skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Benito Mountain in central California has naturally occurring asbestos levels that are so high that no public access was allowed for years (historically, it was a popular off-roading area). More recently, public access is allowed, but you are only permitted to visit the site 5 times per year (the BLM keeps track).
Analytics data integrity is tough
The closest thing that springs to mind is https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/western-elite-chi...
What have you found in “boom towns” that may be taken for granted (or not exist at all) in “boom cities”? In other words, it’s easy for us to think of things that cities have and towns don’t; have you found a counter example?
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Serverless has its upsides but it also has downsides.

In an ideal, pure, world it’s awesome. The problem is that your lambda function usually needs to use some sort of external resources. (It is pretty useless if you don’t interact with anything)

Now you have to worry about and understand how to do access control on the said resources, how to collect the logs, how to collect metrics relevant to your code, how do you troubleshoot and deploy the function itself, how do you integrate it with the rest of things you have/own.

You’re just shifting complexity from an area to a another area.

It works great in some cases, but it’s far from beeing a panacea.
Only until we figure out how to transmute it to gold.
I actually find zipping and uploading manually a PITA. Started using the Serverless framework [1] recently and now I just run `serverless deploy --stage dev --aws-profile profilename` from my repo (which is an npm script).

[1]https://serverless.com/
MacOS's dual monitor implementation puts the current window's menubar on the current screen now, so at least you don't have to go across two screens.
They're frowned on in my full-of-banter-and-music office in London. When i arrived, i asked for a specific new keyboard, and the IT guy, thinking it was a loud mechanical one, said i would have to get permission from my manager before he'd order it!
There are only two verbs in this sentence that I can see: "appetat" which means "he/she/it attacks/grasps/strives for/approaches, and "perstringat" which is a subjunctive and means "he/she/it may graze/seize/reprove". I think perstringat refers to sciendum, but I am not what appetat refers to.

There is no verb that implies a plural third person, nor is there a word for "gate" here.

What I'm having trouble with is the second part. So the first part is something like, "in the beginning, the knowing may draw together what is the roman authority of the barking around, wherein the nation..." But still I'm not sure. Then in the second part we have what could be multiple nominatives and only one verb.
We already know how (bombard it with Calcium-48 in a particle accelerator, or stick it in a nuclear reactor), but it’s not cost effective.
If you include the word “privately” then some of the criticism you’re receiving may fall away. “Regular people no longer have a place to communicate privately”.

This is increasingly true. Actions are increasingly recorded. Privacy is increasingly undermined. We have a big problem on our hands.
Fair point, but historically, there have been metaphysical accounts of matter that continue to exercise their influence on the sciences and scientists (sometimes to their detriment). For example, Descartes defined material objects as extended things that are devoid of properties like color (which, for example, in physics are redefined in terms of things that are considered properties of matter, with what can't be accounted for in those terms relegated to the mind). Few physicists or biologists can explain to you what Cartesian metaphysics proposes, and few if any appeal to it in any explicit sense, but the legacy is insinuated in the modern scientific tradition, though it is not essential to science per se. This is the reason why scientists, perhaps biologists in particular, are uncomfortable or plainly hostile to the idea of teleology (though many of them misunderstand what it is by conflating it with intent). Teleology was in no way disproved historically by philosophers like Descartes, it was merely dismissed or relegated to immaterial minds.

Materialism, as I have encountered it as a philosophical position, has been a position that takes Cartesian dualism and drops the immaterial mind from it, leaving us with only the Cartesian account of matter. This position has been shown to be unworkable because now it is impossible to account for all of those things that have been swept under the rug of the immaterial mind. That's why Dennett takes an eliminativist position that simply denies that those things we've been sweeping under the rug exist at all. It's a cop out move because it denies the existence of those things it cannot explain. The sounder move is to revise one's presuppositions.

For this reason, I don't think these are really the best books on the subject, esp. for someone interested in getting a lay of the land and a rudimentary understanding of the subject matter. The best introductory book I've come across in this regard is E. Feser's "The Philosophy of Mind"[0].

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/Philosophy_of_Mind.html...
If you have money, you’re flying a jet or a turboprop, burning jet fuel (kerosene) which contains no lead.

Only the smallest private planes run on piston engines, whose owners don’t really have money to “fix it”, especially because FAA regulations for certification of new planes and engine designs make everything cost about 10x what it should.
It’s an interesting problem that they need to tackle. Perhaps answers should have a lifetime? Perhaps the moderation queue should include reviewing (and e.g. tagging) questions marked “rails” to be “rails-3”?

I work with the same tech I did 10 years ago - so obviously I wouldn’t want the old stuff to go away and I probably often find answers that relate to too new tech more often than the opposite
And also author of one of the more epic StackOverflow answers: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6841479/807674
Exactly same experience. Probably because author (he even mentions it in the post) has outdated OSX and there is probably some difference between versions there.
> If you compare Finda to something like voidtool's Everything it's night and day.

On my Mac, Finda appears to launch and run instantly.

The voidtool's site doesn't specify which platform it's for, but it appears to be Windows-only. Two of the downloads are called “portable zip”, but they unzip into folders that contain exe files.

This is indeed a night-and-day difference, and helps illustrate the OP's point.
Some might find this interesting for native cross-platform apps http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Seems fatalistic to assume that getting rid of TEL will automatically mean it'll be replaced with something equally nasty, or even worse.

I don't think it's out of the question that improvements in refining technology has made it possible and economical enough to create a fuel with a high enough octane rating without resorting to TEL or other metal-organic additives. E.g. the Shell stuff that is being investigated by the FAA PAFI project is rumored to be based on super-alkylate + aromatics.
I literally mean "cost me less" (the numbers below are bogus but the proportions are correct, just so people who know me don't get too much insight into my finances, haha)

When I last rented (in a very high cost of living area), my rent was 2500 and I was faced with a 300/month increase on the renewal of my lease.

I bought a place in an area that is roughly an (almost) as high in demand. Much nicer, 3 times the size. The mortgage was 2000/month. Add taxes and HoA and It's about 3000/month. There is some maintenance and I have to pay for my own repair, so my housing budget is about 3500 a month.

That was several years ago. I can look up the listing for the apartment I used to rent (large building, lots of units on the same floor with the same plan and they have a website). It hovers between 3000 and 3500/month these days.

Except I can deduct about $5000/year in taxes from my mortgage interest and the property taxes (though starting this year I won't be able to do the later anymore because of caps). And on that 3500/month I pay for housing, about $1500ish goes in principal. So effectively, the place costs me about 1500-1600/month. Add that property value is up drastically in the area over the last few years, and I'm living here somewhere between "for free" and "at a profit". That's a heck of a lot cheaper than renting.

There was the matter of the downpayment. I got pretty lucky in some of my stock investments, but the above is hard to beat (and the only reason I have so much money to invest IS because of how much cheaper my housing is now compared to what it would be). Oh, the condo association is letting me stick a solar array on the roof, which is also a fine investment even with the new tariffs. Landlord wouldn't have allowed it. If I ever need to leave or cash in, I can flip the place on the market in a day (well, plus like a month for the closing I guess). I can rent it too for a sweet added profit.

All in all, renting is expensive as hell.
The website describes it and demonstrates it in the text itself. It is the use of color gradients in text that wrap from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. This technique is popular as a speed reading tool and as an accommodation for people with ADHD and dyslexia.
I often update my answers over time to cover multiple versions, usually as the result of someone leaving a comment pointing out a problem. It's pretty easy to do in a way that preserves the old information (eg. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1576221/8376).
The main purpose of the harnesses, which is tested and used on every single flight, is to prevent the passengers from becoming free of the harness and free of the helicopter. It was only through a highly unlikely combination of both a loss of power and a failure of the float system that they would ever need to release the harness.

You don't not wear your seatbelt in case it becomes jammed when you drive into a lake - that just doesn't happen very often. But people get in normal, on-road car accidents all the time: it would be silly to optimize either of these systems for easy release when the main purpose is for them not to release.
To be fair, Facebook announced they would, 2 days ago:

> We are suspending SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Wylie and Kogan from Facebook, pending further information.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-an...
You can even see, in captured footage, that it descends fine, and then starts to turn to its side due to the floats not being properly inflated.

https://twitter.com/JJmagers/status/972974463175286784 for the video.
Sure I don't want to say that on-disk systems always need to have the whole set of pages in memory, but depending on the performances that you want to obtain, at least a percentage of the pages will need to be on memory, so if one has the illusion that: in-memory systems -> memory usage proportional to the amount of data. in-disk systems -> fixed memory usage, just more disk, this is usually not true.
I cannot think of any office situation where a man calling a woman a `babe` is acceptable. It’s patronizing at best, and sexist at worst. Note that parent comment specifically said calling a woman that. Not merely using the word itself.
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I'm Vietnamese, some of us prefer English as it lack the formality for pronouns, those who have studied oversea are even more likely to use English in their daily conversation.

(interestingly, my friends point out that I seem to have different personality when using English instead of my mother language)
Braces sound like they are always balanced in Ruby, so you can match them outside of the parser even if you don’t know how they will be used. You still have to “parse”, but freeing your parser from matching leads to more robust parses.

The only place where a pre match step doesn’t work is when you have tokens that are overloaded to sometimes be braces or not; I.e. < and > in most languages after C++ that has generics. Actually, you need non deterministic parsing in most cases with these, which is a pain and I wish new languages wouldn’t keep copying this mistake (typescript).

It looks like you are checking correctness in your precedence parser, which is fine, but it’s not possible to do that for many languages.
Why is that sad though?
Are you saddened by it?
Are they unhappy via these beliefs?
Or are you saddened by your inability to believe things you cannot directly evidence? This last point does seem like a poor way to live - for example, I have never really known how to evidence that the world is round, but I'm happy to take other people's word for it, apply it to what is useful to me, and to not worry about it.
That's also really self selecting. If your company depends on having any of those things you can't really open up in a city without those things to start with. Even if you do try competitors probably are opening in cities with those services and the combined advantages.
Where does he say anything against Jewish people? Claiming his comment is anti-semetic is anti-semtic.
Perhaps I am misled. I can't be sure.
But based on my fleeting existence on this Earth I do have some believes. Amongst them are:

- Humanity has a habit of having oppressors and oppressed.
- Oppression is still going on.
- The oppressors own the current media.

Hence my comment. The reference to the usurers was about the most widespread way of oppression during peace times: financial machinery.

Who these oppressors are I can not know, likely power centralises in very few hands at the top, hidden from eyesight.

I advise all of you to read books about economics and anthropology. IMHO, your epochalist thinking that the current times are special is wrong.

Human behaviour hasn't changed much in the past thousand years.
The real world is mutable in some sense, but our thinking, even in the most trivial exercises, works by detaching _objects_ them from their physical nature and building immutable _ideas_. Thinking is a struggle trying to find what is necessary in a contingent world, trying to find essence in a world of form. That is why values and immutability are so useful for modeling, architecture, and building resilient software.

I talked more about this in this MeetingC++'17 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMol_5-2owo
I have done a few doors off flights in LA and I certainly would not have been able to operate the harness in an emergency. Either the (hopefully well trained) pilot should be able to release or there must be a big emergency button that's hard to miss (but also not pressed by accident).
I really like where the author went with this. Everytime I read something like this though I can't help but think how we as developers really need a better low level, UI framework for cross platform applications. What the author has done here is a cool idea, but ultimately this still feels flawed, and like it's a workaround to the difficulties of writing a cross platform UI. Everytime I read something like this I can't help but think about how great a low level, cross platform C (or C ABI) library would be (think something like libuv but for UIs). Such a library would abstract away the OS specific system calls of the UI while still providing the ability to easily do things like:
* Create a window
* Draw to the screen
* Declaratively (i.e. html like) add UI widgets to a scene
* Apply CSS like styling (like QML, JavaFX, or XAML)
* Use native file dialogs, menus, notifications, etc
* Statically link as a single dependency

I don't even think something like this necessarily needs to provide native UI elements, rather it just needs to be a more performant, easier to use, smaller, version of electron that could easily be used from any language. It needs to provide common UI elements like buttons, textboxes, divs, grid layouts, etc, but judging by the popularity of electron - I don't think those necessarily need to use native elements.

Qt is close to this, but it feels heavyweight and in my opinion its biggest flaw is that it's difficult to link to an application and setup a development environment for. Tk is kind of like this, but way too limited. JavaFX is a really good example, and would be perfect if it wasn't Java only (same with WPF but it's C# only). Right now the closest attempt to something like this that I know of is https://github.com/andlabs/libui

I think libui could even be a starting point for such a library, but the library I'm thinking of would need some type of declarative UI support (i.e. html like, maybe even support for a subset of html), built in support for styling, and less of a focus on using native widgets. I really wish somebody would build something like this.
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Right, and one of biggest downsides to serverless: reusing database connections/pools between requests. Right now the only "standard" solution offered by serverless's biggest advocates is pretty much a hack: rely on AWS's preservation of memory across some warm invocations. Basically keep it in a global variable and if you get lucky it'll still be there the next time your functions runs.

[1] http://blog.rowanudell.com/database-connections-in-lambda/
In fairness, everything is political, including notions of “technology” and especially statistics. See Lombroso and gerrymandering respectively.
By that logic, I can't say "this brick is material" either, because we don't know what "material" is.

But really that's just arguing over words and definitions. We know what we mean when we say material (certain properties and behaviors), and as far as I know, we have just as much reason to think that a brick is material as that a mind if material. We don't need to understand literally everything to be able to make predictions about how things behave.
Except, it does work. I've found many closed opinion questions to be just the info I was looking for. Until they effectively stamped that behavior out, it was one of the best ways to get a request-for-recs in front of a massive audience of informed professionals. It was messy, but very useful.
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Why did he get flagged? He didn't say anything worth being flagged over. He said that people in the US are in debt, and then this person assumed that he meant to Jewish people and called him anti-semetic, and then his comment was immediately censored.
We are all on gitter: https://gitter.im/kotcity/Lobby Stop on in!
in other news: media outlet manages to publish 'shocking expose' about how news media is easily manipulated by external actors, all the while painting it as something 'novel', 'else' and 'external' to the venue of publication itself..
You know what would be better than a .zip? A .tar.gz file. Zip files cannot be unzipped without having the whole thing in memory. What's funny is that the Lambda environments (at least for Node) do not have the `zip` executable available which means that to zip/unzip something inside Lambda I need one written in javascript which has to be included in the zip file I upload to AWS instead of being able to use the native one.
Here is a small list of chelation agents hosted by the WHO: http://www.who.int/selection_medicines/committees/expert/18/...

I guess chelation/elimination does work if the WHO writes about it.

AFAIK lead is also stored in bones and probably within body tissues, so this might take a while.
Members of the Trump team and GOP members lying about things, especially involving foreign countries/entities getting involved in the election? Who would have thought it.
Yes, "a group of people" acting through the government to support privacy protection is what my first sentence meant. Clearly that's what's happened.

Not sure why you phrase it "or"? I think we agree that that's one sensible approach to take (treating it as a basic right that can't be negotiated away, much like other things).
Right, I wonder just how specialized these chips are. There are still changes in modeling and architecture coming hot off the research presses. It's easy-ish to hard code a specific architecture in your Verilog and claim massive efficiency improvements. While AI is still very much in the research stage, general-purpose is what really matters.
That $10 per gigabyte isn't "very very high".

Even if it does represent a doubling from the bottom.
it's almost as though the post was being deliberately obtuse in order to be a bit sarcastic and tongue in cheek about it and has an expectation people would understand that.. almost
Interesting comparison.
Which regular, simple UI toolkits do you recommend to a web developer who wants to learn desktop development? Do you also have a recommendation on which resources/approaches to use to learn those toolkits?
The sibling site to ask for software recommendations is https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com
There is already some form of taxation - VAT in the UK is 20%.

Why does the UK deserve more than 20%, given that the vast majority of Google and Facebook's engineers and managers are in the US?
Which is just an arbitrary number the government came up with because zero is obviously unreasonable for lead workers..
I would quite happily have myself bodily transported by a small fleet of drones, of the average Maxi- variety, appropriately tethered into a space suit, with perhaps one or two Over-drones there, just in case something happens with the swarm and I splash into the ocean .. on the other hand, maybe the Over-drones would be carrying supplies and setting up the BBQ on the base island, who knows .

Point I wanna make is, hell yeah there have to be better flying things on the horizon. Gimme my drone-fleet and proper space-suits, yo!
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>To me critical thinking/creativity and questioning authority are all intertwined.

And I maintain that this is just a story we tell to ourselves. Can you find anything to back it up.

Two reasons for this.

1) Different cultures express same things differently and get same results using different methods. Direct challenge is not the only way.

2) Chinese are not especially obedient or submissive. Regional riots and unrest that you don't see in the news happen regularly. The way people solve their problems with government is very different from the West. Chinese priorities are in getting ahead in their life, not in political activism. If Chinese government fails to deliver economic growth they will have to deal with more rebellious people.

Using Hoftedes research to compare different cultures: China has similar levels of individualism and their long term orientation is similar to Germany, South Korea and Taiwan, but their cultural uncertainty avoidance very low. It's lower than US, Germany South Korea or Japan.

ps. Cultural comparisons in social sciences contain lots of BS but Hoftede's research is relatively solid. His research in IBM is classic. It has limitations but it is useful.
I’m definitely saddened by my inability to believe in what no evidence exists to suggest is real, and I’m not being sarcastic. I’m sure that life would be less stressful if I could contextualize it in terms of spiritual meaning. What I was referring to in my comment is sadness at what I see a waste of talent going down well worn roads of thought, when there are new and exciting horizons in front of us. QM opens the possibility of a universe unlike anything our human expectations and intuition suggest, and produces testable theories. Science has been the most successful method of inquiry and testing in human history, and yet so many want to take only sips from its cup because they don’t like what it has to say about our lives, our significance, and place in the universe.

By the way, if you ever want to prove to yourself that the world is round, it’s quite easy. On a clear day, look to the horizon. Now climb the tallest tree or structure near you and look again. You can see further than before! Ergo the earth is spheroid and not flat.