skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, you're right:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=python#GEO_MAP

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=java#GEO_MAP

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=javascript#GEO_MA...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Kotlin#GEO_MAP

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=lisp#GEO_MAP

My guess is that:

1. China blocks Google

2. Technical users in China use VPN to circumvent said block, while non-technical users switch to something else

3. Technical users search for programming language terms a lot

4. Thus the normalized ratio of (programming language search queries) / (total search queries) is a lot higher in China compared to other countries where Google isn't blocked
Citus, Timescale, Postgres is definitely the way to go when it comes to data services.

Basically now Postgres can be setup to be distributed, without having to modify your application’s to be distribution aware. From what I understand you just make the SQL statements as you normally would and Citus takes care of the rest.

Pretty neat I have to say.
SuperNAP is in that area. Only one of the largest colo’s in the country....no big deal
Having never heard of this event before, the fact that this has been called one of the worst nuclear events, speaks to just how tightly nuclear waste from energy production is regulated, in my opinion.
Reverse mathematics
There are indeed some definite advantages to the structure of modern markets, as you say.

Securities markets, even structured as they are, would totally eat their customers if they were unregulated. It's fear of the SEC and FINRA ending their careers that keeps most of them in line. You could add three more participants to the crypto trading process and it would still be a minefield, because any one of those participants may misbehave absent regulations.

Modern markets involve a brokerage that acts as a custodian of your account holdings, separate from the exchange itself. However, that alone doesn't prevent churning, violation of account terms, opening of unauthorized accounts, recommendation of excessively risky trades, misuse of capital that leaves little liquidity to ballast the whole firm, etc.

Keep in mind that it's the FDIC that insures your personal bank deposits, and that there are regulatorily approved clearinghouses to remove counterparty risk from many derivatives markets. These things wouldn't exist without regulators.
Jamming is denial of service. If the transmission medium is flooded with a high noise floor, digital signal processors will fail to decode any valid values from the band the carrier signal transmits on. Authentic signatures have no utility if excessive noise outshines the entirety of the signal.

No one can check any signatures, if the signed message cannot reach an audience.

Perhaps an aperture could prevent omni-directional cross-talk and interference, forcing a receiver to only listen from a specific, selected line-of-sight source, but to simulate warfare, what if the enemy really does manage to completely destroy a resource?

A genuine disruption keeps everyone honest in the spirit of the exercise. It’s really down. Not just “what if”? No peeking. No cheating.
> During his tenure at the top of GE the company created more wealth for its investors than any company ever in the recorded history of U.S. publicly traded companies. GE’s value increased 40-fold (4000%) from 1981 to 2001.

Management went from not being rewarded with significant stock options to owning a third of the company during that period, so "created wealth for investors" is a slippery term.

> From what was mostly a diversified manufacturing company Mr. Welch led GE into real estate as those assets increased in value, then media as advertising revenues skyrocketed and finally financial services as deregulation opened the market for the greatest returns in banking history.

And we all know how well that ended.
If I remember right, the plan was to fill the tunnels with concrete when the facility is full. I think drilling is a lot simpler than detecting radioactivity though. The most plausible scenario is that a future civilization tries to drill in the area and brings a bunch of waste up to the surface inadvertently.
That didn't work for my new MacBook Pro. I have a b key that either types 0 b's or 2 b's. Took it to the Apple store and they blew air under it which did nothing. I now have to find time to send it in. I just am at a loss how they could design something with such a poor feel and so fragile. I guess I should be happy I use an external keyboard at work.
"IFF" doesn't say all that much, of course, as it's just very basic framing. It's the chunk types that matters.. It does seem the images were in fact PLBM, so very similar to ILBM but "raw" bitplanes instead of interleaving row by row.

It's pretty much a memory dump of the window/screen bitmaps with a bit of extra data in front.
I live in a "dark blue" area per the map, with a ~1h drive to absolute black. Mind you, I'm not sure I've noticed that much difference between my back yard and deep in the middle of Yellowstone.

Anyway, the thing that surprised me about long exposure DSLR dark photography is that you get pretty decent color rendition. For some reason I didn't expect that. You can very clearly see the different color temperature of the stars in Orion, and if you have a very dimly illuminated foreground as you mention, you see it in accurate full color. I guess I didn't expect it because human eyes don't register color in low light. DSLR sensors are doing it photon by photon through the Bayer filter..
If that's what you're after, check out slackware Linux http://www.slackware.com/
Didn't that happen circa osx 10.6? Mid 2009? Also, snow leopard was a great stable release.
> vendors typically are required to have the same price for credit and cash purchases.

Tell that to pretty much every gas station out there and every little mom and pop restaurant that offers a "cash discount".
Agreed, browser vendors may not always have the best interests of developers in mind.

If WASM approach can deliver a relatively small binary with better-than-js performance, then that may be a viable alternative, thanks.
Cryptography (P-code or M-code) protects against spoofing not against straight forward jamming. 10-watt jammer can deny large area from military ans civilian signals.

You need more advanced antennas and other methods to protect against jamming. These multi-element controlled-reception pattern antennas are larger and more expensive.
I've spent a lot of time explaining this to you. If you don't want to listen that's fine, if a little disappointing. But really, please do some reading on feminism and anti-racism. Look here [1]. Look at the differences in hate crimes against white and Black people. Or look here [2] and see the differences in unemployment. Or look here [3] and see the difference in prison population. Or look here [4] at the differences between male and female victims of domestic violence. These things happen because of institutional racism and sexism, and if we're going to deal with them we're going to have to be informed.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/16/us/hate-crime...

[2]: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpsee_e16.htm

[3]: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race....

[4]: https://ncadv.org/statistics
I remember when the Vz-Yahoo deal was going down, and realizing how all this would play out. That they got that deal, and now are reaping double pay like that...incredible.
No it’s not.
> Me voluntarily disclosing my salary is one thing, but some data purveyor selling my salary info to a prospective employer is a violation of my privacy,

You consented to this disclosure during your application, or else Equifax violated its contracts.
I see. So it’s not just about spoofing messages.
As a private pilot, this is the kind of thing that makes me scared to fly without being well versed on radio nav aids. I feel like i know them well, but honestly i use them so rarely in practice it would likely be an uncomfortable situation.
Here's a gist I made awhile ago for moving around and other useful shortcuts and tools.

https://gist.github.com/yelinaung/849c78c40784c56e05f5a04dde...
Donald Trump proposes to end visa lottery system, favours skilled workers
Archaeologists have died investigating booby-trapped tombs. Nothing new under the sun.
> How many people can buy a home, cash? Should everyone else be renters in perpetuity?

Currently renting by choice vs. "buying". One might argue that when you "buy" a home with a mortgage, you very much still are a renter - you're just renting money. Potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, for 15-30 years.
I'd say because Python is a good prototyping language that has easy interfacing to the underlying C/C++ code used for fast numeric computation.
Planes for other markets might be made in bombardier's factory, but they airbus owns a majority stake in the c-series program since the us tariffs went into place.
And, to tie back to the original article, accidents like this one prompted the creation of a new warning symbol for enclosed radiation sources, which is designed to to rely of people being able to read any particular language or being familiar with the "radiation" trefoil.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/new-symbol-launched-war...
"I really struggled to come up with a response to this."

When faced with a request of the form 'can you please do X because of justification Y', people are by default more willing to do X than if there was no stated justification. If they refuse, they feel compelled to explain why justification Y doesn't apply.

But there's no need.

If the rate you've quoted is reasonable given the market, then just say so.
It’s a little unnecessary.
Apple Supercycle, It's Happening
It's too bad there are no keys that signify moving forward and backward.
AviD's rule of security: Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security.
My favorite X-windows customization for improving the CLI experience (though it helps with all editing) is cranking up the key repeat rate to a lot higher than is possible in GUI control panels (and lowering the repeat delay):

xset r rate 160 80

I haven't found how to do this in OSX yet, but there is probably a way.
RISE Lab's Ray platform (now includes RLlib) is another option https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/introducing-rllib-a-composable...
There are a couple of courses on Udemy which are step by step. Search for 'solidity'. There's a course by Stephen Grider (spelling?).
If it’s outside their jurisdiction, they can claim whatever applicability they like: the law is simply not enforceable outside that jurisdiction.
There's a false equivalence. There's never been male genocide, so "kill all men" is basically a joke. But there's nothing funny about advocating for genocide against the Jewish people, because that actually happened.

That's why the standard for orientation discrimination doesn't apply to straight people. It's why the standard for race discrimination doesn't apply to white people. And it's why the standard for sex discrimination doesn't apply to cis men. The history is just very different.
SFPD can investigate all they want; getting the D.A. to actually prosecute is another story.
There is a big push by dark sky advocates to have cities rethink their lighting.

Do you have any links for formal or informal organizations or individuals working on this? thanks
Corollary: if the index is on a low-cardinality field, it won't do much good helping you find what you're looking for.
10x Cheaper Cloud Video Encoding
Oh my, I grew up on GFA basic. When I first started it up and saw function collapsing I felt like I witnessed an alien ship landing. Good times.
They did: theoldreader.com
You paraphrased k pretty well, but you missed my point. I didn't say people can judge their coworker as a whole, just that the information on performance is known to the employees as a whole.

Each person in a company know something about the performance of some aspect of each of the colleagues they work with. When taken in aggregate this information provides a very good idea of the ranking of employees by whatever metric you want to choose. The problem is this information is inaccessible to management.
Nothing like a good graphical demonstration!
Many people get exposed daily to the biohazard symbol in public rest rooms that have needle receptacles (usually in less nice neighborhoods). Once you are around it all the time it no longer becomes scary.
So Jesus is vulnerable to spam but Muhammad or satan wouldn't be? Seems kind of unbelievable.

Also, we got a lot of fun asking ok google what an angry dragon or other such things is.
That’s the reporting. Ideally researchers should just say “we did this.” But then they need continued funding so they like to say “we did this and we believe with more research the commercial possibilities are promising.” And then reporters hear this all and say “the Star Wars display is here now, and soon you’ll have Princess Leia in your living room.”

Honestly I feel like the best solution is just to train everyone critical thinking skills but I guess in practice that doesn’t seem to happen.
Weekly US Map: Influenza Summary Update
It really varies. My bluetooth works without incident with my linux machines, but I once spend almsot half an hour trying to pair with my macbook. I hardly use that macbook anymore because I ran into a myriad of problems.

It still pisses me off to this day how people keep extolling macbooks while denigrating how linux is so unstable and broken because my experience has been exactly the opposite.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-bod...

> The fabricating-evidence charge is a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Misconduct in office is a common-law offense, which means that the court is free to impose any penalty that does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

> Prosecutors said the video prompted them to drop more than 110 cases involving the three officers in the video from Pinheiro’s camera.

That's 110 people who either were innocent and terrorized by the police, or were guilty and escaped justice due to police incompetency. Either way, not a good look.

Prosecutor in this case the same State's Attorney Mosby who tried (and failed miserably) the Freddie Gray manslaughter/murder case.
"it is better to engage in mindful activities where you are more naturally engaging with your environment"

This sounds fine but what if your environment is unnatural? I believe this the case for most Americans (only group I am qualified to speak on).

I also don't necessarily think this is a bad thing, but I do believe an unnatural environment requires a remedy and that meditation could be that remedy.

Fowl are living the same life they have lived for thousands of years. Human lives have shifted in the last 50 years and perhaps have shifted more dramatically in the last 2000 years.
Do you have a source for that claim? Because although I don't follow this systematically, there have been major rulings in favor of Boeing and against Airbus over the years.

e.g.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/22/transatlantic...

and:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-04/wto-rules...

Also I am certain Boeing does not think it owns the business. But it does apparently believe it must play hard ball in terms of international litigation to survive. And given the case history with Airbus and Boeing basically attempting to put each other out of business, it doesn't seem such an unreasonable position to me - regardless of the merits of the current spat.
I'm specifically stating the idea it is cheaper was a misconception.

I didn't say everyone should quit Route53.
His points are real, but so they apply for him. The evil part is he first start public misinformation campaigns in mainstream media. Now that social media does the same thing effectively in a decentralized manner which he can't control, he is crying wolf.
FWIW, I have this in my userChrome.css to fix that horizontal tabs annoyance: `#TabsToolbar{ visibility: collapse !important;}`. Not ideal, but a workaround I can forget about most of the time.
Why Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithm Is Not “Better” Than A/B Testing (2012)
A few months ago one of the satellites was still broadcasting while it was down for routine maintenance, reporting some time that was off by a third of the distance to the sun.

There are enough weird GPS errors that I'd hope they have a backup plan already.
Are they jamming GPS, or just turning it off over that area? Sort of hard to tell reading that article.
(IANAD of course, just too much of Grey's Anatomy and House) i wonder why they didn't place her on bypass before the cut and didn't try to correct her heart or find a heart transplant for her.
The article implies that machine learning will solve everything. I cannot imagine that's actually the case. This looks like an attempt to sell Yet Another Cloud Framework by combining keywords.
I am definitely not complaining, but I wonder why Oracle continues work on VirtualBox at all?

When they acquired Sun, they seemed in a hurry to kill off all the other open source projects Sun had been running.

Do they use it as the basis for their cloud-infrastructure[1] or what? I do not see how VirtualBox generates any revenue for Oracle, and they have a reputation for being very ... focussed when it comes to revenue.

[1] That seems pretty unlikely
I'm a 30s fellow and I do this as well. I'm all calls/text message + video calls via Signal/Wire/Skype.

I don't understand the desire to publicly broadcast things and none of my friends have had an issue with it. Of course, my friends are mostly technical or privacy-oriented folks.
This a ~24 hour free blockchain Hyperledger mooc I built with Linux Foundation which may be of help edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-linuxfoundationx-lfs171x
If you could export the diff, or import settings, that would be adequate.
That's a distinction in goals though, not in concepts. If we want to know how many people are on a bus "the number of people you would count if you bothered" is a perfectly true answer. It's an accurate representation. You perhaps can't do anything more than talk vaguely about abstract bus populations with it, but that is a reasonable thing to do.

On the other hand, maybe "17" is the answer you want, because you need to compare it to some other integer or plug it into a function. Also useful things to do, but not always. And not even more often than the trivial alternatives.

Even though we're significantly biased toward wanting the latter form, it still means the same thing as the former. And the former is a description of a process, while the latter is a number. Or the former is a number, while the latter is a particular encoding of a process. Same difference in the end. We even define numbers by describing the processes we use to generate them.
But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction
The Story of Connie Converse (2010)
About 73% of the principal has been recovered as of December 2017. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/madoff-vi...
Php
How to be prefect in php ..
Any advice?
If you know a fact-as-presented is wrong, it throws you out of the story.

Fiction requires the willing suspension of disbelief. But you should not have to hang it until dead.
Will, commitment, follow through, etc.
Stop estimating software
You are very lucky or you have a pretty low standard :)
There is a vast difference between renting an apartment vs buying a home on credit.

When I rent, I can't do anything to the building without the landlord's approval. They may prohibit painting, but when I buy a house I can paint all I want. A landlord may limit what I can do with the ground around my "property", while "owning" a home means I can dig all I want. Having a home means I can have as many pets as I want without incurring extra rent, too. I can also choose my own parking situation, which is harder when renting.

So no. I reject the idea that having a mortgage is the same as renting. Owning a home, even while paying a mortgage, offers a lot more freedom, of course while still owing money to someone. But it is fundamentally different from renting.
Title is a bit misleading. They are jamming an area over Nevada, not the entire western U.S. Suggest a title change.
Glad to hear from you, and I welcome your details and corrections to the record!

What are your opinions about scripting languages (not just for implementation, but for runtime extensibility)? Are they necessary from the start? Is JavaScript or TypeScript sufficient?
SFPD and the DA just do not care about car break ins. That despite that auto break ins are the #1 crime issue that people in the city care about.
I'm still annoyed by some fx changes that are purely out of chrome jealousy.

The address bar suggestions used to be 2-lines and were so readable until someone just blindly copied the unreadable version of chrome.
What is the alternative to using Virtualbox besides buying a separate computer? I'm assuming there's more vulnerabilities to be found.
These seem overly contrived. I think we could all benefit by being a little more prudent financially.
Don't most landlords do a credit check for renters?
You'd expect nothing less from a $170 billion organization that is tasked with being ready for global war at a moment's notice.
Will this not increase spam on Hacker News considering that submitting becomes so easier?
Getting money today that you would normally get tomorrow is a loan. And whatever you are charged is the interest rate.
they wouldn't be able to turn it off over a single geographic area as the GPS satellites are broadcasting from space but they might be able to turn Selective Availability (SA) on for individual satellites however that would downgrade the signal received by every GPS receiver in view of the satellite until they turned SA back off
Made a Facebook account ages ago in order to avoid someone opening own with my name. Haven't looked at it in years but they keep mailing me.
You need to enable a plugin for html mail, but the plugin ships with claws. Up until 2013 the best option was a janky GtkHtml based plugin (about as good as average html e-mail renderings from early 00s, so not good), the current one is webkit based and works great[1]

What do you mean by "default mail https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2013/03/14/claws-m... being non-standard"?

you don't need a script to order threads by date, it's an option in the main menu.

It doesn't offer downloading over HTTPS, but a GPG signature is provided. Old-school, but not at all insecure.

Things it does better than TB:

TB has corrupted it's mail store on 3 separate occasions, in 3 different releases spread out over a decade. Claws has never done that. That's the reason I switched.

It's builtin filtering, sorting, &c. tools are really great. Full-text search is slower than I'd like, but header based searching is plenty fast (the mode I use most searches all of from/to/subject, which is mostly what I want to do). When I need to do full-text searching I fall back on notmuch.

My requirements for an e-mail client are fairly simple (in order of importance):

1) Let me read my mail

2) Don't lose my mail

3) Give me some reasonable way to automate the parts of my workflow that it makes sense to.

TB has failed so bad at #2, that I've not spent the time to explore how it is at #3. It's about equal at #1.

1: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2013/03/14/claws-m...
Watching this now. 10 minutes in and loving it, thanks for the recommendation.
Actual link: https://encoderfarm.com
The cuda compiler itself (nvcc) is far behind the features of more recent compilers. For instance, c++11 is supported, but not the full standard. It will take a while before 14/17 are supported.
That wallet only has 45 transactions on it -- that doesn't seem reasonable for a tumbler or an exchange, does it?

Also, 3 billion XRP means that they have 12% of all circulating XRP right now.
Tronc Is Building a Shadow Newsroom Full of Scabs, L.A. Times Staffers Fear