skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shows not only the dangers of ignoring science but of promoting an irrational alternative in its stead. Like a war, a hurricane is something you cannot pretend is not happening; it's a true test of your reality versus reality, and in places like Texas and Louisiana they've been found wanting. People are free in this country to believe whatever they want, and those same people are free to vote. What they are not free from are the consequences of holding those beliefs and casting those votes.
That's strange - so it doesn't protect the data EU citizens give out when using free services?
HP's graphical calculators have always supported units, including in the interactive numerical solver. Support in the symbolic CAS is more limited. Custom units can be defined in terms of built-in units. In your example, you'd simply store 1.75 inches or 44.45 mm to the variable 'U'.
> Despite widespread speculation, the possibility of the signals coming from an advanced alien civilization has been largely ruled out.

Anyone know how?
> So when his friend said that she'd be interested if FontForge was available on her Mac, she probably meant it, but her request didn't reflect the underlying reasons she held for not using the software.

Nitpicking, but that's not what OP said; they said she "wouldn't even consider looking at fontforge on her mac unless it behaved more like a mac application". That's different from affirming that she would be interested in it if it looked native.
We are happy to announce that all LiveJournal pages work via HTTPS from now
"Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist."

--Karl Marx
I would guess mostly Occam's razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
The online services are nice but the way they implement SSO (or at least the experience) seems to indicate a lot of security holes or mis-practices.

Also, their internal data security and access mechanisms are broken, un-monitored and un-enforced.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/ato-deputy-commissione...

And let us not forget the Census fiasco. At least they managed to sock/fine IBM $30 million for it. Hopefully this serves as a signal to other consultants and they up their game.
This is the really interesting bit IMO

In addition, their observations revealed that the brightest of these 15 emissions occurred at around 7 GHz. This was higher than any repeating FRBs seen to date, which indicated for the first time that they can occur at frequencies higher than previously thought. Last, but not least, the high-resolution data the Listen team collected is expected to yield valuable insights into FRBs for years to come.

This was made possible thanks to the Digital Backend instrument on the GBRT, which is able to record several GHz of bandwidth simultaneously and split the information into billions of individuals channels. This enables scientists to study the proprieties and the frequency spectrum of FRBs with greater precision, and should lead to new theories about the causes of these radio emissions.

So even if these particular signals should prove to not be extra-terrestrial in origin, Listen is still pushing the boundaries of what is possible with radio astronomy. And given that Breakthrough Listen is less than two years into its proposed ten-year survey, we can expect many more sources to be observed and studied in the coming years. If there’s evidence of ETI to be found, we’re sure to find out about it sooner or later!
>There is a good chance your little startup that isn't cash flow positive will have to spend $1 million of its VC money on becoming GDPR compliant.

This isn't actually that complicated if their software is designed from scratch with GDPR in mind. Current approach is collect all the data you can with the intention of selling this to data brokers. GDPRs discourages this. It shouldn't be that complicated and that expensive if you store the minimum amount of information you can to cut costs.

> The big tech companies already have compliance officers, but GDPR is so massively invasive to businesses that even small companies now need compliance officers.

This can be done away in a way small business hire contractor lawyers and accountants with an hourly rate. If you are small, you shouldn't do anything which might involve high fees from them.
Here we go... dont get scared now...
If Google ranks AMP pages higher than regular pages just because they're AMP pages and hosted on Google property, this simply spells the begin of the end for Google search as we know it. Who needs that kind of manipulated crap search? Given the race to the bottom on the web, soon Wikipedia, StackExchange, Reddit and HN search already covers everything that Google search does anyway. Oh, and Google, don't let the EU know about this new anti-competitive behavior of yours.

Interesting time for small-scale and custom search sites ahead.
> Certainly, if they are issued from different callbacks. :-) And in relation to how they may happen to be interleaved with I/O.

That's non determinism from I/O, not from the callback or the setTimeout. setTimeouts are called in order based on schedule time.

And you can't blame non-determinism in JS on I/O. No language in existence is deterministic based on that measure.
> If Apple didn’t build a data center in Iowa they would also collect $0 in taxes from them.

Iowa can't do that. But the USA can. If another state (instead of Iowa because of the tax break) has gotten the revenue of that taxes and the federal government gets it from that state. The USA can give that money to the Iowa residents.
> Aren't Google using Wayland in ChromeOS? If not, it's pretty bad and just another rift like their SurfaceFlinger on Android.

Except SurfaceFlinger predates Wayland by years. Kinda hard to use something that doesn't exist. ;)

At the time the complaint was that Android didn't use X11 but I think it's safe to say that was a good decision at the time. As for merging them at this point they both have too much inertia combined with some fundamental design differences that'd be hard to reconcile.
Interesting read, quite a unique perspective.

One thing found interesting about the conclusion of OP's article is the role of academia vs practical implementation.

> Many academic communities informally argued that Bitcoin couldn't work, based on theoretical models or experiences with past systems, despite the fact that it was working in practice.

It will be interesting to see the Academically based SPECTRE competing with another DAG based coin such as Byteball. Well measured research and a peer-reviewed foundation against practical implementation, first to market and continuous improvement.
I seem to be the first writer to break this story anywhere.
Strangely, or perhaps not, the most interesting part of this article to me was this:

"Using the Digital Backend instrument on the GBRT, Dr. Gajjar and the Listen team observed FRB 121102 for five hours. From this, they accumulating 400 terabytes of data"

That has to be one hell of an all flash array to take in that much data at a steady state of 22.75 GiB/s
Yes, anyone can use that. If you buy a bunch of property, just plant trees and get the state / city to come out and verify that you are growing trees and your property taxes are 1/10th of what they were. Trees are probably the lowest maintenance crop you can grow, and the property might already have them.

We had a family that owned a LOT of land in our city put a few cows on it to save money on property taxes.
> we are planning an eventual transition to TypeScript

Just switch today. That's kind of silly to write a whole bunch of untyped code and then move to types. Especially since you can do it over time with TS.

All these tests that something is a string... why not let a compiler do that for you?

https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk/blob/development/test/api/acc...
What I believe is that my city came together in a time of great stress and has been prevailing.

What I believe is that my city's people decided that it was more important to have growth and to bounce back than to limit itself in the face of known weather.

What I believe is that we are richer and more diverse because of the lack of zoning and because of aggressive (if irresponsible) development, and that more people had better lives than would have if we'd said "oh well i guess we should give up".

What I believe is that none of the people who haven't lived here for years have much useful to say that isn't just virtue signalling and apocalyptic rubbernecking.

And lastly, calling our people irrational while you enjoy the fruit of our labors in the form of cheap gasoline, cheap imports, and good cancer care I believe is extremely tacky.
The nature and nurture of high IQ (2013)
This is very easy to work around. Associate each user with an encryption key and store in a separate database which backed up with some retention time. It shouldn't be huge so that's not a big problem. Encrypt all data related to the user with this key. When you make a backup, this data is stored in the same encrypted form. When you delete user, just delete his record together with this key. After this the user's data is virtually irretrievable and for all practical purposes is deleted.
Ya, I would probably be happy with TypeScript. How's the backend story? Is using it with node easy? Is there an interactive mode, or just quick transpilation?
> I also thought the tone was unhelpful but the BPD patient dying in the Tulsa jail was reprehensible.

I totally agree.

I do note that the conversation about prisons, and about mental healthcare, is larger than Oklahoma.

There have also been incidents in recent years of police officers in Oklahoma killing innocent people of nonwhite descent. That conversation about police brutality is also larger than Oklahoma.

I think the best argument in criticism of the Oklahoma state government is to say: Look at the wealth amassed by oil companies like Continental, Devon Energy, and Chesapeake. Devon Energy was building a massive skyscraper during the financial crisis, as the rest of America reeled. Now juxtapose that massive profitability in oil and gas with Oklahoman problems like drug abuse among young people, inadequate funding for schools, and significant amounts of high school pregnancy. Clearly there's a disparity between what the petroleum companies are earning, and what Oklahoma is receiving (as a state) for its part as an enabler of their profits. Further, it's easy to argue that these firms not only benefit from selling Oklahoma's resources and harvesting talent from petroleum engineering programs in the state's public universities, they also have caused geological anomalies with yet-unknown consequences.

And I suppose Oklahomans are complicit in this, because ultimately they elect the government and they remain tacit about many things that happen in the state. But if there were a discussion, it would have to start with, "is this how an oil-rich region should function?"

Edit: and btw, I would argue that even if DVN, CLR, and CHK are going through a turbulent market moment, the problems we are discussing preceded the selloff in crude oil by at least a decade.
There is also a pretty easy cryptographic solution for your offline backups:

In your backup, encrypt each user's data using a per-user key (AES or something). The keys will be tiny, so you can store the keys in a hot database. When a user deletes their account, simply purge the user's key.

Tada - like magic all of that user's data on your tape backups has turned into unreadable noise.
US only goes up to channel 11. Channel 14 is only used in Japan AFAIK.
I feel like most of the comments here are ignoring the fact that this is a straw man proposal, as the blog post emphasises several times.

They aren't proposing to add threads to JS in exactly this manner. They're pointing out that it would be technically feasible, for WebKit at least, and wouldn't add any unnecessary overhead. The specific proposal is just a starting point for discussion.
I wonder how many people will simply be unable to get insurance after this. From SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR TARGETED REPETITIVE LOSS PROPERTIES[1], there are some reasons why a house that could be completely ineligible for flood coverage:

> 1. Four or more paid losses of more than $1,000 each; or

> 2. Two losses within a 10-year period that, in the aggregate, equal or exceed the current value of the insured property; or

> 3. Three or more losses that, in the aggregate, equal or exceed the current value of the insured property.

> The loss history includes all ownership of the property since 1978 or since the building’s construction if built after 1978.

Given the last 2 decades or so, that 20% may be a high water mark (forgive the pun).

[1]: https://www.fema.gov/pdf/nfip/manual200505/20rl.pdf
If our species were slightly better than a self-important ape that wears pants, we'd:

a. give everyone with property damage ~$20,000
b. void their mortgage or lease

So now they can afford to relocate, or they have some money to start rebuilding, they have no debt and the banks who decided to not require flood insurance can go choke on their bad decision and risk assessment.

That's cheaper than the inevitable $120+ billion dollar bailout that's on the way. And it would help people make the saner choice which is to migrate out of Houston which gets flooded in some way or another pretty much every year, even with wet lands in place.

And maybe the no longer bailed out banks will require, across the board, flood insurance. Which should match the actual risk of future floods.
A similar scheme is used to erase data on SSD. Otherwise, you can't reliably delete any data from them.
https://i1.wp.com/images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/a/a0/P...
Some estimates show that to cover the generous incentives Wisconsin will most likely need to pay Foxconn cash from the treasury for the foreseeable future:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/28/foxco...

The "local jobs" argument is eroded further for Wisconsin when you consider that the proposed sites are all well within commute range for a large population of Illinois residents - something that didn't seem to occur to WI legislators until far too late in this "deal":

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-wisconsin-illinoi...

As a Wisconsin resident who's town (near the proposed sites) is overrun with Illinois license plates this was an obvious issue from the beginning (on top of everything else).

My (somewhat cynical) belief is that Foxconn has been several steps ahead of our local politicians (who are desperate to put up healthy job numbers). This "realization" of the proximity to Illinois is likely (and unfortunately) the first of many ways Wisconsin is going to get schooled by Foxconn here.
But what is Wal-Mart's cost of buying the DVD? If they get it from their wholesaler at $19.99 and Best Buy is turning the tiniest profit, Wal-Mart selling it for $15 is effectively giving the customer $5. Sure, they can do it if they want to, but that would raise immediate and valid questions about whether the money would be better used in some other way (giving customers $5 without making them buy a DVD), whether this is the sort of anti-competitive behavior that a long-term-productive capitalist society should regulate, and whether there's something shady going on between Wal-Mart and the DVD supplier.
You might enjoy the AntsCanada channel on YouTube. This guy somehow makes 15 minute videos about ants quite enthralling. I'm hooked!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONd1SNf3_QqjzjCVsURNuA
Headline doesn't provide any context, this is a chemical plant near Houston that makes organic peroxides. With 6 feet of flooding and loss of power it's probably going to blow up.

News outlets have more info: http://abcnews.go.com/US/risk-chemical-plant-explosion-houst...

Anyone in a 1.5 mile radius has been instructed to evacuate.
The other thought, I imagine, is that they felt the probability was low that they would see a flood of this scale even within their lifetime; that ended up being a poor bet. Even so, flood insurance is also cheaper when the perceived likelihood of a flood is low.
Pretty much unrelated, but that columnist's piece on price-gouging[0] is so analytically atrophied and emotionally charged that I can't help but imagine him as Tom Jumbo-Grumbo, the whale-news announcer from Bojack Horseman[1]

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-price-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMePJM86Ueo
Please excuse my excitement, but this really has made my day.

The "forced consent" so many apps and services use is scummy at best and I have no qualms about this tactic being denied at regulatory level.

Inb4 someone comes back with an argument about advertising/tracking being the "only" way some things can survive, then I won't miss them, and if they want options then they should allow for a reasonably priced usage fee, so that we can escape this "ads/tracking or nothing" business model.
Yeah, a datacenter hires a few Networking/Sysops people, but not so much programmers, as that is one of those things that isn't quite so location sensitive.
What about the other 1.2995 million website visitors (give or take a few, I'm estimating) who had no involvement in any of that?
> and China still very much value a wide variety flavors and textures in their sweet confections

I don't know about Italy and Japan, but China doesn't really seem to go for sweet confections at all, and if you think cheap chocolate is bad in western countries, cheap Chinese chocolate is even worse.
All of your beliefs are fine, but your city still drowned, and will again with increasing frequency. As a species, we need to learn to start discussing these issues instead of always reacting to them after the fact. The pepole who are going to suffer most are the ones who do what you do, and believe uber alles, because while it's your human right, nature just doesn't care at all.
This client is more easy and convenient to integrate in your project. By supporting different interfaces, you can compose them to do anything you like.
Sketch City Houston needs your help with online tools to aid relief and recovery
> On top of that Apple is pledging to give them $100M for various things

The article points out that the pledge contains the significant words "up to", and is actually only pledging $20M. So, for $20M, they get $20M off their taxes, plus a 20-year tax abatement worth $190M.

Where can I, as an individual, sign up for such an awesome deal? I'll happily pay one year's income taxes to avoid the next 20.
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I don't use any apps, I only use the website. And I almost always use it on my phone.

And I ALWAYS use the desktop version because the mobile version is a disaster. I've never tried to use it so I wasn't aware of the fullscreen popovers. I just hate the incredibly low information density.

Why should I only see two or three things on the screen at once when I can see 20? And the 20 still looks better.

I really don't understand the point of Reddit's mobile site.
Ah I get what you mean now. Am excited for that too.
> Fine, we now have an engineer building GDPR features instead of features that benefit our customers.

GDPR benefits customers. What you say is similar to justifying not to provide good security with the reason to benefit customers or justifying not to provide safety features in cars. After all, it happens not that often.
The BSDs and Solaris/Illumos have had DRM for years (where available), but it tends to lag the Linux version significantly because it's not trivial to port the code from Linux. I'm not sure where the compatibility breaks relative to the code given on the page, but most of them have some derivative of the original drm.h header that defines most of the structs and ioctls mentioned (e.g. [1] [2] [3])

[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/drm/d...

[2] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/pci/drm/d...

[3] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
Agree with others that String.length() should never ever throw NPE from within String, regardless of it being called from whatever thread.

Now, in the comments there's another idea suggesting the unsafe publication of String (partially constructed). This would be the case if String.value wasn't final (essentially the case of double-checked locking). But that's not the case here because String.value is final[0]

While it's a JVM bug, making stringCache volatile would be one way to fix it - unless the JVM is also broken around volatile...

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11306032/please-explain-...
I was told in the Netherlands they have large areas designated to be flooded in case of any emergency. People still live there, but know that they are in the flood zone. I can't find a map of this at the moment though.
So Iowa doesn't have to deal with providing services to the site? Land management services, emergency services, water, sewerage, etc?
We'll be fine in six months, and humming along in another six.
A pretty poor one, given that there are undoubtedly many people who visited the website and weren't involved in the riots but are still being targeted by the warrant:

> The Department of Justice isn't just seeking communications by the defendants in its case. It's seeking the records of every single contact with the site — the IP address and other details of every American opposed enough to Trump to visit the site and explore political activism.
Oops, you're right. I misread the docs. Sorry about that!
> Just because the existing technology is materially wasteful (it definitely is, generating a lot of kerf and going through a lot of expensive wiresaw blades and polishing processes) doesn't mean that it's economically wasteful.

Always wondered- why not EDM? Too slow? Hydrogen injection? Tungsten/copper contamination?
The Candy Japan guy?
They will use an enormous amount of (renewable) electricity, and which Iowa has subsided significantly.
More specifically, Delaware has the largest body of settled corporate case law. Legal disputes between corporations incorporated in Delaware are much more predictable.
Yes, it's the most popular mobile app in china.
You are right. Delaware corp taxes are pretty typical so they are not saving anything. It's all about the chancery courts which are very efficient.
The whole point was that people can't get past their own religious hangup to find a spell checker, which they obviously need.
Are you sure this is an age problem and not a wisdom problem?

I'm getting close to 40 myself, and a 25-year look at the clusterfuck garbage dump we call our industry kind of makes me lose heart. Just had to install Visual Studio yesterday. It took hours! We have JavaScript frontends even on the embedded stuff. I had hoped and prayed JS would be dead by now. Still alive--but now we compile it with even more javascript!

Hell, even one of the bright spots of our industry--Clojure--runs on top of the 256MB-for-hello-world JVM (another hot mess).

Don't even get me started on the surveillance-state nightmare of Google/FB/Android/iOS/etc...

What if the problem isn't that your brain is slowing down? What if the problem is that your brain is wising up?
Why would Iowa agree to an amount of revenue that doesn't even cover the cost of additional services?
You might be, many others will remain devastated.