skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impeached Arizona governor Evan Mecham (shortened term 1987-1988) was probably very paranoid during his time in office, but nobody gave credence to his concern over the possibility of "reflected laser use" to surveil him. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Mecham) ...

Throughout his administration, Mecham expressed concern about
possible eavesdropping on his private communications. A senior
member of Mecham's staff broke his leg after falling through a
false ceiling he had been crawling over, looking for covert
listening devices. A private investigator was hired to sweep
the governor's offices looking for bugs. The Governor was quoted
as saying, "Whenever I'm in my house or my office, I always have
a radio on. It keeps the lasers out." After this was reported,
a political cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist
Steve Benson appeared in the Arizona Republic depicting the
governor leaving his house outfitted for laser tag. When asked
about this by reporters, Attorney General Bob Corbin replied in
amusement, "We don't have any ray gun pointed at him."

The guy was a tool but the guy had a point about surveillance technology, and nobody took him seriously.
In cloud development environments, you need to account for multi-AZ deployments and the challenges associated with such.
They decided to skip a year for some rooms to allow other interesting topics to have a room.

https://twitter.com/fosdem/status/915543798763139074
It fascinates me that Americans tolerate this kind of behavior.

This is an extremely rich and profitable company negotiating so they can get out of paying taxes they and everyone else are ordinarily obligated to pay. Why anyone thinks that is OK shocks me.

Do small businesses get out of paying these taxes? do individuals?

Why does a multi-billion dollar company not have to contribute their legally-obligated share to society?

It shocks and staggers me because at the end of the day it's regular citizens and American society in general that suffers. There is less money for teachers, schools, police, roads, drinking water and all the things these tax dollars are supposed to pay for while a company that already has hundreds of billions gets to keep all that money.

There is no need to wonder why America has crumbling infrastructure, no universal healthcare, sky-rocketing education expenses, etc. etc. etc.
Some rooms fill up really fast, when the room is full they start denying access to the room, for obvious security reasons.

If there is a talk that you don't want to miss, arrive before the previous talk ends, this way you'll be able to enter as soon as the previous talk ends. On really popular rooms it has happened to me in the past that no one got out and I was not able to attend the talk. Since (almost) all sessions are recorded and made available soon after FOSDEM ends, I watched it at home later.
+1. We already have multiple ways to close Firefox window from keyboard: Alt-F4, Alt-Space, and by mouse and menus. Why we need yet another keyboard shortcut for that functionality? Is it so important?
IP Multimedia Subsystem
Which aspect of it scares you? If the video is leaked there are issues of course, but also, what will technology like this do to humanity overall concerns me more.
I think that’s a popular sentiment - IIRC before they announced this whole process they had expressed interest in two cities specifically (Toronto and Boston, if I’m not wrong). Would not be surpised if it ends up being one of those
The good guy/bad guy myth
At least in my opinion the best part about living north of the Arctic circle is the months where it don't get dark
What happens in reality though is that as soon as developers get access to the stanard library all hell breaks loose. People switch to the Java mode of thinking and start almost mindlessly using vectors, maps, shared pointers, etc. and C-level performance goes out of the window. With their exposure to templates, there goes their sanity and, as a consequence, code maintainability.
Many glaciers letting rivers run low, others are falling apart
Everything old is new again, the bitcoin proof of work mining began life as a way to require people sending email to burn a second or two of cpu time see: http://www.hashcash.org/
> The Internet is much more than the web - email is a huge part of it.

The sad part is that the vast majority of people have no idea this is the case. Email? Oh I just use gmail in my browser (rather than a client with SMTP and IMAP). Discussion groups? Oh I just use Google groups or some person's private walled forum in my browser (rather than usenet with NNTP). Chat? Oh I use Slack in my browser (rather than IRC with an IRC client).
What impact did this changeover actually have on you?
> so that they can plan ahead and prevent overcrowding

They don’t do anything to prevent overcrowding, and so it is indeed painfully overcrowded and you may not be able to get in to see any talks you planned to. You basically have to pick one room, get there early, and then just camp out all day.
None of them are Carrie Fisher. Top one is CGI and is from the movie, bottom one is another actress + deepfake. It's supposed to show that the deepfake one is just as good as the Hollywood one.
I don't get what is so unstable about satellites.

Anyway, if you want a global system with sub-meter accuracy, you will have to continuously adjust it. If you settle for ~100m accuracy, you can create something that will last for a long while without any intervention by using satellites.
As a developer I have not paid much attention to the power of command line tools, to get things done. This book is a great resource that uses docker to create simple command line utilities to implement useful Data Science functionality.
I imagine that simply being iconoclastic and skirting the edges of racism isn't enough to get you flagged from lunchtime visits. Whatever happened here, about the only thing I'm sure of is that we have far from a complete picture of this story, this list, and what it takes to get your name in it.
Do a 'bt full'?
A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)
And some times go the other way the standard "I who have nothing" is the English version of "Uno Dei Tanti"
Amazonsellerguide
Or to hedge against the US immigration policy that could hurt their labor supply in the long term. It was not lost on me that half my engineering grad school classmates wouldn't pass the Bannon/Miller test.
>He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway...

Also see: many, many Korean and Japanese pop songs....
To me, neither looks like Carrie Fisher. The bottom one's mouth looks oddly fake, though.
The Foxconn deal is interesting for a number of reasons.

First, it's huge, and in a state that arguably does not have the population or state budget to support the subsidies. ie - Whether or not Wisconsin can actually afford this is an open question.

Secondly, just as you mentioned, if Foxconn does start up in Wisconsin, and they eat up all of the subsidies... what is to stop them from moving?

Lastly, the Foxconn deal is a very 20th century attempt at growth in what a lot of smart people claim is a new 21st century reality.

One thought experiment put forth recently noted that there are roughly 3 or 4000 STEAM and business school graduates from Wisconsin universities every year. A 21st century attempt at growth might be to dole out seed level startup grants for those graduates with good enough ideas... something in the ... say ... 20000USD range. With the money they will give to Foxconn... They could do that for EVERY STEAM or business graduate, for EVERY year... for the next 50 or so years. It's hard to imagine that they wouldn't hit a high enough valuation on their portfolio to make their money back. I thought that was kind of a good point.

So, I'd be very curious to see some states try the "state run ycombinator" thing, while others try the old give lots of subsidies to big companies thing...

and see which model is more successful long term?

We'll likely never see that... but it would be interesting from a purely academic perspective.
I am sorry but I just could not grasp YAML for some reason. I am always confused by its indentation and maps vs lists notation.
Interesting project. The real issue with the Dolorean however is the engine and drivetrain not the dash.
Also, that even the smartest of us are vulnerable to the power of greed, 'fear of missing out' and herd mentality, to trump rational thought/judgement.

It is why we will always have financial bubbles and scams.
There are lots of options to communicate clearly. To be able to communicate clear and have simplicity/reproducibility is what makes a good graphic symbol.

Further reading: https://books.google.com/books/about/Semiology.html?id=kZXCQ...
No, these are real code snippets. I only masked the account identifiers.
https://pyinfra.readthedocs.io/
That was the most recent example I had in mind. Also things like https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/undocumented-husband-depor... which are both heartless and pointless.
Ridiculous is thinking you could write a whole OS userspace in Java.

Ridiculous is making that comment without realising Python is a core part of most modern *nix userspace. try uninstalling Python on a default Ubuntu/Fedora/Centos install and see what still works. I would suggest trying the same with Java, but nobody bundles that by default despite it's JIT.

Ridiculous is pontificating about how useless Python is without C/C++, clearly without knowing much about the language and its strengths.

I've known people who say the same kind of things, who write reams of very poor, unidiomatic Python code and wonder why it's slow, not wanting to accept that it's their bad code that's slow!
Lots of jurisdictions have zones where they reduce taxes to encourage development. Small businesses can get the benefit simply by opening a location inside one.

This Amazon deal is likely to be neutral or beneficial for whichever government manages to pull them in. It's a race to the bottom but it likely isn't really deeply harmful.

(the employees will pay property taxes and spend money in the community...)
> but turned out by "please use this" they still require you to opt-in with Nylas Identity tied to Nylas Cloud

We're talking about Thunderbird development. When I wrote that they changed to a compatible license and reached out to say "please use this", that's not referring to their attempt to get users. That's a reference to their attempt to donate their code and energy towards improving Thunderbird.

> They could only help replace free (from mail vendors) Thunderbird, playing by the rules of the Thunderbird.

Huh?
Linux could actually store more, as could some custom programs for dos iirc - ms dos had some conservative standards in place due to early floppies being less reliable I think. I initially became aware because the Amiga floppy drive/format was a superset of dos. You could (with appropriate software) read/write dos floppies on the amiga - but you couldn't read/write amiga floppies on pc hw (not even Linux, I think).

See "logical formats":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats
It's also the other way around. Leafs when shaken produce waves in return.
Let's make one thing very clear here - k8s is never easy. I've been running a cluster since it became usable, and it definitely is the opposite of easy.

Kubernetes is powerful, it is modular, and it makes everything a lot more efficient, but setting it up - especially in such large deployments as 1Password would have here - is never easy.
Breeding elephants, however, is quite the tall order.

Irrespective of the challenges their sheer size presents, they’re also relatively smart, and happen to live in conflicted territories. Convincing elephants that they should feel safe, and command enough familiar territory to breed openly is an additional complexity.

Is there enough room for 100,000 or a million more elephants? I’d like to think so, but what do I know?
Ok but are you saying either one is nick cage?
Funny thing is "Bulgars" were Turkic people.
If our security depended on this information being private then we would be in big trouble.

I would love to go into more details about the environment and some of the things we did to build on top of the default AWS security settings. It was too much information for this post, maybe we will do another one that focuses on security.
Excellent presumably Marilyn would be Liea and you would have to a scene with her robes being blown up by a air vent. Cage presumably is Han in this version though I suspect Bogart would have made a good Han Solo
Bonus points if it's John Malkovich
More than any of the AlphaGo stuff, this is actually a way more convincing example that all the deep learning stuff really isn't just hype.
There's also nim, which is rather new and not yet v1 worthy but I'd say it's still a worthy contender to the "closes thing to python with types"
This is the first year with a combined CAD and open hardware dev-room organized by the folks from CERN.

https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/cad_and_open_hardware...
https://i.imgur.com/BeD9aCQ_d.jpg?maxwidth=640
$534m worth of NEM stolen from Coincheck is largest ever cryptocurrency theft
No. I will be furious if they come to dallas, and I have a feeling they will.
Heads up, both your links are the same, but your second link should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQLkJJpAIcU.
Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits
That reminds me of a definition I gave once of one of those tv series full of mysteries and supernatural events that should all be explained by some underlying reality that, alas, never existed even in the minds of the authors.

"Like a gossip magazine about non-existent people"

It seems that people would actually buy and read them avidly.
The study is from 2004. If the claims are as described i.e. symptom relief 4 days earlier. This would be better efficacy than tamiflu.
https://i.imgur.com/1lYuBIk_d.jpg?maxwidth=640
Every time I see Cloudcraft, I wish it was available for GCP. I think it's a fantastic way to visualize interconnected systems
There is a Perl language room with several interesting sounding presentations.
4K fps? Impossibly high? Not at all. There are consumer compact cameras and even smartphone sensors that can hit 1K fps [1] -- and those are not even specialist high speed cameras.

Specialist cameras hit 4k fps at second gear, and can go as high as million fps (and even trillion fps [2])!

Besides, this is about reproducing music frequencies, whereas the most probable target for this technology is eavesdropping, not as a replacement for Neumann U87 -- and for that you need way less range.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/7/14532610/so...

[2] https://newatlas.com/fastest-camera-44-trillion-frames-per-s...
Where ever Amazon goes, please do not come to Austin. If that happens, I will be in one of the groups to protest on street.

We can no longer afford a huge deep-blue-brush to paint this great little city. Austin has been ranked as the best cities of living for years for a reason, jumbo Amazon could just ruin it permanently.

I'm an Amazon customer, a prime member, but I do not want it to have a headquarter in a place I live, as I do not feel it is a good fit, physically or otherwise.

Everybody else is welcome.
Just grab the handle without fear. If the handle is made of brass then you might live.

"Copper and its alloys (brasses, bronzes, cupronickel, copper-nickel-zinc, and others) are natural antimicrobial materials. Ancient civilizations exploited the antimicrobial properties of copper long before the concept of microbes became understood in the nineteenth century. In addition to several copper medicinal preparations, it was also observed centuries ago that water contained in copper vessels or transported in copper conveyance systems was of better quality (i.e., no or little visible slime or biofouling formation) than water contained or transported in other materials."

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

Plus the guy before opened the door with some tissue so he didn't touch it anyway, plus doesn't the five second rule apply?

More generally on the Dyson product, remember Dyson is a pro-Brexit guy who said he was going to keep manufacturing in the UK only for it to move to Malaysia. So there are reasons to knock him. Plus those hoovers they make do weigh a metric tonne and have bits of plastic break.

However, the hand dryer product is the only innovation I have seen in bathroom hygiene in public toilets for a long time and the product is superior to those 'hand warmer' dryers of old that actually are almost useless and certainly not as well designed as the Dyson product.
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They are not comparable. On google you pick a continent and a number of CPU to reserve. On AWS, you have to pick 10 different parameters for the exact reservations you want and you better not miss it because you can't change.

AWS billing model is not only antiquated but hostile to their users.
Cryptokitties might be seen to have continued that trend on an even faster scale!
*safety
> This Amazon deal is likely to be neutral or beneficial for whichever government manages to pull them in. It's a race to the bottom but it likely isn't really deeply harmful.

(the employees will pay property taxes and spend money in the community...)

There is absolutely no world where this is neutral or beneficial for any government.

Of course the employees will pay property taxes and spend money.... but our whole society and tax system is based on the idea that the employees pay taxes AND the employer pays taxes. Just because employees are paying doesn't mean the employer shouldn't.

The government should be collecting millions (billions?) in property taxes and spending from the employees AND billions from Amazon - that's how the whole system was designed and is supposed to function. That's how roads are built and teachers are paid.
The government will lose billions of tax dollars from Amazon they should be getting, which is absolutely 'deeply harmful'

I have no idea why anyone would want to be part of a race to the bottom. The drive to increase corporate profits is gutting America, and the kind of reasoning you use simply justifies it.
You make it sound as if it can be nothing but emotional, whereas there actually can be an objective, reasoned aspect as well.
I'm thoroughly looking forward to the KiCad talks.
CNN parts ways with YouTube star Casey Neistat
Well, I've been living in Shanghai for more than a year now ...
This isn't exactly a rebuttal, but how much are housing prices inflated by the fact that everybody's getting loans? How much would those $300k houses be worth without the mortgage industry? It seems to me that the housing market is caught in a self-reinforcing cycle where mortgages inflate prices, and now nobody can get on the treadmill. That doesn't seem like a unassailably good thing, or something that should just be accepted as "the way it is." (It may be the best of all possible worlds, but I've seen no evidence of that personally.)
One second-order effect would be large number of people that would be unable to leave their house and make it to the local grocery without the use of GPS. It never ceases to amaze me how many people that I will ride with to go somewhere local, yet they will insist on using the nav system.
On which track will the AV1 update be?
Elephants Are Very Scared of Bees. That Could Save Their Lives
> What a bizarre sort of bigotry to spout.

I'm not sure how you'd get that from my original comment.
But rereading it today, I realize I wasn't very clear. I apologise for that. Let me restate it more explicitly:

1. To be done well, science and engineering require careful thought and, to a certain extent, sound reasoning.

2. Some people holding world view "A" consider the holding of world view "B" to be intellectually indefensible, for many values of "A" and "B".

3. And yet we have plenty of empirical evidence that good science and engineering work is being done across all of those world-view-holding groups.

As far as why this particular article made me thing of this issue, it's because Mormons are sometimes ridiculed in (at least) U.S. popular culture for holding an intellectually indefensible world view. E.g., [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Mormons
You are right. Our AWS bill could certainly be lower and we will have to start optimizing it at some point.

It is does require extra time/effort though. We deployed 1password.ca and 1password.eu just a few months ago and never really got to that.

The only thing we "optimize" at the moment is the smaller number and size of EC2 instances in non-production environments.
Ah. I wondered what made these terrible diagrams. They look cute but the text and the symbols are incomprehensible.
I actually downloaded the code that was used for this off GitHub and tried it out. It is very simple, though I wish I could say I understood it better. I’d love to see a more robust implementation of it to be able to produce better looking results.
A short video of doctors treating burned people with fish skin: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-40054374/can-...

And an article about the same team: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-brazil-burns/brazi...
Italy's fascination for the USA is the result of years of cultural (and physical) imperialism.
This song and a number of different cultural acts (such as the famous "Americano" song [0], the Paninari movement in Milan during the 80's [1] and obviously the whole Spaghetti Western movies genre) are the direct result of this.

The root cause of this, in my opinion, is the huge amount of CIA money that has been poured into Italian government, to make sure they wouldn't join USSR during the cold war.[2]

I suggest watching "An american in Rome" with Alberto Sordi to have a clear example of the discrepancies between wealthy American _visitors_ and the local poorer population. It describes the story of a local Roman man infatuated with the whole American dream (short sub-eng part here [3])

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZgUHJys2s
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paninaro
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy
[3] https://youtu.be/ikZgUHJys2s?t=86
There is a censorial streak in the British Conservative Party. In addition to porn, they also want to censor "extremist" views, with a very broad definition of "extremism". In fact, the British Labour Party isn't too hot on free speech either. A lot of laws restricting speech were passed under Blair's tenure. And the current Labour leadership isn't exactly clamoring for their repeal.

Is censorship really a popular stance in the UK? What gives? I would love to hear from a British person about this.
Yep, read a couple books I got off the internets, mostly memorized the pool questions and got an expert license I never really used (probably doesn't help I'm not the most social creature) so didn't renew last year. Really easy to get a license since they got rid of the Morse code requirement -- just need to learn a few formulas really.

--edit--
Not in one sitting, IIRC went from tech to expert on the second trip.
What's your definition of neutral?

Mine is that revenues go up more than costs of services.
Yeah. Quick, what are the restrictions for this identifier? Letters? Spaces? Dns? Globally Unique? Who Knows?

Even though they've got the validation, you only can tell once you submit and it complains.
ABB's “flash-charging” electric-buses go live in Geneva
An altimeter is pretty useful too. I use my altimeter more than my compass unless I don't have any handrails nearby.
I am sorry if the downtime affected you in any way.

Sending several million emails could be a challenge considering that most of our customers depend on 1Password apps and usually not affected by the downtime.

We do have a status page and Twitter feed where we make announcements:

https://status.1password.com

https://twitter.com/1passwordstatus
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