skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a v-long once from a guy in UK whose breaks had this problem (in retrospect) and he couldn't move his car outside of the parking area; they couldn't even tow it at first, because the towing company didn't know how to get an immovable object out of its space.

Granted, from what I understand Tesla paid for everything and fixed his car; it's only his time that was spent on this, but every car breaks down at some point too.

Oh, and they were able to eventually move his car by elevating it onto a set of rolling beds, and then rolling it onto a truck that way. It looked pretty funny :)
Not sure what they called our definition of a billion, but that was definitely the naming scheme [0]

[0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-bill...
I suspect it is true that among Java, C++ and JavaScript, disciplined well designed JavaScript is easier for developers, and reasonably efficient in execution (given e.g. v8). Especially compared to C++, the memory safety and speed of the compile->run->debug cycle tend to give JavaScript an edge for more programmers (x4 to x10 is of course subjective).

But that doesn't mean JavaScript is a good language. e.g., you have to be extremely careful to not get bitten by the floating point-only math. It was the source of catastrophic bugs for many Twitter clients (in the sense that they stopped working) -- I would hate to find such a bug ate my local mail store.

Not sure what I'd recommend, though - JavaScript is technically bad, but socially excellent for such a project. Python is not fast enough for it (PyPy not withstanding), D/Rust/Nim/Ocaml/Scala are not mainstream enough.
South Africa is First country to trial Mastercard's biometric (fingerprint) cards
> If someone one hundred years ago would have said that we would be transporting as many passengers in aircraft as we would in trains, people may have thought , "a steam engine would never fit in an aircraft made of wood and ropes".

That's such an eloquent way of highlighting the need for conceptualisation in engineering but also the struggle to convince others (investors perhaps) that you're not a complete nutcase when you think outside the box.
Cat Purr Generator
Ah, I see. I was always taught not to use the parking brake. If not used regularly, it has a tendency to seize up, particularly in cold conditions. On all but the steepest slopes, park in an automatic is sufficient. With a manual transmission, I'd either put it in gear in 1st or reverse, depending on the orientation.
So what? You remove the hair and read on.
Because being lazy solves everything.
The original comment being discussed, suggested that Docker is terrible from a security point of view, which frankly I agree with.

Docker only got root privilege isolation (i.e. don't run every container as root on the host) a little over 12 months ago.

Their entire approach seems to be "build whatever buzzword batshit crazy idea cool kids want", with "hey is this shit stable, or even remotely secure?" way down the list of questions even considered during development.

Also: if someone is an OSS maintainer, and their response to bug reports is as bad as Dockers have been, sorry but they deserve to feel bad. The "you" I refer to below is a mythical OSS maintainer, not you specifically, @andrewguenther.

Maintaining software doesn't automatically remove any responsibilities you have to maintain the community. If there are huge issues with the software, you have two choices:

- acknowledge and identify a plan to solve the issues. In this case, assuming the issues are resolved in a timely fashion, I would expect people to remain courteous.

- treat the community as shit, ignore security concerns, and never fix fundamental bugs. In this instance, you should expect people to call your project out for the piece of shit it clearly is.

Let's also be clear here: we're not talking about some tin-pot project with 2 guys hacking away on their lunch breaks to find a cure for cancer, who are being told "this is crap".

Docker is developed by Docker Inc, a company that received nearly $170M in venture capital investment just in 2014-2015, and apparently makes several million a year in revenue.
As but the difference is in the amount of energy expended vibrating them no? It sounds to me more like vigorously shaking the water off the cloth fibers and then hoovering them up, which is much more energy efficient than heating said water until it turns into a vapor and hoovering it up.
A Surprise Encounter with a Telco APT [pdf]
https://github.com/mozilla/positron is a thing, though not under active development right now.
Building micro-services in Java
-20 degree winters will do that to you if rain doesn't
Very true, but we're talking about here and now, and given the near-future, and not the time when Tesla hits a billion cars on the road. It's a good concern though, and I am sure they are well aware.

Anecdotally, our Camry broke down today, and sucked up hours of our time, and still isn't fixed. No magical genie appeared to take it to service for me, so time sucked up on my end is just as much as any other service. At least Tesla requires virtually no maintenance, outside of occasional bugs and tires.
There are some hipster web-sites built by amateurish developers who manage somehow to make them work correctly in Chrome only. I've faced those too and after reporting the bugs (like horizontal scrolling of menus) the reply is usually something along the lines of "most of our users prefer Chrome, so we won't fix it".
ETC has hardforked since then also, and will hardfork again in order to defuse the upcoming difficulty bomb. Hardforks, although not ideal, are needed at this point in time in order to facilitate technological progress
I live in a tiny flat in Austria. The vast majority of my washing dries overnight provided I actually get it done around lunch time... even when it's raining. I don't even put it outside most of the time.

If I'm in a major hurry, mostly due to self inflicted procrastination, I'll point a regular fan at the rack as it dries.
Ask HN: How do you perform “Rubber duck debugging”?
In particular, what is your preferred method of performing this exercise.

"Rubber duck debugging"[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I'm not the OP, but I've been living with excruciating neck pain due to degenerated cervical vertebrae and disks, and I've tried everything for the last 10 years, including pain killers, 4 years of chen style tai chi (was very martial, probably made it worse), 2 rounds of physical therapy, strength and cardio training, a standing desk, supplements, etc. Nothing worked - until a coworker introduced me to Mysore Ashtanga Yoga. It's like magic - my neck pain is almost completely gone. The yoga is very strenuous, and there is a ton of bending of the spine. It hurt a lot at first, and I got a lot of numbness in my arms and hands. But after about two months it all went away. It's amazing. It's not a cure though. A couple days without practice and the pain is back. Not as intense, but it's there. The practice must be daily.
It contributes to the investment culture in the city, despite strong efforts from Wertz and a handful of others to lead a more enlightened approach and build great companies.

It's not the only challenge the city has, there are a myriad of forces at play, and some are positive. Best way to fix it is to get more startups earning more customers and growing locally. Nothing stopping them from doing that, just wont be as fast as SV is all.
Not here but may be on "meta hacker news".
Ultrasonic Dryer? Who needs this?
And DOE dropped nearly a million on it? Was it an SBIR grant with nice kickbacks? :-)

I found a washing machine with ultrasonic much more interesting:

http://www.tovatech.com/blog/3759/ultrasonic-cleaner/ultraso...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/21/dolfi-washing-devic...

Would be a little worried about stress on your clothes AND/OR Ears. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/09/sounds-you-cant-hear-...
To be honest, I have always suspected that there is some kind of fraud going on with the company. Their Facebook page is an endless call for pre-orders. And they keep pushing the delivery date out. And further more, how the hell can you spend every bit of 9 million dollars and still not have a product? I don't know...
analyzing every frame of a video is very computationally expensive and the video resolution is often much worse than the photo resolution on such phones. But in principle the same techniques could be used so i don't see why it shouldn't be possible at some point.
I've tried stuff like this before and am certainly interested for language learning but there are drawbacks to becoming too efficient at entering flashcards. A huge amount of the benefit comes from seeking out and manually encoding the info into a flashcard. A big caveat on SRS systems that gets overlooked is they are very good at reinforcing knowledge but not great at teaching it to start with.
If you prefer RedHat, I've been releasing CentOS images with similar tunning for some time: https://www.bashton.com/blog/2017/centos-7.3-ami/
IKR? The Rotten Library is a great time capsule of the early 00s. Atlas Obscura has a similar style of writing but is a little but too "normal" for my taste :-)
I think this could have been communicated slightly better; I'm sure if you rebuild your VM regularly, you'll get all the same patches.
All this proves -once again- is that US authorities are quite prepared to ignore their own laws and constitution.
The sound you hear is millions of devops engineers counting their money, courtesy the proceeds from migration to aws, then migration to higher and higher clouds, then, one day, once the pendulum has reached its extreme swing on one end, migration back to on-prem :)

mainframe, timeshare, client server, cloud, it goes around and around
I believe the issue here is not doing a hardfork. Hardforks are needed sometimes.

The issue is the purpose of "The DAO" hardfork (in practical terms, a bailout) and how it was done (destroying Ethereum's blockchain immutability).
On the turing-completeness of PowerPoint
I have to read it backward. Ansible is now part of RedHat. CentOS doesn't have Python 3, and some key Ansible developers have strong opinion on Ansible not supporting Python 3 in the near future. Am I reading it right?
It (used to be) accessible to any developer on the internet as a platform :-)

Unfortunately, it's shifted to internal use (Journey employees, and enterprise employees).

Also - Thanks!
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - US General George S. Patton

It sounds like the expansive freedom in Holocracy to work on the Accountabilities for your Role. You have that freedom up to the point that they interfere with someone else's Role.
Our EC2 costs are about the same as S3, RDS is the most as I forgot to mention the backup servers we have in each region but we are trying to move all of that data to S3, and more than our SQS costs.

I'm pretty new to the backend design cost/benefit (have only used AWS since I graduated college) but I'm curious to here about bare metal storage solutions for 500 TB of compressed json as I have not read any compelling solutions for that data requirement (Outside of MongoDB but I have heard good and bad things about that).
To be honest I see robots.txt as a failed experiment since it relies on trust rather than security or thoughtful design.
"denaturing" does sound scary and bad -- It's a dumb way to describe what happens in any cooking process.... it sounds like turning food into plastic before eating it (take the nature our of it) LOL.

Anyway, there are real health risks according to the World Health Organization:

"Food safety: Food safety is an important health issue. In a microwave oven, the rate of heating depends on the power rating of the oven and on the water content, density and amount of food being heated. Microwave energy does not penetrate well in thicker pieces of food, and may produce uneven cooking. This can lead to a health risk if parts of the food are not heated sufficiently to kill potentially dangerous micro-organisms. Because of the potential for uneven distribution of cooking, food heated in a microwave oven should rest for several minutes after cooking is completed to allow the heat to distribute throughout the food."

That sounds like nuking the surface of the food then waiting for it to cook after it has ben microwaved which may or may not fully achieve thorough cooking.

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/info_microwave...
Except if they wrote a good headline, it would not be upvoted to the front page. Such is the value system we have created.
I wonder sometimes if Netflix made this expression a meme for its advertising value or if it just came about as a natural meme
Do you know if you have the Exynos or Snapdragon version? I hypothesize it depends on the latter's Hexagon DSP.
This is likely just for show - just as a similar law was in BC.

You can become a landed immigrant if you invest[0] a few hundred thousand in canada and, in that case, you're likely not a 'foreign' buyer (FB) anymore. If you're buying a 1.5M home, what's another couple hundred thousand?

Also there are numerous other ways to get around being a FB:

1 investing in a company with a canadian. The company buys the property and because it's 'canadian controlled' the 15pc doesn't apply. The canadian in the deal likely gets an envelope of cash to keep their mouth shut. Usually the canadian is a chinese national that took advantage of #2.

2 Quebec used to have a deal where you 'invested' something like 250k and you got a canadian citizenship. This is not avail anymore. Of course no one actually moved to QC, they went straight to BC because weather.

Canada is going to be in real trouble if the Chinese money stops flowing; at this point i'd guess real estate is 40-50pc of our economy.

[0] Note that 'investing' in not what you think it is - there's loopholes there too.
Developers at Rest – Hacking the Code Interview – Part I – The Plan for a Plan
> The first closed loop food safety system that allows us to remotely disable Produce Packs if there is, for example, a spinach recall. In these scenarios, we’re able to protect our consumers in real-time.

SV really is the best parody of itself. This guy sounds as credible as a stock photo of a laughing woman eating salad looks.

As a side note: some German article called the issue "Lügenpresse", which is pretty hilarious (it's also the term for "fake news media" before the English term gained traction here; presse == media and presse = press).
Yes, and based on the $0.15/kWh comment, about $450/hour of electricity.

This is more in line with what I would have guessed for 220k cores.
> JSON is based on (not a subset of) a purely declarative and structural portion of JavaScript. They really have nothing to do with each other except some surface syntax, which is wholly irrelevant.

That's an ahistorical view that completely ignores the only reason why JSON became popular: it could be loaded into a browser using eval() or script tags at a time when JS engines were slow and limited.

If the JS-compatible syntax were irrelevant, surely everyone would have standardized on one of the existing tidier formats?

> Consider the basic example of text: there is no such thing as a "text box" or "flow" in PostScript; rather, individual letters are placed at coordinates.

This is good. Imagine if Adobe had designed PostScript back in 1983 using the SVG design mentality. They could not have foreseen all the applications for PostScript. The original text flow model would have rapidly become inadequate, and they would have been forced to pile on hacks into the standard -- just as happened with CSS.

Between PostScript and HTML+CSS, the former is a much more useful industry standard. It's relatively easy to implement a PostScript interpreter from scratch. It's practically impossible to build a new HTML+CSS renderer.

> Blurring the lines between data and code is a tarpit. I look forward to the day it's universally recognized to have been a dead end in the evolution of our field.

You'll be waiting for a while. Users will keep wanting applications that do more, not less.
Concur - Kalid approaches things through first principles and teaches the 'how' very well. The ideas and approaches can be translated into almost anything else. I hope he keeps on keeping on.
fastastic news.

Archive Team's take on this[0]

[0]http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Robots.txt
I still want a chrome extension that warns me every time a previously bad acting founders name is listed on a page I'm on, or I'm on the site of one of their new 'projects'
I don't see why they would. Presumably they're offering refunds to mitigate bad press, but continuing to sell juice packets to customers who refund the hardware is tantamount to a direct admission that the hardware is useless.
By taking all of the preoder money they were getting and rolling it into advertising (to get more preorders)
I enjoy my big hill too.

I feel more buzzed the whole morning after my ride in. I'm lucky I have a convenient shower at work as well.
Convert JPG to PDF online
Would a possible solution be to check if a url contains 'ambiguous' letters, and if so, transform all these letters to the more common versions and then check if that domain already exists? If it does, give the user a warning.
Encrypt and check your secrets into git
Can someone explain how the mole rats that stop breathing and are revived after simply reintroducing oxygen into the container? How does the O2 get into the animals lungs/blood stream if the animal stopped breathing?
PDFMerge – Merge PDF files online for free
Haha yes... I'll leave editing for others amusement.
But only in xenial repositories for whatever reasons.
No, forcing everyone to use the same engine does not give the incentive to refactor it into something nice.

It gives the incentive to create a black market.
Unless your app is going to hit massive scales (hint: it won't. the chances that you are one of the few that do is so minuscule, it's not worth assuming it will happen), optimise for simplicity, not scale.

Micro services are the exact opposite of simplicity. What used to be a method call, is now a network request.

With a monolithic application, you have to worry about the application process (which may be Node directly, or may be an application server like Phusion Passenger), and the associated services it depends on: database, caching, possibly http/tls front-end.

With a micro services architecture you have to worry about all those processes for each and every micro service. Sure, they may be sharing a database, but they also may not. They may be sharing a caching layer, but they may not. They may not even use the same caching/database software.

Unless your app already works when one of the four micro services is down, any argument about "single point of failure" is moot, because you currently have 4 single points of failure.
Facebook's brain-computer interface presentation
A lot of the answers read like a lot of the spam I see on Facebook! :) Most of the schemes seem to be around reselling stuff on ebay/amazon or blogging to make adsense/affiliate money.
> What happens if/when Ethereum takes off, and eventually is used for elections or something?

Not meaning to be snarky, but does anyone seriously believe that? Sometimes I do think software-engineers should go and try to understand processes of non-techies a bit more.
Ask friends. Ask friends of friends. Go to a party or local event and ask others (after striking up real conversations). Are you a regular patron at any establishment? Speak to a low-level employee you regularly interact with; then speak to their manager. Ask your mail carrier; ask your paper delivery boy; ask your milkman. If it's 7-degrees of indirection to get to Kevin Bacon, it's probably just 1-2 degrees for people in your community.

Just start talking to people... or to the parent's point: Listen to people (and follow up!). You're looking to build relationships, not marks (I hope).
http://www.theymadethat.com/people/xp89en/harry-huskey
6 Incredibly Costly Big Data Marketing Mistakes
it's certainly less mass-ive by a factor of a 1000 or so but then it's smeared across a volume, because quantum physics. in some sense, the concept of an atom and the electron 'space' are interchangeable if you think of those cute STM images of atoms spelling out words. this is one of those funny questions that go through a local maximum somewhere between ignorance and grad school. it's obvious right up until someone points out it's all really @#$@#$@ confusing.
Question, have you really worked with SVG? And have you seen, how other vector graphics format are (better) implemented?
Or get a used paperback for ~$4 from Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks.
should we start worrying people getting pregnant just to be harvested (voluntarily or not, for themselves or for sale)?
It's not just the taste though, it's a pretty good price to protein ratio. If we didn't kill animals for protein, it'd be a lot more expensive to get.
They're all quite different. Canvas is raster based, SVG is vector, and WebGL is a totally different approach tailored to hardware acceleration (and still paints into a canvas, so it's raster ultimately).
On the linked page, I see comments about ignoring the webmasters' wishes et al.

All I can say is f*ck that. It's a free and open internet. If you put content up on a public site, anyone has the right to go and look at it. Stop complaining when someone saves it.

And sure some people complain that scrapers slow down their site and that's why they use robots.txt, but really? Really? It's 2017 and your site is affected by that. I think you have bigger things to worry about.
> Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Then why is it crowded?
Is there a easy way of converting it into Kindle friendly pdf (or mobi) ?
A Rare Quadruple Supernova, Revealed by a Quirk of Einstein
I haven't kept track of this very much, and am curious: why might the fork not have happened if Ethereum was older? Assuming the undesirable transaction happened relatively close the the point of forking, only a small number of descendent transactions would need to be reverted, right?
"The gap here is smaller ($30k vs. $50k) but still significant."

Healthcare, stability and democracy (sans land/house prices) make up a lot for this.
I've benefitted numerous times from AmeliaBB's answers on StackOverflow/StackExchange and Sitepoint, and am really happy for the opportunity to thank her very much for her work. Her authoritative answers really stand out, and show a level of depth and comittment to the subject like few others. Her book is now high an my reading list.

There's definitely something wrong with funding of web standardization work (or lack thereof) though, that needs to be brought to public attention. The WHATWG/W3C situation is unsustainable IMO.
The #RawPOS #PoS #Malware also scans for driver's license data
PostScript/PDF is also an imperative language. Yet it works for billions of documents. Users don't care about Turing completeness.

"Declarative" is one of those concepts that sounds highly desirable until you start thinking about extensibility and future inter-implementation compatibility. The sad tale of the SVG 2 standard, as told in the original post, is a textbook example.
I'm in the EU (Lisbon). There are at least four office parks outside the city, and now college campuses are starting to move out too.
It interesting, the person I'd say I sound most like in the world is my Dad. Humans often fail to tell us apart on the phone. I assume this is true for a lot of families!