skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is nothing but speculation"

Wasn't there some quote which went something like: "A good scientist gives the right answers. A great scientist asks the right questions."
The Infinite Drum Machine
I hadn't heard of that. I guess it's buckthorn, oak brush, and similarly evil stuff instead. Bring your machete...
I don't know where this is coming from; I've been in MA for a long time and never any road obstacles like the above. Now having said that driving backroads is not easy to do fast simply because they are windy and narrow.

I guess if you compare to someplace like Arizona where if you spin out you just end up in sand instead of hitting a tree, sure, but why single out MA instead of just anyplace with trees? :)
This security camera was infected by malware 98 seconds after it was plugged in
(Sarcasm)If everyone waited until they're married, and remained monogamous, we'd stop the spread without needing any drugs!(/sarcasm)

Of course this is not realistic. People like sex, novelty, and having sex with different partners!
All this is over-engineered IMO.

It is just enough to add support of behavior property to CSS:

my-toggler {
display:block;
behavior: MyToggler url(my-components.js);
}

As soon as browser will see <my-toggler /> in markup it will call function MyToggler() with 'this' set to the element in file my-components.js. That's what I did in my Sciter[1]. It was proven as quite useful and easily understandable yet implementable in 100 lines or so of native code.

The value of shadow DOM is also quite doubtful to be honest. It is shadowed from whom and for what purpose? User don't care about DOM structure ...
Programmers? They are OK with that.

[1] http://sciter.com
Khloe Kardashian – How She Did to Get That Body
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/ is a great place to visit if you have any questions, or just want to see some amazing craftsmanship.
How a Dead Millionaire Convinced Women to Have as Many Babies as Possible
Your example has many serious limitations:

(1) It doesn't let you have multiple progress bars that all advance at their own rate.

(2) It doesn't work at all for custom-progress-bar elements added dynamically to the document after the timers for the first progress bar finish.

(3) It makes the children of <custom-progress-bar> actually appear in the DOM, which means that code generically walking the DOM will see them and might mess them up.

The basic thing that the combo of Shadow DOM + Custom Elements provides is encapsulation. You can make standalone elements that operate themselves, work just like normal elements, handle attributes and children, and start by themselves. Anything done using encapsulation can be done without encapsulation, in a sense. What encapsulation provides is better organization for your program, and more elegant and understandable code at the point of use.
No, that is not correct. Direct Connect is a superset of functionality to Cloud Interconnect. Specifically, RFC 1918 networks over BGP on physical links are missing from Cloud Interconnect. Google engineers have a plan for this functionality and a code name. No date estimate has been made available (at least to us).
Could you give an example of something that is completely outside control, that we need to just accept?
As a longtime Homestuck fan, I approve of this review.

> So, do I recommend Homestuck? Should you drop everything and start reading it?

> You can’t. Homestuck is over, and I mean over, not just that it isn’t updating. “Homestuck,” the masterpiece, was the event, the community, the shifting pace of updates, the constant chatter between fandom and author. Homestuck is done. If you missed it, you missed it. It may still be worth reading the comic, but it won’t be Homestuck.

Yeah. You'll never watch Cascade on release day along with a million other people. I did, and it was insane.

(Though that problem is not unique to Homestuck. If you want to become a Beatles fan today, you're just as out of luck.)

IMO the best Homestuck-inspired works are Undertale (game), The Northern Caves (prose, finished) and Prequel (webcomic, ongoing). Check them out, you won't regret it.
Not to undermine their intentions but do these countries have oil and coal to begin with? Everyone is going to play their economic advantage and they will be the biggest losers in global warming.

I say this as someone who believes in renewable energy and should invest in it.

I am sure as hell trump would see it this way.
The End of Space and Time? – Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf (2012) [video]
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Look at Terraform. With the right infrastructure tooling, it's not hard to move at all.

Look at Ansible (or Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.) With the right configuration management tooling, it's much, much easier to migrate services.
The evidence here doesn't seem that strong -- just manuals that hint that "10-foot lanes are as okay as 12-foot lanes" and the odd (non-randomized or large scale) study here and there.

I'm also curious whether a good part of the author's conclusion is driven by his like of bicycles and pedestrians. I live in a city, and almost exclusively walk and bike, so I'd be on his side. But a key part of his argument seems to rest on it potentially being able to free up more bike lanes, about it being faster for pedestrians to cross the street.

If part of the motivation is that towns need to be more pedestrian and cyclist friendly (potentially at the cost of cars) that's fine, though I would appreciate it being explicitly pointed out. Right now it's a bit confounded.
> It seems silly for a higher being/entity to create a central point of failure and "poor design" principals.

Perhaps, but my thinking is that such a design choice could have a significant advantage we haven't noticed yet.

> Scientific Theory means that it was well tested via the Scientific Method that is established to cast doubt

This is a central issue I have with evolutionary science in general, and neo-Dawrinism in paricular. It has become somewhat of a "cult" within the scientific community. No single evolutionary biologist wants to risk his/her career attacking a particular aspect of evolution, which is partially why ID theorists are doing most of the attacking. Another problem is that evolutionists want you to present an alternative if you do end up attacking the theory. The argument I've seen is "don't attack if you can't come up with an alternative!". But if the theory is flawed in the first place and isn't able to explain a number of important issues, why should your theory be accepted as truth?

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.
When the super-conducting version work it will change the world.
Very lucid writing style. I remember coming across a similar article for Reed-Solomon, but can't find it at the moment.
You're implying that slippery, curvy roads are safer?
> [Patrick O'Brien] was a genre writer.

He is known for much more than his historical novels, including translations and biographies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian#Bibliography
> I guess I'm just sad that the JavaScript+HTML community have been taken over by people who don't really seem to like JavaScript+HTML much.

Why? Why do you care so much about a particular technology? 'Liking Javascript' is such a useless distraction - instead, spend time building great products with the best tools available. Javascript is just an implementation detail of what you're building.

I choose things like React, Webpack, CSS Modules and the rest because they make it easy to quickly build non-trivial projects with a team of people. We were able to build a better product quicker because of these technologies. If something else comes around that's 'normal regular javascript' (whatever that actually means) that lets us develop just as fluently, I'll happily use that.

At the end of the day, I'm here to build products. Who cares if it uses 'real' Javascript or not.
> You can create reusable UI widgets that are usable without the user knowing how they were written with an element like
> <div class="FrameworkName_imageCarousel" ...> also, and your
> client library handles FrameworkName_imageCarousel without you needing to know how that is done.

With all frameworks I know of, this won't work for elements dynamically added to the DOM after the start of your application. Not only document.createElement, but even if you insert chunks of markup using innerHTML or the like.

Sometimes there is a framework-specific call to do the right thing, but then you're back to needing to know how an element is implemented.

For Custom Elements, it really is as simple as just inserting them. You don't have to run any script code to make them do what they do.
Easy to build workbench, Mattias' own tutorial
http://woodgears.ca/workbench/build.html

Workbenches
https://www.reddit.com/r/Workbenches/

Also make sure to check out the Woodworking subreddit. Lots of great projects and comments.

Woodworking: all things made from trees.
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/
Ask HN: What is your favorite book on English grammar?
It's dated. Uses references to Hadoop 1.2 documentation. Hadoop is at 2.7 currently with 2.8 and 3.0 coming soon.

In particular it refers to slots. YARN no longer use slots.

No mention of Tez, Storm or Spark?
Perhaps the AI also needs to be able to perceive the motivations of the humans ie read body language. If the joggers suddenly turned their heads to the left and twisted their bodies etc, then that would to a greater degree warrant the extreme caution. There's a lot of work cut out for the machine learning engineers.
> IoT and Wearables mean nothing to Intel, there is not enough money there

Wearables maybe, as the market is relatively small as form factor-defined markets go, but I wouldn't be so quick to write off IoT, which describes a business model change more than a certain form factor or set of devices.

I listened to Murthy Renduchintala, President of the Intel IoTG group, speak at GE Minds+Machines earlier this week. He stressed FPGAs (acquisition of Altera) as well as SDN/NFV as key areas of interest for Intel going forward.
Yet another wonderful machine killed by the wintel standard...

I wonder if MESS cam emulate it and if someone, somewhere, preserved enough of HeliOS to explore it.

Edit: it looks like someone did http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/helios.htm
Very true. I observed that as well. Another example if FBI building in DC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building#/medi...

It looks ugly and menacing in the pictures, it is even more so walking next to it.
Marriage is more than property rights. We have deeds for that. I list the principle reasons for marriage, including devising property.

The state does limit marriage, in part for procreation. For instance, the limits on the degree of consanguinity are to prevent birth defects. There are also age restrictions, which relate to the ability to give birth. So, in a sense, it is tied to procreation.
Is there any way to auto-scan/recognize the shared (through the Share button) QR code from the phone? Right now the receivers have to check the QR code on the desktop so they can scan it with their phones.
> I was asked what my technique is during a run, do I concentrate on pain or ignore it.

There is a great story that I took a liking to, it centers around the idea that "this too shall pass"[0]. It resonated with me because regardless of how (un)happy you are, it shall pass, a new day will begin. The current state is simply current, it does not resonate over a span of a week, or month, year, decade, etc. Our current state should be approached in a stateless manner as to refrain being too high or too low.

In that frame of reference, all success/failure is part of the journey and doesn't defy ourselves.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
Past attempts at component models for the web have used CSS as the hook instead of a script call. For example, Mozilla's XBL and Microsoft's HTC. This way of doing it is a security hazard because it makes CSS into active code instead of just passive styling. Many sites had problems where they were willing to include CSS from a third-party source for user customization, and ended up with XSS security holes.

If you do it carefully and get all the details right, you end up with something like Custom Elements and Shadow DOM, both of which are ultimately not that complicated.
NYC vs. Bay Area vs. Miami, Pros and Cons
I'm reading a lot of comment from people complaining that this article is wrong and we shouldn't make roads less safe.

Question: what are you talking about? A 10-foot road is wide enough for a car or truck to drive safely at urban speed limits. The maximum vehicle width under Federal law is 102 inches, or 8 feet and a half. And this is for trucks. Cars are around 80 inches. This means over a foot per side for cars and more than half a foot for trucks. If it is not enough for you at city speeds, please give up your driver license, you are not good, and you shouldn't drive.

Yes, I agree, I don't want to drive 50 miles an hour next to a truck on a 10-foot wide lane, but that's not a city or a suburban speed, that's highway speed. On the opposite, no problem at driving at 15 or even 25 MPH on a 10 feet lane. Yes, probably I need to give up texting and driving, and I need to be focused on the road. Guess what: I need to do it anyway.

Honestly speaking, I have enough of our politicians of disregarding scientific studies and expert analysis, but this is somewhat accepted. But a community like Hacker News should have the smartest people, not the dumbest ones that fail to understand reality.
"civil" glonass is probably affected in the same way, I think, but I don't really know. They use some 3rd party (chinise?) gps/glonass jammer which shows that signal is coming from one of international airports (VKO in case of kremlin jamming), which are already a no fly zone for most civil drones
Agree. It takes an act of congress to get through to an actual AWS engineer. AWS status site is a joke with how degraded a service needs to be to register a change: https://status.aws.amazon.com/.
Does anyone know how much of Google Cloud works inside of China? So, would my webapp be accessible from the PRC? And what about services that come from a Google API such as voice-to-text or translation, managed database and so on?
> Yes, I asserting very minority view in physics, but I'm able to back it with video of real experiment. It is not a hand waving.

I think you may be rather confused about that video. I've watched what I think is the same video along with many other videos by the same experimenters (presented by the experimenters themselves!).

The waves in the water are not pilot waves. They kind-of-sort-of look like them. With one droplet, you get approximately the behavior that the pilot wave equation would predict, but the interesting bits are missing. If you observe the droplet twice (which you do in the video -- each frame is quite literally an observation), you get behavior that is completely inconsistent with an actual double-slit-experiment particle. If you add a second particle, the whole analogy breaks down: the pilot wave for two 2D particles is a function of five variables (time, x1, y1, x2, and y2), but the water wave is still just a function of three variables (time, x, and y).

But much more importantly, that video is a video of a bouncing water droplet and some surface waves. The droplet is a macroscopic droplet of water, and the waves are waves in a puddle of water. They obey the laws of fluid mechanics. If you grab the droplet while it's bouncing, it'll be gone and the water will still have waves. If you heat it up, it'll boil. If you turn the experiment upside down, everything will fall out and get things wet. Saying that the video proves that pilot waves exist is like saying that the experiments that play with "acoustic black holes" prove that black holes exist.
How Tech Usurped the Word “Empathy”
I couldn't find anything on how much RAM it has.
Sounds like bro-science to me
No he was right because science makes hypothesis and then predictions. Aliens gives us books and movies.
That is a much better choice of word. Where "indifference" connotes negatively (not caring about something you should care about), "equanimity" connotes very positively (maintaining an even temper and a mind unclouded by instinctual reaction in circumstances where others fall to rage or terror; "keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs").
Something like sandstorm would give you more power over your own data without the burden of running your own services.
> Could the curled up dimensions string theory postulates be actually be another consequence of powerful entities doing wide-scale manipulation of the universe?

So what you are saying is that there is a chance Godlike beings with advanced mastery over physics could exist?
XHTML doesn't give you a way to automatically give behavior and composite structure to a new element. It just gives you a way to put one in your markup without the validator complaining. But it won't do anything by default.
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of all knowledge
Connotations matter, too, though. Indifferent as you may be to them, others do not necessarily share your equanimity.
One of those subtle improvements is honoring a Ctrl-L. I like to be able to clear the screen like that.
No, it's "1 wrong out of 50 events", but elections are only every 4 years.
e: Ignore this, I was mistaken, see downthread.

Eventually, this may be true.

In practice, I believe Sandstorm still requires nontrivial amounts of handholding when updates occur.
It gets a lot more challenging once you outgrow your initial reservations. Or maybe you find that you reserved the wrong sizes. As you add more reservations, it will become something that you are dealing with constantly.

It's terrible.
> All this is over-engineered IMO.

It's complicated in order to provide a lower-level API so that libraries can take advantage of different features and provide more opinionated ways of creating custom elements. Polymer is an example of a library which provides a simpler (but slightly more opinionated) API on top of custom elements.

> The value of shadow DOM is also quite doubtful to be honest. It is shadowed from whom and for what purpose? User don't care about DOM structure ... Programmers? They are OK with that.

The Shadow DOM provides style isolation, which is convenient to developers mixing-and-matching components, and can also be a performance boost as browsers can optimize for the fact that styles don't cross the shadow boundary. It also provides a bit more isolation for when you are writing code to discourage components from reaching into each others' private implementation.
I wonder if there is a good opportunity to fill this in with commercial services based around GNU Health? Billing for example, is very region specific.

Having done CSSD software I can safely say that it should be a stand alone product that could interact with GNU Health, it's way too complicated to just be module.
First of all, I didn't say that you should, I just pointed out that your argument didn't make a whole lot of sense.

But also, the reason why voting by mail is problematic is, as has been mentioned, the potential for pressuring people into voting a certain way, including buying of votes.

Now, you said that this had been studied and it had been found that it's not really been a problem. But that's completely missing the point. You cannot judge the security of a system against attacks simply by looking at how many attacks were successful in the past. A voting system being reliable is most important when shit hits the fan. That it works fine when stakes aren't (perceived to be) all that high isn't really all that surprising, the most easily corrupted voting systems would probably work fine, and it tells you absolutely nothing about how it would hold up under different circumstances.

Also, mind you, objectively giving an accurate result is not the only function that a voting system has in a democracy, equally important is that the public trusts the system and thus the result, and trust erodes really fast under the wrong circumstances, which is when you can consider yourself lucky if you have a voting system where fraud is not just not happening, but where you can demonstrate that it's not happening.

To maybe get an idea of how stuff that's not actually secured is going to be exploited once the incentives are there: In the US, the relevant laws generally don't specify how to divide the country into voting districts. Because nobody thought of that as a problem when writing the law. Nowadays, gerrymandering is a reality. It's obviously undemocratic (I suppose you would agree?), but it's not illegal, and the incentives are there, and so it happens. There is almost nothing that people don't do for power. Trusting that people will be responsible when there is an opportunity to gain power is essentially the recipe for every major disaster humanity has ever created.
Bullshit. If your cars are unable to stop from 50 or 60 mph with a red light then there are 3 possibilities:

1)People driving them should not be allowed to drive them because they are either fucking blind, unable to pay attention, drunk or too stupid

2)Those cars should not have passed the yearly technical evaluation and their registration is not valid

3)The lights themselves are not set up properly or are obscured by something

If you fix all those 3 issues there is no reason not to have higher speed limits on main roads that have only intersections/crossings with lights on them
That sub has a great community. Very friendly, especially toward newbies.
I think the term you're looking for is "satire."

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

>Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
The real mystery is why it always happens to people like White. Smart engineer who gets his PhD in physics at age 43.

How can experimental physicists and research groups who have the decade of more experience avoid these traps?
My alternative is small federal government that leaves a lot more power to states.
In all honesty I would caution against thinking you are going to just slap a bench together over the weekend, especially if you are just now looking for plans. Building a workbench is not the "hello world" of woodworking. If I can be so bold I would suggest you use the weekend to do a little research into different designs, think about your skill and space constraints and what you ultimately want to build.
I wonder how well an equivalent competition would work today?
Combine with some steganography and you can use this method to broadcast data over otherwise normal-looking videos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166332
O GOSH STOP DRUMPF NOW!!

Fascism reeeeeeeeeeeee!!
I bought a fixed string of signal flags for my boat from West Marine for decoration. Invariably, someone will ask what it means. The fun part is leading them on with something ridiculous, like, "Cocktails at 5", or "We're sinking". Otherwise, as a sailor who has thousands of deep water miles sailing in many countries, I have never learned or used the system.