skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making plain water taste similar to soda or juice
I'm not sure but I think intent matters. That's how they go after torrent sites right because they're "just search engines"?
>How will you defend the company, who will speak for it

The communications department, perhaps.

>who takes the personal hit that eventually comes?

The person responsible, as it should be.
Um, honestly not sure what you're getting at there. The individual cells in your body are genetically the same as what you started with, with occasional random mutations. The body defends itself against those mutations and most will be eliminated. Some will become cancers. They don't affect the DNA you pass on to your offspring and so aren't a part of the evolution of your species. None of them are going to give you superpowers unless you happen to be living in a comic book.
So much silly analysis below.

Party membership is everything. Now, how can I burnish my credentials while studying abroad?

Capiche?
Sea faring is front and center in the Odyssey, and mentions the more mundane reasons why people would travel by boat; trading, pilgrimages, family reunions, ... It must have been dangerous for sure, but common experience as well.
The author, despite an intentionally abrasive tone, nails the analysis. Facebook could literally disappear tomorrow, and the world would keep going. It's only power is it's network effect. A thousand networks (more local and more useful) would spring up in it's place if it kicked the bucket.
Thank you for being honest about your desire to force other people to live how you want them too, rather than how they choose to.
If they were using Houston then the study was either an internal study for the city, or someone cherry picking their study area to make sure they got the results they needed.

Houston is either the worst place in the world to live, or the best depending on who you talk to. They have almost no zoning laws at all, which has resulted in endless sprawl. The place is literally where you go to study the effects of unbounded urban and suburban growth of a city.
Parking minimums.

Forcing people to build off-street parking is a subsidy to everyone else who enjoys their on-street parking welfare. It can add tens of thousands to the cost of a unit.

This illustrates the problem well:
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062

Consider - how many times have people complained about a lack of parking, but really mean a lack of FREE parking? I mean, how ludicrous is that??? I don't complain about a lack of free hotel rooms! We've decided the government (aka taxpayers, including those who don't own a car) should pay for places for cars to sleep, while making it challenging to even _build_ places - when there's a market demand!- for humans to sleep.

"The delivery costs of goods into cities already makes those same good more expensive in a city with the current pricing scheme." - do you have a source for this? The expense of land in a city must have a lot to do with it. The expense of providing free parking to customers in a city with expensive land might have even more to do with it. If a shop has free parking, everyone who walks there is paying for the drivers' parking.
I had to stop reading, the negativity in the article drove me away. The bad online communities he references, in my experience, are usually not the ones that are built on top of real-world communities and relationships. That is not to say that all of the ones that are online-only are bad... just that communities online that reflect real-world communities seem to work pretty well from what I've seen. Anyway, I can't really claim to fully understand the author's point, since I couldn't bring myself to read the whole thing.
Right, I'm not saying we have to. But I do think it would be beneficial in a bunch of ways: more environmentally friendly, physically healthier, cheaper, safer, etc.

And I think lots of other people agree those are good outcomes, the biggest issue is that people in the US have trouble imagining it working for them, because car-dominant sprawl is all they've known, and transit wherever they live is either non-existent or very bad.
Thank you for this! I currently use vtk and Mayavi, but this looks extremely convenient!
A single high-fat meal can damage the metabolism
9/10ths of the issues riding in the city are not solved with motors.
I think these organic molecules are a long way from microbial life

I know we're just supposed to accept click-bait headlines, but it bothers me more with space exploration because there is nothing more fascinating than the final frontier dammit! It doesn't always have to be about finding life, especially for people like me who doesn't believe there is any.

I blame Orson Welles.
The creature, sometimes referred to as a “mammophant”, would be partly elephant, but with features such as small ears, subcutaneous fat, long shaggy hair and cold-adapted blood. The mammoth genes for these traits are spliced into the elephant DNA using the powerful gene-editing tool, Crispr.
What other countries? Neither Austria nor Switzerland have a much different view on privacy.
You would still need a cover but definitely in the right direction.
Yeah I'm really put off by overly optimistic tone and let the pendulum swing pretty hard the other way. I slept on it first though. Knee-jerk reaction, upon reflection, felt worth scribbling out in my own way. No objection to your note of the tone, you're right and I'll acknowledge it.
If you're in the UK, I think you have TheyWorkForYou. Not sure about Netherlands though
Docker for Developers Part 2: Creating a Developer Image
Formula E returns to Buenos Aires this weekend
I'm less familiar with the economics of it in Europe, where gas taxes are much, much higher than in the US, and there's not nearly as much road and highway sprawl.
Typical ICQ Call: Video Overtakes Audio
Why is that though? I just googled it and this article seems to think it's a result of bad economic times. Here's the last paragraph

>It goes more or less without saying, then, that with an economy stuck in such a unique rut for so long, the housing prices remained similarly uniquely low as well. There was little incentive to build and invest in a city that wasn’t growing economically. Which is precisely what has helped make it so attractive to many, and such fertile ground for investors now that the economy is finally beginning to recover.

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/the-history-behind-berlins-...

The problem in my city is that in the city there is no middle, there's expensive apartments/townhouses and there's section 8. What I'm most interested in is how do we get mid-priced living introduced into urban areas?
For my application I have found it is more complex about provisioned vs consumed capacity. I get throttling all the time when consumed capacity is a third of provisioned capacity.

You also need to care about how DDB does its underlying partitioning. It would be nice to turn the knobs and be able to trust you will get X reads/sec and Y writes/sec, but that is only true per node! Unfortunately, DDB gives you zero information about how many nodes your DDB table is running on! (Yes you can guess pretty well if you keep track of your usage rate and do some math).

So when provisioning, you need to be aware that if you have 100 provisioned read ops, but you have data on 5 nodes, you really only have 20 reads/sec if one key gets hot.

I agree it's pretty easy operationally, but you can get burned if you don't know how it works under the hood.
It is not the state, strictly speaking. In Germany, there are 3 pillars of the law. There is the police, which may not wiretap except under very limited conditions - it was a huge political discussion, when those exceptions were added to the German law. Before that, wiretapping in private rooms was completely banned.
There is the state, which can creates laws, by which police has to act and judges judge. These laws can of course changed the legality of certain measures, but they are bounded by the constitution, and laws have been voided by the federal court due to being in violation of the constitution.
Judges are independant in their role from state and police. While their salary is paid by the state, there is a good reason, that judge positions in Germany are for-life. Unless the judge performs an actual crime, he cannot be fired. This is to ensure maximal independence.
Drivers are a subset of the public; giving them almost-exclusive use of valuable public land for free is a subsidy to them in the same way that handing them them tax money would be. How much value would we get out of the land that's currently used for roads if we used for other public purposes (social housing, mass transit, government offices, police stations, parks and museums, or even just renting it out commercially and returning those funds to general taxation)? However much value that is, that's how much we're subsidising drivers by by giving them free use of the road network.
I feel like Medium doesn't even publish articles unless you use foul language.

I mean, I'm all for it. But it just feels like Medium writers are trying too hard.
I had to do a double-take on the source code, as it looked just like Ruby. It's the first Crystal code (https://crystal-lang.org/) I've ever seen, and the interesting part is that it compiles Ruby-like code into executable. Anyway, the code can be summed up as "Process.run("say -v #{voice} \"#{text}\"", shell: true)", in which it calls "say" command to speak the voice of text file in macOS terminal.

PS: Does anybody know if the goal of Crystal is to be like Go, and if there's any performance advantage using Crystal, compared to MRI?
On the one hand, everything is server based at some level; it's just a question of how much is being hidden from you and managed by a third party.

On the other hand RDS hides a lot of the complexity from you. You don't have to pick an OS, apply updates, secure it, manage it, configure it, or patch it. There are some number of virtual servers out there that are nominally running your RDS cluster, but it's all pretty theoretical.

So I'm not entirely understanding your point.

> you need to pay to have an instance running per hour

You are paying to have instances running with every other DB service too; they may just break it out on your bill a bit differently. :)

The real issue with RDS for me isn't that they haven't removed the server part from the equation (they have), it's that they haven't removed the RDBMS from the equation. Schema changes, data migrations, replicas, sharding, scaling: All the hard parts of running a RDBMS are still there.

If Amazon could somehow make a magical service that accepted SQL queries and somehow returned my data, I'd be ecstatic - but the difference between that and RDS isn't the fact that they're letting me know how much ram the virtual server which is nominally running MySQL for me has.
Github does use a CoC for their projects, actually:

"We have adopted the Open Code of Conduct for the open source projects that we maintain, including Atom, Electron, Git LFS, and many others."

https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-condu...
google doesn't call gmail "private email"... that is the difference. if they did, they could be sued. facebook lawyers realized this, and fixed it.

you're all idiots. [1]

[1] http://you're.all.idiots
Try telling that to my idiot hippie neighbors who drive a prius and have weekly bonfires.
I'm not picking on you, so forgive me if my curiosity is direct; I'm curious if you could take a few moments to explain why you think there is no other life out there and what led you to that assertion.
Great GIF of these concepts: http://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/portfolio/2016/1/7/data-lo...
The story (with some details abstracted away) is: a couple of the members of the community were in a non-technical slack channel that is part of the larger technical community. A couple of non-LGBT people started arguing about some stuff related to the LGBT community in a way that they clearly did not see as offensive, but that was very hurtful to some other people who were participating in the community.

My initial reaction was, without my admin hat on, to just step in and explain why the conversation was a problem. Since the people didn't believe that they were being hurtful (or rather, thought that they were technically correct and therefore didn't care if they were being hurtful) that didn't work. I could have banned them at that point, but I would rather avoid that if possible.

Since there was a COC that I could point to, I didn't have to keep trying to convince them that what they were saying was hurtful, and I didn't have to ban them. I was able to just say "hey, look, I get that you disagree but this is in violation of the COC, you need to cut it out". And they did, we've not had any more flare-ups of that topic.

I know that if the people hadn't stopped their discussion then some other people would have left the community (because they told me as much after the fact), and based on the lack of success I had in shutting down the conversation before pointing to the COC I am very doubtful that I'd have been successful without a temporary ban.

To directly address your questions

(1) and (2) are unrelated events happening in parallel. I pointed out (2) to illustrate that the general community was not of any help in mitigating the conflict. (3) followed from (1) because it gave me a line in the sand that I could point to, without having to result to any sort of explicit threat. (4) was generalizing the situation to other scenarios I've observed where someone who might be going over a line can be brought back by simply pointing out they are in violation of the COC, without any express threat of a specific action.

As far as having someone goad someone else into violating the COC, I'm just not buying that being a legitimate problem. If someone is being passive aggressive or outright hostile then that in and of itself is likely to be violating the standards of a COC. Even if that's not the case, you shouldn't resort to general attacks that are going to make bystanders in the community uncomfortable.
But would it really be hard to have checks for that kind of groups automatically?

How can Facebook read all of my private chat message, find out what the conversation was about and serve me accurate ads, but can't find out that this group called "death to all jew" is hate speech?

Oh wait, the first case brings in money and the second simply makes the world a better place.
I have the same question, and a speculative answer for it. Here it is, because none have been useful enough in long run.

I've concluded this by asking two question:

-Has no one made one? Not true at all. We have always more apps & software in general that you think.

-Is there any reasons for not knowing any good tools and not using them extensively other than they have not been useful in long run? No.
Right, because building something online eventually changes the dynamic. Just pick a big "Community" and do some digging - YouTube Comment Section - Reddit - 4Chan - Twitter. There's not a single online community that is inherently positive or constructive without extensive, heavy-handed moderation.

If you get to the end, you'll see that Zuckerberg thinks that Facebook can AI moderate away shitty behavior. Look closely, that's a fundamental claim. Yet, at the end of the day, he's running a business, not a Non-Profit Human Welfare Organization, right?
> to ensure it's a happy, effective, inclusive community.

Why do you value happiness and inclusiveness here? I strongly prefer strongly prefer projects/communities that are managed by technical brilliant, cynical jerks over more inclusive ones if this decreases the effectivity.
Given that the historical data we have give no basis for suggesting the risk of a Chernobyl-level event is as high as 1 every 20 years, I wonder why you didn't question that (yes, I realise we're talking averages, and you could suddenly get more, but fact remains that while our past experience is still short, we have nothing to suggest the risks would be that high, not least the knowledge that the number of plants of a flawed design like Chernobyl's is low, and that we know Chernobyl didn't fail under normal conditions).

But, indeed, one every 10 years would still be far less destructive and lethal than continuing our current use of coal.

Btw. we're well on our way to that 500 number - by 2014 there were 435 plants - so I guess we'll see soon enough.

There is, however, every reason to assume that your flippant assumption that doubling the number of plants would double the risk is wrong, for the simple reason that the safety profiles of the older plants like Chernobyl and Fukushima is drastically different, and the then-current set of plants included a lot of old plants of old designs.

Even for Chernobyl itself it took massive human error - the plant was intentionally and explicitly operating under non-standard conditions far outside of normal operating parameters as part of a test.

Meanwhile many modern designs are getting close to walk-away safe.
sounds healthy.
I think the name does a good job of presenting them as a party of compassion and recognising that we are also animals. Denying that part of our nature by pretending humans are especially rational is one leading cause of unworkable policies.
Sorry this guy is an a-hole, I guess?
> Maybe it makes sense to do underground parking, maybe that is too expensive.

Interesting semi-tangent: so I recently moved from the states to Munich, and I live in a little apartment complex in a low-ish density neighborhood (Solln) that has 10 units. Somehow, this place has underground parking, which was initially shocking to me, because I don't think I've ever seen such a small apartment complex in the states with that; usually you'd only seen underground parking in far larger complexes in the middle of a downtown-type area.

And my complex isn't unique, tons of small buildings here seem to have underground parking. So maybe it's not that expensive when it's a common thing to do.
>So it's dangerous to censor any news, being that Truth is a hot topic these days.

I disagree, I'm perfectly fine with censoring racist/sexist/homophobic etc. hateful or fascist content. Whether the news falls under that, I don't know, but I sure don't think censorship means 'division'.

The idea that words should be awarded an innate right to be said I see no reason for.

The rise of the right wing is worrying for a Communist like me.
I wonder if a building over a given size (e.g, 8 apartments) couldn't include one or two "pooled" cars as part of the provided services.

Cars will be parked inside the building when not in use, people living in the building will get an app to book car usage and to open it, landlord will take care of car maintenance, collective insurance, etc.
The app could also assist in sharing the "renting" cost if, for example, I take it to drive to my office but I also make a little detour to drop a fellow tenant to his or her workplace (and maybe take them back, too).

Sort like the corporate car pool offered by alphabet but restricted to tenants.

Would this work out economically? How low should the hourly/rate be to make this convenient for the landlord and the tenants?
Why is it generally assumed that organic compounds and (liquid) water are a necessity for any form of life?

Of course, all life on earth is based on these things, but that doesn't necessarily mean that something considerable as a life form couldn't arise from complex chemical processes with different elements and at different temperatures.

For example, electronic circuits are non-organic and independent of water, but still capable of complex behavior. Something remotely similar to human-made robots using e.g. sun light as power source might have spawned on a planet with lots of metals and silicone. Of course this exact robots scenario is highly unlikely to occur - in reality their brains/circuits would probably work in a more evolution-friendly way - but you get the gist.
Well there are about 20 other articles I've written that have a far lower amount of cussing, and none of my screenplays have a single swear word in them, so I guess I'm showing my Gonzo stripe a little hard.

If you aren't instantly put off by the corn syrup tone of Zuckerberg's piece then you're also missing out on a useful cynicism trigger.
A lot of those require lists of regexes-- is there a canonical list of secret regexes somewhere?
Bad guys already have scrapers like this, for years, so this is really not putting anyone at any additional risk. They're already in danger, just not aware of it. Even script-kiddies have cheap tools available to scan repos easily. As I see it the only new angle here is that this service lets ordinary users and other interested parties search for the f* ups and (if they care enough) let the project maintainers know about it.
We're not criticizing ICANN based whether or not they can follow the rules they imposed. We're criticizing them for creating such strict rules that seem to cause more damage than good. There are so many scenarios where this can go wrong, and some websites/domains are the most valuable things people have. There's also no way easy to protest this either.
Who would vote for him? He's seems like a person that people all over the political specturm absolutely detest.
There is a difference between sharia groups and extremists. They are not at all the same.

One group ponders on the implifications and simplifications of rules, and how they can follow it with ease.

While extremists try to take the most painful interpretation of rules and use demagogue speech to enforce it.
CoFoundersLab
Sometime back there was an account of how good is work-life balance in Switzerland. Now it seems Swiss will also face economic forces which spared none.
American runs promos for NBC shows during the "commercial breaks" of the NBC shows they run on domestic flights. Most of the time the promo is some sort of short interview or the cast member of the show saying "Hi, I'm so and so from NBC's such and such. Thanks for flying American" or something to that effect. I've never flown outside of north american so I'm not really sure how the in-flight entertainment is on anything longer than a 6 hour flight.
"In L.A., 60 percent of our land area is devoted to streets and parking lots"

-http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/03/los-angeles-seeks-ped...

Or, when your city is hit by a parking bomb:

http://theoverheadwire.blogspot.ie/2010/02/parking-bombs.htm...
Author of the article here, glad you liked it!

To save on the wear-and-tear on your F5/Cmd+R keys, the plan is for that to happen next Thursday.
Yes, exactly. Which is probably part of why Americans are so overweight, on average. It's a lot easier to get people to exercise if they just do it as part of their normal daily errands; relatively few people have the self-discipline to go to the gym consistently all their lives.
Calling the US, UK and Australia "identical cultures" is pretty bad, just because they all speak English? True, they share common history, but they also have so many other influences that they're quite different. E.g. Wales, a country in the UK, even has it's own language which is still taught in schools and used officially everywhere.
... Enter CloudFlare. You're now dealing with a scammer hiding behind Anon-DNS and a Server behind CloudFlare.

The situation is now this:

> what the servers are doing isn't the domain's business

> what the servers are doing isn't CloudFlare's business

The Anon-DNS provider doesn't feel responsible, CloudFlare doesn't feel responsible (while at the same time hosting the authoritative DNS). I can't even tell which jurisdiction these spammers operate from, so it's kind of impossible to do anything about it.

God I hate receiving these stupid "We are just a reverse proxy, we are not responsible" emails from CloudFlare. They most these clowns will do is forward my contact info to the ISP running the criminals' backend servers, which might very well be these same criminals.

Thanks for nothing CloudFlare.