skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ground effect isn't only a factor for fixed-wing aircraft, it also impacts rotary-wing aircraft including helicopters and the Kitty Hawk Flyer. When you fly a helicopter there is a sudden noticeable loss of lift as you climb out of the ground effect. I'll bet the Kitty Hawk is staying close to the surface at least partially to take advantage of ground effect lift, although the article doesn't make that clear.
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I love the excitement coming out of the elixir community.. it really shows. can't wait to see what you're working on.. phoenix app or something else? we do straight elixir / plug api with a separate node/react front end.. we also use json-api which has been nice to standardize or json structure.
The source material linked in the article (SIDtoday newsletter) is what states it was used for AIS traffic.

I am curious as to what else you believe it is used for?
Eh hm... are you sure you replied to the correct comment?
I believe this is the inevitable outcome of the following:

1. The desire to maximize personal capital and assets.

2. An individualistic mindset

3. The compounding effects of (1) and (2).

With all three, you get the current problem as described in the article. Suppose you removed (3), and somehow you could maximize assets, but upon death (or some other "big" event) all of your assets were given to the community. This would result in wealth not being concentrated. Here I'm also including the creation of foundations and other "charities", which in my view are just ways to keep your assets concentrated, and you have some tax advantages of doing so as well.

Say you removed (2). Wealth concentration without the desire to personally benefit from it would result inevitably in the helping of others, as a healthy, prosperous world would ultimately benefit you (though, again, its not the goal). After all, what's the point of money if it doesn't benefit you? You might as well make the world you live in better.

Without (1), you naturally would not see the problem described in the article.

So, what's the TLDR? Basically,

1. Create a culture where people don't need to be so prosperous themselves.

2. Encourage schemes that benefit everyone instead of someone.

3. Prevent the concentration of wealth, and all of its pseudo-forms (foundations, real estate, etc.)
Small point: the defendants in the McLibel trial had nothing to do with Greenpeace. They were members of a small group called London Greenpeace that had no connection with the well known Greenpeace. So contrary to your post, the McLibel trial is not an example of an employer making their volunteers foot the bill for libel.
At least in 2005, that was demonstrably not true of the US Navy: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a24158/u...
It is a task that shouldn't be learned in university but in middle school. And it's not just useful to stem, it's useful to many things in life. E.g. a disagreement between two educated, smart people usually can be resolved by debugging how everybody got to their point of view and then flashing out the details. It's also how you figure out why the toaster isn't working any more, or why your wife left you.

It's also actually two skills:

Analysing a state. What do you see, what is there, or isn't. What was expected.

Backtracing. Getting from point y to point x by figuring out how y happened.

I'd say at least in my country we also actually learn these skills. But when we learn the methods its in a completely different context, totally unrelated to life. In real life, you hit a problem, you get overwhelmed by the complexity, and then your brain needs to start applying the method. In school you learn the method, no idea why. Then you apply it to totally theoretical problems, no idea why. Then you get tested on how well you execute the method, no idea why. Then nobody ever talks about it again. Now, how should your brain in moment of being overwhelmed remember that method A it learned 20 years ago may apply here? There's no way.

Teaching shouldn't be: theory->method->application->test. It should be theory->enforce_problem->wait_for_questions->explain_how_theory_can_be_applied->review_of_application->goto:enforce_problem.
> places of certification producing skilled workers for industry

In Portugal that place belongs to Polytechnics.

Universities are to learn to learn.
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You mistaken what I said. A company with bad press will get more attention from jouranlists trying to uncover more bad press.
I think I might have not understood your 2nd para altogether but the only legal repercussion I can think of would be the tie-ups that FB has with advertisers who've paid for certain minutes of FB ads. But, this is just financial and one that shouldn't figure when there's such disturbing behaviour at stake.
Perhaps someone kindly asked them and they couldn't say no?
I got the same result, but my site weighs 0.01MB apparently (it's actually lower at 6kB according to webpagetest.org).

I think small sized sites weigh next to nothing. This is more intended for people with much bigger sites.
Demand? Sheesh!
It's a good thing unless your entire worldview is wrapped up in having your children "do better than you," whatever that means. I think many people have a gut reaction to decreased mobility (I know I do) as being somehow anti-meritocratic. It's very possible the science doesn't back that up but I don't know that there is any research on it. I feel like high mobility in both directions means a society is more meritocratic than one in which you generally stay in the same socioeconomic strata you're born into.
I'm a co-founder on Brave. Brave was actually built on Graphene, which is Gecko at the start, similar to Mozilla's browser.html project which was created by paulrouget, Gozala, and gordonbrander.

We switched to Chromium within the first few months for various reasons including performance and HTML JS based APIs being ready across platforms.

We do want to move to Servo once it's in a more complete state, it just has a lot of years until it is ready.
An update on the Jeep I built to drive around Africa for 2 years
Every day a pixel
fantastic pov.. thanks for sharing
How about sports? Soccer, basketball, tennis, dodgeball?
Try sex, dancing, medieval sword fencing, playing with children in the parc, paintball, walking to the local grocery shop, avoiding elevators, laser tag, going to the beach, skying, boxing, gardening, bar fighting, historical rehersal, theater...

It doesn't need to feel like doing sport. Moving your body is what's important.
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>> Their terms of use are awful.[1] Note that they want to operate under British law, where libel law favors the subject. They have an indemnification clause, so their volunteers could be compelled to reimburse WikiTribune if WikiTribune loses a libel suit.

Wow, that liability is enough to keep me from participating.
Uber keeps being Uber, a shady investment and value-destroying business.
What schools DON'T teach debugging? Simple trace statements were one of the first things we learned in 101.

Maybe I was just lucky to have a good teacher. I still remember him not liking my solution to a problem when I was extremely proud of how smart I'd made an object, so that it reacted properly based on whatever was passed in. Instead of arguing with me he offered an extra credit assignment to take all of the logic out of the object and see if I could get it working that way...I did it and realized how much simpler his way was.

Hindsight makes you appreciate the patience that took.
Limiting our vocabulary to that of cavemen or children with limited capabilities is not a step forward in evolution. At least not one I'm looking forward to.
This site rather tells differences between national mobile data plans than how expensive your site is.
I think that there are few different reasons:

- Polish people are tech savvy and get easily excited about new tech, so there's high demand for data services

- there is a lot of competition. There are four major vendors, and there's already more than one mobile phone per citizen (and that's including infants). So the only way of acquiring new customers is to make them switch from other telecom.

- Poland is pretty small and have relatively high population density, so it's pretty easy to have good coverage.

- It is easy to avoid taxes (and even if you pay them, they are pretty low), so telecoms have a lot of spare cash to invest in the infrastructure :)
Actually, they probably don't.

The vast majority of the ocean hasn't been mapped with multibeam, civilian or military. Unless it's an area that's of strategic interest (i.e. mostly costal areas), it's very unlikely that the military has mapped it in detail.

That having been said, getting the military to declassify more of its magnetic anomaly data for the ocean basins would be immensely helpful for understanding global tectonic evolution. They have mapped it in quite a bit of detail from airborne and marine platforms. However, an accurate and detailed map of magnetic anomalies gives a huge edge in submarine detection, so it's unlikely they'll declassify all of it anytime soon.
Yeah this makes much more sense. Implementers can localise if they want but skin colour isn't that important.

I should totally be able to long press on dog emoji for a breed selector though.
Its easy to use real facts to lie. This is IMO the MSM approach to fake news.
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> KZZ40,162.45 MHz, Deerfield NH.

I see. I can't seem to find an online receiver for that frequency, although I did find that WZ2500 uses or seems to have used that frequency (for Wytheville VA).

I had a look at SDR.hu (a site I may or may not have just dug out of Google for the first time), but unfortunately the RTL-SDR receivers I can find seem to focus entirely on 0-30MHz. There are a couple ~400MHz receivers but nothing for ~160MHz.

(I may have fired up the receiver I found in NH and fiddled with it, puzzled, for 10 minutes before realizing the scale is in kHz, not MHz... yay)

> Note that the stations have several different voices they use for different reports.

Right.

> Now that I think about it, I'm not sure which one I heard the mistakes on - it might have been one of the older ones.

That's entirely possible. (But hopefully not. I kind of want to hear. :P)

> BTW, I like the Tom voice more than the newer Paul. Paul is more realistic, but is also more soft-spoken and monotonic. Tom has more inflection and sounds more...forceful. I know it's just my imagination, but sometimes Tom sounds annoyed at bad weather :)

I just learned about this service, I have to admit (I'm in Australia). It sounds really nice to be able to have a computer continuously read out the weather conditions to you as they change. And I can completely relate to the idea of preferring the voice that sounds unimpressed when the weather's bad :D
I'm curious where you saw that figure of 5 days. Everything I've seen is 7-8 nights, e.g., depart 9/9 and arrive 9/16. That doesn't substantively change your point; I was just surprised to see 5 days.
Oh, is it considered credible? Not being in the UK I don't have a sense of this, but I had gradually built up a perception over the last couple months that it was a sort of click-bait, mediocre source like, maybe, HuffPo or BuzzFeed. I put it somewhere above Daily Mail but below BBC or The Guardian.

I started forming this opinion on an article that re-hashed the story of Flynn being fired, but in such a poorly edited way with so much bluster that I literally couldn't understand what the actual facts were it was trying to convey. Fortunately, the article linked to the WaPo story it was based on, and I was able to understand from there.

I wish I could find that story now, but unfortunately I couldn't. But I found this one in my browser history, which I think shows the issues I have with it:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-russi...

The headline is big and blustery, which is why I associate it with clickbait. Then the first paragraph explains: "it has been reported". That is, the Independent isn't doing the primary research itself; it finds other articles and amplifies them. There's a bunch of sites that do this and it frustrate me, since the original article usually is a little more nuanced. The whole game here is to pick an article and make it more juicy.

Compare the headline of the Guardian article which this one is "amplifying":

> British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia. Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015

with the Independent's take on the same story:

> 'Concrete evidence of collusion between Trump team and Russia' handed to official investigation. New evidence comes as sources reveal British spy agency GCHQ played pivotal role in uncovering interactions between US President and Russian operatives

It's the same story. The first paragraph of the Independent article uses the "has been reported" phrasing, and the second links to the Guardian article it's based on.

On top of that, the Independent article itself has boneheaded phrasing like:

> "a source allegedly told the Guardian."

The underlying Guardian article talks about "alleged conversations", but now we get to the Independent, and now on top of that we have "alleged sources"! How far away are we from what really happened here? I mean, I guess I'm glad they're not saying "a source told The Guardian" since they don't really have proof of that, but that's a weird thing to be strict about, and really just indicates how worthless this 2nd hand reporting style is anyway.

So I basically ignore the Independent now whenever I see it come up. I didn't realize they were supposed to be one of the "good" ones.
yeah, you really can't just pull a quote out of this book and analyze it in stand-alone. I just re-read the book, and that sentence really had nothing to do with the economics of labor and motorcycle maintenance. OP's quote was more a reminder about a specific chapter of importance for people who had already read the book.
Honestly, this seems grossly un-American at the most basic levels. A 100% tax on the estate upon one's death? Legal prohibitions against the purchase of real estate past a certain point?
no problem and thanks for your volunteering!
Is there any evidence anything like this is happening?
I do this with punctuation. I tell my students that by default, I'll use exclamation marks when empty boilerplate phrases regardless of my actual enthusiasm, e.g. "Sounds good!". For students whom I am more familiar with and don't need the fakery, I'll settle for "Sounds good.". But depending on how petty and irritable I am at the moment, maybe the closing period will be used as a passive-aggressive way of implying, "No, that does not really 'sound good'.", and you'll just have to guess!

After awhile, students appreciate the way programming language interpreters immediately and decisively raise errors on even the simplest typos and syntax errors.
Let's not find the cure of Cancer because "Too many people here directly or indirectly dependent on the ecosystem."

Flawed argument.
One eye sees more red, the other gives a blue tone to everything. But very slightly, easier to notice when comparing what I see when using one eye at a time for some reddish thing (furniture, mainly). And seems that astigmatism and a toxoplasmosis changed those levels (lessen the effect).
When, up until recently, not even Google was willing to cover their own load balancer under their BAA.

The load balancer is a shared resource. Your data is being decrypted and re-encrypted in a shared memory space with all other customer's data. Consider the issue CloudFlare customers faced recently [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/major-cloudflare-bug-leake...
I'm always on the lookout for a good modern C tutorial. It's a hard language to teach to people who don't have a good mental model of the computer. So when I got to this:

> In a C program first of all you need to initialize the graphics drivers on the computer. This is done using the initgraph method provided in graphics.h library

I stopped reading.
> Anything that has one right answer is going to smell like a made-up classroom assignment.

It should be alright in a classroom setting. I remember one particular piece of an assignment that I received a 0 on many years ago.

We were doing String manipulation, and the iterative pieces of the assignment culminated in us building a simplistic cipher. The part I did not receive credit for was recursively reversing the String. I just called the reverse method. Same result, so no harm no foul right? Wrong.

The point wasn't to reverse the String so that the cipher could be created. It was to incorporate programming basics such as recursion into an assignment. It was a shoe-horned method to get us to use recursion, but it got the point across.
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The hit to in-flight productivity will be enormous.

Then again, this falls into the same 'collateral damage' category as speed bumps - saves lives but also shortens lives with air and noise pollution, interferes with paramedics, increases commute time etc.
Users? That looks like Apple's fault for allowing that asymmetry in Mac OS.
I can't really say I'm a fan of all the imperatives. I could even choose to consider them a bit on the rude side.
Danger of massively killing one another? Unending vendetta?

Cultivating cross-cultural resentment makes the world more violent, and less safe, for everyone.

Another example of the tragedy of the commons.
When people actually learn what "cult of free" actually costs they get angry, then forget really fast. It's actually kind of amusing to watch, especially when older media keeps it in the spotlight.
The gravity-based methods require the ship track data as well -- they're not fully independent methods. (i.e. not only are they calibrated to it, ship-track bathymetry is actually half of the input data for gravity-derived bathymetry.)

It's still really quite amazing how well it matches in an area that's pretty far from dense ship-track bathymetry data.
I built a farm management SaaS product. It's basically a managerial accounting platform. I've written a bunch of blog posts (75 I think) over the last 2 years.

I see what posts perform well on FB, then boost them.

I've spent $22,000 on Facebook ads and have acquired 6,000 leads from the spend.
Meditation does help a lot with appreciating using one's body, and in many other aspects of life.

But it's a lot of work and take some time to get benefits. Plus the benefits don't arrive in the same order for everybody.

So while this is probably a good advice, I don't think it should be the only solution applied. It's more like a long term advice.
I can't stomach using them anymore.
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52 here and code everyday, some for work, some for personal development, but most because I enjoy it. I am also manage a security engineering team for a living. I've been coding since I was 12ish. Most of what I code in now is Python for work and Swift and Java for mobile development, which I find a hell of a lot of fun. Mostly making tutor apps for my kids studies.

What I find interesting is that when I walk into a meeting with younger developers they immediately assume I only know cobol or rpg and not the various stacks I work with. Once we start working with them on securing their code they realize what experience brings to the table. It's hard to believe that there are still some programmers out there that don't know what cross site scripting is, or how to prevent SQL injection etc.
A huge part of that is perceptions of Obamacare's impact on the economy and the outcome of the election's expectations to change it.
Well, when they mention "allows remote", it is mostly not remote (work anywhere, wherever you like, just get things done) from what I gather. This is from a British company in London, "because we love family, and are a family company, we will allow 2 days a week for you to work from anywhere." :-)
OT: The article's cover picture is a masterpiece.

Reminds me of 'Spirits that I've cited // My commands ignore.' (Goethe)
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Out of those, Micro-USB is the only one I've seen fail and I've never even heard of the other types failing. Usually, the locking pins bend and it will no longer hold securely. Meanwhile flash drives with USB A plugs last indefinitely.
I've been in the same spot. It turns out we tell ourselves stories.

> Staying 30 minutes longer happens easily so it's 7:30

Set an alarm to 6:50. Get out on time.

> Commuting to the gym would take another 20-30

You don't need a gym.

> Go to supermarket, maybe cook something up

Shop once a week. Cook ahead & freeze.

>Now spinning up the brain to focus on something creative also needs a bit of time.

Move that to the morning, if you need the evening for social activities.

> Do I work on other hobbies that I've been putting off too long?

Trust me: You want to work out. There are always more hobbies than you have time for. There's only one healthy body. And you're not (easily) getting it back if you let it go.
I see it this way: a motorcycle has only one inherent value - the ability to take you from point A to B more efficiently.

If it can't fulfill this core function without the screw, it is valueless.

Of course, you can pawn the motorcycle for thousands of dollars, but for that, you would have to have a marketplace and buyers. You can also turn some parts into tools and probably repurpose the tyres into something useful.

But again, to do that, you would have to have the knowhow and the necessary tools and time for repurposing.

If you were in an isolated environment with no other people around and no additional tools, a motorcycle that doesn't function is as good as "valueless".
Agree in principle. Another way of putting it is, debugging is another word for applying the "scientific method." E.g., experimental vs control group is a useful concept in debugging
Although I laughed, I'm sure GP meant sphere. That is the correct formula for volume of a sphere, and a sphere is a circle in 3-space.
Nobody is arguing for limiting our communication to only emoji, but augmenting it with emoji.

Sometimes I want to write an essay, other times I just want to text a poop emoji+sad face to a friend because he's being a shithead.

They can both exist happily in the same world.
Except we have studies showing that speed bumps actually do save lives. There's nothing indicating that this ban would prevent bombs on planes in any meaningful way.
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Wording is important. The current US president is a good example of what happens, when one is careless with one's language.

GS doesn't define U.S. economic policy. It might lobby for some specific issues, sure. But it isn't interested in defining the entirety of economic policy.

Also, I don't see lobbying as a problem, if it is transparent.
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how did he die and when
Could you explain the limits of the free plan? Interested in trying this out but it's not clear what I'll get it and if/when I'll be forced to pay. That said, I understand the value in paying for such a service instead of selling off all my data.
From RFC-3629 [1] (the UTF8 spec), on page 4:

In UTF-8, characters from the U+0000..U+10FFFF range (the UTF-16
accessible range) are encoded using sequences of 1 to 4 octets.

It would be absurd for an encoding that's used by 88.9% of the web [2] to be implemented in a way that doesn't respect the standard.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629#page-5

[2] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/UTF-8
Damn. Nothing with C, C++ or C#.