skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Street automobiles are essentially limited to 1 dimensional ribbon not 2D. To get 2D you need wilderness and ATVs, or a horse.

Also look at their performance stats, zero to 90% of top speed is a good fraction of a minute in my commuter car whereas for an ant its about a footstep ditto turning performance.

A better analogy to ant behavior than car driving would be humans wandering about a park, perhaps one of the concerts in the park series that I attend. Or maybe humans wandering about a uni campus or around a sporting event. Or a riot.

Many have commented on how well ants cooperate. Well, not all species cooperate across nests and some of the more predator like ants are kinda brutal to smaller insects.

Likewise humans part of the same "family" like a large military convoy seem to cooperate reasonably well.
Is there enough demand... for what? Presumably you mean for you to create the service, but you need to be clear about this.

To answer the question, this is not a particular pain point for me. I would not be likely to pay for it.
Confirmation bias much?
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I think that ALL algorithms are better than the default halftone algorithms.

I think it's possible to send saturated pixels using PCL, and tell the printer to disable half-toning. It requires that a full page fits in memory, which isn't much (512MB) but typically more than the default.

For some reasons all printers use really vintage memory, so 512MB extra memory is crazy-expensive.
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I kind of imagine it looking sort of like a Hersey's Kiss shape :-)
BTW, Phillips Hue lights, which do let you adjust the color balance of your room light, are great. Even if you don't go for obviously colored light, just being able to change the color temperature of white light is nice.
Honestly if you're so persistent that you must have a message that you need Javascript then you're not the type of customer I want viewing my site anyway. Someone that picky will find another problem anyway.
People get talked over by people. I see this all the time and it's generally sexless. As a consultant I've helped at least 100 teams have crucial conversations across tens of businesses. I don't get the constant refrain that this is a male vs. female thing.
and it shall be called "The Earth"!
>>it can just be luck

You beat me to it. It is probably just luck. Some people do win the lottery, after all.
"Informal study"? Isn't that an oxymoron?
It depends on the person maintaining it. This one seems complete and up to date, so if he had started at a new company he probably would update it promptly.
In Firefox custom keywords are just bookmarks, and those sync. So this works on mobile. All you have to do is create bookmark with "%s" in the URL where you need substitution and give it a keyword, and typing `<keyword> <searchterm>` in the URL bar will use the bookmark .

Unfortunately the UI isn't too great -- on desktop, the suggestions between the awesomebar show you that a keyword search will happen (just like when you type something matching an open tab it tells you that it will switch to tab unless you hit the down arrow to choose something else). On mobile there is no such indication, but hitting enter after typing the keyword followed by the query still works fine and does the keyword search thing.

I might try to fix that.
Interesting. I stand corrected.
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From my perspective and usage Treesheets has the right features and more importantly the right scale and learning curve. I don't use it every day, nor for everything I could possibly do with it... but for the things I do use it for, I feel like it works really well.

I also have DevonThink but to be honest I lack the obsessive drive it apparently requires to make good use of.
Boston?
"They only own what they can carry"

Individual households in tightly packed neighborhoods EACH have garages full of items they only use a few times a year. Some may share, but communal living is hardly there.

Then we need more jobs and more factories to replicate more of those same random items (ladders, wasp spray, yard tools, etc) so that they be stored away and not shared. Then there is more traffic for people to get to work where they participate in production that goes largely unused.

The system has enabled far too much excess, and it's a collective educational issue.
Don't propose a general replacement based on individual incapacity.
Some of this is just completely wrong. Like the entire row titled code performance.

Level 4 isn't going around your codebase shaving milliseconds from execution time.. Level 4 is knowing that not everything needs to be optimized.. In fact, most code doesn't need to be optimized at all. The only parts that actually need optimization are those that have been deemed to be too slow (because of some external reason--ie: effect on users, for ex) or that are on a hot code path.

I'll go one step further... all new code should be written for clarity only. Optimized only if necessary.

No one cares if your function thats called once a month takes an extra few seconds to run.
Not even allegedly, she was raped and apparently Uber's background checks were trash and didn't follow proper city laws so they got banned in New Delhi. The guy admitted the rape and claimed he'd raped others, he's serving life in prison and he threatened rape victim with murder and raping her with an iron rod. She was a 26 y/o financial executive and sued Uber and settled out of court. Yeah if you're getting strangers to drive women alone at night, I'd hope you'd follow proper background checks.

Just read some other links in article and they were also sued for having at least 25 riders be former sex offenders, sexual assault, and murderers just in Cali wtf. I seriously want to see how many sexual assaults have occurred in uber vs taxis. I see one every day from Uber just in Cali. If taxis did that they would lose their 250k-million dollar medallion so that's an incentive I guess to an archaic regulation. I know others disagree with me, but I would not hire any felons to be drivers. You're giving them complete power over any passenger with no witnesses. I'm completely okay with felons working anywhere with people, but I wouldn't hire one to babysit my kid. That's the similar level of power they have in a car at night and honestly most rape assaults I've seen, the perpetrators had priors
Uh, what you seem to have is actual competition going on in your area. More regulation will not necessarily help bring about more of that. I do agree that Ajit Pai seems to be a giant toolbox.
An Uber exec files to India to dig up dirt, we know they were buying email-mined data from unroll.me, and frequently monitored travel of journos, famous people and one night stands. They have a culture of digging up as much dirt on passengers as possible. I wonder what else they are still collecting (or quietly stopped), and what they're using it for, that doesn't have the explosive headline potential of medical confidentiality and sex crimes?
That's the same as A.
To innovate like Google, you need to manage chaos effectively
Fun story! A long time ago I interned for a very large catalog company. It was my first real internship in IT.

One of the first things (so a couple days in, not exactly day one) the CTO had me do was "map" their server room (e.g. figure out where data and power cables were going to and coming from, physically and virtually). While working my way through the back of a massive UPS rack, I stepped on one power cord that happened to traverse over another 10 or 15 cords. I did it in such a way that all of those cords were pulled ever so slightly from their UPS connections. I didn't even realize it until one of the staff IT guys came in the room a few minutes later and asked me what happened. Turns out those cords powered the 300+ Citrix thin clients in use by the national call center downstairs.

I thought for sure I was in huge trouble, but everything came back online fine, the staff IT guys poked some fun at me and the CTO helped turn it in to a valuable lesson. I learned a lot of great stuff during that interneship and to this day, 15 or so years later, I still think of that experience when doing risky work (or when I fuck it up).
Literally, they have opposed an open internet for as long as they have been involved with it.

They have been one of the larger IPv6 deployments, which is good for the network. That being said, they have always wanted to use "Qos" to bias some traffic against others.

I really think that the answer here is non-profit carriers providing fiber to everything. As long as carriers can compete in the content space they are going to have a monetary incentive to screw people.
I definitely color my production terminals orange (and QA/staging get purple), and it's saved me a few times. I wouldn't consider NOT doing that.
And here I was just put "(production)" in $PS1...
I agree with the limited milage being a huge constraint.

Deep charging and discharging would severely degrade a battery's lifespan. Therefore all cars - From Model S to Prius - limit the battery's SOC to about 20-80% (Varies by chemistry and car model). The user may see 0-100%, but that is merely in regards to the usable energy available.

So a Leaf reporting 80 miles of range is already taking into account degradation and provisioning.
Agreed on the entire Solar Cycle. IMO the interplay between the Long Sun series and Short Sun series is its own kind of magnificence. Like many Wolfe readers, I came into Long Sun looking for "more" New Sun, and it took me quite a while (probably 2 books in) to dispense with that expectation and start appreciating Long Sun on its own merit. By the end of Long Sun I was enjoying it very much, but it wasn't until I started reading Short Sun that I began to see the brilliance of what the author was trying to accomplish between the two stories.
Thanks, Tim. This should not be happening. We are looking into this and will patch the bug immediately.
or never
If your an optimist you can wait for SpaceX to deliver Internet via satellite.
> The clock is "reset" on these types of things so frequently

It really isn't; this doesn't change anything, we previously knew we were at least 200k years old, that fact is still true. We now know we're at least 300k years old, that fact will also always remain true. What's at fault is your understanding of what science is saying rather than what it's actually saying.

> that I can help wondering why we speak so confidently about the origins of our species

Because it's a given that we're always speaking about current best available knowledge. What is proven true remains true, it's just refined over time as new truths are discovered. What we know continually grows, it's not like we're changing what we know to be something else, we're just growing what we know continually.
Methodology question: why is there no mention of radiocarbon dating? It's one of our most reliable methods, it works on bones, and it doesn't have the same feel as "they used this other random technique and magically got 300,000 years old so lets go with that".
Web crawlers and screen readers have supported Javascript for years. This is an outdated argument.

SPAs can also support traditional URLs for bookmarking, indexing, etc.
It's not about him. It's the odds that someone would have children from that original group.

Consider, it's in no way an unusual event for lotteries to have winners. Further someone can increase their odds of winning by buying a lot of tickets. However, winners are unlikely to buy thousands of tickets for that drawing because the pool of people that buy a few tickets are vastly higher than the pool of people that buy thousands of tickets to each drawing.

So, just because one guy did not get cancer does not mean he has unusual DNA. Granted, the odds of him having some anti cancer mutation is probably higher than the general population.
I did something similar with a shell script for MySQL databases, both to support shorthand invocation (i.e. "mysql foo-bar-baz" to look up the named configuration, expand it into whatever set of arguments is defined therein, and invoke mysql(1) accordingly), and to allow for detailed and environment-specific prompts which warn me when I'm targeting production.

It's hideous, of course. But it works very well for me, and I don't suppose I'd be averse, if interest becomes evident, to sharing it somewhere for others to benefit from and/or peruse in horrified fascination.
Progressive enchancement is a rubbish paradigm because it's incredibly difficult to implement. React isometric rendering has made it slightly easier but it's still one of these catchphrases people throw around lightly until they try it.
I have probably read most transducer explanatory blogs that ever existed and watched many, many talks on transducers, etc. I have read books about them (as in book chapters about them). I use the built-in transducers almost every day and I consider them an essential tool. I have written the occasional transducer myself for certain purposes.

This is the best transducer explanation and breakdown I’ve seen!

Very well structured and IMO easy to follow for anyone who understands Clojure code already. Great explanation and progression that builds towards the full transducers picture! (edit: typos)
Examining printer firmware might also reveal the details more readily.
great job guys!
I really wish California would engage Trump rather than just slam the door shut. There's room for a deal and there's common ground to be found if people actually try. This needless childish behavior is screwing us all over.
My company does a lot of high-end CMS builds and WordPress is never even on the table. The hot thing at the moment is headless cloud CMS like Contenful or Prismic. Our deep-pocketed clients are more likely to go for something like AEM or Sitecore. For low-touch systems, we'll usually just recommend a static site generator.
small companies have internal politics as well. It's not like working with people disappears. I've worked at both big and small companies, I don't really have a preference but in a big company, you can move around and keep all the good stuff if it gets a little hot under the collar. With a small company lots of times you have to leave to get a new manager or role or move up or just get a change of pace.

The continuity of a big co. can be very helpful from a salary perspective.
So I use custom written scripts to deploy instead of Capistrano. Automatically I'm a lower level developer according to this chart. And somehow using docker is objectively better than Capistrano? I disagree. There are pros and cons. Docker adds complexity and has "setup costs" just because someone uses the simpler tool doesn't mean they are any less of a developer. If anything it shows pragmatism and humility
I use the french press metal filter to catch the majority of the grounds, but then pour through a paper filter to get the finer sediment out.
Yeah, I'm certain I got some of the details wrong. It sounded like a situation similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14464184 where you can owe taxes on money you never saw.
> The VC-backed company model isn't set up for employees. The model is so that (a) founders can take risks (b) using money from VCs (c) where if the company does well, the founders and VCs both become richer.

Does this mean that stock options are not a measure of risk taken by the employee into the company?

You mean the stock options are just like cash? I didn't think so. The employee is invited to take risks but without the protections.
Google maps did this a looooooong time ago.
The article implies that he was let go after yesterday's firing of 20 employees [1], and that this article triggered the response, so it probably happened today.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-uber-sexual-harassm...
I hope most or all these will find their way into the full framework. It's a bit odd that this is so rarely mentioned. I still haven't quite grasped the relation between core and the full framework when it comes to fixes like this being merged into the full framework.
This information is the result of research by Robert Lee, Seth Schoen, Patrick Murphy, Joel Alwen, and Andrew "bunnie" Huang.

Does bunnie do any non-cool projects?? He inspires me more than any other developer/researcher today.
The original story (junior dev was given access to production / cleared the database while trying to setup his dev env) was funny to me. Actually, I can't really believe that what was described is possible. For me, there are two explanations:

- It's a prank by the OP. He posted a story out of his mind for whatever reason.

- It was all manipulated by a different employee of the company. He (by accident) broke the production db and decided to blame the junior dev: Most junior devs will just believe you (out of fear and inexperience) when you say to them that they broke the production.

The 2nd one seems more possible to me.
Still no irony, sorry. Nor hypocrisy either.

Your initial comment is being down-voted, perhaps because your post contained an irrelevant prescription for what people should do, and a broad generalization of what streets are 'for'.

Should we all consider the matter settled now that you have told us what streets are for, and informed us that we should all be working?
You could have a real heart problem. Caffeine might be making your symptoms worse. I know I'm just some random person on the internet, but it might be worth checking out before experimenting with larger caffeine doses.
There are many more Titan I complexes around the US as well, including at Beale, Larson, Ellsworth, and other AFBs in addition to Lowry.
This makes less sense than you might think because the original motivation from the government side was tracing counterfeit currency, not tracking all documents. Printing convincing counterfeit currency without yellow toner would be a challenge!

However, the governments did not succeed in limiting their technology to use in counterfeiting investigations, and may not even have attempted to do so.
This is repulsive conduct and it's unbelievable any of these people are still attached to the company.

As they say, a fish rots from the head. Until the top person is fired/replaced, it will continue to happen, because that person will just replace the fired person with another like him.
Oh absolutely the old antagonist was way cooler. I specifically liked the live action one's acting and sound design, though.
Try this:

export PS1=$(tput bold; tput setaf 1;)'(production)'$(tput sgr0)' \u@\h: \W $ '

and get something a little more lively! (For many more things you might be able to do with "tput", refer to "man 5 terminfo" on your local Linux machine.)
I've rarely worked on a project where this wasn't mandatory. In fact, marketing frequently owns the budget for our projects and for software licenses. They are easily swayed by savvy sales teams that show off a smoke and mirrors demo so make sure you explain the actual cost involved of customizing a system because it's usually more than the cost of licenses.
If everyone started driving the moment they saw the light turn green, the collective traffic would move forward like a train. Granted, there needs to be a buffer zone between each car. But that zone often gets diminished because everyone wants to drive until they have to stop behind someone, rather than driving while looking ahead at the traffic sequence.

The tortoise/hare metaphor is relevant here: sometimes slowing down without braking within a couple hundred yards of an intersection can get you through quicker (and use less energy). The idea is to avoid complete stops (sometimes inevitable).

But there are attitudes in mental software that must be modified.
"I'm in a hurry and I have to get there RIGHT NOW."
"Everyone is in MY way."

Individualism can be an inefficiency of the collective, and that will be a tough lesson to teach.
> Browsers are JS runtimes now. Get over it.

Sorry, I won't. I don't trust you and I won't simply run your code by default. It's not like I actually need whatever your web site wants to provide; there are plenty of other things to do on the internet.
One thing I've been noticing about Mastodon[0] is that it is incredibly easy to segregate your personal, political, and pastime posts, trivially by having multiple sites in multiple browser tabs, but even better with a client that supports multiple accounts. You can tie your different identities together through your profile, and import/export your subscription lists between instances. And everyone who follows you can follow only those of your identities that they are interested in.

[0]: https://joinmastodon.org/
> This is another great example of a developer caring a lot about a particular area of .NET and helping to make it better for their own needs and for everyone else that might be using it.

This is a great, succinct, non-ideological explanation for why open-source projects where anyone can contribute tend to be better. For a given component/function, there might be only a single person in the entire world who needs that optimized badly enough to actually do it themselves, but once they do, everyone benefits. A closed-source team has to prioritize their development efforts, which means niche improvements will probably never make it in. Multiply this by a thousand different niches, and the product is going to be slower.
This is a great point. I'm just now realizing all the times I wasted time optimizing things for MVPs because of coder OCD
I've been using this machine for a while and, yes, it is actually very important to add the coffee such that it gets wet but floats undisturbed above the water. If you stir the pot or, worse, put the ground coffee in first, it takes a verrrryy long time for the coffee to drip through the filter after it is brewed. It is literally a drop every few seconds rather than the slow stream you get when you set it up correctly.
As far as I know, the radiocarbon method is only reliable up to 50,000 years ago. Past that you need other dating methods.
I don't know anything about this specific test, but the military goes to extraordinary lengths to train realistically for unusual and new war scenarios. (E.g., most US soldiers have been preparing for fighting in the presence of chemical weapons with gas masks, etc., for decades even though, to my knowledge, there's never been a large-scale usage since WW2.) But in this case, I'd wager they're taking scientific data for understanding the performance of the bomb; terrestrial bomb tests were huge exercises in data taking, and I don't know why airbursts would be different.

The link between radiation and cancer was established in the '20s, and certainly well-known (if poorly understood) by the time atomic weapons were developed. For instance, Muller got the Nobel prize for this work in 1947.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation-induced_cancer#Histo...

Certainly, safety rules weren't as conservative and stringent as they are today, but it's silly to think US soldiers were routinely and openly used as guinea pigs.
When i was still in college, I would use Google Docs + Dia. Google Docs has really good shortcut keys for doing outlines and anything drawn on a board, I was able to replicate using Dia (again, using the shortcut keys). I'd export the Dia drawings to png, add then to the Google Doc, and at the end of class, publish it directly to a Blogger site that was setup to share the notes with the rest of the class.

Today, I do use OneNote almost exclusively because I'm not sharing the notes and they auto sync across my devices. Having OneNote open on my desktop, open the same note on my phone, take a picture of a white board and insert it, let the sync happen, and it is on my laptop is a very common scenario for me.
Hah, I love that monologue! If we're gonna go from silly to serious though, I would argue that even when talking to an asshole, not sinking to their level is the better solution on so many levels.