skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in the profile settings of your account you can edit the link to your page to something like https://www.linkedin.com/in/james_parson
You're right.

curl --verbose --insecure --header "Host:www.stormfront.org" https://104.20.30.134/forum/

works. So Cloudflare hasn't cut them off. It's just DNS.
The embedding of the flat torus is a mesmerizing construction. Every time you see it, you are left speechless by its beauty.
The person you are replying to is not wrong though. The author of the article is.

Even during totality it's not as dark as night. It's around the illumination of just after sunset, and he could have definitely plotted that - it's not that hard to lookup how much there is then, he doesn't have to measure it himself.
Surprised to be on HN! Open for questions if anyone has got any.
What am I missing out on as a consumer by using Lyft instead of Uber? As far as I can tell the answer is nothing.
The risk of death is already priced in; FEMA and the Red Cross aren't helping with it.
Define "professional;" inter-office communication, e-mail still wins.

Independent contractors I've hired all prefer text.

The gym I'm a member of uses a facebook group rather than e-mail for communcating things like changes to the regular hours or special events.
The “taxed themselves like crazy, while building massive private and public infrastructure, and had decades of middle class income growth” was mostly a combination of the Lost and Silent Generations; the “Greatest” started dismantling that when they became politically dominant and had completely wrecked it by the time the Boomers eclipsed them.
Ask HN: Is the app model straightjacketing designers
If you study the design of a windows app on any platform, such as windows, linux or OSX, the basic design context you have to follow is start with a menu and draw the user deeper into the apps functionality from there.
If you go deeper into the design of menus, there is a definite expectation on where things go and in what order. This was done with the thinking that since users were not used to UIs, creating guidelines on their design would make it easy for a user to learn a new app's UI. Today's user is a lot more PC savvy than that targeted user was.

For today's user, a UI should be designed around the goals of the app and not in the interests of maintianing consistency with a bunch of other apss that have different goals than the one being designed. This will improve the efficiency of the app for the user and the design process for the designer.
I agree, but it's more contentious that Boosted makes the best electric skateboards (sorry if that wasn't clear).
The virtual reality hype slowly faces up to real reality
Videos are generally much more boring to watch than a live teacher. I definatley don't expect students to watch the same 1 hour video twice.
It would be tragic if, as the rest of society has ignored the issue for years, privacy tech gets its next real foothold with hate groups.

It would be far more tragic if the general public started associating privacy tech with hate groups, if using Tor became akin to wearing a pointed white hood.
Ehh, I mean it's good to be aware of things like this, but I see them more as the people who ruin things for everyone. Because of one foiled plot where a group tried to fly with liquid explosives[1], nobody is ever allowed to carry liquids through security onto planes. Because one person tried to detonate explosives in their shoes on a plane, we have to take off shoes in security[2]. I don't think either of those changes got us measurably close to flying "securely" but it make countless people miss flights, even more miserable, and encourage copycats.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
Source code link is not working.
I had friends in college in the 1990s who were in the NROTC program. At the time I recall it was a big deal and discussion on campus that the Navy was removing/canceling requirements for celestial navigation. I think the reason cited was the prevalence of GPS.

Here's a great article about how astronomers at Vanderbilt helped the Navy reintroduce celestial navigation back into the NROTC curriculum.

>>>In the 1990’s increasing reliance on navigation technologies including GPS caused the Navy to drop celestial navigation from its officer training curriculum. Now, increasing awareness of the vulnerability of these systems to hacking and other types of disruption has prompted it to reintroduce the requirement.

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/07/26/vanderbilt-astronomer...
Boomtown, Flood Town
No, I think it's a healthy dose of skepticism. Many applications for blockchain tech are impractical at best, leading to discussions about the ethics and legal implications of selling a token that quacks like a security via irreversible funding rounds.

Most of the big things are either tied around vice or price. If an early adopter (or group of them, depending on your Spoofy theories) decide to manipulate the price enough to pump the price and create floors, they can. I haven't seen a killer app that specifically adds to people's lives in a way that doesn't provide liquidity to human rights violators (backpage, DNMs, kids/adults committing fraud, etc).

Sure, there's Venezuela using and mining Bitcoin because their currency is unusable, but Bitcoin wasn't designed precisely for them.

Shite companies love to prop up their use cases on developing country citizens (Coinbase with their 'African mothers will use us for businesses instead of M-Pesa' ), but the practical matter at hand is that most of these developing countries don't have stable enough internet and crypto-liquidity in a way that's conducive to using crypto on their phones.

Where's the funding round for decentralized Wi-Fi balloons, or a legitimate competitor to M-Pesa? They're about as practical as another decentralized storage platform with minimal commits since the token sale and an ICO that raised a quarter billion based on hype
Attended a couple of clean code trainings, always wrote the shittiest code for a week or two afterwards. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What We Can Learn from This 105-Year-Old Cyclist
Ouch! $1k per annum is more than I can justify for hobby programming. If I were actually making money in the mobile space it would be tempting though.
You mean that the reason to use computers at schools is to get the students to quit school as soon as possible ;-)
Are you polling the sensors, or using interrupts? I don't see how going from one sensor to eight increases latency.
Reputation and honest signaling.
100 years is frequent enough that -- if there's no variance in how long passes between occurrences -- it will pretty much always have happened within living memory and society will have an established way of handling it.

But an event that happens once in 4-5 generations is still rare.
Redcorner Women and Fertility Clinic
I don't remember this from the "Destroyer of worlds", but hey, 6 hours, it might have been there somewhere and I just missed it.

BTW - it's not the recent one anymore, there's a new one. Yay!
Waterproof vs. water resistant
> Since the government approved btc as a currency,

i.e., regulated it in any way at all; specifically, they said exchanges could trade BTC and ETH.

> Peach Airlines has started taking bitcoin,

no, they ran press releases saying they may well by the end of this year probably.

> huge chains of convenience stores like FamilyMart have been accepting payments in bitcoin, etc.

no, one of their payment processors added a bitcoin option; there's so far no evidence of non-negligible usage.

You're inadvertently parroting speculative bitcoin hype here. The general rule with all bitcoin (and blockchain) media coverage is that there's always much less to it than there appears.
You are spot on. My parents live in Houston and during a past hurricane they were told to evacuate. They made it 2 miles from their house in 6 hours. When Houston floods, there are often not many obvious routes to take with passable roads. They eventually turned around and went home where they would be safer than stranded on a freeway.

I was in Tropical Storm Allison in Houston. Within a few hours that I was at a concert, we went from light rain to the nearby freeway exit being 20 feet under water. We spent the night in a medical office building because we could find any passable route out of a 2 mile radius. My car was swept away into a drainage ditch and filled with water.

People are better off staying home or moving to a nearby high-ground area. Than riding out a hurricane in a car in traffic.
Customize ksh display for OpenBSD
I'm not sure why this article has been flagged. I hope it's not an attempt to censor information about censorship.
That is not an apples to apples comparison. Plenty of features differ from motherboard to motherboard. Someone like an ASUS could adopt openbmc much easier if an alternative chipset existed. I'm not arguing about the marketability of openbmc, I know it exists. I'm talking about why there are no chipset alternatives to Intel PCH that would force Intel ME on us.
How does attributing extra disasters to it "water down" the risk of climate change? More disasters seems like more risk?
The WARR team went out and got sponsorship on their own, not through the university.
Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like – POLITICO Magazine
That's been less and less, though.
Isn't adding things like memoization or writing the code in C (Cython) missing the whole point of the benchmark, which is to test the overhead of recursion / function calls in the language itself?
> Why is that an okay situation to be in?

Because the cost to not be in it is enormous.
Have you set up an agency before, Lee? Just curious what your experience was, if so.
How is the priority date so old? Did he invent this in 1970? Does the USPTO allow you to put in anything you want as the priority date?
I have an off topic question that you might be able to answer. Have you figured out any programatic way to configure your Alexa skills? It's not supported by CloudFormation. It seems like the only way to do it is via the console. Thanks!
IME the 'best' code solves an existing problem with the least amount of code, is human-readable, and easy to throw away (instead of being 'future proof').

Of course this 'easy to throw away' will also lead to a slow replacement process of 'good code' (that's easy to replace) with new 'bad code' (that's incrementally harder to replace) and eventually each software project will end up in the same broken mess, no matter how well it started ;)
An enlisted person's schedule that leaves only 5-6 hours of sleep per day is also fucked, regardless of what the officers schedule is.
So no data, no examples, no anything. Full of such wisdom as "Testing isn't as important as it might seem but it's still important"

The only thing actually articulated was "you don't need 100% test coverage", which is not contrary to existing practice (afaik). I'm not sure the singular point nested in platitudes can be useful to me.
I imagine because of the european market on scooters. In The Netherlands for example electric skateboards are illegal out of the box and require a licence plate (because its a fully motorized vehicle) scooters and vespas are already ingrained in culture and have a market.
I'm not going to agree that both sides are the same. There's a serious problem with conservatives demonizing and even dehumanizing those who don't follow their ideology, which IMHO lays the foundation for current conservative leaders. In the U.S. and Europe you can't find significant liberal leaders nearly as extreme and polarizing as many major conservative figures, some of whom are heads of state, nor liberal equivalents for white supremacy and extreme nationalism that are anywhere close to having the support to win power. The left-wing equivalent in the past would have been Communists, but they are very weak - there is no chance for a Communist to win office in any major country; even China's Communists are authoritarian capitalists who have retained the old brand name.
More of a former opponent. I don't think he's running for anything anymore.

There's plenty of nasty stuff in US politics as well. This article is refreshing.
This may be a question that has been answered, but I haven't seen it in any news services I've looked at. Has blame been assessed for these collisions? If I understand correctly, they've been running into container ships, so by the "big boat gets the right of way" rule, I guess the military ship is at fault. So far I haven't heard the results of any investigations, though. I seems incredulous, to be honest, and I'm really hoping that we'll eventually get some explanations -- even if it's human error. The article itself seems a bit speculative and I was hoping for more concrete information.
Presumably you want a fairly strict consistency guarantee for whatever double-entry invariants you do have. Does that cause a lot of complexity when you kick it up to the middleware layer?
As with any substance, it can get toxic with larger doses (you can die from to much water for example). From what I remember when I read toxicity studies about MDMA about 150mg in around 3 month time is "ok", leaving no damage. Now, that is medical grade MDMA. Buying stuff on the street is a lottery every time and you will NEVER get pure stuff. One of the reasons why substances should be legal and regulated in a different way. Regarding supplements for MDMA, yeah things like 5HTP could help mitigate the damage and speed up the recovery if you take too much.
Fortunately for us all regular free shipments of rare earth metals are now available:

cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

Simply deflect onto the approval-pending lunar crash site! Friendly robots will construct an Ore-some(TM) plant for processing and EM-powering fulfillment to the ZIP code of your choice.
Updated to use `page.evaluate`
Boot up times for the computer(s). That takes a while, though I imagine it is getting faster.
>nor liberal equivalents for white supremacy and extreme nationalism that are anywhere close to having the support to win power

Win power? I hope not. Who would want any of those two choices. As for implied hate, well... I think Antifa is proving Jung's enantiodromia true:

http://i.imgur.com/h1gpoI1.jpg

>even China's Communists are authoritarian capitalists who have retained the old brand name.

That one is a little more nuanced than you present. They are communists except for some big areas of the economic system. However, there are many areas where they have not departed. How the party is run, how the country is organized and governed, how the people are controlled, 5-year plans, etc.
If you want others to see the new thing automatically, you need something much more powerful than plain old assignment anyway: something which will let you pick a synchronization strategy.

"Changes at any arbitrary time, including when you are halfway through reading it" is not in any way a sound synchronization strategy and the only thing you get with assignment.

You seem to understand the important difference between identity (what you see when you read an object) and reference (what you use to access the object). Next important thing on the list is how "reference" cannot just be a pointer to a place in memory -- unless it is immutable.
And now you see how ridiculous this "Ike Dike" idea was. It would have protected nothing. The problem was and is is still the massive rain falls, not the incoming storm surge.

Energy industry could easily build such a "Ike Dike" but why should the city of Houston do such a thing? Bush lobbied strongly for it on behalf of the energy guys, but didn't get it. Now you see why.
Is it possible to launch multiple times const browser = await puppeteer.launch(); in a same nodejs process? I haven't find any information about that
In fact the strategy is simpler if the other player is exactly as rational as you: simply cooperate. The other player, being exactly as rational as you, will follow the same reasoning as you do to come to the same conclusion, and will do exactly the same thing as you. I would always cooperate with a copy of myself, for instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality

(Of course, the assumption "my opponent is exactly as rational as I am" never holds in real life.)
Peter Thiel funds offshore test of herpes vaccine, evading US safety regulations
Android Oreo at its best
Great tutorial! Also, you look like a Full stack. How's the reception for Hospital Run software you worked on? (https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend)

""Somewhat similar is the case with Internet that we traversed today in quest of data.""
> making three round trips every 24 hours

This is the problem with the transportation infrastructure here in the US. In Japan those trains could easily make 100-200 round trips a day. And there would be a bajillion other train routes to other cities as well.

Seriously, trains? Between two neighboring major cities?
Three times a day? That's laughable at best in most parts of the world.
Mayweather-McGregor pirated by upward of 100M viewers
What's the fence story?
Demo page is just white background :(
Yeah, that section doesn't seem to be making much sense. I don't think there are actually any real examples of "graph sharding" in the wild. The graph databases that are available, like Neo4j, don't usually natively provide horizontal partitioning. (Of course -- the problem of finding the minimum k-cut of a graph is itself NP-complete. Doing this incrementally with a dynamic graph is even harder.)

The one solution that was mentioned, Facebook's TAO, isn't actually really a database; it's a cache, which means that it doesn't really have to deal with sharding in the way that persistent stores do. And it doesn't really shard at all; it basically stores a complete copy of the world's social graph in every region, which it can just populate from that region's MySQL replicas. (It's amazing the things you can do when you can be eventually consistent.)

(From what I recall, the main social network's MySQL also isn't really sharded by graph in any fancy way; it's basically "just" hash-sharded by entity ID.)
What is faster than puppeteer? All the alternatives using electron look slower.
If you want to know how tired your crew is, wouldn't it suffice to pluck a random few of deck and ask them if they're tired as fuck?
Ask HN: Will there be an ICO bubble?
Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AChesterton%27s_fen...
Conversely, such is prohibited in my State. If it is to be done, it must get judicial approval, be for a limited time, data deleted, and target a specific subject.

I helped the ACLU stuff the envelopes. I consider that some of my best work.
> As one example: the US Government, as a policy, never lies to the American press (and, by extension, the people).

Is this some kind of advanced sarcasm?
Why is it the government's job to ensure people don't get conned?
A computer will have notified ATC and all local traffic of intent, and received acknowledgement of the distress call from all affected parties, while the human is still half way through the first "Mayday, …"

One brand's autonomous pilot will only have to be taught about handling unusual conditions once, while humans have to be trained from scratch each iteration. 20 human pilots, about 22 iterations of the same training program.

Come up with a new failure scenario and a strategy for mitigating it? Train the computer once. Train every human pilot independently. The lead time is atrocious for getting software updates out to wetware, so good luck getting every commercial human pilot to be familiar with a new procedure inside ten years, by which time you have new humans to train because some of the old ones died and taken all their training and experience with them.
The site's main idea seems to hinge on a very narrow definition of "porn". It offers sex video clips intended to arouse the audience -- I'm not sure what else to call that but pornographic.

It tries to keep a niche focus on "realistic" content produced by amateurs but considering most real sex doesn't translate well to video, I'm guessing it'll eventually be either just another low-quality amateur clip site or sacrifice authenticity for production quality and become a generic "for women" porn site.

For context, here is what distinguishes "porn" from "real sex" according to the website (obviously this list is not intended to be exhaustive):

* coming on women's faces

* no "hair down there"

* no foreplay

* no clitoral stimulation

* all women love anal

* dirty talk

I'm willing to wager creating porn without these qualifiers isn't a novel idea and that there are already existing websites offering that. None of these seem necessary or sufficient to distinguish between porn and "real sex" videos.
Promising title, but not enough content.
New priest at our church here is a metal-head. Truth. Says Metallica saved his [temporal] life.
Your examples are of bureaucracies destroyed from the outside, by stronger competitors for the same resources. It's quite impossible to curb a bureaucracy from the inside, e.g. through "democratic process". The system will not fix the problems with the system.
> If the crash rate for planes was the same as it is for cars then air travel would have to be prohibited as a necessary measure to prevent the extinction of the human race.

Well, no, this is obviously false. Much more car travel is done than air travel; bringing air fatalities up to the level of car fatalities would have a negligible effect on the human population.

Bringing crashes per vehicle mile up to the level of highway crashes per vehicle mile according to https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu..., assuming that an average airplane carries 140 people, and assuming (very wrongly) that crashing it kills all 140, you could get deaths to airplane crashes up to 843,000 per year for the US. This would be significant -- it would be an increase of over 30% in the annual death rate -- but it is less than the existing surplus of annual births over annual deaths. A modest reduction in population growth just isn't going to drive the human race extinct.
From what I'm seeing, your hypothesis about this being a question of optimisation seems well supported. I worry that medical professionals resist changes here out of cultural belief or a resistance to process. That wouldn't be without precedent. Even something as well-established as washing hands between patients isn't done without explicit process (compliance is near 13% without explicit reinforcement for something that everyone learns the legend of Semmelweis for), and surgeons refuse even _private_ outcomes tracking.
Hopefully one of those new 70 employees will figure out what is wrong with their mobile site and is so slow.
Mainly because of fees. I'd say crypto (as a whole) has had a huge increase in acceptance overall, and with Bitcoin being the easiest to purchase and usually the favored currency to trade alts with, it's natural that it's only grown in popularity.
This has always bothered me too - guess they focused more on tracking users and building a strong graph rather than actually making good recommendations.

Perhaps the coming A.I.pocalypse™ will give us better predictive suggestion algorithms before turning on us... Or the sentient networks just start recommending really dangerous products to wipe ourselves out with! ;(

Chatting with friends, I've discovered FB are also really, really good at showing me adverts for what other people are buying my chums for Xmas, which is of limited use frankly.