skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big, big difference between the kind of investigation that goes into the extrajudicial killing / corpse mutilation of enemy combatants (as alleged in the Intercept article you quote) vs. the kind of investigation that goes into the murder of another member of the uniformed services. ESPECIALLY given that the victim was a Green Beret and the alleged murderers are Team guys.

ARSOC is going to be out for blood here. This is going to be the mother of all command investigations.
Who says there can only be one left-liberal progressive side? Let alone only one that claims to be left-liberal progressive?
We put a man on the moon, and you're telling me we can't make a train go faster than the Shanghai maglev?
All good story tellers 'lie'.

All your favorite comedians do, all your favorite non-fiction authors do.

Given their ineptitude at sailing I also think their storytelling is also quite awful.

But still I don't see why their basic premise isn't true, 5 months at sea without the skill set or common sense to get home.

I don't get the skepticism on this story but so many other stories are clearly in doubt on HN. Is it because the media is accepting of this skepticism? I mean this story is only reinforcing what the media already has said.

Nothing in particular in this article shows the basic story isn't true. They were to silly to know it wasn't sharks attacking with a bit of exaggeration thrown in?
I'm not sure what you mean by "ends" but there are parts of the Pacific Coast Highway (between Malibu and Santa Barbara) with 55 mph speed limits and stoplights.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5qdq03/mbta_commute...

links to

https://twitter.com/jimhaddadin/status/824708694441132034

links to the underlying data source,

http://mbtabackontrack.com/performance/index.html#/download
> But if you know what "just do it", "the happiest place on Earth" or "think different" refer to, regardless of you opinions of those products, you have already been influenced by ads, and your next buying choices will reflect that.

I beg your pardon? I know where the "happiest place on Earth" is and yet I have only ever been there once... because I was taken there by others, not because I chose to go. Not sure how my buying choices have ever even remotely taken that slogan into account.
Fools and their money are soon parted.

But then again, the market can stay irrational longer than any individual can stay solvent.

Ah, screw it; things just happen, what the hell.
Walmart literally advertises lower prices on select items if you drive to the store and pick it up. Right on the website.

http://help.walmart.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1698/~/picku...
The YIMBYs have been trying to reduce regulation for a long time at the local government level. Unfortunately entrenched players don’t want to build more housing.

In response the YIMBYs have taken it to the State level to enact a regulation which effectively reduces local power (and regulation) over housing.
It's okay to assume that. But we really don't know that it's unintentional. It's more than a conspiracy theory to suspect the fire was nefarious.
I had a buddy who would always "sign" receipts by drawing little doodles on the line. A different doodle each time, ranging from simple to elaborate, from decent to obscene, but always comical.
I've seen this multiple times so it's totally not coincidence, you see a post that has someone wearing glasses for example and the next sorted post is someone wearing glasses but the post has no mention of glasses and is completely unrelated to the previous.
No he's being down voted by sensible people who believe in punishment that fits the crime. Putting a murderer to death will not bring back those lost, but at least it may deter others from doing the same.
New York to Chicago via Toronto and Detroit is certainly not the most direct route, but it does make a lot of sense in the context of what is already in place.

VIA Rail advertises that its Toronto to Windsor service is a great alternative to driving and flying. It is 1 hour slower than flight and about equal to driving. Surely they can make some good improvements. EDIT - I just discovered that Ontario has committed to bring the Toronto to Windsor line to 200 km/h by 2025 and 300 km/h by 2031.

A brand-new bridge between Windsor and Detroit has already been approved. Canada is paying for 100% of it, why not add rail capabilities (like the Øresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark)?

The Detroit to Chicago Amtrak line runs at > 100 mph for almost the entire length already (paid for by the "car-friendly" state of Michigan). The major bottlenecks are two counties in Indiana that Pence hates. With him in Washington, he might still find a way to block construction, but then again he might be too busy to get involved in such piddly things anymore.

So basically, you just need to find a good way to speed up the current New York to Toronto Amtrak, which is 12.5 hours to go 350 miles!
I stopped reading the article after the first piece of nonsense:

> To make it happen, Facebook would need to record everything your phone hears while it's on. This is functionally equivalent to an always-on phone call from you to Facebook. Your average voice-over-internet call takes something like 24kbps one way, which amounts to about 3 kBs of data per second. Assume you've got your phone on half the day, that's about 130 MBs per day, per user.

No, this is complete nonsense. They could easily record the audio locally (perhaps even sporadically rather than constantly -- you don't need constant audio data), do some local speech recognition when the phone is plugged in, and send over the resulting text in short bursts along with all the other data they send over. There's no need for raw audio to be sent over the wire. It's not like they need perfect accuracy.
No, it's unspecific, leaving the reader to assume.
Or that one platform has a lot to resent and the other is fairly innocuous.

Funny how easy it is to pick your own narrative.
I dunno - are you really serious about criticizing them for something they published between then 1920 and 1940s? When already "the editorial page vigorously dissented from his accounts."

And I'd also note that the NTTimes post WW2 wasn't pro-Stalin at all, and it's only in the modern era that people seem to expect a whole mea-culpa about that kind of thing.

But I guess it is a credit to them for going back and writing about something everyone else had forgotten, 27 years ago, 50 years after it occurred.

I guess we are still waiting for the corrections from Hearst and Pulitzer over the US/Spanish war, though. Any day now....
Most of the opposition to housing I've seen in the Mission has been to infill. Look at the controversy over development at the 16th street mission BART station. This would be dense housing in an urban core literally on top of public transit. It would displace a... Burger King. I find it hard to swallow that Burger King is a core component of a sustainable, progressive urban landscape, while high density housing with easy access to public transit is not.
I think you would just have HIPAA laws for protecting patient data (in the US) to deal with. Since you aren't making an actual decision on someone's care, I don't think the FDA would really care.
Low-maintenance and maintenance-free drive shafts are a solved problem, but expensive currently. Locks are a necessity where I live, I don't want to put a €500+ bike without 3 ore more locks. I want a lock to fasten the bike to a fixed item (e.g. pole) and both wheels locked to the frame. Then I want an electronic lock.

The electronics are dispersed over the whole bike. frontlight, backlight, camera's (I'm thinking 3 or 4), integrated mapping,, electronic lock, possible electric steering make it impossible to put all tech into a detachable unit. It's simply out of the question for a well-designed bicycle. I can see it adding some value for current bicycles though.

For the frame I probably want aluminium, because it's cheap and light enough. Shocks are not needed as my country has excellent biking paths. For most other countries shocks don't add too much value, especially not when using the bike in an urban environment. Then they are just maintenance-prone weight-gainers.
If it really benefited everyone we wouldn't be having this discussion and if landlords had nothing at stake they wouldn't be weighing in on the debate.

Just because someone doesn't have a financial stake in the literal plot of land doesn't mean that they aren't affected by new developments. Mediating disputes involving negative externalities is exactly the government's job.
> I don't believe I need absolute 100% control of all things going on in my computer; if I did, I wouldn't be able to utilize it anyways.

It's possible to have 100% control of your computer without being able to being able to utilize it. At a higher level, take Linux as an example: I can certainly utilize it, but I still have 100% control over it. The difference here is that I have the option to change things as I see fit, even if I don't know how it works or even that it exists. Most of the time I leave it alone, but there are times where doing things like swapping out the window manager or driver can be helpful.
That second discussion was posted after my version …
You aren't limited to ASCII for XML either.
Is asynchronous interaction still "interaction" for the purposes of the AGPL? If End User A's manual changes are placed into a database or file which is read by Dramatiq code in a subsequent cron-triggered batch process, is that considered interaction? These questions are not at all cut and dry, but companies like MongoDB who use the AGPL could conceivably argue that this would be considered an interaction. [I am not a lawyer.]

As a separate point, it's odd that anyone would use a license that they "don't fully understand," when (presumably) they would hold themselves to a higher standard of understanding the behavior of libraries they uses in their software itself. Is it irrational to consider this, at the very least, an indication of lack of attention to detail, and a tremendous red flag?
If I understand correctly, the current speed bump in production is temp issue in production - which is a fixable problem that's taking a bit of time.

That doesn't mean they should halt all their other projects in the pipeline. If anything, IMO, stopping all their other projects would mean there are bigger production issues then they officially shared. Which would be much worse.

Revealing Semi, proves that they are on the right path (they were supposed to reveal semi at the end of this year anyway), minus a temp setback.

I think most people are making a much bigger deal out of this setback.
When was that, 1999? That's nearly 20 years ago.
The minion who runs around and retrieved your tube of toothpaste isn’t free either!
Same of your opinion or arguments have raised 10 or 20 years ago, and lots of economists predicted China's economy would collapse 10 years ago several times, but it didn't. As most western couldn't fully understand how Chinese economy working, and how Chinese society different with US.
What am I supposed to be seeing here? It's just a map of Paris and SF...
Huh? Emulation is always slower than anything running natively on comparable hardware, since there's an extra layer of abstraction. Do you mean something else here?
To expand this with more detail, NYC-Chicago is between 900 and 1000 miles on existing railroad tracks, depending on which way you go:

~910 miles through Philadelphia -> Harrisburg -> Pittsburgh -> Cleveland;

~960 miles through Albany -> Buffalo -> Cleveland;

~1000 miles through Philadelphia -> Baltimore -> DC -> Pittsburgh -> Cleveland.

The route that touches DC is the one that passes through the most valuable intermediate stops, but most of that demand is intra-corridor and doesn't concern Chicago. Furthermore, DC is a logical place to serve as a hub to connect the two corridors: one a high-demand DC-NYC, and one a long-distance Chicago-DC. Since to go into Union Station, you have to double-back, this could be a two-segment train where you'd have one-seat travel between Chicago and NYC, but there would be a mandatory stop in DC. This all sounds good, but the segment between DC and Pittsburgh is awful: it's crowded with CSX freight trains, it's either hemmed in by populated areas or follows river valleys or narrow ravines, and there's much work to be done to bring it up to a state that can host High Speed Rail. Between DC and Pittsburgh, one would basically have to build a dedicated line for High Speed passenger rail.

The route through Albany and Buffalo avoids the Appalachians but is forced into the busy Hudson Valley. Route improvements here are expensive. East of Cleveland, the Upstate New York cities along the route simply don't generate enough Chicago-bound demand, nor enough connecting opportunities to make routing this way worthwhile.

The route of the old Pennsylvanian Railway through Philly, Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburgh is indeed the most logical 'direct' route, both in terms of macro and micro; most of the right-of-way is multi-tracked so even with the heavy Norfolk Southern freight traffic, it'd be competitive; and the route touches Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, all of which can generate local and connecting passengers. But even this route is substandard for High Speed Rail: most of it is in river valleys, where there isn't space for the overly broad, sweeping curves with large radii that are needed for high speed travel.

The gist is, between Pittsburgh and the Appalachian Great Valley -- home to Harrisburg and Hagerstown, on the routes going towards Philadelphia and DC respectively -- significant engineering effort (that I wrote about previously [1]) would be needed to cut down on travel time on what would become one of the most profitable segments of the route: between Western PA and the rest of the Northeast Corridor.

As for the Midwest, there are no convenient cities west of Cleveland to chain onto the route. Toledo or Fort Wayne are the most logical choices, but Toledo lacks north-south connections currently, while Fort Wayne is out of the way of the direct route and also lacks connections. Chaining them both along with South Bend would be best, but that's a complicated route that adds travel time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414587
Yeah, but it might not be too long until earth can't support 7 Billion human beings.

I mean, plenty of people are already dying of starvation and dehydration, but you know what I mean. Wasn't that the backstory to Battlefield 2142? Arable land either became desert or ice and everyone went to war over a few breadbaskets?
Even with a pool of proxies, I would expect an instance of this "metasearch engine" to quickly get banned by the other search engines. The same IP running thousands of queries and scraping its content (which is against their ToS) should be easily detectable.
Probably trees.
Point of fact: `regular people ‘ use trains too.
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The Wiki article on the LSAT has an interesting section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_School_Admission_Test#Scor...

In the most recent study Nieswiadomy took the LSAC's categorization of test-takers into 162 majors and grouped these into 29 categories, finding the averages of each major

...and ironically, the last and second-last majors are criminal justice and pre-law, respectively.
The next article in the series, Evolving Stable Strategies, is also up.

http://blog.otoro.net/2017/11/12/evolving-stable-strategies/
They already have this at Gatwick, there's security gates/turnstiles where the system doesn't let you pass until it's scanned your face and associated it with your boarding pass, and IIRC they scanned faces again right before boarding.

There's also cameras scattered throughout the airport which have spinning/swirly LED rings around the lens (which look like this: https://www.hrsid.com/assets/images/art/proven-passenger-que...) -- meant to trick you into involuntarily looking at the cameras. It's flagrantly and unashamedly dystopian.
Death penalty is on the books

People are executed under those laws

People keep killing

You can’t explain that!
iBook G4 on Mac OS X Tiger is slow. It's borderline unusable compared to any Intel Mac, even if you stick to "stock" (i.e. use Safari for web browsing, Mail for mail, etc.). I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Whoa, this conversation isn't heading anywhere productive.

Can we try to focus on intellectual gratification? It's better to teach each other about the world.
Yea, but it’s a terrible at convincing anyone but you.
Target definitely price matches their own website, as well as several online competitors. See https://corporate.target.com/about/shopping-experience/shop-... for the full policy. You basically have 14 days to go back and request a price match if you find the item cheaper online.
I usually think of 'lazy neoliberals' are ones to be less interested in capital punishment. Strange that you feel they're the people downvoting.
There's a lot of weird ideas floating around in the comments on this link. I don't think you are on the wrong track.

There is some mismatch between what XML was designed for and the problems XML is good at solving. It was most certainly designed to be easy for humans to read and write manually. In practice, it is a great interchange format, by which I mean the specific idea of different parties writing XML for exchange between each other, because it can be validated mechanically. There is a large and powerful ecosystem of software that has sprung up around it which simply isn't there for s-exps or JSON.

Elsewhere on here, marcoperaza points out that it is kind of against hacker ethic. That's true. But enterprise software often involves multiple separate organizations having to agree on what a document can contain, and XML is great for that, and that use case tends to be more valuable in industry than whether it is the tersest, most flexible or readable format.
RIP $5 Boston-> NYC trips with dudes literally getting on the bus carrying chickens in cages

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fung-wah-bus-comp...
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I wonder if that's only true if we grow them then never cut them down. Because if the full lifecycle ends with combustion or another CO2 releasing process then it may offer no benefit.
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I figured I'd add a mention of the task queue we use at close.io: https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger

We run several hundred tasktiger workers in production (deployed using Kubernetes) to process the various backend task queues for our service. Project is MIT-licensed if anyone is interested in another celery alternative.
This is not a tutorial and he/she is not answering to a beginner. A description would have helped nonetheless
> It's completely reasonable that someone can have stolen it from you without you being able to prove it.

I agree and if I was designing the legal theory I would make sure that the burden of proof is on the person claiming an other has knowledge.

> the correct pass phrase and it only proves that they knew it when the video was made, not that they still remember it now.

Right, which is where reasonable doubt comes into play: if the video was months ago it's completely reasonable to forget a password -- if it's two hours later they have a much tougher case to make about spontaneous amnesia.

Applying the 'you can't possibly prove knowledge under any circumstances' argument would be absurd in any other case.

"Did you know she was under 18?"

"No your honor, I forgot, it had been a few weeks since I saw her ID."
If you don't do it for a week, how bad is your headache?
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Do you want a reliable project which is difficult to hire for, or an unreliable project it is easy to hire for?
This is self-hosted, so I'm assuming it's running under the assumption that each person hosts their own instance and uses that instance. The number of queries coming from the instance in that case wouldn't look too out of the ordinary.
Yes. As a tree structure, basic xml is fine. There are lots of other ways to do it, but there's really not much difference. For communication, agreement on a common language is more important than its intrinsic merits. (and xml partly attained that because it looks like html, which was still new at the time).

But the xml ecosystem is horrible. Sensible ideas, horrific execution; like namespaces and schema. Probably the single worst problem was using xml syntax itself: it's like, a programming language that uses JSON for its syntax.

But also, there's guilt-by-association, people hate the enterprise culture that uses xml - similar happened to java.

Though xpath is not so bad, and many people seem to quite like it.

Finally... json is a better match for data, basically by being c-like. However, an ecosystem tumour is also growing, around JSON. Some even use json syntax itself...

I wonder, if perhaps, a root issue is that the world is complex, and youthful simplicity is corrupted as it adapts to cope with the real world...
There is hope, however; tools like `jq` never existed for xml.
I wouldn't read too much into that. I bet the pass rates on other professional exams are similarly skewed.

Lots of hopeless pre law students will take the exam. Very few unmotivated math students will find themselves taking the lsats, however.
We're also starting to see some law schools not require the LSAT for admission. I know that Harvard, Northwestern, and Georgetown Universities are among those that have started accepting GRE or ACT scores.

From the article, I noticed an interesting parallel to medical school admissions:

> Testy told me she too once took the LSAT, though she doesn't remember her score. Unlike many of today's students, she didn't spend months studying. "Honestly, I didn't even know at the time people did that." She says LSAC actually worries test-takers spend too much time preparing. It suggests students familiarize themselves with the test and the rhythm of the questions and maybe take an online course.

I've had mentors say the same thing about the MCAT for medical school admissions, and even our USMLE board exams taken during medical school. It's almost as if it's a requirement for everyone to pay up for a service that just drills you until you can expect the kinds of questions that can come up, rather than actually being tested on conceptual knowledge.
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> There is a big, big difference between the kind of investigation that goes into the extrajudicial killing / corpse mutilation of enemy combatants (as alleged in the Intercept article you quote) vs. the kind of investigation that goes into the murder of another member of the uniformed services.

Indeed, but this supports my point, no? If things have got to the point where brazenly fragging a Green Beret in base starts to look remotely like something you might reasonably do and might have decent odds of getting away with, then it seems probable the chain is already off completely when it comes to dealing with 'lesser lifeforms'.
That they are approximately the same size. There was an assumption that you know how populous these cities are, but to to be clear, roughly the same administrative area (Geneva Ave or so North vs everything within the Périphérique) has a population of 865k for SF and 2,244k for Paris.
Right, but then why buy from walmart if the competitive price is gone (as shown in the original example of online vs retail price)? If it’s just a single region agnostic price plus some location sensitive fee, they’re just another branded ecommerce store beholden to their sellers and distribution for pricing determination. Amazon wins with price, quality, inventory, and selection.