skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. Something similar is happening in Zimbabwe my home country. Mining wasn't banned but mining companies left the country because the laws being passed made it difficult for outside companies to operate. The result is that a lot of illegal mining is now taking place so much so that the government was forced to acknowledge it by issuing gold/mineral selling licenses. In the past the government issued mining certificates, miners sold the minerals. So the question is where is the gold coming from?
> Why would you use this instead of a system where you take a neighborhood bus to the local transit station & shopping center where you can pick up a light rail to the closest subway station, where you take the express train downtown to the high-speed rail station, where you take that to visit the next state for the day? No cars, and you can sit and read a book or take a nap or enjoy the view if you wanted to.

I'll take that one.

Because I love my car - not the car itself, although I really do think it's beautiful - but the freedom that it gives me. I can get in it right now, without any planning or waiting and drive almost anywhere using exactly the route I choose. While sitting behind the wheel, I'm forced to not be able to do anything else than driving. That is a very nice time to think and just be. Some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen was in places where the nearest public transport option was a hour's drive away.

I can leave stuff in the trunk if I buy it one day and then need it the next day. I also do grocery shopping weekly - carrying 5 bags of food by hand gets old really fast.

The car is also where my younger kid's car seat is. I'm pretty sure nobody else would put their kid in there, the shape of the chocolate and cookie crumb mountain is exactly the shape he fits in you know.

So, yes, you can do what you described. In fact, you can do it already today, but having a car? There's a reason people buy and repair and like them.
They don't. What you could do: install Proxmox (via Debian 8). And then inside Proxmox (KVM) install Windows.

Prior installing Windows you could create a snapshot of your machine to keep around in case of reinstalls.

This is what I have tested
Where are you going to sue the government... in a government court?
Startups: Why Giving Stuff Away for Free Is the Best Marketing Tool
Remind me, what does the NS at the beginning of class names in the OSX frameworks stand for again? It's on the tip of my tongue.

The technology Jobs believed in and developed at NeXT really did dominate the industry. It's in the phone I'm typing this on right now.
>30 years is not long enough for everyone involved to be dead and no longer influential... and that doesn't even touch on whether the reason it happened is structural.

Context matters.
With the end of the cold war, the oligarchy doesn't get to use a threat to gather support.
And a certain level of diversification of those economies have made the very powerful less power.

My second point is that half of South America had left wing government and there was no Coups.
Things would have been very different for Lula or Correa in the 70's.
The problem I have with ThunderBird is how poor it is an
writing text only emails.
Surprised the list doesn't mention PGHero (https://github.com/ankane/pghero). It's been really useful at our company to find slow queries and identify missing indices.
One of the things I've noticed about people who offer solutions like this is that they tend to offer things they like to do or can do. You live a life that's amenable to bicycling. If you're a single mother working two part time jobs, bicycling will not ever work. If you live in a rural town, cycling will not work. If you have any health issues, cycling won't work. If you are middle age, there's a good chance it wont work either unless you already cycled for most of your life.

You're asking other people to sacrifice that you aren't really doing yourself, because it's not a sacrifice to you.
I'm sure there is a lot of waste in the UC Office of the President. But Universities have become huge, complicated behemoths with many functions besides education.

I recently saw a breakdown of where the money for one of the UC campuses comes from. About 50% was from the associated Medical center, about 25% was from federal research grants (many of which had PIs in the medical school and medical center), about 15% from tuition, and 10% from other sources (not broken down further). This wasn't UCSF, either, where I would expect the medical center's budget to dwarf everything else.

I don't think it would be too far fetched to call it a medical center that happens to have school with 30K undergraduates attached. I wonder how the cost of running the chancellor's office there compares with the costs of administration of a medical services company?

Of course, at this point aren't Yale and Harvard basically hedge funds?
No, it's not. You, like the linked article, should reconsider speaking for others.
To amplify your point, cloning in the sense used in this discussion is intellectual property theft.

It doesn't matter whether it deliberately attempts to pass itself off as the genuine article (i.e. a counterfeit item) or attempts to capitalize on the name brand by making the article visually almost identical (e.g. Sharpie vs Shoupie pens - a knockoff).

A sobering fact is that about $653 billion worldwide is lost from counterfeit goods[1]. The FBI takes this position[2]:

> legitimate businesses lose billions of dollars in revenue and suffer damaged reputations, consumer prices go up, the U.S. and global economies are robbed of jobs and tax revenue, product safety is reduced, and sometimes lives are even put at risk.

As much as I am not a fan in particular of the FBI, I agree with this statement. In fact, the USA is hit the hardest by far, losing $225 billion annually to counterfeiting[3].

Bottom line: a person or company should be able to profit from their ideas, research and development, productization, licensing and marketing, without having these things stolen by others and used to make money off their sweat.

[1]: http://www.havocscope.com/category/counterfeit-goods/

[2]: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime/piracy-ip...

[3]: http://www.havocscope.com/losses-to-counterfeit-goods-by-cou...
It gets even better, apparently!

http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/

> This is the publisher's own PDF proof of the second version, which was sent to the printers in August 2005.

> This is better than the bootleg copies available from download sites (...): It is the complete text of the second printing, which incorporates many minor corrections; the bootleg copies are all bootlegs of the first printing.

> Higher-Order Perl is not in the public domain and is not available under a free license of any sort. I distribute it from this web site by virtue of special permission from the publisher.

> You may download the book for your personal use, but you may not distribute it to other people, either individually or by uploading it to a file-sharing service.

FWIW, IMO anyone who wants to build an EPUB has all the tools and data they need to make a perfect rendition, and from reading that web page I think the author would be very receptive (and make it available from his site).
I just installed nylas mail to see whether it support
well plain text emails.

It seems to me all this mail solutions requires that
the password of the mail server must be somewhere
visible in a poor plain text file which is a no-go
for me.
One of my favorite books about philosophy. And funny enough, a good book about motivation.
I'm surprised more libertarians aren't worried about the blowback when it becomes common knowledge that they were lying for the benefit of large corporations. I can easily imagine a swing towards nationalisation, confiscation of property etc. when things become visibly messed up.
It took me about a minute of Googling to learn that they did do a gradual approach. They stopped issuing permits a decade ago, which led to a mining company trying (unsuccessfully) to sue them: https://www.iisd.org/itn/2009/08/31/el-salvador-government-c...
> I wouldn't be surprised if it loads these images on mobile too, but I can't be bothered to check.

It does. 5+ second load time over 4G before first render and even then it took a few more seconds to fully load...
The slides do say "There was plenty of speculation about "real" motives."
Hah yeah I remember that. At my previous company, I learned to my amazement that three of the front-end and design folks on the dev team had bought into it. That very same day I walked them through how it was probably a scam of some kind, or at the very least a terrible marketing ploy. They were able to extract a refund. It seems I've produced at least three hundred dollars of value at some point in my life!
Hacker news: a never-ending festival of reposts.
As another user posted I would say the university Facebook meme pages have filled the void left by Yik Yak: inside jokes for people in your school. It's not anonymous, but the general use case and type of content is very similar.
Why would you do this? I doubt support for legacy mode will exist for much longer, either on motherboards or in distributions.
Teach. Find people to mentor, find user groups to present to. There is no better way to learn more about subjects you're superficially familiar with than to teach them. Pick subjects where you think you're an expert, and prove to yourself that you weren't, or pick subjects that you would like to know more about and try to understand them well enough to explain to someone in 45 minutes.

You will be terrible at this at first, but teaching is also a skill that takes lots of practice to acquire.

I would also agree with what others said: stop comparing yourself to others, no good will come of it. There is always someone better, there is always someone worse. It doesn't matter. Set a standard for yourself and meet your own standard.

P.S. If you're looking for a good resource to learn presenting from, I would recommend macsparky's presentations field guide.
Could you give me some info about different banks' security practices?
Those things aren't free, though. You're paying $500-$1000/month for the luxury of doing those things, compared to the $100-$150 cost of a monthly transit pass.

When you consider the costs, cars just don't have the appeal they used to, and you can spend money elsewhere that'll make you just as happy if not happier, especially as more services orient themselves to remove cars from the picture, such as Amazon & grocery delivery services.

Besides, do you want a system that forces the rest of the public to buy cars? The congestion alone should be enough to discourage people from cars.
You're missing the point: This isn't simply about those who are trying to make things better, which is truly many people and is wonderful. This is that subset that go down road others have abandoned or won't go down because the solution is "known to definitely not be down that road."

Those people get flack -- they really do. Despite the inundation of aphorisms all over Facebook and LinkedIn belaboring the concept of radical thinking, when it happens in this, the real world, it's still met with rolled eyes and often anger.
> On Friday, May 8, 2009, W.R. Grace & Co. was acquitted of charges that it knowingly harmed the people of Libby, Montana. It was also acquitted of subsequently participating in any cover-up.

Christ, there really is no justice with these corps.
Not that tunnels are a boring idea, but if you handed me a couple of billion, I think we could solve public transportation using ultralight above ground systems. I would base it on a roller coaster type design using single or dual tracks suspended by high load anchored polls.

The car weights would be kept to a minimum, allowing tracks and supports to be sized much smaller, lowering cost and design requirements. The average car would weight less than a bus, and could travel at very high speeds.

Existing trains and subway systems are based off of hundred-year old freight train systems which were designed to transport thousands of tons of weight. This has a huge cost for subway and commuter train design. A modern subway train costs millions of dollars, weighs multiple tons, and is an immense engineering task.

By engineering a total target track and car weight of a few tons per spacing instead - this system would be far cheaper and easier to maintain.

Passenger cars would be designed to hold only a dozen people, and cars would be linked or unlinked as needed to increase capacity and efficiency. This design also allows the system to maintain extra cars of varying sizes to manage variable rider capacity. Rather than time tables, the system would run based on rider demand, maintaining a slight over-capacity to handle peaks. This is no different than the typical Uber-type demand based system.

On the typical street, such systems would only utilize a few square feet of space per block. They could also utilize existing utilities and would require minimal space for stations. Trains would exit the main track to prevent stalling the main rails while boarding passengers.

This system could also be extended to long-hail service as well into suburbs, or perhaps across states, It wouldn't have nearly the same difficulties of property right of way, environmental impact, and NYMBY - as it essentially has about the same impact as a typical electrical infrastructure. It could also be placed along existing roads and bridges to quickly build out the system.

Anyway - just an idea.
> We could drill more regular roadways - but it's notable that one reason we don't is controlling emissions and safety is difficult with human drivers.

Also cost. Drilling car tunnels is more expensive per passenger served than a mass transit system

> if it's cheap enough to do, hopefully a very scalable one

That's a big unproven if, and a hope that's almost out of a science fiction novel. If Musk has ideas about how to solve those problems, let's hear them.

We already understand that tunnels with electric cars would be great. Everything we do has a cost and if we're going to work together on something as a society, let's do something that benefits more of us than luxury car owners
Only a visitor so don't know the details, but plenty of Brisbane's tunnels seem to be for buses only...
Interesting concept, but big, deep holes in the road seem like a health and safety nightmare.

Look forward to seeing the next iteration.
Do you mind sharing your vim extension? Would love to check that out. My coworker is interested in learning vim and he uses VS Code, so it sounds like a good introduction.
idk. I have been recently setting up some new RHEL/CentOS systems both at home and work. While the base system and documentation both feel really good, the experience still has been somewhat frustrating to the point that I'm moving to Ubuntu LTS at home. The biggest pain point is the amount of stuff that is missing from the main repos, like:

* Python3

* Nginx

* ZFS (this I can understand)

* LXC

RHSCL is supposed to alleviate the pain, but using them also loses one of the big reasons of using RHEL in the first place because RHSCL releases are only supported couple of years. For example for Python3 the RHSCL version is 3.5 and supported until May 2019; even Python.org supports 3.5 series longer than that!
Some time ago I iterated through all the links at http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.... to get their Content-Length. All up it's 21TB compressed. Just US English comes in at about 9GB or something though IIRC (unsure, might be completely wrong).

With this being said, the data is very, very very raw and unprocessed (contains things like "xxiv_DET", "X25.000_NOUN", "X1E", "X16_NUM" etc, just to give some random examples from the Xs). Would be a lot of work to sanitize it, but you might get some interesting results in the process.

So IOW this would be somewhere between "toy" and "interestingness from chaos".
> But it baffles me how websites can exist like this

They do so because of the economics of the web. No-one pays for content, but basic advertising is low revenue. So user experience is squeezed instead, with video ads and popups.

There are other factors too, of course. Businesses have strange priorities and can be quite myopic when they compare the value of a new feature with the value of leaving the site uncluttered. But the main reason scripting is slow is advertising.
I think you left the /s off your comment
I used to get out of bed half an hour before I set off for work. Now I get up two hours before I set off for work, have some breakfast and do some learning. I think it's helped me to have a set period of time where I study/practice/tinker each day. It means I don't feel guilty about "wasting" my evenings as well.
> I have JavaScript off by default

So how do you pay for your content, if not for ads?

Do you expect people to give it to you for free? Do you do work for free?
So the best anagrams in English are actually Greek (?)

"Soapstone teaspoons" is 80% old English with a splash of Chinese.

Interestingly, most germanic words seems to be rather short. But I guess the reason for using long Greek, Latin or French words is to look important, so the longer the better.
I can't see how the economics of this would make it viable.
That kind of attitude gets you nowhere very quickly. Why do _anything_ better?
> On and off ramp lengths grow exponentially relative to target velocity

Centripetal acceleration on a curve with radius r is (v^2/r) so it seems that it grows quadratically, not exponentially.

Exponential growth would mean that the v appears in an exponent in the formula.
ScalaJs 0.6.16 released
There were some comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696196
Hate to nit pick, but it's not that it "would have happened", it's moreso the fact that it actually did happen. Repeatedly. Globalisation is largely a result of these hyper aggressive neo capitalist agendas. IMO some basic reading on Allen Dulles, the original director of the CIA should shed some light on the "company culture" that was at the heart of the organisation for so long, you could argue that culture changes, but IMO when the entire purpose of an organisation is subversion of international interests, I doubt their mission statement changes. Plus, there has been quite a lot of talk over recent years over the role of social media in propaganda distribution for clandestine operation purposes. Especially inside the intelligence community, they actively recognise it as one of the most effective weapons in the fight for public approval.
Sounds better than drilling through rock to me.
I see the same thing except with no crashes.

Anyway: this looks like a failed experiment to me.

Next!
My second-most favorite pair of anagrams after the movie-showing giant bat is coprophagist topographics.

Detailed maps of areas in which dung-eaters live? Worth buying just to avoid the neighborhood... :)

Edit: These anagram pairs would also make interesting Short Authentication Strings for ZRTP. Worthy of a Monty Python skit, if you ask me.
Probably less impact than poisoning their populace.
Toshiba: 70 years to reach its peak–and just a decade to fall into an abyss
If I'm not wrong, there's actually a scheme for Tesla owners to rent out their cars while not in use(still in development). So, I envision these tunnels as part of his broader vision of having mass transit for everyone, except the biggest thing being that the mass transit need not have time tables. That's the worst thing about mass transit. Having to plan your day completely around it. Fine for the most of us, but isn't going to end private transport. I totally see the vision he has. It's a 30 year game he's playing, not a 5 year one.
Acupuncture shows promise for preventing migraines
The power of the amateurs, from Mendel to Lovecraft, Crick and beyond
The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence
And why wouldn't you? When you're friendly with the neighbors next door to the south, and they own the world's premier military and love to show it off, why wouldn't you outsource military spending to that neighbor? There are plenty of nice things you could buy with the savings.
Rail fails in a serious earthquake. Large infrastructure can take years to return to operation after disasters.

Even buses are useless during/after disasters in my experience (avoiding legal liability, lack flexibility to mitigate problems, inability to publish changes etc).
Right, but wouldn't they sell the Fentanyl for more than heroin?
Automating pull request
Protecting Your Account
Even if they didn't devised it, they are definitely sponsoring Syrian rebels. Also if Putin/Russia, China grow strong enough to challenge US, things will deteriorate fast.
> but if Mozilla (a browser) or Comcast (an ISP) does it on your behalf without your say and without the content creators say.

> Especially considering that I am responsible for customer service on my own site.

That's a reasonable position I haven't considered. Thanks.
tl;dr:

'The Backblaze login database has in no way been compromised. That said, we have seen a number of automated login attempts to our site and wanted to alert our users of the risk.'

Why would Backblaze send out such an e-mail just to inform about a general risk?

(And why does the e-mail contain clickable links? Phishing is another risk and the standard mitigation is to sell users NOT to click on links in such e-mails …)
Nice write-up, especially the comparison of rearranging letters and computing every permutation of a list to find d the one that is sorted.

BTW, my favourite anagram in German: Zitronensaft - Fronteinsatz (lemon juice - service at the front (mil))
Whoa. This seems very nice. I'm on my phone now and can fully check it, this works directly with PostgreSQL, right? It doesn't matter if the application layer is Rails or Django or whatever, correct?
> I think the IEEE is just ethical. Faithfully build the thing you're paid to build.

The important questions in business ethics are not whether you faithfully build the thing you're paid to build or build it unfaithfully, but whether that thing ought to be built at all.

DRM and DRM circumvention tools can fall on both sides of that divide, it's not an easy question.
> Do that. Then come back and tell me how it feels to have some fucker in China clone your product.

I'm sure that would hurt, but also am deeply convinced that the tendency to overprice ideas/products just because the western economics says it's the right thing when there's still demand, is what creates opportunities for cloners. Ask yourself why we don't see people around photocopying physical newspapers to sell them at half the price and you get the answer to why other products are cloned.
Both? Have a button which changes the default state and stores it in a cookie or localStorage
Being very old makes it closer to Proto-Indo-European than any other known language. Proto-Indo-European is, obviously, older than Hittite.
The West does not have the appetite for the sort of quality of life Russians must lead to allow this as evinced by the differences in the healthcare budget and military spending as a percent of GDP between Canada and Russia.
You mean, they assented to playing the role of client states and let foreign investors asset strip their economies?
I'd say that at some point the accessibility options are better for website and webapps then for traditional desktop apps.

Color choices are the last of my worries, and we see that this is also greatly neglected in modern desktop apps (e.g.: Spotify and Chrome taking over the window title bar on most OSes).