skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia isn’t blocked in china yet as far as I know. Internet censorship is a big deal for foreigners working in China, especially since playing the cat and mouse VPN game is so tiring.
They Saw Earth from Space. Here’s How It Changed Them
But is not only about the money, humans can lose their freedom from major accidents, what if you get a bad update or bad sensors and your car kills some people, some engineers or managers should have to pay if they did something wrong and not point to the insurance company.

I do not want some manager to think something like "don't worry about that bug, it is very rare so insurance will cover us in case something bad happens, we need to push the update now"
>demand is negatively correlated with sunshine

No, it's not. Most electricity is used during the day, since that is when the cooking and washing is done. German companies prefer working during days too, although the larger factories will have a shift system.

(see eg the plot here: https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...)
Getting started with JointJS web diagramming library
Diesel has a higher maintenance cost too, especially if you only drive short distances. IIRC the main cost here is the catalysator, which basically clogs up if it can't properly heat up. That doesn't happen on short range.
But if you make cities even densier, you'll have to restrict their height. People on the first floor still want sunlight for a reasonable time :) Meanwhile wide streets allow tall buildings..
Why? Excluding children, most pedestrians who get killed by cars didn't pay attention while crossing the street. That's the no 1 cause for adults. The other one is walking on streets without sidewalks.

(sorry, ony have stats in German: https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/Praesentation11-13_192487.pdf)
I'm a fairly built 190lb person and I was a baseball catcher as a kid and in high school. It definitely took a toll on my knees - I wonder if squatting as rest is also somewhat dependent on humans being a little more wiry than they are today.
https://www.yesodweb.com/book

http://haskell-servant.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial/

http://happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/index.html
This was a nice thing in the example from Raganwald's blog post. The `transitionsTo` decorator:

function transitionsTo (stateName, fn) {
return function (...args) {
const returnValue = fn.apply(this, args);
this[STATE] = this[STATES][stateName];
return returnValue;
};
}

By separating the state transitions from the state actions in this way it allows the functional components to be reused much more easily. You can construct the miniplayer using only the states you need with only the transitions you need (rather than obscured/hidden capabilities).
surge.sh is stupid-simple for static sites.
How Boston Used Meter Prices to Fix Parking Dysfunction
Memcrashed – Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211
An updated screen would be the biggest improvement for me: the contrast ratio and black levels are much worse on the SE than other iPhones.
Statecharts are a very different beast than a traditional state machine. Putting together a good statechart implementation is a boatload of work.
In the summer one runs into cooling problems for the plants too. Sometimes they have to be shut off because the river is already too warm - creating problems for France.
There are still plenty of cars in Ghent, except for the very heart of the city. The circulation plan they implemented there works to some extent but it has actually made the situation in the outskirts of the city worse because people that do have to drive now drive longer distances to get to the same place.

There is still inner city parking too (the underground garages) so Ghent is not really free of cars yet.

If you want to live without cars the best place would be a nature reservation or silence zone, there are a few of those in Europe and the few houses that are there are priced quite high as a result but I think they would come closest to your vision.
Truncate text has a huge caveat in that it doesn't work fully for multi line text.
Give it about 30 years and maybe.
came here to say the same. First few examples are about float and cleafix - I haven't faced those in years now!

Not sure I agree about the triangles and other shapes. background-img and linear-gradients allow for some nice solutions and avoid having to load or deal with an image.

Just for fund, check https://a.singlediv.com/ from Lynn Fisher, she draws some pretty awesome stuff mostly with linear-gradients :)
How to Choose the Best Patio Furniture Covers?
I was in the exact same position as you, looking at paying over $100/mo for a simple side project on Heroku. I wound up deploying it to my own VPS for $5-10/mo instead, and it actually ran faster was was much more reliable.

I am working on turning this into an app that others can use too. It's still a ways away from real production use, but I am close to a closed beta. If you're interested, check it out:

https://www.seamless.cloud/
Google’s Flutter app SDK for iOS and Android is now in beta
“Usually we don’t have the data, but in several cases companies have said … we’ll squeal on our customers and you can beat up on them,” Sullivan said. “The people who sold to them have ratted them out.”

Seems like a weird thing for the commissioner of the tax department to say if the tax department is trying to solicit the cooperation of said companies.
I have a simple bash script that uses git, rsync and build tool for my stack (sbt). Builds and deploys my project to any (linux) server on the planet with ssh access. Simple, fast, effective and painless.
Pay is pretty good (about 70% of Seattle) while living costs are low. I was able to save about 30-40% of my take home over almost 10 years.
Interesting development, happening earlier than what I had assumed!
The TechCrunch article states that companies running fully driverless vehicles will need to enable the ability for secure remote access and control of vehicles, but I wonder whether:

1. Companies developing autonomous vehicles have focused much of their efforts on remote piloting

2. Latency won't be a killer, especially if a quick intervention is required

3. From a safety point of view, this regulation seems too earlier as some companies with lagging tech may attempt to offer driverless services without safety driver to generate PR, please investors, etc. - basically "fake it 'til you make it", but playing with people's lives this time.
Cold calling can be extremely effective if you can make yourself do it. Some years ago I did that for a few weeks to promote a piece of software I wrote and I made a ton of interesting connections. Not just for my product but there are a lot of small business owners who are very willing to discuss business in general and you can gain a lot of business ideas that way. It can be very exhausting though if you don't enjoy talking a lot or take rejection personally.
I also have trouble sleeping with closed windows, especially when it's colder outside.
It's really nice to cuddle up under a heavy warm blanket when it's a bit colder in the room, tho it can make getting up in the morning a real pita when the room cooled out way too much.

I wonder if the "suffocating feeling" without an open window might be the result of higher CO2 concentration in the bedroom if it isn't aired regularly enough? Might be worse for smaller rooms without proper ventilation and more noticeable due to the sleeping position being lower than regular standing/sitting? There's also this old trope of plants in the bedroom supposedly being a very bad thing.
I find it useful to write comments about what's happening in the code as I am trying to figure it out.
Looks like that is for photographers protecting their images, not companies avoiding copyright violations, no?
Cycling only really works when it is classed as a different kind of traffic from pedestrians and cars. If you lump the cyclists in with the pedestrians it will make the sidewalks dangerous and if you put them on the roads they get killed by drivers. Cycling needs separate infrastructure to be a real contender.
So China pays much better than Western Europe? Is this actually true?
I don't see how that will work in real world. In most Eastern Europe average car is like 15 years old diesel, so these (cheap) semi-new diesels that will go there from Germany will actually be an upgrade.
The manufacturer is the one "driving" the vehicle so I would assume that they have all the liability. As an occupant, it's certainly in no way my responsibility if a vehicle I'm just sitting in hits a pedestrian or otherwise gets into an accident. It also looks as if there will still be a safety driver; they will just be remote vs. being in the car.
Agreed.

It's hard to see the facts through the click bait this day and age. Journalists used to vet their sources, and I'm sure (hope) most still do, depending on the gravity of the subject matter.

This is a great example though.

Here we have multiple "reputable" news outlets reporting softer than expected demand for the iPhone X. And the comments mostly calling "BS".

Who to believe?

Apple news itself has a history of vague sources (Appleinsider, MacRumours etc.) .. almost impossible to filter in either direction.
Are you implying that the scenario where someone dies is strictly better if there was a human behind the wheel? Do you require a human to punish if an accident happens?
I found the serotonin thing very interesting. I regularly wake up at night with new very negative interpretations about social interactions and intentions. I've wondered where those ideas come from. Maybe the super low serotonin levels provide this misery for me.
You may want to take a look at flowgrid.org. I think the main problem (compared to tradtional code) is that drawing is quite "verbose"... Perhaps it could make sense to re-focus the project on AndroidThings GPIO...
If you want to play this as a game : http://2pages.net/wikirace.php
Where do you get these stats? Not that I'm doubting your numbers but I'd love to see an article or dataset about this.
How SoftBank, World’s Biggest Tech Investor, Throws Around Its Cash
If you come to the comments without reading the article, just know that Newegg.com is the last place you want to go the next time you need a part for your PC. They turned over at least 4 years of customer sales data to the State of Connecticut evidently without any real pressure applied by CT, and now CT residents who made purchases on Newegg as far back as 2014 have received a tax bill.
Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet
I find the biggest resistance is the obvious fact that implementing a state machine requires planning: mapping out the goals, identify which are your formal states, map out the transitions, evaluate the overall logic requirement and then design the state machine's data structure and classes... All the "planning" is the opposite of what most "code slinging macho programmer personalities" want to do; they want to jump into coding an just wing it. That is the real issue here: Undisciplined development.
This is great news.

There are two use cases that particularly excite me:

* For commuters, get a ride from your own vehicle to work, and then have it park cheaply outside of town (instead of paying for a parking spot close to work, which is common where I live).

* Have a self-driving van with a bed, have it drive you to a skiing resort while you sleep. Go to sleep in the car Friday night, have it drive at safe speeds using smaller roads, wake up where you wanted to go. Go to bed Sunday evening, wake up back at home. Shower, dress, go to work.
> But is not only about the money, humans can lose their freedom from major accidents, what if you get a bad update or bad sensors and your car kills some people, some engineers or managers should have to pay if they did something wrong and not point to the insurance company.

Software automation has already happened in other areas. If the bug was introduced on purpose or if there was insufficient oversight/negligence, people can go to jail. Not not any error automatically is a crime. If you kill someone with your car that doesn't mean that you'll be charged even if the accident was your fault.
> a lot of the older FP guys have spent the last like 20-30 years going "yo this is dope you guys should really be doing this"

many of "the older FP guys" actually think "it's cool, it's mathematical. But it's not practical."
But there are often times when you can trick it into doing what it’s supposed to do.

And a really targeted bug report can often get a bug fixed pretty quickly. Several times I’ve been working at a place where the goddamned IP lawyers were so power mad that I could not file a patch for a bug even though I knew how to fix it, but filing a bug with an exact line number and description of what’s wrong with it can get it fixed anyway.

Filing a razor sharp bug report seems to be a rare skill, but if you can learn it your quality of life is better.
Actually, this is one of my main retrospective concerns with the tactics we were using in Iraq and I assume Afghanistan. We would literally take over some random families complex at night and dig in for the fight come morning. It was sop, but it wasn't till after I got out and thought to myself, hey that seems like a violation of the 3rd amendment even if it's in another country during a time of war.
Ok, that's financial liability. What about criminal liability? What if the car breaks rules and kills someone. Will the programmers be responsible? The CEO? Can companies be criminally convicted in the US? Or will it be on par with other "machine accidents", where there is typically no criminal responsibility?
In my experience, that's really not an argument against Haskell. I find it easier to make large changes in my representation of the world in Haskell than in any other language I've worked in.
Tell Congress That Net Neutrality Matters to Innovators
I thought it was fairly obvious that they can’t be predicted with any reliability, because a reliable prediction will change people’s behavior and break it. Sort of an economic Halting Problem.
> For commuters, get a ride from your own vehicle to work, and then have it park cheaply outside of town (instead of paying for a parking spot close to work, which is common where I live).

Not sure if I'm excited about that. This would double the traffic during rush hour. I'd sincerely hope they introduce a tax on vehicles driven without driver.
The Beijing municipality has said it will even consider allowing foreign professionals to bring in their own foreign maids, currently illegal in Beijing.

Well shit, sign me up.
>“Newegg Inc. has provided the Department of Revenue Services records of your online purchases during taxable years 2014, 2015 and 2016,” the letter reads. “According to these records, you made purchases from Newegg in at least one of these years but were not charged Connecticut sales tax. Therefore, you owe state use tax on the items you purchased because you did not pay sales tax to a retailer.”

Well, that's the last time I'm using NewEgg.
Most cities in Germany are not interested banning them in the first place. They already have the problem that people don't go shopping in the cities anymore, with amazon and co. making it so easy to shop from home. So making it harder to get into the city is not what they want.
Im surprised this place is called "hacker" news and iid actually filled with privacy conscious people but nobody bats an eye about not being able to delete comments. I have to create new accounts every so often to avoid being doxxed by the alt-right.
I would rather trade my gpu power than get ads
I found just keeping up daily with a routine of pushups was enough to alleviate any back pain for me.
The Top Technology Trends of 2018
The Misguided Drive to Measure 'Learning Outcomes'
I'm surprised how many people here are snow-flaking their own web application servers instead of just using Heroku. Heroku is $25/dyno/month. At $100/hr for a dev a Heroku dyno costs 15minutes of dev time per month. If you spend just a day tinkering with your application server VMs or updating docker images running your Rails app every month — you could have bought 32 Heroku dynos instead.
Reuse is important, but realistically, how much code is actually re-used? Sure, you have a lot of meaningful subcomponents or libraries that should be correctly isolated for re-use (and really, for testing purposes) but moving a state machine into the core of an application and away from segmented components and libraries hardly harms whatever reuse is likely to happen.
Only sounds like a problem for people who want to break the law.
Have you tried out weighted blankets?
> some engineers or managers should have to pay if they did something wrong and not point to the insurance company

That's already how insurance works. You pay by paying for insurance premiums. Why do you think people shouldn't be allowed to use insurance to cover accidents in just this situation?
Publishers with “legitimate” ad mechanisms are using new techniques to entice people to not use ad blockers.

Are any of the legit ad networks doing anything to combat the problems in the article?

As long as there are bad actors, the good ones will get caught up in the net and must own the major share of combating the problem that affects their core business.
I prefer the 'savasana' position, I actually find it more confortable without a pillow in this position, I can also be by the sides or any other position, just not for all night long, I found it actually decreased upper back and neck pains after I removed the pillow
The conservative rule of thumb is %25.

I've stayed closer to %20 and it's allowed me to support a family of four for 20 years on one income while riding through two employment layoffs during that time.

Also, rather than spending our proceeds from the sale of our home in 2005 I put it back into our new home once the market was near the bottom. The net of all of it was that I was basically able to cut about 18 years off our original 30 year fixed rate mortgage.
wat. Troll?
I think there's also a very subtle line here as well in that guns don't necessarily have to defeat the military, but that guns can help protect citizens against corrupt local government.
This happened during the civil rights era, in that armed African Americans were able to prevent attacks in many cases or even just police brutality simply by the presence of guns in the hands of the victims.

I think a complete government meltdown is often used as the defense for gun ownership, but given how our government is structured (more control given to states and local communities while trying to balance it with centralized power in the federal government), guns can help keep order when in the hands of citizens.

Of course, like the constant balance of local and centralized government, we will forever need to balance the rights of individuals vs. the safety of the collective.
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People have even invented special fans for people who want to sleep under covers on hot days.

https://www.today.com/video/fan-designed-to-blow-cool-air-be...
I just listened to the web platform podcast [0] episode about WeDeploy [1]. Haven't tried it yet, but it sounds really nice.

[0]: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/155-wedeploy

[1]: https://wedeploy.com/
Isn't that why Elixir came about, to be Erlang with a less esoteric interface?
I have a relative who lives in Connecticut and was telling me he got an email from New Egg with three years worth of purchase history on it and a notice saying that they would be sending a copy to the state.

Starting to collect new taxes is one thing but collecting back taxes for three years just doesn't seem right.

This isn't behavior CT invented, though. I live in New Hampshire (that has no sales tax) and would often hear stories of Massachusetts state police camping out at the border doing spot checks to make sure people paid their taxes. No idea if they were "boogey man" stories or real though.

The sales tax system in the US is horribly complex. That's why while companies have popped up to help online retailers navigate it.
The Hitchhiker's Paradox: How Long Will You Wait Hitchhiking on the Road?
I don't understand this obsession with finding someone to hold responsible for an accident before the accident happens. When an accident with self-driving cars actually happen, if someone is found to have committed a crime, that person will be charged.
Ask your great great grandparents - horses!
In the 19th century, cemeteries had railway stations for transporting the dead by steam train.
Except that cities and towns which have ban vehicles for general use can deal with exceptions, and have dealt with this problem.

Some highly economically productive cities in Europe have similar bans on private vehicles in the centre, and function perfectly well.
this would in fact decrease the traffic for two reasons:

1. self-driving cars make more efficient use of the roadway

2. parking lots could (partially) be converted into roadway, or even better, actual business, so there will be less road to "outside of town".
I think the Waymo cars in Arizona are already equipped to be remote controlled.
>> this is how insurance is done in many countries in Europe.

Not all though. For example in Poland you insure the vehicle and anyone with a valid driver licence is allowed to drive it and is fully covered. As a matter of fact it's enshrined in law that insurance companies have to provide cover no matter who drives the car, as long as there is insurance on the car.
Might be interesting to compare this to other engineering doctrines if say a bridge collapses the supervising engineer personally can get in trouble.

Do the senior engineers in these firms have professional liability insurance
Allow me to return the question: how do you prevent scripts from draining CPU resources? How do you distinguish between legitimate resource usage (like a heavy web application that runs a lot of javascript) from a cryptocurrency miner? How do you throttle one without hurting the other?
Wow, the world police. I hate those guys.

This is just more misdirection.

Tether claim frequent audits yet have never had one. That's a straight up lie.
> as long as it works as it should.

Maybe confirmation bias, but I can’t think of a single library where this stayed true for the entire life of a project. Software is written by humans.

“To err is human. To really fuck up requires the aid of a computer.”
After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat
This is a HN gem! Wonder how it didn't make it to first page.

I once had a mobile app perform very poorly only for large downloads on a particular SSID. No other applications had such issue. It turned out to be due to a firmware bug which scrapped TCP SACK field, but the problem manifested only for large data transfers over unreliable, high latency connections. Got us all chasing our tails for a while though...
Oh, wow, we're still doing this? Ok.

Declaring your support for the constitutional rights of non-citizens is an interesting rhetorical choice. As is describing a large-scale propaganda mill as just the same thing as a rando spouting off on twitter. (Especially followed by the rhetorical flourish "then it's a crime for any foreign national to do that". Which, well, yes: it is. I even did that thing people do on the Internet where I looked it up for you, here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/110.20) And obviously I think your reading of who's leaked what, and what public evidence, both solid and suggestive, currently exists is quite selective. (I'm sure that feeling is mutual!) And most obviously of all, neither one of us is going to convince the other of... well, anything.

So: have a nice day. We can reconvene after the next round of indictments, if you like.
To me, fretting frameworks is a form of writer's block.
Fail to update Arch at your peril. All packages are built against the latest versions of libraries, so you quickly find that programs from the repositories don't work until you update.