skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, thanks for that. I'm up and running on my own domain after waiting for the domain name server to transfer from Bluehost where I registered the domain. I did start out doing manual configuration until deciding I might as well use Fastmail's; their DNS config page is rather nicely laid out.

Was very easy in the end, but must admit I had forgotten just about everything I once learned about DNS. As such it was nice to get a little refresher.

EDIT: I would probably have gone for Google Apps / G Suite if not for this article. So, yeah, hope it served Google well to freeze those accounts with no warning.
For clarity, did cruise control produce better or worse mpg figures?
> I could have used awk, but at least my script is more then double as fast as awk.

I find this very hard to believe. Are you sure your awk implementation was okay?
So what if you get to drive an electric car?
Here in Uruguay it's also 99% manual, but I suspect it's because it's cheaper.

An equivalent automatic transmission adds one or two thousand dollars to the car, which is unaffordable to most (for no perceived gain).

We buy lots of Indian-made cars here (mostly Marutis but some Tatas too), the other cheap cars being Chinese.
See CEPA paper: http://cepa.org/reports/winning-the-Information-War .

Quote:

A third element in the Soviet (and now Russian) toolkit is
“active measures” — direct intervention by clandestine means in the politics of another country. Active measures may entail the following:

* Influencing the policies of another government;

* Undermining confidence in its leaders and institutions;

* Disrupting its relations with other nations;

* Discrediting and weakening governmental and nongovernmental opponents.
"Do you have data to back this up?"
Official data (source: https://www.mazdausa.com/siteassets/pdf/features--specs/2016...)

* Mazda 6 2.5L SkyActiv-G MT: 25/37 MPG

* Mazda 6 2.5L SkyActiv-G AT: 26/38 MPG (28/40 MPG in Grand Touring model, not available in MT)

As for the torque converter inefficiency - that is true only for some ancient transmissions. A modern torque converter will waste some energy only during shifting the gears. After synchronization, the torque converter is locked and the connection between the engine and the wheels is mechanical, just as in MT.

"It's well known that accelerating rather quickly to your cruise speed is the optimal strategy for fuel efficiency"

And now - any data to back this up? I don't have hard data, but I have some hard theory. Modern engines have variable valve timing technology which allow them to work in a much more efficient thermodynamic cycle when under light load and low RPMs. When you're not using the full torque of the engine it works in something like an Atkinson or Miller cycle, with high compression ratio and much higher thermodynamic efficiency. A bad thing about Atkinson-like operation (achieved by keeping the inlet valve open longer than normally) is that it reduces the effective capacity and hence power of the engine. So if you press the accelerator pedal fully, the ECU switches the engine to a classical Otto cycle, which is less fuel efficient but gives more power. Hence, if you accelerate fast, your mileage will be worse, not better.

Another issue is that keeping high RPM at low gear (possible with turbocharger running on full pressure) to accelerate fast makes it harder to control burning all the fuel efficiently because there is less time to do that in each cycle. And also the temperature of the cylinders goes quickly up which makes it harder to avoid detonation. So in order to not destroy the engine, the ECU will adapt the injection / spark / valve timings and lambda coefficient to avoid explosive burning of the fuel by decreasing the effective compression-ratio and increasing lambda to decrease the temperature. Lower compression-ratio and higher lambda means lower fuel efficiency.

That's why when I "eco drive", the ECU keeps the gear extremely high, so that the engine works typically in a range 1000-1500 RPM. Now this is quite hard to achieve in practice when driving an MT car, because whenever you want to accelerate faster, you'd have to gear-down by 2 or 3. That's why ATs are better for fuel efficiency.

BTW: I do own 2 cars, one with MT, one with classical hydrokinetic AT, so I have a comparison. I'd really not be able to drive my MT car using such high gears as my AT car can. And also I can't switch gears so fast as an AT can do, even though my AT is not the fastest among all ATs.
But if you're coasting down a hill and not braking, your engine is idling and you're making use of gravity. The engine will be turning over at ~1000rpm instead of 2000rpm in my diesel.

Understandably it is dangerous as you are not in control of the transmission and therefore the wheels, hence the failure in the UK. But I got through some incredibly scarce times by coasting a bit on the commute to work...

With automatics you would need to brake down the hill to stop the car "running away" as it wouldn't engine brake automatically to compensate for gravity's effect.
You sir, are too quick to be offended.

Pop culture has referred to insomnia casually for decades, that horse bolted long ago.
> A simple google search will show you how often SJWs lie about harassment to get attention and further their cause.

This is ridicules. For every esoteric claim you'll find a "source" on the Internet. That doesn't make them true. I want a credible source and accountable evidence, not some ideological alt-right infowar bullshit that I'm sure I can find easily via Google.
You need to tell "Power Overwhelming" to the car
I was living San Francisco when I got a job in Las Vegas. I needed to buy a car to live in Vegas, I never owned a car before then. This is 1998 and I bought a beautiful late eighties standard transmission Toyota pickup. I already had my license for a few year but I really learned to drive with a standard transmission living on a hill in Cole Valley for two weeks. Fun times.
There's the other side of it, which is that SMS delivery is awfully unreliable in many places, and it's a frustrating experience for everyone. We can fire off the SMS, but if it fails to reach you it's an expensive and time consuming support headache for us, and a shitty experience for you.

A Yubikey costs less than a year's FastMail service.

So no, we're not leaving this choice to the customer sorry, SMS sucks for too many reasons to consider adding back.
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obviously it is doable, but that does not mean there aren't better solutions today.
The satellites are on Low Earth Orbit (LEO), so they are much closer to Earth than typical communication satellites. When the distance from ground station is 1000-1500 kilometers up, latency is not a problem. In fact, latency via satellites may be smaller than through fiber as speed of light is greater in vacuum. IIRC in fiber it is something around 0.6c, so a 40 % off from a space-based approach. Also there's probably going to be more switches along a ground-based path than along the satellite-to-satellite route.
Just have to hold your food on the brake?

It's a pain...and depending on the break, it really may become pain.

Usually if I drive my manual private car, I disengage the gear already on the way to the red light. It just rolls. I break, motor turns off. When I want to start, I push the clutch, motor turns on, off you go.

The good thing is, If I want the motor to launch, I can by pushing the clutch slightly. I can also release it and put my legs wherever I want. I can relax.

Holding one leg constantly on the break is just annoying. For you, your leg and the guy behind you who has to look into that bright red light pointlessly shining in his eyes.
What if the bias was created by omitting important facts that, for example, contradict the narrative of the item.

Sports are indeed a good domain for what you're talking about, but that's because they're run by well known rules, it's a highly artificial domain, not directly including the messiness of general human affairs (except in that they're played, refereed, managed etc. by humans).

Business ... well, how many stories about Yahoo! have ignored its negative market net worth when its Alibaba stake is removed, when that was relevant? Not necessarily examples of bias, but....
People can invent points and refutals. Physics, dictates manuals to be more efficient.

Automatic transmission 'learn driver habit' multiplies the above, and yet everybody in this discussion ignores it. CVT comes closer to efficiency of manual, but it's not popular because "the car just doesn't have the power on demand dude".

This subject is a horse beaten to death, and then to a pulp, where people that have sporadic and rather incomplete knowledge, write novels based on what was on the car sale pitch.
I wonder if there will be any performance benefits from removing Shadow DOM in Atom.
Just go to Italy or Argentina (100% manual) and you'll be disabused of that idea VERY quickly... that's the worst behaving traffic you'll ever see.
The type corsets of ML-family languages have been the best design experience I've ever had. My programming intuition has got a lot better by using them; it's much easier to spot that there's a subtle issue with the design if it shows up as friction in the types. Even in something like Python the lessons apply, though I have to devote a lot more attention to it since I can't rely on the compiler to show me. Just my subjective experience of course.
> nor is drivers education a requirement

This is it really. Americans aren't very good at driving. In the UK we are taught that it's one of the most dangerous things you'll do in your life, which it is. In America it's just like learning to walk. You have to do it and it doesn't matter how you learn.

Check out the road safety stats. USA is pretty much an outlier amongst first world countries by most metrics.
Why you think Trump is pro-Russian? Republicans are anti-Russian, AFAIK.
Nobody said that all stories are fake.

But if reasonable skepticism tells us that an unknown percentage might be then then they do not "raise awareness".

It just tells us something between "one side is just virtue-signalling, things are mostly peachy" and "things are actually getting worse".

In other words, I'm not getting much useful information out of random clipped images on facebook. The error bars are way too large.
Hopefully you haven't given up on reading the comments to your post and you see this. Small practical suggestion, no flames.

It might be a very very good idea to lobby to get company policy instated that says "if the system thinks a user has gone rogue/bad, their account gets locked and all, but the data gets kept around until the user says to kill it, or for 6 months."

Because if Google thinks the account has gone bad, that's not the user saying "delete me," so the privacy policy (and associated laws) don't apply! There's nothing stopping you even stashing the data away indefinitely until the user explicitly asks for it to be killed (but that's scary).

At the end of the day though, algorithms fail, and IMO this is a practical edge-case policy glitch in the business architecture that should have been countered for.

Or does "user account gone rogue" have to be interpreted as "delete me" for crazy obscure Reasons™?
The sizes and exact layout and connectivity of various logic blocks depends on text size

I have used many schematic editors and they all handle different font sizes correctly, even letting you choose different fonts and styles within the same document. It is not difficult to figure out how much space a piece of text takes up, and scale the other elements to fit.

If the actual connectivity of the parts in your schematic changes with font size, then I will quite frankly say "you're doing it wrong".
I wonder if there was a point where manual cars were super cheap because they had them but nobody wanted to buy.
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How is more than one g accelleration possible?
There is one g making the friction between the tyre and the road.
> Why is HN not discussing this?

Because we don't care any more
A few of us are working on a open source alternative to Mobile Device Management vendors.

https://github.com/micromdm
https://micromdm.io/community/

Also, Apple has finally released the protocol, which previously was behind the Enterprise Developer portal.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Mi...
Double clutch+ downshift works only for the transmissions that have parts where they enable that usage. Many don't.
I made a comment about the actions people take against what they perceive as oppressive, corrupt, and unjust, and you think I'm doing a witch hunt.

Not a very solid attempt at trolling, plus too long text, 2/10.
The standing joke here is that Germany is a "developing" country when it comes to payment. 10 years ago it would even be difficult to pay with an international credit card.. In Sweden bank transfers are immediate if I use "Swish" and I use cash maybe once a month.
If there were no laws or no enforcement of laws against such things you would certainly sue (especially in the original sense of to plead and make arguments for a point).

The US is a uniquely litigious country so going through the court system in an adversarial sense makes perfect sense. In The UK system you might instead ask a court to determine who or which state organ has responsibility to fix the problem or who has authority to do something. See for instance the judgement on the Brexit case: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/judg....
"a payment notice from my student loan that fastmail absolutely positively refuses to believe is not spam"

That's because it's not spam. I'm pretty sure there's a blog post coming soon about the difference between spam and "email I don't want to receive". If you just don't want to hear from a particular email address, the way to stop it is to put an explicit discard rule for that address in your Rules screen.

Likely changes for next year include making a much easier UI option for "don't show me email from this address again", because that's a fairly common request for situations like this where you have a vexatious sender. I suspect it will be implemented as an addressbook group - the anti-whitelist!
I find liberasurecode more interesting
https://github.com/openstack/liberasurecode

BSD licensed

Pluggable erasure coding backends, and supports Intel's ISA-L

There is also a Python library available https://bitbucket.org/kmgreen2/pyeclib
If they don't want to pay the fees why don't they just develop some open payment protocol any bank and merchant could use? It would also solve the privacy problem with sending customer data to USA (Visa and MasterCard are both american companies).
Watching the APFS overview at this year's event, I was left wondering if it is still behind NTFS in terms of features.

eg. NTFS' index means you can look for a file in milliseconds using a utility like Everything from Void Tools. I know Apple mentioned the planned ability to quickly look up directory sizes without having to iterate through all child nodes, but still there is nothing accessible or equivalent to this NTFS index (please correct me if I am wrong - I would love to put this sort of thing to use on macOS without having to rely on Spotlight being enabled). Spotlight is a bit different as it maintains a large database on top of the filesystem, not in the filesystem.

NTFS' feature list is massive.

And it hasn't meant the complete lockdown of Windows machines, despite the inability to know when updates will be installed.
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> Is spreading a hoax to make a point ("raise awareness") not post-truth too?

It would be if there was a hoax, hence my questions about what the OP actually tried to say. If it meant to say that reports about everyday racism are one huge hoax, I'd like to see some evidence to back that claim.
I have a home server, which is then mirrored to a rented server. Anything critical and entirely irreplaceable goes onto blu-ray disks, because I can't accidentally delete those; though those are kept at home as well, which is not ideal.

So: 2 backups, from which one is off-site and archives, just in case - this should keep you going for a while with self storage.
Not sure why this is upvoted?

He's at the Ecuadorian embassy. We know he gave a statement to, and was questioned by, the Swedish prosecutor there this week (as confirmed by his lawyer).

It'll be interesting to see if the prosecutor now drops the case.
Either I can't draw or it doesn't work very well, or probably both

But I guess I just provided some more training data...
For Fastmail I plug it into the USB port as usual (using an OTG cable). Last I checked that was still the only way to do it specifically for Fastmail, since they do not support NFC. For Lastpass though, using the Yubikey through NFC works great.
I feel we in New Zealand, despite our small size, we actually have modern POS systems. I have been using contactless Visa regularly for at least 3 years now and have switched to Apple Pay recently. It is so popular here, that relatively small number of vendors who do not have contactless, have stick a physical label on the POS device saying "No Paywave" so when the customer goes to wave, they know do swipe/insert instead.

I've heard that we are a test bed for some technologies, given that the sample size is small relative to the world. An example of this was Pokemon Go, which was AFAIK release first here in NZ (and Australia).
Not to mention if you actually look at the number of hate crimes per year they are almost incredibly low. Something like (you can google yourself for exact numbers) 500 hate crimes against Muslims in 2015 (400 in 2002, I think). Considering how many people live in the United States, it's kind of amazing. And hate crimes against Jews are always the highest. But now, just days after the election, we're supposed to believe that the number has tripled, quadrupled, whatever, in just a matter of days. It begs one to really think about the veracity of some of the claims. As if people only suddenly became openly racist. I think the type of person who would call someone a nigger is gonna do it no matter who runs for president or who wins. And I wager a large percentage of the reports are well-meaning (from an SJW perspective) BS.
>I just checked and the total annual rate looks to be around 3.3%

Lowest I've seen is 3% plus base rate. If you typed "poland mortgage rates" into Google, you might be seeing the same infobox as I am, which references a US-based credit union. Taking Millenium Bank as an example, the calculator on their site offers 3.6% - base not included - for 25 years on a house value of 1,000,000zł with a loan of 700,000zł. That seems gigantic to me, and over 25 years it's just painful.

In a way, this kinda illustrates my frustration with the country; you really need to read the fine-print.

> threatening to report the company to UOKiK

Which I severely resent having to resort to; the companies should want to offer great service, and not have to be beaten into it.

Thankfully, since I've been here, I've seen a great increase in the quality of customer service. The Polish people I've met seem to fall into two groups though: either they'll complain; or they'll put up with absolute nonsense for months on end. It's such a shame.

>Could the delay in replying been to language difficulties, or were you communicating with the store in Polish?

Entirely in Polish.

>It comes down to finding reputable retailers. Not once though have I had a situation where something was not shipped. I've made hundreds of purchases online.

Five years ago, I would've said exactly the same thing as you. Then I bought a house, needed an oven, fridge, washing machine etc. etc. etc. all of which - from many different shops - had issues one way or another. I also had the same experience buying tires online recently, despite having thought I'd learned my lesson.

I love being here, and the country and people are great. On a practical level, though, it's not always as rosy as it's sometimes made out to be.

Edit: while I'm ranting, an anecdote: tried to buy a new nice-ish hoover online a few weeks ago. Looked up prices, and all the major players have it - Saturn etc. - and I see a small shop that's an authorized retailer for the brand and figure "Sure, I'd much rather give my money to you than the massive companies" went ahead, and hey presto, I receive every automated order received/packed/sent email from them, only to have the owner contact me a few days later and admitted he had a problem in his supply chain. Fine, these things happen, he promises delivery a week later, and I go with it. Of course, their website still listed the same damned thing in stock and, of course, there was another delay after that week. Cancelled the order, gave my money to Saturn mutter mutter grump grump and had the hoover the very next day. GRRRRR.
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That's damning with faint praise if I ever heard it. (And it's not even true; undefined tends to propagate further, the segfault usually happens closer to the actual error. Not that I'm defending languages that segfault by any means)
...or something for sweeping the floor
I'm sure there was some back and forth between the media and both campaigns. That's what reporters do, they cultivate their sources. A lot of the allegations in the article seem pretty weak. E.g., the campaign 'planted' stories in the NYT. Could it mean they just had info, and gave it to the NYT?

All this "collusion" also didn't stop e.g. the NYT and WaPo to thoroughly report on Clinton's email server.
Anything can be labelled as hate speech from the perspective of someone who doesn't agree. Today it's them getting suspended, tomorrow it might be you.

The social justice movement in the U.S. for example is so successful, because they exploit this. They're failures at life that label everything that makes others more successful than them hateful to get it changed.
Android is the operating system, how did it get rid of a removable battery? SD cards can very well be used with Android still so that was never removed from the OS. what Google did was hardened it so that apps don't have full reign over everything on there compromising security.

People are once again using their phones for a lot more than casually surfing the web and playing games.
Access to someone's phone now can give you access to their entire life hence the tougher security.

I guess Google can't satisfy everyone and there are options for now with Tizen right?
just to add: a heavy clutch can require 50+ pounds of pressure in a sports car or a jeep/truck/etc.

i would be surprised if even 5% of manual-drivers have driven a vehicle like that even once in their life.
He is the chief strategist of the president-elect of the most powerful economy of the world. IMHO, should feature on News at 9.
very simple and very cool. congrats. is there any API to fetch the daily array of colors ? :D
Hyperlens lights a new path to nanofabrication
The limit for contactless payments was raised from £20 to £30 last September (and when first introduced the limit was £10) [0]

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31164806
Wow, the HTML for that page fell through a bit of a can opener there.

Also, I must frankly admit my great curiosity at the fact that your last comment was posted 3.61 years ago. Alt account? Deleted comments?
Folding bike helmet wins James Dyson design award
Two reasons speak for a separate hardware for that purpose:

1: conventional computers have no mechanism to indicate what you expect from a USB device, and you can't ask for confirmation that the user wanted to plug in a keyboard, because the user might need that keyboard to confirm hits intention

2: the USB software stack can be attacked at many layers, including firmware, generic OS code and the OS-chosen driver. That software stack varies depending on OS, motherboard, BIOS version, installed drivers etc. A hardware device can provide protection invariant from those factors