skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know the particulars in this case but is Nestlé going to pay proper amount for this water?

I suspect the value of untreated groundwater in Michigan is very, very small.

> there doesn't appear that Nestlé would be providing a service in the interests of society at large.

What about jobs? What about the people who want to buy bottled water? Why don't the workers and consumers count as "society at large"?

Note: I personally think most people who buy bottled water are foolish (unless the local tap water is unsafe or unpalatable), but then people do a lot of things I think are foolish.
The large amount of IO to the GPU has some great potential too.

AMD should make some reference boards if the OEMs won't.
Stealing Credit Cards from FUZE via Bluetooth
A signal handler is not special, it's just another function. So the compiler can't really apply the rules. Also this is a very limited subsection of all the many things you are not supposed to do in a signal handler.
Yeah, it's a minimum of 2 instances per region, and you should also run Consul or some other replicated backend, etc. Been there, done that; it gets complicated pretty quickly.

That being said, if the security traffic and/or amount of data is huge, Vault might be cheaper, even with the extra work. I guess it depends on the scenario.
Facebook is like a phonebook with everyone I've met. I live away from where I grew up so often contact with friends has large gaps. I don't have everyone's email/phone and those change. To get them once they change I'd need a directory like Facebook.

Network effect and low friction is why it's useful but if everyone was on some other platform where I could find them by name I'd happily switch given I mostly use it for messaging and event planning.
In Europe we mostly rely on the indicator. If you are unsure, you just try to open the door, and you will see if it is locked or not. When it is locked, it is obviously occupied or out of order. No awkward shouting or other kinds of human interaction needed, so you can shit in peace.
Needs some kind of moderation, too much inappropriate stuff on there at the moment.
Not to mention the Hardware Security Module(s) behind this are very expensive, especially when scaled out for redundancy and availability.
This is how the YouTube shooter earned money on the video-sharing site
I believe we're encountering a real-life example of how "naming things is one of the hard problems" :), and for a non-native English speaker, your English is impeccable.

All I'm saying is that the previous commenter [0] was making a tautological error:

> Abortion is definitely harmful to a human life.

When a woman and her doctor commit a legal abortion, they are ostensibly not doing so thinking that the fetus/embryo is a human being. Roe v. Wade argued that "the word 'person,' as used in the 14th Amendment, does not include the unborn" [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757245

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general...
> Also I don't understand why Youtube went with advertisers' demands -- they have near-monopoly

When this happened, total ad spend on youtube dropped dramatically. It was a real emergency inside youtube. Had it continued for any long period of time, I would guess youtube would have been forced to close.
Having only played with simple breadboard stuff years ago, could someone explain how the wiring works when connecting to something that's spinning?

edit: found it in case anyone was curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_ring
Absolutely, nothing has brought a greater level of prosperity and equality to the world than free market capitalism. This is simply an empirical fact. Just like it is an empirical fact that every socialist nation in history has created huge levels of poverty and inequality.
As well as the “engaged” sign, toilet doors swing open when they are not latched.
Tesla: Robots are killing it
Awesome to see great stuff like this coming from the Enigma team! Founders are a great group of talented ppl!
This is the 6th post I have seen this week along the formula

(1) I am from Europe and I went to America.

(2) Americans do things in a way I find unusual and/or distressing.

(3) The cause must be a character flaw shared by all Americans (security and puritanical reasons...?).
The holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal. If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.

-- @lex_looper
The answer totally depends on the industry. For example, the methods of gaining domain knowledge in financial services will be far different from those for the construction industry.

Some advice I can give that would apply regardless, is to find a co-founder who is an industry domain expert, and preferably has spent his career working with your potential customers.

Not only will finding such a partner greatly accelerate your learning of the domain, but it will get you into sales meetings and closing deals. In many industries, if you are a solo-operator and an outsider, you will have trouble even getting into the room. This is especially true if your competition has a domain expert on the team and you do not.
I don't see how it could be more complicated. Any groundwater that isn't pumped out and used is going to eventually go down the river, right? Otherwise the area would be underwater.

Yeah, there are places where groundwater enters the aquifer from long distances away. Michigan is not one of those places. It gets plenty of precipitation.
Yes, even when searching. Of course, impartial help with the search could be beneficial (by definition of "help"). But advertising is by definition not impartial. I do not want my search results to be influenced by those who have a financial incentive to bias my search outcome. That's obvious -- surely you don't either?

> Out of morbid curiosity, do you get that ads fund most of the internet?

Yes. But that does not mean that we want or need advertising, or that it is not tasteless. It might mean that we cannot conceive of or achieve an alternative version of the world without advertising and with the internet.

More generally, I'd say it's important to make a clear distinction between statements of principle, and statements of pragmatic policy.
In earlier days, employees generally would see this as just doing their jobs in developing technology that their employers wanted developed and would not concern themselves about ultimate uses and applications.

You might want to read some history. E.g. history of the development of nuclear weapons.
So long as nothing is shipped outside the Great Lakes watershed, I am not opposed to this. The problem is that while directly piping water outside of the watershed is forbidden, bottling it then shipping doesn't fall under this definition. This is the loophole that needs to be closed.
That's kind of what it is when you start. It's like working a muscle, you have to start with really light weights or you just get exhausted and discouraged. Like, start with a timer set for two minutes and work your way up one minute at a time.
Life where property rights exist.
For anyone new to this topic I recommend watching Tapped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzntuXdE8dY
I've been a happy Feedly user since GoogleReader shutdown, and i've recently built Aktu: http://aktu.io

It already has some nice features, and many more to come :-)
- Rss feeds
- news aggregation from thousands of feeds (like Google news)
- content categorization
- entity extraction
- personal dashboard / master feed for all your rss feeds
etc...
Although the book still has tremendous value (FWIW, I've read it too), I hope more people also read the above blog (& the comment on it by Kahneman himself), to keep a balance of perspectives and the current "replication crisis" in psychology studies.

Kahneman writes:

[quote]
What the blog gets absolutely right is that I placed too much faith in underpowered studies. As pointed out in the blog, and earlier by Andrew Gelman, there is a special irony in my mistake because the first paper that Amos Tversky and I published was about the belief in the “law of small numbers,” which allows researchers to trust the results of underpowered studies with unreasonably small samples.
[/quote]

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228712
This is really more like they don't want to deal with deliverability issues and higher than average complaints
So being crew on a merchant ship is more dangerous that cops (by far), and probably more dangerous on say a 10 year timeframe than being in the military (since you probably aren't at war that much over 10 years, unless you are unlucky).
"for the quick and easy, go with php or node.js"

i was responding to that comment, in the context of a beginner the quick and easy to me seems like ruby. maybe im wrong, to each their own
That's nice for Nestle, but ignores the fact that Flint is still having water quality problems and replacement of the lead-tainted pipes won't be complete until 2020. It's entirely reasonable that citizens would like their government to prioritize their wellbeing at the expense of regular procedure, considering that the Flint water crisis was a product of government error to start with.
You are correct.

Excess mortality is often hard to pin on its actual cause. If you can imagine 100 people in 2 alternative universes. One in which they are well fed, have access to medical treatment, get normal sleep. Another in which they are tossed on the street where they eat poorly, sleep poorly on a cold corner and live poorly.

In the second universe they don't drop dead of being poor on the spot or tomorrow they just gradually die a lot sooner.

Its much harder to drum up enthusiasm to fix. There is a 60% chance that 7 out of 10 of these people will die an average of 10-20 years sooner than it is to save someone who will die next week.
My pleasure! Sortvis is down at the moment, but will be back up soon. I've been swallowed up in other projects, but I have a perpetual new year's resolution to write more blog posts. Keep an eye out in the next few months. :)
Are they pumping the water from the Muskegon River? No? OK... then... uh... what are you talking about?
I am not sure if this incident would/should cause any review/discussion of youtube's or any site's policies relying mostly on user generated content ?

Should there be a broad industry standard / governing body / laws to make sure attackers don't go crazy after innocent employees ?
Does ^⌘Q do what you want? How about customizing the Touch Bar to have the "lock" function key in it?
Flint resident here.

The whole state of Michigan is a little sore about water right now.
Small towel. Bath towel > Face towel > Foot towel.

(Spot the euphemism. But it is also used for drying feet, after wrapping the body with the bath towel, when coming out of the shower.)
With the latest Tesla crash in the news, seeing the point cloud got me thinking.

Since mirrors do not create the specular reflections required for LIDAR to work, does this mean a box truck covered in mirrors would be able to render at least the LIDAR portion of an autonomous vehicle useless?

Sounds like an attack vector to me.
In many public places, it's a homeless / drug deterrent. There's a perception that a private stall creates an opportunity for drug use among the indigent population. It's an interesting commentary on the "world's richest nation" when public stalls are made uncomfortable to deter homeless from having a place to defecate. By contrast, look at the number of coffee shop bathrooms (for example) that use a code system to further keep out the riff-raff, and in exchange generally offer a more private setting - maybe not European standards, but more private nonetheless.
Is this only Chrome or is Chromium doing this also?
This is not a useful comparison. It equates statewide use to a factory that will presumably source water from a focused area. What are the conditions like at the site of the factory? Can that site accommodate that intake? Is 0.5m the final scale of the factory?

Maybe it's not a big deal, maybe it is, but you can't use wide geographic generalizations like this to dismiss the concern.
We could take your viewpoint further and start complaining about the ad that shows after a video, and before the next video.

That would be even wider scope for stirring up controversy.
> If you press Fn, the slider will go away and the "normal" function buttons will appear.

So, something that used to be a simple that could be done from muscle memory is now either (a) a slider that requires change of focus or (b) a multi-key combination which is totally the same thing as the thing you miss, and in summary, everything is fine.

> I really think it would do you well to learn a bit more about why your computer was designed that way

Maybe this highlights Apple's ostensible vs true value pitch these days:

Ostensible: "You aren't going to have to think about it too much because it just works."

Actual: "learn a bit more about why your computer was designed that way and we're sure you'll find that any complaints and frustrations are actually just wrong"
Thanks man! Really appreciate the feedback... sounds stupid, but we had trouble repro-ing that 20px whitespace bug.
Slightly off topic. But I always hated AppleScript. I first started trying to play with it in 1992 with System 7 and it always fell in the uncanny valley of being almost a natural language but not really. What’s strange is that I did like HyperTalk with Hypercard
Simple personal Slack report implemented in Go
It turns out policy makers are not as responsive as they are supposed to be, so people are forced to seek other outlets to express their concern.
One solution to OP's problem is to strengthen libel and slander laws to deter people from casually publishing fraudulent news, akin to a DMCA takedown request but perhaps a bit more bite. In this case I would distinguish publishing from 'sharing' with a bit more legal finesse.

The problem is the press will scream bloody murder at any attempt to reign in their right to publish, perhaps rightfully so. IANAL.
Whatever the reason is, it leads to a poor user experience.
Washing one's "back-parts" after they've completed their job feels much more clean to me compared to using toilet paper. Whenever I'm forced to use TP (i.e. when not at home, mostly) I always feel a little dirty after the deed, no matter how much TP I use. I don't have that feeling when using water to clean said back-parts.
No, I don't think you can conclude that the parent poster doesn't get that nuance. The Supreme Court has ruled on the freedoms for gun rights, as well as abortion and gay marriage. The parent poster could be interpreted as criticizing the hypocrisy for conservatives who believe in Constitutional authority of the court to rule on Constitutional freedoms.
Does the Secret Rotation for the RDS-integrated credential store actually update the password for the user in the SQL database?

If so, thats pretty damn cool.
I don't see how that distinction relates to my comment. I wrote "buy or sell", not "exercise". And the parent comment didn't mention exercise either.

However, your comment is definitely more evidence that you can't make options self-explanatory by renaming them.
Is this scarcasm? I honestly cannot tell.
> lawless society

Things aren't black and white. Every country is lawless to a certain degree. Otherwise there wouldn't be any robberies in countries that aren't "lawless" (whatever that means). One difference between EU and US is that a robber has a decent chance of being shot in US and not in EU meaning you become a sitting duck the moment you stop living the socialist life that state deems appropriate.
>> the US didn't meet the USSR in Berlin
>As far as I know, no? The US was quite far from Berlin by the end of the war, and did not engage the USSR in battle for territorial control of Germany.

I believe GP was referring to a few years later, when the Berlin airlift broke the Soviet blockade of West Berlin - a clear attempt by the Soviet Union to expand their spehere of control to West Berlin and eventually West Germany as a whole.
> would you ever pay some minimal amount to go to a conference

Yes.

My issues with Adwords are the following:

1) they're abused by spam and garbage, so seeing a (potentially good) software product in there immediately turns me off and is actually a red flag.

2) it shows that the developer has no idea of the target market for their product - anyone that has the brains to use a software library would be blocking the Adwords anyway.

3) the above could mean they're instead targeting managers/CTOs as opposed to the actual people who will be using the library (developers), which is also a huge red flag.
One of my pet peeves is people who rattle the toilet door before checking the engaged indicator.
I personally would never pay Facebook for anything or pay for any sort of social media. It's just barely worth the time I spend ingesting it and nothing more to me, certainly not any money.

I'm also not super bothered by ads and fully aware that the data I give consumer internet companies will be used as they (or their future acquirers) see fit.

I don't agree with the sentiment that if we could only switch business models from advertising to subscription then all of our data will remain private. Apple's business model is not based on ads and I trust them as little as I trust Google. I know that's not a popular opinion here but I think it's prudent. Once I push information from myself to a company, I have no confidence that that information will be used as advertised.
Capitalism is tasteless, then, right?

As a matter of principle, if you have something and don't need it, and someone else needs it, you should give it to them, right?

I'm just trying to understand your principle and where the boundaries of it are.
They don't get taught to conserve memory...
One of my takeaways from the article is that the captain's confidence and willingness to do the right thing had been shaken after he'd been burned the last time he'd refused unsafe orders. I'm wondering if the 1st officer similarly faced bad consequences for doing the right thing and taking command -- mutiny charges are still a thing, aren't they?
Are you seriously comparing pumping 1/2000 of the water that normally goes down the local river with the holocaust or slavery?
The soviet union was one problem after another of limited availability of goods. I'm glad you are open to this info.
Sure! You can even pick apart the code if you want: https://github.com/superfly/fly

There's no warmup time. We spent some time with various OSS FaaS tools and that was pretty killer. When you deploy, we build a v8 snapshot of your code, then push it out to all the Edge Servers. It's already in memory and ready to rock when a request comes in — less than 1ms to get to your code for most apps.

fly.cache does persist, although it will vary per region (that's a surprising thing we learned about CDNs, cache contents vary per region quite a lot). It's volatile so you shouldn't rely on it for durable data storage, but you also pay for what you use so we have a strong incentive to not evict cache data any more than you request. :)

The global context _can_ be shared between requests but you can't really count on it. There's no guaranty that one request will run in the same context (or isolate or server) as a previous one.

We have some ideas for more durable and structured storage down the road. Building APIs that are location agnostic is fun, but a little mind bending.
With half the ports and a lower-powered CPU though, and not at all if you want 15"
> there's nothing wrong with doing heavy maintenance checks in low-labor-cost countries, provided they are done to FAA standards (which I have no reason to believe they aren't).

Including the article that was in my previous comment, there's good to reason to believe that it isn't done to FAA standards. Of course I could be wrong and things may change in the foreseeable future.

https://psmag.com/economics/are-some-airlines-just-too-dange...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100901132235.h...
Ask HN: Successful tech startup but find every day emotionally challenging
We are in month 20 of our busines and I’d like to think we have achieved positive things both with technology and commercially (£1m+ ARR and profitable).

I’m a software engineer and also the CEO, we have a great team (mainly all tech) and our product is great to work on and use, customers really like it.

I get home and feel like this is really difficult to keep up.

We have lots of things to do and it feels like we don’t have time to do it all which leads me to being sat here at home on the sofa in a state of questioning whether I’m over reacting at the subtle elements of start up life. I feel like “gah, what am I doing here?”. People need things from me constantly and I try get through as much as possible, delegating where I can.

I have co-founders who are amazing at their technical job but don’t seem to have that same feeling as me. They are driven but I feel like maybe they don’t drive forward or worry “in a good way” about the next thing that needs to be done to continue to grow.

I guess as I’m writing this it feels as though I’m saying: “I feel it’s all on my shoulders and it’s heavy, getting heavier by the day”.

Is this a normal occurrence in these situations? How do I relieve the pressure?
That is all covered by the environmental report, as it should be:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/deq-dwmad-eh-swpu-Fina...

4) The supply potential of the water source, considering quantity, quality, and reliability and safe yield of hydrologically interconnected water sources;

Application materials, extensive evaluation and consideration by staff, along with experience with the aquifer in the area, lead staff to conclude that the aquifer can sustain the proposed withdrawal without deleterious
effects to the dependent resources.

The ruckus and commotion by the public is just pointless and useless activism.
We'll get it done (although I'm not exactly sure who "we" will end up being yet!). I improved the flamegraph PMDA late last year, but how FlameScope works is really the direction Vector should go: being able to make an API call to get the flame graph stacks as JSON, and then render them in d3, along with buttons for transforms.
I think the question is how do you define free? Free for powerful to do anything they want? Free subject to govt control? The tension is between those points.
Hence why it reads "abruptly deprecates a majority of it's API before plan" and not "abruptly eliminates a majority of its API endpoints before plan"
Wait, we're the Puritans for not requiring a private, hermetically sealed room for doing our business?

You probably wouldn't like the cross-stall conversations that also take place.
Well, Java is the systems language on Android that has full exposure to what app developers can actually use.

NDK is quite constrained, mostly as a means to implement Java native methods.

On Android Things they went one step further and the user space drivers are written in Java.

With Treble it is also possible to write drivers in Java thanks to the new micro-kernel like architecture.