skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hurricanes are interesting because they _are_ announced in advance. A lot of work goes into boarding up and evacuating, and so when someone does that a few times but the storm misses the area, it creates a fatigue for the next one.

I live in the forecasted direct impact zone for Hurricane Matthew which hit a few months ago. That was an extremely scary storm to consider hitting us. Immediately after it took a turn northward, friends were already lamenting that they evacuated and swore not to again.
So was this an interview for an Intern position? Is this ProtorU thing used for anything else? Should anyone be worried about an interview for a full time non intern position? There seems to be some confusion about this in the comments.
The sensors are great for dynamic alignment and calibration. There are plenty of situations where ~3mm accuracy is perfectly fine. In many situations if you can get parts with-in 3mm of one another, mechanical self alignment mechanisms can take you the rest of the way.
Colorado. Other than blizzards and wildfires in forested areas, disasters here are minimal. Blizzards aren't bad, because they are few and far between and the dry air and average above freezing temperatures mean a quick melt/sublimation afterwards.
No, mine didn't die, I just liked the bezel on the T2.

Yeah, this feels just like firefly :(
Perhaps CI? Or anyway a system similar to the Roman one where you essentially add different positive quantities?
I went for an interview in Redmond, for which the recruiting agency had clearly 'oversold' the job description (I should have known better, too) - it was billed as more of a PM position than what it was - line / UAT testing.

Anyway, I got into the interviews, and I could sense something was up. I was answering the questions but they didn't seem... enthusiastic... about them, or me. I like to think I usually interview decently, though of course I can improve.

Eventually someone says, "Hmm, can you wait here a minute?" and a new person comes in with him a few moments later.

"So... I'm not sure why the agency sent you to us." Okay...? "You're definitely over-qualified for this role, and frankly we think you'd be bored." I thought it was a good opportunity to get in the door (and MSFT is a great place to work), so I tried to offer a little placation, when he introduced the other person, "But I know that [name] here has been looking for a PM, so why don't you talk to her."

I walked out that afternoon with a different, better, higher paying job, because someone thought "outside the box".
> shunya

Straight from Buddhist meditation, meaning "emptiness" -> and now it's the basis of math and science. And it's not just zero, take a look at the pronunciation of numerals in Sanskrit:

0 śūnya - Arabic "ṣifr" -> Latin "zephir" -> "zero"

1 éka - Greek "ena" -> Latin "unus" -> English "one"

2 dvi - like the prefix "di-" or "bi-" meaning double, German "zwei" -> English "two"

3 trí - like "three"

4 catúr - like "quatre" in French

5 pañca - like Greek "pénte"

6 ṣáṣ - like six, or "șase" in Romanian

7 saptá - like seven, or "șapte" in Romanian

8 aṣṭá - like German "acht", English "eight"

9 náva - like nine, or "nouă" in Romanian, which also means new in both languages (new sounds like nine)

10 dagan - like Latin "decem"

It's amazing how much Sanskrit is in our languages.
>Indeed, since this answer, 5years ago, some big improvements have been made, but it’s still a great view from a inspiring person

Such as?
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Or a more simple solution... Have a webhook receiver send the messages to Kafka. Then you don't have to change to a more complex delivery protocol.
I've used vim (vi and some other vi colones before that) for over 25 years, and switched mostly to emacs (with evil) about 6 years ago or so.

One of the main reasons I switched was because I fell in love with Scheme (and Lisp before that), and loved the idea of an editor that was fully integrated with Lisp, was scripted in Lisp, was mostly even written in Lisp, and had powerful Lisp-editing modes like Slime. It is possible to script vim through Scheme, but 99% of vim's scripts are written in vimscript, and that's really what the vim ecosystem is designed around. So emacs was a clear winner here.

I also liked the idea of having email, web browsing, RSS news reading, IRC, Usenet, the shell, and more fully integrated in to the editor. Ideally, every app would be integrated in to my editor, and I'd love to command them all from within there. This is more or less what emacs promised.

org-mode was another big draw. It seemed cool, and I wanted to find out if it was really as big a deal as everyone said. It is. All my note-taking is now in org, and I intend to move my browser bookmarks to it too. I've since tried various org-mode clones in vim, and they're not nearly as good.

Finally, what really won me over was evil-mode, which allowed me to keep my decades of vim muscle memory and preference for modal editing.

I spent several months, spending 10 hours a day to customize emacs the way I liked it, and to bring it mostly up to parity with my vim config (which was thousands and thousands of lines long), along with customizing some emacs extensions that had no vim equivalent (like emacs-w3m, which is an embedded web browser, which is still super handy despite not working with javascript). It took that long despite me knowing Common Lisp and Scheme before switching to emacs, which made learning Elisp a breeze compared to the extra effort it would take someone coming from vim who didn't know any Lisp.

And still, even after all that work, I haven't gotten around to learning and customizing many of the things I really want to use emacs for, like email, IRC, RSS, Slime, and the various other extensions made for editing Lisp and Scheme.

So I found the switch to be a ton of work, which was worth it for me, since I'm still using emacs instead of vim, and don't intend to switch back. But others who are considering a switch from vim to emacs should also be prepared to do a lot of work customizing emacs to your liking. It's a never-ending process, really, just as it is with vim.

Even though I've switched to emacs as my primary editor, I still use both. Each have their strengths and weaknesses, and I still love vim (which comes in handy in certain situations where emacs just isn't cutting it for me).
Look for actual numbers, the USSR for example did quite a bit of Phage research and then gave it up. So, no it's not 100x in favor of Antibiotics, which get vastly less funding than you might think.
We'll agree to disagree.

If he said "Please don't use our servers with your custom client, shit might break. You could run your own infra and keep it up to date with us and we'll federate", this would be reasonable.

Instead, if you read that thread a bit more he throws up his hands and says federation is a thing of the past because he had a bad experience with CM. Yeah, because we don't still use federated standards like email and telephony every day. Come on.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Hard to say but baby boomer obesity is a probably factor. Boomers are reaching end of life ages and their obesity issues are contributing to early mortality. The boomer population is so large that even a small uptick in obesity related mortality will show up in the national average.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa055643#t=article

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831354/
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The patents in question seem to consist of essentially just pictures. Can anyone more familiar with design patents clarify whether there are more specifics beyond what Google Patents and the USPTO website show, or if this is all there is to it?

[0] https://www.google.com/patents/USD618677

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/USD670286
They were using Roman numerals. It's true that with Roman numerals and writing out the number using words, it's harder to forge. See https://m.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/49z4d6/why_did...
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Sadly, almost everything you mention involve opening files, and files are often on networks. Standard modal file|open on windows allows http:// access to files on hosted servers, for example. Suddenly, all of these are potentially networked in the hands of users using the code for unintended purposes or in unexpected ways.
If we buried more power lines snowstorms wouldn't be a problem at all (and we don't bury more of them because it would be expensive compared to the benefit).

Even when a big storm hits and exceeds the snow removal capacity of a region, it doesn't suddenly expose hundreds of thousands of people to danger, it just makes it less safe to drive (something individuals have control over) and reduces the effectiveness of emergency services.
They uses SMS text messages, which were subpoenaed as part of the lawsuit, and disclosed as part of the suit filing with the Delaware court. Their communication was not monitored at the time.
Expect is a TCL-based command-line scripting tool. It's designed for scripting things that don't have a scripting interface, and weren't designed to be scripted.

Essentially, expect scripts run a program, send it some input, look for some regexes on stdout, and then send more input, which may change depending on what the regex matches. And so on.

This is useful, say, if you have a package management tool that requires you to explicitly confirm every update. Or if you want to automatically drive a shell on a remote machine over SSH, and you can't use ssh -c for some reason.

You don't need it often. But when you do, it's very useful.
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Does it mirror notifications from your phone?
> I always wondered why people live in seismically active areas so much

Because the ones people live in are conveniently located near some combination of arable land, navigable inland waterways, large freshwater supplies, and convenient natural harbors. And, in many cases, are places that aren't prone to deadly weather events, which makes except earthquake risk a tolerable price.
They didn't give it up, it's still practiced today: "Phage therapy is used in Russia, Georgia and Poland" [1]. Also [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

[2] https://www.phagetherapycenter.com/pii/PatientServlet?comman...
I'm curious too. I can't think of any reason I would use this. Maybe to use during an online course or something, but most of them offer a way to do that already.
Run a network monitor and visit just about any webpage; you'll see Google IPs and a lot of them. Not using Google is reasonable advice and one could start by at least not having an active account, but I'm not sure how effective that would be. Convolution still seems worth the effort, but perhaps ideally, through more sophisticated methods. Some of the metrics you mention could be randomized.
or cellular?

I have been waiting for a modern fully open source mobile device for years.
Huh. I had no idea. When I was there, it was mandatory in each org I was in. I had just assumed it was a company-wide policy.
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Go southwest if you don't want any natural disasters. No hurricanes, tornadoes, snow, earthquakes, etc.

Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas are pretty far from those issues.
The education system ought be multi-purposed. Some people want school to get them a job. Some people want school to give them a 'well rounded education' on matters like history, American civics, math, sports, sexual education, etc. Some businesses want schools to correctly identify and promote talent, for better hiring signals. Some people view school as a way for preparing for college, where a student might choose specialities.

These are all goals which are harmonious to societal health.
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There are quite a few volcanic areas in Europe - the Phlegraean Fields near Naples being an area that has been identified as being a particular risk:

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

I was also surprised to find that Germany has had fairly significant eruptions fairly recently (in geological terms):

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

Fortunately the volcano I can see out the window is dormant enough for there to have been a castle there for the last few thousand years... ;-)
Thanks. Leave a message or issue on GitHub if you have any problems and I'll try to fix it. I've only used it in my own software, so there's a chance you will encounter some shortcoming or bug that I haven't.
Some universities loan students laptops for free for like a week.
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Perhaps, changing demographics is also a likely contributor. We have more poor people these days, both through immigration and growing income inequality/stagflation. Poor people can't invest are much time/money/energy into their health. And yes poorer individuals often make bad choices, usually through prioritizing the short-term to the detriment of the long-term, but it's hard to place too much blame on them given the circumstances they find themselves in.
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thats great but if could not fulfil the duties & trust placed on him for this specific committee, he should have recused himself.

in this case, being founder friendly is at odds with looking out for minority shareholders.
I think the historically main reason is that volcano ash makes fertile farming ground (http://volcanology.geol.ucsb.edu/soil.htm, http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/what-are-some-good-things-vol...)
How often does FB put engineers on PIPs? Based on your comment I got the impression that the expectations from E5's are huge.
No, at least not sometimes (for non-trivial amounts of "sometimes"). Take my anecdata in another comment on this thread. Partly cloudy day, something blows in from the west. Dad and I decide it's going to rain soon enough, we should head to the house. About halfway between the house and the barn, Dad says "run!". That sound of screeching metal and shredding wood? Yeah, that would be the entire roof structure of the barn being lifted up and deposited in a neighboring field. We're talking a building that has more square feet than your average McMansion. And that was a small tornado. The only mitigation for the big, freight-train-sized tornadoes is that there's usually some harsh weather to go along with it to warn you that something might be coming.

Okay, so you're not outside. You're sitting cozy in your living room watching Orange is the New Black. Tornado warning on the news, but tornadoes are very localized and you don't have a basement in your manufactured home. So what are you going to do, run to the neighbor's again to huddle in their basement for what probably turns out to be a non-event? Nah, it'll be fine. Until it isn't. And by the time it looks like you really ought to be knocking on the neighbor's door, you sure as hell don't want to be caught outside.

Now, the weather services are usually good about a heads-up, with tornado watches (could be a tornado) and warnings (confirmed sighting). A lot of towns have a siren that's goes off on a sighting. But it is quite possible to be caught unaware, and there isn't a lot of time before that giant sucky thing moving at 35mph gets to where you're at.
You're gonna do all that work just so that you can take an hour long interview for an Amazon internship?
How is this even a point of such outrage? No one is compelling you to interview with Amazon. If you don't like their conditions, just don't do it. Why write about it as if it was such a huge burden? It's their job, their rules, their conditions. If you don't like it, simply move on.
You have to be in a specific scenario, high load on the server's resources, not the DB, to see any benefit.

You're in the specific scenario!

If you're getting 1000s of concurrent requests, running at, say, 20ms each, that'd be 4.3 billion requests a day.

What percentage of C# devs have that kind of load?
Same here. It was for lab126, I was excited about it until I read this article..
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I agree that the best possible answer to management would have been, "It'll take six days by the book, or if you approve some emergency rulebreaking and the issuance of technical debt, I can have it done in an hour. And then it'll take six days to clean up."

Then the boss can make an informed decision.
Does this really make sense to do? Unless you form all your google searches as questions, it will be easy to separate real from ELI5. None of my history looks anything like that, so would be completely easy to tell the difference.

Although I would be interested to see what a clean account doing this would look like to google. What kind of ads do they get served?
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ETS.
I am really interested why Signal. Why not Telegram? I prefer Telegram over Signal because of much more better UI and rich functionalities i.e. bots. Signal app seems clunky and buggy. That's my 2 cents.
The real Eduardo Saverin story is not the one depicted in the "Social Network" movie.
Good for you. Your dad is wise. I have a few friends who are in/approaching/just past the Green Card process, and hearing their stories makes me feel shame. These are people who have been here for years after getting their master's degrees. It's incredible.
That's great, thanks. Have you seen contemporary academics who are applying elements of cybernetics and systems thinking to social media and IoT feedback loops?
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Worth mentioning the CEO credited with the turnaround announced his retirement (to the board) this week.
Anecdotally I notice that a lot more younger people seem to be eating healthy and exercising regularly (although it seems to be two extremes with the other younger people being particularly unhealthy and a lack of people in the middle). Maybe the problem is that the push for healthy eating and exercise in culture has come too late for some people who are now at the age where their bad habits are leading to early death.
I don't have any of these problems. Just don't use passwords non-interactively, but use public key auth. Also, as any sane program, (open)SSH does not ask you to type anything when running non-interactively in a script (more precisely, when no terminal is present).
Google probably already knows our typing pattern and typing speed. They could probably detect whether you automated it or really typing. It wont be hard for them. "Google knows everything!"
If someone could give the U2F OpenSSH patch some love, that would make my year.
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2319
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I used to live in northwest Arkansas, about 45 minutes south of Joplin, Missouri. My home had a steel tornado shelter dug into the ground. We used it several times a year when the sirens went off.

Tornadoes in the UK are a freak phenomenon. In the central and southern US, they are a regular part of life. The point being that people outside of Tornado Alley don't really get how common tornadoes are in that part of North America. In the fall and spring, they are an inevitability, along with the most intense thunderstorms in the world.
Exactly, if an engineer isn't continually updating his knowledge of best practices and isn't using all the resources available at his disposal then he probably isn't gonna produce better results than someone who does use every resource they can get.
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Casting couch?
Unit tests are important to that goal. But that doesn't make every aspect of every unit test important as such.

Specifically, if a test passes right away, then its error reporting isn't important today. It probably comes in useful if the test ever breaks, but will the test ever break? Therefore, spending significant time on the error reporting today is YAGNI, even if minimal version of the test is useful.

My complain is that even if unit tests are useful to a degree, people trot out the reasons for usefulness primarily when those reasons do NOT apply.
Still not hard maths. If all you have to do is apply a simple standard well documented algorithm, there is really no obstacle to your success =)

That being said. I guess that having had maths classes in my engineering degree skews my point of view, combined with working with Quants at times, who do analysis way more advanced than that.
PushPull is a crazy futuristic squeezebox instrument you can make
It's probably safe to assume that a good number of the people that you email use email hosted by Google, Microsoft, etc..., which exposes many of your emails to them.
For xmas I asked my mom to mail me my old Mindstorms sets (original yellow brick version). I want to share them with my 2 year old, who is already into Legos. I absolutely loved those things.
Why comment at all if you're going to be merely dismissive and nonconstructive?
Pololu has published some libraries for both the VL53L0X and VL6180X that make them a lot easier to consume.

https://github.com/pololu/vl53l0x-arduino
https://github.com/pololu/vl6180x-arduino

I've been playing around with the VL53L0X.

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You can block those with an ad blocker, or at your router / firewall if you are really concerned with them. I know that is not something for a normal person, but neither is this search fogging, so seems like there might be better ways to do it.

Not having an account would likely not help at all. All those companies have profiles about you even without an account. You might get lucky and start out as a few separate profiles, but they will eventually link them together.
For anyone interested, for my "hobby" projects naming conventions, one tip/trick is that you don't have to worry about the domain name being available (just competition with the "real" domain name) if you create a subdomain using afraid.org, ex:

mydomainname.inet2.org

or what not.
You can have any domain name you want including ones whose .com and .org and .net are already taken LOL.
Great for side projects, free, blah blah...
>> The concept of hurling garbage into the all-seeing-eye is a good one and I hope it gains sustained popularity.

So this is a genuine question, because I don't get it. How is that good? What does it accomplish exactly that makes someone safer or more private on any realistic level? I understand the point at a high level, but what does that actually do for a person on a practical level? Like... "I hurl all this garbage at Google and now I'm better off because...." I can't complete that sentence in a meaningful way and I'd like to be able to. I'd like to believe this really makes some meaningful difference, so I'm hoping I'm missing something. (I'm not thinking in terms of "if everyone did it" but rather "If I do this")
I take issue with that analogy. In a modern hospital, doctors and nurses work together - one can't do their job without the other and they have different training and approaches to patient care. The doctor doesn't simply have a superset of knowledge that encompasses everything a nurse knows or is trained to do. So although there might be some strict hierarchy in terms of who is in charge of patients care, it's simplistic and disrespectful to say doctors are superior to nurses.

Source: have worked in hospitals, raised by MDs, have asserted similar things in the past and have been corrected by trusted mentors.