skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Columbia is well within range for a round trip without recharging. Myrtle Beach has a supercharger planned. Florence could be sticky, depending on exactly where you're going and how long you're staying. If you want to make a quick day trip, then you'd need to get Tesla's CHAdeMO adapter and hit a third-party quick charging station in Columbia. If you're staying overnight and are near one of the L2 chargers in Florence, or there's an accessible dryer outlet wherever you're staying, then you could just fill back up overnight.
This is great news, congratulations to the team at Mapillary!

All of this imagery is available immediately for use in OpenStreetMap editors like iD and JOSM. The OpenStreetMap project values "ground truth" observations as the most valuable source of information, and these photos let volunteer mappers easily verify conditions on the ground: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-mapillary-js/

If you haven't mapped with OpenStreetMap yet, give it a try. It just so happens that this week is OSM Geography Awareness Week: http://osmgeoweek.org/ so there might even be a mapping event near you.

However you don't need a special event for an excuse to improve OpenStreetMap - it is a very unique project in that anybody can make meaningful contributions to the project immediately. Whether you realize it or not, you are the foremost expert in the world when it comes to - your part of the world.

I work for Mapbox, maintain OpenStreetMap's in-browser iD editor (I just released v2.0.0 today!), and I've done a fair bit of streetview imagery collection for Mapbox. Ask me anything!
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. We securely wipe the drives, then we sell them to a "used hard drive reseller".
>They don't seem to be involved in any other way but "NASA Eagleworks Laboratories" makes it sound like official NASA organization.

If the NASA name is being used unofficially in such a public manner, wouldn't NASA do something about it?
I have two small kids (2 and 5) and I am travaling a lot with my family around the world. I found out that it can be hard to find a good place to spend some time with kids. So I build a simple tool that helps me to find such places.

https://www.gowithkid.com/

This tool already helped me a lot.
> The "best" depends on the context.

That's very true. For example, if I need to use an image editor, Photoshop is the only thing I would consider. It's inexpensive ($35 for a month subscription), but more importantly it's easy to hire people that know it well. It's also well supported and documented.
Weather Extension - https://weather.timleland.com/

I created a Weather extension using DarkSky.net api. I wanted a quick/accurate way to check the weather without ads. I have a Chrome, Firefox and Opera version. Let me know what you think!

Chrome version is most popular: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/weather/iolcbmjhmp...
I mean, I agree with the premise, but is handing over a locked phone to an untrusted third party any better than an unlocked one?
Doesn't physical access always mean game over?
If they know they're returning the device to you, can't some sort hardware interception, keylogger, or listening device be installed inside the phone?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/2ehk06/why_does_...
779,236 Java Logging Statements, 1,313 GitHub Repos: ERROR, WARN or FATAL?
Ah, I thought it might be an article about the magnets that the Canadians literally dropped on submarines! https://warisboring.com/nato-bombed-soviet-submarines-with-t...
They probably assume if you make as spam, you will also be unresponsive to the email. If you are responsive they can say that overrides the marking as spam action.
Bias can appear both in what facts they decide to cover and in how they cover it. The first part is the one people usually ignore and the easiest to hide. You can just fact check one person on their every sentence and not fact check the opponent on their every sentence. You can also decide to only fact check mostly true or true statements for one person and mostly false or false statements for the other person. You'd be performing proper fact checking most of the time, but you'd be helping one person more than the other.
You could work with it and get the original last line back:

Factorial of
top prime, plus one: factor that!
Q.E.D., bitches!
Do you guys know anything about the average salaries in Germany, especially Berlin?
Thanks. I wish more people would help filter out the bad science (anything >= 1 nanoChopra).
My Twitter account vanished and Twitter is refusing to acknowledge it
I had been having my twitter account(@ratzzak) for more than 8 years. On Saturday evening, twitter had logged me out from my browser and I tried to log back in but I got the "password not matching" error. So I reset my password and the link was sent to my email id. Post reset everything was working fine.

On Sunday, once again I find me logged out. I tried to login and I got the "password not matching" error and I was pretty sure I was typing in the right password. I then wanted to check my twitter public page(https://twitter.com/ratzzak) but it 404'd. That raised an alarm and hence I checked my mail and I had received an email saying

Your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter.
We’ve locked your account @Ratzzak to keep it safe. In order to log back in, you must change your password.
RESET PASSWORD

I thought WTH. I tried to reset the password and this time I stared getting errors like "We couldn't find your account with that information" for both my email id and twitter handle. So I went to their support page and I raised a complain for this thinking that this would solve the problem but instead I got a mail with the following

We’re having trouble locating a Twitter account using the information you’ve provided. Please reply to this email with the following details:

What is the email address you used on the account?
Do you still have access to that email address?
What is the username you used on the account?

This was sent to the same email id using which I created my Twitter account. I replied to all these questions and today I receive this
"Unfortunately, we’re unable to verify you as the account holder and cannot assist you in accessing the account."

TL;DR - Twitter messed up and erased the existence of my account and refusing the acknowledge it.
I disagree. The environmental argument is also solid one all other things being equal. It's not just a "club to wield when it supports what you've already decided is the correct answer". Even if JS only website were okay (which they're not) and as just good as plain HTML ones, the fact that the latter is better for the environment totally counts as an argument. And at least for me, trading a 10kB web page against a 1MB JS is not okay if the JS does not bring a solid positive difference.

Now I agree that in the case we're discussing, the JS actually brings a negative difference as it doesn't enhance anything and makes the website unusable without JS and thus a lot less accessible. So here the environmental factor is secondary.
Ask HN: What do developers do on Friday so they can be productive on Monday?
Expect RHEL.
Actual paper from NASA recently on EmDrive (from Eagle Works)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12906254

Actual paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...
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It's restored in a version further down in the thread.
I am also a little curious about what the manufacturer (or by extension the PRC government) could do with data from a phone in the US? I actually prefer my backdoors to open to Beijing... they aren't likely to share, and they aren't in a position to do anything to me (I would obviously feel differently if I was a Chinese citizen).
That's true of any propulsion system, isn't it?
Game development with Git and Bitbucket
I like to put things together with React. It's surprisingly good for static-ish landing pages because you can shuffle things around quickly once you have a few basic widgets built.

When starting from react-create-app it's also super easy to deploy to gh-pages: npm run deploy

It's really beautiful to work with and getting better every week.
Correct. For example the series (1/n)(1/n+1)(1/n+2)... converges to zero as n-> ∞ (actually the term is "diverges to zero" for products)

You can play around with different series on Wolfram Alpha https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=infinite+product+1%2Fn
Funny how while the PR spiel talks about CAD, the press image is of a stock trader desk.
The intro picture is friends at a birthday party.
There's https://barnacl.es as a HN alternative that's bootstrapper focused. Not that much discussion though.
It doesn't work with much of ES6 at all
Firefox 50 is out today: brings massively improved startup speeds
Intercom launches a new developer program
Fake news is bad, but the issue is overstated. I believe that the real issue is preference falsification on both sides, which is well discussed in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12920496
> One plus the product of all primes is itself prime

One plus the product of the first N primes is not necessarily prime. Consider 2 * 3 * 5 * 7 * 11 * 13 + 1 = 30031 = 59 * 509
I wonder if blockchain technology could fix this paradox?
They don't scroll for me at all, they just reload the page. Firefox on Linux. No errors in the console either.
No - and even if it was, the bias is on the Trump side. As the BF review of 9 major news pages on FB showed:

- MSM: 99.3% mostly true or no factual content

- Left: 80.9% mostly true or no factual content

- Right: 62.3% mostly true or no factual content

This is just points on the number of articles though - there is then a major leverage effect where fake articles have higher virality, meaning the systemic bias on the right is significantly higher than the ~40% of published articles if you count eyeballs on the articles.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-an...
http://rulette.org

This is a deceptively simple rule engine that I built for some side projects but has has since been picked up for many things that the big guns would have been overkill for. Clobbered the first version together in less than 5 days too!
People think a similar thing about game developers, of course neither is true.
Disclaimer: I'm an unabashed fan of Neal Stephenson's writing, to the point where I have read everything he's written more than once. That said...

Unsurprisingly, Neal Stephenson was ahead of the curve here yet again. From The Diamond Age, published in 1995:

> “One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'.”
>> Wait, so your expectations for the movie would be higher if the Rotten Tomatoes score was lower?

Yes. A good movie should be hated by certain reviewers. There are a great many reviewers with radically different tastes than mine. The chances of us all agreeing about a movie are slim. So when I see "100%" I am suspicious.
We do that in rare cases but I think the discipline of sticking to an article's own language is valuable for HN. If an article doesn't contain a substantive enough phrase to serve as its own title, it usually shouldn't be here to begin with.
it's not a homework assignment :)
thanks for the link. I'm looking to parse a simple but unknown configuration file format deduced only from known good examples.
One semi-interesting factoid regarding the 3D part is that Tomb Raider (despite being a flagship title of Playstation later) launched first on Sega Saturn, a console with relatively weak 3D capabilities (and was a game that was first designed against those weaknesses).
> ... threat of being no longer the dominant power...

That is pretty obvious, with the silly resumption of strategically useless bomber flights nearly 10 years ago.

> Germany went from "no threat" to ...

You might have a better grasp of the history than me, but it was my impression that by 1933 everybody was keenly aware of how dangerous Germany was getting - with the book burning and Nazi parading. Hopefully Russia has learned not to trust treaty partners that behave so. That is a pretty long lead time, and the only country that I can think of right now that exhibits similar behavior is Turkey. So unless Russia is concerned about a Neo-Ottoman empire invasion, they really don't have an excuse.
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Word on the street is that one is already in space on the USAF X-37B. And China is flying one too.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/space-race-revealed-us-china-test-f...
That would be terrific. Swapping that out for CentOS or Fedora should be trivial.
Apple’s newest product is a $200 coffee table book about itself
The most common failure I've seen is when people forget to use full paths in cron.

bash instead of /bin/bash (or similar)
Thanks for the insightful reply. This does bump up my morbid interest into web development, but I'm sure that will eventually fade away.
#Breaking News - Additional findings show that the wall did not actually fulfill its purpose, if there was any. It was porous everywhere, people could easily climb over it, or tunnel underneath it. One can only wonder what the purpose of the wall was since it didn't actually keep anybody from crossing it. It is additionally believed that it was such a waste of time and money that it ended up being a monument to the sheer stupidity of the people of that time.
They were reusing their 1TB drives to test new pods with. But I think they would only need a hundred or so for that, unless they die faster in that workload.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-201...
I think if anything it revealed how most of our great predictions haven't happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgSJkk1tng

I wonder if it has something to do with privatizing technology and reducing resources towards scientific research.
When a simple Google search reveals the exact pattern mentioned occurring again and again, not just with phones but with networking gear, laptops, TV's, IoT devices, CDs (Sony rootkit anyone?), and websites loaded to the max with trackers and secret downloads onto people's machines, it moves from pessimism to "this is just how it works."

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. You want crap free gadgets, make them sell crap free gadgets by ratting them out when they sell gadgets loaded with crap.
Ok, we took out "Industry’s First-Ever".
"And I can use it only at home."

In other words you can use it only on a network you control.

In other words, at home you can use your own router; you can set the gateway as a computer that you control.

Correct?

What if you had a portable gateway, one that could travel with you?

We now have Apple devices, Google/Android devices, Microsoft devices, and the majority of apps all phoning home. It is routine. No one cares. Right.

We may not be able to run the latest device purchased from major retail sources using open source, user-installed OS (UNIX).

But what we can do with UNIX is build our own routers from inexpensive hardware, including older hardware, and use these as our gateways.

To do this, no one needs Apple, Google or Microsoft's assistance. We have what we need.

It is easy to do at home, but what I would like to see is more travel-sized routers which can be driven by user chosen and user installed bootloader and user chosen UNIX-like kernel.

The aim with these efforts is control, not impressive hardware specs.

Proprietary hardware and locked bootloaders will always have the most impressive hardware specs on their side.

But to get those things, the user has to sacrafice some control.
"Open" means the re-distributor can do whatever they want with it, as long as they pass along the source under the same license. Software licenses with strings attached like "you must let end-users access the iptables" are emphatically nonfree.
True, although it's not that high. In a 2 party system, a lot of people will just vote around the party lines.

In fact, we talk a lot about how Trump was crossing the party lines, getting democrats to vote for him and republicans to vote against him, etc... but at the end of the day, red states voted red, blue states voted blue, and swing states were won/lost on very few votes.
I mean, sure, but I'm not sure why you say '"volunteers"' - they are exactly volunteers. Yes, extracting labour for free from volunteers can be the sign of something shady, but with SE I don't really see that evil intent.

Moderators not being staff means that the community has more say in how the sites function, which is a thing people want.
It's hard - communities want to police themselves, not be dictated unto by a controlling body. As soon as you start paying the moderators, they are under your sway.

I also don't think it'd be easy to create a fair remuneration system that didn't incentivise the wrong thing, or create pressure on moderators that they don't currently have.
OnePlus 3T
http://www.voiceclonr.com

Text to speech engine I built a while back. It was a fun project because I got to do some front end programming with React.
Anonymity will become a social powerhouse
because Google doesn't give a crap about what manufacturers do as long as they keep installing Android on as many phones as possible and in return they get more advertising dollars.

And why exactly is that bad?
How do I downvote idiots? I keep tapping on the arrow but it does nothing. Please help.

Thanks!
Your core group of know it all people, won't be around forever. If you keep discouraging new users, by treating them like second class citizens, and a "waste of time". Then the old boys club, is not going to last. I agree entertaining basic programming questions is foolish, but I've seen many examples of legitimate questions, that get the boot because they've been addressed(poorly) previously. At what point do you start just running a Wiki of programming answers, and not a community of programmers. Because the former sounds like what the programming police at stackoverflow want.
Suggestion: Write a standalone tool that does the code extraction step, so someone can run it on their private repository (or checked-out code) and generate the data dump you need.

This mitigates some of the security issues have with granting access to live repositories, as well as opens your service up to people who have code hosted on anything besides Github or Bitbucket hosted services.
Wow she has a lot of great insights. Her views on contributors vs. managers are spot on.
Node.js Microservices with Stdlib
> building a wall

Just like Hillary, then [1][2]. She changed her tune this campaign season. Why exactly? I don't know. But the only explanation I can come up with is "my opponent's policies are bad"[3]. Most politicians do that when dealing with the opposite party, but Hillary seems to be unique in doing that against her own partymen, be it Obama (earlier) or Sanders now.

> ACA repeal

Just like Hillary, then[4]. However, Clinton had a different endgame in mind.

> Trump is feckless.

This, I cannot deny. Would you say the same of Hillary?

> And a fool.

That remains an opinion. Would you say the same of Hillary?

> you look at photos of McCain shaking their hands

... and I wonder how many of those people were hand-picked for the task by puppets the Americans put in place.

Anyway, this is precisely why I'm laughing so much about Trump's victory.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S1uc47j1Q4

[2] http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/hillary-clinton...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-email-shows-clinton...
On a similar note, the Walls of Benin in Nigeria are almost entirely forgotten today. Their combined length was almost 10,000 miles.
Knowing Myself – A Journey of a lone individualist
My goodness that's a terrible thing to have to deal with. But the termbox page says "But nowadays we don't have terminals anymore! We have terminal emulators which reside on the same machine. Exchange rates are not a problem anymore." So it still sounds like its assuming you are going to localhost and not over the internet so there is no need to compact the VT100 codes that are sent.
Couldn't agree more, I wrote a similar piece on this a couple years ago:

Solve your problem with Javascript
It’s the best way to learn

https://medium.com/@kyleapennell/solve-your-problem-with-jav...
I've actually thought about making one of these!
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> If it is an Android phone with Google Play store then it is definitely Google's fault. Maybe Google should stop manufacturers from installing Android on their phones when they are doing things like this.

If it's GMS Certified, sure.

It's possible (common even) for some shady OEMs to install Google Play Store, despite not being GMS certified. Asking them to prevent that is a lot like demanding a stop to all software piracy.
Now your photos look better than ever – even those dusty old prints
RunUO here too. I'm still in touch with many of the people I met between the RunUO and UOGamers communities, and lots of us have gone on to work in industry. Don't know where I'd be without it honestly.
Looks like Semantic UI.

http://semantic-ui.com/
Anthracite coal is up to 85.7% carbon by weight the rest is not pure hydrogen but a mix of sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. (And yes, that Oxygen lowers the energy density while increasing CO2 release.)

Natural gas is 25% hydrogen 75% carbon.

Burning hydrogen produces water not CO2.

So, while the specific bonds play a role the actual carbon vs. hydrogen content is a major issue.
And a great explanation in the piece of how SO works to serve only quality ads.

Good enough, in fact, that I'm whitelisting Stack Overflow from my adblocker. I don't do it often, I don't even do it for sites I like; the reality is that anyone using an automated ad network is at significant risk of serving malware, and I don't approve even if I'm protected. I don't visit Forbes at all anymore, ever, because they broke their users basic faith in "see our ads, and we won't destroy your machine".

But a promise to serve relevant, low-impact ads, chosen by actual humans? That's something I'm willing to support.
I appreciate it was changed, despite my snark. Thank you.
California Sen. Boxer files longshot bill to scrap the Electoral College system
Is what he did similar to what this high school student is trying to do?

https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/first-afric...

It's hard for me to understand the concept of building a nuclear anything on a residential property.
Yep, definitely doesn't work on Firefox. Thanks for the heads up.
This is something I never knew I needed!
How about: one plus the product of a list of primes has a prime factor not in the list.
Enabling wireless virtual reality
Well, now at least we know the true colors of some of the HN audience. Sheesh.
I stand corrected, I misread the article I was quoting. Apologies for the error.
I'm pretty well disconnected from mass media, but was Arrival really more hyped than Dr. Strange? I hadn't even heard of Arrival until it, well, arrived.

Anyway, speaking as someone who saw it for $5, I'd pay thrice that to see it again (and probably will). I found it much more compelling than Dr. Strange, which I might watch again someday on Netflix.
> HGST drives never die

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. I know you didn't mean that as an absolute, but I just want to point out 100% of drives fail. It's my OCD that makes me point this out. We have NEVER found a drive that lasted forever. There are two types of drives: 1) those that have already failed, and 2) those that are about to fail. For any data you would be annoyed to lose, you need three copies in three locations with three separate vendors (three different pieces of software that don't share any lines of code).