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I literally lived in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

As a Mormon missionary I lived in Latrobe, PA in a house just neighboring a house Fred Rogers had lived in growing up. Latrobe was a quaint town with the sort of mailman and library and cute little streets that I remembered from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood". It was a well-ordered place in many ways (though obviously with its own intrigues and local politics---people are people.) But I could see that the show in many ways portrayed a not-that-idealized version of a real place. To those who call it "unrealistic" I say that there actually are lovely places and people in this world, and especially in the eyes of a compassionate and loving person like Fred Rogers we can make our communities and countries better and more beautiful.

I was living in Latrobe at the time of Rogers' death. We attended a memorial service his Latrobe connections held in his honor, and the esteem he was held in there was substantial.

The article is a good reminder of the power of a positive vision and of consistency and compassion to make islands of love in this divisive human existence. A very timely message indeed.
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The worst are the ones that constantly say, "We're like a family here." Family of psychopaths maybe.

YMMV, I find companies in the Midwest would rather you check your empathy at the door.
It's around.
https://makewealthhistory.org/2017/09/04/transport-innovatio...
Our Civil Asset Forfeiture Nightmare
You could even pretend it was planned functionality instead of a bug!
The great thing, though, is that you don't have to _personally use_ the dedicated bus and bike infrastructure in order to benefit from it. By making these modes more comfortable and efficient, others (like those who don't need to wear to suits to meetings) are able to choose them, getting their cars off the road and leaving more room for yours.
Interesting. I bet Tesla keeps telemetry on the use and gps location of these races/launch mode. I wonder if cops could subpoena the records if they have evidence that a Tesla was there.

These races, also intersection take overs and drifting are very dangerous not to mention illegal. I think YouTube and Facebook should shut down the streams and deny monetization.
> I am deeply disgusted by false equivalency used in many posts this thread. Whatever you think the West is doing is not even close to this.

It's terrible, it's even happening directly in the replies do you. This whole post has been almost totally derailed by whataboutism, and a lot of it is literally textbook:

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

> The Guardian deemed whataboutism, as used in Russia, "practically a national ideology". Journalist Julia Ioffe wrote that "Anyone who has ever studied the Soviet Union" was aware of the technique, citing the Soviet rejoinder to criticism, ["]And you are lynching Negroes,["] as a "classic" example of the tactic. Writing for Bloomberg News, Leonid Bershidsky called whataboutism a "Russian tradition", while The New Yorker described the technique as "a strategy of false moral equivalences". Jill Dougherty called whataboutism a "sacred Russian tactic", and compared it to the pot calling the kettle black.
GM announces $100M investment for self-driving Chevy Bolt EV production
I'm not sure if you missed it, but the "/s" at the end of the message is short for "</sarcasm>". jandrese was not being serious with the given suggestion.
I feel like this is pretty self explanatory:

https://github.com/wearehive/project-guidelines/blob/master/...

But to elaborate, it has an image or a logo for the project, a description near the top which hopefully doesn't use jargon, how to install it (including prerequisites), how it's licensed and more.
But once it's there, it isn't "mine" anymore.
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China will ban people with poor ‘social credit’ from planes and trains
Why are you using nationwide numbers to address a NYC-local problem.

In New York, only 25% of people drive to work, and in Manhattan it's 5%. Why do they get free rein to block the single lane allotted for 95% of people, in addition to the two-four lanes that they are allotted?
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I guess I don't understand the scenario where you're being forced to answer this guys question. Why can't you come back to that question when you're not spending a week trying to move a button on a browser?
> Its officially optional on paper

Except in that in the federal system and many state systems, it's officially required of all able-bodied prisoners and refusal gets extra punishment, such as solitary confinement.
Today's uninteresting log noise is tomorrow's critical data.

I've been loving Kibana for filtering and reporting on log data in flexible and insightful ways, including automatically generated charts for certain data sources.
This all assumes that you want most code to have the properties of compilers, but this seems misguided to me. Compilers don't handle complexity well, they're unreliable and not stable against small random purtubations, naïve approaches tend to be inefficient and complex ones global, etc. A lot of this is just that they're solving a difficult task (converting terrible C code into less terrible assembly), admittedly.
Err, how are they in ANY way similar?
A opinionated library for plotting series in SVG
I recently re-read the story of James Kim, and got interested in the "toy" question: If I am stuck in a blizzard or a disaster, what should I be worried about? The rule of thumb is I can be cold for 3 hours, be thirsty for 3 days, be hungry for 30 days. There have been stories of people who are stuck in a car in a blizzard for months, didn't eat much and were OK. Being hungry sucks, but it takes a long time for hunger to kill you.

If the wasteland has hazards or hostile people, I need to worry about my physical security so guns with lots of ammos will go a long way too.

So I keep in my car a lighter, an old dumb cell phone that has microUSB lead I can charge easily with my car cigarette lighter or anything that has USB out, a knife, a super bright flashlight, and a first aid kit. I don't store cans of food. That sounds pretty stupid.
It's repeated enough that it's a conscious decision. Google offers good application platform, but locks in the data layer.

See AppEngine. Had (and still has) much bigger potential than heroku since the beginning. But where do you store data? Random stores with random limits.

CloudSQL is great? Backup/restore in CloudSQL is half baked. Multi master for MySQL is half baked. All these are very well solved with RDS, but Google wants to sell you 3 or 4 different data stores with different arbitrary limits.

AWS free tier provides a tiny RDS insurance for you to store useful data. Google cloud free tier? No standard SQL databases. Again, arbitrary locked in custom nosql with random functionality and usage limits.

It's spread out enough that it looks like a planned strategy to give an open computation platform but lock in the data, even at the risk of driving away potential new/small customers.
> The city only needs to publish the ETA for the next bus on each stop, information that bus riders would also find extremely useful.

This information already is collected and available by text.
You detailed my thoughts much better than I did.

Maybe it's my Midwestern upbringing, but I'd rather just get my job done than be an emotional sop for my coworkers, or worse have other people be an emotional sop for me.
>>Is it actually worth $850 million, she asked.

“I don’t know,” he responded. “I didn’t do due diligence.”
I've been the organization administrator for a library that participates in Google Summer of Code for many years now. Of the questions that we typically see and the requests we typically get, some are high-quality and constructive---and are people legitimately asking for help.

But the article here kind of glosses over the reality of the hard part: the low quality questions. The "please help me get started"; the "how do I get accepted"; the "please review my PR".

It's all well and good to say, hey, take a step back! Be nice! Don't respond when you're angry! But this is not the reality for an overwhelmed open source organization---and let's face it, most popular projects are completely overwhelmed. The reality is that to wake up every day to countless new issues and pull requests and other demands on your time is absolutely soul-sucking, and after years and years of this it grinds you down and leaves you with resentment and disappointment, and that's just absolutely not great for anyone.

I don't necessarily have any rebuttal to what the author is saying, and I think the intentions are great, but I think it's also important to point out what reality is for people who are trying to build community and help: everyone slowly burns out doing it. It's like social work.

(food for thought: Github has made this problems orders of magnitude worse for organizations, because lowering the barrier to entry means now anyone who doesn't know where to start can open an issue and clog up a bug tracker in just a few seconds, and anyone who thinks they can write code can open a low-quality PR in just a few minutes, and this is more to do for the maintainers...)
It's a double edged sword. When you don't limit connections and customers push their servers beyond their limits, some of them then ask why Google didn't do anything to prevent the situation from happening. Ideally, this would be solved by having better failure modes but that's not really the case today.

Most product decisions are not set in stone and can be changed if there's sufficient evidence to suggest that they do more harm than good. There's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to keep the service running smoothly and unfortunately/fortunately customers are not exposed to them. Some things that may appear to be simple on the surface are not when you take things like supportability into consideration.

Source: Used to work on Cloud SQL
I wonder what other ideas China is going to mine from Black Mirror. Yikes!
It's GNU plus Linux
I went from never soldering circuitry or working with a schematic to designing a PCB (the CMIO schematics are freely available and easy to reverse engineer even for someone with very limited knowledge), having it printed, and build it myself using 0603 and 0805 SMD components.

It's really not that hard or expensive to do it yourself, and it's a fun little side project. Try it out.
You can’t have it both ways...

Safeguards that work 100% and laws that convict a certain group. Moreover, one of the safe guards is “equal protection” (14th Amendment) and if a Law on its face or in application is designed to convict a certain group that law would be declared unconstitutional.

If a Law is being challenged under the 14th Amendment, there are 3 levels of scrutiny:

1. Strict: race, national origin, religion, alienage

2. Middle tier: gender, illegitimacy

3. Minimum scrutiny: all other classes

As to your quote, I for one would love to see a class created based on socio-economic status which receives the highest level of scruitiny.

Nevertheless there are significant differences between our exisiting system of US law and the a unproven/untested social credit system. Maybe in time as it plays out one of us will change our mind.
If autocross isn't your thing, High Performance Driving Events are great fun. They're generally on bigger circuits so you can get to higher speeds but they're safe and there's no traffic (except for the other racers). Generally, the HPDE crowd doesn't care what you drive either. It's a very relaxed community just looking to enjoy racing.
One thing that helps is that the transit authority (ie. DPP, routes that are run by other companies usually are not that good at keeping the schedule) seems to genuinelly care about keeping the schedule. For streetcars there are online monitored checkpoints at least every kilometer or so (usually on each other stop, as part of the station sign, look for rectangular hole in the upper part) and buses are online GPS tracked, this dat is then used both to improve the scheduling and assess the driver's performance.

Edit: another thing that certainly helps is that most transit lines do not go through the typically congested streets (eg. no daytime public transit goes through the Magistrala in city center) and if they do they are separated (eg. Jecna).
I said that students go for "practical or practically sounding degrees". He said that they should "Get a degree in something that can make money instead of a BS in Ancient Chinese Art History." Moreover, it is not clear where in the parent breakdown finance and accounting would be. They seem to fit the most under business as "related support service" I guess.

Students choose general business and marketing because they hope it will get them job and because they think they can finish it. It is not nearly "Ancient Chinese Art History" (which is not even major, more like a course). I am not saying that students are flawless oraculum in their choices.

However, they are not massively choosing weird arcane majors. The "students need to be told that business majors are less practical then they sounds like" is much different statement then "they need to be told not to go for bachelor in Ancient Chinese Art History".
I think what's worse than lazy newcomers wanting someone to hold their hand through a problem, is newcomers who try and argue for a truly terrible idea, or worse yet, call into question an idea that is as old as time.

I have had more experiences than I can count where people keep trying to reinvent the wheel and poo poo an idea that Knuth himself would be proud of.

"I don't have time to explain to you why this idea is good, it should be common sense. It would take you learning programming principles for years before you'll get it, so I won't be able to convince you in a 30 minute presentation."
I was able to as well, until the iOS version didn't get updated, and is no longer playable on iOS 11.

sadly, Pirates went the same way, as well as getting removed from the App Store.
Steve Ballmer was right about open source
Party Line: a decentralized peer to peer chat app with message integrity
Exactly. OP is clueless. The ingredients list IS curry.
> A caste system dressed up in pretty philosophies is still a caste system.

Isn't every caste system.dressed up like that?
> A way for users to prohibit internet access per application

For background data: https://ting.com/blog/ting-tip-for-android-control-which-app...

> - better root management, so that manufacturers can ship access to root to all users

Are you sure it is Android problem and not manufacturers decision, because they are afraid to be flooded with warranty issues from broken rooted phones?

> ess politics in the Play Store. Google has for example thrown out 3rd party YouTube apps that offered background playback, because those supposedly violated YouTube ToS with that, shortly before introducing a paid option for background playback in their own YouTube app.

So, these apps are illegal from law standpoint, and make damage to Google. How is this politics?
I switched to 90+% audiobook after being an avid reader my whole life. I think my eyes have gotten worse, so physically reading because tiring quickly.

The secret for audiobooks, for me, is to listen to them while walking. Currently doing about 50 miles / week, which gets me through 1-2 audiobooks (1.5x, but I rewind and replay a LOT).

I notice my attention is crucial, and varies depending on interactions while walking. When by myself, not crossing streets (down by the walking areas of my town), I can retain a ton.

YMMV, but for me the sweet spot of information consumption is while walking, so audiobooks + exercise beat reading, hands down.
My life got strange and confusing when my sibling used the hex editor to start making those changes to the hex editor itself.
This is also simply to their per private repo pricing model. You can fork private repos with a free account.
I'd just ask github support about this particular issue and I'm pretty sure they'll can either make the repo open or at least make the code available to you somehow.
A propos, there is a longturn Freeciv game starting in two days: http://longturn.org/game/LT43/ 30+ players, one turn per day.
I still don't understand how a country with a fast aging population and alienation of it's youth (herbivore men) has the allegedly most reliable bonds to pay in the distant future.

Do investors see something else? Are they factoring robots or something?
If you have to choose second best, which one would that be ?
You need to brush up on your criminal law, at least in the US and especially when it comes to federal crimes.
> They would need to get enough tickets to justify the cost.

That's easy! Even more with the proposed automatic system.
Agreed. I would have liked to see an updated video core. A Vulkan announcement would have been big news.
> Community - Fully open to discussion and contribution from everyone, decisions are made collectively and contribution / support responsibilities are shared by all.

> Committee - Open to input, but decisions are made by the project leadership. Leadership is voted on by the community and provides support and contribution guidelines.

> Ownership - There is a project owner or co-owners that make all decisions and offer support if available and set guidelines on contributions.

Committee is the Debian Project, which has explicit governance and formal process, correct?

Ownership would be the BDFL model, like Linux or Python or most other projects I could name. Linux breaks down into subsystems, each of which are owned by a specific person, so it's a recursive form of the Ownership model.

I can't think of any project using your Community model off the top of my head.

> Visible - Open source in the sense of being transparent or usable by others, but little to no support offered and contributions may not be accepted.

I think this should have a different name, to make sure people don't confuse it with the non-OSS Viewable Source licenses some companies use: You can see the code, but you can't fork it and distribute modified versions.
I recently had a choice between being an ass or being nice to a guy asking a really basic question about my open source project[1]. At first I was going to tell him to read the docs and that I didnt have time but I decided to help the guy out.

He ended up running into an bug that had been open for almost a year but I never got around to fixing because of an existing workaround. Anyway, I was slightly embarrassed and ended up tracking down the bug and closing it out.

It pays to be nice.

[1]: https://github.com/mkoryak/floatThead/issues/408
You might introduce the concept with a physical toy like Spirograph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph
I'd be interested, thanks.

A web version would make a great time-waster. At least as the author I wound up spending much more time clicking through the space of images than working on the code; it might perhaps not feel as compelling without the feeling of getting something for almost nothing when your own program comes to life.
I think GPs point was that one should „clean up his own front porch“ (fix serious problems in their own country) before discussing others. I don’t agree with that though, I think China serves as an example as to where a turn to authoritarianism with heavy focus on economy can go wirh current technology, let alone tomorrow’s. We should be extremely careful to not end up in a dystopia with all the tools that are becoming available. This also shines another light on EU‘s approach to privacy that I think should be highly respected.
How could they? Americans are too paranoid to allow an ID card, much less a centrally tracked loyalty-points number to use at party-owned shopping, transit, utility, housing....
> This is patently not true. There are plenty of Chinese in the previous generation that gave up their hukou/ID card as required when they gained permanent residency in another country

Do you have a cite for this? I know you lose PRC citizenship when gaining another citizenship (and thus a foreign passport), but I was not under the impression that was true for "permanent residents" of other countries. You can be an Chinese expat while still being a Chinese citizen.

Also, Chinese National IDs cannot be renewed overseas, while passports can. I think the law was pretty explicit that Chinese citizens can't fly under their passport (though they can jump through hoops to get a temporary national ID to fly). I know people who were in a bit of a pickle when this law came into effect because they were overseas when their National ID expired. It's certainly another hassle and bother for expats.
But under federal statues they can and will prosecute you; whether or not you actually deserve it.
I wonder if there are any ways to build simple to compile but still useful languages outside of just doing Lisp or Lisp-like.
If someone were given dark money and tasked with destabilizing the Chinese govt, I can easily seem them doing the following:

* taking half the funds and putting it into think tanks that write pro social credit pieces with an earnest focus on making it more accurate and efficient from a technical standpoint (plus perhaps lobbying for its implementation in the West, for street cred)

* taking the other half and putting it towards anti-govt movements within China, using the info gleaned from the think tanks to provide counter-surveillance techniques

The counter-surveillance techniques will cause the govt to invest in more surveillance tech and clamp down tighter on the population. That enforcement will further fuel the anti-govt groups to become more radicalized.

Of course, I'm just armchair quarterbacking this based on vaguely remembering the news around the buildup and aftermath of the Iraq war. I'm sure the Chinese government has thought through these problems more deeply than I have.

edit: grammar
> You don't have a duty to report anything just because you become knowledgeable of it.

On its face, the federal misprision statute might appear to require exactly that, but it requires active concealment, not mere failure to report.
Altruistic attitude shall not save you from the idiocy of greed surrounding coins/tokens.
Ask HN: WiFi through thick walls
I live in a block of apartments. There are four concrete walls between my WiFi router workshop/storeroom. I cannot pickup my WiFi network in the storeroom. A similar question was asked 9 years ago[1]. Perhaps things have changed. Does anyone on HN suggest a setup that will enable me to make my WiFi signal available in my workshop?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814575
Do you know a good way to automate that?
It's been fashionable for a while to bash the top dog. No, the US isn't perfect, but how can you equate it to the shit china does day in and out.
Uber accused of silencing women who claim sexual assault by drivers
Nvidia GameWorks Ray Tracing
Besides the fact that your code doesn't compile, I would argue that you should deliver real world examples to assess and then comparing it to alternativ solution.

I know, theoretically it's possible to write secure code. Even in C. Experience showed, that 99,999% of people aren't able to do that. And many reasons have its origin in the design of this bad language.
They are rare, but I've found myself at one so I can say with certainty that they do exist.

And it's in the company's best interest: Turnover is extremely low, which means that knowledge and talent are retained. It makes business sense.