skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also similar to American houses, they now are all built around wooden frames. That's cheap and easy (the frames are made in a factory and just screwed together on site), but in a wet and windy island it's a very bad idea. Any significant roofing leak which isn't fixed immediately will destroy the house, and helpfully these wooden framed houses are dressed in fake brick and plastic cladding which cover up evidence of leaks.

Nearly every one of these criticisms is a desirable feature of traditional Japanese architecture. Houses are assembled from standardized materials produced off-site and fitted together without nails (wood joinery). Many interior walls and some exterior walls are literally made of paper, in sliding wooden frames (exterior shoji almost always have sliding wooden covers that are deployed at night). Special attention is paid to the thatched or tiled roof.

Japan is a very wet place. In summer there are typhoons at least every week and it's miserably hot and humid. Traditional houses are perfectly adapted for this: when you need to you can slide open most of the walls and take advantage of every breeze. I believe that most of the wood is cedar, which is resistant to rot, and most of the structure is left visible (i.e. no plaster) so any problems are readily apparent.

Houses seem less adapted to winter, but people adapt by using deep baths, kotatsu, and quilted clothing to heat their bodies rather than the entire inside of the house.

Earthquakes are pretty common in Japan, one of the reason lighter materials are used. Traditional buildings are typically built on stone foundations. Structural posts are fitted with stone "feet" that are free to slide around on the foundation during earthquakes.

Japanese don't value permanence in architecture the way Europeans do -- even the Ise Jungu (shrine), a national monument, is rebuilt every N years -- yet in the area I lived (Nara prefecture) there were many traditional houses over a hundred years old. There is at least one wooden building at Horyuji (temple) that is ~1200 years old.

[Thanks to Dr. Lloyd Fulton for that class in traditional Japanese architecture at Waseda U. Miss you, sensei.]
Finally a modern one, thanks!
Both Apple and Microsoft figured it out. Why shouldn't we expect the same from Canonical?
Do you think getting into Startup School will mean you didn't get into YC Accelerator?
Most referrals for jobs aren't based of real deep friends, but based off acquaintance connections..
Quickfire App-easy way to buy vinyl on mobile and sync your digital music
Out of curiosity, why did you ballpark the length of the wire to "2 feet" (close to an order of magnitude high, way under 1 digit of precision) but specify the wave propagation speed along that wire to one part in a thousand (way more precision than appropriate: line capacitance changes significantly with trace width, pcb thickness to ground plane, pcb composition, etc...)?

You're point isn't invalid but it's sort of misapplied. In fact the latency of DRAM on modern systems is dominated almost entirely by precharge time within the memory IC, which is about an order of magnitude slower than signal propagation. And it's not changing, either. DRAM cycles have been sitting at around 60 MHz for a decade and a half. We're dropping voltage as we shrink the cells, and so there's no net increase. Realistically signal propagation will never be the limit.
"Public broadcasting" means a lot of different things. But one of the great values of radio-based sound delivery systems is that they are very local. And local radio cultivates niches that translate well into interesting podcasts.

For example, when studying languages, one of the great sources of listening material is podcasts produced by local radio stations. There isn't a lot of material in Cajun French (vs. Parisian French) available—except for Cajun French music and local news radio shows/podcasts in south Louisiana. There's an Ainu-learning podcast I subscribed to once that IIRC was produced by a Hokkaido radio station. The local base of the radio station has synergy with a non-local/Internet audience.

The major European non-English broadcasters tend to have streaming services rather than podcasts for some reason.
The Atlantic publishes a monthly magazine, exactly the type of bundle the author is advocating for.
I do appreciate the challenges, but I don't care about it. I pay for the service to use the service not to appreciate the service you should have rephrased your question as "Why dont you appreciate the tech behind an isp". And I love that you said this "ISP are similar to utility." because they should be treated as such but they are not....
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Interesting that the 'Ping' link to Amazon.com is still working. I wonder if it will still be working in 100 years.
But I want the opposite.

Encourage people to vote as many ways as possible, as many times as possible, as much as possible.

Check off not-relevant, agree, inflammatory. Or maybe disagree and relevant.

No limits, maybe some weighting, but no limits.

Just because some of the ideas have been done before doesn't mean it's just a reinvention.
I have impression JEDEC constantly underestimate what manufacturers can actually do...

I bought last year DDR3 RAM, 2400mhz.

So, when DDR4 started to be sold, capped at 2133, DD3 2400 was already sort of easy to find (and it is faster than the DDR4 too, due to smaller latency, the few times I decided to run my computer in some OC competition that relied on RAM it ended on the top 1% of the air cooled machines despite not being an exceptional machine neither prepared to OC, Intel XMP runs crazy fast on my machine, the OC people I talked all said it was because of my fast DDR3 RAM).
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Server]

- HEADLINE: CPanel like UI for server management

- DESCRIPTION: Any reason why this is not already done? Or is this outside the scope of ubuntu? There are millions of control panel but one that is supported properly by ubuntu would be awesome.
Only when you read a filtered list of resources but not for CRUD operations (CRUD operations make sure you deal with a single resource at once). My main point is that writes are atomic.
I find it very hard to believe that landing gear isn't fine with landing under full starting weight -- after all what if you need to land shortly after taking off for some reason? (return to leaving airport.) So I "plane" don't believe it's an issue.

Regarding fuel weight not decreasing - could hydrogen fuel cells be burned and the resulting (h2o, water vapor) simply be left as contrails?

Reference: https://www.quora.com/What-does-hydrogen-give-off-when-burne... "In a flame of pure hydrogen gas, burning in air, the hydrogen (H2) reacts with oxygen (O2) to form water (H2O) and releases heat."
I think once the underpinnings were created via math it became questions about what network geometries to use.

We don't have much math I'm aware of that can describe the capabilities of different network configurations from first principles. Even though we constructed the network it feels like we're back to the beginnings of science with this one.

Let's change this and see what happens.
Introspection means that the program's structures and procedures are discoverable and we can query about them. Typical questions we might want to have answers for:

* find me the class, typically by name or by some relationship

* what are the fields of that class?

* find me a function

* what are the arguments of the function? does it have documentation? Who wrote it? Where is its source? What values does it return?

* where is the function used? what functions does it call?

* what are the values of a field of some object? What class does it have?

This and more for example enables you to inspect a program at runtime and find out what it does, how it does it and what its state currently is.

Reflection means that elements of the programming language are itself exposed and we can change/extend them.

Two examples of the Lisp world. Very unusual is the reflective tower, where a Lisp program is run by some kind of machine, which for example is a Lisp interpreter. This Lisp interpreter is itself a Lisp program. Thus you can not only write the program, but you can change/extend the interpreter running the program. A certain Lisp dialect allowed also to look at the interpreter running the interpreter running the interpreter running the interpreter ...

In Common Lisp a typical form of reflection is the Meta-Object Protocol of CLOS. It allows you to program the object system to implement new variants: persistent objects, transactions over objects, different inheritance mechanisms, classes which record their instances, ... Thus the MOP exposes classes, methods, generic functions, slot descriptors, ... as CLOS classes and methods - and protocols about them. Thus CLOS can be programmed in itself. Even at runtime.

More primitive reflection would allow you to create/change/remove things like user classes and user methods. Task: create a new subclass of an existing class at runtime.
Would love support for #2
Sadly though, Trumps budget would completely eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This would be devastating for library services cross the country.

http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/03/president-s-b...
> Benchmark game, a fast Rust code example also typically has an "unsafe" code

So you say but do not show.

Please show us which of those Rust programs you count as "fast".

Please show us how many of those programs have unsafe code.
It was great for sharing links and articles. I think they even added comments at the end, but I didn't really use that.
Fair enough.

FWIW I do apologise for the sarcastic tone of my posts above. You're right; it's probably not the right way to spark a constructive discussion. To be honest, my tone was a fairly deliberate departure from how I usually post. It's just that I've been in a number of these 'US Healthcare' discussions on HN now and have seen the same points and counterpoints made many times, yet no progress seems to have been made.

I suppose that's a good indication that I should just stay out of these threads until I can maintain a civil tone.
I think of it as a product to deter AI processing of your data, not a product against data itself. I, too, am ok with being tracked - but being ok with data collection =/= blanket approval of all data processing & use.

Thanks for raising this point.
And when your user base is developers without knowledge of the underlying fundamentals, you can charge how Twilio does. The knife, it cuts both ways.

Until you know the use case, pricing is a nebulous concept.
I'm more terrified of being put to sleep than I am of the operation or the post-op pain. What if you never wake up? Who knows what they're doing to you while you're asleep? shudder
You can see yourself installing a RAT with a keylogger, webcam light disabler, and SYN flood feature to manage your own computers?
I've seen some work on using GANs to generate 3D models from single images, but the results aren't particularly high-quality yet.[0]

[0]http://3dgan.csail.mit.edu/
Yes it is legal. The apartment complex that I am living in allows 5 people to a 2 person bedroom, and I've seen a couple groups do that.

Renting out the living room or even putting 2 people to a room is almost always legal.

Over occupancy laws only come into play in completely ridiculous situations like 3 people to a room and up.
Can you name a major corporation that does "24/7 keylogging"?
Sorry you had to go through that (the waking up unable to breath).

FWIW, my son has had to go under general anesthesia almost a dozen times now, and the protocols that the anesthesiologists use at our hospital use now require a respiratory therapist to be in the room when anesthesia is removed, and it is done in stages, so that it is made absolutely sure he is breathing on his own before the breathing tube is removed and he is fully awakened. I'm sure part of it was driven by the fact that what you went through is both awful, and should have been prevented.

I'm saying only to let you know that I really empathize with the anxiety it can cause, and that if you ever are in need of surgical care again, perhaps you should discuss it with your surgeon or care team before-hand..hopefully they have protocols in place where you won't have to go through that again.

On another note...holy crap on the endoscopy! I can't imagine how much local anesthesia that must have taken, or how odd that must have felt!
autotools sucks for developers, but as a user I highly value "make uninstall".

Every time I see software without a make uninstall, I have to manually create a textfile with the stuff the application installed so I can do a clean upgrade... it sucks.

Hell, most Windows software ships (mostly crappy) uninstallers, and most OS X software can be uninstalled by dragging the app folder into the Trash, but there are loads of .nix programs without uninstall support? What the f..k?

Oh, and .nix software using standard build systems has another advantage: it's usually trivial to package them in .deb/.rpm if you want to distribute e.g. custom ffmpeg/vlc builds on a fleet of servers.
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On Joe Rogan's podcast, he claimed to have a lot of connections in the military and intelligence community. Not saying it's proof of anything, but it does make one think...
IMHO the biggest thing that would improve VPN support is properly reporting errors. NetworkManager seems to think it is a Windows application with the way it throws useless generic error messages at you.

Instead of "connection failed", how about "connection refused due to key size mismatch"? Even if it looks like technobabble to the end user it is something they can throw into Google to solve their problem. VPN connections are a nightmare to debug right now, and are so complicated that regular people frequently don't set them up correctly the first time.
> Being governor of a state, especially a state with a very large economy that spans most sectors, a large and diverse population, and a very diverse geography gives direct experience in a large fraction of what a President does. All that is really missing is commanding a military and making agreements with foreign governments.

Well, except that governors make agreements with foreign governments [0] and command militaries [1].

[0] http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ln-climate-chan...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Military_Departme...
A globalist is someone, usually a politician or corporate executive, who thinks that national borders shouldn't matter, and that people, capital, and goods must flow freely over them. It's often used pejoratively (no one calls themselves globalist). For example, Euroskeptics call almost anyone in the EU government globalist.
"What do you mean, cars were allowed drive faster then 60 MPH, when the speed limits were all 60 MPH?"

"Yes, they were. You could drive a car as fast as it could go."

"Did people ever die from going too fast?"

"Oh, yes."

"And you could start your car without breathing into a breathalyzer?"

"Yes, you could."

"Did people ever die from driving drunk?"

"Oh, yes."

We don't need to wait for the distant future to save millions of lives. Breathalyzers and speed regulators already exist. For some reason, though, they aren't mandated on our roadways...
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Actually though! This has been an internal meme since then, there's been PRs for implementing it just hanging around for years =P I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't an April Fools joke.

Congrats Twilio!
Ironically we go to the library much less now that its easy to borrow ebooks with kindle and reading apps. overdrive is great. I was starting to see a future without libraries.
I get it, fuel costs are huge for airlines. But fuel costs are still small beans compared to capital utilization. I hope they have a feasible plan for recharging and getting back in the air without significant delays. That is a very significant amount of energy to shove into a plane in such a timeframe. If recharge times are anywhere close to an hour, this idea is DOA.
When I got mine taken out I had two people hold my head while the dentist was trying to pull them out. I didn't mind too much but I wouldn't recommend this to sensitive people.
> I actually think there is nothing wrong with buy to let however you need strong rights for tenants as well as rent contol. Something Germany has successfully done and people are quite happy not owning houses and renting for their life knowing they have strong rights to stay with safe rent levels.

Germany only has "soft" rent controls. Their purpose is not to actually keep rents low, but to slow their increase so the market has time to react by building new homes. The rent index that municipalities maintain for that purpose also helps with keeping rents transparent, but that's more of a side benefit.
How does iOS and the iPhone handle this SIM card/baseband processor issue? Is there an article that details the exact threat model and defenses in place?
You could easily add it yourself but it there could be other uses if they implement it. They could use the barcode data to add additional meta data to the fax file record. The meta data could then be used in task router.
I used to do malware analysis. We should also report MS Office macro functionality, AutoIT, Metasploit, and VNC. Maybe go after RSA too for crypto used in ransom ware.

If this goes through it will set a horrible precedent. While I wouldn't be too happy having certain software classified as cyber arms, if that's what needed to happen to get the same protections as weapon manufacturers, so be it.
First, that would be an emergency landing. Second, they would likely dump the fuel.
Not OP just honestly curious, of the $12k how much is dedicated to Canonical (donation/others)?
I agree.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 currently. A kernel upgrade hosed my setup yesterday, and having an older kernel available saved my butt. I was able to do another `apt-get update` and things eventually worked with the latest kernel.
Another related issue: I have helped get a few co-workers set up with Ubuntu on their laptops. Inevitably, once every few months, one comes to me and says "I just ran an update and the 'Restart' popup came up, so I restarted, now my laptop says 'No bootable devices found.'" This happens when Ubuntu is installed in UEFI mode. A kernel update sometimes wipes out the boot image. To fix it, I to get into the BIOS and reselect a bootable UEFI image. This should never, ever happen.
That puts a new twist on security.
This is so much bullshit. Here's hoping the EFF and others can come to his aid. Anybody know if there's anywhere to contribute to his legal defense fund?
One what basis do you expect consistency from humans? If ever there was an unexamined assumption, that's it.
Thanks for the heads-up! This is one thing I miss mightily on my Mac.
This style transfer idea, though eye candy and sometimes impressive, seems to be the core application of deep learning these days. François Chollet tweeted something like that two years ago about the prisma app (yes it was 2015). He back then anticipated many other killer apps behind the corner but it seems not much had materialized. It's 2017 now and people are still super excited about yet another style transfer network. I'm not even sure where this would be practically useful, aside from being yet another photoshop/instagram filter. Am I the only one skeptical about this?
The thing is, the underpinnings have been there for decades. The convnet was invented in the '90s. The only thing that's changed is the availability of data and processing power.
I like this. Gotta watch out for those For-Profit Anti-Popes.
"Only cheapskates and the stubborn would pass on an SSD."

Even a year ago I was still going "eeehhhhhh, weeelllll, maaayybee..." but sometime in the last year I'd say we crossed over for any professional. It's no longer a matter of paying $100 for a big-enough spinning rust or $600 for a too-small SSD, now it's more like "Do I want a really fast 512GB or a slow 4TB for the same price?", which are both as of right now ~$150 give or take $30 depending on your quality needs. (I just checked.) That's still quite the spread on size, but you can fit a lot in 512GB.
I use libraries all the time. However, all the C++ DirectX GUI libraries seemed way too heavy for what I was trying to do. Part of the fun of hobby projects is creating your own little development style, and digging through old docs on opinionated frameworks to reconcile those choices doesn't make for a very fun hobby project :(

Now that I think of it, the GUI itself was simple enough to do, but the mouse clicks in the 3D scene + various methods of selection were the biggest pain. The GUI just had to show things related to those selections.
Making planes is not hard. Making big, safe planes is very hard.
I believe python upstream recommends that "python" is python2 and python3.x is "python3"?[1] (Although, that does not jive with official python packages for windows, which is both annoying and confusing - the pep governs "unix like" systems - eg. including linux subsystem for windows, but excluding python on windows...):

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
"Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal." --Nixon
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Text to speech. There's no decent open source voice.
I cover a lot of these thoughts in my post about misconceptions about GraphQL coming from REST here: https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/graphql-the-next-generation-...
I'm the opposite, perhaps it's because I've seen politicians in my country (UK) blame a larger entity (the EU) for many of their own failings. It's been an easy target for them and sadly I only see that increasing over the coming years.
They are highly relevant (positively or negatively) in assessing his suitability to lead a business with similar salient features to those common to the ones he's led in the past.

Beyond that, they are of only modest relevance at best.
And all this time I thought facts were carefully verified and reviewed. Cross-checked against detailed research and evaluation; and then respected as truth.

Sounds like you're attempting to discredit 'facts'. This is exactly what conspiracy theorists do. Anything that gets in the way of their fantasy perspectives, even facts themselves, are cast aside with a broad sweep of the Truther's brush. Replaced with a new spicy version of reality.

The thing I hate most about Truthers, is their disrespect towards victims and grieving communities, which include emergency personnel.

Claims that everyone involved is a crisis actor, is no different than looking up at clouds and seeing faces in the clouds, and then believing those faces to be actual real faces rather than clouds formed in the shape of a face. It takes a certain kind of stupid to believe that.

Is there an awards night for Crisis actors? "Best Crisis Actor" and so on? There must be. Secret underground event naturally.
Interesting. It sounds rather similar to me as the way the difference between functional and OO programming is often described (verbs-first vs nouns-first). Is there anything to that or am I comparing apples with non-apples?
Add to that lack of apartments, and you can see why my 3 bedroom 2 bath (with juccuzi) on 11acres was 300/mo was a no brainer when I lived in rural USA. I had to pay a neighbor to run me a well line, and no garbage pickup was available. Not as uncommon as you would think.