skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has video chat and lots of nontechnical people get how to use it. Google has had one for a while but the name keeps changing and they'll likely kill off whatever the latest one is in a year (and it probably works better on android somehow)

Sucks that we can't just revive the design of classic Skype (but open source) before MS ruined it (not that it didn't have wiretapping capabilities before as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security ). I guess the linked project is the closest thing to that.
That's a pretty ginormous "but unless...". It would not surprise me if more people are building and using Boost than all other platforms put together. I haven't done any Windows development in 10+ years, but it's not like everyone else stopped when I did.
In other news, Apple still sold the iPod Nano and Shuffle
> instead of stuffing what was widely seen as a broken-by-design piece of garbage down everybody's throat

Here's the thing I don't understand. I don't want to get too deep into my bona fides, but I'm a "real professional" who's been in this industry twenty years now. I've been running Linux since it came on a stack of floppy disks. I've managed clusters of Sun machines, I've worked end-user IT support, I've deployed BSD on routers, I've carried the pager at Google, I've spent years and years at small startups writing the code, crimping cables, wiring racks, deploying the code, waking up at 3am when the code breaks.

So when I read an opinion like this, the only conclusion I can draw is these people are out to lunch, because to me it's clear that the systemd suite is so much better than the steaming pile it's replacing. The tools are consistent, composable, well documented, and fast. Binary logging is superior in every way (checksums, log shipping, metadata, search). It's got amazing sandboxing support right out of the box and makes it easy to configure (PrivateTmp, PrivateDevices, PrivateUsers, ProtectSystem, CapabilityBoundingSet, SystemCallFilter, NoNewPrivileges, MemoryDenyWrite, etc). It gives you fine-grained control over cpu scheduling and limits. It doesn't litter .pid and .lock files all over your system because the shitty bash script couldn't figure out the daemon died. The systemd-nspawn tool is chroot, but done correctly this time. Socket activation is totally awesome. Love user sessions -- systemd starts my emacs daemon and mail fetcher for me when I log in, sends their log output to the journal like every other service, and restarts them when they fall over. I chafe when I have to login to an older CentOS or Ubuntu system that doesn't have it.

TL;DR: smells like Dunning-Krueger to me
You have things backwards. Planners try to smooth things out or at least prevent disasters.

Most of the existing towns in the SF Bay Area are full of great opportunities for expansion but NIMBYs want their villages to stay the same. That is driven not by planners but reactionaries.

This particular plot of land is a chronically flooded lagoon and swamp which is awkwardly distant from local transit.

It is interesting that instead of being realistic about this land's obviously undesirable nature this article chose instead to print a picture of a nearby plot. The picture shows the former Schlage factory grounds which have undergone extensive remediation and are getting a new high density community built in no small part because of the ongoing efforts of planners to get the highest and best use for that site.

As long as people can't stop lying about what the situation is and what options might be available the chances of a favorable outcome are low.
This is mindboggling anti-intellectualism. There is absolutely zero substance to your claim. Scientific work is more rigorous and quantitative than ever, especially in climate science, and the fact that you are too lazy to learn the first thing about how modern science works doesn't change that reality. All I can say is I'd really, really wish that you'd educate yourself on how science works. Please start by reading some scientific journals, Nature Geoscience and Geophysical Research Letters are a good place to start.
At https://hackclub.com we send stickers to tons of students all around the world to help them promote their clubs.

One of the big problems we run into is that people often don't know how to properly write their address. They'll forget to give us their zip code. Or their state. Sometimes even their city. Does the state go before or after the zip code? How do you write the apartment number? It only gets more complex when they're in another country and we're sending from the US.

We probably run into these issues more often than most because we work with high schoolers that usually aren't regular users of physical mail, but we also run into these same problems more often than you'd expect when sending stickers to adults that donate.

Having form fields to prompt for everything needed fixes this problem.
Go into it with the attitude of 'deferal of gratitude'. In other words it might look painful for a while but when various things click you get your holy s moments and you'll never go back. I've worked in a lot of java, php, python, c# etc frameworks and there are very specific reasons this is near always better long term. A lot of it comes back to elixir simply solving the correct problems. Learn elixir using the elixir lang site guides and then jump into phoenix using their official guides. Eventually you'll experience the upsides and versatility
95 Theses of Cyber: a no-bullshit guide to power and politics on the internet
That's a good point, though again, I'm not sure their standards for video would be much higher than their standards for text.

For many people, merely telling them 'Obama said X' or 'Trump said Y' would be convincing enough. As would mere quote mining or what not.
It's great for integrated/specialist apps that only communicate via wifi or something (i.e. Plane ticket scanners and hundreds of other applications). My bet is that iPod touches are for industry. I deploy on them in some instances, they are perfect for limited location use where you can bridge connectivity by a non cellular means
May not be a popular opinion but I'd have to say that I value the idea of having space between me and my neighbors, so I'm definitely not in favor of maxing out the land for homes to the point where the houses might as well be attached and labeled condos or apartments.

I can understand where the people are coming from in wanting to maintain what they've invested into. I'd hate to see a sudden boom in population and sudden traffic spikes due to the knee jerk reaction of building 100's of more houses in an area that wasn't even planned to support more than what is existing.

People do need housing but people also need to be realistic about where they live and how they plan to keep on living there.
Why not let the free market decide how much nicotine to put into products?
Related discussion to "Can a jury in China indict me here in the US?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861925
That depends on which user you are asking about and how fast you can recharge.

First note that most of these users are loaded - they are now driving a truck rated to get ~20mpg unloaded, but they average ~14mpg because of their extra load. Realistically your 200 mile range to 140 miles.

When you are going from job to job - 25 miles to the first job, then 50 to the next, then 30, you are too far from home to make it back. Generic handyman jobs stay closer to home, but if you are the only mechanic in your city that knows how to fix a paver that might be your life (road equipment is generally repaired/maintained on sight as that is cheaper than bringing them in)

If you are dong warehouse delivery you are probably looking at a bunch of 60 mile round trips before you head back to refill the truck, if you can recharge while the truck is loading you are fine. Fast recharge in current batteries currently reduces their life, but we can budget for that. (there is potential for something like drive 50 miles and put 20 miles worth of charge back, and repeat: this is enough to get to the end of the day and then you do a full recharge overnight)

The farmer going to the tractor and the feed store probably cannot stop to recharge - he might leave the truck sitting most of the day, but never near a power line. However a 200 mile day would be unusual. If we make sure that every shed/barn has a charging station he can probably get by.
Depending on the demographic it may not be in decline at all.
Would love to hear from someones perspective whom actually moved current infrastructure over to this provider. Would love a write-up and pros-cons after transitioning.
The tobacco branch was added in 2009.

NCTR research or any scientific research is not going to come out super fast.

https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofMedicalP...

disclaimer: my view is my personal view and not that of FDA.
Yes it's nice to have a proper process manager.

Is just that it's obvious that the feature creep tendencies are strong, and a lot of tangential daemons and tools are affected.

All in all, I've come to the conclusion that it's probably for the better, but I must admit that even small things like an embedded 'more' implementation seems a bit off somehow.
Brisbane is 6.5 miles from downtown SF (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+downtown+san+...)

The entire peninsula is tiny, it's not fair to compare it to Zurich.
> Likewise, it may cost less to license a cover band to perform something than to license the recording made of it by a famous group, if the song was not actually written by them.

You could even pay the original artist to perform it. The recording is what's licensed, not all performances by that artist. On Spotify I've seen quite a few older artists re-recording their old hits, presumably because they get more money if they themselves own the license to their own cover.
If all you want to build is Rust and Go code... what happens if you have a project composed of multiple languages?

FWIW, I like "cabal-install", the Haskell equivalent of cargo. It also suffers from the same problems as soon as you start to use multiple languages in a project (except C, that's quite well supported). I stress the word "project". If a "project" to you is just a single language then I'm, first of all, happy for you... Unfortunately that's not the reality for many of us, and THAT is why we need build systems.

EDIT: Point being: A language-specific build system can be great, but as soon as you get a big project with multiple languages it leaves you, the Master of the Build, with a big problem because you suddenly have to incorporate every $OTHER_LANGUAGE into the build... somehow. All of that integration is on you and is specific to your situation.

A build system on the other hand leaves each language implementation with a simple problem: how do I integrate with build system X? One that's settled it works for everyone using build system X, so we're not duplicating that huge amount of effort you would put in in the language-specific-build-tool situation.

(Obviously, this imaginary perfect build tool "interface" is highly non-trivial, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for it.)
10,000 "brand new" cars available in 2017? I don't think so. 10,000 models ever made? probably.

Generally these cars are very limited production runs starting at 500 examples for the "common" ones (seriously) down to single digit numbers models for the very very exclusive ones. The Lamborghini Veneno Roadster is a recent example: http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/g4107/lamborghini-venen...
Boomers will NEVER allow housing to be built in the Bay Area.
My current project is a scheduling app With Phoenix/Elixir on the backend and a React-Native Frontend. No complaints so far, Incredibly productive.
I love my nano. I hope someone else picks up the baton and form factor.
They are. Then they package 1, 2, or 4 of them.

It looks to me like the entirety of Zen from $100 to $1000 CPUs is the same design, the same manufacturing process, the same chips, just bucketed according to speed test and failed cores and arranged into MCM packaging.
We'll know after the tobacco companies' first lawsuit gets to the Supreme Court.
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Something lots of people in the tech community get really hung up on is focusing on tech and technique rather than what the technology is doing for the user.

There are writeups on here fairly frequently that talk about successful companies being successful despite their product being built on barrels of spaghetti code. This is because those companies are focusing on accomplishing something for the user, not trying to impress with their coding skills (something the customer is not ever likely to see).

Games are kind of an ultimate distillation of this phenomenon, they are required to provide a single thing to their user (fun) and anything else is distraction. Games which focus on other things aren't going to make it.

Some of the best game designers in the world will ruthlessly focus on designing core mechanics first, with very very basic technology and will work out the necessities of what the game is supposed to do to create fun first before almost any other work is done. This extends to hyper-technical 3d first person shooters as well, with entire games being sketched out with cubes and basic geometry in order get the gameplay perfected. Once that's done, these core mechanics are documented and the rest of the presentation is swapped in. As the game develops, it's checked against this set of documented standards and tested tested tested to make sure key elements haven't been lost.

Application development can learn lots from successful game development shops: walk-up interfaces, teaching mechanics, application flow, presentation and so on. It's almost worth studying game development more than other application development models.
Depends on where very dramatically. If the A/C units are venting to the outside, not likely to have a dramatic impact outside the immediate area of the coils.

In the NYC subway system however, it apparently had a dramatic impact. From what I read (source not handy), before A/C came to trains the tunnels were relatively ok (<90°F), but since adding A/C to the trains, tunnels and platforms now hit way over 100° (L platform has been >115°) in the summer.
Uber is also pretty much the only western company to have real success in China, which is something Google, Facebook and Amazon have yet to do. Owning almost 20% of the local giant is a lot more than having no presence in the country.
> if a city could make as much money off housing as they could retail

The article points out concerns about the size of the expansion relative to the current city, which makes sense, but why is tax income a concern for a city? Surely it doesn't exist to make as much money as possible?
It's already happening. This summer flights were grounded in Arizona because ambient temperatures were higher than the safe operating range of commercial aircraft. That's the kind of thing (along with food shortages) that are impossible to ignore.
Virtual reality hangout AltspaceVR will close in August
If you look at your link, you will see the address is (142 Elderberry Ln, Brisbane, CA 94005).

Looking at the map (https://goo.gl/maps/7kvttaK8z7F2), it's not even in Brisbane proper, so I think you're wrong about your assessment.

I have been to Brisbane, the number of large McMansions is very tiny.
Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal (2013)
That might look more like graphQL over websockets with realtimes updates. Somebody told me about an already-existing GraphQL with real-time push updates ready-made for integrating with the front-end framework, wish I knew the name of whatever this was, but maybe somebody will chime in.

Not sure how anything is RESTful anymore once it's over websockets. The whole point of REST is it's a perfection of HTTP, and the whole point of HTTP is it's the slowest, most awkward networking protocol ever devised made to pander to the browser's flaccid capabilities.
Posting spoilers is not clever.
I think a great example of this is Derek Yu's "Spelunky." He made a quick 'n dirty freeware version, which turned out to be massively popular, then remade a polished commercial version. It was easier for him to pitch the publisher since there was already a working, popular prototype.
I don't know who is the genius who crunches such kind of numbers. Even though 4400 homes will only get $1 million in direct property taxes. There will be huge indirect economic boost that will happen because of the so many people that will stay. There will be new opportunities for the locals for employments & businesses. There will be lot of restaurants, shopping center etc that will cater to these residents. That will be more than building commercial properties and getting $9 million in property revenues.
You could haul lumber in a jeep as well - fold down the front window (why people forget about this, I don't know), prop the lumber between the seats resting on the dash, tailgate, etc - tie it down.
Be transparent with the data. Stop making adjustments that are questionable and coincidentally result in increased warming. Stop blacklisting scientists who disagree with the consensus. Stop getting hacked and releasing emails showing people discussing how to "hide the decline". Stop gaming peer review by having the papers reviewed by a group of people who all agree. Stop making hyperbolic predictions about the future which are completely falsifiable and indeed end up to be false. Stop insisting that the models are completely accurate even though they have been completely inaccurate thus far. Stop accusing people who have questions about mitigation strategies as "climate deniers".

That would be a good start.
For those tuning in, Bitcoin is undergoing what's known in the investment industry as a "spin-off". That is when a company splits into different companies that are independently managed and holders of the original company get units of each. This is what happened with HP, when it spun off Agilent. The reason for the split is that people mining Bitcoin can not agree on the features that Bitcoin should have.

This causes issues because Bitcoin was never engineered for this contingency. In the ideal case, you would be allowed to select which blockchain you are spending your tokens on. Bitcoin transactions do not contain any information about which blockchain they should be allowed to be spent on, so all transactions spent after the fork are valid on both blockchains regardless of the author's intentions. BCC could have fixed this by provisioning their transactions to be chain-specific, but it seems they did not.

There are significant tax ramifications of this, which are sure to cause a headache for everyone. It seems to me that the tax basis of the original Bitcoins will become diminished by the proportional amount of the value of BCC on the day of the spin-off.
We actually used the data on this site for a related graphic here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/?ut...
And how much lead is OK in drinking water?
Thanks for the link. One thing I hated about Rails when I tried it was the level of magic involved. Does Phoenix suffer from that at all?
I believe you are wrong regarding the new Nokia:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/6niivf/so_is_it_hmd_...
Yeah, it's food and drug. If you put it in your mouth, it's FDA
Activism. I'm curious why downvoters think their acquisitions aren't a form of activism. For instance, their coverage of an Amazon monopoly is very sparse, even given the recent Democratic economic policy statements which mention monopolies frequently. Billionaires wanting to control the press isn't exactly a shocking idea. Is buying a newspaper and controlling their output more or less offensive than Theil's funding the Gawker suit?

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/11/11/at-th...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/amazon-isnt-technica...

4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/01/30/amazo...

5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to...
Starbucks closing all Teavana locations, impacting 3,300 jobs
Gonna do phoenix for a side project.

I'm just a bystander reading about erlang and elixir for awhile. Did web dev in php and a little bit of nodejs.

But I think what you guys doing are great. I'm glad Elixir and Phoenix came about it really helps drive the language into a field (web dev) and get people to notice.

And that one implementation of figuring out how people is log off or not that is in Phoenix was really sweet when you presented it.
Yep, and speaking of weasel words, "sell" is also a weasel word. There's always lease, rent, give, trade, share, expose, exploit, release, etc.
A couple weeks ago I switched from Atom to VS Code due to the abysmal performance of Atom. I wish I had switched earlier.
Awesome! Good luck!!! Looks like a great race
> It doesn't launch into you.

Depends on the manufacturer of the airbags...so YMMV.

/I'm looking at you, Takata...
Completely agree. The examples are incredibly narrow and likely document and context dependent overall.
Oh, you're raising a non-sequitor. Got it.

That's not what we call an 'exurb', either.
That is basically what happened until now. And it had very catastrophic result.
That explains phone tethering but doesn't explain pocket wifi.

There is no reason that pocket wifi functionality can't be in the computer, eliminating an entire device.
My best guess - someone told them of such a deal, but wouldn't disclose who the company was because it hasn't been officially announced.
That is basically my complaint then. I have 1920 horizontal pixels available, but for some reason twitter is intent on only using a small fraction of that.
> My bet is that iPod touches are for industry.

My understanding is that they're for children, to help get them hooked into the ecosystem when they're young.
This is absolutely correct. Deep Learning techniques as applied to NLP have moved us forward -- but we are nowhere near human level
I think that was part of the point. IE: "if the principal city is built properly" implies the principal city isn't built properly.
If anything, the FDA would advocate for single-payer since it increase quality of care.
Why? So I can see more pretty charts and cartoons? I'm am not telling you my option, I am telling you my observation.
The water utility is anything but a free market. It's not a very good analogy.
> Debian only offered SysVinit

> writing scripts was

That is a fallacious argument. The false dichotomy and false history that it presumes is one of the fallacies that the "Uselessd Guy" describes at http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ .

The actual truth is that before the Hoo-Hah, Debian included packages for minit, runit, van Smoorenburg rc+init, filerc+van Smoorenburg init, Upstart, and even InitNG at one point. An OpenRC package was added by OpenRC people during the Hoo-Hah.

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/minit

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/daemontools-run

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/runit-run

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/file-rc

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/initng

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openrc

* https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/upstart

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/debian-systemd-packaging-hoo-hah.html
That is an outstanding plan.
They can't regulate drug prices much more than they can regulate food prices.
Nicotine-related products kill far more people on a yearly basis than guns.