skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As someone with long experience of interpreting the Latin inscriptions on classical monuments and the tombs and brasses in English parish churches, I recognized in the Voynich script tell-tale signs of an abbreviated Latin format."

Oh, my.

Either this is a parody or a tutorial on how to identify "crazy person goes down rat hole" situations.
New MS Nano Server Will Only Rely on Docker
NW Arkansas airport also has a surprising amount of service for an airport in that location - American, Delta, and United regional affiliates. serve most of their hubs from there. Presumably a lot of this traffic is either Walmart corporate or suppliers that have located an office in Northwest Arkansas to be close to Walmart. I'm not saying that Amazon would pick a place like that - Walmart has always been in Arkansas. But air service will come if necessary.

That makes me wonder about Pittsburgh and Raleigh-Durham, which both have underused airports (PIT as a former US Airways hub, RDU a former American hub).
Explanation of What Your GPU Is Doing When VSync Is Running in Your PC Games
Better multi-device support is huge. And history existing when you come back from not being connected.

There are IRC solutions to this but IIRC it's something silly like a client that stays connected 24/7 to manage your user, then another client that connects to that client for your actual interface.
Alright, fair enough.

More directly to your point, though, I've never experienced problems like one speaker cutting out because the wire is too old with digital connections. I really like digital better because it's mostly either working or not.
Yes on the relationship, no on the direction of causality
Google gives enterprises a private on-ramp to its cloud
Many desktop apps are still written in C++.
If you use a decimal number with leading zeros instead of base64 you can have a solution that is completely human compatible. It would be 15 digits for 2^48 or 20 digits for 2^64 if you want to be future-proof.

Since the goal is to store really long numbers, it seems like a false economy to worry about a few bytes at the front.
I realize there is a lot of Hipchat hate but ...

One of the things I really liked about Hipchat was the information density vs Slack.

Stride seems to be very loose in how much information it shows.

See screenshots as a comparison.

[1] https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/actions...

[2] https://ga0.imgix.net/screenshot/o/10167-1442255801-0858462?...
> "no hurricanes"

Don't jinx it.
Static analysis is your friend here. TypeScript, Rust, and C# can all identify dead code and report errors or warnings from that, and can perform "find all usage" searches across a workspace.
Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks
Ottawa doesn't have more than 1 million people though. [0]

Ottawa city limits are already huge, so I can't imagine what else qualifies as the "metro area" Kingston perhaps? Or they're counting Gatineau as a separate city but within the metro area?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa
At 48, and with my three boys growing up fast, I’m the new office intern
> and you can get as close as you could want, and count the ballots yourself

It usually is no problem if they do but an outside observer should not touch the ballots themselves and is not allowed to. They can look closely though which gives them the same degree of certainty.
I don't think it is? He said:

> Your Kenwood may not support the higher quality codecs, meaning it would sound worse than a comparable headphone jack aux cable.

That implies there's BT audio codecs that sound the same (or I guess better, but I think he/she probably meant "same") as an aux cable. I was saying I don't think that's true, that even the best BT audio codecs are (noticeably) inferior to in-phone-DAC-to-analog connections.
I know you want to pitch SS but saying UoU and BYU are great universities is just wrong. Indeed, attracting talent in Utah is going to be one of Amazon's biggest challenges if it opens an office there.
How soon will it be available via brew update?
What about Chattanooga? It's in the same area with a rapidly-growing startup/tech scene, but it has gigabit municipal internet and a slightly cooler climate.
I think the point was: if that's all that you use it for, then of course it won't help productivity. It's like any other tool: it can be used to build or destroy.
It's a shame that Bluetooth can't do something like a stream copy. Quality could be better if your phone could pass the raw mp3/vorbis/opus stream over BT. Even with HQ codes like aptX it's pretty silly to be converting 256k mp3 to aptX at similar or higher bitrate.
> not random

Not so sure about that. Here's a mistake: have a floating point variable somewhere and then don't initialize it. On it's first use, multiply it by 0.0. What do you think the chances are the result is 0.0? Hint: nan * 0.0 == nan, and there are many nan representations out there, so it solely depends on what pattern the memory location for that variable is initialized with. So unless your compiler created a bunch of code to initialize the memory for you, which it does not always do, I'd consider that pretty random.
Fun problem, at least abstractly. Here's a similar, maybe more basic approach for positive integers. It uses the idea at the beginning of the article to store numbers in unary, to store the length of the number in unary ... recursively. The idea is to sort by ... the length of the length of the length of the number, then by the length of the length of the number, then by the length of the number, then by the number.

First, imagine we store the number in the form

aaaaaaaaaaa 92389210184

where the number of a's is equal to the length of the number. This encoding scheme works for the same reasons as discussed in the article. And it only takes 2*(length of original number)+1 characters.

But now, we can do better by applying the same encoding scheme to the 'aaaaaaaaaaa'. That is, suppose the original number is 295 digits long. The number 295 is 3 digits long. So we store the number with 3 b's, as:

bbb 295 109382388575782352353453....

OK, but what if we want to store a number that's 4,000,000,000 digits long? This would look like

bbbbbbbbbb 4000000000 109382388575782352353453....

And that's a bit wasteful. If there are more than two b's, then we can recursively apply the encoding to the b's. There are 10 b's, and 10 has two digits, so we get

cc 10 4000000000 109382388575782352353453....

And so on. (We won't ever have hard drives that can make use of letters e and above, so it can probably stop there.)

So the encoding schemes look like

a n # n is only one digit
aa n # n is two digits
b log10(n) n # log10(n) is one digit
bb log10(n) n # log10(n) is two digits
c log10(log10(n)) log10(n) n # log10(log10(n)) is one digit
cc log10(log10(n)) log10(n) n # log10(log10(n)) is two digits
d log10(log10(log10(n))) log10(log10(n)) log10(n) n
...
There's a couple of similar deletion issues, they're all linked from https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17929, the deleting private one happens in all situations, eg just an npm install, see https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17927
Has this been shown to be true? I get the logic and it seems like it would make sense but I'm sure this has been researched. This would be a bigger deal than the datacenters being built with millions in tax cuts given it would be a long term and order of magnitude more jobs. Still I wonder if the calculus really does work out.
> How can you prove it's yours? or if someone challenges it, you register it?

For an unregistered plot, in theory you demonstrate ownership by providing a series of valid conveyancing deeds back to a valid original grant. If they're lost, flawed, or destroyed in a fire, things can get messy. The Land Registry's guide to handling first registration in situations where the deeds are missing is a good example: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/first-registratio...

In practice, if you've occupied the land continuously for a long period of time then you can have possessory rights in the land even in the absence of a good chain of title.

You're right that this is all pretty unsatisfactory, which is why the Land Registry was set up in 1925 and registration made increasingly-more-compulsory since then. But as pjc50 notes, we don't have a full cadastre, so we are where we are.

Interestingly Scotland had a registration system (of conveyances rather than of land per se) much earlier. So even within the UK we're not without precedents.
Don't know if that's true or not, but some people blame video games...
Truth in Jest?
downvoted for irony
This is fantastic! The biggest standout feature in my opinion is workspaces. I've been using workspaces on a client project with many sub-projects and it has been a pleasure.

Shared modularized code without creating private npm packages or doing some "linking" magic has been wonderful for productivity.
It's as simple as creating another local package and symatically everything else has remained the same as a regular npm package, plus the benefits of having immediately updating code. For anyone with a large modular codebase wanting to forray into a monorepo approach I highly recommend checking it out. They also released a blog post here detailing the feature: https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/08/02/introducing-workspaces/
Github full of passion projects is mutually exclusive with previous jobs being fast paced and/or requiring long hours - like startups.
Show HN: Todotxt+, an iOS client for Todo.txt task management
> Or maybe you mean detailed step by step instructions, a'la howtoforge?

Yes, this is what I meant when I said

> IMHO the documentation is not lacking, it's just not forthcoming.
Already claimed by the Free Republic of Annheuser-Busch-land. How about East St. Louis? I think the Spivey Building could use a new tenant...
No.

Those tax cuts should be added ON TOP of the income taxes those employees bring in.

More business should be more tax revenue = better services for the citizens.

>It's not corruption, it's business.

When a business is able to make a deal that gets them out of paying taxes they otherwise would legally be required to pay, that's corruption. Sugar coat it all you want, it's regular citizens they are stealing from.
Not a very interesting one though.
Seems easy enough to make a list of all those airports.
Entity Framework: (anti)pattern Repository
The Memories of Plants
I touch the brakes only when I'm slowing down, but not necessarily to cause me to slow down. And I only do that when people are following too closely behind me.

I've been rear-ended by people following too closely who failed to recognize that I was slowing in time to slow themselves down. I'd rather be pragmatic and warn them off before an accident occurs.

By "will be slowing" I mean: I have removed my foot from the throttle or stopped cruise control but my vehicle has not started to appreciable slow yet.
Thanks for the suggestions. Your psychoactive cake sounds very intriguing!
OP is going to need to make a canned response of really negative things for Donald Trump if they want the tech community to respect their software. Only half sarcastic.
Show HN: Kaero – Global networking via videochat
You're thinking ultrasonic TV remotes from a different millennium, long ago swept away in the sands of time.

Dogs aren't bothered by the pitch, but by the loudness. Ultrasonic remotes were amazingly LOUD. Loud enough for some humans to perceive.
There's not enough room to plant that many trees. There have been studies on just how much it would take, and it would have a huge impact on food production and biodiversity.

Meanwhile, worldwide we're losing trees to deforestation, drought, forest fires, disease, etc.

I'm not saying trees can't be part of the solution, they should be, but we can't "just" plant trees.
What has been your experience with gin? How do you use it in your application?
Perhaps if someone sues them for some issue with email in general (say loss of productivity due to spam), they will quickly revert to the distinction between e-mail (as in SMTP) and EMAIL (his program).
He didn't win $750,000 in the Gawker case. The bankruptcy estate of Gawker paid $750,000 in settlement. There was no court decision. That would be like emptying $100 from the wallet of a dead body and saying you earned $100.

Techdirt wasn't bankrupt and could afford to fight the case. Not to put too fine a point on it, this was before a judge in Massachusetts rather than before a jury in Florida as Bollea v. Gawker had been.
Bitcoin Splits, Rallies as Community Fails to Solve Cryptocurrency's Woes – Extr
Introducing Built-In Identity Service to Streamline User Management – Netlify
We've also published a more detailed documentation here: https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/workspaces!
Bring Machine Learning to iOS Apps Using Apache MXNet and Apple Core ML
This is my main criticism of the Ruby community. Code that will throw static analysis out is not only accepted, but even welcome.

Python's cold acceptance is already enough to make big projects impractical on it, because every large codebase will gather some undecidable metaprogramming spread through it. But Ruby gets it everywhere.
Agreed. Thanks for the feedback.
I think the picture of the shopper with hundreds of bottles of water illustrates the problem nicely.

In a disaster, demand changes. If you artificially keep prices from increasing, you'll have shortages. And likely those shortages are due to customers buying a ton of product and just selling it on the side at a higher price.
Many of these incentives go beyond tax cuts. The government will build the buildings, lease it to the corp for free. It will train employees for free, handle the recruiting for free, provide money to the corp for various projects, etc. It's business, sure, but pay to play. And at the end of the day, a lot of these places wind up leaving once their benefits run out.
NYC has a majority power over the state purse strings and Albany has the majority of what's left.

If you want a mountain of money for the subway all you need to do is earmark it at the bottom of a repeal of NY-SAFE (or whatever you call that gun law that the rest of the state hates).
I get coworkers mad that I'm not online.

That is a team management problem, not a tools problem.
>- The automated software updates have no signature and are downloaded insecurely over HTTP

I have two conflicting thoughts at the moment:

1. It's insane

2. It's awesome. I wish I could get my hands onto one of those machines.
> We spend more on both per capita than any other nation on earth.

Why are there tens of millions that can't afford higher education?

Why are people going bankrupt from health expenses?

The USA is just really bad at it. Therefore you need to spend more money just to come up to par with other developed countries. In that case, you need more tax revenue.
You'll just have to upgrade to supersingular elliptic curve isogenies! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Supe...
Thank you. Yes, it is figuring out the dosing that concerns me.
Not really. To verify, you need to perform the computations using the tools you can trust. It can be pen-and-paper-and-brain, or it can be a personal computer.
i wouldnt put that much meaning into reasons for the misleading headline choice. simplest explanation is "Opioid Use Explains..." is better clickbait than "Not Sure if Opioid Use is Causal or Symptom"
Misread/paste - added the full quote. I don't think it really changes Yellen's position FWIW which is basically correlation != causation.
For the time being you should be able to install it using the `--devel` flag, but the PR to move it to stable is on its way :)
You would have to convince a lot of people to live in Utah though. Very religious/conservative state, to the point where it does influence things.
relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1782/
How not to handle open source contributions
Your last paragraph is essential to making sense of this whole story. The same sentiment is also present in the original report, on page four.

The institutions who bought that software were like aware of those safety nets, which is why they had no problem buying from a vendor that basically looks like a two-man Delphi shop (no idea what they actually used). Had the system been more critical, we would probably be talking about a whole different set of shocking security problems, in some absurdly overengineered T-Systems monstrosity. Personally I feel less unsafe with paper and the obvious insecurities of a glorified excel sheet than with a titanic money-sink twenty layers deep that is feeding an army of salespersons and lobbyists paid to silence every voice of concern.

What the institutions who bought this thing underestimated is the terrible impact a caught manipulation (and even this preemptive disclosure, despite being orders of magnitude preferable to only finding out after a caught manipulation) would have on trust, and the spring time for radicals that would follow. A caught manipulation could destabilize the country more than a cruise missile hitting the Reichstag.
"Opioid use associated with.." would be better journalism. "Explains" is clickbait indeed.
If I set my terminal type to something basic like vt102, and then start "tmux" and run "echo $TERM", I get "screen-256color". Also, the tmux(1) manual states:

The TERM environment variable must be set to “screen” for all programs running inside tmux. New windows will automatically have “TERM=screen” added to their environment, but care must be taken not to reset this in shell start-up files.

So, yes, Tmux uses the GNU screen terminfo entry.
>"But even though the Commercial Times provided no source for its claims, shares for the company dropped by as much as 8 percent in a single day, which we imagine would make a potential sale even easier. Meanwhile, HTC itself acknowledged the claims but publicly declined to comment on the matter."

So, a sourceless article starts rumors that end up dropping a stock by 1/12 of its value .. sounds almost like attempted market manipulation
I couldn't find a privacy policy or terms of service anywhere on their site.
The whole point of the comment you're replying to is that we're picking our priorities poorly.
>We promise your email is safe with us and we will never spam you!

Yeah, sure, I've read that line before...

Thuesday is a queer day of the week, anyway.

How is the list "beautifully crafted" exactly?
Well, that's the "party line" anyway. I'm not convinced that it's usually (or even ever) true in practice though. And even if it were, it's still a case of the government distorting the market in a way that is, IMO, not a valid role for government. And there will always be unintended consequences, quite often negative ones.
I read a number of reviews of it while considering getting one. It seems to me the most error-prone part of extracting is the decarboxylation, and this device doesn't do that. (There apparently is a device that does that, but the name escapes me just now.) So it doesn't seem to provide a whole lot of value.
http://rr-project.org in case you wondered
As a Seattlite, I kind of wonder if this isn't in response to our lack of transit. We have some possibility of improvement, but it is almost 20 years out for my neighborhood and Amazon is growing super fast. Since they can't stem the growth to the rate of infrastructure development, maybe they can offset the growth to another city. And that city needs infra already waiting. Of course this narrows down city choice significantly.
Each capture plant takes 50 tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere per year. We are putting roughly 40 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year. That's only 800 million capture plants needed, or roughly 44 million customers similar to the one they have lined up (using 900 tons per year).

Every little bit helps, and I'm glad they are making money doing this, but it's not a viable solution to the problem as a whole. They also didn't say what powers the turbines in their capture plants.
No, you can't; deals involving this much money are beyond local politics. For example, Washington's governor just vetoed a measure that would extend state tax cuts to manufacturing companies that aren't called Boeing, and he's not going anywhere.

And even if people do complain, all your mayor/city council has to do to win re-election is claim that all the jobs would disappear if they didn't offer the incentives. You can't do anything about this, it's just blatant corruption endemic to the system.
Atlanta was one of the top places that came to my mind given their requirements. It's really compares favorably with Seattle for size, access, tech talent.
My memory is that in 1988 8MB was a luxurious amount of RAM, that machine would cost 2 to 4 thousand dollars. Most people were still using machines with memory measured in kilobytes. Even serious business users were usually limited to 640KB.
What I've never understood is why anyone does opiates to begin with, under any circumstances. Why even try it? I feel in the media everywhere it is said how terrible it is.
Pushing back on this a bit...for example, securely exposing a JSON endpoint to the public internet requires extra machinery that applications like nginx bring for free. If you simply set the router to your handler, then you accept arbitrarily large request sizes, wide open for DoS attacks. You have to either manually add limits or pull in some library. nginx caps these by default. Want throttling or load balancing? Again, things that haproxy and nginx do well, but require more cruft in your application.
America is low density because it provides incentives for low density living. The solution, in short, is to remove those incentives. Once the costs of current land use patterns are undistorted, society will adjust, and land use will intensify.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/15/financing-subu...

https://granolashotgun.com/2016/08/31/a-thousand-hidden-subs...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/8/a-utah-republic...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/18/highway-spendi...
So does it use fastcgi to rule them all?
The crucial thing is that as you get near this "event horizon" you get close to a point where cryptocurrencies would be macroeconomically destabilizing in the same way gold tied currencies were destabilizing in 1929.

I don't think crypto-currencies will ever get that popular though. It would require governments to be on board and foolishly march towards the 1929 thing again. But you never know, as they say, history rhymes.
>Legacy code showing through everywhere

That's a programmers perspective. We're not like end users, they really don't care what stack a website uses so long as it works. Looking at craigslist they don't even care if it looks decent.

I think what matters to them is that it has utility.
Another example of externality not priced into costs -- if businesses had to bear retraining/unemployment costs to society, they may not outsource as much, or they may still outsource, but be better community citizens.

It might also spur governments to do more to stay competitive in a sustainable way, e.g. investing more in education.
These ideas are a lot older than python, about as old as multiple return values.
Ah, the "well someone else is going to be a shit about this so I might as well be the one that profits" argument.
Python3 SegWit-compliant library which provides tools to handle Bitcoin DS
Savaged by Systemd, an Erotic Unix Encounter
Myths around working remotely for a startup
They need it to be in America due to the current political climate here. Many politicians are looking at Amazon with an unfriendly eye. Investing Billions in the US and hiring tens of thousands helps remove that pressure. Doing all of that in a foreign country would be political suicide for them right now.
Chattanooga is great! Just not sure if they have the infrastructure to handle that big of a corp. And Gigbit is kinda passe by now.
The assumption that a cart with that much water must be for a single family is annoying etc. It could just as easily been a shelter stocking up.