skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an understandably automatic control feature to keep the DB instance running well since PostgreSQL doesn't handle connection scaling well. The recommendation is to use pgbouncer, which you can also combine with the GCP cloudsql proxy into a separate container and use that way.

We deploy that onto GKE as a service and have our apps use that. Some setup required but cleaner overall.
"Docs ... nowhere even close to Word ... in terms of feature set ... really shine, though, is in collaboration."

Contradiction. If your key feature is collaboration, GSuite is decades ahead of Office.
> Kirk was the captain of a ship, not of society. A ship captain is generally the dictator of their vessel.

That's correct, but the Enterprise was clearly written as a metaphor for the perfect society. I've also seen it referred to as such by people wanting to create the perfect society.
I was hoping that my discussion of how absurd that sentence was might influence the jurors who actually made it on.
Wow--a crude implementation of Whuffie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie
> Doesn't appear to be the case in Southern California

It definitely is for every non-federal LE agency in Southern California.

> I see one on TV pretty much every time I'm down there...

Yes, SoCal is a region with close to 25 million people; things that are done on extremely limited circumstances with tight controls still do happen somewhere in that region with some frequency, and are note worthy enoguh that they get covered by TV news.
I merely bring it up because it's something we can improve in the U.S. It does not excuse China, which seems to go two steps further down a bad road.
Perhaps he might have considered that before actively seeking leaked information?
A lot of people are saying audio books have less retention (which may be true), but are you accounting for what you're doing while listening to them?

For example, if you read a book, chances are you're 100% focused on the book, probably sitting or laying down in a quiet room.

On the other hand while listening to an audio book you might be driving, running errands or cleaning. Most of that is probably on auto-pilot but I have to imagine trying to multi-task whatever you're doing while absorbing content is going to cause a huge hit to retention.

I think it's worth exploring the above because I find that other than first hand experience I learn best by watching videos. It could be someone talking into a camera, or just slides, but in both cases I feel like I retain information better than just reading. However in this case, I'm also 100% focused on the task as if I were reading. Most of those videos could have just audio and it's basically the same thing (comparable to audio books).
50K * 0.001 is $50 dollars.

Better to just pay a flat fee and get better routing.
There's Freeciv (http://www.freeciv.org/) if you want to try one without spending anything.
Hacking the Wetware
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. The Chinese government owns and runs more than 50% of the economy and 100% of the industries they deem essential. They can not only cut your off completely from planes and trains, but also your electricity, driver license, internet, telephone, banks, ability to get any travel document, ability to stay at any hotel, etc. Let that sink for a bit, before you claim that Google or even NSA can do something similar.

I am a Chinese expat, but I don't have a National ID. I have a Chinese passport, but I cannot even buy train tickets online (yet i can ride the train) with it and I cannot open a bank account in my own country. Things will get worse with 'social credit' as another barrier because I won't have a credit history with them.

[edit] removed claim that Chinese expat won't be able to fly in China without National ID because some say the viral news is a rumor. Honestly i cannot tell any more.
Since you're keeping a list: it's "Herfindahl".
I suspect that certain areas such as Finance might have an exemption from that rule.
Why would you spend all that money to make Bus and Bike lanes that are useless? And why are bike/bus lanes supposed to cover this lack of planning?

Figuring out where the taxis and cops are supposed to stop should've been done before any of this was implemented. For them to just say "we don't have room, so we'll take yours" is disrespectful and clearly causing a major traffic issue. So to answer your question of where cops and taxis are "supposed to stop" the answer is "anywhere else that's legal", and not just assume that bus riders should eat their time cost for being lazy.
Doesn't seem like you can (easily) buy a 25th of one of the kits, so replacing it gradually still doesn't seem like a very practical solution.
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was founded to get racing off the California streets in 1951. Virtually all the drag strips this sanctioning body promoted races at in urban areas have closed (Lions was a famous track in Long Beach sponsored by the Lions club to get racers off the streets for example).

Today youtube is full of street racing for money videos and there is a whole genre of fake reality TV shows about street racing glamorizing it. Examples

https://youtu.be/Lf9wlvQuxGA

https://youtu.be/Ltc7e9IIPVc

The NHRA needs to get back to their core remit and support more legitimate racing venues and local authorities need to help this to happen. There is a thriving electric street drag racing scene too as traction control on Teslas makes it much easier to launch and go fast with no talent, winning races.
> Note that they have kept around Gandhi's elevated aggression in more recent incarnations, though they have reduced its effect somewhat

Kind-of. Civ 6 makes him sneaky and shitty aggressive rather than just straight-out homicidal. This matches my experiences pretty well: https://kotaku.com/gandhi-is-still-an-asshole-in-civilizatio...
The Tesla requires you to keep your hand on the wheel while in auto-steer mode. You can take your hand off the wheel, but the car will beep loudly after a while and if you don’t put your hand back on the wheel, the car will pull over and stop. It then locks you out of auto-steer mode until you cycle the power on the car.
How is enforcement so totally lacking? Why do they need to use police for it? Where I live, the police don't do that, the city council's parking wardens see a packed car blocking a lane and call a tow truck to remove it. So all the bus lanes and clearways (temporary no parking lanes) are always free when needed. Maybe if they towed a few UPS trucks, they'd send a message to the others.
Given I’m no fan of red light cameras already, your idea of 24/7 automated city wide traffic enforcement sounds dystopic and ripe for abuse through ever more granular infractions and escalating penalties.

I’d rather cyclists continue to be annoyed than everyone suffer under that.
What you say is undoubtedly true. In a better world, we'd have a better mayor. That ideal mayor could always give the optimal public-serving answer no matter how they are approached. If the mayor were in the habit of listening to my advice, I'd surely tell him the same. His answer was suboptimal.

But for the purposes of this conversation, the only control surface I have is my speech, and the only mayor there is is the one on the other end of the line. So, depending on what kind of result I want, I must modulate my tone.
Once again, I’m disappointed in how quickly the comments on these articles about China doing horrible things devolves into defense of America. It’s sort of like a reverse whataboutism.

Ideally learning about what bad things other countries are doing would allow us to look at what similar things we do in our own country and then work to improve things. Instead the opposite seems to happen, and we actually draw a line under our current policies while saying “well, at least here...”.

Other people doing horrible things is not justification for us to do less horrible things. Conversely, because we do bad things doesn’t mean we can’t criticize the bad things others do. On the other hand, we are in a much better position to change things in our own country than in foreign countries.

I’ll end my commment by repeating that what China is doing here seems like a step in the wrong direction, and is not something we should be defending.
...hence why they should give you that option if your paid account expires. It feels like people are being intentionally obtuse in this thread
Example of real world dapp (smart contract) implementation
I have recently started researching smart contracts, but cannot seem to find any real life examples of dapps with in-depth explanation of how they work. All I see is high level descriptions or information on how to build smart contracts. Any pointers?
Reuters just got $10B to build a sustainable news business
Simple answer, your centralized database can go away tomorrow, or be arbitrarily modified. That can’t happen with the blockchain.
as far as i can tell, they didn't speak to "revoking knowledge", and did speak to "future access"... so your comment reads strangely to me.
I think it's a mistake to conflate bike and bus lanes in urban transportation analysis. It should not be possible for any vehicle to enter let alone park in a bike lane. As for bus lanes, the bus authority police should be empowered to address this.
That's the biggest problem with GCP. Not these small projects (since they have multiple teams working on things and everything progresses in parallel) but the very big lack of managed services and polished features.

The underlying tech and building primitives are the best, so if you just need fast VMs with solid cpu/io/networking then it all works well. Unfortunately that's not enough to compete with AWS and Azure which have so many turnkey services that let you focus on more productive things.
It's the taxpayer's responsibility to substantiate any cost basis greater than zero.
Isn't the high speed nature of those chases tied to a helicopter in the air with police on the ground maintaining more reasonable chase speeds? That's generally what I've seen in LA police chases.
Whether or not your intention is to troll, that's the effect. Please stop.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good on you. If the mayor can't enforce his own bus lanes, then they're no use and might as well be removed. Just let people park there! If the bus riders complain, tell them the truth - they can't afford to police them and/or the state won't allow cameras.
Amazing history. I had no idea about the relation to Avalon Hill or the gentleman's agreement between the two CEOs. Anyone knows where can I read more about it?
I think the other commentators are really understating the extent to which Google beats Microsoft on realtime collaboration. In Office 365 you can see that someone else has opened the file but you can't see their changes until they Save which is hilariously retro. Google Docs doesn't even have a Save button. In Office if someone else makes a change and saves it you get a popup to merge their changes, or if you save you get a popup to merge your changes with their saves. That's garbage. In Google Docs you and I can edit the same _word_ or even the same character at the same time, with all changes reflected on both sides immediately. No saving, no syncing.
Did anyone manage to get this to work with fish shell?
The legal battle to colonize Mars
If we only offered sympathies to those who deserved them somehow, it would be a very sad world.
Sounds like these guys have users, which is probably what makes the big difference.
I would blame the US for invading Iraq and Afghanistan before blaming Manning even a tiny bit for anything.
First off, my apologies for the late response.

I'd like to learn OpenGL programming, and C seems too painfully low level for that, although I won't argue that it is a lot easier to wrap your head around it. However, this days I've been toying with C++14, and the experience (apart from the dependencies, Makefiles, et al. mess, has been pretty smooth with regards to syntax.

Apart from OpenGL (which seems like a neat way to learn some interesting maths and physics), learning C++ helps delve into many big and important existing codebases, especially databases, and other complex systems. Rust may be designed for that but it isn't used so much in the wild.

Moreover, I want to feel badass in a hardcore low-level hacker way after programming so much in high-level dynamically-typed languages, and contribute my one stone to the future grave of JS/Node (let's hope Atwood's law won't work :P).
You're right - and the plea process is part and parcel of Western due process. You're still facing an accuser and know what crime you're being charged for. You have legal council - even if court appointed - helping you make the plea.

None of which apply under the "social credit" system.
Your analogy is falsifiable. Perhaps you should look up Sharp v Stephen Guinery t/as Port Kembla Hotel and Port Kembla RSL Club, which found:

In that case, in 2001, a jury in the Supreme Court of New South Wales decided in favour of a plaintiff who had brought a claim against her employer based on common law negligence and breach of an employer's statutory duty. The plaintiff had worked as a bartender at the Port Kembla RSL between 1984 and 1995 and at the Port Kembla Hotel from 1973 to 1984. In 1995, the plaintiff discovered a lump on the side of her neck, and was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth, throat and neck. The plaintiff claimed that her cancer had been caused by exposure to secondhand smoke during the course of her employment at the Port Kembla RSL and the Port Kembla Hotel. The Port Kembla Hotel settled the plaintiff's claim against it out of court, for $160 000. The claim against the Port Kembla RSL proceeded to trial before a jury in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

The jury in this case found that the employer's negligence had either caused or materially contributed to the plaintiff's cancer. This finding was based on a series of conclusions reached by the jury. On the balance of probabilities, the jury found that (i) on the information available to the Port Kembla RSL at relevant times, it had been reasonably foreseeable that the plaintiff would suffer physical injury; (ii) there had been a reasonably practicable means of eliminating the risk; (iii) in failing to ban smoking totally or partially or to constantly operate exhaust fans, the employer had by its conduct caused or materially contributed to the plaintiff's injury; and (iv) the employer had not acted reasonably.

The jury awarded the plaintiff a total of $466 048 in damages, less the amount she had already received from the earlier settlement with the Port Kembla Hotel. The damages were awarded as damages for pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life, and past and future medical expenses, domestic assistance and loss of earnings.

http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/16-3-litigation-relatin...
Browsing to that page I notice my browser is pinging mainnet.infura.io over and over. Is infura.io the same company as hexel, do you have a formal partnership with them, or are you just piggy-backing their API without proxying it?
That sounds a bit weird to me.
A company shouldn't be allowed to instruct it's employees to break the law - not even traffic regulations. So the fee should go to the driver, not to the company.

I think that might solve the issue quickly.
Author was presumably saved by this (old local copy).
Not too familiar with MS Teams, but I was pretty excited when Hangouts Chat rolled out a few weeks ago. I figured if we were already paying for GSuite, why not use Hangouts Chat to replace slack? I ended up being terribly disappointed. Hangouts Chat feels more like a message board than it does a chat app. Google needs to put a ton more work into it if they plan on getting people to convert from Slack.
Anyone know about LIDAR hardware i can purchase that is great for high resolution at low range. I'm looking for 1-3mm accuracy at a range from 0.1m up to 2m. 2D or 3D. IP67 rated.
Adrian was hardly the only one who betrayed Manning. Putting this all on him is a bit myopic and unfair:

All The People Who Betrayed Chelsea Manning - Kevin Poulsen
https://www.thedailybeast.com/all-the-people-who-betrayed-ch...
> Already happened with Wells Fargo, who fired and blacklisted employees that refused to create extra (illegal) accounts for their customers. Those employees couldn't get a job in finance again.

It's worth noting that Wells Fargo ironically did that by abusing a fraud reporting system:

> The blacklist is called "U5," and it's maintained by the finance institutions as a way of alerting each other to fraudsters who are fired for breaking finance rules. The list was designed to protect banks from fraud, but it has no defenses against fraudulent banks.

https://boingboing.net/2016/10/31/wells-fargo-blackballed-em...
The SG9 in the latest Virginia class submarines are only 30MW. As of 2001 The Navy has constructed over 235 nuclear reactors, with many more since. An average of >5 per year. For Nuclear reactors that is mass production.

Also because of the way the Navy works their reactors are less bespoke for each ship than traditional land based reactors - and better fit the mass production model. This is something that could scale.

1. http://mragheb.com/NPRE%20402%20ME%20405%20Nuclear%20Power%2...
Nice story, the kind that makes HN worth it
I can certainly imagine Airbus having a list of requirements that Google would have to satisfy as part of the contract to switch to GSuite, and it would seem reasonable that group chat might be on that list.
I mean, up until last year someone could permanently depublish entire packages from certain package managers without restriction. No amount of hash-refs are going to ensure you have the right package if it just doesn't exist anymore.

I think availability is exactly what dozzie was getting at by specifying 'production'.

You want your production systems to be robust, not reliable at the whims of half a dozen different ecosystems all with different policies, procedures, humans, support agreements, etc. (This is without even touching on infrastructure availability.)
Great point. A system needs to be forward tested not simply back tested on a known set of data.

Incorrect back testing is absolutely standard with stock/bond/forex/etc trading. There are a million hustlers who sell their back-tested systems. In essence, without forward testing all you have is an untested hypothesis.
Does that happen to your databases a lot? That's just bad engineering.
Probably the album link. I've ran into that problem on a few sites (for example: it gets flagged on Reddit if I don't use the direct-to-file links).

Thanks for that.
When I think of Sharepoint I think of a lot of things, but CRM is not one of them. I'm intrigued to hear more about how that works.
“I think it's fair to say that Silicon Valley is dead.” (1993)
>If you are white and wealthy, then drug possession is against the law only in vague terms on paper.

Not to discount your other points, but this is exactly how the Chinese system will work as well. (and already does in other respects from what I have heard and read)

>What a bunch of bigoted hogwash.

What did he say that was bigoted? (I am serious, by the actual definition [0], not the pejorative commonly thrown around to silence dissent) As a side note, my brother has a felony on his record, so I have some knowledge of the cause and effects.

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigoted

Edit: This turned sour fast... not sure it's worth replying to comments.
GVFS for Mac
Society doesn't get better by venerating assholes.
as long as the score can go back up, that Confucian requirement would be met.
The comment was about trending G Suite into open source.

You've got to start somewhere. It starts with developer samples, moves into tools, languages (Apps Script), then sub-products.

If you're asking for Google to open source it's products in one big blow, I don't think that will happen without smaller steps. I'm on the team that would probably best start the conversation of considering G Suite in open source. Would love to hear proposals.
For sure, fossil fuels will still be around for a while. But renewable sources are absolutely going to replace existing fossil-fuel consumption. The economics of it make it an inevitability. Aside from a few niche applications (industrial heating perhaps), there's nothing better about fossil fuels. They've just been the best we had for a long time. Some of this will be sooner (because you decide to buy an EV next month), and some later (because a coal plant gets decommissioned 10 years from now), but the writing is on the wall.

If only HN had a remind-me bot, I'd like to set a notice: oil demand will plateau within 5 years.
then your post was purely non-sequitur, as the syllogism's conclusion holds. there was no strawman.
Straight up: No, it can't.

It will blow MS Word and LibreOffice out of the water. It can get close to TeX, but very noticeably eqn(1) is inferior to math mode. Table of contents generation and putting it at the top of the document is still not happening.
Building a distro with musl libc Why and how Alpine Linux did it [at FOSDEM2017]
> Bus lanes and stops are actually empty a lot of the time, they just need to be clear at the particular moment when the bus needs them.

Yes, this is true. Here in Chicago, it is only illegal to block a bus stop if it is interfering with a bus [1]. I would imagine that this is the case in NYC as well.

[1] https://chicagocode.org/9-64-140/
If the cure is the usual "bomb them to democracy", I'll take the abuses...
> What would you expect to be 'much of a problem'? 10,000?

Something closer to that than 10 is, considering the total number of people and leading causes of death, at least until we figure out a way to come up with infinite resources.
Blockchain Believers Believe They Can Change the World , After Industry Implodes
I think what OP means is that it's very hard to find contract killers online, as most of them are police officers.
New title seems quite descriptive to me.
(Sad) Postscript: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flaherty
Regarding a source's credibility and ignoring it outright are two different things entirely. I was just agreeing with Crichton that publications need to be held to a consistent standard across all areas of coverage.
The square grid actually gave eight directions of movement, but introduced the problem of diagonal and parallel moves being different distances
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/17130602/modern-yacht-rou..., which points to this.
It's not inconceivable for China to make all people part of a particular province required to pay a fee/fine for something arbitrary and take away their privileges to travel if they don't. They already don't even need that much to take away passports of Uyghur people in the northwest of China.
More so it's dangerous when you get out in the middle of the street vs closer to the curb. Because of people pulling into the bus/cycle lane. But also a bus would be scary (and dangerous) if it hit whilst you trying to walk to the curb (or trying to dodge a storm of cyclist).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16602351 and marked it off-topic.
The only one voiced by him.
"Some employees switch their phones off or hide them out of fear that their location is being tracked. One current Facebook employee who recently spoke to Wired asked the reporter to turn off his phone so the company would have a harder time tracking if it had been near the phones of anyone from Facebook."

does this lend credence to the "your phone is listening to you and reporting back to facebook" theory?
Infura is a service that allows you to make calls to the Ethereum blockchain. We use it to get the current state of your token contract.