skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number includes cars that are partially gas burning.

> That includes fully electric cars, as well as electrified vehicles like its plug-in electric Active Tourer 2-Series, Reuters reports.

is the euphemism for that. It's good news that the cars are selling well but it's basically so misleading as to be a flat out lie that those cars are electric.

Edit: Also, the Reuters 'source' for that is actually an article about US congress tax overhaul and has no number to back up the article.
Whoa, didn't expect this to hit HN. I'm here if anybody has questions. (Author)
How does Bitcoin actually work? – A non-technical explanation
I like to add here: why don't we try a colony on the top of Mt Everest first? It is so much easier than going to Mars, what with (some) air and water already there. But otherwise pretty comparable. And no rockets needed.
That abstraction shows up in real life as a library, called TensorFlow. :)
Most Interesting Findings of Report on Pentagon UFO Program
I'm not sure I understood correctly. Could you elaborate?

Wouldn't selling created bitcoin lower the price of bitcoin at your exchange? A lower price would attract USD and the exchange would leak BTC with people doing arbitrage.

Then if you claim a hack wouldn't you have to show that value moved to the hackers wallets and that value and the value you retain had to add up to the total value received in BTC? And if the "stolen" amount of BTC couldn't be shown to be in another wallet, wouldn't the fraud be discovered?
I gave Signal a try the other day and the installation and daily usage has been easy and straightforward, very similar to Viber, WhatsApp, etc. I just like the idea of a privacy first messaging app where I can send gifs through Gboard.
Travel isn't always about what's practical.

I take the train instead of a plane within the U.S. whenever possible. Most commonly between Chicago and Seattle, Seattle and Vancouver or Los Angeles, and Los Angeles and Houston.

If you define popularity by capacity, in my experience long-distance train travel is very popular in the United States. It is VERY rare that I take one of these trips when the sleeping cars ("first class"), business class[0] (when offered), and often even coach, aren't completely full.

[0] Except the runs between Chicago and Saint Louis, where I'm often the only person is business class, when business class is offered.
Maybe for XMR but not in general
Great to hear.

> So its kind of like configuration management for your manifests then?

Basically, yep.

Which is why, for example, it makes it easy to deploy staging environments. Instead of writing your manifests are the final finished product, you set up your manifests to be interpolatable templates. Then you can deploy your application one way to your production environment, but then staging another way (different env vars, different replicas, different anything, but still the same app).

The whole package management/sharing of charts thing falls out as a result of this, but I've yet to find this useful. I don't pay attention to my chart's version number (it's always 1.0), but instead aggregate all the tags for each image I need throughout my manifest templates in the values file. Then when I upgrade my helm release to deploy those latest tags, helm provides me with a monotonically increasing integer for the resultant release. I can always point to this integer and ask, "what manifests were running at this release?"
There are no advantages, say, comparing to Hong Kong. People need a bank account to accept payment, move money around and accumulate wealth. The E-Card doesn’t offer that.

People are looking for such solutions to avoid taxes or currency controls. The e program brings the taxes but not the solution. So it is worse than useless. It has tax implications without bringing anything to the table. Worse, you’ll be bound to the EU regulation.

That explains why it failed miserably and shady internet banks and crypto exchanges attracts millions.
The main idea is to explore the concept of skinny triangles being unaesthetic (and thus undesirable for triangulations). This is true for many tasks in computational geometry, but not so true in art. Bringing these two together shows jarring conflict where the Delaunay Triangulation and your brain's sense of aesthetics disagree.

It's not really supposed to be useful, just exploration in reduction of an already reduced art style: what is lost when we enforce that all shapes are triangles that tend to be more large-angle? For one, I think this destroys the perspective since one common trope is to make objects narrower as they are farther away.

Although the entire thing is mostly a joke based on their shared last names.
I think this research shows that you can influence perception of time without resorting to outright "making up" the progress bar. You can imagine using this technique not to lie about progress but just to make short progress bars appear to move faster.

I spent several hours in Google Analytics yesterday. It's been a few months since I've used it, and I remember thinking that it seemed a lot faster. They've recently refactored their UI, and possibly done some system improvements, who knows. But after looking at this research, I can see that they've also taken advantage of similar techniques to make their loading bars seem faster. It's a free improvement of 11% in perceived speed, just for changing an animation, without misrepresenting the underlying information.
SoftBank Leads $120M Funding Round for Insurance Startup Lemonade
>In neighboring Turkmenistan, President Saparmurat Niyazov — a despot who requires all clocks to bear his likeness and renamed the days of the week after his family — solved the problem by simply declaring plain salt illegal in 1996 and ordering shops to give each citizen 11 pounds of iodized salt a year at state expense

It appears that Turkmenistan is growing at the same rate according to your Charts, does not have the GDP of Kazakhstan and yet had a higher Iodized Salt Intake. It started at 75% Iodized Salt Consumption where as Kazakhstan started at 29% circa 2000. This is the Health Success they are referring to. Even though Kazakhstan was wealthier and flush with money, their Ionized Salt intake was lower than their poorer neighbors.

https://knoema.com/WBWDIGDF2017Sep/world-development-indicat...
Huge Bubble of Hot Rock May Be Rising Under New England
> I now own the database.

You might own the database, but you will never own the personal data that is stored in it. And in France (and in the near future the whole EU with GDPR) this personal data has a specific set of allowed uses (explicit or implicit when the user provided the data) attached to it, that you cannot change without asking the owner of the data (the user).

So you own the database, but you cannot use the personal data inside for purposes that were not allowed by the user when they provided it.
Wrong metric. Its kWh / kg (not price) that matters for transportation. Until we get metal-air batteries that's not going to change much.
I'd prefer a C++ compiler that directly compiles to wasm.

Would it be either a G++ or clang++ module, but something a lot more straightforward and simple. No intermediary, no multiple dependencies. Either a simple compiler binary, and if not possible (although I still wonder why developer never release both source code AND binaries), provide a single downloadable repo that I can build using cmake.

I have read tutorials about binaryen and emscriptem, I did not have a fast computer nor a fast internet connexion, and it was so painful and unclear I gave up.

I get that asm.js was great, but it was mostly a hack, wasm should be much cleaner. I don't understand the choice of emscripten.
Short stories from Nocturnes are good as well.
1. Try to get as much motivations lined up as possible, and motivations that point in the same direction. E.g. "I care about this topic" and "I can make some money." (https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/)

2. Avoid contradictory goals. "I want to make money selling a product" and "I want to learn a new tech stack" don't work well together.

3. If you're trying to make a product, start with evidence there's real demand for it.

4. If you're trying to learn, pick either a really short hard deadline, or something you will actually find useful. (https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/09/side-projects/)

Real example: I wrote a book (https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).

1. I wanted to sell a product, but also really care about the topic.

2. I very carefully avoided spending time coding or learning new technology, focusing purely on writing (e.g. https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/07/10/stop-writing-softwar...)

3. I had multiple posts reach front page of Hacker News for this topic, clear evidence that people cared.
Ask HN: What places do you consider historical analogies to 21st century SV?
I would describe the zeitgeist of Silicon Valley as “relentless disruption in the name of making the world a better place”. Whether you believe that spirit is accurate or not isn’t the point - enough people here do believe it that it is pervasive and obvious to outsider (see HBO’s Silicon Valley).

What other places in the past have had a similar zeitgeist? What happened to the places and the people who lived there?
Virgin Hyperloop One: Now faster than regular TGV but no rail speed record
>>>Co-sleeping, where the child is in the same bed as the parents, is generally considered dangerous.

Citation, please?

Yes — done wrong, it has some (very manageable) risks, but if you've gone so far as to choose to bring another human into the world it behooves you to do the modicum of reading to make sure you do it correctly.

And most of these risks (falling on the floor, etc.) are by-products of our modern era, hence were no factor in early human times.

The advantages of co-sleeping are myriad and various and many, if not most, early childhood specialists encourage the practice.
How do you respond when people covertly tell you that?
If only Delphi was not so expensive.[0]

Having inherited maintenance of an in-house application written in Delphi, one thing I really come to love about Delphi is that there have been no nasty surprises from the syntax side. This might not sound like much of a compliment, but people who have had to decipher overly clever C or Perl code[1] will probably agree this a huge bonus.

[0] I know, there is Free Pascal and Lazarus. I took both for a spin, hoping it might help me get to know Delphi, but Lazarus has crashed on me so frequently I quickly gave up.

[1] Or C++, I guess. The only C++ code I have had to look at was really more like C + MFC and was devoid of any excessive cleverness and a marble of clarity. I imagine there are many crawling horrors out there written in C++, but I have never seen one myself.
Spiral wave chimera states in large populations of coupled chemical oscillators
Sorry, I meant do away with the batteries at the charging station, not the batteries in the car.
I love Signal but the reason why WhatsApp is so appealing is that there's a desktop client.

I hate having to rely on my phone for texting people.
You’re Not Imagining It: The Internet Is Really Slow Right Now
China Is Creating the World’s Biggest Carbon Market
More likely, they did not anticipate that the country would be almost completely dominated by a (hyper)partisan, two-party system. Not only were established parties not in existence at the drafting, but the presidential election system immediately broke down under a two-party system.
Bima raises $97M from Allianz for microinsurance aimed at emerging markets
6092 requests in 3 hours.
73 unique ip addresses.
Unique UserAgents: "WinHttp-Autoproxy-Service/5.1".
Politics Moves Fast. Peer Review Moves Slow. What’s a Political Scientist to Do?
The Pulse of the Nation
> No, they should reflect on the fact that rich and powerful has united across the globe to enslave all innocent people without even giving them a chance to express their opposition.

I think this is going too far the other way. I appreciate the anger that this topic can generate, but it is always important to remember that markets have brought huge numbers of people out of poverty.

The best way that I can think of to deal with the problems of the market involves creating solidarity across class lines. That may require two very unpopular ideas: restricting trade across national borders so people don't cheat on that solidarity, and generating that solidarity via social identity, which is most often based on, everybody get their fainting couch ready, ethnicity and culture.

Yikes.
This is great, thanks for sharing. I stumbled across this idea myself since no todo manager really represented complex dependencies of tasks - the "list" format is just so prevalent and usually ends up increasing cognitive load as I can sometimes get frustrated trying to figure out what's "next" on a non-linear project.

Have you seen DropTask? It's the same idea, I just haven't dug too much into it yet: https://www.droptask.com/

The key feature for me is being able to have multiple ancestor/dependency tasks to a task node, instead of a hierarchical "next action" setup like most task managers.
So I guess you didn't read the part of the article where they actually bring out 3 possible token concepts.

One of them is not even tradeable and another would be pegged to Euro. The third one (community estcoin) is more like your typical token but even then, I would be quite surprised if EU would actually put the brakes on the ICO.
The archipelago of another life from Andreï Makine. I don't think it's already translated in English, but since his other books has been translated, I think this one will be too.

Les chemin noirs by Sylvain Tesson. I don't think it will be translated in English but I enjoyed it a lot (and half of my family too). Sylvain Tesson is a traveller, he has walked across a lot of countries (mostly Russia and Asia). After a bad fall (multiple broken bones, head trauma) he decided to walk across France along the so-called 'empty diagonal' from South-East to North-East, recounting a solitary walk on forgotten/rarely-used trails (the so-called 'chemins noirs' or black trails), talking about places mostly abandoned by the current society. He'll also talk about the people he's meeting along the way and the friends that accompanied him along the way.
If you don't mind tinkering, a raspberry pi plus either a camera or a RFID reader would probably do the trick, for under $100 total.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14028 <= Camera

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9963 <= RFID reader

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14147 <= Example of RFID tags
>but it's basically so misleading as to be a flat out lie that those cars are electric.

If plug in hybrids count but non plug in hybrids do not, then I disagree with you.
> She bases this on the fact that 86% of unsolved victim cases are from black people

You're misrepresenting what she said - she explicitly called out class (not just race) and it you're agreeing with here. Her full quote is:

> can use Detroit as an example, 86% of our victims in these untested kits are people of color. You're not going to find too many blond-haired, blue eyed white women ... Because their kits are treated differently, their cases are solved. That's just the way it is in this country. If you're a person of color, if you're a different economic class, then your case across the board, across the board, not just sexual assault — they're treated differently. And that's just the truth. People may not want to admit it, but I've seen it throughout my career and I know it's true ... It's just true. ... Race is at the center of this in many ways as well, unfortunately, we know that across the criminal justice
High impact public speaking and presentation skills g – growth
Chrome will start blocking ads on February 15
"In a 2006 decision involving public sculptures that were removed from the park for which they were created, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that VARA does not protect location as a component of site-specific work. VARA covered works can be moved as long as the move does not constitute 'destruction, distortion, or mutilation.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act
I remember thinking, wait, Javascript will catch up eventually then why would anyone use flash? At the same time, we probably owe a lot to flash existing (especially WebRTC). Flash helped us get browsers to this point faster both through it's tech and increasing consumer awareness/demand for media.
It's not disingenuous or superficial if you exercise the advice earnestly. For example, don't just "act interested", but "be interested" in what the other person has to say.

I assure you that doing so is both extremely difficult (because we're selfishly interested in ourselves most of the time) and kind (because the other person rarely receives such selfless attention.)

It's only cringe inducing if someone is using these tactics without actually being interested in others. Carnegie definitely does not advocate for being such a person.
So the knots are basically census records? How disappointing :/
People should look at existing emscripten projects to see what the future will be like since compiling to asm.js is already pretty mature (just a bit slow and bloated as noted in the article). Any emscripten project can compile to WASM trivially by adding a `-s WASM=1` compilation flag.

Example projects:

- OCR (tesseract): http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/

- Computer vision (opencv): https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html

- Physics engines, retro games/emulators, entire operating systems, and many many more: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Porting-Examples-...
MAME has long lacked support for certain Konami games. Is it because of this? Could MAME now support those Konami games, in jurisdictions with no anti-circumvention laws?
I have a dim view of the repeal of Glass-Steagall, but it had little to do with sub-prime lending, CDO, et. al. The 2008 crash was because of shoddy lending underwriting, mass speculation in real estate, and some fraud like collateralization. The economy didn't fall over because banks were dealing in both retail banking and investment banking. I mean I could be wrong in my assessment, but I think I remember it well enough.

The truth is that crashes are cyclical... for reasons that are poorly understood. There are probably ways to manipulate cycles, but eventually human psychology takes over and people start acting irrationally en masse. What we can do, I think, is focus on how we respond to down turns.
> 2% of revenue is a huge fine for any profitable business.

Not necessarily. In a business like ours (online training) where any additional new customers basically flow through to the bottom line, if I got 20% of my revenue from the EU, and I had to pay a 2% fine now and then, it wouldn't be terrible.

I can see how some slimy businesses would say, "I'm not even going to bother complying - I'll just keep taking revenue off the table and paying the small fees."
So weird seeing Pete's eats mentioned here. One of my best friends lives in Llanberis.

I once got taken up Crib Goch completely unprepared, thinking I was going on a leisurely walk. I was not impressed.
It really is the Wild West of crypto currency right now.
Greed is going to fuel a lot more arbitrage opportunities like these as people invest in crypto "derivatives" without fully understanding what they are buying.
The average age of cars in the US is 11.5 years. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-average-c...

Personally, I keep cars until they're no longer reliable/economical but the average length of ownership is presumably lower and brought down by people who get a new car after a 3 year lease. Although the overall length of ownership has been increasing because of improved quality.
I'd be very careful about doing this - it appears illegal and could lead to civil and criminal sanctions against the person who left the blank-filled package. This concern is confirmed by statements from the police in this article.

There are a couple of scenarios that worry me here. First, suppose a neighbor (perhaps a child) sees or hears about a package thief in the area and decides to take the packages for safekeeping until the owner is back. The neighbor grabs a blank loaded package, is terrified, and falls down the stairs suffering injury (IANAL, but let's get law student case study-ish here and say "suffers grievous bodily injury"). My guess is that the case against the property owner who set the booby trapped package would be strong, and criminal charges are possible here as well.

Now, replace the above scenario where it is a thief? My understanding is that the property owner could still be charged and/or sued.
Since 2004 they can fine up to 3 000 000 € [0]. Still not much for Facebook but better than a few thousands. More importantly, assuming the CNIL has a case, I assume Facebook has an obligation to comply (I guess they can't just pay the fine and keep doing whatever they were doing).

[0] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT...
Shared objects are planned for WebAssembly.

In any case most companies are busy moving away from anything GPL related.

GCC just got kicked out of Android and all Linux alternatives for IoT are using MIT like licenses.
Automating PII detection & audits is a hard problem! Especially across sundry data storages and formats.

Compliance firms typically provide a high-level paper trail, but what happens when you don't even know where the PII data is, like the OP says? What if you need to answer concrete individual Subject Access Requests?

So, as a technology company, we've attempted to solve parts of it with technology. We really hope to make that pesky "PII stuff" detection and auditing easier for companies:

https://pii-tools.com (in private beta, feedback welcome)
Sure, but most employees who have a phone and email never use them to communicate outside the company (at least not in any business capacity).
Signal has a desktop client (mac / win / linux): https://signal.org/download/
Ask HN: Best companies offering remote jobs
Hackers, what are the best companies to offer remote positions (will be working from eastern Europe) in the area of big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, etc?
Most folks are not car-enthusiasts. Lots of us would gladly give up driving. So no, its not worth it to us. The utility is all in the time/cost. So a good public transit network would be a fine replacement for car ownership. Nothing at all like smoking, alcohol et al.

Also, busses. A bus crash favors the bus. There are rarely (compared to cars) any deaths. Its a pure public-health win.
And if you're right (which I also suspect), I'd be curious what they would have tried to do to prevent it. Not because it's necessarily useful to solve today's problem, but because it'd be interesting to see.
Completely proofless comment. I could also write the same but just remplace “gambling” with “drugs”