skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really interesting to read the history of Bomber Command.

Max Hastings has a good book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bomber-Command-Pan-Military-Classic...

I mention it because the book talks about the problem they had with targeting, and refinements they made.

It also talks about the change in attitudes about targeting civilians, from being a war crime that must be avoided at the beginning, to being the only thing that could stop the war at the end.
Next cloud looks good, cheers
I think Tim Cook needs to leave. Like Ballmer, he has brought in the money, but at the cost of crippling the future of the company.
> And people wonder why software quality is going downhill.

Quite the opposite! Most of the poor quality is due to excessive complexity, little care for reliability, use of too many libraries and frameworks of questionable quality.
All of this comes from the idea that a developer is paid to write code.

A lot of strong engineers that I met in Amazon and elsewhere would use the minimum amount of code and libraries required and spend as much time reducing complexity and deleting other people code as writing new code.
Why is airline food so bad?
Anyone watched the movie, Salt?
Hopefully though everyone sets the secure flag on important cookies... I wouldn't bet on it, but I suspect it may be more common than HSTS.
Right on. Stanford was lucky that he honored them with their willingness to go study there. I would credit his parents. Maybe.
Bizarrely I wrote a novel last year about this kind of thing happening in the future. If anyone wants to read it I'd love some feedback ;)
I foresee a slight chicken and egg problem here. Registering a domain requires an email address, so it seems that I would need a third-party email address anyway.
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I saw this at one large uk Telco Some one was going for a promotion so they spent a year and a team of 15 people to redevelop an existing perl system into an oracle based one as oracle was the company standard.

one of the markers for promotion was manage a team of x size and a > 1million budget - so they where gaming the system not the best use of the share holders money
Some people call it the "go" pedal :)
I think that USB is not the issue here, because you could simply do the same with a Raspberry Pi 1-3 and the Ethernet port.

That dhcp is running and assigning addresses while the computer is locked, it the issue IMO.
Seems to exist since 2010: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2010/01/20/the-transitive-grace...

Originals version of the license: http://zooko.com/tgppl.html

Seems like the goal was to keep the product under copyright for some time, giving it a opportunity to recover costs or integrated exclusively inside a product for a while, giving some advantage over competitors, but making it a public-license after the period.

Also found this explanation: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf
Here in Norway I use cash only at a loppemarked (literally flea market but generally in support of a charity, the local brass band, or sports club). Even these now have payment terminals more often than not, just not enough to go around so it is still quicker with cash.
The worst is when people buy off the shelf and its close to what they want. Then they ask for changes.
I was surprised to see that you didn't add any Go-specific code ligatures (e.g. for <- like Fira Code provides[1]).

Has there been any thought into providing a variant with some? While I could see why some might be against them I think they're rather fun and can make code more readable.

[1] see for example https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Holding down the clutch pedal when stopped won't harm the clutch, but it may put excess wear on the throwout bearing that allows it to slide back and forth.
I only played with F#, but my day job is writing FP code in Scala, so let me answer this:

> I keep wondering why F# doesn't really take off given a lot of peoples fascination with the functional world

As a matter of fact there aren't that many people interested in FP, mostly due to a lack of education on the matter. Even many people talking about FP are confused about what FP is. And the problem with the FP ecosystem are the abstractions, which tend to be extremely high level and very productive, however these aren't taught in school and the cost of entry is high.

So let me throw this question right back at you: why F# and not Haskell? And note that the answer you give is going to be applicable to C# versus F# and at the same time flawed ;-)

And you see, raising the abstraction is one way humanity has always tackled complexity, however this is essentially about vertical scalability of talent - or in other words enabling the same people to handle more challenging problems by giving them better tools. But the trouble is that this is incompatible with horizontal scalability, which is about growing by hiring more and more people, i.e. building assembly lines.

So going back to your question, the reason for why not FP is actually simple, but hard to swallow: the software industry is growing due to huge demand, as a consequence a majority of people working in this field are beginners and when the industry has a choice between quality and quantity, it will go for quantity at the expense of quality.

On the other hand the good news is that with the proper education, mindset and tools, as a small team, you can still build products that compete with big companies having virtually unlimited resources.
Yeah, it's not completely out of question that it would blip the throttle, but it's not a very common feature either.

I drive an old piece of shit car with a very worn out synchromesh gear (it's a conical brass ring with grooves for friction - that wear out) so it's a bit smoother to blip the throttle a little when downshifting to the smallest gears. I don't heel-toe or left foot brake on the road (I'm proficient in both from simulator and performance driving), I just use my right foot to give a little gas. I rarely need to brake and downshift at the same time unless I'm in heavy traffic, I mostly rely on engine braking controlling speed.

Outside of performance driving or old worn out cars like mine, there's no real need to rev match on normal road cars.

How does the clutch in your car work? In an unsynchronized gearbox, you'd double declutch and blip when the clutch is up and gear is neutral (to rev match gears inside the gearbox). Is this thing just to match the engine and gearbox input shaft speed? Not gears inside the box? Or does it do something similar to double declutch w/ heel-toe?
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so thinking about the attack: would it be feasible for OSes to only allow USB input devices to be attached while the computer is locked? It seems like it should be unnecessary to install usb network devices while the computer is locked.
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If the router you are connected to is a WiFi router, then this device is indeed in a more priviledged position because as a LAN connection it will have precedence over WiFi.
I'm raising an eyebrow at the existence of the article, to be honest - I'm not proposing that suppression of information would be a good thing, rather that perhaps this is being published with a purpose.

There was a case earlier this year involving a pair of brits caught red handed spying in Russia - it made international news for a day, and that was it. Both were repatriated, and the matter didn't go any further in the public eye.

So - what I'm getting at - Russia declined a deal, and this lengthy exposé going into methods and so-forth is the fallout. In the instance earlier this year, Britain and Russia evidently played ball.

So, while it's perfectly valid journalism, I think there's also a bit of "throw 'em to the lions".
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Oh so that's what was happening...

Two days ago my friend and I were driving a rented car and we've noticed that when coasting, the computer said the fuel consumption is 0, but when the friend disengaged the clutch, the fuel consumption actually went up (!) to some value. We've been wondering what's going on, and we actually suspected a software bug in the fuel consumption indicator. Thanks!
> I want range, range, and more range. I could not give a damn about how fast I get to the next stop light or supercharger.

You're not the target audience for their top-of-the-line P100D. It's aimed at people who would otherwise buy Bugatti Veyrons, Ferraris, etc., and range probably doesn't even come up in their decision making process. The Veyron has a range of 50 miles at top speed, for example.
"Nest thermostat at home even controls how warm or cold you should be."

This is creepy as maybe it means they could mess with your sleeping habits!
We've had such a lot of "exciting new technologies that are going to replace email in x years" that I don't believe anything ever will - at least as long as we continue to have computers, keyboards and the Internet... (Although having said that, email is older than the Internet ;-) )
If you rev match properly, the down shift should be just as smooth and quick as a normal up shift.

E.G. you're in fourth gear at 50 MPH, you engage the clutch pedal, shift to third, tap the gas, and release the clutch pedal.
What do you care about now?
>The lasers had to track satellites in adjacent planes of the constellation that were traveling in the opposite direction.

Didn't Iridium get around that by having a single "seam" between adjacent oncoming planes which signals don't pass, but for all other adjacencies using crosslinks between planes?
In my current job I get paid for writing emails, reports and filling out forms. Programming is just something I sneak in when no one's watching.

The company I work for is super successful so there must be something to it.
Never thought about it :) Where did you want to use?
and 4/4ths of a car
Will keep that in mind.
I know how car without a synchro works, the first car I ever drove was a 1950's Land Rover.

Watch the video, it works exactly how Engineering Explained describes, he even explains the benefits.
Can you access Nearline (Google Cloud product) when your google account is suspended?
It's harder for a manufacturer to implement an effective stability control system in a manual. The federal mandate of safety features after the Explorer/Firestone problems included that all cars have stability control and TPS. The tire systems are easy, but stability control usually combines ABS with engine cutoff. In order for engine cutoff to work, the transmission must be engaged. This is also why automatics stay in gear when you're going downhill They call a feature "Downhill Assist" where the car attempts to maintain a stable speed relative to the pressure on the accelerator pedal. Combined with uphill assist, this makes for a more consistent driving experience.
Pivotal Labs is good. I've also heard good things about HappyFunCorp too.
While I think this is the meaningful use case, that also puts a MUCH larger burden of "this needs to be 300% correct" to the project as a likely significant percentage of those legacy applications work BECAUSE of bugs and idiosyncrasies of that specific version of windows.

Whereas the easier target of "emulation", such as with DOSBox and WINE, can get away with a lot more.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12968995
This is so sad to me. Manual transmissions are just more fun, no matter which car you have. I have a 10 year old Subaru Outback and even that (top) heavy PoS gives me joy on a curvy road.

Of course I know that a modern auto is _way_ faster than a human, but I don't care in the slightest. My father in law has a Mercedes C63s and holy shit is it fast, but it would be 10x better with a stick. Spending a ton of money on a Porsche 911 but getting an automatic is baffling to me—unless you actually race it.

Life is too short, find fun where you can. Don't let the robots win.
I was just going to say.

The other new features seem like very welcome additions but the deconstructor seems a bit contrived and a rare use-case which does not directly solve an existing problem (also makes it easy to confuse desctructor/deconstructor for newbies).
A hybrid?
Also for his opponent's lack of integrity (whether real or merely perceived).
Maintainer here. I'd really love some feedback, but even better would be people contributing, especially if you know about Sonos and the way it deals with Services, auth tokens etc.
Electric cars generally do that ;).
Driving a manual in the US has one major benefit: it foils carjackings. Every now and then, someone tries to steal a car only to find he can't drive stick.

Now, though, you basically have three choices if you want a manual: economy cars, sporty cars, or trucks.
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Fastmail killed their Family plan?

Damn. I was going to move to them at the end of this year when my VM (where I currently run my mail) is up for renewal. But if I now need to buy several Standard plans instead, and get several gigabytes of storage I don't need, then that's less appealing.

Runbox looks good. Any other suggested alternatives?
It seems he may be a hybrid: http://franklycurious.com/wp/2012/06/25/bugs-rabbit-or-hare/
Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (“TGPPL”) [pdf]
How does this, in any way, make it better that they do it at all?
Ignoring the dubiousness of the claim, make sure that you log-in to your MS account with your new install to tie that serial to your account so that future activation is just "log-in". I recently reformatted a new laptop (probably paid for Windows in the price of that, but was reasonable) and made sure to do that as I had no serial to reinstall with. Worked like a charm.
So freedom of speech is now only for religious extremists like ISIS, Al-Nusra etc. whos supporters are free to express themselves on twitter.

The more the establishement tries to fight the alt-right, the more free (and valid?) publicity it recieves.

I didn't really believe in the so called "anti-white" agenda, but the more I see these guys getting censored for simply expressing their (somewhat legitimate) concerns and their views while ISIS supporters are free to express their hate towards the general western population, the more I am beginning to accept the fact that there is a clear anti-european sentiment deeply rooted in international politics. In other words: It really does seem like there is an "anti-white" agenda, especially considering how islamist extremists are free to share their decapitation pictures on facebook and twitter while raising concerns for some official stats gets you banned and labelled as racist.

BLM acitivists are free to call for the killing of all "white cis males" on twitter, that is apparently not hate speech at all - Sometimes I just get the feeling that the entire world is FUBAR.
Considering that automotive fault tolerance is one of NXP's core competences, I can guarantee you that there is plenty of secret sauce that you're not privy to in those chips.

That being said, your point is well taken.
already top of front page for hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12972554
Im working on a personal project full-time, a simple paint application to do a kind of pixel art mambo. Your work inspired me to maybe provide some sort of "daily colors by color.farm" suggestion or something like that :)
Imagine those people that have homes fully connected to Amazon and Google, locks etc, Wow!
Have you heard about www.paymoapp.com - they have boards for quite a long time now, also Gantt is in private beta.
The speed is quite good. I am using it for more than 2 years now.
Just got back from another trip to Europe where I encountered the slightly odd European preference for manuals. I can kind of see why, the car culture is quite different from the States -- where most cars are two or three generations beyond the kind of automatics most Europeans associate with the transmission type. The inverse is that most European diesels are two or three generations beyond what most Americans associate with the type.

The cars in Europe seem to be sharply divided between small, efficient feeling manual hatchbacks and powerful autobahn chewing rear wheel drive German luxury/sport sedans that will pass you on the inside lane like you're standing still when you're already going 140kph.

I think because Europeans simply don't see most advanced American, Japanese and Korean cars they simply have no idea what we're getting on about and they have virtually no experience with the state of the art in modern transmissions. Having just spent a few weeks driving around in a manual again, it felt pretty absurd and old timey to be honest.

For example, the absurdly tiny golfcart/hatchback I was touring around in claimed around 17km/l fuel efficiency, I don't think I ever quite hit that, I was more in the 15-16 km/l range. It was so small, I couldn't fit both my luggage and my friends in it, and it struggled to maintain speed on hills with the aircon on.

Coming back home, my very modern, full sized Japanese sedan hits around 19km/l on most daily drives. Plus I can actually put both people and luggage in it at the same time, and it hits highway speeds with absolutely no drama. Most new full-sized cars in the U.S. are getting somewhere around that fuel efficiency, and the cars are closer in size to the autobahn chewers than the econohatches.

I couldn't really find any particular advantage to driving a manual, and I drove it for about 3,000km just on this trip. But there were tons of disadvantages. When I asked my friends why the preference, all I got back where vague statements about "being more in touch with the car" and a bunch of outdated old-wives tales about fuel efficiency.
130km/h is still above much of the speed limits in the US.
I like them but they won't be replacing PragmataPro which has ligature support and works in everything I use, is nicely condensed without feeling cramped and is just beautiful to look at.

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/tiE76 first image is Pragmata second Go font, no contest for me.
There's a few places doing this now.

I've met the CEO of bankstatements.com.au at a trade conference. Currently it's hard to get data feeds from banks - these guys are logging in, scraping bank statements and then providing them as digestable feeds.

Pocketbook is another Australian fintech that was recently acquired that do the same things with credentials.

The banks know they're doing it, it's against terms of service, but seem to turn a blind eye.

POLi seems to have more reputation but I still feel dirty the few times I've been strongarmed into using it.
They also are worth more, and employers don't want to pay for that, and note Apple's leading role in establishing a non-"poaching" conspiracy to keep salaries down. Less pliable as well, more likely to tell an manager something is impossible, one reason H-1Bs are preferred by so many firms.
So Atom just discovered BEM? To be fair, I only just started getting into it too; it is incredibly useful for organizing CSS.
Weird because once you get it running via the hack it runs perfectly fine. I'm running it on a DK2 and the only issue is controller emulation.
It's gaining media coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/google-su...
Slight tangent but my car could fail the test then :) It automatically coasts (yep, engine back to idle and everything) when in it's most economical automatic mode.
And was a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows as late as August[0], although she seems to have been removed from it since[1].

0: http://web.archive.org/web/20160821214900/https://hms.harvar...

1: https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/board-fellows
In my personal experience there seems to be a pretty big difference based on the age. People who are like 26 are much less aggressive about it than people who are 18-22.
I agree with you that humans are prone to lie, and that cultures have developed protocols around that, but we can distinguish here on both degrees and categories of lies. If your daughter became pregnant in school in the 50s, something terribly had gone off socially acceptable script. (It is irrelevant how we view that script today.) All of your examples are specimens of social remedies to deal with these social hot potatoes. But adopting domestic propaganda as a norm is another thing.

Or take the somewhat analogous history of torture in USA. Of course that shit has been going on in this country (and elsewhere) from day one, but it is one thing for individuals or units or even communities to lose it, or do it out of sight, and another thing entirely for the state to officially adopt it as a tool of state craft.
And that's about the range of the tires at top speed as well.
A for acceleration , B for brake. We 'll keep ↑ and ↓ for flying cars
Agreed. I eventually cancelled because it was rare to receive two packages per month, more like one in one month, two in the next, three in the next, none for the month after that and so on. I lost track of how many packages I was supposed to have received vs. how many I did receive, which I'm sure was less than how many I was supposed to receive.

The other issues I had was with the general quality of the candy being shipped seemed to get lower and lower as time went on, somehow the "DIY candy" packs being favored over chocolates or sour candies, and whilst this wasn't much of an issue, the blog posts explaining what you were supposed to receive never seemed to be in line with what was actually delivered. Maybe the posts were posted a bit too early, or too late. The issue being that if you didn't get the package the blog post was talking about, you didn't know if the candy was suitable for vegans, vegetarians, and you had to guess your way through the DIY candy, ultimately resulting in a mess.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12972106 with 78 comments so far.
Also the fibre doesn't go in a straight line. Undersea, it has to route around continents and the polar ice cap, and sometimes underwater features.
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The "German luxury/sport sedans" overtaking you will almost certainly be automatic.
This extreme partisanship is one of the reasons I'm wary of John Oliver. For example, Politifact, despite its biases or subjectivity, has documented examples of practically every major politian making untrue statements. Including the current POTUS.

We need a systemic approach to dealing with lies and untruths of the people who weild power. If you make it partisan, the liar/politican will just block you out, and so will their followers.
Driving well below allowed speed limit is dangerous, especially in high speed and high traffic roads, because a car behind you might be forced to brake, the car behind it brakes harder, next one even more harder creating a chain reaction that might end up in collision when the last driver doesn't have enough time to stop. There's reason why "minimal speed" sign and rule exists.
The official test does not require you to go fast, it is more important to do the proper looks when going on/off the Autobahn and overturning other cars on it.

That being said, my instructor told me to "floor it" once in a driving lessons as well, just to see how it feels and how the car behaves.

[Edit: Grammar]
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Not sure if it helps, but previously I've mentioned the bombing of civilians:

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932493#5934692

2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171303#9171730
No promoted stories, no algorithmic timeline... Just plain old chronology from the people I actually want to follow. Seems like the facebook we want to use is gone, but good luck migrating your social circle.