skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When writing a tool for real-world businesses to use, the path of least resistance needs to lead to bug-free code, and the tool must handle common buggy usage gracefully.

Disagree. There's a reason fail fast and hard is gaining steam as a best practice. The number of latent, surprising or buggy behaviours explodes combinatorially with each layer of a system that acts permissively in this way.
Is Spotify hacked?
Someone is using my Spotify Premium account from an Android device that I don't own. I even changed my password, logged out everywhere, deleted offline devices and use two-factor Facebook auth. as login, but that same person still has access and creates random playlists within my account. With 2FA and a strong password, I'm thinking it's a breach on Spotify's side rather than my account being hacked. Does anyone have a clue what might be happening?
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This is a bad sign right? I think this is a bad sign.
I dont think it's really nihilism I just dont believe humans will fix this issue (if they even can). But life will certainly go on, it just might not be us here on Earth.
I will not . I am just truly grateful that some people took the time out to read something I wrote. Amazing !!
No, a lot are local, some aren't. I don't know the names directly off hand. I try a lot of hot sauces without really much brand loyalty. I just have noticed a lot more lately (last few years) that have maybe 1-2% sodium as opposed to 7-9% on traditional hot sauces at big brand stores.
It doesn't look like you get to drive in the tunnels. You get put on a car that is on fixed tracks.
This is correct. The only passage open the last few years has been the Lancaster Sound route which is not suitable for shipping. The Prince of Wales Strait is the only viable route, but hasn't opened up fully the last number of years.

In contrast, the Northeast passage has opened up every year for the last 10+ years and offers huge gains for ships from Asia to Europe. From wikipedia, the difference between Suez and NEP for Yokohama to Rotterdam is 37% shorter.
Even more boring
> It's unfortunate Canadians have been unable to expand in our own territory over the few hundred years Europeans have been in this place.

Personally I disagree - I think it's fortunate that there are still large swaths of undeveloped natural territory in Canada, particularly the northern provinces. It might be cold up there, but it sure is beautiful.
Interesting. I'm not a fan of emoji (or memes for that matter) in general, but I realize they're part of the tech culture now and try not to let them bother me too much.

The first shrug emoji was after the 9.2 data corruption bug. I took that one to mean "Yup. What are we going to do? There was a bug, and we fixed it as quickly as we correctly could. Incredibly regrettable, but that kind of stuff is going to happen." There are bugs in software. Knowing the Postgres developer community, they take correctness very seriously.

The second one is after the Uber quote which describes their tolerance for developer's holding open transactions and blocking I/O operations, which they do so from a position of inexperience because they're not database experts. I understood this one to mean "If you're going to use handle transactions in this manner, that's not something Postgres itself is going to be able to help you with."

The third was in response to the Uber quote regarding Uber application bugs which resulted in open idle connections. I took this shrug to mean that if this is an issue, it likely can (and should) be fixed in the Uber applications. It's not really a Postgres issue.

The fourth (and last) was in response to the lack of quantitative information regarding their Postgres issues (which makes honest, in-depth third-party investigation difficult), Uber's decision to go schema-less, and that MySQL is more tolerant of the bugs in Uber software. I took this one again to mean that there's little that Postgres itself is responsible for, or can do anything about here.

A question I always like to ask myself when someone has issues with something a third party is responsible for is what is a realistic and reasonable response from the third party. That often makes me realize that there's little they can be expected to do or are really responsible for, at least for some of the issues. For the most part, I think these shrugs reflect that.

If the shrug emojis were removed, would it be okay? Anything else?
Let's say you have your gun stored properly. How quickly would you be able to arm yourself if the starting point is when you are sleeping? Quick enough to defend against an intruder who knows you are home and still enters? (Honest question. I don't own a gun, never used one. I am thinking of getting licensed for fun at the range.)
Not sure about sodium content, but green yucateco is my household staple, and secret aardvark from portland is one I found recently and is perhaps the best hot sauce I've ever had. It's so good you want to eat it by the spoonful.

Both of those sauces aren't vinegar-forward (like tabasco is), FWIW
This is a solved problem. It's called trains.

Visit Switzerland and you'll see that it is superfluous to build all this expensive infrastructure just to stick your personal car on a train.

Riding in a train is bigger, way more comfortable, and much cheaper.
It's open and free [1] as of 1999. It has nothing to do with SAP specifically, many vendors and enterprise software systems support it.

[1] http://cxml.org/license.html
Of course, there is the mandatory tumblr: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Even if it is sincere (most of the time, it is), there are words or expressions that "tags" an end-of-company-life corporate post very quickly.
Yea, when I get my own place that is easier for growing (we do a little now but not as much as I would like) I definitely want to grow my own ingredients for hot sauces/salsas.

Do you have any reading or anything you would recommend for getting into that type of thing? I was also interested in the viability of like an indoor greenhouse/hydroponics setup for growing chilis and things.
This is exactly my thoughts
Underground living on Mercury is much more interesting than Mars. (There's a band close to the poles and a few meters down that has very stable and comfortable temperatures.
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There's Whisper: http://whisper.sh/
It'll be interesting to see how fast banning the pollution results in water quality changes.
> I wonder what really prompted the NSA to stop this collection.

Rogue analyst finding damaging emails from some relevant politician? I.e. let's look at this Saudi Aramco chain mail because maybe extremist ties, but find email of Mr. Politician asking for donations bundled within the chain?
But isn't that the idea behind Rails? Opinionated defaults with a config to change the setting somewhere?
If you still have the thing, it clearly hasn't been seized.

Therefore the only question left is whether it was a search.
Doesn't matter too much for the rocks: if a few metre of rock won't absorb the radiation, neither will your body.
That's a lot of good insight into tunnel boring. Thanks for that.

I know Cincinnati's subway failed because of some bad tunnelling that caused foundations to sink .. well that and the great depression. If they had started earlier or designed it better, Cincinnati could have a Chicago like transit system today. Unfortunately it took them years to get a tram and there are people still trying to shut that down instead of expand it! Unbelievable.

I know in Seattle, many of the tunnels (like to Northgate/UDistrict) have actually been fully bored. The new stations are still not due to open for a few years, mostly because the majority of time isn't spend on the tunnels, but installing track, electrics and building the underground rail stations.
Many Chinese goods traditionally have had a reputation of low quality. Maybe that reputation is outdated or perhaps it was never quite accurate (?), but either way I don't think it's reasonable to label a reference to that reputation as racist.

African-Americans traditionally have had a reputation of enjoying watermelon and fried chicken. Is it "reasonable" to label casual and/or backhanded references to that reputation as racist?

Hint: Yes. Yes it is.

It would have been perfectly easy to write a story like this, decrying the modern marketplace full of cheaply made, disposable, plastic, ghost-shift junk products, counterfeits, and fly-by-night non-brand brands, without naming the most common country of origin. We all know the stuff largely comes from China; pointing it out explicitly doesn't add information, only sentiment.

Yet so many stories bring up China specifically. There's an impulse there the author(s) aren't examining in themselves. The author(s) may not have explicitly racist intent, but the result is absolutely a racist pattern.
You are correct, I expect that additional organic growth in all parts of the Bay Area will continue to increase the density, and there's not much I can do about that. However, as that does happen, I would expect that the area would continue to "sprawl" outwards, attracting employers to some of the more outlying areas because office space and employee cost of living are both cheaper, and that these areas would continue to provide the lifestyle I desire.

I do, however, push back against articles like this that characterize such sprawl as bad, and that instead of allowing growth and sprawl to happen organically, seek to curb it by lobbying for policy change.
Ah, that's fair. Wasn't thinking literal definitions of pro/amateur.
That is massive. That is even more than the 3.5B Uber raised in the last round.
> Do you have any information on the prospective volume of trade?

Not really, though COSCO (a top-5 shipper by capacity and market share [1]) expressed interest again in 2016 [2], sending 5 ships through; they were the first Chinese shipping company to send a ship this way in 2013 [3], and express a continued interest almost every year -- like in 2015 [4].

Russian forecasts are extremely ambitious to the point of being pure wishful thinking [5]. There are some challenges with the route [5][6], and not all shippers are on board, and of course global shipping has just had its lowest growth in years [7].

[1] https://www.alphaliner.com/top100/ [2] https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-industry-and-energy... [3] http://barentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2013/08/first-container... [4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-shipper-cosco-to-schedu... [5] https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-industry-and-energy... [6] http://www.platts.com/latest-news/shipping/moscow/feature-de... [7] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/08/20/490621376/a...
I wrote it over two days and didn't notice the missing animal. Color me embarrassed. Honestly I was not a fan of writing, typing being much faster. But a chance reading of the book "Thinking with type" and a big discussion with a friend about how handwriting is unique to a person made think of my handwriting as a type. Thanks for reading!!
The 97% claim is bullshit: https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexeps...

I do believe that there is man made climate change, however, but this meme has to end.
This was exactly my thought as I watched the video.
"Its title is the genesis of your buzzy cliche"

It's not, actually. The progenitor of such titles is "Zen in the Art of Archery",[1] which was published 26 years earlier.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_in_the_Art_of_Archery
Should I finally drop QWERTY?
I built this: https://dropanon.com. Not the same but similar
Dense cities and narrow streets would solve the same problems with fewer technical demands. Look up New World Economics and "Really Narrow Streets"; the author provides a blueprint of sorts for traditional cities with minimal commute/transport expenses.
Very interesting paper, but the experimental section confuses me. They compare their system which preprocesses the graph into the tile-structure (a compressed representation), but none of the in-memory systems they compare against use a compressed representation. Is this comparison really apples-to-apples? If you can reduce the size in-memory of the graph by 60%, then I would expect an algorithm running on the compressed version to be faster than the same algorithm running on the uncompressed version (assuming that decoding the compressed adjacency-list is significantly cheaper than the cost of a cache-miss).
My favorite part of this post was how they tried to loosely tie Yik Yak to Square's mission. But they didn't beat around the bush that this was an acquihire.

I used YikYak throughout its rise, peak, and as it started tapering off. It ended up being a comibation of meme/joke reposting from Reddit combined with a lot of really vulgar low-brow content. It was entertaining for a while but only due to the shock value.
Is it illegal?,

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-legality-of-web-scraping

The answer from Pablo Hoffman talks and provides some links regarding web scraping and US cases.
Maybe I used a very bad and distracting (and political) example. "Suffering" wasn't really something I was trying to talk about, here. (To be clear, pain is a matter of instinct, which is to say, a predefined brain structure that "works" from birth—and maybe before-hand—whenever it shows up.) Rather, I was specifically talking about this thing we call "thinking." The thing that humans do when they're awake and lucid, and don't do when they're asleep/unconscious/in a dissociative fugue. The thing that the courts care about as mens rea.

Many higher-level vertebrates develop some capacity for "thinking"—that is, for planning/strategizing, puzzle-solving, learning and synthesizing information, forming concepts and abstractions, overriding instincts with beliefs based on evidence, etc. Humans and all other primates do this; as do crows and their relatives; as do dolphins; etc.

But none of these animals start with that ability from birth. "Thinking" has never been observed as behavior available instinctually to any animal. A newborn crow or gorilla, despite being rather self-sufficient with a library of instinctual responses, won't be able to solve the puzzles that we get the adults of those species to solve and which we cite as proof of their intelligence. They grow that ability from months/years of life experience.

In fact, almost by definition, "thinking" is something you have to build: it's a big conceptual hierarchy with sensory data at its base. And—as far as we know—instinct can't pre-bake the needed raw sensory data into brains. (It can bake in higher-level associations, like scent- or pattern-associations for predator avoidance. But it doesn't include these in low-level "raw" terms where a brain can derive any of its own interpretations or abstractions from them.)

Without accumulated experience, a brain is still experiencing the world, and reacting to the world, and experiencing reward signals from the world—like most animals do—but is not yet thinking about the world. Thinking is a matter of updating beliefs about schemas/models/concepts; and those things only exist when derived from sense-data "evidence."
Peppers do well in dry soil, it's not a myth that wet and rain makes peppers less spicy. Peppers also must be pollinated, so I think that's two counts against indoors/hydroponics.

However, they thrive in the sun with little water, you can basically set them outside a window and forget about them.
Yes, but at some point you can't just go around installing all the possible extensions/gems/whatever that you think are "good". The default gemfile would be 300 lines long with "developer happiness" gems such as `oink`, `bullet`, etc etc etc.

Most of the things that Rails is "opinionated" about are far more arbitrary than this, like whether the database primary key should be “id”, “postId”, “posts_id”, or “pid”.
When I left a previous employer, their legal department sent me a certified letter sternly stating that any "thought" or "idea" I had during my employment was their property.
You posted a bunch of headlines by journos, not scientists and expect us to take that as some holy grail of evidence that GW isn't happening.

That's nor surprising, considering you're a libertarian, but from the perspective of people who live in the real world, it's lunacy.
> a lot are local

Some of the best, hottest hot sauces I've bought have been from little stands at farmers' markets southwest of here (semi-rural area). Some without labels - just a jar of the stuff. The only bad part is trying to go back months later to get more.
Here's a question for those way smarter than me. Why is there a need for a platform?

Some pros:
- If its a shitty, poor regulated car.. this will lead to more safety
- Avoid adding extra gear (software/hardware) to the car

Cons:
- Size restriction
- Clean up and Maintenance
- How do you ensure the car is in the platform securely?
>Sorry, but that's hyperbole.

I respectfully disagree. As soon as United requested LEO intervention; use of force was an implied outcome.

>the dispute became more than a civil dispute once he refused flight crew instructions to leave the aircraft.

The dispute became more than a civil dispute the moment that LEO intervention was requested, and not before.

>There was [a safety or security justification] once a passenger demonstrated they're not willing to comply with the flight crew.

Is that really true? It insinuates that all flight crew instructions considered safety and security instructions.

>Contrary to popular belief, commercial aircraft are not glorified busses.

Commercial Aircraft of the type being discussed are flying buses, by definition. bus : a large motor vehicle designed to carry passengers usually along a fixed routed according to a schedule. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bus

>Then argue that to your heart's content after deplaning. The aircraft you're being told to leave isn't the proper forum for legal and contractual disputes.

The assertion here being that a person should allow their contractual or legal rights to be violated for the convenience of others?
One weakness of all public transportation is the lack of personal space. Maybe if someone would have solved that either by more space or some deep psychological insights, it would become more popular among Americans?
Yes, and I've actually never used Outlook with Exchange. But I'm only sending plain text responses, not trying to use any advanced features, and it works fine to receive and read meeting invites (just as messages).

What goes wrong with plain text responses in Outlook, by the way?
If the sample is small enough you can always use an optical coherence microscope. You can get optical microscope resolutions in 3D of in-vivo samples. It's similar to a confocal microscope but with much higher resolution. Only thing is they can be dang expensive but nowhere near as much as an MRI.

You can also get OCT devices for pretty cheap. They use them in optometrist offices for imaging retinas.
The silent generation taxed themselves massively compared to the baby boomers. They had next to no national debt, and massive private and public infrastructure being built.

Today's wealthy and politically connected baby boomers cannot be bothered at all with this. They demand low taxes, stuffing the stock market with the bounty rather than starting or expanding businesses, and then charge the national credit card with all the costs of their unwillingness to contribute anything meaningful. Except maybe some halfway decent music - but that does not give them a pass for being greedy, stingy, hoarders.

At the moderate to low end of the pay scale, even 0% taxes fails to mitigate the wage stagnation problem. This really only gets fixed when the cost of hoarding becomes really fucking expensive. So expensive it's saner to take the risk on starting or growing a business, and the ensuing tax deductions that come with that (those are generally 100% tax deductible expenses by the way, with exceptions for gifts and entertainment).

Right now we don't have that. It's hoarding and credit charging time. And this bullshit tax cut proposal is even more of that.
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Why exactly? Are engineers somehow special? What about RN's, and architects, and home inspectors? All licensed positions. I could list a thousand different role which require licensing because a mistake in their field has serious repercussions, especially regarding safety.

I don't think most software devs should require licensing, but they're not doing what I and many others would consider 'real' engineering. At least, their mistakes don't often have serious impact on people. We're not talking about that here though, we're talking about civil engineering.
>Stop trying to make this a safety or security issue, there's no justification for it.

Wasn't trying to make it about anything, just responding to a comment asking the difference between an aircraft and a bus.

That said, if you have a passenger who's repeatedly not complying with the flight crew on the ground, why then become airborne with that passenger on board? That is a safety issue.
The article is missing a key point. I love chillies, ginger, horseradish, etc. And sure, I'm an adrenaline junky, and sometimes too macho. But I have learned a key thing about eating hot food: It's far more fun if you ramp up the burn gradually. The pain transforms into something else, more like pleasure. Just as it does with sex. And I do believe that other flavors taste better on top of the burn.

Milk is a decent antidote for overexposure. Better is yogurt. And even better is yogurt with mint and cucumber, one of the standard raitas. Or yogurt and banana.
But ultimately you aren't going to have tunnels dug by the Boring Company out into the extensive suburbs either. The question ultimately becomes whether it makes sense to give up large amounts of space (even if underground) in the centre for parking (for everyone commuting from the suburbs), or give up space further out where land is cheaper and less dense for large car parks at stations. (Obviously there's a cost in changing mode of transport, but that somewhat applies to the pods too.)
You very likely could, and I've always had good experience with Amazon in similar situations, but it still takes a good chunk of your time to wait for the item, open it, realize it is not the actual item, contact Amazon for a refund, package it back up again, and drop it off/schedule a pick-up.
It sounds like one of the core issues is dimensionality reduction. I would suggest reducing everything to text. Text is one-dimensional.

In this case:

>> Like any other map, we can add textual labels — street signs if you will. This allows us to navigate the design space verbally with commands like: “take me to a maple leaf.” Once there, we could say something like: “take me a bit closer to an oak leaf.”

The change here would be subtle. Rather than a two-way conversation between tool and user, instead it's more like the user is telling a story and the tool is making suggestions along the way:

start:

"Create a leaf"

tool inserts a suggestion:

"Create a [maple,oak,cherry,...] leaf"

user updates the story with the clarification:

"Create a maple leaf"

tool suggests:

"Create a [red,green,...] maple leaf"

user:

"Create a green maple leaf"

user starts typing more:

"Create a green maple leaf on a"

tool inserts suggestions:

"Create a maple leaf on a [branch,wreath,...]"

Hope this is helpful.
Nice job. However I don't think this technically counts as "Show HN".
It's the only practical way to get to space and stay there...
Did you mess around with an Android emulator?
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They are giving a presentation at ACCU 2017 tomorrow. [0] I will find out and report back. :)

[0] https://conference.accu.org/site/stories/2017/sessions.html#...

(Apparently chap was previously called ah64)
The thing to do is to check for what is potentially inconsistent with your hypothesis.
For example, what about the neural link company?