer to the Fermi paradox. I thought it was quite clever.
Thanks so much for posting!

This has inspired me to take my learning and future work far more seriously (along with reading war of art last night)

from now on my goal is to be an engineer and a businesswoman first and foremost, with the goal of being able to engineer quality products and systems for myself and freelance clients

from here im going to go through the odin project and focus on being well grounded in the fundamental principles and techs - no longer just a hobby and now i know to be at the top i will need a lot of grueling work

good thing i like react and js!

thx again :)

i think rails to start followed by some other stacks to see what best universal practices are
I agree, but until then I'm guessing they are going to play it safe.

That being said, looking at that portion of the video again it looks like this may have just been the system having trouble figuring out if the people were in the road until it was closer.
> "Fuller told The New Yorker in 1966. Appealing to people to remedy their behaviour was a folly, because they’d simply never do it. Far wiser, Fuller thought, to build technology that circumvents the flaws in human behaviour – that is, ‘to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions’. Instead of human-led design, he sought design-led humans"

You have to applaud Fuller for this insight which many similarly brilliant minds don't seem to grasp. Perhaps he can be included in this group;

1) Geodesic domes are a mathematically brilliant design but hopelessly impractical for many structures. Try fitting furniture in a curved house and dealing with a shape that either causes you to bump your head when you get to the edges or is so high in the center that you have an unnecessary volume to heat/cool.

2) The dymaxion car was similarly brilliant but completely missed the real reason that people buy cars: as a status symbol that looks cool, which the dymaxion did not.

The guy was a genius in my opinion but the failure of his incredible ideas to take off on a large scale shows that perhaps they appeal to my mind more for their idealism than practicality.

NOTE: Am currently reading Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth
This "data on VHS" system was popular in the former USSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
What's obfuscated about the second form? It's my personal preference, so I'm sure there's some personal bias there, but one doesn't seem more or less obfuscated than the other one. They are both equally readable to me, but the second seems more compact without sacrificing readability. I can think of other reasons why someone might prefer the first to the second, but reduced obfuscation isn't one of them.
It has also been claimed that every single person who voted for Trump was actually an extraterrestrial wearing a convincing human suit. "It's been claimed" isn't exactly convincing.

(For anyone who wants a source on that claim, it's me, I'm claiming it here.)
ah, I almost forgot! My gce instances weren't accessible from Hainan. They aren't accessible from Crymea, also.
Alternatively you could consider a functional definition. If you need to consider a group of grains collectively, and they are stacked touching each other, they are a heap.

Likewise, is it a boat if you make it and never plan to put it in the water, but use it as a table? Is it a boat if you lie on a block of foam and paddle?

If you think things have some sort of platonic essence, these concepts are hard. If you think the definition of a thing is the role it fills, this particular problem is easier.
Web Brigades
Dude, you're simply a troll.

> In a nutshell, evolutionary scientists don't want the scientific method to apply to areas where evolution is weak, to avoid discrediting the theory. Remember, if evolution theory is proven to be false, Darwinists (and naturalists) won't have an alternative.

If a Scientific Theory is verified to discredit evolution, then all those Darwinists and Naturalists will have plenty of things to work on. Besides being Nobel Prize worth and exciting because of the possibilities.

I now regret replying to your comment and putting in the work. A shame.
And I read about it on Hacker News. That's two sources.
I also use SmartyStreets - generally very happy with it, and you can do up to 250 lookups per month for free. One thing to watch out for is that SS is meant primarily for mail delivery. There are many addresses in the US that represent real places on a map, but cannot receive USPS mail, and thus will be rejected by SmartyStreets. Our customer base includes a large number of industrial addresses, so that may skew our results, but we find that up to 20% of our legitimate addresses get rejected by the service. You can control how strict the validation will be, up to a point, but beyond that we have to rely on Google as a backup for cleanup and standardization.
Correcting my comment, Google has apparently undercut Microsoft recently.
Here's a great talk that addresses style vs. standards in the context of NASA and space flight software.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/...

He presents a compelling case for why you should use automated tools to check compliance against coding standards (the standards don't do you any good otherwise).

As far as style goes, pipe your code through indent if you have hangups about formatting. That way you can spend your time on issues that are known to be correlated with risk.
"You could shave 0.5% of the US energy needs over a span of 20-30 years"

Did you miss a decimal point? You think that only 3% of the oil is extractable over the next 20 years?
Oh hey, I wrote this. I mean to update the last section at some point, as it gets a lot less coherent; I wanted to publish it right at the 6 month mark or I'd put it off forever.
more interesting information on the russian wikipedia page:

https://goo.gl/f51mer (automatic translation)
I bought this video + plans set and built my first workbench:

https://lostartpress.com/products/the-naked-woodworker

It starts with Mike haggling with some used tool collectors for good deals, and then he teaches how to clean + prepare the tools for work. He then teaches how to build some solid sawhorses, and then a very sturdy workbench. This is all with hand tools. The whole thing was really cheap! Under $400 for me to get all the necessary tools and materials.

My build (before boring dog holes):

https://imgur.com/a/97Xiv
I asked, because I don't really have a clue. Depression has never really been a problem for me.
>The dymaxion car was similarly brilliant but completely missed the real reason that people buy cars: as a status symbol that looks cool, which the dymaxion did not.

The dymaxion was considered cool. But it was going to be expensive, and it earned a reputation as a death trap after a fatal crash at a marketing event.
California drought though is mainly caused by the lack of snow in the Sierras which isn't replenishing underground aquifers as it should. That lack of snow is directly correlated with global warming :(
Quick, someone call CNN.
> to include CSS from a third-party source for user customization, and ended up with XSS security holes.

So custom components cannot be included from third party sources? If they can then this is exactly the same problem.

And in general idea of including third-party CSS from source you cannot control is even worse. Same thing is about JS.

That `behavior` thing can use 'same origin' rule as we have now for any other JS code.

The behavior that defines name of a function (in any language) that can setup the element in various ways: e.g. it can be used with React, Angular, Vue, you name it.
Steve Bannon Joined a FB Group That Posts Racist Rants and Obama Death Threats
> So what if some of the physics we study is actually not how the universe looked at the start? Could the speed of light have changed because of aliens weaponizing physics in past wars?

Yeah I thought all those stars looked suspicious.

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/Starivo...

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/black-h...

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/physics/astrophysics/The%20m... (starting at page 203, chapter 9)

http://www.xenology.info/Xeno.htm

previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252222

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/seti-megastructures-jason-...
Our universe might just be an alien's Docker container.
The mere existence of some kind of ether wouldn't disprove much, as far as I know. It wouldn't impact relativity any more than a swimming pool.
Internet Governance is a Trap (2014)
This is the most terrifying. If we're part of an experiment then being aware of the experiment might cause it to be shutdown, like patients discovering if they're taking the placebo or not.
Apples new laptop batteries are designed to come in .5 Milliamps UNDER the FAA/TSA limit. Samsung spooked the feds, and this is one result.
Machine Learning: an industry perspective
Let's all pledge to register as Muslim today
Scientists think they might have pinpointed the source of human consciousness
wikileaks was compromised. there is some evodence they have been served a NSL.
I'm curious if you speak from experience, or from the one article, where a customer let ports open, his VM was taken over by hackers, and proceeded to DDOS the world :)
Can you load up a cheap tablet with songs and send that to the caretakers to press play?
My understanding is that the Big Bang model is compatible with an infinite universe.

That's still my understanding after some cursory googling to make sure I didn't totally forget something from college.
Perhaps if you already have tools, a work area, and decent skills you could do this. But speaking as a beginner who had a similar idea not long ago, I realized a workbench required a level of skill I would be unable to achieve without more practice and, well, a workbench. In fairness I do strictly hand tools, so it's it a bit harder and the bench must be much nicer.

If anyone is interested, I ended up just getting this apartment friendly bench for hand tool use. You do have to hold your foot on the leg when planing but it works great for the size/money.

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=66736&cat=1,416...
I mentioned it down-thread, but my favorite part of the trilogy is his answer to the Fermi paradox (minor spoilers ahead): because of the universal limit of light speed, and exponential growth in technology, by the time you see evidence of advanced alien life, chances are they have developed to the point of being an existential threat to your own civilization. So the only logical behavior is to remain hidden and immediately destroy any civilization you detect. I haven't heard anyone propose this particular solution before, so I thought it was quite clever.
Core problem is that video conferencing is inherently an unsatisfying, oddly asymmetrical social presentation. On the phone, users can talk, and be present, yet multitask. On a video conference, you have to present (via acting) a presentation of "present thought", which since most systems show you a real time display of your face, quickly becomes a "mirror exercise" more than a conveyance of information.

It's a poor simulacrum of social interaction, a compromise that satisfies no one.
If you're saying that freedom of speech implicitly and only implicitly existed as a Right of Man before the First Amendment was ratified, that would be mistaken. There was a Bill of Rights passed in the English Parliament after the overthrow of James II. Our Bill of Rights was a descendent of their Bill of Rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689

As for unalienable, we 'aliened' those rights by limiting who they applied to. Whenever you hear States' Rights, that's just a dog whistle translation of aliening some people's rights.
> physicists really don't like non-linearity.

Maybe not pedagogically.

Practically, it's pretty much what keeps the lights on.
Pine Beatle population is partly controlled by how cold of a winter one gets:
"However, unusually hot, dry summers and mild winters throughout the region during the last few years, along with forests filled with mature lodgepole pine, have led to an unprecedented epidemic"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pine_beetle

It's not really about extreme events as defined in the paper you reference ("events that are several standard deviations away from the average of the distribution by which they are measured and described") by their nature very extreme events are rare. So whether California has gotten more or less floods isn't relevant.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/climate-trends-con...

Specifically check out California here:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/state-temps/

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/forests/fire-insects-disturbances/top...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010....
ImgTec are still trying to hire someone to work on open source powervr drivers:

https://careers.imgtec.com/cw/en/job/495752/linux-graphics-d...
I expect a lot of resistance to this idea, no matter it's actual impact on safety, from drivers. I know that driving in narrow lanes makes me nervous, and I feel better driving in wider lanes. If narrower lanes will make driving slightly more unpleasant and stressful for most drivers, they're likely to be opposed to it.
> Left has lost everything because of bullshit of its progressive wing.

I wouldn't call Hillary and her ideology "left". It is more neo-liberalism or corporatism perhaps. There not much "left" in there. If she was "leftist" she would have cared and talked more about people who have no jobs, or about basic income and so on.

Anti-globalisation and anti-NAFTA is a also a leftist cause. It is funny that as soon as Trump picked it up, the neo-liberals distanced themselves from as quickly as possible. For example Chomsky has been harping on for decades about it. It is rather informative to read about it:

https://chomsky.info/secrets03/

(excerpt)

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The day after NAFTA passed, the New York Times had its first article on its expected impact in the New York region. (Its conclusions apply to GATT too.) It was a very upbeat article. They talked about how wonderful NAFTA was going to be [...] there’ll be some losers too: women, Hispanics, other minorities, and semi-skilled workers-in other words, about two-thirds of the work force. But everyone else will do fine. Just as anyone who was paying attention knew, the purpose of NAFTA was to create an even smaller sector of highly privileged people-investors, professionals, managerial classes. (Bear in mind that this is a rich country, so this privileged sector, although smaller, still isn’t tiny.) It will work fine for them, and the general population will suffer.

The prediction for Mexico is exactly the same. The leading financial journal in Mexico, which is very pro-NAFTA, estimated that Mexico would lose about 25% of its manufacturing capacity in the first few years and about 15% of its manufacturing labor force. In addition, cheap US agricultural exports are expected to drive several million people off the land. That’s going to mean a substantial increase in the unemployed workforce in Mexico, which of course will drive down wages.

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Note Chomsky makes a connection there about a predicted flood of immigrants from the South (which happened, so what was a good analysis). I didn't listen much to Trump to know if he ever made that connection.

Bernie is more of a leftist if you wish as well. He was very suspicious of immigration and was a anti-globalist in a way as well. Open borders policy for him was a "Koch brothers" right wing thing. He got quite upset about immigrants there flooding in and talks about "job creation" in US

He says it clearly here:

https://youtu.be/S5vOKKMipSA?t=342

So as the saying from Twin Peaks goes, the owls are not what they seem
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/898/.
I don't really see a huge difference between a spaceborne reactor and the kind that have been in constant use for decades in submarines. We just need a new Admiral Hyman Rickover to make it happen safely and effectively.
Can't help falling in love Cover
Yes it is actually the architectural history of all this that makes it interesting to me as well. It's the hidden landscape within/around/between/under our cities that's quite fascinating. It's also a prescient observation that modern institutions of surveillence must necessarily evolve alongside our basic infrastructure.
Or put another way, why doesn't Intel acquire Nvidia?
Android phones run Linux and most have busybox/toybox installed, which gives you a form of Unix.

The rest of what you want needs a bit of coding but should be possible to do, just need to interface with the RIL.
This is a bad post. Why am I looking at this? Why should I care? Answer those questions first.
Yeah my old man and his brothers cleared a few thousand hectares of mallee scrub using these methods.

He laughs given that they did the clearing to grow wheat when now folks are making jet fuel from mallee trees.

http://www.futurefarmonline.com.au/research/new-woody-crops/...

Also with the posts above mentioning aussie ingenuity I recently found our old farm sale video, over 200 vehicles, many of which were hand built ranging from big tractors to 90+ft seekers. Crazy what they built back then on-site.
Free market is definitely not helping here at the moment. To get Star Trek (sans transporters and warp drive), what we need to do is to make all our existing tech interoperable. Which is exactly the thing businesses are icentivized against. Hence the utter bullshit mobile ecosystem is, not to even start on IoT...
> The Shadow DOM provides style isolation ...

I've proposed once @ www-styles concept of style sets: the @set construct.

Style sets mechanism solves two principal problems of CSS:

1. They allow to define local and independent style systems for elements in the same DOM tree.

2. Style sets allow to reduce computational complexity of style resolution. In classic CSS all style rules that used by the document are placed in the single ordered table. Task of finding list of matching selectors for the element has computational complexity near O(n), where n is a number of rules in the table. And style resolution of the whole DOM tree is O(n * m * d) task. Where m is a number of DOM elements and d is an average depth of the tree. Style sets allow to reduce significantly n multiplier in this formula.

http://sciter.com/css-extensions-in-h-smile-engine-part-i-st...

> to provide a lower-level API ...

I haven't seen any requests from framework/platform developers.

In contrary, the feature to call particular function when particular element appears in the DOM was actual from the time of first framework appearance. People were trying to solve it with DOM mutation events but they did not go through - too expensive, etc.
Related, it's funny how the only people who can make IoT actually interoperate is the evil people turning them into DDoS botnets...