skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specificity is important. I am talking specifically about operating general aviation aircraft. A good portion of GA flight is not travel from A to B but sight-seeing/recreation. The question isn't whether travel is a Constitutional right. The question is whether it's a violation of your Constitutional rights to require training and licensure to operate a single-engine piston aircraft. It's not.
I think it would be great for every purchase of mine to round up to the nearest $5 or $10 increment and transfer the difference into savings, or have it be percentage based, etc.

Having payments from clients automatically set-aside tax money would be great, too.
They're doing this because people were calling on tougher penalties and an independent watchdog for social media. They don't want oversight so they pay extra for moderation.
I thought this screenshot may have been from an early and outdated rollout of the Rich Snippets, but no, I just searched and Google still says a quarter is worth 50 cents.
I have been developing in angular 2+ and this is absolutely true. It lets you build large scale apps pretty easily. It makes it simple to use design patterns.
The EU will soon have fines for data protection violations. Up to €20m

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2016/may/gdpr-potential-...
It currently uses the Planet file of http://osm2vectortiles.com, but will be ported to its successor https://openmaptiles.org soon. Both projects -> pure awesomeness!

Thanks for the kudos ;)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-google...

The horrible reality of trying to keep offensive materials from appearing online.

1.86 billion FB active users divided by 3000 thought police equals 620k accounts per clean up team operative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookkeeping

This is the equivalent of saying the $999 you saved for your Macbook didn't actually buy you that Macbook, because once your money entered the bank, it became indistinguishable and inseparable from all the other money in the bank, and who knows which pennies went where.

Well, that's true, and if you insist that your $999 bought your Macbook, you can take precautions to ensure that (at enormous temporal sacrifice). As a practical matter, this doesn't matter to anybody, so we come together as a society and agree that transactions don't need a perfectly isolated series of exchanges, so long as the credits and debits match up.

The same is true for energy.
Telling Photos from the Mark Zuckerberg Presidential Campaign Trail
rain is a lot easier to deal with than snow and ice on the roads. i'd take 9 months of cloudy skies over 4 months of invisible black ice patches, multi car pileups, blizzards, polar vortexes, scraping ice off my car every morning, shovelling my driveway, extreme heating costs, etc.

While the PNW isnt ideal compared to drought ridden california, its vastly nicer weather than what millions of americans put up with every year.
Places like REI, where one can rent camping equipment for a reasonable price, exist.
This is nicely designed. Love the simplicity and the navigation is a neat twist.
Sprint's magic box
Have you integrated this directly with the banks or do you take user's login details and scrape the online banking sites (like MoneyDashboard does)?

I would be more than willing to switch banks just to get a read-only API for this kind of thing, if only it was properly integrated (read: I don't have to give my login details to a third party)
HBO will pull its shows from Amazon Prime in 2018
How the On-Demand Workforce Is Replacing the Full-Time Employee
Really, they required me to send a copy of my ID (both sides) without anything blanked out. Obviously, I went with Linode instead as they didn't require this.
No, seriously, during summer, peak residential and commercial load correlates with solar heating. Unless you have residential load-shedding installed in your footprint, coordinating with industrial loads is your best bet to reduce peak demand.

The article isn't silly.

It's a known problem, but utilities and operators move at a glacial pace due to their scale and regulatory issues. This can make it difficult for startups to get sales and stay afloat.

Lots of people are trying to get rich in this space and it turns out to be a non-trivial set of problems.

And yes, it is a fun problem to work on. I would encourage anyone who is interested to get into the storage / smart grid management space.
I know it doesn't fit your world view. I'm sorry. They aren't. I've been on teams with both parties. Companies had mentioned dress code for the interviews. You would think punctuality would be important, especially for an interview?

They were filling quotas. Unlucky.
#pragmas are not portable, and have various problems with compatibility.

Structured comments could work, but because the C++ compiler doesn't parse them, you essentially have a file-with-a-file, and 80% of the problems you encounter with the dual-file system.

You also have the problem of the API's client trying to understand what the API looks like. We don't want to make them read C++ code in any way, and a pyclif file looks a lot like python.

Finally, CLIF is substantially more terse than SWIG--on the order of 1/10th the number of lines. This makes it less of a big deal to have a separate file.
I thought for a minute it was somehow zooming in on my current
location and got freaked out, but then realized I'm just not that far from c-base at this moment,
heh. :)
Then what's to stop me from plopping an oil well on it?
Is the GPL Really Declining?
Probably vibration dampening. The drive was finicky as hell.
How to start building an audience when you don’t have any audience yet
> It's easy to say that "Slack solves the problem of centralized team communication" or "eBay and Etsy help everyday people collect money off their trinkets, crafts, or useless old clothes".

I would also say that if you'd told people about those problems thirty years ago, people might have responded 'but I can already communicate with my team using a conference call' and 'I can already sell items through the classified or flea market'. 'What new problems are these things solving?'

I think that most inventions don't do anything particularly new - the kinds of individual tasks you can do with them could have been done before. What they tend to do is provide greater efficiency. And greater efficiency at scale enables new kinds of things to happen.

E.g. think of youtube. It was possible for people to share videos before the internet. E.g. you could have submitted a description of your video to a printed catalogue, and if people wanted to watch it they'd contact you via the catalogue, so you could send them a copy on VHS. What youtube and the internet does is makes it so much easier -- so much more efficient -- that it makes it practical, and the scale enables all sorts of new things to crop up on top of it.
What can sci-fi teach us about the future of health?
Wow "soros.news" sounds like a really legitimate news source! Would you say they on par with WSJ and Financial Times? Maybe even better?
The Professor's Bookshelf
Anything that gets access to my E-mails and isn't an all-local app with local processing instantly raises a red flag. My E-mail is not something I want out there in public.

A quick glance at the page doesn't tell me if this thing processes my E-mail online, or locally, and what data gets shared where and with whom.
When your store is flooded with garbage, consumers may decide what they want to buy is nothing at all.
A pad to prevent media scratches when the disc in the 12X drive started to wobble. Quite a few people lost games to this.
Your comment might be the first I've seen justifying the use of Electron. ;)
For anyone curious why the price for a piece of plastic is so high, the molds are built to ridiculous tolerances for the plastic industry. https://www.wired.com/2013/02/retired-lego-mold-reddit/
I don't seem to understand why you refuse to take Jay Parikh at his word.
He is a indian minority who stands for diversity, and yes he often works very closely with Sheryl for many years.
Jay Parikh is not a suit or corporate hr person at all.
http://www.today.com/popculture/sheryl-sandberg-speaks-new-g...
Dbs do that ANYWAY when you index. In this case assume both tables are indexed by x.

It's obvious for a single SQL expression because you've studied what happens underneath the abstraction, but when expressions get complex it's hard to reason about what a sql expression is doing.
This is stupid. Users will get a crippled default version. They will notice, cause they're not blind, and this will backfire.

I'm not talking about techies here, but about plain ol' Joes.

It's a bad business call.
I doubt hospitals have cost accounting systems sophisticated enough for them to have any idea what the cancer treatment costs, just as Verizon doesn't know how much it costs for you to talk on the phone for fifteen minutes. Just because they billed $250,000 doesn't mean that's what it cost or even that they ever expected to actually receive $250,000.

Besides, apparently the goal of universal healthcare was to allow everybody to still receive the "$250,000" cancer treatment that they were getting before universal healthcare. This suggests that both with and without universal healthcare, the cancer treatment was being provided, so not having universal healthcare did not actually create another cost.

This isn't trivial nitpicking: the ACA was sold as something that would reduce costs. This was mostly false. The real aim of the ACA was to raid the pockets of more people. Before, there was a "$250,000 cancer treatment" and the insured paid for it with a "$17 ibuprofen." The true objective of the ACA was to keep the "$250,000 cancer treatment" but instead pay for it by raiding the pockets of young, healthy people who previously did not have insurance.

It turns out that raiding the pockets of young, healthy people is not so politically popular. They didn't have insurance for a reason--it's expensive! Their unemployment and student debt is already high, and they already have to pay for old people through Social Security and Medicare tax. Yet the ACA wanted to use those young people, who would pay premiums, use little health care, and thus help pay for more "$250,000 cancer treatments".

Now this political dishonesty is blowing back, as the insurance markets are under strain because the young healthies still aren't getting insurance to help pay for the cancer treatments that others get.
Although that's strictly true, I'd say it's definitely more true (closer to true?) now than 30-40 years ago. The proliferation of specialized pieces has definitely had a negative effect on their reusability IMO.

My concern is that, due to the much greater number of unique pieces, the increased difficulty of organizing a collection, or finding the piece you need in an unorganized pile, or even just being able to visualize what it is you want to build will tend to discourage kids from making their own creations. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.
I'm a big Planet Money fan, and remember this episode. As I listened, it occurred to me that I really wished we had a non-partisan, uniform way to measure "experiments" like this over time. Agree on measures of success (GDP, per capita income post-tax, employment, education stats, etc.), visualize them over time, and run 50 parallel experiments. http://usafacts.org/ comes close, though it doesn't show state-level details. Also, one could argue it's not non-partisan behind the scenes (or that non-partisan is impossible).

I understand that might be a bit naive, but in general we could be doing much better at gathering and visualizing the data that are used to make policy decisions. Give me cold, hard numbers and pretty graphs instead of our current system of hotheads yelling that I'm a socialist if I believe in government spending or hate poor people if I believe in tax cuts.
AWS EdStart Helps Startups Build Solutions That Change Teaching and Learning
Doesn't headless mode just mean rendering to a bitmap instead of a window?
I'm taking this as performance art. Maybe a response to krypt.co?

It does raise a real question about how to make key management better. It's still not safe for many people.
Actually no. Literally all the cities listed are in states that have agreed to a compact [1] that would award all electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote. The thinking being that such a system would be easier than getting rid of the electoral college. It goes into effect if 61.1% of electoral votes are part of the compact.

What is it with non-US citizens in this thread? Honestly, none of you seem to have a good understanding of US politics and are being very insulting.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...
This might be the first time anyone has accused me of modesty.
A more pertinent question is: What can be automated in a cost effective manner?

People from outside manufacturing look at automation like it's a holy grail - and it can be in some applications - but it has to make sense.

Step 1 of the evaluation would be to look at how much it costs to have a human do those operations now. This should be relatively easy.

Step 2 would evaluate what process changes are needed to enable robots to perform the operations. A robot cannot handle the material to be assembled in the same way a human can, so often a human (or other automated system) "stages" material for a robot. Robots do not work well on moving pieces, so you may have to stop other operations for the robot, impacting efficiency. Robotic vision systems need to be set up and debugged, unlike human vision systems (which have typically had 20 years or so of self-programming)

For automation to work well, the whole process chain has to be designed for automation.

Step 3 would look at the raw cost of robotic components and programming, which is relatively easy.

Step 4 would then evaluate the value add per operation of the robotic system.

All in all, humans make excellent robots most of the time, as they come with Two Six-Axis arms with multi-articulated effectors (hands), and a sophisticated 3D vision system. Humans have an on-board, self-sustaining power system, and are very mobile. Some humans are even self-diagnosing and self-improving!

Try a Human Today!
No, no, no, she lost because of Russian hacking! /s
I agree the 1299 version with 8gb ram and the i5 seems like a great value. I would imagine in 2 years they'll be $999 or so.

the 14 hour battery life is great too / but / the first thing anyone should do is upgrade to windows 10 pro
Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code – But Can’t
I think it's a fairly common recent strategy to hire a big pool of low cost workers with the intention of gradually phasing them out as ML tech improves.

See also: Uber drivers.
Hands-On with the Surface Laptop: Well, It’s a Laptop
Not only automatic rifles. Hand grenades, fully-automatic grenade launchers, anti-tank rocket launchers, claymore mines... You name it. The infantry can be pretty fun.
We don't have it in the west either - if we did, there would be no war on drugs.
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I'm confused as to why it hasn't yet. There have been complaints about civil asset forfeiture since like the '90s? How has a case not been challenged and gone to the Supreme Court yet? Or has it gone already, and been upheld? I honestly don't understand how civil asset forfeiture can be constitutional, and I'd like to hear someone give any kind of argument otherwise.
Fellows, I would suggest you check https://github.com/mono/CppSharp. It's Clang-based as well and despite the name, it's not bound to C# or .NET, generators for any languages can be added. It's feature complete with the exception of templates which are being worked on as we speak. It's also fully automated, manual intervention is only required if the user wants binding-specific customisation.
Integrating Agile and UX design
Hi Steve, can you give me some more info...I mean it isn't that hard to script a cron job to just power off your EC2 Vms...
The 360 was notorious for scratching disks. [1]

[1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2016/xbox-360-scratched-discs-why-t...
Lol, with such big windows you'll get attacked in no time
"If you like GUI and native apps, it's a dream."

Um? If you like native apps you probably despise anything Electron.
It boggles my mind that outside my small social bubble, people around my age (23) spend their whole weekends drunk. I'm not out to stop them and I accept their choices, but I wonder if it's also a result of our alcohol culture. Most people can't seem to enjoy just one or two beers.
I am serious enough to give that situation a thought.

Check my other answer if you care... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14256900
>They are trying to be a walled garden.

How is that any different from Steam? Every major company today wants to be a walled garden controlled by proprietary systems. Its either that, or they wan't to be a subscription service or a toll booth. Its unfortunate, but simply selling software is going away..
Western social media seems to be one step behind the Chinese counterparts in terms of moderation strategies.

Living streaming scene in China has already went through this entire discussion and various forms of implementations on moderations of offensive and inappropriate contents sometime last year when it was rapidly growing.

Again with government intervention, it is so much faster and easier to enforce standards of moderations for private companies to follow.
Re #2: I remember hearing about WhatsApp from my friends in 2009 or 2010. They said, "it's basically BBM that lets you communicate with non-Blackberry phones for free." Since those of us who had Blackberries used BBM non-stop, it was a no-brainer to get WhatsApp.
A lot of this article talks about the US government subsidies and back rubbing required to sell to the US market. What about the reverse case? What is required to sell Boeing planes in Europe?

Last time I checked there are a lot of protectionism clauses surrounding EU aerospace markets.
With Racket, at least, the language encourages you to build very small pieces and assemble them into larger systems. It's fairly straightforward to connect the pieces together to share code.

It does also encourage you to create mini-languages, but our approach was usually a large amount of modular Racket-y code with many fairly thin layers of syntax transformation used in each mini-language case. In that sense the problem of mutually incompatible languages didn't really arise (in fact, separate mini-languages coincided with separate usage areas quite well).

Performance was an issue, and we generally needed to use the precompilation feature of Racket to be successful. The issue we ran into is that Racket's precompilation system produces fairly fragile and coupled binary files -- and is generally difficult to separate cleanly from the execution environment.
It was a 7:1 vote. Is there a resource to look up how individual judges voted?
And then there's everything in between. That's where the actual debate is. Was "WMDs in Iraq!" fake news in 2002, 2003, or 2004?
In your research did you find good numbers around the effectiveness of deterrence? Behavioral psychology and neuroscience tell us that those who we want to deter most (violent criminals) are the least likely (or able) to evaluate the consequences of their actions.
Used yodlee multiple banks and works perfect. Can do most of this spend reports and budget part of it.
The issue with work like this is it is very distressing. Having to look at videos and pictures of horrific acts (suicides, child porn, etc) is not a pleasant job. Many of those who do this in law enforcement (mainly child porn) have high rates of PTSD and other issues.
Would you describe your business model?
It's not natural to love or even like your work. Trying to force yourself to do so is perilous. Being burnt out is not a failure. The only fix is to draw back from work in some way. That could be a vacation, it could be not trying so hard at work, it could be finding a new job, it could be finding a new living situation. Combining any of those with new interests, or rekindling old ones, might do the trick. Constantly trying to pep yourself up is not a good idea, you will eventually face catastrophic burnout.

The only other option is self-medication. That is only advisable if you truly have no other options but to keep your head to the grindstone, and you will have to deal with the inevitable fallout of self-medication, which ain't pretty. So only turn to that as a last resort, like if you're compelled (by legal or financial obligations) to continue, where the consequences of stopping outweigh the major drawbacks of self-medication.

This is why it's so important to achieve a low cost of living and some savings, as it expands your options when you face serious burnout (i.e. you can quit your job without having another one lined up, or take a much lower paying job, etc.).
The spammer who logged into my PC and installed Microsoft Office
I feel the same. Unfortunately i spent the first 2 years of my PhD learning this about myself. Still searching for the right problem.
The temperature change outdoors is detectable, but brief. Also, buildings even the effect out, due to mass and retained heat.

https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/faq.php

"Typically, how big a temperature drop do you get during a total solar eclipse?
It would probably be equal to the typical daytime minus nighttime temperature difference at that time of year and location on the Earth. It would be modified a bit by the fact that it only lasts a few minutes, which means the environment would not have had much time to thermally respond to its lowest temperature, so it would probably only be 3/4 or 1/2 the maximum day-night temperature difference."
It has long been established that medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy and a significant cost burden, this is not new information.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/08/46889248...

If you're slightly interested in this topic, 2 milliseconds on Google will reveal a wealth of information.
I don't think government censorship is a step ahead or behind, it's more like a completely different path.
Well, you have https://postgrest.com/
Why would the UNIX tools be gone? They're part of the OS itself !
The long term trend for national parks over the last 100 years has been increasingly upward: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-national-parks-have... -- it seems like the only dips in visitation occur during times of economic depression or war.

The most extensive survey I could find on outdoor activity (http://www.outdoorfoundation.org/pdf/ResearchParticipation20...) seems to indicate that, while popularity of individual activities varies, the participation rate seems to have been roughly the same overall for a decade, at least.

Maybe hunting and camping will decline a little bit in importance, as it seems to be doing over the long term on this survey.

But others might take its place. On this survey, it seems like day hiking, kayaking, BMX biking, and trail running / adventure racing made some significant gains over the last ten years, for instance.

The main thing I can see autonomous cars doing is improving the park experience overall, by easing the traffic congestion in the most popular parks.
Yeah, but American companies leave and hide as much income and money offshore as possible for tax reasons so buying something outside the states is rarely going to give money to America.
Yes.

If you introduce basic Lisp like (+ 2 2) to kids that don't know infix arithmetic yet, it's very revealing.
Amazing work. What inspired / motivated you to create this?
Microsoft at its best. Or rather, at its usual.
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5 Benefits of Using a Future Fit Critical Chain Project Management Software
Or ban on euthanasia.
That's like asking does Chrome browser allow you to run Safari or Edge.