skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This goes into I Don't Know What I Don't Know Dept. (sorry Mad magazine)

A patron was telling me that the way the GPS is so accurate is because it uses the phones radio... Didnt know that either. (i mentioned to him that there is one spot in MA where our google directions are off by 1/2 mile.. Same place every trip.)
What's the accuracy on that location information? Is it down to the meter/10 meter/100 meter?
Swagger Codegen 2.2.3 has been released
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The articles mention many options and reasons why the base load problem is vastly overblown. Batteries will probably help in households. The combination of all these methods is what you have to look at. And these technologies are still rapidly improving, they should start being a significant % of energy generation and start taking on the base load issue slowly of course.
My team uses http://flarum.org/ for the same purpose we even added a slack notification plugin when new questions are added.
Blue screen of death? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death
Why would any NASA information be SBU (Sensitive but unclassified)?
> more frequent than once per orbit

My gut feeling says that statistically, even just going from one impact to two impacts being likely would require an immense density of satellites, let alone having more collisions than that.

Then there's also the fact that every impact would have a loss of kinetic energy (because it gets converted to heat as the objects deform), which would also make a reduction in orbit likely.

If the debris keeps fragmenting, which maybe could increase odds of impact, the remaining kinetic energy would be divided over each object. The smaller the debris gets, the more drag it should feel too, because of the square-cube law[0]. So that too would only make it more likely to deorbit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
I love my coworkers, they are truly the smartest people I know and I never dreamed of such productive work environment, but these are the practices I found to be problematic:

- Writing tests in the sam PR introducing a library that is not yet used is waste of time since that library will go through several revisions before fitting in the whole project. In the meanwhile, tests are usually testing interfaces (which is of questionable benefit) and take time to rewrite every time lib interface needs to be adjusted

- „Taking time” to make it „proper” . „Proper” is usually currently hyped opinion and in our case (12 year old product) consistency is always a choice with what we want to be consistent. I am strong believer in coding standards, but I hate consistency with randomness. What I mean is - I’ve seen decision made at random (because sometimes we’re exploring the unknown) and then we force consistency with that decision never reexamining it.

- Designing classes / libraries up front- this is the design process that takes 0 data and turns it into binding decisions. It should be done at the end!

- „If we make code better, the product will be better by extension” - this is pure BS. There is an infinity of nice things you can do with the code that DO NOT trickle down to product experience. Rich Americans getting richer does not trickle down to poor Americans getting richer.

- ‚We are not some code sweat shop where we pump shitty code”. Well, we are not and we CAN make code better AFTER it is working.

- Perfect IS NOT set in stone. There is no 1 perfect solution. There is a myriad of good enough ones, and I love good enough ( it has to be better than „just working" )!
"Really, I encourage you to try to name one!"

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Ok fine. but how is this implemented? Does a coin/token correspond to some amount of energy? And how is the real world transfer of energy constrained/dictated by the block chain record?
I'm of two minds on the use of scrolling as a method of interaction with the page. The term "scrolljacking" has been coined as the negative way to describe this particular style where the page itself is designed to render based on the scroll position. At the same time, I'm completely behind trying to find new and more effective ways of interacting with content.

To me, this page is mostly effective, but I'm on a Macbook Pro, which is probably the best-case viewing experience, but I can't imagine this working well on older mobile devices.
Holey hubris, Batman! I bet there will be large dark zones on the AV's maps, where they dare not go, for reasons they cannot comprehend with their own sensors.
I'm curious what device the author prefers, for software development: iPad Pro or the surface. Also, the conclusion is that "it’s quite possible" to use the iPad Pro, but that isn't necessarily an endorsement.

I only ask because I've been toying with the idea of buying a surface / iPad Pro.
I don't understand this at all. You scroll, and new text appears and the map in the background simply shifts to different points and shows some different data. This seems exceedingly simple to display all the data they wanted.
On source repos, you're right. On forked repos, people often don't change the readme, and to see star repo counts of forks requires opening each repo individually.
What do you think of the design?
I would love to, but the site is basically un-navigable.
The debris took a long time to appear. That fits perfectly well a scenario where the plane crashed on one side of the ocean and the debris washed up on the other side.
I did some mobile application releases for some big companies which products you are using, actually.
Design flaws and dealing with humiliation from it
Introducing Coindex – Cryptocurrency price tracking on iOS
Those are not what you're talking about but check out the slides from P1 Security about this issue: https://www.slideshare.net/p1sec/hes2010-philippe-langlois-a...
Devil's Ivy: The Technical Details
That's really weird. That said, they reference "our" work (i.e., their work) as citation [10], so one concludes it's likely a subset of the paper authors:

[10] A. Shrivastava, T. Pfister, O. Tuzel, J. Susskind, W. Wang, R. Webb, Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. CVPR, 2017.
A marvelous interview with Laura El-Tantawy
Loss of intelligence / skill is the problem. If that AI understood your goal, and had the ability to modify your account, then we might actually prefer the AI version.
Or the typical bait and switch "you will work on open source ... for a couple of months" hiring strategy.
Took it, always mind-boggling how many new flavors and frameworks are coming out. Can't keep up! clojurescript, Typescript and vanilla js for me, all day long. Want to get into Elm also.
Was it a phone operator specific system?
Like could you get the location of any phone number or only AT&T's, for example.
Tips for developers starting out with Node.js
Well I don't blame employers who don't want to invest in a dead language.

In Python land I am still happily getting offers with good salaries.
Shh, you're not supposed to say that out loud. You don't wanna be labeled a conspiracist, do you?
I'm only 30 and yet I think I've become an old "get off my lawn" man. I hate the word "blog" and find "journal" to be a nice relief. No need to differentiate your log/journal from others because its on the web. It feels like a language artifact of the dot com era alongside "surfing" and "cyber".
Unfortunately, that's subjective. Try being a redhead. I've gotten it my entire life, even as a 36 year old. "No, but you're Irish, right?" It's the most minor transgression a person can make against me and it's so petty that I've never actually talked about it out loud before but it most certainly happens and more frequently than you'd imagine.
I've seen estimates in industry reports estimating a 400% increase in vehicle miles per year as a result of auto-piloted vehicles. We clearly need to rethink how we inhabit this planet as this is complete insanity.
Yes, you heard.

This is in early days in Maersk, who are an early adopter in shipping. Most in shipping have never heard of blockchains, and international standards like ICP600 have yet to mention it, banking trade departments not touching it yet (for things like LCs); Maersk are using internally and on small scale.

Very early ground. But a good starting point. Blockchains for shipping are pre-beta, but that doesn't mean testing isn't happing, yes.
So we're def getting some form of facial recognition in the new iPhone with stuff like this being published.

Feels like an early post to show they've done some advanced work in making sure you can't trick them.
I was driving to work one day and the light was broken at the busiest intersection in town. People were able to make it through the intersection using hand signals and flashing headlights. How does this work when half of the cars are fully autonomous? How are computers going to understand what those hand signals mean?

A bridge in my town is under construction and it is down to one lane. They put up full stop lights at both ends of the lane closure to manage traffic. Every two or three times I go over that bridge, someone coming from the other direction goes on red because they can see no traffic is coming. I have to sit and wait for that vehicle before going or no one will be able to move.

I love the idea of fully autonomous vehicles, but next time you drive somewhere count the number of ambiguous situations that occur and ask yourself if you think a computer could be programmed to handle all of it. I'm rather skeptical.
Oh no, I hope my Digg and Hotmail accounts are still safe.
Possibly? In this sort of continuum of anonymity we're talking about, that's probably a lot more anonymous (but it isn't fully anonymous unless you're paying someone else to buy the phone for you in a different city, and they don't know who you are, and probably some other things I'm not paranoid enough to think of).

It's still fine to say Twilio is "mostly anonymous," and objecting to that - that Twilio is "mostly anonymous" - on the basis that law enforcement can find out who you are with a court order is very silly. As if a service that requires due process of law to uncover any information about you is morally or practically equivalent to having your name and address in the white pages.
I always got the impression (not backed by any verifiable numbers, mind you) that many tech companies cooled to training employees because of poaching and the relative frequency of changing jobs. If you devote company resources to training an employee, only to have that employee end up working for your competition, you just helped erode your business. Now, I think that's a short-sighted viewpoint, but it's one I've heard expressed before by CTOs.
Yeah, I've been to saunas all over Europe and I've never seen a gender-segregated one.
python and smtplib works nicely
To be fair, it's their own healthcare plan. The Republican party held Congress during Obama's administration.
Is there any hope that some new ISP gets created that does follow net neutrality? What's likely to happen to an ISP that doesn't play the fast/slow lane approach?
This article finally answered a question I've had for a while: how they can do decent triangulation with just two towers.

> "We said that a tower covers a radius around it. In practice, this is sub optimal so that’s not how it’s done.

> Instead, a station is usually split in 3 independent beams of 120 degrees."

So it's not the intersection of two circles anymore, it's the intersection of two arcs, which will likely only have one intersection point, unlike circles.
> Funny, isn't it, that a free and neutral Internet is one of the key technologies that allowed the acerbic alt-right movement to bubble up from the fringes, to become grassroots, and then mainstream, finally to put Trump in office.

The thing about human mind is that there is no way to truly stop the way it reasons other than to counter it with reason. You can't really change someone's mind by smacking them in the face until their mind is changed take for instance.

Alt-right movement would have come around with or without Internet and with or without widespread censorship. In fact there is already widespread social and technological censorship against alt-right views, and this is one of the biggest reasons why they have an appeal.

A bunch of my Libertarian friends have to do the same, our opinions aren't really understood or accepted by a lot of liberals, so artful trolling at heavily moderated internet groups and communities is something they all learn to do sooner or later.

Yes, IF there is a moderation of opinions on the internet at the network level (which I don't believe would happen), then controversial opinions like that of alt-right are the ones which would suffer disproportionately more. However, that is much easily handled rather than having govt level laws regarding the control of the Internet.
> An interesting question is whether radio waves, gamma radiation, and visible light all travel an identical speed through atmosphere.

They don't. The index of refraction tells you about how the speed of light is changed by a medium, and the fact that it's different for different colors of visible light is why you get effects like rainbows.

This stack exchange question might interest you if you'd like to read more: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/196803/why-is-th... .
Lever (YC S12) Raises $30M for Effort to Transform Hiring
This isn't a 'journal' in any sense of what the word implies when referring to published materials. There's no peer review, probably no editorial board. Blog is appropriate.
I think the point is that the page designers want to show me a movie, while I want to read an article.

It's annoying, because the fate of this plane is far more important to me than tedious details of web design. But I find the page incomrpehensible and will have to learn the facts somewhere else.
ES5 and ES6/2015 options, but no ES8/2017? My code is requires 'await' and is significantly better for doing so.

Since it covers SASS/CSS too, would be interested in % of people using grid or flexbox.
The word "journal" makes me think more of a scientific journal, which is something else entirely, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journal
This could end up being a huge deal. The one thing I do worry about is thieves making off with the expensive solar panels. The article doesn't mention how the trains would be protected in those cases.

It also doesn't mention if the passenger cars would draw electricity from the locomotive during nighttime/ monsoon etc. but I'm guessing that is the case.
For anyone curious about why Apple is allowing its researchers to (anonymously) publish papers like these on an Apple blog, it's because of this:

Apple’s director of AI research Russ Salakhutdinov has announced at a conference that the company’s machine-learning researchers will be free to publish their findings. This is an apparent reversal of Apple's previous position.

Refusing permission to publish was said to be keeping the company out of the loop and meaning that the best people in the field didn’t want to work for Apple.

From: https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/06/apple-ai-researchers-can-publ...

We will see whether this move is sufficient to attract the top talent they're looking for.
Both of those are much more "free form". You have to put effort in to get some value out. That's before you think of culture, and for it to be the norm for people to use those tools. SO has structure for Q&A which solves the technical issue, but it still doesn't solve the cultural aspect.

Does pestering being "easier" reflect a deeper problem? Maybe, maybe not, but in a lot of places people get annoyed having to answer the same question over and over. Committing answers to writing also helps clarify them and avoids someone walking off with institutional knowledge. In theory, that improves things.
Please don't perpetuate prejudice against prostitutes.
> Microsoft only does what suits Microsoft's interests

As does any other company that wants to survive. I doubt Google will do anything against its own interests.
Digital Warriors
But they haven't reached safety. They will be censored into oblivion by large corps who don't want to be seen endorsing/promoting that content, and any rival services they set up to fill those gaps will wither on the vine.

There will be strange bedfellows to be had in this particular fight.
I've tried to use an iPad for Python web development - it's usable for a Vim person since they'd be using the keyboard all day, but for me I missed Sublime too much. Ended up getting a Macbook and the iPad is now collecting dust.

Also task switching between your editor (which was Vim inside an SSH terminal in my case) and Safari to see the end result was way too slow, and you constantly need to take your fingers off the keyboard to interact with the touchscreen.

Related: http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...
From Malicious to Oblivious: Insider Threats Reach Far and Wide
Have you tried a laptop? In all seriousness, it's cheaper and more productive than trying to code on an iPad.
So when do they throw their Microsoft wrench in it..

"Oh and these Kubernetes features only work on Azure Cloud(tm) running Windows Server(tm), or Microsoft Linux(tm)."

I don't know.. does anyone that isn't a .net shop use Azure? It seems if you are a .net shop, Azure is the best choice. If you are not a .net shop, why use Azure? If Microsoft is going to reach a compelling chunk of AWS and GCE linux developers, I don't think they are going have that easy of a time...
Yesterday on Ars: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794546
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Open Container Initiative specifications are 1.0
Now you know why my Nokia 3310 is switched off most of the time.
It's called Assisted GPS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

It speeds up getting an accurate location, doesn't provide a more accurate location than GPS.

GPS on is generally accurate to around 5 or 6 metres. That's the technology on it's own.
> science around those,

there's no science around those, just word twisting and mental gymnastics. "Gender studies" and such are not science in any form.
GBNST (guilt by non-scientific thinking): Radio waves = sound = speed of sound, therefore wtf sound = light, but now I 'see the light.'

After having a second cup of coffee I did a doh! and realized conflating 'radio' with sound is non-sensical, but I wonder if I'm in the minority thinking this way. Or maybe it's just my non-tech background!
Imagine YouTube depending on QuickTime, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, or Java Applets. Flash's user experience was just so much better than those options. I'd guess that YouTube couldn't have had that much success were there not such a ubiquitous (and downright good) plugin.
> Apple’s director of AI research Russ Salakhutdinov has announced at a conference that the company’s machine-learning researchers will be free to publish their findings. This is an apparent reversal of Apple's previous position.

How about researchers in other fields?!?
how soon we forget about livejournal :)
I agree. I think the closest word from the nondigital era to a "blog" would a "bulletin".
Vote for Ugly
You can have 2 apps at the same time, I beleive. Split in the middle by iOS.

I still dream about an iPad that run macOS. :)
I reported a bug to Google just a couple of days, which is very similar to this.

It allows an attack to present a user with a real Google 'account select' page with their account listed, but if they click that link it actually redirects them to another site (which you can dress up to look like the password page the user is expecting).

It is arguably worse than the previous issue, as I don't need a hoax extension, I can just manipulate the link to inject the malicious redirect behaviour.

They have triaged it and I'll probably write up a report once they are happy for me to do so.
literally the only mode of interaction to consume the content is "scrolling down with your mouse" and this is apparently beyond your capabilities of comprehension?
I've worked a 6 month contract before, 3 months would have been ideal I think as after that it was starting to drag on a bit but I don't see many contracts that short. Unfortunately the company didn't really utilise my time very well until I was almost at the end of the contract. Id rather hit the ground running but I guess each contract varies.

It's hard to know what we'd all do with so much free time and I think some people would be a bit lost, but it certainly sounds like you make the most of it and live a nice lifestyle. Particularly all the outdoor activities is something id like to spend more time on myself.

Thanks for sharing!
It's a journal in the sense of a scientific diary/notebook. That is also my first association.

The word "journal" comes from french "jour" which translates to "day".

The word blog comes from log which original comes from tabular record-keeping of ship speed.
Nobody called it scientific journal.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/journal:

1. a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations[...]

3. a periodical or magazine, especially one published for a special group, learned society, or profession[...]

4. a record, usually daily, of the proceedings and transactions of a legislative body, an organization, etc.
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Because the fear is that the internet will become like TV

But I would rather take that than Internet becoming like TV, where govt can pass 'fairness doctrine' and other stuff, or restrict it significantly during war time.

I'd rather trust economic incentives to keep Internet free than political incentives. If people are willing to pay for full coverage of the War, then even though govt is pressuring ISPs, it results in a losing prisoner's dilemma for ISPs (take for instance the popularity of Al Jazeera during Iraq War).
We've got a gen-3 Surface in the office for when we need to do Windows stuff and I'd say: definitely try before you buy. Given how much positive stuff I'd heard about it, almost every part of the reality was... surprising.
Library to find every book, constitution, song, phrase, etc. ever written
Even if this is correct, an overall increase would increase road wear proportionally.
A Good UX is badly needed in the space!! Thanks
From a historical perspective, so is "Journal" -- it harkens back to the days of things like the Bell System Technical Journal (published from 1922 to 1983), the IBM Systems Journal, etc.
No, that's a wild oversimplification. That's what a blockchain strives to be, though practically it should be close-ish to instant, it would be incredibly rare for someone to corrupt it with enough hashing power, and "magic" was there to compensate for the obvious lack of explanation as to how it works.
This is a good point and an excellent comment.

While the items mentioned on this list are certainly valuable, every 1,000 followers you have amplifies your chances of success. Even if the product doesn't work out, there are more people to hear about it—perhaps, you can fail faster.
With the pencil you can create pretty high quality drawings. It also seems many photographers are happy with the iPad in their workflow. The problem is that 90% of the rest what people do is cumbersome and full of needless obstacles. How should an iPad Pro replace a laptop if you can't export the photos and drawings without a laptop/computer. It's just so, so stupid. On the surface you pop in the USB stick (and virtually all other USB Hardware!) and you're good to go.
Extreme scalability for cryptocurrencies: The SPECTRE protocol
'Goat yoga' is a thing
Q&A tools (or features for existing community/collaboration tools) are an common request in the enterprise space. Virtually every large organization has some kind of knowledge manager either trying to build, or manage tools for this sort of thing. It's hard to understand why you didn't get a response without more context.
What makes you think you can extract that much instruction level parallelism in the first place?