skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've quit answering any unknown calls due to this out of control robocall spam. At first I felt tinges of anxiety thinking that I might miss an important call, but that passed very quickly. Now I figure that if it's really important the interested party will find another way to reach me (email, sms) and I feel zero anxiety. It's an interesting change in behavior. I'd almost be willing to use an app that restricted calls to my address book plus a whitelisted group of vetted companies.
Not always, but I would say in cases like this when it's interesting (hot landing) Elon normally does come through with the goods on Instagram/Twitter.
No, you don't understand.

It's not about withholding the footage, it's about releasing it in a controlled fashion.
Fata Morgana (mirage)
The Montreal subway system has a very clever way of somewhat saving energy (and emitting less heat): the section of the track at the station stop is higher than the rest of the track.
This means that the train's kinetic energy is converted to/from potential energy whenever the train arrives/leaves the station stops.
If you weren't referring to the performance of plugins when you talked about the "hit in performance", then you are changing the subject from the quality of plugins to overall editor performance. I didn't say anything about that.
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The Tube does similar, with uphill approaches to stations and downhill departures.
I find it's easier than the puzzle linked since my brain can't unsee '1' and '0' as one and zero, whereas with the blocks, they're just abstract shapes with no meaning aside from colour.
Adding stuff to trains ("cars"?) increases the weight, which means more energy is needed to move the thing. It also takes up space, which is very limited.

Some storage system near a station (where there is more ventilation) could make sense, but probably costs more than the system mentioned in the IanVisits blog to return power to the city (i.e. convert the DC the trains use back to AC for the city).

I don't think the isolation idea would work. Where does the air for people on trains to breath come from?
Bye-bye, hemp and sand: National Theatre to cut ties with ancient rigging system
Okay, so he's gunning for the presidential nomination...
It's like they are paying them to reply with irrelevant links to their support page. I would really not be surprised if every mail that they send to OP was made by bots.
The amusing thing is -- when men are too careful, that is also supposedly sexist. Consider VP Pence's stance on not having dinner with women, his extreme guard against any potential impropriety.
The reaction? Here is one: "The vice president—and other powerful men—regularly avoid one-on-one meetings with women in the name of protecting their families. In the end, what suffers is women’s progress."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/pences-g...
I was wondering if this was used, especially for cars.
We have to do better on our Education to get this going, I know in America they don't properly teach cultures (candy coated stories and stereotypes are vast) and social communication at early ages. They leave children to their own devices to figure it out.
Your credit is checked when you get a clearance. The higher level clearances have stricter requirements. It doesn't prevent people from being bribable, but it seems like a sound defense measure.
The UK Health and Safety
Executive has that you should go over an "Event LAeq of more than 107 dB or C-weighted peak sound pressure levels of more than 140 dB."

Which is quite loud.
Brother, there's a million ways to skin a cat. The article is already 2000 words long and took me a long time to write/test. Going into huge amounts of detail isn't within the scope of the article.

A appreciate the feedback you posted below, and will be making modifications to the article to address some things I wasn't aware of

But, the setup works. There is no zero downtime. I've been using this setup for my smaller applications for over a year and I've never had downtime. Ever.

Also, I rarely provision in bash and haven't provisioned a server manually for a very long time. I use Ansible. But, regular node developers are unlikely likely to be using Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, Chef etc. I didn't want to include that complexity.

I'll address these issues today. You could have gave the feedback without the ear bashing but I'll take that as you're being "cruel to be kind" :)

Peace

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> indeed, the use of regenerative braking now converts about half the heat loss back into electricity. However, that can only work where trains are accelerating and braking at the same time, on the same electricity sub-station loop.

Besides that, Tube tracks often rise slightly at stations, so that trains get a small gravity assist to both stopping and starting off again. (Unfortunately it also means that hot air from the tunnels tends to collect there, but you can't win 'em all.)
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> the lame excuse that they're not guilty

That's not what they said at all.

> > That seems like a reasonable distinction to make, though both can have the same moral fault and/or commit the same crime; motivation is important when we look towards someone's character.

Stop rounding people to stereotypes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sacer
I don't understand what this is. Is it a consulting company run by students? Is it normal to be able to use the name (and sub domain) of your school like this for a for-profit pursuit?
This Headline Only Contains Partial Information, You Won't Believe What The Article Says
A plea for 'decency' in shaken Silicon Valley
Hi HN,

I created The Daily Project to combine the simple handling of todo managers with some of the features from project management tools, as I was frustrated with much of the shortcomings of today’s tools.

It features tracking projects as well as categories, built-in time tracking on your tasks, sequential tasks for strict order and a much improved subtask handling compared to any other todo manager. The goal is to help you manage lots of projects and tasks without losing control. More infos/videos in the link, but happy to comment on any questions!
And if it was always going to be uncomfortable sexual innuendos or propositioning for sex, then it wouldn't be a grey area.

The point here was incidents that don't cross "the line", which means the location of the line is suddenly up for debate, so you don't even know if you did something wrong.
Religion strikes again!
Or you can just convert that energy into heat, but do that on the surface. Have large resistor banks on the surface that you connect to the DC grid when the voltage is too high.
Tomorrow unwary operatives or turncoats will turn up at work, submit to a surprise frisk-down to find whether they're carrying any USB drives, these will be ceased, and analysed, and found to contain this malware, and they'll be tossed into the deepest dungeons with only a kangaroo court to look forward to.
Downloading an iOS layout
Some folks in our industry do use exploitative sales tactics, but that is not fair blanket statement. Services like preventing phishing, for example, are a big deal and I don't think I have to convince anyone it is a real threat. Most of us just use honesty about actual risks, not FUD. Just making people aware of security as a concern, from HR to developers can have a big impact and mitigate real risks.
Without language there is no consciousnesses. That's it. The brain does what it does. We think, occasionally, then imagine that we cause brain to function.

All animals are just dandy without complex language, it's not really a miracle that we are conscious, just a different too.
Anti-totalitarianism is de facto hacker-friendly
Personally I like cheap wax ear plugs - you squish them to the shape you like, and so adjust how much sound they block - but found a key ring holder for them really useful. eg http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keyring-Tablets-Medicine-Container... plugs http://www.boots.com/boots-muffle-wax-earplugs-5-pairs-10114...

You never quite know when your friends will want to meet/go somewhere noisy.
Post incorporation things to take care of while using Stripe Atlas
Currently in the process of evaluating services to use in order to incorporate a company, and I'm a bit confused about what post-incorporation documentation does Stripe Atlas actually provide help with. They say that they provide templates for all the documents, but what kind of documents are actually left to be submitted? the 83b form is one that comes to mind.

I'd appreciate it if anybody who has used Atlas can talk a bit more about this. thanks!
Which is exactly why the only copy-paste-able code should be secure by default. Much like the idea behind the existence of NaCl, the easiest thing to do should be the correct thing to do.
I have downloaded about 80 apps on my phone.
Worth noting that the Su-22 is actually just a variant of the Su-17 which first was produced in 1966.
How so? The Internet is set-up to provide free and open communication between all nations on the planet.

If you can't handle freedom of information, the correct response is to disconnect from the rest of the world. It's not the correct response to raid the rest of the world, and make sure their information is to your liking.

Fascinating how that's not obvious.
Really? I contacted GH support twice and they answered surprisingly quickly and humanly. I wondered how they could do that, given they're so big and with surely so many bogus emails coming in.
Shouldn't the Wikileaks page be linked instead? The original article doesn't add anything and the wl page has more technical details.
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The user:employee ratio at Twitter is something like 100000 users per employee.

What can you realistically expect from "support" when you're not an actual paying customer of Twitter?
But that will take a long time, even with new Falcon 9 rockets, SpaceX is an order of magnitude less reliable than Ariane, for now. At exactly the same price.

Long term, the only viable competitors of SpaceX include Ariane and Blue Origin.
Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety
Just release publicly how it's broken.
It's funny you say that. I've had a longstanding conclusion that my true individuality only arises from the secrets I keep.

Even if these are benign and even sometimes silly secrets, even if no one would find them interesting, they are the only thing I have that sets me apart from others.

This is another reason I feel anxious over creeping mass surveillance and the loss of privacy. It's a direct threat to my individuality.
If you rewatch the live stream, at 31:45 or so the rocket starts hitting the atmosphere at 6500 km/h, or nearly 2 km/s. The grid fin, used to help steer through the atmosphere is burning, and then the video from that rocket cut out.

At that point I simply presumed it was over for it, yet somehow it still managed to land. They'll probably use it again. We live in a crazy, amazing world.
I agree in spirit, but there's always a balance. And to clarify, I meant "risk" in the "failure analysis" sense. I didn't intend to imply that such risks should go unmanaged. Disconnecting from the internet is part of that risk management, but of course it is multi-layered.

I can't buy an Emerson control system for a small reactor getting reconfigured every other week, and LabView on an un-networked Windows computer is perfectly fine.

I would not use a PC (with any OS) to control a 10 kg reactor though. At least directly. I think it'd be okay to use a PC to coordinate discrete controllers as long as they couldn't change state without a command (i.e. latching valves and the like) and as long as there was a backup safety that didn't have a computer in the loop.

Safeties that do things like shut off furnaces if temperature sensors break or valves that shut off flow if it becomes too high or detect a flame are common, analogous to a fuse on a circuit board. You sure hope not to use them, but they'll suffice for unexpected situations.

But there's definitely a risk that has to be managed, and connecting infrastructure and industrial equipment to the internet is not managing it very well!
Glorifying ISIS fighters. Cool. Kill all these pig fuckers.
That is a pretty cool way to implement regenerative breaking that I honestly never thought of (even though the tram in my hometown feeds energy in the grid when driving downwards)
Maybe partner up with someone who does have full stack web development skills?

I think there are plenty of good side businesses where data analytics combined with a great interactive web front end to visualize the data could be profitable.

Such a partnership need not cost much money at all to get started. You could launch a product on an inexpensive Digital Ocean VPS.
I find it amazing the danger that these journalists in Mosul are putting themselves in just to get half a dozen photos, or a couple of minutes of video footage, or a few paragraphs.

I was following Quentin Sommerville as he was livetweeting the battle for Mosul a couple of months ago, and it was amazing to see him there right on the front line getting shot at.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who put themselves in harm's way for the good of the people while unarmed. Whether it's observers, journalists, or medics/doctors. It's a thankless task.
Lord Buckethead, black-bucket-head won 131 votes in 1987 UK and 249 in 2017
Well Heather certainly loves to call me and its a combination of either using my area code and prefix or other companies randomly choosing long distance numbers.

I have noticed spoofing of 8 numbers as well. how do these get through the phone system, can't they detect ANI being bad at the source? I used to work for a company where we logged our workers on and off shift; rent a cop; based on the ANI data from the phone call. So I am really curious how this isn't blocked by entry into the system.
What Really Happened in the 2017 UK Elections
Seeing the burning grid fin followed by lost telemetry, I turned to my coworker also watching and said "it's done for".
"pop ears" = equalise pressure, like you do on an aeroplane flight.

Just in case people aren't familiar with the idiom.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems that regenerative braking is a bit troublesome because it is a third rail direct current system: a "regular" AC system can simply feed power back through the transformers to the power grid, but this is not possible here, so power must be consumed by another train fed by the same rectifier.
Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of declining an "Unknown Number". Correctional complexes do not identify the number as only the inmate can call out and no call back number is provided.

However I have not received any spam from "Unknown Number" due to this herd immunity to unknown number spam, which I am grateful for.

Given my area codes are no longer where I live, I just assume numbers close to mine are accidents and don't bother answering them. Voicemail seems to validate this when a message is left.
Wireless power transmission safely charges devices anywhere within a room
I don't understand why lack of space above ground is a hindrance to building new ventilation shafts. Surely these aren't going to be wider than a sidewalk, and in central London the distance between any two roads on a block is rarely more than 50-100 meters.

You'd end up with lots of ventilation grates on the sidewalks on the surface, but that seems like an easy and space efficient solution.
Is the temperature still rising or have it plateaued?
We're talking about a security issue here, not regular support
I've often wondered that about most tech support avenues. At times, I wouldn't have been surprised if Microsoft had an entire staff whose only purpose was to tell people in the MSDN forums that they asked their question in the wrong place (whether they did or not).
Why do you postulate that? Dogs have no language. Are they conscious? You cannot know, can you?
America really does have an obsession with Russia. It wasn't just communism.
You have noble intent, but you're just trading upfront ease for difficulty down the road.

Understanding the intricacies of and building a custom pipeline with gulp + webpack-stream took me about 3 nights. A paltry about of time for the value it brings to the table.

Opinionated frameworks with several already-configured tools are just big black magic boxes with many moving parts.

Learning how to implement your own pipeline allows you to come to grips with those moving parts one at a time, without feeling overwhelmed.

I mean it's 2017, the unfortunate truth is that having this kind of skillset in your webdev toolbelt is a requirement.
I think the freemium model discussed here is severely limiting your product and it's value for non-paying customers in order to get them to pay up.

One of the most powerful advantages of Gmail vs the competition is it's superbly powerful spam filtering and search features - I doubt it's worth losing that powerful image in order to get a few more users to pay up.

Just like the biggest advantage and product feature ProtonMail has is privacy and encryption - it would be a bad product decision to remove encryption from all free customers in order to get them to pay up.

The alternative is to offer a fully functional free* model that focuses on your strength, and charge customers for extra - extremely useful and important, but non product essential - features.

* Some would argue that Google's model is not free, as you are paying for it with your data, but that is a different discussion and outside the scope here.
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That would be acceptable 100 years ago. Not today
I'd like to voice my appreciation for the discussion here.

I've read The New Yorker (and similarly targeted magazines like The Paris Review, etc) since I opened one up to kill some time in the university library, freshman year.

Though I've never found a place to discuss them with people like myself - I'm not a literary kind of person though you pick up things here and there. I identify much closer with the HN crowd.

While some of your comments make me roll my eyes for how to me it appears you missed the point, some are genuinely enlightening and even those I don't "like" have been valuable.

So thanks all, for talking about this article. It was interesting.
There are special channels for reporting security issues.

https://about.twitter.com/company/security
The sun is a physical body that exists despite us, 15 exists only on the mind.
Are you suggesting that one of the largest HR depts. in the world revert to paper & filing cabinets? Can you imagine the massive cost of that? The efficiency loss? It would be staggering.

Governmental record keeping of this sort is literally one of the first uses for computers.
If you read the last image in the article, Twitter's security team already responded (within 2 days) that because this wasn't reproducible, there was nothing they could do to attempt to fix it.
A substantial part of the problem is the sheer age of central London; people have been digging beneath it and piling more buildings on top of it for nearly 2000 years, so given any particular spot in the Tube network, there's every chance that if you try and drill upward from it, you'll hit part of the sewer system, a buried river, someone's wine cellar, something top-secret belonging to the state, a lost graveyard, a plague-pit...
Just gonna leave this here for y'all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
This is the kind of post that triggers my imposter syndrome. I've been a programmer for 10+ years and I have no clue what now.sh or dathttpd are.

:(
But the internal representation is not the issue. It can almost surely be completely explained by low-level physical laws, if we just had a hypothetical way to accurately image it to a very high resolution. The issue is the subjective experience that accompanies it. We each are sure it exists, for we experience it, yet we don't know how to measure it, indeed it doesn't seem to be conceivable to do so.
The microphones on the home devices definitely help. But we're getting there in voice recognition. The NLP is a lot tougher and may be further out than a lot of people assume.
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How to I map db to the volume on a smartphone?
You know one of the smartphone makers could prevent a lot of tinnitus by having software that detects if you've been exposed to a lot of 100db+ and pops up a warning suggesting taking it easy or using earplugs. People often don't figure there's a problem until it's too late and you've got tinnitus which you can't really fix.
It would be much more difficult to feed power back into an AC grid from a regenerative brake. With a DC grid, no synchronization is needed.
I get the idea because it's a measurable fact.

Yes, in principle you can keep using your phone for as long as it is able to turn on. In practice cheap phones have worse built quality, often ship with versions of Android that are obsolete on arrival and/or do not receive updates. And in general, items that cost more are better taken care of. In the aggregate all of these mean that cheaper phones have a shorter expected lifespan than iPhones.
IMHO, the way to stop robocalling is to go after the services that employ them. If they're asking people to buy something, follow the money and slap a fine on the seller instead of the robocalling service. Robo calling profits ought to dry up as vendors become wary of using them.
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That would work, but a large flywheel would also be a good solution. You could spin up the flywheel to store energy and if it reaches maximum speed then use the resistors. You'd also need to detect load on the grid and then run the flywheel system in reverse to assist vehicles that are moving.
Electronic music itself is the problem too. If you go and see a live band there's some dynamic range but when you see a DJ the music is at it's peak level for 95% of the time.

There was a music festival about 2 miles from my home a few years ago. On the night the Foo Fighters played we could hear some noise occasionally but never for more than a few seconds. It went up and down. The second night Avicii played. I could hear it clear all night. It wasn't louder (as it was in a residential area so volume was limited) but it was at the peak level for most of the night.
According to the accounts I have read (that have not been upheld in a court of law "beyond all reasonable doubt" or whatever the standard for these things is), this man was definitely in the wrong and had to be stopped. I applaud those women who selflessly put their names out there to stop him.

However, it seems to me, as a non-American, that the US is pretty hysterical on this topic. Humans make each other uncomfortable sometimes, some situations are inherently awkward, emotional anguish is inflicted on good people (I've had to fire a few... that's horrible on both sides of the desk)... there's no reason society should be ascribed the duty to guarantee that nobody ever finds themselves in situations they are not comfortable in.

As I mentioned, my partner pushed my boundaries a bit, but I'm doubleplusgood happy she did. In hindsight, my initial reticence was an error, and by persisting she allowed me the opportunity to correct that. Now our lives are significantly enhanced as a result. I don't see why such behaviour should be subject to censure. Did it make me uneasy? In a transitory way, yes. But it's part and parcel of existing in a social fabric.
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