skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, the big problem with diesel is not CO2, but NOx gases, which are way more immediately dangerous to human health. That's why some cities are thinking of banning them ASAP right now.

Second, besides VW which was creating even 40x the emissions than the standard you mentioned required, pretty much all the other car makers were creating 10-15x as many emissions, too, thus making that "strict standard" way looser. Forget Euro 6 or Euro 5. These cars weren't even compliant with the 25 year old Euro 2. In other words, all of these car makers "passing" the emissions tests over the past two decades has been all a bad joke played on the EU population.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/19/many-car-...

Finally, a new stricter (than Euro 6) standard was supposed to arrive by 2021 or so, but Merkel once again intervened to make the standard even looser (by +50% more emissions allowed) than the previous one, which would be a first in the history of the Euro emissions standards, which have become increasingly stricter not looser, so far. All thanks to Merkel.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/24/petrol-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/28/angela-m...
Do you think there'll end up being due process with this approach? And fair trials? I wouldn't be so quick to endorse a dictatorship's approach to law and justice.
Same story here.

And since I regularly browse via a Digital Ocean VM, the lack of CAPTCHAs on DuckDuckGo is refreshing as well.
I think this is very interesting, and certainly consider myself a "fan" of the RISC-V ISA and project. Great to see cheaper/smaller boards coming along.

I'm still hoping they can somehow get access to a flash process, so that they can integrate the CPU core (and peripherals, of course) with the flash in the same chip. This board still uses QSPI to talk to an external flash, which houses the code.

I'm not sure how programming is done, with "traditional" microcontrollers that have their own flash, you use JTAG (or even serial on the older ones) to program the flash directly, then just remove the JTAG lines and reset the board and it runs your code. With this, I guess you have to program the SPI flash directly, or (perhaps?) use JTAG to talk to the microcontroller core and control its SPI that way?

Anyway, my understanding is that flash memory is "deep analog magic" which the people behind RISC-V haven't mastered yet, so they can't design the memory into the same chip as the processor core.
The better solution was to let Greece default. Then the banks who had bought Greek bonds without proper due diligence would have borne the cost of their mistakes, not innocent bystanders. These were mostly French and German banks, and it would have been up to their respective governments to bail them out (or not).
The Struggle with Where the Sidewalks Won't Go
Most analysts from traditional mindset making the mistake of analyzing bitcoin like they do stocks or fiat currency which can rely on a country's economy or political scenarios or a company's decisions to make profits. But, Bitcoin is like anything they have seen before or learnt in their college. Most volatility corresponds to news of it's survival at the moment and due to the reason the market is failing to agree with a fair value as no one knows it's future but is aware of the nobility of the technology and how it skipped the hands of any one controlling it by being decentralized. As the world keeps adopting to it the demand is getting increased. And there is still a lot of geographical terrain to cover.

When a traditional wall-street analyst sees a peak, he was trained to freak out and sense it as an extreme point of the crowd's greed. And shows off his training by telling the world that it's a bubble and it's going to burst, as the peak is occupied mostly by greedy investors who panic on losing their money and sells off double the speed they entered the trade. But this stands true when the value of the instrument surpasses the intrinsic value of the asset way too high. But with bitcoin no one knows hence majority investors still think it cheap and keep piling up.
I have friends in my age group (mid-40s) that have never learnt to drive because "They don't need a car because they live in London."

I don't live in the sea but I learnt to swim. Driving is a useful skill to have.
> This largely coincides with the Green Party's rise in popularity.

The green party could probably profit much more from those topics if one had the feeling they'd be more trustworthy in those issues.
Particularly in the diesel emissions scandal the greens are a big failure - the reason being that the greens form the government in southwest Germany (Baden Württemberg), which has a strong car industry.
> For the welfare of the people in Greece the greek government is responsible, not Angela Merkel.

That is correct, but one could ask that people don't go around and say "Germany saved Greece!", cause no .. it didn't. It saved its banks.
> Electric ground transportation is the future.

You can already use trains in a large scale: most larger European cities are well connected and have extensive local transport systems. Next the public sector will invest a lot of money into electrical busses and their infrastructure. E-Bikes are already very popular. Cars will take a few more years...

Merkel's government had ambitious goals, but industry and public was not ready - without substantial financial incentives, which would have been another problem.
On mobile it asks for an email in a persistent footer that takes up 1/3 of the screen. When you type a fake email (there is no way to remove it) it brings up another footer asking if you would like to have such a footer on your own website ( also unremovable). Thank God for reader mode.
Show HN: Chatterrapp (YC SUS17) beta – Talk to people having similar interests
I am Amit, Co-Founder of Chatterrapp (https://chatterrapp.com). We are building a platform to let users have video chat with others sharing similar interests. Currently we are accepting sign ups for our Beta product.

We tried many of existing platforms similar to ours and came across some major flaws like:

- annoying chatbots posing as real users
- obscene/offensive behaviour
- irrelevant matches
- no regard for user’s preferences/interests
- non-persistent user profiles

So we went ahead and surveyed as well as interviewed hundreds of potential users and found a common theme - users went to these platforms with some specific goals and expectations in mind and the majority (70%) said that they would want to talk to people outside their circle who share similar interests; but, no existing platform solves this problem.

People preferred talking about a topic with strangers because their friend/family circle don’t share similar interests (80%) or they were uncomfortable discussing that topic with their friend/family circle (67%).

In the survey, we also asked people to share their interests that they would like to talk about and some of the most popular ones were Sports, Game of Thrones, Music, Bitcoin, Politics, Startups, Diversity in Tech, etc.

So, I humbly request you all to sign up for our beta (it is crappy, I know) and share your interests so that we can start matching you with others sharing similar interests and let you talk your heart out. Promising you some really fun, exciting and serendipitous encounters.

Happy to answer and questions and looking forward to the feedbacks!
Expensive materials (platinum) and difficulty making them small enough for a car.
Right-click / Inspect element / Delete
In case you already haven't, might wanna add the "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
>NOx

So is the Ozone. Diesels with lower NO emissions than that of gas engines are made all around the place.

All same, if not worse for particulate emissions
Dennis Ritchie's old home page
Carbide is hardly exotic. You can get < $20 drill bits made from it at your local hardware store.
Well it rather seems she changes her mind all the time. You can find various compilations of instances where she doubled back on earlier statements (sometime from years ago, but still). I get the impression she is extremely opportunistic, at least on a larger scale.
What stops that one from running in Firefox? I haven't dug into its code, but nothing in its description or screenshots looks like the FF web extension implementation shouldn't support it. I mean, it's just a little chrome, a content script doing link rewrites, and an occasional HTTP request to fetch status info, yeah?
If scientists finally succeed in mimicking the oxygen evolving complex from photosynthesis, you get decentralized free hydrogen. Suddenly real hydrogen combustion (instead of fuel cells) makes sense and should be advantageous, even compared to electric transportation.

But, of course, it's a bit like fusion power: should be achievable in principle, but the details are infuriatingly difficult.
My humble analysis why blockchains (and bitcoins on the blockchain) are like tulips. Like tulips you can always grow more and with blockchains you can always build / start your own blockchains. Building your own blockchain lets say in Ruby is about 20 lines of code. See the point? It's easy (not rocket sience ;-). See the [Awesome Blockchains](https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains) for more (about building your own blockchains in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.) in minutes.
Where would you like me to start?

It was unclear whether you were criticism bitcoin as a criticism to all cryptocurrencies, or bitcoin by itself.

Fortunately it looks like it is just bitcoin by itself.

> which application is best conducted on the bitcoin ledger than every other alternative?

Bitcoin has to compete on its own. I'm all for other cryptocurrencies unseating it. In a world where 90% drops are not uncommon or controversial, and in a world where blockchains don't die, in a world where the code is open source, I don't think it is worth entertaining the bitcoin failed idea as it will always be a political mess that can have utility added any time.

> Bitcoin was not designed to have side chains and tokens pegged all over it and there is a reason why the ICO fad universally chose ETH.

This comment and your next comment go hand in hand. Bitcoin had ICOs on it several years before Ethereum was ready or existed. When its network got full it lost its innovative edge as it took over two years to upgrade. In the meantime
more fully featured competitors have focused on specific use cases.

An upgraded bitcoin may have irreparably lost some of its network effect advantage, and thats okay. It will have robust scripting for the next wave of ICOs and other organizations, decreasing the point of most altcoins. The top 10 may have differentiating qualities and markets already. Play it by ear, it isn't controversial to notice.
I don't get it either. I'm a huge music lover, I have other 4000 albums, but I am an active listener only. I only listen to music when I listen to music, not while doing something else. In a car, music is annoying, not to mention the poor experience from the car noise.

I don't use active GPSes, although I do use electronic maps for plotting my route beforehand. I prefer to know where I am going, and I hate the GPSs that try to talk to my with the force of a thousand suns.
Endangered species need to go extinct. We are committing a high level universal crime by intervening in life's natural hygiene process.
It's the same in smartphones but it's less critical. New tech teams forgot the 50 years of stupid tactile interfaces and how much people enjoy and get efficient with touch.
That's what Developer Tools are for! ;)

In Chrome, you can right click and select "Inspect" and then remove the relevant content from the display. :)

Other browsers have "reading mode" which tends to work well for this type of thing.
The graphql-js repo is an implementation of GraphQL in JavaScript

The graphql repo is the specification for GraphQL. There has never been a PATENTS file in that repo or any mention of patents:

https://github.com/facebook/graphql/search?q=patents&type=Co...

See DannyBee's post for why a patent grant for a specification is different from software:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15291330
However the jab at Trump shows what is wrong with the political level of environmental activity.

there is so much more implied by the Paris Accords that it actually will do and heaps of FUD to convince you it must be done or we are all doomed with a good dose of of thanks thrown to the politicians who so boldly stood up for it.

So the sycophants in press, special interest groups, and science, were all dutifully marched out to hark the message loud enough to distract from everything that actually was still going on.

Politics is the art of distraction and division as practiced by modern politicians who are adept at manipulating public opinion usually with the full cooperation of a sympathetic press.
I know the American Dream story of somone small being big corporations is appealing, but s/Solopreneur/Team/.
Delta had some bad times last decade when Leo M. was CEO. Lots of bad decisions and don't care all around. Cancelled many flights out from under me, many times the last one of the night. They ruined lots of my days and if I had received some of the messages I wrote to customer service I think I would have replied "You are no longer welcome as a customer."

Delta is my favorite airline, period. They have more than made up for a few rough years I had with them and their policies and products are much more reasonable to me than other airlines. I really only want to fly other airlines for something like a 'flagship route' of a foreign carrier.
Why do public markets invest in such crap ?
Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Shopping
I feel like jabs at conservative politics are the norm now with a lot of journalism. A few weeks back an article [1] I read, from reddit, started with:

…the dastardly Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor seem to be a great gift to the Alt-Right’s xenophobic nationalists.

Interesting article, but unnecessary (and daresay incorrect?) jab at the start.

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-american-who-buried-a-kamik...
Kaise Kare Pitro Ko Prassan? – Suggestion by the Dr. Puneet Chawla
I had one come to me with a position at Elsevier.

Instant no from me.
If i am not mistaken the salaries given for the US is what the company actually pays, but the salaries given for France it's not what the company pays. We (the french) discuss our salaries in 'brut' (gross) and are never aware of what we actually cost. The company will pays something (close) up to 42% more of this gross value. So i suspect the difference between US salaries and French (and probably german, uk) is unfair.
That's actually the opposite of the perception of Angela Merkel in Germany. In Germany she is seen as populist, because she changes her mind quite often or waits until the public opinion is clear. Only in the refugee crisis, she was seen as following moral principles having not made any concessions to right wing politics (which earned her a lot of respect and a lot of hate). Make no mistake, generally her team is very accurately tracking public opinion.
Firefox reader view is your friend
I tried to find some info on the architecture of DDG, and found this article from 2013: [1]. It seems they used Solr at the time.

Is there anything more recent?

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-archite...
etclface – An Erlang/Tcl interface with literate source code
> Evolution is neither demonstrable nor falsifiable, so it's not scientific.

I think you need to look into something known as a "fluctuation assay". Basically a microbiologist grows a batch of bacteria from a single cell, for some number of generations, then puts them on a petri dish under a low dosage of antibiotics, in order to kill those which have not evolved some immunity during previous generations.

The survival percentage has been shown to correlate with genetic mutation rate of the bacteria strain in question, which was tested by directly sequencing the genomes.

If they didn't correlate that would be a falsification of evolution.
#aIRJumper – A #malware exfiltrates data via security cameras and infrared
How many of these new addresses hold significant funds, i.e. not throwaway change addresses?
> other countries call it corruption, in Germany is called corporatism

I notice this world wide

I ask government officials for "expedited processing" with IRL emphasis and air quotes when I want something done faster, some times it could be construed as a kick back, other times the legislature had already voted for that where I must congratulate them for their keen recognition of revenue streams.

I don't consider due process as the qualifier of non-corruption. I don't actually care.

I just wish more people would accept the relative morality of the institutions they comply with.
There was a small project where somebody used a hygroscopic substance (Silicagel) to collect water in the atmosphere in the desert and freed it with concentrated sunlight, and then condensed it.

http://perkscience.com/harvest-water-desert-air/
It's unfortunate that mutable global state is the default approach to web development, but it's certainly not true that everybody is happy with it. We're actually in a golden age of web development right now driven mostly by functional approaches to web development that adhere to the principles of minimizing global state, sensibly managing what global state is necessary by means of treating it effectively as an immutable collection, and defaulting to pure functions where-ever possible and limiting in-place mutation to hot code paths, while still being mindful of containing those side-effects to within lower-level function boundaries.

On the JS side, we have projects like Redux that effectively forbid direct mutation of global state by a pattern of describing state mutations using data (Actions), and handling those mutation descriptions in pure functions that take existing state, along with the aforementioned state change descriptions, and return the expected next state without any observable side effects (Reducers). This approach leads to a codebase that is simple to test and to reason about, and enables certain development and debugging workflows that would not be possible otherwise, such as component-level, state-preserving hot-reloading, server-side state hydration and pre-rendering, and time-travelling debugging (See Redux Devtools). The popularity of Redux in production React apps today is a testament to how well this approach scales in terms of app complexity and team size.

In terms of CSS, definitely take a look at styled-components and Glamorous. They are AFAIK the state of the art in component-oriented CSS libraries, and can do anything you can in standard CSS (media-queries, pseudo-selectors, etc), unlike earlier CSS in JS libraries that come with all sorts of tradeoffs and limitations. The major win you get with these libraries is that styles are locally scoped by default and do not extend past component boundaries, so you can ensure each component is solely responsible for styling everything within their own borders, and will be styled consistently regardless of the surrounding context. The global-by-default, specificity-based-overriding, and recklessly-cascading aspects of CSS have long been considered harmful in component oriented architectures (rightfully so, in my experience), and tools like these allow you to opt-out of those properties by default, while still allowing you the opportunity to apply them mindfully and sparingly only when they happen to be the right tools for the job. Also, with Glamorous, which uses JS objects to represent CSS rules, you can programmatically manipulate your styles with everything in JavaScript available at your disposal (no more struggling with crappy DSLs like SCSS and LESS), and can make use of JS variables and modules to enable style reuse and take advantage of Webpack tree shaking to ensure only used CSS rules are included in your final bundle.
This seemed in the pocket for Western Digital and Foxconn, I sure didn't expect them to choose Apple and Dell.
How long until emacs ? or I should say remacs (rust ported emacs by Wilfred Hughes :)
"No bank can't create cash like they want.", sadly they can.

All they have to do is to lend some money.
Looking back with hindsight, were there any signs he would not have been a good husband before getting married? Did any of your friends tried to warn you against getting married to him?
Yeah, I recently saw anti-adblock script trying to look like a browser error and I totally fell for it. Only i didn't read the message and after few F5 i just closed the tab.
Bing, Seznam, Yandex, Baidu.. there are many other search engines with surprisingly good results. Give it try.

I started using alternatives, for privacy, but also because they are often better. Google Maps can not even find near pharmacy in EU country.
Catalan government officials arrested amid referendum row
Well, political opinions differ. I personally don't think Merkel has made any mistakes whatsoever. If the elections were only about the main candidates, I'd definitely have voted for her in the next election (have already voted). She seems to be the only person left in charge who takes basic human rights and humanist values seriously; for everyone else they seem to be only important as a lip service and as long as they are convenient.
Launch Loop or Space Fountain are superior. Even the Laser Transmitted Energy solution is. Why? Because they do not have such tremendous costs to install and do not rely on hypothetical yet to develop substances.
Tesla's approach of taking the solar installation and "baking it into" changing the roof is very interesting in this regard, long-term. A labor-intensive job is done in parallel with another labor-intensive job, with a good amount of overlap.
Waste Paper Baling Machine
Out of interest: what is the reason/are the reasons that made you switch?
The NFL is being devoured by its own economic model
Enjoying the book, I'm new to to asp and razor although I have done a little .net wep api before.

I have an issue with the first view, when running I get the error below on all references in the cshtml. I'm using a stock install of VS 2017. Any ideas?

/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(4,5): error CS0103: The name 'ViewData' does not exist in the current context
/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(8,33): error CS0103: The name 'ViewData' does not exist in the current context
/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(8,27): error CS0103: The name 'Write' does not exist in the current context
/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(19,31): error CS0103: The name 'Model' does not exist in the current context
/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(23,1): error CS0103: The name 'WriteAttributeValue' does not exist in the current context
/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(25,16): error CS0103: The name 'Write' does not exist in the current context
/Views/Todo/Index.cshtml(26,16): error CS0103: The name 'Write' does not exist in the current context
That's just as unbalanced a view as "endangered species may never go extinct". The difference is whether they go extinct because of maladaptation to the natural environment or because of maladaptation to human influence on the natural environment. No reasonable person would argue against the first thing, but many argue against the second thing.
Why Americans invest in public stock markets full of crap?
Sure but I'm not talking about killing but dismantling a terrorist network. Having more informations stealthily.
Ecosystem building up to solve Real Problems
Wasn't it at the WH Correspondants Dinner, where Colbert said to Bush: "He believes the same thing Wednesday, that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change, this man’s beliefs never will."

I really have a hard time blaming someone for changing views over a legislative period of more than 12 years.
Telegram connection failure in Asia is caused by power outage in SG