skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"People who insist on having a yard and several feet of air-gap between them and their neighbors are the real climate change deniers."

Why are we the climate change deniers? What about those of us with yards that are completely edible and green and don't require our food to be hauled in from across the country? I don't think the issue is as cut-and-dry as you make it sound. I'd also recommend you look into the agricultural and food supply chain for these large dense cities.
Keep in mind, if it's an IP issue they should be replying upfront with "I'm not sure I can discuss that, IP blah blah" not dodging the question.

If they are an honest candidate, at least.
> This could very easily solve that and integration with Discord (which we already use) makes onboarding a breeze.

That's great to hear, that's exactly the idea. I haven't actually looked into Kingdom Hearts Union at all, thanks for the tip.
Something's brewing for PhantomJS (new commits and activity)
The Google Brain Residency Program – One Year Later
I run ultras and mountain races. I ran one this Friday night into Saturday morning - a 12 hour overnight trail race where I managed 100K (62mi) in 11 hours and 23 minutes.

Anyway, let's throw out willpower and even genetics for a second so I can bring up something: In today's age, virtually no one is even remotely close to their physiological limits.

Literally, hundreds of people (elite marathoners, a few ultra marathoners, cross country skiiers) out of billions of people are bumping up against physiology. These people will do anything for the smallest performance gains (1%).

Really, if you have not achieved a level where you are ~5-8% body fat and run consistently at 100 miles (or more) a week, you are not anywhere that close. Trust me. This is kind of even standard for competitive college distance runners - and even they are likely making mistakes that hold back their development (diet, drinking, running too many miles at too fast of a pace, etc.)

Yet we can take someone who is 20% body fat, and runs 10 miles a week. You will find this person finishing an 100 mile ultramarathon. It's not that uncommon, if the time cutoffs are liberal. 18 minute miles is walking pace.

The author even mentions he didn't think he was obese. He just didn't know the reality of things, I'd argue. He had to have this concept of willpower (concentration) to learn. And to change his diet and training habits. And even his understanding of what is possible.

It's magical to chalk things up to grit - but there is so much process of knowing how the lows feel during a race, what to eat while training, how fast to do each run while training, how much to run while training, how to stay hydrated while racing, how to get nutrition while racing, etc.

"Tough" or "in control of self" to me is too emotionally loaded.

Edit: I almost feel bad writing this because it takes some of the magic that gets marketed about it. But this is a science-oriented crowd and should be exciting to know there is more of an opportunity for the objective than a lot of people believe.
if .ca was not competently run, I'm pretty sure the federal government would step in and put it into the hands of people with real DNS/network engineering credibility.

Unlike the rarely used .us for the USA, it is used for the vast majority of canadian domestic corporations' web identities.
I'm interested that they didn't list the "old" reason people thought unikernels could be more secure. That is that they could be small enough to be completely written in higher languages. With something like https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM you could bring to bear formal methods in more straight forward ways.

This of course left the host still needing to be secured using traditional approaches but that surface area was smaller.

I'd buy that you can't list that in an article about why all unikernels are already secure, but that seemed to be the heart of the pitch to me when I first started hearing it.
Animations via CSS have been a challenge in my experience. It's easy to create a demo with a single layer of DOM elements and have it work well, but as soon as there is overlap of any sort, lots of DOM elements to manipulate, or things like images or media, it can get twitchy real fast. In addition, every browser and every platform is different in rand ways.

I was doing testing on a scrolling carousel and couldn't figure out what was causing a stutter that appeared in an Android WebView, but not in the equivalent Chrome version on a Mac. It turned out that the desktop browser was doing an additional recalc in the middle of a bunch of other animations. I ended up slotting in a document.body.getBoundingClientRect() to force the recalc and make them work equivalently. You might think this would cause thrashing, but it actually smoothed things out. Crazy but true.

Also, CSS animations can "cancel" in odd ways... if I tell an element to translateX from a to b, then during the animation, tell it to actually go to c, some browsers will figure it out (most) and do the right thing, some will "start over", some will do wonky things with the speed (does it calculate the duration from the current position in between a and b, or from a?).

Don't get me wrong, CSS3 animations are great, but don't make the mistake that they "just work", because they don't.
Chinese umbrella-sharing startup loses most of its 300,000 umbrellas in 3 months
Fragments are worse than described here. Fragments are incompatible with redirects. Not only does the browser not send them, but any server-side redirects will either require active-JS redirects to capture and redirect the fragment, or strip the fragment as inappropriate/pointless, or if you're very lucky, maintain it somehow through the redirect. Do not use fragments for any critical function without vetting your entire workflow and all servers and useragents in your request/response path.
Why Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t the Father of Social Media
>> I'm a Canadian, what's wrong with our system from your perspective?

longer wait times for non-emergency treatment and (most of the time) not being able to pay cash and get the procedure done without the wait.
personally know ppl in Canada (Toronto, so not some little town in the boonies) who had to wait few months to get an MRI.

on the US side - takes 2 weeks or so to get the insurance company's approval (they do this dance with a mandatory x-ray and electromyogram appointment before approving) or $500 or so gets you in like tomorrow.

the kicker of course is they will charge the insurance company $3k.

that said - the current US system needs a major overhaul, no doubt.
both Obamacare and the not-there-yet "Trumpcare" are lipstick on a pig solutions though.
The Optimist Times – Issue #3
He said wiggling the mouse, not a window.
They're all written by the people who complain about pit toilets in national parks.
I have lived in the US for 27+ years and I think Americans tend to be very generous, a lot of people donate their time and money to charities, churches, etc.

They just don't want to give their money to a bunch of bureaucrats, who spend it mostly on themselves, and seem to multiply like rabbits.
they keep getting upvoted to the front page
Well, we usually refer to the UK NHS as "free" but we all know that it means "free at the point of delivery" we know it gets funded from our taxes and therefore all taxpayers pay.

As someone who just had a few days in an NHS hospital I'm pretty much delighted with the experience. When was money mentioned? Not once, not once.
The first time I tried a packet (GU gel) in a practice run, I nearly puked. It tastes like liquefied bubble gum and the taste stuck with me for the next 30 minutes. Which ones work well for you?
Family Adventure Summit
Ive heard something similar from Richard Branson about airlines. "How do you become a millionaire? Start with a billion dollars and create an airline"
Sci-Hub (http://sci-hub.cc/) has done more to "democratize access to science research" than this company ever could, and is much more deserving of this money.
perhaps. I'm contracting now though, so it's impossible. I thought that maybe if I get in -> fix/build stuff -> get out, it will be exciting enough.
Don't cry, you can run bash on Windows 10 now

https://youtu.be/PivpCKEiQOQ?t=169
It doesn't matter what they are selling it as. It's only important that it gets passed.

Electronics in general make use of a variety of "Rare Earth metals," that we are quickly running out of. At our current pace, we are set to run out of some of these Rare Earth metals in just a few decades. The United States is already 100% reliant on imports for many of them. Some sort of reduction scheme is necessary, otherwise the cost of all electronics will skyrocket in just a few years.

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/19/rare-earth-metals-wi...

https://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/spring16/elements-of-conflic...
Still, why does the UK need a special TLD for a naval base?
> So whenever climate action comes up I ask: What is the end state that you are seeking? Is the goal to permanently solidify an undefined homeostasis? For what group? Are you trying to make northern Africa green again?

That's all philosophical and nice, but it's just like asking everyone in the lower Mississippi basin "So what is the end game here? The river has changed its courses throughout geological history. Are we trying to lock it up in an artificial stasis?" And we could save billions of dollars spent on trying to artificially keep the river from flooding half of Arkansas.

Somehow I don't think they would appreciate my wisdom.

(In fact, it's actually worse; at least we don't have a "water industry" increasing the flow of the Mississippi every year and saying "But water is essential for life!")
We have definitely put off having kids for our careers. First, with my startup then with the wife going back to school to switch careers. I'm 37 now and she's 35 - If we're going to do this (have kids) this year or next is the time. Any later and I don't want to be that super old father moving my kid into a college dorm or worse, not living long enough to see it happen.

This all assumes we're healthy enough in that area to have kids. I know the older you get, the harder it is.

On the other hand, I'm open to adopting and she hasn't been so maybe if it doesn't pan out this year or next, she'll change her mind. If I can't have my own, the next best thing IMO is to change a child's life for the better and adopt.
I wonder if the world back when we climbed down the trees was more or less chaotic to the spectator. Did a rise of chaos occur when we admitted that we can't explain everything with one (now) simple theory?

I like how through the connection of theories we realize that the own mean nothing because everyone does come up with one in their head. I never thought of the impacts on math due to this new scientific facts that I struggle to understand on a lower level than the scientist working on that. Now I know. My personal universe is different.
Look at the consistently great 100 mile trail runners in the US - Ian Sharman, or Jeff Browning. Year after year. Look at how thorough they are. They are coaches because they know what to do and then they execute.
FYI:

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com
tl;dr: He [...] spent a number of years working as a consultant, before launching Soti in 2001. [B]ack in 2001 he [...] started to try to dream up something. [...] After a month of working[...], Mr Rodrigues had come up with [an] idea - a software system that allowed the user to control his or her mobile phone from their laptop. [M]ost people have never heard of the firm - because it sells its mobile technology software systems to companies instead of consumers
Well, the last statement doesn't imply that:

> Most people can't tell a red from a white by taste.

I most certainly can!

But I do agree, sometimes it's hard to judge the cheap wine vs the expensive ones, but we're talking $25 bottle to a $40 bottle. I don't have a lot of difficulty picking out the $8 vs the $25 from purely anecdotal experience. I am determined to double-blind myself at some point though.
Top 100 – “Books That Everyone Should Read”
> "crater run" (or I guess now "cargo bomb"?)

Crater is the older tool that runs builds. CargoBomb is the newer tool that runs builds and tests.
TIFF is putting $3M toward fighting Hollywood’s horrendous sexism problem
You sound like a great candidate for a Product Manager position. ITs about the management of software systems, versus the code. You could be the person that prevents those "OOP messes" from happening in the first place. I've been out of college for 15 years, and I sometimes go years without writing code (I've recently gotten back into it, not because I'm required to, but because I want to). Its more about interfacing with executives, and users, and you have to deal with budgets, and conflicting requirements, and limited resources, so it's no walk in the park, but it is a different set of headaches from what you are dealing with now. Even if it's only for a few months/years, I think you are at the point in your career where it makes sense to diversify. When people ask why you are looking for a different role, you don't have to be negative, you can turn it into a positive: "I want to try something new, I want to get a higher level view of how software is created".
To quote from my own comment when we discussed this six months ago (replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13325022):

"[…] there's adverse selection. The hospitals that make errors in the client's favor or that don't make errors at all are more likely to go out of business than the ones that make errors in their own favor. So guess which ones are still around when you need a hospital.
In other words, just because the errors are accidental, it doesn't mean they happen at random.
(This argument applies to any shady business practice that "looks" like an accident, for example dark patterns on websites, or having great customer service for taking your money but terrible customer service for refunding it.)"
Yeah, I was really impressed by that as well when it was first announced. Makes perfect sense once you hear it, but as an old fogey I just wasn't used to thinking on that kind of scale.

I had a similar lightbulb moment years ago when someone pointed out that y'know, these days it's perfectly feasible to test a simple float32 function by running every possible float32 bitpattern through it.
I was really excited about VR but the price(and nausea/headaches) put me off it.

I'm sure the price will continue to drop, as is par for the course in technology, but the physical side effects..? I don't want to be like Richard Hendricks and hug the porcelain after 30mins of gameplay.
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I throw out every business card I get with a package. I never scan the QR codes. I can only imagine the nightmare of recovering 2FA for someone who was tricked into setting it up without really understanding it. Just getting my relatively technically savvy mom on a passowrd manager took some work.
My gut tells me it's a great idea, but indeed as others say, take the time!
Security improvements in Linux v4.12
> Maybe a 5K or a half ... the article mentions him hitting walls as he hit certain mile markers,

Knowing where your walls are ... that's been one of the self-reflection exercises for me. Because it is an extremely personal limit & moves about with weight, food intake, sleep debt, hydration and local weather.

The physical sensation of hitting the wall is somewhat orthogonal to all the other health benefits - it is an extremely accurate read of your physical condition on that day & tells you how you're doing.
"Developing for Android and iOS browsers" would be more accurate.
Was just going to reference that, they are not well liked on glassdoor.
+1 for Russian River. Rodney Strong has a damn fine RR Pinot for a reasonable price.
and this - https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/pull/15066
If I may ask, how did you made Travis take your money?

We wanted to pay them (as an OSS project) for faster and more reliable builds for a long time but they always refused.
My only worry with this is that it might be too focused on developing technology rather than doing basic science to make such things possible. Time and time again trying to develop the tech before the science is ready has not been very fruitful.

Current neural interfaces tend to kill neurons and eventually fail. Determining how to avoid these problems is still a very big question. This is incredibly important for making practical neural interfaces. However, the approaches developed might not necessarily be compatible with technologies developed here. For example, the manufacturing process might need to be completely different, or a flexible substrate might be required.

There has progress in solving these problems though:
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-graphene-based-neural-probes-p...
Ask HN: What pressing world problems should a graphic designer work on?
I went through the 80,000 hours (https://80000hours.org) course and felt inspired to do work that matters (rather than just design some stuff for boring corporate companies). As a designer, what would be a pressing problem that I could work on and potentially even get compensated for the work in order to stick with it and pay the bills (so helping out a nonprofit with design might be fun, but it's not sustainable)
Long time nuclear opponents advocating renewables were right in hindsight: If all the post WWII nuclear R&D resources had been spent on renewables instead of military derived reactor designs, we would have had cost effective renewables for years now.

Instead, nuclear is still not commercially competitive, having swallowed globally untold amounts of tax money away from other research.

The latest gen reactor projects are very pyrrhic victories for nonfossil energy.
Having been on all sides of the fence..

It's not the language. Or the purity. No amount of changing the language you code in will increase your happiness, past a month or two.

You either find fulfillment as a code monkey, or you don't. I don't find it fulfilling, but I find starting a startup to be so. You have to pick for yourself what makes you happy.

Brian
You keep saying in comments all over the place that you think you're not smart enough to pursue some of the other alternatives people are suggesting.

I think you need to get over that feeling somehow. You're obviously too smart to do the work you're doing, because you're unhappy with it and it sounds like you're not being challenged enough. Other people around you also say things indicating that you are smart. Yet you seem to doubt your own smartness. What's going on there?
Generalisations are generalising.
70mm has already long-since proved itself to be a lucrative mass-market format: it's called IMAX.
Because the domain name system uses ISO-8859, which provides codes for "countries, territories and islands".

The standard provides codes for such places since different law often applies in territories and on islands.

(See also: UM, TW, EH, AQ, SH, SJ, and many others.)
This is basic supply/demand. We have an increase in demand with the supply of doctors apparently staying stagnant. I think that's the point of this particular thread – not necessarily the billing issue.
Burgundy pinot vs new world pinot? If they're a fan, they'd have little trouble spotting the Burgundy.
My girlfriend's sister is a big-time Oregon wine snob (hates Pinot Noir oddly), but she claims "you can thank global warming for the great Oregon wine". Is this true? Has the quality gotten higher? I seem to recall hearing that Napa is starting to get a bit too hot.
Congrats on the launch Eli! :)
Some libraries are not even open 8 hours a day, every day. In fact, most library systems seem to not be open 7 days a week. Even the ones that are typically have shorter hours at least on some days.
Yes, the article is blatant fear mongering. Every time a climate issue comes up it mentions human activity as the cause of all our problems. Outside of a Hail Mary technological solution, there is only one way to reduce human activity and that is to have fewer humans.
I wasn't directly involved, so I'm not sure. You should email the infrastructure team: infra-team@rust-lang.org
It is harmful in large concentrations as it displaces oxygen (cf. dry ice pool accidents).
The whole point of that theory was that it was based around a product you use a lot, and have to replace sooner.

If you use something 20 times, you don't care whether it breaks after 100 uses or 1000 uses.
seentell is fantastic, I will definitely start using it for my son. I like the custom cards too.
I was at Hover and moved most of my domains to NameCheap. The only way I could change my last name on my Hover account was to remove 2FA to prove that I was the owner of the account. No ability to give them a code verbally, etc. Remove, change my name, re-add. It didn't sit well with me for some reason.
Faraday Future Halts Construction of Billion Dollar Factory Amid Cash Crunch
Anyone poor enough to be homeless or food insecure should qualify for a Pell grant, which should largely pay for community college. We just need to figure out how to solve the other problems.
Ask HN: Startup failed, figuring out what to do next
Graduated from a university with a social sciences degree in 2015. Came back to Southern California to start an indie game studio. Had a great team of 10 people, but we ran short on money and a deal with a publisher fell through. Most of my work was in art, UI, and production. I've gotten interviews at a couple of places for production work, but have not landed a job yet. Been doing some freelance work in the meantime for the past couple months, but I'd like to do full time work again. Problem is there are a lot of different things I'm into (web dev, game UI/UX, 3D modeling, level design, production), but don't have a strong enough portfolio in any particular one to get a job.

I'm considering getting a course from Udemy (something like this: https://www.udemy.com/the-web-developer-bootcamp/) and going all in on a career in web dev. A lot of what I've learned is self taught, so I'm comfortable with picking up the skills this way. Compared to game development, web dev seems to have the best job prospects and work environment. Long story short, I want to know if this is a bad idea. One of my fears is that by the time I become a viable job candidate, the demand for web developers will have dissipated, I'm still jobless, and have to pursue something else, possibly repeating the cycle.

If I'm being honest with myself, I fear that committing to any single type of work will backfire on me and hurt my ability to get back on my feet. At the same time, if I don't commit, then I'm probably screwing myself over too. I love having so many options at my finger tips, but I'm falling prey to analysis paralysis. I'm sure there are other HN folks who've experienced something similar or are grappling with this problem right now. Do you guys have any advice?
Applications from the KDE side do have a different printing dialog.
Mayan EDMS file converter explained
> ie. the Eurocrats want to dictate hardware design. Hard to imagine anything good coming out of that.

This is a pretty bad summary. They don't want to dictate hardware design - only dictate additional constraint of "stop making shitty stuff". How to do hardware design while respecting this constraint is up to hardware designers.
I think it's more than a dozen. I would expect all wealthy, tech-savvy democracies to have fairly competently run ccTLDs. It's just that there's about 200 countries in the world, and quite a lot of those are a complete mess.
Animating left/top on a fixed layout is indeed still fast. But modern app layouts using responsive design are still going to need to hit the UI thread to modify controls as the size changes.