skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least they're pretty much equivalent in sizes and competing with each other. Imagine if Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple merge into one big corp. That would be monopoly. There would be no competition at all. But that won't happen, because the government would intervene. So our current situation is somewhat OK.
Backups! Even in the cloud era you still need backups.
> as their future

..and here I was thinking they chose it as an init system.
"1. Don’t mess around with Google or any company that you simply can’t live without."

Wrong. Get off of google ASAP. I have my own email. Yes I pay, yes it is a little bit less convenient. But I don't have to worry about such stuff. I still use the search engine but should actually use startpage.com instead.

Gandi offers Email with domains.
If you have your own domain and need email services, you can also use this guys: http://infomaniak.ch/
Less than US$20 per year. And non EU non US jurisdiction as a bonus.

There are python scripts available that back up your google email data via IMAP. I downloaded everything before I moved.
That's because you'll prefer to run over pedestrians crossing the street so you don't have to break and waste kinetic energy. </irony>
Android is hardly a component. It's a fork. Systemd should also be a fork, that was the GP's opinion too, wasn't it?
One single common method is enough if that's the only one used in said context.

Sure, different types shouldn't use the same method name for different functionality, but it happens. And when such a scenario happens, I imagine it will be quite nasty to debug.
Holy crap, I didn't realise it was quite like that. I knew it was rare for people to know manual transmissions but why such a preference for automatic?

In Australia pretty much everyone I know can drive manual, most cars come with the option and most cheaper cars are manual. It was somewhat of a masculinity thing too, and still is according to my younger siblings.

To be honest I'm surprised the most that America doesn't have that same psuedo masculinity requirement thing happening. I am not saying it's good to have, just that I am surprised it's not there.

As far as myself, I have always much preferred manual and find myself utterly disillusioned with automatics. No engine braking so you're constantly between pedals, gearbox never in the best gear because it can't predict your actions, and they make even the nicest motors sound like droning slugs.

Even if you don't intend to go racing, a manual is just a bit more interesting and keeps you paying attention the whole trip, in my experience at least.
Why would Mediatek go through the trouble of changing the socket instead of removing the backdoor?
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> how much better sticks are then automatics

How much better for what? You missed a qualifier there. For exact control over torque-vs-speed - Yes. For the comfort of driving - No.
> I don't see an advantage over using native system fonts

As touched on in the article, you need a standardized font you have control over for automated testing, to make sure you're getting reproducible results. OS fonts are too inconsistent for that.

Now, why they couldn't use any of the literally hundreds of other open-source fonts instead that Google made…
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I think the key is "object" database. PouchDB is a NoSQL document database. It certainly predates Realm.
Changing the syntax of scripts managing devices and services is hardly an improvement by itself. Yes there are some ideas which have resulted in more useful tools for administrators (systemd-analyze and friends), along with more predictable behaviour which again helps administrators a lot, but apart from those systemd is just "fixing" things which were never an issue for the desktop user.
Let's hope it won't be as ugly as the Java crap. Or Tk.
I believe that if buyer supports 3dsecure and merchant skips it, then he'll be the looser in case of a fraud.
These look exactly like the Plan9 fonts (which IIRC were also by Bigelow&Holmes). Ironically, the Plan9 folk seem to shun TrueType in favor of bitmap fonts... I'm pretty sure the Raspberry Pi Plan9 image I'm running at my home office only has bitmap fonts installed.
Logic tells me that if I can do A and B because of A, whereas I can only do B because of B, I'm superior in the A, B data set compared to someone who is in just the B subset, where A, B set is driving.
Ahh, memory lane. LEO satellite internet is one of the subjects that bring me out of lurking.

My first job out of school in 1998 was writing test plans for the antenna pointing and tracking for the Teledesic CPE at Motorola. If I remember right, the initial plan was to have dual steerable dishes inside a pair of radomes—like a pair of Mickey Mouse ears. There was a vague future plan for phased-array antennas, but at the time it wasn't realistic to talk about getting them on roofs at a reasonable price point.

The bigger challenge was the optical intersatellite links; routing traffic between LEO satellites using lasers. The lasers had to track satellites in adjacent planes of the constellation that were traveling in the opposite direction.

It's interesting to see the same general idea for the large constellation come up every few years. If we had actually started building it in 1998, it would've been on a second or maybe even third generation by now.

I'm a little surprised that Apple hasn't given it a try with their billions sitting around. 4K FaceTime, or even just downloading movies or apps instantly would be a selling point for their other hardware.
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This is all absolutely true - and would apply in any typical circumstance - but I'm not sure this is typical.

These aren't geostationary - they're low earth orbit. This means several things:

- cheap to launch - and to deorbit.

- lots of erosion compared to GEO - LEO is like being in a mild sandblaster while occasionally being shot at by rifles and howitzers.

Taking those two alone into account, you either end up building for durability or for disposability.

When you're dealing with a fleet of 4000 and your speciality/the thing you want to practice is heavy lift to LEO/MEO, you are absolutely talking about a disposable fleet where you expect daily failures and replacements. Having mass production facilities at your fingertips can't hurt.

Which is why they'd likely go for the cheaper tech that they have very low cost access to, even if it costs about the same after launch costs. Also, it would be more profitable for the collective enterprises than outsourcing such a component to a third party. Think about it - spend the money with a competitor, or at the gas station. I know which I'd do.

So - despite obvious truths re GaAs, my money is on them using their own Si cells.
Also, recently even in Sweden we passed the point when more than 50% of all new cars have an automatic gearbox! Manual gearboxes are not here to stay.

Next car I'm getting, which is soon, is going to be an automatic if my plans turn out well. For some car models its very hard to find manual gearboxes, for example Kia Sorento manual is unusual. I assume its the more expensive car, the less likely it is to have a manual tranmission.
Our core infra doesn't use lambda (we can't really, its not a good fit). However, I think for some of our ancillary services and especially for a lot of FlockOS apps (https://apps.flock.co), it makes a lot of sense.

Just yesterday in fact, I was at AWS dev day in Pune where I explained how easy it is to build a FlockOS app using lambda and node.js. We will put up a blog post on it soon.
> There are several dozen binaries in a systemd package.

That's not what modular means. Can you use only parts of systemd if you wanted to? Can I e.g. use the very useful dependency-based service initialisation but keeping my log facilities and networking management intact?
The ACLU disagrees with you. You can't have freedom of speech and then decide to put an asterisk on it. That's the paradox of tolerance.

We have laws on harassment and threats. You don't get to suppress people's speech even if they are idiots.

That's a real liberal position.

Believing that people that respect that idea are bullies is both unfounded and unfair.
The worst thing about it is that it's almost impossible to talk to a human about the problems you're having with Google's free services. Even if this was a honest mistake, there's no human to talk to in order to correct it. And yes, you could pay for Google's G Suite (former Apps), which does have support available, but then again that locks you in, because you can't migrate purchases and connections to a free account later.

Free stuff is never free, you end up paying one way or another.

I have long since migrated off Google Apps and am paying for FastMail and Dropbox (with the 1-year history add-on), which ends up being about $243 per year, or about $20 per month. Now that's kind of expensive. Along with other recurring payments for online services, I end up paying about $38 per month for online stuff.

Now I'm being a frugal kind of guy, having suffered from poverty in the past and I'm not paying for useless shit I don't need, but if you can afford it, then allocating about $50 per month for your online independence is worth it, because the alternative is to be held hostage by companies like Google.
T h a n k you.

It's been shown almost all of these stories are fake. Remember the gas station one? Several people, and even major news orgs, rang up the local police department, and they said they never received any call from the victim or from anybody in a gas station.

Classic :P
You're right, however those only work at higher speeds, hence the "especially with city driving" :)

From wikipedia : A Lock-up clutch is used in some automatic transmissions for motor vehicles. Above a certain speed (usually 60 km/h) it locks the torque converter to minimise power loss and improve fuel efficiency.
> Right, but at this point you have a very weird looking subset of C++

It's a little weird looking at first glance, but ultimately it's not really that weird. The main unfamiliar thing is that objects that are going to be the target of a (safe) pointer need to be declared as such. So

{
std::string s1;
auto s1_ptr = &s1;
}

becomes

{
mse::TXScopeObj<std::string> s2;
auto s2_ptr = &s2;
}

s2 acts just like a regular string. It's just wrapped in a (transparent) type that overloads the & (address of) operator so that s2_ptr is a safe pointer. (For example, in this case s2_ptr cannot be retargeted or set to null).

> that can't seamlessly integrate with other libraries,

Sure it can, that's the point. For example:

{
std::string s1 = "abc";
mse::TXScopeObj<std::string> s2 = "def";
auto s2_ptr = &s2;
std::string s3 = s1 + s2; // s2 totally works where an std::string is expected
s3 += *s2_ptr;
*s2_ptr = s1; // and vice versa
}

> and can't be translated to from regular C++ without significant human intervention --

Umm, it could be automated, but you would need a tool that can recognize object declarations. But modern C++ code is mostly safe already. I mean you're supposed to try to avoid pointers in favor of standard containers and iterators. So just replace your "std::vector"s with "mse::mstd::vector"s and your "std::array"s with "mse::mstd::array"s and you're mostly there.

> why not just use Rust?

My impression is that Rust has been evolving a lot. Is the language stable now? Is it time to jump in? Has it vanquished D as the successor to C++? Are we happy with Rust's solution for exceptions?

Even if Rust is the future, and the future is here, I'm still stuck with existing C++ projects. And I'd feel better if they were (at least mostly) memory safe. There must be others in the same boat.
Automatics tend to be less fuel efficient, especially older cars. More recently, CVT style transmissions have been able to be more reasonable. But a typical automatic use much less direct ways to transfer the power, than a simple gear to gear linkage.
Manual transmission is incompatible with cruise control with proximity detection, because the automated system can't shift (or it would be an automatic transmission). I would buy a car which has both (like the Smart) and manual shift in difficult conditions (like driving over mountain passes in snow). However the Smart I rented didn't have a clutch. It's weird. I don't know.
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We were presented with this problem in a course in constraint programming where we used a library called Gecode [2] to implicitly express and effectively search the solution space in terms of variable relationships/constraints. I remember symmetry breaking being a central concept [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming
[2] http://www.gecode.org/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry-breaking_constraints
> when automatic transmissions are consistently outperforming humans at fuel efficiency

Take a look at official car manufactures tables, in most cases automatic is less fuel efficient, cars where it is more efficient (at least according to the manufactures) are not as common.
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Of course, we don't code for free.
I think part of the masculinity thing might be down to the fact that for the really powerful muscle cars you really want auto again.

The US has no big tradition of sports cars (in another sense than muscle cars). On the other hand, Aussie car tradition is pretty Similar to the American one in terms of big engines etc so I can only explain the difference between Europe and the US, not between Australia and the US.
This is MacOS font rendering for you, in Linux normal weight looks normal
This makes me wonder if Apple could let more of their app selection process be a crowdsourced function? Outside of illegal content or porn I can't imagine why Apple should block anything on content grounds to satisfy their 'walled garden' protective goals, and cultural content like in the OP is certainly relevant to the indigenous communities involved.
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Restricted B category licence in Europe allows you to drive only cars with automatic gear transmissions. If you want to drive only such cars then you are not obliged to do full licence. But manual transmission cars are considerably cheaper and are more likely to be available (previously in the family, rental, friend etc), so it is your choice. Nobody is forcing you to do that.

Automatic gear suggester makes the suggestions based on the revolutions and if you know what you are doing (takes a little practice and understanding), is always late. Manual transmission gives you more control over revolutions. This could also mean more fun driving. You can also use your engine for slowing down etc. The same could be done with robotic transmission, but that is usually more expensive to have and you do not get to control the clutch release.

Besides, you gain better motor control of your body as a bonus.
That's not how valuation works, and that's not how revenue models of companies work. Please make less useless comments.
It's possible if an electric car had a manual transmission, but no company had yet built one because electric motors cam regulate revolutions per minute with amperage and voltage. However, no studies that I'm aware of to determine whether the battery range could be extended with gear ratios have been performed.
Which is strange given than shadow dom is supposed to make this easier.
Good point; I'd not considered whether the human imprint would be down to familiarity (individual's) or in-built through evolution (inherited familiarity); likely a combination of both.
In fact, I recently read that chimpanzees raised by humans are believed to identify as human rather than chimp; so individual familiarity does seem stronger.

The book, "We are all Completely Beside Ourselves" is fiction, but refers to findings from real studies.
don't try to find logic in it. :-) there is none. just high ego.
OpenJDK remains an Oracle project and all contributors should sign the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA). Although, an agreement of this nature exists in some other open source communities. But I feel, hesitant to grant Oracle the following rights :
- License any patents bearing on your contributions to Oracle.
- Assert that you are legally entitled to grant Oracle these rights.
- Oracle have full copyright ownership of all the code in that project.
NES Classic joins the “can it run Linux” club, has custom distro installed
Automatics used to drink 10% more until very recently. It's not strange that this is still taught.

Even to this day it's probably hard to beat a good manual driver for eco perf, but perhaps average drivers do at least as well with a modern automatic.
> No engine braking

The DSG [1] is quite nice to drive and uses engine braking.

Careful feel for the throttle is required, but the same applies to operating clutch...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-shift_gearbox
I got my first automatic here in China, mostly because it would be really hard to sell an manual transmission car later on.

Honestly, I cannot see the point in a manual anymore. It's a part of the mechanism of the car that I have no business dealing in and should be abstracted away. Like the choke in older cars. The idea that I'm somehow a more inattentive driver now because I don't have to worry about the gear I'm in is such complete nonsense.
Google isn't behind it. Some Google employees who work on Go are behind it (well, and Chuck Bigelow too).

But as keeps getting said: it's about the licensing.
Interesting, here in Poland having automatic transmission is something unique and preferred by weaker drivers (and richer ones), some cares even don't have option of automatic transmission (not to mention that you usually have less engine options with automatic).
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Perhaps Trump voters know that it was actually the 13th Amendment that freed the slaves in a permanent, nationwide sense?
> a clutch wearing out during the working life of a modern manual car is a joke

Could use a reference. The wear will depend a lot on your area - mountain roads will kill it faster than suburban commute. But either way, I tried to find anything more authoritative than a forum post (which say anything between 100k and 300k), and it's pretty hard to do. Have you got a link with an actual survey or producer stats?
Blatant violation of the First Sale doctrine. Class action lawsuit incoming in 3..2..
My dsg has 2 real clutches
I've seen that phrase thing, but what would prevent a fake page from fetching your phrase from the real VbV website?
My guess is nothing less than 1 Giga bit per second.
You're going to love electric cars. Zero lag.
So true. Strategically most people should want people with those beliefs saying stuff like that publicly!

Does it make any sense to push the fringe away and offline when we can let them expose themselves and then monitor them?
Interesting study; whilst it's possible to guess which ending is expected as correct, the alternate could be easily argued. For example, in the case of Jim's getting a new credit card, I recall during my uni days many students took that exact approach to debt...
Check out PouchDB, too. Open-source, cross-browser, and quite mature. Works in Node as well. Syncs with Couchbase. Couchbase also has an embedded native database for Android, iOS and several other platforms that can coexist with PouchDB. https://pouchdb.com/ http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/couchbase-mobile (Disclosure: I work for Couchbase.)
I've never found driving a manual hard on my calves... even a little bit. Maybe just me? Or something you get used to if you drive a manual all of the time?
A load more developers as well?
Yeah, downvoted for honest and informed opinion. Unfortunately this is quite common in HN.
You say it's useless, but then say "maybe you will save a few bucks on gas if you follow the indicator". Isn't that the point? To teach/remind you how to save gas?

I agree that it is imperfect, and imo annoying/distracting. But it may work for a large number of drivers, most of the time.
> takes away a meaningless choice from me

What is meaningless is completely subjective to every person, so there is no way to remove options without affecting someone.

Also, how do you buy a "kitchen"?
can confirm with anecdata: in my car the computer reports 0.0 fuel consumption when coasting in gear but non-zero when in neutral/clutch depressed.
Whatever happened to Java? It was the "write once, run anywhere" language fifteen years ago. Dynamic class loading makes writing extensions pretty easy as well.
More panels means more atmospheric drag in LEO. This leads to a shorter lifespan of the satellite.
I don't think there is a lot of misinformation in Germany. I'm German and I simply buy manual transmissions because they are a lot cheaper and I know a lot of people who are they same. I really would prefer an automatic transmission, but spend an extra 2000 euros for that bit of extra comfort? No thanks.
I can confirm that I heard many stories of Android developers getting their Google Play dev account suspend for various reasons (which is already really bad in itself, if you have a popular app that makes a significant part of your revenue), but I rarely heard about full Google account suspension for a Play Store violation (maybe once or twice among dozens of Play Store suspensions stories).

I'm still puzzled that they take such a drastic measure automatically, without having one human checking whether the account is actually a real person's account.

I really want to see what comes out of this, if everyone gets his account reinstated and how long they had it suspended.
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>but the interview started off with a statement about the NeXT system that wasn't quite true

People don't remember any odd detail 20+ years on. But he probably remembered $7500 NeXT being much more value for money than the $5500 Mac II, and his mind translated it as "was a fraction of the price", even if it wasn't.
Yeah, the tech side is great, it's just a shame that borrowing costs - for anything in złoty, e.g. mortgage - are gigantic, saving interest rates are abysmal, and you really have to watch out for bad actors thanks to the close-to-zero consumer protection rights.

For example, a number of online shops show items as being "in stock" despite having an empty warehouse (or no idea if their supplier has anything in stock). It's possible to transfer large sums, and then have to sit around waiting for a month or two while the shop decides what to do, all with close to zero repercussions for the shop themselves.

If you've paid with a credit card instead of a bank transfer, it's simple enough to kick off a chargeback. (well, not as simple as in other nations, but a short form and a quick chat with a moody call centre rep).

As a recent example, I had a ~5,000zł purchase go wrong (to a well-known Apple authorized store) after the payment was successfully taken, but the store's website had an error and failed to process. Trying to get a response out of the payment processor or the shop was like getting blood out of a stone; the only thing that worked inside of a reasonable timeframe (I gave them a week to even reply to me on phone -or- email) was a chargeback.

While I can live with unfavourable rates, give me the UK's consumer protection laws any day of the week!