skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (perceived?) reality is that social grows your user base and RSS doesn't

Another fair point... in general RSS can be thought of as "broadcasting to users" instead of the illicit "user engagement".

On another fair point though, the RSS app I currently use [Podcast Addict] has a "share" option with beget-plenty list of options [from eMail to Twitter]. I can't imagine other RSS apps not having the same in Current Year.
Excellent. It's a great story about how amazing the Voyager spacecraft are and I'm glad to see it getting a lot of attention, even with click-bait titles!
Emacs has an interesting RSS feed reader: elfeed [ https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed/blob/master/README.md ], which even has an Android client [ https://github.com/areina/elfeed-cljsrn/blob/master/README.m... ].
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> fiscal conservatives have had to defend the guy who brought them new tax laws that increase the deficit

Advocating for tax cuts and then using the resulting deficit increase to fuel advocacy for spending cuts has been a strategy of fiscal conservatives for decades, so this is just fiscal conservatism as usual, not something that will cause most of them problems.
It's serviceable, but it looks harder to access than a visible-tank toilet. At the 3m mark in the video, my hands are instinctively cramping just by looking at that tight space.

The difference is like working on a car in the 70s versus a Japanese compact car from the late 90s.
My point was only that they are not stopping the sale of standalone licenses as some people feared.
Well, change is the only constant, I agree that we should “Don’t steal Mac OS X” poem team https://quickbooksupports.co/ has taken a pledge to guide.
So where do we draw the line? If Niantic says "hang out on a boat and we'll give you rare water pokémon" and players charter a boat and the boat sinks, is it Niantic's fault? What if there's inclement weather that makes it impossible to play in the area that some players are in? To what end should Niantic be responsible for things that are prerequisite to using their service?

Let's say I held a picnic potluck that required you to bring some potato salad to get in. The local Trader Joe's is out of potato salad, so lots of people can't get in (despite there being other ways of procuring potato salad). Is it my fault that I didn't coordinate with grocery stores to make sure there would be enough?
Agreed. It is an API world. I recall trying make sense of xml then came RSS feeds. Then, why JSON, and now you can have RSS like feeds (and a lot more) via JSON.
I'm a long time OVH customer (also kumsufi) - if you don't need the support you can't find a better bang for your buck provider anywhere else. Especially in the storage department.
I tried Mate once in the form of Club Mate, a popular alternative drink in Germany. It triggered migraine headache, so i wont drink it again. I just looked up Theobromine on Wikipedia which states that high dosis may cause headache. I think this is an explanation for why i got headaches from it.
> They're worse in every way than matte screens

I was of that opinion until I decided to test it out. It doesn't hold up. Clarity is the main factor, I found. A matte screen must by definition diffuse light, which causes image to become blurry - and visibly so.

A glossy screen, for all it's annoying features, is just clearer and colors have an easier time being represented accurately. And most modern glossy screens now have anti-glare as well.
What kind of businesses do they start? Have they made any consumer products or mainly business-to-business?
First clear evidence cell phone radiation can cause cancer in rats
I looked into it a little bit. There are ways to tune it but I didn't see a way to exempt processes by name. It may be possible.

The scenario I described above is HPC clusters in a university environment. The problem is students running programs that are poorly written. I'd rather reboot the node and tell them to fix their code than deal with trying to accommodate their careless / naive programming.
It takes about 5 minutes and $15 max in parts to fix anything inside the cistern on a toilet if you have a wet/dry vac, you don't even need any other tools. A bit of knowledge can save you a $150 service call from a plumber.
It does work without JS. For elinks, try pressing the backslash key.
Yes, avoid it unless you need to work on the latest Xcode.
If the sound engineer tunes for the coloured sound, and the sound that he is hearing is coloured the same regardless of whether he is wearing ear plugs, does it not then follow that the sound that you are hearing is coloured the same regardless of whether you are wearing ear plugs?
It's monetizing developers, not users. They collect nothing whatsoever from free apps.
Yeah, and it looks like the AP got confused by the lack of attenuation barrier, so a double whammy -- the AP probably would've avoided it if the barrier had been there, and it would've saved his life.

Honestly, I agree with Tesla in that maybe blame shouldn't be directed towards them. They should be held responsible for the crash, but not the death -- if you want to save lives, those barriers should be replaced immediately, and that is something CalTrans should definitely do.
> It seems weird that two OS divisions would really be that different.

It’s not weird. The lack of a first class sandbox model on desktop certainly makes its security properties and threat model “different” than those of the iPhone.

Yes both are built around XNU and both use APFS, but the “surface area” of attacks is far different across the platforms. For all we know, APFS bugs like these exist in iOS but haven’t been found because finding them would require rooting the phone to circumvent the sandbox model.
I tried Club Mate once, a popular drink in Germany, but it gave me headache. I suspect this is due to the Theobromine content.
I may be biased since, honestly, I'm never not staring at a monitor.
>I’d drive to his Mission District pied-à-terre on trash collection day, snatch a few bags of whatever, and dig through it. I could learn more about Mark Zuckerberg’s habits and interests, creating my own ad profile of him. Then I could sell this information to brands looking to target that coveted "male, 18-34, billionaire” demographic. Think of it as a physical version of Facebook’s business model.

I’ll admit, I chuckled after reading this.
I had a similar problem previously and considered automating it by comparing frames. It's not easy and would have obvious false positives/negatives, but YouTube does help by publishing key frames and it could at least be used to help rank results.

Take this example music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vopR3ys8Kw

Frames:

https://img.youtube.com/vi/6vopR3ys8Kw/0.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/6vopR3ys8Kw/1.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/6vopR3ys8Kw/2.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/6vopR3ys8Kw/3.jpg

And this lyrics video version (more interesting because it's SOMEWHAT changing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAqHxm5dpo

Frames:

https://img.youtube.com/vi/FoAqHxm5dpo/0.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/FoAqHxm5dpo/1.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/FoAqHxm5dpo/2.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/FoAqHxm5dpo/3.jpg

Simply finding the differences between frames would give the first video a higher score than the second.
Arby's serves meat? Huh, TIL.
The great tea robbery (2009)
> it's insurance against permanent hearing damage, breathing fiberglass, etc.

You can buy ear plugs and N95 rated masks for cheaper than paying someone to do the work.
Seems pretty dead. There's a timeout on the db.
In terms of price I still haven't found anything better than CloudFlare. If performance is the goal all the testing I've done for work shows Akamai as the leader, though not by a lot. Fastly is making strides to compete with both, as well.
A 1970s disk drive that wouldn't seek: getting our Xerox Alto running again
The families of the people you were out there to kill will never get their loved ones back.

But I hope your bad hearing isn't too inconvenient.
> Why are lids made from ceramic anyway?

Could be because of production reasons. Easier to get it produced in the same place than to coordinate shipping to another place and assembly.
I had the same issue with Feedly's "features". I've maintained a stylish extension for Feedly that I keep adding to. Every time they add something that I don't want to see, I hide it via css. Thanks for the prompt, I just hid the patronising "Well done" that's been annoying me.

If anyone else wants to try to strip feedly back, they can try my css here:
https://gist.github.com/wvl/4cd7d7d314fe9a544f2851296db61bb9
Probably the same reason the rest of the toilet is -- it's strong, durable, scratch resistant, doesn't degrade with age (toilets can last for decades, my parent's toilet is original with the house, so is 40+ years old), and is easy to clean. It's heavy enough to not need any fastening mechanism to keep it on. And it perfectly matches the rest of the toilet, so you don't end up with a yellowed plastic lid on your bright white ceramic toilet.
Yes it is, but I think - perhaps counter intuitively to some, that the larger the company the larger the risk of being left without the product or service you grow to like. In the case of Google, Microsoft and some others I'm now wary of even trialling things.

Being owned by a major is bad for life expectancy. Being bought out by one is worse. Google are quite probably the pack leader for shuttering services for no obvious reason (Reader etc) and also buying startups to shutter them or turn them into something unrecognisable.

I try to apply this view when choosing all products and services - I'll favour startup and family owned over multinational brand for everything from SaaS to food and clothing and often pay extra to do so. I'd like to think there's still a chance of individual customers mattering to them.

I also favour desktop where possible.
Amazon is currently partnering with a bank to offer credit to some of the merchants on their platform.
> Why are lids made from ceramic anyway? I get why the bowl is, but the lid? Beyond the loudness / hearing loss issue, it’s just so darn heavy!

I've never seen a toilet that had a ceramic lid in Germany.

Is this just a US thing?
What professional developer codes full-time on a laptop keyboard and screen? The ones at work are all on dual-27" displays and external keyboard and mouse.

I personally disagree with making engineering compromises on the human interface to make things a few mm thinner, but the results speak for themselves. People keep buying them because Apple has succeeded in the number one goal of branding - their products are instantly recognizable as luxury goods. So if you're a pro developer who doesn't care about the branding, you just buy a different laptop that has the attributes you do care about. If developers abandoning the Macbook Pro because of nerd rage about low key travel and the ESC key cause sales to plummet, I'm betting Apple will change the keyboard. I'm also betting that the sales won't plummet.
Tesla car that crashed and killed driver was running on Autopilot, firm says
FWIW, http://www.hyperstealth.com/DonHings/first-walkie-talkie.htm says:

> First use of Walkie Talkie Name occurred in 1941: Don's quote ..."We also took two more C 18 sets to an enlistment drive in downtown Toronto where a Soldier walked about with a C 18 strapped to his uniform. A News Reporter asked him, "What does it do?" He replied, "Well you can talk with it, while you walk with it". So the reporter wrote in his newspaper there was a new invention on display, a "Walkie Talkie" and the name remained from then on."

That construction puts a tougher constraint on the pattern. That is, not only to the two words need to rhyme (even if forced) but one needs to do X while also doing Y.

For example, "Hacker News" might be "Hacky-Yaky"; a place to learn about hacky-things while yakking away in the comments.
You can get a similar effect on recent Linux versions with madvise() with MADV_FREE, although the interface for determining if the page was freed is a bit awkward: the page will be appear as zeroed if the OS decided to free it. Depending on what you are storing there and whether zero data is valid it may be awkward to detect.

You can cancel the free request by performing a write, which is also a bit of an awkward API.
When I tried the keyboard shortcut without the addon, it just triggered a popup saying I needed the addon.
Happy birthday Mozilla! Here's to many more years. I finally stopped using chrome on my computer in favour of Firefox. Mozilla you're awesome!
Good question, I feel like there's a lot of prestige attached to that, too. Anecdotally, I've seen groups of "school tourists" from Japan come to my decently large local university, and people were surprised when they learned that I went to that school.

The big difference is that the status of your school matters A LOT more in Japan than it does in North America. Overseas schools that are large enough for people to recognize in Japan will provide status.
I use Hetzner, I like their server range and prices, but I am annoyed I pay almost as much for a block of IPs as I do a single server.

(I run a bunch of virtual machines, each with a real public IP exposed.)
I would also add advertising companies to that list.
Probably, I don't know the difference.
ZuckerBorg has a hydrogen fuel cell. He doesn't eat and rarely creates waste.
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Lung cancer risk high for people living near Delhi roads
We run 1K node ClickHouse cluster on top of OVH.
In BigQuery, we had a latency of 10-50s per query and it was costing us 400K per month.

ClickHouse costs us 100K per month, all deployed on OVH.
100-200ms query latency.
"And no, you can't get out of culpability by claiming statistical superiority"

Every MBA student needs this tattoo'd on the back of their hand in order to graduate from now on.
I'm 100% on board with this. I think big low-level projects, including AAA games (my field) would benefit by treating the compiler exactly like a dependency they have the source for. We might stumble on very good language evolutions as a side effect.
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I really wished I had looked In here to see your comment before reading more than half the article. Would have been a much more interesting article had things turned out a little differently.
That's pretty silly. Every popular commercial password manager is subscription-based server-mediated SAAS software, and that's who AgileBits competes with. Not only is the SAAS model much more lucrative, but support costs for SAAS customers are far lower.

Despite all that, AgileBits goes way out of its way to not only provide a standalone password manager but keep it within shooting distance of the functionality of the non-standalone product.

But that's not enough for you: if they don't actively advertise and promote the variant of their product that is most expensive for them to provide, unlike, you know, any business on the planet, you're unsatisfied with their support.
Time to re-up this classic from Andries Brouwer:

https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
> spreading the genes of dishonesty

Is there any scientific evidence that dishonesty is a genetic trait, though?
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Scientists expect First direct black hole image soon
The only way to prevent the shaming is to prevent the victims from talking about their experiences and to prevent Buzzfeed from publishing things it believes to be true.

Enjoining that sort of speech would be vastly more problematic than the general public finding out about actions that took place however many years ago.
I would have said MaxCDN, but they recently got "acquired" by StackPath, so who knows what direction that's going.
This isn't really from 2017, it's just a reformatted version of the 1994 version.
I use OVH's So You Start line and I think my biggest complaint is that they don't allow automatic renewal. Every monthly renewal means manually keying in my card number every month. The only alternative is to pre-pay in 3, 6, or 12 months in advance. It is the only online service I use that doesn't handle auto-renewal.
I selfhost FreshRSS, it's awesome and uses an SQLite DB.
It may recover with time.

When I was a teen I dismantled a shotgun cartridge and removed the shot and paper charge (lots of tiny paper discs). I stuffed them down the thick end of a car telescopic antenna cut to about 4” with the end folded over. I threw in a couple of pieces of lead shot, tamped it down with a piece of paper, stuck the tube under a rock and set up a paper target 6” away. I was optimistic.

Then, with a friend, held a lighter under the closed end. Fortunately I was to the side. Predictably it fired out the back... it was very loud.

Possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. It could have gone wrong is so many way. The adolescent brain is a strange thing.

The ringing lasted a few years but went away.
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That doesn't work for the stack.

Consider a recursive function. The amount of memory it could need is essentially infinite, though obviously stuff breaks when the address space wraps around or when the stack collides with a different allocation.

So, do we just prohibit recursion? Do we need to have a privileged compiler (making signed executables) that refuses to generate code unless the stack usage can be proven at compile time?

Pretty much, if recursion is supported, you have overcommit on some level. For example, if we force developers to specify a stack size, we still have a form of overcommit. We've just moved it to the developer making promises that he probably can't verify to be safe.
I am don't have much knowledge as system admin. For security measure what action can be taken?
I remember paying to get my name included in the New York Times advert, I'm surprised at how long ago that was:

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...
Call/cc is powerful and simple in the sense that goto is powerful and simple. It’s possible to implement other control structures with call/cc or goto, but when you combine them it becomes difficult to reason about the program.

Many years ago I was working on my own Scheme implementation. This kind of project is mostly easy, but I stopped working on it as soon as I started implementing mapcar. I just didn’t want to deal with it, and all the dirty effects of call/cc.
The most obvious sign that this culture permeates the entire company is the open plan offices. Employees who can tolerate this sort of environment seem less likely to be super privacy conscious types.
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>> The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive

> What they are saying is that while he was driving there was an earlier point at which the car did not crash, where the car gave a visual and audible clues. And you have to ask? Why the hell is that relevant?

I see it being relevant that the driver had his follow distance set to the lowest and that several times in the drive prior to the accident he had to be prompted to maintain his hands on the wheel. This speaks to a driver that wasn't paying attention like they were supposed to be doing. That would increase the likelihood of him missing an upcoming hazard and responding in time.

Regardless of that, if he had reported and issue in that area to Tesla, why the hell was he not driving it himself at the time? I know that I personally value my life enough that I wouldn't trust AP if it had been veering into the wall repeatedly in one area.
Niantic isn't a travel booking company... they weren't making money off of that, so why should they be at all liable for those kinds of costs?

I can't think of any situation where that makes sense. If I book a trip to a water park and book an outside hotel, and the water park shuts because of very bad weather, should they reimburse me for my hotel? Of course not! So why should Niantic do so?
yes and no, I got told by a teacher. I tried looking at PISA et al. but it's really hard to find data. So I just take the teacher's word on it. It would be really interesting to see actual data. Even if the teacher and school plan is wrong I don't think it's bad to read more though.
Pretty sure mine has the anti-glare, so I shudder to think what would have happened otherwise.
> Your car is going to testify against you.

Presumably Tesla/the car is telling the truth as it saw it. I don't think you're suggesting they're falsifying the logs.

> Which is a terrible way to treat a customer

I'd assume that Tesla sells you a vehicle, not PR or legal services that protect you in case of an accident. Your expectation that Tesla should take the blame is unreasonable by any standard.
Yes you are right. India tiger population is increasing but they are still under threat. Government recently joined two tiger reserves near my hometown to create an ecosystem. Maybe they are doing something right. https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-s-tiger-populati...
Beautiful art made by a mechanic
Sadly I have to agree with you on the narrative angle. While I am very impressed with what Tesla has accomplished in their autopilot I find the careful construction and omissions in this follow up post to be done poorly.

They omit what speed and what lane the car was travelling in. They omit the time at which the car was no longer behaving in the way in which it had (when did it start heading for the crash barrier? At what point did the wheels closest to the barrier move over the line? etc)

They have previously mentioned that their cars have navigated this spot many times in the past (over 200 as I recall) did they note the number with and without the crash barrier intact? How many times was the car in the exit lane and how many times in the lane to the right of the exit lane? How many times have they navigated past it with a damaged crash barrier.

The driver had driven this route before, it was his commute to work. Had he driven it with this car on that route in autopilot before? Did it work then? How many times? How many seconds were there between when the driver's car was doing something right (in lane etc) and doing something wrong (straddling the lane). The response indicates there were 5 seconds of visibility coming up to the crash barrier, at what point was the autopilot on a collision course? All of those five seconds? or the last 500mS ?

Reading the Tesla response I felt I wasn't getting the whole story, and was getting a whole lot of deflection. That isn't the tone that inspires confidence in me. And that makes me sad because they have done much better in the past. I cannot help but speculate that this time they feel they might have been contributory at least and that a full disclosure would be used against them in a civil suit.
Blamed yes! Absolutely! Put to the fires to figure out the fault and fix it forever, definitely! Insurance should be paying out and checks for criminal intent followed as it would normally be for a human

Should it stop all progress though, no. No way. Not by a long shot.

Here's another difference - The fix to this issue, unless it's a standard mechanical failure that any other car might have, will fix this issue in all of their cars. A human driver may still right this second lock their wheels in a skid and t-bone another car. The ability for the car to pump the brakes to slow more rapidly had to be a hardware fix rolled out over decades in the form of ABS. With autonomous cars for this to (hopefully) never be an issue again it's tomorrow's software patch
I think the OPs point is that there are very valuable first-party sources of information with RSS feeds that you shouldn’t ignore.

Basically, there is gold out there.
Can agents learn inside of their own dreams?
Ah, those heady days of early 1998 on Slashdot.

Watching Mozilla grow and switch to its new layout engine. Nervously reading about Microsoft's efforts to take over the web with IIS and IE.